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Hi, I'm Jeff Grubbin.

I am a nintendog and we are the last of the Nintendogs today.

Your choices are A so song, B eighties two or see none of the above.

But first off, join me saying hello the very special person, Jeff grub Jeff grab how's it going?

Hello, everybody, I'm here to talk to you about uh venereal disease and uh video games again.

This week?

Everybody back to VD.

We're changing it up.

I know it's all SDDS now, how about that?

That's just.

Right?

That s T I S yes, Sexual sexually transmitted infections.

Everybody.

They keep changing it on you.

They just keep yet.

It's just like the food pyramid.

It's like they keep you that in school and you're like, this must this must be important.

Then they change it.

We let a piece of bread that became a human, right, this original food.

So you have to make sure you have twenty six servings of bread a day?

What all bread?

Oh, a piece of bread that became a human and still loves to be eaten.

I'm not sure if I thought out my joke very well.

Unless the kids, you can still you can still have some gobs stoppers and wax lips, but you gotta eat all your breadfirst lips.

Did you ever have you ever eat one of those those things?

Insane?

I think I put one of my mouth.

What time?

I was like, what the I was like, fuck?

Yet, what the fuck is not to say?

What the fuck is this?

I guess I just eat it?

Now?

This is gross.

I don't know why I'm doing this.

It's gross.

I don't like it.

Uh, somebody, somebody should do something.

Do you have to think about that time you told me to shot that woman in rivid a lot so I thought it was the funniest thing.

I don't know, Yeah, I don't.

I mean, it's just we're playing that game.

It's just like it feels like you should be able to take out a gun.

That's all.

You just have a gun.

I'm having a great time with Ribbon and with this, just that that whole series has been a delight so far.

Yeah, well, people are hyping up Riven and I get it.

It's just, uh, it's really interesting.

It's just such a pretty looking game, and it's it's different from me.

It's more different than I was expecting.

And I'm liking it.

I'm liking it's vibe, you know, I'm liking it's vibe a lot.

Yeah, it feels confident.

It feels like they had a lot of ideas and now they knew how to execute on it.

Yeah, very good game.

Yeah, Ribven is fun.

Video game games are good.

We we had that partner direct Jeff, and already they're back.

They're doing an Indie World live stream on Thursday, just a couple of days at that usual six a m.

Time again, that's August seventh.

It's going to be approximately fifteen minutes long.

I think I saw that the Japanese one is going to be twenty minutes long.

So I don't know why they get five.

More than us.

Yeah, what the hell?

Yeah, so so they can get more, I guess for whatever reason.

That's okay.

I hope it's five minutes on Silk Song.

I wonder recent in the US anymore.

That's one way to get around.

All the time.

I suppose, but hey, that's neat.

I like an Indie World thing.

I know, it's goofing earlier, and we have a thumbnail here about Hollow Night, but like we we both kind of have this feeling of well, Hollida eight Silks song, that is an indie game, and we still are you know, that game has been rated.

We're expecting to see it's gonna be playable with games Calm, but at xbox'es booth, right, or where's it going to be playable there?

Xboxes booth?

Yeah, that's correct, right, So so I don't know, we really think it's gonna show up here.

So with Nintendo and I.

Don't think that.

I don't think it's gonna be at the indie direct.

I don't think Hades two.

Hades two maybe has a slightly better chance.

It can be like a big finale, can be the anchor of everything, right Yeah.

And you know, let's be real, a lot of people still watch the indie showcases, Indie World showcases.

Maybe not as many as a direct, but it's still huge and important for developers to get in there.

And Hades is made by an independent team and they do that.

That game was first shown at a direct.

Haities two.

I don't know if that's right, but they've had they've definitely been in multiple directs.

Now with that thing, and maybe now that's ready to go one point ero, it headlines the Indie World Showcase with that information.

That's possible, or maybe it.

Opens it because it's a known want and they're like, oh it's and it's out in a week or something like that.

Uh, yeah, that's possible.

I don't I still don't think even that shows up there.

And really for me an Indie World Showcase, I don't need those big games there.

I do need the ones that I had not heard about until Nintendo's you know, John Vignaki's winning into the mines and found a bunch of cool games that we didn't know about.

Uh, and they're usually pretty good at that.

So yeah, that's what I'm looking forward to.

Some indie games that aren't on Switch yet, which is, you know, strange to me that that could ever happen.

There are a few fields of mission, remember that, like this surprisingly goods uh not Star Fields, Starduo Valley like never put on Switch somehow, I don't know why not.

So at some point we've got to get fields of mystery on there.

I think that would make a ton of sense, especially in a world where I don't think Haunted Chocolate Tears coming out anytime soon.

No, yeah, I bet that's one that never comes out.

But who knows?

Fields and Mystery Is that the one that's the STARDUW Valley with the hot characters?

Yeah it's hot.

Yeah, it's started your value, but everyone's even hotter?

Okay cool.

I liked it a lot, Actually, I kind of I'm all upset.

I fell off it a little bit.

I'd late to go back and complete a play through.

Man, God, wouldn't be nice to just be able to like make time for one of those farm sim games.

They're so satisfying, satisfying to play, but when I played it is all I want to be doing, So I'm like, I'll have to find time for that.

I guess Field is technically so early access.

Gosh, I don't even realize that.

So yeah, goes to launched on Well, it does the Hades maneuver, and it has worked out well for games before.

What's definitely an indie game that is fully released but not on Switch though Blueprints Blueprints a favorite of you and mine yours in mind?

This year, do you think maybe we can get a surprise announcement of that even a shadow drop getting heading over there.

Yeah, I think so.

G Arthur and Chad has another good one, UFO fifty.

That shocked me.

Then that UFO fifty was an on the switch.

I like, well, that's just a matter of time, and it just still has not happened.

I mean, I'd love to have that on switch Toill there's lots I've never really played the RPG that's in there, for example, so I'd love to get into it.

Sorry's trying to get the switch to Yeah.

It's all good.

You heard about you screaming about you have a fifty.

She just got activated.

It's just she's gonna be surprised it's not on there.

It's just like you were.

Yeah, UFO fifty seems like very likely.

I think, yeah, a lot of these games that have been on Steam and maybe we're waiting for an opportune time to go to the switch.

Getting on switch to before this holiday is probably like the right move if you're able to pull it off.

Now.

The other side of all this is what we've heard is that a lot of studios, especially indie studios, have had a hard time getting their hands on switch to dev kits.

But for indy games that doesn't matter so much, right because they could just put their game out on Switch one, say it runs better on switch to, you know, unlock the frame rate, and they're gonna be kind of They're gonna be good to go, Like they can just launch your games on switch one and no one would bad deny.

No one's gonna be complaining like, oh my god, I can't believe you're not taking advantage of the switch to hardware.

They're indie games.

Most games are not gonna need that for the for the most part, I would assume.

Watching that, Uh, we'll react to it over on giant bomb dot com.

Again.

That's Thursday, August seventh, sixteen Pacific.

Hey, while I was gone, I was at San Francisco last week, there was that Partners showcase.

Uh, we like, you get a chance to watch it?

Did you like sit down catch up later?

Would you do?

Dan and I watched it.

We don't watch it live, but when you woke up that day we put it on.

We we we saw it and saw what was happening there.

Yeah.

I mean it was okay, but West Monster Hunter Stories does nothing for me.

And people say that those games are pretty good, but you know, the my least third thing about Monster Hunter Wild was the story.

You know, so I don't want those stories.

Actually, I just want monsters and hunters.

I don't want stories.

Yeah.

The thing that was the worst about Monster Hunter not World, what is the last one?

Monster Fries, Wow, Wilds thank you is the story.

They put too much story in there, and now they have a whole game about that.

That sounds bad to me.

And I know that's a bad faith, are you?

Yeah, I don't know.

There is something about like the whole thing is like very It's like Pokemon story right, It's like very Saturday Morning cartoon and uh you know, and I know this is rich coming from me, the guy who loves Disney stuff, but there is like that specific kind of video game storytelling does very little for me these days.

Yeah, it's one thing if it's like, you know, the backbones of a three D platformer, but in a giant story based RPG, it's a lot.

Yeah, fair enough, but that uh I think for that direct I was with you on Wild's not or stories not doing much for me, but at a lot of other stuff in there was for me, And I thought the HD two D stuff showed off, Well, what do you make of Octopath Travelers ero.

People are pointing out that it looks like it's a readaptation of the mobile game, uh, the free to play one, and now it's gonna be a real game here.

Well, how do you take like, what do you do?

You have a little like you know that gives me a little like Okay, so what because you know the whole point of Octopath Travelers that you have, like the eight heroes and the chapters, and that's not what this is.

So you know, I don't know much about that mobile game, and you told me that we're, you know, kind of turning mobile assets into a full game.

That's a red flag to me.

It seems like, I know, the Octopath people I know don't seem to bothered by An and Pelly.

They like that mobile game, So you know, I think I bet this will actually be good.

Still, I'm gonna wait to hear from them.

There are a lot of Octopath fans now, so we'll find out Adventure of Elliott the Millennium Tales.

That name's terrible, but I very much like the idea of an action based HD two D game, so I have some hopes for that for sure.

Yeah, it looked a lot like Ease.

