Critics SLAM The Super Mario Galaxy Movie - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.01.26

Summary

Podcast Summary: Kinda Funny Games Daily – "Critics SLAM The Super Mario Galaxy Movie" (April 1, 2026)

Episode Overview

On April Fool’s Day 2026, hosts Blessing Adeoye Jr. and Greg Miller, joined by Barrett, break down the day’s biggest video game news stories—especially the surprisingly harsh critical reaction to the Super Mario Galaxy movie. They also discuss a wild development in the Mind’s Eye game controversy, a notable studio acquisition involving Shinji Mikami, and various other industry updates. The mood is energetic, irreverent, and laced with signature Kinda Funny banter, poking fun at both themselves and the industry’s quirks.

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Key Discussion Points

1. April Fool’s Day in Games Media (00:45–04:52)

• April Fool's Fatigue: Blessing and Greg commiserate on how April Fool's makes their jobs harder, having to sift real news from pranks.
  • Greg: “Usually you start reading the headline, you’re like ‘Yeah, this is stupid, this is April Fools.’”
  • Blessing: “My job's to compile news… it actually makes my job harder.” (02:03)
• IGN’s Pranks: Both reflect on IGN’s history of elaborate April Fool’s trailers, with Greg recalling past live-action gags and musing on the tradition’s peak with the Zelda trailer.
• Corporatized Meme Culture: They critique how companies dilute memes or pranks, making them less funny as more join in.

2. Super Mario Galaxy Movie Review Roundup (05:18–14:55)

Review Roundup (05:51–08:35)

• Scores & Quotes:
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 44%
  • Metacritic: 37%
  • IGN (Clint Gage): 6/10 - “Ditches an engaging story in favor of a pipe bursting amount of Easter eggs.”
  • Variety (Owen Glieberman): “The movie has no center.”
  • Empire (Helen O’Hara): 2/5 stars - “…for everyone else over the age of five, it's just a succession of loud, bright things happening with no real point.”
  • NY Times: “It’s a meh.”
  • The Times (Kevin Mayer): 0 stars - “…supremely vacuous anti-movie… provoked actual physical discomfort. I had to stab myself repeatedly in the hand with a pen to distract...”
• Hosts’ Reactions: The extreme negativity amuses Greg and Blessing, though both find the zero-star review excessive.
  • Greg: “Everyone’s entitled to their opinion, but Kevin, really Kevin.” (07:48)
  • Blessing: “Zero star movies exist… Mario Galaxy is not one of them.” (16:09)

Greg & Blessing’s Impressions (08:35–14:55)

• Greg: Views it as a collage of scenes with little narrative, but acknowledges that it's colorful and appealing for the biggest fans and little kids.
  • “I wasn’t, I didn’t stab myself in the hand... but it wasn’t peak cinema.” (09:03)
• Blessing: Enjoyed it as a Nintendo adult for the references ("member berries") but admits its emotional and narrative depth is shallow.
  • “If you remove the Mario brand... it’s like just a white screen. It’s nothing.” (13:17)
• Member Berries: Both highlight the over-reliance on nostalgia; for hardcore fans, it works, but doesn’t stand as a compelling movie.
  • Blessing: “The entire movie is member berries... so much of that stuff is paper thin.” (12:03)
• Kids’ Movie Defense: Both push back on excusing thin storytelling just because the film is for kids, comparing to Pixar or DreamWorks at their best.
  • Greg: “There are great kids’ movies, and that’s my thing... Now they’re actually amazing.” (11:09)
  • Blessing: “There’s way better kids movies out there.” (13:16)
• Discussion About Criticism: Differentiating between valid criticism and hyperbole; they’re fine with negative reviews but find extremes (zero stars/stabbing) performative.

Notable Quotes

• “The whole movie is member berries.” – Blessing (12:03)
• “If you remove the Mario IP... it’s just a white screen.” – Blessing (13:17)
• "I had to stab myself repeatedly in the hand with a pen to distract from the howling distress." – Kevin Mayer, via Blessing (07:17)

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3. The Mind’s Eye Sabotage Controversy (24:07–36:10)

• News Recap: Build a Rocket Boy CEO Mark Gerhard claims to have evidence that Mind’s Eye was sabotaged and plans to release it via an in-game mission/DLC called "Blacklist" featuring a playable female character. He also threatens to use the real names of saboteurs inside the game.
  • Blessing: “Are you looking forward to this DLC?”
  • Greg (emphatic): “No fucking joke. I’m there day one... I want to see this fucking incoming cease and desist court order.” (26:24)

Hosts’ Reactions

• Entertainment Value: Hosts are incredulous but delighted by the level of drama and meta-revenge.
  • “Mark, like at every point where Build a Rocket Boy CEO Mark Gerhard can act like he’s not crazy, he doubles down on being crazy. And it’s working for me.” – Greg (28:34)
• Legal and Ethical Implications: They question the wisdom (and legality) of naming real people in a video game.
  • Blessing: “You can’t do that, right? If this is based off a real person… certainly you’re gonna get a lot of money.” (32:49)
  • Greg: “You crack that beer, you say, let’s go, let’s do it.” (33:45)
• Industry Commentary: They point out how rare such public, personal corporate drama is in modern gaming, longing for more “colorful” personalities over faceless corporations.
  • “We don’t have these kind of people anymore in the industry... Everybody’s hiding behind a corporation for their stockholders.” – Greg (29:12)
  • Blessing: “All the crazy corporate people... have to be crazy behind closed doors now.” (29:26)

Notable Quotes

• “I, I, it’s like one of those things of just like it. Again, I have been wrong. Yeah, we don’t believe you. I’m gonna put the receipts in the fucking game.” – Greg (35:22)

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4. Movie vs. Game Reviews: Disparities & Criticism (15:44–24:07)

• Tone Differences: Discussion about the different levels of positivity/negativity in movie and game reviews.
  • Blessing: “It was kind of refreshing reading a bunch of reviews coming in that it’s like, damn, y’all all hated this movie that I totally thought was just fine.” (18:12)
  • Greg: “So much of that comes back to the difference in the product and what you’re doing.” (18:46)
  • Movie reviews explore the full 1–10 scale; game reviews mostly inhabit the 5–10 range due to resource/time constraints and industry focus on successful, marketable games.
• Video Game Critique Constraints: Reviewers don’t cover all low-tier games and tend to focus on higher-profile, marketable releases.
  • Blessing: “It’s harder to find time in our schedules to… play something that might score that low.” (23:04)

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5. Industry Quick Hits / News Bites (52:33–58:30)

• Studio Acquisition: Shift Up (Stellar Blade developer) acquires Unbound, Shinji Mikami’s new studio, with both parties optimistic about creative alignment.

• Nintendo Patent Revoked: US Patent Office reverses Nintendo’s broad patent on summoning characters for battle due to pre-existing claims.

  • Blessing: “That’s a really dumb patent to give out and it’s way too broad.” (52:29–53:03)

• WE News Channel Segment: Headlines include:

  • Racoon (new game) sells 100k+ copies
  • Pokémon Home adds Legends ZA integration
  • PlayStation Plus April games: Lords of the Fallen, Tomb Raider Remastered, Sword Art Online
  • Crimson Desert sells over 4 million copies
  • Soros and Pragmata both go gold

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6. Noteworthy Banter, Superchats & Community Chatter

• Soup vs. Sandwich: The team goes on a comedic tangent about whether a really good soup or sandwich is preferable—with Greg and Blessing staunchly pro-sandwich.
  • Greg: “It could be the best soup in the world, and I’ll take the really good sandwich.” (60:18)
• Community engagement: Superchats drive audience-driven topics, including reviews, career encouragement, and more April Fool’s reactions.
• More on April Fool's: Some confusion over whether real news items might be pranks, highlighting the climate of skepticism on the holiday.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Greg on Movie Reviews: “I never saw anyone [in game reviews] say, I had to stab myself repeatedly in the hand to keep watching the movie.” (15:44)
• Blessing on Mario Galaxy: “For anybody else? There’s way better kids movies out there.” (13:16)
• Greg on Mind's Eye DLC: “We don’t have these kind of people anymore in the industry... Mark is out here being like, I’m going to take these motherfuckers to task… and I’m playing this day one.” (29:12)
• Barrett on wild review claims: “Last time I’ve heard something like this was, funnily enough, someone else named Kevin who broke out in hives because of how much he hated The Last Jedi.” (15:44)

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Important Timestamps

• 00:45–04:52: April Fools & Games Media Chatter
• 05:18–14:55: Mario Galaxy Movie Review Discussion
• 15:44–24:07: Reviews: Movie vs. Game Discourse
• 24:07–36:10: Mind’s Eye Drama & Meta Revenge DLC
• 52:33–58:30: Industry News Roundup (Studio Acquisition, Nintendo Patent, etc.)
• 60:18+: Soup vs. Sandwich banter & Superchats

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Tone & Style

The episode strikes a balance between sharp industry insight and spirited, comedic banter. Hosts are candid, irreverent, often self-deprecating, and always engaged with their chat, poking fun at over-the-top reviews, industry melodrama, and each other. They engage in honest debates about criticism, sincerity in reviews, and the practicalities of games media, all while maintaining their trademark humor.

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Bottom Line

If you missed this episode, you missed:

• A robust, refreshingly honest breakdown of why critics pan the Mario Galaxy movie (with a few legendary review quips);
• A front-row seat to the most dramatic (and perhaps unhinged) meta-event in recent gaming—the Mind’s Eye sabotage DLC;
• Insight into the different cultures of reviewing games versus movies;
• The latest studio moves and quirky industry news;
• And, of course, a highly scientific assessment of soup versus sandwich for gamers.

For in-depth gaming news with humor and community, this episode delivers both substance and belly laughs.

