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Dingy dingy dong dong. Bong. I'm going to have

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a chocolate digestive. Do it. So much for that

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intro. It was good. It was forward thinking,

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I think, because we'd had a gap. Started thinking

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professionally for a minute. We could do this,

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we could do that. Nah. I saw one Reddit post

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asking that question of... do you do an intro

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for your podcast or not? And the majority of

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people said, nah, fuck that. So I'm with them.

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The thing is, pretty much everyone has intros,

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outros, and fucking little segment things. And

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whilst it's cool, if everyone's doing it, it's

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not really unique, is it? When you watch a season,

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a brand new season, what do you do? You normally

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watch the start of the intro. And then what happens

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the next episode? It's gone. There's only a couple

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of I watch. I watch Game of Thrones intro because

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it gasses me up. It's gas. And I watch Vikings

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intro because I fucking love the tune. Yep. I

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actually got that on my playlist. And that's

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it? That's about it, yeah. Unless he's got a

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banging tune or great visuals, I'm not interested.

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And no matter what, Jem says, fucking skip this

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shit. And I say, okay. Depends. Depends. If it's

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one of them two, no. Anything else, yeah. Get

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this off my screen. So, let me give you the update.

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Please do. If you listened to last week's episode,

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Ash berated me about my inability to play other

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games. I'm just getting choked up about it. You

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used to do that a lot. What? Voice crack? Yeah,

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I know. Stop that, aren't you? I know. Well,

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so I come up with the, we were talking about

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Death Stranding quite a bit in light of Death

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Stranding 2. released in a couple of months um

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and we were trying to understand what the fuck

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is any of it about so tried to get astro explained

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to me what death stranding one is about and you

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basically said the same shit as what everyone

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else said and that is i don't know so i thought

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well what better than to play it and then i set

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myself homework an ongoing assignment of start

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death stranding and finish it and give a weekly

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update in the podcast as to what I'm doing how

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I'm getting on what's going on so here it is

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kind of like kind of like your football manager

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series this is a Death Stranding series I'm all

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for it however there will be spoilers so you

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are going to play Death Stranding don't listen

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to this there will be spoilers and the problem

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that I've got is my lovely biscuit is because

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I don't know what the fuck's going on I don't

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know what's a spoiler and what isn't if I'm honest

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so I am Six and a half hours in. Something like

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that. I haven't... I mean, that's admirable.

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I'll take that for the week, mixed in with split

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fiction and wow. I'll take the nearly seven hours

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game time that I've managed to throw into it.

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It's decent. And what I will say, straight off

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the bat, considering all you see when you look

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up Death Stranding, is it being a walking simulator,

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I think it's great. Really, really like it. Love

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this. It's peaceful and simple, but scary at

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the same time. BTs can fuck off. However, what

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we did last episode is I went on Reddit and surmised

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sort of what Death Stranding was about. Couldn't

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work it out, but there were things like time

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for BTs, the beach, whales and shit like that.

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Little buzzwords. Now... I understand a little

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bit about them because of those Reddit posts.

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If I didn't read any of that, I wouldn't have

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a fucking clue about what anything is happening

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because nothing gets explained, at least from

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what I've played. Like, barely. I think I learned

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more talking about it with you last week than

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I did playing the whole game to its completion.

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Crazy. Crazy. I carried my mum to the fucking

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incinerator. Is it your mum, is it? Yeah, it's

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your mum. I can't remember. Threw her arse in.

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So now my sister is the president of what was

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America. Because that's what you're trying to

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do. From what I've gathered, the world, the death

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stranding happened. And it's basically like where

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the dead has come into contact with the living.

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And it's just fucked everything up. and what

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happens is if someone dies in the living world

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and they're not disposed of within 48 hours they

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explode and take out fucking cities with them

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like everything they just get fucking bang and

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then they turn into BTs which are like these

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paranormal fucking horrible things that just

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they're just grim but they're invisible Just

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a terrible name for them, to be honest, because

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in the UK that means British telecoms. British

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telecoms. So I just can't take it seriously.

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BT's coming. BT's coming. Yeah, they're grim.

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They're the things that you see their footprints

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in, isn't it? Yeah, so they are invisible, and

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we are invisible to them as humans. However,

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there are people with dooms, which means that

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different levels of... sort of like special powers

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where some people are able to just see him outright,

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you as, I don't even know his name. Norman Reedus

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is the fucking person, but my actual name. Sam

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Bridges. Sam Bridges, that's the fucking one.

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I'll fold it out of the bag, I don't know. He

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can sense them, so can't see them, just sense

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that they're knocking about and see footprints.

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Is that not what that little thing's for, that

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little flower? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you've got

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a baby, which is called a BB. um and a bb is

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is taken from a a mum while still in the womb

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a uh like a vegetable mum basically and is taken

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out of the womb and for whatever reason it was

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i think it was being partly explained but not

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fully explained yet they are able to interact

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with the other side which is called the beach

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is that the other side i think I don't know.

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Or that's the link in between. If that is, I

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learned that last week here. Or Death Stranding.

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I can't remember which one. And then... From

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the ending, I would presume you're right. But

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they're able to sense the things and basically

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they're in like a little fucking incubator and

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you plug them in and then, yeah, there's like

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this... Or is that what powers that? Yeah, like

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this antenna that is attached to your shoulder

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and that fucking pings off in the direction of

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where things are and that's how you avoid shit.

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And I love my BB. I've grown very attached to

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it. And that's exactly what the fucking fat geezer,

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the scientist, tells you not to do. He's like,

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it's just equipment. Don't get attached to it.

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It's fine. But if you've got a rocket to fucking

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calm it down, it gets stressed out. If you submerge

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it in water, as any fucking baby would, when

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you get back to your base, you fucking put it

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back in its incubator on the wall. Make sure

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it's all right. You can have a shit. There's

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all sorts of stuff. I spent a long time just

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in my base just showering and stuff like that.

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It was weird. Definitely not sponsored by Monster

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Energy, that game. Yeah, definitely not. Fucking

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hell, it's everywhere, isn't it? But it's planning

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the routes for everything that you need to do

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and slowly working out exactly what it's like

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being able to build a post box and everything

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like that. If you've never seen anything to do

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with Death Stranding, you are a postman. You're

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a courier. DPD. Fucking UPS. Whatever you want

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to be, you are one of them. What our mission

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is connecting a fallen world together. So each

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individual civilization, we're basically connecting

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them to the 5G network, which is actually called

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the chiral network. And with the hopes that eventually

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everyone, the whole of America gets reconnected

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and then boom, we can fucking take over again.

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To these individual places. And set up the network.

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With like this weird necklace. That's made out

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of like tablets. Like stone things. It's really

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odd. But because you are. You have dooms. You're

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able to interact with this thing. And I thought

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that the premise of that. Of just walking around

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and shit. Would be so boring. But it's fucking

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fun. It's really fun. Having to keep your balance.

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Fucking. I know that you can manually load stuff

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in. And change it around. But I just use the

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auto. load of thing i ain't fucking around moving

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shit about um and it does get dicey with like

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um those people at the beginning that are trying

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to kill you i can't remember what they're called

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um like the the mugs hugs or something like that

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bugs these people but obviously the combat like

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you said in the in last week it isn't centered

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around combat and i knew that Going into it because

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of what you said. So the first time I see enemies

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like across some river. I'd set off one of their

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fucking recon things. And then suddenly there

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was after me. And I was shitting it. Because

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I was like they've got guns and stuff. And I've

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got nothing. And I know this isn't a combat game.

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So I was like what am I supposed to do? But yeah.

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Planning your routes. Figuring out what's the

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best way to go. Learning how to use ladders.

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And shit like that. I didn't realise that when

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you place a ladder you can't pick it up again.

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you've just placed it and what i found quite

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cool is it much like um in a soulsborne game

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when you can leave a note other people can do

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that they can leave notes for you and and signs

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and shit like that but also their equipment so

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like their ladders and their ropes that they

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can tie off on cliffs and shit like that they

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can they will stay there for a period of time

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but then the time for which is the rain that

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erodes everything over real in real time erodes

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that shit so you only have access to what other

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players have put down for a certain amount of

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time and it's forever changing you don't need

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playstation plus for it because i double checked

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because in fucking elden ring you need playstation

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plus to see everyone's shit and i kicked off

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about that and i said steph i said i bet this

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is the fucking same and she googled it and it

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ain't so that's that's good i ain't gonna i ain't

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gonna buy a playstation plus for that um and

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i'm just at the point now where i'm about to

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get the motorbike i think Or the geezer told

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me it needs a new battery. So I think I'm on

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a mission to sort of figure that one out. So

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even though I'm, call it seven hours in, I haven't

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actually done a whole lot. But it's fun, man.

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It is fun. I've been thinking about it all week.

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Not in an obsessive way, just in the back of

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my mind. Oh yeah, I've got to play that game.

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I'm trying to remember bits and bobs and some

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stuff's coming back to me. I didn't know that

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stuff... left the world because of the rainfall.

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Yeah. Timefall. Yeah. Which is cool. I knew it

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left, but I didn't know the reason. Have you

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not got a gun yet or nothing? Nothing, bruv.

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Because I remember you used to be able to like,

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if you did get caught with your pants down, you

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used to be able to like throw some of your luggage

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at them and then run in and whack them up. Throw

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a suitcase at them and then go in and punch them

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up and that. But yeah, you do get weapons, but

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I can't remember what the, I'm sure you can like

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fire like these balls, you know, like a ball

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with rope on and then ball and then it wraps

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around them. I'm sure you can fire them. And

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I'm sure you get an actual gun that you can kill

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people with. But obviously killing people is

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bad because then their bodies need to die. So

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I can't remember what the thing is around that.

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I'm sure there is something. But yeah, I feel

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like, I'm not sure if I said it last week. It's

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not, I wouldn't necessarily say it's a bad game.

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I just feel like if I knew, if the story was

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explained to me in, like, baby terms whilst I

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was playing it and I actually knew what was going

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on, I'd be more invested. But because I had no

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idea what was going on, everything just felt

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so pointless. I really, really didn't like, and

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I don't know if you can tell me why because I

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don't know if I ever found out, like, the lack

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of humans. Like, why am I delivering stuff to

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a hologram in a compound? Where is that then

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going? Where do them compounds lead? You're delivering

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a parcel to a hologram, but then where are they

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going? Do they live there? Where's the rest of

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the humans? Are they the only humans left? I'm

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confused. I'm pretty sure that they stay sort

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of either underground or out of the way because

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of everything that's going on, because of the

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BTs. So there's a lot of civilization. They just

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live in the bunkers. Yeah, they're all, from

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what I've gathered, they're all split apart.