It looked a lot like It looks like it doesn't have bump combat because.

They're cowing no bump action.

Yeah, yeah, it's pathetic.

It looks like it looks like a Quintet game.

All right, it looks like Ta Enigma.

If I if I may, for example, I got it.

Don't worry.

I know you get scared.

You get scared, scared.

Get Jeff, I've given up nobody on Final Fantasy nine remake.

It didn't show up at this thing or past the anniversary I mean Tokyo Game Show.

Maybe.

I mean, I've given up to one of the fact that I'm no longer like expecting or really hoping for it to show up.

I think if it happens, so that's great, and I'll be very excited.

I'm done expecting it.

I mean, Plus, you know, I think it was Nate de Hate, who's the one is like, I think maybe that was canceled, and then Nate de Hate was like, also want to say, hey, it's going to be a direct when everyone thought there wasn't gonna be one, and then here was a direct.

Uh so, I don't know, kind of just I'm inclined to believe them right now, and I'm just not hoping for it.

Maybe it just as a matter of development, went's a little weird and they're not getting able to announce it on the anniversary like they thought.

Maybe it's just never happening.

I don't know, but again, just not getting my hopes up for that anymore.

Yeah, I think that's probably right.

That's probably right to just put those hopes and dreams aside and live in a world where you still love Final Fantasy nine and if they do something with it, you can be excited instead of disappointed every day that it doesn't happen.

It does feel like if it was going to they would have said something by now.

Gave development's weird.

All of those other things from the Nvidia League did happen, but a lot has changed since then.

It's been a long time.

There's no it's not written anywhere that those games have to come out if they were in that leak.

So yeah, well there's almost weirdness like that whole web page and everything.

So I don't know.

Maybe, but look, if I want to play Pompasy nine again and I can go install that incredible fan made mod thing and do it that way, we get a remake, that's cool.

I am still excited for fan Phtasy Tactics and we saw that here, so I'm really looking forward to playing that.

But but yeah, that's just where I am with fu Facy nine nine.

Did you see like Chris Dring saying that there were three games he heard would would yeah going to be in there?

Any chance that one of those is Final Fantasy nine?

Maybe that was Pump Fafty nine eighties too and Soil Song, Right, Yeah, there's maybe there is that world, but I don't know.

I mean, there was other things that we didn't see, like you know, where's the where's the elter Ring release date?

Or the other from soft game that we're getting the Dusk Bloods right mm hmm, or you know, we haven't seen a Fumfa seven remake, stuff that they've talked about before.

There's still so many games that I'm like, why, why isn't that getting poured it over to the this what?

Yet?

We got uh Persona three reload, so that's happening, but no, no metaphor yet.

There's still all these Resident Evil games that happened popped on over there yet.

Even though Street Fighters six seems like it's it's doing well and we're obviously they're still getting more Capcom stuff there.

That was my big embarrassment with my appearance on Kind of Funny that their morning show with Greg it was pretty good.

Then I was like trying to think of what third party gets show up there was like, oh, what about Capcom?

It is in Capcom yet, as if they didn't have a giant presence at the launch.

But sometimes under those bright lights, Jeff, you.

Know, oh yeah, it happens.

It's doing live shows turns out pretty difficulty.

The mind just sometimes fleas.

You did a great job on Kind of Funny.

You got to do a job went on the fourth here.

Thank you to you Jason and Sean for filling in while I was gone.

Appreciate that.

Yeah, yeah, they were, they were.

It was fun to do shows with those guys.

It was a good time last week, all right.

So anything else from directs from Final Fantasy nine, I mean we do have like, okay, so games Come is still happening, Tokyo Game Show is still happening.

We probably do get a September direct, maybe a PlayStation State of Play or even a showcase.

I don't I've not heard anything one way or the other.

Probably not a showcase.

You know, there's big games that could still get it now, it'd from various companies.

Uh so there's a lot of opportunities for cool things to still happen.

Where are you at with like your hopes and dreams like underneath Final Fantasy nine remake for the rest of the year.

I'm immediately like, well, way, what is fun Facy Tactics?

The Evilis Chronicles comes?

That comes out September thirtieth, So like maybe when we get if they don't want to announce it now because they're a wait for that.

No, I'm done.

I'm not.

I'm done with the Hope.

I don't hop into a shoot brother, right where am I?

Besides that?

I mean, my big, my biggest concern in the world of gaming is getting our release day for Metro Prime four.

Honestly, right, Yeah, that feels like h September direct by the latest at this point, right.

I think that's right, and I am still That's another thing I'm holding out hope a little bit for still as a Metroid Prime two or three release, although again, hope is dwindling over there.

Definitely, yes, same, Yeah, I mean I suppose that.

You know, if they do drop those, they could do it both at the same time and that wouldn't be a big problem.

They could do it as a double pack or whatever and sell that for forty the way that they sold the metroc Prime remake for forty.

Yeah.

I hope that happens.

I'm not necessarily like, oh for sure, they're going to do that, even though they've already done the work to remaster those games.

And again it's never been as much work done to those as they did to Metro Prime one, but still they did work to it, so it'd be weird not to release them.

But they have GameCube on nso so Metric Prime two could just pop up on there and then they called a day.

It'd be weird, but it's Nintendo, so it wouldn't be shocked.

Should we get another GameCube game?

So if we got one, add instance, launch right.

Yeah about do right?

And they've what were all the GameCube games that they confirmed.

Like Chip Robo Fire Emblem, Path of Radiance.

That that'll be.

That's nice to have that that that's right, that's a huge awesome game.

Oh I want that one pretty badly because I barely ever played that one.

That's one where you know, put it on the CRT every once in a while.

Just look at the opening cinematic.

It's fantastic.

Yeah, if that you know, if that's I'm hoping they've dialed in some of the input leg stuff.

It's that's a tivty.

But you know, tile based tactics game doesn't really matter too much on that one.

Actually, I could just play that on there pretty pretty happily.

Sunshine source that come separately to it as well, I can't.

We got Strikers as the one we did get post launch, So yeah, there we go.

What what geektoo game would get Mike to go verticalesque?

Lord incredible.

The one that woud make me the most vertical and it would never happen is Rogue Leader.

Can you imagine if they put Star Wars Rogue Squadron two Rogue Leader on there and it was like, because that game has just the digital clips of the original trilogy even more so than other license games, it is so not happening.

Yeah, that one feels especially like it wouldn't happen, Like would they have to probably have contracts where it's okay to like use the people's likenesses, but I don't know.

Still it just seems like a landmine.

You're writing, there's something about that, but in the realistic realm of super just released.

Those games on switch though, just put the entire Row Squadron just kind of do it make it happen?

Yeah, even Rogue Squadron one haven't played that in forever, So yeah, there's yeah, you're right, those plenty of of their events happenings here.

I'm sure we're going to be getting some fun announcements, and you know, at the end of the year game awards, not so much from Nintendo at that, but from the industry in general, we'll hear about all sorts of fun stuff there.

The Game Awards have been pretty good announcements lately.

I feel like, yep, all right, uh, they sold six millions switched to so far.

That's yeah, it's good.

It's doing good.

So just about as many Mario Kart Worlds, so hey, those things are they are as selling?

So moving on long over there.

Yep, make a lot of money.

Maybe not enough money, no.

Because they're they're increasing prices.

Is about everything, but the switch to and for games itself, This was Nintendo saying that they're doing this in response to market conditions right in the US, so tariffs and things like that.

But this is some big increases.

Like the switch O led is four hundred dollars undred fifty dollars, four hundred dollars.

That is a twenty seventeen console of a nicer screen, that is four hundred dollars.

Well, even a standard switch, right, a standard switch, which is actually just the twenty seventeen console is still three hundred and forty dollars.

Three hundred and forty dollars.

It was three hundred.

A switch light is two thirty was two hundred.

Even controllers, the joy cons were eighty dollars now they're ninety dollars.

Even things like oh, you want to get a Ntennel sixty four controller, you stupid asshole, Well that's fifty five dollars.

That are fifty Why not you're on the switch to side.

If you want to get uh a pro control, that was eighty five.

It was ninety for the doc set one one twenty five, a may Bow Legacy a me board sixty dollars another twenty uh the Alarmo is a ten dollars more expensive.

It was one hundred hundred ten was killed.

Now, good god, I just the switch over that four hundred dollars, that's what that sends me.

A lot of this is bad.

I just can't believe that.

Like, shame on you for trying to sell switch ol at for four hundred dollars in the year of our Lord twenty twenty five, where the switch to is only fifty dollars more expensive.

Like, I feel so bad for anybody who buys one of those.

I would I would get down, mister President Thumb to save them from that.

No, you can't buy that.

It's Oh I love the switch, Jeff, but my god, it was getting rough towards the end there.

I know the price never went down, and that's well.

But the idea of raising the price is it's almost kind of right.

It's upsetting.

It's upsetting.

Doesn't that just make it feel like, you know, you already did kind of raise the price by never once dropping the price, Like this is the price you could have gone back up to had this been a normal world and you lowered the price to sell more.

At one point you already got away with it.

You want to get away with even more, And of course the answer, of course fucking yes.

But looking at that, like just looking at on the on the line here switch o led four hundred dollars is crazy.

