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Today, we're talking abandoned coal mines, mutated

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aliens, and the slowest walking reporter of all

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time, it's Germs, Nerawareta Machi, with a PlayStation.

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Groovy! Hello everyone, welcome to Retro Game

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jump into Word of the Nerd. Get those nerds!

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Nerd! Nerd! We enjoy all things of the nerd.

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Video games, TV, shows, comic books, movies,

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music, food. So let's discuss what other things

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we've been into recently. What have you guys

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been doing? I finished my Walking Dead. I don't

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know if I said that last time, but... Oh, nice.

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Okay. yeah so you've read all of them now yep

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all 193 damn it was it was pretty good i mean

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the ending was okay it's it wasn't horrible or

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anything but it was just it was all right but

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um yeah i liked it i thought it was well worth

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the read so now i'm getting into other books

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now i'm trying to finish my lovecraft book And

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I think I'm like a story away from Call of Cthulhu,

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which I'm super excited to read. Nice, yeah.

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So, I think that's it. Just reading, really.

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Yeah. Yeah, I read, like I said, I think I read

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like 60 issues of The Walking Dead. I want to

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finish it. It's pretty good, so. It's worth it.

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Yeah. For sure. Yeah. Are you going to read The

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Incredibles next? Or not Incredibles. What's

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it called? Invincible? invincible uh i was thinking

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about it but probably down the line but i have

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so many books i need to finish dude yeah didn't

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you watch this show yeah yep this show's pretty

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good i liked it a lot but i just have like six

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books i need to read and yeah half of them i've

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had for like five years yeah i was gonna say

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haven't you had them for like three years Yeah,

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well, one of them is everything Shakespeare wrote

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that I haven't touched. I think I have like 600

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books I need to read. Yeah. And like 300 video

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games to play. I think that number is way higher

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than that. Yeah. And it's always adding. Yeah.

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Never stops. Oh, I've got like 50 tabs open of

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games I need to add to the list right now. Yeah.

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Dude, I've been liking Lovecraft stuff. It's

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hard for me to just get into reading sometimes.

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Yeah. I don't know why. I enjoy it, but... Especially

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when you're reading that old English, it's really

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hard. It is. Because I read to get off my phone

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and not look at the screen so much, but dude,

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he uses words I've never fucking heard of before.

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That's because nobody's used them since the 1930s.

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Well, yeah. Even before that. And I read it,

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and I'm trying to figure out what it means as

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a... context clue kind of way but sometimes I

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have to look them up because it's just just insane

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words but especially when he uses them like half

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of the sentence is words I don't know so but

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the nice thing is if I can understand Lovecraft

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it'll help me with Shakespeare a little more

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true so that was kind of my goal but like I said

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I've not touched that book yet well hey reading's

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the best way to learn man Yeah. Yeah, it is.

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I have some good books, man. I got Lord of the

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Flies. I got 1984, which I really want to read.

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I've heard that's a really good book. Yeah, 1984

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is awesome. And then I have Animal Farm or something.

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Yeah, Animal Farm is good. I haven't read that

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one. It's pretty good. It's simple. It's very

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easy to follow. Yeah, yeah. I just like his writing.

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It's very easy. It's nothing. Not big words.

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Not over -sophisticated. Yeah. Okay. And then

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I got, like, I think mom gave me, like, two Stephen

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King books or something. So, just got a bunch

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of shit. But, dude, that Shakespeare book's gonna

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take me a long time. Yeah, it's a lot. Well,

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he's poetry and plays and all kinds of stuff.

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It's a fat book, dude. It's bigger than the Lovecraft

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one that I have. Yeah, I have his complete works,

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dude. Yeah. It's funny to me. I think I paid

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20 bucks for it. It's funny to think that a man's

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entire, like... His entire life is worth 20 fucking

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books. Yeah, it's insane. I mean, it's old. It's

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a nice book, though. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's got,

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like, the ribbon for the page marker, and then

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the pages are, like, gold. Yeah. Not perforated,

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but the outlines of it's gold, so it's pretty

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cool. I know, just imagine going back, like,

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you bring Shakespeare back, it's like, hey dude,

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everything you've ever written, I just paid 20

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bucks for. Well, that'd probably be a lot of

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money for him. I don't know. But, anyway. And

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you can tell him you can read it on the thing

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called the internet. Yeah. It's mine, it would

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float. It's like the meme where you give a monster

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to, like, a Victorian child. Yeah. Wouldn't even

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know what to do. You mean the energy tree? Yeah,

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the monsters. Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, they were doing,

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like, sniffing cocaine and stuff like that. Eh.

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They were dying of, like, fucking dysentery.

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They had no medicine back then. That's true,

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yeah. Yeah, that stuff would probably just kill

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them. The monster would probably just rot their

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stomach out. They'd die of a gut rot. Yeah. Oh,

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man. They'll have ulcerative colitis. Yeah, probably.

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You don't want that. No, you don't. Anything

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else? No, that's about it. Who next? I'm just

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still going through my Trigones. It's pretty

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good. It changes a little bit too much sometimes,

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so I'm like, what the hell's going on? It's still

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interesting. Is it still Vash, or is it a new

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character? No, it's Vash. It's good, though.

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I like it. They just released a new anime, which

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is awesome. Yeah, I heard about it. Is that out

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finally? I think it's out, yeah. I think there's

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two episodes out. Nice. That's based off the

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books you're reading now, right? Yeah, it's off

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of the Maximum. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. So I'm

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going to have to check that one out. Me and Sarah

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have been playing a game called Split Fiction.

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Nice. We finally finished it today. We've been

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playing that game forever, dude. That game is

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long as hell. Is that the one with the two female

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characters? Yeah. Yeah, okay. It's awesome. It's

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actually really fun. Oh, is it? Yeah, okay. Yeah,

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yeah. The concepts are really cool. Nice. I did

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not expect that game to be that long. Yeah, yeah.

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And then the ending got a little ridiculous.

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Oh, yeah. But the game's pretty cool because

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it's not incredibly difficult, but it's very

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set up for if you never play video games. There's

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a lot of assist and stuff. Oh, yeah, yeah. And

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you can change how difficult you want it or not.

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Right. But it was fun. I mean, the concept is

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really cool. Yeah, I've seen that. It looked

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interesting. It looked fun. Yeah, it was fun.

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I think that's it, really. I don't think I haven't

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watched too much stuff lately. I have one more

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episode left for Devil May Cry, and I need to

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finish it. Oh, yeah, yeah. I'm trying to figure

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out what I want to read next after Trigon. Yep.

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I really want to read those Vampire Hunter D

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books. Vampire Hunter. I don't think I've seen

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that. I mean, I've heard the name, but I don't

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know anything about it. Yeah. The dude that did

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a lot of Final Fantasy art and stuff did the

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illustrations for those books. Oh, okay. Well,

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now you've got me interested. Yeah, yeah. Final

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Fantasy is one of my favorite series, dude. Well,

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he's the one who did a lot of art design and

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stuff. Oh, that's cool. All right. He didn't

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write the books. He just illustrated them. No,

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I got it. Yeah, yeah. Still, it's cool. Yeah,

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I know. I want to read them. But apparently the

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books are impossible to find. Oh, well, okay.

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That's cool. Yeah. They have like the omnibuses,

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but again, they have almost all of them on Amazon,

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but there's like two or three that just aren't

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there. And plus, they're only up to like volume

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30 in America. They still haven't completely

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been translated. Man, there's that many? Damn.

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Yeah. Well, I guess that's what the internet's

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for. Yeah, I do want to read them, but it just

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kind of sucks to start reading something that

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you're not going to be able to finish. But those

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are just books. Yeah, other than that, not too

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much. Cool. Jacob, what do you got? I got all

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the endings for Silent Hill F. I really like

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that game a lot. It's definitely my favorite

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Silent Hill now. so i mean the story was crazy

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it was so complex there were so many moving parts

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but it was all so good it was it wasn't that

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hard to follow either and like all the imagery

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and symbolism was pretty it wasn't hard to like

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decipher what was a you know what was metaphorical

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for something in the real world or certain symbols

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meant what they were supposed to mean. You know

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what I'm saying? What, how they're, how figurative

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they're supposed to be. Right. So they even have

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like a UFO ending, which is like a running gag

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in the game. So absolutely love that. That's

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cool. Is it better than the new resident evils?

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Um, I, I wouldn't say so. I, and I think that's

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just cause I like the, um, like first person

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shooter. I like, first -person shooters a lot,

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and, you know, 7 and 8 are that. 7 and 8 also

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have, like, awesome atmospheres. The, you know,

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like, the swamp setting of 7 is so unsettling

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and creepy. And then 8 has these beautiful, like,

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castles. It's, you know, it's very European,

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but it's very beautiful, I think. It's, like,

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gothic. Yeah. Those two are good games, man.

