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Nice catch because I probably wouldn't even caught myself.
I know I was reading the head and just like that was just standing out.
Like technically I mean we if you're new to this one and haven't listened to like any
of our other stuff we break down movies and we've only done like I don't even remember
how many video games we've done.
I mean if you're just counting.
This is four.
Hell yeah.
I mean if you're just counting cutscenes I guess you could say that's a movie.
It's like a five or six hour movie.
Yeah.
Like we did we were trying to do this every 50 episodes because every 50 is like pretty
close to a year.
Yeah it's special.
Yeah and so we we didn't do one for our first 50.
Oh yes we did.
Yeah we did.
We talked about Spider-Man.
Oh okay.
Yeah.
Okay wait so 50 was Spider-Man.
100 was that Red Dead 2?
Yep.
150 was Avengers and then 200 was Fallen Order and now Guardians.
Okay so yeah we've done one every 50.
Yeah the reason so the reason I didn't realize that we've we did one of these before is because
we didn't have this system in place when we were doing Spider-Man.
That'll do it.
That'd be a fun one to just go back and like re-explore.
Hundreds all across the board.
Honestly.
What?
I said I'm not Vic.
Kidding.
I'm totally kidding Vic.
Dude honestly the only one that I would like maybe disagree with that on would maybe be
music.
Everything else though like that's a bomb ass game.
I don't know the freaking song that they play when he first suits up and he's starting to
swing through the city and like that's when you're like literally transitioned into the
character.
The song's pretty badass.
True.
Well we'll figure it out.
Yeah I might have to fight you on a hundred for that one too.
I'm just saying.
Yeah maybe.
Anyway in so this episode in 4k spotlight we have three new movies coming out.
Two I haven't seen.
Neither have I.
And then one that we talked about a couple weeks ago.
And then for Through the Wall we got a couple new trailers this week and there's not a whole
lot to go off of.
We're just going to give our initial thoughts until like we get a bigger like story based
trailer.
And yeah.
And then after that we'll be getting into our episode 250 special episode where we break
down Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy video game.
Yes.
And with that let's say we get into this.
Let's do it.
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Alrighty first up in 4k spotlight we have three new movies coming to 4k this week.
Rose would you like to tell everyone about them?
I would love to.
So first up we have Ticket to Paradise which I feel this one kind of came and went.
Honestly I'm amazed at how fast it's already gone to Blu-ray.
Because I swear this first came out in like fricking like the end of October or like the
beginning of November.
Is that the George Clooney and Julia Roberts one right?
Yes.
Okay.
Yeah that one looks funny.
It does.
Does it say when it was released?
October 21st 2022.
Yeah damn it's not even two months old yet and it's already being released on Blu-ray.
It's insane how like fast studios put out movies on Blu-ray now because I didn't I always
forget that Universal has this whole like 17 day.
I mean I don't know if this yeah this is Universal.
They have the whole like 17 day window that if they see a movie is not doing well in theaters
they will straight up pull it and just release it straight to digital to rent at a high price
or buy at an even higher price.
That's not a bad way to go about it.
It's not.
I mean I don't know if you would pay $25 to run a movie.
Absolutely not.
I will wait for it to come to streaming like everyone else.
Yeah fair enough.
Which I'm sure this one's going to end on Peacock soon because it seems that's where
all Universal movies end up because I know they just added Bros to Peacock so I'm sure
this one will be coming on there soon and I'll probably check it out there.
I don't really plan on blind buying that movie.
I mean I love those two actors but just I don't really feel like blind buying that one.
Next up we have Lyle Lyle Crocodile.
I love that name.
That's a badass name but I know nothing about this source material or just anything about
it.
Is it a book?
I swear it is.
Yep.
It is a book by Bernard Weber.
Apparently Variety called it the happiest film of the season.
Truly magical.
Freaking Shawn Mendes plays Lyle.
Oh my.
Yeah well he's a singing crocodile.
So yeah it attracts.
Okay makes sense.
I'm surprised that I thought that one was coming to Disney Plus for the longest time.
Yeah I thought so too.
What studio owns Lyle Lyle Crocodile?
Sony.
No shit?
Mmhmm.
Oh so maybe it will be hitting Netflix eventually.
That wouldn't surprise me.
I mean it's available to rent damn near everywhere.
It's still in theaters somewhere around me.
Oh well.
Which that's freaking weird.
For a movie like Lyle Lyle Crocodile you would think that would be for like children right?
Yeah.
The only viewing is like 10 o'clock.
Damn.
Oh at least that's the last one for today.
Oh.
Unless your kid's a night owl.
I don't know if that's a really great idea.
Yeah isn't school still in session?
As far as I know.
Still in session for like another two weeks.
What kind of irresponsible parents taking their kid to a 10pm movie?
I would.
I'm just kidding.
Okay well for Lyle Lyle Crocodile.
Okay maybe not that.
Like if we're talking like opening night for like a big blockbuster movie like anything
Marvel or DC.
Like yeah I think I'll be the irresponsible parent and take pull my kids out of school
for that.
Yeah right see?
Or at least let him go in late.
Yeah see.
Like that's the I feel like that's the kind of person I would be.
Like I'd be like yeah like you guys want to go to midnight viewing of whatever Marvel
movie's coming out?
Like yeah let's go and then just let him like take him to school after lunch or something.
Oh you know I totally missed a huge release.
I'm sorry.
Did you really?
Uh yeah the woman king also comes out.
Well son of a bitch Rose.
I'm so sorry.
I truly appor- Dude my wallet freaking hates this week.
Because not only do like do those movies come out, Smile also comes out.
And then frickin they're releasing like all of the like the Leica films on 4k with like
stylized steel books.
And I freaking hate them so much.
Frickin cause I need the one for Coraline.
I need the one for Paranormal.
Please for the love of god tell me those are the only two that they're releasing.
Oh please for the love of god.
Okay thank- oh okay.
Okay I'm saved.
Okay it's only those two.
For now.
Yeah exactly we all know the box trolls and Kubo and the two strings are not um not far
behind.
It sucks to be you.
It does.
And all sorry one more thing.
Did you know that where is it?
There is a Christmas movie coming out.
I really want to see this.
It's called A Christmas Karen.
What?
Dude serious.
A Christmas Karen?
The tagline dude the tagline is this.
God help us everyone.
Oh my hell.
I have to see this.
Oh my god A Christmas Karen.
Is like is this gonna be on any streaming services cause if it's not dude I am blind
by in this shit.
It's on Pluto TV for free.
Yeah but that has commercials.
I hate commercials.
Is it bad that I'd rather buy it on Blu-ray and take the chance than watching it with
commercials?
Dude I mean it is your money.
Fair enough.
But just know that I will be judging you.
That's fair.
Maybe when it goes on sale.
I don't know.
We'll see what I do.
Oh my gosh that looks so stupid.
So yeah.
I feel that's the biggest release of the week is A Christmas Karen.
That's what everyone's going to.
Shit.
That is what everyone's going to be picking up this week.
Not the woman king.
Not...
Shit I already forgot the others.
A freaking Christmas Karen.
Yep.
That's already my favorite movie of the season.
Good hell.
But yeah so that's it for 4K.
A lot of freaking good movies coming out so hope your guys' wallets are ready cause mine
sure ain't.
Alright well that covers everything in 4K so let's move on to our through the wall.
We got two trailers.
One was for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny and then the other is for Guardians
of the Galaxy Volume 3.
So these were more teasers than actual trailer but they did show some good content so we'll
discuss it a little bit.
Let's start off with Indiana Jones since I don't think there's too much to talk about
there.
There isn't?
Well I mean I feel, I don't know, are you a big Indiana Jones fan?
I like Indiana Jones.
I do too.
I think the movies are really interesting.
I think the fourth one was interesting.
It had issues.
Would you say one of the only good things was just seeing Harrison Ford back?
That's probably the only good thing about that.
Fair enough.
Let's hope that's not how we feel about this fifth one.
Yeah.
Cause I know he has said that this is the last time that he's playing indie right?
I swear he did.
Dude who freaking knows with this dude?
I can't believe that he actually signed up to play General Ross.