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But this chiral network, which is what puts them

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all together, obviously they don't have access

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to that. So they can't. You're making me want

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to buy Death Stranding 2. They can't fucking,

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they can't talk to anyone. So you're linking

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them all up so that they're able to, well, to

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just rebuild pretty much. Has Troy Baker turned

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up yet? Troy Baker has not arrived yet. Has not

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arrived. I can't wait for that. It's just a good

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game so far. I mean, next week's update, it could

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be like going, oh, this is shit. But my sort

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of aim is to sink in at least sort of like minimum,

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maybe four hours a week minimum to try and fucking

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shoehorn it in. But so far, so far, yeah, it

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is fun. I'm enjoying it. I can see the appeal

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to it, but you really, it's one of those games

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where you do have to, yeah, keep in mind what

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the fuck is going on. I remember there just being

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some really fucking annoying bits. I don't know

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if you've faced them yet or they just haven't

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annoyed you the way they did me, but I just remember

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some parts just being like, just fuck off. You

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know what I mean? Just honestly, like when the

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world just turns to water and you're fighting

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a whale, but then you have to keep trying to

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get out of the water and climb on stuff and you

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keep getting knocked back in the water and I'm

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just like, that shit just frustrates the hell

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out of me. I had to carry six boxes of precious

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metals. to the place where you get the bike.

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And there was BTs along the route, and I tried

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my best to avoid them. But no, sure enough, I

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feel like it was meant for the scene, and you

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can't escape it. Sure enough, they got me and

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it all kicked off. And it was just so frustrating,

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because this BB is pinging off everything, fucking

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pointing at them. I'm trying to avoid them, and

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then all of a sudden... There's a BT on my arse.

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There's fucking black things coming out of the

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ground grabbing hold of me and I'm fucking pushing

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them off. What happened? I fell off a cliff.

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Fell off a cliff and all my shit fell off. It

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lost like 50 % of its durability. I was like,

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what the fuck? I was like, that's so, so annoying.

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So yeah, that stuff's going to piss me off. I'm

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going to avoid BTs at all costs. The collector's

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edition of the Death Stranding 2, it says you

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get a machine gun and MP bullets. Level 1. Early

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unlock. I guess you can get guns. They've shown

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two. Cool. Cool statue. Does it have the price

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for it? Yeah, I don't know if this is... It's

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219 quid, but I don't know if this is the...

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What? I don't know if this is the proper price

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or if this is just like... sold I don't know

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because it's £299 on eBay fuck knows but yeah

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I don't know I'll keep my mint pies on it sunshine

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and I'll I'm looking forward to more of that

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because I don't know what happened or what happened

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or what happened three times so that's that that's

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cool man what else you got for us split fiction

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faction very fun yeah split fiction sorry more

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biscuits You play them with Steph or Mark or

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a combination of both. Play them with Steph and

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it's very fun. Split screen? Mm -hmm. Nice. Mm

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-hmm. Some decent Easter eggs in there. Some

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funny levels. And overall, it just feels really

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good. The movement, the fluidity of it, the speed

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of the actual game itself feels really good.

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and we kind of had to stop ourselves from playing

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it because we were just steamrolling it. We sat

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down on, was it Saturday or Sunday? I think it

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was Sunday for maybe like almost six hours just

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fucking playing this game. And yeah, do I think

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it's as good as it takes to? I'm not sure yet

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because I haven't finished it, but I'm teetering

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on. Because I really liked It Takes Two, but

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this is definitely more, not gory, but more serious

00:17:28.980 --> 00:17:34.019
undertone. Whereas It Takes Two was quite, not

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childish, but very whimsical and ultimately was

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trying to teach you a lesson. Which I feel like

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is what Split Fiction is trying to do as well.

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But Split Fiction is less happy. and in your

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face but still very very fun there's also an

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easter egg with the elephant from it takes two

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which is which is very cool um and the side missions

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are very fun um i don't want to say too much

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because i don't want to spoil it for people but

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there are some very very funny side missions

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that i'd like seen clips of from tiktok but not

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all the way through and i know steph had seen

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barely anything um and there is there is one

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where um spoilers i mean it's just a side mission

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so it's not too bad but there's one where you

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are um both pigs um knocking around trying to

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gather apples for like this this thing that is

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like open doors for you and you go you go through

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all these all these different little levels um

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rolling through mud like so like steph's pig

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its thing was it cranked its head up on a spring

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like really high and then you'd press triangle

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or x or whatever and then it would like fucking

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retract itself and that's how you jumped up things

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my pig just farted so you'd jump up and fucking

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fire and you just fart your way to wherever you

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needed to go it farted rainbows brilliant very

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funny and you're knocking around and then we're

00:19:02.839 --> 00:19:05.559
like oh this is really cool enjoying this and

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you basically end up going down this ramp like

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this slide And Steph was like, oh, this is quite

00:19:11.410 --> 00:19:12.809
cool. She was like, could you imagine if we fucking

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just died and that was it? And yeah, that's what

00:19:15.630 --> 00:19:17.349
happened. At the end of this ramp was a meat

00:19:17.349 --> 00:19:19.529
grinder. Nice. So you go in the meat grinder,

00:19:19.569 --> 00:19:21.589
all gory, fucking splatter. Steph was shocked.

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She was like, what the fuck is that? And then

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screen goes black and then comes back into frame

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and now you're sausages. You're hot dogs. Yeah,

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class. Hot dogs bouncing around and then you've

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got to cook yourself on a grill and then fucking

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Steph had to squirt me with ketchup and mustard

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and then you jump into a bun and then fucking

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someone eats you. And then boom, that's that

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side mission done. Hilarious. Fucking just so

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stupid. It's a good game. I strongly recommend

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it. What is the game though? I don't know what

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it is. So you are playing as Zoe and Mio, which

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is a weird name. And basically they are both

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writers. struggling writers that haven't been

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published yet. And Mio is your angry, dark type

00:20:09.569 --> 00:20:15.009
personality, kind of hates the world type shit.

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And then Zoe is the happy -go -lucky, always

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finds the good in the world type. So polar opposites,

00:20:23.230 --> 00:20:25.650
basically, but typical polar opposites that become

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best friends. they both get a message from this

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publisher saying they want to meet them um and

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discuss like published deals and all that shit

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and basically they all let like these two end

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up at this this big it's like in a skyscraper

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type thing big building and there's quite a few

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of them because they've obviously contacted other

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people And basically this geezer that runs it

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comes down and is like, yeah, we're really excited

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to sort some stuff out, like get some ideas off

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of you and figure everything out. Basically takes

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him into this room, massive room, with this huge

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contraption in the middle of it and these like

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bubbles that are knocking around it on the sides.

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And basically he says, step into the bubbles

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and we'll be able to look at your faults. And

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your ideas, rather than you tell them to us,

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we'll be able to actually see them. And everyone's

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like, oh, that's really cool. Like, let's jump

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in. So everyone jumps in the bubbles. Mio doesn't.

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She's a bit dubious about it. So he's already

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jumped in. And obviously when they go in these

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bubbles, they're unconscious because their brain's

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being fucking tapped into. Mio kicks off. But

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in doing so, they try and force her into this

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fucking bubble. She fucking scrambles and then

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ends up falling into Zoe's bubble. And now they're

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both fucking interconnected. So both of their

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thoughts are now intertwined. And it's now where

00:22:01.829 --> 00:22:06.130
they are currently living the stories that they've

00:22:06.130 --> 00:22:07.710
got in their head. So everything that they've

00:22:07.710 --> 00:22:10.410
written in the past, they're now living it as

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a physical memory. So they know what's going

00:22:13.750 --> 00:22:17.339
to happen and all that sort of shit. um and basically

00:22:17.339 --> 00:22:21.559
within within these stories there's glitches

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and that's what you find at the end of every

00:22:23.099 --> 00:22:26.240
level is a glitch and what that glitch does when

00:22:26.240 --> 00:22:30.720
they grab hold of it is it basically creates

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a hole in this bubble thing So from the outside,

00:22:35.180 --> 00:22:36.819
it looks like a massive bubble that they're sat

00:22:36.819 --> 00:22:39.859
in, like a bubble of goo or whatever. From their

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heads, they're in sort of like this huge room

00:22:42.940 --> 00:22:45.019
that almost looks like the universe around it.

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And you can see sort of like out of the bubble

00:22:47.500 --> 00:22:51.059
a little bit. So yeah, every time they get a

00:22:51.059 --> 00:22:52.880
glitch from the end of one of these stories,

00:22:53.059 --> 00:22:56.660
it creates a crack in this and it's getting bigger

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and bigger and bigger. And yeah, so far, from

00:23:00.859 --> 00:23:05.630
what I gather on that, going through all of their

00:23:05.630 --> 00:23:09.349
stories to get out and expose this creepy guy

00:23:09.349 --> 00:23:11.789
that's trying to fucking sap everyone's memories

00:23:11.789 --> 00:23:14.150
from them and he's kicking off saying don't fucking

00:23:14.150 --> 00:23:16.170
do it because you're going to ruin my life's

00:23:16.170 --> 00:23:18.630
work because you spent all his years making these

00:23:18.630 --> 00:23:23.049
fucking contraptions nice and that's it so you

00:23:23.049 --> 00:23:25.029
don't need to play it because I'll fucking I'll

00:23:25.029 --> 00:23:26.789
tell you about it you know what I mean it sounds

00:23:26.789 --> 00:23:28.529
like a game that I'll YouTube sounds pretty cool

00:23:28.529 --> 00:23:30.549
sounds like a cool watch it's good fun it is

00:23:30.549 --> 00:23:34.519
a good game and yeah for Like I said last week,

00:23:34.539 --> 00:23:37.099
I like these types of games, man. It's good fun.

00:23:37.460 --> 00:23:43.599
It's a unique play style that is almost the genesis

00:23:43.599 --> 00:23:47.720
of multiplayer. It's refreshing. It is refreshing.

