Today, we're talking sick kids, silly monkeys,
and why the hell am I already thirsty? It's Survival
Kids for the Game Boy Color. Hello everyone,
welcome to Retro Game & Beyond presents Retro
Game Club. We're your hosts, Joe, Eric, Ryan,
and Jacob Vanderloski. And we've been surviving
off one game this session since we've been playing
Survival Kids for the Game Boy Color. But a couple
things before that though. First, I wanted to
mention this last episode, but we've made it
to Double Digit, boys. Oh yeah. We made it to
episode 11. I can't believe we've already done
11 of these. That's insane. Yeah, I didn't think
we'd ever even start this thing, so I'm pretty
happy with it. Yeah. So I'm pretty happy to,
this has become like a highlight of my week for
sure. So yeah, I mean, I definitely look forward
to it, man. Yeah. I'm enjoying this. So this
is dope. So I hope we can get to like, I'm looking
for a hundred now, a hundred episodes. So let's
do like 50. Okay. Yeah. 50 is a good deal. But
yeah, no, I mean, we haven't, we didn't do this
for a year yet and we got 11 episodes. So that's
pretty cool. Getting through this. Glad we're
playing video games. Yeah. Getting through that
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We'll be listening. So. All right. And now for
the part of the podcast that I'm sure nobody
listens to. It's Word of the Nerd. So we were
just kind of talking about other nerdy stuff
in our lives. We do all kinds of stuff. Video
games, music, movies, TV shows, books, whatever.
So what have you guys been up to? I started Ghost
in the Shell. I know I started it last time we
talked. I've been slowly going through it. Definitely
a tough read, man. Yeah, it's slow. It's just...
On another level that my brain can't comprehend.
But it's still enjoyable. It's very, like, in
-depth, but then also the art is just so crazy.
You're just, like, you're, like, lost in the
art, too. The art's crazy. Yeah. It's just kind
of, like, a lot to visually look at. But it's
good. Not too bad. I was going to say, if you
like the mangas, you definitely need to go watch
the movies because they're really good. Yeah,
I think it would help me piece together things
a little bit better, too. Plus, they're just
really well animated. They're really good looking
movies. Yeah. I just like to read the things
before I watch. Yeah, no, I'm just saying once
you finish the books, they're definitely worth
watching. Yeah, yeah. I will. I will eventually.
And then I've been playing this new Ninja Gaiden
game. It's called Ragebound. Yeah, that looks
sick. So I've been enjoying that. I think I almost
beat it. Oh, yeah, really? Already? Yeah, I'm
pretty close, I think. But it's fun. It's definitely
like a good just platformer, you know, 2D platformer.
It's better than Sigma? Yeah. Yeah. I don't know.
That's crazy because there's a Ninja Gaiden 4
coming out, too. Or is that out already, too?
I think it just came out. There's been two Ninja
Gaiden games in the past month. That's weird.
I know. And they're making that Shinobi game.
Yeah, that Shinobi game looks dope. I want that
one. Yeah. It's apparently the same people, so.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. which you know dot emu
makes some awesome stuff yeah they're great yeah
i know i've said it before too but you need to
play that strata hyrule game too the newer one
i think i own it i just it's so good dude it's
so good it's in the like same vein of that like
crazy 2d platformer twitch uh twitch control
stuff but it was good i enjoyed that one a lot
yeah i'm enjoying this one the controls are smooth
like the gameplay is it's fairly simple but like
you know everything just feels solid so yeah
it looked dope it looked cool and then i bought
a bunch of freaking video games that i'm probably
never gonna play so it's the curse bro it's a
curse dude there was a bunch of stuff on sale
that was good yeah well maybe in 20 years it'll
be on the podcast yeah maybe i doubt it these
are like uh no name games okay Well, you think
Survival Kids was a big name? Yeah, we play some
no -name stuff. At some point, I guess. Yeah,
I don't know. I really want to get a Steam deck,
man. That's what I want. Yeah, yeah. I think
that would help me get to the stuff that I want
to play a little bit more. It's hard for me to
just sit at my computer and play games. Yeah.
I know a guy at work, he got the ROG, the Xbox
Ally one. He says he loves it. Oh, really? Yeah.
Okay. I thought about those too, but I think
they're more than a Steam Deck. Yeah, he got
like a refurbished one or something, so he didn't
pay too much for his, but. Okay. Yeah. Yeah,
he says he loves it. Yeah. I don't, I keep, I
keep trying to do research, but everybody keeps
going back and forth. Yeah. Dude, that's just
the internet. Like, one guy's like, this thing
killed my family, and the other one's like, this
thing saved my life. And it's like, okay, well,
who do I believe in? I can't remember. I think
the biggest downfall of those was, like, you
couldn't put them in, like, sleep mode. The allies?
Yeah. Like, if you, like, pause the game and
then, like, turn the thing off, it doesn't really,
like, put it in a sleep mode. That's kind of
dumb. I mean, that's something that you kind
of need nowadays. Yeah. That's why I like...
Because I think of the Steam Deck, even if you're
playing it, you just turn it off, it pauses the
game. Yeah, that's dope, yeah. Almost like how,
I guess, the DS was. Mm -hmm. I mean, that's
what the system... I can do that with the PlayStation
5 and all that stuff nowadays. Yeah, no, I'm
just... I don't know. I want to get one. The
regular Steam Decks are kind of cheap, but I
would like to just get an OLED one. Mm -hmm.
Oh, it's probably worth it, dude. Those OLEDs
are so nice. Yeah, if I'm going to spend the
money, I might as well just get the OLED. Yeah,
for sure. Cool. But that's about it for me, I
think. All right. Ryan, what do you got? I finished
the Twisted Metal show. Wow, nice. Yeah, you
said you were watching it. It's actually pretty
dope. Yeah, I've heard good things about it.
It's weird because Twisted Metal just doesn't
have a story, per se. It's just, you know, you're
in a tournament and you're fighting, killing
everybody for a wish. Right, yeah. So, but it's
pretty dope. Black expanded on it a little bit,
but yeah. Yeah, but not a crazy show. Not like
a full show, yeah. It's like two seasons now,
right? Two seasons? Yeah, it's two seasons, yeah.
And even like the first season, they don't even,
they start the tournament in the second season.
Oh, geez. So the first season's all like character
building and all of that, but. I mean, I think
it's good. I enjoyed it. Sweet Tooth is pretty
badass, pretty dope. Yeah, I've always liked
Sweet Tooth. But it's good. It's a little slow
at first, but it gets pretty good. The second
season's dope. It's really good. It's so crazy
to see. I grew up in a time where video game
adaptations were dog shit. They just weren't
good. and now never good no never i mean some
of the anime like animated ones were fine but
like live action shit never worked and now we
have stuff like that i would be bold enough to
say that's pretty recent yeah no which yeah oh
yeah for sure yeah yeah i mean maybe the past
not even a couple of years yeah they've been
pretty pretty shit so yeah yep I know, it's crazy
to see that they got Last of Us now and Twisted
Metal and some other ones, I'm sure. Their Fallout
one's supposedly pretty good, too. Yeah, Fallout's
dope. Fallout's really good. It's just crazy.
They follow the source material to the T, though.
They're very good about that. And that's the
problem, though. They're shit if they just go
off the rails and just make a show to make a
show. Yeah. Like the Super Mario movie, yeah.