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They're good. Yeah, they're awesome. I know,

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I need to play them. They're worth it, for sure.

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I want to play the VR versions. VR versions?

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Yeah, I want to play the VR versions. That's

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a lot of fun, but its gameplay isn't very complex

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or anything, which it makes sense. Silent Hill's

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gameplay was never complex. It's pretty much

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just hit, don't get hit, dodge, solve puzzles,

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find out where to go. Where it's like Resident

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Evil is you have to manage your inventory, you

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have to upgrade stuff. But the atmosphere in

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that game was pretty nice, too. The fog monster

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is such a cool design. It's definitely one of

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the coolest designs Silent Hill has ever had,

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in my opinion. Nice. So... Yeah, I mean, I saw

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some video of it. It looked pretty cool. Yeah,

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the cutscenes look amazing. Yeah, yeah. They're

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beautiful. But yeah, it's my favorite Silent

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Hill right now. I'm going through the Silent

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Hill 2 remake, and it's also pretty good. I like

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how they... They changed a good amount of stuff

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in that game, but when I mean change, I just

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mean add, because they still have some of the

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original puzzles, original weapons, stuff like

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that. But it's fun so far. I don't know if I'll

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like it more than F, but we'll see. Cool. But

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after I finished Silent Hill F, I actually played

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Life is Strange, and that's a really good game.

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The story is just amazing. The original one?

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Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. I played that. I mean,

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the ending was so emotional, but all the characters

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were just so well written. Everybody connects

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so well into everything. Yeah, that game was

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pretty good. I remember liking that one. I've

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never played any of the other ones after it,

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though. Yeah, I only played the original. It's

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a game I've been wanting to play for a while.

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I just never really got around to it. Yeah, it's

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pretty good. I remember enjoying it. Apart from

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all of that, I've been reading The Fever Code,

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I think it's called. It's the... second prequel

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to the maze runner books um it's not bad but

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i just i just kind of wish the direction was

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a little bit different there's two characters

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that are pretty uh important to the whole like

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plot and narrative of the maze runner but they're

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not talked about a lot in the maze runner books

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like the first three and i felt like it would

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have been more interesting if they were like

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the main focus of the second prequel rather than

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thomas and theresa they're like the uh two main

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main characters of the original trilogy it just

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would have been cooler to see like kind of a

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different perspective but also see you know what

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led up to the first three books or the you know

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the original trilogy right yeah all right cool

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yeah uh let's see what have i been doing so i

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finally finished i finished mission impossible

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for the ps1 so i finally got that video it's

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up check out the youtube if you want to watch

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that it's actually not a bad movie tie -in game

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it's actually pretty decent um yeah i remember

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playing that when we when we had it and i liked

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that game like it's not a great game but for

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like a movie game it's actually not awful there's

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way worse games like movie games than that one

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um but yeah that was pretty good and then i i've

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been playing i like tore through ragnarok i finally

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like i finished the story mode on ragnarok got

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more so dude oh god such an incredible game so

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good It is good. I need to play it. Dude, it's

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so good, man. I know. The ending was awesome.

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Do you like the ending? You like the ending?

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Yeah, you didn't. There was a couple things I

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didn't like. We might have to talk about that

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off the podcast. Ryan, did you play that one?

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No. I need to, though. I need to get it. Have

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you played it, Jacob? Have you played either

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one of them? Yeah, I played both, 2018 and Ragnarok.

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Yeah, but I need to go back and do all the side

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mission stuff and everything, but... Yeah. Yeah,

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the game's sick. And then, let's see, what else?

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Oh, we all played... Well, Jacob, you didn't

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play, but we played Dead Island 2. Yeah, dude.

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I wish that game was awesome. Oh, yeah, yeah,

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yeah. I know, I want to play again so bad. Yeah,

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we'll play it again. We're definitely going to

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play through that game for sure. It's so good,

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man. When we just booted it up and started getting

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into it, I just... I was just hit with all the

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nostalgia, man. It's so good. I was like, oh

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man, this is just like the first one. It's so

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good. I know, dude. I've been telling you guys,

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that game's fucking worth it. It's really good.

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It's crazy that that game was in development

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for as long as it was and it came out as good

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as it did. You can give it for like seven bucks.

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Yeah, I know. With the DLC. It's totally worth

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it. Yeah. Yeah, that was fun, man. I was having

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a blast. Yeah, we're definitely going to play

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all the way through that game for sure. I know.

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We need to. Oh, yeah. And then the other thing

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is, I've been really getting into my physical

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handhelds lately. I've been bringing my Vita

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to work and playing it on lunch and stuff. And

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then I started bringing my Atari Lynx to work.

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I have an Atari Lynx, and I've been bringing

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that to work and playing that on lunch. I have

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a game called Kung Food. It's like a beat -em

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-up where you have to beat up vegetables and

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stuff and everything. It's weird, but it's hard

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as shit, man. I made it to the third level and

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I can't get past it, but it's pretty fun. It's

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so funny, though. I've been bringing shit into

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work and people are like, what is that thing?

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I'm like, oh, it's a new Nintendo Switch. People

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are like, that's bigger than I thought it was,

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but it's pretty funny. It's not a Nintendo Switch.

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Atari Lynx are like, what the hell is that thing?

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Something you'll never even know about. Yeah,

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this is the only one you'll ever see in your

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life, probably. Yeah. All right. That's what

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I've been doing. So let us know what you guys

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have been doing out there. What kind of nerdy

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things you guys are doing. What stuff you've

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been enjoying recently. But otherwise, it's time

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to jump over to our game, which is germs. Surrounded

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by mountains to the north, east, west, and the

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sea to the south lies the provincial town of

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Newtown. This town of three square kilometers

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has various buildings, brick warehouses, a large

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cathedral, a hotel, and a hospital. These buildings,

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disproportionate to the current size of the town,

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stand like Roman ruins. The town once prospered

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thanks to the Yamasaki coal mine in the mountains

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to the northwest. As time passed, the mines closed

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down and the population of the town decreased.

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These splendid buildings are a remnant of the

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city's prosperous days. This town is where our

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story takes place. In this town, you, the player,

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are a newspaper reporter. You lived in Newtown

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until you graduated high school. However, when

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the coal mine closed, your parents lost their

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jobs and your family left. About 20 years have

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passed since then. By sheer chance, you are transferred

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to your newspaper small branch office in Newtown.

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The office only has one other employee, Takeshi

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Yanagi, a young man who is your assistant. The

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office is small and only has a single computer.

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You receive many emails from newspaper readers

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in the town, including Fujita, your closest friend,

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and Naomi, who was your girlfriend for three

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years in high school. From these emails, you

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learn that something very strange is happening

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in this town. A few days ago, a luminous body

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fell in the mountains in the northern part of

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the town, and something emerged from it. People

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are complaining of a strange delusion and alleging

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that their friends and family are turning into

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people they don't recognize. Accidents are occurring

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on the rail lines and roads throughout the town.

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The town has become cut off from the outside

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world. Fujita, who is researching energy, measures

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a strange field distortion near the power plant.

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Something has started to spread throughout the

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town. It spreads contagiously from person to

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person, turning them into horrific mutants. These

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mutants feed on the life energy that other living

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things emit when they themselves evolve and transform.

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Okay, Germs Narowaretamachi, or translated that

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would be The Targeted Town, was developed and

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published by Cash in 1999 for the PlayStation.

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This was a Japanese -only release, and from what

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I've read, it's an incredibly rare and expensive

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release. Supposedly only like 4 ,000 copies were

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made. Oh, really? Yeah, it's an incredibly rare

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copy game. I think this is like this was their

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first like cash. This is their first game. And

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I don't think they ever made another like console

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game after that. So they made some like weird

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online game. I read some something weird like

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online MMO thing. But other than that, this is

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like the only game I think they made for consoles.

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So we've been doing a new thing where each game

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has been picked by one of us. So this game was

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picked by Jacob. So, Jacob, I wanted to ask you,

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why did you pick this game? What was the interest

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or desire to play this game? It just looked so

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weird. There was something about its weirdness

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that intrigued me. I know I mentioned this in

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the last episode, but the visuals reminded me

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a lot of LSD emulator for the PlayStation. And

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that's a very interesting game. It's very trippy.

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I mean, it has LSD in the title. Barely a game.

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I know. I wonder how freaky things could get

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in this game just based on its visuals. Definitely

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that cover art is definitely interesting. Were

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you guys able to complete this game? Technically,

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yes. Yeah, I think. I beat it. I played through

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it. I beat it. The story of the game is, and

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of course anytime we talk about this story, there

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might be some spoiler warnings here. You play

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as a reporter who comes back to your hometown,

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which is like it was a coal mining town, but

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the coal kind of dried up and the town kind of

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shriveled up. And you come back like 20 years

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later as a reporter and something as strange

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is going on in the town. It seems like aliens

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have crashed and landed into the town and are

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slowly like mutating the people into aliens.

