2024's Hidden Gem Games You Should Play - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Summary

Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast - Episode Summary

Episode Title: 2024's Hidden Gem Games You Should Play
Release Date: November 8, 2024
Hosts: Tim Gettys, Greg “GameOverGreggy” Miller, Blessing Adeoye Jr., and Andy Cortez

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Introduction and Banter

The episode kicks off with the hosts engaging in light-hearted banter, showcasing their camaraderie and setting an engaging tone for the discussion ahead. Tim Geddes welcomes listeners and introduces the topic of the day: hidden gem games of 2024. The conversation swiftly moves from casual topics like haircuts to the main theme, establishing a relaxed and friendly atmosphere.

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Main Topic: Hidden Gem Games of 2024

Tim's Pick: Nico de Rico, the Magical World

Timestamp: [18:00] – [24:09]

Tim Geddes introduces Nico de Rico, the Magical World as a standout title, describing it as a direct homage to classics like Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze and Crash Bandicoot 4. He emphasizes the game's high quality, praising its level design and soundtrack while noting some minor drawbacks such as inconsistent voice-over and a somewhat underdeveloped collectible system.

Tim Geddes [18:26]: "It’s 100% a ripoff of Donkey Kong Country, Tropical Freeze, and Crash Bandicoot 4. This game is phenomenal. It does exactly what I want."

Despite recognizing its similarities to established franchises, Tim awards the game an impressive 8.5 out of 10, highlighting its visual appeal and engaging gameplay mechanics.

Tim Geddes [23:29]: "If you guys like platformers 2D or 3D, I recommend this game. It is so freaking good."

Angie's Picks: Recommended Games for Each Host

Timestamp: [34:12] – [42:22]

1. I Am Your Beast for Snow Bike Mike

Angie recommends I Am Your Beast, describing it as a fast-paced first-person shooter that aligns with Mike's gaming preferences. She highlights its suitability for streaming due to its engaging and dynamic gameplay.

Angie Hicks [34:12]: "It is that fast-paced first person you're going through these shorter levels and you're trying to get to the end as fast as possible by taking out all the enemies as fast as possible."

2. 1000x Resist for Andy Cortez

For Andy, Angie suggests 1000x Resist, praising its unique storytelling and experimental gameplay. She notes that the game excels in narrative depth, making it a perfect fit for Andy's appreciation of experiential and experimental games.

Angie Hicks [36:25]: "It is 1000% like the freshest game I've played this year. It is the most different, it is the most interesting. It's also probably the best written game I've played this year."

3. Thank Goodness You're Here for Tim Geddes

Angie introduces Thank Goodness You're Here as Tim's pick, a game that blends nostalgic elements with modern gameplay. She emphasizes its appeal to fans of British humor and its intelligent design, making it a compelling recommendation for Tim.

Angie Hicks [39:22]: "It's a very well executed game in what it's trying to do. And I could see you appreciating it."

Andy’s Picks: Diverse Recommendations

Timestamp: [53:00] – [64:34]

1. Windblown

Andy spotlights Windblown, a roguelite from the team that developed Dead Cells. He lauds its dynamic combat system, stylish art, and engaging progression mechanics, noting its strong early access performance.

Andy Cortez [56:31]: "I think it's got a really cool art style and the weapons so far are a lot of fun. The passives, the ability, the ideas of going out doing runs, finding an NPC every once in a while."

2. Echo Point Nova

Another highlight from Andy is Echo Point Nova, a first-person shooter that combines platforming with intense action. He appreciates its grappling mechanics and fluid combat, expressing excitement to delve deeper into its gameplay.

Andy Cortez [64:23]: "It has such a great freaking art style and it totally has that challenge of, oh man, I can do that better."

3. Shady Knight

Shady Knight is recommended for its engaging art style and innovative gameplay mechanics, including a grappling hook system that enhances combat fluidity. Andy praises its potential for skill-based shooting.

Andy Cortez [64:34]: "It's got such a great freaking art style and it totally has that challenge of, oh man, I can do that better."

4. Witchfire
Timestamp: [54:00] – [58:09]

Andy discusses Witchfire, a roguelite first-person shooter that has significantly improved since its early access release. He commends its mechanics, visuals, and the rewarding nature of its gameplay loops, making it a must-play for fans of the genre.

Andy Cortez [57:35]: "It's a must play. It looks great. The abilities, the com, the way everything combos together. It kicks so much ass."

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Listener Recommendations and Super Chats

Timestamp: [66:10] – [81:14]

Throughout the episode, the hosts engage with listener Super Chats, sharing and discussing additional hidden gem recommendations. Notable submissions include:

• His Phasmophobia: Highlighted by Snow Bike Mike as a genre-defining horror game now available on consoles with full cross-play support.

  Snow Bike Mike [72:50]: "MLB The Show 24. Go check out storylines."

• Mark Son's Suggestion: Tiny Terry's Turbo Trip, an indie take on GTA with a comedic twist, praised for its engaging characters and nostalgic elements.

  Alex J. Sandoval [80:27]: "Tiny Terry's Turbo Trip. Imagine an indie version of a GTA open world checklist game."

• Justin Anderson's Shoutout: Congratulations to a listener's personal milestone, fostering a sense of community.

The hosts also discuss games like Ease X, Romancing Saga, Revenge of the Seven, Kutami Path of the Goddess, Bloomtown, and Reckless, further expanding the list of 2024's hidden gems.

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Housekeeping and Promotions

Timestamp: [07:09] – [45:09]

The episode includes several housekeeping segments and promotions:

• Support via Patreon: Hosts encourage listeners to support the podcast through Patreon or YouTube memberships for ad-free experiences and exclusive content.

• Meet and Greets: Announcement of Greg Miller's meeting and greeting event in New York City, slated for the following day, featuring notable guests like Kevin Smith and Jason Muse.

• Sponsors:

  • Phasmophobia: Promotion of the horror game now available on PS5, PSVR2, and Xbox Series X/S.

    Phasmophobia Ad [44:22]: "Join the already almost 20 million players on Steam, including our very own Snowbike Mike."

  • BetterHelp: Advertisement highlighting the benefits of online therapy services.

    BetterHelp Ad [45:09]: "Therapy helps you find your strengths so you can ditch the extreme resolutions and make changes that really stick."

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Closing Remarks and Upcoming Content

Timestamp: [73:00] – [82:20]

The hosts wrap up the episode by addressing listener interactions and teasing upcoming content:

• Super Chats Recap: Final shoutouts to listeners who shared their game recommendations and personal stories.

• Upcoming Streams: Announcement of a live stream featuring Blessing Adeoye Jr. and Snow Bike Mike playing the Pokémon Trading Card Game, promising engaging and interactive content.

Tim Geddes [81:12]: "We are going to right after this do the stream. It's going to be Blessed. It's going to be Mike. They're going to be playing some Pokemon trading card game and Mike's going to be able to talk a whole bunch."

• Final Goodbyes: The hosts express their appreciation for the listeners and hint at more in-depth game discussions in future episodes.

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Notable Quotes

• Tim Geddes [18:26]: "It’s 100% a ripoff of Donkey Kong Country, Tropical Freeze, and Crash Bandicoot 4. This game is phenomenal. It does exactly what I want."

• Angie Hicks [34:12]: "It is that fast-paced first person you're going through these shorter levels and you're trying to get to the end as fast as possible by taking out all the enemies as fast as possible."

• Andy Cortez [36:25]: "It is 1000% like the freshest game I've played this year. It is the most different, it is the most interesting. It's also probably the best written game I've played this year."

• Andy Cortez [58:16]: "It has such a great freaking art style and it totally has that challenge of, oh man, I can do that better."

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Conclusion

This episode of the Kinda Funny Gamescast offers a comprehensive exploration of 2024's hidden gem games, with each host bringing their unique perspectives and recommendations to the table. From nostalgic platformers to innovative roguelites, the hosts provide insightful reviews and enthusiastic endorsements, making this episode a valuable resource for gamers seeking new and underrated titles to explore. The engaging dialogue, coupled with listener interactions and promotional segments, ensures a well-rounded and entertaining podcast experience.

Transcript

[Angie Hicks]

Hi, I'm Angie Hicks, co founder of angie. When you use Angie for your home projects, you know all your jobs will be done well, from roof repair to emergency plumbing and more done well. So the next time you have a home project, leave it to the pros. Get [e-mail].

[Tim Geddes]

What'S up? And welcome back to the Kind of Funny Games Cast live for Friday, November 8, 2024. Of course, I am your host, Tim Geddes. I am joined on this beautiful Friday by blessing. Adio, junior.

[Angie Hicks]

Good day, Tim.

[Tim Geddes]

Snow bike Mike.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Tim. I don't like Fridays, but I'll tell you what. Andy Cortez knows how to draw, ladies and gentlemen.

[Tim Geddes]

Oh, yeah.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Asked him to draw a gem. He blew it out the park.

[Tim Geddes]

And of course, we have Andy Cortez as well. Mike. Yeah. Right before the show went live, you. You asked Bless to draw a diamond and Bless said no, you had any. Why?

[Snow Bike Mike]

Well, today we're talking about hidden gems of 2024. And so on my special notepad here, I wrote hidden gems and I drew a gem. And I got close, as Andy will tell you, I got close, but like, I miss. I knew it was a little bit bigger than it should be and mine was too small. I was missing a couple lines there. Yeah, we had fun on my thing.

[Andy Cortez]

It looks good. My game, good job.

[Tim Geddes]

I love it here, everybody.

[Andy Cortez]

Why don't you like Friday?

[Snow Bike Mike]

Because I have to leave you and Bless and Tim and the team here. It's like seven day work weeks.

[Angie Hicks]

It's nice to finally thinking about it.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Just thinking about it. Just thinking about it. Yeah, Marco, freak out tomorrow. We got to be Final Fantasy 7 because if we don't, then like, you know what we have. Yeah.

[Angie Hicks]

What if we. What if we shoot hoops instead? Oh.

[Andy Cortez]

He listens that maybe, maybe before the man will freak out.

[Snow Bike Mike]

There you go. Get sweaty.

[Angie Hicks]

What are you doing like 2. 2pm I got a haircut at noon. Oh, I saw Mike got a haircut, man. My, my, my haircut's downtown, so it takes me a little bit of time to get back.

[Andy Cortez]

That's a good.

[Angie Hicks]

Yeah, like maybe I could do like 1:30.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Oh, that's nice.

[Angie Hicks]

If I'm getting at noon, definitely I'm not doing anything until I got a haircut last night.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

What was the direction like? Did you. What did you tell them?

[Snow Bike Mike]

I just wanted to just take a little bit off the back and the sides because like, as you saw, I was doing the modern mullets, as many of you know, because Nick inspired me.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Anything Nick says I'm following and doing. That's my guy right there.

[Andy Cortez]

That's not.

[Snow Bike Mike]

It was just getting real thick in the back, and it was touching my ears, and I was just like, you know what? I need this off. And the top, I was fine with. I like when the top gets really long and crazy. But I went in there, I was like, you know what? We got to tighten it up in the back. And he's like, I got you. My man Rob at the top of the hill, always does it right. And the boys in there, we are having a great time. They love when I come in, we talk games, we talk about life. You know, it's a really good vibe. And so Rob was cleaning up the back, and we got to the point where, like, he had cleaned it up, and he looked at me, he goes, mike, I just can't do it. Because my man cuts by Rob, he's got. He's got a difficult thing. There's professional Mike and there's party Mike. And Rob's got to blend the two of them and make sure that Mike looks good in a professional setting. But also, sometimes I want to party, and he's got to put up with the party. And so he looked at me, he goes, what does this mean? He looks at me.

[Angie Hicks]

What professional setting are you in?

[Snow Bike Mike]

You never know. I'm with you. You never know. You never know.

[Tim Geddes]

Mike hasn't been in a professional setting in his entire life.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This is your most professional setting.

