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what's up and welcome to the Single Player Experience.

As always, I'm your host, Sebastian Malden, and you probably saw this in

the description or the title of the episode, but this episode's gonna

be a bit different than the norm.

So recently I was a guest on the X Button Podcast, a really dope

podcast that you should check out featuring Paul and Alejandro, where

they talk about the gaming news that you need to know about, and they do

deep dives into video game review.

So in that episode, the three of us dove into the recent Nintendo Direct.

We gave our impressions, the good, the bad, and everything in between, and what

had us hype about that Nintendo Direct.

So Alejandro and Paul were nice enough to let me post that episode

on the Single Player Experience Podcast, and that's what you're

about to hear right after the intro.

DJ start the intro.

Mine.

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to a new episode of the

X Bottom Season three, episode five.

I'm your host, Alejandro.

With me is the 6.5 giant teddy bird defect.

Paul.

Hey

everybody.

How's it going?

How you doing, Paul?

6.5.

. Yeah, . Oh man.

Uh, what's, what's going on today?

Aandra?

What feels like we got a lot to cover.

We got our, our friend that we teased already that was

gonna be next week to talk about a certain game that came out this week.

Uh, we got him in earlier because he reacted with us.

Uh, thankfully.

Thanks for timing to the Nintendo React, Sebastian from the, um,

single Player Experience podcast.

How you doing Sebastian?

I'm

fine, I'm fine.

Thank You'all for having me on.

Always a pleasure to be on this show.

And also a pleasure to just react to all this like video game goodness with y'all.

Oh yes.

So quite an antenna direct, I would say.

It is like one that initially I was like, I'm not sure about this.

Then they hit me right in the nostalgia fields.

And then they showed a little bit more.

They played dirty.

Yeah, they played dirty and then they showed a little bit more of

that, uh, breath of the wild sequel.

But I would say it was for, I wasn't expecting anything after

getting my hopes up in the last one.

So, and we talked about this at the earlier in the show, Paul, I would say

it turned out better considering we were a little, like not expecting much

. Paul: So we, we've really lowered

And it's kind of a shame that setting our expectations low is the only way to

feel happy in this, uh, kind of industry.

But mm-hmm.

, here we are.

And we're gonna take joy wherever we can get it,

so.

Oh, absolutely.

So now we're moving into the news.

So Paul press x press for

some

news.

All right.

So yeah, we just sat an Nintendo Direct and I have, uh, the, uh, Thank

you Warrior 64 for taking on the role of the Nian left in the boys.

Oh, true.

So I'm gonna kind of like read, just like, just basically recap.

We're gonna cut the first two stories, Paul.

We're just gonna make it Nintendo centric today.

Cool.

So, so just like real quick, uh, Howard's legacy broke at 1.2 million,

like concurrent like abuse on Twitch, which is insane for a game

that everyone wants to boycott.

And the kingdom hearts, uh, soundtracks are now on Spotify.

Those were the first few news.

So now we're, uh, it's all Nintendo stuff from here, from here on out.

So, uh, the Nintendo, right, just real quick.

The games that they were, that were showed here, at least from what War 64 got in,

uh, is we started out with Pickman for that is coming out on July 21st, 2023.

Then they showed us a scene, noble Chronicles Street expansion.

That volume three of the DLC is gonna come out on, uh, and it's

gonna be available on February 15th.

So that is the first thing from the first half for, uh, the stuff that

Nintendo was promised, this was gonna be a first half, uh, direct.

It felt like it was more 2023 in general, so they're like a little bit

there, but yeah, that's coming there.

Then they, uh, they showed somebody Amigo Party Central.

That's a game from like Sega for like Moras and dancing rhythm

that's coming out on summer 2023.

DEOs Cast DLC that we heard, uh, was announced back at the Game Awards got a

date for March 6th, so that's real soon.

Then, uh, we got Fashion Dreamer that it's just out this year for

everyone that loves fashion games.

You have that.

Around that time we got Sebastian to join in our Reacts, which you'll

eventually see see live eventually there.

And um, and then they announced that Ghost Streak, which is out this summer.

Uh, this is like, uh, that weird sort of detective game that, or that I think

Paul you mentioned was like, uh, Phoenix.

Right?

When it,

when it was, yeah.

A spinoff directly or if it was like the, a similar team.

I couldn't remember, but there was some kind of crossover

between the two at one point.

Yeah.

Then, uh, Toronto Identity, uh, out on Switch.

That was the Mike Bethel game.

We, we saw back at the Disney, at the Disney Showcase, uh, Beckett

Police from developer level five.

That game that I, I thought it looked initially like, um, ASL chain because

it was like with the cops, but it was like the game that y'all mentioned

in the ua, like both a persona.

and, uh, and the tails and, and a tail and a tails game.

That's also just a 2023 game.

Then, uh, split tune three, the expansion passed.

That includes two waves of new content.

Wave one is in Enco in en couples, and it's out on spring 2023.

And then wave two will be, uh, something called the side order, which is,

they didn't date, but we know that is gonna be coming whenever that happens.

Uh, Disney EU Island, again, that looks like, uh, Raymond, Raymond

Legends from, from your US up.

Got a date July 28th.

So then after that we got the announcement of the Fire emblem engaged expansion

passed Wave two that is also out today.

Then, uh, Harmon Lee, the fall of Revere the Game from Donno that had like a

cool art style that, that, that was the first thing actually in our, in our

reacts that Sebastian said was the first thing that actually looked interesting

and cool and new from like, the things that we were seeing at the time.

Then, uh, they announced that the octopus traveler to demos out today

and, uh, Save that is gonna transfer to a full game like SCO has been doing

with everything except for spoken.

So Sea of Stars also announced with a demo out today.

Comes out on the demo?

Yeah, comes out on, they were just probably saying it.

We didn't see the demo out today.

They were a bunch of stuff that they were mentioning.

So that's out on August 29th.

So another thing from the second half will up Kaari Reroll,

uh, Royal Re out on June 2nd.

So what this tells me is that they were just saying the days without putting

the slogans there . So, because that was another one that just transitioned in

the, in the direct, yeah, that's right.

Then Etri and Odyssey Origins collection, that con that contains the first three

ET and Odyssey, uh, Odyssey Games from Atlas comes out on June 1st.

Good luck with that.

With, uh, Diablo, literally around the corner there.

Uh, advanced Wars finally coming out on April 21st.

Sebastian was opening, was gonna be like, uh, the day of drop.

They decided to do that with another game . So Kirby returned to Dreamland Deluxe, uh,

they, uh, announced the Magor Epoch, which is like an at the, an add-on too that

they're doing for this deluxe edition.

The demos also out today after this direct, and that game

comes out on February 24th.

Then to me the big one was that Game Boy was confirmed for Switch Online.

It was, it includes games like Tetris, super Mario Land two links, awakening DX

Gargo Quest Game and Watch Gallery three alone in the Dark and Nightmare Metro Two

Wire Land Three and Kirby's Dreamland.

And they all will have either GameBoy Game of Pocket or GameBoy Color filters.

And they also announce that if you have the expansion pack, you're going

to get game advanced games, including Super Mario Advanced four, which is

uh, Mario Myer three Warrior War Inc.

Rin Mario Card, super Circuit, Mario, Mario, Luigi Superstar Saga and Sell

Diminish Cap Plus a bunch of other games are coming later, including my beloved.

Metro Fusion.

Then the greatest announcement of all time happened, Metro

Prime is actually happening.

It's coming as a remaster to the switch today as a, as the, uh, as a shadow drop.

And it's the Sebastian to it's 40 bucks, so not $60.

A game

and physical version available on February 22nd.

Yes.

Mm-hmm.

. And uh, then they announced Rain Code, which is the game from the Rappa people.