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And you're just trying to figure out. you know

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trying to figure out what's going on and trying

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to stop them so this game is like a um a survival

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horror with rpg elements is what i would call

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it so you have you you start out in your office

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and you get phone calls and emails and these

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phone calls and emails will kind of tell you

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what you need to do and where to go and when

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you go there you talk to people and i mean the

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main thing you're trying to do is just kill any

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of the aliens that you see there And then it

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kind of gets into this loop where you talk on

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the phone, you go to the spot that you need to

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go to, kill the aliens, and you come back to

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the office, get another phone call, and back

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and forth. So when you go to these areas, it's

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filled with normal people, but it's also filled

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with aliens. And you can battle the aliens. And

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it's kind of like a... I don't want to say like

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RTS, but there is like an RPG element to it where

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you set your attack, and then it's basically

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just hit or miss. and then the aliens have the

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same thing back where they can either hit or

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miss you. It's a first -person game, and there's

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no, like, aiming or anything. Like, the game

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will automatically, like, select the enemy for

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you, and then you either just hit or miss, depending,

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like, on a roll of a dice, basically. There's,

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like, a 99 .99 % chance you're going to miss.

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Well, you can upgrade. The more you use a weapon,

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the more you upgrade it, and then you'll start

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missing less. I know, but still, dude, I mean,

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out of like 100 shots, you get like three. Not

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if you level up. You have to level up your weapons,

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and then you'll start hitting like every time.

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I know what I'm saying. It's ridiculous. Yeah,

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because the game tells you how to do that. Yeah.

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Like, yeah, so with the combat, the combat is,

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it's very simple, but... atrocious well it's

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not the combat's not atrocious it's the controls

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that are atrocious the combat's very simple the

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combat is attack and dodge and that's all you

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really have to do but with the controls so the

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controls are very non -standard this is a very

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early like 3d uh game and back then controls

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were just like the wild west developers did whatever

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the fuck they wanted with the controllers it

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was crazy yeah um so in this game triangle uh

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moves forward x moves backwards l1 and r1 uh

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um what do you call it uh strafe strafe strafe

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to the left and the right and then l2 and r2

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you have to like ready your weapon and then fire

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your weapon and that's what l2 and r2 do and

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then the uh d -pad like moves the camera around

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so you have to learn to move forward move backward

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move the camera around and strafe and shoot your

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weapon all at the same time so It is tough. It's

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very tough. But if you can get that down, the

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battles are super easy. Once I figured out how

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to do that, I never died again in a boss battle.

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Yeah, if you just learn to hold the strafe button

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down in one direction and know how to use the

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D -pad, you're fine. You're not getting hit.

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Yeah, the game becomes super easy. Then the only

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challenge of the game is just figuring out where

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the fuck to go. Yeah, but that doesn't mean it's

00:25:16.559 --> 00:25:21.019
fun, though. I mean, I didn't hate it. I just,

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I don't know. It's just way too easy, and it's

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just not enjoyable. I don't want to hold down

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a button where I'm going in a circle, and I'm

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just taking a chance on if I hit an enemy or

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not. Yeah, I mean, maybe it's just because I

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played way more RPGs. It's fine to me. It doesn't

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bother me. I will admit that it was very simple,

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and it did get a little boring, but I don't know.

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I didn't hate it. Like I said, another thing,

00:25:47.240 --> 00:25:49.259
too, is once you figure that out, the challenge

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with this game, and it's a very big challenge,

00:25:51.579 --> 00:25:53.259
is figuring out where the fuck to go in this

00:25:53.259 --> 00:25:55.799
game. Because the overworld map in this game

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is massive. It's huge. It's actually very impressive

00:26:01.220 --> 00:26:05.059
how big it is. Yes. But the thing is, is that

00:26:05.059 --> 00:26:07.279
there's nothing in it. I mean, there's places

00:26:07.279 --> 00:26:09.539
to go and stuff, but most of it, like, I would

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say, like, 80 % of the map is nothing. Oh, it's

00:26:11.740 --> 00:26:14.140
empty. Yeah, yeah. And I don't know if... I mean,

00:26:14.200 --> 00:26:17.079
in general, it is still impressive, though. Yeah,

00:26:17.160 --> 00:26:19.849
it's true. There's literally nothing there. And

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I don't know if it was a choice or a physical

00:26:23.970 --> 00:26:26.650
or like a limitation of the system, but the overworld

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map has no color in it. It's all gray. No, it's

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all gray scale. And they did this weird thing

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where like they put red arrows, like just floating

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red arrows to show you to like interesting parts

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of the map. I don't know what the point of that

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was. It was so weird. I don't know. Maybe because

00:26:43.329 --> 00:26:48.109
they knew that map is so massive and there's

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just not really much. It really feels like the

00:26:51.869 --> 00:26:54.410
developers, this was the first time they ever

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made a game, and they didn't really get to really

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complete this game. It's what it feels like to

00:26:58.990 --> 00:27:01.009
me, anyway. Yup, I was just about to say, they

00:27:01.009 --> 00:27:02.950
either didn't know what they were doing, or they

00:27:02.950 --> 00:27:06.990
rushed it. I don't understand why make such a

00:27:06.990 --> 00:27:09.710
giant map and do nothing with it. Yeah, I don't

00:27:09.710 --> 00:27:11.390
know. I don't know if they had more... Cut some

00:27:11.390 --> 00:27:13.190
of the fat out, you know what I mean? Yeah, it

00:27:13.190 --> 00:27:16.140
really could have been... condensed a lot. I

00:27:16.140 --> 00:27:17.400
don't know if it's because they had more plans

00:27:17.400 --> 00:27:19.660
or what it was, but yeah, it's way too big. And

00:27:19.660 --> 00:27:22.779
another huge gripe is that your character moves

00:27:22.779 --> 00:27:27.779
so fucking slow, dude. Did you know you could

00:27:27.779 --> 00:27:29.940
run? Yes. You can run. It doesn't matter. It

00:27:29.940 --> 00:27:32.700
changes nothing. I had no idea I could run until

00:27:32.700 --> 00:27:35.000
after I beat the game. It was so slow, dude.

00:27:35.460 --> 00:27:38.460
You move faster strafing than you do walking.

00:27:38.740 --> 00:27:42.119
Yeah. I hate when games do that. It's such an

00:27:42.119 --> 00:27:47.299
odd... decision. They don't know why. I think

00:27:47.299 --> 00:27:50.220
it's just because you're moving twice, basically.

00:27:50.680 --> 00:27:52.980
You know what I mean? You're moving left and

00:27:52.980 --> 00:27:56.160
forward, so you cover double the amount of ground.

00:27:56.420 --> 00:27:58.759
You also have a car that you can get into and

00:27:58.759 --> 00:28:03.400
drive around. Dude, that car is useless. You

00:28:03.400 --> 00:28:07.900
literally get stuck on pebbles. If you hit a

00:28:07.900 --> 00:28:11.859
curb, you're stuck. Yeah, you're premature. Plus,

00:28:11.880 --> 00:28:14.319
with the way that control schemes are nowadays

00:28:14.319 --> 00:28:16.160
getting into that car and trying to control that

00:28:16.160 --> 00:28:19.539
thing oh dude difficult man because it's the

00:28:19.539 --> 00:28:22.619
same movement buttons yeah and it's so hard to

00:28:22.619 --> 00:28:25.160
like like you've been playing racing games for

00:28:25.160 --> 00:28:27.299
the past 10 years you get in that car it makes

00:28:27.299 --> 00:28:30.839
it's so convoluted it makes no sense oh it's

00:28:30.839 --> 00:28:34.279
awful yeah it's not to mention like when you

00:28:34.279 --> 00:28:36.319
get in the car you cannot look at your map at

00:28:36.319 --> 00:28:39.059
all so not that that really helps but i'm just

00:28:39.059 --> 00:28:40.579
saying you can you just can't do it while you're

00:28:40.579 --> 00:28:43.740
moving Yeah. Oh, really? Yeah, you can't be moving.

00:28:43.740 --> 00:28:46.059
You can't move. If you stop the car, then you

00:28:46.059 --> 00:28:48.799
can open the map. Wow. Yeah. That would have

00:28:48.799 --> 00:28:50.799
been nice to know. Safety first. Not really.

00:28:51.259 --> 00:28:54.279
Yeah. The map doesn't help that much, in my opinion.