[Snow Bike Mike]

You never know.

[Andy Cortez]

Saturday, Marco, freak out on the PS5 Pro.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Exactly. That's a PS5 Pro. And so he looked at the back, he goes, I just can't do it. Mike. And the rest of the boys were like, nah, that's looking good. Let it ride. He looked at me, goes, no, Mike. And I go, rob, whatever you want, bro. Let's do it. And so he cleaned me up, and I feel so much better.

[Tim Geddes]

So explain to me what the other option was.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Keep the back. Keep the modern mold, because, as you know, the back is gone. I was letting that thing become the Tennessee waterfall.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Snow Bike Mike]

And he was like. He was like, no. And I was like, that's fine. And I'll tell you what, man, the boys in the shop, they got some great hair, but this kid that came out blessed, man. You know, Tim, back in my day. Okay, Back in my day, bless.

[Angie Hicks]

Yeah.

[Snow Bike Mike]

I've gone with the racing stripes on the side of the head. I've even done a star. This kid, one of the boys, put a big old M in the back of this kid's Head. It was like a nasty curves on that. And I was like, shit, am I about to get one of those? So just so you know, a couple of months from now, I might get a star or an M on the side of my head.

[Andy Cortez]

The mountain logo.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Mountain logo.

[Tim Geddes]

Oh, that's a great kind of triforce on the back of his head. That's awesome. That's awesome.

[Andy Cortez]

That's really sick.

[Angie Hicks]

Hey, Tennessee waterfall actually kind of goes hard. I was not expecting this. It's pretty sick.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Yes, that's what Nick wants me to get. But I just. That requires a long time. It's like, that's gonna be a lot of like. It's too hot. It's touching you.

[Tim Geddes]

You don't like the ears. I get that.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Nah, I don't like that. Tim, you know that we like a clean cut.

[Tim Geddes]

You need a clean.

[Angie Hicks]

I might go to the. Go to my barber. His name is Mario. I might just ask him like, yo, what do I need? Just do whatever you want.

[Andy Cortez]

And he'll say, woohoo.

[Angie Hicks]

Yeah, exactly. And he'll give me a mustache.

[Tim Geddes]

Somehow you got the hair down, though. Bless you.

[Angie Hicks]

Think so?

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah, I think so. Every time you get a haircut is.

[Andy Cortez]

The best haircut I've ever seen that you've had.

[Angie Hicks]

Really?

[Andy Cortez]

And I love a lot of them. The last one was like.

[Tim Geddes]

It was. This is real primo style.

[Angie Hicks]

Well, this is my new barber. I've. I've only gone to one twice.

[Tim Geddes]

Oh, great guy.

[Angie Hicks]

Yeah, new guy. Because my old guy just disappeared.

[Snow Bike Mike]

I'll send you up to the top of the hill with Rob and the boys. They'll take care of you.

[Angie Hicks]

I'll stick to Mario, say, I'll send.

[Tim Geddes]

You up the Rob.

[Snow Bike Mike]

He'll take like.

[Angie Hicks]

I've been exploring the idea of like, take a lift. Got a. I've been exploring the idea of new hair. Of like trying a new hairstyle. Maybe doing like twists. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe growing just all the way. Maybe getting locks or something. Something. I like that I said this a while ago that I wanted to do the fucking. The killmonger hairstyle. And then that became like the media overdid it and now I can't get it anymore. Or else we'll be like, oh man, you look like a default character now. Yeah, but we'll see. I might be different on Monday.

[Tim Geddes]

I can't imagine somebody saying I look like a default character. Be wild. Anyway, everyone, this is the kind of funny games cast. Each and every weekday we get together to talk about video games. We review them, we preview them. We talk about all the big topics that you want to hear about, including the topic today, which is going to be us talking about some hidden gems of 2024, some of the little titles you might not hear about. I'm going to review a game that I'm very excited to talk to you all about because I don't know you've heard of it and it's real good. It's real damn good.

[Snow Bike Mike]

I can't wait for you to put me onto it. I need to know about it.

[Tim Geddes]

If you love what we do, please support us with the kind of funny membership on Patreon or YouTube to get all of our shows ad free. You can watch us record them live and get a daily exclusive show for a chance to be part of the show. Submit your thoughts and opinions as YouTube super chats as we go. So if you have any hidden gems from the year that you want to get some extra love out there for, please super chat in and we will talk about those as well. Little housekeeping for you. Greg Miller is in New York. I'm not going to sing the song. Andy sang it on Games Daily. It was a beautiful thing. But tomorrow limited run games and Shopify pop up in New York City. Greg's meeting and greeting in the Big Apple from 10am to 6pm Saturday tomorrow with Kevin Smith, Jason Muse and Jared Petty. The dream team some would say. And you can go to California.com NYC to RSVP for that and go hang out with Greg and them. It's an excellent opportunity. We we don't have too many opportunities or at least we haven't in recent time to do meet and greets and things like that. So definitely if you are out in New York, go hang out.

[Snow Bike Mike]

And Greg is giving his all. Greg is going full send on this one. This is your time. If you want to see Greg hang out with Greg. He's going to give all of his energy on this one. It's a big deal. And I hear he might even bring me back those Lara Croft Tomb Raiders toys over there. Saw, you know and you know Bless from Game Showdown. Mike's favorite movies. Lara Croft Tomb Raider.

[Andy Cortez]

So I didn't know that.

[Angie Hicks]

No, none of us knew that.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Yeah, yeah, but you learned that.

[Angie Hicks]

Why did we learn it there?

[Snow Bike Mike]

That was not the episode she said. What's Mike's favorite video game movies?

[Angie Hicks]

That episode wasn't to learn things about me.

[Snow Bike Mike]

You should be taking notes. Okay, learn something about me.

[Andy Cortez]

Learn something.

[Tim Geddes]

Every time you learn something, something new about Mike, you should be taking notes.

[Andy Cortez]

Everybody, you have to. You have to take notes.

[Tim Geddes]

Holy hell, you already got Kind of Funny Games Daily where Andy and Roger broke down all of the. The latest on PlayStation, reflecting on Concord. And then after this, we're going to be doing a little Pokemon trading card game Pocket Stream. That's going to be Mike and Bless. Although I. I've heard some rumblings the plan might change. Oh, am I wrong about that?

[Snow Bike Mike]

Blessing really wants to play Apex Legends, so we will start off with Pokemon. He's really excited about.

[Angie Hicks]

It's going to be what it's going to be what always happens where I'm like, oh, we should maybe do the last hour of the stream. Apex Legend.

[Snow Bike Mike]

We're going to have deep into so.

[Angie Hicks]

Much fun with Pokemon that we're not going to get to it.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Tim, I'm 35 out of 45 wins right now in this Pokemon.

[Tim Geddes]

I'm only like four in.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Well, don't worry. People are just quitting out. So you're going to catch up.

[Tim Geddes]

I'm not sure I'm going to do it. I'm not sure. I don't know that I need.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Kim, I encourage you. Out of all the things, this is the one like I've been saying from last stream to now, like when you look back on this, if this game really sticks around for months to years, you will have the original emblem next to your name saying you got the first event, you know, you don't want. You don't want to miss out on that.

[Tim Geddes]

You are making some good points, but I'm so busy, Mike. I'm busy doing a lot of things. I know. We got a couple more housekeeping things. Let me just say this real quick. We got a. Today's Greg Way is actually from Snow Bike Mike himself. What are you talking about?

[Snow Bike Mike]

We're going to have the Back Outside Boys podcast once again. Me and Roger are going to go back outside and we're going to podcast. We'll see what the conversation goes.

[Angie Hicks]

Did you know that the Back Outside Boys podcast was a thing everyone saw.

[Andy Cortez]

Running show for the last four years?

[Snow Bike Mike]

If you didn't know about the back.

[Tim Geddes]

Take some notes, everybody.

[Angie Hicks]

Thermometer.

[Tim Geddes]

Every once in a while I walk outside into the parking lot and I see Roger and Mike and they like give me that look as if I caught them doing something.

[Andy Cortez]

You know what I mean?

[Tim Geddes]

And it's just. I think that's what Mike is referring to. But if you're a kind of funny member, you can find out and you can also get inside out to in review very Shortly. Actually, if you're a Patreon member or a YouTube member, you can watch me, Andy, Nick and Joey talk about Inside out too. Thank you to our Patreon producers, Delaney Twining and Carl Jacobs. We appreciate you so very much. They were brought to you by Phasmophobia and Better Help, but we'll tell you all about that later. I don't want to get into the topic of the show quite yet. I have many topics before we get there. Okay. One thing I want to bring up to everybody here. It is a very, very important time in our lives because it is the 20th anniversary of Halo 2. You know, Halo 2 is in the air. Andy, I sent you a video. I don't know if you watched it a couple days ago, but it's. It was like, yeah, It's a Halo 2. Like, you know how they're celebrating Halo 2 with all the, the delta stuff and like, whatever. They put out this like commercial trailer thing and it is the most nostalgia fueled. Like, oh, they know exactly what they were doing. They had the theme song, there was red versus blue references. They're bringing back Beaver Creek blessing. So I was sitting here last night at home, Gio went to sleep and I'm like, I have so many games to play, but I want to play Halo 2. And I was like, I don't know how I'm going to do this. My brother's been borrowing my Xbox because he's playing Hogwarts every here and there. And I'm like, I don't want to get it back from his room. There's so many things. I'm like, how can I play it? Xbox play anywhere, but how am I going to play? And then I thought, huh, Does Halo Infinite run on a Steam deck? That's a great question. And so I googled, does Halo Infinite run on Steam deck? And everyone's like, dude, it runs fucking well. And I was like, holy shit, let's party. Downloaded that shit. It runs fucking well. I'm sitting there playing, I'm like doing all these multiplayer matches. The matchmaking is just happening back to back. I'm getting into all the OG Halo 2 levels and I'm like, whoa, we shouldn't be able to have this technology in the palm of our hands. Andy.

[Andy Cortez]

I would have assumed there would have been an issue with Anti Cheat. That usually happens with a lot of games when they try to go on Steam deck. Multiplayer games in particular. Yeah, that's awesome though, dude.

[Angie Hicks]

Halo Infinite on Steam. Are you. Are you on Steam?

[Snow Bike Mike]

Yeah, it is on Steam.

[Angie Hicks]

Wow.

[Tim Geddes]

It runs so freaking well. Like, some of the graphic settings are not high or whatever, but, dude, it looks. It looks good. It runs so well. And it's. It's a Halo experience, those maps. So, Andy, they have it where it's. It feels like mostly like Halo 2 did. So.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Yes.

[Tim Geddes]

The weapon sets are different. Like, it is. They're really trying to emulate that old experience, and it is hitting lockout hard.

[Angie Hicks]

That's awesome.

[Tim Geddes]

So freaking hard. Midship Mike, you've been playing a little bit too, right? Yeah.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Me and the boys jumped into, of course, get ready for the big 20th anniversary on Saturday here. And we jumped in, had a full Night of Halo 2 OG maps on Halo Infinite. And we loved every moment of it. It was so awesome to jump back into some of the, you know, moments and memories that we loved. It was really cool to sit with Washi Maddock and Kevin, tell stories, talk with the chat as well. And, like, it's a great time and it's a great game. And then, of course, on top of that, this weekend is the OG Halo 2 tournament going down in Vegas. So you'll just get the ultimate Halo 2 nostalgia going on.

[Tim Geddes]

It's a great time. But I just. I was blown away that in a handheld, I was playing advanced Halo 2. It's not even the OG Halo 2. Like, it looks beautiful. And I'm just like, I'm playing online. Like, it was just capturing flags. Andy, oh, my God. Tim Getty's captured the flag. Tim Getty.

[Snow Bike Mike]

I'm like, let's go.

[Angie Hicks]

That's awesome.

