Everything We Played at the Switch 2 NYC Event - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Summary

Summary of "Everything We Played at the Switch 2 NYC Event - Kinda Funny Gamescast"

Released on April 4, 2025, the Kinda Funny Gamescast hosts Tim Gettys, Greg “GameOverGreggy” Miller, and Blessing Adeoye delve into their experiences at the highly anticipated Nintendo Switch 2 event in New York City. The episode provides an in-depth look at the games they played, the event's logistics, and their impressions of the new hardware.

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1. Navigating the Event

The hosts recount the challenges they faced in covering the Nintendo Switch 2 event. Blessing Adeoye Jr. shares their struggles with event restrictions:

Blessing Adeoye Jr. [08:07]: "They were very secretive... you cannot say that you're traveling, you cannot say you're in New York, you cannot say you're at this event."

Despite their efforts to capture reactions and content, Nintendo maintained strict control, limiting their ability to film and interact freely. Greg expresses frustration over Nintendo's restrictive policies:

Greg Miller [09:25]: "That's fucked up from somebody's trying to claim they deserve all these stars."

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2. Gaming Sessions and First Impressions

2.1. Mario Kart World

The cast begins their gaming experience with Mario Kart World. Tim Gettys shares his initial excitement:

Tim Gettys [20:55]: "From one race, how much is going on here, and I just need to dig in more."

They delve into the Knockout Tour mode, featuring 24 racers and a dynamic racing environment akin to "Marvel Secret Wars." Greg highlights the exhilarating back-and-forth nature of the races:

Greg Miller [24:52]: "It's the entire time... even when you were in first, sometimes you would drop down."

2.2. Metroid Prime 4

Prioritizing Metroid Prime 4, the hosts are impressed by the game's smooth performance and innovative mouse controls:

Blessing Adeoye Jr. [31:10]: "The screen quality, all of that stuff. And what am I missing?"

Tim draws parallels between the game's mechanics and Breath of the Wild:

Tim Gettys [31:54]: "It does remind me of Breath of the Wild in terms of the physics stuff."

2.3. Donkey Kong Bonanza

A standout moment is their session with Donkey Kong Bonanza. Tim discusses the game's destructive environments and nostalgic elements:

Tim Gettys [39:16]: "It is the idea of you are playing as Donkey Kong... environmental destruction to the point where you have a bunch of different surfaces that are breakable."

Blessing compares the game to Minecraft for its destructible environments:

Blessing Adeoye Jr. [49:03]: "It feels like Minecraft. You're just kind of able to fuck around with."

Greg echoes Blessing's enthusiasm, noting the game's expansive and multi-layered design:

Greg Miller [51:10]: "I don't think you spent that much time with any of the handhelds, but you moved around enough."

2.4. Other Third-Party Titles

The hosts also explore third-party games like Cyberpunk 2077 and Street Fighter 6. Tim praises Cyberpunk for maintaining its visual integrity on the Switch 2:

Tim Gettys [53:51]: "I was actually pretty blown away by how much they retained the look and style."

Conversely, Yakuza 0 receives mixed feedback regarding its graphics and voice acting:

Roger Picorni [56:02]: "It feels lesser than the Steam deck. ... It did not look crisp."

2.5. First-Party Highlights

Kirby: Forgotten Land and Mario Party Jamboree TV are highlighted for their engaging mechanics and fun gameplay. Blessing commends the intuitive controls and new features:

Blessing Adeoye Jr. [58:46]: "New music, new mechanics, like new abilities."

Tim expresses excitement about the Mario Party modes, emphasizing their chaotic and enjoyable nature:

Tim Gettys [60:06]: "It's Mario Party in a dumbass, gimmicky way... I think that's kind of the point."

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3. Hardware Impressions: Nintendo Switch 2

3.1. Display Quality

A significant portion of the discussion centers on the Switch 2's display. Blessing defends the LCD screen quality, despite lacking OLED:

Blessing Adeoye Jr. [66:54]: "I really go as far as saying loved the screen. ... I am very impressed with the screen."

Tim and Roger also commend the screen's performance, noting its color accuracy and smoothness:

Tim Gettys [69:10]: "It looked fantastic, especially seeing Tears of the Kingdom them."

3.2. Controller Enhancements

The new Pro Controller 2 is another focal point. Blessing appreciates the enhanced finish and responsiveness:

Blessing Adeoye Jr. [73:09]: "The Pro Controller 2 feels substantially different... there's a silky finish to it."

However, concerns are raised about the absence of traditional triggers for third-party games, which may impact gameplay experience:

Roger Picorni [72:16]: "I need a trigger. That just sucks."

Greg inquires about compatibility with existing accessories, and Blessing anticipates continued support for Switch 1 Pro controllers:

Greg Miller [73:00]: "Does the Switch 2 LCD feel like a big downgrade from the OLED on the Switch 1?"

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4. Audience Engagement: Super Chats

Throughout the episode, the hosts address listener questions via Super Chats. Notable interactions include comparisons of Donkey Kong Bonanza to other franchises and feedback on the Switch 2's hardware performance. For instance:

Zach Burns [42:16]: "Donkey Kong Bonanza looks more like the Luigi's Mansion 3 of DK rather than the Odyssey of DK. The font and the UI is even the same."

Additionally, listener Riley21 inquires about the Switch 2's handheld performance:

Riley21 [69:18]: "Does the system feel warm playing in handheld after a while? More importantly, how good was the pizza?"

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5. Wrapping Up: Final Thoughts and Event Highlights

As the podcast concludes, the hosts reflect on their overall experience at the event. They emphasize the balance between strict event controls and the exciting new content showcased. Tim expresses eager anticipation for future gameplay and content creation:

Tim Gettys [50:38]: "This is a game that actually functions around that mechanic and... I cannot wait for this shit."

Blessing and Roger also share their enthusiasm for the new titles and hardware improvements, while Greg maintains a light-hearted tone, teasing upcoming streams and content.

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Conclusion

The Kinda Funny Gamescast episode provides a comprehensive overview of the Nintendo Switch 2 NYC event, highlighting both the exciting new games and the logistical challenges faced by the hosts. Through detailed gameplay impressions and thoughtful discussions on hardware enhancements, the team offers valuable insights for gaming enthusiasts eager to explore the capabilities of the Switch 2.

Transcript

[Tim Gettys]

Foreign.

[Greg Miller]

What's up, everybody? Welcome to the kind of funny Gamescast for Friday, April 4, 2024. I'm one of your hosts, Greg Miller alongside Forbes 30 under 30, aka New York Game Awards. Nominated aka Donkey Kong, Poppy Blessing, Eddie O. Yay Jr. On the shirt. He's only wearing the shirt. And I the games cast. He was way more positive than Tim was.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay.

[Greg Miller]

Embarrassing some fake ass Nintendo.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, I know. I think Barrett's wanting on behalf of himself.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

On my.

[Greg Miller]

But I'm giving Barrett the reasons I just called him.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I get.

[Tim Gettys]

I. I understand the reasoning. I'm still very upset by it, Greg. And I will never forget this.

[Greg Miller]

I'm very happy that Andy fixed this for me. I gave. I came in like a little kid. I'm like, dad, the game no look good on this. Can you make it look good?

[Tim Gettys]

And he did it. He did the.

[Greg Miller]

I can't believe it. And he's talented over there. Of course. He's formed 30 under 30, aka the second best baby blues in San Francisco. Aka Dead Man Walking at Tim Gettys, my Tim host. How's it feel? Farewell tour. Still going.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Still going.

