Crimson Desert: Andy's Journey Begins! - Kinda Funny Gamescast Plays Sponsored by 5HE

Summary

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Kinda Funny Gamescast Plays: Crimson Desert - Andy's Journey Begins!

Episode Date: March 20, 2026
Hosts: Blessing Adeoye Jr. & Andy Cortez
Game Focus: Crimson Desert (first hour gameplay and critical impressions)
Special Theme: Andy kicks off his marathon playthrough, sharing first impressions, technical observations, and a raucous discussion alongside Blessing.

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Episode Overview

In this episode of Gamescast Plays, Kinda Funny’s Blessing and Andy sit down for a sponsored, hands-on session with the eagerly anticipated open-world RPG, Crimson Desert. Andy takes the helm for the game’s opening hour (and the start of a marathon/subathon stream), with Blessing offering color commentary and critique after putting 17 hours into his own playthrough. The duo deliver frank impressions about gameplay, technical prowess, and quest design, while pushing back on the game's comparisons to Elden Ring and Breath of the Wild. Throughout, their banter oscillates between deep dives into mechanics and joyful chaos.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Game Launch and Technical Impressions

• [03:31] Andy notes how Crimson Desert’s technical achievements are “real”:

  “All those crazy physics simulations and everything that we saw and all those tech tests, they weren’t fake. They are doing real stuff in Engine. … Came away super impressed by the performance on it.” (Andy Cortez, 03:31)

• [04:12] Playing on PC “kind of max everything”—Andy lauds visual fidelity:

  “It’s a gorgeous game. … Cinematic.”

• [15:41] The engine’s performance and visual ambition take center stage:

  “If we’re reviewing the engine, engine might be like 9 out of 10. ... I hope more devs are able to license [it].” (Blessing, 15:44)

2. Early Gameplay Reactions

• [05:07] Blessing describes his Crimson Desert journey—17 hours of investment, but he didn’t fall in love:

  “It was the thing where I texted Greg…‘the worst thing about playing Crimson Desert is that I want to be playing five other games right now.’”

• [06:31] Both agree the game will find some devoted fans, but Blessing admits:

  “...it just broke me where I was like, man, there’s so many other good games right now.”

• [07:52] Discussion on MMO-style quest design:

  “I think a lot of it is that the mission design and the questing is based off of a lot of MMO style... mission design, questing, Black Desert Online lineage.”

• [08:41] Blessing wanted Witcher/Red Dead style quests, but Crimson feels more basic:

  “It just didn’t vibe with me ... I’m in here looking for almost like a Red Dead or like a Witcher style of quest design ... and it doesn’t really do that.”

3. Combat, Systems & Accessibility

• [10:41] Blessing praises the “really fun” combat—top 3 in the City of Infinite, but nitpicks feedback on final hits:

  “When you’re getting the final hits on enemies, ... the screen goes a little gray ... feels like you’re getting hit as opposed to giving the final hit.”

• [12:40] Combat likened to Dynasty Warriors—low regular enemy challenge, big boss spikes:

  “You are just mowing people down … the real challenge is the boss fights and ... that difficulty spike might be a little too much.” (Andy, 12:45)

• [14:10] Bosses motivate players to finally engage with gear upgrades:

  “That’s like when I first had to pause and be like, all right, we gotta upgrade these weapons.” (Blessing, 14:10)

• [19:04] Clunky controls: Andy highlights trouble with the jump/run controls—unintuitive button mapping and nuances:

  “If I’m running, I can’t jump. ... It was really, really fucking with me.”

• [21:32] System complexity surfaces in map navigation, interaction wheels, and resource management. Both joke about needing to remember which button does what at all times.

4. World Design, Storytelling, and Comparisons

• [16:07] Console specs and concerns, particularly for Xbox Series S:

  “That thing might turn into a heater.” (Blessing, 16:40)

• [17:32] MMO-style fetch questing—Andy pokes at early structure:

  “Got to do a lot of these MMO fetch quests, you know… clean the guy’s chimney. Go get my goat ... and it’s like, oh, that’s all. That’s all.”

• [33:10] Narrative ambition and cutscene density: Both push back on critics who claim the game isn’t trying to tell a story:

  “I see, I see... we’ve already seen several cutscenes in this game already...” (Andy, 33:11)
  “Because the thing that I’ll challenge for people is ... Elden Ring does have a narrative and characters and stuff that people care about.” (Blessing, 34:02)

• [36:28] The game struggles to strike a clear identity:

  “It's in a weird place of trying to do both things but not really like leaning far enough into either ... it is a weird in-between space.” (Blessing, 36:28)

5. Unique Systems and Little Joys

• [40:27] Blessing highlights the “knowledge system”—a gamified glossary where you unlock info through observation, but finds the ‘basic knowledge’ gaps odd:

  “I went to a store … and they all had question marks … And it takes two seconds for the knowledge meter to fill up... And I’m like, why does Cliff not know what these basics are?”

• [41:51] Discovery through observation:

  “That to me is such a cool fucking thing. … You can unlock this with skill points or you can just learn it. Like, watch somebody do it.”

• [44:41] Encounters with animals and townsfolk, like petting a dog named Jindo, add charm.

6. Personality, Banter & Community Moments

• [42:22] Andy experiments with crime and stealth, getting promptly beaten and jailed:

  “Can we, like, can ... Can I block myself out of the game immediately?”

• [49:27] The banter revels in NPC weirdness and comparisons to Witcher 3’s world:

  “My favorite thing about the Witcher NPCs … is that they all, like, have just the funniest lines as you’re walking around.” (Andy, 49:27)

• [55:15] Both remark on “rough” early quest design, referencing industry voices like Jake Baldino:

  “That’s quest design, baby. Quest design. This is why Jake Baldino was like, the first eight hours are kind of rough.” (Andy, 55:15)

• [57:43] Referencing the iconic “leaving Vault 101” moment from Fallout as they step into Crimson’s open world.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

| Timestamp | Quote | Speaker | |------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------| | 03:31 | “All those crazy physics simulations … they weren’t fake. They are doing real stuff in Engine.” | Andy Cortez | | 05:17 | “The worst thing about playing Crimson Desert is that I want to be playing five other games right now.” | Blessing | | 06:31 | “People are going to fuck heavy with it. Some of y’all are going to.” | Andy | | 08:41 | “I’m in here looking for almost like a Red Dead or like a Witcher style level of quest design ... and it doesn’t do that.”| Blessing | | 10:41 | “When you’re getting the final hits on enemies … it almost feels like you’re getting hit as opposed to giving the final hit.” | Blessing | | 14:10 | “That’s like when I first had a pause and be like, all right, we gotta upgrade these weapons.” | Blessing | | 15:41 | “If we’re reviewing the engine, engine might be like 9 out of 10. … I hope more devs are able to license [it].” | Blessing | | 17:32 | “...MMO fetch quests, you know, ... clean the guy’s chimney. Go get my goat … and it’s like, oh, that’s all.” | Andy | | 21:28 | “This is where we get into, like, cool precision jump system. This game has a lot of controls.” | Blessing | | 33:33 | “They’re trying to really, like, do something narratively here at the beginning.” | Andy | | 36:28 | “It's in a weird place of trying to do both things but not really like leaning far enough into either ...” | Blessing | | 40:27 | “The knowledge system is so interesting … basically a glossary of terms in the game, and they gamified the glossary.” | Blessing | | 42:22 | “Can we, like ... Can I block myself out of the game immediately?” | Andy | | 55:15 | “That’s quest design, baby. Quest design. This is why Jake Baldino was like, the first eight hours are kind of rough.” | Andy | | 57:43 | “It feels like the Vault 101. You’re coming out like you’re coming out of the vault moment. ... You have the whole world in front of you.” | Blessing |