[Tim Geddes]

Let's fucking go.

[Andy Cortez]

Gained the lead.

[Tim Geddes]

Lost the lead to the other side, though. Andy, you've been doing some stuff. PlayStation 5 Pro, you got yours yesterday. You ran some tests. I saw on your channel. You uploaded a video kind of comparing. I haven't heard your thoughts. What are they? Is PS5 Pro worth it to Andy Cortez?

[Andy Cortez]

Yes, only for Rebirth. It's not worth it for anybody else. I don't think the. The visual differences were so, like, minimal. I was doing, like, before and after shots of. I would pause the recording and then bring up frame rate mode, pause the recording, bring up Performance Pro or whatever the hell. It's also, I don't love that these games don't really have similar naming schemes. I kind of wish that they unified the marketing there. Stellar Blade and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth were the best versions of what I saw. And I know that there's a couple of other really good versions out there, but when I tried out Spider Man 2 out here before the embargo launched, I was like, I don't see a whole lot of difference with how Spider Man 2 looks. Spider Man 2 already looked awesome with its the balance mode of, like, performance and ray tracing. I'm sure if I would have done before and after comparisons, I would have seen some stuff. But Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth really felt like what I told you I felt when I launched Final Fantasy 16 on PC. And I was like, dude, this feels like a different game. This looks like somebody took a. You know, sometimes you put like a screen protector on your phone and it's like kind of makes everything look soft. It looks like they scrubbed off the sheen and now it's like really good and clear. That's how I felt with Rebirth. I was so blown away and impressed by how awesome it looks with that pisser. The pisser is just doing so much good work upscaling it to look like quality mode. But having the 60 frames per second was absolutely incredible. It's not worth it for. I don't think 99.9% of people, though. I'm just. I was telling Chat yesterday, it's like I'm a dude with disposable income that doesn't have kids or a spouse or a car payment. So, like, this is what I spend my money on. And it's worth it for me because Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, I think, is the only game where I've gone with frame rate mode or where I've gone with quality mode. Sorry. Yeah, I'm the frame rate snob. It's like, no. Performance mode or die. This is the first time that, as me and Mike have been playing, we've stuck to 30 frames per second mode because it looks so blurry, man. On normal performance mode, it looks so clear. Now with this, what they call versatility mode. Stellar Blade calls it Pro Max and just Pro And Stellar Blades looks really, really damn good, I would say. I think they did another fantastic job. I was kind of disappointed by Horizon Forbidden West's implementation of it. I thought I had heard from people in chat saying that, like, Digital Found you said that was another night and day difference. I didn't see it. Whenever I opened up their quality mode, it was still 30 frames per second. It's like, I don't know if the PSSR is being utilized here.

[Tim Geddes]

I don't think it is for Horizon.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

And that.

[Andy Cortez]

And that bums me up because their modes are called, I believe, like Fidelity Pro, Performance Pro or Balance Pro or something like that. And I did not love Kind of what I saw with Horizon Forbidden west unfortunately. Hopefully they keep on working at it. But Demon Souls looks awesome and it's like again really hard to tell the differences but I could see on my 4K OLED monitor that when I switched to this new PS5 Pro mode, which that mode is called PS5 Pro. Thank God they didn't go with like a weird naming scheme. The it's 60 frames per second but just with the quality of what you're used to with the 30 frames per second mode. Looks awesome. Like that game still looks unbelievable. I can't believe it. And then I did the bloodborne test and it was just like such a massive like cope that I had where I booted this sucker up. I just created a quick character and just wanted to get to the scene where you wake up in Iosefka's clinic and I was like, oh, hold on a second, this looks actually really good. And I went through the pain of Getting my other PlayStation normal PS5 booted up logged in there and then it was like you have to restore your licenses. It's a whole pain in the ass. But eventually I was able to get it to a point where I could do it before and after and it was just me being like, I think this is sharper and not. I don't really think it was much sharper. But yeah, for most people I would say don't buy this. I don't think it's worth it right now. I heard that The Dragon Age Veilguard Balanced or PS5 Pro mode is kind of broken. Apparently that's what some people were telling me that Digital Foundry was saying. So I'll wait for that to get updated. And yeah, I don't think this is worth it for a whole lot of people, but I'm excited for what Ghost of Yote could do with it in the future where people developing it kind of already have in mind this hardware and the limits that they can reach and maxing out there.

[Tim Geddes]

There you go everybody. If you want more, you can check out Andy's video of in depth side by side breakdowns and all that stuff. But for now we gotta get into it. The topic of the show 2024 is hidden gen game, hidden gem games that you should play. I want to kick this one off real quick with Nico Do Rico the magical world.

[Angie Hicks]

That's the one that evolves into Nido King, right?

[Tim Geddes]

Exactly.

[Angie Hicks]

Okay.

[Tim Geddes]

Exactly. 100. 100. One of the most bizarrely named games of all time. I don't know why they called it that. It's Weird. It's a weird, weird name. I love this game wholeheartedly, and it's a very, very easy recommendation to a couple people here, specifically Blessing and Barrett Courtney. I feel like this is a game that y'all would really, really, really like.

[Angie Hicks]

What I'm understanding.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, the furries about to go sick with this.

[Tim Geddes]

Well, here's the thing. I want to start with just a couple things that I need to say about the games. Just before you even, like, look into it too much, it is a direct 100%. It's 100% a ripoff of Donkey Kong Country, Tropical Freeze, and crash bandicoot 4. Now, if anybody out there has listened to me in the past, you know how much that means to me, and you know how this is kind of just like, oh, oh, they're doing it. And bless. Let me tell you, they did it. Yeah, they did it. This game is phenomenal. It does exactly what I want. I always talk about how PlayStation All Stars battle Royale didn't work because it was a Smash Brothers clone, but it didn't actually clone Smash Brothers. They didn't go all the way. This is perhaps the most unabashed. I don't care. We're going all the way. Just copying it. Game I have ever seen. When you beat a level of Tropical Freeze and you get to the end and you, like, jump up and you like, like, punch, punch, punch, punch the. The barrel, and, like, you get all the bananas. They do that here. It's like every single thing.

[Angie Hicks]

Look at them collecting the letters.

[Tim Geddes]

The exact. The letters. It looks just exactly the same. All the collectibles work exactly the same. And the composer is David W. No way. The same composer from Donkey Kong Country, Tropical Freeze and all the Donkey Kong country games.

[Andy Cortez]

No way. That's awesome.

[Tim Geddes]

It's wild, man. Like, they really put together something special here. It's a very small team. This is, as far as I can tell, their first video game, which is just wild because, like, this looks awesome. It looks very, very good. I don't love the actual main character designs. Like, yeah, they're. They're a little, like, furry oc.

[Andy Cortez]

Ish.

[Tim Geddes]

And I'm like, I don't know why they did that, but besides that, you know why?

[Andy Cortez]

You know, sexy. They're sexy.

[Snow Bike Mike]

I like them.

[Andy Cortez]

They're sexy.

[Angie Hicks]

There's an audience for it.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

So that's. That's a little bizarre. Besides that, the. There's something about the. The level of, like, quality of everything isn't equal. So there's VO in the game, and it's fun, you know, it's like. It's. It's. The VO fits this type of game for what it is, but, like, the cutscenes don't have vo, so it's just like little dialogue boxes in between, like, levels and stuff. And they're kind of setting up where you're going next on the island or whatever. They'll be talking and you hear it. But then when there's, like, actual cinematics happening that, like, they put effort into, it's just a soundtrack. And it kind of has that weird Kingdom Hearts trailer feel to it where I'm like. It just feels like it's missing sound effects and stuff. And it's like, why would they do that? So it kind of feels like a little budget there. And that's upsetting because this game is anything but budget. I'm so impressed with how it looks because, you know, to this point, Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze has been locked on Nintendo hardware. So this is 4K. Like, this is like a beautiful, beautifully rendered game. And it is so good. Like, I think the most important part is it's as good as those games like this. It has the quality of a Tropical Freeze and of Crash Bandicoot 4. And if y'all haven't played Crash Bandicoot 4, it's different than the other Crash Bandicoot games. Like, it's legitimately a modern, good platformer, and it functions both as a 2D platformer and as a 3D one. And that's what I think Nico De Rico does very well, is almost every stage at some point transitions from a 2D level into more of, like a not open world or open area type 3D platformer.

[Andy Cortez]

Can you rotate the camera?

[Tim Geddes]

No.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Tim Geddes]

No, because it is. It's guiding you. Just like the Crash 4 and Tropical Freeze have done. But it's so damn good. Like, bless. You need to give this. This one a shot.

[Angie Hicks]

Well, is it out? Like, where?

[Tim Geddes]

Oh, so. Yeah, sorry. That's actually the most important thing.

[Andy Cortez]

I looked on Steam and it said not to be announced. Tim, I want this or to be released. Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

So it's on all consoles now. I think it's not on Steam yet.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay, gotcha, Gotcha.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah, but it is on all the consoles. And what's wild about this is they announced this game around Summer Game Fest this year. And I remember seeing it, and I wishlisted it because I saw the trailer. I'm like, well, this looks awesome. But it looked like the type of game that I'm like, great announcement. I don't know I'm ever actually going to play this game. Like, it looks like way too ambitious for what they were going for. And. And also, I thought they might get sued or, like, you know what?

[Angie Hicks]

Never.

[Tim Geddes]

So I want to fall in love.

[Andy Cortez]

With this world and then have it ripped from me.

[Angie Hicks]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

But it's one of those, like, ones that I just kind of mentally noted of, like, oh, I want it. I hope that in a year or two. I checked back in on this, and it. There's another trailer saying it might come at some point. And I saw it come up again on. On my Twitter a couple weeks ago, and I was like. It said available now. And I was like, excuse me. What's. Like, there's no way. And I got home, downloaded it, and I. Again, I just, like, was blown away by how good this thing is. Like, on the kind of funny scale, I'll give it an 8.5 out of 10.

[Andy Cortez]

Wow.

[Tim Geddes]

Which is.

[Angie Hicks]

That's higher than I thought.

[Tim Geddes]

Great. I mean, honestly, I do believe that it has the qualities of a 9. I think that how much of a ripoff it is, I feel like I got to take some points away from it. And what I was saying of just, like, the weird VO stuff, some of the character designs, I'm like, I just don't like them. And I feel like the. The latter half of the. Half. The latter quarter of the game, some of the gimmicks are a little less inspired and less quality than the rest of it. But if you guys like platformers 2D or 3D, I recommend this game. It is so freaking good.

[Angie Hicks]

Nico de Rico, the Magical World.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah. Yeah, that's awesome.

[Angie Hicks]

Came out October 15th on console. So let's switch PS5 and Xbox. And then, yeah, it's TVA for Windows. It's funny, listening to KFG today, Andy and Roger were having the conversation about Extra Bot, and you were. What was that?

[Andy Cortez]

Macaulay Culkin.

[Angie Hicks]

Macaulay Culkin, yeah. Which, man, let me tell you, I got so hyped, and I don't know why I got. I don't know why I was so excited for Macaulay Cole.

[Tim Geddes]

This works, though.