Transcript

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[Blessing]

If you want to get our shows ad free and our exclusive shows, go to patreon.com kinda funny today's gaming news stories include Critics have harsh words about the Super Mario Galaxy movie. Mind's Eyes. DLC will reveal how the game was sabotaged and Stellar Blade's developer acquires Shinji Mikami's new studio. Of all this and more. Because this is Kind of Funny Games Daily. Yo, what's up? Welcome to Kind of Funny Games daily for Wednesday, April 1st. April Fool's Day 2026. One of your host blessing, Addie Oye Jr. Joining me is the legend, Greg Miller.

[Greg Miller]

My last day at work.

[Blessing]

Oh no.

[Greg Miller]

April Fools.

[Blessing]

Oh, damn.

[Greg Miller]

Got you.

[Barrett]

Bless.

[Blessing]

I was like, damn.

[Greg Miller]

This is spring break starting early unexpectedly on Thursday. I'm leaving.

[Blessing]

Damn. How are you doing, Greg?

[Greg Miller]

I'm good. How are you doing?

[Blessing]

Well, did you get got yet by any April Fools?

[Greg Miller]

No, no, I don't think so. I've. Because usually you start reading the headline, you're like that. Yeah, this is stupid. This is April Fools. You know what I mean? I don't know. Do you care about it? Do you find any enjoyment, I think

[Blessing]

since starting this job? No, because my job is to compile news.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

And so when I'm compiling news on April Fool's Day, it actually makes my job harder.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Like one of the ones that did get me as I was putting together KHD was IGN's April fool thing.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, I have seen it. What is it?

[Blessing]

It's pretty good actually. Because honestly, it's one of those ones that actually tricks you. It's not like, you know, the live action Zelda thing where it's like if,

[Greg Miller]

you know, PlayStation announces Project Playmo.

[Blessing]

Yes.

[Greg Miller]

It's next gen Dualsense, this one. You know, PlayStation's got a lot of bad ideas, so that does make sense. Yeah.

[Blessing]

And, like, I think this is, like, loosely based off of patents that have existed. And so as I'm reading it, I'm like, oh, it's happening. And then I get halfway through and I was like, no, this. This can't be real.

[Greg Miller]

And then I remembered, oh, I can't do it.

[Blessing]

They definitely got me on this one.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. I don't know. I feel. It's hard to tell sometimes. Is it just that just because of April. April Fools in general, Is it just a. Not even a young person's. Is it just. Am I jaded by just wanting to do my job and the. The world being as bad as it is, that I don't need bad April Fool's Day jokes? Or is it.

[Blessing]

Was. Was that companies caught on to the fact that they could do April Fool's jokes. And with the Internet and social media and all that stuff, more and more companies jumped in and it's like. It's like when you have a meme that's funny the first day, and then by day three, you start to see company accounts jumping in on the meme and it's like, okay, well, now it's not funny anymore.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, it's that thing right, where, like. And I don't. I. I can't. I worked there many years after. I. I worked there for many years after and participated in the April Fools. But I also just feel like it peaked with the Zelda trailer at IGN when they did the live action Zelda trailer, and everybody thought it was real and it was like, a huge deal. And then IGN always chased that high, even when I was there. And even that was like a little bit of like, all right, what do we. You know what I mean? Like, yeah, this is cool. Yeah. Optimus prime and titanfall. Okay. Yeah, yeah.

[Blessing]

100. I will say, like, the Playmo thing. Like, I. I think this year's Ijan's joke is good, but it's just that I'm tired.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

You know, I blame the holiday more, the quote unquote holiday more than I blame the lack of effort from ig.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, yeah, yeah. This isn't us. Not.

[Blessing]

Although I look like. Here's the thing, right. Did they do other live action trailers for ign?

[Greg Miller]

Yes. We followed up when I was there, and I say we. Like, I had Andy doth. I didn't. But Nick was the director on the Halo Bollywood shoot where they did a Halo live action. They did. They did the whole thing with Halo Bollywood. That was one of them that was live action. I think that might have been the only other live action one that jumps to my mind. But chat keep me honest on that. I forget if I'm wrong about that

[Blessing]

because my thing is if they stuck to hey, we're not even like doing. We're not trying to trick people. It is just straight up every year. We're just doing another fake liveaction trailer.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah movie.

[Blessing]

I think that could just be a fun tradition. That said, now we're in the age where every video game is getting a live action movie so it might just now be confusing if they did it. I don't know. But happy April Fool's Day, Greg.

[Greg Miller]

Happy April Fool's Day.

[Blessing]

Plus, let's get into the actual real news because remember if you're watching live, you can be a part of the show by super chatting in over on YouTube.com kind of funny games. Remember, we couldn't do this without our producers.

[Greg Miller]

There was a Harry Potter Aurors trailer as well.

[Blessing]

Harry Potter what now?

[Greg Miller]

Aurors ORS A U R O R S I this is like okay, why did this one fail? Because it was just like, yeah, who was that deep into Harry Potter? Nick was reading the goddamn Harry Potter.

[Blessing]

Patreon.com is kind of funny. Shout out to our Patreon producers Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Delaney the Psalm Twining for now, let's begin with what is and forever will be the Roper Report. It's time for some news. We have five stories today, Starting with our number one. We got a Mario Galaxy review roundup. I'm sure they're all great for the Mario Galaxy.

[Greg Miller]

I'm sure they're all highfalutin good scores.

[Blessing]

Right now on Rotten Tomatoes, Mario Galaxy is sitting at a 44. Metacritic. The Mario Galaxy movie is sitting at a 37. Let's start off with one from Clint Gage at IGN, who gave it a 6 out of 10 and says the Super Mario Galaxy movie ditches an engaging story in favor of a pipe bursting amount of Easter eggs. But that's not an altogether bad thing. I'll jump. I got like more reviews than general or than usual for this review roundup because there's a lot of shit people have to say about this movie. Let's hop over to Owen Glieberman at Variety, who gives it an unscored review but says not a single one of these characters, including Mario and Luigi, occupies the center of the Super Mario Galaxy movie. And that's because the movie has no center. Helen o' Hara at Empire gave it two out of five stars and says the moments of fan service might keep the hardcore happy, but. But for everyone else over the age of five, it's just a succession of loud, bright things happening with without any real point. New York Times. I just took the headline from the New York Times review where they just said it's a meh.

[Greg Miller]

That's really good.

[Blessing]

Really, really good.

[Greg Miller]

That's really good.

[Blessing]

I like that Kevin Mayer gave it a crazy one. All right, this is Kevin Mayer at the Times. They gave it zero stars, which I didn't know was a possible thing. They titled their review the Super Mario Galaxy Movie Review. Is this the end of cinema?

[Greg Miller]

Wow.

[Blessing]

It's a supremely vacuous anti movie that climaxes with a sequence featuring full screen Nintendo gameplay as if to remind us of the levels of rancid commercial horridom we've reached. The film is torturous to sit through and for me provoked periods of actual physical discomfort. I had to stab myself repeatedly in the hand with a pen to distract the from the howling distress. It's that bad. And that offensive. It was Hitchcock who said, always make the audience suffer as much as possible. I don't think he meant it like this.

[Greg Miller]

Everyone's entitled to their opinion, but Kevin, really, Kevin.

[Blessing]

Let's swing back to a more positive direction. I'll close this one from Glenn Garner at Deadline.

[Greg Miller]

He says, you're watching a movie, Kevin, you're watching.

[Blessing]

He was being tortured. He was in a torture chair.

[Greg Miller]

Go play a game you hate for 80 hours. Deadline.

[Blessing]

Glenn Garner at Deadline says overall the Super Mario Galaxy movie is a fun sequel full of nostalgic references, all star voices and epic animation grounded by the father son. Story of redemption for Bowser, AKA Jack Black. And a sisterly origin story, Princess Peach. Yeah, I see. A sisterly origin story, Princess Peach. Both of which pave the way for more video game adaptation fun.

[Greg Miller]

Greg. Yes?

[Blessing]

Is the movie as bad as they say?

[Greg Miller]

No. I mean, yes. No. I mean I came home and shut the door and Jen's like, how is the movie? And by the way, of course tomorrow we return to in review for Super Mario. You'll have myself, you'll have blessing, you will have Tim, you will have Nick, you will have Andy. So there's full team there to go through and do our usual thing where we, we recap, rank it against the other Mario movies, etc. Etc. You know, in review. Please come watch. Even though you can hear about me boss.

[Blessing]

Talk about it.

[Greg Miller]

Came home last night or two nights ago. Whatever was Monday night, shut the door. Jen's like, how is the movie? And I'm like, I. And I was like, listen, I remember leaving the original Mario movie and being like, that was a collection of scenes that happened back to back to back. There wasn't really a narrative to it that much. I mean, there is, but that. It was colorful. I wasn't, I didn't stab myself in the hand with a pen. But it wasn't peak cinema or anything like that.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

But the more I watched it, especially the more I watched it with the, with, with the band. With the band, with Ben, I was like, you know, this is more enjoyable than maybe I originally thought in the theaters. And I'm the exact same way with this one, where I left that one. And I was like, this was a collection of scenes. Did I nod off at the final battle? I did. I was very much like, all right, we're just doing a thing here. I think personally, I'm more of a Mushroom Kingdom New York. I like that mashup more than we're in space and anything can happen. As I'm not the space person usually sometimes, you know, I don't know, that still holds true. But like what I said, I was talking to another reviewer who were there, who will remain nameless, and he was like, that was a lot worse than I thought it was going to be. And I'm like, listen, I said everything I just said and I'm like, but here's all I know. Tim and Blessing are huge Mario fans and they were talking about how much they enjoyed it and I know how much my 4 year old's going to enjoy it. So Nintendo's pretty happy. They hit the target market on this. What did you think?

[Blessing]

Yeah, I mean, I. I got to sit on it for a while.