And I get I get.

That we're in a different world in a lot of ways, but I didn't know it was that different.

I didn't know it was so different that you could raise the price of console of a last generation console.

Now, maybe Nintendo's saying to themselves, well, we've seen how are like the secondhand market goes crazy when we when we move on to the next console.

The three ds is were worth way more than we were selling them for not too long after we stopped making them.

It's like, Okay, I don't necessarily think that you should be thinking along those lines, and they're probably not, but still this is uh.

I don't know if it's baffling because I know how we got here, but it's deeply frustrating and stupid.

Now, remember when, like in two thousand and three, the price of the GameCube was one hundred dollars ninety nine dollars, and I.

Know the gig you didn't sell like crazy, but you know this is all though, like.

Two got down to like one hundred and thirty dollars or something.

Like that and had the fucking DVD player in.

It, right, That's it.

It'd be one thing if they had done a price drop here or there, but they never did.

I can really.

I mean, if anything, they've raised the price by introducing the switch old at fifty dollars more for something that was definitely not going to cost them fifty dollars more to make.

It's like, even with terifs, even supply chain issues, what the hell is a profit margin on a four hundred dollars switch olid, which again just has the crustius most ancient innerds in there.

I just can't imagine that.

Was old when he came out, like when he came out.

Yeah, and it's not like they're not going to sell more of these.

They will.

People are going to get him for Pokemon this holiday.

Now, right, and that's like like they like almost yeah, they almost don't know better, but boy, don't please And it's nobody who's listening to this knows this.

I'm not reaching the right people.

Please don't buy a switch o lead for four hundred dollars, even a normal switch like gosh it save money for another six months and get a switch to that will last ye hopefully and hopefully another eight years, because that's just as it's just absolutely wild there.

I am worrying, you know about the switch to price going up eventually as well.

It's causing a little bit of a panic, like get your switch toes now, everybody.

But boy, that's how I feel if I didn't have mine yet, yep.

And I think I think all of this is just going to lead to more ur urgency around getting switched to this holiday, which is definitely what Nintendo wants.

And I do think, like you know, the reasons that they're raising prices probably has to do with components and you know, the dollar losing value or currency losing value globally due to inflation, sure, and you know, and tariffs being real.

But they when they do make these maneuvers, they do it strategically to benefit them on multiple fronts.

That's how Nintendo works.

And one of those fronts is can we make this happen so that the switch to seems like even better, like an even better deal and people feel the urgency to get out there and buy because they're worried about price increases, and all of that is working in Nintendo's favor as well, so They're just not gonna feel like even though, okay, what are you gonna do, not go buy a switch?

You weren't gonna buy a switch anyhow.

All the people are that are really mad about these price increases weren't gonna buy another switch for the most part.

So Nintendo's just not gonna feel any heat from this whatsoever.

And honestly, it's gonna probably come out the other side looking pretty clean and making quite a bit of money now it doesn't really spoil its reputation with us.

Yeah, but like, where the hell else am I gonna go for?

Donkey Kong Binanza?

They know they gotta be buy the balls, like they know, and they're gonna keep taking advantage of it.

And it's like, oh that that doesn't feel.

Great, Bonanza.

Banza.

I don't wonder if it's if there's any kind of like a you know, death buy a thousand cuts here thing, like you know, maybe the game the game key card thing as upset some people to think it's you know, you know, it doesn't affect me that much.

I think it's weird and annoying.

Yes, this, but who knows?

You're right?

It is?

Nintendo?

They really are such a unique position right now.

Unicorn, Yeah, they are a bit of a Unicorns.

But even even in Place Station is reportedly going to be doing You're exclusive, so like the ten was like that one place, It's like, you want to play our games, you need us deal with it.

So again, I just I hope we don't get a switch to drop.

If all of this it's that they can prevent that.

That's something I suppose.

I don't know, but yeah, it's worrisome.

Uh.

Pilot Wings all the Piloting games, pilot Wings, Pilot sixty four, Pilotings Resort have been added to attendom music.

Oh I like pilot Wings.

I like pilot Wings music when I'm playing the game.

I don't think I'm going to seek it out on its own, but I do just like that.

They were like, here's the entire series.

We're not gonna like, here's your one soundtrack for this entire week.

Pilot Wings Resorts.

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

The pilot Wing sixty four music sounds like disco.

It sounds like Casey and the Sunshine Band and stuff like that, and I kind of liked it.

It was pretty good.

So I love Piloting sixty four.

I thought that game was really good.

I liked it's it's a vibe and I do occasionally need to be like, listen to how similar these songs sound to Casey in the Sunshine Band.

So it'll be nice to have that and have access to that when I need it through the Nintendo Music App.

Yeah, exactly.

It will always be there for us.

All right, for me, there's our news.

Why don't we take a break, We'll come back.

We got some super chats to read.

Uh yeah.

Then after that, we asked their community what they're expecting or hoping for in the the Indie Showcase, So we'll see what they say right through this.

All right, Jeff, we're back.

By the way, did you watch any EVO this past weekend.

I didn't have any time to watch Evil, you know, I was dealing with that leak and a bunch of other stuff.

But it sounded like it was pretty good.

People seem to be enjoying it.

She was late, brother.

That Evil was so fucking good.

Every top a was fire.

It was so much fun.

Do you watch it, Mike?

I watched a lot of Yeah, I watched quite a lot of Marvel's Capcom two was great.

I went back and saw the uh Cap Conferences S and K two and that was neat, you know, you know, minus thing was like, oh, everyone always picks the same grooves and there was like a lot of groove diversity, right, So that was neat to see.

That's shaken the compilation of shaking things up.

Street Fighter six still tons of fun.

Uh.

Speaking of Cat CONVERSESK two and that Capcom Fighting collection too, they announced that they're going to be adding four characters to that Street Fighter Alpha three upper release in there, it's like the one complain people have with it because there's like four PSP exclusive characters in that version of the game, and now they're just adding them to that.

And that includes Mocky, that character from Final Fight two that's also in Cap Converce S and K two that I like a lot in that Ingrid, that weird character that's going to be added as DLC for Street Fighter six.

So that's nice.

So they've been pretty good with these great collections, even making them better after launch, So I am excited about that.

Yeah.

Yeah, kept come really kind of follo through and that's what I appreciate that.

Uh all right, Jeff, Yeah, the super chats please, Yeah, sure?

From dat boy, Jerry is jan okay.

Uh, yeah, he's he's fine.

Just had the migrain hit him like as soon as we started the podcast, and we were telling him like, just take a break if you need it, and he took a couple of breaks during the show and he's relaxing now and we're happy to hear it.

Uh.

And did you dog see the ape it dot across rare fortieth anniversary Xbox controller yet so hot all time favorite special edition controller?

We did see that we talked about on the BombCast a little bit.

Saw that it has the Microsoft proprietary wireless in it.

I believe so that that's pretty neat and my all time favorite special edition controller.

I gutta say, I, you know, I like the the idea of the chainsaw controller stuff like that, but really I think of it, Yeah, it's the first thing that pops to mind.

I think My favorite is just like going to the creation lab thing that Xbox had and making my own controller and I I did one in a U of M colors University of Michigan colors and Mike always like, oh, yeah, that's cool.

It feels extra special because I designed it.

How about you, Mike, it's funny.

I don't don't care for Starfield to get that much, but this controller still rules the thing.

That's great.

Great.

I mean, no one has anything bad to say about like sort of the future design of Starfield.

That stuff always worked.

Yeah, yeah, so I still I still like using this is my default PC controller.

Still is this Starfield control?

I just love the way that it looks actually even even still.

Oh it's the Xbox uh service down.

They usually do that when they're like updating stuff, they're like retooling.

So I bet they're getting ready for those rumored new controllers that probably pop off it at games come, we'll see.

Simon from Saskatchewan is here with three in a row.

Let's go with the first one was in one of the two cities in this province, and I got hungry because of two chuck of fucks, I decided to eat at Arby's for the first time.

Damned good.

Thanks, we got another one.

I was at Arby's today.

Don't be shocked, buddy, don't be shop out of that day.

I was saying that this is fantastic, what a great Yes, that's right.

Oh no, you offended, Chuck Chukowski said, what old fucks.

Yeah, that's right, Chuck oldfocks.

Simon's a second one here.

I had delicious half pound roast beef only because of you two.

So where's the Arby's sponsorship money?

That's a good question, does it?

Hinge on jur saying it's best sandwich he's eaten.

Yeah, we got to get back our onboard Arby's and yeah clicking.

See, I should try again.

I was working red Lobster for a bit, everybody on the giant on side, and I didn't get anywhere.

Unfortunately.

Maybe I need to try harder.

I don't know, maybe give it a little bit of a break, but we should go.

Arby's was doing a lot more view game stuff at all, Like what's up time?

They are constantly making video game stuff out of their cardboard and whatnot.

They're doing a weird shovel night promotion right so I don't know where they were shovel nights in their happy meals?

Yeah it was that was crazy.

Uh.

Signon from Saskatchewan's third one Mike ever play Sierra's RTS Evil Genius.

No, No, I don't know too much about that.

I'm gonna look up Evil Genius.