00:23:47.900 --> 00:23:51.259
Old school, but new school. I love it. The best

00:23:51.259 --> 00:24:00.319
school. Okay. So, what have I got? I don't know.

00:24:01.880 --> 00:24:05.039
Fuck all. You've not done anything? No, I've...

00:24:05.039 --> 00:24:12.299
It's inspired by your homework assignment I've

00:24:12.299 --> 00:24:15.660
took on my own. Though I haven't started it yet.

00:24:16.819 --> 00:24:21.140
What I have done is download the demo just to

00:24:21.140 --> 00:24:23.660
double check. It's not going to be a terrible

00:24:23.660 --> 00:24:27.680
waste of money because it's expensive right now.

00:24:28.940 --> 00:24:31.059
I'm going to do what you said you were going

00:24:31.059 --> 00:24:34.980
to do but didn't. And you let him down. Talking

00:24:34.980 --> 00:24:37.960
to you, Sam. Oh. Talking to you, Sam. Yeah, go

00:24:37.960 --> 00:24:42.440
on. Granblue fantasy fucking relink fucking Narnia's

00:24:42.440 --> 00:24:44.640
wardrobe. That one. I'm going to give it a go.

00:24:45.079 --> 00:24:46.960
I can just give it to you if you want. That's

00:24:46.960 --> 00:24:48.880
all right. I've got the physical copy of it.

00:24:48.940 --> 00:24:51.299
Have you? Yeah. All right. I'll just give it

00:24:51.299 --> 00:24:56.140
to you. Fuck the demo. I'm going to try and work

00:24:56.140 --> 00:25:00.619
my little way through that. I mean. I downloaded

00:25:00.619 --> 00:25:03.500
a demo. I've started downloading demos, right?

00:25:03.619 --> 00:25:06.380
Because I've looked for the demos category. And

00:25:06.380 --> 00:25:09.619
I think demos now are actually worth it. Not

00:25:09.619 --> 00:25:13.740
all, but quite a few. A lot of them follow the

00:25:13.740 --> 00:25:16.259
Final Fantasy format of carrying on from where

00:25:16.259 --> 00:25:19.619
you left off, right? Like that game that you

00:25:19.619 --> 00:25:24.319
mentioned about. Oh, yeah, that one. The Berserker.

00:25:24.750 --> 00:25:28.329
The warrior one. The Viking, Kazaa, the Berserker,

00:25:28.410 --> 00:25:34.289
whatever it was called. What? What are you...

00:25:34.289 --> 00:25:37.829
What, what, what? What, a game? Yeah. What game

00:25:37.829 --> 00:25:40.789
did I talk about? Berserker? Kazaa the Berserker

00:25:40.789 --> 00:25:43.630
or something. Oh, yeah. What about it? Yeah,

00:25:43.690 --> 00:25:46.089
I've done that. I've done the whole demo of that.

00:25:46.250 --> 00:25:48.130
Completed the demo. Oh, right. Oh, okay. I see,

00:25:48.269 --> 00:25:50.390
I see. Which was fucking hard, by the way. Yeah.

00:25:50.529 --> 00:25:54.349
Very hard game. Yeah, click demo that and then

00:25:54.349 --> 00:25:56.950
when you get the game you can carry on yeah So

00:25:56.950 --> 00:25:58.869
I like that stocks you don't feel like you have

00:25:58.869 --> 00:26:00.450
to because I don't like the idea of starting

00:26:00.450 --> 00:26:03.089
a demo Doing loads of shit. I like this buying

00:26:03.089 --> 00:26:04.509
the game them to do all that shit all again.

00:26:04.630 --> 00:26:06.829
Yeah, take the fun out of it Yeah, just yeah

00:26:06.829 --> 00:26:09.990
saps it a bit. So well, yeah, I was gonna play

00:26:09.990 --> 00:26:11.329
the demo tonight, but it looks like I'll just

00:26:11.329 --> 00:26:14.690
play the game Yeah, I downloaded a demo call

00:26:14.690 --> 00:26:19.890
of Octo path traveler to Know if you've ever

00:26:19.890 --> 00:26:23.470
heard of it. No very popular game In some circles.

00:26:23.690 --> 00:26:26.029
Yeah, Octopath Traveller 2. That's my fucking

00:26:26.029 --> 00:26:30.549
go -to, that one. So it's... I advise you to

00:26:30.549 --> 00:26:33.210
get some images up while I try and describe what

00:26:33.210 --> 00:26:35.009
it is. You haven't taken any of these biscuits,

00:26:35.109 --> 00:26:36.690
by the way. Have I offended you with the biscuits?

00:26:36.710 --> 00:26:39.349
No, I've eaten far too much. I always stock up

00:26:39.349 --> 00:26:41.289
on food before I get here, so I can't make it

00:26:41.289 --> 00:26:46.569
to dinner. What am I looking at? Octopath Traveller

00:26:46.569 --> 00:26:50.490
2. Or one, they both have the same art style.

00:26:50.789 --> 00:26:55.150
Very, very unique gameplay mechanics and ideas.

00:26:56.410 --> 00:27:01.190
And you essentially start the game. There's eight

00:27:01.190 --> 00:27:03.289
different characters you can be, hence the Oct.

00:27:03.710 --> 00:27:06.369
It's a JRPG. I already don't like it. Yeah, well,

00:27:06.450 --> 00:27:08.990
that's fine. I apologise. You don't have to apologise.

00:27:09.150 --> 00:27:12.730
You like what you like. I'm not really a JRPG

00:27:12.730 --> 00:27:15.730
fan either, but I'd say Baldur's Gate and stuff

00:27:15.730 --> 00:27:18.390
got me into turn -based stuff, so I'm more appealed

00:27:18.390 --> 00:27:23.630
to it now. So, yeah, I downloaded the demo. You

00:27:23.630 --> 00:27:25.630
get to pick one of eight characters at the start,

00:27:25.730 --> 00:27:29.089
and they've all got their own stories, right?

00:27:29.150 --> 00:27:31.980
So they're not connected in any form. as far

00:27:31.980 --> 00:27:36.759
as I know. I picked a guy called Oswald, who

00:27:36.759 --> 00:27:39.380
has quite a dark story at the beginning. He's

00:27:39.380 --> 00:27:45.980
a wizard, or a scholar, if you will. I think

00:27:45.980 --> 00:27:50.279
magic's readily available in this world, but

00:27:50.279 --> 00:27:54.220
he uses fire and teaches his little instructor

00:27:54.220 --> 00:27:57.220
about fire and stuff like that. But he works

00:27:57.220 --> 00:27:59.829
out how to harness the fire to make it. More

00:27:59.829 --> 00:28:02.670
powerful. It's on sale at the moment. Yeah, I

00:28:02.670 --> 00:28:06.549
know. I've got it on my wish list. And he teaches

00:28:06.549 --> 00:28:08.089
him, rah, rah, rah. But the game actually starts

00:28:08.089 --> 00:28:14.470
with Oswald in court and being sentenced to a

00:28:14.470 --> 00:28:17.250
long time in prison for killing his wife and

00:28:17.250 --> 00:28:20.950
his child, which is dark as fuck. Nice. So you

00:28:20.950 --> 00:28:25.829
start the game in prison and it's like a prison

00:28:25.829 --> 00:28:28.410
island. So it's a whole island and you're in

00:28:28.410 --> 00:28:31.079
jail. And you're kind of just thrust in there

00:28:31.079 --> 00:28:32.779
and then it's like, oh, I need to escape here.

00:28:32.859 --> 00:28:38.160
And it transpires that the guy that you was working,

00:28:38.400 --> 00:28:40.779
like through flashbacks and stuff, the guy that

00:28:40.779 --> 00:28:44.119
you was like your sidekick, your compatriot,

00:28:44.119 --> 00:28:48.240
basically murdered all your family and you've

00:28:48.240 --> 00:28:51.299
took the blame for it. Not intentionally, but

00:28:51.299 --> 00:28:53.380
that is the situation that we're in. So the game

00:28:53.380 --> 00:28:55.900
is kind of like, okay, you escape the island

00:28:55.900 --> 00:29:00.180
and then... kind of free to do what you want

00:29:00.180 --> 00:29:05.019
like open world uh style um but what's cool about

00:29:05.019 --> 00:29:07.920
it is i don't obviously i don't know how it all

00:29:07.920 --> 00:29:09.839
plays out but i've watched a lot of videos on

00:29:09.839 --> 00:29:12.720
it trying to not spoil myself but try and get

00:29:12.720 --> 00:29:15.460
a grip of what actually the game is and how it

00:29:15.460 --> 00:29:18.319
works which is interesting in the fact that you

00:29:18.319 --> 00:29:20.740
can pick one of eight characters right so i picked

00:29:20.740 --> 00:29:23.319
oswald i could pick one of the other seven but

00:29:23.319 --> 00:29:26.980
you can carry on with oswald's story To its completion,

00:29:27.099 --> 00:29:31.859
I guess. But all these other characters are in

00:29:31.859 --> 00:29:33.740
the world somewhere and you can go and interact

00:29:33.740 --> 00:29:37.119
with them and they'll join your party and you

00:29:37.119 --> 00:29:41.140
can level them up. And then, obviously, there's

00:29:41.140 --> 00:29:43.140
a big thing at the end of the game. Can you swap

00:29:43.140 --> 00:29:45.900
between them? Can you say you can level them

00:29:45.900 --> 00:29:48.079
up? I'm not sure. This is what I don't understand.

00:29:48.259 --> 00:29:51.339
I'm not sure how it works in terms of... Obviously,

00:29:51.359 --> 00:29:53.460
you can use them in your party while you're fighting.

00:29:54.040 --> 00:29:55.980
But they've all got different abilities and stuff.

00:29:56.119 --> 00:29:58.460
But then, obviously, say Oswald, who I am now,

00:29:58.559 --> 00:30:02.740
meets, I don't know, Phil, the fisherman. I just

00:30:02.740 --> 00:30:05.839
made that up. And then he joins my party. And

00:30:05.839 --> 00:30:07.579
then I complete Oswald's story with Phil in my

00:30:07.579 --> 00:30:10.720
party. Does that mean when I play Phil's story,

00:30:10.980 --> 00:30:14.359
I meet Oswald? You know, I don't understand how

00:30:14.359 --> 00:30:17.119
all that works. But he's very interesting and

00:30:17.119 --> 00:30:19.859
very unique. And I thoroughly enjoyed the demo.