Yeah, well, yeah. Where the only thing from the
video game was the bomb mom. Yeah. I don't know
if you've ever guys seen those movies, but they
are a nightmare fuel. Nah. They're a fever dream,
dude. What was that one that we had on VHS? It
might have been the Super Mario Brothers movie,
yeah. The live action one? I don't remember it
that well. It was a live action one, yeah. They
had a show, too, didn't they? Yeah, that was
cartoon, though, yeah. I thought they had, oh,
yeah. There was one guy who voiced Mario. Yeah,
he did some live action stuff in the show. Yeah,
yeah. That's what I'm thinking of. But yeah,
it's definitely worth the watch for sure. All
right, yeah. I do want to watch it. I always
love Twisted Metal. I love the Twisted Metal
games. It's good. Again, in my opinion, I think
it conveys it pretty well. It's awesome. It's
dope. It's cool to add kind of like a backstory.
like give characters like uh characteristics
and stuff like their own kind of yeah character
i guess yeah yeah like i said it's pretty cool
black had kind of like started that there was
definitely a lot more involvement in black other
than just like getting a wish you know but yeah
like you said turning into a whole show yeah
that's a whole nother thing wasn't just like
a paragraph of text yeah yeah yeah yeah but it's
pretty dope it road kills the main character
so jacob did black have they had cut scenes for
the characters right in black yeah yeah they're
kind of like intro yeah middle and then um the
ending they're kind of short right but yeah the
intro was just you know quick brief intro and
then the middle was the backstory right okay
the ending obviously was the wish okay sometimes
the ending like finished the backstory right
right like it connected everything together yep
So, yeah, but, yeah, anyway, it's still cool
to see, so. Yeah, and it's surprisingly good,
so. Yeah, that's the best part. Yeah. In my opinion,
I don't know, I've seen a lot of people don't
like it, but. Yeah. I think it's good. Did you
see that on the internet? Well, of course. No,
he saw it in the skies. Yeah. I don't know, I
like going on the internet sometimes, like what
you were saying earlier. It's just so funny to
see. Oh, yeah, dude, I know. It's every time.
I'd rather watch my family get slaughtered than
watch this fucking show. Yeah. And then some
people are like, oh, this show's the best show
I've ever seen. Which is like, the worst is anytime
I try to buy something on Amazon, like, the first
comment's like, this is the greatest thing I've
ever used. And then the next one's like, this
thing killed my family. And I'm like, okay, well
then, who do I believe? I just bought a new keyboard
and a new mouse because mine are... old yeah
they're falling apart yeah but i bought a refurbished
razor mouse they're like 180 bucks brand new
yeah i got mine for a little over 90 bucks yeah
and half of them were like this this mouse is
a piece of shit it doesn't work wireless or like
you know it didn't work out of the box or whatever
yeah and then there was like a couple of people
saying it worked fine i put mine right up and
it works fine yeah yeah so it's also amazon dude
you can send shit back next day and they'll take
it true dude refurbish is the way to go man oh
it is yeah it is i've just i've just heard amazon's
a little shady with their refurbished stuff though
so yeah well i mean the refurbished stuff i bought
hasn't broken so no yeah i know i'm just saying
what i buy that like nine years ago yeah yeah
that's true still works and you get a warranty
and everything for free so yeah and you they
it's guaranteed to work because They have to
test it and everything, so. Right, yeah. It probably
works better since they fixed the issue that
it originally had, so. Yeah, exactly. Well, sometimes
brand new stuff doesn't work. You just get lemons.
Yeah, exactly. That's a very possible thing that
can happen. Yep. Yep. So, whatever. I don't care.
Me either. Anything else? It's just funny. It's
just funny to see people, bitch. Yeah, I know.
No, that's it. All right. Jacob, what do you
got? I played Stellar Blade, and that game slowly
became one of my favorite games of all time.
Dude, I want to play that game so bad. It was
really good. I mean, the combat was pretty good.
It has a few things I don't like, but overall
it was really fun to just beat the shit out of
enemies and slice them up. But there's also just
so many other small things in that game that
are just so charming and awesome that I just
loved it so much. What is it? Like a hack and
slash? Yeah. It's kind of like the, what's it
called? The God of War Norse games where it's
like only like a few enemies that you're fighting.
But like stronger. It's almost like Nier. Nier
Automata. Yeah. That's one I need to play that
game. Dude, that game is dope. That game is awesome
also. Yeah. We should play the old original ones.
I want to go back and play that game. Dude, I
want to. What started like what? Xenogears or
something? Isn't that the first game? I can't
remember what they're called. I think it's Xenogears.
No, that's for the other game. What's that other
Nintendo game? I can't remember what this one
is. I know what you're talking about. Xenosaga?
Is that what it's called? I'm thinking of that.
I have no idea. What's the one that the character
from Smash Bros. is from? Drakengard? Yeah, it's
Drakengard. Oh, that's that one. Shulk. What
game is Shulk from? Xenoblade? Yeah, Xenoblade.
That's what it is. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.
I was thinking of Xenoblade. I've never even
heard of Drakengard, to be honest. Yeah, that's
like the first Nier game. I think it's like in
that world, but I think it's a little bit different
than Automata. Oh, yeah. Drakengard's like completely
different. And then they have a game called Nier.
Yeah, Nier Automata is a sequel to that. Yeah.
Don't they have one called like Nier Replicant
or something? I think that's just like a remake
of Nier or something. Yeah. And then Reincarnation.
Oh, it's a mobile game? It's a sequel to Nier
Automata. I think that's just like DLC though,
isn't it? No, it says this one's a mobile game.
Reincarnation? Anyway, Automata was dope. Yeah,
that game was really good. But what about Stellar
Blade? It was pretty good. I can't compare them.
Is that it? That's all you've been doing, Jacob?
I've been reading a few books here and there.
I'm trying to find another series that I can
get into and enjoy. Wheel of time, bro. Wheel
of time. I tried to read a book called The Fifth.
14? Yeah, 14 books. Read Berserk, bro. Stop.
Dude, this is my time now. It's everybody's time.
I tried to read a series called The Fifth Wave.
And I'm like, shut up. Okay, I tried to read
a book series called The Fifth Wave. I couldn't
get to the first book. I got like a little over
halfway through. I do not like it because it's
overly edgy. It uses slang in such a cringy way.
I haven't heard of it. There's a character arc
in that book that I just think sucks because
it feels like so inorganic and it just doesn't
work, I don't think. yeah so i stopped reading
that i was like this is this is garbage um i
read the giver which was uh that was pretty good
that's not really part of a series or anything
or like a big story but that was pretty good
i started reading the uh the maze runner books
now i'm only on the first one but uh i'm enjoying
it i think this one i'm gonna stick with okay
i know there's like three movies right yeah Did
you, were you ringing the Hungry Games book?
Hungry Games. Yeah, the Hungry Games. You finished
them, right? Don't even get me started, bro.
Yeah, Hungry Games, that's just called my life.
It's survival kids, bro. Yeah. That would have
been a good segue. Yeah. All right, we'll skip
Joe. Okay. He ain't been doing nothing anyway.
No. I've been playing, let's see, what do I got?
Jacob, is that all you got? Is that it? Yeah,
go ahead. I'm still playing on the Vita. I've
been playing my Vita a lot still. I started playing
Lemmings Touch, which is like the Vita Lemmings.
I always like Lemmings. It's a fun game. I think
the only thing they added, they added these evil
lemmings in there that you can't let them get
to the endings. You have to kill them and save
the other lemmings, which is kind of funny. I've
been playing Shadows again. I'm getting through
the new game plus, which is taking forever. I
don't really want to play it. I'm done with that
game. I don't know how you guys play games for
over hundreds of hours. There's not a lot of
games I'll do that for. There's not a lot of
games I'll do that for. Assassin's Creed is one
of the very few I'll do that for. The other one's
like Mario. Anything Mario challenge, I'll do
anything with Mario. Assassin's Creed's Mirage
is just randomly getting DLC in a couple weeks,
so I'll probably be playing that. Yeah, they
just like get free DLC. And then I started reading
Moby Dick. I started that book. Is it any good?
It's okay so far. I didn't make it super far,
but he's just talking about himself a lot. So
I haven't, there's been no whales yet. I haven't
seen any whales yet. No whales. Or, you know,
Moby's or the other thing. Yeah. I don't think
you want to read about that. I think you want
to keep it that way. Yeah. All right. Anyway,
speaking of not seeing any whales, how about
surviving on an island? That was an awful segue.
