The Last of Us Season 2 Reviews Are In! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.08.25

Summary

The Last of Us Season 2 Review Roundup

The episode kicks off with an in-depth discussion on the latest reviews for HBO's adaptation of The Last of Us Season 2. Rotten Tomatoes currently holds the season at a 93% approval rating, a slight drop from the 96% of the first season. The hosts delve into various critical perspectives:

• Simon Carty at IGN (12:42): Rated the season 7 out of 10, emphasizing the challenges of adapting a complex video game narrative into a serialized TV format. Carty praises the production quality and performances but feels the storytelling pace and key events don't fully capture the game's impactful moments.

  "It's incredibly well made, often looks gorgeous, and is packed full of stellar performances. But the storytelling devices and choices made... ultimately not delivering the striking effect the story's undeniable, shocking events should." — Simon Carty, IGN [12:42]

• Angie Han at The Hollywood Reporter (12:46): Provided an unscored review, highlighting the show's ability to engage viewers by making them ponder character motivations and the overarching lore. However, Han expresses a sense of anticlimax, suggesting that many questions are left unresolved, hinting at more developments in future seasons.

  "By the time the season two finale has Ellie chasing after one group of people, we don't really know whose motives and goals remain opaque to us." — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter [12:46]

• John Nugent at Empire (12:55): Gave the season a glowing five-star rating, describing it as "moving and devastating," and proclaiming it as the pinnacle of post-apocalyptic television.

The hosts, Tim Gettys and Blessing Adeoye Jr., reflect on these reviews, discussing the inherent difficulties in translating a video game's narrative depth and structure into a multi-season TV series. They express curiosity about how the adaptation will continue to evolve, especially concerning character development and plot progression in upcoming seasons.

Hades 2 Exclusive on Nintendo Switch 2

A significant point of contention arises with the announcement that Hades 2 will launch as a Nintendo Switch 2 console exclusive. This decision has stirred debate among fans and the hosts alike:

• Tim Gettys voices strong disapproval, stating:

  "I don't like this. I feel like once the floodgates open up, you've released Hades on PlayStation and Xbox, release the sequel everywhere." — Tim Gettys [24:33]

• Blessing Adeoye Jr. questions the rationale behind Nintendo's exclusivity, pondering whether it's a strategic business move to secure funding or a genuine attempt to strengthen their console's library.

The discussion touches upon the broader implications of exclusivity deals in the gaming industry, with concerns about limiting access for fans on other platforms. They debate whether this strategy benefits Nintendo or if it hampers the game's potential reach and success.

Nintendo Switch 2 Pre-order Delays in Canada

The hosts address the delay of Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders in Canada, aligning them with the United States schedule. Originally set for April 9th, the Canadian launch has been postponed without a new date announcement.

• Tim Gettys sarcastically remarks on the discrepancy between the Canadian and American release schedules, expressing frustration over the inconsistency:

  "You all got Nintendo up there, Moose. You're all part of the problem." — Tim Gettys [34:26]

• Blessing Adeoye Jr. empathizes with Canadian fans, likening the situation to dealing with overly polite yet obstructive neighbors affected by decisions from the United States.

The conversation highlights the logistical challenges and fan frustrations stemming from staggered release dates, emphasizing the desire for a unified global launch.

Mother 3 Potential Western Release

The episode covers an interview with Nate Bildorf, Senior Vice President of Product Development and Publishing at Nintendo of America, regarding fans' persistent requests for Mother 3 in the West.

• Nintendo Life inquires about the possibility of releasing Mother 3 outside Japan. Bildorf deflects, stating:

  "That's certainly not something I can answer for Nintendo... Do you think that there's value in that?" — Nate Bildorf, Nintendo of America [36:17]

• Blessing Adeoye Jr. expresses hope for a future Western release, noting the positive reception of similar games like Starfy on Nintendo Switch Online as potential indicators.

The hosts discuss Nintendo's cautious approach to releasing region-locked classics and the community's efforts to demonstrate demand through gameplay and fan engagement.

Silent Hill F Steam Deck Compatibility

Silent Hill F has been rated as Steam Deck playable, albeit with some manual configuration required for optimal performance.

• Blessing Adeoye Jr. finds the timing of this compatibility update peculiar, speculating it might indicate an upcoming release or significant update for the game.

• Tim Gettys agrees, noting that such compatibility often precedes major announcements, although no concrete information has been provided.

This update is seen as a positive development for Silent Hill fans eager to experience the game on portable devices.

BDS Movement Targets Microsoft Xbox

A Palestinian-led BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement has added Microsoft's Xbox to its list of priority boycott targets.

• The movement accuses Microsoft of collaborating with the Israeli military by providing Azure Cloud and AI services, which they claim support Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip.

• Ian Walker at Polygon reports that the BDS National Committee emphasizes Microsoft's role in what they describe as the "genocide and apartheid regime" of Israel.

The hosts briefly discuss the impact of such political movements on major corporations and the gaming community's response to these boycotts.

Other News and Updates

• Sonic Rumble is set to launch on May 8th for PC and mobile, though Blessing Adeoye Jr. expresses lukewarm excitement due to its mobile platform nature.

• Donkey Kong Bonanza remains shrouded in mystery, with Nintendo Life failing to provide concrete details despite interviews with Nate Bildorf. Fans continue to speculate about the game's development team and possible features.

• PlayStation Concerts in Europe are reportedly being canceled, leading to disappointment among fans anticipating live gaming events.

• Disney's Illusion Island officially appeared on the PlayStation Store with a May 30th release date, much to the hosts' delight.

• Brass Line Entertainment has laid off at least 13 employees, raising concerns about the future of their rumored Wu Tang Clan action RPG.

• Silent Hill F's compatibility with Steam Deck was discussed, highlighting the need for manual graphic settings adjustments but confirming full controller functionality.

• The hosts encourage listeners to participate in community activities, such as playing Starfy and Earthbound to support the potential Western release of Mother 3.

Listener Interactions and Super Chats

Throughout the episode, the hosts engage with listener super chats, addressing questions and comments about game recommendations, pronunciations, and personal anecdotes. Notable interactions include:

• Gunslinger D: Recommends Blueprints on the Steam Deck, praising its compatibility and gameplay simplicity.

  "1,000%. It works really well on the deck." — Gunslinger D [51:21]

• Bondiesel: Suggests that consistent, unbiased commentators would enhance the gaming discourse.

• Joker Juke: Shares insights from attending the Switch to Paris experience, revealing limited information about Donkey Kong Bonanza development:

  "We put together a documentary about Earthbound and Mother." — Joker Juke [49:14]

Conclusion

The episode concludes with the hosts reiterating their enthusiasm for upcoming content, encouraging community participation in gaming events, and expressing gratitude to their listeners for their support. They emphasize the importance of transparency and passion within the gaming industry while navigating the complexities of exclusive releases and political movements affecting major corporations.

Notable Quotes

• Simon Carty, IGN (12:42):

  "It's incredibly well made, often looks gorgeous, and is packed full of stellar performances. But the storytelling devices and choices made... ultimately not delivering the striking effect the story's undeniable, shocking events should."

• Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter (12:46):

  "By the time the season two finale has Ellie chasing after one group of people, we don't really know whose motives and goals remain opaque to us."

• John Nugent, Empire (12:55):

  "Moving and devastating in equal doses, the Last of Us remains post-apocalyptic television at its peak."

• Tim Gettys (24:33):

  "I don't like this. I feel like once the floodgates open up, you've released Hades on PlayStation and Xbox, release the sequel everywhere."

• Nate Bildorf, Nintendo of America (36:17):

  "That's certainly not something I can answer for Nintendo... Do you think that there's value in that?"

• Gunslinger D (51:21):

  "1,000%. It works really well on the deck."

These quotes encapsulate the critical assessments and emotional responses surrounding The Last of Us Season 2, the exclusive launch of Hades 2, and ongoing discussions about game accessibility and corporate decisions within the gaming landscape.

Transcript

[Tim Gettys]

Today's stories include The Last of Us season 2 reviews are in. Nintendo Switch 2 pre orders are delayed in Canada as well. And Hades 2 will be a Nintendo Switch console exclusive at launch. I don't like that one bit. We'll have all this and more because this is Kinda Funny Games Daily. What's up? And welcome to Kinda Funny Games daily for Tuesday, April 8, 2025. Of course. I am your host, Tim Gettys. I'm joined today by Bless AD Junior.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Good morning, Tim.

[Tim Gettys]

Good morning, Bless. How you doing?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm doing good.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm doing good because Rog Light stocks are up.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I posted this on Blue sky this morning.

[Tim Gettys]

Right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But just thinking about blueprints, a game that I've been hooked on for the last few weeks. A game that I cannot stop playing, and a game that continues to confirm my love of Rog Lights and how Rog Lights are on top.

[Tim Gettys]

The only stocks up right now.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The only stocks that are up. Yes. Are the Rog Light stock stocks. I don't think I can think of one other stocking game that's up right now.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm excited for you though. That, that's great. You've been talking a lot about blueprints. I'm excited about the name. The dou entendre gets me going quite a bit. But yeah, we went to New York and you and Raj were both just Steam deck playing this game and you were hooked.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

You got into this. Like, I, I've never heard you talk about a game quite like the way you did at the airport when we landed in New York. You just being like, I, I think this is it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, like this is my thing. I, it's, it's the sucky thing of I got into it during the review process too late because we were reviewing south of Midnight. We had the, the New York trip which already like, you know, had us being busy last week. And then I think there was thing it might have been first Berserker Kazan as well that like kept me busy. But by the time I finally got around to this game. Yeah, like the addiction hit just as like things started to get a bit more busy. And so I've been like trying to find any free time I can to play this game. Of course our review went up yesterday with Jason Schreier. Jason Schreier has put in over 140 hours into this video game and credits roll around hour 20 just for like, oh wow.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay, okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Just for reference. So Jason Schreier is just playing it for the love of the game.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, that's awesome.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But yeah, it's such an. On paper man. This is doing everything for me. But again, like, it's that thing where if I go back, I haven't done this yet, but like, if I go back for every year since, I'll say since Hades 1 came out, there is a roguelite that has captured my heart. Yeah, right. It goes hades. I think 2021 would probably be eternal. I forget which year inscription came out, but that's in there somewhere as well. Yeah, last year was Blotro. You know what I mean? Like, we've just been on fire.