00:28:54.680 --> 00:28:57.079
And it's so weird because you have an entire

00:28:57.079 --> 00:29:00.079
map of the city. So if you hit the select button,

00:29:00.119 --> 00:29:02.259
it opens up the city or the map. And then if

00:29:02.259 --> 00:29:04.720
you hit it again, it zooms into one area of the

00:29:04.720 --> 00:29:08.460
map. It's just some random area. Yeah, it's not

00:29:08.460 --> 00:29:10.400
necessarily the map area where you're at. Is

00:29:10.400 --> 00:29:14.980
that based off of the maps that you buy? No.

00:29:15.059 --> 00:29:16.720
You know what those do? They just put a marker

00:29:16.720 --> 00:29:21.059
on the map. So it just says if you buy the hospital

00:29:21.059 --> 00:29:23.180
map, it just tells you where on the map the hospital

00:29:23.180 --> 00:29:25.920
is. Yeah, that's what that does. I mean, I guess

00:29:25.920 --> 00:29:28.880
that's nice, but... Yeah, it's weird. And that

00:29:28.880 --> 00:29:31.559
zoomed in area isn't like anything significant

00:29:31.559 --> 00:29:33.769
either. No, it's just random. Yeah, I have no

00:29:33.769 --> 00:29:35.410
idea. It's really weird. It's not even like where

00:29:35.410 --> 00:29:38.890
you start the game or anything. No. What if that

00:29:38.890 --> 00:29:42.029
was like a coding thing? Like I said, I don't

00:29:42.029 --> 00:29:44.009
know what they were doing. They thought they

00:29:44.009 --> 00:29:46.009
knew what they were doing. I don't know. And

00:29:46.009 --> 00:29:48.250
they couldn't close the map and just one button

00:29:48.250 --> 00:29:53.109
had to be two? I don't know. I want to say that,

00:29:53.210 --> 00:29:56.549
you know, for the time, but this came out in

00:29:56.549 --> 00:29:59.519
the same year that Dino Crisis did. Yeah. I mean,

00:29:59.519 --> 00:30:01.420
this is pretty late into the PS1's life, for

00:30:01.420 --> 00:30:03.779
sure. Dino Crisis was a hell of a lot better

00:30:03.779 --> 00:30:07.059
than this. I will say... Controls and stuff.

00:30:07.440 --> 00:30:10.859
I will say, part of this is... The game itself

00:30:10.859 --> 00:30:14.779
physically came with a map of the city. Which...

00:30:14.779 --> 00:30:17.220
Okay. That was probably required to play the

00:30:17.220 --> 00:30:19.420
game, you know? Yeah. They decided that that

00:30:19.420 --> 00:30:21.019
would be a requirement to actually play the game.

00:30:21.480 --> 00:30:23.059
And, you know, since we play the game the way

00:30:23.059 --> 00:30:26.039
we are, we kind of lose that. But I did find...

00:30:26.380 --> 00:30:29.039
There is an interactive fan -made map that you

00:30:29.039 --> 00:30:30.500
can use that will tell you where everything was.

00:30:30.559 --> 00:30:32.579
That was really nice. Yeah, I use that every

00:30:32.579 --> 00:30:34.279
once in a while. I feel like if you really want

00:30:34.279 --> 00:30:35.819
to get the experience of this game, you kind

00:30:35.819 --> 00:30:38.660
of have to use that. Yeah, that would make more

00:30:38.660 --> 00:30:42.920
sense. I don't know, man. I just looked it up,

00:30:42.960 --> 00:30:46.240
too. Driver 2 came out a year after this. Really?

00:30:46.299 --> 00:30:48.759
Driver 2 was 2000? Was that late? Mm -hmm. Damn.

00:30:49.680 --> 00:30:53.380
So, I don't know, man. Driving around on that

00:30:53.380 --> 00:30:56.339
city was way better. Oh, yeah, for sure. Driver

00:30:56.339 --> 00:30:59.119
2 is one of the best games on the PS1. You know,

00:30:59.180 --> 00:31:01.740
I'm curious because, dude, do you remember playing

00:31:01.740 --> 00:31:04.460
Driver 2? Hell yeah, yeah. Played the shit out

00:31:04.460 --> 00:31:06.859
of it. Do you remember sitting there for like

00:31:06.859 --> 00:31:10.039
10 minutes waiting for that map to load? Yeah,

00:31:10.059 --> 00:31:11.660
oh yeah, the loading times were crazy, yeah.

00:31:11.920 --> 00:31:15.380
I'm curious of what the loading times were like

00:31:15.380 --> 00:31:18.160
on this game. Well, that was weird too. When

00:31:18.160 --> 00:31:19.960
you first start the game, it does like that countdown.

00:31:20.730 --> 00:31:22.809
I feel like it's loading everything in that countdown.

00:31:23.609 --> 00:31:25.869
I think that's why that has that weird... Yeah,

00:31:25.869 --> 00:31:29.210
but it's going fast for us, so is it actually

00:31:29.210 --> 00:31:32.750
going that fast on physical hardware? I think

00:31:32.750 --> 00:31:34.910
if you don't speed it up, it's pretty close,

00:31:35.009 --> 00:31:38.009
yeah. I think the emulation keeps it pretty close,

00:31:38.130 --> 00:31:41.130
but... Well, I'm just saying, I play Driver 2

00:31:41.130 --> 00:31:43.170
on emulation, and it loads in like a minute.

00:31:43.509 --> 00:31:45.690
Yeah, yeah. Oh, I know, it takes a while, I know.

00:31:46.130 --> 00:31:48.509
Well, I'm just saying, it took like one minute

00:31:48.509 --> 00:31:51.799
on emulation, but... in in real world it takes

00:31:51.799 --> 00:31:54.000
like five to ten minutes yeah i mean i have the

00:31:54.000 --> 00:31:56.799
game i'll try it but yeah i mean i don't know

00:31:56.799 --> 00:32:00.240
it's definitely a a weird design choice for sure

00:32:00.240 --> 00:32:03.500
you you move around the map and when you do eventually

00:32:03.500 --> 00:32:05.460
figure out where you need to go you can go into

00:32:05.460 --> 00:32:08.759
these buildings and there's like the church there's

00:32:08.759 --> 00:32:11.480
the hospital so basically what will happen is

00:32:11.480 --> 00:32:14.970
certain areas get um taken over by the aliens

00:32:14.970 --> 00:32:17.950
and you have to go inside and go and and kill

00:32:17.950 --> 00:32:19.849
them and stuff so when you go in these areas

00:32:19.849 --> 00:32:22.990
uh i mean some of these areas are the maps inside

00:32:22.990 --> 00:32:24.650
the buildings are pretty big too on some of them

00:32:24.650 --> 00:32:26.869
like the hospital hospital was huge man yeah

00:32:26.869 --> 00:32:30.769
massive the hotel the hotel was huge dude i was

00:32:30.769 --> 00:32:32.750
running around the freaking hotel for like 30

00:32:32.750 --> 00:32:34.549
minutes trying to figure out where to go i know

00:32:34.549 --> 00:32:37.490
i was in there for a while yeah there's like

00:32:37.490 --> 00:32:41.970
a pool and like a outlook and cafe it was like

00:32:41.970 --> 00:32:45.589
what Yeah. So you try to go through these areas

00:32:45.589 --> 00:32:47.130
and you're basically trying to get to the end

00:32:47.130 --> 00:32:49.970
to find like the main boss of the area. And then

00:32:49.970 --> 00:32:51.789
you have to attack them and kill them, which

00:32:51.789 --> 00:32:53.450
some of these aliens are. I mean, the aliens

00:32:53.450 --> 00:32:57.450
are pretty cool. I like the design. Yeah, yeah.

00:32:57.509 --> 00:32:59.529
They're pretty cool. And then to like also like

00:32:59.529 --> 00:33:01.990
every person, everyone that looks like a human

00:33:01.990 --> 00:33:04.369
that you meet, you're like, is this a alien or

00:33:04.369 --> 00:33:06.170
is this a person like you don't know until you

00:33:06.170 --> 00:33:08.809
talk to him, which is pretty cool. Yeah. I don't

00:33:08.809 --> 00:33:10.309
know if you notice, but the aliens have a different

00:33:10.309 --> 00:33:13.569
color text to them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I like

00:33:13.569 --> 00:33:18.130
when you do either kill a person or an alien.

00:33:18.250 --> 00:33:21.509
There's like a dog tag and information about

00:33:21.509 --> 00:33:24.210
them. Yeah, that was crazy. Every single character

00:33:24.210 --> 00:33:27.930
in this game has a backstory to it. Even the

00:33:27.930 --> 00:33:32.470
animals. It's crazy. Not much, but it is a little

00:33:32.470 --> 00:33:34.930
detail. It's crazy, though, because they had

00:33:34.930 --> 00:33:40.220
names, their age, and everything. They would

00:33:40.220 --> 00:33:42.660
say if they had like kids or when you started,

00:33:42.700 --> 00:33:44.759
went to the power plant and stuff, it says how

00:33:44.759 --> 00:33:46.640
long they worked there, like what their position

00:33:46.640 --> 00:33:48.519
was and shit. Yeah, that was crazy. It's like,

00:33:48.539 --> 00:33:50.720
dude, it's insane. Yeah. It's a lot of detail

00:33:50.720 --> 00:33:54.599
in there for sure. Yeah. But again, I just, this

00:33:54.599 --> 00:33:57.880
game is just so fucking weird, man. Like they

00:33:57.880 --> 00:34:01.519
put so much time and effort into that, but some

00:34:01.519 --> 00:34:04.339
of the other choices they make is just so odd.