00:30:20.720 --> 00:30:23.589
The one thing I don't like about it... which

00:30:23.589 --> 00:30:25.910
is what I didn't like about JRPGs when I was

00:30:25.910 --> 00:30:28.369
a kid, and they've kind of gone away from that,

00:30:28.490 --> 00:30:33.990
is it's got that system combat in where... Like

00:30:33.990 --> 00:30:35.809
the old Pokemon games where you're running around

00:30:35.809 --> 00:30:38.890
and it'll just go... I like to see that there's

00:30:38.890 --> 00:30:40.589
a fight coming up. Yeah, what's happening. I

00:30:40.589 --> 00:30:42.930
don't like it just spawning, you know, randomly.

00:30:43.109 --> 00:30:44.609
I used to hate that shit. You're in a fucking

00:30:44.609 --> 00:30:47.609
cave and you're a couple of steps and then...

00:30:47.609 --> 00:30:50.630
Fucking hell, I can't be arsed. Yeah, and that

00:30:50.630 --> 00:30:52.730
happens on this. So, like, I'm trying to, like,

00:30:52.730 --> 00:30:55.920
look around and go around the world, but... I'm

00:30:55.920 --> 00:30:58.059
sprinting at 100 miles an hour at all times because

00:30:58.059 --> 00:30:59.619
I just don't want to get into a fight. I just

00:30:59.619 --> 00:31:02.400
feel like rushing. I feel like I'm under pressure

00:31:02.400 --> 00:31:05.279
to do stuff all the time, which I don't like.

00:31:05.500 --> 00:31:08.000
But I think I'll buy it. I don't think I'll buy

00:31:08.000 --> 00:31:10.619
it yet. So that kind of led me into, oh, maybe

00:31:10.619 --> 00:31:16.559
I'll check out that other fantasy RPG game. And

00:31:16.559 --> 00:31:18.319
I'm going to do it for you, Sam. I'm going to

00:31:18.319 --> 00:31:21.240
give it a good old go, mate. Granblue Fantasy

00:31:21.240 --> 00:31:25.380
Relink is a very pretty game. I just, yeah. It

00:31:25.380 --> 00:31:28.920
was fun. It just weren't massively for me. But

00:31:28.920 --> 00:31:32.339
also, I can't fucking stand the super, super

00:31:32.339 --> 00:31:35.240
positive American attitude from it as well. Have

00:31:35.240 --> 00:31:38.900
some fucking darkness, bruv. Way to go, team.

00:31:39.200 --> 00:31:42.420
We finally did it. Yay. Shut the fuck up, bruv.

00:31:42.859 --> 00:31:45.259
Shut up. Yeah, I hope there is some darkness

00:31:45.259 --> 00:31:46.720
because I don't like all that shit. I don't know

00:31:46.720 --> 00:31:48.420
if there is, man. I really don't know if there

00:31:48.420 --> 00:31:52.079
is. There has to be. Well, with... Octopath Traveller

00:31:52.079 --> 00:31:56.200
2. It says, what games does it compare to? Is

00:31:56.200 --> 00:31:58.380
it worth it? And generally, what did you think?

00:31:59.039 --> 00:32:02.500
And the comment underneath that was, it's like

00:32:02.500 --> 00:32:07.660
Octopath Traveller 1, but 2. Such a knobbing

00:32:07.660 --> 00:32:11.019
to say. I love it. You're not wrong, I guess.

00:32:11.140 --> 00:32:14.940
I said, oh, well, that solves it. It's got good

00:32:14.940 --> 00:32:17.809
reviews. Yeah. It has got good reviews. Number

00:32:17.809 --> 00:32:20.549
one had very good reviews as well, and then it's

00:32:20.549 --> 00:32:24.609
got a 9 out of 10 on Steam. Ping out some of

00:32:24.609 --> 00:32:26.509
them Steam reviews, man. Let's hear what people

00:32:26.509 --> 00:32:28.650
are saying, because I still don't really understand

00:32:28.650 --> 00:32:32.250
what it is, other than a JRPG with annoying combat

00:32:32.250 --> 00:32:35.869
parts. This game has got 78 hours on record.

00:32:36.349 --> 00:32:38.289
Just go for it, seriously. Either you played

00:32:38.289 --> 00:32:40.430
the first one or not, being familiar with JRPGs

00:32:40.430 --> 00:32:42.920
or not, I'd still recommend this game. Every

00:32:42.920 --> 00:32:44.940
single aspect of the first game that I already

00:32:44.940 --> 00:32:47.059
considered one of my favourite games was outdone

00:32:47.059 --> 00:32:50.759
here. Stories become better, combat system become

00:32:50.759 --> 00:32:54.660
better, visual effects become better. Only thing

00:32:54.660 --> 00:32:58.079
that didn't improve was music because you can't

00:32:58.079 --> 00:33:01.099
improve what's already peak. If you don't play

00:33:01.099 --> 00:33:03.599
it until the end, this game has a lot to offer.

00:33:03.779 --> 00:33:05.740
Oh, even if you don't play it until the end,

00:33:05.740 --> 00:33:08.700
this game has a lot to offer. better than octopath

00:33:08.700 --> 00:33:10.880
one in terms of gameplay in pretty much every

00:33:10.880 --> 00:33:13.460
way but i liked more of the individual characters

00:33:13.460 --> 00:33:16.220
of one than i did two however the cast in two

00:33:16.220 --> 00:33:18.160
has much more opportunities to interact with

00:33:18.160 --> 00:33:21.220
each other and the quality of life features makes

00:33:21.220 --> 00:33:24.240
it hard to play one after playing two i recommend

00:33:24.240 --> 00:33:26.220
trying out both games but definitely recommend

00:33:26.220 --> 00:33:30.200
playing the first game before this and then we

00:33:30.200 --> 00:33:32.519
always round it with a with a little bad one

00:33:32.519 --> 00:33:36.160
honestly not a huge fan there was a lot i liked

00:33:36.160 --> 00:33:38.960
about it I liked the art style and the graphics,

00:33:39.079 --> 00:33:40.660
the music, the way the characters were introduced,

00:33:40.819 --> 00:33:43.160
but I didn't love the combat or the class system

00:33:43.160 --> 00:33:46.259
very much. The game also felt like a slog a lot

00:33:46.259 --> 00:33:48.480
of the time, and I found the progression kind

00:33:48.480 --> 00:33:50.460
of confusing. I understand that it's supposed

00:33:50.460 --> 00:33:52.900
to allow you to make your own choices on what

00:33:52.900 --> 00:33:55.279
parts of the story you progress and when, but

00:33:55.279 --> 00:33:58.380
it was overwhelming to me. Well, it's that last

00:33:58.380 --> 00:34:02.259
bit, it was overwhelming to me. Shut up. How

00:34:02.259 --> 00:34:05.990
about that? Shut the fuck up. For me, it is too

00:34:05.990 --> 00:34:10.550
similar to OT1. Many characters to play with

00:34:10.550 --> 00:34:15.449
unique skills. It's got good reviews, man. People

00:34:15.449 --> 00:34:19.090
love it. Great story. Great gameplay. Thumbs

00:34:19.090 --> 00:34:21.829
up. That's all you need to know. There you go.

00:34:22.190 --> 00:34:26.449
What I want to see is... Fucking Assassin's Creed,

00:34:26.530 --> 00:34:28.949
bruv. I was about to ask you, baby. What's your

00:34:28.949 --> 00:34:31.449
thoughts on the shadows? It's getting a lot of

00:34:31.449 --> 00:34:33.329
fucking decent shit. A lot of people are saying

00:34:33.329 --> 00:34:35.230
they might think that Assassin's Creed is back.

00:34:35.469 --> 00:34:37.630
I'm seeing the polar opposite. It's like one

00:34:37.630 --> 00:34:39.570
extreme to the next. This is the fucking best

00:34:39.570 --> 00:34:41.050
Assassin's Creed since the old days. And then

00:34:41.050 --> 00:34:43.010
people saying this is fucking just as bad as

00:34:43.010 --> 00:34:45.650
the other slop. We've got very positive reviews.

00:34:46.110 --> 00:34:48.010
It's currently the number one selling game on

00:34:48.010 --> 00:34:52.079
Steam. as well and for the very low price of

00:34:52.079 --> 00:34:55.760
424 pounds and 37 pence you can get the assassin's

00:34:55.760 --> 00:35:00.980
creed bundle 16 games there you go um let's have

00:35:00.980 --> 00:35:04.360
a look at some reviews here because yeah oh all

00:35:04.360 --> 00:35:07.840
right okay first two not recommended Here we

00:35:07.840 --> 00:35:10.519
go. Spicy. I can't play this single player game

00:35:10.519 --> 00:35:12.539
because of an issue with my Ubisoft Connect account.

00:35:12.719 --> 00:35:14.960
Right, I'm ignoring that one then. Lock me out

00:35:14.960 --> 00:35:16.679
of my Ubisoft Connect account. Right, I'll ignore

00:35:16.679 --> 00:35:19.440
that as well. Jin Sakai mastered the way of the

00:35:19.440 --> 00:35:22.360
ghost, but Naoe was born in the shadows. Hey

00:35:22.360 --> 00:35:24.360
Ubisoft, if you actually want people to buy your

00:35:24.360 --> 00:35:26.500
forgettable 7 out of 10 games, then drop the

00:35:26.500 --> 00:35:28.739
Ubisoft Connect bullcrap and stop forcing us

00:35:28.739 --> 00:35:31.679
to install it. This is PC problems right here.