I like the idea of Sierra Online making an RTS game.

Did you ever play Bungee's RTS game before they made Halo?

Was that myth the Fallen Lords?

Myth like the Falling Lords?

No, I don't think it was like.

Really well reviewed and stuff like that.

I'm like, I never I didn't.

I had never heard of it.

And then I was reading reviews in an old magazine and it's like myth ninety plus, like more than ninety percent on their one hundred point of view scale, and I was like, oh, Bungee, Oh shit, Okay, I got kind of curious about it.

Oh yeah, this was kind of late.

And see this is a two thousand and four joint, so pretty late when Sierra is just a publisher under Vivendi.

Right.

Looks kind of neat though, like a classic like Bond style spy based strategy game.

Something interesting.

Okay, Let's see here from David Arlen fifty nine to fifty three, Mike, do you want to have a relationship with a bug the bug lady from Ninja Guiden Rage Mound specifically?

Yeah, but we recorded that as a quick club.

Nobody's seen that yet, right, and I think Sean put it up.

Yeah, oh it's up.

Okay.

I was like, that was fast.

Okay.

I was like, how do they know what we did?

Just do that a couple hours ago, that's fair.

But yeah, actually we did that, and I took a nap and I came and did this.

So answer the goddamn question.

Maybe it depends on the bug.

Kitty cat Man ninety three, says is Dan.

Okay.

I heard he was pooping out his doodoo, but yeah, yeah, you shit himself and he needed he needed a day off.

So I mean it happens to everybody.

You know, it will happen to you among us.

It's incredible when people are here to defend themselves.

Daily Beating says excited to play both Ninja Guiden and Shinobi the month.

I just hope Ninja Guiding can get some sort of s Switch two patch to run at sixty Yeah you told me this that apparently it's running at thirty frames per second on Switch one and there is no switch to version.

That's bananas.

I bet this does get fixed up.

I would hope so, because you know, that's where I would ideally want to play it.

But I am playing no two D action game at thirty fps.

Yeah, no on, that's why he can run over.

The game's pretty good though.

That quicklick is out now, I believe, and uh, I'm a big fan of it.

All right, Taco Belmont Dogs, help me pick my vacation.

Toronto for ae w all out, Portland for the Portland Retro Game Expo, or Orlando for Disney Peanuts.

I mean, I look, I'll I like all three of those events.

I like going to retro game conferences, and the Portland one is very good.

I've heard I like wrestling shows, but I'd rather I don't go to the same park.

I don't know, you're gonna you're gonna be all day in that theme park and your you're good, You're gonna be good all day.

I mean, that's a vacation, right.

Also, like, are you trying to do something for a day, then sure go to the Portland Explayer, go to a wrestling show, and we're looking for like a weekend or more than go to Orlando to go to some theme parks.

For sure.

I would I think even right now, between the aw Thing and Portland, I would like to go to that Portland Game Expo.

I think that'd be pretty fun.

Yeah, Portland Game Expose.

Yeah, a lot of people have nice things to say about that.

I believe a lot some of our friends go out to that one.

Uh, okay, let's see here.

Postman Dan eighty seven says this is my favorite sexually transmitted podcast.

That would suck if that's the only way people could find out about it.

STP, Yeah, the STP is out there.

Zombie Porin says, did Mike and Dan discuss Jeff's next blight club game?

Or were they just arguing about who's weirder in clogging toilets at the kind of funny offices.

I think it was mostly that, Yeah.

It's pet we got.

I think I think we have a costumes that we got.

The artwork madea and it says the costume came here.

Yeah, apparently it was just it was unwrapped and I brought it in and just assumed it was.

Like she is, she does this deal thing and sometimes she gets random stuff and she's like uh, and she's like, you didn't see it.

I'm like, I saw a bunch of stuff.

What are you talking about?

So apparently there's something in this house already that is my costume and I have no idea what it is.

I don't remember seeing any.

Costume all ready to go.

We didn't do bike club, or we're not doing bike Club tomorrow because Dan's out, or it's going to do Thursday so that we can finish up pit my Reikert.

So then yeah, next next Wednesday, I believe it will be almost say what it is?

Just turn, just turn.

Yeah, okay, well I'm looking for I just want to find out the platform and then uh is he going to?

He was going to and then Dan changes mind the costume, so no, he's not good.

Oh no, Uh yeah, I'm looking forward to like starting to pick some games for you guys again.

So we'll see because Dan got to pick last time by himself.

I've be't had to say on any game at quite some time.

All right, let's see here.

Cronos ten Man says, Hey, Jeff, what was what was it like seeing Mikey on kind of funny, so happy and alive and reminded of the movie in Decent Proposal with Mike being Timmy Moore.

Oh I was happy for him, and uh no, it was like I said, they did a great job.

But if Greg touches my Mikey again, I'll kill there you go so it's.

Nice over there, that studio and everything.

Yeah, it was, it was neat.

It was.

It was funny because like Base, just doing the thing I always do, but there was like a desk there, right, Yeah, I could do this.

Yeah, I know this job.

This is nice.

Uh having the desk in the confidence monitor they kept calling it.

You know what a confidence monitor is, so you can see yourself.

Yeah we look good.

Yeah.

Well sometimes Dan asks for a confidence monitor when we're doing whatever things.

But it's not a real confidence monitor.

It's just a stream sent to his computer.

So the bummer whatever gets him confidence, he needs it, he needs it.

Uh from j Man, Nintendo, Uh, Tara lig my balls.

Always.

I mean you can just make me say it.

Yeah, surprise, we haven't got some kind of like Quintent Trilogy remaster compilation or even get those games on ns O or or something if we don't know, Like you know, Quintent made these three well liked top down action RPGs.

It was Soul Blazer, Tara Enigma, and then the middle one which is called I could picture the box for it.

There's something with an E.

Help me, Jeff evermore?

Uh no, man, Usually it's soul Blazer.

The one.

I can never freaking remember eaters only chat helps, lusion of guy, illusion of Guy's okay, sorry, that's what I see because a guy is like that giant Earth in it.

So I kept thinking Earth, that's it, Thank you, Chatt.

I was going to Guy, but yes, they should do something with it.

I kept thinking of EVO search for Eden and sure yeah.

I was like, that's once you said, and it wasn't whatever secret of evermore.

I was like, maybe it's EVO.

I don't think so.

Dean L.

Bowling says, I love this Dog podcast.

We love you.

Dean Bowling shouts out to you, I love Dog.

Chris Pratt ninety nine says, Hello, this is Chris Son, but YouTube won't let me change the name any chance.

If Mario Arcade at the Indie Direct want to play it on the Avengers set, that's right.

Star Lord is like still going to be and stuff.

They even said that at the end of Guards of the Galaxy three.

Yeah, who are they going to kill?

That matters to star Lord and the next Avengers.

I know they're just going to keep doing it.

Yeah.

No, you'll never get that, Chris.

You sorry, No, that's right.

In fact, what you.

From hey you Peka Blue.

Oh no, they joined them, Hamilton Tier, thank you so much.

Hey, people appreciate it.

Michael R.

O'Leary says, time to sign up for some virtual run Disney events.

Mike, the Christmas medals are Muppet themed.

Oh man, shit, I was goot to say absolutely not never Christmas Muppet.

Virtual run Disney.

I think it's just good FA.

I think you just tell them, yeah, I'm gonna run, you know, thirteen miles or whatever Earth Half Marathon is, and then you tell them you did and I don't know if you've proved some mound and then they send you a medal.

I want a Muppet metal Okay, yeah, I'm gonna look yeah, yeah, let's look.

Into this and then hey, you Peeka Blue, says Mikey, move to the bay and be my secret mistress.

Wow.

Yeah, all right, that does it for the Superchats for now.

That's great.

You did a fantastic job with super Chats.

Okay a second, so right now I'm looking at the virtual events and it's all for the Summer one, which is okay, Pi's of the care being Jungle Cruise.

God damn it.

Where's the Disney one?

Okay?

Run virtual Christmas muppets.

I gotta see if it's like if they get me a medal with a goddamn Kermit dressed up like Bob cratch of Jeff, I.

Just like pay them money, right, Like, I gotta pay them money to take to partake in this.

Okay.

So it's the money it gets me.

The metal, probably not the running.

It's not like muppet Christmas care.

Okay.

So if you run a four K, you get miss Piggy and Foo Foo medal.

Okay, if you do uh oh or also as a four K, you could get a oh you like this, a Gonzol and Camilla medal.

Oh fuck, aren't that hard?

They're all four k and then the other one is uh Robin and Kermit.

Okay, okay, half miles that's not that bad.

That's not that that's two and a half miles.

Yeah, that's what I do that walk most morning.

Okay, we'll get into that maybe.

All right, So there's that.

Is Mike a muppet, No, but I am.

I'm a muppet of a man.

He's a muppet of a man for sure.

I'm a man of a muppet, very manly muppet.

Actually, yeah, yeah, I'm a Jason, a seagull in your water Walter, Yes, yeah for sure.

Oh one more just popped up there?

Would I agree that?

Yeah?

From The Uncharted Wolf ninety four eighty Jeff, thank you for pretending that you'll play Medal Gear solid too and making me happy for once.

I will.

I just want to do it on stream.