00:34:04.960 --> 00:34:08.679
It definitely does feel unfinished and Unpolished.

00:34:08.780 --> 00:34:13.000
Yeah, it really does. It's very convoluted. Some

00:34:13.000 --> 00:34:17.579
areas of the game are very fleshed out and good,

00:34:17.679 --> 00:34:22.940
but some of the other ones are just so subpar.

00:34:23.280 --> 00:34:26.880
Yeah, I agree. I agree. It's weird. It's pretty

00:34:26.880 --> 00:34:28.800
crazy, though, too, because this is an open world

00:34:28.800 --> 00:34:31.059
game on the PS1, which was still a pretty fairly

00:34:31.059 --> 00:34:34.059
new idea for the time. This game has like, you

00:34:34.059 --> 00:34:35.500
know, there's the story beats, but there's also

00:34:35.500 --> 00:34:37.440
like side missions that if you don't go and do

00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:39.739
them right away, you can actually miss like half

00:34:39.739 --> 00:34:43.280
the game, basically. I mean, you guys know. Yeah.

00:34:43.539 --> 00:34:49.119
Yeah. Thanks. You know, in this game, you can

00:34:49.119 --> 00:34:51.519
get everything for free. Yeah, that's another

00:34:51.519 --> 00:34:54.719
thing. You just ask for something and the NPC's

00:34:54.719 --> 00:34:58.400
like, yep, here you go. There's no money or exchange

00:34:58.400 --> 00:35:01.420
or anything. You can go to a surplus store and

00:35:01.420 --> 00:35:04.179
just get any kind of weapon and that's it. Just

00:35:04.179 --> 00:35:07.199
say, I want this. There you go. I was going to

00:35:07.199 --> 00:35:09.739
say, this game kind of felt like a life simulator

00:35:09.739 --> 00:35:14.039
inside of a horror game. You have to eat to keep

00:35:14.039 --> 00:35:16.719
your health up. If you take too much damage,

00:35:16.780 --> 00:35:20.289
you'll start bleeding out and you can die. Yeah,

00:35:20.349 --> 00:35:22.150
you have to, like, sleep and stuff. Like, if

00:35:22.150 --> 00:35:23.429
you don't sleep long enough, you'll, like, get

00:35:23.429 --> 00:35:25.650
tired and start losing. And it's crazy, like,

00:35:25.710 --> 00:35:28.349
how much, like, life simulation is in this game.

00:35:29.070 --> 00:35:30.949
I feel like they spent a lot of time on that

00:35:30.949 --> 00:35:32.750
part of the game, you know? Yeah, I think the

00:35:32.750 --> 00:35:35.929
things they spent a lot of time on, they should

00:35:35.929 --> 00:35:38.050
have spent it somewhere else. Yeah, could be.

00:35:38.489 --> 00:35:41.010
I went into one of the restaurants and, like,

00:35:41.030 --> 00:35:43.670
ate to restore health. I could have sworn, like...

00:35:43.820 --> 00:35:46.059
Apparently I got a stomach ache and that made

00:35:46.059 --> 00:35:47.940
me take damage or something. Yeah, I did the

00:35:47.940 --> 00:35:51.059
same. Okay. That's kind of funny. Yeah, I think

00:35:51.059 --> 00:35:54.000
it's if you eat too much, right? I think I just

00:35:54.000 --> 00:35:55.800
ate the wrong thing or something. Oh, really?

00:35:56.139 --> 00:35:59.659
I only took one block of damage, so. I wasn't

00:35:59.659 --> 00:36:01.380
paying attention because I had it on fast forward,

00:36:01.500 --> 00:36:04.900
but I noticed I took damage. That's crazy. I

00:36:04.900 --> 00:36:07.840
was like, what the hell happened? There's also,

00:36:07.900 --> 00:36:10.539
too, if you die in this, if you die, quote unquote,

00:36:10.719 --> 00:36:13.719
in this game. you wake back up as an alien or

00:36:13.719 --> 00:36:17.260
like a mutated alien and then um you can play

00:36:17.260 --> 00:36:18.780
you can play through as the game is that and

00:36:18.780 --> 00:36:21.739
then i think characters will like uh react differently

00:36:21.739 --> 00:36:24.119
to you and stuff and everything yeah i think

00:36:24.119 --> 00:36:27.599
there's different text um yeah or they even just

00:36:27.599 --> 00:36:29.860
completely ignore you or some of them will attack

00:36:29.860 --> 00:36:33.219
you too oh yeah yeah yeah uh do you know could

00:36:33.219 --> 00:36:37.619
you die as a mutant i don't know i didn't i didn't

00:36:37.619 --> 00:36:40.980
try that i didn't try that you can but then you

00:36:40.980 --> 00:36:43.579
can get healed also yeah you can go to the hospital

00:36:43.579 --> 00:36:45.460
and they'll give you drugs with no side effects

00:36:45.460 --> 00:36:47.659
i don't know how do they know how to cure that

00:36:47.659 --> 00:36:51.360
i don't know i don't know i just like how they're

00:36:51.360 --> 00:36:55.079
like there's no side effects known yet yeah okay

00:36:55.079 --> 00:36:59.980
that's awesome but yeah then you can also go

00:36:59.980 --> 00:37:02.139
on a date with your girlfriend or your ex -girlfriend

00:37:02.139 --> 00:37:05.500
i guess yeah Yeah, people will, like, follow

00:37:05.500 --> 00:37:07.719
you, but not really. Doesn't she end up... Well,

00:37:07.880 --> 00:37:09.440
I don't want to be spoiled. Doesn't she end up

00:37:09.440 --> 00:37:13.539
being an alien? Or mutated? She, like, goes into

00:37:13.539 --> 00:37:15.400
the mines with you and says she, like, feels

00:37:15.400 --> 00:37:17.780
stuff, but then... That was the end of it. I

00:37:17.780 --> 00:37:19.960
never heard anything after that. I thought you

00:37:19.960 --> 00:37:22.579
had to, like, fight her. No, I didn't. I thought

00:37:22.579 --> 00:37:24.320
she attacked you at one point. Unless there's

00:37:24.320 --> 00:37:25.800
different endings. That's not the ending I got.

00:37:26.099 --> 00:37:29.159
Oh, okay. I don't know. I fought myself. Did

00:37:29.159 --> 00:37:30.699
you go to the conscious elevator or whatever

00:37:30.699 --> 00:37:34.349
it's called? Dude, I don't know. Yeah, you fought

00:37:34.349 --> 00:37:36.630
yourself. Yeah, yeah. Because that's what I did.

00:37:36.730 --> 00:37:38.650
The round shaft in the middle of the mines after

00:37:38.650 --> 00:37:41.550
you went to the sewers or whatever? Yep. Yeah,

00:37:41.610 --> 00:37:44.409
okay. I don't know, whatever I did in that speedrun

00:37:44.409 --> 00:37:48.110
video. Yeah. Yeah, you fight like your alien

00:37:48.110 --> 00:37:52.070
self. Yeah, yeah, okay. Pretty much, yeah. I

00:37:52.070 --> 00:37:55.590
think that's every ending, I think. Okay. Maybe

00:37:55.590 --> 00:37:57.550
it's not, I don't know. Yeah, I'm not sure. I'm

00:37:57.550 --> 00:37:59.309
pretty sure there's only one ending to this game.

00:37:59.510 --> 00:38:02.449
Yeah. but how you get there is different i don't

00:38:02.449 --> 00:38:05.630
know who knows yeah i was fighting this one boss

00:38:05.630 --> 00:38:08.750
and that that's in that morgue where you have

00:38:08.750 --> 00:38:11.130
to like keep you know you keep running around

00:38:11.130 --> 00:38:13.369
them in circles he's like three bodies stacked

00:38:13.369 --> 00:38:15.769
on top of each other whatever yeah or something

00:38:15.769 --> 00:38:19.110
like that but the freaking you know the gurneys

00:38:19.110 --> 00:38:22.730
are in the way yeah but it kept locking onto

00:38:22.730 --> 00:38:27.460
the door and i couldn't move So I had to, like,

00:38:27.480 --> 00:38:31.519
press X, and then it would move. It was, dude,

00:38:31.619 --> 00:38:35.280
I couldn't move. Yeah, the gurneys, like, not

00:38:35.280 --> 00:38:38.340
hitboxes, but they're way bigger than what they

00:38:38.340 --> 00:38:41.980
look like. But then I would go away from them,

00:38:42.019 --> 00:38:44.619
and I would be, like, ten steps away from the

00:38:44.619 --> 00:38:47.179
door, but it would, like, lock me onto the door

00:38:47.179 --> 00:38:50.119
to open it. But I didn't want to open the door

00:38:50.119 --> 00:38:51.619
because it was in the middle of a boss fight.