[Tim Gettys]

It's great, man.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Like, we got to also like, shout.

[Tim Gettys]

Out to the variation in those games. Right?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Different types of roguelites. Like, that's.

[Tim Gettys]

It's very cool that it's like this. This thing that has permeated so many different genres and just kind of IP franchises, new indie, AAA everything. And it's not a one trick pony, right? Yeah, it's just, it's applicable to so many different things. I think that so many devs are creative in their application of it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I. For me, it was. It's going back to playing Rogue Legacy, which I think that was probably my first roguelite that I remember playing back on. Like it came to PS plus on PS4 in like 2015 or something like that. I remember playing it and being like, wow, this is such a good format. I wish every game would do this. And then like a few years ago I played Dead Cells and I was like, wow, this is such a good format. I wish every game would do this. We got a God of War Roguelite a few years ago.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, dude. God. And it was good.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It was.

[Tim Gettys]

It was really. It was free. It was free.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Crazy.

[Tim Gettys]

Like, that's nuts, man.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I'm up right now. Even though everything else is.

[Tim Gettys]

No, I'm feeling good too, because last night I watched Not Just a Goof, the Goofy Movie documentary on Disney plus that they dropped. And I'm in it. Blessed.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I know. I saw this on Reddit and I thought people were like making a bit.

[Tim Gettys]

No, I'm actually in it, which is super cool. I need to do a little digging because it was many years ago that this happened, but a best friend created this documentary and reached out to me years ago and was like, hey, like, we're doing this. I know you love this movie. Like, can we interview for it? And I thought there was just like a cool passion project and it was going to be something fun. And it was. But then now it's on Disney plus celebrating the 30th anniversary of a Goofy movie, which is one of my favorite Disney movies. And yeah, great documentary. Like, it's really interesting to get into. I knew most of the, the history of it, but the amount of archival footage that they have of like the recording of things and just the, the story of how like they were really not given the resources, time, space or anything to make a hit movie. Like, it was very much like in the wake of the Little Mermaid and, and the, you know, like, it's still.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Crazy to me that that movie got greenlit.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You know what I mean? It doesn't make sense. But also like they made something special.

[Tim Gettys]

They made something really special and it wasn't until many years later that that kind of like resonated and it's become such a, a big like kind of hits, but like a cult classic really within the Disney ethos. But anyway, very cool. I highly recommend checking out the documentary because it was awesome and I'm like honored honestly to be like a part of it, like watching the documentary and seeing all the amazing people that they, they interview and I'm part of like a fun little montage of like fans. But even like the other fans that I'm with, it's like, what's his name? Cleo from Holes.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, Cleo Thomas.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Like he's right next to me.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's awesome.

[Tim Gettys]

You know what I mean? And, and Straw hat Goofy and like a couple other people that I'm like.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Hey man, that's super cool.

[Tim Gettys]

This is kind of cool. Right?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So I have this weird thing with Cleo Thomas where I just, I see him everywhere.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

In real life I'll like go to a place and Cleo Thomas. Well, anytime I visit la, I swear to God there's a higher chance that I see Cleo Thomas out in the wild and I don't approach him. I've only, I've only approached him once. Right. Because like he is still like, even though he's in our spaces, he does a lot of streaming, he does a lot of like video game stuff. He's still celebrity enough to me.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Like I've seen like, I've done, I memorized the whole rap Holes, you know what I mean?

[Tim Gettys]

Hell yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What was it? I'm not going to rap. I thought about.

[Tim Gettys]

It was so close.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But I saw my summer game fest one time and I was like, oh, that's Cleo Thomas. Makes sense that he's here because he's in the is. He's in the Video game space. Like a year and a half ago, close to two years ago, I just saw him randomly at Disneyland. Yeah, I'm at Disneyland for Belinda's bachelorette party.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And I just look and I'm like, is that Cleo Thomas? Why keep seeing you everywhere?

[Tim Gettys]

So sick.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Shout out, Cleo Thomas.

[Tim Gettys]

Shout out to Cleo man. Madrid. Devone says, I wonder if Tim saw the Goofy movie mockumentary episode of Atlanta.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I was gonna say, you need to watch this. Okay. You have course.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh my God. And it was the moment that I realized what they were doing. I'm like, this is my favorite episode of Atlanta.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Atlanta. So fucking good. And that episode is the exact reason why.

[Tim Gettys]

Stand out.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Very special.

[Tim Gettys]

Stand out.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Can I tell you above the crowd in the way that I've said many times before that if I had a gamecube as a kid, it would have changed my life. Like I'd be on a different trajectory. I would have been obsessed with like Melee and Zelda, Wind waker and all this stuff. Right. I. I've seen Goofy Movie and I'm pretty sure I've seen. I've seen. I'm pretty sure I've seen both Goofy Movie and another Goofy movie.

[Tim Gettys]

An extremely goofy movie.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Thank you. Extremely Goofy movie.

[Tim Gettys]

Still haven't seen it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You still haven't seen it.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Which is one of like the greatest crimes of me. It's that an 8 mile.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Gotta watch 8 mile. You gotta watch 8 mile. I.

[Kevin Coelho]

And Shrek.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And Shrek. You gotta watch Shrek. Shrek is special. I've never owned any of the Goofy movies on vhs. And I think that would have been like the tipping point for me of me being upset.

[Tim Gettys]

All in.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

All in. Because everything about me, like everything about in the way that straw hat Goofy, I'm sure has so much to say about Goofy Movie. Yeah, I should be straw hat Goofy.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Like I should be and him should share the same brain. But we just. I just didn't own it on VHS and like that. It never came up on cable. Just randomly for me, really.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, that was how I never owned it either. But they played it on Disney Channel constantly.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think I missed every time they played it on Disney Channel. So I never got into a Goofy movie.

[Tim Gettys]

Do yourselves a favor, go watch a Goofy movie tonight. Because real talk, I know we're going a little long on this. I just need to say phenomenal film that I feel like this documentary like captures what makes it special. Like what an amazing father son story. What an amazing, like coming of age story. For Max Goofy like this is. There's some good. I gotta rewatch stuff. Documentary made me cry.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Wow.

[Tim Gettys]

Made me cry.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I gotta. I've only seen it maybe like dude.

[Tim Gettys]

Watch it, watch it man. It's gonna be great. But remember everyone, this is kind of Funny Games Daily. Each and every weekday we run you through all the video game news you need to know live on YouTube, Twitch and podcast services around the globe. If you love what we do, please get the kind of funny membership it gets you. The show's ad free and you get a daily exclusive. Greg Way a chance to be part of this show please. Super chat in just like Mike L did saying birthday tax. Happy birthday Mike L. We appreciate you Mike L in the chat. A little housekeeping for you. Friday we kick off the Elder Scrolls Online podcast. A kind of funny games cast limited series. You can join Greg, Mike, the Zenx Online studio, studio director Matt Fyror and the Elder Scrolls Online game director Rich Lambert as they start an unflinching four part series about the highs, lows, successes and failures of the 10 year old game Greg's calling the deepest dive of his career. I'm really excited for this one. This was a big team effort for everybody so I'm excited for you all to be able to see it starting this Friday. We never get this type of indepth in depth talk from developers, so definitely check it out. Even if you're not necessarily an Elder Scrolls Online fan, I think you're going to enjoy these episodes. So check it out. And then after this you're gonna get Gamescast. It's a one on one with me and Ben Starr that we recorded a couple weeks ago during gdc. Very excited for you to see this. It's a very casual, just me and him on the couch, chat and talking. He gets really weird and starts talking about licking batteries. He was a weird kid, you know what I mean?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Star is a weird man.

[Tim Gettys]

He's a weird man.

[Kevin Coelho]

But also Tim has a like fear of batteries.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, that's how it came up is I started explaining to him that I have a fear of batteries because when I was young my mom said battery acid and I was like I don't want to touch batteries anymore.

[Kevin Coelho]

For years I can't touch it.

[Tim Gettys]

I don't want to touch batteries.

[Kevin Coelho]

And you get it.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Kevin would have to like take my Game Boy when it ran out, batteries out, put them in.

[Kevin Coelho]

And I would always get mad because it's like you waited too long. Yeah, you went, you went too far. And he was Like, I just.

[Tim Gettys]

I had a red light starts like beeping and I'm like trying to get to a safe point, you know what I mean?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I know what you mean.

[Tim Gettys]

A stress baby Ben Starr is what.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Happens when you put like a freak into. Into the most attractive man that you know. You know what I mean?

[Kevin Coelho]

I do have one question for you, Tim. How much would it take for. For you to lick a 9 volt battery?

[Tim Gettys]

I just don't want to do it.

[Kevin Coelho]

No, I know. I don't know. That's the kind of wheel knowledge we need for our next anniversary, you know?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Can I tell you something that's going to upset both of you two and everybody in the audience? And I want to preface this with I was 11 years old. I used to bite batteries.

[Kevin Coelho]

That's dangerous.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I know. In retrospect, I know how dangerous it is.

[Tim Gettys]

You could have blew up your face.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yes, I could have. I used to buy it because like some it was. It was one of those playground rumors of oh, if your battery is dying.

[Tim Gettys]

How you get mew.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

If you. No, you bite the battery, it'll last longer type thing.

[Kevin Coelho]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. And I don't know, maybe it was true. I don't know. I like, I don't know.