[Barrett]

Right.

[Blessing]

You know, in review, I think I'll be able to spill my full thing.

[Greg Miller]

Sure, sure, sure. Yeah, it's just let a little steam out of the kettle.

[Blessing]

Yeah, letting a little steam out. Right. Like, I enjoyed it for what it was. I'm not mad at the bad reviews for it because I totally see where they're coming from. I think plot wise, character development wise, like, there are so many better written animated movies. I look at like peak Pixar, I look at peak dreamworks, I look at the Puss in Boots movie from a couple of years ago and I'm like, damn, this got me emotional. And these are all kids movies. Yeah. I'm sure one of the pieces of defense that people will throw at this thing, throw out the Critics. Right. Is like, it's a kids movie, how serious you want to take it and all that stuff.

[Greg Miller]

But they're great kids movies and that's my thing just to jump in. I won't let you keep going. Yeah, but like, as somebody who watches so many kids movies, the amount of times Jen and I walk to the kitchen crying over like. And I always say, he doesn't know how good he has it. I remember when our movies and TV shows were just nonsense. Now they're actually amazing.

[Blessing]

Yeah. And so, like, for people who are coming at it hard, as for the story for the. I totally understand. And honestly, I agree. Even though I enjoy the movie. Like, my enjoyment of the movie comes purely for me as a Nintendo adult.

[Greg Miller]

Right.

[Blessing]

Like, I grew up on Mario. I am even for this thing as a what, hour and a half collection of sea of random colorful scenes. Right. I'm watching it and I'm like, oh, that's from this. Oh, that's from Mario 3. Oh, that's from a lot of member berries.

[Greg Miller]

A lot of member berries.

[Blessing]

So many. The whole movie is member berries.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Like, then that's the amount of times Chad that Tim went and I was like, oh, there's a song or something's happening that he recognizes. I'm just like, Mario's doing things.

[Blessing]

The biggest compliment and the biggest insult I can. I can give to this movie is that the entire movie is member berries, which is bad. If you're coming to this movie for an experience that is a moving plot or something, that's that you're going to leave and be like, damn. There was substance in how they built Bowers character. Those substance. How they built this relationship between Rosalina and other characters and all this stuff. Right? No, like, it was so. So much of that stuff is so paper thin. But I didn't leave that upset about it because, you know, if I was

[Greg Miller]

My Mario upset level about it would be that I think they flirted with it as a. As somebody who. I enjoy playing Mario video games, but I'm never into the Mario story of the video games. Right. Because we're not doing anything ever really with them. Right. We get to. I mean, one of them calls out this Bowser, Bowser Jr. Thing. And then some of the stuff with Peach in there and some of her relationships where I was like, oh, are they about to. Okay. No, they got. They. They didn't even get to the. They didn't tow the line. They saw the line. We were close. We were in the same room as the line of Doing something different, interesting. So it's like, oh, I would have rather seen them commit to this. I really would have seen rather them do that. But, like, no, it's not on my list of grievances.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

A movie.

[Blessing]

One of the. An argument that me and Tim have had before on the show, right. Is talking about Zelda Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom and how, like, one of my. One of the. One of the complaints people give to reviews of those games that annoys me the most is they say if you remove the Zelda brand from these games, these games would get reviewed way worse. And I'm like, y'. All. The games themselves are good. Like, I told. I push. I push against that for this movie. For the Mario Galaxy movie. If you remove the Mario anything that's like, Mario brand, Mario IP from this movie, it's like just a white screen. It's just. It's nothing. Like, it's absolutely nothing. Like, that's how thin some of the plot is here. And yeah, like, I think that's. Again, that comes back to my biggest complaint about it is that, like, you're waving lights in front of me and I'm like, hell, yeah, I'm Mario, man. And so I love this shit. Right? But for anybody else, ah. Like, there's way better kids movies out there.

[Greg Miller]

100. Yeah. And I think, you know, like, in terms of the plot being thin and all this stuff, I think I always love it when there's a movie that calls itself out for that. I feel like. But there's one line in this where when they show up with Yoshi and Toad's just like, oh, so now the dinosaurs part of the group, it's like, yep, that's all it took. We met Yoshi, and now he's as thick as thieves with everybody. Like, all right, Nobody's wondering about, okay, cool. He's just here.

[Blessing]

That's all about it. More on the in review. But there's. There's a certain character who has, like this flip flop character development of like, I'm on this side now and I'm on this side. And I'm like, y' all did not. You guys aren't giving me any reason for why he feels this way this second and this way the next. Right? Like, it feels. It does feel a little bit insulting at times. Even two kids. That said, like, zero stars.

[Greg Miller]

Let me jump in there. Okay. If you don't mind. And I know you're hosting the show, so I hate it. But there's a super chat from Matthew Ponton, who says, isn't it hypocritical to hate on the movie reviewers disliking the Mario movie while also defending game jerk journalists that dislike the Crimson Desert dislike Crimson Desert. And I think that is a straw man argument here, Matthew, where you're, you're stripping out all of the context where you're just saying, well, you. You said it was okay for games journalists not to like this, but you're mad at movie critics. I don't. And none of the reviews we read for Crimson Desert did Jeff Grubbs say, I had to stab myself repeatedly in the hand with a pen to distract from the howling distress. I never saw anyone say that. It might have been like, yeah, I didn't like playing this. Oh, my God, it was annoying. No one's. No one's talking about stabbing themselves to focus on their job for 90 minutes.

[Barrett]

The last time I've heard something like this was, funnily enough, from someone else named Kevin who broke out in hives because of how much he hated the Last Jedi. That's the last time I've heard someone get, like, have an extreme reaction to a movie. And it's like, all right, come on, man.

[Blessing]

I got two things here, right? One, I don't think we're hating on anybody. Maybe the closest we're getting hating on somebody is like the zero stars. But we.

[Greg Miller]

I called out Kevin. My name. I did say Kevin. Yeah.

[Blessing]

But I'm not even gonna. I've not started my hating on that yet because, like, my hating on that is that me. I have a friend named Lexi. And every year, Lexi likes to put on a movie marathon. And the movie marathon is always with bad movies. And so the last one she did, she put together four really bad animated movies. And when I tell you that's. I can't remember the name of it. There was some movie chat, somebody's going to know it, where all the characters are based off of, like, brands that you find at the supermarket. And it was a movie that, like, struggled to get made. The animation, terrible, right? It eventually came out. Animation's terrible. The characters, nonsensical story. Weird, right? That's a one star movie, right? There are zero star movies out there. Mario Galaxy is not one of them. And that's the extent of like, quote, unquote, hate. I'll give. That's the other thing is, to your point, Matthew Ponton, right? Like, I. I don't think the hypocrite. Hypocrisy comes into play because I don't think Any of us would say, hey, you have to agree with every reviewer out there. You know what I mean? Like, I've read Crimson Desert reviews that I disagree with, and I would talk about those, right? But I'm not over here being like, damn, Paul Tassey sucks. He has a different opinion. Like, no, he's allowed to. Like, the people are allowed to have different opinions on things. Yes. Food Fight.

[Greg Miller]

Thank you very Christ. That's a real movie.

[Blessing]

Food Fight is an actual movie that my friend Lexi forced us to watch.

[Greg Miller]

Lexi. No.

[Blessing]

And when I tell you this was

[Greg Miller]

a sunkissed tuna guy and the Vlastix pickle guy. Hilary Duff was in Eva Longoria. I want to watch it now.

[Blessing]

Legendarily bad movie. I'd recommend it. It's a fun bad watch. Your eyes will start to hurt.

[Greg Miller]

How. When did it come out?

[Blessing]

2010, I want to say. Oh, nine. So we watch the trailer.

[Greg Miller]

Will we get clipped for it?

[Barrett]

Yeah, we will.

[Greg Miller]

Damn, we will get. That sucks. Yeah. Again, like, I just don't hypocritical to hate on. It's like, well, no, again, every review and opinion is a persuasive essay. And I don't think in granted, the paragraph I've read here, Kevin's backing it up enough that he just stabbed himself in the hand to keep watching the movie.

[Blessing]

One Blue sky put up yesterday as the movie reviews were coming out was that movie reviews will really remind you how nice video game reviews are. It was kind of refreshing reading a bunch of. A bunch of reviews coming in that it's like, damn, y' all all hated this movie that I totally thought was just fine.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

And like, it had me being like, man, we gotta explore the scale more because are giving this thing three out of ten. You know, I mean, it was a zero. It was a. I've never seen a zero before in my life. If anything, video game reviewers need to get mean. Like, that's what I come out of this thing feeling like. You know what I mean?

[Greg Miller]

You want to know? I think so much of that comes back to is that the difference in the product and what you're doing? Again, I've said this, I think, recently on Greg Waves. I'm sorry if I said it here of like, I had a conversation around the Oscars with Jenna. Just like, can you imagine how nice it would be to be like, all right, well, this weekend we're going to play all the game of the years candidates. You know what I mean? Like, you can sit there and legitimately watch all the Oscar films In a three day period. Right.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Granted that's a lot of movies, but again, it's doable in a way. Just these aren't. And so my personal interpretation on this as somebody who granted professionally reviews video games, but you know, Right. In amateur level. Right. You know, I had my capstone for college. I had already done my journalism degree. My last class was working at the magazine insert in the newspaper and I reviewed movies there. Right. And so it was this idea of like, I feel like movies and this is not an insult to their work at all are so for the writer to a degree, disposable. And if that's too negative, you get so many more at bats. You know what I mean? I get. I could. You could legitimately, if you were working as a full time movie reviewer online or anywhere. Right. Watch a movie that night. Do you know, do the review during the day, watch a movie that night. You got five pieces in a week versus video game reviewing. That's probably hopefully you, if you're doing five days of gaming, maybe two games to play, depending how big they are, this, that, the other where I think when you're invested in something so long, it's easier to be like, well, I want to give credit for this. It wasn't the worst thing in the world. Yeah, I didn't like Crimson Desert's story, but the combat is there. The I found the fun by finding the open world. Whereas you can go for 90 minutes be like, I hated this and here's all the, the bile and hate I have for it. I'm going to put out and I'm going to move on to the next thing and review something.