00:38:51.780 --> 00:38:53.559
Yeah, this game has a weird thing where you have

00:38:53.559 --> 00:38:56.420
to walk into stuff and then it'll lock you into

00:38:56.420 --> 00:39:00.000
an action. So to interact with stuff, you have

00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:01.980
to walk into it and then it will lock you into

00:39:01.980 --> 00:39:04.619
that action. You can cancel it, but you have

00:39:04.619 --> 00:39:06.699
to walk away. Like even with the car, sometimes

00:39:06.699 --> 00:39:07.900
when you get out of the car and you're trying

00:39:07.900 --> 00:39:09.940
to walk away from the car, it'll lock you in.

00:39:10.000 --> 00:39:11.000
You're like, I don't want to get back in the

00:39:11.000 --> 00:39:13.039
car. It keeps locking you into the car. And you

00:39:13.039 --> 00:39:16.550
can't... unless if you cancel that action. Right,

00:39:16.550 --> 00:39:17.889
until you back out of it. Yeah, it's annoying.

00:39:17.909 --> 00:39:20.650
Oh, dude. Because I was trying to walk away from

00:39:20.650 --> 00:39:22.889
the door, but you can't do anything. Right, yeah.

00:39:23.130 --> 00:39:24.750
I was getting so mad, dude. I know what you're

00:39:24.750 --> 00:39:26.550
talking about. It's annoying. I'm in the middle

00:39:26.550 --> 00:39:31.070
of a boss fight. Yeah. Dude, there were times

00:39:31.070 --> 00:39:32.550
where I was walking and I would just get stuck

00:39:32.550 --> 00:39:34.829
in the wall. And I had to back out of the wall.

00:39:34.909 --> 00:39:37.250
I was like, Jesus Christ. Well, dude, and if

00:39:37.250 --> 00:39:40.429
you get on the sidewalk or in the grass, you

00:39:40.429 --> 00:39:44.059
slow down even more. Yeah. Oh, God, dude. It

00:39:44.059 --> 00:39:47.699
was terrible. Thank God for Fast Forward. Dude,

00:39:47.760 --> 00:39:49.440
I probably would not have completed this game

00:39:49.440 --> 00:39:51.800
without it, for sure. Yeah, it's... That'll be

00:39:51.800 --> 00:39:56.219
in the final verdict. All right. Anything else?

00:39:56.239 --> 00:39:57.920
Let's go ahead and jump over to graphics. So,

00:39:57.960 --> 00:40:00.699
graphics for this game, they're fine. I mean,

00:40:00.719 --> 00:40:03.099
they look like a PS1 game, you know? They're

00:40:03.099 --> 00:40:07.519
decent. Yeah. They're not... They're not anything

00:40:07.519 --> 00:40:11.039
to write home about. No, but I mean, for a PS1

00:40:11.039 --> 00:40:14.599
game, I think they stand out pretty well. Yeah,

00:40:14.800 --> 00:40:17.840
I don't know. The aliens are definitely wacky

00:40:17.840 --> 00:40:21.039
looking. Yeah, I like the, I like the, you know.

00:40:21.059 --> 00:40:24.079
I feel they're little kiddish, I guess. Yeah,

00:40:24.099 --> 00:40:25.300
they're a little color. They have like a weird

00:40:25.300 --> 00:40:27.820
color to them, yeah, but. Yeah, they're vibrant

00:40:27.820 --> 00:40:30.219
colors and stuff. Yeah, the only thing that really

00:40:30.219 --> 00:40:32.860
is weird to me was just the overworld map was

00:40:32.860 --> 00:40:35.500
no color. Such a weird design choice. Yeah, that

00:40:35.500 --> 00:40:39.599
was very weird. Just very dreary looking. Maybe

00:40:39.599 --> 00:40:42.280
because of the alien invasion. I don't know.

00:40:42.360 --> 00:40:43.659
I don't know what they were going for there,

00:40:43.699 --> 00:40:45.480
but it was weird. Yeah, I'm not too sure. But,

00:40:45.539 --> 00:40:47.840
yeah, I mean, the graphics are fine. I think

00:40:47.840 --> 00:40:49.760
they look decent. There's no cutscenes to talk

00:40:49.760 --> 00:40:53.920
of in this game, which is crazy. No FMV. There's

00:40:53.920 --> 00:40:56.960
not even, like, an intro. It's just a splash

00:40:56.960 --> 00:40:59.460
screen, then you're right into the game. You

00:40:59.460 --> 00:41:03.480
start right at your desk. Yeah. Yeah. Not much

00:41:03.480 --> 00:41:05.280
else to talk about there. I mean, same thing

00:41:05.280 --> 00:41:08.539
with the next section, which is sound. There's

00:41:08.539 --> 00:41:10.440
not much here. I think there's like seven songs

00:41:10.440 --> 00:41:12.019
in the entire game, and it's just kind of like

00:41:12.019 --> 00:41:14.000
a ten -second loop for all of them. Yeah, it's

00:41:14.000 --> 00:41:17.820
just like a baroque, like how they did their

00:41:17.820 --> 00:41:20.099
ambient noises. Just like ambient noises, yeah.

00:41:20.619 --> 00:41:23.719
The sound effects were simple. I mean, there

00:41:23.719 --> 00:41:25.280
was a sound effect every time you killed somebody.

00:41:26.500 --> 00:41:29.980
Yeah. Just like a wolf howl. Yeah, it was a weird

00:41:29.980 --> 00:41:33.210
noise, yeah. It was an odd noise, yeah. All right,

00:41:33.289 --> 00:41:35.469
there's not really too much more, I think, to

00:41:35.469 --> 00:41:36.969
talk about. What do you guys, you guys have anything

00:41:36.969 --> 00:41:40.469
else to say about germs before we move on to

00:41:40.469 --> 00:41:42.989
achievements here? All right, achievements. So

00:41:42.989 --> 00:41:46.809
this game has 43 achievements worth 300 points.

00:41:47.429 --> 00:41:51.889
Did you guys master this game? No. No. Yeah,

00:41:52.010 --> 00:41:55.550
I haven't either. I think I'm going to try. I

00:41:55.550 --> 00:41:57.789
got like 30 achievements, I think, already, so.

00:41:58.309 --> 00:42:03.340
I will not. No. You guys want to go back and

00:42:03.340 --> 00:42:05.639
play this game no more? No, I'm done with the

00:42:05.639 --> 00:42:08.380
game. Okay. I don't want to play it anymore.

00:42:08.900 --> 00:42:10.739
I don't know. I think I just have to finish some

00:42:10.739 --> 00:42:13.360
boss fights and stuff, so I'll probably go back

00:42:13.360 --> 00:42:16.099
and finish it. Yeah. Plus, you can get through

00:42:16.099 --> 00:42:18.559
this game pretty quickly. Yeah, the overall set

00:42:18.559 --> 00:42:20.860
does not look difficult at all. It's just...

00:42:20.860 --> 00:42:22.239
No, the set itself is pretty... The difficulty

00:42:22.239 --> 00:42:24.099
comes from playing the game. Yeah, it's pretty

00:42:24.099 --> 00:42:25.739
much just play the game. I mean, you have to

00:42:25.739 --> 00:42:28.320
do a little extra to find some of the... Because

00:42:28.320 --> 00:42:31.340
there's nine missable ones. Which is kind of

00:42:31.340 --> 00:42:33.699
a pain in the ass, but like I said, you can get

00:42:33.699 --> 00:42:35.039
through this game kind of quickly, so it's not

00:42:35.039 --> 00:42:37.960
too big of a deal. So I would say a pretty moderate

00:42:37.960 --> 00:42:41.139
difficulty here. Yeah, I don't think there's

00:42:41.139 --> 00:42:44.420
anything majorly difficult in this set. A decent

00:42:44.420 --> 00:42:46.099
set, and it's not really worth that many points

00:42:46.099 --> 00:42:49.219
anyway. Yeah, for 43 achievements? Yeah, for

00:42:49.219 --> 00:42:52.639
300 points, that's pretty low. Yeah, it is. Alright,

00:42:52.760 --> 00:42:54.360
just like the rest of the game, not much to talk

00:42:54.360 --> 00:42:59.260
about here. Yep. pretty much so with that being

00:42:59.260 --> 00:43:44.489
said let's jump over to the final verdict All

00:43:44.489 --> 00:43:46.670
right, here we are at the final verdict. We don't

00:43:46.670 --> 00:43:48.190
use scores or numberings here. We use a very

00:43:48.190 --> 00:43:50.769
simple system. Did you enjoy the game? And would

00:43:50.769 --> 00:43:52.730
you recommend a game? Because that's what it's

00:43:52.730 --> 00:43:56.230
all about, right? So, Jacob, this was your game,

00:43:56.250 --> 00:43:57.750
so we're going to make you go last for this one.