[Tim Gettys]

No, it was not true.

[Kevin Coelho]

No, no, it's definitely not true.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I'm not saying you should. I'm saying you should 1000% not do it. But it's one of those things where like I think back at it every now and then. I'm like, I could not have half my face right now. Yeah, I could have like blown explode.

[Tim Gettys]

The chat's great.

[Kevin Coelho]

It would get really fat.

[Tim Gettys]

So many.

[Kevin Coelho]

And then squirt fire out of its.

[Tim Gettys]

Jesus Christ. One of them squirting. There's a Ben Starr reference there somewhere. But if you thought we'd get through today without saying the word chums, we're gonna be. You're gonna be disappointed. Once again, later today, Nick's headed back to the streets of Night City to showcase Nvidia DLSS4 in Cyberpunk 2077 on our Sexy Ass Nvidia 5090 cards. In partnership with our friends at Nvidia, GeForce will be taking on a new mission in these futuristic streets while at the same time enjoying full ray tracing with insane frames per second, thanks to the Black magic of RTX and DLSS4's multi frame generation. Check out Andy and Nick showing all that stuff off. It's one of the prettiest games ever. You know what I mean?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This is one of those ones where I'm kind of jealous to not be on a stream. Especially coming off of playing the entire punk again at the Switch 2 event. Being like, man, I love this game. And also this game looks so beautiful. I cannot wait to see how this looks on a 50 90.

[Kevin Coelho]

Bless. You're always welcome to join them. I mean you might.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Because I'll come down and sit down for a little bit. I might hang out.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, if you're a kind of funny member. Today's Greg Way is going to be a Roger Way. Thank you to our Patreon producers Anatoly Ost Delaney Twining, Carl Jacobs and Omega Buster. Today we're brought to you by Better Help, but we'll get to that later. For now, let's begin with what is and forever will be the Roper Report. Cole Story number. Oh, we have seven stories today.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What's up with you?

[Tim Gettys]

I'm tired of fast food. What's up with you?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Right now?

[Tim Gettys]

We gotta get to the news. We just spent 15 minutes talking about.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We did.

[Tim Gettys]

We had a great time though. You know what I mean? That's what this is all about. Story number one, Last of Us 2 review roundup has a rotten tomatoes currently of 93.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

93, 93. For reference, last was season one had a 96.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay, okay, a little bit of a drop off there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Let's start with a lot more reviews in for the last one season one. I'll also say it's like I think 10 of the reviews in currently.

[Tim Gettys]

Simon Carty, the homie yeah at IGN gave it a 7 out of 10, saying it was always going to be a challenge to adapt the Last of Us Part 2 sprawling, twisting story into a television show across multiple seasons. And at the halfway point, the jury's still out on whether it will ultimately work. Season two of HBO's Naughty Dog adaptations. Not bad TV. It's far from it. It's incredibly well made, often looks gorgeous, and is packed full of stellar performances. But the storytelling devices and choices made in terms of pace and placement, key events bump up against what works, ultimately not delivering the striking effect the story's undeniable, shocking events should. It's good, just not a patch on its stellar source material or its first season so far. Angie Han at the Hollywood Reporter gave it an unscored review, saying to some extent you probably want a mid run season of a serialized drama like the Last of Us to leave you less than satisfied. It's a good thing when a show makes you wonder about the characters within it or hunger to or hungry to dive deeper into the lore. If you find yourself groaning with impatience to find out what happens next, it means you're invested in the plot. But there's Ms. But there's mysterious and there's incomplete. By the time the season two finale has Ellie chasing after one group of people, we don't really know whose motives and goals remain opaque to us. Only to get way waylaid. I've never seen that word by a different group of people. We don't really know whose motives and goals remain opaque to us. HBO's hit video game adaptation has fully tilted into the latter. Its lasting impression is one of anti climax as it becomes apparent that the answer to most of the questions it raises is you'll see next season. There's still plenty of feeling. I could bring up tears right now just thinking of various moments in the season, but I did find myself missing the rich lyricism of that previous chapter, the sprawling humanity of it, the devastating finality of it. Maybe all that too is being saved for season three. John Nugent at Empire gave it five stars, saying, moving and devastating in equal doses, the Last of Us remains poke post apocalyptic television at its peak. At almost every turn it delivers. Pray to the video game adaptation gods that season three sticks the landing. What are your immediate thoughts on these reviews?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think they're interesting, but also I could have seen this coming as far as I guess, the mixed nature of it, right? Because I think if there's one thing I can say about Last of Us TV show is that I think the core of just like television, like TV making filmmaking, whatever you want to call it, right? Like it's got that down pat. It's got that, it's got that solid, right? I assume the cinematography is going to be good. I assume the performances are going to be good. I assume, assume the sets and like how like the presentation and how things look and all that stuff is going to be good, right? My one concern this whole time is, all right, how are they going to translate this story to tv? And like seeing that the overall Rotten Tomatoes is in the 90s, I'm like, okay, cool, we got something here. Like they've, they've figured something out. Reading into the reviews of like where people are finding some faults in it, I think kind of lead back into the conversations we've had already of how do you translate this into tv? How do you do the, the thing of taking a story that is complete in a, in a game, right over the course of a package, right over the course of one installment in A game and turn that into multiple seasons. I think we can all assume of like where this thing maybe probably cuts off. Right. Or like, I think we, I think for me, I read these and I can imagine how people are probably going to leave with a sense of like, oh, damn, like we just got to get season three. Like we got to figure we got to see the rest of this thing. It only feels half complete because that is what happens when you pause, like when you have the cutting off point in the middle of the game. So I'm not, I'm not surprised by this, but I am, I am curious to see how it sits with me because I don't, I think for me hearing you read these and for me reading the reviews myself, I don't know how I'm going to like or dislike how they tackle the story yet. What about you?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, I mean, I think I'm, I'm right there with you. With. I feel like going into knowing that adapting Last of Us two is going to be way harder than adapting Last of Us one.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Just due to the way the story is told in the game and due to the size and scope of that story and also like that translation from gamer to mainstream TV audience like prestige television, HBO fan, that the Last of Us now has so, so many people, like I, the majority of my friends, parents, watch the Last of Us and are excited for Last of Us Season two on hbo. That's telling, you know. So I feel like there was always going to be a challenge here. I'm very, I'm with you of like, I'm interested to see what I think of it because I just don't know how they're going to do it. I don't know what information are they going to give us in a different place that could totally reframe how we feel about the story. And I also think that for those of us it, there's two sides of it that I, I think are going to be challenging. One is adapting this for people that know what happens and how it happens and when it happens and how the changes or whatever are going to sit with us. But then also knowing all that stuff, what about the people that have never played and making it feel like they're, they can understand what's going on with us knowing that the story is a little bit out of order. You know what I mean? And like, that's part of like how it has to go for it to like have the emotional resonance that the game does with the player.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

When you say out of order, are you saying out of order compared to like what they did in the video game or just out of order in terms of how the video game does.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm saying the video game does things out of order.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

But I think that the TV show might reorder those things.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, okay.

[Tim Gettys]

I think it might have to. You know what I mean? Like, without getting too into this, it's like I would be surprised if, and I don't know anything. I'd be surprised if we don't get information about who Abby is a lot sooner.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

See, that's what I'm fascinated about. Because, yeah, one of these reviews, I believe it was the Hollywood Reporter one kind of talks about like, yeah, you just put in with these people you don't know or whatever. Which doesn't sound like the first half of the laughs of this part two. Right. That sounds like some of what we get in the second half of last of this part two. And that has me, so, yeah, to your point, very fascinated on. All right, are they remixing things a little bit in turn to give you a bit more of Abby's side of the story? How does that sit? I also just wonder as far as the I, I guess my assumption, slash prediction has been that this is going to be a three season thing as far as getting to the end of last for this part two.

[Tim Gettys]

Right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Like by the time we get to season four, maybe we're talking about new story, maybe we're talking about adapting other parts of the lot. I don't, like, I don't know how they, how they end up doing it, but I think of it as a three act structure or like a trilogy structure.

[Tim Gettys]

Right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Looking at something like Star wars where you get a new hope, Empire Strikes Back and then the one after that. Why can't I think of what it's called?

[Tim Gettys]

Return of the Job.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Thank you. Return of the Jedi.

[Tim Gettys]

Right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Where it is the first movie sets it up. Second movie you get the devastating end. Like, oh shit. Like, how are we going to come back to this in the third movie? Resolves it and gets you back into the place of like, all right, there's hope again, right. I wonder if they can. If we're in a place where last of season was what season one was, right. Last of season two ends in a place where it's like, oh shit. Like this is dark. But then last season three is like, all right, now here's Abby's story. That doesn't make sense with what this is.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, I mean that's the thing is like we'll we'll see. I mean it starts next week. We're going to be doing our weekly breakdowns and I'm very excited. I wouldn't be surprised if we end up getting a fourth season and if they end up taking the story of Last of Us two and put turning it into three parts, which I think makes sense. Again, I don't want to get too into it just because I know a lot of people are about to be watching this and consuming the story for the first time. I do think that there are. What I'll say is the last couple hours of the game can be fleshed out to be way more interesting. And I think to me are the most rushed story wise and just pacing wise and theme wise of Last of Us two. So I feel like you can kind.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Of like almost give that a whole season.

[Tim Gettys]

Exactly. And also we're talking about short seasons. Like this is only a seven episode season coming up. So if we stick to that, I don't think like if, if they go 777 for three seasons, that'll be 21 episodes of the show. I don't think that that's out of the realm of possibility. They could also do shorter. That makes people can do whatever. I don't know. I'm just throwing that out there because I feel like they're going to want to continue the show and I want them to continue the show. I also do think that there's going to be a lot of criticism of it being a part one. Like I think even think of this as season two. It's season two, part one. You know what I mean?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

And like the next part being season three, it's like it's not if you play the. You know what I mean?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Like it's season two, part two, essentially.