I know you'll get distracted by something like Sam and Max instead.

How yeah, I would play some Sam Max I've always been I I think I played that.

Luca, not the LucasArts one, the Telltale Ones.

Thank you the Telltale Ones a little bit.

Thought that was pretty good and it made me want to go back to the og.

Yeah they're okay, they're not They're to me, they're nothing compared to the LucasArts One.

I love that thing.

Wiley Jenkins also has a super chat here.

My friends and I are deciding between Cleveland and Milwaukee for a baseball weekend next summer.

Any ideas and a few must do things in Cleveland?

I mean, yeah, you know you're kinda if you've been here, you'll want to go to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and check that out, for sure.

Great breweries here, Great Lakes is probably the biggest brewer.

You could do like a nice tour of and go to the Yeah, and right right near there is going to be the sixteen bit or Pins I think it might be called now, which is the Great Arcade Bar.

I like a lot.

There's also an amazing tiki bar not too far from there called Porto, So that's fantastic stuff as well.

We have a pretty good natural history museum and scize museum.

But yeah, you know, I think Milwaukee's also a great city though, So you over to time either way for sure.

Yeah, yeah, and I bet the beer in both.

You could go see the the Crispus Story House if you're into that.

That's the thing they do here.

When do they normally do the Hall of Fame the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concert, because maybe you get like time it up with that like it usually is some time in this summer actually, but yeah, maybe try to time it up with that and do both.

Oh, they saw dortmunder Gold as their standard Marcus, Yeah, that's still their go to.

It's great Thorp under Gold.

There a Great Lakes Brewery.

There's all.

There's a bunch of brewies and not one even right by Great Lakes there called Market Garden.

That's also very nice, so tons of fun stuff.

Chuck says, the most thing to do in Cleveland is to get on a plane and leave way.

Oh one more, David Arlene fifty nine to fifty three, you kind of sound like muppet Master shake.

I get that, I get that.

Oh sure.

I was trying to get Greg Miller to come to Cleveland because we can give him a as seen in Superman Tour of the City.

Yeah, I mean they have one of those right as soon as you get off the airplane when.

You go get your go get your luggage.

You would love that.

That was one of my favorite things in that movie.

So especially my favorite thing of the trailers being like I know what that is, I know where that is they do?

They do the concert in La Now that's horse what that?

What?

What fuck?

We're at the Hollywood Pool What eat shit are you would say?

At the Peacock Theater that bullshit?

The one that was the Microsoft Xbox Theater and they had all those like fake like like Hollywood Walk of Fame stars but for Xbox events, and now they're done because they've changed to the Peacock Theater and.

Like just a couple years before that.

I think it was the Netflix theater.

Yeah, horror of a theater.

It changes its name every couple of weeks.

It's a damn slot at Jeff, We're back.

We asked their community what they are predicting or hoping to see from the Nintendo Indie World Showcase trails to Badger says, there will be at least one cozy cat game.

It does.

Sorry, there does feel like these shows, we do see trends.

Sometimes it's like oops, all farming games or oops all cozy games about an animal who runs a bet and breakfast something like that.

Yeah, yes, for sure.

I mean, for one thing, those games wouldn't make sense in a lot of other places.

So they do have a chance to like breathe here, and I think that, like, that's if you're making an indie game, you kind of have to go after a niche, and that's a strong niche.

So I get it.

We'll see about We'll see what trend actually pops up in this one.

But I don't hate I hate anybody.

Even when we did have that one where it's like that that was eight farming sims.

That's crazy.

I was like most of those looked pretty good.

I didn't play I don't think any of them, but uh yeah, I don't know.

I guess really just what I want from this is a surprise I didn't know I want, so that's really hard to predict.

And then if it's like, oh, what is something you would want to see, I like, you know, actually like this first response here, so I'll just read that from James Pies.

I really do just want Hates two to go one point ero, because yeah, we're in that weird point where it's like we're far enough away from the launch of early Access that it's like, Okay, I could go back and get caught up on some of these updates, but I I haven't been playing, so im I probably can just wait now for it to go one point oh, because that's gonna happen soon.

So yeah, I want that to happen.

I kind of wanted to be a shadow drop.

I don't know if that'll happen, but that would be great.

Yeah.

I think there's still maybe as a world where this is like the big part of it.

Oh yeah, And I was like, cause it's it's coming.

They released that last update for the early access version, Like this is our last update until one point oh, so in one point has got to be this year, so it could be.

I mean, you know, I'm really excited.

I played some of Early Access right when it came out, and I liked it, and I was like, Okay, that's good.

I got a taste.

I am now gonna wait till one point oh and really just go nuts on this game.

And I am gonna go so nuts on this game on switch To.

Ah, yeah, that's gonna rule on there.

This is one.

This is like one of the biggest releases for the switch To for the rest of the year.

It's like right up there with Metro Prime four for me, I can't wait.

Yeah, I mean, and it's it's PC and switch To or switch exclusive at launch, So yeah, playing it on switch Too sounds fantas to me.

And I bet they will really dial it in for that hardware because they probably are one of the few indie studios that got switched to dev kits and so they'll they'll want to take advantage of that.

So I bet this game is gonna run like a dream on switch Too, and I look forward to seeing that.

Jami H one two, two four, says Yuka or Playley gets a date and blue Prints is one more thing I want to blue Princes is enough a big deal for other people.

I'm always like, so I can't get a stock of that game or guess that's of that game stock because we to me it's amazing, it's one of the great games, and then so many people will tell me it wasn't for them.

I guess, how did it do?

Do that game like sell a lot?

I think it did pretty well, but I I, you know, for a direct, you got it?

Like, I think a lot of that is like do the people putting together the direct like a game like that?

And I think they probably do.

So I bet the game does show up in a showcase and they do treat it like a decently big deal, which is still I mean, I bet the game will sell fine on.

The switch to I don't know if it's gonna be like a one a one last thing kind of thing.

No, right, yeah, Yuko Replayly is interesting because I never played that original game because everybody just sort of immediately said it wasn't it was okay.

So I don't know if this remaster is so good that sounds like it sounds I have to check it out.

Maybe.

I don't know if I'm that excited about Yugo replayly.

Yeah, I mean if if that game was close to being pretty good and it just was like it missed in a few spots, I'm excited if like they go in there with a strong editor's hand and improve that game, and then they'll be like, oh man, that three D platform.

I always hoped it would be it turned into that, that that would be great.

I don't know how much faith I have in that happening, though, because it's difficult to make a good one of these.

We've seen this over and over again.

All right.

Next one is from Hollyspeed Clothing.

No Solke song News.

Yeah, I think we're both not believers this time, right.

No, not for this, not for the indie world.

Uh not with games come games, calm coming up so fast, let's hear.

The next thing is uh screaming Matt into everyone's surprise.

Beastie Ball, the turn based Pokemon like volleyball game and a game made for Jen gets shown off here and releases on switch To twenty twenty six.

I remember seeing this on an SGF or something.

It looks interesting.

Yeah, I remember thinking it looked really nice.

Yeah, okay, I want to see beast Ball.

Let's do it.

Then Matt has, uh, this is Deep rochalactic.

I believe that is Deep rockalactic.

Correct.

Yeah, yeah, I never played these very much.

I would.

I would love to play these games very much.

You know, a four player going work together, start digging, someone starts digging a hole, and then you start going you discover stuff.

Yeah, I would.

I would love to see this on Switch too.

That was Oh my god, I didn't I've never played this game on Steam overwhelmingly positively two hundred and seventy eight one hundred thousand reviews.

Right, it is a massive hit, Yes, it was.

Wow.

Okay, it's also one of those one that got a huge second win during the pandemic.

Ah, that makes sense.

Twenty twenty, that makes sense, joys.

He says, return the Obriton too, there's another ship, Jeff.

Yeah, I just want to see Lucas pope, right, just give.

Me a new game from him, that would be great.

Man love Obradon.

And then next up we have ham in a Texas says Blueprints.

I mean I do hope we get Blueprints on Switch.

I think it will happen, yeah, I would even mind like having that version.

I kind of want to like just keep resetting it until I can somehow do the day one run of that game.

I think it'd be fun to do one of those.

Well, we will find a time for Blue Sprints.

We gotta get Blue Sprints happening for sure.

That's yeah, we've been busy, but Blue Sprints, it's just too good of a a plunk.

I even just looking at that, I like that game a lot.

It has been fun playing Missed and being like Blueprints is even more of a mislike than I gave it credit for at first.

There's just so much of that DNA in there.

It's great.

Yeah.

I was like playing Blueprints and was like, kind of think about miss should I be playing Missed?

A love these kinds of games so much, and I didn't realize It's like, yes, a lot of these games were just straight up inspired by it.

The switch Will five's got Slay the Spire too, which is yeah.

The game does not have a release date and Steam it just says twenty twenty five.

People still love that first one.

Monster Train two did pretty well when it came out this year, so people still have a hunger for these deck building roguelike thingies, right, yep.

Yep, definitely.

Yeah.

Monster Train is doing very well right now.

Well, what Davis says hand Tight Golf too, Yeah, that seems inevitable.

They gotta take advantage of the power of the switch too with the hend Ti Golf.