That was at the detective game.

Yeah.

Yeah.

They gave it a date for June 30, yeah, for June 30th.

That was also announced last direct.

They just now they put a date and Bannon Catos one and two, HD E Master,

these were RPGs from the band named Manko that were like in the cubes.

Those are also coming this year on, available on summer 2023.

Fantasy Life Eye, the game that look like, uh, animal Crossing Whistle

Cellar is coming also in 2023.

We can move on from that.

Professor Laden's coming back, which as our friend Sebastian noted, uh, noted

in our reacts, uh, that's, uh, they used to be like a, eShop game that no

longer, that's no longer available.

Mm-hmm.

. Now Professor LA is gonna be available like on switch.

I don't know if this is like a new game or Yeah, this is like a new,

new installment.

This looks like a new installment to the press Professor Layton like series.

Yeah.

So maybe eventually they remastered the old ones.

Then um, Mario Card Aid.

Wait for the D L C, you still have the expansion pack.

You get this Ford DLC for free as far as your subscription.

And then they made a, a bunch of montage of games like including,

uh, games like Minecraft Legends.

That's out on April 18th, the Gamelan.

That's out on February 14th.

Uh, mega and Battle Network Collection, that's out on April 14th, 2023.

Uh, Sebastian's number 10, uh, most anticipated game of the year.

Have a nice death coming out on March 22nd, 2023.

Then, uh, the baseball game.

W B S C E, baseball Power Bros.

Also another shadow drop for today.

Uh, 99 cents.

Yeah, . So 99

cents.

Not a lot.

I'm looking at it right now.

At the E Doors.

Dotty Don Suit.

That's amazing.

, I don't know how you made a direct as the 99 cent game, but shout out to y'all.

Yeah.

Uh, Disney Dream, uh, the Disney Dream Light

B gets a new REM update.

They announcement for April, 2023.

That's gonna be obviously for our platforms.

Tales of Syon.

Mastered item February 17th, 2023.

And then we got more clips for that, for, for sel, the Tears of the Kingdom.

And that game is, that's a small indie game named Sel . That's what that,

that, that just kind of like that.

You just throw it out there at the, at, at the very end.

Just like now Lake will be able to like drive cars and like

a freaking, uh, what's the.

Ship hover like a, like a hovercraft, so.

Mm-hmm.

, Paul: I mean, they put a

game, so Yeah, that's true.

Anything's

possible now.

Oh yeah.

As a dlc.

Do you need to as a DLC for that?

Um, wasn't that free or am I crazy?

No, I think that

was part of the expansion, expansion pass.

You're right.

Mm-hmm.

, you're right.

Uh, but

yeah, shoot.

Yeah.

And, uh, and yeah, and, uh, this would be a story for later that we're gonna

gonna read because this was from U PPG C and the attempt to briefly list

the SOAR of the kingdom for $70 in the shop, we can confirm that it's

actually $70, so that hurts my heart.

Yeah.

So, top level thoughts.

Why were your thoughts on this data direct?

Uh, Sebastian, you're, I'm gonna be honest

with you.

Like I, uh, I like aspects.

I like how mm-hmm.

for a Nintendo fan, there's a little something for everyone.

Mm-hmm.

. I am a little disappointed in the sense.

90% of this direct, and I kid you not, I'm li when you were listening, add it out.

I was like, I was checking off the boxes.

Mm-hmm.

, 90% of these games are older games.

Mm-hmm.

, like, where they're just remastered or ports and I'm like, I, I think

that's fun and fine for the people who wanna read live nost like

games for nostalgia purposes.

But I ultimately like, It, it sort of fuels that narrative that's

sort of been popping up every now and then of like, how are we gonna

remember this switch generation?

Like, whereas like when you look at the Game Cube, but when you look at like

the Game Cube, then the, the Game Boy, the Game Boy Advance include the 64.

Those games were packed full of games that when you l like, where you kind of

like get excited to hear about like, oh, game Cube games are gonna get be reported.

Oh, game Boy games are gonna be poured over when we have like two generations

from now when they're saying, Hey, we have a switch, like the switch

games come into the online service.

What games are we gonna be really excited about?

And I'm, you know, like this direct sort of mirrors that kind of narrative

of like, where are the new games?

Mm-hmm.

, you know, and I, I think this is a good direct, but I do kind of miss

that new, new aspect from it, you

know?

Yeah, I can, I can see that.

Uh, how about you, Paul?

I think, um hmm.

I balance this weird knife sedge between.

Terrible cynicism and, uh, ignoring all the bad sides.

Mm-hmm.

for the sake of ide uh, idealism.

And this kind of has me in this weird middle ground right now, because on

one hand it's got all of the earmarks for things that I'm like, I like that.

That sounds good.

And then if you have any sort of knowledge about like, where Nintendo is in general,

it almost sours everything about you because on the service level, you're

like, that's the thing I recognize.

That makes me excited.

I'll spend money on that.

That's the whole point of what they want to do.

Mm-hmm.

, because they don't either have anything or they refuse to release

new things for the sake of.

Printing money on old things that they hold hostage so that the tech

literally moves further than you can literally play the game that you

liked, to force you to buy it again.

And on that side, it's like that is really scummy and terrible practice.

Uh, the fact that it works is like disappointing to no end.

Um, and then whenever it hits that specific button that you get excited

for, you feel almost bad that you're excited for it, you know?

Mm-hmm.

and it's like, Like, you are not immune to propaganda.

It's, it's really just that in the end.

And, uh, it's a real shame that there's always that one thing in

each of us that it's like, I will cave for that specific thing.

Mm-hmm.

, and I know it, and I hate it about that.

And it almost like makes me not want to enjoy the things that

they make at a certain point.

Because I mean, that's like, you can't, you have to vote

with your wallet, you know?

Mm-hmm.

, um, in the end because they're not gonna listen to anything else.

But, um, then it's like, it's inevitable that you're going to

cave for something in the end.

So I kind of find myself just kind of trapped here, you know,

Yeah.

Yeah.

My thing is that, uh, with Nintendo has always been the thing that

to me, they, they're always gonna be like my nostalgia box.

I have just come to realize that from them, that they do announce new

stuff, like fairly o often not from their own, like not, not from like

their own developers, but sometimes with the partnerships that they do.

and none of that really ever speaks to me, obviously, because Nintendo's

my, it is not my primary box.

We have a, as Sebastian, we have a fellow friend with me, between

me and Paul, his name is Parker.

Uh, he goes by, he, he goes on due to by the name it's j o k and also by on Twitch.

He is a big Nintendo fan.

Like he actually like, tries to play almost everything that Nintendo does.

Like that he actually makes that his primary system in a way

that I can't imagine ever doing.

So I can imagine a lot of the stuff announced here would be like, Hey,

they're giving them something to eat.

And to be fair with Nintendos, like when, uh, me and Paul did our year end

review of, of 2022 for like all the three my manufacturers, we read the

games that they released and n intend released a bunch of stuff in 20, in 2022.

It was just not stuff that spoke to us.

So I always try to re uh, remove myself from that and, but it's just

so funny that it's rare that I get excited about anything new from them.

It's been a while since that has happened.

. In fact, I think the last time I got excited about something

from I was Luis Management three.

Mm-hmm.

. So can you imagine like how long, how long ago that was?

So, and also me being like I play, I played the bit like I know Zelda of the

wildest, like this really amazing game that revolutionized at some open world

design and all that I get, I think I, I get sick of my butt with all people

calling it the greatest game of all time.

I just, because I just disagree with that and I like, I like probably

being in the other side because I just don't feel that way, but mm-hmm.

that to me is sort of exciting because to me that breath of Dewal is still the best

game I played on the Switch, so, . Yeah.