So that's legit?
That's legit.
Oh shit.
Alright I didn't know that was legit.
Yeah it's legit and he is playing the Red Hulk.
No shit.
Okay.
I think they've confirmed Red Hulk.
Well I'll be damned.
Yeah.
I'm sure you're happy about that.
I'm mildly enthused.
You don't think Harrison Ford can do it?
I don't know if he can.
Yeah okay.
Dude like I have such like a vision of what Red Hulk and just all the Hulks in general
should be and Marvel has stomped every single one of them.
Like every single one.
Like when I thought like oh when they finally introduce Scar like he's gonna be like this
badass.
No he looks like a freaking dweeb.
And that hair cut.
The haircut I can let slide because I'm like okay kind of like a monk kind of like monastery
vibe.
Like if you know his mother from the comic like that's kind of the same haircut that
his mother has.
Okay.
It's just he looks like a freaking bitch.
Like he is supposed to be so Scar is like an interesting character because so he's like
an alien.
He kind of has like a natural like not quite green like greenish gray tone to him because
Hulk is green and his wife or Hulk's wife from Ansocar was like her skin was like gray.
And so Scar was just kind of like a middle ground of that but Scar's natural form is
like a small very frail looking child.
And then when he gets like pissed off he has his Hulk form and his Hulk form is basically
the exact same size as Hulk.
So I don't know what the hell this like little teenage dumpling is but it's not what I imagined
Scar to be.
I saw in it.
This is totally getting off subject.
So I saw this freaking interview with someone that is in like that has helped with hiring
directors for Marvel movies.
Apparently they choose not to hire fans of the source material.
What the shit.
Yeah.
What?
Because they don't want people going in with like an expectation of what these characters
are supposed to be.
And I'm like that's exactly what you need.
You dump.
Oh I almost said a real bad word there.
And I thought I was bad.
Yeah.
Like I'm like that's exactly what you need.
Isn't that supposed to be?
It's supposed to be a jump from page to screen.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Like if I have to pick between someone who knows a character versus someone who is just
being introduced to a character I'm going to pick the person that actually knows what
the hell they're talking about.
Exactly.
Like why would you not?
You got me man.
I understand how everything that's happened with Hulk happened.
Like I completely understand it.
Like first off like Universal isn't making Hulk movies so it's like you can't dedicate
a movie to Hulk within the MCU without having to make a deal with Universal.
And for one character you can't really do that.
And so you have to like rely on team ups.
So we only see Hulk like in his one Universal picture with Edward Norton and then you see
him with an Age of Ultron with a team up.
Or not Age of Ultron.
Then you see him in the Avengers.
Makes sense.
You can't really focus on that character.
Was he badass in that movie?
I'd say so.
I really like the Avengers.
Honestly that's the best one.
I feel that's the best Mark Griffith has been as a banner.
Next time we see him it's um...
Sage of Ultron isn't it?
Technically Iron Man 3.
I forgot about that.
Yeah the end credits.
So technically Iron Man 3.
And then we see him in Age of Ultron which again freaking badass in that movie.
The movie itself wasn't great but Hulk's shit was awesome.
And then you don't see him again until Thor Ragnarok where you've given him to Taika
Wotidi that makes a joke out of everything.
And then you kind of have to like correct yourself a little bit with Infinity War.
Because like we don't see him again until Infinity War.
And then you've just basically neutered him.
Like Hulk doesn't want to come out.
Because that makes sense.
Like not.
And I understand because the Russo Brothers don't know how to handle someone that's like
freaking wild like that.
Would you say Joss Whedon knew how to handle the Hulk the most when it comes to the MCU?
Or at least decently well?
Decently well.
Well enough for me to be satisfied.
Okay.
The issues that I had with Joss Whedon's take were just inappropriate jokes that were that
didn't need to be in there.
Fair enough.
But yeah anyway getting completely off topic.
Indiana Jones.
That old Indy.
So.
Oh sorry.
Yeah.
Who?
I want to find out who's attached to the Thunderbolts.
Like the director.
Jake Shryer?
What else has he done?
That doesn't give me super good hope.
Yeah so the Thunderbolts director which is supposed to be I think the first appearance
of the new General Ross slash Red Hulk.
He's only done like music videos.
A couple feature films.
But they're like dramatic feature films.
Yeah I don't know how I feel about that.
Yeah.
Shit.
Anyway.
I.
It's not necessarily Harrison Ford that I'm concerned about when it comes to Red Hulk.
It is the studio because they have just massacred anything and everything that's had to do with
the Hulks.
Touche.
She Hulk is.
I like She Hulk.
She Hulk's probably the only thing they've gotten right.
Despite what frickin losers on the internet say.
I still haven't finished it so.
It's pretty good.
That's what I heard.
The ending.
The ending's a little like.
A little much.
Yeah it's a little like.
Okay what the hell.
But it I enjoyed it personally.
Okay.
All right.
I need to go to watch.
Anyway so yeah.
Indiana Jones 5.
Yeah I've so I've only seen the first three and I haven't seen those since.
I haven't watched those since the first Lego Indiana Jones came out.
Oh wow.
Yeah it's been that long.
Don't get me wrong.
I really enjoy Indiana Jones.
They're all those three are really really good movies.
But for some reason just having gone back to visit them and like I said I haven't even
bothered with Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
I think there will be.
Just if I want to go see this fifth one.
I think the rewatchability on the Indiana Jones movies you have to be in a very particular
mood.
That's fair.
I don't think that Indiana like that's a good one to like go back and explore.
Unless you're doing like studying something from it or anything like that.
Because it's like once you've watched them it's one of those movies like once you've
watched it you're kind of good.
Yeah no that is a very good point.
But I mean I'm excited.
There's I mean they have some good stuff in this.
Like they have a really cool looking de-aged Harrison Ford that looks fantastic.
Yeah but me telling Kilv that like it's amazing how good that looks.
But then there's a scene when Indy's riding a horse in a parade and this is when he's
you know like present day Indy where he looks fake as shit.
Yeah.
God it looks so awful.
Yeah it's not ideal.
No.
But I mean excited for the movie either way.
And then next up we got Guardians of the Galaxy volume 3 which kind of directly correlates
with the holiday special.
Which I know you haven't watched yet.
I had fun.
I had a lot of fun.
I don't know why I've been sitting on it.
I really need to just fricking sit my ass down and watch it.
That was the first Christmas thing that I watched this season.
And it got me in like the Christmas mood.
I love it.
I love hearing that.
Like it got me in the Christmas spirit so fricking hard.
I'm just like yeah.
Right after that I watched like a couple Santa Claus episodes or Santa Claus's episodes and
then yeah like it's just it just got me in the Christmas spirit.
Hell yeah.
And like yeah I'm pumped.
A lot of interesting things have come from that though.
So apparently this is so like the big like thing that everyone's been talking about is
Groot and how he looks in this.
It did take me like a minute to like see him in like almost like adult form but was still
like the like baby Groot face a little bit right.
Yeah it's a little weird.
Yeah James Gunn has named this version of Groot Swole Groot.
Oh my god I love it.
Yeah.
But something that he confirmed as well.
This is not Groot from the first movie.
The Groot from the first movie is dead.
This is a this is Groot's offspring.
No shoot.
What.
Yeah.
Well that just blew my fricking mind.
Right.
Yeah.
Wow.
So for everyone thinking that like these are all the same Groot.
Nope.
Like this has been the like the same Groot that we saw planted at the end of volume one.
But this is not the Groot.
Like this is not like a reincarnated version of that Groot.
This is Groot's offspring.
Wow.
Yeah.
Wow I still don't know how to process that.
And apparently too.
So there's a bunch of cool shit that's come from this that like James Gunn wanted to talk
about and like address before the movie came out.
So that like that was the big one that this isn't Groot from the first movie.
This is Groot's offspring.
That's why he kind of has like a different personality than Groot.
Now that you say that's making so much sense.
Yeah.
And another thing.
So the Groot are Groot's species.
They collect or like they kind of absorb knowledge and personality traits from the people around
them and kind of have like a hive knowledge in a way.
Yeah.
That they just kind of inherit from each other.