[Greg Miller]

And we are taking it on the road. Everybody come to the first and only farewell tour stop in Chicago, Illinois this Thursday, April 10th. Get your [e-mail] Chicago. You can get your photo with me, of course, but also I'm gonna leave the stars in the bank briefcase at the meet and greets. So you can just take photos. I'm gonna leave a sharpie and a bunch of paper so you can write hate mail to Tim that I will then put into the briefcase that I will then bring back. And as I continue to torment him, I will read those pieces to him.

[Roger Picorni]

That's nice.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You're gonna read them to me. I didn't catch that earlier.

[Greg Miller]

So now when I interrupt, I'll come out and open it up and I'll read one of the hate mails. Crazy hate mails I got.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm sure everyone's gonna be very, very.

[Greg Miller]

We're not doing it in a public place. It's a ticketed event. It'll be on target.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Right? Tim has small pp.

[Greg Miller]

They know what to write. And of course, rounding out our quartet, it's the taste maker, Roger Picorni.

[Roger Picorni]

I think I'm joining you guys and becoming the Donkey Kong bros. You know what I mean? Do you have room? Are you part of this?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I thought it was just the irony of all this.

[Roger Picorni]

I don't think. I don't think you're Part of this anymore.

[Tim Gettys]

Were you a part of Donktober Tim? I don't remember that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Here's the thing. At the end of the day, I will welcome everybody to the Nintendo communities. I ain't trying to gatekeep at all. All I'm gonna say is this man right here, He's a Don Gum 64 boy. That's it.

[Tim Gettys]

Nah, the original. When I'm playing as jump man, I toss him.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You don't even know you were playing.

[Roger Picorni]

Mario versus Donkey Kong. I'm turning on you now.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, who was, you know who was playing Marv is Don. I played Don. You know what? I'll. I'll, I'll settle for Roger being Donkey Kong Poppy.

[Roger Picorni]

You know, like I might be maybe.

[Tim Gettys]

Not played one Donkey Kong.

[Greg Miller]

Mario versus Donkey Kong.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I said what?

[Roger Picorni]

And I played the remake. That counts as one.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, half and half and half.

[Tim Gettys]

I played country on my Game Boy Color.

[Roger Picorni]

All right, you finish it.

[Tim Gettys]

Get on my level. No, nobody finishes. Difficult.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That game was hard.

[Greg Miller]

These three gentlemen just came back from New York City where they played the Nintendo Switch 2 hands on. They played a bunch of different games. They were in a weird presentation. They have so many stories to talk about. And that's what we're gonna tackle today because this is the Kinda Funny Games cast. Each and every weekday we run you through the biggest topics in video games, whether they be reviews, previews, or things we need to talk about. If you like that, pick up a Kinda Funny membership. Of course, over on YouTube.com kindafunnygames patreon.com kinda funny apple and Spotify. You can give us $10 a month and get 80 episodes of content ad free. And of course get your daily dose of me, Greg Miller, in a series we call Greg Way, where I vlog podcast to you each and every day. No bucks to toss our way. No big deal. You could be watching live as we record this for free on YouTube.com kindafunnygames twitch tv kindafunnygames and listening on podcast services around the globe. No matter where you get the show, consider like subscribe sharing, hitting that bell, hitting the follow sub button and remembering of course, that if you have Amazon prime, you have Twitch Prime. Andy was off to the side. I thought he's gonna run in and sing what else is up Andy?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I just wanted to congratulate the team on a awesome week of content. Like it was. It was so good. Listen to all the podcasts.

[Tim Gettys]

I was already obviously so stoked for.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The Switch 2, but hearing you all explain it in awesome detail. It rocked. Content was great.

[Tim Gettys]

Now the pre order delay is going to make you more excited, right?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, can't wait for that price. But I clicked like on those videos.

[Tim Gettys]

Wow.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You never do that. Very cool. It's dislike and likewise Andy. I watched the entire reaction. You guys did fantastic job back home. Loved it. Andy, appreciate you bringing the hype for stuff. That was real good. Greg, you could do better.

[Greg Miller]

I understand. I'm just, you know, I'm not a child. I play real games like Game Showdown like that.

[Roger Picorni]

People are asking why didn't we send Greg out there first off?

[Greg Miller]

Fuck you. I would have been great. I had a lot of fun. I know you're giving me a hard time but. No, yeah, I echo all of that. Of course I was going to say something. The same way I know on Games Daily Tim got choked up talking about how proud of Roger and blessing the entire team he was. Same for us back home. You know what I mean? You guys out there, that's great and you're doing the thing. But then when I was talking to Tim that night putting Ben down, he's like, Roger is still cooking right now and like it's amazing. And I think then waking up in the morning and looking at all the thumbnails, all the things, 30 minute conversations about everything and listening to them all in the car and going through, it's like damn. And then watching of course it was that proud papa moment, right? Of like what we've built here of I'm in the car and so I hit Spotify and I'm like, oh, it's playing the video, right? Cause we do that and then it's like, oh, Roger put in B roll to all these things. Like there's actually things out there explaining just fantastic conversations, great content, everything else.

[Roger Picorni]

Thank you.

[Greg Miller]

But I'm excited to hear all about that here. If you want to be part of this show as we go and ask questions to three people who have played the Nintendo Switch and one person who's going to get three stars at his will. Go ahead and get in your YouTube super chats. YouTube.com kindafunnygames to super chat housekeeping for you. We're an 11 person small business all about live talk shows. If you haven't been paying attention, kinda funny Games Daily kicked off your programming day. It was all about the Trump Tarif putting the Nintendo Switch 2 pre order date in the U back way way with the us way way back. We'll find out when we get that another day. And then remember it's happened. Chris Anka and his mustache are here. The crew are doing a big marathon Call of Duty Warzone stream after this, where they are gonna drop into Verdansk and have fun, slash hate each other. If you're a kind of funny member, today's Greg way is 16 minutes of me wanting to live in precedented times. I'm sick of unprecedented times. And I wrote, fuck, this shit sucks. Roger listened to it and even though it's very raw and I scream many times in it and I'm very angry, Rod's like, no, this is okay.

[Roger Picorni]

Good stuff.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This is okay.

[Greg Miller]

Thank you to our Patreon producers, Anatoly Ast Delaney Twining, Carl Jacobs and Omega Buster. Today we're brought to you by Lost Skies, Monaco 2 and Rocket Money. We'll talk to you about that later. For now, let's begin with what is and forever will be topic of the show. The title is simple. Everything we played at the Switch 2 New York City event. There are plenty of previews. Like I said up right now, go listen to these games, cast these. But I also want to know the juice of what was happening behind the scenes.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Tim, just real quick, I want to say we have deep dive conversations that you can listen to right now about Metroid Prime 4, Beyond Mario Kart World, all of the Nintendo GameCube games we got to play, which includes Mario, Super Mario Strikers, Zelda, wind Waker, Soul Caliber 2, Soul Caliber 2 and F0GX. And our impressions of the hardware overall, like getting to. To hold it, play it in mouse mode, the pro controller, everything, the, the screen quality, all of that stuff. And what am I missing? Any Donkey Kong, Banana Rama, Ding Dong.

[Tim Gettys]

Like something like that. Bonanza.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Bonanza, everyone with no O's. So yeah, if you want a deeper dive, please go listen to all of this.