Cut that out. Whatever. It's survival kids. What?
Go back to what I said. Yeah, we'll go back to
the thing. Hungry games. Hungry games. Because
you're on an island like the survival kids. Castaway.
It was supposed to be a pleasure cruise, a present
from my mom and dad in celebration of my 10th
birthday. My dad, the renowned adventurer, I
used to dream of walking in his footsteps one
day. Little did I know that my dream was about
to come true. We were on the last leg of our
cruise when my dad gave me my very own explorer's
knife as a memento of our journey. I was so pleased
and excited I couldn't sleep that night. As I
tossed and turned in my bunk, our ship was suddenly
caught in the clutches of a vicious storm. Somehow
I was flung overboard, and the last memory that
I have of that night is the sight of our ship
disappearing into the ocean depths. When I regained
my senses, I found myself washed up on the shores
of an uninhabited island. With no family or friends
to turn to, I set out in search of food and shelter
in the hopes of surviving this disastrous turn
of events. My adventure had just begun. Alright,
Survival Kids, or Stranded Kids in Europe as
it was called, is an over -the -top 2D action
-adventure survival game. It was developed by
Konami Computer Entertainment Sapporo and published
by Konami for the Game Boy Color in 1999. You
play as a young boy or girl that has been stranded
on an island and must figure out how to survive
long enough to find a way home. Did you guys
finish this game? Yup. I don't know. I guess
so. Did I have to get the best ending? I was
going to say, I got a couple of the endings,
but I didn't get all the endings. Yeah, I didn't
get all the endings. Yeah. I would like to go
back and get them all and finish it. I would
like not to. Okay. Yeah, because I think if you
finish all the endings, you get some extra stuff.
Yeah. I don't know if it includes story or not,
but I know there's a new game plus. Yeah, it's
just New Game Plus and there's three achievements
you need to do for that. As always, we're going
to talk a little bit about the story. There's
always going to be some spoiler warnings when
we do that. So you start out, you can either
pick a boy or girl character, and then you start
out, you were on a ship, I guess, with your father,
and then there was a giant storm that crashes
your ship, and then you wake up by yourself stranded
on an island. and uh you just have to you wake
up and you're like okay now i need to survive
so you gotta start finding food and water uh
you're looking for shelter you find a whole bunch
of like items to use and everything yeah it's
kind of like a a 2d it's like an over -the -top
2d kind of like like think like zelda on the
game boy has like a similar style to that yeah
i mean this game just kind of throws you into
it you know there's no there's no direction in
this game yo No beginning, no tutorial, no nothing.
No, nothing. It says go survive. And I don't
know what it is, but I suck at these survival
games. Yeah, I'm not too good at them either.
I'm not that great at them, dude. It's like the
first part, it's like you need to find your knife
so you can move on, and then you get to a little
hut, and then you can sleep there and stuff.
But during this whole time, you're already getting
thirsty and hungry, and there's no way to get
food or water yet. It's like, damn, dude, can
I at least get settled real quick first? Figure
the game out a little bit before you start throwing
this shit at me? Nope. Nope. Yeah, the stats
are way too fast, bro. Yeah. For sure. Yeah,
they're awful. They don't give you a chance to
do anything. Yeah, and part of that is because
the night and day cycle is so short. I mean,
it's like a couple minutes, I think. Yeah. I
don't feel like you could get very far. before
you know it's already the next day and you're
like i'm tired now i know and then i would walk
back at night to get back to the house and then
it would be daytime again yeah yeah i didn't
even make it back yet yeah and then the first
time you find one of those shelters you like
sleep there and then it like wakes you up in
the middle of the night it's like come on really
yeah i know yeah you have to have a fire going
Which is also a pain because you can't have a
fire when it's raining. Yeah, and it rains so
freaking much in that island. Jesus Christ. I
know. It's nonstop. Yeah, this game's tough,
man. It throws you in and it's immediately just
like, yeah, get fucked. It's like actually surviving
on an island. It's like, damn, dude, I want to
play a game, not actually try to survive on an
island. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah, I think I spent
like a good hour. And then I couldn't figure
anything out. And I had to look up like one thing.
And then I finally was able to like make a little
bit of progress and then that was it. I couldn't
I couldn't figure anything else out. Yeah, the
first time I played, I played for like an hour
and I think I survived for like 10 days and died.
And I was like, OK. And then I didn't touch it
for like a week because we went we went away
for a week. And then, yeah, I came back and I
started to back up and I was like, I couldn't
get anywhere again. But I was able to, I figured
out how to like survive now, you know, but I
couldn't, I could not figure out for the life
of me what the fuck to do in this game. And so
I was like, screw it. I'm just going to get a
guide. And I started playing through with a guide
because it was just some of the stuff you have
to figure out in this game would take you weeks
to figure out. Yeah. It doesn't make any sense.
Yeah. Yeah. And the game doesn't even explain
it to you at all. Oh, dude, the hints are useless.
The hints are so useless. Like one of the hints.
Terrible. So one of the first things you have
to do is figure out how to make fire. And you
have to. So there's another mechanic in this
game called merging where you can merge items
together and it'll make a new a new item. Kind
of like, you know, how Minecraft does. And one
of the first things you have to do is a stick.
And what was it? Dried wood. I think it was.
And then you'll get the kindling and then you
can make fire. But the game says like the actual
hint in the game is maybe if I rub two sticks
together. So then you go and try and merge two
sticks together and it doesn't fucking do anything.
And you're like, why would you tell me that?
Like, give me an actual hint on what the hell
I'm supposed to do. They're more misleading than
they are helpful. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because what
was the other one was like, I need a stick and
a rock to make like an axe or whatever. Yeah.
Something like that. You do that and you make
a baseball bat. Yeah. It's like, what? And it's
useless. There are some items that you can make
in this game that do absolutely nothing, and
they waste your resources. Why put that in? I
don't know. They're like red herrings. They're
completely useless. It'd be nice if they did
something for your stats, like your hunger doesn't
go down as much, or you can kill animals easier,
but no. If all the useless items were like...
If they... What's it called? If they present
themselves in a way that, like, okay, there's
no way I can use this for anything. Like, you
can make a mask in this game. It even tells you
you can't wear it. It's like, okay, well, this
is an item I can't use at all, right? But if
you make, like, the baseball bat, you might think,
oh, well, I could use that as a weapon. But no,
you can't. Yeah, he says, I can't play baseball.
What kid doesn't know how to play baseball? You
got time. You don't need to know how to play
baseball to use a baseball bat. It's pretty simple
how to swing it and hit things. I wouldn't even
be mad if you could just put it out as a decoration
in the house, but you can't even do that. I know.
Just a waste of resources. The one thing that
I did like, though, is the stuff that you did
craft and are usables, you didn't have to keep
making them. yeah things didn't break or like
get lost or well yeah sort of but yeah there
is one part where you lose stuff but yeah like
during normal play you don't there's not like
a health bar for items and well i thought i had
to constantly make kindling every time i wanted
yeah luckily you don't have to do that yeah i'm
like oh man that's gonna suck yeah that part
is nice especially too since you only have like
12 slots in your inventory yeah that's the other
thing the slots are a little I feel like you
could have carried it a little bit more. Or you
could have, like, upgraded your backpack or something,
you know? Yeah. Kind of like a bigger backpack,
but... Or, like, if you had multiples of the
same item, it would just stack. Stack them, yeah.
I mean, they didn't have that idea back then,
you know what I mean? I'm pretty sure Pokemon
did it. Yeah, Pokemon did it. I guess, yeah.
I guess so, yeah. I mean, I guess that was a
design choice to make the game more difficult.