Even though now we got the confirmation that's gonna be $10 more expensive

and what that could mean for like Nintendo games going forward.

To me, just the fact that they hit me in the things that I wanted out of it.

It's like G B A being the g B A library being brought in.

Imagine whenever, like they shock people.

It's like Pokemon, gold, silver, yellow, all of those are gonna be there

in the in, in the, in the service.

Me, they got me with Metro Fusion's coming soon.

I want like, my favorite GameBoy advanced game of all time.

Metro Prime, like it being shadow up today and me like singing the praises of

the Prime series and being so like Crest falling, it, being stuck in Game Cube is

like, those are the things that that's gets me excited about from a new stuff.

I get your perspective, Sebastian, like it's like.

It's crazy.

It feels like we got all the new stuff at the front, at the front end of the

switch, and now like they have been coasting by under success since then.

And if this reinforces that, so,

yeah.

Uh, let me ask you a question.

And I like both of y'all, and I don't mean to be like cynical.

Um, I don't want No, be the

cynical No, be the cynical.

We have to balance this house.

Usually it's Alejandro being the cynical one too, so that's really

nice.

. I, you know, um, I don't, I don't want to be that way, but like, I wanna ask

you, so if this was PlayStation putting out this, putting out this level of

um, let's say their state of play to where like they had majority, 90%

of the games were remastered games.

Mm-hmm.

or ports, and then they just ended it with say, I'm a use

God award three for an example.

Mm-hmm.

, like, let's say they announced, uh, sequel to Ragner Rock.

Mm-hmm.

. Do you think that, I feel like the discourse would be a lot more heated

than what it would be for this direct

Yeah.

To be for you get what I mean?

Yeah.

To be fair to that, like we have to like remember also the early years of the ps4.

Mm-hmm.

, a lot of remastered also.

And a lot of people were critical toward, toward, towards them.

Also around that time because it's like, we're we basically

just getting your old crap again?

Like where is like the new, where is the new crap?

To be fair to them, like in the plays, uh, for ERA for example, a lot of those games,

like we got them late because they didn't know the PS4 was gonna hit everyone.

If you remember when we got into that generation, the, we was a disaster.

Everyone was like, uh, all the, uh, console, like consoles, gaming is dying.

Look how the, we use like bombing.

It's like the PS4 and the Xbox and whatever the next Xbox is is gonna

come out and no one's gonna buy them.

It's all gonna be mobile.

And then those consoles like shocked everyone be like,

no, people want consoles.

Crap.

We gotta make games now.

So that's why the 20 16, 20 17 era onwards from that generation

was so good because they.

they, they really nail like they, they got remasters to kind of like caution

them to, before we got the new stuff and eventually we got the new stuff.

Nten has been the opposite.

We got the new stuff at the beginning.

Now they're just cushioning us with old stuff and it's later half.

And around the time that we know that they're being so successful, that makes

it, they feel like Nintendo's just kind of coasting on their success and just

don't really care because they know everyone just got, wants to buy them.

And they had the benefit that out of D three they got everyone buy the

balls with the nostalgia that they can get, that they can get you in a way.

I don't think PlayStation can, if this was a safe play for them

and it was just remaster stuff.

It would, I think in the other side, because Sony conditions, people with

new stuff, they would get criticized.

Oh yeah, they get like beat to hell and back.

But you, I'm like, but you know, like PlayStation now is starting to like

have that portfolio to where like they can also like milk that nostalgia.

I don't want them to, because you know mm-hmm.

like I, I like news New is like, I wanna see we're gonna get

a horizon remake for some reason.

Then it's just five years old.

It's like, and people cr rightly have criticized them for it.

People like, yeah.

It wasn't until part one came out and they were like, OkaySo was part one.

Maybe it wasn't necessary, but it was actually really good of what

they ended up doing with that ga with that version of the game.

You can even attest to that, Paul, you are not excited until you actually had

your hands be like, oh, I can play ramble.

Like I did part two.

Like, you are like doing it.

It's like, yeah, okay.

You couldn't do that in the original.

It's like they in the end justified it even though it was hard.

It's just that it feels like they're not treading in, uh, if they're bringing

stuff back, they're doing it in a way that makes them really feel new.

Like when you think, think of like the, the PS two era, one of the

most successful eras of gaming of all time, you know, like that has a catalog

that I would say it, it goes toe to toe with almost every Nintendo catalog

of, of like, if you were to pick like the Game Boy catalog versus the PS two

catalog, there's a argument on, you know, like they're, they're tit for tat so

to speak, but you don't see PlayStation like going to that well of saying like,

Hey, we're going to just like lean on nostalgia to carry us, you know?

Mm-hmm.

and I, again, I like this direct, I think this direct was really good and

it had a lot of things going for it.

I just, I, I, I want to point out though that there is like, I wish they

would've leaned closer and a little bit harder towards like, giving us some

new stuff to where it validates like, Hey, you, the, you should have the

switch because this is the only place you can get these new fresh games.

Versus like, half those games are gonna be steam day games.

No.

Uh, I think that that's, that's kind of the point I was hitting that.

Yeah.

And usually that's how we see an intend to direct in a way that

sometimes I see what I'm gonna be eating on my own systems, because a bunch of

those games can sometimes also overlap that can come with the, in the systems

that we actually are invested in.

So like when we saw Chain

decos, for instance.

Mm-hmm.

, Alehandro: that was, that

No, that was gonna be on Game Pass.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

. Sebastion: So Paul, what had you

Mm-hmm.

, uh,

His number four game of the year, his number four

Most anticipated game probably.

But at

the same time, I think I've just like, I've cooled off so much, I just

want tears of the king to come out.

Just just

do.

I feel you're in the point how you've been hearing it for a while.

It's been like four years now.

Yeah, even close to five.

And now

I have so many other games that are doing the cool things that I wanted out

of a sequel to Breath of the Wild now.

Mm-hmm.

that I'm like, well, I mean, I hope it's gonna do the things

that we were hoping for.

I wanted to continue the story.

I wanted to give me more cool ways to break the game and the world.

Mm-hmm.

and just find myself lost in it.

But now they have so many quality of life changes in other games that are modern,

that it's like, are we going to step back in when tears of the Kingdom comes out?

And I'm gonna have to just deal with that now.

I will say, uh, Sebastian, you probably would agree with me with this.

Some parts of that trailer absolutely look like part of the wild D l C.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It does.

It looks like more breath of the wild.

But I mean, I, I think the, the curious thing is like, how does Breath

of the wild look and feel to a lot of gamers after, after Eldering.

Mm-hmm.

. Yeah.

I, and I, I kind of, I wouldn't say I specifically didn't go back to Breath

of the Wild after Eldon Ring came out.

It was just one of those, I don't feel like bringing my switch out and

dealing with all of that process.

Mm-hmm.

, because like, one of the things, it's gonna sound dumb, but like,

uh, the fact that you can't take your horse with you wherever you go,

and if you fashion, you should get too far.

You just have to play.

You're

on your own.

Best of

luck to you.

I did, uh, before we recorded our top 10 most anticipated games around that

time, uh, I did try Breath of the while a little bit because I was testing that

doc that I was telling you Paul on the tv.

There I was and just wanted to see it.

And the annoyances of that game is like that, that, that to me

is like, what grinds me more.

Like when people call it the greatest thing ever, it's like, man, so people like

their weapons breaking, they like their, the, the, their rain constantly happening.

So then when you're like climbing, you're like sliding down the horse thing.

It literally, that was my last thing that I did before we recorded the horse thing.

Uh, I

do like, I want to like clarify it though because some people really, really

do like the survival elements of that.

I mean, there's why, there's a reason why the weird survival, uh, bubble didn't pop.