[Tim Gettys]

And you know that sucks to some extent. But if they manage to get the. This I think they're gonna get the next season out sooner than it. Than season two after season one, just due to a lot of factors at play it seems. And I'm not too bothered by it because it's like there's so much good TV that I feel like like some things can just have these moments of like, just let it be good. And like I don't think that we need to review season two as a season necessarily. It's more just like episodes of the story. And like you can. And I'm not gonna fault anyone for doing it because that's how we review things is like as, as the. How they're. They themselves are presenting It. But I just feel like we know the truth where it's like, this isn't the end of the story. It's not even close.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

You know, and I don't think we're gonna get fast 10 part wind where it ends the way it ends. And we're like, I don't know that we're ever gonna get a follow up. It's like, we know we're going to get the rest of it. So I'm not too bothered by it especially because, like, I expected to follow the game and I love where the game goes.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. I mean, when you put it into like the 21 episode thing. Right. Like, I know things aren't necessarily like this anymore for the most part, especially with Netflix and streamers and stuff of 21 episode seasons, but part of me would almost wish that we would just get a 21 episode season. Because I think you could do. See, I think you could do Last of this part two in 21 episodes. But when it is chopped up into three different seasons, I think that's where you're gonna get to where probably these reviews come from. As far as you get to the end of that episode seven of season two and you go, oh, I feel like I need more. Right. And then like, you're probably gonna do the same thing with Episode with season three, depending on how they play it. Right. Like, I do think there are natural stopping points, but I don't. The one, the most natural stopping point in my head for the game is not something that would work for tv.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Which would be like how they do it in the game of that middle cut.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. I mean, I'm with you. Of like, obviously the dream scenario, a 21 episode season of Last of Us Level TV. Yeah. That's what we want. But I also kind of look at it like Game of Thrones and like, let's not even talk about the quality of the end of that show. Just like.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Sure.

[Tim Gettys]

In terms of what Game of Thrones did season one to season two to season three, like, it doesn't really matter like season to season. It's like what happens in those seasons and what happens overall in the story. And to me, I'm like, we know the last of Us one and two story. So as long as we're being told that, like, I don't really care how it's broken up.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. Dude, I'm such a sicko for finales and cliffhangers and like how you build and how you like.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Tie that shit up.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. I just think that so many of the episodes can do that. Just episode to episode could have cliffhangers. You know what I mean? But again, I. I love Last of Us. I'm excited as hell for this. Next week we'll be talking about episode one, which Greg already saw. That piece of shit.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I know. Idiot. Nincompoop. Good word for him.

[Tim Gettys]

Story number two. Hades 2 will be a Nintendo Switch 2 console exclusive at launch. Well, Nintendo Switch console exclusive, right?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Nintendo Switch to a Nintendo Switch.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Switch family of consoles.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Family of consoles.

[Tim Gettys]

Hades 2 will be a Switch to console exclusive at launch. In a new creator's voice video, developer Supergiant confirmed that the game, which is also planned for. For other consoles, will first come to Nintendo Switch. The roguelike sequel, which has been in early access for some time, will come to Nintendo Switch 2 later this year. But no specific information was provided on launch date. In an update to the story, the Supergiant Games X account has issued a correction now, claiming that the game will also launch on the original Nintendo Switch when it comes to version 1.0. I saw this as a headline on the runner show that you made.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

And I was like, surely this can't be correct. Hades is a Nintendo Switch 2 console exclusive at launch. Why? What are we doing here? It's 2025. This is stupid.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Is it?

[Tim Gettys]

Yes.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Or is it business, Tim?

[Tim Gettys]

This is stupid business. I don't like this. I. I feel like once the floodgates open up, you've released Hades on PlayStation and Xbox, release the sequel everywhere.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But I mean, Hades launched on Switch. I know, as a console exclusive.

[Tim Gettys]

But then later came the other consoles. True. I. Did we. I just feel like this is. This is bad business.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Do you think, like, why do you think this is happening? Do you think this is Nintendo throwing money at super giant?

[Tim Gettys]

And I think that's silly because I. Why, why, why don't we do that?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Why would Nintendo want Hades 2 as a launch exclusive for their brand new console?

[Tim Gettys]

I just don't. I don't think that that's. I think the tides have changed and shifted when it comes to this stuff. Like, I. I still believe that exclusives are incredibly important and that they matter. If they matter to your strategy and ecosystem, Nintendo that's there, it's paramount to theirs. But we're talking about first party titles. I. I feel the exact same way about the Duskbloods.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm just like.

[Tim Gettys]

Specifically because that, like, there's certain things that I'm like, I can argue for the exclusive making sense. And then there's ones I'M like, no, that being a multiplayer title, what are we doing? Get it everywhere. Give that the best chance of success possible. Hades 2, the fact that Hades 1 did come to the other consoles, I feel like this is like it's not worth the business.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I mean, I think the context to it, I think means a lot to how we receive this because I, I do think that Hades 2 being announced a year and a half ago, right? Like We've known about Hades 2 for a minute. Many of us have played Hades 2 in Early Access already and the hype cycle for Hades 2 has already begun. Right. It's been going on for years at this point. When you then part way through that marketing cycle go, oh, and this is going to launch as an exclusive on a console, I think that then makes fans be like, oh, what the fuck? Like I'm a PlayStation guy or I'm an Xbox guy and I'm a big Hades fan and you're telling me you're not going to launch my console because Nintendo gave you money or whatever it is, right? Like, I think that's where the salt starts, starts to set in a bit. I think maybe I'd feel different about it if like Hades 2 was first announced at this Nintendo direct and they were like, yo, we got the deal. We're like, we're making this happen, whatever. And this was the first we're hearing about it situation. Yeah. It would still be the same on paper kind of.

[Tim Gettys]

Right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But like, I think the way you present it, it almost feels more like you're taking something away from the Xbox players and the PlayStation players as opposed to being like, oh no, Nintendo was part of the big push for this new game that just got announced and all this, all this stuff. I think for me, I, I'm, I, I feel like a bit, I guess on both sides with it where Hades 2 is going to come to Xbox and PlayStation probably what, a year after it launches on Switch, let's say sometime next year since they're saying 2025 for Hades too. So I think that gives me a bit of like, all right, we'll see it. I also, I also, I shouldn't assume anything, right? Because assumptions make an ass out of you and me. But I assume there's going to be some kind of cross safe system. I assume you're going to be able to keep your progression because Hades on Switch 1 had the CR between PC and Switch. And so like, I don't know, for me it's rough, but I do kind of view it in the Same way as Dust Bloods of like, all right, cool. Like Nintendo got one. If I'm. If I'm head of Nintendo, if I'm making business decisions at Nintendo and I see the opportunity to make Hades to an exclusive, I'm spending that money I'm doing.

[Tim Gettys]

I truly don't think it benefits Nintendo. Like maybe it benefits Super Giant because Nintendo paid them. Cool. And like, get that bag Super Giant. You're fucking amazing and you make amazing art. So get that money for sure. But I don't think that there's any world in which this causes it to sell more copies on Nintendo than it would by a dramatic effect than if it was on other consoles. Then it's just like. Then you're just going to make the money in more places. Like we were talking about what potentially is going to be a. What is expected to be a Game of the Year contender.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

You know what I mean?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, do we say the same thing for deltarune? Because Delta might be a year wrong.

[Tim Gettys]

Right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Is Delta rune coming to PlayStation and Xbox at launch?

[Tim Gettys]

I don't know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That might be one for chat. Because I. I see it as. You're right that I think this alone doesn't necessarily move the needle of getting switches selling Switch Twos. But I think it's the compounding effect ones though as well in Switch ones as well.

[Tim Gettys]

Right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But I think it's the compounding effect of. All right, we have Donkey Kong, we have Mario kart, we have XYZ, Nintendo, the Nintendo game. But we also have Hades 2 and we also have Dust Bloods and we also have deltarune. Right. Like, I think when you start to like build this case of what Switch one was at the beginning of the Switch generation, which was like, okay, it's the Nintendo machine, but then also it's the best place to play indies. Like, this is the indie machine. I think that's an identity that I could see Nintendo trying to reclaim a bit for the titles that you already do associate a bit with Nintendo. I think deltarune for the previous chapters when it came to console where we're coming to Nintendo at first, again, this is a. You're wrong for chat. But yeah, Hades, it's the same thing from Software is new to Nintendo. But it's like, I think because it's not a sequel, it is kind of. It is this new IP that from Software has. It doesn't feel as crazy.

[Tim Gettys]

I. I'm only saying that from the multiplayer front, when it comes to Dust Blood, if. If it was just A single player from software game exclusive to Nintendo. I get that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

That is trying to sell systems that is worth it to Nintendo to pay because they're like we were trying to get the FromSoftware fans to buy a Switch to. To play this game. Hades doesn't have that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's fair.

[Tim Gettys]

It just doesn't have that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't think the Hades fans are gonna like, this is gonna. You don't think this isn't gonna move Hades fans to buy Nintendo Switch?

[Tim Gettys]

No, I don't. I really don't. Because I think the Hades fans like that type of Hades fan. They're either already have the Switch one, they can just play it there, or more likely they'll play it on PC. Which I imagine that's the majority of people playing Hades is on PC to some extent.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Right? Yeah. I don't know.

[Tim Gettys]

I think that this is a blunder.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's random as hell. This is one of the. This is one where. Yeah, waking up to this news this morning, I did go, oh, really? Like that's how we're doing this. All right, cool.

[Tim Gettys]

Like, I mean, my bigger thing is like, I think that this, this is shitty. This sucks. I. I'm shocked at how much the chat's not on my side about this because people get so up in arms about exclusivism stuff. This is a perfect example of a game that does not need to be exclusive anywhere. Yeah, it should be playable everywhere. If your Netflix account gets you Hades on a mobile device, like, what are we. Why are we gatekeeping this?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, that I agree with.