This game was definitely made to be difficult,
for sure. yeah no the steam yeah surviving is
definitely tough once you start like getting
that momentum then it does get a little bit easier
but yeah it's true that when i first played this
game i was like dude i cannot like not be thirsty
and hungry right now but then by the by like
the mid and like end of the game i was i was
getting a groove on i was like getting meat and
making sure i was eating and had water and stuff
and sleeping and stuff so yeah you do definitely
get into like a groove I found out later, actually,
when I was trying to get some of the achievements,
the berries make a huge difference. Yeah, they
help a lot. You actually have to keep using them.
If I find one, because the berries, none of them
are bad. So every time I walk past one or I see
one, I just ate it. Yeah, that was another thing,
too, is the food deteriorated so fast. Yeah,
I know. Even if it was cooked. Yeah, I know.
That was annoying. Like, if you cooked the meat,
it should have lasted longer, but it didn't.
Yeah. It went bad. I don't think it even lasted,
like, a day. Yeah, it's like one day, I think
it is, yep. Yeah. Well, you had to preserve it,
even then, though. What do you mean, preserve
it? If you merge one of the berries with the
cooked fruit, it'll make, like, jerky. Oh, really?
Yeah. Oh, I didn't know that. You know how some
of them say that some of the berries are spicy?
Yeah. You can, like... Spiced meat. It'll preserve
it. But does it last longer? Is it still a day?
No, it lasts longer. Oh, okay, okay. It lasts
like, I don't know, like four or five days. See,
I didn't know you could do that. Nothing told
me you could do that. Nope, I know. Dude, even
towards the end, I was using a guide. I still
couldn't figure shit out. Yeah, it's... I'm like
reading the guide. Well, the guide's like written
in broken English. Yeah. So that didn't help.
And they're not very descriptive. No. It tells
you to go to, like, a certain area. Like, what
the fuck is this? I know. How am I supposed to
know where that is on the map? Yeah. Yeah, you
have a map, but you can only see the part that
you're currently in. Yeah. You can't, like, use
the map, you know? Yeah. Trying to do the statues
in the desert. Yeah, figuring out where they
were, yeah. Yeah. Well, I couldn't. The guide
kept telling me to go to the desert and find
them, but I was walking around all over the place.
I couldn't find them. I must have skipped the
part where you have to go to the other part and
look at the other statue, and then they show
up. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Or where you pour the
water on the map. I know what you're talking
about. You have to do that first. Yeah, otherwise
they won't show up, yeah. Yeah, I was like, oh,
man. Dude, I spent like 30 minutes doing that.
Yeah. Because once you go in the desert, you
can only take two steps and then you're fatigued.
Yeah, I know. You get tired so quick. My thing
with the stupid alligators is the guide kept
telling me just give them rotten meat, but that
didn't work. It didn't work. I don't know where
the fuck they were talking about, but that shit
did not work at all. Nope. I don't know if maybe
it was different. versions of the game maybe
i don't know it told me i could give him a mushroom
too and that didn't work either so i don't know
what the hell i'm talking about you had to give
him the grass that didn't work either i gave
him there's certain grass oh you gave him grass
or clams yeah i had to do a clam because the
grass wasn't working either well you have to
use the certain type of grass yeah i gave him
every single fucking grass and none of it worked
there's literally one that's called like paralyzing
grass see i never saw that i never saw a paralyzing
grass i don't know where the hell that was Yeah,
I think that's damp grass. It's only on the beginning
island. Where you see the monkey drinking, I
think. Yeah, I had to go back there, grab it,
and then go all the way back. Yeah, see, it was
like thin grass and damp grass. That's all I
had there. I don't remember which one it was.
I think it was dry grass or something. Oh, so
it doesn't say paralyzing grass? No. Oh. No,
no. You have to eat it first. You have to eat
it, and then it'll tell you the effect. Oh. With
everything. That's everything. Yeah. Oh, so then
maybe the mushroom does work, then you just have
to eat it first. There's probably different types
of mushrooms. There is, yeah. Yeah. But I've
tried everything, and it didn't work. Rotten
meat, and then even the mushrooms can go bad,
too, and it still doesn't work. Yeah, I don't
know. That part was weird, but eventually I just...
Clams are the only thing that worked. Yeah, a
clam, for whatever reason, that worked, so...
I don't know why clams would make you paralyzed.
Can't you eat raw clams, or is that only oysters?
I mean, I'm sure alligators can. Yeah, I'm sure
that wouldn't affect them. It makes even less
sense. I wish I would have known that because
the clams are right there. Yeah, they are, yeah.
Instead of me walking all the way back to the
map. Yeah. Yeah, that was the other thing. A
lot of the map was like one way. It was kind
of a pain in the butt to traverse around the
map. Backtracking was... not really existent
no it was pretty tough and then yeah the nice
thing is is when you do the lily pad thing and
you drain that swamp you can go that way yeah
that helps a lot but it takes a while to get
there yeah it's towards pretty much the end of
the game anyway but yeah meanwhile you're i know
at one point i forgot how to get back to the
ship yeah yeah i was on the beginning i'm like
oh man how do i even get back over there yeah
that was me at the end with the palace it's like
just go to the palace and i'm like Where the
hell is that? I don't remember where that is.
Took me forever to find the palace. Dude, that
palace was such a pain. So you survive a little
bit on the island, right? And then you find a
little monkey. A little monkey guy. I want to
know what everybody named their monkey. I just
left it as Bub. Yeah, I did too. I wanted to
get this shit over with. I just didn't care.
I just wanted the achievements. What did you
name your monkey, Jacob? Dude, I didn't get that
far. Oh, you didn't even get to the monkey? Dude,
this game, in every single way, rubbed me the
wrong way. It did every single thing. Apparently,
I did every single thing wrong, because I just...
This game really just... I don't know how to
even put it. You didn't even look up a guide
or anything? I did. And that's why I was pissed.
The guides are terrible. I just don't like using
a guide for my entire playthrough. I want to
figure shit out. I don't want to keep looking
at my monitor. That is not fun to me. I get that.
After a certain point, I was like, I'm not enjoying
this. I'm not even forcing myself to play this.
I was like, you know what? No more. Done. When
you get the monkey, your image changes in the
save screen. That's the best part. That does
sound pretty cool. But unfortunately, everything
else about this game sucks ass, so it's not worth
it. Jeez, bro. Yeah, just somebody doesn't like
this game. I know what he's going to say at the
end. Yeah. But anyway, so you get a little monkey
companion. And then you can... So there's multiple
endings to this game. One of them is you can
end it right away if you find the batteries for
the radio and just listen to it, and then you'll
get rescued. But then like you can also you can
also explore the island a little bit more and
you'll start finding campfires around. And then
you'll find out that there's another person on
the island, another kid that you can find. And
then you'll help him out. You have to like help
him out and feed him. And depending on like how
you treat him, he could either like die or he'll
like fall in love with you. There's like multiple
endings from that, too. So but one of the things
is you find a ship. And the ship has what was
it seven chains attached to it. So you have to
find these gems to unlock the chains. And so
that's kind of the game. If you get to that part
of the game it kind of switches over to now you
have to do like this gem hunt and find all these
gems with some of them are a pain in the butt
to get to. Yeah. Like I know there's the one
like the circle gem I think it was you had to
like drop down and then go fishing for the stupid
fish. Yeah. And that takes forever. Yeah. Fishing
is a pain in the ass dude. Yeah. It's bad. Fishing
sucks. Well, not when you have fast forward.
That's true. But even then, it still sucks because
I was pulling out all the small fish and I wasn't
getting the big fish. It's a pain in the ass.
I got it right away. Yeah. Well, I kept trying
to fish at the bottom of the waterfall. You're
not supposed to fish there. No, it's right where
the fish is. It's where the big fish is. Yeah.
Yeah. You can only fish where the fish are. Right.
Yeah. Yeah. But there was a fish right at the
bottom of the waterfall. And it wouldn't catch
him. He was jumping in the middle there? How
did you even reach it, though? I don't know.