[Greg Miller]

But you did this on Games Daily and I think it's worth going here again. Tim, talk to me about the planning and the hurdles to the normal content that were placed in front of us and how you guys overcame.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. To try to say this briefly because like there's, there's many elements to it. We went, me, Roger and Bless went to New York to get hands on with the Nintendo Switch 2. That meant we had to watch the Nintendo Direct in at the event venue because we got to play immediately after the direct ended. So we were not able to do our traditional direct reactions. And even though we tried, I pitched them, what if we just did it at the hotel and then came later? They're like, sorry, you can't do that. I was like, what if we just did the reactions literally while we were there, like have cameras and just like kind of be cool and edit that together later. They're like, maybe. And then they said no. And then I literally begged them to allow us to do that. And they said, sorry, no, but I want it clear. I literally begged them. I said, please in all caps, let us do this. Can't make more than that, Roger. But I mean in a professional email, you know what I mean? For sure. Like I actually did that and they did not let us do that. So. And on top of that, they weren't. They, they were. This is the most secretive event that I've ever been a part of when it comes to video games. And they were like, you cannot say that you're traveling, you cannot say you're in New York, you cannot say you're at this event. And because of that it created a really weird situation for us where we weren't able to say why we weren't or that we weren't going to be there or any of that stuff. And it was real convenient.

[Greg Miller]

Right.

[Roger Picorni]

Maybe someone capitalized on it.

[Greg Miller]

Weird for me. Ye mean, I just, I called it like it was, I just told everybody exactly what was happening. You know, you're a coward. I called my shot and it was very simple of when it wasn't. You didn't want it, you don't want to show up. You know what I mean? That's fucked up. That's fucked up from somebody's trying to claim they deserve all these stars.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The irony of all of this is that you could say, oh, who's the bad guy? Oh, Nintendo for doing all this. No, Nintendo is a business with his business needs. They're trying to get things done. There's one bad guy here and I'm not saying he's not sitting at this table, you know what I mean? But anyways, that, that's kind of that. Is there anything else? Am I missing something there?

[Greg Miller]

No, that was about it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So because of that we got to spend an entire day playing Nintendo Switch 2. It was an obnoxious amount of gameplay. Right. Bless.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, so much gameplay. How many hours did they even. Because it felt like we didn't even take it all. I was going to say it felt like there was no time where they were like, get out of here.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

No, like we just got tired and left after a certain while.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. Because we did everything that we didn't do it all. There was a couple of things, a couple of mistakes. We Made just to let people know there we played Mario Party Jamboree and I can't wait to talk about that because we haven't had the chance yet because we got to play with the camera a lot but we didn't. I didn't realize that there was a separate demo station for the mouse mode games for Mario Party so we missed that. I saw, I've been of course watching a ton of coverage from other outlets of seeing like what people, other people think. And then also we missed the intended.

[Tim Gettys]

The welcome tour which was calculated on.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Us, not all of us.

[Tim Gettys]

It was calculated like we got back to the hotel to record content and Tim was like oh yeah, crazy that they didn't have welcome Tour. I mean Roger was like oh no they did. Like me and Roger at one point looked at welcome Tour and I was like nah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And I'm so bummed. The funniest thing about it is that.

[Roger Picorni]

Bless and I didn't even say a word to each other. We just looked at each other and then we were just like oh, the game keeps right next to it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

I was like yo Roger, you can play Yakuza 0. Take your one chance to play that game cuz there's no way you're going to pay for it.

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah, that's so true.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And to me I, I similar but different. I didn't see it. I just got so distracted by the GameCube, you know what I mean? I saw the GameCube and I was like I got to go there. Speaking of that real quick, I, I, this is going to be a semi disorganized games cast. We're talking about a lot of things so we're talking about hands on with the games. But we're also just like this is our opportunity to talk about the direct itself.

[Tim Gettys]

Right?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Because we were, we were in the room like Doug Bowser was there. Doug Bowser.

[Greg Miller]

So stop. Full, full, full. Cuz this is something even I don't know. Because of course you had to go to the street to film your reactions and act like you didn't know where you were.

[Tim Gettys]

Exactly.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Sorry. So real quick, just that's one other thing I want to say is like literally they wouldn't even let us shoot in the building. We had to leave to be able to post that video on the same day. So what Very secretive.

[Greg Miller]

You keep saying you're in the room. Was it a hotel ballroom? What was it an actual theater? Where did you watch the direct?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's an event space that is the same event space that the Nintendo Switch to experience that fans that got the ticketed events, lottery stuff are going to be able to do.

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah, but it was at a different area of that. I don't think that area is. Even people can go into it. Yeah, that's like a media. It was like a media space type thing. So I had like three big screens and we were on the left side most. And then they had like a little stage in the middle where Doug Bowser came out and talked about.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We were sitting with a ton of people. We had Gene park right behind us and we had Jeff Keeley three seats down behind us.

[Greg Miller]

He can't catch a break.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Kind of fun. He's always in front of us. He really, really can't. God, I hit him with some energy in the beginning of the morning. The album prepared for it was not that bad.

[Greg Miller]

It wasn't bad.

[Tim Gettys]

You and Mike, you got to stop hitting him with peak energy. You got to come. Come at him like you're tired.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Nah. Bl.

[Tim Gettys]

He's like, he's.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm not hitting him like Mike does, but like, I'm going to be. I'm going to be me. He likes me. I know he likes me.

[Greg Miller]

Sure. Mike says it's like, you want a Statue of Liberty.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Quick question. Just because Doug Bowser was in the building, did he eat a switch live?

[Roger Picorni]

I did see him go. Go. Go out and eat something. So, yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I miss that.

[Roger Picorni]

He might have eaten a switch. He might have eaten a switch.

[Tim Gettys]

For me, Jeff Healey is like when you go to a friend's house and they have a cat versus if they have a dog. You know what I mean? Where it's like, you let the cat come to you.

[Greg Miller]

Yes.

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Like, cats will respect you if they think you're cool.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

And so you just gotta allow Jeff.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

He kind of did come to us.

[Roger Picorni]

No, he had to go past. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

He was going to ignore us.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Well, he. He 100% could have just ignored us.

[Tim Gettys]

No, because that would be. Then it's like, oh, he really does.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No, he doesn't.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No, he looked at us. He engaged us.

[Roger Picorni]

He would have ignored us.

[Tim Gettys]

I saw the energy.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

He would have ignored. Step it up.

[Tim Gettys]

He had the.

[Roger Picorni]

He had the earbuds in. He didn't want to be talked in here before.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

My God. But yeah, anyways, Jeff Keough was there and that was cool. But Doug Bowser was there.

[Greg Miller]

And how many people were there?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Hundreds. Hundreds of people. All press. All for the day. We were there. Was all games press or just pressed in general, I guess. And the Next day was all influencers and like celebrities and Bowen Yang and stuff. Also a celebrity, also an influencer. But anyways, so we got to all watch the direct live as it happens with everybody. So that was, that was cool. Not an ideal situation. Definitely not the best seating situation because we're all on the same level. So yeah, we saw a lot of heads. We couldn't see any subtitles or any information at the bottom.

[Tim Gettys]

Second last row.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Roger Picorni]

I was getting up at certain points. I was just like, I need, I need to know the answer.

[Greg Miller]

What was the vibe in the room? Were people popping off?

[Roger Picorni]

So cheering. Okay. The vibe was like chill. I mean there were moments where people were like, whoa. But it was not like screaming or anything. There was one moment where somebody, I won't say names, where maybe a gamecube logo came out and then you just hear, oh my God. Just the loudest. Like, like way louder than everybody else. And like people looked. People looked. People looked.

[Greg Miller]

Hey, man.

[Roger Picorni]

Hey.

[Tim Gettys]

Who?

[Roger Picorni]

I won't say who.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I can't control myself sometimes. You know what I mean? There was pop off moments. I will say I probably was the individual that popped off the most and the loudest.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But I don't regret anything but the biggest pop.