Mm-hmm.

for many of them.

And you got Anaheim, you got your rust, you've got your arc and it's like that's

what people love about it and people really love those survival aspects.

Put into legend Zelda cuz one, that was what was popular when the wild came out.

Mm-hmm.

now and two, it's like it added this level of

things and Yeah.

And I feel sel up being sel, that's what got people into embracing survival stuff.

Like, I feel like N ip, like we talk about a lot about this Paul, something

like you, not like genres, but a genre.

A genre you don't like being put like on an IP that you actually do like,

it's what sometimes make you trash in because you just love that world.

It's palatable.

So,

. Paul: Maybe that's what happened on that.

Sometimes it doesn't.

But yeah, I think that's exactly what happens.

And I think that's why stuff really succeeded after the fact.

Cause it primed people to be more okay with those gameplay choices.

And I think it's one of those, like you can make the best apple pie in

the world, but you're gonna find somebody who doesn't like apple pie.

Mm-hmm.

. And I think that's what happened here, where it's like Legend Zelda did a really

great job adding its survival elements, but then you have a lot of people

that really don't like survival games.

Mm-hmm.

saying, wait, this game isn't all that good because of those reasons

that a lot of other people like it.

I'm, I'm on the former where I'm like, I don't like survival

elements really at all.

And I think it took me until breath a while to be like, yeah,

no, I don't like that concept.

And since, because I then I tried playing survival

games outside of breath of the while and I didn't like them.

And so, I think it, it, it, it proves that.

It proves that.

Correct.

But hey, we're gonna have such a, by May 12th, we're gonna

see all the 10 outta tens.

We're gonna see all the people calling you the greatest things in sliced bread.

And I'm already bracing myself . So, but I also can't wait to play it.

It is my, what was my eighth, ninth, most anticipated game of

this year, because I'd really wanna see it and see if they fix things.

So, so real quick, like, just to kind of remain here in the, in the

Nintendo news, I'm gonna read a few from that were that, that we're

also gonna talk about Paul here.

So we hinted at this, at the, um, at our reacts that we recorded.

Uh, so the first story I wanna read from like BGC by Andy

Robinson was Nintendos racing.

Its employees based.

By 10%.

In Japan, the decision follows, calls by Prime Minister FU KK for Japanese

companies to pay workers more.

As inflation takes hold in the economy, rotor reports, it's important for

long-term growth to secure our workforce.

Nintendo President Shinwa earnings briefings.

Reuters knows that for Japanese companies that can afford to do so, higher

salaries help attract talent in a country where a following birth rate and low

immigration have led to labor shortages.

So this was the first thing that popped up this week, which was interesting that

we heard that news because immediately after we got S story number two, Paul,

it was Nintendo stock price dropped 7.5% after latest financial results.

The company lower sales targets and set exchange rates were partly

to blame for a decline and profit.

The company's Tokyo Stock Exchange price dropped from.

Thousand 624 down to 5,000 200 201 Yen.

Its biggest drop in over a year.

The drop put intend to share price back to roughly where it was in January, 2022

when it dropped to 5,192 Yen and suggests a negative reaction to the publication

of Nintendos latest financial resort.

Results on Tuesday in its results for denying first nine

months of fiscal year 2023.

Nintendo said its net sales were down 1.9% at at 1,295 billion Jan, which is

9.9 billion in dollars if you wanna know.

And net profit was down 5.8% at 346.2 billion.

Jan.

To 2.6 billion.

The companies have fluctuations in foreign exchange markets, had had contributed

to sales and profits declining despite strong sales of switch games and hardware.

And, uh, then a third story real quick that, that, just to add to that, Nintendo

says it's not planning switch price cuts.

As this console business enters uncharted territory company plans to

grow, switch 122 million installed base with new and classic titles.

A story by Tom Ivan, also from bdc, the company announced this week.

Switch shipments had reached 122.55 million units as of December, 2022

f e, only better by its intended as handhold 154.02 million units, and

Sony's PlayStation two 155 million.

However, Nintendo also said it now expects switch Harbor sales for the

current fiscal year ending in March to total 18 million down from 23 million

units a year earlier, and 28.8 million a year before that given the downward

trend as switch prepares to enter his seventh year in the market in March.

During a financial results briefing this week, Nintendo was as wide

as vision for the future lifecycle of the console is in his response.

Nten, uh, Nintendo President Shinara for Kawa admitted it will be tough to

continue selling the console at previous levels, but the price cuts are in a

solution is currently considering.

We believe that we are now entering on target territory within our dedicated

game console business, he said translated by BBC contributor Robertson.

Within this environment, it will not be easy to sell hardware

at the same pace as before.

As a result, we realized that our new challenge will be convincing consumers

who are considering new purchases, replacement purchases, or additional

purchases to pick up the Nintendo Switch with a company yet to announce

the switch successor for a Kawa said Nintendo aims to grow the console's

user base by continuing to support it with both new and classic games.

Regarding hardware, we believe that there will be opportunities for new

customers to purchase or products by proposing both new and classic titles.

So

it's.

And this chicken's kind of dry.

Yeah.

. . Sebastion: So, um, I was just gonna

You've been reading

this.

Yeah.

. Paul: Yeah.

So in, in the end, um, there's a lot of Nintendo stuff going on.

Basically with the weird timeline between them, clearly planning all of

these quick things out between the, Hey, we're gonna raise everything.

Mm-hmm.

, uh, for the employees base salaries followed quickly by revealing their

financials and dropping 7.5% mm-hmm.

, and then raising the price of something like tier of the kingdom

and claiming that they're not cutting the price of the switch.

It is just like a weird domino effect outta all this stuff

that was clearly planned up.

And yes,

you know what this feels to me, you know what this feels to me?

They're holding onto dear life to, to the switch.

It's like, it is, like, it feels like a boat that may have got hit by a bullet.

It is like, it's still like going by.

It may be sinking a little bit.

It's still, but it still will make it to the destination.

They don't feel they have to panic yet.

It kind of strikes me as like a goose that lays the golden egg

thing where like they don't quite understand what made the switch so

good that they're so afraid of moving on, that they're worried of another.

We use situation mm-hmm.

where like they think they understood what made the we do really well.

And then so they made the weu and then it freaking crashed and burned and they're

like, oh God, what, what's going on?

What do we do?

And then they just threw everything together and then put out the switch and

was like, oh wait, we did good again.

Yay.

Mm-hmm.

no better than we ever done

. Paul: Um, yeah.

So I, I think they're worried about losing the lightning in the bottle that

they have with the switch, that even though the power is so low on it that

they don't even want to touch it because they're afraid it's gonna fall apart,

not work anymore.

Yeah.

Here's also was interesting.

The Switch has never received a Paris cut ever.

It has been a 299 consult since this came out on March, 2017.

The price cut, quote unquote, was getting switched light.

The 1 99 Burch on 2019, I think it was.

Yeah.

And obviously we got the old that that's 349, so that one's

a little bit more expensive, but it's basically the same machine.

It's like, I feel at this point, it's like it's just such a profit driver for

them that even as everything is just being inflated, that they feel like it has given

them so much profit before that that still is not gonna cut so much into a profit.

So they can't afford to keep it there, even though they have a

console competitor in the Excel series as being in the same price.

and I,

I think the real competitors that Steam deck.

Yeah.

I don't think they even think about Xbox.

Mm-hmm.

, so to speak.

Mm-hmm.

, I, I think they look at that steam deck and being like, Hey, that

does the exact same thing we do.

It's only a, it's only $100 cheaper and mm-hmm.

, quite frankly, it's taking the indie market away from us, so to speak.

It's not, you know, taking into the thing on

Steam.

Not just you're all

games.

Like you're all games.