I put my rod out, and it just kept saying nothing.
Dude, I had the fast -forward button on, and
I tried for like five minutes straight. Yeah.
It wasn't working. So I went down to the bottom.
I read in the guide, you can get it anywhere.
I went to the bottom of the river, and I got
the fish, and the first time I got it right away.
Oh, I don't know. Right at the top of the waterfall,
there's a fish right next to the... to the dirt
jumping is that what you're talking about yeah
oh that's where i got it it would not work dude
i tried for like five minutes straight it wouldn't
work because that's what i thought i had to do
i mean it is what you have to do but yeah well
like i said in the guide the guy said you can
get it anywhere oh okay he said you can actually
even get it with the mini game yeah there's that's
something too is there's many games in this game
i don't know if you guys did you guys play all
of them yeah I played all of them but the fish
one. I didn't play the fish one. You're not missing
much. Yeah, they're super simple. The stupid
tree one was a pain in the ass. Yeah, that one
was just stupid. That one was tough. The fucking
leaves, man. They came out of nowhere. So stupid.
I hate those leaves. And you're so slow. Yeah,
the stupid monkey needs to go a little bit faster.
And then when you get close toward the top, they
just spawn and just smack right into you. Yeah,
and why are there so many crabs falling out of
the tree? What the fuck's going on up there?
Coconut crabs. What is happening at the top of
that tree? Yeah, then there's an egg tossing
one, which the monkey throws an egg at you. And
then how does the fish one work? You have to
mash the B button, and then the more you mash
it, I guess the more fish you get? I don't know.
You can only pick up one fish, I think. Yeah.
It's dumb. Yeah, it's dumb. I don't know. I only
played it once, and I was like, there's no point
in this. Yeah, and there's no achievement for
it, so. Yeah, there's achievements for them.
Just to unlock it, yeah. No, the monkey one,
you got to get to the top. Well, the monkey one,
and then you have to get the egg, too. Yeah.
Because you can fail that one and not get the
egg. And then you got to cook it, yeah. But for
the fish one, there's no achievement. Oh, not
for the fish one, okay. No. Just to play it.
Yeah, I mean. They were simple, but it was cool
that they were in there, though. Something a
little different. Yeah, it's a nice addition.
Something to find and play, but... Not much.
Didn't really add much. No, not too much, yeah.
I could have lived without it. Yeah, I guess
so. It didn't make me enjoy the game more. Yeah.
So, let's see. So then, yeah, once you find all
the gems, you got to go through and find all
these gems. Well, the last... So you find six
of them, and you get all of them but the last
one, and then a palace will appear on the island.
And then you've got to go to the palace and go
through this final... It's like a final dungeon,
basically. Which you had to find the key to.
Yeah, you had to find a key, which I don't even
remember what that was. Was that in that cave?
In the cave. Yeah, in the cave. That's right,
yeah. Which is also a pain. Yeah. Caves are pain
in the ass. Figuring out how to light a damn
torch is... Yeah. That took me a minute. Yeah,
because you have to make a torch, and then you
have to start the kindling in the cave, and then
use the torch on the kindling, yeah. It's like,
what? I know, that was kind of stupid. That was
kind of one of the things I wish that it hadn't
done. Once you lit the torch once, it should
have just been lit all the time. Yeah. It shouldn't
have unlit it. It should have just kept it lit,
and you can just take it out whenever. Dude,
I know you said that you were in the menu a lot
in Baroque, but God, man, this was even worse.
Yeah, you were in the menu quite a bit. This
was just menu simulator, man. Like, constantly
in and out, in and out. Yeah, you were in there
a lot. Because even if you had, like, multiple
meats, you had to cook one, go back, go back,
and then burn it again, and, oh, man, it just...
It was a lot. It was in the menu too much. It's
a pain. And then you got to swap out all the
tools you have and stuff, too. It's... Yeah.
You're in there a lot. I mean, I know this is
an older game. I think this is, like, one of
the really first survival games, honestly. It's
an early one for sure, yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's
got a lot of good ideas, I think. I feel like
the execution wasn't done very well. But, I mean,
like you said, this is an earlier one, so they
were definitely still figuring stuff out. Well,
like, the biggest problem is just... I want to
explore. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. They
really make it difficult to do. Yeah. I think
if the stats had just not gone down so quickly,
it would have been a lot better. I mean, even,
like... Cause it's hard now, even if they just
made it kind of like, you know, something like
a medium wise. Yeah. And then giving you some
better hints. Yeah. The hints are the biggest
thing for sure. Cause how, how are you supposed
to figure out to wrap the, the vine around that
rock to, to cross over? Yeah. I don't know. No
idea. So yeah, the palace is kind of like the
final dungeon. Um, and it gets pretty tough.
You have to like, go through a bunch of puzzles,
and then you can't even do it all in a day. It
takes, like, multiple days to get through. And,
of course, you're hungry and tired. Yeah. And
there's no, like, food in it. Well, I guess there
was some food in there, but... Yeah, scraps.
Luckily, there was water in there. Yeah, there
was water in there, too. And there's a little
hut outside, too, which is nice. Yeah, and the
stupid fucking game, you would sleep in that
hut, and then sometimes a stupid jaguar would
fucking spawn. Yeah. So if you didn't save the
game in the hut, you're fucked. Yep. And you
can't kill them. No, you cannot kill those things.
You can. It just takes forever. Yeah, dude, it's
almost impossible. Not with a knife. You have
to use a bow. Yeah. Because they destroy you.
I killed them with a knife. Unless you're lucky,
yeah. All you have to do is just keep holding
the direction that they're in and they won't
hit you. Yeah. I don't know. Either way, they
shouldn't spawn there when you're trying to finish
the fucking game. Yeah. Well. They can't make
it easy for you. Well, it's already not easy,
trust me. Sounds like a skill issue. They don't
need to make it harder. Yeah. Well, luckily,
I know to save, so I saved. Yeah. Anyway, you
finally get to the dungeon, you get the little
Moon Knight gem, and then unlock the boat, and
I guess if you fed the dude enough food, you
guys get married and have a happy ending. Happy
ending. Happy ending. No. No, this game's only
rated E. Yeah. Yeah, there's, what, eight endings?
Yeah. That's the best one. Yeah, that's the best
one. Some of them are just stupid. Some of them
are weird. You have to, like, feed them bad food.
Yeah, and kill them. And then leave. That's what
I had to keep giving them rotten clams. And ones
just, like, live on the island for 100 days.
Yeah. And then another one is you find the...
other person and then live on the island for
100 days and don't leave. Dude, that takes forever.
I know, dude. That's a long way. 100 days is
long as shit. You can't just fast forward. You
gotta find food and shit. It takes you, what,
40 days to beat the game? If even that. It took
me like 75. Jesus, dude. I think I was 40, I
think. I was in the 70s. Like I said, I started
over. Yeah. You can rest. You don't have to sleep
all the time. Yeah. I never did. I didn't realize
that until towards the end. Yeah. Yeah, that's
why, yeah. Like I said, I started over, too,
with a guide, so. Yeah. But it's just a pain
to rest, because I would go rest, and then I
would walk, like, five feet, and it's like, I'm
tired. Yeah, you have to do it multiple times,
yeah. Well, it's kind of stupid, though. You
might as well just go to sleep. I mean, I don't
know. Even sleeping doesn't do jack shit. Sometimes.
You can have like a hundred fatigue and you go
to sleep and you're only at like 70 now. What
the fuck is the point of that? Was that because
you slept outside? Uh -huh. Because you slept
outside? No, just in general. No, just in general.
If you're at a hundred and you sleep, it only
brings it down to 70. I don't think so. Every
time I went to sleep, it went down to zero. I
don't know, bro. I don't think so. Maybe when
it was raining. It's because it was raining.