So Groot had all this all this knowledge like all that like this hive knowledge from the
from the species that he's a part of.
So Groot had all this but this new Groot doesn't.
So he's been absorbing the personality traits and all this other stuff from the people around
him which have been the Guardians.
So that's why he's acting like super bratty and like getting all swole because he's around
people that do that kind of thing.
That is so interesting.
Right?
Wow.
Okay.
So, ah, freaking love it.
Yeah, that's awesome.
Wow.
Pay attention to detail, Gunn.
I love it.
Do you I appreciate so much how open he is.
Like he's always like answering questions on like Twitter or Instagram or like posting
different different shit.
And like he'll answer like fan questions like someone will post like hey like what about
this and he'll like respond to like oh yeah that's canon.
Oh no that's not.
I like never said that.
Awesome.
That's not true.
Like he'll take these rumors that people make and then like post and be like yeah not true.
Or he'll say like yes absolute canon.
Oh my god yes I love it.
Like it's freaking awesome.
And then he like he's doing the same thing with what he's wanting to do with the DC universe.
Like he shares pictures and he's like maybe.
And it gets like all of the DC fanboys hyped up.
I just love how open he is.
I wish Marvel was like that.
If only man.
Yeah.
But I mean it looks like we're gonna get some interesting story.
Like we saw a little bit of Adam Warlock.
We did.
He looks fantastic.
Yeah he looks really good.
Didn't James Gunn say that a lot of this movie is going to focus on like Rockets backstory?
Yes.
So it looks that way.
One of the main or I guess the at least from what it seems the main antagonist it looks
like it's going to be the high evolutionary which is the person that did all the experiments
to rocket.
Shit.
And the honor that he hugs like kind of like in the middle or end of the trailer isn't
that his see there's girlfriend or his wife.
Okay.
I'm looking it up real quick.
So her name is Lila.
And she is rocket raccoons soulmate.
Okay.
Yeah.
Just looking real quick.
Yeah.
It looks like it's it's just like a soulmate situation.
I don't think they've ever gotten like married.
At least not from what I can tell.
All right.
Yeah.
So it seems like that they're going that route again like bringing in Lila the Otter for
rocket.
And I like it.
I I'm so excited.
I'm really excited to kind of dive into Rockets backstory.
It's gonna be so depressing.
Dude, this movie has a completely different vibe than the first two.
Yeah.
Oh, absolutely.
Like damn.
I'm excited for both of these movies to come out and I can't wait for more story to to
come out to.
Yes.
Same here.
They both come out this coming summer.
So Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny comes out June 30th, 2023.
Okay.
Then Guardians of the Galaxy volume three comes out May 5th of 2023.
Oh, okay.
So that one kicks off the summer season.
Yeah.
So that one actually comes out really soon.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
I love it.
At least relatively soon.
We're getting there.
Yeah.
So we're getting Ant-Man and the Wasp in February, right?
I believe so.
And then volume three after that.
Man, this is kind of cool.
Is that it for Marvel movies in 23?
Or is there another one?
No.
Okay.
Let's see.
Oh, nope.
We got the Marvels coming out.
Oh, I guess that's it.
So does the Marvels come out?
Sorry, Marvels come out.
Wow.
Like the holiday season of 23 or?
My guess is like November.
Okay.
So the Kraven the Hunter movie comes out January 3rd.
When was this updated?
Updated October 28th, 2022.
Okay.
I don't think they've made any big changes since then.
Wait, Kraven's supposed to come out next month?
Yeah.
Now that I'm like seeing that, it's probably not that updated.
There's no way.
We haven't even seen a freaking trailer, let alone a poster.
Okay, okay.
This one was updated three days ago.
Okay.
All right.
So we have Ant-Man and the Wasp coming out February...
Son of a...
Bitch.
Ant-Man and the Wasp coming out February 17th.
Oh, so Iris' birthday.
Okay, there we go.
Guardians of the Galaxy volume three coming out May 5th.
Thus the Spider-Verse is coming out June 2nd.
The Marvels is coming out July 28th.
And then Kraven the Hunter is coming out October 6th.
Okay.
Damn, 23 is pretty packed.
Yeah, I mean, not as packed as 2022 was, I feel.
Fair enough.
But I mean, I'm excited for these.
Oh yeah, same here.
I know that I'm of the mindset where I want new Marvel content now.
But if Marvel decided to just give us maybe two a year, like maybe three, as long as the
quality was good, I think I'd be perfectly happy with that.
Same here.
But anyway.
So excitement level.
One out of ten with these two.
Guardians...
Honestly, I'm already out of ten.
Just for how much I loved the first two, I can't wait to see volume three.
Indie...
I'm at like a seven.
I might be at a six with Indie.
Okay.
I think I need more story.
I want to know what the Dial of Destiny is supposed to be.
Yeah, that's fair.
Is this another magical item?
That's like the...
I don't know.
We'll see.
I want to know what the Dial of Destiny is, but I think I'm with you.
I think the holiday special just amped me up for more Guardians of the Galaxy stuff,
and seeing them in like comic-accurate suits looks awesome.
So cool.
Oh my god, I love it.
I hope they're in those for the majority of the film.
I hope so too.
Because they really work in live action.
They work so freaking well.
Oh, and everyone!
And I'm kind of...
Take note, Sexman.
Yeah, I know.
I'm kind of glad that they're giving Dave Bautista a little bit of a break in putting
like a shirt on Drax.
Yeah.
Dude, I was thrown off.
I'm like, whoa!
I don't see his nipples.
It works for him though.
Oh yeah, no, it looks great.
Yeah, it works so well for Drax.
Just a vest?
Like, oh, come on.
Like, you could have saved the man like, months of heartache with that.
But anyway, excited to see everyone back.
Except for Yondu.
Yeah.
It still hurts.
Hopefully Kragglin learns what the hell he's doing with that arrow.
I hope so.
I really do.
Alright.
Well, with that out of the way, let's say we get into this week's headliner.
Let's do it.
Alright, like we said, this week's headliner, we will be breaking down the video game Marvel's
Guardians of the Galaxy.
So if you are new to our breakdown system, we have split video games into 10 different
categories that we individually score to come to a final All Bros letter grade.
The 10 categories that we score are story, writing, voice acting, character development,
graphics, music, gameplay, main missions, side quests, and then we give it our own personal
grade at the very end.
All of those numbers get magically added up and thrown into our algorithm and spit out
a letter grade for us to compare this video game to others that we have scored.
Not like there's only like, four others.
But it's fun for us.
So exactly.
Freaking bite me.
Oh, man.
Alright.
Well, if you have not played Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, you have had a little over
a year to play it.
I swear it's been longer than that.
It came out October 26th, 2021.
Oh, really?
Yeah, so it's only been a little bit over a year.
Oh, my bad.
I thought it was a lot longer than that.
So yeah, if you have not played it, you've had a year to do so.
It's on Game Pass right now, so I'm assuming it's not doing super hot, but it is worth
the play if you guys get around to it.
Yes, it really is.
So that being said, if you have not played it and you listen past this point, things
will be spoiled for you.
Yes.
And I'm just going to apologize now because even though I, you know, of course, played
the game, I'm sure I'm still going to f up some of these names.
So I'm reading along with you, so you're probably fine.
Okay, thank God.
All right.
On Peter Quill's 13th birthday, his mother, Meredith, gives him the element guns, rare
spar toy, weapons left behind by his father.
That same day, Chitauri warriors attack the Quill household, kidnapping Peter and killing
Meredith.
Many years later, Peter becomes a mercenary named Star Lord and leads the Guardians of
the Galaxy.
In order to make money, the Guardians head into the Forbidden Quarantine Zone established
by the Nova Corps to store debris from the war so they can capture a rare monster for
their patron, Lady Hellbender.
However, they are forced to flee the Quarantine Zone when Peter picks up a yellow gem he finds
and accidentally releases an unidentified alien entity.
The Guardians flee but are intercepted by the Nova Corps patrol ship, Hala's Hope.
Wow.
Captained?
Wow, how the f- How the hell did I think that said captain?
Oh my God.
It's gonna be a long one.