00:35:32.260 --> 00:35:34.019
Assassin's Creed Shadows is a game that tells

00:35:34.019 --> 00:35:37.179
the story of Johnny Samoli. who time travels

00:35:37.179 --> 00:35:42.099
to the feudal era of Japan. I don't know what

00:35:42.099 --> 00:35:48.659
that means. Somali or Somali? Somali. Johnny

00:35:48.659 --> 00:35:51.920
Somali? Johnny Somali? Fuck knows. Is his name

00:35:51.920 --> 00:35:54.300
Johnny? No, I think this guy's just taking the

00:35:54.300 --> 00:35:56.519
piss. That's what I mean, I'm confused. It's

00:35:56.519 --> 00:35:58.940
a bit overwhelming with so much content at 15

00:35:58.940 --> 00:36:01.099
hours of gameplay, but I'd say Assassin's Creed

00:36:01.099 --> 00:36:03.860
is back on the right path with this one. But

00:36:03.860 --> 00:36:06.019
don't buy it full price, wait for sale, and more

00:36:06.019 --> 00:36:08.280
importantly, do not buy the Deluxe Edition. You

00:36:08.280 --> 00:36:10.539
can get those things in -game for free if you

00:36:10.539 --> 00:36:14.920
play enough. The problem with Steam is that most

00:36:14.920 --> 00:36:18.460
of it is PC player reviews, and a lot of them

00:36:18.460 --> 00:36:22.889
are just fucking upset little people. So trying

00:36:22.889 --> 00:36:25.309
to trawl through some of this is a bit shit.

00:36:25.409 --> 00:36:28.769
I think it's a good gauge on games like indie

00:36:28.769 --> 00:36:31.030
games and smaller titles. But big games like

00:36:31.030 --> 00:36:33.949
AC, they're going to have people whinge or just

00:36:33.949 --> 00:36:36.730
make shit up. One of the big problems I've seen

00:36:36.730 --> 00:36:39.070
a lot of people say is that they just need to

00:36:39.070 --> 00:36:40.489
settle on one character. They need to stop this

00:36:40.489 --> 00:36:44.369
dual character stuff because saying like... I'm

00:36:44.369 --> 00:36:46.869
sorry, I don't know their names. The lady is

00:36:46.869 --> 00:36:48.809
really cool to play. She's a Saxon. She can do

00:36:48.809 --> 00:36:51.070
X, Y, and Z. And the other geezer is just a big

00:36:51.070 --> 00:36:53.389
brute. Yeah, I was seeing a lot of... They're

00:36:53.389 --> 00:36:55.989
like two polar opposites, but you kind of can

00:36:55.989 --> 00:36:58.849
play the whole game as one, apparently. And it's

00:36:58.849 --> 00:37:00.849
just like, why would anyone play this? You want

00:37:00.849 --> 00:37:02.869
to play the cool ninja. Yeah, I saw someone saying

00:37:02.869 --> 00:37:07.809
that you can do like 70 % of the game as Neowei.

00:37:08.199 --> 00:37:10.400
That's their girl. I can't remember the name.

00:37:10.539 --> 00:37:13.659
Rather than Yosuke, which is the game. Respect.

00:37:14.480 --> 00:37:18.880
Yeah, I know it. Big AC fan. Which, I mean, you

00:37:18.880 --> 00:37:22.019
sort of, yeah, I agree with you on that. I don't

00:37:22.019 --> 00:37:28.800
want two different people, if I'm honest. I know

00:37:28.800 --> 00:37:30.780
that, obviously, we've had many discussions about

00:37:30.780 --> 00:37:33.679
it in terms of role play and when you're on different

00:37:33.679 --> 00:37:35.599
spectrums when it comes to that, but I think

00:37:35.599 --> 00:37:40.389
we can both agree that... And regardless of what

00:37:40.389 --> 00:37:42.630
you like to play and how you like to play it,

00:37:42.690 --> 00:37:46.010
if we're going to go strictly into a role -playing

00:37:46.010 --> 00:37:47.949
aspect and wanting to build a connection with

00:37:47.949 --> 00:37:51.809
the character that you're playing with or as,

00:37:52.030 --> 00:37:55.550
I want to be solely on that character. I don't

00:37:55.550 --> 00:37:57.789
want to have to flick between because I feel

00:37:57.789 --> 00:38:00.250
like if you flick from one character that you're

00:38:00.250 --> 00:38:01.969
really enjoying and then have to flick to another,

00:38:02.230 --> 00:38:04.809
it's fucking annoying. Especially if you then

00:38:04.809 --> 00:38:07.429
have like... Like with The Last of Us. But it

00:38:07.429 --> 00:38:09.369
was kind of different with The Last of Us because

00:38:09.369 --> 00:38:13.429
that game makes you hate Abby. Makes you fucking

00:38:13.429 --> 00:38:15.289
hate her. And then all of a sudden you've got

00:38:15.289 --> 00:38:17.110
to be Abby. And then you play through the story

00:38:17.110 --> 00:38:19.650
and you go, oh shit, I don't actually hate her.

00:38:20.050 --> 00:38:23.650
Like this has twisted it on my head. Interestingly,

00:38:23.750 --> 00:38:25.969
I nearly stopped playing when I switched to Abby.

00:38:26.150 --> 00:38:27.989
And then I powered through and I was like, actually,

00:38:28.090 --> 00:38:31.909
I think I'm team Abby. Yeah, yeah. Abby's not

00:38:31.909 --> 00:38:36.429
in the wrong here. So are we the bad guys this

00:38:36.429 --> 00:38:42.469
whole time? But yeah, I feel like you don't need

00:38:42.469 --> 00:38:47.670
to have both of them. I think you're now on the

00:38:47.670 --> 00:38:50.610
head with it, really. Doing dual protagonists,

00:38:50.690 --> 00:38:53.829
it dilutes it, I think. You want one and you

00:38:53.829 --> 00:38:55.929
can have it a really strong character, be it...

00:38:57.670 --> 00:39:01.190
Yasuki and Naoe I think it's Naoe I'm not really

00:39:01.190 --> 00:39:03.769
sure either one I think pick one of them and

00:39:03.769 --> 00:39:07.369
go with that because doing two dilutes it right

00:39:07.369 --> 00:39:10.429
because you have to you have your way of playing

00:39:10.429 --> 00:39:15.309
with the Naoe and then if you're forced to then

00:39:15.309 --> 00:39:16.710
change to a character that you don't want to

00:39:16.710 --> 00:39:18.150
play as because you strictly want to play as

00:39:18.150 --> 00:39:20.510
Naoe he's going to have different moves different

00:39:20.510 --> 00:39:22.210
ways of moving and stuff and you're like then

00:39:22.210 --> 00:39:24.699
that part becomes a slog. He's like, I don't

00:39:24.699 --> 00:39:26.760
want to play as this guy. They just rush to get

00:39:26.760 --> 00:39:28.500
through it. Yeah. You're not enjoying playing

00:39:28.500 --> 00:39:30.800
as him. Whereas in The Last of Us, at least,

00:39:30.960 --> 00:39:33.780
it's just cover, cover -based shooting really,

00:39:33.880 --> 00:39:35.860
isn't it? Yeah. Yeah, it's not crazy. It's the

00:39:35.860 --> 00:39:37.559
same stuff. You haven't got, because I imagine

00:39:37.559 --> 00:39:39.500
you're going to have different abilities with

00:39:39.500 --> 00:39:41.320
different characters. Completely different, yeah.

00:39:41.340 --> 00:39:44.619
So there'll be, like I've seen the parkour with

00:39:44.619 --> 00:39:47.909
Yasuke. and he kind of just like barrels his

00:39:47.909 --> 00:39:50.369
way up yeah because he's a big fucking big geezer

00:39:50.369 --> 00:39:53.750
samaristic oath but as the assassin's creed you

00:39:53.750 --> 00:39:57.369
want to play as a nimble assassin um so most

00:39:57.369 --> 00:39:59.630
people are going to want to play as now a and

00:39:59.630 --> 00:40:02.110
i think that's what it is yeah and then i think

00:40:02.110 --> 00:40:04.849
like i say i think that just dilutes dilutes

00:40:04.849 --> 00:40:07.369
the um dilutes the game a bit so i think the

00:40:07.369 --> 00:40:08.849
game would have done better if it was just now

00:40:08.849 --> 00:40:11.449
a rather assassin's creed is about assassins

00:40:11.449 --> 00:40:14.539
um you come away from that if they're going back

00:40:14.539 --> 00:40:16.320
to their roots, then go back to them properly.

00:40:17.059 --> 00:40:19.340
I'm not saying it's necessarily a bad thing and

00:40:19.340 --> 00:40:21.739
there probably is people that like how Shadows

00:40:21.739 --> 00:40:28.559
has been done. But the one thing that Shadows

00:40:28.559 --> 00:40:32.019
will forever live with is being compared to Ghost

00:40:32.019 --> 00:40:35.039
of Tsushima. Forever. It just will because Ghosts

00:40:35.039 --> 00:40:39.630
was so incredibly good. And sort of what everyone

00:40:39.630 --> 00:40:41.929
wanted because Assassin's Creed weren't doing

00:40:41.929 --> 00:40:45.809
it yet. And that is a setting in Japan as a fucking

00:40:45.809 --> 00:40:49.010
samurai. And it did it oh so well. Very fucking

00:40:49.010 --> 00:40:50.630
well. And it looked very, very pretty whilst

00:40:50.630 --> 00:40:54.090
doing it. So I kind of think whilst Assassin's

00:40:54.090 --> 00:40:56.849
Creed isn't necessarily in competition with Ghost

00:40:56.849 --> 00:40:59.230
of Tsushima. Because they've released it two

00:40:59.230 --> 00:41:03.030
completely different times. People don't want

00:41:03.030 --> 00:41:06.179
to be big brutes. If I'm honest. People have

00:41:06.179 --> 00:41:07.940
been screaming for an Assassin's Creed based

00:41:07.940 --> 00:41:11.760
in Japan. Since number one. Yeah, since number

00:41:11.760 --> 00:41:14.599
one for a very long fucking time. Very long time.

00:41:14.599 --> 00:41:16.960
Since I was about 19. And the excitement when

00:41:16.960 --> 00:41:19.420
it finally got leaked, the code red was going

00:41:19.420 --> 00:41:20.900
to be set in Japan. Everyone was like, oh my

00:41:20.900 --> 00:41:25.380
fucking God. So I don't really understand why

00:41:25.380 --> 00:41:30.340
you wouldn't just go all in with that Assassin

00:41:30.340 --> 00:41:35.000
type. Because obviously Naoe is a ninja. She's

00:41:35.000 --> 00:41:41.800
not a samurai. She is a ninja. So own it. Go

00:41:41.800 --> 00:41:45.619
with it. I understand that having Yasuki as this

00:41:45.619 --> 00:41:49.380
big brute of a samurai, it does fit the story.