[Blessing]

Yeah. And I think it comes to be. I know we've talked about this before, right. But one of the replies to the B.S. that's a blue sky Tim that I got from the post is people saying that like, yeah, like movie reviews will explore the 1 through 10 scale. But like a lot of video game reviews feel like they're exploring the 5 through 10. And one of the added things to that is just the fact that there are so many, there's so many video games and they're so long and we have to pick and choose based off of what do people care about the most. It turns out that the things that people care about are probably going to be the better games that are out there.

[Greg Miller]

We talk about, yeah, the investments, right. From publishers where, yeah. The games that are going to be put out by Sony and Microsoft and Nintendo. Right. Are generally going to be hopefully in that 5 to 10 range.

[Blessing]

And even like, the third parties are indies, right. The ones that like, y' all care about a. A mixtape. Y' all care about a pepper grinder is in my brain. I think we talked about it.

[Greg Miller]

They didn't really care about it, but

[Blessing]

yeah, a little bit about a pepper grind. But even then, it's like there are so many ones out of tens, two out of tens, three out of tens out there. We never bring them up because they just like one. Marketability is not as easy for those games.

[Greg Miller]

Right.

[Blessing]

Like, those games don't show up in a state of play. It's harder to like, surface those games. And why do we. What would we want to even surface those.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

And then also, like, we can't headline a thing that's. That's. We can't headline an episode of Gamescast that is us reviewing a 3 out of 10 game that you've never heard of.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. If you've heard of again, you'd be back to the fact of the time commitment as well. Right. Where it is that idea that. Yeah, I'm sure there the Steam store is littered with one out of tens, but it's that idea of to do that we have to suspend playing the game you really care about to get to it to then make a piece of content. Nobody cares.

[Blessing]

Our time is limited is what it is.

[Greg Miller]

You're back to the argument, right, of the benefit of a newspaper or a dot com that is all about movies, right. Where you can put in the thing that isn't the headline grabber, that doesn't need the attention that is going to be there. Right. That somebody who is think of, you know, when back in the day when even you'd buy an egm, you know, EGM in the review crew can review so many things. Now, granted, far fewer games, but they could review so many things. They had multiple opinions. They could give you that, hey, yeah, I played eight hours of this and it fucking sucked. And here's my 2.5 out of 10 out of this and move on.

[Blessing]

Yeah. What's up, Barrett?

[Barrett]

Yeah, I was bouncing off of your points. Blessing of just like the. How rare it is for big games to pop through that have that kind of marketing buzz that comes out and we're all just collectively like, what the was this? And one of those games not to get too ahead of it is a. Is our story number two.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, oh, before the transition, you. He's trying to host the show.

[Blessing]

I know, right?

[Greg Miller]

You push the button. All right. Nice shirt, though.

[Blessing]

But yeah, real quick I'll push the

[Barrett]

button to make bless transition right now.

[Blessing]

I got it secretly, but I. I want to shout out, like, one of my favorite reviews I've done recently was for Romeo's a Dead man, which I gave a 5.5 out of 10. And that's a rare game that I get to get. Like, I was excited to give a score that low, even though, like, I enjoyed the game, but I'm playing and I'm like, yeah, no, this is not a good. I forget what 5 is on our scale, but this is mediocre. This is mad, whatever it is, right? Like, this does not live up to me being able to say, this is a good game. And it was fun to explore the scale. But also, yeah, like, that's the game I had to make time for, even with the idea of, like, hey, nobody might care about this game, but I care. And so I get to put in the time to play this. But, yeah, it's harder to find time in our schedules to, like, get. Get into the bag that deep to play something that might score that low.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, 100%. And that's your own enjoyment too, right? We work at such a different company than a major dot com. If those still exist, where you're given an assignment and this is your assignment to go do. Yeah, it could be that you walk in like, yeah, we put that on the calendar for next week, but I don't like that. I'm not gonna play it. Okay, cool. It's not worth a review. Okay, cool. Strike it. We'll put something else.

[Blessing]

Exactly. Let's talk about a game that probably would have came in at under a 5 out of 10. Story number two, New Mind's Eye Mission will reveal evidence the game was sabotaged. I'm reading from Rebecca Valentine at IGN Kind of funny.

[Greg Miller]

Games Daily award winner Build a Rocket

[Blessing]

Boy CEO Mark Gerhard says that the studio is preparing to add a new mission to its game, Mind's Eye, which will include evidence supporting his repeated claims that the game was sabotaged by bad actors. Speaking to Games Beat, Gerhard claims that the new mission will be called Blacklist and will feature a female playable character. Quote. We're also using that to share some of the evidence of the sabotage with the community. He did not provide further information as to what this would entail. However, he previously told Insider Gaming that the studio was also planning to use the names of people who had committed the alleged sabotage in the new mission. Quote. And let's have some fun with it. He said at the time. Let's tell the Community the story before it even plays out in court. So, you know, I think. I think this is not us being the victim. We've taken a couple of punches. We've kept turning the other cheek while we got our house in order. And now it's time to start doing this right back at them and, you know, so let's have some fun with it. At the end of the day, we're storytellers. We're game makers. End quote. The sabotage Gerhardt is referring to is his claims over the last year that there was a concerted effort to trash. Sorry, to threaten. No, to trash the game studio or the game and the studio by both internal and external saboteurs. He claims that the saboteurs paid off influencers or paid for spam bots to denigrate the game on social platforms. Gerhard has yet to provide evidence to back up these claims, and former publisher IO Interactive has denied their merit. In the same. In the same Games BE interview, Gerhard said that authorities in both the US and UK were investigating what he believes to be criminal corporate espionage. Yes, Gerhard does admit that the game launched in a messy state with numerous bugs and crashes there. He tells Games Beat that these issues are on us and that the team is continuing to invest in the game and improve it. Greg, are you looking forward to this dlc? See what you got to say.

[Greg Miller]

No fucking joke. I'm there. Day one, yeah, when they're like, we are dropping it. That's a stream. I want to see this fucking incoming cease and desist court order that they will be getting as they air the fucking thing where the mission's going to be stealing the fucking things from. Build a rocket boy. Like, what are we doing? Sounds insane. Yes, let's go.

[Barrett]

Using, like, the actual names of people like, what are you doing?

[Greg Miller]

Do it, man. Tell the story.

[Barrett]

Asking to get all of your money taken from you, man.

[Blessing]

The court won't have anything to say about this. You know, we want to give it to the people before we talk about it in court.

[Greg Miller]

I love that. I love that. I love that.

[Blessing]

It's fucking insane. I love the idea too, that they're saying that, like, oh, yeah, social media influencers were paid to say bad things about the thing. But then later on he goes on to say, like, oh, yeah, the game launched in a messy state. That's on us, brother. Which is it?

[Greg Miller]

Hey, there was corporate espionage going on, all right? And we're going to get to the bottom of it in the DLC for the game meta, they got into the

[Barrett]

game plus and Last minute changed the entire game to be so boring. And that's how they did espionage.

[Blessing]

I was gonna say, what do you think he means by corporate espionage? Because that implies that, like, they bugged them or something.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. They have, you know, somebody on the inside. Yeah, there's an inside person. That's what you got. I got to imagine that's what this mission is. Right. The new mission will be called Blacklist and feature a female playable character, which.

[Blessing]

I got questions.

[Greg Miller]

Share some of this evidence of sabotage with the community. He did not provide further information with detail. However, he promised it was studious plan to use the names of people who committed the alleged sabotage in the new mission. Let's have some fun with it. Like, you've got to be playing as the role of the woman who in real life found this information. Right. And so you're going to go through and find that person X was the one emailing corporation Y. All of your secrets and all these different things to screw over the game. And then this is your chance. Their alternate reality. Stop it and bring justice to them. I love it.

[Blessing]

That seems fucking nuts.

[Greg Miller]

It does.

[Blessing]

This seems like something that's going to blow back on them.

[Greg Miller]

So it's one of those where, you know, Mind's eye was such a. Is this game real? What is it? Okay, it's just vaporware. Then it came out. It didn't do this. The I.O. interactive publishing drama. Them then say, you know, we're no longer doing this. You can take the rights back. And then this and just. Mark, like at every point where Build a Rocket Boy CEO Mark Gerhardt can act like he's not crazy, he doubles down on being crazy. And it's working for me. You know what I mean? Like, we don't have. We don't have these kind of people anymore in the industry. All right?

[Blessing]

We really don't.

[Greg Miller]

We really. Everybody's hiding behind a corporation for their stockholders right here. Mark is out here being like, I'm going to take these motherfuckers to task. And I don't know, but I love it, Mark. I love what I'm seeing out of you right now. And I'm playing this day one.

[Blessing]

All the crazy corporate people I feel like are have to be crazy behind closed doors now.

[Greg Miller]

You're right.

[Blessing]

It is rare that we get somebody who's outwardly just saying it. I'm going to make a deal. This is, I mean, I think the

[Barrett]

second number two, the close number two is Randy Pitcher.

[Blessing]

Oh, Randy Pitcher.

[Greg Miller]

Well, yeah, but he's a different Kind of unhinged. Like this is again, like Mark is talking like he's the former CEO of Build the Rocky Boy. This is the kind of shit you usually see people tweeting in the middle of the night. But I've been out of the industry for five years. Mark's like, no, no, I believe in my vision for this game. We got fucked and I'm going to take people down with it. I'm like inside the game. Fuck yeah. I'm down.