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Important Timestamps for Segments

• [01:15] - Blessing and Andy begin, crack jokes about the office snake bite epidemic, announce the marathon/subathon stream.
• [03:08] - Early Crimson Desert experiences—Andy as the main champion/evangelist at Kinda Funny.
• [05:07-07:48] - Blessing’s 17-hour journey, frustrations with quest/mission structure.
• [10:41-11:17] - Combat strengths & nitpicks.
• [12:40] - Dynasty Warriors comparison, enemy ease vs. boss difficulty spikes.
• [14:10-15:41] - Gear management; performance/engine discussion.
• [17:32-18:02] - Early impressions of story structure, MMO quest style.
• [33:10-36:28] - Game’s narrative intentions and discussion of genre comparisons.
• [40:27-41:51] - Knowledge system, unlocking abilities through observation.
• [42:22-44:41] - Andy gets jailed for causing trouble.
• [49:27-56:02] - Worldbuilding, quirky NPC dialogue, Witcher 3 comparisons.
• [55:15-57:43] - Discussion of pacing, quest structure, and the iconic "leaving the vault" open world moment.

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Final Thoughts

The episode is a candid, funny, and at times critical take on Crimson Desert’s opening hour. The hosts are technically wowed but split on the moment-to-moment experience—Blessing wishes the quest and writing reached Witcher or Red Dead heights, while Andy is willing to let the world and systems impress him. Both agree the game’s proprietary engine and visuals are standout achievements, but mission design and narrative engagement may not hit for everyone. They leave off ready for Andy’s marathon stream, optimistic that deeper playtime may unlock more of the game’s potential.

Stay tuned for Andy’s continued “marathon” journey live, and get ready for a long, sprawling adventure in the world of Crimson Desert.

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Transcript

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[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yo, what's up? Welcome to gamescast plays. I'm one of your host blessing Adioye junior. And joining me is the nitro rifle, Andy Cortez.

[Andy Cortez]

We're here, baby. We're ready to rock. Bless. I'm happy to see you.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I'm happy to see you.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm feeling better.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

It's been. It's been a while. I'm glad you're feeling better.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I'm feeling great. Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Half this office was bit by snakes, unfortunately, but we're slowly coming back. I think we're just waiting for Snowback Mike.

[Andy Cortez]

Yes, he's still on the mend. He's still on the mend.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Played some over last night. There were moments where he was like, don't make me laugh because I don't want to. You know, you put me out of weak. You put me out of weak.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

If I laugh, if I laugh, too

[Andy Cortez]

hardy, I'll end here.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

But you know what starts here?

[Andy Cortez]

Wow.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Your relationship with five Hour Energy. That's right. Shout out to five Hour Energy for sponsoring this Gamescast plays. Of course, while we're here, we're promoting three new flavors. We got Cotton candy, we got Fruity Rainbow, and we got Confetti Craze. Of course, you can buy your favorite from the link in the chat or the description. So shout out five Hour Energy and shout out Andy Cortez because we're jumping into the first hour of Crimson Desert for this game's cast plays. Of course you're going to continue to play more Crimson Desert after this game's cast plays. But you had a great idea before we went live. This was gonna be me and Greg, but you were like, well, I'm gonna be here anyway. Yeah, I'm starting the game anyway.

[Andy Cortez]

Let me just start off so that people don't gotta rewatch the intro again, you know, because we're going. Yeah, we are heading straight into the marathon after that, the subathon. And I hope you all are down to rock with me until the wee hours of the night. I already told Roger I'm down to go until 4 in the morning.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, wow.

[Andy Cortez]

And if we push further than that, I will try to go home and sleep and then I will come back.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Really?

[Andy Cortez]

I'm committing to stuff right now that I probably go Saturday. I got this funhouse thing. I don't know. You know, James and Elise are here.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

We love them.

[Andy Cortez]

But I'm committed. You're committed? We're do this where you might regret this. We're going to do this. We're going to do this.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

But here's the thing, right? Crimson Desert, leading up to it, I always associated it with Andy Cortez. Because you're the one who would get to go to the events, see it early, and you would come back and you would preach the gospel. Oh, man. Crimson Desert.

[Andy Cortez]

It's real.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

It's real. It's the next Elden Ring. Plus Legend of Zelda, Breath of the Wild combined is gonna have a 100 metacritic. I remember you saying that to us on Gamescast.

[Andy Cortez]

No, that's none of that.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

You said those exact words. I remember them.

[Andy Cortez]

I don't think I ever said anything like that. But I did preview it and I was like, wow, it actually runs. And all those crazy physics simulations and everything that we saw and all those tech tests, they weren't fake. They are doing real stuff in Engine. And I played it, so did a lot of other people at PAX west and came away super impressed by the performance on it. And before we made the ultimate executive decision to say, mike, stay home, get better. Yeah, you cannot be here. I played about two and a half hours of Crimson. Yeah. So, okay, I've played through a bit of this intro as well. But as we could see, you know, it's It's a gorgeous game. We're playing on PC right now.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Beautiful.

[Andy Cortez]

We're playing on PC with I think, like kind of max everything, I'm assuming. I saw some people asking.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Cinematic. Dude. I spent so many probably hours in these menus. I'm not the PC tweak around with my settings person for this game. The way I just kept going back between different DLSS settings, different modes or whatever just to see what they all look like.

[Andy Cortez]

It's so nice. They want me to speak with Unga

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

also while we're here, shout out to our Patreon producers, Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Delaney the Slalom Twining, which.

[Andy Cortez]

Wait, hold up. They changed this?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

What do you mean?

[Andy Cortez]

This isn't how the intro was. Speaking of Unka, like, I had to speak to like three or three other people first before talking to him.

[Game Character / NPC]

Giles is sword.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, wait. Oh, maybe I'm gonna talk to three people after.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yes, I think I talk to them still.

[Andy Cortez]

Gotcha. My bad, my bad. I was like, damn, they're already passing crazy.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

We've got to get people in the game faster.

[Andy Cortez]

Thank you everybody for hanging out with us. We will be playing this for this Gamescast plays. As Blessing mentioned, you put in about 17ish hours and we're like, I'm good. Yeah. Not in love with it.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, I put it down. It was the thing where I texted Greg, because if you remember, we rewind back. A few weeks ago, I was talking on an episode of one of our shows saying that, hey, this Saturday, I'm making it a game for Saturday. I'm clearing my plan.

[Andy Cortez]

I hear this.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I called up Oakland and I was like, hey, Oakland, I'm not coming through this Saturday because I'm just going to play games. That was for Crimson Desert.

[Andy Cortez]

And you were just talking to the dude, like at the mayor's office. I don't know.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

He was like, who are you? I was like, I'm blessed if you're kind of funny. Don't worry about it.

[Andy Cortez]

I come over there all the time.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

But most of the dollars for Crimson Desert, like, there's some other games I wanted to play, but really I was like, if I'm going to play this massive open world game, I need to like, I need to invest myself. I need to give my all to it. I need to like, really clear out the time. And during that Saturday, it must have been like toward maybe 5pm, 6pm, right? I'm playing this for a while and I text Greg and I'm like, greg, the worst thing about playing Crimson Desert is that I want to be playing five other games right now.

[Andy Cortez]

Right.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And it was kind of heartbreaking for me to hit that moment where I was like, it was on your fan

[Andy Cortez]

is on your fantasy critics team.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

It was on my fantasy critics team. Like I had such faith in this thing. And like, granted I'm saying this knowing that there's going to be a large handful of y' all that are watching and listening that are going to fuck with this game.