[Angie Hicks]

I'm not even, like, a big fan of Macaulay. Like, he's cool, but it's not like, you know, home Alone didn't change my life.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Angie Hicks]

Roger doesn't even like Home Alone.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Angie Hicks]

You know, that's crazy freaking Roger, dude. But one of the conversations you guys were having was. Was about Astrobot, right? And that's selling 1.5 million units and I think it was like a super chat or something that brought up, like, man, I wish games could come out. Or it could be, like, funded to a point where they can only have to expect getting 1 to 5 million units. And that'd be enough for a company like PlayStation. And you guys had the conversation about it, right? And I think that's one of those things where on that big corporate level, right, the console manufacturer level, you know, it's tough to. It's tough to believe that that could ever be the case in the future because games have ballooned to such a size where they had to be big enough to then fund the next thing and then, like, you know, sell the consoles and can you do that on. On, you know, this sort of scale? It's really cool to see that, you know, we have a game like Astrobot that I don't know if Sony considers. Considers it a success yet, but it's a success to us as far as that game is a fucking banger. And it's the right length, it's the right scope, it's the right amount of polish and all these things. But I also love that, you know, I look at this and a lot of what you're talking about here and a lot of what Nico Drake actually reminds me of is Ukulele in the impossible layer, right? Of, oh, this is indie. But it's obviously taking inspiration from things like Donkey Kong country, and it's taking inspiration from things like Banjo Kazooie and stuff that we like back in the day and doing it at the right skill to where, you know, we can still get that level of quality while not having to break the bank and, like, you know, need to sell 5 million units. It also reminds me of, like, this game that came out in, like 2020 called Tamarin, that was a Jet Force Gemini clone that I think nobody but me asked for. And I played that game. And that game wasn't that great because of what it is, right? But, like, it's very interesting that I think on this level, right, at this budget, you can make something that feels so authentic to what games back in the day were. Because Tamarind. Freaking Tamarind. I wish this game was so. I wish this game was better.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I thought this was fucking.

[Andy Cortez]

Can you go.

[Tim Geddes]

Go back. I want Heddy to see the beginning of this.

[Angie Hicks]

I was so high for this game.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I forgot about this.

[Angie Hicks]

This game was basically. I don't know if you guys have played in this game called Jeff War Shemini, right? It's like half 3D platformer, half third person shooter. And you're saving these, you're saving cute little like, you know, creatures. Tamarind basically took that idea and went, what if you play as the cute creatures while you're also shooting these fucking bug aliens?

[Tim Geddes]

My God, those are straight out of Jeff Force.

[Angie Hicks]

Straight out of Jeff Force, Gemini. And like, it's funny, you see this platforming right there is another section of this game that gets straight into like on Rail Shooter where you're shooting the aliens as this little cute creature. Like, they did their thing with Tamarind, they did as good as they could with the idea, but this was destined to fail. Like, as much as I asked for it, you shouldn't bring back Jet for Gemini. It wasn't like, you know, the thing that the streets were asking for.

[Tim Geddes]

And that's the thing is like with, with Nico, keep that going wild. Straight up.

[Angie Hicks]

Jet Force, Gemini, God bless them.

[Tim Geddes]

But the thing about Nico Derico is it's I. These are games that should keep happening, right? Like, it's like, you look at this, you're like, oh, I mean, Don Hyun Country, Tropical Freeze. I've talked about it so many goddamn times. That game came out in 2014, you know, and like, it got reported again on Switch. But like, that's 10 years ago that we last got that. And after beating Nico Derico, I did end up booting up Ukulele in the Impossible Lair because I was like, I just, I just need more. And I'm like maybe a third through it, enjoying it a lot. But I'm telling you, man, this one's special, like, to the point that I obviously it's 10 years after and it is such a direct copy that to say that it's better than Tropical Freeze is a little wild. But like, I don't think it's a crazy argument to be made. I think that pound for pound, like level to level, boss to boss, like, there is a conversation there. And I do think that there, the way that the your Move set in this, I do think is better than the Tropical Freeze move set, which is like crazy for me.

[Angie Hicks]

And I think that's my thing is, you know, I feel like a lot of the popular games of the PS1 or N64 or PS2 era or GameCube era, there are games that on the indie level, you have the capability to try and emulate to a point where not to say that game development is easier, even making those types of games are easier, right? But like, I think you could do that stuff justice on that level. And have it feel authentic to fans. And so the fact that we're at a place now where that era has become like popular enough on the retro side, right. There's enough nostalgia for it that we're seeing us go from like, you know, 16 bit retro indie games now being in a place where we're firmly getting these types of games. I'm so happy because this is my era right here.

[Tim Geddes]

Absolutely, man. No, this stuff is. It's so great. And I, I just really want to give this thing flowers because I. I'm so wowed by it. Whenever I talk about Tropical Freeze, I always talk about how special the level design is where there's so much artistry in it, where most 2D platformers, there's just floating platforms that you're jumping on. And it only makes sense because it's a video game. Tropical Freeze went out of its way to make sure that anything you're jumping on, there's a logical reason, design wise, for why it's in the world. And this statue is here. And then you see the statue fall, which is then the ramp that you're going on. And it just makes everything feel so much more designed. And like there's. There's an art to it. And this game has that. And it's like, sure, they cloned a lot of the elements, but like you can't clone the artistry. And I just so blown away that they were able to. To nail that while adding all the crash for stuff. Like, it's just very, very cool. Bunch of earworms are. It's incredible. It's David Wise. Like, I don't want to say at his best, but like he's doing it, he's doing his thing. Like you could mix this soundtrack with any of his soundtracks and all the tracks would F next to each other. Like, it's very, very cool.

[Andy Cortez]

David, don't interrupt him. He's doing his thing.

[Tim Geddes]

Straight up. So much, man. So much.

[Angie Hicks]

And the amount of David Wise I've been listening to in the last week, they put DK or Don Kong country onto the Nintendo music thing. Oh, man. Forest Interlude this. Can I tell you what's messed up?

[Tim Geddes]

What is?

[Angie Hicks]

They advertise the being able to extend your music to 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 60 minutes. So I was listening to Sticker Brush Symphony as you should. Probably the best song from the SNES era, if you're asking me. And I was like, oh man, it'd be great to listen to this for an hour straight on prepping khd. Like I can listen to Sticker Brush Symphony for that long, they didn't have the option.

[Tim Geddes]

Damn.

[Angie Hicks]

And then I hit. Like, I hit, you know, next song. It was forced Interlude, and it had the option. I was like, what do you have it for this song? But you don't have it for the song that should have it. Even though I love Force Interlude, I get you, Banger.

[Tim Geddes]

Hot Head Bop man. They got some good stuff there. And then the last. The last thing I want to say about the game that I didn't love is the collectible system. Like, the, like, achievements and, like, the. Collect all the extra stuff, and then you can open up these, like, loot boxes. Essentially, the things you get aren't great.

[Andy Cortez]

And what do you mean by loot boxes or, like.

[Tim Geddes]

Like, just, like, art pieces? Like, unlockable collectible? Just, like, nothing, you know? The game's $30, by the way, and it's totally worth $30. But the. You. You kind of. I. I like 100 in games that I love. Like, I want games to, like, incentivize me to do that. And as I was going through, I'm like, all right, the game's fairly easy, but I want to collect all of the. The letters, and I want to make sure I'm finding all the secrets and everything. And as I was doing all of that, it became clear pretty quickly that, like, oh, there's. You don't get anything for this. And it's not even tracking it well. Like, it's kind of. Kind of like an undercooked feature of the game. So I was like, oh, that's a.

[Angie Hicks]

Little trophy or anything?

[Tim Geddes]

No, that's the thing is, like, even, like, once I was beat the game, I was like, oh, I'm gonna go back and do everything. Because I was, like, pretty close. And I was like, nah. And I looked at the trophy list, and the. One of the things to get the platinum, you need to, like, beat the entire game without dying once. And I'm like, no, that.

[Angie Hicks]

No.

[Tim Geddes]

Like, what are we talking about here?

[Andy Cortez]

How long was it?

[Tim Geddes]

Eight hours.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Tim Geddes]

You know, like, yeah, it's exactly as long as it should have been. And honestly, it might have been a little longer than it needed to be in. In some.

[Angie Hicks]

You played on what again?

[Tim Geddes]

I played on PS5.

[Angie Hicks]

Okay.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah.

[Angie Hicks]

Do you think it would run well on Switch?

[Tim Geddes]

I think it'd be fine, but, like.

[Angie Hicks]

I don't know, man.

[Tim Geddes]

You should play on PlayStation.

[Angie Hicks]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

Oh, yeah.

[Angie Hicks]

That just seems like one that I want to be able to, like, just bust out. Whatever.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, there's not.

[Tim Geddes]

Well, You Steam deck remote play. I actually did that for a lot of it.

[Angie Hicks]

Really?

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah.

[Angie Hicks]

Okay.

[Tim Geddes]

It worked great.

[Angie Hicks]

All right. Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

Anyway, check out Nico de Rico then. Yeah. The. The one other thing I don't love about it is like some of the checkpointing systems in the levels can be a little frustrating, but that also feels like it's a throwback feature.

[Andy Cortez]

It feels like there's got to be a song in the game where they're saying Nico Derico.

[Tim Geddes]

There is hat upon. There just isn't. And there should have been. I'm totally with you. Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

You know, like you gotta do something like that. What does that name signifies? That the dude, his name's Nico, Last name Dorico.

[Tim Geddes]

I don't know, Tommy. I listened to all the talk that they had and I don't understand why this game's called Nico Dorico. The magical world is very proud of him.

[Angie Hicks]

Nico.

[Tim Geddes]

Anyway, that's enough about Nico Derico. Everybody go play at 8.5 on the kind of funny scale. Bless him. You have a bunch of picks. You did this a little differently than I did, but I want to hear about it.

[Angie Hicks]

Yeah. So the topic of the show, Right.

[Andy Cortez]

I didn't do anything. I didn't even look at it.

[Angie Hicks]

The title of the show is games that you should play. Right. Like you need to play this. And so. And you came to me and Mike and you know, us before the show and you know, we talked about in the meetings before, you know, I don't know where Andy was. I guess Andy was home the last meeting. Some of you didn't hear. I digress. I was trying to figure out, like how I wanted to present to the class.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah.

[Angie Hicks]

And I like the idea of having a pick for each person on the panel. And so that's what I did. I went through the games that I played this year and I thought about, like, what's a game that each person here should play? And I have a few more games I'll talk about here too. But going through. Mike, I asked you right before the show, have you played I am your beast? And you told me you only played a few levels.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Yeah.

[Angie Hicks]

I think you should play more of I am your beast. I think you would like that game. I forget if you were on the neon white train when neon white came out a couple years ago or if you are like, I forget the yellow boomerang X like that style of game. I am your beast feels like it's in the lineage of those.

[Tim Geddes]

Right.

[Angie Hicks]

It is that fast paced first person you're going through these shorter levels and you're trying to get to the end as fast as possible by taking out all the enemies as fast as possible. There are also different objectives that you can do, but it is very fun. It is more first person shootery than those other games that I, that, that I mentioned. It is about getting the headshots right. It is about finding the weapons on the arena as quick as possible and like, you know, using them to your advantage. It's a game that I think you would really enjoy, especially as a streaming game. I think you would enjoy streaming this game by yourself.

[Snow Bike Mike]

I love that recommendation. Bless. Yeah, this is one that the whole office was very hyped on and gave a lot of praise to. I know I played the first couple missions, I think during the Steam Next festival and I really enjoyed it. I'm not a big replay the level and get the S Rank type of guy and that's what I think these games are, is like you got the first stuff to get better.

[Angie Hicks]

You know what I mean?

[Snow Bike Mike]

Well, you know, you get them, you're like, I'm done. You know. I love this recommendation. Bless. And this is high on the list of like, man, I would like to play this before the end of the year because it does look really great. Oh yeah, Great recommendation.

[Angie Hicks]

Next up, Andy. I know you've heard this a million times from Barrett already, but this is going to be my, you know, endorsement of Barrett Courtney and his recommendations. 1000x resist, I think is the game that you would enjoy. It's definitely one that I think for me I had to let soak in for a little bit of time as I started it because I think from the get go the game mechanics aren't my favorite. But the story is so transcendent of like what you're actually doing in the game. Like what is happening from moment to moment in the story they're telling here is so cool and so different. I view you, Andy, as like an experiment, experimentation person. Right? You like to experiment.

[Andy Cortez]

I love the experiential type stuff.