00:41:49.960 --> 00:41:52.679
But I just don't think that that's... You're

00:41:52.679 --> 00:41:54.199
playing an Assassin's Creed game. You don't want

00:41:54.199 --> 00:41:56.099
to be big and brutish. I think you either have

00:41:56.099 --> 00:42:03.119
to have Naoe be the ninja. um that can fight

00:42:03.119 --> 00:42:08.960
like a samurai or you have um yusuki who is a

00:42:08.960 --> 00:42:10.800
samurai that can fight like a ninja and sneak

00:42:10.800 --> 00:42:12.480
around like a ninja i don't feel like i feel

00:42:12.480 --> 00:42:14.820
like they've tried to do both and and by doing

00:42:14.820 --> 00:42:17.280
that i don't know i'm guessing from what people

00:42:17.280 --> 00:42:19.420
have said and what i've seen it dilutes it while

00:42:19.420 --> 00:42:21.219
doing that if they'd stuck with one protagonist

00:42:21.219 --> 00:42:23.960
i feel like they'd had a better yeah if you're

00:42:23.960 --> 00:42:26.280
if you're create if the story isn't dependent

00:42:26.280 --> 00:42:28.699
on having two separate characters let's let's

00:42:28.699 --> 00:42:33.630
let's hypothetically say that it isn't then for

00:42:33.630 --> 00:42:36.349
me your best your best put a call to to appease

00:42:36.349 --> 00:42:39.130
everyone would have been to have one character

00:42:39.130 --> 00:42:42.610
be able to change that character as to whether

00:42:42.610 --> 00:42:43.889
you want to play a geese or you want to play

00:42:43.889 --> 00:42:48.250
a woman and then have a some form of skill tree

00:42:48.250 --> 00:42:50.889
in there Like they've done with most of the other

00:42:50.889 --> 00:42:52.769
ones, like Valhalla and that. You could be evil

00:42:52.769 --> 00:42:55.929
as a guy or a female. But then have those play

00:42:55.929 --> 00:42:57.869
styles. If you want to go through as a samurai

00:42:57.869 --> 00:43:00.570
that's fucking big and brutish, then fucking

00:43:00.570 --> 00:43:02.889
go for it. But if you want to go through as this

00:43:02.889 --> 00:43:05.909
stealthy ninja, then have that in your skill

00:43:05.909 --> 00:43:07.869
tree or have an amalgamation of both so you're

00:43:07.869 --> 00:43:10.710
able to get those play styles if it wasn't story

00:43:10.710 --> 00:43:15.280
dependent. That's how a lot of it... could be

00:43:15.280 --> 00:43:17.739
solved that's if it's that matter if it's that

00:43:17.739 --> 00:43:19.780
big of an issue like so neither of us have played

00:43:19.780 --> 00:43:22.179
it so it might not actually be a problem but

00:43:22.179 --> 00:43:24.239
i noticed that playing assassins creed syndicate

00:43:24.239 --> 00:43:29.179
um i preferred playing as jacob than i did as

00:43:29.179 --> 00:43:32.480
as evie absolutely nothing wrong with evie very

00:43:32.480 --> 00:43:36.840
good story and a very good character but i feel

00:43:36.840 --> 00:43:40.940
like the switching it just isn't for me Really?

00:43:41.079 --> 00:43:42.760
That was the one in London, isn't it? Yeah, and

00:43:42.760 --> 00:43:44.519
for some reason I feel like it stretches out

00:43:44.519 --> 00:43:46.980
the story unnecessarily. Even though that's not

00:43:46.980 --> 00:43:48.559
what it does, that's what I feel like, because

00:43:48.559 --> 00:43:51.599
you spend 20 hours playing as one character,

00:43:51.699 --> 00:43:53.940
and then all of a sudden you've now got to play

00:43:53.940 --> 00:43:56.900
as someone else. And if the stories aren't linked

00:43:56.900 --> 00:43:59.300
up yet, it feels like I'm back to square one

00:43:59.300 --> 00:44:01.039
because I'm playing another game. I've just done

00:44:01.039 --> 00:44:03.199
20 hours of progression, now I'm fucking back

00:44:03.199 --> 00:44:05.840
to nothing again. So now it feels longer until

00:44:05.840 --> 00:44:08.820
the inevitable of those two stories linking up.

00:44:09.769 --> 00:44:12.250
I've seen a lot of people, Assassin's Creed Shadows

00:44:12.250 --> 00:44:16.369
launching in a polarizing state, shall we say,

00:44:16.489 --> 00:44:18.750
has done a lot for another game because I've

00:44:18.750 --> 00:44:20.409
seen a lot of people playing Rise of the Ronin

00:44:20.409 --> 00:44:23.409
now. Yeah. And people are giving it the old,

00:44:23.530 --> 00:44:26.349
why did we hate this again? Yeah. And everyone's

00:44:26.349 --> 00:44:28.289
like, why the fuck is this like, this is well

00:44:28.289 --> 00:44:30.190
underrated. Why did we not like this? And it's

00:44:30.190 --> 00:44:32.650
weird, isn't it? Because that come out and everyone

00:44:32.650 --> 00:44:35.210
was like, this is fucking shit. Because you got

00:44:35.210 --> 00:44:36.929
that and I got something else, right? I never

00:44:36.929 --> 00:44:39.530
got Rise of the Ronin because of that. I think

00:44:39.530 --> 00:44:41.530
you were going to. I was going to, yes. And I

00:44:41.530 --> 00:44:43.969
went Dragon's Dogma. Dragon's Dogma. Because

00:44:43.969 --> 00:44:46.849
Dragon's Dogma come out alongside Rise of the

00:44:46.849 --> 00:44:50.349
Ronin and everyone was fucking slating Rise of

00:44:50.349 --> 00:44:52.909
the Ronin. And unfortunately, fucking I fell

00:44:52.909 --> 00:44:54.949
into the trap of... I mean, it was expensive

00:44:54.949 --> 00:44:57.389
as well. It's difficult, isn't it? Because if

00:44:57.389 --> 00:44:59.550
everyone's slating a game and then it's got a

00:44:59.550 --> 00:45:02.650
70 quid price tag, you don't want to fucking

00:45:02.650 --> 00:45:04.829
do that. You don't want to spend that money.

00:45:06.510 --> 00:45:10.159
But... Yeah, I mean, let's have a look at fucking

00:45:10.159 --> 00:45:12.679
Rise of the Ronin then. Assassin's Creed Shadows

00:45:12.679 --> 00:45:15.000
looks good. I probably will get it. I won't be

00:45:15.000 --> 00:45:18.719
paying full price for it. If I can help it, I'll

00:45:18.719 --> 00:45:21.639
try and avoid that. But for someone like myself,

00:45:21.760 --> 00:45:25.900
it feels relatively criminal to not own Assassin's

00:45:25.900 --> 00:45:29.300
Creed Shadows. So I say I won't pay full price.

00:45:29.639 --> 00:45:36.190
If I do, then it is what it is. Rise. Rise of

00:45:36.190 --> 00:45:38.610
the Ronin is only 40 quid as well. I've got sat

00:45:38.610 --> 00:45:41.769
in here. This was a month ago. Rise of the Ronin

00:45:41.769 --> 00:45:43.309
is probably one of the most underrated games

00:45:43.309 --> 00:45:45.349
I've ever played. I can literally feel the passion

00:45:45.349 --> 00:45:47.369
and art in this coming out. It's my favourite

00:45:47.369 --> 00:45:49.409
game that came out last year. The story, voice

00:45:49.409 --> 00:45:51.570
acting, graphics are meh, which is why it got

00:45:51.570 --> 00:45:53.690
bad reviews, but who cares? The gameplay is top

00:45:53.690 --> 00:45:55.630
notch and makes up for its flaws. It's fun to

00:45:55.630 --> 00:45:57.909
master different weapons and styles. Someone

00:45:57.909 --> 00:46:01.929
replied, no, that's not the case. The bad reviews

00:46:01.929 --> 00:46:07.260
came from many factors. 125 plus game websites

00:46:07.260 --> 00:46:10.159
reviewed it for one console. Two, released in

00:46:10.159 --> 00:46:15.239
the same game from a huge company that was absent

00:46:15.239 --> 00:46:18.179
from 12 years ago. Three, the fake reviewers

00:46:18.179 --> 00:46:22.179
keep it compared. This English is awful. This

00:46:22.179 --> 00:46:25.099
isn't me, by the way. The fake reviewers kept

00:46:25.099 --> 00:46:27.360
comparing it. I'm trying to just fill in his

00:46:27.360 --> 00:46:30.340
blanks. With a lot of games... I can't read it

00:46:30.340 --> 00:46:32.840
anymore. It's just all over the place. But basically,

00:46:32.880 --> 00:46:35.000
everyone's just saying, yeah, it's really fucking

00:46:35.000 --> 00:46:37.880
good. And I don't know why everyone dunked on

00:46:37.880 --> 00:46:41.940
it so much. Let me try and find... That's a little

00:46:41.940 --> 00:46:47.280
too long. Great game. Extremely poor optimization.

00:46:47.420 --> 00:46:49.639
Can absolutely not recommend until they make

00:46:49.639 --> 00:46:52.639
it better on PC. Fuck off. Just finished the

00:46:52.639 --> 00:46:54.519
game maybe an hour or two ago and unlocked the

00:46:54.519 --> 00:46:56.400
harder difficulty with the new gear and felt

00:46:56.400 --> 00:46:59.079
zero desire to do it. The game is nice for a

00:46:59.079 --> 00:47:02.019
40 -60 hour playthrough, but maybe wait for a

00:47:02.019 --> 00:47:07.340
25 -50 % sale and patches. Of course, it is more

00:47:07.340 --> 00:47:10.760
enjoyable if you have knowledge of the Bakumatsu

00:47:10.760 --> 00:47:13.860
period of Japan. Just a heads up, I have all

00:47:13.860 --> 00:47:17.099
three maps at 80 -ish and did the pro shogunate

00:47:17.099 --> 00:47:22.739
path. Again, that's too long of a review. I'm

00:47:22.739 --> 00:47:25.139
not that interested. Expecting Ghost of Tsushima

00:47:25.139 --> 00:47:27.539
2 .0 from Rise of the Ronin was setting the bar

00:47:27.539 --> 00:47:29.599
too high. Graphically, it feels like a game from

00:47:29.599 --> 00:47:32.260
2016 to 18, which is jarring for a modern title

00:47:32.260 --> 00:47:35.380
released in 2024. Performance -wise, my setup

00:47:35.380 --> 00:47:38.780
of 4090 and more, check my profile, is overkill.