[Andy Cortez]

People are going to fuck heavy with it.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Some of y' all are going to.

[Andy Cortez]

Everybody fucks heavy with it already who haven't even played it. Yeah, exactly, exactly.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Well, like I don't. I don't want that. Take that away, cuz I can't rest easy. All things that people were saying were impressive during preview still remain impressive. You know what I mean? Like, it is a gorgeous video game with a gorgeous open world with so many things that you can do right, so many systems, so many mechanics at your disposal. Don't worry, I think that's where I'll find a lead on them. You know, I'm the best kid. I'll be back before you know it. But yeah, I hit the point during that Saturday where I was like, man, I'm not enjoying this. And I kept me trying to go back. I wanted. I genuinely was like, I want to put in some good hours for this review. But then it just broke me where I was like, man, there's so many other good games right now that I just like, I gave up. I was like, I just gotta play these other games. You know what I mean? I can't force myself to play 40 hours or something that I'm just not enjoying as much. And so I ended up not putting as many hours into it as I would have liked. Excited to hear, like we were away, you know what you have to say about it after putting more hours into it, what Mike ends up having to say about it if he ends up getting to it. Because I think a lot of it is that the mission design and the questing is based off of a lot of MMO style.

[Andy Cortez]

Mission design, questing, Black Desert Online lineage. Yes.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And so I think there's something to that where it just didn't vibe with me because I'm in here looking for almost like a Red Dead or like a Witcher style level of quest design and all this stuff. And it doesn't really do that.

[Andy Cortez]

Just eat it now. And you know, I'd been saying, perfect, Simon, as many games cast, dig in if this could be.

[Game Character / NPC]

We're still missing the wild for me

[Andy Cortez]

in terms of probably dead I didn't give a damn about wild story one

[Game Character / NPC]

less mouth to feed in all the

[Andy Cortez]

characters of Nintendo characters you know, fun to talk to, you know get your ass back out. I wasn't holding on stop to every story thread. I wasn't like o big story twist second for me it was like the experience it was something seeing the water hit seeing the fire the grass over there. You better pick that's always been kind of this game. Yeah you're going to make me fine. I don't think it's going to hit narratively get it or characters wise bloody bus for me necessarily especially it's got the toughest uphill time cuz I'm right near the end of three and nay. What a what an amazing story and the way that missions kind of intermingle with each other and holy shit that's just like otherworldly masterpiece type shit. But I want I really hope that this game can go the that we can go the distance and this game hits systems wise and physics and I want all of that cool sort of stuff to play around in this sort of open world playground. Thank you Abe Lincoln for gifting out 10 subs. Oh appreciate you Abe Lincoln.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Very, very kind. Yeah, I saw a post the other day that was showing like paintings of Abe Lincoln versus actual photographs of Abe Lincoln and he doesn't look exactly like you think he looks. He looks a little bit off. See the actual photograph.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh really? Yeah. Our land Palin, you really unified on the Internet man. You really brought the dead fish in the table.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I'll be on the timeline. They just show me anything. I'm like all right, sure, why not? I like this segment.

[Andy Cortez]

The one thing I am hoping I want the modders to immediately get to work because I I do not love how orange the fire sequence is. Like anytime you're just near like any sort of fire it's very. It's way more orange than I want it to be and that's just more of like you know, maybe I could just get a restrade. This looks way less orange actually. Maybe it's just this TV or something but on my monitor it was like any it was like the bluest darkest night sky and all this was just like so overtuned and oversaturated red looking. So this looks a lot better to me already. But yeah, so far. Like I love the production values with these cutscenes and animations are great.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I think this is just a great opening sequence overall One thing I wanted I want to shout out. But then I want to nitpick a thing.

[Andy Cortez]

Right.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

The combat. Top three things in the City of Infinite. I love the combat in this game. I think it's really fun. You're gonna get into it. There's like one thing in the combat, like when you're getting the final hits on enemies where like the screen goes like a little gray and it almost feels like you're getting hit as opposed to giving the final hit. Like there's something about that feedback. You'll do it at some point that I'm like, as a good thing, As a bad thing.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, a bad thing.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

As a nitpick.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

It's not like there's so many other things in the game that I that are actual critiques. That's one of those things where I'm like, if we could like dial that. I don't know, maybe like that right there. I'm like, that doesn't feel like I just killed somebody. Oh, that feels like somebody just hit me.

[Andy Cortez]

Gotcha. Yeah, I see what you're saying. Yeah. I guess turning the black and white kind of on that does feel. You know, I think maybe we think of when our character is close to dying in the game.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah. Things get black and white. Defatuated.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

But that's mean. That's me nitpicking. That's not like a real, real potato.

[Andy Cortez]

Again, shout out to just like the. The camera change. The camera zoom changes, which is one of my favorite things.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

When you press touchpad. Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. I wish more games had that kind of. Ready. Ready immediately. Wasn't that the guy I was supposed to kill? Wasn't that like the main boss that

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

looked like the main guy?

[Andy Cortez]

Like it. This usually takes me to like section to section. Oh, okay. I cuz I've done this like three times. Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I don't think you're supposed to see.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, I guess. No. The dudes with the big bear heads. Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

There's something that's like impactful about the here that I really like. I saw somebody. Oh, I forget to. I want to say maybe it was IGN that compared combat to Die Dynasty warriors a little bit. Just as far as how easy it can be. Which I. I think is a. Is a good way to kind of like compare it.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Because like you are just mowing people down. Like there was a point where I was like, damn, this combat's really easy, but it's still kind of fun.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. I've seen a lot of. A lot of different reviewers mention you know, the. That bad guys are almost just like set dressing. You know, they're very easy to take down, but the real challenge is the boss fights and that sometimes that difficulty spike might be a little too much where you're like, I've been mowing fools down for the last three hours and now this boss fight's like, whoa, wasn't expecting this.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Which is awesome. You know, like, you know, I do love, you know, a challenging boss fight.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I mean, it wasn't until a boss

[Andy Cortez]

fight where I was gonna. I'm gonna be so bad at clicking in L3 to run.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, yes.

[Andy Cortez]

And keep on crashing.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Dude, don't even get me started.

[Andy Cortez]

Holy shit.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Don't get me started.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm gonna keep on doing the guys.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

You have to think about it. Like gta. You gotta think about it like GTA or Red Dead.

[Andy Cortez]

You gotta tap X. I got that running my left back pad. Whoa. Just like Night Ra background. I wonder if Word.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Maybe I should. That might actually be not good.

[Andy Cortez]

Cut that out, Barry. After. Yeah, cut that out. We're live.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Whoa.

[Commercial Narrator]

Ooh.

[Andy Cortez]

How close? Can't do first person combat. No, I mean, you must be able to. No, it does stop there, but it kind of makes sense.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah. Well, one thing I wanted to mention to the boss fight thing, that's like when I first had a pause and be like, all right, we gotta upgrade these weapons. You know, Like, I wasn't really careful. The same thing. Yeah, Yeah. I did not care about that until I hit a boss fight and I was like, all right, I'm getting my ass kicked. Let's reset real quick. You know, what do I need to do? What do I need to upgrade? That sent me on, like a quest. Not a literal quest, but like a. My own personal quest to be like, all right, how do I upgrade my sword? I went and I talked to a blacksmith who then sent me on a mission. And then I came back and I was like, oh, I got a pickaxe. Let me mines more. Let me bring that back. Let's fix this thing up. And that was a fun thing.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, we're playing on PC chat. I play PC games with a controller. The. I'm going to be here all night after this on a subathon stream. As long as you all support the stream for me to go. And so I. I want to see the game looking the best it possibly can. And the game looks awesome because it's a really, really attractive engine that runs super well and is very, very optimized. Like, if you have A good machine. It doesn't require you to have the most crazy specced out thing in order to get like 30 frames, you know, I'm getting. We're getting 60 here. We are locked at 60. I could go further if I wanted to, but this TV only does 60 as it is.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

This is what I'll say, right? Obviously these reviews of Crimson Desert have

[Andy Cortez]

been video game reviews.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

We're reviewing the game of Crimson Desert.