Captained by Centurion Corell, Peter's former lover, Corell detains the Guardians alongside
Grand Unifier, Raker of the Universal Church of Truth who was also caught trespassing in
the Quarantine Zone to search for his church's golden god.
While being processed, Peter also meets a young Nova Corps cadet named Nikki Gold who
happens to be Corell's daughter leading Peter to suspect that he might be Nikki's father.
Corell agrees to give the Guardians three cycles to pay their hefty fine.
Being completely broke, the Guardians decide to scam Lady Hellbender by selling one of
their own.
The plan goes awry, however, and the Guardians are forced to flee, though not before obtaining
the money necessary to cover their fine.
Enraged, Lady Hellbender swears revenge and hires the lethal Legion to pursue them.
The Guardians then travel to the Rock, a Nova Corps outpost where Hala's Hope is docked,
but find that several Nova Corps officers stationed there, claiming that they must spread
the prom- spread the promise, have- have mut- is that mutinied?
Mutinied, yeah.
Yes, thank you.
God, I have no English, I promise.
It's my first language.
The Hala's Hope leaves the station and the Guardians decide to flee to Nowhere, where
Quill plans to ask Cosmo the space dog for help.
Cosmo arrests the Guardians after they get into a fight with the Blood Brothers, but
Peter makes a deal with Cosmo to investigate the Hala's Hope, which is now transmitting
a mysterious signal if Cosmo agrees to get the charges against them dropped.
The Guardians board the Hala's Hope and find a massive cannon siphoning faith energy from
the pr- from the planet below.
They are then captured by Raker, who takes them to meet the matriarch of his church.
To Peter's horror, the matriarch is Nikki.
Nikki is in possession of the Yellow Gem, which allows her to brainwash thousands of
alien followers with the promise, trapping them in illusions crafted from their deepest
desires and harnessing their devotion as faith energy to power the church's fleet of ships
and machines.
Nikki tries to tempt the Guardians with the promise, but they each manage to resist and
break free before escaping the church, although Drax is still shaken by what he witnessed
in his promise, and Peter learns that Corell was killed by the mysterious entity he previously
released.
The Guardians are attacked by a fleet of lethal Legion warships, but manage to defeat them.
They attempt to enlist the help of the Zandarian world mind, but it concludes that the church's
victory is inevitable and flees the galaxy with the remaining Nova Cores.
Drax then succumbs to the promise and imprisons the team.
With help from Mantis, the Guardians enter Drax's mind and force him to accept that the
promise is not real.
They also encounter Adam Warlock, the church's original Golden God, who faked his death and
went into hiding on Mantis's planet.
Warlock reveals that the alien entity controlling Nikki is in fact his dark side, Magus, whom
he sealed in the Yellow Gem, the Soul Stone, to keep contained.
Magus is manipulating Raker and the church to gather faith energy on which he can feed.
With no other options, the Guardians turn to Lady Hellbender for help.
They subdue and gift the legendary monster Finfang Fum for her, and she agrees to aid
in an assault on the church's flagship, the Sacrosanct.
During their assault, Raker traps the Guardians in an energy field, but Peter is able to enter
Nikki's promise with the help of Corail's spirit, who reveals Nikki is an adopted war
orphan and not Peter's daughter.
Peter convinces Nikki to accept Corail's death, freeing her from her promise and Magus's
control while also unlocking her hidden powers.
The Guardians kill Raker while Warlock absorbs Magus back into his body, ending the threat
of the church.
As the galaxy celebrates being freed from the church's brainwashing, the Guardians take
their leave, with Nikki becoming their newest member.
Magus proves to be too much for Warlock to contain, however, and takes over his body.
Guided by Mantis, Peter risks his own life by physically wielding the Soul Stone to imprison
Magus once again.
Warlock thanks the Guardians for their help and takes custody of the Soul Stone, promising
to come to them for help should he need it.
Peter contemplates how to take care of Nikki as the Guardians set off to handle their next
assignment, printing new business cards.
If however, the Guardians never paid their Nova Corps fine, the ship is suddenly disabled
by a Nova Corps tracker and the team is left stranded in space.
Thank god I paid that fee.
I'm so glad that we got the different endings.
Honestly, it's hard to disagree with you there.
Shit.
I would say my number five might have to go to Corel,
voiced by Judith Barabow.
I thought she was a really interesting character.
The way that she was able to portray the sense of urgency to Peter,
while also just kind of throwing him for a loop about Nicky's heritage,
was really funny.
Did you take Nicky's side?
Yes, I did.
Damn.
I was trying to see what happens if you didn't.
Yeah, no, sorry.
I loved her performance.
It's hard for me to not use the two in unison.
I don't know if they worked together in the same room or what,
but her and John McLaren, who voiced Star-Lord,
were able to have, when they were in Nicky's Promise,
they were able to just work off each other so freaking well,
making that scene a million times more impactful.
So, freaking loved her.
My number four, probably going to give to Romaine Dennis, who played Nicky.
Like you said, didn't come off as annoying whatsoever, which was fantastic.
That was something I was genuinely afraid of too.
I'm just like, oh great, like this kid.
Right?
Next, I'm giving it to Sarah Levesque, who plays Lady Hellbender,
because I have a big crush on Lady Hellbender.
I love it.
Dude, I even told Brielle, I'm just like, oh shit.
When I first saw her, I was simping hard.
Brielle was laughing at me, just like, okay, whatever, and then saw her,
and was like, oh, okay.
Oh, I love it.
So yeah, loved her.
My number two, I'm probably going to give to John McLaren,
who played Star-Lord, and the only reason I'm not giving him number one
is I feel Jason Cavalier, who voiced Drax,
frickin' rocked my emotional world.
Right?
Like the margins there are really frickin' close.
Like it is almost a coin flip, but it's leaning more towards Drax's favor.
John McLaren, like don't get me wrong, fantastic, fantastic voice acting.
Like I said, I think Jason Cavalier just kind of blew it out of the park
a little bit better.
He really did.
Oh man, like his...
I don't know if I'd go as far as saying that I liked his performance over Dave Battista's,
but I did very much enjoy his performance in this.
And I like that he kind of took a different route with Drax.
It wasn't like...
I feel like Dave Battista tries to go like a little over the top with his humor.
Yeah, I would absolutely agree with that.
And his version just kind of seemed to take the character a bit more seriously,
but still putting him in like funny situations.
Like not...
I don't know, not like over the top funny,
but just like a decent amount of just like, okay, you're just completely clueless.
And that worked. So I think that's also kind of a little prop to the writing of this.
But anyway.
What are you sitting with voice acting?
Hmm.
I'll say a 93.
I might be sitting at like a solid 90.
Alright.
We got character development.
So obviously we have to do this on Star-Lord,
because he was the main character in this.
And I kind of really dug how they shared his story.
I did too. I love how they pieced together.
I love how he was abducted as a child,
because when you first start off the game,
it's just him sitting on his bed on his birthday.
His mother comes down and is just like,
hey, we got cake upstairs, come upstairs, let's celebrate your birthday.
And literally as you go to reach for the door and open it,
then it just all of a sudden jumps to current day and like drags waking Peter up.
And that's how you're introduced to Peter Quill.
And then throughout the game, that whole scenario,
Peter finding out the truth about his father,
him getting abducted, his mother getting killed,
it all gets worked out through the game.
I loved that. I loved that all of it wasn't just given to us right then and there.
I loved that it was spread out.
I like how the...
I love a freaking good flashback sequence.
But yeah, like totally agree.
Love how they didn't give us everything all at once.
I think it worked really well with the flow of the game.
Especially like hitting...
I think the things that they were able to hit in the flashbacks
kind of really gave a solid foundation for what we were about to see moving forward into the story.
Or kind of given us a really interesting break.
Yes, I absolutely agree.
So I really dug it.
And they did it at really well-timed points in the game.
Yeah, they did.
I really like the one where you're walking to...
where you're pulling the cart, like obviously you did with Rocket,
and I did with Groot.
When you're pulling the cart and walking down that long walkway,
and then it has that flashback.
Yes, so freaking really loved that.
But yeah, you get a lot of growth from Peter as kind of a leader.
You really do.