[Tim Gettys]

Right. That's.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think overall for the gaming audience, like for the audience side, this sucks.

[Tim Gettys]

This sucks.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

If you're a Hades fan that discovered it through Xbox on Game Pass or something, or you discovered it through PlayStation or.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

If you played it on Netflix on your phone, it's like, wait, why are we limiting. Limiting this to just one console at launch?

[Tim Gettys]

Like, it's like, let's look at it from three different perspectives. One is from the perspective of the gamers. This sucks.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yes, Hard stop.

[Tim Gettys]

One is from the perspective of Supergiant. I think they'd make, I don't know the amount of money Nintendo paid for this. I don't think it's going to be an amount that makes up for the potential sales otherwise that you would get with that big. Everyone's playing this game and buying this game and talking about this game again. We're talking about Hades too. We're talking about a known quantity. It's not like Maybe it's good. So it's like, I think that there's some question there about like the money aspect and then there's the side of Nintendo. Yeah, sure. It's good for Nintendo. Of course. Anything to sell the Switch to. Yes, it's a good move for Nintendo in that way because they have more exclusives and more things to push. But when you look at all that, I feel like in 2025, with how the landscape of video games, this sucks.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Do you think for super giant it could be a thing as well of there's still an indie team and so for them, like slow rolling out to one console at a time is, is maybe easier for them as opposed to like trying to launch everywhere, because that's absolutely Switch one.

[Tim Gettys]

I don't buy it though. Think of how much money they have at this point.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, they got a lot of money. A lot of money.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, that's true. But it's like cool. Like, I don't know, there's, there's something here of just like we can, we can like play the game of like imagining where the money goes and all this stuff. But like, let's just fucking be real. Yeah, they could do it if they want.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

If they really wanted to push for all consoles, they for sure could do.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. So anyways, we're going to keep going to story number three after a word from our sponsor. This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. We all know that therapy can feel like a lofty investment, but we also know that there's nothing better to invest in than yourself. The state of your mind is just as important as your physical health. Let's talk numbers. Traditional in person therapy can cost anywhere from 100 to 250 per session, which adds up fast. But with BetterHelp online therapy, you can save on average up to 50% per session. Therapy should feel accessible, not like a luxury. With BetterHelp, you pay a flat fee for weekly sessions, saving you big on cost and on time. Some of my best friends use BetterHelp and love how helpful it can be for learning positive coping skills and how to set boundaries. It empowers you to be the best version of yourself. And it isn't just for those who've experienced major trauma. If you're thinking of starting therapy, give BetterHelp a try. It's entirely online, designed to be convenient, flexible and suited to your schedule. Your well being is worth it. Visit betterhelp.com kindafunny to get 10% off your first month. That's betterhelp H-E-L-P.com kindafunny betterhelp.com kinda funny story number three. Nintendo Switch two pre orders delayed in Canada to align with the United States. This comes from Jordan Midler at bgc. In a statement, Nintendo said it intends to align Canadian pre orders of the new system with U S pre orders which were pushed back last week. Pre orders for the Switch 2 in Canada will not start on April 9th to align with the timing of pre orders to be determined in the US Nintendo of Canada said in a statement. Nintendo, Canada.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm glad you thought it too, because I just imagine like the red Nintendo logo with like a maple leaf under it, some maple syrups drizzled on top of that. Nintendo of Canada. You all got Nintendo up there, Moose.

[Tim Gettys]

You're all part of the problem. We're all part of the problem here. Shut the up. Shut the up. No.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Let's go.

[Tim Gettys]

Kevin.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Is this real?

[Tim Gettys]

Oh my God. It's real. It's real.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Y'all are hilarious up there. Oh man. Literally, it's the logo. Oh, that's so good.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh my God. Last week, despite announcing a price for the system when pre orders were set to go live, Nintendo later walked back its US Plans for pre ordering the new console at the time arriving. Nintendo's yet to confirm when the console will be made available for pre order. The system has been made available in Europe and the UK as well as Japan. Oh man, that's hilarious.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You ever have just like, you ever live at a place where you have like the most annoying neighbors possible, right? And like they make noise and they wake you up in the middle of the night and it's like, God damn, I fudgeing hate these people. I feel like that's what we are to Canada. Like straight up, all the fucking decisions that we make as the United States of America just negatively affect Canada. And they're just there, just there, there's there being polite, going to Tim Hortons, having a good time, and then all of a sudden their Switch to pre orders get delayed because Donald Trump is being a bitch. Like, God, I'm sorry, Canada.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh man. So sorry. Canada story number four here. Nintendo Life interviewed. Well, you don't have anything to say about that, right? Yeah, it's just a continuing our feelings of just like, this fucking sucks. I want this all to be fixed.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Somebody do something.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The fucking maple leaf is killing me. That's official. That's official. I fucking nailed that shit.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh my lord. That's fine. Nintendo Life interviewed a Nintendo SVP and got some answers about Mother 3. This comes from Zion Grassi and Alana Hogs at Nintendo Life. The homie Zion. We got to see him at the Nintendo events. Always a pleasure to see him doing great work over at Nintendo Life. And on top of that, we also got to interview Nate Bildorf. I got to sit down, talk to him for about 30 minutes, and we'll talk about the stuff, and then we'll talk about my stuff. Amidst the buds of the Switch 2, we got to sit down with Nate Bildorf, senior vice president of product development and publishing at Nintendo of America. Jumping into the Mother 3 discussion here, Nintendo Life asks, so this question doesn't come with annoyance or frustration. We're huge Mother Sl, Earthbound fans and Mother 3 released on Switch Online in Japan a year or two ago. We want to stop asking this question eventually. Nate just laughs. Nintendo Live says, we really would. And we imagine you and everyone at Nintendo would probably love to stop fielding it, too. So is there anything that you can say for people holding on to hope that this game may be coming to the west someday? How does Nintendo feel about Mother 3? And then Nate says, I mean, that's. That's certainly not something I can answer for Nintendo, because I would imagine that there's a variety of opinions out there. I would really actually throw it back in your court a little bit more broadly when it comes to classic games that were only released regionally. Do you think that it would be something that people want to see in terms of having games that were previously locked behind language? We've actually had a couple of those come to our system untranslated. Are those still things that you think fans enjoy playing, even though you know you'd always have heard about this game and they may not be getting the full experience, but we've had a Japanese version of it in our system. Do you think that there's value in that? Nintendo Life says, we seem to see a lot of interest when Starfy came to Nintendo Switch Online. And Nate says, that's right. That was the example that I was giving. Nintendo Life says, you guys must have the best gauge of player interest. But we put together a documentary about Earthbound Banana and Mother. Fuck you.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's good. That's good. He strikes again. Wait on the wall. I love this. That's really good.

[Kevin Coelho]

We got him, Chad. We got him.

[Tim Gettys]

I got bananas. I got bananas.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's just Kevin. This is, like, the most prepped I've seen Kevin be on a thing of, like, as soon as you said it Banana man dancing in the background. That's really good, Kevin.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, my God. You guys must have the best gauge of player interest. But we put together a documentary about Earth, Earthbound, and Mother God. I read it, and I was about to say, like, what, Banana? How did I.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We got him a few years ago.

[Tim Gettys]

Had it reached a large heart felt. I love when Kevin is saying, because.

[Kevin Coelho]

He'S so windy, I spit water everywhere.

[Tim Gettys]

It was surprising. It's just also one of the reasons we don't want to give up on it, because we know so many people would love to play it someday. And Nate says, well, thank you for telling me. I'll take it back. And Internal life says, thank you. So, you know, just more conversations there going, mother, Mother is still something that exists and might happen. We'll see.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We'll see.

[Tim Gettys]

Who knows? I'm very surprised it hasn't happened by now.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. I mean, for the stuff that we got on the Switch 1, they released the. The Star Fox 2.

[Tim Gettys]

Star Fox 2 on the Super Nintendo Classic.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. On Switch Online.

[Tim Gettys]

That's just.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, sorry. The Nintendo Classic.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Which I think then also on Switch Online, which I think.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think that sounds about right.

[Tim Gettys]

But, yeah, they do things like that, which is cool. So I'm surprised that we haven't got it. Like, it just seems like it's. To me, it seems like enough. There's enough conversation that it would be worth putting out there because, like, as far as we know, like, the work's done.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

You know what I mean?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Starfie. Is that Star Fox or is that a thing?

[Tim Gettys]

I don't know. Starfeet is the little Star guy. He was a assist trophy in Smash Brothers.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So, like, the Starfie came to the West.

[Tim Gettys]

Yes.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Through Switch Online.

[Tim Gettys]

Yes.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

All right, cool. What do they have against Mother three?

[Tim Gettys]

I don't know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We got to all play the fuck out of Starfleet is what I'm glad that the story. Like, if you're watching this, don't. You don't even got to play it. You just got to remember when Justin Bieber was trying to get streams on Spotify and he just asked his fans to play his music on mute. We got to do that for Starfleet. Oh, this actually looks kind of good. I would play this game, actually. Starfleet looks. Looks fire. We all got to boot up Starfy.

[Tim Gettys]

Yep. And everyone booted up at 6pm on Sunday.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We're all playing Starfee because I think. I genuinely think this is the only way.

[Tim Gettys]

And then play Earthbound and then play Starfeed and then play Earth and just.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Kind of go back. Because I think that's the only way we're going to get Mother three is if, like, Nintendo looks at the Starfleet numbers and go, fuck, we got to do this more.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, yeah, that's super cool. But I also got to sit down with. With Nate. Roger was with me as well and got to ask a whole bunch of questions. And, you know, in typical Nintendo fashion, we didn't get too many answers.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That was gonna be a star.