And, and the thing is that the, because people tend to forget the Steam deck

because they had that soft launch last February because it was like, sign on

to pro, eventually you will get it in Waves and all that ad everyone that

plays the steam deck freaking loves it.

Mm-hmm.

because it's like, that is the Switch Pro.

That is what people have been wanting like seven, like six, seven

years after this thing came in.

The idea of like a powerful thing where you can play fallen order

on the go or God of war on the go, because those games were on pc.

It's like they, uh, I feel like right now they, they are, the intent

is still in their ivory tower, but.

Depending on how Valve handles steam deck going forward, I'm glad that

I always see Steam Deck verified.

in a bunch of, like pc, I don't know if you see it at Sebastian, that so many

games likes a PC version, and eventually they're like steamed deck verified.

Yeah.

Like Hogwarts legacy for instance.

Mm-hmm.

It's, yeah, it's one of those things to where I'm like the market though.

It's like everything is leaning up against Nintendo in the market and where, like

the io um, the IO portable devices also like a low key competitor, even though

it's priced extremely high at this point.

Like that one, the one X player, which is another steam deck

alternative, which just hit the market.

The, um, G P B um, win four, which is like another, it's like

a sidekick, kind of like vita, but it's also playing PC games at the,

at this point I'm like, there's so.

There's so many competitors that are entering into that, that portable space

that they're not the only game in town.

But, um, before we like, go on mm-hmm.

I wanted to say like, everyone is facing this e uh, this economic

difficulty as far as like where we're at in, in the, in the economic state.

It's just the way these companies are reacting are kind of telling us like

how either one, how well run they are, or two, how customer focused they are.

Mm-hmm.

And I th I hate to say this and you know, cuz I've been a little negative

on this show, but like, this Nintendo's given me a little bit of, of Netflix

vibes right now to where like mm-hmm.

They're making anti customer friendly moves to where the blowback is, like

the blowback substantial and people are upset about the way they, they're

I implementing these new, new phases.

Yeah.

And I think you can attribute a hundred percent to the price increase of, of

tears of the kingdom is like mm-hmm.

because there's just no way that you can look at that game.

Like from.

, if you wanna compare objectively with its, uh, quality.

Some people say like, what sell, sell as a video game is better

than everything else in the market.

But it's like when you look at other games that are in that price point that

looks so much exponentially better, run better, it is like, it's a harder,

it's gonna be like a harder sell.

And then, and they know they can get away with it because Nintendo, uh,

if something has proven Nintendo, anything, this generation is

that they have pushed the balls.

So they, they, they keep like pushing the ball on how far can we

get away with this kind of things.

To me, the big one was like, it started with the Skyward Sword Avo, that lot

behind fast travel, like 25 bucks.

And I don't know if you remember Paul, I went on a whole Tyre and I had to like,

go back and forth with our friend Parker.

I don't think I could forget.

Yeah, . It was, it was a, it was a heated moment in our chat because.

Uh, because, and that, that shows me, it's like so many people

are going to bat for Nintendo.

They defend everything.

Then to me, the other one was, uh, the $35 increase.

The $35 increase for the Nintendo Switch online.

For the, yeah, for the, for the expansion pass.

Uh,

yeah.

And then the, the three Mario games where they released a Mario collection mm-hmm.

Until like March

31st.

March 31st.

And then they removed

it.

Yeah.

And I mean, and also charge full price for that.

Mm-hmm.

And you know, like that, that to me seems rather steep for a

game that's just poured over,

so to speak.

And not only that, with like that, that, that's one of like the most low

effort re masters in recent memory.

That, that three collection, like

no improvements at all.

No.

Mario Sunshine at least got put in wide screen and 10 80 p.

But that was just, they were just like up presses.

That's, that's just what they are.

The games were exactly the same, but they were charging 60 bucks.

The find metric is 40 is actually kind of surprising.

Because I could have sworn it was gonna be like a $60 game just based on prior.

I, I think with the all the bad news today, I don't think they

thought they could got get away with 16.

Yeah.

. I, I, you know, it's just cuz it was hit after hit after hit after hit.

Mm-hmm.

. And, you know, like, they didn't say anything about any

of the bad news in the direct.

They're like, hey, we'll like foreshadow that in the, the

times to come because they didn't want the pr like candle of Yeah.

Hey, like, hey, our games are gonna be $70 now.

And, and we saw with High-Fi Ra, uh, just a week or two ago.

How long ago was the developer direct?

Was it like two weeks ago?

So it, it

feels like a month ago now, but yeah.

. Yeah.

What was saying Paul?

Yeah.

No, I was like, I think it was a week, but yeah.

No, it was

like, it was probably two.

Yeah, it was probably two.

Yeah.

Uh, a Shadow drop does so much to like, earn your, like so much so good

will and so it felt manufacturing.

It's like we're, man, we're, we're shadow dropping the metric.

Prime one of the greatest games we've ever made.

Like nine right now, and it's gonna, it's not gonna be the price.

We usually is bad.

Hey, we're like raising the prices over here.

That's gonna be the thing going forward, blah, blah, blah.

So yeah, I can see it's like, it's, it's interesting how they be like this whole

week, which is what the news I got here, we're getting like all these different,

like talking pole news from them.

I think it's also like a, you know, look

at the cameo s.

Oh,

hey,

. Sebastion: Yeah, I think it's really

gonna be, what, 40 bucks versus High five Rush, which comes at, came out

of 30 Uhhuh . And you know, like I, I would argue quality wise, you know, with

it being a modern game as well mm-hmm.

like, they seem like they should be both the same price, you know?

Yes,

yes.

We're just on the time and, uh, I definitely can't wait to just give a try.

Tome.

I am gonna, I'm gonna be that sucker because , I think 40

makes it a softer like deal.

Mm-hmm.

. So it's like Paul said, we're all gonna be a sucker for, for something or

another.

Mm-hmm.

, there's something.

Yeah, there's something there.

It's, it really lines up if like, if overall we chain together on most things

that go down, it's almost okay for like, all right, that's your one thing that

you're allowed to kind of shill for.

Mm-hmm.

. And as long as there's not

all that, Hey, I, I, I made my toxic Nintendo personality then nostalgia.

So they got me there . True.

So then I'll see if they get Metro Prime too.

I doubt they will because I can kind of sucks.

I hated playing it.

I remember Paul, all my cursing at 1:00 AM playing through

that game.

. So at, I asked about the most anticipated game that, you know, after the direct.

So is, is there a game that sort of like, took you by surprise that you want

to play out this spec at this direct?

Yeah.

Um, honestly, Pickman four is higher on my mm-hmm.

like theoretical list than it was because I think it was in my honorable

mentions, uh, I don't know if it would deone anything cuz I can't even really

remember what my top 10 was right now.

Mm-hmm.

. But I, I think it would, uh, it would be higher than it was in my

honorable mentions.

I'll say this, uh, Sebastian, we got a date for, uh, the, your number 10,

what was it name to have a nice day.

Have, have enough day.

Yeah.

That now we got a, a solid data around the time that has already become a

little bit more vacant since the, since the delay for, uh, Jetta survivor.

So I'm more excited to play that now because I know it's so close.

I'm very like my, I derive a lot of my excitement to how close I am to

being able to experience something.

So

I hope that's like a death's, I hope that's gonna be this

year's death's door to where it's just gonna take a lot of people by

surprise and just be that, that indie hit, so to speak, to where, and only

that the same month that sells cast.

See, being able to go back to that game as a cast, that's

gonna be so good to go back to.

So again, the tiny stuff that's not even in from them.

Mm-hmm.

. So it was, the wreck just kind of gave us a gateway to solidify when we're

gonna be able to experience that.