[Angie Hicks]

You love the experiential type stuff. You like exploring, like what's out there. What are people doing with game development? Like what are the weird, different niche things that people are trying out? You love trying out things on during Steam Next Fest and seeing what the cool next game people should play is. 1000x resist is 1000% like the freshest game I've played this year. Like it is the most different, it is the most interesting. It's also probably the best written game I've played this year. I've not thought too hard about that, but it's an easy contender for me in that realm. And it is like, when you look at the design of the characters and what they're doing with the world and all that stuff, I think it screams Andy Cortez.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I. This is one that I booted up for about 30 minutes and then I ended up playing probably like the first. Close to the first hour, I would say. And I, I kind of agree that the. What the gameplay was, was not what I expected, but I didn't really care because it was just sort of. Sometimes you just want to get into that really introspective, somber mood and just like have an experience. And that's how I was with Citizen Sleeper, which I'm stoked for Citizen Sleeper 2 coming out next year. And that was another one where the writing was and the characters were so top notch. And I've just heard nothing bad about this game. I've heard only glowing like this is goat level writing type stuff that everybody needs to experience. This is one that I know and I've promised that I will definitely beat this by the time that we start our voting for 2024.

[Angie Hicks]

Goaty Tim for you. I forget if you've played either of these games. You might have already played them, but Animal. Well, did you play that one?

[Tim Geddes]

I played for a handful of hours and like, I, I love it. I don't. I mean, I. Sorry. I like it. I like it a lot, but I feel like it's in a year of Metroidvanias for me. I feel like it's one that. That doesn't have a lot of the elements that I like the most from the Metroidvanias. I. Maybe I do need to just get. Give it another shot. But like, there's something about it that it wasn't like blowing me away the way that it did. A lot of the. The people here. I know Roger super, super loves it and Andy as well.

[Angie Hicks]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah. Something about it just wasn't. Wasn't scratching my itches correctly.

[Angie Hicks]

Then I forget if you played. Did you play or try. Thank goodness you're here.

[Tim Geddes]

No, I did not.

[Angie Hicks]

Okay, then that would be my pick for you.

[Tim Geddes]

Right.

[Angie Hicks]

Thank goodness. Your hair was one that blew me away just for like how fun and cute the world is and how well it worked for me. Where I forget if you're. You weren't like an Adult Swim kid growing up?

[Tim Geddes]

No.

[Angie Hicks]

Did you like any of those, like adult cartoons?

[Tim Geddes]

Not really. Like, yeah, that stuff wasn't really my bag. But I mean I was on the review for this and like it looked, it looked funny. I don't know if it's mine.

[Angie Hicks]

That's the thing is like I don't think of you when I think of thank goodness you're here, but I do think it's one that you would appreciate just for the fact that like I think the reason this is one of the ones I chose for you is that you like that game. Barrett, what's the one? The guitar one that was like the artful escape. Right. Like that being one that was a short couple hour experience. Experiential. You're there for the vibe, you're there for the story, you're there for the through line. Thank goodness you're here. I think kind of fits that vibe while being the opposite tone.

[Tim Geddes]

Right.

[Andy Cortez]

You know, reminded me of a modern day more adult version of like the old putt putt games that we played as, as kids. You know that little car, that purple car. Putt putt.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

The old school adventure style games where you can kind of.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's like the classic point and clicked stuff.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, you can just click and anything you click has a little animation, interacts with it. It's just so cute to kind of walk around and see exactly how far the devs went with how everything can sort of be messed with. I didn't, it didn't really resonate a whole lot with me and I usually I'm really into like British humor and I think at the start this game started off really, really strong for me and it kind of of fell off a little bit but I still enjoyed my time with it and it's like three hours.

[Angie Hicks]

Yeah. Best thing is it worked for me really well. Like I. I'm similar boat where like British humor does work pretty well for me. And like I think even after I beat this game there'd be times where I'm like scroll on, tick tock and I'll see people's reactions to certain bits and I'm like, man, that was hilarious. Like I'm already a place where I'm like nostalgic for like a lot of the bits they do in it. It's just a very, I think a very well executed game in what it's trying to do. And I could see you. Even if you don't fall in love with the Tim, I could see you appreciating it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I back up the recommendation as well.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

For some reason when people kind of praise comedy in video games, I will always like kind of like, chuckle at the stuff that people are like, oh, my God, this is such a funny game. But I'm never like, holy shit, what a fucking hilarious game. This is one where I was like, this is a hilarious fucking game. And for all the other reasons that everybody talked about, like, if you grew up in kind of the late 90s, early 2000s with like, a lot of like, point and click, PC adventure game type of stuff, like, this is. This is a fun, weirdly nostalgic type of thing as well.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah.

[Angie Hicks]

And I would say if there's a game that you want to go back to, I would say give animal. Well, another shot.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah.

[Angie Hicks]

Like, I view you as the Metroidvania person.

[Andy Cortez]

Smart. And it's.

[Angie Hicks]

It's such a smartly designed game. Right. Especially for not having combat, really. Right.

[Tim Geddes]

It is.

[Angie Hicks]

Fully. All right, what's the item? What's the puzzle? How do I get around this thing? And moment to moment. Very beautiful. Very. Like, to me, some of my favorite art style of the year by far. It's one that I think could sink its teeth into you. Yeah, yeah, but those are my wrecks for each person. Oh, I also have a wreck for myself, which is Lorelai and the laser eyes.

[Andy Cortez]

Yes.

[Angie Hicks]

That's one that I wanted to get to when it came out early in the year, but it came out around that busy time where I think everything was coming out. I forget if it was published by either devolver or Annapurna Chat. Correct me if I'm wrong. I think it might have been a Devolver joint. But this is another puzzle game that is. You're going to want to bust out a notebook or something to take notes on what's going on and really pay attention. I would almost like compare it almost like a more Resident Evil type of perspective and puzzle box. Not the combat of Resident Evil, but how you solve those puzzles strikes me as that, but a bit more in its stuffy as far as how hardcore the puzzle stuff is. And I saw a lot of people around the time it came out fall in love with it. And for me, and puzzles being my vibe, that's one that I definitely want to get to before the end of the year.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Nothing for me.

[Angie Hicks]

I see. I was trying to think of one for you, but we're kind of the same person, like, legitimately. I was like, okay, well, bears also played a thousand X Resist.

[Tim Geddes]

I know.

[Angie Hicks]

Bears played, which I am your beast. You play these games. I'm recommending other people. Oh, you haven't?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No.

[Angie Hicks]

Oh, then I'm your beast for sure.

[Tim Geddes]

Such a bear.

[Angie Hicks]

That's such a bear game.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I think it came out in a bad time for me personally, so I just have not been able to get to it. Is it on console or is it only PC?

[Angie Hicks]

Ooh, I played it on PC. I don't know if it's on console.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah, I played on Steam Deck, so I don't know.

[Angie Hicks]

I mean it's a great Steam deck joint though.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's good to know.

[Tim Geddes]

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[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Angie Hicks]

To round out my segment, right, Like I have general hidden gems that came out through the year that like, you know, are ones that I had peeked into. Not necessarily games that I played all the way through, but games that I enjoyed and I feel like didn't really talk about on content as much. I have five games written down. The first one being Shiren the Wanderer, the Mystery Dungeon, the Mystery Dungeon of Serpent Coil Island. I don't know if you guys played the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games, but they were essentially like based on these Sheeran the Wanderer games that were like around during like I guess SNES era around then. Sheeran the Wanderer, the Mystery of Mystery Dungeon of Serpent Coil island is the latest one that came out for Switch this year. I did a stream of it. This game is one of those ones where I, I had to tell myself I to not boot it back up again. Like, it is one of those ones that like feels addicting from the get go. It is a roguelite style game. It is tile based. Every step you take in this world moves the world forward and it is hardcore. I died.

[Andy Cortez]

What do you mean by moves the world forward?

[Angie Hicks]

So like you take a step and the enemies take a step at the same time.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, okay, gotcha.

[Angie Hicks]

You take a step and then like, you know, that'll count as a turn essentially. And so you have to like count each step you're doing and figure out all right, how do I get over here or how do I do this thing? While like taking account of every single thing I'm doing. There's so many status effects. There are so many. Like when you talk about roguelikes and you talk about a hardcore like at its core, this is a roguelike. That's what this game is. It is one that like if you're looking for that style of game, I don't think you can go wrong with this. If you like Pokemon Mystery Dungeon and want to play essentially like the franchise that it spun off of, this is the one that you go to, right? And I had a lot of fun with this when I streamed it, but I was like, I can't stream anymore because I'm gonna get addicted to this.

[Andy Cortez]

Game, mainly PC Switch. Okay. Gotcha.

[Angie Hicks]

Rugrats Adventures in Game Land was one that I played on a plane flight.

[Tim Geddes]

Did you beat it? No.

[Angie Hicks]

I probably got maybe halfway.

[Tim Geddes]

What's the word on this? Because this is one that like, obviously I'm interested in.

[Angie Hicks]

I. I don't know if I would recommend it as like a. You have to play this. I will say that if you have a lot of nostalgia for the NES era, it's at the very least. And Rugrats, it's at the very least worth checking out.

[Tim Geddes]

I got a plan.

[Andy Cortez]

You were a Rugrats guy, Tim.

[Tim Geddes]

Oh, yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Because I mean, you saying this is obviously something I should want to play. I was like, I wouldn't have.

[Tim Geddes]

Well, I mean, any ass platformer. You can also turn to hd. And also. No, I was a huge Rugrats guy. The first, first music I ever bought my life was a cassette of the Rugrats movie soundtrack.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, and when they were banger after.

[Tim Geddes]

But then they went of Paris. Man, that was wild.

[Angie Hicks]

What was the song that. That was great from that movie Vacation.

[Tim Geddes]

Was that Vacation was from Paris, but.

[Angie Hicks]

That was from Rugrats.

[Andy Cortez]

I love this old school art style. Looks so good.

[Tim Geddes]

Oh, take me there.

[Angie Hicks]

Take me there. Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

Dude. Maya.

[Andy Cortez]

Man, that music video is so awesome too.

[Tim Geddes]

Oh my God. Yeah, they like recreated the house hard.

[Angie Hicks]

I had. I had a fun time playing it. I think I appreciated it more for the nostalgia of it than anything. Right. Being able to switch art styles from back and forth from NES 8 bit style to a modern 2D art style. It's kind of crazy. It doesn't seem like it should line up one for one. Especially when you have like the aspect ratio change and like the sizes of the characters change and all this stuff.

[Andy Cortez]

I was shocked to see the aspect ratio change. Yeah.

[Angie Hicks]

Like, it doesn't look like it should work, but it works pretty seamlessly. And it was to the point where I couldn't choose which style I wanted to play in. Like, I'll play 10 minutes in one style and go, how in the world does this look in the other style? And I'll change the other one. I'm like, whoa, that's crazy. And honestly, as one of the big gimmicks of the game that really did work for me is the fact that they depicted both of those art styles so well. I think the music is catchy. The music, the tunes are catchy. The actual gameplay, pretty tough. It plays genuinely like an NES game. So you have to take that into account that it is this is an NES ass game. Which means that at points you're going to be frustrated. At points you're going to be like, man, why am I respawning all the way back here? Man, why is this? Why does this enemy keep hitting me even though I feel like I should be able to get this hit right? You're going to have those frustrations. But if you're a child of the NES era, I think you'll appreciate it. If you're looking for something to throw as a throwback to that era and as a throwback to Rugrats, I think you'll appreciate it. We played this on stream a couple days ago. Death Note Killer within. It's funny. It was a sponsored stream, so I should shout out the fact that like they paid us to play this game, right? When they first. When we first became aware of this game, I hated on it. I was like, man, this is not what I want from Death Note. This art style looks janky to me. Yada yada. When we played this, when I tell you I flipped and I wasn't expecting to flip. This is a fun time, granted. I think. I think you want to play with friends. This is one that if you can get a big group and be able to make your own lobby and have a good time with it. I was shocked by how much fun that we had on this stream. So I want to actually shout this game out for that arranger a role. Puzzling Adventure is another indie title that came out in the summer. It is a top down tile based puzzle game where every time you move, like every time your character moves, the tile set moves with that character either vertically or horizontally. And so you're basically moving the tiles in the world to try and position them to a spot where you can get to the next thing or solve the puzzle or solve the obstacle. Very well designed game. A cool art style, right? I like how it looks and very charming just overall for what I played of it.