00:47:39.099 --> 00:47:41.519
Yeah, I still ran into stutters and crashes that

00:47:41.519 --> 00:47:45.559
a lot of people... That's the thing, man, is...

00:47:45.559 --> 00:47:49.579
Optimisation is obviously a very important thing.

00:47:50.079 --> 00:47:55.340
But I feel like a lot of bad reviews come from

00:47:55.340 --> 00:47:58.179
optimization rather than the game itself. But

00:47:58.179 --> 00:48:00.960
this is the problem, isn't it? This is the developers

00:48:00.960 --> 00:48:04.320
and the higher -ups maybe more so. It's a problem

00:48:04.320 --> 00:48:06.139
because they're pushing this game out when it's

00:48:06.139 --> 00:48:08.880
not ready, and then the reviews will drop and

00:48:08.880 --> 00:48:11.679
be like, yeah, sevens out of ten is all right,

00:48:11.699 --> 00:48:14.900
but it's framey and it's jittery and it's buggy.

00:48:15.039 --> 00:48:17.539
And then three months down the line, the game's

00:48:17.539 --> 00:48:20.079
fucking smooth as butter. Yeah, yeah. But they

00:48:20.079 --> 00:48:22.199
don't go and re -review it. It's not their job

00:48:22.199 --> 00:48:24.400
to re -review it, right? But they don't re -review

00:48:24.400 --> 00:48:26.559
it. So then reviews, you just go, you're looking

00:48:26.559 --> 00:48:28.239
in a shop, not so much these days, I suppose,

00:48:28.260 --> 00:48:29.639
but you're on the PlayStation store and you're

00:48:29.639 --> 00:48:31.679
like, oh, what's this? Oh, I remember this. Look

00:48:31.679 --> 00:48:33.320
at reviews like sixes and sevens. You're like,

00:48:33.360 --> 00:48:35.199
no, fuck that then. I'm not paying 40 quid or

00:48:35.199 --> 00:48:38.119
whatever it might be at the time. And that's

00:48:38.119 --> 00:48:39.860
kind of just how it does. So you kind of sign

00:48:39.860 --> 00:48:42.380
your own death warrant with it a little bit because

00:48:42.380 --> 00:48:45.099
games are not finished and optimized when they

00:48:45.099 --> 00:48:48.260
launch and they tend to get fixed after. Yeah,

00:48:48.360 --> 00:48:50.320
agreed. It's very difficult when you look at

00:48:50.320 --> 00:48:54.900
any reviews for it, like the overall. 3 .6 out

00:48:54.900 --> 00:49:01.440
of 5 stars. 7 out of 10 GameSpot. It's 4 out

00:49:01.440 --> 00:49:06.559
of 5 on TechRadar. What have we got? 11 months

00:49:06.559 --> 00:49:08.380
ago. The combat and weapon variety. You get to

00:49:08.380 --> 00:49:10.519
choose your play style. Want to use guns? Have

00:49:10.519 --> 00:49:12.639
at it. Traditional samurai who shall not dishonour

00:49:12.639 --> 00:49:15.960
themselves. Use bows and shurikens. The combat

00:49:15.960 --> 00:49:18.039
has a stamina bar and plenty of skills to learn

00:49:18.039 --> 00:49:20.840
and combat styles to master as you play. The

00:49:20.840 --> 00:49:22.639
more you use a certain weapon, the better it

00:49:22.639 --> 00:49:24.679
gets. The closer you get to your friends or hunt

00:49:24.679 --> 00:49:26.780
down criminals, they will give you new combat

00:49:26.780 --> 00:49:30.340
styles and or teach you the next level of it.

00:49:31.579 --> 00:49:34.539
Jesus Christ. This person just basically says

00:49:34.539 --> 00:49:36.980
the game is good. RPG system is great and allows

00:49:36.980 --> 00:49:40.719
you to focus on what you want. Very much like

00:49:40.719 --> 00:49:42.679
the weapon variety in the game. The outfits in

00:49:42.679 --> 00:49:45.199
the game are top tier. There's plenty of variation

00:49:45.199 --> 00:49:47.920
as well as transmog to let you create badass

00:49:47.920 --> 00:49:50.460
characters. Yes, the transmog. Every game needs

00:49:50.460 --> 00:49:55.039
that shit, man. Allies is the best AI I have...

00:49:55.039 --> 00:49:57.440
Is it the best AI I have seen in a game? No.

00:49:57.719 --> 00:50:01.039
Do allies aid you in battle well enough so that

00:50:01.039 --> 00:50:02.840
you can take out the enemies that need to be

00:50:02.840 --> 00:50:04.639
dealt with while the other enemies go towards

00:50:04.639 --> 00:50:07.420
your allies? Yes, yes, yes. You can buff your

00:50:07.420 --> 00:50:09.199
allies with gifts that will make them better

00:50:09.199 --> 00:50:11.449
in combat. And when you get closer to them, blah,

00:50:11.489 --> 00:50:14.110
blah, blah. Yes, I'm going to get it. It sounds

00:50:14.110 --> 00:50:16.789
great. Do you reckon, yeah? Yeah, I'm going to

00:50:16.789 --> 00:50:20.889
get it, baby. I wonder... I added it to my wish

00:50:20.889 --> 00:50:22.690
list earlier. It's full price now. It's like

00:50:22.690 --> 00:50:25.230
70 bones. I'm not paying that. Get it on CD,

00:50:25.289 --> 00:50:30.349
keys for 29 quid. What's that, though? You can

00:50:30.349 --> 00:50:34.130
download the DLO code for the PlayStation. Let

00:50:34.130 --> 00:50:36.929
me have a look. You probably fucking can't because

00:50:36.929 --> 00:50:43.460
it's bollocks, isn't it? Rise of the Ronin. CD

00:50:43.460 --> 00:50:47.000
Keys likes to not give you any PlayStation fucking

00:50:47.000 --> 00:50:49.960
bollocks. No, that's all purely Steam. I don't

00:50:49.960 --> 00:50:55.239
want to play it through Steam. Yeah. Yeah. Poor

00:50:55.239 --> 00:51:00.300
timing in it for its release. Just one of those

00:51:00.300 --> 00:51:02.539
ones. Is it something that I think will be picked

00:51:02.539 --> 00:51:04.719
up eventually and then have a resurgence? Probably

00:51:04.719 --> 00:51:07.920
not. I don't think that it's in a category of...

00:51:09.889 --> 00:51:12.710
that is unique enough for it to have that kind

00:51:12.710 --> 00:51:16.510
of resurgence. Cyberpunk, I felt, is very unique

00:51:16.510 --> 00:51:20.829
in its format of game and exactly what kind of

00:51:20.829 --> 00:51:23.889
game it is and had all that fucking hype around

00:51:23.889 --> 00:51:26.150
it, whereas Rise of the Ronin obviously doesn't

00:51:26.150 --> 00:51:29.389
have that. No Man's Sky, again, pretty fucking

00:51:29.389 --> 00:51:33.050
unique in what it is. But, yes, I agree, and

00:51:33.050 --> 00:51:34.969
I'm not disputing what you're saying, but however,

00:51:35.130 --> 00:51:38.199
if... They're not, I imagine. But say they're

00:51:38.199 --> 00:51:40.840
working on a big fucking expansion for its sake.

00:51:41.119 --> 00:51:45.000
Yeah. And then they go, bang, Rise of the Ronin,

00:51:45.159 --> 00:51:48.380
Dreadwater. And it's like fucking, they've added

00:51:48.380 --> 00:51:50.139
an expansion, there's pirate ships and I don't

00:51:50.139 --> 00:51:52.559
know, just spitballing it. And they drop that

00:51:52.559 --> 00:51:54.880
next week and everyone's a bit like, meh, on

00:51:54.880 --> 00:51:57.199
shadows. People will buy the shit out of that.

00:51:57.280 --> 00:51:58.920
They'll go, hold on, let's check that shit again.

00:51:59.059 --> 00:52:01.460
Yeah. And that is the resurgence. But I think

00:52:01.460 --> 00:52:04.500
it's having enough of a resurgence at the moment.

00:52:06.639 --> 00:52:08.739
more than I imagine they would have expected.

00:52:08.980 --> 00:52:10.460
They probably thought, yeah, we've done all right,

00:52:10.500 --> 00:52:12.239
that'll do. And now people are playing it again.

00:52:12.280 --> 00:52:14.019
They think, oh, here we go. Look, people are

00:52:14.019 --> 00:52:16.800
not shitting on it anymore. And people, I think,

00:52:16.800 --> 00:52:18.699
also are getting confused with what Rise of the

00:52:18.699 --> 00:52:22.380
Ronin was. I don't know. But they are the same

00:52:22.380 --> 00:52:26.079
team that made Nioh. Nioh. Yeah, yeah. And that's

00:52:26.079 --> 00:52:28.420
a fucking fantastic game. That is like Souls

00:52:28.420 --> 00:52:33.630
game samurai. Weapons, fucking demons. That shit

00:52:33.630 --> 00:52:37.469
is fire. It's on Amazon for 40 quid. And I was

00:52:37.469 --> 00:52:40.210
Devo when they didn't make Nioh 3 and they made

00:52:40.210 --> 00:52:42.590
Rise of Ronin. Because I've played both Niohs

00:52:42.590 --> 00:52:44.550
and they're fucking sick and they're hard as

00:52:44.550 --> 00:52:48.570
ball bags. And hopefully they'll go back to Nioh

00:52:48.570 --> 00:52:50.809
if they're not going to do Rise of Ronin 2. So,

00:52:50.889 --> 00:52:53.929
yeah, them games are more Souls -like than they

00:52:53.929 --> 00:52:57.659
are... Ghost of Tsushima, AC Shadows. Yeah, yeah.