[Andy Cortez]

Scripted death. That's the only bet they can take me.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

If we're reviewing the engine, engine might be like 9 out of 10. Wow. Like the engine of this game. I hope more devs are able to license.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, license this shit out. Give it to people.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

It's a really impressive game when you're standing around just looking around.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Game Character / NPC]

Bowing to me. What's that?

[Andy Cortez]

How do we think console run? I mean, they put up the specs. They said that like, you know, PS5 Pro I think was doing 4K up res at 60. Some of the other consoles were doing like 1080p up res at 60. And then I think the Series S is like 1080p 30 or 720 30. I forget.

[Game Character / NPC]

Dead already.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I'm kind of worried about those base consoles. Excuse me. I'm at the very least worried about

[Game Character / NPC]

the Xbox Series S. Give G in my regards.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

That thing might turn into a heater.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Game Character / NPC]

Down every last grave.

[Andy Cortez]

The game beat it and credits are alive. And I do love a tragic ending. I think it's weird. It's a cool kind of brave game. Really enjoyed it.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

It took me 17 hours because I replayed that 17. I was legitimately confused at this part. When I was. When I first booted up, I was like, so it'll be a flashback sequence. Like, what's the game if I just died?

[Andy Cortez]

Jesus Christ walks into the water.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oliver Queen right there with him, grab my hand like I got a Lazarus Pit I can put you in.

[Andy Cortez]

Zondo says, okay, Andy, you're 10 minutes in. Is this game 10 out of 10 and it's Greg a wrong hack? Well, Greg's a wrong hack anyway, like regardless of whatever he thinks about this game. You know what I'm saying?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Come on.

[Andy Cortez]

But yeah, I've already played through a lot of this section already. Like I was mentioning earlier, around 2 and a half ish hours, got to walk around the open world, got to do a lot of these MMO fetch quests, you know, Very. Just like I have to clean the guy's chimney. Go get my. Go get my goat over there and you go, you get the goat and you go, thank you for the goat. And it's like, oh, that's all. That's all.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I was exactly how he sounds.

[Andy Cortez]

I was expecting a little bit something more there, Barnell.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And Chad was asking, so, like, what's the story so far?

[Andy Cortez]

The Greymanes.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

The Greymanes. You're playing as cliff. You just got into a big fight and you got your throat split and you got pushing to push off the cliff. Yeah. And now you're in the void.

[Andy Cortez]

Walk this for the bit rate. Come on, let the bit rate soak. I love a little light dancing off the back of my body. This ain't even sponsored by Nvidia. This is just 5RNG shout out to

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

5 iron shout out 5 hour energy,

[Andy Cortez]

which I legitimately do love. The. The Fruity Rainbow. I need to try that one. Yeah, this is. This is like. That's my. My go.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I'm gonna need to take some of these home because, like, I've started.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, my God. Clicking in left stick.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

This is gonna.

[Andy Cortez]

Every time you see me just do that, hit me in the back of the head.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

See, that's gonna be me with the heels in Resident Evil 9.

[Andy Cortez]

Let's see here. Press X to jump, and press X while running to jump further. But herein lies my problem, but is that while I'm running, while I'm jogging, it won't let me jump.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Why?

[Andy Cortez]

If I'm running, I can't jump. I'm holding. Is that real? I'm holding down the A button.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

It can't be right and hit X.

[Andy Cortez]

I can jump, but if I take my. If I take my finger off the A button where I'm just like in the. The. If I'm like in the jog mode or whatever, like that shit works.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, I don't remember having that problem.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, like, it was. It was really, really fucking with me. So you got to make sure your fingers aren't holding down the AIM button the whole time.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I see.

[Andy Cortez]

You have to make sure you're not.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I see. Yeah. I think I naturally take my finger off it.

[Andy Cortez]

Precision jump. And here's where we get into this, like, cool precision jump system.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

This is where we get into, like. Oh, this game has a lot of controls.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. So Left Bumper Chat is kind of like your command thing. You know, you see like a. Maybe you see a toaster on the ground and you hover over it with this left trigger or left bumper thing and you're like, oh, there's toast in this toast. Yeah. Grab that toast, you know.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, I thought you fell.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, yeah, I almost.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I thought you missed it.

[Andy Cortez]

I almost. The bed there. Look at it.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Like one of the.

[Andy Cortez]

One of the first things I noticed

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

was how the wind this is blowing these plants all over the place.

[Andy Cortez]

Looks so damn good, man. Cloy Frostfield. It's me there. I knew that he did it again.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

He did it again.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, my God.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

But thankfully you can climb.

[Andy Cortez]

Clifford. Clifford. Here we go. We're jumping right there. We're jumping from the spot to spot.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

He's locked in.

[Andy Cortez]

Look at that. Gamers.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

It was very fun listening to the review. Yesterday I mentioned this on khd that like, as I was watching the review, I so badly wanted to be in the conversation and it was so bad that I super chatted for the first time. I was like, fuck it, I'll take out the wallet.

[Andy Cortez]

Get me off the bench.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I'll give you my money. Like now I understand why people do this.

[Andy Cortez]

Towards the wall after jumping to cling to it. Bam, man. While clinging hold up to move along the wall.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

He's at this game invented climbing like that.

[Andy Cortez]

I know no other games done that forever.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Bless was hiding in the chat too. I was in the chat. Like, here's it's the problem where for some. For me as somebody who's been on plenty of our shows, like when somebody else is in the chat, like when I see Paris is in the chat or whatever, it can get like a little bit distracting because I know, like, because I can tell he has something to say. Right. So it's almost like I'm talking to somebody who's on the show even though he's at home or whatever. Yeah, I knew I was being that in the chat where I'm like, I hope I'm not annoying the guys by like putting my opinions in here because I just got. I got stuff.

[Andy Cortez]

His portal got that bit rate update today. Yeah, Tim was.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, Tim was going crazy about that.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, he's going nuts about it. Hold LB and RB for blinding flash. You grab it from that thing. There we go. Reflect light with your sword to disrupt enemies vision. Spot enemy weak points and find special items hidden throughout Pywell. Using the blinding flash pie. Well, just kind of reminds you like the word pyrel. But it's like doing the little UWU baby talk will him and Piwell.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

For some reason I want to pronounce the W as a V. Like Piwell.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, I like. I did like it. Lbrb. Oh, fuck me. God damn it. Lbrb. We got the light right and then while maintaining it with RB move, aim to remove the right stick to aim your target. Then press LB to begin concentrating your beam and then hold until the device activates.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I don't think I did this after this moment. Bam.

[Andy Cortez]

Look at that.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Somebody in the comments like, you know, after people get their hands on the game are going to be like, this is how you get into chapter two.

[Andy Cortez]

I had no idea.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Like, damn, I didn't play the game.

[Andy Cortez]

Look at this water. Check up.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

It's pretty as hell, dude.