[Tim Gettys]

I know too many answers to things. But I did ask if having the wind waker on NSO precludes it from the switch to getting the actual Wii U port at some point. And he was very quick to say no. Like, all options are on the table. Obviously nothing's confirmed one way or another. But there are many examples of games that are on NSO and still get the. You can get them in a different way, whether it's a remake or just the same port version or whatever. It is so interesting that they didn't say it's not happening, but essentially it was never say never. It's Nintendo. We also asked if who was developing Donkey Kong Bonanza and they would not tell us. Nintendo fashion. It's. And I asked why, and their reasoning is what I'm sure most of you have already heard in the last couple of days. They're saying we want the games to speak for themselves and we don't want any of that stuff to get in the way of it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Sure. Did you see the like in like, a different Nintendo event in a different country? They did confirm that it was the Odyssey team. Did you see this floating around? I'm gonna see if I can find it interesting. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

And then on top of that, I was like, well, without getting into who's developing this, do they see Donkey Kong Bonanza as a Mario Odyssey level release or something more akin to a Luigi's Mansion or a Yoshi's Woolly World or something? And, you know, he gave a Nintendo answer.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They're all the same.

[Tim Gettys]

They're all the same. We don't see games that differently. I'm like, you're lying to me. You know what I mean? Like, I know you do, but anyways. Yeah. So not. Not too much. There we go. There's our boy. Look at him.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

O, that's great. Good job, Kevin.

[Tim Gettys]

Good job, Kev. I'm trying to think of anything else that. That we asked, but essentially anything I asked, they were like, no, I can't tell you that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I can't find What I'm looking for, Chad, if you can find where some other Nintendo like executive was saying that it was Odyssey Team, write it into your wrong or like super chat it or something because yeah, I think I'm going to have to dig deep for it. But I mean, I don't know. I would like to pray and hope that us not seeing mother 3 yet means that it's not just going to be a drop on Switch Online. Like it could be like an actual like, oh, we're rereleasing it or we're finding a way to like pretty it up or we're going to give it the 2D HD treatment, which like would be cool. But also at the same time, I just want. Just give me another three. I just want the game that you released in like 2001 or whatever, whenever it was like, give me that.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Story number five Silent Hill F has been rated as Steam Deck playable. This comes from Wario 64. There's a whole little post here on Blue sky showing off that some of the game in game text is small and maybe difficult to read. The game requires manual configuration of graphic settings to perform well on the Steam Deck, but otherwise the game shows Steam Deck controller icons and all functionality is accessible when using the default configuration.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The reason why I'm including this as a story because this would make me think that it's imminent or like this. The fact that you're getting Steam Deck compatibility makes me feel like you're about to release. Yeah, I just think it's interesting. Not that I like that's factual or anything, it's just like one of those odd things of all right, cool, like you're getting the Steam Deck compatibility thing. What is like why is that happening right now all the times?

[Tim Gettys]

And then story number six here we got required reading for you. A Palestinian led BDS movement adds Microsoft's Xbox as priority boycott target. This comes from Ian Walker at Polygon bds, a pro Palestine Palestinian human rights movement focused on pressuring Israel to comply with international law by promoting boycotts, divestment and sanctions against the country and its economic partners added Microsoft and Xbox to its list of targets on April 7, quote, Microsoft partners with the apartheid regime of Israel and its prison system, the Palestinians. BDS National Committee's official statement explains it provides the Israeli military with Azure, Azer, Azure, Azure, azure cloud and AI services that are central to accelerating Israel's genocide of 2.3 million Palestinians in the illegally occupied Gaza Strip. After 34 years of deep complicity with Israel's military, the Israeli army relies heavily on Microsoft to meet technological requirements of its genocide and apartheid regime. The article goes on to give more context around boycott efforts and gives options on how to boycott Xbox. So definitely check that out. Polygon, if that sounds interesting to you. And read more.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Hell, yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Not a great way to transition out of this. Let's just get to Wieners.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, listen. Yeah, let's just get to Wii News. I'll just read the thing. I was gonna do it for you and I was like, you know what? That is a tough transition. Of course you can go to our last story, the WE News Channel. Recover all the small news items you need to know about.

[Tim Gettys]

Thank you very much. Bless. Sonic rumble launches May 8th on PC and mobile. Sick.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Let's go. Are you excited for that? Nah.

[Tim Gettys]

Are you?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No. But I want to. I want to be. You know, it looks cool.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But the fact that it's a mobile game makes me not as excited.

[Tim Gettys]

Xeon in the chat from Nintendo Live, saying, thanks for the shout out, gang. Sure, the fan translation of mother 3 is there and it's fantastic, but so many people won't play it until it has Nintendo stamp of approval. Right. With the heart. Exactly. If you want mother three, say it loud and proud. Show up. Sunday, 6pm Play Starfy Starf. Play Earthbound. Play Starfy. Play Earthbound. Back to back to back. We're going all night. We're not gonna stop switching between those two games until Mother 3 is released.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Let's go big Starfy.

[Tim Gettys]

Let's go big Starfy, everybody.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

He's. So this is the villain from the Suicide Squad.

[Kevin Coelho]

Is it a starfish? Is Starfy a starfish?

[Tim Gettys]

You know, he's a star, I think.

[Kevin Coelho]

Like a fallen star, right?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

He's just a star.

[Kevin Coelho]

Yeah, but he was in water. You see how it's confusing?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No, it is. You're right.

[Tim Gettys]

From Noble. Via game developer Brass Line Entertainment lays off at least 13 employees. Brass Line Entertainment is rumored to be working on an action RPG based on the Wu Tang Clan, published by Xbox. When are we going to hear about this game? Or never?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't know, man. I don't know. I'm starting to. I'm starting to, like, get concerned. I mean, he's starting to. Well, the layoffs are the thing that are initiating the concern for me. But, like, I hope we see it. I feel like if we do see it, if we don't see it this year, then it's gone.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

If we don't see it by, like, Summer Game Fest or by the End of this year, then we're never seeing this Wu Tang game. And I hope I'm wrong.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. I want Jeff Keighley to be excited.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yes.

[Tim Gettys]

On that stage. Bringing out Method Man. Red Man.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

All the men.

[Tim Gettys]

All the men.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

All the men.

[Tim Gettys]

All of the men.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Ghost Face Killer.

[Tim Gettys]

Please, God. Ghost Face Kill is so good. Oh, I've never heard him have a bad verse. Even if he has a bad verse, it sounds cool.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Every time. From VGC. A number of dates for PlayStation. The concert are reportedly being canceled across Europe. I hate that news. What the.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. I don't know.

[Tim Gettys]

I don't like that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't know.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So you have tickets for this?

[Tim Gettys]

It's only in Europe right now. America 2026. Unless they all get canceled. I don't want that from Noble. A PS Store play page for Disney Illusion island with a Release date of May 30th. Went up early. Hell, yeah. More people being able to play a game that I absolutely adore.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

When did the Starfy multiply?

[Tim Gettys]

Is it him dancing? The music is really good.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Really? We should keep this.

[Tim Gettys]

Kevin's having fun. That's it for WE news. All right, let's start with you're wrong. And then we'll go to the super chats because we have a whole bunch of them. Frankfurter says, delta Runes coming everywhere. Day one, except for Xbox.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What do these developers have against Xbox?

[Tim Gettys]

I think that the games just don't sell there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's crazy.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, that's what they're saying.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's crazy.

[Kevin Coelho]

Because it's a shitty console.

[Tim Gettys]

Kevin.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We can't say that. Kevin, say that. We're lying here.

[Kevin Coelho]

We're going back to lying.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, God.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I like my Xbox.

[Tim Gettys]

Me, too.

[Kevin Coelho]

Did Microsoft sent the check.

[Tim Gettys]

Thanks.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Jesus Christ.

[Tim Gettys]

Such a piece of.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I hate him so much.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, me.

[Kevin Coelho]

There it is.

[Tim Gettys]

Let's see here. We got. Who wrote this in? Kelsey Dill. Kelsey Dia. That's great.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's really good.

[Tim Gettys]

Puts a tweet here from Joker Juke saying, I actually attended the Switch to Paris experience. And for what's worth, the staff there told me the team behind Odyssey is making TK Bonanza. What I will say is the staff there doesn't know anything, and they're not well. Sorry. More than that. That's not the right way to say it. They're not allowed anything they say is not. Like, they stress to us that, like, do not talk to the demo people. Let them talk to you. Remember? Yeah, that's what happened. Yeah, they talked to us. A lot. And anytime we'd ask a question like maybe [e-mail]. yeah.com doesn't have this info.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You press A to jump and then you can explore this. This entire land. It's all open to you. Oh cool. Like what? What's up with these collectibles? Go to nintendo.com. tell me, tell me.

[Tim Gettys]

Tell me what the thing is.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Tell me what the collectible is. Tell me how to jump.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh my God, he's big.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I know. They're doing Lord's work. God bless them, by the way.

[Tim Gettys]

God bless them because they are wonderful people. Wonderful.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And like they're living their dream. Cuz like it really is, I assume for a lot of them they're getting contracted to like just be at this event and do this and like they're big gamers and like are like living the dream, getting to do work for Nintendo. God bless them. But also Nintendo.

[Tim Gettys]

Nintendo.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Why do you make this? Why can't I just pick up the Nintendo Switch off the thing? Why does somebody have to hand it to me every single time?

[Kevin Coelho]

Wait, don't they force? Well, not force, but don't they like. Isn't it just Nintendo employees from Nintendo?

[Tim Gettys]

Sometimes. But this time it didn't seem like it was for the most part. Yeah, yeah, it was like. It was just.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It was just people.

[Tim Gettys]

It was weird, man. We lived in a wnd, you know, it really was.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We're walking around in a wnd.

[Tim Gettys]

Mellow fellow says bless. Nubby's Number. Nubby's Number Factory. It's a pagel. Roguelike.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Good for you.