Now, yeah, Henti Golf.

Just there's so much going on in that game.

Really never was meant to run on the Switch one.

It always did switch to do a sequel bring it to the Switch too.

I did get Hotshots Golf three for the PS two for eight dollars at a used game store the other day.

I've been a golf mood.

Golf Week's coming up, you know, yep, not long from now.

And ten Derek SIT's Tides of Tomorrow Ties of Tomorrow?

Do you remember this one.

From the makers of Road ninety six?

Okay, that doesn't help Tides Tomorrow challenges.

You just survive the troubled ocean planet of Ellend, as well as the choice is made by your friends and favorite streamers.

Uh wow, Okay, this game's weird.

Yeah it's yeah, it kind of what is this a first time might It looks like a deep rock glactic but more subnatica ish.

But now that's maybe not the vibe.

I'm gangs.

I have no idea, I have no idea.

Yeah, there's a screenshot here of someone riding on a jet ski.

Is this a water World bike?

Oh?

I would like that, it would pretty cool.

Chris two cases against all Odds.

Nintendo's licensing one of their ip to an indie studio again.

This time it's the Game Kitchen making a two D pixelar size growing action RPG version of Fire.

Then I wake up and the screen actually says f ero pretty derby falcon running down down.

That would be pretty if they look if they if they if you want to get anime ladies and make them f eros, that'd be pretty funny.

Yeah.

Right, And they just have like like a you know, like a the flap of the car.

Yeah, they got flaps.

Those Tommy pencil says Leasureship Larry wet Trees.

Try twice of course.

Yeah, switch you needs, Yeah you need to switch you for that as well.

Yep.

I just can't.

I just can't imagine what this game is like every time I look at this.

Uh, Michael Rice is meta the hollow or demo drop?

Damn?

I forgot about Mena the Hollow or Jeff, Yeah, they could have news that's coming out this year.

Still, right, they get supposed to.

I haven't a Fantasy critic, so it better.

Oh that has a that's October three for us actually has a release day coin iss Team Okay, yeah that's right.

Yeah, that was one of those October games.

Okay, Mina the Hollow.

Hopefully more Rush forgot that we are getting the game.

I'm so excited for that.

Club Games is just so freaking good.

I love the game Boy color vibe of this one.

Really looking forward to men as hollower, Me too, Doctor Right says Squarekes presents Free Tanner Reactive the Harp, Harpsichord Chronicles Part one or some similarly named weird ass RPG that's out of nowhere instead of a Ofpacce nine remake.

I'm getting mad about this, can't you tell?

Uh?

Hey, look, this is the indie show anyway, is ever gonna happen here?

Yeah?

I mean there always could be like one of those weird like it's an indie game, but it's being published by Square Enix, popping in there.

But yeah, your final Fantasy nine's continue to you should lose faith in that.

I'm sorry they put a name here, says that one niche game on your fancy critic you really need to hit.

And this is is this seat taken?

Oh man, I wonder what that is?

Is that it looks like a game where a bunch of geometrical shapes go to a bus.

There's a yeah, here are geometric shapes drive buses.

Cozy game.

There's a demo on theme.

I kind of want to check it X.

It looks pretty cute.

Do middle Crossing says clown makeup.

I believe that is a silk song reference right there.

And then Lenny Cool Dick Denver says, give me an update on one of these.

Also, I'll send Jeff thirteen playing hot Dogs.

There's Unbeatable and Demon's School.

Oh sure, yeah, Big Tony basic I says wordplay.

Yeah, bring wordplay.

It's got a touch screen you can just that'd be great for use the on screen keyboard.

You don't need the on screen keyboard though, because you're just picking from your boggle playfield.

Still playing a lot of word wordplay.

It's awesome.

Jerrem says Yoku's Island Express that was one of those early which one indie Games.

That was surprisingly good and I think a lot of us just picked it up.

Oh yeah, because you have something to play like that.

It's snake Pass, a golf story that was you know, all part of that.

This is the Pinball Metroid Vana, which is it's exactly what it sounds like, and it's it was pretty good.

I liked it quite a bit.

A sequel feels like that's something that could easily happen.

I was like, who made Yuku is on Express?

It's Villa Gorilla.

I'm like, okay, what have they done since then?

And according to Steam at least nothing, So.

I bet they are working on a sequel to this.

I bet it's been wow.

So yeah, I would have liked to see what that looks like.

Hopefully they must be working on something all right.

Then next up is We'sman Expression thirty three.

That is I don't think that.

Studio exists anymore real quick for Yoku they.

Disbanded and that makes sense.

It too bad though, that's a fun game.

Yeah.

Expedition thirty three in some ways is an indie game.

They had a I guess they had a publisher so or publishing help.

But a lot of indie games have like companies that do publishing for them, And it's not exactly what we mean when we were saying whatever, we know what we say.

Indie Game Expedition thirty three kind of counts.

Yeah, Jade Kipps is Lord of the Rings, dollum.

They've just been messing up that franchise left and right.

Apparently that Tales of the Shire cozy game is bad.

Also, what the hell?

Oh really, jesus?

Yeah, is it Embracer owns Lord of the Rings and does someone else owns some Lord of the Rings and Amazon.

Just owns Lord of the Rings.

Now I can't, I don't know, but yeah, so I don't.

I don't know what's going on there because uh that minds of morea game even come out that that happened, Remember that?

Remember that one came out?

Also, yeah, they're doing Blaze and Noah says, fourteen minutes of Farm STIM's a distinct possibility.

It tells us was a fifty seven on metacrits.

Is Marino?

Holy crap?

Oh?

Almost Blake Club?

Oh?

Eypsy says the Drifter that's that really neat point and click adventure game.

Uh, the Battle Drifter that I played on Mega Man one night.

I need to go back and play through the rest of it.

Yeah, that'd be that'd be great for switch to.

Absolutely should go on there.

Uh yes, I did also miss this one for Nick Turbo.

I guess all the emails their powerwash simulator too.

That's right, that is happening.

That's right.

Yeah, that'll that could pop up there.

The Drifter as well would be neat to see.

I think that game.

It seems like it could use a Spotlight and Indie World Showcase.

Spotlight would go a long way.

Uh.

Warning, Cliff says Coffee Talk Tokyo.

Did you play the other coffee Talk?

Never talked, never touched a Coffee Talk.

I watched a lot of the Mike Myers sketch on SNL, but never played one of these games, so now sure.

Uh.

And then next up here from Hey You Peek a Blue, it's a prediction on a Wish Wish mixtape.

That's that really neat Ana purna kind of like vibe coming of age game that I played it.

I loved it.

Holy shit.

I like I know that they like did some sponsorship with us.

Uh No, I legitimately loved mixtape.

It was the game I probably thought about the most I no concept of before I went to Schiff Like coming out of it's like, holy crap, I cannot wait to play that game.

It's a bunch of vignettes of the of this this young group's lives and it's sort of told as an autobiographical tale where she's like narrating to the camera but the other people can hear them, and she's like explaining what's going on in her life and all the decisions she's making, and then it's punctuated with like these really cool moments of like Elongated Warrior where type games.

Yeah, I'm just into everything it's doing.

Coming out on PC, PlayStation and xboxes.

We don't know if it's coming on Switch yet, so yeah, they should bring not get me Switch.

Shit, it looks deep.

Yeah, I hope they do.

Dwarf Fortress has money.

Shit, I have never played a Dwarf forchrist, I have to admit.

So.

Dwarf Fortress is.

A Jeff Grub asked Jeff Grub game, and yet I've never been able to have the time to like really get into it.

I tried when it finally got the version released for Steam, and that they're like, you know, they had a thing where it's like for a long time they were like, we're not going to try to, like, you know, make a ton of money from this, and then I think someone needed money working on it, so they commercialized it in a big way and it was a huge success on Steam.

I don't know if that means it like shows up on Switch or if that makes sense.

Tan says Alabaster.

Excuse me, Alabaster, don do it.

Let's dwarf.

I'm sorry, go ahead, yeah, Tan says Alabaster.

Don.

This is the fall up and people may cross Co, which is like Rosco is one of the most interesting and ambitious indie games.

I was playing it.

I liked it a lot.

It's I was at thirty hours.

I kind of just you know, lost a little bit of gas there.

But it's it's very neat.

This is another top down two D action game with lots of puzzles and things like that.

Doesn't have a release date or anything.

The last up, the demo has a release date.

Let's see here, now give me the update here.

They're gonna be a games come and we will, Okay, I find the demoversity.

There's oh, in September, they're gonna Lombo this demo September.

Yeah, maybe we'll talk about that here.

Sure.

Absolutely, Uh Wiley Jackets as a card based rugby themed metro vana, Okay, I mean it's not out of the Roman possibility.

Dean Boyce says The Ma too.

I never played the MA Jeff.

I played some of them all.

I thought it was all right, But I don't know the way Thunderfold's been going.

I doubt it.

Drunk Kid ninety two says Zeno Saga Trogy.

It won't happen to say it as often as possible, in as many places as possible, or it'll never happen again.

You know, probably not the indie thing.

But I do wonder, like what we're gonna do with Xeno Saga is that?

Like, who were the publishers on Zeno that was?

I think it was banned.