But Metro, I mean, you saw my reactions, like that's, that, that, that was like

my and the G, the g b, the that one two punch of the Game Boy stuff when Metre

like altogether was like, that was my, that was my golden eye moment because

remember, I, I also, I also popped her Golden eye in the last direct Paul

and I

beat, uh, um, sorry to interrupt, but Paul, are you gonna

actually go back and play any of the the Game Boy games or Game Boy color games?

Oh, . I, um, I'm gonna be honest, like the, the responsibilities of being

an adult have pretty firmly meant that a lot of those ships have sailed for me.

Um, because the time that I do have, I would rather devote to like the

bigger name titles that I know are coming out that I haven't played yet.

And as much as I would love to revisit games that I played in the past,

it's like I don't want to like buy a new subscription for the ones that

I'm gonna have to buy a subscription for because all of my money is tied

up in everything else that I buy.

Uh, this is like real adult hours here, . And then at the same time,

everything else that I could buy on its own, it's like I've already got

that slot filled with the time I'm going to be spending playing something

else that I've already talked about.

Like the top 10 is like the games I'm going to spend money on , not

just the games I'm excited for.

Yeah.

So it's, it's, I think it's kind of the choice.

The die is cast almost

for me.

. Okay.

Yeah.

You know why you wanna play this year.

Yeah, it makes sense.

Like, I mean, like, uh, with tier of the Kingdom, I knew I was gonna play that

my number nine was excited one, right?

So this didn't change, it didn't did this, didn't move it up and it move it down.

Maybe it move it down because of the price.

But , who knows,

I'm not able to pick up Pickman four for like Christmas

or something, but like mm-hmm.

, maybe pri uh, prime as well, honestly, like, just to know I've played it cuz

I've only watched a friend play it

before.

But Paul, after we are done, we're gonna talk about an arrangement.

So, yeah.

All right.

We'll talk about it.

Yeah.

. Yes.

. So,

yeah, I, I, I'm looking at tears of the kingdom as one

that, you know, I, it wasn't super high on my list, um mm-hmm.

that we mentioned on the show, but like, it is one that I am intrigued

about because like, I want to, I want the game to be good cuz

I don't want Nintendo to fail.

Contrary to like the, how negative I came

across.

And I think like, at the very base, the game will be good because

I thought the wall was good.

Great.

Mm-hmm.

, I would even daresay it's just now everyone has taken their bat, the,

the, the baton of like what they started and made it better for us.

So

yeah, I want it to be good and, uh, but I also want it to be like,

I want, I'd want people to review that game fairly, and I want to see like

on, is this gonna be good game on its own merits or is this, uh, are the

nostalgia of Berthel Wild gonna come in?

Is this mm-hmm.

, are we gonna get that same conversation that we got for God of War Ragner

Rock where everyone was saying, Hey, this is just more God of war.

Mm-hmm.

. And I'm like, I, I'm so confused.

I'm so curious on like the,

the standards are Yeah, the standards of like, how

like, uh, it always just, I guess a sliding scale and like mm-hmm.

it just feels in bad faith that if you're gonna like, criticize something

for looking the same as one, like you can't watch a, that, that the Kenan

thing and not see that 80% of the things that they were showing were.

Lifted from the previous one they just heard.

Yeah.

So I, I, I want it to be, you know, like, I want it to be good.

I want it to be great.

I wouldn't even care if this was the greatest game of all time.

Like I am, I'm, you know, I want, I be

like, to me, I just imagine that like the best case scenario, what

if tears of the kingdom is exactly the game that everyone tells me?

Breath of the wildest.

Yeah.

Again, that I actually like champion as like, holy crap, because Paul

knows me, like I'm a sucker.

I'm, I'm a sucker for the sequel that improves on things.

Mm-hmm.

, what if it's

that?

So this might be the one.

Yeah.

. Yeah.

I, I'm ex I, I'm hopeful that this will be, that, that sequel, that kind of,

I, cuz I'm like you, I like, I like sequels that kind of take what worked

and kind of made everything better.

I like that.

Just last, yeah, just last year we got that with Vin and

West and uh, and Rag Rock.

That's what they were those words.

So I hope, I hope that breath of the wall, I mean tears of the kingdom

is everything we, we want and more.

I also want to shout out, you know, like Professor Laden mm-hmm.

being a game that's, you know, that they didn't have to announce that

that was a new game that mm-hmm.

from a beloved series.

This game is, I would probably say like D Tier Nintendo.

It's not necessarily like A or B, but

like, but at De Deter Nintendo right now, whenever they reuse so much.

Feels like a beat tier almost.

Yeah, it does.

Yeah.

Uhhuh it does.

It's like almost if they announced Cap another Captain Toad game to where like,

it's not gonna sit the world on fire.

But yeah, captain Toe was

so good.

It was like such an ingenious way of taking that mini game.

From, was it 3D world and

making it I

think so, yeah.

And make, and making it a full game.

So

yeah.

It, it is one of those things to where, like that auto path traveler,

I mean the baseball game for 99 cents, the W B S C, um, baseball game.

Yeah.

Just for being a buck.

Makes me curious.

Just for the waltz.

. Sebastion: I, I, I think

gonna sneak, that's the Burger

King game levels.

Mm-hmm.

of, uh, charm.

I, I feel

. Alehandro: Yeah.

And that, that Burger King game was better than it needed to be.

I remember it

so vividly.

Both of them.

It was like the racing game and the sneak

king.

Huh?

Sneak king.

Yeah.

That, that was exactly what I was thinking about.

But yeah, it is, it's one of those things to where I'm like, They,

they've had some bangers here.

I mean, you had, um, Blan looks interesting from gearbox.

Um, yeah.

That's on next week.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, Blan looks interesting.

Um, Minecraft legends, I, that game doesn't speak to me at all.

Like, you know, I throw it out the window as far as I'm concerned, but

like, that's gonna speak to a lot of people and it, it looks like it runs

well and switched surprisingly so.

Mm-hmm.

, shout out to that.

And then the Mario cart deluxe like that, the fact that they added birdie

and added, um, a lot of the, um,

and apparently I was reading and I was reading that an actual

new track with the Yohi Island thing that was not in the previous, uh, in,

in, in a previous, uh, Mario cart.

This, from what I was reading from the Warrior 64, uh, 64 threads, so Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

It was, it wasn't just a remaster of an old track.

It was like they actually

made a new one.

Yeah.

From the Mario World game.

I'll say with they,

the way she worlds with the way they've expanded

that like Mario Card is like, why would he need another Mario card?

It's like so massive.

It's kinda like, why would he need an another smash?

More and more, I kind of respect it because everybody always complains.

It's either one or the other, and you can never have both where it's like, oh, why

don't you just make a new sequel to it?

But then you split the game.

Mm-hmm.

the, the game base.

Now it's like, well, that's the answer.

You make the one and then you keep iterating on it and making it better.

And Mario is in such a way, Mario Card specifically is in such a way

that you can just keep doing that.

And then everybody has the same game already.

Yeah.

And people never stop buying it.

The game just kept win for, yeah.

Yeah.

Mario Cardi just kept selling.

It's insane how much Mario Card, uh, Mario Cardi

sells.

, I'm gonna be real with you.

Like I, you know, like to praise Nintendo for a second, I completely love that

model of, of the way they're doing things.

Cuz Destiny does the exact same thing.

They just basically put out, you know, destiny too withstanding,

but like, they just keep building off of destiny too, and mm-hmm.

this is something I would love to see in the sports franchise, like the sports

game to where like, instead of you doing a yearly iteration, just throw

us a couple of like updates or maybe we can buy a $20 like refresh every

year.

You know, especially, especially as you mentioned, especially right now,

the sports games are the worst they've ever been because they can no longer

keep up with the yearly, uh, with a yearly development, installments

without like the game suffering.