I feel all of the Guardians respect him as the leader,
or at least they try to show in their own ways that they do.
But you can definitely tell that throughout the game,
there are some that question the way that he does go about his leadership.
Some meaning Rocket.
Yep.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
It's an interesting dynamic between them,
because none of the Guardians seem to respect Earthlings or Terrans.
It's true.
And so I think it's hard for them to do that.
And then they're all really closed off individuals as well.
So I think that's really tough.
And then when Peter has to make the tough calls that kind of go against...
I freaking caught hell and a half for selling Groot from Rocket.
He was pissed.
You don't get literally any backlash for selling Rocket?
Yeah, he gave me so much shit for a majority of the game.
And that's why it was such a hard decision for me to not let Drax throw him.
Whenever it called for it, because I'm just like, oh shit.
But he was giving me such a hard time.
And then eventually it got back to the point where
kind of doing a little bit of a dive into Rocket as a character
and being a little bit more open and vulnerable with me
and getting that dialogue out of him.
So it got better.
But it was really nice to see that growth coming from just the team in general.
As well as Peter.
I think Peter was doing a lot of acceptance and not being able to change things.
Accepting reality.
I think that was the big thing. It was just an acceptance of reality.
Especially when it came to accepting the promise and having to pull his friends out of it too.
Especially with Drax. I think him and Drax have that really deep connection of loss.
Yes, absolutely.
So that is really interesting to see.
I think the only downfall is maybe personal growth.
There really doesn't seem to be too much.
Yeah, that's fair.
But that's not too bad. Especially in a team game like this.
True.
Technically not really a team. You know what I mean.
A game with a team in it.
You want to see those relationships develop.
I think Drax and Rocket were the main focuses.
Any connection with Gamora seemed to be purely side quest stuff.
Yeah, that's true.
Dude, I was stunned through a freaking loop though when I was showcased that she killed Nebula.
Oh my gosh! Right? God damn!
It was like no freaking way!
Yeah, that rocked me.
Right? Like holy shit!
Okay, I see we are taking a very different route here.
Oh man.
And then did you go to the collector's museum at all?
I didn't.
That was I think well worth the experience.
So when you go there you can purchase a doll from the collector.
And you gift it to Gamora and she has a really interesting dialogue talking about how she didn't really get to experience a typical childhood being raised by Thanos.
And all this and how collecting dolls is just kind of trying to reconnect with that inner child in her.
And super crazy interesting dialogue.
I freaking loved it.
Sounds interesting.
But it's just like from a character like Gamora, they kept throwing these freaking left hooks with Gamora.
That came out of nowhere.
Dude, right? Like seriously.
Like you have that whole thing where you say freaking killing Nebula like what?
And then her collecting dolls.
It's just odd.
Like it's just an odd thing for someone like Gamora.
And then they explain it so well that I'm like okay I guess that tracks.
So I really dug this.
I think that like I said I think Groot and Gamora were more like side quest relationships to be like had.
But the main focus were like Drax and Rocket.
Agreed.
So I don't know quite where I'm sitting with character development though.
I think I'm like above average.
Yeah same here.
But like are you in the 90s?
I don't know if I'm in the 90s.
I'm the same way.
I might be in like maybe the mid 80s.
I'm not quite sure.
Where are you sitting at?
I think I'm like on the same boat as you.
I think I'm like at an 84.
That's exactly what I was thinking too.
Hell yeah.
So I'll give it 84.
Alright next up we got graphics.
These were so good.
They were really good.
I think they were a million times better than anything we got with Marvel's Avengers.
Like dude we gave that movie a freaking 50 in graphics.
It's because of all the freaking glitches that we got.
Yeah I don't think I got any glitches in this game.
I had a few.
What if I didn't have any?
It was mostly whenever I'd switch outfits.
Like sometimes the...
Especially with Drax, some of the tattoos would look fuzzy.
And then they'd have a moment of hyper clarity.
And then they'd go back to being fuzzy when he was in motion.
And also during some of the cutscenes.
So I guess that's not technically the fault of the game.
Well, at least it is.
Technically yeah.
They should have been able to get motion tracking down more with that.
Yeah.
I don't think there was very...
I think the cutscene, if I'm remembering right,
the cutscenes actually revert back to how they originally look.
So they don't use the outfits that you're wearing.
I don't think.
I mean I never changed costumes.
So I can't say anything.
Oh, now I know.
So no, I'm wrong.
They do use it in the cutscenes, like whatever outfit you're wearing.
But they don't have the outfits universal to work with the cutscenes.
Huh.
So I have the...
I think everyone gets it.
It's the first outfit that you can choose.
I think it's like the first appearance outfit for Star-Lord.
Where he's wearing like the typical Guardians like blue colors
with like the gold crest and everything.
When you are getting arrested or taken into custody by Nikki
and you're asked to take off your...
the rockets on your boots.
I was wearing that outfit, the blue one.
Like not the classic suit.
So when he reaches down to take the rockets off,
he reaches down and there's nothing there.
And then he pulls and suddenly there's stuff in his hand.
Okay.
And I'm like, okay, come on.
So I'll dock for that because I think that that should...
if you're going to have something that like that big in the game,
it needs to work with all outfits that you can equip.
I agree. Absolutely agree.
So yeah, I'm going to dock for that.
I guess this would go where I'm...
graphics would kind of cover maybe character design and everything.
I would say so.
Just trying to like look through, see if there's anything that's like...
Eh.
Like everyone looked really freaking good.
They really did. Like honestly, I...
Like yeah, I'm used to like how they look in the MCU,
but they looked fantastic here.
Yeah. I really liked...
like what they did with Rocket kind of giving...
like differentiating him from other versions where he kind of has like the long goatee.
Yeah, I loved that too. I thought that was so cool.
Dude, the environment in some of these worlds though.
Like when you're fighting or in the first area when you're in the quarantine zone.
Like that looked amazing.
Dude, right? Like oh my god.
Like they nailed the freaking scale of this game.
Oh my god. Yeah, the world building is just incredible in this one.
Yeah, I'm just kind of scrolling through like the pictures of it right now.
I love it.
Um...
It took a minute for it to grow on me, but Star-Lord's mask...
kind of really, really sick.
Yeah, it was. Like yeah.
It's definitely, I'm sorry to say, comparing it again.
It's definitely, you know, slightly different from the MCU,
but god damn did it look good and it really worked for me.
Yeah, it looked really freaking good.
Like all of their outfits, dude.
There were definitely some of the bonus outfits that sucked,
but all of the outfits freaking rocked.
I even really liked the end, like the gold outfits that you wear for the final fight.
Yeah, those actually looked really good.
Like honestly, I thought those looked better than some of the final stark outfits
that some of the Avengers wore in Avengers.
Oh dude, no freaking comparison there. Those looked like trash.
Yeah, they really did.
But Groot looked freaking awesome.
I didn't... He's actually the one, like another one of the Guardians that I...
It was him and Star-Lord that I didn't use their MCU outfits.
And I didn't use it because the MCU outfit made Groot look too skinny.
No shit, really?
Yeah, it was not good.
Like I like a bulkier Groot.
I would agree.
And then Drax was just Drax, freaking just shirtless.
And then Gamora's design was really cool.
Like that one took a minute for it to grow on me too, but I really dug her look.
I'm trying to look up real quick what their...
Okay, yeah, I see where you're coming from here.
Yeah, he looks way too skinny.
What the shit?
Yeah, I like a bulkier Groot.
Like it's just his limbs, or especially his arms.
Like if he would have just bulked up his arms a little bit.
Yeah, that's fair.
I really appreciated how, I mean other than I guess Drax, it's just changing the base model.
Like with Gamora, she still has the same hair.
Yeah.
Like it's not changing the face, it's changing just some colors.
But her hair is consistent.
Like there's only one outfit where her hair changes.
Oh really?
Yeah, it's like their fire, molten outfit or whatever.
But I mean I like too how all of the Guardians had...
I mean Starlord had a wider variety of outfits.
Like out of everyone because obviously he's the playable character.
But everyone else had the exact same amount of outfits.
Just so you could like set, like have your whole team match if you wanted to.