[Andy Cortez]

It's insane.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

That's why I'm like, this engine. We got to get this engine in the hands of people. Because this game looks like a 10 out of 10 game.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, no, no, no. It does.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Like, this game looks like a masterpiece.

[Andy Cortez]

The lantern is a useful tool for illuminating dark areas. One thing I really did enjoy was kind of, I love a good quick swap, you know, weapon wheel, item wheel.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Even though it can become very overwhelming at times, but there are moments very, very early on where you get a helmet that you need to use quickly. So I love that I don't have to go to start.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, yeah. Go to equipment, go to inventory.

[Andy Cortez]

Where's my fucking hat? Where's my hat?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Let me equip these.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, it's just, it's a very kind of quick thing and I really do appreciate that in certain situations. Hold LB to shine the lantern. That may reveal hidden locations. Hold left on the D pad and we hit a there and then on or auto, I guess auto. Just whenever it's dark, it turns on, but it's on right now. Hold LB with your lantern lid and your weapon sheet.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Coco Monster. And Chat is asking, is Andy still doing the marathon stream at this point?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Well, not tomorrow.

[Andy Cortez]

I mean, if it, if it, if it pushes. Who knows, man?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

But you're starting to from today.

[Andy Cortez]

Who knows? We're starting right after starting practically right now, right after.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

This is the official start to the marathon screen because right now we're in the middle of gamescast plays our show where we take an editorial look into games while we play them.

[Andy Cortez]

See that?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I freestyle that.

[Andy Cortez]

That was beautiful. That was beautiful.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Put that on the box.

[Andy Cortez]

Look at just the light bouncing all over the place. Great ray tracing. Awesome, awesome engine. And again, the reason why everybody is so high on this engine and why things made a lot more sense when they were explaining all this shit is like, this stuff's really expensive to do. Expensive and taxing for your machine. For normal machines, right? Yeah, it's really hard to make all these computations and calculations and stuff for a lot of other engines because you get an engine like Unreal or Unity and then you want to add a tree system and you may download a program called Speed Tree to get trees and that's. And that's an added plugin that adds a certain amount of like CPU weight. And then you get another thing, you get a physics thing here to do physics computations and that's going to add more and more and you're getting a lot of these. You know, whenever you start up a game chat and there's always like a screen with a bunch of the logos, those are usually the plugin things that have been licensed out and that equates to a lot of like bloat at times, right? And but this mach, this engine, the Black Space engine, which is owned by them and created all in house, proprietary engine it, everything you're seeing is all just running in the engine. They didn't have to, they weren't licensing out a bunch of different things and programs in order to make the game look and operate the way it does. And so you're able to do that a lot more efficiently when it's just the engine doing stuff as opposed to requiring a lot of other outside tools. And that rocks like shout out to them. No, I didn't see the AJ Brown rubers. What's going on? What's happening with AJ Brown? Oh, we're coming back. Are we? Loving the visual quality chat. How's it looking? Let me know how that bit rate's looking. And singing There We Are the world. Welcome to the world of power Main Lost in thought again. I'm Gucci Mane. Why don't we go inside?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Well, before you go inside, Andy. Oh, I want to tell the audience to go to kindafunny.com patreon damn it. Patreon.com is kind of funny. Oh, I mean both work YouTube.com kind offunnygames where you can go and get the kind of funny membership which allows you to get shows ad. And speaking of ads, let us tell you about our sponsors.

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[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And we're back with more Crimson Desert with the one and only.

[Andy Cortez]

Let's just see the way Barrett's are running this show.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I know Barrett's going crazy right now in good luck. Can you do a pan? People gotta see.

[Andy Cortez]

I mean.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Cause this is what I kept. This is the thing I kept doing while playing the game where I was like, damn, am I wrong? Should I just. Do I like this? Do I like it or do I like looking at it?

[Andy Cortez]

I mean it certainly makes.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Am I out of touch?

[Andy Cortez]

It certainly makes things a lot more appealing to one want to stick with it when something looks this damn good. Yeah, talk about like you know, the ray trace reflections and you know, the. The distance, the draw distance and all that. Everything looks freaking fantastic right now. I gotta. I gotta follow my dude over here. We have a super chat from Bam. He says. Sorry, bless my first super chat spelled wrong. And then Ryan downing with the $5 super chat says we got snacks for tonight. Oh, there will be snacks tonight. Oh yeah, and it good chance I also do a little order of food tonight in honor of Mike.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

What was the. What was the first super chat thing?

[Andy Cortez]

Plus have you heard about the SF6 Alex story? I don't know what would. Oh, they spelled your name Bliss.

[Game Character / NPC]

Really?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

SF6 Alex Story. No, I'm not familiar. Sorry. I'm going to give you like.

[Andy Cortez]

Stay a bit longer.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Remember Sparkles.

[Andy Cortez]

All right. Do remember this?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, this wouldn't read

[Andy Cortez]

blessing. I got the scoop from two days ago. Very well. Street Fighter 6 Alex character who married

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

stop by the Heran second cousin Patricia.

[Andy Cortez]

News travels fast around here. So. Okay, Alex, if there's any information to be found, you'll find it there.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I don't know how. Actually I do know I don't like it.

[Game Character / NPC]

I'll take care of this.

[Andy Cortez]

Look, I already paid you.

[Game Character / NPC]

We're here for the interest.

[Andy Cortez]

What interest? I.

[Game Character / NPC]

Hey kid, come here.

[Andy Cortez]

Just won't be any trouble. We're not asking, we're telling.

[Game Character / NPC]

We'll beat the injuries out of you. Or make your mask up. Inflate your choice. What are you gawking at?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Don't mess with the gr. No,

[Game Character / NPC]

Today will be your last.

[Andy Cortez]

So there are. You'll notice there are. I love how when you pause it on that stuff.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I do like that.

[Andy Cortez]

So there are cutscenes of. We've experienced already really high quality stuff. And this is why for people out there, you may go, huh, this game seems to be doing a lot of like, narrative heavy stuff. This isn't just an open world survival. You're not gonna talk to anybody ever. This game's got a lot of NPCs, just like a lot of open world games do. And so that, you know, take that for what it is. Because there's a lot of conjecture of, well, they're not trying to do a kind of like narrative story game, so. Well, first off, you don't fucking know. You haven't played it. But.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, you're talking about the people complaining.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, but like, I see, I see. You know, there's. We've already seen several cutscenes in this game already. It's like.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

It's like they're presenting you with a story, therefore we have to.

[Andy Cortez]

That they're. That they're emphasizing, you know, like, you know, they're not just. It doesn't just feel like background noise now. Maybe it'll feel background noise when I walk in the mountain for seven hours and don't talk to anybody. Yeah, it may feel like background noise then.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

But this is what I'll say.

[Andy Cortez]

They're trying to really like, do something narratively here at the beginning.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Because the thing that I'll challenge for people is even for those open worlds that we view as like, ah, but you're here for the gameplay, but, oh, you don't really care about story, whatever. I would say let's take that further and like, let's really dive into those games that we cite. Because people will cite Elden Ring, which I would say, hey, let's pause.

[Andy Cortez]

They're not trying to do anything like that.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Like, but also, like, Elden Ring does have a narrative and characters and stuff that people care about.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, it does? Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Because you don't care about it doesn't mean that like other people, like, doesn't mean that nobody cares about it.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. The Elden Ring comparison one is the one that I just kind of like immediately dismissed because it's like, well, you. That's a really bad argument. I feel like I'm arguing with a five year old now because, like, you

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

know, like, but I still feel.

[Andy Cortez]

But. But like the Breath of the Wild one is more.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

You don't understand.