So they would benefit a lot.

It's just unfortunately that a lot of people are just so used to the idea

of like, that's your big purchase of the year, year in and year out.

So they're kind of tied to that.

But I feel those could be the ones that.

They could do like, just, just keep updating it.

It's like, and keep making it like, that way you keep

iterating in that same version.

Making it even better, like the, the, the changes are like more subtle.

Instead of having to make like a full new game where you have to like be

taking features in and out like they do.

So yeah, I

would, you know, I would, I almost stagger my teams to where

like one team is the update team to where like you're just working on

different scans, you're working on different updates throughout the year.

And then like while the update team's going, I'd also have a development

cycle to where like that development team can like, so like you do a game

every three years, that development team can really push the, push the software

forward and push like innovation forward for those three years of development.

And then boom, when that new game comes out, it, it comes

out with like all guns blazing.

It has features that we haven't seen before.

Maybe it takes like a street mode from like the Old Street games and such

like that and actually like Hass, a whole game within a game sort of thing?

No, just street games.

N b a street, fifa.

Exactly, exactly.

It was so good.

Exactly.

What are they like?

Especially for me, I hate Paul knows this.

I hate sports games, specifically fifa.

I hate them.

But like with all the passion of my being and the street games were the ones

that I was like, this are actually fun.

They're not

pretentious.

So, you know, I was really surprised, um, that we didn't get a Mario Sports

game here, cuz I thought we were gonna get like the baseball one.

Yeah.

Considering how the last two years of sports games have been

with, uh, golf and strikers.

I'm glad it did.

It's

a shame.

Strikers honestly

was that, that one bummed me out hearing that.

It was so bare bones.

I was like, damn you.

It was like that was the one that I wanted.

Yeah.

It's even

volleyball.

Yeah.

I mean not volleyball, but tennis.

Tennis, exactly.

It was like tennis.

And that was

even years before strikers and I don't think we've gotten any baseball.

Baseball would be the next one if they ever Yeah.

Yeah.

That's why I was thinking, I was just like, we're just

missing baseball at that point.

Didn't see that.

And, but I was really shocked that we're not gonna get that.

But, you know, I wouldn't be surprised if the, the Mario Sports like

team is working on baseball next.

Probably.

I just hope that they release full.

It's like, I, I feel like, uh, the intent, like the way they

Nintendo sold those games.

Shameful, like absolutely shameful that, uh, that then eventually

they got into where they were.

But at that point it's like the side has, has already passed.

So I would say that would conclude our like, talk with Nintendo,

this Nintendo centric podcast.

Uh, Paul, uh, read as a release.

The game releases for the week of February.

Talk to 18 20 23.

All

right, let's hear this Blan.

Uh, first one on here.

Going from Stop it.

of coming for Switch and PC on February 14th.

Journey to the Savage Planet on PlayStation five.

Xbox series X and S Place, uh, on February 14th, soles of Kronos on PlayStation

five, switch and PC on February 14th.

That

sounds like a cool

name.

Reloaded on iOS and Android on February 14th.

Wanted dead on PlayStation five.

Xbox series X and S PlayStation four, Xbox One PC on February 14th.

A lot of Valentine's Day.

Now narrow the new, a new era on PC on February 15th, returnal PC version on

February 15th, shadow Warrior three on PlayStation five, Xbox Series X and S.

February 16th, obviously NextGen version of a existing game.

Yeah,

PS4 version came out last year.

Yes.

So yes,

theat Rhythm, final Bar line on PlayStation four

and Switch on February 16th.

Gigantic sous Dino Cart on PlayStation five, Xbox series X N S, PlayStation four,

Xbox One, switch, and PC on February 17th.

Tales of Syon.

Remastered on PlayStation four, Xbox One, and Switch on February 17th.

And the settlers, new Allies on PC February 17th.

Wild Hearts.

Rounding it out on PlayStation five, Xbox Series X and S and PC on

February 17th.

From all of those, I'm interested to see how Wild Hearts does because as

the Monster Hunter competitor, yeah,

I hope it does well.

Just to give them

some competition.

Yeah, yeah.

But Daniel's like.

I hope that because I, I scheduled you for next week, uh, Sebastian,

because next week is like, because I, all I wanna play is Howard's legacy.

So already

I'm gonna be on it.

I'm gonna be on it.

Let's

go.

Yeah, because you're getting it all right.

On Friday, Paul and I, uh, like plopped up the deluxe editions.

Uh,

I've been, uh, I've been playing it for the last couple of days.

Yeah, I gotta say it's, it's pretty tight,

honestly.

Yeah.

We, we held, yeah, we held up on saying our thoughts because we wanna like,

share the, whenever you joined in.

Okay.

Yeah, we're playing it.

Uh, I wasn't expected to have you here this week, Sebastian, so I'm pleasantly

surprised that we're able to get you in.

So, but yeah, next week all about Hogwarts.

Oh yeah, for sure.

I'm excited.

Yeah.

So that means you gotta put down Prime Alejandro, you gotta go play it.

Yeah.

I have to finish High-Fi rush first.

So how far are you

into the game?

Chapter nine.

Okay, so you're, you're pretty much there.

Yeah.

Yeah,

he's pretty much chapter nine out of 12.

And then, uh, I'm gonna, for the sake of the show, I'm gonna like

focus on Howards for next week.

Uh, let me ask you like, uh, like say we were doing a game

of your power rankings right now.

Mm-hmm.

to where like you were like ranking the games as it came out.

Is this as how far rush on your power rankings, number one so far?

No, it's

not on one.

Yeah, I

think it's probably two right now.

For me it's dead, uh, dead space remake.

Then I might honestly be Hogwarts legacy and then High-Fi rush and

then for spoken.

So that's the thing.

I played a little bit of hog, I, I played a little bit of Hogwarts legacy.

I think that's number one right now.

Uh, What I play because at Paul Devar, that space remake, I left it.

Uh, yeah, I played that space before.

It's like, I know, it's great.

I know it's gonna be there.

I finish the first game.

Exactly.

So I wanted

to see it.

Yeah.

I'm for spoken right now.

It's Stanley Klin the list just for by default . It is.

It is by default.

Default.

Just by default.

Like a number four right now that's gonna bit dump dumped out, like when

all the other games eventually come in.

But, uh, and I need to say it too because I was really

hoping it would be a lot.

Yeah.

I will say High-fi rush before today was number one.

Today was when I dropped to number two for me . So, and we talked about

it earlier in the show with Paul.

I guess I, what are you feeling so far?

Yeah.

What are you feeling?

Sebastian?

Um, I have, um, you know, like I haven't played the Dead Space remakes

and I have not played for spoken, so I can like, whatever you're feeling though.

What have you played though?

Yeah.

Okay.

From what you played?

Yeah.

From what you've played of 2023 so far.

Okay.

So I will, um, I will say so far High Five Rush is probably in my first play spot.

I just smile every time I play that game.

It's, it's a breath of fresh air.

I don't think there's, and it's one of those things to where it has it's

amalgamation of like, all the things I really like about games so far.

And it kind of nails a lot of those aspects.

Um, and I can't re, I can't come up with a comp to say, Hey,

this game is exactly like this.

You know, like I, I, it's um, it's like so mish mashy of a lot of different

things, but I think it does everything.

It wants to really,

well, yeah, the style alone is like, what makes

me want to make it number one.

Uh, as I was telling Polar earlier in this episode, before you came

in, uh, This may be just my me pro, like, I'm like a me problem.

And like I, I'm a big fan of combat games in the style of demo may cry.

This is definitely in that style.

I love, I love how satisfying chaining ch chaining the combos

are, especially when you unlock the, unlock the, uh, the support characters

you put in the right trigger.