Yeah, which I appreciate.
Yeah, I did too.
So I freaking loved it.
Like the outfits looked good, freaking the Nova Corps looked bitchin'.
Dude, right?
Like oh my gosh.
I will say this, the Centurions did kind of have a Dr. Fate vibe to them.
Yeah, I can definitely agree with that.
But I mean overall like freaking off the hook, loved it.
So I mean very, very little complaints there.
I'd say like just taking into consideration some of the issues that we had.
But I mean overall looked good.
So I'm probably average here too, maybe 82.
Yeah, you know, not too there.
All right, music, off the hook.
Dude, I will fight you for a 10.
So this is out of 100?
Oh, is that 100?
I'm sorry, I'm so used to being at tens for this.
Dude, I actually have no issues giving this 100.
Oh yes, and I almost gave it a thousand.
Dude, the rest of the songs, it's just incredible.
I have three songs.
So for those of you that don't know, they have a band.
So Star-Lord gets his name from his favorite band.
His favorite band's name is Star-Lord.
And so that's like the patch on the back of his jacket, like everything like says Star-Lord.
But Star-Lord is a band.
So they released a whole frickin' album from the artist Star-Lord, which is not a real band.
So they hired a band to play Star-Lord and release like this whole album.
I have three or four of those songs saved on my Spotify.
Yes, dude, I love it.
That's awesome.
Like, have you listened to any of those outside of the game?
I haven't.
I honestly need to now because the fact that you added them to your Spotify makes me happy.
I added like the first song that it plays that you listen to in the game.
That song is a frickin' banger and it has no right being that frickin' good.
And oh my gosh, dude.
And then the rest of the soundtrack is incredible.
Seriously?
Like, I'm gonna look it up real quick.
Oh dude, you got, oh my god.
Dude, what was the one that they like, I couldn't believe that they actually had?
Never gonna give you up, I couldn't believe that they actually had that in there.
I know, frickin' getting Rick rolled in the middle of a game.
Frickin' the blondie theme, Call Me, that was, ugh.
Kickstart My Heart, Tainted Love, ugh.
I frickin' love that song.
Yeah, you guys can pull up the, so it's the playlist, the Guardians of the Galaxy original video game playlist.
So you have, frickin', Never Gonna Give You Up, Holdin' Out For A Hero from Footloose.
I love it so much.
Frickin' Wake Me Up Before You Go Go by Wham.
White Wedding, Billy Idol, Hit Me With Your Best Shot.
Everybody Wants To Rule The World, Tears For Fears.
Take On Me by A-Ha.
The Final, yeah, The Final Countdown, Europe, We Built This City by Starship.
And then everything from frickin' the Star-Lord Band.
Oh, frickin', just hit after hit after hit, dude.
Yep.
And so the songs I have are Zero to Hero, No Guts, No Glory, there's another one, what's it called?
Oh, Space Riders With No Names, and I think All For One.
It's either All For One or Solar Skies, but frickin' bangers, dude.
So amazing.
Nothing but frickin' bangers.
Yep, absolutely.
Like, this is exactly what you would expect from a Guardians of the Galaxy game.
At least now, because James Gunn made...
After hearing this soundtrack, Gunn, you got a lot to deliver on with that volume 3 soundtrack.
Yeah, it better frickin' rock my socks, dude.
Straight up.
Alright, next up we got gameplay.
This is where I'm gonna be a little bit more critique-ful of the game.
That's fair.
I mean, what was your thoughts of when they would have those team huddles and they would decide which way to go?
Did you like that? Did you feel that was a good team building dynamic, or did that ever get annoying to you?
I actually really liked when we had to do that.
I did as well. I'm just wondering if anyone actually ever did get annoyed by it.
I feel like it could get annoying, but I did it very rarely.
Same here.
I maybe did it once or twice per mission. Or per chapter, I guess.
Yeah.
So, I mean, it didn't feel like it was just over the top.
No, I absolutely agree.
Yeah, I think my big issue was trying to get characters to do stuff.
Yeah, good old CPUs, am I right?
Yeah, so for those of you that haven't played it, you have to get your teammates to do stuff, at least in combat.
I think it was only difficult in combat.
When it came to doing puzzle-based stuff and having them do the extras, that wasn't too difficult.
I would agree with that.
But it was in combat.
You have to hold...I think it's one of the trigger buttons, right?
Yes.
Yeah, so it's like a trigger button, and then it pops up the Guardians menu, and then you have to push one of the buttons.
ABXY for Xbox or the X-circle square triangle for PlayStation.
So you press one of those to choose your Guardian.
So you can hold it, like for Rocket, for example, you can press...I'm just going to go based off Xbox.
So you hold the left trigger, press B for Rocket, and then you have to press one of those buttons again for a separate attack.
So usually, like with Rocket, if you're wanting to use his ultimate attack, you just...your left trigger, BB, and then that's Rocket's attack.
But Rocket has three additional attacks that he can do, so you can have the trigger BYBXBA, so that activates different things.
But when you're in the middle of combat, that's like the last thing I'm thinking of.
Same here.
Like I never did any other attack other than like the Guardian...like whatever direction the Guardians were.
So like if you had the left trigger, it's like Rocket would be B, Gamora would be Y, I think Grute was A, and then Drax was X.
So I'd always just do XX or YY or BB or AA.
Like never did a variation on the moves.
So that was a little difficult. I don't know how else you would do that, but it made fighting with a variety really hard.
I absolutely agree.
Yeah.
The puzzles were good.
They were. I mean, did you feel like playing a Star Lord? Did you feel like comfortable as him? Did you ever feel like he was ever hard to control?
I feel he was only ever hard to control when he was gliding around.
Yeah. Definitely agree with that.
Like one of the moves that you can do is Star...that was another thing I freaking get used to.
So you have like your special moves that you can do for like the Guardians. So like I said, the trigger A, B or X, Y, whatever the hell like a sequence you wanted to do.
But you also had a sequence for Star Lord and that was freaking hard.
Yeah, dude. Seriously though.
It was a pain in the ass trying to remember which one...like what did what.
Like I wish that you could have set what those attacks were because there were definitely some attacks that dealt more damage and stun than their base attack that I wish I would have been able to use more often.
Yeah.
So I wish I could have said that as like the base.
But I mean, whatever.
It worked well enough. But yeah, when you were gliding around like that was a pain in the actual ass.
At least it was no freaking gliding around as Iron Man.
So yeah, but still though.
Also, you had to be like very careful with enemy lock.
Yes, because you're not getting attacked by like one enemy. You can be getting like surrounded by a ton of different enemies and just be getting like absolutely wrecked.
But if you like enemy lock on one because enemies like to jump around.
So if you enemy lock on one and someone's attacking you from behind, there's no way to attack the person behind you without turning your enemy lock off.
And that freaking sucked.
Yeah, dude. Seriously though.
That made combat really hard sometimes, especially when you got to those weird cubes that you had to like change, like whether you froze or electrified or whatever the hell with that.
Yeah.
Really freaking hard.
I think the only thing that I really like doing was changing the elements on the element gun.
That's fair.
I can see that.
Yeah. So for like the element gun you had air, fire, electricity and ice.
That sounds right.
My go to is electricity. Like I felt like that dealt the most.
Yeah, same here.
Like high stun, like, yeah, a little bit of damage to where fire would, it would deal the damage but it wouldn't really like stop people in their tracks.
Yeah, what you needed to do when you're getting like surrounded you just need everyone to stop moving so just zap the ever living shit out of them.
So, I like that aspect of combat.
And then like I said I really like the puzzle aspect to like it, I don't feel like it. This relied on combat as heavily as Avengers did.
Yeah, oh my god.
That just was the frickin worse of that.
Yeah, I was just like, like walking around like oh, gotta beat these guys up gotta beat these guys up gotta beat these guys like here you had like a variety like, oh, you're in like an open space defeat these enemies and then you can start like working on the puzzle.
And then you'd like walk around it like this environment.
Try to find like clues like oh secret tunnel, and then you go and do that at least. That's how I did.
You probably just like soldier through.
Yep.
That's the Roseway.
So I mean that that part was fun.