[Tim Gettys]

I love bagel, man.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, I mean that's for you. That's the thing is like, I think rogue lights are for everybody, but also not every rogue light is for me, so.

[Tim Gettys]

Well said. Yeah, I'm gonna look into Nubby's Number Factory.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Let me know how you. How you.

[Tim Gettys]

Like. I will, I will. Gunslinger says bless. Would you recommend blueprints on the deck?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

1,000%. It works really well on the deck. Sometimes you have some frame stuff, right. But like it evens out. And it's the kind of game that gameplay wise, you're not doing anything that's like too crazy. It's not like you're playing Sekiro and you need like the twitch reactions. It's all just walking around, picking things up, opening doors and stuff like that, which is beautiful for the Steam deck.

[Tim Gettys]

Then we got Danger Daddy D saying, hey guys, loved your Switch to coverage last week. Watch this weekend. Fantastic work, both of you and your energies. Infectious you two are the best.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, you're.

[Tim Gettys]

Thank you, Triple D. I appreciate that. I keep thinking about our coverage. We did kill it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It was a fun time.

[Tim Gettys]

I've actually found myself watching some of the things that we.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Really?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. I was like. Well, because I was like, I got to see your gameplay of Metroid Prime Time.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

You know what I mean? So, yeah, that's kind of cool.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's me struggling.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. No, you crushed it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Thank you.

[Tim Gettys]

You speed ran that. You kidding me, dude?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I was gonna say, that demo felt quick. I didn't know if it was just me or what was going on.

[Tim Gettys]

I do think that there's that. That pressure of, like, the performance anxiety of, like, there's someone standing there watching you, and you're just like, I can do it. I'm good. I'm good.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, it's like, don't worry. I don't need your help. You know, kind of thing.

[Tim Gettys]

I just want to explore.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's the thing, is I. And Nintendo. Here's the thing about Nintendo, right? They're weird, but they're also smart because they want you to have, like, a specific kind of experience with the thing. And, like, if I didn't have a guy standing there, I would have been meandering. Like, I would have been looking at every corner. I would have been, like, taking my time and all that stuff. But because there's a man who's watching my every step in the gameplay now, I'm like, oh, I got a main line. Oh, I can't mess up with the boss because they'll judge me. They're smart over there, but also, I see. I see through you.

[Tim Gettys]

We see through. You're transparent. Okay. Jordan White says, I recently rewatched Shrek off the Recreationals with the girlfriend for the first time, and. Oh, got it. With a girlfriend for the first time in over 20 years and was literally crying. Nothing beats the DULOC song. Those kids were singing their hearts out.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Off the record, I don't know what.

[Tim Gettys]

You'Re saying, but I love it.

[Kevin Coelho]

What the hell's the Dulock song?

[Tim Gettys]

I don't know, man. I'm about to find out when Shrek 5 comes out, you know what I mean?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm gonna start having my friends call it the Recreationals.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, this is cool.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Whenever they want to do drugs around me, I don't do it.

[Tim Gettys]

Of course, Joey Radstone says, highest possible US price for switch 2. 600. 700. I don't think that we can, like, even predict the highest possible.

[Kevin Coelho]

You know what I mean, didn't they announce that tariffs for Japan are coming at tomorrow at like 24 or something?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But I don't think it'll be Japan. It's like, where they're manufacturing from Vietnam. Yeah.

[Kevin Coelho]

Is that how that works?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I assume so, yeah. Where the parts are chipping in from. Yeah. Vietnam or.

[Kevin Coelho]

But, like, so the. The complete consoles are put together in Vietnam?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't. Yeah, I. I just think is. I don't know if we have that confirmed or if that's just rumors.

[Tim Gettys]

It's rumored, but it's like, heavily rumored. Yeah.

[Kevin Coelho]

Tim, can you feel him touching you?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

I do feel the presence Starfy on his shoulders.

[Kevin Coelho]

He's just rubbing your little face.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

He's rubbing the beer.

[Kevin Coelho]

Oh, I like it. Thanks, Tim.

[Tim Gettys]

Kevin voicing Starfy.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Then I would just say prepare for the voice.

[Kevin Coelho]

Have I always been Starfy?

[Tim Gettys]

The.

[Kevin Coelho]

The Kevin golden star. It's got a face in it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Hold on.

[Tim Gettys]

Let's look.

[Kevin Coelho]

Oh, my God.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, it is Starfield for audio listeners. There's a Kevin Star emote in the chat, and people are spamming it, and it looks just like Starfleet. It looks like. I mean, it looks like Kevin as Starfeed. That's incredible. God, this is like.

[Tim Gettys]

We have too much fun here. And I love it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, it's me. Like, I'm trying to, like, say a thing about terrorism.

[Tim Gettys]

We need the lemonade.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Starfish happening. Right? I think based on the. Because I think the. I'm not gonna get the exact number right, because days ago. But, like, I think it was like a 42 somewhere around that for Vietnam. And so I think the loose math was that somewhere like 650 or something like that. I would prepare for somewhere around that. I think if we're luckier, it's going to come to like, maybe 600 or if the tariffs get reversed, then, like, we'll see. But.

[Kevin Coelho]

But I mean, I don't know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't know how this math works at the same time. Also, not an economist, because that's the kind of thing.

[Kevin Coelho]

Like, wouldn't you, like, if you were going to be tariffed 64% if you send it from Vietnam, wouldn't you first send it to Japan?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Is that how that works?

[Kevin Coelho]

I think so.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Are you paying the. Paying the plane prices.

[Kevin Coelho]

You get on a container chip cheap?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't know. That's one of those ones where. I'll be honest, I don't know.

[Tim Gettys]

Have you seen that, like, a lot of places are starting to put, like, tariff charges, like, on their receipts oh, really? Yeah. I mean, it's happening. And, like, that's good because, like, that's the type of stuff. At least there's, like, transparency of, like.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

People are knowing the type of stuff.

[Tim Gettys]

That'S going to get people to be like, hey, we need to revolt.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. You know, is that happening?

[Tim Gettys]

Taxing.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Taxing.

[Tim Gettys]

You don't like taxes?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Is that something that happened that's happening in San Francisco or is it happening countrywide? Like, countrywide country? Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, I saw.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I hope so.

[Tim Gettys]

I saw it on the Internet, so.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Gotcha. Well, who knows? Yeah. This is one of those things where, like, if something's happening in San Francisco, I've learned over time after living here that San Francisco is just a dog. Jeez. What the.

[Kevin Coelho]

No, it's nothing. This should be teasing, too.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

God damn it.

[Kevin Coelho]

Because he's not here. You gotta do it.

[Tim Gettys]

I was like, greg's in Chicago.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I was like, what video is gonna pop. Pop up?

[Kevin Coelho]

You gotta remember him, you know, you gotta. You gotta remember you always have to have him in your heart.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'll just say that San Francisco is just a different planet of a city sometimes. Yeah. And so it's like, I'll see things and I'm like, man, that's really beautiful that it's happening. And then I learned that the middle, like, or not even everywhere else in the country is just not on the same wavelength as, like, what. What San Francisco's doing.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, that. That's a very good point. Mike Hole says, what can Nintendo do to stop getting passes? I mean, stop putting out banger games that people love? I think that that's what it is. Like, I think that when a. A corporation delivers things that people are passionate about and enjoy, they get passes. Yeah. Like, is that good, bad, whatever, I don't know, but that's the truth.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, yeah, I. I think that's the thing is it also comes back to. Because this is, I assume, about the Hades 2 thing. Right. Like, I think there's a. For me talking about it, it's the difference of, like, me as an audience member being like, oh, damn, that sucks. That it's going to be a switch to exclusive versus me trying to understand, like, the business of it and, like, the why of it. Like, I think you can have both things of me being upset about the exclusiveness or exclusivity and then also being like, I personally, I feel like I understand, like, why they make this decision.

[Tim Gettys]

Bondiesel says consistent commentators who won't let bias cloud their takes would help too. And he Puts the little, like, laughing emoji. So maybe there's some sarcasm there, but, like, things like that, if serious, always crack me the fuck up. As if you could remove bias from any of the things we're talking about. We're talking about our opinions on, like, things we like and things we don't like. For toys. I.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Listen, here's the thing, right? I'll be honest with y'all. Nintendo changed my life. I'll be very real with you guys. I wouldn't be the person I am today without Nintendo. And so I'm sorry. I'm sorry that I like, sure, I'll play Hades 2 on my Switch. What do you want me to say?

[Tim Gettys]

That me, Mario, also, I just spent 30 minutes bitching about how I think this is stupid.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Doing, like, here's the thing, right? If you want to call me Bias, cool. Just know that I'm transparent about my bias. I'm very transparent. I. With Nintendo, I like them games. I like Mario.

[Tim Gettys]

And I will say, I appreciate you, Mr. Bond Diesel, for using bias correctly. I really hate when people say you're biased. Is showing. And it's like you don't know how to use the word, you stupid creep. You know what I mean? You Bon Diesel, you're. You're a person of culture, and I respect that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yes.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yes.

[Tim Gettys]

God.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They said. I said Sonic Frontiers is a three out of five. Like that I love. Like a five out of five. That's me showing my prize for you. But then also me being like, no, I can be real about it.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You know what I mean? If Mario came out and Mario was trash, I'd be like, it's a two out of five. That I love. Like a ten out of five.

[Tim Gettys]

Hey, man, I gave south of Midnight a nine out of ten. And I keep thinking about it, and I keep being like, I stand on that. Why? Because to me, it was a 9 out of 10. I say all my problems with it, but to me, what's the point of this review my. I review things for you to listen to them, to be like, well, if Tim thinks that this game is that good, and I like the type of games Tim likes, I'm going to like this. That's a 9 out of 10 out of 10, right? That's a 9 out of goddamn 10. No one gave me for that, though, by the way.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. I was going to say, but Solomon, I feel like, is one of those ones where people that slide.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Daniel Gordon says, can we please get Tim to play Astrobot Rescue Mission? Crazy. Hearing his love for Astro, knowing this game is out there for him to play. God, I think about it so often.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I keep forgetting that you haven't played Rescue Mission.