I don't know.

How many have you unlocked from those?

Uh, I have three unlocked.

Um, you're talking about I've, I've rolled credits on

half hour rush.

Ah, you already finished?

Okay.

I'm, so, I'm in chapter.

I'm in that boss fight with that for your dress like shark from the shark.

That's uh, that's for that the reminder of the Katy Perry like, uh mm-hmm.

super, super Bowl.

I need to show you the experiential because I'm love shark.

The last shark, your dress is love shark and you fight and

you fight this like singer.

Uh, and that's what I was fighting.

That was like getting so frustrated.

Like share, share him.

Paul, go to our chat and share him the, the screenshot.

I, you know, the cool thing about the, like, one of the

things I really like about, um, about, um, high Five Rush is like,

it feels like all the, everything was a music themed, like mm-hmm.

, because like, Shai 8 0 8, those are Kanye West themes.

Like those are ka mm-hmm.

West, like, um, like Easter eggs.

And then you have like, so many things in the game to where like

everybody's name is like, almost like a song, a name of a song.

And

I like that.

Like, everything in the, in the music theme is like so great to me.

It's more like, I feel like this is maybe like unfair to the game.

It's like based on like the style and the energy that it has.

I wish this gameplay was more than just like going from room to room and clearing

enemies and some small platforming and uh, uh, tiny bit of like parcel,

uh, not po like environmental puzzle solving that like you mix the three char.

I have three.

Do you get a fourth character by any chance?

Because you, I have three Peppermint, the big guy on the chick with the stuff.

One more,

right?

Yeah, there's one more.

There's

one more.

Okay.

Mm-hmm.

. So, so yeah, I like that.

But if you know what this game looks so much like that's a radio, then it made me

want like, I wish like the gameplay would be broken up into like more quicker pace.

Like stuff where you're like jumping around more that's not just a cousin,

because that's also in the cut scene.

Because then, uh, when I'm just playing a game that's just like the comedy, it

makes me like realize do, am I a big, am I really a big fan of like this a kind

of action based game, or I like it when.

It has both the tight comedy, it can bury the gameplay a little bit more.

And so far, like, because what I was telling Paul, I feel like I, unless you

tell me otherwise, where I'm currently are in the game, uh, Sebastian, I

feel, at least gameplay wise, I've seen everything I've seen, like what this

game is in a way that, to me, everything like that, what props it up is its style.

So yeah.

I mean, you're, you're not wrong there.

I mean, like, once you do get like that fourth installment, so to speak like

that, it does, it adds just another layer to like the gameplay and another layer

to like, um, uh, of like, I wouldn't say traversal, but like another layer of like

level design to where like it'll give you another thing to explore through that.

Mm-hmm.

. But like outside of that, you really don't have anything that it adds to that.

So what you've seen so far is like, Almost the medium potatoes of the entire game.

Yeah,

and that's the thing, and I like it a lot, it's just that it's in

a few moments, especially where I feel like maybe it doesn't happen to you.

I feel like difficulties like spiking right now in a way that

it's annoying me a little bit.

So that's like dampering.

It dampening it a little bit, but it's still a really great game.

I really like it.

In fact, it's like I like it so much that even as hog were the thing that I saw,

Hogwarts was like, damn, this is so good.

And also hearing Paul like, because he played more than than I have,

let's put in boats six to eight hours.

Yeah, I put two.

So, okay.

So, so that's why I'm like, this is good, but I don't wanna let go.

I don't wanna let go.

High fire rush.

And I feel like I it, that game deserves to be beaten by me.

Like right now.

It's like where we are right now instead of like waiting until later in the

year where I'll probably forget it.

If we get swamped with all the things that are supposed to come out this.

So, but I really like, it's good.

Yeah.

That one's really good.

Yeah.

So, so yeah, high rush pretty great.

It's just not before today, before I start recording, it's,

it was definitely my number one.

What

I play my number two on my list right now is

season a letter to the future.

It is, yeah.

I

forgot that that came out also such a, the million

things that came out in that week.

Right.

such a gorgeous game.

What was that one so high up on your list?

Um, I think it's just the, the narrative.

Uh, there's a mil, like it speaks to me on a personal level because

like, as a, you know, like you're playing as like a chocolate guy and

I am, you know, like a chocolate guy.

And we normally don't get to be protagonist in a games for one thing.

And then like you add that, you add that like it's a smaller

indie game that is beautiful.

It has a really stylized art style.

But like, the fact that like it, the storytelling there is like,

it has like, it's not quite, um, what, um, what is that game?

It's not quite on, um, A level of like some journey?

Well, not journey.

It's the, I'm trying to think.

The, the life, um, I got it on the tip of my tongue life is, is strange.

Oh, okay.

Life is strange.

It's like, it has storytelling elements from life is strange to where like they

tell us j they tell a story that's very like right on key and on point, just

like, life is strange, but like the way that the way they tell the story is more

like streamlined and it's more like, get you to the point of everything like that.

So I like that and I feel like, I don't feel like there's a narrative

that does that, has told a story quite like this in a, in video games.

And I feel like for everything that it, it wants to do, it does

it on an exceptionally well level, especially for a game of this budget.

So I'm like, when I'm looking at.

When I'm looking at games, I often think to myself, I'm

like, how big was your budget?

How, what did you execute everything you set out to do?

And you know, like, what are some of the things, did I find that I

felt like I was missing something?

Or like it was missing that secret sauce that to where they

elevated up to higher echelon.

Mm-hmm.

and this game didn't feel like it was missing anything the same.

Uh, it felt like it was nailing everything it set out to do and it felt like it

was so stylized to where like, if you play this game at the end of the year,

I don't think you'll like, and you're listing off your top Indies of the year.

I don't think you'll forget to leave this off your list.

Mm-hmm.

Nice.

Makes sense.

Yeah.

I don't think end of the year, but yeah, I think that will be, especially

because it was, uh, that was featured in one of the state of place.

I think it was the one that gave us a residue full remic pole

that was, I remember that was there right before Final Fantasy.

Yeah.

Final fantasy?

Uh, no, not revert.

Uh, 16.

Mm-hmm.

. I feel this will be like a big, a big like PlayStation, extra like game like soon.

Yeah.

I feel like I get that Bob.

Yeah.

So maybe that's what I'm gonna, I'm gonna try it right now.

There's so much.

And also because I will be ready getting ready for two other reviews later this

month that I have to savor right now.

My time for like, being able to like play what I wanna.

. So, and listen to February

20.

Do you have any others on your

list?

Um, you know, like some of 'em were, were, I was cleaning up some other

ones from like late 2022 that I didn't get a chance to actually play.

Like one is a game called Arcane Veil.

Um, arcane Veil.

Um, it's a game that came out in December of 2022.

Fantastic.

Smaller indie game.

It is, um, uh, um, almost like a mixture between Sky Room, but

like Sky Room and um, star Valley.

And it has like some dark soul elements into it, but it's all in this like, indie,

um, it's almost like that 2D art style.

And it's, it's a game that I, it took me by surprise because like, it is difficult.

Like I said, it has like a soul's kind of vibe and when you die, you drop all

your gear, but like you, yeah, you drop every single gear that you have, you

keep the money that you earned, but all the gear you have, you have to go

back to that spot and pick it back up.

Like pick up every single gear, whether it be armor, whether it be like swords.

Yeah.

All that sort of things.

But I, I mentioned Sky Room.

The, it's a game like Sky Room to where like it's a action packed,

open world RPG where everybody gives you a quest and everybody to

a, and basically ask you a favor.

But like, you can basically tell, you can basically do anything you want in this

like 2d, in this 2D dimensional game.

And I don't really see that in 2D games a lot to where you have that scru