00:43:57.829 --> 00:44:00.090
But who wants to go first for the final verdict

00:44:00.090 --> 00:44:03.769
for germs? I'll go first. I'll go first. Okay,

00:44:03.869 --> 00:44:12.010
okay. Did I enjoy the game? No. Why or why not?

00:44:14.429 --> 00:44:17.809
I just don't think there's enough here to really

00:44:17.809 --> 00:44:21.789
enjoy. I really wanted to like this game, but

00:44:21.789 --> 00:44:29.289
it's way too simple. There's just not enough

00:44:29.289 --> 00:44:33.429
gameplay, in my opinion. If you're very interested

00:44:33.429 --> 00:44:35.650
in the game and you want to know more about the

00:44:35.650 --> 00:44:37.750
game, I would just watch somebody else play the

00:44:37.750 --> 00:44:42.610
game. I don't think there's enough here to physically

00:44:42.610 --> 00:44:45.719
play it yourself. So you would recommend a game,

00:44:45.739 --> 00:44:51.639
right? Definitely not. Nah, I wouldn't. If you

00:44:51.639 --> 00:44:54.599
want to play this game, I would just watch somebody

00:44:54.599 --> 00:44:59.139
else play it. Okay. That's fair. Brian, what

00:44:59.139 --> 00:45:03.260
do you got? There's just really nothing to this

00:45:03.260 --> 00:45:07.179
game. I didn't really hate it, but I didn't really

00:45:07.179 --> 00:45:12.699
enjoy it either. There's just nothing to it.

00:45:13.639 --> 00:45:17.219
Anything crazy. It's not anything new. And it's

00:45:17.219 --> 00:45:20.820
just not... It's just not an impressive game.

00:45:22.099 --> 00:45:28.179
So... I might recommend it, maybe, if you like

00:45:28.179 --> 00:45:32.659
weirder shit, like, you know, the non -known,

00:45:32.780 --> 00:45:35.980
lesser -known games, and that's probably why

00:45:35.980 --> 00:45:39.380
this game is. Well, there's a reason it only

00:45:39.380 --> 00:45:42.239
sold 4 ,000 copies. Well, that's exactly, yeah.

00:45:42.380 --> 00:45:46.539
Yeah. I mean, like I said, this game, it has

00:45:46.539 --> 00:45:49.059
a good amount of stuff that it's very fleshed

00:45:49.059 --> 00:45:53.199
out. The NPCs have their own backstory. There's

00:45:53.199 --> 00:45:55.280
a good amount of stuff in this game that they

00:45:55.280 --> 00:45:59.980
did good on, but not, in my opinion, where it

00:45:59.980 --> 00:46:03.539
really matters. The combat is just so easy and

00:46:03.539 --> 00:46:06.719
just boring. It's more of a chore than it is

00:46:06.719 --> 00:46:10.860
you figuring it out. you feeling accomplished

00:46:10.860 --> 00:46:16.340
that you figure it out it's so i probably wouldn't

00:46:16.340 --> 00:46:18.219
recommend it but like i said if you like the

00:46:18.219 --> 00:46:22.519
niche kind of like non -known shit sure try it

00:46:22.519 --> 00:46:28.280
out but it's not impressive in any way okay yeah

00:46:28.280 --> 00:46:31.360
i mean you know i actually think i did like enjoy

00:46:31.360 --> 00:46:35.420
this game i i like the idea that you're a reporter

00:46:35.420 --> 00:46:37.400
and you get to go to your office and you get

00:46:37.400 --> 00:46:38.960
these calls and you have to go out and investigate

00:46:38.960 --> 00:46:42.280
these things. It is true. It is a very simple

00:46:42.280 --> 00:46:44.159
game because you got to, like I said, you get

00:46:44.159 --> 00:46:46.639
into that loop, you go out, you fight the alien.

00:46:46.719 --> 00:46:48.840
Once you learn the combat, there's like no challenge

00:46:48.840 --> 00:46:51.820
to this game at all. But I don't know. There

00:46:51.820 --> 00:46:53.760
was just something I did like running around

00:46:53.760 --> 00:46:56.239
the town. And then once I found that map, I learned

00:46:56.239 --> 00:46:57.900
that you kind of actually had to use the map

00:46:57.900 --> 00:47:01.280
to play the game. I feel like it kind of made

00:47:01.280 --> 00:47:04.619
it a little bit more enjoyable. So, I don't know.

00:47:04.639 --> 00:47:08.260
I did like this game. There are some good aspects

00:47:08.260 --> 00:47:12.219
of this game. For sure, yeah. And I know in a

00:47:12.219 --> 00:47:14.559
couple of our past episodes, we bitched about

00:47:14.559 --> 00:47:18.340
how we like simple stuff. But there's a point

00:47:18.340 --> 00:47:21.099
to where it's too simple. Sure, yeah. And it

00:47:21.099 --> 00:47:24.900
just drags on, you know? Sure. Yeah, I mean,

00:47:24.960 --> 00:47:27.139
like I said, my biggest complaint with this game

00:47:27.139 --> 00:47:30.920
is how slow it is. It is far too slow. Yes. Yeah.

00:47:31.469 --> 00:47:34.050
But looking past that, I think I still did enjoy

00:47:34.050 --> 00:47:36.289
this game. You know what it is? You know what

00:47:36.289 --> 00:47:38.190
this game really reminds me of? It really reminds

00:47:38.190 --> 00:47:40.369
me of like these new PC games that try to like

00:47:40.369 --> 00:47:43.050
emulate like the old PS1 games. Like those ones

00:47:43.050 --> 00:47:46.010
are like homages to like the old PC one or PlayStation

00:47:46.010 --> 00:47:48.050
games. That's what this really reminds me of.

00:47:48.530 --> 00:47:50.349
I don't know. I think it's a really cool. They

00:47:50.349 --> 00:47:54.349
try to do so much like. I feel like the PlayStation

00:47:54.349 --> 00:47:56.250
was the first system that developers looked at

00:47:56.250 --> 00:47:58.269
and were like, we can do anything. There's no

00:47:58.269 --> 00:48:01.170
limitations. Because there's so many weird and

00:48:01.170 --> 00:48:03.809
esoteric games on this system. And this is definitely

00:48:03.809 --> 00:48:05.929
one that they looked at and were like, let's

00:48:05.929 --> 00:48:09.570
do this gigantic thing. And they definitely didn't

00:48:09.570 --> 00:48:12.829
finish it and they definitely didn't get exactly

00:48:12.829 --> 00:48:14.789
where they wanted to be. But it's cool to see

00:48:14.789 --> 00:48:18.969
that they at least tried. With all that being

00:48:18.969 --> 00:48:22.409
said, would I recommend this game? No, probably

00:48:22.409 --> 00:48:27.900
not. It's just too simple, and the controls are

00:48:27.900 --> 00:48:31.300
friggin' awful, and there's just so much you

00:48:31.300 --> 00:48:32.699
have to do. There's a lot of work you have to

00:48:32.699 --> 00:48:34.619
do to get into the game, and I just don't think

00:48:34.619 --> 00:48:37.460
it's worth it. So I wouldn't recommend it, but

00:48:37.460 --> 00:48:40.300
I did enjoy it. I didn't see that coming. I didn't

00:48:40.300 --> 00:48:41.840
see that coming. No? You thought I would recommend

00:48:41.840 --> 00:48:44.880
it? Is this the first game that you didn't recommend?

00:48:45.619 --> 00:48:48.099
I don't know. I'd have to look again. I don't

00:48:48.099 --> 00:48:51.840
think so, but... Okay. All right. Now to the

00:48:51.840 --> 00:48:54.260
person who picked the game, Jacob, what do you

00:48:54.260 --> 00:49:00.039
think? So I enjoyed aspects of this game, but

00:49:00.039 --> 00:49:03.539
overall I didn't really enjoy this game. As you

00:49:03.539 --> 00:49:07.820
guys said, it's very slow. The combat is just

00:49:07.820 --> 00:49:12.860
super simple. And the sense of direction kind

00:49:12.860 --> 00:49:16.579
of sucks. And there's cool things here, but only

00:49:16.579 --> 00:49:18.820
so much of it is fleshed out. Like, you know,

00:49:18.820 --> 00:49:21.679
why have such a big city? If there's only so

00:49:21.679 --> 00:49:28.320
much to do in it. It's bland, soggy, and hideous.