Yeah. Well, was it because you like woke up in
the middle of the night? Yeah. Yeah, I got that.
Oh, yeah. Sleep apnea or whatever. You didn't
have your CPAP machine. Yeah. You had to find
your CPAP machine. What was the whole point of
that swamp area in the top, right? Swamp area?
Yeah, where all the lily pads were. You go back
to it towards the end of the game. There's a
gem there. No, not in that part. I mean, the
bottom part is just, like, useless. Yeah, I know
what you're talking about. That part's just for
show, I guess. I don't know. But once you drain
it, you can go back and forth. You don't have
to go all the way the other way. It's a little
quicker. Oh, yeah. But yeah, pretty much. Juiceless,
yeah. I guess they were just showing you how
the lily pads work, I guess. Yeah, yeah. Or just
foreshadowing. I don't know. Yeah, foreshadowing.
Foreshadowing. It's a lot of shadows. It's about
four of them. I don't want to hear that word
anymore. Yeah. Let's see. What else? I think
that's pretty much it. I don't know if there's
anything else. Gameplay -wise. We've bitched
enough about this game. There's not really much
there. Graphics. I mean, for a Game Boy game,
I thought this looked pretty good. It's not bad.
It's decent. It had a pretty good use of color
and stuff, I think. It's pretty cool how the
day and night cycle actually changed the palette
of the area and stuff and everything. Yeah. That
was pretty cool. All the environments were pretty
unique. I think if you told someone to go to
a certain area, they would know by the look and
feel of it. For the most part, yeah. Yeah, I
think it was pretty good. There's some areas
in there that just didn't make sense. They were
a little similar, but yeah. You already mentioned
the best part is when the monkey joins you, your
character image in the menu changes. It's you
and the monkey. It's great. It's awesome. There's
some funny bits where you get big eyes or whatever.
Yeah, that too, yep, yep. Yeah, that... When
he, like, steals your backpack or whatever. Yeah.
Yeah, he pushes you on the floor. Yeah. There's
actually a lot of, like, images, like, still
images of, like, action stuff that was pretty
cool, too, in the game. Mm -hmm. Like, at the
beginning with, like, the ship turning over and
everything, that was all pretty cool. Mm -hmm.
And then, like, the... Like, when you find the
palace at the end. Yeah, that, and, like, finding
the skelly man in the cave, that was pretty cool,
too. Yeah. That was a cool picture. When you
craft stuff, too, it's got the pictures of all
that stuff, too, which is pretty cool. But, dude,
they got lazy, though. Why? When you get towards
the end of the game, they don't have detailed
pictures anymore. It's just the sprites. Oh,
yeah, yeah. That's pretty funny. The kindling
and, like, all the earlier stuff has, like, nice,
like, actual drawn -out pictures. And then when
you make, like, the, what, the hammer or something.
Or if you make the kindling again, it's just
a sprite, yeah. It's just a pixelated sprite.
That's weird. I wonder where that changes. I
don't know. Probably too complicated. I didn't
even notice that. They just got lazy. That's
weird. But yeah, I mean, it's actually pretty
good. I would say it's actually a pretty good
looking game for the Game Boy Color. Yeah. I
think it actually looked pretty good. I think
the Game Boy Color was only out for like a year
when this came out, so. No, I think it was 96,
wasn't it? Game Boy Color? No, I thought it was
98. Maybe it was 98, Game Boy Color. Maybe in
America. Yeah, you're right, 98 in Japan, yep.
So yeah, that was a pretty early game for it
then, yeah. But yeah, it does look pretty good.
Damn, the fucking Game Boy was out for nine years.
It came out in 89. That's crazy. 89 is insane,
bro. Yeah. And then the color came out in nine
years? That's insane. Nine years later. That's
crazy. I can't even imagine back in 1989 walking
around with a game. Yeah, just a brick. I don't
have to imagine. I lived it. No, I'm just saying
that just, like, technology -wise, that's just
crazy. Yeah, I know. Well, it wasn't 89. It was
more like 95, but... Yeah. I know, that's just...
The longevity of that system is insane. The Advance
probably came out, like, what, two years after
the Color? 2001? 2? Something like that. Yeah,
the Game Boy Color didn't last that long. The
Advance came out pretty quickly. 2001. Which
is insane because the Game Boy Color has a massive
freaking library. I know, it's crazy, dude. Crazy.
Anyway, I think the only other thing I wanted
to mention was that the menus in this game look
like they're pulled straight from Pokemon. Oh,
yeah. I think that's just, like, generic Game
Boy Color menu. Yeah, maybe, but it looks like,
like, even the text looks like it's straight
from Pokemon. Yeah, the borders and everything,
too. It's everything. It looks exactly like it.
Yeah, yeah. All right, any more graphic stuff?
No, I don't think so. Nah. Okay. Jacob, you still
conscious over there? I am still awake. He's
fighting it. He wants to get this episode over
with. He's just fuming with rage. He has no words.
It is nearly 12 .30am. That is why. Let's get
through Sam real quick and then we'll be almost
done. It has it. I thought it was pretty good.
When you're on the beach, there's a beach sound
effect. Some of the music is pretty good. Some
of it's okay. Some of it was pretty good. you
know there's a lot of cues it's pretty cheery
for being stranded on an island by yourself yeah
it's got like a good it does have like a beach
like you know tropical vibe to a lot of it so
yeah yeah that was pretty good it's like catchy
catchy stuff so yeah like i said there's like
some ambience noises too uh which was pretty
cool but yeah yeah i mean all around like presentation
wise i think this game was actually pretty decent
yeah i mean yeah All right. I think that's pretty
much it. Oh, the other thing I wanted to mention
was why is the name entry so short? I've never
seen such a short name entry. There's only like
four letters. Yeah. That might be the shortest
name entry I've ever seen. Yeah. It's ridiculous.
I guess so. I don't know. Friggin' Pokemon had
friggin' Charizard names. Yeah. This could only
do friggin'... Oh, yeah. You only had three characters.
Pokemon, you can have like 300. Yeah. I didn't
even think about that, but yeah. Yeah, it was
insanely short. I don't know why it was so short.
And then they give you the option to name everything.
Yeah, with four letters. What are you going to
put? Four fucking letters. F -U -C -K? I mean,
come on. It's like an arcade machine. Yeah, really.
I'm going to put my initials. Just initials.
Alright. Does anybody else want to say anything
else about Survival Kids? No. Now's your time,
Jacob. We can wait until the final verdict. We're
getting there. What's the final verdict? Before
we get to that, though, we're going to talk achievements.
What did you guys think of the achievements of
this game? Actually pretty straightforward. Yeah.
They're easy and simple, really. Yeah. I don't
know. How do you get those hats? What do you
got to do to get those hats? I think it's New
Game Plus. I know, but what do you got to do?
Kill the animal or do you got to actually do
a bunch of shit? That's the only thing I can
think of is kill them. Because I don't think
New Game Plus is... There's nothing new to it.
It's just plus. I think it's just the same game,
but harder. Oh, good. Even better. Yeah. That's
what I wanted. But yeah, I would assume you have
to kill them. I don't know how else you would
get animal caps, but... Yeah, I like this set.
I think it's a pretty decent set. You know, the
game itself has eight different innings, so the
achievements obviously are going to reflect that.
But yeah, I think it's a pretty well done set.
It's just literally do the things in the game.
Yeah. There's literally nothing out of the ordinary.
Yeah, but it includes the whole realm of the
game. Including the new game plus is pretty cool
and stuff. That's what I'm saying. It makes you
play the entire game. Right, yeah. Finding the
minigames and New Game Plus, all that. And then
just to find the hidden stuff too, like getting
the honey and all that kind of stuff. Which I
would have fucking never figured out. Yeah, I
still haven't. You never will. Not by yourself.