I definitely really enjoyed the like the different puzzles that you could do. And especially like as you started to get more abilities with your element guns, like it may puzzles difficult, but in like a good way.
Like more challenging, which, which is, at least for in my opinion makes it more fun.
Maybe not so much for me.
I love a good puzzle and in video games like I would choose puzzles. Yeah, I would choose puzzles over combat, any day.
Do yeah oh my god yeah me and Kailv are so complete opposite with us.
It's very rare that we're complete opposite but with that yeah it's definitely.
I don't know if we like if we've ever talked about this, how, when we, when you played Spider-Man.
How would you play.
Like if you were going to like clear out a room.
Would you just jump down and beat everyone up.
I still tried to be sneaky and like do like the like, what are they called, like the sneaky web attacks like grabbing someone like frickin like throwing them up in there and like webbing them up and then like, attaching them to the ceiling.
But I'll fully admit sometimes I would slip or.
I ran a little too fast and like accidentally went into the room without knowing.
So, most of the time when it came to me just like running full speed into the situation.
It was by accident, I didn't actually mean to.
Fair.
What do I know.
No, I tried to be as stealthy as humanly possible, like I would clear out some missions without ever like throwing a punch.
Dude, that's awesome. I love that.
I had fun with that like I would.
Like I'm the type of person.
At least with if like the video game gives me the option to like Spider-Man did.
I would sit there for like five maybe.
10 minutes like studying what each of the baddies does.
And then just strategically starting to take them out like one by one.
Dude, I love that. That's awesome.
I had fun.
Anyway, getting back to Guardians.
I mean, the gameplay wasn't.
Wasn't bad.
No, it wasn't.
For me, I'm going to say a solid 80.
For gameplay.
Bitch, yeah.
I'm looking like.
I'm looking at like our past games and we gave Fallen Order and 92.
Like for gameplay, which I would still agree with.
We gave Red Dead a 77.
Yeah, because freaking swap it guns and like all the different shit you can do is a pain in the ass.
Yeah, that's true.
Why the hell is this so low?
OK, that makes sense.
The game's still in the freaking A.
That's true. That is very true.
I don't know.
I might go.
I might say that's on the same level as Red Dead.
I'm going to go 77.
All right.
I had I think I had more issues with the gameplay than I than not.
That's fair.
All right.
Main missions.
I think so.
This was just like going along with story.
So I think the main ones were solid.
They really were.
Oh, my God.
Like they they really just led to an amazing story.
Just like I feel like I said, the way that the main missions are set up, you get to know this team so well.
You get to understand their strengths, their differences, why they work so well together, why they don't work so well together.
And I don't know.
Honestly, like after playing this game, I feel I know the Guardians of the Galaxy more than I did with the previous two MCU movies.
I'm sorry to say, but with a lot with not with every character, but like like you pointed out, especially with like rocks and rocks.
Wow.
That was me combining rocks and rocks. That's me combining rocket and Drax.
Yeah, rocks. There we go.
Like you pointed out earlier, when it comes to like not Peter Quill, but like the rest of the team, rocket and Drax are definitely the ones that get like the most told about them.
And Gamora and Groot kind of not get sidelined, but we definitely like when we get to know something new about Gamora, it's definitely like a like a huge surprise because for the most part, we don't really get to explore a lot of Gamora's past.
And I mean, like, yeah, you know, of course we get the whole Daughter of Thanos thing. They dive into that. The death of the death of Nebula or her killing Nebula, which is still freaking jaw dropping.
But you definitely get more of a sense of knowing who rocket and Drax are along with Star Lord and just, I don't know, I finishing this game, I felt I knew these characters more personally than I did when it comes to the MCU.
I love those movies. The Guardians of the Galaxy movies are some of my favorite MCU movies of all time. But and probably just because this is a video game, we I feel that you get to know these characters even more.
Yeah, you definitely got me there.
I think the main missions were like really good and like could hit you in such an emotional way.
Like when you get those reveals that freaking bug on my mic.
Cool. You know what I gotta know how what's the weather out there right now really quickly.
It's warm.
You son of a bitch.
It's like, it's kind of like a chilly warm, like where it's like really kind of chilly in the mornings, but then like warms up through the day. So it's kind of like fall time ish, I would say, like early fall time.
Like in Utah. Yeah, fricking fricking 30s over here snowing fricking great.
I know you miss the snow. I know you do. Don't don't even a little bit. Don't don't lie. Don't don't lie. I see past your lies bro. I know you so many years. We have a connection. I see past you. So don't try to hire for me.
It's like that that damn picture you took with your family on Thanksgiving. Dude.
Freaking the comment Brielle said. I couldn't stop laughing. She shared like she showed me that picture. She's like hey look, Rose had Thanksgiving with his family and I like looked at it for a second.
I didn't say anything but I'm like, he looks pissed.
And then Brielle's just like, is it just me or does he seem like he's mad? And I'm like, yes.
What did she say? She said it looks like I have death in my eyes. Yeah, you look like you're about to like light something on fire.
I mean, under the circumstances, yes, that that is a reason why but also I was sitting in a very uncomfortable position.
I saw that too. I was like, dude, Rose, are you getting ready to like grab a plate and just snap it over someone's head?
I think at least you and her would know whose whose head I would break it over first. We know exactly.
Yeah. Oh.
Anyway, yeah.
Before I say anything else that might wind might have me wind up in prison.
Yeah, getting back to the main missions.
Honestly, I think my only issue with a lot of the main missions were sometimes the combat was really hard to get through.
Dude, oh my God, I can't count how many freaking times I died.
A lot. Yeah. And I had this shit on easy. I did too.
What the hell? Like I thought Avengers was hard to get through with those freaking Avengers was damn near impossible to get through even on easy.
Yeah. Oh my God. Don't get me started with those freaking like huge aim robots that had like freaking four force fields around them.
Yeah. I think my big issue with Avengers is just like you couldn't really tell how like like I know the enemies have like a health bar and everything.
It's just you can't really tell how effective your hits are on people.
Yeah, dude, straight up. It just it doesn't like it just feels like you're swinging and not really hitting anything.
And then eventually like they die.
What felt good about this is like the characters will like kind of pop off a little like last away a little bit.
So it made you feel like, OK, like, yeah, fricking a or my favorite were the like little like lumpy cubes or balls
that you could come and just fricking kick and they break. I freaking loved those.
But yeah, I think that was my only issue like main missions wise.
The main missions like they pushed the story forward.
They were fun, especially when you got to do like more story based stuff.
So I loved I loved the the main missions.
Personally, sitting maybe eighty seven with it.
You know, I'll match you there.
All right. Side quests.
Considering I just power power through, I didn't really get to experience a lot of these.
Yeah. OK, so side quests are interesting for for me at least.
I like so they didn't really have any side quests like that.
It was anything like that. I would say would be considered side quest is more gathering collectibles.
And the like the currency that you could you could collect to upgrade your gear.
That kind of got a little tedious after a while.
Do you feel though it worked better, though, than like how currency works in Avengers?
Yes. OK.
Like it was just like once you upgrade, I feel like they they kind of skimped out on upgrades.
Yeah, even I would agree with that.
I feel like I upgraded everything to the max pretty quick.
Like pretty early on in the game, too.
I think I don't even think I was halfway before I upgraded everything.
Really? Damn. Yeah.
Like I know that there was stuff that was unlocked until I reached a certain level,
but I had everything I could possibly have unlocked.
Damn. Yeah.
I know it's like so bad about that and like video games of like upgrading my equipment,
because like I hardly did that.
Not only did I hardly do it in this game, I hardly did in Avengers either.
I'm so bad at that shit. God, I really need to get better at this stuff, man.
I need to actually like fully embrace and like play the video game fully. God damn it.
But yeah.
Yeah. So getting those collectibles, like I said, got tedious after a while.
The only collectibles that I felt were worth gathering were the ones that like gave you dialogue with the team.
Okay.
So I know, like for example, with Groot, you had the broken translator.
With Drax, there were actually, when you're going to face Feng Feng Foom and like hunting him down,
there's a broken sword piece that you can take like as a collectible and then like kind of discuss
whatever Drax's species habits were when it came to facing Feng Feng Foom.