[Greg Miller]

Assuming hip hop gamer wasn't there.

[Roger Picorni]

He was.

[Greg Miller]

He would have been right there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

He would have been.

[Tim Gettys]

Where is hip hop game?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But there, there was a couple pop off moments during the direct. I think the biggest one was gamecube. Yeah. The second biggest one was Moomoo in Mario. And the third biggest one was when they announced that welcome tour was a paid yes.

[Roger Picorni]

That was. People laugh.

[Tim Gettys]

It was awkward.

[Roger Picorni]

People left in the. In this. In the area. It was great.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It was deservedly so. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Sorry.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That was kind of great. But otherwise, yeah, we had a great time watching it. Like it was fun watching it with. With other people like that. Yeah. I wish the energy was a little different than it was but like, you know, it's that weird kind of mix of things. But what did you think? Bless.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, I thought it was a awesome time. Right. I mean, I echo every single thing that you said.

[Greg Miller]

Don't forget in your guys's reactions. Did you rate it? I listened, but I don't think we.

[Roger Picorni]

Gave it a much score.

[Greg Miller]

You guys should score it too. But go ahead.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. I mean, I don't think I've had much to say. I would say the other pop off, maybe this might have just been a me thing, was Donkey Kong Bonanza just out of the pure unbelief. The disbelief that there was another 3D Donkey Kong game that was being announced and released. And so that for me was probably the biggest pop. And then also just the confusion of.

[Roger Picorni]

Blood Air Riders too. Oh, there was. There was an error about Air Riders. Got it was the moment of, oh, shit, is this smash? And then just I see Tim just like his eyes just like, this is happening. This is happening. Yeah, that was great.

[Tim Gettys]

For me, the moment was, yeah, Dust Blood. Because that was the one of murmurs at the beginning of the thing. I think us three being like, Castlevania.

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Tim was like, is it Resident Evil 9? I'm like, it might be Castlevania. And then you get the from software logo. And then slowly it is.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's bloodboard. It's bloodborne too. It's like literally like that. That probably was, I think the. The most. It was like sound in the room of people talking, murmurs of people not.

[Tim Gettys]

Believing or not understanding what this is me turning around in Jean park because I'm like. I'm like. I'm like, this is Bloodborne, right? I'm looking at Black at Deep Gene park as somebody. Who else who's played Bloodborne? I'm like, is this bloodborne too? This is Bloodborne 2, right? And every. All of us being like, what the fuck is happening? And then getting Dust Bloods and being like. And seeing them in the Nintendo Switch to exclusive thing being like, yo, what the fuck is happening? So, yeah, overall and really cool time for me because, like I mentioned during kd, I've not been to an event like that before, right. Where I'm like, seeing the debut of a console and like, what that looks like in a. In a room with full media, right. 200 other media people.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

And seeing the balance of everybody trying to play cool and be respectful and be, you know, quiet about it. But then also us being. Yeah, trying.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I did try.

[Tim Gettys]

And then us being the reaction guys. Right? You did good.

[Roger Picorni]

You did good.

[Tim Gettys]

It was a fun time.

[Greg Miller]

If they let you film yourselves, how much it works.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Honestly, if anything, I think that this was proof that, like, I'm not. It's not for the camera. It was like, like, sure, mate. No, no, that. It's not for the camera. Like, you guys can attest to it. I was Tim Gettys. Was Tim Gettysing there. And yeah, a big mom me was Kirby's air ride Air Riders, which, like, when it looked like smash, obviously, I was like, oh, my God, we're getting smashed. This is insane. But Kirby was on that star for a little Too long, and I twisted. I'm like, it's air riders. Oh, my God. It's Kirby. Kirby's air ride. Oh, my God. And then when it was, I. I lost my. Like, I can't believe we're getting that game, dude. This. It's about to be awesome. And I can't wait for people to be able to play this for the first time because it's. It's special.

[Roger Picorni]

I'm excited.

[Greg Miller]

So walk me through. You guys react to. You watch the direct, then run outside. Does everybody else immediately go play games? Is there a mingle hour? What. What. What happens? And how do we train?

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah. We are immediately taken to the area to play the games. Right. And that was a big thing for us. We were a little bit nervous. Like, what are we gonna play? Right? We know it's a big experience. Me and Tim were debating. We were like. Tim was like, no, we're gonna play everything. Like, they have to. It's a big deal. Like, they're. They're. They're. Everyone's flying up here. This is a big deal. And then I was like, I don't know, man. Like, what if we don't? Because you were telling me about a story back in the day where you only got to play, what, Mario Kart? Well, no, you didn't even get to play Mario Kart.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I was saying. I was saying we're not going to play everything, but I was saying we're going to play a lot of things because, like. Because I've now been at the Wii U event for this same thing and the Switch 1 event, and both of those did not feature all the games that they showed. I think the best example for y'all to understand, because I feel like the majority of our audience was there for the Switch 1 generation. The Switch 1 Direct had Mario Kart, had Mario Odyssey, all that. We didn't get to play Mario Kart or Odyssey at that event. We got to play Breath of the Wild and Fast Racing Remix. And one, two, Switch, the Polio Pollo Tetris game. It was things like that, right? Super Bomberman are. But, yeah, like this. When we got in, even before, we didn't know. So us planning, like, how we're going to cover this, it was very much a let's prepare for the most, but expect the least. Yeah.

[Roger Picorni]

So then we walk in, and I was expecting have a little bit of time to, like, set up the camera, like, the fancy camera to make it all happen. And then we get in there, and it's first of all, it's only Mario Kart, right? We walk in, and they have, like.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Full of, like, dozens of Mario Kart. Yes.

[Roger Picorni]

They have a few, like, stations to, like, hold the Nintendo Switch. But then they just saw Mario Karts. And then we immediately were like, okay, we're not setting up the camera. We just get the little mini DJI pocket camera, and, like, let's just go. Let's just play Mario. But it was a fear of, like, are we gonna play anything else? Like, is. Is this just the room and we're just gonna be playing Mario Kart all day? Yeah, it was scary.

[Tim Gettys]

So, yeah, we get in there, and.

[Greg Miller]

Then I was gonna say before we. You. Which version of Mario Kart do you play? Cause you talk about.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay, yeah. So we start off, and you play. Is Mario Kart World. It is. There is a switch to handheld that is in front of the tv, and they give us the handheld, and they're like, play this first, and then you'll play on the tv, right? Is that. Yeah, play this first, and then you play on the tv. It is one Grand Prix race that we play. And it was an awkward thing at first because, like, I think me and Tim were supposed to split up, but because we wanted to stick together, we're like, all right, let's. We just want to go together. Which caused the hubbub. But finally we got to a station together. I played first, and then they're like, all right, go upstairs. But then we're like, no, but Tim needs to play, wants to play.

[Roger Picorni]

And they're looking at me, though. You play. I'm like, I'm. I'm recording.

[Tim Gettys]

I don't want my camera.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It was one of those things where, like, we don't need to get too into it, but just, like, to set the stage here, it was an overly organized event where they had way too many. Like, every single controller had a demo person attached to it, and the demo people were not allowed to say anything. So if you asked him any question, it was like, go to nintendo.com and it's like, oh. But also, they were.

[Greg Miller]

He would be. Where's the bathroom?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They're way too hands on with, like. Like, every single thing you're doing. Oh, my God. So it was kind of. It was kind of rough, and we got caught immediately with just, like, a misunderstanding of what we were doing. Like, one guy was trying to be helpful to us of, like, oh, cool. They're a group of three. He's just filming them. Two, we're gonna play. Put them at one station. So they can play together. And instead, they. They messed that up. And so a little confusion doesn't matter. We both got to play one Grand Prix race, and.