Dude, the honey is an awesome item though. It
is, yeah it is. Why, what does it do? It almost
completely fills your hunger. Is it like the
weird berry or whatever? Why do you only get
one weird berry? I never got that. You didn't
get the weird berry? I don't think so. You have
to leave the monkey. You can't take him with
you. You find him anyway and he gives it to you.
Eric couldn't leave the monkey. I couldn't leave
the monkey. I know. I didn't leave him the first
time and then I re -read it. Like, ah, fuck.
I need the berry for the achievement. I named
a monk. I can leave monk. I can leave monk behind.
Yeah, because that's all you can fucking name
him. That said, you didn't have any other choice.
With an O or a U? With an O. Okay, all right,
monk. Monk. All right. Not like you had a lot
of options there. Yeah. All right. Yeah, I think
it was a good decision. There's nothing like,
you know, beat the game in 20 days. Sure, yeah.
Nothing ridiculous, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Actually,
I mean, yeah, if it had, like, under 40 or something,
that would have been cool, but... Yeah, but,
I mean... Unnecessary. Yeah, you don't need to
do that for this game. Did anybody master it?
No. No. Yeah, I haven't yet, too. I think I need,
like, five more. Yeah. Four or five more. I need
three endings, and then two just... Well, no.
Probably need six, then, because I need the three
endings, and then I think I need the three New
Game Plus stuff. Yeah. Yeah, I need about ten.
I'm going to try and go back and master this
game. I don't think it would be too difficult.
You need seven. Seven? Okay. You need the gym.
Alright. Yeah, that's easy. This is one of the
ones where you just got to put the time into
it. That's all. Yeah. This is probably the first
game that I haven't wanted to master. Really?
Yeah. I don't feel like going back and playing
it again. Yeah. I feel like now that I've figured
out the surviving part, it's just using a guide
to get through it real quick. yeah and even if
you like beat it once and you play the next day
and you remember everything you can run through
it that's what i'm saying yeah you can beat this
game in like 20 minutes if you really wanted
to yep yeah so it's just knowing how to get the
endings and what you yeah that's the tough part
yeah yeah but i feel like i spent enough time
playing this game okay yeah i don't know 20 minutes
i might it's uh five hours 40 of that. One hour
of that was trying to get the big fish. Yeah.
Big fish. Big fish. It probably was. Alright,
let's get to the final verdicts. So, a quick
explanation. We don't do scoring or anything
like that. It's just a quick, did you enjoy the
game and would you recommend the game? So, who
wants to go first? Go ahead, Jacob. Let it out.
I know you're fuming to get that out. Alright,
Jacob. Did you enjoy the game and would you recommend
it? Yes. I did not enjoy it. Not even in the
slightest, I don't think. So, I would not recommend
it either. So, it's just... The thing is, you
need a guide to play this game. Otherwise, it's
just a game you can't figure stuff out in. And
if you do, it's going to take you hours upon
hours. And it's just not worth it, in my opinion.
And I'm just not a guy that likes going through
an entire playthrough and then using a guide.
I don't mind if I have to use a guide a few times.
When I was playing Silent Hill, there's a few
puzzles where they're pretty hard, so you're
going to have to look up a guide. And that's
fine, because there's other things besides...
the puzzles in Silent Hill that are fun to do.
So I just, I couldn't get behind that. And there's
just small things that really irked me. Like,
so I accidentally put the big stick away in my
chest, right? And then I ran into a rock that
I had to move. So like, okay, I need to go back
to the hut and get my big stick. I opened the
chest. All I see is my fishing rod. I'm like,
oh, do I have it in my inventory then? No, I
don't. I'm like, where the hell did I put it
then? So I go back to my chest and I see that
there's a second page in there that I didn't
know about. And that's actually three. Three.
There you go to that. I don't know why, but that
set me off. I was like, no, I'm not doing this.
I can't. I'm not enjoying this. I do not like
this. And the fact that he decided to troll me
right there. No, done. Okay. Jacob hates complicated
menus. Yeah. Overly complicated menus. All you
had to do was press the left button. It could
have just been an up -to -down list. Complication
isn't the word I would use. Complicated isn't
the word I would use. Overly complicated. Yeah.
Eric, what word would you use? Go ahead. It's
simple, honestly. Why does it have to be two
pages so if I have two items? And why don't you
tell me that? It's broken up. It does tell you
that. No, it doesn't. This game doesn't tell
you anything. If you look at the top, it says
different sections. Where does this game tell
you anything about anything? Point to it. It
does have the arrows on it, though. I didn't
see that. Not to mention, it should be there
in the goddamn first place. I'd rather skin myself
alive than ever play this game again. Sounds
like an internet review. Sounds like a typical
internet review. Well, in 50 years when we go
back and play these games again. I won't be alive.
You better be skinless. I won't be alive. I'll
just be dead. I'll be taking a shit in the middle
of the floor. Oh, come on. We need to bring that
up. Cut that out. Alright, who's next? I didn't
really hate the game, but enjoy... I don't think
I really enjoyed it either. There's no, I mean,
if I was a kid, you know, a long time ago and
I had this game for years, I probably would have
put more time into it to figure things out. But
there's no way I could have played this game
now without a guide. The stuff, it's just too
complicated. The hints are useless. Okay. Would
you recommend it? Probably not. Unless if you're
really into survival games, but I don't know.
I don't think so. Okay. Brian? Yeah, I'm the
same way. I didn't really hate it, but it's just
not an enjoyable game for me. It's tough, too,
because I try to put myself in the time frame
when this game came out and try to be there.
because i again i probably would have enjoyed
this as a kid too and um i'm sure if i was like
a teenager or whatever and i actually like bought
this game i would have probably been happy with
it because i got my money's worth out of it like
i played it put so much time into it and then
i'm actually like getting somewhere and it's
like worth the money you know right and you don't
get more than one game every six months either
you know well exactly yeah you can't just go
on The internet and just fucking buy a whole
bundle of games for sale. Yeah. But yeah, well,
yeah, now, yeah, it's the whole complete opposite
thing now, but I, I, I try to do that, but as
it stands right now, I just, I, I wouldn't recommend
it either. It's, it's just, uh, it's overly over
the top. Just, I don't, I don't want to say chaos.
It's just too all over the place. there's no
like set i mean i guess there's a set rule to
survive but there's just all this other shit
you have to do and you have no idea what you're
doing you don't know where you're going and i
mean i guess it's cool to like explore and stuff
but it's just hard to even do that well yeah
because you're constantly hungry constantly thirsty
constantly tired like it's yeah it's just a going
back and forth i'm just trying to Get to somewhere
where you're going and then watch your house
dance at the same time. We're still talking about
the game, right? Yeah. Overly complicated. I
want to play video games to get out of reality.
Not what I experience every day. I hate when
the menus are overly complicated. That's my breaking
point. Like I said, I didn't hate it, but it
was just not really good. enjoyable game for
me okay yeah i mean i think i'm in the same boat
i wouldn't say i hated it either um but i probably
didn't start enjoying it until i knew what to
do so not until i started looking at a guide
but once i i kind of had a direction and once
i really figured out too because the biggest
thing for me with any survival game is figuring
out how to stay fucking not hungry all the time
i always fail at that i don't know why Um, but
once I kind of figured that out in this game,
I feel like I got better at it and I started
enjoying it more. Um, you know, the thing with
this game is it feels like there's two parts
to this game. There's the action adventure game,
which is really fun. And then there's a surviving
part of the game, which is not so fun. And I
feel like they were always like at odds with
each other, you know, like when you're trying
to go out and explore the frigging stats were
going down. And then when you're trying to do
that, you couldn't figure out where to go in
the game. I don't know. I just feel like they
didn't get that in that mesh working quite right.