I was because that was it was when they're in between uh, Square Enix and Nintendo.

Is when Zeno Saga happened, right, okay, And that was the PS that was their PS two output, and those games were just known for being a lot even then.

Yeah, it's Nampco and everywhere but Europe, where it was actually just Sony.

Yeah, that was a Namco joint.

Yeah, so it's a little weird because you'd have to get I mean, you know, it's had a worse band on Namco all the time, So maybe it's not that weird.

But I don't know how interested Nintendo is in Xeno Saga really.

Right.

Next up is Mikey Michael O'Leary.

Sorry, I didn't need to call you, Mikey there, Michael.

I don't know if I want to get too familiar three Farming Sims.

I mean, there's a pretty decent over under on three Farming Sims, you know.

Yeah, I would even.

Like put it like at three point five and maybe still take the over.

Marcus Aurelius says there will be at least one awesome looking indie jerky g that nobody has heard of yet.

I'll see if Stars or Chain Deckoes.

Yeah, it seems like we do get like one of these, two of these, three of these a year now, and they're pretty good.

So yeah, I would be excited to see another one of those.

Let's see if Stars expansion come out already.

I can't remember people said it was I don't know, was it a Blessed Many shoot Adventures?

Yeah?

I like that game a lot from last year.

This is a Zelda but as a twin stick shooter bullet hell thing, it's really neat.

More people need to play it.

I'm sure, my god, I would maybe even replay it because it's like it's a pretty breezy game and having an on switch to would be great.

Yeah, many shoot adventures would be fantastic.

Kurt Man two K twenties is hopeful for Hayes two as my PC sucks.

And then Christian has Peak.

Man, I I really like when we played Peak.

We played a few of those games.

They're always fun.

I Peak was definitely my favorite of those proximity Chet Proximity Check games.

It was really fun when we were all playing it.

I just love the way the stupid faces look on these characters.

It's good.

I haven't seen any of this game come out on switch, so maybe this one does.

You know, it's kind of the most.

This one's massive massive.

They've all been successful, but this one.

Imagine they do this and like, instead of the faces even they just put your camera thing on there.

Right geez, yeah, they could do both.

Right, they have your faces and then have the thing hovering above you and stuff.

Man, that would be fantastic.

I think you'd love that.

They should do that.

They should make that happen.

There should be more prox chat games on console.

Yeah, console players need to see what the fun is.

All right, Thank everybody.

That was fun, appreciate all of those predictions.

Why don't we take one.

Looking forward to this indie world, looking forward to it.

I think it's gonna be fun.

Yeah, I'll definitely.

You know, it'll be neat to see some stuff that you're kind of upe unquote hoping for.

But you're right, it will be the game that you never heard of before that you get to see for the first time, and now you get to look forward to that game.

That's what we'll be exciting here for sure.

Yep.

And that's exactly what I want.

So yeah, looking forward to it.

Thursday, we'll talk over it.

Let's sake one more break, we'll be back.

We'll talk about some Nintendo games that we've been playing.

All right, we're back, Jeff, been playing any Nintendo games recently?

Yeah, I mean I'm still picking up Donkey Kong here or there.

I have not done the postgame stuff, have not completed it anyhow, just kind of going through clearing out levels a little bit at a time, and then joined that I kind of figured out what I was supposed to be doing for the post game.

It's like, oh, okay, so I can.

I'm just kind of going along the right path anyhow.

That games still rules, still fantastic.

I did finally try the DK artist mode right after doing Mario Paint.

I'm like, oh yeah, this mouse thing, let me go try DK artists and that it's cool, it's real.

They did a good job on that it.

First of all, I think the biggest thing that makes it pop is it's just so tactile.

Everything you do has this great haptic feedback, so like when you are you know, they give you a model to start with, whether it's DK or something else, and you can begin adding like bulges or start chipping away at stuff, and that all feels fantastic.

But really the most satisfying element of it is the painting, like choosing the color and then like choosing the size of the brush and going in there and painting.

And that has a really awesome sound or have to feel and a great sound to it.

And I found my stuff kind of like relaxing.

Oh my, should I be one of those guys that paints miniatures, I probably should be maybe maybe toy Yeah, maybe toy trains.

Yeah.

Oh man, if Dan doesn't understand dm D, you've got no hope for like a war Hammer for you.

Oh no, something, No, I don't well, I mean but Warhammer has like a point like someone can win, right, So sure maybe that would help him, but I don't know.

But yeah, I was digging that.

And then yeah, more Mario Paint.

Still enjoying very awesome that they released that.

I guess, I guess we should have expected it, but it was just cool to see.

And then then you know, Ninja gotten rage Bound, which is on Switch, although it doesn't sound like the place to play it yet because that thirty frames per second, but yeah, that game was really good.

We did did do the quick look you've been playing a little bit of it.

But I'm very down for what that game is, and I do think that if people, if it does get that sixty frames per second patch on Switch to which I hope it does, people should check it out because it's just like, oh, yeah, this is what a two D action game should be, like, fast paced fun, a nice level of depth in terms of like your your capabilities, but also like just go and and then it like folds itself to your style how you want to play.

Like, I'm not a very patient player when it comes to these two D games.

I kind of want to play it the way I play Super Mario Brothers.

Just run as fast as I can and try to deal with any obstacle while keeping my momentum.

That kind of like gets me going, makes me feel alive, and the game really accommodates that by giving you different builds that you can make, where it's like mine is, if I keep my kill straight going, I get life back.

And so I just kind of want to keep running and kill every enemy.

And I also like killing every enemy in these games.

And you've seen me play.

We always talk about that, like you, I'm like, oh, Mike's just walking past those enemies.

I could never do that.

Here, it's like, well, yeah, because I can't do that, let's make the game reward me for not doing it.

And it works really well.

So just it feels like a game made by people who really.

Understand the genre, and I really appreciate them.

How about you, Mike.

Traveling, you know, I beat Banans, I did the post game stuff.

Yeah, I'm not too worried about going at every banana, at least not right now.

Maybe something I'll go back, but it was done with uh bonanza, but not quite throwing Donkey Kong We did that.

You know, we fixed that Donkey Kong list a couple weeks ago, and you were talking about good Donkey kong Land two is yeah, did you play something?

I played through all Donkey kong Land too.

Actually, that's why I think it's so it's great.

It's it's actually kind of wild how they were able to distill that game on game Boy as well as they can.

It's kind of a miracle.

Like you're playing, it's like, oh my, like especially compared to Super Mario Land one, and of course that was them just like figuring things out, but it's like this, The physics are completely busted in the Super Mario Land one, and then they eventually Nintendo meant with rare ends up making Donkey Kong Land and Donkey kong Land two and Donkey kong Land three, and those games just play like straight up platformers that could come out today.

Like that's how good they feel.

And they're even smart, like with the lower resolution because they just used the bananas to lead you a bit more so there's no real blind jumps as well.

If I go on a banana, I'm gonna land on something here, even like seeing like oh, I'm hearing the game Boy version of Sticker Buy Symphony and that incredible soundtrack.

That's super neat.

Yeah, such a so good time that I actually just went to Donkey Kong Land three and I'm kind of in the middle of that.

And that's interesting because that game has like a pretty involved overworld on the Super Nintendo version, and that's simplified here, which makes sense.

It's kind of neat.

I really you know, that game gets some flak.

I really love it's sort of weird Pacific Northwest vibe.

I think the kind of you know, the blocks of that game are really neat.

I love the aesthetics of it.

Yep.

I feel like Kitty Kong kind of you know, one thing with don Kong Country to Lance, which is the best of the trilogy, it's like you have Diddy Kong is kind of, you know, light and fast, and you have Tricksie Kong who's light and fast and al skin hover.

So it's just a better Diddy Kong at least the Donkey Kong Country one.

You probably want to be Diddy Kong, but Donkey Kong just feels more different.

Kitty Kong feels more different because he's basically just a Donkey Kong again.

So you know, I like that.

The biggest problem with Donkey Kong Country three and Land three is that the music's not as good.

To be clear, for those games, it is kind of a big deal because the music is so good in one and two.

It's a big part of the experience.

But yeah, enjoying that too.

So yeah, I'm really surprised how good those Donkey Kong Land games are.

Yeah, it kind of blew me away.

It's like, I guess the problem was at the time when those were coming out, it was like, I don't there's no need for this.

I have the Super Nintendo game.

And now it's like we're so far removed.

I can just really appreciate these games for what they are and be like, this is a miracle.

I should be grateful that this exists because it's just a cool thing to.

See the exactly I was always popular in it.

Also, I said Trixy Kong, said Dixie Kong, and I know every.

Time, every time, you might as well, who cares anymore?

I can't help myself.

I can't help myself.

Sorry, I turned it out.

I also like I've never played him.

I heard like the Donkey Kong Country games on game Boy Advance are also really good.

It's like rare just really cared.

I guess I don't know if they did all of those games.

I assume they did, though.

Don't forget they also later just did a port of Donkey Kong Country to the Game Boy.

Put that on there because I need to see that one.

Yeah, you're right, Yeah, I love N s o I all the time.

Yeah, it's it's fantastic.

I was also playing The Greatest Collection, which is which comes out in a couple of days on the seventh.