[Tim Gettys]

And it was fun, right? It was one of those things where I played it, and I was like, man, I hope they let us play more Mario Kart, because that wasn't enough. Based on just from one. From one race, how much is going on, new items, a gigantic character list. Right. Like, different ways of doing certain things where you're not putting together the different cards. Instead, you're just picking from a list of cards and going that way. But from my first impression, super cool to hold the thing.

[Greg Miller]

My question for you there was. Yeah, I've listened to Mario Kart world impressions, of course. Like, I have everything else because I needed to know, but it seemed like if you would have walked away right there, would it just. It's more Mario Kart because that was your fear coming in, right?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, I know if I. Well, if I had walked away right there, I would have been upset of. That was not nearly enough to play this game.

[Greg Miller]

Sure.

[Tim Gettys]

Not that. Because it was more Mario Kart more. So it was just a taste of, oh, shit, no. There's a lot going on here, and I just need to dig in more. Like, I need more time with this thing.

[Greg Miller]

Sure.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think a good idea for this would be like, let's. Let's work through just, like, how the day worked, and then we can kind of get back into the details because, like, it was the experience. I wish they told us a little bit more, because I think we would have appreciated more and been able to take it in a different way. But what we got ended up being really freaking awesome.

[Roger Picorni]

So, as you said, buzzing. You're like, man, I wish I could play more of Mario Kart. Well, they got you covered because we walk upstairs and we're like, okay, room two.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Room two.

[Roger Picorni]

Let's see what it is. All Mario Kart. All you can see is Mario Kart. And it was the Mario Kart knockout, right?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Knockout Tour.

[Roger Picorni]

The Knockout Tour, which was cool, but it was like, oh, shit, this might.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Actually be just Mario Kart.

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So we played a round of knockout, which is 24 racers.

[Greg Miller]

Sounds awesome.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It was freaking awesome. Again, we'll get more to detail later. But, like, this was definitely like, oh, this is what this game is. Because not only did we play knockout mode before you're in the lobby, and that was our first taste of the free open world mode, where you're just kind of, like, racing around till the 24 racers are ready. Then we got to go in. I got second place, which wasn't good enough for me.

[Tim Gettys]

I was doing so good for most of the race. Did you post when I was doing good? Did he put. Have we. Have you put out?

[Roger Picorni]

It's in the Mario Kart video. I think I would go back and forth between it.

[Tim Gettys]

There was, like, certain sections where I was in first place, where I was like, I'm having the time of my life right here.

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah, I love it. You want me to post just the moments you're doing good thing where I.

[Tim Gettys]

Did where I jumped off a ramp and then I landed on an enemy and then. Yeah, I caught that. So, yeah, Knockout Tour was, yeah, such a cool thing because, yeah, you hop into it. You start off in the lobby before where people are populating in. It is the open world thing that Tim's talking about. And once everybody's populated in, I think we, like. I forget if we, like, chose Grand Prix, there was, like, a selection process of what like Grand Prix or course you want to do. And then after that, they then show you a screen of like, all right, this is like the path that you're going to go. And then it puts us into the thing. I think Tim described it the best, where it's kind of like the, like, Marvel Secret wars, like, Battle World, where they take a bunch of Mario Kart courses and just, like, mash them together, and you're driving from one end to the other. And it is just a way longer race than you get out of a standard Mario Kart race. Right. So it is like 15 minutes. Yeah, 15 minutes of just racing. And it is with every interval you get to. If you're under a certain place, you get knocked out. If you played Burnout Eliminator, like, it's kind of like that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And so because of that, every moment feels like that final lap of a Mario Kart game where you're, like, you're racing back and forth between first and second, and there's that dynamic of getting the items and strategy of where you're going to use them, but it's the entire time. And the chaos of 24 racers is unbelievable.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And it just like it. It is thrilling, man. And it changes Mario Kart in such a necessary way to stand apart from a franchise and specifically Mario Kart 8 that we're so familiar with and with how good that game feels. This game feels just that good.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Awesome starts.

[Tim Gettys]

Super chaotic. And then as you get toward the few laps, the last laps of the race gets really Dialed in where I forget how many people were in, like, that last stretch.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's either four or two.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Somewhere around that. And like, I think it's four.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I wouldn't know because I was never third or four.

[Tim Gettys]

Because I think I got.

[Greg Miller]

But can you ever beat Logan Plant, you think?

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

See, that's the thing. I didn't. I didn't beat him. But later I did go back and get first place.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I know. But he wasn't there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

He wasn't.

[Greg Miller]

It's kind of a hollow.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

He wasn't there.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. When I got knocked out, I think it was the four. And so, like, yeah, I think it dials into the. Just those last four for that last stretch. And it is just this race of, okay, it's me versus the best people. Now I need to get to this.

[Roger Picorni]

It was riveting as a viewer.

[Tim Gettys]

It was really fun.

[Roger Picorni]

I didn't even get hands on, but I was so excited watching because it was the moments of like. Like, it changes. Like, oh, eighth place now gets knocked out and then you're at eighth. You're at seventh.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Right?

[Roger Picorni]

Like, it just. It just kept on going the entire time. Like, even when you were in first, sometimes you would drop down. Like, it was always this. This back and forth.

[Tim Gettys]

And for me, that was the taste of, oh, no, this is everything I want out of a new Mario Kart. Like, I can't believe they found a way to not just make another Mario Kart, but something that feels more expansive and more special and more I. I went from, okay, cool, like, I'm down for another Mario Kart to, oh, I really need to play this Mario Kart. Like, this is something that's going to be really fun. And, like, there's so much we could talk about as far as the new items as far as. And you guys should check out the game scouts that we did just about Mario Kart World.

[Greg Miller]

But for me, it's like you guys talk about in your thing, what got me stoked. I mean, beyond in general, this. This sounds awesome, but this open world, driving around, you kept saying it's a fully realized world of, like, there's enemies, there's herds of things. And it's the idea of, like, I said it on our reacts and then you drove it home. I think on the. The one. On one Tim was the idea of, like, that's where you're going to unlock so much stuff. And so just to drive around and explore is gonna be so much fun. Let alone that's what Ben loves in Forza. So to be able to do that with him.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I said this earlier. This is going to be Ben's favorite game. Like, I really think that this is going to be. And I think that he is, by the time it comes out, going to be like, the right age to potentially, I think that in many years, he'll remember this game. Like, I think this is going to be his game. It's awesome. Very cool.

[Roger Picorni]

And it's so forza. It even has the rebound button.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yes, exactly. You hold down the D pad and brings you back. But so, yeah, so we now had two rooms of escalating Mario Kart experience. And, like, that was awesome. And we could have played forever because it was like, that fun. But then they're like, I cool, move on to the third room. And we're like, all right, what are we about to get now?

[Roger Picorni]

Third man and Raj.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What do we get?

[Roger Picorni]

We walk in, and it's pretty much everything we expected. Right? You walk in, we see the Metroid, like, okay, good. We see Hogwarts Legacy. We see Split Fiction. We see the third party stuff, and we see the first party stuff. And there was one missing, though. Do you remember what that game was?

[Tim Gettys]

Donkey Kong Bonanza. We're like, where is Donkey?

[Roger Picorni]

Where the fuck is Donkey Kong Banana?

[Tim Gettys]

We're like, okay, it's not playable.

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah. We're walking up and down. We're playing games. And then.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And I wasn't surprised because, like, I was saying, like, that it's filling the Mario Odyssey slot at the direct and stuff. I'm like, oh, yeah. I. I really thought there was no chance we were playing, Dawson.