00:49:29.360 --> 00:49:39.119
I would not recommend it because of that. There's

00:49:39.119 --> 00:49:43.900
not really much to it. None of the stuff that

00:49:43.900 --> 00:49:51.119
it advertises is really that great. Kind of half...

00:49:51.119 --> 00:49:53.699
I don't want to say it's like half of a game,

00:49:53.800 --> 00:49:55.840
because there's definitely a game here, but it's...

00:49:55.840 --> 00:49:58.659
Again, there's always so much to it. There's

00:49:58.659 --> 00:50:02.420
not a lot of polish to it. Yeah. It was a very

00:50:02.420 --> 00:50:04.340
ambitious project that they just didn't quite

00:50:04.340 --> 00:50:10.119
complete, for sure. Get a hold of. I mean, a

00:50:10.119 --> 00:50:12.500
good portion of your gameplay is going to be

00:50:12.500 --> 00:50:17.099
walking. Slowly walking. Very slowly. And getting

00:50:17.099 --> 00:50:19.090
stuck on the sidewalk. And it's not going to

00:50:19.090 --> 00:50:21.329
be driving because driving is even worse. It's

00:50:21.329 --> 00:50:25.269
horrendous. You can increase your car speed in

00:50:25.269 --> 00:50:28.030
this game, but why? Yeah, you just run into the

00:50:28.030 --> 00:50:31.130
sidewalk more. All right, that's the final verdict.

00:50:31.449 --> 00:50:33.550
What do you, the gamers out there, think of this

00:50:33.550 --> 00:50:36.849
game? Let us know what you think. But now we're

00:50:36.849 --> 00:50:38.849
going to jump over to our next game, which we're

00:50:38.849 --> 00:50:41.469
going to be playing Sweet Home for the Famicom.

00:50:42.309 --> 00:50:46.309
Yet another Japanese -only survival horror game.

00:50:48.389 --> 00:50:51.070
It wasn't even playing, is the funny thing. It

00:50:51.070 --> 00:50:54.150
was. It was totally playing. It wasn't. Alright.

00:50:54.389 --> 00:50:57.250
Do you guys have any prior experience with this

00:50:57.250 --> 00:51:00.889
game? No. Nope. You guys don't know anything

00:51:00.889 --> 00:51:04.230
about this game? I mean, I know a little bit

00:51:04.230 --> 00:51:08.329
about it, but I haven't seen gameplay or anything

00:51:08.329 --> 00:51:11.610
like that. I just know this is a very big inspiration

00:51:11.610 --> 00:51:14.750
for Resident Evil. Yeah. I've actually played

00:51:14.750 --> 00:51:16.250
and beaten this game, so I know it pretty well.

00:51:16.860 --> 00:51:19.679
Oh, okay. But I'm looking forward to playing

00:51:19.679 --> 00:51:23.500
it again, so... Nice, okay. Let's take a look

00:51:23.500 --> 00:51:26.820
at the front of the art here. So we got big old

00:51:26.820 --> 00:51:35.300
Japanese hiragana here that says, uh... It's

00:51:35.300 --> 00:51:38.480
a Capcom game. And you got, like, a bunch of

00:51:38.480 --> 00:51:41.380
faces. Like, one's just screaming into the other

00:51:41.380 --> 00:51:46.429
there. One's gnashing his teeth back there. Yeah,

00:51:46.550 --> 00:51:49.949
yeah, yeah. Some guy's got an axe up here. It's

00:51:49.949 --> 00:51:53.050
pretty crazy looking. But it's in a border. I

00:51:53.050 --> 00:51:54.909
like how the border turns into dripping blood

00:51:54.909 --> 00:51:57.250
at the bottom. Yeah, it's pretty cool. It is

00:51:57.250 --> 00:51:59.929
definitely intriguing. I like how it says in

00:51:59.929 --> 00:52:06.230
big letters RPG right here. Yeah. This box, too,

00:52:06.309 --> 00:52:08.170
is supposed to be like a gold, like a shiny gold,

00:52:08.389 --> 00:52:10.789
which is pretty cool. I just noticed the dude

00:52:10.789 --> 00:52:13.889
with the glasses. I didn't even see that. He's

00:52:13.889 --> 00:52:17.230
got, like, 80s glasses on. I don't know. What's

00:52:17.230 --> 00:52:18.730
the dude in the bottom doing? He's, like, holding

00:52:18.730 --> 00:52:22.369
out, like, a C for Crips or something? I don't

00:52:22.369 --> 00:52:25.969
know what that is. He's got... It looks like

00:52:25.969 --> 00:52:28.429
a fucked up, like, Sphinx in the bottom middle

00:52:28.429 --> 00:52:31.010
or something. It looks weird. This is a very

00:52:31.010 --> 00:52:34.769
strange image, yeah. This is probably made before

00:52:34.769 --> 00:52:38.269
Photoshop, too, which is crazy. Alright. Let's

00:52:38.269 --> 00:52:40.650
go ahead and jump to the back of the box here.

00:52:41.030 --> 00:52:46.329
And the text is crudely translated. We got, How

00:52:46.329 --> 00:52:49.130
many will be able to escape? The cursed residents

00:52:49.130 --> 00:52:51.929
of Mamiya. Five people from the local TV station

00:52:51.929 --> 00:52:54.130
enter the long -time abandoned mansion in fear.

00:52:54.349 --> 00:52:57.570
The door closes. The ceiling collapses. The struggle

00:52:57.570 --> 00:53:00.610
to survive starts. Can they find the exit? How

00:53:00.610 --> 00:53:02.750
many of the five people make it out alive from

00:53:02.750 --> 00:53:05.429
the mansion? Sounds interesting. So do you play

00:53:05.429 --> 00:53:08.349
as five different people? Yes, you have five

00:53:08.349 --> 00:53:10.809
characters that you have to switch between. Wow.

00:53:11.710 --> 00:53:16.010
Hmm. And any of them can die at any moment. Nice.

00:53:16.210 --> 00:53:19.110
Damn. Yeah. I don't even know what the achievements

00:53:19.110 --> 00:53:21.210
are going to look like. It's just like until

00:53:21.210 --> 00:53:27.329
dawn. Hmm. Never heard of them. Okay. Who's dawn?

00:53:30.010 --> 00:53:33.730
Alright. But you only get two screenshots and

00:53:33.730 --> 00:53:35.960
they don't really show much of this game. What?

00:53:36.059 --> 00:53:38.920
Is that Mechagodzilla there? Yeah, it looks like

00:53:38.920 --> 00:53:44.320
it. What's the one you like? Oh, Rogan? Gigan?

00:53:44.760 --> 00:53:46.860
Oh, yeah, Gigan. It's a knight. No, that looks

00:53:46.860 --> 00:53:50.539
like Mechagodzilla. Mecha. It's a knight. Who's

00:53:50.539 --> 00:53:54.840
a knight? Yeah. Mecha Knight? Meta Knight? Nah.

00:53:56.780 --> 00:53:59.780
Alright. I think it's time to end this podcast.

00:53:59.960 --> 00:54:04.840
What do you think? Yeah. I mean... I honestly,

00:54:05.000 --> 00:54:07.679
this is probably one of like the only RPGs I

00:54:07.679 --> 00:54:10.679
was interested in. Yeah. Okay. Cause I'm just

00:54:10.679 --> 00:54:14.219
not a big RPG guy, but I, I do want to see where

00:54:14.219 --> 00:54:17.780
resident evil got their inspiration from. And

00:54:17.780 --> 00:54:21.199
it's this, it's kind of reminded me of splatter

00:54:21.199 --> 00:54:24.039
house a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. Just of like

00:54:24.039 --> 00:54:27.000
the design and stuff and everything design, like

00:54:27.000 --> 00:54:31.119
eerie in like a house, you know, inside setting.

00:54:31.320 --> 00:54:34.349
So I'm actually pretty, intrigued to play this

00:54:34.349 --> 00:54:37.510
game all right yeah i'm i'm excited to play it

00:54:37.510 --> 00:54:40.050
again um i think i've the first time i played

00:54:40.050 --> 00:54:41.829
through this i used a guy the entire time so

00:54:41.829 --> 00:54:43.550
this time i think i'm just gonna go blind and

00:54:43.550 --> 00:54:46.630
see if see how far i can get again so is this

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game difficult kind of i mean the hard part is

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just like trying to keep everyone alive but i

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don't know i think i think you guys will like

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it so we'll see but all right Let us know, you

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gamers out there, if you guys are excited, what

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experience you have with this game. Otherwise,

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we'll see you for the next one. Peace. Peace

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out. Say goodbye, Eric. See you guys.