[Andy Cortez]

Same artist from Braid. That makes so much sense. I. This is one of those games that for audio listeners, you. You need to like watch the video to actually fully see what's happening. Because it's. It's easy to. For us to just say how it looks and plays, but I think it's a lot more clever. I just. It like there. There are moments where there's a gate on the other side, Tim, and there's a key on the other side. So if you move towards the gate, the key will then pop up kind of behind you because it's all Sort of tile set. It's really, really interesting. I. This is one of those that I wish I had time for but it caught me in a bad time and I was not able to fully get to it. But I think it's just so creative and neat and I don't got the.

[Tim Geddes]

Stuff for this, Mike. I feel like me and you, we don't. We ain't built like this.

[Snow Bike Mike]

I played this Tim for two hours and I got stuck on one puzzle and I turned it off. Never went back. But I love the art style. I love puzzles like that. But yeah, once I got stuck, I was like, no more walked away.

[Angie Hicks]

See, I like it because it brings me back to playing Pokemon Blue and like when you had certain teleport. Yeah, like the teleport things or like the. I think there was like a level where like the floors moved or whatever.

[Tim Geddes]

Or like they would like.

[Angie Hicks]

Yeah, self co. Yeah, that's what it was. So I think like I enjoyed that kind of nostalgia. And then the last one I have here is actually Star Wars Hunters.

[Tim Geddes]

I can't believe it.

[Angie Hicks]

Which is.

[Tim Geddes]

What do you have to say about Star Wars?

[Angie Hicks]

When it came out. It came out in like June or some. It felt like they didn't like announce it, they just put it out on Switch and I played it for like a week. And I played it every day for a week. I was having a. It was legitimately my before bed game. And I don't even know if I was playing with people. I might have just been playing. I might have been playing bots the whole time.

[Andy Cortez]

But at first be like, what are you doing? Nothing, don't worry about it.

[Angie Hicks]

I'm jerking off. I don't know what's less embarrassing.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm jerking off.

[Angie Hicks]

But it is a third person arena shooter that is like. It's Star Wars. Star wars version of like trying to be a bit fortnighty. But it's not a battle royale, right? It is just you going in these free for all matches. You have different. It is class based or like, I guess hero based because you have these different abilities and different weapons for each of the characters. It is a bit janky, a bit like. Oh man. You can tell that this is not the same budget as what other Star wars games are.

[Tim Geddes]

It's a mobile game, right. That they just put on consoles probably.

[Andy Cortez]

Correct.

[Angie Hicks]

That's what it plays like. And guess what? I had a good time. It was a fun game. If you're looking to get for a Star wars game to like bullshit around in and like have fun with for a night that's also free to play on your switch. This is the one.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Awesome.

[Angie Hicks]

This is a good time.

[Tim Geddes]

There's that.

[Angie Hicks]

If all that adds up. There you go.

[Tim Geddes]

I love that. Andy, I want to get to yours real quick. You got a couple. But I want to even like steal one from yours because I don't even think you remember it, but you're the one that put me onto this. Celeste64.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh crap. Which was this year. Oh my God.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah. And if y'all don't know, Celeste 64 is a small game but great game that essentially takes the gameplay of Celeste and just puts it in a Mario 64 style 3D platformer. And it's free. You can get it, you can play it on Steam Deck. I don't think it's like there was some weird workaround we had to do to get it play in there.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, you have to just. You have to go to the website that they had it on and download like the executable.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah, but it's actually from the. The Celeste team and it's. It rocks. It's on Itch IO.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah. But yeah, no, it's very, very cool. Little thing that I keep forgetting about being this year because I think that was in January. Yeah. Thanks Barry for bringing this up. Like super fun, great challenge. Like music obviously kicks ass and like just the right amount of inspiration from Mario 64 for it to be like, oh yeah, y'all got this stuff.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Really, really good time.

[Tim Geddes]

But yeah, what do you got, Andy?

[Andy Cortez]

So I. I've talked about a couple of these games this year, but the first one that I haven't really had a chance to glow about yet. And it's a game I've played a bit more on Steam Deck recently. Got super into it on Steam. Next fest is Windblown. Windblown is from part of the dev team that broke off from. Well, it's Motion Twin who made Dead Cells. And then the other team kind of went on to go do rogue Prince of Persia. But Windblown is their next Roguelite game, top down. We saw a preview of it, I believe at the game awards possibly forget what presentation it was, but it was like an awesome 2D animated intro. We're like, whoa, what the heck is this game? And then it ends up being this sort of top down action Roguelite that you could play multiplayer as well if you want, which I have not tried yet. But I think me Bless and Mike are planning on doing a stream of that soon. You pick a little animal, you have a bunch of abilities and I think the way it works is just really, really fun where you have your normal dash button and similar to Dead Cells, you pick up two different weapons and one happen, one weapon might be on X, one weapon might be on the A button and once you have both of these weapons, these weapons will have different passives and different abilities and they sort of keep on progressing the game to where if you swing the weapon a certain amount of times, a little icon pops up on the screen. And that means when that icon pops up, hit attack with the other weapon and then it does some crazy sort of combo move. And there are even further evolutions to that gameplay and I, I want to see how chaotic and I'm worried about how it might be multiplayer because I wonder if it's going to be too much to parse the info. But so far I'm having a freaking blast with it. It got its hook hooks in me immediately. Oh, this is that sort of ability thing that I was just mentioning where you swing a whole bunch of times and when the icon pops up, you swap to the other one does a really, really cool big move. And I'm just having a freaking blast with it. I think it's got a really cool art style and the weapons so far are a lot of fun. The passives, the ability, the ideas of going out doing runs, finding an NPC every once in a while. And that npc, hey, if you have enough, you know, whatever currency, send him back home. And then that NPC will be back in your sort of home base and they'll be cooking up some upgrades for you in some way, whether it be, you know, buying permanent upgrades or buying things for the run whenever you set out there. It's a lot of freaking fun. It's stylish, it's action packed and I, I'm having a freaking blast with it.

[Angie Hicks]

So far that I wish listed.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah, you were telling me about this one and I was like, I need to get on. It's 25 right now on Steam Shop. Buy it? I.

[Andy Cortez]

Absolutely, I think so. Like if it, it will, you'll feel the hooks kind of pretty immediately. Oh, maybe it's just me because I'm such a mark. Like I'm so easy for that shit. I. I'd see that. Oh, this ad's stacking fire downs. Oh, I get all excited.

[Angie Hicks]

My brain likes that I'm stronger now.

[Andy Cortez]

You know, And I think this game does a really, really great job of that. In addition to, again, going out into the world collecting those different pieces of currency that you take back to then upgrade what future runs could be. And I just, I love its personality. It's. Even though it looks super cartoony, it's. It's a little crass. Crass. It's kind of violent in some spots as well where, you know, every. When your character finishes a run and they die, they arrive back at the home base and just vomit. And sometimes your enemies will just like sport blood and stuff. I think it's got a really awesome personality and. And I can't wait to keep on playing. It's early access right now, but it's one of those that's like, oh yeah, they still got it. They nailed it with dead cells. And this is fun.

[Angie Hicks]

It being from the dead cells devs does like. I have like an undivided, like, okay. Or undivided unconditional. Like, I'm going to play this.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah. If you're making.

[Angie Hicks]

I gotta try this.

[Andy Cortez]

Probably gonna be good. And it turns out it is really, really good. And I got to the second world. I haven't beat the second world boss yet, but I'm excited to just kind of keep on playing and see what this early access has to offer. Because I think with Hades, we kind of saw what the limits were. And now with this recent update of Hades, I was able to hop back a little bit. I haven't met Ben Starr's character yet. I'm excited to, but right now it's just. There's a lot of games to play in this game, unfortunately. Is awesome.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah. Sold me, man. I just bought it.

[Andy Cortez]

I think it's really good.

[Tim Geddes]

What are the other ones you want to talk about real quick?

[Andy Cortez]

Another one I talked about on Games Daily. I don't necessarily even recommend, like, this is a must play because I haven't even beaten it. I haven't. I've put more than like two and a half or three hours into it, but I think, Tim, this is one that you should at least play the first 30 to 45 minutes of. It's called Europa. It's. We saw it. I forget one of these presentations, but we were like, oh, it's like Breath of the Wild. You just kind of like.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

And the art style might be kind of similar.

[Angie Hicks]

Ish.

[Andy Cortez]

But the controls feel so freaking good. You essentially have a little flotation levitation device that it just fe. In the same way that when you're a kid and you would just like play GTA to just send your car off of a ramp, this has a lot of those similar vibes. Where the. I don't love the character design by the way. I don't think it looks very good at all. I'm telling you, the first 45 minutes you will, you will feel because of how great it sets up with music and the character dialogue and it sets up a really fascinating world. But also the ability of like you are kind of floating all the time and there's always like these rings in the air that will refill your flotation gauge. So when you refill that you could just kind of keep on floating and levitating. It feels so good to just move around it. And, and there's also like a, a passive sort of non violent mode where like different enemies won't try to attack you and, and you could just kind of play the game and it be a movement puzzler in some spots. I, it's, I, it's one I definitely want to finish. I, I want to see how long it is to beat. But I'm having a, I have, I had a really good time with it so far and I hope that I'm kind of close to the end of it because I want to see it through and I like the story it's telling.

[Tim Geddes]

Main story, three and a half hours.

[Andy Cortez]

That's awesome. Hell yeah. It must be right there. It's one that like feels so freaking good to just kind of run through. But again, those first 45 minutes, it's like 1am and I'm in bed. I'm supposed to be asleep. Like I'm tearing up right now. Like the music swells in a way and it's like I wish I had this on my PC with my headphones on. Instead it's like Steam deck speakers and it's still making me feel really, really good emotions right there. Another option, another game that I super recommend. This is one that I put a lot of hours into and one that I have talked about before. It's Witchfire. For all of the Roguelite first person shooter fans out there, Witchfire is one of those that's just an instant banger. Has an incredible loop, phenomenal mechanics, great, amazing visuals. It's one of these games where we talk about how the end Of Unreal Engine 4 people developers are just really making the most of how it looks and how it operates. This game feels so damn good to play and it has all of the Roguelite hooks that you would want. Where anytime I thought I was going to end a run, I would unlock a new weapon. I'd be like, oh, this one does. This is like an auto pistol. And it does this to certain enemies. If I hit three crits in a row, fuck it, let's go try it out. And you go try it out and you fall in love with it. And I'd be there for another hour playing it. It is. So to me this is one of those games where it's early access and I know that could. Some people might go, all right, I'll wait for the real game to come out. The thing is this game came out on the Epic Games store early access almost two years ago and then it just hit Steam this fall. So it's been. It's had a lot of time to cook with ideas that have been iterated on and made better. I played it back in the Epic when it was on the Epic game store back in the day and it back then I didn't really. I saw potential, but it didn't really hook me this time. Now that I bought it on Steam, it's like, oh shit. This is like a must play. This is a must play. Roguelite first person shooter. It's awesome. It looks great. The abilities, the com, the way everything combos together. It kicks so much ass. Witch fire, go buy it. It rules.

[Angie Hicks]

And this is what I definitely need to get to.

[Andy Cortez]

This is.

[Angie Hicks]

Dude, this and Windblown are the highest on my list currently.