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah, I completely, like, we. We bought into it immediately.

[Tim Gettys]

We were like, all right, cool. Like, this is what's here. So we be lined to Metroid. We're like, all right, what's the highest priority of a game that we should play for this? We've already played Mario Kart World. All right, next has got to be Metroid Prime 4. We found it in, like, the back of the room. Like, you can tell the way that they try to lay it out. It's like, play all the other stuff.

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Like, you're gonna pass through everything until. And then get to Metroid Prime 4. So we get there first. Yeah. We beeline get to Metroid prime because we're like, oh, for sure. Like, we got to prioritize this. Play through it. It is the mouse joy con setup. And, like, just for inside baseball, trying to figure out how we're going to make content out of everything. Right. Because it is the thing where we're like, all right, there's not direct feed, and so Roger is going to record me playing. Roger puts a microphone on me. And I think Tim and Roger are like, all right, just talk while you play, and maybe we'll figure it out.

[Roger Picorni]

Maybe we'll figure it out.

[Tim Gettys]

But because it's Nintendo, there is a person stationed at every single game. There's, like, so many game stations in.

[Roger Picorni]

This place, so many people working this event.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And on top of that, another key thing that the longtime watchers will know. But to reiterate, Nintendo will not allow direct feed capture. And in addition to that, when you are filming, they require it to be off screen, and they require, at the very least, your hands in the screen with the controller. But most times they require a full shoulder in the shot, and you have to be zoomed out enough that it can't just be the screen. It's insane. So if anyone is looking at our videos, I've seen a lot of comments, and they're like, why doesn't Roger zoom in? We weren't allowed to legally.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. And there was 2007 E3. Vibes are so bad.

[Roger Picorni]

There was so many times when I'm showing the shoulder, I'm doing the whole thing, and it's 15 minutes into a gameplay demo, and then the person who's watching the shoulder, my footage the entire time, they're like, actually, step back a little bit. Step back even more. I'm like, we're almost done here.

[Tim Gettys]

It gets also difficult for me as the person playing the game and trying to essentially record a. Let's play at the same time, where I start it. And then the person that's there is like, all right, so this is Metroid Prime 4.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And they're not mic'd up.

[Roger Picorni]

No.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It was, like, so frustrating because, like, oftentimes. And I. I don't mean to complain about all this stuff, but it was just like, you. You see what we told you, what we're doing? Like, why are you doing this to us right now?

[Tim Gettys]

And so, yeah, it is. It is them, like, basically chiming in at certain points that they're trained to. Of. All right, this is what the controls are here. This is what you should be doing. And, like, it is like a very, again, controlled environment of, hey, we want to make sure that the people that are here to play the game know how to play the game and know all the buttons and all this stuff. And also they know how to. How the mouse mode works. And so, like, I'm.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

He's.

[Tim Gettys]

Telling me that. And then I'm like, thank you. And then I start talking to myself. Talk to myself while playing the game. And then sometimes he thinks that I'm talking to him and I'm like, oh, just so you know, I'm recording a let's play. So I'm just going to be talking or whatever outside of all that fucking fun ass experience playing Metroid Prime 4.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And I think that you can watch our breakdown for the full actual gameplay thing. But I think the most impressive thing I want to talk about is playing it. It's like cool. It's in mouse mode. And so we pick it up. It's like. I think both of our initial thoughts was like, I also want to kind of just play it in like non mouse mode. And then you we realized, oh, you just turn the JoyCon and you're in non mouse mode. There is no switching the mouse mode. There's no mouse mode. It just works that way if you have the control of that down. And that was shocking.

[Tim Gettys]

One of my favorite demo moments, right, was that of me being like, okay, so if I want to switch to just holding the joy cons, can I do that? And he was like, pick it up. And I picked it up and it started controlling. I was like this is insane.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Also Metroid the only we got to play it was 120 FPS. 1080 on the TV looked great. It was 120 frames per second. That thing was smooth. And using the mouse, it was utterly shocking to play a Metroid prime game that way. Like it was kind of like a chill inducing moment. Like a very cool.

[Tim Gettys]

So it was like a quick tutorial section and then a boss fight at the end of the demo. We get into it. In the Gamescast episode about Metroid Prime 4, the recording we put up the other day, but we did that and then finished it. And I mean Roger are like, all right, let's look around some more. Let's figure out what we want to do next. And we start walking and we see a little hall. We see like a path leading into a hallway. And we're like.

[Greg Miller]

It's shaped like a banana.

[Tim Gettys]

And we're like, oh, what's over there?

[Roger Picorni]

No one's there by the way. Nobody's there.

[Greg Miller]

We should reiterate.

[Tim Gettys]

It looks like no one exit.

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

And we're like, oh, what's going on over here? And then we see more demo. Like a bunch more demo units. And we're like, oh, what's going on over here? And we just see as far as the eyes can see. Donkey Kong Bonanza. And we're like, are we allowed? Me and Roger are like, are we allowed to go over there? Like, nobody's here. It feels roped off. And we asked one of the people, we're like, hey, is this available? Can we just play these? And they're like, yeah, it was.

[Roger Picorni]

It was a little bit scary, right, because you turned the corner. And we felt like, should we be here? Because there were so many people working this event in this area that they were just kind of looking at us. Right. Like, we were the first journalists we should have taken.

[Tim Gettys]

Because it looked like. It looked like an army.

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Of just Nintendo just standing in front of the booth, waiting for somebody to walk in.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Speaking of the army of Nintendo people, something that we didn't mention, but we need to mention, is that without fail, every single time anybody would enter or leave the building, there was lines of 20 people on each side. Nintendo people in red shirts that would do the Jennifer Hudson walking down the hall thing of just all clapping and yelling and, oh, my God, it was very intense and unnecessary.

[Greg Miller]

Just go to the bathroom.

[Tim Gettys]

My favorite is later in the day, we're like, all right, let's go grab some lunch. And we're trying to find the way to where they're serving food, and we go the wrong way, and we accidentally enter the hallway where they're clapping. They start clapping, and it's just me, Roger, and Tim just randomly, like, looking for a place. We're like, oh, thank. Thank you, thank you. And then we get through, and then we look at each other, and we're.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Like, oh, it's the wrong way. We're in the.

[Tim Gettys]

We're in the wrong place. We gotta go back. Five seconds later, they clap again for us.

[Roger Picorni]

And, yeah, it was such a.

[Tim Gettys]

So you're saying it's like the Office episode where it's like the tea party, and Dwight always has to say. So, like, yell somebody's name when they walk in.

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah, pretty much. It was such a funny moment because literally the day before, I looked at Tim and I was looking at, like, the Jennifer Hudson spirit tunnel thing, and I looked at him, I was like, if you were on the show, how would you do? Because I wouldn't do well. Like, I would not do well.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I also said I. No, it would not be well. I was like, I would be very me. I'd be very, like. And what did I do, guys? Exactly that. And what did I do? Not well. Please stop.

[Greg Miller]

Please.

[Tim Gettys]

The. The. The funny thing to me in my brain for what was happening because we were trying to figure out where to go for lunch. And before we walked through the first time, I think they just caught a glimpse of us and started clapping immediately. And I knew that wasn't the right way to lunch, but I couldn't stop us because I was like, well this is like in my mind I'm like, we're supposed to go that way, but they're clapping. So I guess we're just gonna walk and keep going and see what happens.