[Blessing]

Mark, whoever the main Mark, come let

[Greg Miller]

us do the exclusive stream of it. When is the mission ready? I want to play whoever the lady

[Blessing]

is that the ma. The protagonist is based off of.

[Greg Miller]

What if it's like, what if we're wrong? And instead it's like totally like, her name's Liberty Justice. You know what I mean?

[Blessing]

Liberty justice is hilarious.

[Greg Miller]

But also like I, I had the end like social. I never got your last name. It's Justice. Social Justice.

[Blessing]

That's actually a good one because I, because my thing is I don't, I don't get the vibe that they're like, yo, we want to add in more diversity into the game. So we're going to have a female playable protagonist.

[Greg Miller]

To me, they're saying something.

[Blessing]

My immediate read is like, oh, some you felt you feel wronged by some woman and you are, but she's got

[Greg Miller]

to be the hero, right?

[Blessing]

Well, see I'm.

[Greg Miller]

You think we're playing as the bad guys? Yes.

[Blessing]

I think we're breaking into a place that is a. A stand in for Build a Rocket Boy and we're stealing things and we're going to head back into our called

[Barrett]

Stone Hero. I don't know what's another word for Rockstar?

[Greg Miller]

See, you lost me. I'm back on it.

[Blessing]

Oh, did they imply that Rockstar is the one? I thought he did it. Yes, yes. I remember this now because yeah, rocks

[Barrett]

are really scared by this game.

[Blessing]

Oh yeah, I'm sure Rockstar. Rockstar was terrified by Mind's Eye.

[Barrett]

I lost the chat. But someone did bring up a great point. How far into the game do we have to get to play that mission?

[Blessing]

Silver Jay Hawkins super chatted in and says, can you reach the DLC before the two hour mark on stream? Like, yeah, how far do we have to get into this game? I hope it's on the main menu.

[Greg Miller]

Just to bring it all up here, I'm going to instant gaming.com who's got the summation of what was going on that Rockstar thing? Okay. During the first mixed previews For Mind's Eye, Bill, the Rocket Boy felt that someone had paid these critics to give a negative review of the game. Without saying so, the studio accused Rockstar Games of corruption. IGN interviewed Hakan Abrac, CEO of IO Interactive, the publisher that distributes Mind's Eye, and he countered the studio's claim, stating that no one paid for negative reviews, quote, I don't believe it. I don't believe it. I just think the game should speak for itself on June 10th. And it's fair to say it has spoken for itself. Plagued by books, yada, yada, yada. So that was to bring back the Rockstar part of it from these former Rockstar people. Yes, that was the idea. So now I'm going to be. Okay, so I'm the person coming in to get the information for Rockstar.

[Barrett]

You're the saboteur.

[Blessing]

You're the saboteur for Mark.

[Greg Miller]

I fucking love it. I love it.

[Blessing]

You're going to jail if you do that, though. Like, maybe not jail, but you're going to get fined.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, but what do they have to lose anymore? You know what I mean?

[Blessing]

Because here's the thing, right? They said they're using real names. So, like, you can't do that, right? If this is based off a real person and you call, let's say her name is Leslie.

[Greg Miller]

I've got the thing you wanted. Bringing it over.

[Blessing]

My name is Jessica Smith or whatever. If you're Jessica, Jessica Smith, and it's like, oh, that's me. You're playing as me. Certainly you're gonna get a lot of money.

[Greg Miller]

I think what it would be, personally, my thoughts would be it's gonna be more. The evidence is gonna be documentation. I think of it in the Bethesda, I'm finding a note, right? I'm getting a data file. I'm hacking a terminal, and I'm seeing literally emails that whoever Mark thinks wronged them sent to Mark or what, you know what I mean? Like, we're publishing our evidence in the game that you're stealing and getting.

[Blessing]

Imagine being the game designer and what Mark Gerhard, right, comes in and he's like, hey, this is what I need. Like, and you're the one who has. You're an artist or a character designer. It's like, all right, I guess I'll make your vendetta dlc. Like, I'm going to make these real people. Like, that's a crazy position to be in as a designer.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. But you know what? You crack that beer, you say, let's go, let's do it.

[Blessing]

Let's get going under.

[Greg Miller]

Anyway, listen, it's the year of our Lord 2026. Aren't we sick of seeing video game drama play out the same way all the time? You know, we're getting something brand new in the industry where we're taking the fucking shit to the game minds.

[Barrett]

I really innovating the industry here.

[Greg Miller]

No jokes. I am going to be watching this with bated breath.

[Blessing]

I can't stress this enough because like for the last two stories people have been asking about both of them being April Fool's joke. This came in yesterday. I'm like 90% sure this is not an April Fool.

[Greg Miller]

No, no, no. Yeah. No, no, no. This is Reb Valentine. She want to do that.

[Blessing]

And then, yeah, this is for my channel. And then the zero, the zero star review from Variety that popped at embargo of the Mario Galaxy review. That's not an April Fool's joke either. These are real guys. That's just how crazy the video games industry is.

[Greg Miller]

That's so cool.

[Blessing]

That's so cool.

[Greg Miller]

Because it's just like I'm reading from the IGN article right back to Mark here, right? Quote, we've got strong evidence of this and conducted quite thorough investigations over the months since launch. We've identified parties involved and now it's with the authorities, both UK and us, to deal with. I can confirm that they're assisting us with this investigation, but it's also in their hands now. We'll leave them to do what they do, make their arrest or any announcements in due course. I think we're not saying anything further at this stage on that. We'll just let the natural course of justice take its path. But we'll also put the evidence in the game. We're gonna do it. Go get him. Go get him. Build a rocket, boy.

[Blessing]

This is so fun.

[Greg Miller]

I, I, it's like one of those things of just like it. Again, I have been wrong. Yeah, we don't believe you. I'm gonna put the receipts in the fucking game. You gonna believe it. Then when you're reading the goddamn emails from Rockstar being like, fucking sink them, sink them.

[Blessing]

Level of spite that I aspire to, man, because like how many people are

[Greg Miller]

going to play the DLC one I'm in?

[Blessing]

Like, who? The, the idea, the concept of Mind's Eye DLC alone is fucking insane when you think about it. But you're, you're putting it in there for somebody. Like you're not, you're putting it in there for some reason, I should say. And that reason is purely just Spike rage.

[Greg Miller]

Just Spike.

[Blessing]

How much are you going to sell off the dlc? How much are you charging for the dlc?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah.

[Blessing]

Is anybody buying Mind's Eye dlc?

[Greg Miller]

Maybe this is what turns it around. You know what I mean?

[Blessing]

I might buy mine's idea.

[Greg Miller]

Right?

[Blessing]

If this is actually what it is.

[Greg Miller]

Go get a mark.

[Blessing]

We got a lot of super chats to read. Okay, but before we get there, I want to tell you about patreon.com kind of funny and YouTube.com/kind of funny games where you can go and get the kind of funny membership which allows you to get shows ad free. And speaking of ads, let us tell you about our sponsors.

[Greg Miller]

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[Blessing]

People say fans are too distracted these days, but the truth is, when a great movie hits the screen, you show up. You stay glued, invested, part of the story. And without fans like you, there'd be no cinema magic, no shared moments. So head to fandango.com to get tickets, stream or rent or buy top movies and series. Fandango loves fans. Protein is now at Starbucks and it's never tasted so good. You can add protein cold foam to your favorite drink or try one of our new protein lattes or matcha. Try it today at Starbucks. K Pop Demon Hunters, Haja Boy's Breakfast Meal and hunt Trick's meal have just dropped at McDonald's. They're calling this a battle for the fans. What do you say to that, Rumi?

[Commercial Voice]

It's not a battle.

[Greg Miller]

So glad the Saja boys could take

[Commercial Voice]

breakfast and give our meal the rest of the day.

[Blessing]

It is an honor to share.

[Greg Miller]

No, it's our honor.

[Blessing]

It is our larger honor. No, really stop. You can really feel the respect in this battle.

[Greg Miller]

Pick a meal to pick a side and participate in McDonald's while supplies last.

[Blessing]

And we're back. Bear, you said you got something for me? Yeah.

[Barrett]

You remember the horrors of the mega evolution or what have you for Starmie. Oh, Starmie.

[Blessing]

Yeah, it stands upright.

[Barrett]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Did not like that.

[Barrett]

Nintendo is streaming a 10 hour looped video of long story running at you. So there you go. Oh, that's, that's a good April Fool's bit, right?

[Blessing]

That is a good April Fool's bit, but I also don't like it to my library. Oh shit.

[Greg Miller]

Mind's Eye. I'm ready whenever you're ready, Mark. I'm ready.

[Blessing]

Let's hop into some super chats. You guys have a lot to say between this and the previous story. So let's get in there. Silver J. Hawkins writes in and says, I truly want to see this play out. As if they're completely, totally fake and a joke. Or it turns into a self report on the guy making the claim. Yeah, I'm so fascinated by what the conversation is going to be in court when these of Neville get brought up of like, so what's up with these real names and these real people you put into the game?

[Greg Miller]

They, you know, this is how it is. This is just how it is.

[Blessing]

Yeah, it's like, oh, there can't be two Jessica Smiths. And it's like, well, you're clear suing one of them. So those are public documents, you know, public documents. Shortchanged Hero writes. And it says this is either pure drama or it's the most insanely smart strategy because it's going to spike in sales and in player count. But like will it? Because like maybe for me and Greg and for like a handful of people that are watching the show that are also similarly morbidly curious about what's going on. But I don't, I don't know if it's going to be enough to be like, yeah, we're going to risk legal trouble in order to sell some dlc.

[Greg Miller]

I mean like it's one of those, what do you got to lose?

[Blessing]

I think a lot.