[Andy Cortez]

Like you would fuck with this game. So heavy. I wish this game did have multiplayer as well. And it doesn't. They've been very kind of open. Like no, we're not playing. Planning on making a multiplayer. There's like a 1% chance, but don't hold your breath or anything. Another thing I love about it is the way it rewards like skill based shooting and stuff is if you dodge a little red orb will pop up next to the enemy and you could shoot the enemy or if you shoot the orb, it stuns the enemy and they go into like a stun state to where they're open to more damage. And I love when games like some of the bosses will have four of those orbs and you have to skillfully shoot those four orbs before they go into a stun state and then you can kind of unload on them. It's a lot of freaking fun and similar to what Bless did earlier with his. A game that I need to play, it's a game that I know that I would really vibe with and I bought this shit way back in the day. I just haven't booted it up. Is Echo Point Nova. Echo Point Nova. I put a link in the in the doc, Barrett. And this is a. Another sort of first person challenge shooter game. Oh, it's looking real. That's not how it looks to us.

[Angie Hicks]

Five frames per second.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. The bitrate's kind of struggling with the computer, so. Sorry to video watches. Oh yeah, it's a YouTube video. No, it's on Vimeo.

[Angie Hicks]

I was like, how's it? I've never seen it do this before.

[Andy Cortez]

It. This is one that I knew I was going to enjoy.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

And then tomorrow Hussein text me was like, you play Echo Point Nova. You would love it. It's awesome. And while running, it is flying through the world, first person shooting, like skill, jumping from platform to platform. And it just seems like it's a whole lot of fun.

[Angie Hicks]

It's the severed steel people. Sever steel fucking rocks.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, really?

[Angie Hicks]

Yeah. I mean it's another game. I mean it's in the same.

[Andy Cortez]

Similar kind of vibe.

[Angie Hicks]

Another. Another similar kind of kind of vibe. It's in the same genre as I would put like again, the quick paced arena shooter, Ghost Runner.

[Andy Cortez]

That type of.

[Angie Hicks]

Yeah, Ghost Runner. Boomerang X. Like that style you would. With separate steel. You would like that game a lot.

[Andy Cortez]

It's definitely one that I really, really need to try. And Barrett, I have one final, final one.

[Angie Hicks]

Wait, what's that game called?

[Andy Cortez]

Echo Echo Point Nova. I have one final one that I'm putting a link.

[Angie Hicks]

It is. Write me a list.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, it's on the. It's in the document.

[Angie Hicks]

Oh, I'll just copy this.

[Andy Cortez]

This is a game that I tried on stream the other day and it's one that I showed Tim and I was like, hey, this is another one of those first person shooter like get through the get your run S tier. Get through this level the fastest. This is called Shady Knight and it is not only a really awesome art style, but a sick ass grappling hook that can grapple to any enemy really. And once you kind of go through the level, you figure out how you're going to quickly beat the level. And you could just grapple enemies, throw them into the air, kick them while they're in the air. If you kick them at the wall, they'll die against those spikes. It's just got such a great freaking art style and it totally has that challenge of, oh man, I can do that better. I know I can. You can also throw your knife or throw your sword as a projectile and if it hits enemies, they'll die. But then you can also dash towards a knife that might be in midair and you Essentially would grab the knife in midair, and it's just got such a good flow to it. Shady Night. I want to play more of it. I think it's like a full release already, but I don't know if it's. I don't think it's an early access thing. I think it's just out now. So this is one I had a lot of fun with that I would recommend people try out if you're into keyboard mouse stuff. And also these games are fantastic for people that are kind of hesitant of, man, I don't play games with keyboard and mouse. Very good. These games are fantastic to, like, get into, to be like, oh, I'm starting to learn the rhythms of it. I get how to understand the intricacies of the wasd.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Mike Tim, out of respect for you and the. Your schedule, I'll.

[Tim Geddes]

I'll pass.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Don't worry about it. No, you have a lot of super chats and a whole afternoon of content, so let's tear into those. Okay, fine.

[Tim Geddes]

Okay. Do you have one?

[Andy Cortez]

Do you sound unhappy? What's going on?

[Tim Geddes]

No, not at all.

[Snow Bike Mike]

I just want to be respectful of time. That's all we ought to record.

[Tim Geddes]

Give me one. Give me one.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Mine would be MLB, the Show 2024. A lot of people miss out on this one because it is a baseball. It's a sports game. And not enough people put respect on what Sony San Diego has done with their storylines, of course, highlighting baseball history and the stories. I think a lot of video games have done a fantastic job kind of putting history lessons in games, and especially with sports games, we've seen this done before. But Sonya, Sandy, San Diego has done a really great job with storylines highlighting the Negro League Baseball League and going back with Bob Kendrick and the museum and giving these beautiful stories the justice they deserve in front of a larger audience. And season two brought in a lot of incredible players, right? Hank Aaron was there. Toni Storm was there, the first female baseball player ever. And like, I think a lot of people forget about, hey, there's a company out there that is doing justice to these incredible stories. Looking back on history in the Major League Baseball world and saying, yo, let's put this in front of you in this beautiful presentation of Bob Kendrick being the narrator, this awesome art style. Going back with old footage. When you play the small challenges, you actually get to play in the old stadiums with the awesome jerseys, all the players. You have commentary in that kind of time. It's really, really special. I think it always gets overlooked. And so, yeah, I Wanted to make sure that we highlighted something special in the world of gaming, especially in sports history. So, yeah, mine would be MLB the Show 24. Go check out storylines. Of course, you jump back there and then now they've also even brought in Derek Jeter. So if you're interested in that, like late 90s, early 2000s MLB, you want to know about the captain, Derek Jeter. They have a whole run with him where they actually. The presentation style shifts from what you see in storylines to Derek Jeter and having a New York subway map. You have the historic music, hip hop meeting New York.

[Tim Geddes]

It's.

[Snow Bike Mike]

It's really, really cool. And so, yeah, that's never going to get enough justice, but I'll bang the drum for that.

[Andy Cortez]

You Got Pico Park 2 on your list as well. We had a lot of fun with that.

[Snow Bike Mike]

I got a lot of great games. But yeah, yeah, I want to make sure we, we. We follow the time and we got a lot of super chats to get into.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Barrett, I just wanted to do a quick run through. I second a Thousand Exorcists for Andy. Mike, I just want to remind you to play Batman, Arkham Shadow. I think you're gonna love that a lot, especially with your VR enthusiasm blessing. I think you should check out Children of the sun. Very like, Puzzler Sniper Elite with like, fucking rancid vibes is all I can say about the vibes of that game. And then, Tim, I know you tried it. I want you to try to get back to Nine Souls. I think you would dig it.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah, I'll give it another shot. I will when I'm done with a metaphor. Fantasia. Not honestly. I'll probably get back to Nine Souls before I beat that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Honestly, this is to anybody waiting for Hollow Knight, like Nine Souls is that game that I think you're waiting for. Because Silksong is just a fake game. I think at this point. I know Andy, like, your big thing was like, exploration early on. But I think, like, that's a big criticism of Hollow Knight as well. But to me, it felt a bit more if you kind of know the kind of teachings of like a Metroidvania. I think it's very easy to kind of pick up in like, that first two hours of what the flow is and the combat is just. Again, it's just 2D Sekiro and it fucking kicks ass. And it's the game that got me to play Sekiro and be like, holy shit. I get what everybody means about, like, why this game is so good. Art style and Music are also fantastic. It's also something I'd never really shout Out. It's also an incredibly well written game in terms of characters and plot and themes. So that's Shout Out.

[Tim Geddes]

I'm at the. The second city. Or town.

[Angie Hicks]

Okay.

[Tim Geddes]

Or whatever.

[Angie Hicks]

Okay.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah. Time as I wanted.

[Angie Hicks]

You're in there.

[Andy Cortez]

You found that baby.

[Tim Geddes]

Found the baby.

[Angie Hicks]

He's not gone there yet.

[Andy Cortez]

I booted no, but I don't.

[Angie Hicks]

I guess all you're looking.

[Andy Cortez]

He's ahead of me. But, like, I'm at a part where I booted it up out of just curiosity. I was like, do I want to keep on playing? I had to look for a baby. I was like, I don't know what I'm doing. I turned it off.

[Tim Geddes]

Baby.

[Andy Cortez]

I'll get back to it.

[Tim Geddes]

Doesn't sound familiar. I did fight a turtle man. Didn't like that one bit.

[Angie Hicks]

Turtle man.

[Tim Geddes]

It was like a big egg.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, you fought the turtle man.

[Angie Hicks]

Yeah, yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

She was up.

[Angie Hicks]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Why do soldiers just appear in his body? It's weird.

[Tim Geddes]

It's like, oh, stop that. I want to read a whole bunch of super chats here. It's a Friday. We're gonna have some fun, so I'm gonna get through all of these. Everybody. We have Emory Game saying, I only caught the last of K KFGD and I feel obligated to Super Chat. And he's the best.

[Andy Cortez]

He is.

[Tim Geddes]

He is the best. He is the best. SD Turtle says my hidden gems of the year are Ease X. That's the YSX Romancing Saga, Revenge of the Seven, and Kutami Path of the Goddess.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, yeah. A lot of fun with that.

[Tim Geddes]

Also, shout out to Andy for the speech.

[Andy Cortez]

Thanks, Andy.

[Tim Geddes]

Getting a lot of love. What speech? You have a speech?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, yeah. At the end of Games Daily. Oh, I missed a rant.

[Tim Geddes]

Okay. What's about.

[Angie Hicks]

You ever want to play one of them Ys games? No, because I. I feel like they come up all the time and I never know what they are.

[Andy Cortez]

How many are there?

[Tim Geddes]

I can say at least 10.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, yeah. I feel like they're.

[Angie Hicks]

Now they're announcing these every other year and it's like, oh, here's these memories of the lament. And I'm like, what the. What is going on in here?

[Andy Cortez]

I'm glad that people are working.

[Tim Geddes]

I watched most of the games daily, but I missed. I did not see. What's the topic of the rant?

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, we're. We went on a rant about DEI and.

[Tim Geddes]

Gotcha.

[Andy Cortez]

Everybody needs DEI because Like, even the people that don't want it, they need a. Or else they wouldn't have jobs right now.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

They wouldn't be making money. They would have nothing to complain about if there was.

[Tim Geddes]

Good point. Good point. We have Alex Frazier coming in saying, slick haircut, Mike.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Thank you. I feel good. I'm faster, lighter.

[Andy Cortez]

I noticed that.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Can move quick.

[Andy Cortez]

I noticed you run in. Yeah.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Get ready for it.

[Tim Geddes]

Josh G. Says I've been stealing wins with a team Rocket deck.

[Snow Bike Mike]

That's great.

[Angie Hicks]

So what is that?

[Snow Bike Mike]

I would like to know.

[Angie Hicks]

That must be wheezing me off.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah, I like that.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, who won yesterday, but I like that.

[Tim Geddes]

Andy, you need to watch. You need to watch out. Went.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Angie Hicks]

It was shameful, Andy.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Let's just say someone in the director's chair didn't so much win yesterday, but the people he played against lost.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh.

[Tim Geddes]

I'll just tell you what happened to me. Round one, me versus Barrett. Right. Start off my deck pretty good, but there was one card. I was like, oh, man, this fucking Tynamo. It only had 30 HP. I'm like, I'm gonna be fucked if, like, this is my starting hand. Of course it's my one basic Pokemon. Put it down. He fucking kills me. I have no other basic Pokemon in my head. Die.

[Snow Bike Mike]

What?

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah.

[Angie Hicks]

Automatic loss.

[Tim Geddes]

Automatic loss.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Didn't want to do two out of three either. Just said, no, I'll take it.

[Tim Geddes]

It was, like, the most. Just embarrassing.