And yeah, you know, like we said, this this is
an earlier survival game. You know, this one
had to be created so that things like Minecraft
could come out of this and stuff. So, you know,
the formula was still early and I think they
were still working on it. But again, I don't
think it's I don't think it's a bad game. It
just it could have used some additional stuff
to really help. Like one of the big things was
like just giving a direction to like better and
better hints. Yeah. You know, another thing they
could have done, too, is, like, given you, like,
recipes to find. Like, you know, this is how
you make the kindling. This is how you make the,
you know, like, that would have been a huge help.
Some sort of direction for anything. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah. Like, they did, like, how you can
learn traps and stuff. Yeah, like that. But then
how do you actually make the fucking trap? I
didn't tell you. Yeah, exactly. So, you know,
it's like, hey, you can make traps now. It's
like, can I? I don't know how to do that. Yeah.
Yeah. But, yeah. I don't know. I think, like
I said, once I get the guide through and then
you kind of just ran through it, I did enjoy
it. But at the same time, it's like, how much
can you enjoy a game that you're just like running
through like that, you know? But yeah, it just
seems like more of a chore than anything, really.
Yeah. I mean, I don't I don't hate using a guide
as much as Jacob does, but. Yeah. I mean, I don't
really want to use a guide either, but I don't
want to use a guide for the entire game either.
Yeah, I get that. I'm not against using a guide,
but... It's a last resort, but... Yeah, I get
it. This one I had to use pretty much the entire
game. Yeah. I got a little bit in the beginning,
but... Yeah. After that, I... So... Like I said,
if I was younger and I had time to pick at this
every once in a while and make some progress
here or there. And I was like, oh, I know how
to do this now. When I play it again, I'll keep
doing that and this and that. And I wonder if
that was part of the original idea. Because when
we were playing, we tried to save and not die
all the time. But I wonder if you were meant
to die a lot and keep starting over. Yeah, I
guess so. I wonder if that was part of the idea,
too. once you like figure out like you know the
steps getting back to those steps aren't really
that exactly yeah so i feel like you're probably
actually supposed to die a lot and start over
a lot but yeah probably yeah but yeah so would
i recommend it you know what i think i actually
would because i know that the survival games
are like a huge thing like you got minecraft
you got arc i know there's a conan game like
there's just all kinds of those survival games
uh grounded um I think anybody who likes those
kind of things should go back and see where all
that stuff started. If you want to use a guide,
go ahead. It's there, but you don't have to.
Just know that you're going to be walking around
a lot trying to figure it out. If you've got
the time to put into it. Yeah, exactly. If you
want to sink your teeth into a crazy puzzle game
like that, then I think I actually would recommend
it. All right, let us know what you guys thought
out there, what your final verdict on the game
was. Did you enjoy it? Would you recommend it?
Let us know. We want to hear from you guys. As
always, did this change anybody's least or most
favorite games? Jacob? Yeah, definitely. This
is my least favorite. Yeah? All right. What was
the last one? Was it Baroque? Yeah. Yeah, so
now it's this game. So that's two games in a
row then. Wow. Oh, man. I wonder why he wouldn't
let me pick a game. He wants to pick them. Listen,
man, you know, I do like complaining and bitching,
so honestly... Yeah. He's having fun. That's
apparent. As long as everybody's having fun.
Yeah. Except Jacob. Besides Jacob. Well, he's
bitching and moaning. He's, like, doing nothing.
If I'm pissing and moaning, I'm having fun. Not
so much playing Survival of Kids. In the middle
of the rubber room. Yeah. Well, there's a sequel
to this game, so... No, we ain't playing it.
Yeah, it's on the DS. There's, like, four sequels
to this game. I think there's three. Three games
in general. There's one on the Switch, apparently.
Yeah. Yeah, it just came out. Okay. That's it
for this game. We're not talking about survival
kits anymore. We're done surviving. We're moving
on. We're surviving. I'm sure this didn't change
anybody else's least or most favorite. No. No.
Like I said, this game isn't that bad. I said
we're done. I said we're done with this game.
Well, we didn't ask the question, though. At
least our most favorite. Well, I figured everybody
would just chime in at one time. It's not very
professional. All right. The next game we're
playing is... Okay. Next game. Are you ready?
We're going to be playing Colibri for the 32X.
Does anybody know what a 32X is? Yes. Okay. All
right. I was just kidding. It's 32 bits. Yeah.
Does anybody have any experience with this game,
with Colibri? I think I played it before. Oh,
yeah? A long time ago when I had my PSP. Oh,
yeah. Okay. Into illegitimate means? No. Okay.
Very legitimate. Oh, you plugged the 32X into
the PSP? Into my PSP, yeah. And I had the official
software. Yeah. All right. Okay. Totally legitimate.
He made the 32X. He's got it. Yeah. I'm painting
this picture in my mind. Yeah. All right. Let's
look at this cover here. What do we got? This
is getting crazy now. I guess Colibri is a type
of hummingbird. Is that what that is? I think
it just means hummingbird in Japanese. Oh, in
Colibri? I think that's what it was. Okay. Well,
we got a hummingbird here, and he looks kind
of pissed off. Like, what the hell? Yeah, he's
mad. He's like, what the hell? He's got a bee
coming after him. Yeah, a purple wasp or something.
What the frick? And a big old scorpion. Scropion.
Scropion down there. There's gems. There's like
crystals in the back. Crystals. Yeah. It's a
nice looking piece of artwork, I'll tell you
that. It is. It's pretty colorful. It's vibrant.
But I'm going to tell you, as a young male kid,
this game, I would be like, I'm good, thank you.
I don't know, that scorpion is pulling me in
now. Okay, alright. I don't know, I would see
this and be like, what is this, like a garden
game or something? What is this? A little beetle
in the back too. Yeah. Can't even see that. Yeah,
it's under the crystals. See the beetle? Oh,
yeah. Oh, yeah. No, that's a scorpion's hand,
isn't it? No. That's a beetle. I only have like
four megapixels. That's a scorpion's other hand.
Yeah, it's only 32 -bit. It's a stinger. Yeah.
No, that's his claw. That's a beetle, bro. That's
a beetle. That's his big, meaty claw, bro. All
right, now we go to the back of the box. Back
of the box. His big, meaty claw. All right. The
back of the box. Deep in the earth, a powerful
ancient crystal hums, fueling the balance of
nature. But when its toxic twin plummets to earth,
nature totters on the edge of extinction. Only
one hope survives. Colibri. Though small and
alone, the hummingbird must battle the invasive
mutation in all its malignant form to restore
earth. But at what cost? Feel the rush as Colibri
zips, dives, and dodges in intoxicating aerial
acrobatics. Soar through the splendors of nature.
Colibri's world has perfect realism, depth, and
a panoramic menagerie of colors. Man, what are
these people? Read a dictionary? Combat bizarre,
vicious creatures. You got that thesaurus out
for this one. Jesus. Combat bizarre, vicious
creatures created by the alien crystal to hunt
Colibri. See nature at its most helpless and
most powerful as Colibri gains strength. Help
Colibri conquer the cosmic threat in a classic
battle of good and evil. Abundant weapons and
pickups, including lasers, rings of fire, and
smart bombs, pack this game with punch. You use
the alien crystals. You can't drive after playing
this game, though. What? Intoxicated. I will
say those backgrounds look cool. Yeah, they do.
From the images here. Like a nice hand -drawn
look to them. That's that 32 processing. Blast
processing. Alright, you guys looking forward
to this? I am. This actually looks pretty cool.
I want to combat the bizarre fish as creatures.
Yeah, me too, dude. I want that menagerie, man.
Yeah, they got a lot of big boy words in here.
Yeah, they do, yeah. This is an edumacated game.
This is a big brain sophistication game. You
gotta have a college degree to play this game.
Yeah. I guess I can't play this. Oh, okay. I'm
almost there. I won't tell anybody. I won't tell
anybody. Let us know what you guys are looking
forward to, this game or not. The five people
that make it to the end of the video. Yeah, they'll
let us know. Alright, as always, thank you guys
for watching. We appreciate it, and we'll see
you for the next one. Peace.