[Andy Cortez]

If a game doesn't have cutscenes all the time, it's not focusing on story. Yeah. And lore.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

But people also Bring up Breath of the Wild. And that's what I disagree with too. Not in the sense of like, I'm not gonna sit here and say Breath of the Wild deserves story of the year, but Breath of the Wild has characters that I care about a lot.

[Andy Cortez]

It does have characters, and the world is a character as well and all that stuff. But I. My argument was more about like, you know, so far this is doing narrative stuff. Just like when I started Witcher 3 for the first time, I'm talking to people, I'm seeing stuff, you know. Yeah. Like it's presenting. Like it's trying to do that. So when it. When something is presenting itself to try to do something, and maybe if it doesn't live up to the expectations of what it's trying to present, then you go, maybe take a liking. I'm not feeling this part of it.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Right. Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Now if the game started off and it's this, you know, meditative with solitary character, what's that look for? Is just like if it's on the limb, on his own.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

It's like, I have expectations for that. You know what I mean? For sure, it all depends on how you present yourself.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

But I still, like. I still fight against the idea of like Breath of Wild's story being like non existent or I guess not even story. For me, it's the writing where. When I'm. When Link is talking to characters, I'm investing in what those characters are saying because the writing is charming. Me too. I'm into it, right?

[Andy Cortez]

Me too. But I. I wasn't like, the reason I brought up that game was like, I wasn't. Yeah, that's not a game that I go to and go, holy shit. Yeah, but you got to get to this, to this story beat. And that's where things really. But like that, that's. That wasn't my experience. Experience with Breath of the Wild. And it's still one of the best of all time for me.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

And Elder Ring, it's like now this year is one of. If they wanted to do cutscenes and have all these sorts of like, character, like traditional interactions, but that's not what they were even trying to go for us. But let's take it anyway. I just had to kind of bring that up because I. It. It does seem like a big talking point today. The Elden Ring and Breath of the Wild stuff. But you all love those games, so why not? So it's like, well, you know, one

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

of the things I wanted to bring up if I was on the Briggy Yesterday. Because I think those comparisons come up and then also the Witcher 3 and the like Red Dead Redemption comparisons come up. And I think it really is in that place where you kind of can't win because if you try to compare it to like a Witcher or Red Dead, people be like, well, it's trying to be Brussels Wild or Elden Ring, but if you compare it to Elden Ring or Bruckle Wild, people like, well, it's time to be like Witcher and Red Dead. And I think the problem and part of what makes me not engage with, not make me as invested to engage in the game as strong as I'd like to, is that it is in a weird place of trying to do both things but not really like leaning far enough into either for me where like there are so many systems they got the glide. Like the game kind of wants you to explore a bit. And I'm like, that's my kind of open world game. But it then also kind of has like the linearity of mission design of a Rockstar game or a Witcher game that has me like, ah, like are we doing A, are we doing B? Am I supposed to explore and kind of like make my own fun out of it? Or do you want me to be in the missions? Because when I'm in the missions I'm like, ah. But these missions are kind of really basic and the story's not really grabbing me. And when I'm in the world I'm like, ah, you're kind of pointing me back to these missions that feel linear and like I don't feel as, you know, I don't feel as motivated to like be like, oh man, okay, we got four big things. I just gotta make my way to the four big things. You know what I mean? I don't know. It's in a weird in between space that doesn't really land in like a strong place.

[Andy Cortez]

Right. That's sort of a master of none. But I did love seeing this and going, oh, chapter, Chapter one. That's nice. Yeah, I like this. Give me sort of a structure that I can place myself in time with the game rather than, you know, some other games you might just wander around for and go like, am I making progress? Am I doing anything? Am I doing what the game kind of wants me to be doing? But I think the game does, you know, a good job of saying like, here's this now, now go do this, now go do that, or whatever. Temporary logic. Did you mess with the system at all?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

No, not at all.

[Andy Cortez]

Because in those. In those cutscenes or not. Sorry, not in the cutscenes, but in those videos that. That they were putting out before the game came out, one of them was dedicated to. Here's a lot of different systems you might see. We got fishing, we got all sorts of shit. But one of them was this sort of camp, animal Crossing style. Not minigame, but just system where I could put a camp lodging here and I can have whatever here, and I can rotate my bed and I can.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Do you know what's funny? I was talking to Joey about this after kfcd because she was asking about Crimson Desert, and she was like, so, is it like a survival game? And I was like, no. And she was like, but it seems like it has a lot of things that would probably make for a good survival game. And I was like, you know what?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Actually kind of, right.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

If they made like a survival game mode of this game, the way that. That would hit so hard now.

[Andy Cortez]

I just. I love this shit. Like, I just love larger than life NPCs. Like, oh, yeah, this shit is so sick. Now.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

You want to hear fun fact?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

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[Andy Cortez]

No.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

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[Andy Cortez]

Oh, wow.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

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[Andy Cortez]

It was really Andy's reaction, like, dumbfounded face of how we forgot how good

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

of a host you are.

[Andy Cortez]

Come on.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

When I. When I'm gone for a little bit and I come back and I got the energy.

[Andy Cortez]

You miss. You miss. Yeah. The Five Heart Energy. Currently playing on PS5 Pro. So I'll let you all know says, nice blight. Hell yeah, let us know. Wow. Walking the first person in this zone. Yeah, look around. Hernand Tavern.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Now. Can I tell you one of the things I, weirdly enough love the most in the game, even though it was one of my main complaints when I was riding, when I wrote in the blurb for you, is the knowledge system. The knowledge system is so Interesting, because basically what they did is they got basically a glossary of terms in the game, and they gamified the glossary to where when Cliff sees something, when he witnesses something, you'll get a meter in the top left of the screen. That's like learning in progress. And when he learns, it takes two seconds things. When it fills, it's like knowledge gained. And you learn things about that thing and you get to go. To go into the knowledge menu. And it's basically like a big glossary. I think it's very fascinating because when it works, it's super cool. But then there are some times where I think it's very. Excuse me. I think it's dumb. Starting with the school, though. I got into a boss fight, and

[Andy Cortez]

this boss was like, I'm being. I can't. I can't go in there. They can't let me in here. They're like, you don't. Not like that. You look.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, you look like. You look bumpy.

[Andy Cortez]

What the fuck?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

That's bullshit.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay, sorry.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Get your drip up, bro.

[Andy Cortez]

Damn.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

What the fuck you wearing?

[Andy Cortez]

All right. Sorry to interrupt. This guy threw me out.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Castle. Are you trying to get into the

[Andy Cortez]

castle wearing that flashback to 6th street in Austin being like, nah, not with those shoes.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

You ain't fresh.

[Andy Cortez]

What the fuck?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, no.

[Andy Cortez]

Fucking get your some cross trainers.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Get your money up. Not your funny up.

[Andy Cortez]

All right, Fuck you, dude.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

But I'm fighting a boss, and the boss starts dodge rolling as I'm trying to attack him. And I see the knowledge meter start to fill a little bit. And then he dodge rolls two more times, and then it's like, knowledge gained. And now I can dodge roll.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, now you know that system that's

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

like, now you know how to do that mechanic. That to me is like such a cool fucking thing. Because if you go into your skill tree, I'm pretty sure it'll tell you like, hey, you can unlock this with skill points or you can just learn it. Like, watch somebody do it. And you'll. Are you about to throw that thing?

[Andy Cortez]

I'll give this guy a fucking piece of my mind right here. Blessing. Kicking me out of the spot.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, shit. Oh, shit.

[Andy Cortez]

When a crime occurs, a search area will appear around the scene. You must quickly leave the area and hide from witnesses. This is gonna be a good game to stream.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, God.