[Andy Cortez]

I would take my.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I will not to dig the knife in deeper. Yesterday was my first day playing against people. Just by the way, I. I've only done the solo bop battles so far.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah.

[Angie Hicks]

I met Bear in the finals, and I had it all set up to where I could have won in my last turn, and I was just two in the back, and I fucked up.

[Tim Geddes]

He just went too hard.

[Andy Cortez]

He got too cocky, and he got.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Two fatal errors in that.

[Angie Hicks]

Yeah. Like, I had. I had it set up to where all I had to do was click attack, and I would have won. And for some reason, he did some.

[Tim Geddes]

Fancy shit of just like, I'm gonna make you retreat.

[Angie Hicks]

And I was like, oh, let me seal the deal. Make sure. Let me get your Mewtwo Ex out of here. And then I accidentally. So the thing is, if you're playing.

[Andy Cortez]

With your food, if you.

[Angie Hicks]

I was playing with my food too much. If you beat an ex Pokemon, it's two points instead of one. I forgot that Barrett, like, I only had one point against Barrett, and so I could have killed the Mewtwo, but instead I was like, oh, let me get the Mewtwo out of here. Let me kill one of your weaker Pokemon. And killed it. And I was like, fuck, that's not enough. And then I came back.

[Andy Cortez]

I could immediately kill his thing and.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Then got two points in one.

[Tim Geddes]

Hubris.

[Andy Cortez]

That's great.

[Tim Geddes]

Oh, my lord. Fluffy Cloud Gamer says Lorelei in the Laser Eyes and Botany Manor are underrated puzzle gems for 2024 in my top five easily. Tundra boy says unicorn overlord and Shin Megami. 10 say five vengeance. Need some more love.

[Angie Hicks]

I want to play Shimigami Tensei. 5 Vengeance after playing metaphor. I'm so in on this combat system that I just want more. And so I want to. I want to give it a shot.

[Tim Geddes]

Seth Sanders says, I love the combat and Veil Guard, Orb and dagger is the best.

[Andy Cortez]

Nice. That's a little mage.

[Tim Geddes]

Jeff Hodges says Loreline, the laser eyes is my pick. The devs recommend a journal for notes and puzzles. It ends up becoming a second controller. Truly amazing game. A lot of Lorelei love.

[Angie Hicks]

Dude, the streets were talking about Lorelei when it came out.

[Tim Geddes]

It was.

[Angie Hicks]

I think it came out, like, around like, maybe Dragon's Dogma and like other big games. And so there was just too much to play at the time. But that's one that I think would probably be in my top five if I played. It still might be.

[Tim Geddes]

Mark Son says Slitter Head, please. Andy. It has Roland pairing. Slitter Head. This sounds familiar.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Yeah, we looked it up. Me and Bless.

[Angie Hicks]

Yeah, yeah, we saw the.

[Tim Geddes]

Oh, that's right.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. The visuals just kind of like never really worked for me, unfortunately. I don't know if I'd give it a shot.

[Tim Geddes]

Mellow fellow says, Tormenture on stream. Sorry, Tormenture on Steam. It's Adventure on Atari, but scary.

[Angie Hicks]

Oh.

[Tim Geddes]

Then we got Colby saying, hey, kf. Love y'all. You should do an individual Mount Rushmore of game developers. You'd follow into the sun no matter what they make.

[Angie Hicks]

I was thinking about this. It's good because, you know, I don't know. Do you remember when we did, like, our best open world thing where we had to, like, draft a bunch of different, like, qualities for your open world game? I feel like we could do the same thing for devs. Whereas, like, I want the music of Insomnia.

[Tim Geddes]

Well, here's. Here's a quick question, because I do. I do like this. And maybe at some point we do a gamescast out of it. Do you think there's any dev that maybe not every single person here, but the majority of people. Kind of funny would have. And is it insomniac Rock for Mount Rushmore?

[Angie Hicks]

Yeah, I don't think. I don't think there'll be a mine.

[Tim Geddes]

Really? Yeah.

[Angie Hicks]

Like Nintendo.

[Andy Cortez]

I don't think they'd be on mine.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Rock stars on everybody.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No, I don't think so.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Grand Theft Auto. Really?

[Angie Hicks]

Wow. Are we saying Mount Rushmore or are we saying our favorites?

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah, okay. I guess. Yeah. Because what is the Mount Rushmore?

[Angie Hicks]

Because if I'm just saying the way.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You described it earlier, is Mountain Rush more of who we would personally follow into the sunset or whatever?

[Angie Hicks]

Right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So that's what I.

[Angie Hicks]

If we're doing, who we're going to follow into the sunset? Nintendo from soft.

[Tim Geddes]

Nintendo's cheating.

[Angie Hicks]

Is it?

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah.

[Angie Hicks]

Nintendo EOD or whatever. The.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Angie Hicks]

Nintendo end of day.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah.

[Angie Hicks]

And then I think Rockstar, maybe.

[Tim Geddes]

Movie rants. Joe says, I. I have to ask, but IGN gave PS5 Pro A7, and they gave the original PS5 an 8. Clearly the Pro is better, so it should have been a nine. But they based the score heavily on price and value. Do you think price should be in reviews? I. I think that, like, the context of all reviews is what matters. You know what I mean? Like, time, who the author is, the what's happening around it. Like, what you're even talking about and comparing, like, if the words back up the score, it's like, then, then it makes sense. And comparing a score against a similar product from a different time. This is not how things work.

[Angie Hicks]

Yeah. For me, that's like, in the vein of being like, oh, man, it's a sequel. So shouldn't the score be higher because the sequel has more mechanics and features? And it's like, no, that's. You're reducing what this is into, like, one element of it.

[Tim Geddes]

Right.

[Angie Hicks]

Like a PS5, the original PS5 coming out for 500 in 2020, way different than a pro version of it coming out for 700 in 2024. We exist in two different contexts.

[Andy Cortez]

I also think scoring hardware is kind of odd. I don't know.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Like, it's tough.

[Angie Hicks]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

It's just a weird thing because you're. The aspects of affordability kind of come into play again. And how necessary is this even?

[Tim Geddes]

Totally.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Also, IGN didn't. IGN is an entity to. Didn't give these scores. Right. Jada Griffin gave a review score for PlayStation 5.

[Andy Cortez]

That's what Tim was mentioning. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And then. Yeah. Michael Higham, you know, reviews the Pro. Everybody has their different opinions on shit.

[Tim Geddes]

You know, Alec Bobco, says Dungeons of Hinderberg is my recommendation. Fun dungeon crawling with Persona esque social links during downtime. It's also on Game Pass.

[Andy Cortez]

Greg. Love that one.

[Tim Geddes]

Yep. And then Lil Renlore says y'all should check out Bloomtown and Reckless demo. Not familiar with either of those.

[Angie Hicks]

A lot of games come out.

[Tim Geddes]

Or the one if it's just one.

[Angie Hicks]

Bloomtown and Reckless.

[Tim Geddes]

I think Bloomtown's one game and Reckless is another. But I could be wrong.

[Andy Cortez]

The demo that I did download that I think. I don't know why it's not showing up here. Oh, demos don't really show up that way. But it's a game that looks like Sifu or Sleeping Dogs.

[Tim Geddes]

Oh, we saw that a couple days ago. Yeah, like, looks sick.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, it's like a top. Like a. Not top down. It's a just 3D brawler, but very like, you know, kicking a fucking box at a dude's legs, knocking it down. It looks awesome as hell, man.

[Tim Geddes]

I was thinking about Seafood a couple days ago.

[Andy Cortez]

What a game.

[Tim Geddes]

I just like, maybe I'll just do another run, you know what I mean?

[Angie Hicks]

I was thinking about Midnight Fight Express.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah.

[Angie Hicks]

Remember that?

[Tim Geddes]

Okay.

[Angie Hicks]

That came out and I thought, like, I feel like all of us are so hot on it. And then I don't know if any of us played it. Like it came out and nobody cared.

[Andy Cortez]

I tried it. I didn't like it.

[Angie Hicks]

Oh really?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I think I tried it on the Steam Next Fest demo. I was like, this isn't working for.

[Angie Hicks]

Me because that was supposed to be like another Seafood.

[Andy Cortez]

That's what I thought it was going to be. That's why I mainly got into it.

[Tim Geddes]

God, when are they going to announce a new game?

[Angie Hicks]

Seafood Devs.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah. Hey, Mikey park says regarding Mike's Resident Evil games cast, he should play Resident Evil 8 Shadows of Rose DLC third person. Like 2, 3 and 4. It's a good mix of action and scares. Oh, no. Away. Yeah. Really? I never played any of the Village dlc, so good to know. I don't know, but Lucid Dream saying, if you're waiting for Silk Song, you should play Void Rote. Void.

[Andy Cortez]

Void Rot.

[Tim Geddes]

Void Rot. A lot of letters next to each other. Any of you guys know this one?

[Andy Cortez]

No, but a lot of people also mention Ender Lies as a. Another very good Metroidvania. And I know that it's very good. I just. I just don't have time.

[Tim Geddes]

Alex J. Sandoval says the 2024 recommendation for me is Tiny Terry's Turbo Trip. Imagine an indie version of a GTA open world checklist game. But it can be played through in a couple sittings. Tons of characters made me laugh a bunch.

[Angie Hicks]

Tiny Terry's Turbo.

[Tim Geddes]

Tiny Terry's Turbo. Interesting.

[Andy Cortez]

Is this Tiny Terry? Is this the aforementioned Tiny.

[Tim Geddes]

I think I fuck with such a Roger game. Like even just looking at this, it's like, yeah, this is Roger.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Jeff Grubb I think also played this as well.

[Tim Geddes]

That makes sense.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Liked it.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah.

[Angie Hicks]

I kinda wanna check this out.

[Tim Geddes]

We got Justin Anderson saying this past weekend I got to marry my best friend slash love of my life. And now I'm also the married one. Sending lots of love to the KF crew. Congratulations, Justin. That's awesome. And then we are gonna close out the show here with Eric saying play Shogun Shout show. Ah. Play Shogun Showdown.

[Andy Cortez]

Never heard of it.

[Tim Geddes]

I. I haven't either. Which one's this? Let's look at this real quick.

[Angie Hicks]

I love that. I have a list of games to check out now after this episode.

[Andy Cortez]

Gamer 1 oh, cool.

[Tim Geddes]

Interesting Turn based.

[Andy Cortez]

I love the style of pixel art, man.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah. Shit. Sick bouncy.

[Andy Cortez]

Everything's.

[Tim Geddes]

Let us know in the comments below if any game we talked about today tickled your pickle. Your interest levels are they peaked. Let us know. Barrett. He looks tickled. Look at that tickled little boy. I was telling Cool Greg and Gia of that. You're. You go by Pookie and there's just nothing funnier to me in the world than Barrett. Courtney. Going by Pookie.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The name of my dead cat.

[Angie Hicks]

Now we're back to bear vibes. That's the bear Courtney. I know.

[Tim Geddes]

And let me know as well if you have games you would like to recommend to the best friends out there in the comments. We are going to right after this do the stream. It's going to be blessed. It's going to be Mike. They're going to be playing some Pokemon trading card game and Mike's going to be able to talk a whole bunch. I feel bad that he didn't get to talk.

[Snow Bike Mike]

No, that's all right, Tim. No, but we had a great episode.

[Tim Geddes]

It was great on the stream.

[Angie Hicks]

I'm going to ask you for more of your picks.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Well, you and I have a shared pick. So we'll talk about this.

[Tim Geddes]

Right?

[Angie Hicks]

Let's talk about it.

[Snow Bike Mike]

I looked up some reviews. Looks like went downhill. We'll have to talk about that. There's a little teaser for you.

[Angie Hicks]

Oh no.

[Tim Geddes]

Get teased everybody. Until next time. Love y'all. Goodbye.