Uh.

I was got cos for that on Steam and Switch obviously works on Switch.

This is a collection of old Greatest Games Greatest one, two, and three arcade versions.

Then Salamander, which is a spinoff Serius.

You have Salamander one and two.

Uh in Life Forest, that's just what they called it in North America.

You also have Salamander three, which is an all new game made by M two who does these collections and they are the people kind of make a lot of these retro Konami games.

They did that recent Haunted Castle remake in the Dominant collection for Castlevania, they did those rebirth games on we that like, yep, Yeah, in Salamiter three is just super fun.

It's just like you know, modern retro shum up.

It feels fantastic, It looks fantastic.

Lots of great features, the things that help you, you know, kind of train and go through these games and kind of learn you have rewind, have a lot of graphical you know, filters and options and stuff like that.

Yeah, I've been in a schmup mood for a while.

Gradius it's obviously a pillar of that genre.

It's good stuff.

We actually record a quick look of that as well, Jeff, so that one will I probably will go up on the seventh, so you can look out for that if you would like to see us checking out that Gradius Origins collection.

Yeah, I think it's really neat.

I hope to do more.

Give me Parodius next.

I want Parodius.

Yeah, definitely another genre that, like I said, we were talking about this in the quick look, we appreciate more as we kind of have more distance from.

Because as a kid.

I think it was hard for me to ask for like one of my one or two or three games a year to be like a shoot them up or something like that, and even or going to like rent games.

I definitely rented our types.

I probably did rent a grad a Gradius every once in a while, but it was like just hard to like waste an opportunity to try a game on a shooter because it's.

Like, oh, they're kind of all the same.

It is how I felt as a kid.

Yeah.

Now it's now that I have the breadth of them all at my fingertips, I can appreciate their differences more and their characteristics.

And you were telling me all about Gradius is weapons a weapon upgrade system, and I'm like, oh, that's really interesting.

And so yeah, I'm glad that we have the opportunity to go back to these games.

So that's that's the stuff again.

On Switch, I think I think you should check it out.

I'm really happy that Konami has been putting on some any of these awesome collections.

Yeah, that's that's why I've been playing.

Jeff, do we have any more super chats We need to clean.

Up here before we finish up.

Yeah, let me take a look.

Sorry.

Just like we were talking about Gradius, and there was also that Darius game from Tito, and so I was checking on Steam and I clicked on Tito Corp.

See what other games they put out on Steam.

You know what time gal is.

Yes, I just added my wishes.

Time goal was the anime uh version of freaking dragons Layer.

It's just a dragons Lay, Like yeah, I was gonna say, I think that's what it is.

And it came out on Steam in April.

Yeah, this is somebody just.

Looks at you just yeah.

People actually usually say this is the best of those.

This is the best one of those there's ever was.

So yeah, I am at some point here I'll get time.

Yeah, let's let's play.

Let's play this on Giant Bomb.

This is like fun.

Yeah, people are Time supposed to be fantastic.

Looks like a Mega Man game to me, if you know what I mean.

My algorithm gave me a girl going deep into hy Pragmata is a Mega Man game, and just like she's like, look at this that's a megabuster, and look at this thing that's basically just an e tank, and look at this thing.

It's just straight from Mega Man.

I'm like, I'm in, I'm buying our fucking selling here.

This is let's go.

It's gonna be an a basic payoff of that thing actually is.

Oh my god, Capcom would be legendary.

That would just be an amazing thing to see.

Mike's not a.

Crazy asshole idiot after all.

All right, let's get to these last handful of super chats.

David Arlene says, you kind of sound like, wait, did I do this one?

I'm up and messaged that one.

Mikey R O'Leary says, Mike you have met me more than once.

I am Mikey for all Lowell.

There you go.

That's fair, that's fair.

And then Matt Rare Monkey just came in here with a play Earthion schmupp Usokashiro Studio really okay, I'll play that all my all my.

Retro YouTube choes have just been covering this.

Yeah, it's another new retro retro style schmup I think Gamesack was covering it.

Sego lord x, I think 's talk about it so good.

Yeah, yeah, this looks very thunder Force for Ish, which is I think that's that guy is why?

Uh yeah, this looks fantastic.

So I would uh.

Love just create aesthetics.

Okay, yeah, I'll check this.

A limited run published it, okay.

And it's one of those things where like they are making a cart for the Genesis even if you wanted to.

Oh yeah, okay, that rules.

Uh I think yes, we are all caught up on super chests now, Mike fantsastic.

All right, then we're about done here.

Played the music man.

I am a schmup.

Move the area battle, Grega, that's supposed to be a good one.

I also I have Radiant Silver Gun I bought on a shop sale forever ago and haven't played it yet.

And that's treasure.

That's like the schmupp they did before Akaruga.

Uh, so I need to play Radiant silver Gun.

That's here.

We should have a we should make an excuse to play a bunch of treasure games sometimes.

I know you did Treasure Treasure Week.

That would be awesome.

Yeah, Warrior World, I would play that wrong McDonald's game on the Genesis.

That's surprisingly good.

We could uh we could tag team Gunstar heroes.

Yeah, got sorrys are so freaking good every time.

I mean for Genesis game, I think for sure.

Yeah, that our shoots riches.

I was at a party and he had like a he had like a retro pie or whatever set up, and me and my brother just kind of played shoots of Rage two for a while and it was made super fun.

Step me and her and my sister in law place streets Rage two, but pretty much every time she's over there, actually, now we do streets Rage four.

All right, bye, everybody.

I'm cus Is that true?

Thunder four five is where the final boss music comes from?

An astrobot?

That's cool, but.

Really that's me.

Oh gods, I always thought gradious sounded like an insult, like I find I find you ship girl.

A little bit gradious.

Me too, fat ass white girls, jesus, all right, break a rough, we could get back to it.

You're as super chests, Jeff.

Yeah, Mike, can you like talk right into the mic loud like?

Did you look like your normal sort of full throatedness.

Yeah, Mike, MANAUGHTI my normal full throated voice.

There.

I am cool, cool, cool?

Got it?

Thank you?

Right?

What was that for?

Is there You're putting a gate on me or something?

No, just making sure that the volume was still good.

I just you couldn't looking.

It's not dropping, yep, it's it's it's all good.

All right, then I figured it out, yep.

All right, are you ready yep?

Bring about them.

Now that we're ashamed of theater, I think I think it's done that.

I think we can take all more break.

We'll come back.

We'll see you.

We look at some predictions of the community for the Indie World Showcase.

P annyway, I'll take you out.

Don't pee on the floor.

Please chat.

You have your last chance, shoah.

You have your last chance to send your predictions, so you better do.

The link is on the If you're in the if you're a supporting you're in the discord server.

Go ahead and your prediction there.

You only have one go, don't fuck it up.

I'm excited for football to be back, and also guilty because it gives people see t E makes me feel bad that people get hurt from my entertainment.

But I'm clicking on the right discord thread.

All there we go.

You're a very musical person.

I know.

What else I about to say.

I forgot.

I'm excited to play some sagat later tonight.

All right, yeah, okay, he's out.

Okay, that's cool.

Almost bought it.

But I don't know if I love the way any of the well, that's not true.

Honda looks great, where you looks great.

I don't like the way Canon Segotte look, I think, and those are like two of my favorite characters.

I'm kind of bummed by the way they look.

Oh the oh the old time, the old time ones.

Yeah, they look they look old.

They made me feel a.

Little Yes, that's what it is.

But they just like they put Segatt in a bunch of rag.

I know that's to get me to buy other costumes.

I know what they're doing.

Okay, no ship and so.

I got to kill woke.

Yeah that's true.

The tiger knee woke to death.

Okay, there's that.

No, she was waiting for the for the swimsuit outfits.

Yeah, I mean, who isn't wait for that?

You know?

Oh yeah, somebody meant.

I'm not gonna say they choke somebody actually, Oh.

Okay, and can put this behind that.

Tie?

You upper cut?

Yeah, tell your knee, tell your shot.

They took away all he said, his fireballs.

They only had three fireballs.

Now he used to have six.

It took my fireballs.

You know why why is that because of MOTHERN controls.

As the mother controls, you can't have six.

Controls.

They had to change the entire Yeah, they had to change it.

They had to change the entire personality of the character.

That is.

It's funny, isn't it.

I just can't believe what this world's come to.

Yeah, I think it's funny because hey, it's okay, MOTHERN is okay.

I don't it's fine.

I don't care.

This is what he says publicly.

You guy should hear so the mix.

Yeah, oh yeah, this modern news I don't know.

And yeah, no, it's funny because like it was like, oh, it doesn't affect anything.

The real game was like, no, he does.

He's been doing this since the first is he came out and now you know what happened with Modern he became it became popular and Japan loves Modern.

Yeah, Japan's so now next three fire.

I want to be surprised.

It's like modern is.

Like the Christian said, Japanese aren't real gamers.

I don't think you're like, I think Japanese are too reel of a gamer.

That's whatever, all right, I'm not gonna do Yeah, I'm I'm good to come back.

Uh yes, bring it back.

O u.

Uh, what do you want to do, Mike your show.

I'm ready to go back to it.

Work.

He came out and noticed high whatever.

Good