[Greg Miller]

I Mean, but I mean, I don't. We don't know anything. We know Mind's Eye did not launch well. I can't imagine it sold well. I can't imagine it made a lot of money. I can't imagine the studio and company are in good shape. So what's going to happen? We're going to put this out. At least get the goodwill of like, see, we were fucked over. And then you get sued into oblivion and you file for bankruptcy and the thing that was already on the ropes is dead.

[Blessing]

And so like, does it end up just being a thing for like the business taking. Because I. I guess I think about Mark Gerhard, the person of like your personal.

[Greg Miller]

Now you're getting India libel. Right. Of like what he's gonna say and what's going on. So that. That's a different thing of how you're using it inside the game.

[Blessing]

Sure, sure.

[Greg Miller]

And that's where we get into a hinky. We need an actual legal expert on here. How do we figure that out?

[Blessing]

Oh, what's the spirit?

[Greg Miller]

I don't know what I mentioned.

[Barrett]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Oh, they. They ended their. I didn't realize they ended their Hitman collab.

[Barrett]

Oh yeah.

[Greg Miller]

And I got out. Yeah.

[Blessing]

So I'm shocked they're ever in. That was such a weird. We gotta look back at that sometime and be like, what happened here?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Because it was immediately weird when they said IO Interactive is publishing Mind's Eye.

[Barrett]

They had a really good snake oil salesman.

[Blessing]

That was so. It was like a bizarre.

[Greg Miller]

Everybody got the corporate espionage. You know what I mean?

[Blessing]

Yeah. Aaron Lime writes in and says there hasn't been something this meta since Kojima and ground zeroes in the fallout with the former Konami CEO.

[Barrett]

Remember that?

[Greg Miller]

I do remember that. I do remember that.

[Blessing]

Cartel Dell writes in and says, have we ever seen anything this as meta as this before? I mean, I guess the. The Kojima thing that we just read about. Mr. Hawks writes in and says, as someone who platinumed Mind's Eye and knows how bad it actually is, I cannot wait for this dlc. It's gonna be bad and I'm so excited.

[Greg Miller]

This is gonna set things right with who people talking about, you know. Oh no, man. Sky 2.0, Cyberpunk 2.0 Cyberpunk 2 Point or Starfield 2.0? Mind's Eye 2.0. This will be the one that we all come back like, hey man, this game came a long way.

[Blessing]

How's it going? I'm. Cohen writes in and says we need Mike and Nick to Investigate this Mind's Eye dlc. I listen. I don't know if Nick won. I was gonna say I don't know if Nick will have the context to like.

[Greg Miller]

No, he has no context.

[Barrett]

Yeah, that was the whole thing where they played the first two hours on stream, but just under two hours enough.

[Blessing]

Still refunded on the Steam. I see. I see. This is transitioning back into our reviews conversation when it comes to the Mario Galaxy movie. Kyle Leuf writes in and says reviews have become too closely tied to the marketing cycle of games and movies. This makes it difficult to differentiate between hype and opinion. Throw clickbait on top and it makes it super messy. Yeah. I don't know. I feel like critical reviews, if you're doing it right, should not be tied to hype whatsoever. Right. They should just be tied to. How is this thing. What is my critical opinion of this thing? Right. You put it out there, but that

[Greg Miller]

can't come in with the. It didn't live up to expectations. It did live up.

[Blessing]

Sure.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Yeah. I guess that makes sense, right? Of like, oh, I'm super underwhelmed by this thing.

[Greg Miller]

I assume Kyle's leading into, though. And again, I don't mean this nefariously, but leaning into embargoes, all lifting at the same time. Pre orders go live. You know what I mean? Or like, like riding that wave of the. The game image, the movie image with all the stars and all the things and the five out of fives and ten out of tens.

[Blessing]

I guess. Sure. Aaron Lime says nobody's clicking on a review for tentacle. Tentacle Grope 3 or NFT Clicker 7 on Steam. That's a two out of ten. Games are more of an investment time than two hours max.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

And yeah, that echoes what we say, right? Like, I'm not gonna play. What was it? Tentacle Grope 3. Just so I can give a 2 out of 10 score and be like, cool. There was five hours of my life that I spent devoted to this thing. It's. I'm play Super Meat Boy 3D and then get really mad about it.

[Greg Miller]

You were so mad.

[Blessing]

I've never been. Oh, my God, I was so mad.

[Greg Miller]

You were so mad. On that stream. You can hear it in the other room.

[Blessing]

I don't like being fucked with is the thing.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

And Roger and Mike like fucking with me, I think with people. But.

[Barrett]

Yeah. But also, like, it really came downhill for you when you were stuck on that first boss for a good ten minutes at least.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Barrett]

You know, so I would Say it's like they were just icing on the cake.

[Blessing]

Oh, yeah.

[Barrett]

Cake was just, you know.

[Blessing]

But it was the thing where I told Roger before the thing I was like, hey, are you sure it should be me on the stream? Because Mike has beaten the game. I've not beaten the game. I think Barrett should probably take my spot. Right. Because Barrett's beating the game. And Roger looks at me, he says, ah, but you're a draw. You're a draw.

[Barrett]

And again, whenever he says something like that, when you bring up a good point, a hundred percent of the time that is them trying to distract the way. Distract from the fact that Mike doesn't want real competition.

[Blessing]

Like just a fair fight is all I ask for.

[Barrett]

No.

[Blessing]

And they won't give it.

[Barrett]

Not for Mike.

[Greg Miller]

It was scary because what were you kept saying like, don't, don't, don't with me.

[Blessing]

Oh, I kept threatening to choke Roger.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

I feel like ever since we had the HR meeting, the physical violence, this company has gotten more violent with their threats.

[Barrett]

Watch that, super meat boy.

[Blessing]

By the amazing way.

[Greg Miller]

It was amazing.

[Blessing]

Oh, yeah. Techiehas writes in and says, just wanted to shout out my country's soccer team for qualifying for the World cup after a 40 year wait. Let's go Iraq. We needed this. Hell yeah. That's super cool. I was at a concert last night.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

A rapper named Dave. He's a British. He's like a UK rapper right. From London.

[Greg Miller]

Sure.

[Blessing]

I've never seen so many soccer jerseys.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, yeah.

[Blessing]

One location I went in, I was like, damn, if I got the memo, I would have wore my Chelsea jersey. And so shout out Soccer Nightlife 2025 brings one in and says the Guardian says Super Mario Brothers Galaxy is worse than AI. I saw that one making the rounds as well. That one is like, again, I'm. I feel like I'm not trying to hate on reviews. I'm gonna hate on that review. That one is a bit much. I wouldn't. But I. I could see the angle. I could see the angle.

[Barrett]

And I would love to read it is like something this hollow was actually spent time on by people. Whereas AI, which is a hollow piece of art, is no time and made by robots.

[Blessing]

So we expect that of AI.

[Barrett]

But like, like this.

[Blessing]

I can see that. I can see that. And I did read more of the review. I didn't just read the headline. Right. I actually went in, I read read more of it. And like that is the angle that I think they were aiming at. Which is to say like in a world where AI is doing this. Like how are we having humans make a thing that yeah, feels like it's spitting out? And yeah, it feels soulless. So I get that. But saying it's worse than AI for me, it's just that I've seen the movie and I'm like, all right guys, AI couldn't even dream to make Mario.

[Greg Miller]

You know, I felt after that embargo for Ghostbusters, Frozen, Empire, what movies you people watch?

[Blessing]

Yeah, let's into story number three. Stellar Blade developer Shift up acquires Shin Shinji Mikami's new studio this is Sophie McAvoy at GamesIndustry Biz. South Korean developer Shift up has acquired Unbound, a new studio founded by industry veteran Shinji Mikami. Shift up said the acquisition will strengthen its global PC and console publishing capabilities with Unbound upcoming titles. In an announcement video, Mikami shared that Unbound is developing a fairly large game and aims to create a masterpiece. Quote I've come to see my vision and ideals more clearly and I don't think I've ever been in a situation where as a creator our wavelengths and direction align this closely, said Mikami. Quote so for as long as my career continues, I'd like to keep working together. For the first time in a while I'll be fully involved on site to work on a fairly large game and I'm looking forward to it. To all the gamers waiting for this, I hope you can wait a little longer for the for its release. End quote as part of the acquisition, Shift up will publish Unbound's upcoming titles and support the studio in building its own global service capabilities. Quote I find it deeply meaningful to join forces with Unbound, which brings together a world class development team led by Shinji Mikami, said Shift Up CEO Young Tae Kim. Quote this acquisition will serve as an opportunity to deliver the best gaming experience to users worldwide and further solidify Shift Up's global development competitiveness. End quote Mikami added. Quote I am very pleased to be partnering with Kim and all the employees. I sense strong synergy with Kim, who is also an active creator, and I believe this is an ideal partnership that allows us to focus on creativity. We'll do our best to create fun games so that both companies working as one can meet our fans expectations. End quote Reports of Mikami forming a new studio began circulating last month. Although Unbound's website had been live for some time. The developer was founded in 2022 and began operations in 2023. Mikami also established another studio, Kamoi, in 2024 after leaving Tango Gameworks in February 2023. Really interesting one. To sum it up, the Stellar Blade developer has acquired Shinji Mikami's new studio. Shinji Mikami, of course, formerly of Tango gameworks made hi Fi Rush. But then if you're stretching back. Right. Creator, Resident Evil, Evil Within, Evil Within, Resident Evil 4, there's another major Capcom game, Dino Crisis, I think he did as well.

[Greg Miller]

Crisis, yeah.

[Blessing]

DMC at all. What'd you say?

[Barrett]

Did he work on DMC at all?

[Blessing]

Oh, dmc.

[Greg Miller]

He's listed as executive producer on Devil May Cry.