[Andy Cortez]

This is gonna be a good game.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I didn't think you were walling out like this in Star Wars.

[Andy Cortez]

Let's go.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Did you get. When you played the game, did you get past that door.

[Andy Cortez]

No, no. I didn't even walk up to the door. You'll eventually go up there. I walked through, like, all of this.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

That's like, mainline.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm just gonna fight him. It.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Do it.

[Andy Cortez]

Can we, like, can. Can't. Can I block myself out of the game immediately?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I'm. I wasn't on that energy because I was like, I want to make sure I have a good relationship with everybody. So I didn't even try all this.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, my God. Oh, they're strong, but, yeah, they're. Oh, my God. They're everywhere. Oh, my God. I'm gonna parry one of them.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

You wait.

[Andy Cortez]

What the. What the.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, yeah, they do that. Oh, they'll attack. Oh, if you. If you feel that, they'll throw you out.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, you. Damn.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

It's crazy.

[Andy Cortez]

Death has finally returned to your past.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Remember when we were saying the enemies were easy?

[Andy Cortez]

It feels like Dynasty warriors respawn in prison.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

That doesn't count as the authority. That doesn't count. That doesn't apply to the authorities. It's like, they're all individual bosses.

[Andy Cortez]

They're teaching us a lesson right here of, like, you're not supposed to be fighting these guys right now, so we're gonna make it real hard for you. That was cool, the little quick time thing.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah. So there was a different area I actually did do that in, and basically when I failed the quick time, they tied me up and threw me, or they didn't tie me up. They grabbed me and literally threw me out the door.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, nice. Yeah. Oh, I got out on bail.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Nice.

[Andy Cortez]

I gotta talk to my parole officer.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

It's been like, five months.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, he's got a. He got a giant job lineup for me at Jiffy Lube. Got a little. We're gonna be back out there. We're back in society now. Oh, I'm still kind of in the same zone, though. Okay, that's cool.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

What was I talking about? I was talking about the knowledge thing. So.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

That learning how to dodge roll through. Just watching somebody super cool. I love the knowledge system for that. The one that I mentioned during Gamescast that I wrote in with was, yeah, give us money.

[Andy Cortez]

I don't have any.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh. Oh, my God.

[Andy Cortez]

I probably had to pay bail, bro.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I just came out of jail.

[Andy Cortez]

I had to pay bail.

[Game Character / NPC]

Oh, look at that little puppy.

[Andy Cortez]

Look at this little puppy. Oh, I can't go first person for that. That's. Oh, here you go. Oh, my goodness. Oh, my God.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Jindo was his name. Knowledge acquired.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, wow. Jindo. Hello. Jindo My actions are appreciated. Says the dog.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Come on. But yeah, the one that annoyed me was I went to a store. Good of you to see. It's a grocery store, so they have all these different produce items I can buy. And they all had question marks on them, but you can see the pictures. And I'm like, oh, what? And then I, like, hover over them all, like, individually. And it takes two seconds for the knowledge meter to fill up of being like, oh, this is a fish. Oh, this is an egg. Oh, this is. And I'm like, why? Why does Cliff not know what these basics are?

[Andy Cortez]

You drowned, bro.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Like, why does Cliff not have basic knowledge of what an egg is?

[Andy Cortez]

Your memory went with the water.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Why are we wasting my time having to, like, sit and learn with all these things are. That didn't make sense to me.

[Andy Cortez]

Hey, am I supposed to talk to you? Good day and all that? Oh, he's just saying hi. Okay.

[Game Character / NPC]

Paige hasn't dulled my strength one bit.

[Andy Cortez]

Dude, it's just brain mogging me right there. Look around. Hernan Tower. Hello. How's your going? Yeah, yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

What do you want?

[Andy Cortez]

I'm here to try arm wrestling. I'm guessing you're the arm wrestler. Oh, the L butt. The left bumper. There we go.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Remember, left bumper, if you want a Gamescast games tip, left bumper is your friend. Whenever you're like, what am I supposed to be doing? Who am I talking to? Hit that L1.

[Andy Cortez]

Like, what's going on?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

You gotta take a.

[Andy Cortez]

He's got an intro. Armrest is a concept of strength and timing. Press X to fill the gauge red and win. If the gauge turns completely white, you'll lose your. Okay. All right.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah. Immersion fragrances in chat says, can you play the whole game in first person? It seems like most of it, but combat you weren't able to do first.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I wasn't able to pet the dog in first person, so I'm pretty sure. Oh, I have to start the game.

[Game Character / NPC]

Oh, snap your wrist.

[Andy Cortez]

All right, she's talking already. Oh, I thought I was like, why.

[Game Character / NPC]

Get back into it?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Have that thing.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, that's a weird thing.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

That's a weird thing to say.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I mean, you. You had that great 5h hour energy line earlier, and that was awesome. But then you got. You got a little. That was a bit of a heat check. That was a he.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

You know, I'll break it down. I'm here right now. I'm going to break it down in here.

[Andy Cortez]

You made three. Three pointers in a row. You shot A half court shot after that.

[Game Character / NPC]

Like, we did my best.

[Andy Cortez]

All right, well, we. That's a reference then.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Come on. One game.

[Game Character / NPC]

Damn. My PA always said, true strength lies in humility.

[Andy Cortez]

It's a good dad.

[Game Character / NPC]

I suppose he meant folk like you.

[Andy Cortez]

Well, okay.

[Game Character / NPC]

Thanks for the compliment.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Swag.

[Andy Cortez]

I think the one thing that I agree with, with every reviewer about that is not super high on story or characters or anything. It's like, it should have been a. Create a character.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, yeah. Oh, I can see I should have

[Andy Cortez]

just been able to create my person called the Cliff, you know, or whatever. I don't know.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Or just the Cliff. The Grey Mania.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, you're the fucking Cliff. Right? You know, like, I just. It just seems like there's not a whole lot to be like, oh, the Commander Shepard. Or, you know, that's. He's just a dude. He's just like a blank. Well, Slate. Yeah. Oi, what you got for Sala? You got any Theos? I got a left. Wait, I'll be. Yeah, left bumper. Greet.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Hello.

[Game Character / NPC]

Celebrating anything in particular?

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, it's that blue crystal that's making so much light. I was like, hannah, why is all this blue in the screen? But something's light up right there. So she has a dahlia.

[Game Character / NPC]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Rest your bones.

[Game Character / NPC]

This is a haven for those with stories to tell.

[Andy Cortez]

It may not be the best stories, though, but the gameplay is fantastic.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

All are welcome.

[Andy Cortez]

I don't have anything. Whoa. Purple crystals. She's a crystal lady.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I want to do a crystal lady.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, we all have met a crystal lady on Bumble or Change before.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Crystal lady. I'll never forget.

[Game Character / NPC]

Is he really all right?

[Andy Cortez]

Give a coin to the beggar. Give a coin to your beggar.

[Game Character / NPC]

The world is filled with pain.

[Andy Cortez]

What? Dude, my. My favorite thing about the Witcher NPCs, though, is that they all, like, have just the funniest lines as you're walking around. Like, this one line that always makes you laugh. This one guy who goes, I will never know true love. He's just like a random npc. He's just like. He'll pop up every now and then.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

They're like, gta.

[Andy Cortez]

There's so many unhinged, like, little lines.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

You made me want to, like, go

[Andy Cortez]

back and actually Creature.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I got. I got to Novagrad, dude.

[Andy Cortez]

It's.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

How's Big Overgrad? Chilling.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, my God.