00:52:57.840 --> 00:52:59.539
So if you're going in going, oh, I just want

00:52:59.539 --> 00:53:01.239
to be a cool samurai, yeah, you have to be a

00:53:01.239 --> 00:53:02.360
cool samurai, but you have to be good at the

00:53:02.360 --> 00:53:04.519
game as well. So, I don't know. Maybe that's

00:53:04.519 --> 00:53:05.880
something to do with, I don't know, maybe we're

00:53:05.880 --> 00:53:08.639
just good gamers. I don't know. Yeah, I get that

00:53:08.639 --> 00:53:10.219
quite a bit, you know, where people are like,

00:53:10.219 --> 00:53:11.639
oh, yeah, this was really hard, really, really

00:53:11.639 --> 00:53:13.940
difficult, and go, well, I didn't find it hard.

00:53:14.019 --> 00:53:16.079
Yeah, but you're a fucking Elden Lord now, mate.

00:53:16.239 --> 00:53:18.039
I am an Elden Lord. You're not the little scrub

00:53:18.039 --> 00:53:21.719
I picked up. You've, like, elevated. You beat,

00:53:21.800 --> 00:53:25.460
mate, you beat Radan. Pre -nerf Radan as well.

00:53:25.559 --> 00:53:28.320
Radan, bruv. Spent a lot of time beating Radan.

00:53:28.380 --> 00:53:31.199
I think you beat... I mean, you beat Radan before

00:53:31.199 --> 00:53:33.059
me. Yeah, you beat... Yeah, but that doesn't

00:53:33.059 --> 00:53:36.500
matter. You beat post -nerf Radan in base game.

00:53:36.780 --> 00:53:40.480
I beat pre -nerf Radan base game. And then you

00:53:40.480 --> 00:53:43.920
beat... So you full circled and was like, yeah,

00:53:43.940 --> 00:53:45.539
I'll beat it down, no problem. Did you? Yeah,

00:53:45.599 --> 00:53:47.280
you did prime con. Yeah, because it was you that

00:53:47.280 --> 00:53:50.139
made me fucking do it because I was so horrendously

00:53:50.139 --> 00:53:51.440
jealous and angry. You was there like three days

00:53:51.440 --> 00:53:53.039
before me banging your head against the wall.

00:53:53.079 --> 00:53:55.119
Yeah, yeah. So it took me a couple of days, I

00:53:55.119 --> 00:53:57.460
think. Yeah, I was a cunt of a boss. Killed it

00:53:57.460 --> 00:53:58.860
once and I was like, I'm never doing this again.

00:53:58.960 --> 00:54:01.599
Yeah, and rightly so. He's a cunt. But you did

00:54:01.599 --> 00:54:03.719
it and not many people can do that shit. There's

00:54:03.719 --> 00:54:08.559
a geezer, Dan Gieselin. He has over 8 ,000 deaths

00:54:08.559 --> 00:54:10.840
or something to him. And he finally beat him

00:54:10.840 --> 00:54:12.280
the other day. He's still been playing it since

00:54:12.280 --> 00:54:14.880
the expansion dropped. Stuck on that boss. It's

00:54:14.880 --> 00:54:17.039
one hell of a boss, man. I'm telling you that.

00:54:18.119 --> 00:54:24.440
Prime Consort Radan is... What's even more crazy

00:54:24.440 --> 00:54:28.300
is because I killed him in his own gear with

00:54:28.300 --> 00:54:32.519
his own fucking weapons from normal Radan. Yeah,

00:54:32.519 --> 00:54:34.980
before you become a consort. Because I felt like

00:54:34.980 --> 00:54:38.599
I just needed to do that for me. I was like,

00:54:38.599 --> 00:54:40.420
I'm going to fucking kill you in your own stuff

00:54:40.420 --> 00:54:42.679
with your own weapon. That's how much this fucking

00:54:42.679 --> 00:54:48.360
hatred is festering. And got his weapons at the

00:54:48.360 --> 00:54:51.820
end. I don't even like them. I don't even like

00:54:51.820 --> 00:54:53.739
them. I prefer his old weapons. Because that's

00:54:53.739 --> 00:54:58.179
just how I roll. And yeah, that boss fucking

00:54:58.179 --> 00:55:01.130
sucked. One of the hardest bosses, if not the

00:55:01.130 --> 00:55:03.170
hardest boss I've ever fought. It's got to be

00:55:03.170 --> 00:55:04.809
the hardest thing I've ever done in a game. Previously

00:55:04.809 --> 00:55:07.010
to that, it was fucking Milena was up there,

00:55:07.050 --> 00:55:08.889
brother. Now Milena looks like a piece of piss.

00:55:08.909 --> 00:55:10.769
Piece of piss. Absolute piece of piss. Fight

00:55:10.769 --> 00:55:12.849
her all day, every day compared to that. Because

00:55:12.849 --> 00:55:15.650
I had that first phase, that first phase of that

00:55:15.650 --> 00:55:18.050
fight was under lock and key. I wasn't getting

00:55:18.050 --> 00:55:21.489
hit. No hit. Full health. Weren't having to touch

00:55:21.489 --> 00:55:26.010
potions. Nothing. I was fucking sweet. And then

00:55:26.010 --> 00:55:28.769
when you get into that second phase, it all crumbles.

00:55:28.949 --> 00:55:30.590
And all them beams of light. Yeah, and then you

00:55:30.590 --> 00:55:32.170
watch a guy and it's like, oh yeah, when he does

00:55:32.170 --> 00:55:33.949
this, just move to the left and then I'll run

00:55:33.949 --> 00:55:35.809
over here. That never happened with me. We must

00:55:35.809 --> 00:55:37.449
have been playing different games because he

00:55:37.449 --> 00:55:39.150
was doing all sorts of weird shit with me. I

00:55:39.150 --> 00:55:41.030
had no fucking hope. Sometimes they're grabbing

00:55:41.030 --> 00:55:43.989
you up and they pick you up and shit. Yeah. Like,

00:55:44.050 --> 00:55:46.869
oh yeah, fucking don't use the summit. Fuck you.

00:55:47.010 --> 00:55:49.849
My mimic tier was out in full force. I wouldn't

00:55:49.849 --> 00:55:51.230
have been able to do it without that. No fucking

00:55:51.230 --> 00:55:54.369
chance. I was sick of it. I have no mimic tear,

00:55:54.449 --> 00:56:01.050
bruv. I cried. I cried. I'm not ashamed of that.

00:56:01.090 --> 00:56:03.690
A tear. One tear. I'll cast it as crying because

00:56:03.690 --> 00:56:06.630
water exited my eyeballs. Stress and relief.

00:56:06.630 --> 00:56:08.710
One tear. There's one of them and you just want

00:56:08.710 --> 00:56:10.670
it done. You're like, I'm done with this shit.

00:56:10.809 --> 00:56:12.449
I was getting... Just let me finish this now.

00:56:12.610 --> 00:56:15.510
A weight on my shoulders. A genuine, like...

00:56:16.329 --> 00:56:18.829
i'm a relatively anxious person i'm a confident

00:56:18.829 --> 00:56:20.869
person but relatively anxious i feel like you're

00:56:20.869 --> 00:56:26.130
the same as well and i get um because of the

00:56:26.130 --> 00:56:29.329
addiction the anxiety from the likes of like

00:56:29.329 --> 00:56:31.789
world of warcraft or even death strand like these

00:56:31.789 --> 00:56:34.010
games i'm playing where i'm like i need to play

00:56:34.010 --> 00:56:37.269
these i want to get these done so when i'm not

00:56:37.269 --> 00:56:41.210
doing that i don't feel burdened by it but it's

00:56:41.210 --> 00:56:43.590
always in my mind where i go i need to get all

00:56:43.590 --> 00:56:45.630
of this stuff out the way and then i can play

00:56:45.630 --> 00:56:47.389
this and do this because i want to get this done

00:56:47.389 --> 00:56:53.869
and prime consort radan was an absolutely higher

00:56:53.869 --> 00:56:57.170
level to that by a fucking mile like to the point

00:56:57.170 --> 00:57:00.429
where i couldn't think anything else i couldn't

00:57:00.429 --> 00:57:04.960
do anything i was feeling losing sleep It was

00:57:04.960 --> 00:57:08.420
pissing me off that I felt that fucking infuriated

00:57:08.420 --> 00:57:11.239
by it. And when he fucking died, weight off my

00:57:11.239 --> 00:57:14.659
shoulders. Imagine making a boss so immensely

00:57:14.659 --> 00:57:18.219
difficult that people feel so fucking happy that

00:57:18.219 --> 00:57:19.880
they finally killed it, that they never play

00:57:19.880 --> 00:57:23.900
your game again. That's what happened. I killed

00:57:23.900 --> 00:57:26.820
him, fucked around with his swords for five minutes,

00:57:26.920 --> 00:57:29.460
took the disc out of the PlayStation, put it

00:57:29.460 --> 00:57:33.630
in the case, done. See you later. Done. Done

00:57:33.630 --> 00:57:35.570
with it. He was a motherfucker. I didn't kill

00:57:35.570 --> 00:57:37.369
all the bosses in that DLC, but I killed the

00:57:37.369 --> 00:57:38.989
hardest one, so I don't give a fuck about everything

00:57:38.989 --> 00:57:42.110
else. Done. Him and that fucking cunt that rides

00:57:42.110 --> 00:57:46.489
on the pig. I hated him. I hated him so much.

00:57:46.690 --> 00:57:49.949
General fucking... General Arsis or whatever

00:57:49.949 --> 00:57:51.570
his fucking name was. Was he the one that you

00:57:51.570 --> 00:57:55.130
had to fucking do an emote at the statue to open

00:57:55.130 --> 00:57:57.050
the door to get out? I think so, yeah, yeah,

00:57:57.050 --> 00:57:58.610
yeah. I remember that. I never would have fucking

00:57:58.610 --> 00:58:01.179
worked this out. Yeah, yeah. What a fucking arsehole.

00:58:01.179 --> 00:58:03.219
Try a gesture. What a fucking gesture. Yeah,

00:58:03.280 --> 00:58:06.960
I hated him. Finger butthole. Yeah, finger bumhole,

00:58:07.019 --> 00:58:13.699
please. Is this dog? Tortoise. What a game. Right,

00:58:13.780 --> 00:58:16.119
well, sweet. Doing the Patreon. See you later,

00:58:16.179 --> 00:58:17.300
everyone. Ooroo. Ooroo.