[Blessing]

I heard Deep Sea and I was like, what's Deep sea? Did you work on Echo the Dolphin? It's crazy. Interesting stuff.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Cool. I mean, the way they're talking about it, it sounds like a beneficial thing for both parties. And we talk about how hard it is to be a developer and like, be an independent developer and do all this stuff yourself. Right. So if you can find another studio that is willing to take on that stuff for you. Hell yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, exactly. I think that's the biggest takeaway from it. You know, obviously, we'll wait and see how this all plays out. Obviously, acquisitions get a bad rap a lot of times. Yeah. Hopefully this is one that's more in line with what they expect out of each other. Right. In terms of what he's looking for as a. With a publisher, what a publisher is looking for as a creative. And that's, I think, more than anything, what's good about this is that so many independent studios come around and then flare out before they ever get to that first game, so. Or, you know, their big game or whatever. So to have unbound be created, have it immediately snapped up, have this level of talent with it, you hope for the best.

[Blessing]

Yeah. 100 and yeah, like I say the hell yeah to it. Mainly because this isn't like a PlayStation acquires new developer or like Microsoft or Embracer acquires a thing. Right. It's just. It's for adopting you into a bigger corporation.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Shift up. You know, I don't actually. Don't know the size of shift up, but presumably very much smaller than a PlayStation or like a big corporation. This seems like it's a. Hey, I with you, y' all with us. Like, let's do work together and hopefully make something special. And I hope, fingers crossed that happens because I like Stellar Blade and Shinji Mikami. Yeah. Legendary developer story number four. U. S. Patent office revokes Nintendo's patent on summoning characters to make them battle. Yeah, this is Chris Scolion at vgc. The United States Patent and Trade Office, AKA the uspto, has revoked a patent it granted Nintendo last year based on a gameplay mechanic used in other games. Last September, Nintendo was granted a US patent which covered the action of summoning another character and making them battle on the player's behalf. Two months later, USPTO director John A. Squires personally ordered a re examination of the patent, the first time since 2012 that a USPTO director had personally done so without another company officially getting involved, citing previous patents which might have made it invalid. Now, as reported by Games fray, the USPTO has decided to reject all 26 claims made in the patent, meaning it has now been revoked. This is a non final decision. Nintendo now has two months to respond or longer if it asks for an extension and there can be an appeal made to the Federal Circuit if it doesn't agree with the decision. I know oftentimes you do required reading. I'm putting in an optional reading. You don't have to read it, but you can if you're more interested. Go to the Video Games Chronicle article because it goes way longer. Talking about some of the details of the other patents that got in the way of this patent and why. John was it John A. Squires?

[Greg Miller]

Yep.

[Blessing]

Yeah. Oh, I nailed it. John A. Squires wanted the re examination of it because it basically conflicted and like he's like, these two things can't coexist in the way.

[Greg Miller]

Got it.

[Blessing]

So VGC is where you can find more of that. But yeah. Hell yeah.

[Greg Miller]

For yeah. When this one got announced, we were all like, that's a really dumb patent to give out and it's way too broad. And we understand you want to protect Pokemon because people like Pal World keep ripping off Pokemon, but there's got to be a better way than this. Again, would Nintendo wield it like a scalpel or would they wield it like a gigantic, you know, swinging sword and taking every. You can't work. It's. You can't have one without the other both. Once you open that door, you can't close it. And it doesn't even matter what they would do in the short term with it versus the long term with it. So.

[Blessing]

Yep.

[Greg Miller]

I thought it sounded like bunk before and I'm glad they're re examining and dialing it back.

[Blessing]

Yeah. Craig, this revocation, that's a word, right?

[Barrett]

Sure, yeah.

[Blessing]

This revocation of this patent, that's a big deal.

[Greg Miller]

It is. It's a big word.

[Blessing]

It's a big word for Elmo. But if I wanted something smaller, say the tiniest news I need to know about, where would I go?

[Greg Miller]

You go to our last story, the WE News Channel, where we tell you all the tiny news items you need to know about.

[Blessing]

Story number five, WE News. Is it rat coin?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, like raccoon? Yeah. Yeah. Raccoon in it. Yeah, raccoon.

[Blessing]

Oh, that's cool.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Raccoon has already sold over a hundred thousand copies.

[Greg Miller]

You can get Lucy James's preview on the kind of funny games cast from Monday.

[Blessing]

I have a feeling it's gonna sell a lot more.

[Greg Miller]

I agree. I mean, that's gonna be one that, like, gains ground as it goes.

[Blessing]

Yeah. That feels like it's going to have that viral, like people telling everybody else. And by this time in two weeks, we're gonna be talking about a million or something.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Barrett]

I think it'll have, like, a slower build than Balatro, but I think it's gonna have, like, a similar type of, like, people getting more and more addicted to it.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Barrett]

Especially I think it was the big man, Jordan Mendler, who said, once it's on mobile, it's. It's game over.

[Blessing]

Have they announced it for mobile?

[Barrett]

No, but it's one of those that, like, it can.

[Blessing]

It can probably work on mobile. Pokemon Home is getting Pokemon Legends. ZA integration April 2nd.

[Greg Miller]

There you go. Now you're all set. Pokemon Champions right around the corner. Start bringing them over.

[Blessing]

Give me leaf green, though. I mean, let's get us there. PlayStation plus essential games for April have been announced. You're getting Lords of the fallen, Tomb Raider 1 through 3, Remastered, and Sword Art Online. Fractured Daydream. Crimson Desert has sold over 4 million copies.

[Greg Miller]

Nice try, Roger.

[Blessing]

Come on, Roger. Can't wait for that pizza. We have two games that have gone gold. Soros and Pragmata. Pragmata. Both gone gold.

[Greg Miller]

Pragmatic.

[Blessing]

I'm never gonna be used to Pragmata.

[Greg Miller]

I was Stigmata. We said it for so long. We just, you know, in this way, super exciting. I'm Jesus Christ.

[Blessing]

Soon Minos is how I'm gonna pronounce this. M I, N O S launches April 9. This is one that I saw this trailer and kind of. I'm kind of excited for this one.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, yeah.

[Blessing]

It's a maze building. Roguelite, where you, the fabled Minotaur, must defend your sanctuary from bloodthirsty adventurers. So here it looks like you're building a maze and building a bunch of traps to, like, not let adventurers get through the maze. Seems super cool. Seems super fun. And it's from Devolver Digital as well. So, you know, they put out.

[Greg Miller]

They got the quality they're looking for out there.

[Blessing]

Yeah, Minnows Table flip simulator launches May 21 for PS5, Xbox, Switch and PC. And then finally, Pragmata is a Mega man game. This comes directly from a tweet. If I can open up the website, the website can look a little quicker. Actually, I got the thing here. This comes from at Pragmata game where they tweeted out Pragmata is a Mega man game. April Fools, Pragmatic Moon Bites Part six. I don't know what that is, but they posted a video of the guy from Pragmata in a Mega man outfit.

[Greg Miller]

I believe his name is Hugh. How long until we're getting that outfit in the game?

[Blessing]

Oh, so quick.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. You think that's like as that. Is that at launch? Is that dlc? Is that a special unlock? Just remember, I remember playing Dead Rising, right. And it was always so fun to go get the Mega man stuff and run around to that. And clearly if you've gone to the. That looks pretty great. That looks really great. It's got a movable faceplate. That's a real costume, I would assume. So how are we getting that in you?

[Blessing]

I'm gonna say it's either. We got two options.

[Greg Miller]

It either happens. Game Plus.

[Blessing]

Either happens. Well, new Game plus is my secret third option. It happens within the first week. Week. Or it happens next. April Fools, they give an update. Okay, 2027 April Fools. And they're like, oh, that last April.

[Barrett]

That's crazy.

[Blessing]

I feel like that always happens where, like, video game companies will do an April Fool's joke, realize that people want the thing. It'll take them a year.

[Greg Miller]

I just think it looks too good. Like, it looks.

[Barrett]

That looks like obviously they actually spent time on it.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, look at the. Yeah, look at the texture there on the. Like the padding on the front of the helmet.

[Blessing]

But for sure we're going to be using that at some point. Point.

[Barrett]

Also, never stop with the kids drawings. They're so funny every time.

[Blessing]

I can't wait. I'm feeding for this game a little bit.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I'm looking forward to it. We like everything we've played from it. I'm ready to try a deep dive with it.

[Blessing]

Do you think? Well, that is it for WE News. Do you think. What do you think your Game of April is going to be? Let's say we're doing game of the Month. Do you think Soros or Pragmata Pragmata. Or is there another one that you think is going to be like, are

[Greg Miller]

we allowed to say the Starfield dlc?

[Blessing]

No.

[Greg Miller]

Okay. Sorrow said, I think. Sorry, I think Soros is gonna have the. And I, you know. Yeah, you haven't played it either. Obviously. Andy and Raj have, I think, Soros, from everything they say, you know, of, like, it's gonna have the juice of Returnal, but then also not be as punishing and also have a better story. Like, or better. Maybe this isn't the right word, but more focus on a story like that. Sounds like my jam. Like, I'm very excited for Soros because that Pragmata, I think, has really great moment to moment gameplay. I love the hacking. I want to see how that expands and goes on from there. But am I going to connect with the story of Prague? Mata Pragmatic. Mada Mata Mata.

[Blessing]

It don't matter. I'm with you. But mainly because Returnal was my game of the year 2021. So Soros is just such an easy slam dunk for me. The thing I'll give to Pragmata is that is still somewhat of an unknown quantity.

[Greg Miller]

100%.

[Blessing]

And like, I could be kind of a freak a little bit when it comes to games that just are not something I've experienced before. Oh yeah, for sure. I think Pragmata brings enough fresh shit to the table. And if Soros is like, oh, I've played this, I can just play Returnal, then I could see Pragmatic like sneaking through and end up being a game that I fall in love with a little bit more. But okay. Sorrow Saw, of course, has the juice for me.