[Game Character / NPC]

I've got used to the indifference. That's nothing anyone should grow accustomed to here. I hope this can be of help.

[Andy Cortez]

Good guy. Good guy.

[Game Character / NPC]

Cliff, how kind of you. A benevolent hand has finally reached me. Please take face. I'm sure you will find a use for it. What. What is this? Virtue paves the path to wisdom, which shall bring us together once more. Never forget, when the time comes, the key shall guide you. Damn, dude, there's some kind of riddle.

[Andy Cortez]

Wait, what did you mean, he's a magic man? Yeah, yeah. Damn. He's a genie.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Got powers.

[Andy Cortez]

He's a genie. Chat

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

feel. Gotta be more surprised about this clip investigation. Like these disappear. Y' all see that shit? He gave me a key, walked over there and fucking evaporated and said, go

[Andy Cortez]

in the gate on the ground below me. Enter the sewer. Left bumper, here we go. There you go. Left bumper open in. Yeah. What's that other unhinged Witcher 3 line? Is one of them like, like you trying to wet your. Your whistle? Like, when you're around, like, the. The red light district, you know? Oh, the ladies of the night are just around there. They all have hilarious lines.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

It's kind of like you're quoting homeboy from all the Christopher Nolan movies.

[Andy Cortez]

Alfred, are you trying to. To wet your wish away? Investigate the sewer. Oh, damn. Remember that. Got to. Got to do your precision jumps, everybody.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

You know the buttons.

[Andy Cortez]

Or.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Or you just freaking.

[Andy Cortez]

All right, I'm just crazy.

[5 Hour Energy Advertiser]

Come on.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, my God.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Can anyone help me?

[Andy Cortez]

I. Oh. Left bumper untied.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

When in doubt.

[Game Character / NPC]

Please, you have to help me. Quickly.

[Andy Cortez]

Dude, the beggar. I just help. I tricked you. Stabbed you.

[Game Character / NPC]

Can you walk?

[Andy Cortez]

He was right about you.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Here, you'll need this. Is. Everybody evaporates.

[Andy Cortez]

It's not trying to do anything narratively, though. They're not trying to. They're not trying to.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

They're not trying to tell story.

[Andy Cortez]

They're not trying to do a story. Guys, you can skip all this. They're not trying to do any of this. Yeah, yeah. Speak with the child is now the command.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Speak with the child. This is actually one of the complaints Greg gave that I agree with is like, you'll finish an objective. They'll give you the next objective, and you'll be like, what do you mean, speak with the child? What child?

[Andy Cortez]

And it's like, oh, it's on the map. Okay, but it's on the map.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Why. But why. Why am I speaking to a child right now? Did the lady tell me to go speak to a specific child?

[Andy Cortez]

I will read the letter chat after a word from our sponsors. No, just kidding. We already did that. Let me read the letter. A letter. Oh, seal. It's a key item. A letter From a mysterious woman sealed by mystical power. Can't be. Can't be read. Joke's on you. Jokes on all of us. Speak with the child. Like, why would you walk up to the. Are you the child I'm supposed to speak to? It's me again.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

The beggar game. Just keep running into this

[Andy Cortez]

left bumper.

[Game Character / NPC]

I won't be ma.

[Andy Cortez]

What?

[Game Character / NPC]

Something wrong?

We're running late. He's going to come down. We've got to get back before anyone notices. The Chief's going to be really upset. How can I. Can you help me get him down? G.G. get down here this instant. Hurry. You're going to get us both in trouble. Please, can you help? Chief gets scary when he's mad.

[Andy Cortez]

Who's the Chief? Hopefully we get to meet him soon. Oh, he just did that.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, I was saying this man cliffy climbing.

[Andy Cortez]

I didn't. I didn't even do that. He just did it. Cat, over here.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

That's a quest right there. Come on.

[Andy Cortez]

There it is.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Quest right there.

[Andy Cortez]

That's quest design, baby. Quest design. This is this. This is why Jake Baldino was like it. First eight hours are kind of rough. Yeah. Yeah. That brought me back to skyward story. Oh, yeah, like one of the first visions.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Maybe it's a reference.

[Game Character / NPC]

Come say hi.

Sure, if I have time.

I'll reward you for your help today. I think you'd love it.

[Andy Cortez]

That's so true. Not the lizard. This is. This would have been a four hour side quest in. In the Witcher. It's so true, man. When I was looking for Dandelion, I'm like, man, I've been looking for you for goddamn nine hours. Dandelion.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I'm tired of Dandelion is where I dropped off Witcher.

[Game Character / NPC]

Wait.

[Andy Cortez]

But everything was so awesome on the way. It's just like when the writing's so good and children and beggars and ladies aren't disappearing.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I knew Witcher 3 was fire because when you came back and said you were playing the Witcher 3 and you mentioned the Bloody Baron, I got excited. I was like, why am I excited right now? I've not played this game since 2015.

[Andy Cortez]

STAB.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

What am I? Oh, you're stabbing the ground when you crouch.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh. Oh. Got you. Got you.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, very big shadow Colossus.

[Andy Cortez]

Forget the crouch. Chris Anka, I see you in the chat. Don't forget about it. The other day I walked into Stranger opt into the the Discord and Kevin Asa is like, what's up, Andy? You didn't read my resub Yesterday, man. I've been a fan of yours for a long time. He's like giving me. And I was like, I didn't see it. And Chris was like, yeah, I. There are times where I chat. And like, I noticed you don't. And I was like, chris, there's so many times that I will watch back a VOD and then go, damn, they were in my chat, dude, I had no idea. Like I'm. I'll read the. Miss the. Like, I'll only like see the chat right below the person that like. Or the message that Chris wrote. I'm like, I. Dude, I don't know. My brain just like sees certain.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I'll watch back a VOD and see certain chats come up. And I'm like, I don't know.

[Andy Cortez]

You're there.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I don't remember anybody saying that.

[Andy Cortez]

Right there. Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Come on, let's look at this world again.

[Andy Cortez]

Help the distressed villagers.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, the cat told you about.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, that's right.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Look at this vistas.

[Andy Cortez]

Wow.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Andy, we gotta wind down this gamescast place because we're gonna wind up your adventure, your marathon adventure into the world of Pavel featuring.

[Andy Cortez]

We gotta do that now. We're just gonna call it that.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Starring Cliff and the cat. And come on. Like take. Take a stop right here.

[Andy Cortez]

It's gonna be a big around. It's gonna be a big adventure chat. This is.

[Game Character / NPC]

This.

[Andy Cortez]

I mean, honestly, this is Bilbo right here.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Ted.

[Andy Cortez]

We're going on an adventure. I'm very, very excited for this. For the rest of what the marathon stream will be after this.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yes. It feels like the Vault 101. You're coming out like you're coming out of the vault moment. You know what I mean? We look around. You have the whole world in front of you. Jesus Christ.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, that's right. That's right.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I don't think you're supposed to be standing there when he does that. You're supposed to be walking from the ground. That's hilarious.

[Andy Cortez]

I thought I just scared him. I thought you did the same thing I do remember. Like, yeah, that's the whole point of this side because. And it's so funny that I didn't. I only saw it from up there. That's so funny.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Chat. That is a scripted thing that happened.

[Game Character / NPC]

Even handle cleaning a bloody chimney. Some husband you turned out to be.

[Andy Cortez]

Anyway, she's like, clean my chimney. I'm like, your husband? Did you want him to watch? And she's like, no, my actual chimney upstairs. Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

That's crazy.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Marathon stream after this chat Subathon Stream thank you so much for watching this episode of Games of Kind.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

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