[Tim Gettys]

Problem is it's stuck on the PSVR one.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, it's worth it. Dust that thing off.

[Tim Gettys]

Ah, man, I think I got one in my closet. I'm gonna get a disease.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, you might, yeah, but it's worth it. You might. He might come out with pink eye with all the dust that you're gonna get in your right eye. But like, it's worth it.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I have a psvr. Do you want my.

[Tim Gettys]

No, I don't have a psvr.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I can find mine.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm sure you can.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's somewhere either underneath my bed or in my closet.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Kevin Coelho]

Can the PSVR2 play?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No.

[Tim Gettys]

No, Kevin, no. No, it can't.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No. Different kind of tracking as inside out tracking versus the. Versus the PlayStation move that. That the PSVR one was using.

[Tim Gettys]

Insanity. Kyle says, genuinely asking why is this an issue in regard to Hades when it was a nothing burger for a game like Pacific Drive? I explained this earlier, but like Hades was a mega hit, is a huge indie franchise, period at this point. Game of the year contender. And it then released on PlayStation and Xbox and found great success. That to me is the difference maker. Like it should come to all the consoles because it's already been there and.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm biased to Nintendo.

[Tim Gettys]

That's all I'm saying.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yo, Nintendo by I thought they were about to announce Bloodborne 2 and I was gonna be fucking excited about it. Like I don't give a fuck. Whatever deals you gotta make, make it happen. And I mean make the switch to a success.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, hold on, I'm trying to see where we're at. VD Biz says this feels so different because of the early release factor. You can play 60% of the full game already and bought it assuming you'd be able to finish.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't know what that means.

[Tim Gettys]

I don't know what you're talking about.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But I mean that kind of echoes a little bit of what I was talking about earlier though, of like Hades do coming to PC early access and already being announced for like a year and a half already makes this weird of.

[Kevin Coelho]

I think that's what they're saying, right?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I think. But like the last part I didn't really get but like. Yeah, I think that makes it weird. I think that makes it odd. I think that makes people on Xbox and PlayStation feel like something that is being taken away from them. But yeah, this happens. I mean, this happens like I think like once every year or so. Right. Of like, I remember going back to when Tomb Raider. I think it's either Shadow of the Tomb.

[Tim Gettys]

No.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Rise of the Tomb Raider. Rise of the Tomb Raider was announced as an Xbox One exclusive. Bizarre. Like, what are we doing?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. And it was a disastrous decision.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

That we reflect on as really hindering the franchise.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think the bit of difference here is mainly the fact of, like, I think we have enough of the understanding of how these things happen or how these deals work where we know that those games. That Hades 2 is going to come to PlayStation and Xbox by next year.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But it's still. I'm still with you. Of like, that sucks.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's weird. This is the. Is a weird game to do it with.

[Tim Gettys]

Justin. Joan Rower says, I remember playing starfi for the DS when I was little. Go play that game. Everyone go play that game at 6:00pm Pacific on Switch Sunday. Okay. Switch all and then boot up Earthbound. Back and forth. There he is again. Thanks, Kev. Garrett says, just an FYI, the newest Gundam series just premiered on Amazon Prime Video. Co written by Hideaki Anno, the creator of Evangelion. Just wanted to support my fave series.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Evangelion.

[Tim Gettys]

I don't know how to fucking say it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't know how to say it either. I think I say Evangelion. But you might be right if.

[Tim Gettys]

I know.

[Kevin Coelho]

I think you're right. I've been watching a lot of Evangelion Gore Lore videos and I think Bless is right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Evangelion.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, I like jelly more.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You know what I with it.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I've not heard that before. I think I. No, I think you're putting your own pizzazz to it, not respect.

[Kevin Coelho]

I think that's being disrespectful to other cultures.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Evangelion. This guy. What a dork.

[Tim Gettys]

Jesus Snug says Kevin's the best. Keep it up, big dog.

[Kevin Coelho]

Anytime, dude. I'll sleek a banana in there any chance I get.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No, somebody said you pronounced it like a Christian movement. Like evangelical. That's crazy.

[Tim Gettys]

Hernando. Han Solo. Hondo. Han Solo.

[Kevin Coelho]

Kind of what it is, though.

[Tim Gettys]

That's what I'm saying, dude. That's what I'm saying. Who's right, who's wrong, Open to interpretation. That's how you say that word. Hondo. Han Solo says y'all think they have a big reveal waiting for DK Bonanza. Like some crazy fun mechanic like Mario Odyssey did with the capture mechanic.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Did you see the Pauline stuff floating around?

[Tim Gettys]

I did.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, I think that's what it's going to be. Right. Like, I think it's going to be. I mean, you're going to be having companions, or maybe Pauline ends up being your main companion through the game. Like, I assume there's some reveal with that.

[Tim Gettys]

She is the rock. She is the Purple Rock.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, you think she's the Purple Rock that we played as? I assume that you're going to, like, meet people. I assume the Purple Rock is the purple Rock.

[Tim Gettys]

Purple Rock likes music. What's Pauline like?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, Pauline does like music.

[Tim Gettys]

Think about it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's a weird thing to hold for a reveal and still have us play a demo.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Unless, like, unless that's how the game. Do you think that was a demo thing, or do you think the Purple Rock turns into Pauline?

[Tim Gettys]

I honestly don't know. Like, I'm only halfway joking about it, though. Like, I. I assume it took the place of the purple thing in the art.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yes.

[Tim Gettys]

Right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

So I don't know. Who knows? The Pauline stuff does get me more excited, though. Not that I'm not excited, but Pauline.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Does add a bit of.

[Tim Gettys]

Is this the origin story of Donkey Kong?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Exactly. Yeah. I don't. I want to make pizzazz the word of the day, but it does add a bit of pizzazz of, like, oh, snap. You got Pauline up in here. All right. Like, what's. What's up? Tim's thinking, what if Mario is the.

[Tim Gettys]

Final boss of this game?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Mario's not gonna be the final boss of this game. Which Donkey Kong is this?

[Tim Gettys]

What if we get on the top of the freaking red star?

[Kevin Coelho]

They flipped it.

[Tim Gettys]

Mario's coming at you. You're throwing.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You're just throwing barrels at him. Oh, actually, hold on. You're cooking.

[Tim Gettys]

I am.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You're cooking.

[Tim Gettys]

I am.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But, like, wasn't Cranky Kong that Donkey Kong.

[Tim Gettys]

That's the thing. This is. This is a new era, dude. Cranky Kong's here, too. It.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You think this is them kind of cycle begins again.

[Tim Gettys]

Bless.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This is them redefining, like, the Donkey Kong lore.

[Tim Gettys]

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

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That actually would be pretty crazy.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Look at that. We've come a very long way. Dude. She got some songs.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What is that? What game is that? I don't remember seeing Pauline like this. Kevin, what the. Did you click here?

[Kevin Coelho]

That's from.

[Tim Gettys]

Is that how she looks in Odyssey?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No, that's not. That's not how she looked.

[Kevin Coelho]

Ignore this version.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's not.

[Kevin Coelho]

That's not real.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's not what I remember in Odysseys. Was that. Is that Mario Party? Where are you finding these Pauline pictures?

[Kevin Coelho]

I don't know, man.

[Tim Gettys]

Holy.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No, people are. I think people are photoshopping this for thumb. Okay, but, Kevin, you can't keep clicking.

[Tim Gettys]

Because you're like, be careful.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Is the safe search on? We can't keep doing this.

[Kevin Coelho]

No, we live it with it off.

[Tim Gettys]

Good.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Who's that? Wait, hold up. What's that Wikipedia thing of who's Princess Pauline? Why is she wearing the same outfit?

[Tim Gettys]

Dude, this goes deep, man. Who is. Kirk says compounded tariff are happening. I'm gonna have to Google that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Compounded tariffs.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Cool. That's not good, Alvaro. CN Says you would pay tariffs when it gets to Japan and then tariffs on America. Also, the shipping line is incredibly difficult to redo in two months. Right.

[Kevin Coelho]

You just gotta believe, you know?

[Tim Gettys]

You just gotta believe. God.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Compound tariff. This is from dictionary.cambridge.org attacks on imported goods. That is a combination of a fixed amount and an amount based on the value of the goods. There you go. Okay, Kevin, turn it off. No, we're not doing this.

[Tim Gettys]

God dang, dude. Oh, man. Everyone, that's been kind of funny. Games Daily, thank you so much for the ups, the downs, and everything in between that we went through today. I hope you enjoyed the journey so. Because I sure did.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That was a fun time.

[Tim Gettys]

Remember, Sunday, 6pm I need everybody to play Starfy Booted Up. Play for a little bit, then boot up Earthbound. Back and forth and back and forth. We need to save Mother three. We need to do it for Nintendo Life.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

For Nintendo Life. And for us.

[Tim Gettys]

And for your lives. All right, until next time. I love you all. Goodbye.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Podcasting was a revolution until big tech.

[Kevin Coelho]

And big money started rewriting the rules.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What's a podcast?

[Tim Gettys]

The Revolution.

[Kevin Coelho]

Redefined is an urgent new docu series featuring exclusive insights from industry experts like.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

AJ Feliciano, general manager of the Root.

[Kevin Coelho]

I still want to kill the word podcast. Plus pioneers like Ira Glass, Adam Carolla, Leo laporte, Guy Raz, and more.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

If you care about the future of.

[Kevin Coelho]

Podcasting, listen now to what's a Podcast?

[Tim Gettys]

Wherever you get your podcasts.