[Greg Miller]

Right? Yeah.

[Blessing]

Let's hop into some super chats, Greg.

[Greg Miller]

Super chats.

[Blessing]

We got a birthday tax from the stoner sensei who writes in and says, birthday tax. Yes, My birthday is actually April Fools. My whole existence is a joke. Smoking a bone while I watch. Along with. With. With you boys for my 35th. Please keep plowing that chicken into eternity.

[Greg Miller]

Jesus Christ.

[Blessing]

Happy birthday.

[Greg Miller]

There was a lot to unpack in there, but happy birthday.

[Blessing]

The Daniel, the Danish. And then it cuts off the Danish. GH writes in and says, bless. Are you excited for the new Strixhaven set? Also, how many Commander decks do you. Do you have and which is your favorite? So I have. I have a lot of Commander decks, mainly like the pre con ones. I never use them though, because I like making my own Commander decks decks. And so I have one that is my girl. Why can't I think of her Name, Simone. My Zimone, the black blue one that gives counters every single turn. That's one of the Commander decks. That's, like, my most powerful one. I have another one that's a Shadow, the Hedgehog Commander.

[Greg Miller]

Nice.

[Blessing]

I love it. That's like, my Trickster Commander deck. I love using it, and I'm excited for strixhaven, although I know very little about it. I know news is breaking this morning as far as. So some of those details. So I'm going to check those out later. Mike, like music writes in and says CDPR is April Fool's joke. Today is hilarious. I missed this one. Did you see this one there? Can you see if you can find CD Projekt Red's April Fool's thing? And then Aaron Lime writes in and says, bless. Is pressed about the near joke. Me too. I don't know what the New Year joke is, but I'm scared. I'm scared to learn what it is. We got another one from La La Drona who says, would y' all rather eat a really good sandwich or a really good soup? Come on, be brave. Give me an answer.

[Greg Miller]

I'll go you one better. It could be the best soup in the world, and I'll take the really good sandwich.

[Blessing]

I agree. I 100% agree.

[Greg Miller]

You know what I mean?

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

What am I in Russia starving in 1942?

[Blessing]

I'll give you one better. What am I thirsty? Like, fucking.

[Greg Miller]

I want fucking food. I want to eat something filling. Soup sucks.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Now, of course, Pho is great. Pho is great. Ramen.

[Blessing]

Fo's great. Ye. Love.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, Sorry. Yes. I'm sorry. I'm in the middle of talking about a million things.

[Blessing]

Yeah. Like, what are my favorite soups? Like, yeah, ramen.

[Barrett]

You can have a. A soup that. That's hearty and. And good.

[Greg Miller]

Like a f. No, I'm good.

[Blessing]

Yeah. Yeah. I'm straight.

[Greg Miller]

I like fu. But I still like the sandwich more, probably.

[Blessing]

Yeah. Give me a sandwich.

[Greg Miller]

Give me a. Yeah, I was literally.

[Blessing]

I had this decision yesterday where I was at a. Oh, what's it called? Oh, I forget the name of the. What up Panera? No, it was at a ramen spot yesterday, really close to Fox Theater, where I saw Dave, and I was looking at the menu, and it's a ramen spot, so I'm like, I could order the ramen, but then I saw they had a. A burger. Yeah, with the. It's like a pork burger. And I was like, give me that burger, bro. Yeah, I ended up ordering neither, though. I Thought about the burger and then I was like, ah. But they got a salmon three way. Rice bowl. Okay.

[Greg Miller]

Rice bowls are good.

[Blessing]

But I almost went with the burger.

[Greg Miller]

Sure. Fair enough.

[Blessing]

Was never gonna go with the ramen.

[Greg Miller]

No.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

You have to be in a mood. You gotta be the soup mood.

[Blessing]

I gotta be ready to sweat.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Blessing]

Let's bring in one from Foxy Steve who says. Just wanted to say that as a partially disabled man, working out can be demotivating. But bless your gym gains. Encourage me to continue going. Thank you so much, Foxy Steve. I posted a ra.

[Greg Miller]

I was gonna say a story up today on the. In the, in the gym.

[Blessing]

I get very not self. I'm. I'm not great at posting selfies. I don't like posting myself.

[Greg Miller]

Sure.

[Blessing]

You know, I don't know. I. I feel like I'm doing. I feel like I'm being corny when I do it or cringe.

[Greg Miller]

Okay, fair. But I don't think you are.

[Blessing]

I'm trying to like get the confidence.

[Greg Miller]

Go for it.

[Blessing]

Thank you. I'm gonna do it.

[Greg Miller]

Okay, good. Do it for me. Every day. Do it and say, this is for Greg. Really confuse your audience.

[Blessing]

And then we got one from Corey.

[Greg Miller]

You got all these DMs. Like your boss can't ask for selfies.

[Blessing]

Like, I don't know. I didn't read that in the Handbook. Corey C307 writes in and says I don't get to watch y' all live very often due to my work schedule. But I'm off today. So here I am. Love you guys and keep up the great work.

[Greg Miller]

We love you. Thanks for hanging out.

[Blessing]

Thank you so much for hanging out. Corey. Man.

[Greg Miller]

I packed the lunch. Now I really want a really great sandwich or even a mid sandwich. A very good sandwich.

[Barrett]

Yeah, what about like a real soup?

[Greg Miller]

A bread bowl? Greg. No. No.

[Blessing]

You know how like I'm not.

[Greg Miller]

I'm not a fucking 75 year old tourist at Pier 39. I'm at the Bowden Bread factory. I got a bread bowl. It's clam chowder.

[Blessing]

You know how you order a grilled cheese and it comes with a tomato soup?

[Greg Miller]

Soup.

[Blessing]

What are we doing with that tomato soup?

[Greg Miller]

I pour it on the ground.

[Blessing]

Spinning it

[Greg Miller]

out of here. What's wrong? I'm here for the grilled cheese.

[Blessing]

Bro. You're not dipping that into the tomato soup.

[Greg Miller]

I mean. But I'm not doing it every time.

[Blessing]

I've never been more angry. I never asked for this tomato soup. It just came with the thing. Kebabs Referring to Mario Galaxy says, sounds like it's the Pokemon Za of movies.

[Greg Miller]

I disagree. But I mean, I. I guess I can see your. Your take on that. Za was a great game.

[Blessing]

Silver J. Hawkins says, the only way I'm watching this Mario movie is unless it's retold somewhat vaguely. Backed me by Greg.

[Greg Miller]

Am I the one who recapped Mario Mario recap. Are you gonna be able to recap? No,

[Blessing]

we are liminal faces. Says moving too fast. Wish they did Mario World first. I mean, we'll talk about it in review. Because I have thoughts. I have some thoughts there and then.

[Greg Miller]

Fuck, I am talking a lot.

[Blessing]

Nash says April Fools should be Misinformation Awareness Day. I agree with you there. It sounds like you're doing the recap.

[Greg Miller]

That's bad. Good luck.

[Blessing]

Maybe the Wikipedia's up.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I don't like doing that. I'll give you my spotty recollection.

[Blessing]

To be fair, there's not a lot of details.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Blessing]

It's gonna be pretty simple. Cool. Let's hop into your wrong, where you write in. Let us know what we got wrong as we got it wrong so we can correct it. For those watching later on YouTube, Control

[Greg Miller]

F Soup and just delete them all, because they're all gonna be like, no, you've never had soup from here. This soup's great.

[Blessing]

Blah, blah, blah. Grezik writes it with a good one. Minos is how it's pronounced. Not Minos. Minos, I assume because of Minotaur.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, that's what I thought, too.

[Blessing]

But Minos.

[Greg Miller]

But again, language is in the, you know, vocal cords of the beholder. So if we say minnows. Minos. Whatever we say is what it is. Back to pragmata. You know what I mean? We made that. We made that. That's how it is now. Exactly. You don't like it. You should have had a microphone in front of your face. Grezik, instead of doing real work over there.

[Blessing]

Jet244 says, not really a you're wrong. Which I almost just stopped reading there. But just a friendly gotcha. Greg says he avoids early access games, but Skate is an early access game that he puts in his top 10 last year. Yeah, and that is.

[Greg Miller]

But how many other early access games did I. You know what I mean? It's the no Homers club. I can have one.

[Barrett]

And here's the thing.

[Blessing]

Skate.

[Barrett]

Early access is the closest it's going

[Greg Miller]

to get to 1.0. Let's all be honest. Skates never getting out of the crib. All right. EA's already got the pillow on its face right now, Greg.

[Blessing]

That brings us to the end of this episode of.

[Greg Miller]

Wow, what an episode. I hope we have a banger gamescast after this.

[Blessing]

What is that? Gamescast.

[Greg Miller]

How to fix Xbox.

[Blessing]

Oh, that's got to be a banger.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, yeah, it's going to be people mad. Paris Lilly's calling it.

[Blessing]

Whoa. Tune in for that right after this and all the stuff happening after. Of course. This has been kind of fun and Games Daily, if you love what you do. Remember, support us with the kind of funny membership on Patreon or YouTube to get all of our shows ad free and get a daily exclusive show.

[Greg Miller]

Sassy Sassy Soothsayer says as a soup hater, stay strong, boys. You're on the right side of history.

[Blessing]

Hell yeah.

[Greg Miller]

All these soup people. You know what I mean?

[Blessing]

You got to have a conversation about the soup people. Just like, what do you do for nourishment if you're just drinking water for

[Greg Miller]

those kind of people you can't trust in a bathtub because they'll just start drinking it thinking it's soup, you know what I mean? These psychos. These fucking psychos.

[Blessing]

Enjoy the games cast next and everything after. But until next time, Game Daily.