[Greg Miller]

I wanna hear about Donkey Kong, I wanna hear about lunch, and I wanna hear about the rest of the games you played. But first I wanna tell you about the kinda funny membership. $10 a month gets you more than 80 episodes ad free of our content, plus a daily dose of me and a podcast I do in my car called Greg Way. It's also a video Don. You can pick up the membership on YouTube.com kindafunnygames patreon.com kinda funny of course, Apple and Spotify. But right now you are not using your membership benefits. So here's a word from our sponsor.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

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[Tim Gettys]

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[Greg Miller]

And we're back. One thing I have a question for you all about is this. What time does it open up that you can play games and then what time were they going to kick you out? Like how long were you able to mingle around this place?

[Roger Picorni]

So the direct was at 9.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Roger Picorni]

And then it ended around 10. Right after that we went to play games around 10, 15 and then they were gonna kick us out like 7pm I think.

[Tim Gettys]

7.

[Greg Miller]

Oh wow.

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah. So we had so much time. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Greg Miller]

And you know, obviously welcome Park.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

How these things go are. It's very like oh, in the beginning of like everyone like figuring out what's going on. It was like everyone's rushing like whatever. But like I'd say like maybe two hours in because like we had wristbands that were colored so we had like different levels of like just try to groups just to cycle it, make sure there wasn't too many people at once. But like once it got to the Point that every group had, like, done their, like, tour of everything. It was really kind of chill. Like, I feel like at any moment, we could have played any game we wanted towards the end of the day, which was very nice. And that meant I got to go back and play a insane amount of Mario Kart, which was awesome. And I played the Metroid demo again. It was awesome. It was very, very cool that we got that much experience with it.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

But now tell me about it. You walk into a room, you have permission to play Donkey Kong Bonanza.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Immediately, me and Roger are like, all right, we got to figure out how to record this. Let's play. Right. All right. Mic myself up again.

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah. So they take it. Sorry, they take us. It's a very long hallway. They say, hey, go all the way to the end of the hallway to the last. Right by the end exit, Right?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. And again, we're the first people. I think I was the first press person to play Donkey Kong. Yeah, for sure.

[Roger Picorni]

Absolutely. It was to the point where I texted him, and I was like, there's Donkey Kong in a secret room.

[Tim Gettys]

So I get there, I boot it up, I start playing, and, like, immediately I'm like, oh, this is. This is exactly what I want. And I knew it was what I want when I collected the first. I think they are golden bananas. Yeah. Which especially.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Did he do it?

[Greg Miller]

Do the voice again, please.

[Tim Gettys]

Because when you collect the golden banana, you then get a sound bite that says, says, oh, banana. And I'm like, let's freaking go. They're giving me the hearkening back to DK64 that I've wanted for.

[Greg Miller]

So I was laughing in my car when you did it, and Roger's like, by the. Or one of you is like, by the way, that's what the game says.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, that was just me. So I do that and, like, play through the demo again. Check out the games cast where we talk deeper about it. But I was delighted by. By the time I finished my gameplay with this. Right. It is the idea of you are. You are playing as Donkey Kong. Donkey Kong is a hulk of a beast. Right. And so they form the game all around environmental destruction to the point where you have a bunch of different surfaces that are breakable and have different properties to them.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Right.

[Tim Gettys]

And so you have, like, weak surfaces. They start you off in a cave that has, like, dirt surfaces, essentially. So I'm punching through everything.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Dirt surfaces.

[Tim Gettys]

Dirt surfaces. Yeah. So I'm punching through everything really easily. But then you. We got to a section that has like more concrete services and tougher surfaces. And like, at one point during my demo, there's like an enemy that's flying in the air. And if you press a certain button as Donkey Kong, you can pick up a rock out of the ground and throw it at an enemy. And I press the button and he doesn't do it. And then the enemy kills me. And I looked at my, the person that was demoing with me and I was like, what was the button to pick it up? Am I, am I doing something wrong? And he was like, oh, yeah, it's this. He's. And then he, he realizes, he's like, oh, you were standing on a more tough surface, so you had to hold it longer because it'll take you a second as Donkey Kong to actually like, rip that thing out the ground. And I'm like, oh, you guys are really thinking about it. He showed me a different enemy that has like concrete, a concrete surface around him. And so to explode that I had to find an explosive piece, an explosive surface to then pull and then throw at him. And so like, the destruction stuff and like the surface stuff is like a very heavy element of the game, which I think is really cool. But then also I think another thing to know, and the thing that has me doubly excited is that this game, in quite a few ways is Mario Odyssey coded just in terms of, of how plentiful the golden bananas seem like they are and how discoverable they are and the ways in which they're discoverable. Which looks like it's getting Greg's attention.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, no, this game totally has my attention, which is why it was interesting and totally valid listening to Tim talk about it. But before we jump anywhere on this track, you have a super chat about that. Thank you. So many. There's so many super chats. We're going to get into them, don't worry. But this one right here, Zach Burns Super Chats. It says to me Donkey Kong Bonanza looks more like the Luigi's Mansion 3 of DK rather than the Odyssey of DK. The font and the UI is even the same.

[Tim Gettys]

Interesting. I'm not playing Illusions Mansion 3. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Again, I mean, this goes, this goes a lot to what I was saying in my thing. I'm just like, I'm very interested by this game and I think that I, I, if at any point I'm coming off day, I say this a million times. The other thing, like, I, no, no.

[Greg Miller]

I don't think you were negative.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I think a 20 minute demo of this, it Wasn't the best first impression for me and I. I tried explaining it. It's more just like I don't like the look of Donkey Kong. It look. Looks plasticky and all that stuff.

[Greg Miller]

I mean looking at it right here. I agree with Bless. I like this wet monkey Loki.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, right.

[Roger Picorni]

That was me. I remember the quote.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But even then, now watching more of the Treehouse stuff, watching other people's gameplay experiences of this and like seeing what they did.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

People did so many different things than me. I think we touch on that. There's a lot to do here.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And I don't think any single person had had the same 20 minutes with this game. And the Odyssey stuff is very clear. I think the Luigi's mansion stuff's apt. Just in terms of like really dedicating to a. A. I don't want to call it a gimmick, a mechanic, a style of play with. With Luigi's mansion going all the way with the. The sucking and blowing. It is what it is. It does. And this is very much with the. The different levels of the. The how solid the surfaces are and how you can interact with all of them. But there's also an element of Tears of the Kingdom and Breath of the Wild. Not just in terms of like you can climb everything and all of that, but also in terms of how destructible everything is and how the physics play with each other.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I forgot to say this in our preview, but. But there was a section I got to right before you meet Cranky Kong where there is like these like things in the sky and mixing different elements, like throwing a rock at it makes it hard and then you can use it as a platform to then jump. And it's kind of like this cool mixing like physics with the. The different elements. And you know, Nintendo's been playing with that stuff a lot, mainly in the Zelda games. But I think that what we're getting from Bonanza here is kind of a nice melding of a lot of what Nintendo has learned from across their different games and using it to kind of be a celebration of Donkey Kong throughout the ages of the different generations we've seen of Donkey Kong. Both his look being more styled after the original, but then also in the direct we saw more donkey Kong Country 2D inspired levels. But then also this and the banana and Donkey Kong 64 elements, but then also just kind of like a. Hey, but also this is what a switch to. I said also 10,000 times that. What a.

[Tim Gettys]

But the switch.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What a switch to 3D platformer can be that is open.

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You know, an Odyssey style open platformer.