Because like they made it kind of like that was like the ultimate like contest, like our proof of worth.
Like that was like the ultimate thing that you could do, go face down, Feng Feng Foom.
Okay.
And so like you could collect some of the team markers and he would kind of give you like a backstory on them
and give you like some really interesting like conversation on that kind of stuff.
And that was like fantastic.
But those were like very few and far between and the collect, like I think I only missed like two collectibles.
That's pretty impressive, man.
Like on my first playthrough.
And then I just kind of watched the story, like the dialogue on like the ones I missed.
Okay.
Just because I didn't want to go back and like do it all again because it's like, oh, you have to play this chapter,
but it's like at the end of the chapter and like, yeah, of course it is.
Yeah.
So didn't really want to do that.
But the dialogue was interesting.
The the rest of the like the collectibles, not really worth it.
Oh, okay.
Like those like, okay, not counting outfits.
Like if you wanted to go find them, like collect outfits, but it's like at least for me,
once I find the outfit that I want, I'm using that the rest of the game.
Dude, yeah, I'm the same way.
I mean, even though I didn't change the Guardians outfits, like honestly, I feel sorry to go back to Avengers.
But once they like released like my favorite like MCU skin of a certain character.
Yeah, I never change it.
Yeah.
Like I honestly wish that they would have released and I know they couldn't have because it wasn't released yet.
The both the outfits for Clint and Kate from Hawkeye because I love those suits so much.
And now I'll never change them again because they're I feel for the time being there's comic accurate as you can get.
Yeah.
So I mean, side quests were a little bit of a letdown for me personally, like like I said,
the collectibles that were worth getting were absolutely worth getting.
Yeah.
But it's once you collected all those and upgraded all your gear, there was really no point other than to for completion sake.
And unfortunately, I'm kind of one of those completionist gamers.
I get you, man.
So.
Personally, with these, I'm at probably as average as average can get.
So I'm sitting at a seventy five there.
Considering that I don't really have a lot to base my opinion off of because I didn't really do the side requests,
I feel I'm just going to match you with that once again.
All right. Last step, we got our own personal grade.
So, Rose, you want to take this one first?
I would love to.
So overall, Square Enix, this was a huge step up from Marvel's Avengers.
I feel I might have liked that game just a little more than Caleb,
maybe just a little bit because I feel I still do revisit from time to time.
But this is a step in the right direction when it comes to you guys making superhero games.
Honestly, I really hope to see more from Square Enix.
Just the the oh my God, the character development in this game is so great.
It was such a great idea to just have it be one player.
You only play a Star Lord.
You're just interacting with the rest of the Guardians.
I'm sure a lot of people would have loved to be able to play as the other four.
But honestly, this worked out perfectly.
It lets you like really dive into this story and just appreciate what plot they were trying to tell for this game.
And it just came across so gracefully.
Great gracefully, graciously, whatever. You know what I mean.
But just such a great game. I can't say enough good about it.
So personally, um.
Personally, I'm a 91.
I will say this about this game, I did not have crazy high hopes that it was going to be as good as it was.
Like I I started playing Guardians of the Galaxy like right off the coattails of Avengers.
And the only reason I played it or even got it in the first place was because it was on such a good deal at Walmart.
For Black Friday and.
If it wasn't for that, I probably wouldn't have ended up playing this game.
I mean, if it weren't for Caleb, I wouldn't have either because he's the one that told me about the deal.
Yeah, so.
But it was a really good, genuine surprise.
And I'm so glad that I ended up playing it because I'm a sucker.
Like, even if the gameplay like I, I mean, I scored it like slightly above average and the side quests were slightly above average.
You can't beat a solid story.
And that's that's exactly what this game had. It had a freaking killer story, like one that like.
I remember one day staying up till like one in the morning playing because I was just so invested in what was coming in the next chapter.
I was just like, there's no because I was.
Yeah, I, I.
Invested and that like that's exactly what this the story of this does.
It gets you invested, gets you invested in the characters in the team and just Star Lord as a person and.
Freaking just tears at your heartstrings with all the shit that they make you do.
Having to pull Drax out of.
A fantasy and him like like knowing like I know this isn't real. I want to be here.
But then like having to pull him away from that and like sharing like we need you.
And having to pull him away from this false reality was just heartbreaking and then having to.
Put Peter through the trauma of losing his mother again, but him having to be the one to pull the trigger.
And then.
Dealing with with rocket and his like own personal.
Bubble of issues, it's just there's so many.
Like intricate things at play in the story that are just that works so well.
And just like absorb you into the story.
And.
I loved every second of it, every freaking second of it.
Like the only issues that I had with this game were.
Like technical stuff.
Differ and it like if you guys would have had like if it would have been easier to activate different abilities in combat, like from like the other guardians, I would have really liked that.
I would have liked more upgrades for my stuff.
And then I would have liked.
The the collectibles to be a little bit more vast.
Sir, like give me a reason to go back and play.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, so I mean, other than those issues, which I feel are minor and.
In the way, at least in the way that I play video games.
Like.
Like no shit like I played. I played a video game.
I forget what it's called where you're you're playing like a ghost detective trying to solve your own murder.
And the story of that was so freaking good.
But the one thing that pissed me off about the game is like you couldn't run.
So you walk around everywhere.
What are you Michael Myers?
Yeah, it drove me up a wall.
But.
But I love that game.
Like absolutely love that game.
So.
I am personally sitting at a.
Might be at like a ninety two.
That's.
All right, so that concludes this week's breakdown.
So the final all Bros letter grade for Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy has come to a.
B plus.
Hell, yeah.
Yeah, it is sitting at a very solid eighty seven percent.
Which is like perfect middle ground for for our B plus range.
So that's awesome.
Yeah, really freaking solid.
Obviously, we we don't have very many other video games to compare this to.
We'll have to like come up with a like do a quick rating of Spider-Man eventually.
Yes, probably just between the two of us just so we can have that score on hand.
Yeah.
But yeah, so this actually puts it like in third place.
More than likely if we added Spider-Man, it'd probably be in fourth place of five.
True.
So our number one game was Jedi or Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order, which is sitting at a ninety point eight six percent.
Followed by Red Dead Redemption 2, which is sitting at a ninety point zero three percent.
And then Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy sitting at a B plus with an eighty seven percent.
And then Marvel's Avengers sitting at a D plus with a sixty seven point two nine percent.
Gotta love it.
Yeah.
So.
I'll say this, I'm not disappointed with the score.
No, I'm not either. I think that's perfect.
Yeah, same here.
But anyway.
So, yeah, that's where this where this game is sitting.
Sitting at a very, very solid B plus.
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We actually recently got a suggestion from our good friend DJ.
We are going so we'll probably do it like the week before.
But the week before we break down the Super Mario Brothers, we're going to break down the Super Mario Brothers.
You know, I think I'm going to be sick that week.
I'm feeling it.
How long away is that?
December, January, March. I'm feeling like a five month cold coming on.
Sorry, guys.
We'll talk about it.
Anyway, so yeah, that wraps up this episode.
Next week, you guys can look forward to us finally getting into something Christmas.
We will be talking about David Harbour's new movie Violent Night.
Yes, so excited to see this one.
This looks like it's going to be a blast.
I'm going to be very disappointed if it's not.
It's gotten really good reviews and frickin has it really?
Oh, yeah.
And it frickin overperformed at the box office.
I'm so pumped.
There's nothing better than frickin Violent Santa.
And considering it's David Harbour playing him, perfection.
So yeah, you guys can look forward to that next week.
And we'll figure out something to do for our post Christmas episode.
Probably going to do another Christmas movie, but yeah, we'll figure that out.
That is a problem for future us.
Yes.
But yeah, until then, this has been the All Bros podcast.
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Deuces.
See you next week.
I'm trying, trying.
What the shit was that?
I don't know.
I'm trying something new and it was all right.
That's being generous.
Damn, I was trying to go for have you seen the South Park episode with Kyle's cousin Kyle?
The one that goes, I'm big.
I was trying to go for that voice.
But yeah, didn't really work out.
All right.
I'll work on it.