[Tim Gettys]

That's the thing is I, I, I see The Luigi's Mansion 3 comparison. Right. Or even I think in my brain, I thought even Kirby in the Forgotten Land. And like Tim referenced Wario Land in the, in the game Scouts that we did. I see it in those ways of that we're taking a character that we know that people know and love and finding a very specific lane for them to exist in. And I even finding, inventing a lane for them to exist in that hopefully can be innovative and fun enough to where we can make a bonanza too. Or we can like, you know, continue on with, with this trajectory for DK to like have this be essentially like its own separate franchise in a new way again. And in this, in the way that Tim's talking about redefining it for the Switch too, I also think it's smart and cool because I was impressed technically by what's going on in this game. Just as far as the amount of destruction and the different kinds of kinds of destruction that's happening.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Right.

[Tim Gettys]

It does remind me of Breath of the Wild in terms of the physics stuff. And I think that's really cool in a way to show off a different way in which the Switch 2 is powerful. Hey, it's not just the fact that Cyberpunk looks okay now playing it on a Switch too. It's the fact compared to what it would look like if you're playing on a Switch one.

[Greg Miller]

Right.

[Tim Gettys]

But it's the fact that you are breaking shit in the game in the Switch 2 is not fucking breaking as a hardware.

[Greg Miller]

Barrett, Courtney's in the bunker. What do you have to say, Barrett?

[Tim Gettys]

Donkey Kong.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

True Donkey Kong.

[Tim Gettys]

Poppy here. How dare you. I haven't been able to watch Yalls coverage. The stuff that y'all have like, actually like, sat down to record yet? I'm planning to tonight. Have you guys talked about the music at all?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So we did, and it's a couple, couple things. One, we couldn't hear shit because we're at the event. So it's like. And on top of that, literally for my demo, the music straight up, the speaker stopped working a couple times and just cut out. So it was like, ah. But I was trying to listen. I really enjoyed the music that they had in the direct itself. But I've said this in our previews, something, I don't even call it a criticism. It's an observation I have about this game. It feels very kind of House Nintendo at this point where this music doesn't seem to have its own identity. It seems like if you kind of mix the Mario Kart stuff with Mario Odyssey with Donkey Kong, like music, it's all just very, like, this is what it sounds like. And what it sounds like is very high quality. So it's not a complaint, but it's not unique. And it's not David Wise, and it's not Grant Kirkhoff. And we know that.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And that, to me, I'm like, we don't know who it is, but that's not Donkey Kong.

[Tim Gettys]

But then this is my thing, right? This is actually what I was going to drive to again, in terms of what Donkey Kong Bonanza, where Don Kong Bonanza feels like it fits in, is that this is. It's not Donkey Kong 64, right? It has references and stuff. I saw somebody post online, and, like, they referenced the leader of the bunch and shit, right? And, like, there are references back again to original DK and DK country in ways that it's like. Like, okay, cool. You guys are shouting out the people that. That. That know. That said, right? This is a Nintendo 3D Donkey Kong. This is not a rare 3D Donkey Kong, right? So, like, I. I honestly, even though. Even though I love Grant Kirkhope's music and I love David Wise's music, those are some of the best soundtracks of all time. I think it works. I'm actually happy that you don't have them coming back for this game because I think that sets expectations to a different place of what this thing is trying to be like. This is a brand new.

[Roger Picorni]

It feels like a new beginning.

[Tim Gettys]

It's a new. It's a new beginning. For sure.

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah, for sure. I mean, with the character design, this game blew me away. I'm not. Even though I am Donkey Kong poppy now. It's been. It's been said on this podcast.

[Tim Gettys]

Some of you recently have.

[Roger Picorni]

You know, man, I'm the new one. This. This game blew me away and is my game of the show or whatever event. This is the game that I. Any time everyone's like, hey, how was. How was the event? Donkey Kong. Donkey Kong is the one that I'm going to be screaming about for a very long time. And I think it is. Is the connection to Hulk's ultimate destruction. Like, it is all about the destruction of things. And also the ability to just go through anything and go around any obstacle. Right when we had at the ending, I think we showed it in the B roll. There's like a little boss monster or Whatever. To get to like the sub level that ends our demo. And we all did it and we all. That's how we got to the end of our demo. I was blown away when I was talking to the person that was doing the demo and showing it off where he was like, you don't need to do that. Like that's.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That.

[Roger Picorni]

That is like an optional way to get to the sublevel. You can go around it. There's like at least three different ways to get there. It feels very open and I was constantly finding, just going downwards and be like, okay, well I'm just going to dig down. I have time. Let me just. Let me just dig around. I would find a treasure chest. I would find a map. I would find something. A golden banana.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Right.

[Roger Picorni]

I'll find an entire new area that I didn't even know existed. This is game is. This game is going to be really perfect for me. It's going to be a nightmare for IGN guides. I'm just trying to find everything and everything. Because you can destroy strike.

[Greg Miller]

You could do it this way, but you could. All the little ad. The wiki ads.

[Roger Picorni]

Exactly. And I'm sure there's so many secrets of destroying an entire, you know, mountain. I'm sure it gets you something. Right. So it, it seems so multi layered and it was just fun to play. Right? It was just a fun. Fun to pound it out.

[Tim Gettys]

Tinker.

[Roger Picorni]

Pound it out.

[Tim Gettys]

Fun to tinker with.

[Roger Picorni]

Right.

[Tim Gettys]

Like it's one of those games where as soon as you just have the controller in your hand and you have a space to around. Yeah, you're just breaking.

[Roger Picorni]

I'm just smiling, man. This Donkey Kong, what a cool.

[Tim Gettys]

It's like the inverse of what you have with Mario where it is about jumping and like jumping off the walls and. And like climbing up trees and doing all that shit. This is break the environment and it. It gives you that toy feel which Nintendo does very well. It's that thing that you just want to play with. And so yeah, Don Kong was fun.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

One comparison I didn't make that I was kicking myself last night when I thought about it is like it breaking everything feels like Minecraft. Yeah. You're just kind of able to like fuck around with. And I say that as somebody that has had very limited experience with Minecraft. But when I do play, you're just kind of walking around. You're able to just like dig through all that stuff. And this game just does that everywhere you can go. And I thought the control scheme was very inspired of having the Jump on the right face button. But then the up, left, and down face buttons correspond to Donkey Kong breaking up left or down. It just made sense.

[Roger Picorni]

I think the thing that pulled it together for me was not only that, but also when you walk into a wall and him just climbing. It's seamless, right? It is just. It is just aggressive.

[Greg Miller]

Looks gorgeous.

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah, it's gorgeous. And it just feels. He feels heavy. He feels strong.

[Tim Gettys]

For me. It is. It reminds me of the GeoMod technology from Red Faction, except this time they actually built a game around it. Right. Like Red Faction. You didn't really have to use any of the. People have been making the joke all week. Red Faction Gorilla. Oh, that's really fucking good. I didn't hear that one. But, yeah, it's that. Except, yeah, here's a game that actually functions around that mechanic and. Yeah, I'm fucking. I cannot wait for this shit.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. As somebody who has never connected with a Donkey Kong game. You know what I mean? They've just never been my jam or whatever. Plus, not having the Nintendo nostalgia. This one, I look at, like, oh, this looks awesome. And I think part of it is the fact that it looks like the Odyssey team. And I loved Odyssey so much. But then. Yeah. The interchangeability, listening. You guys talk of, like, make it. You said at one point, like, you're making, like, concrete cuffs or whatever to Bush through this stuff. Sounds great. I want to see that exploration what it is.

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah, absolutely.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I can't wait to play more. I'm very. I'm hopeful that extended impressions will change for me.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. So after that, me and Roger came out of Donkey Kong. Oh, well.

[Roger Picorni]

Changed men.

[Greg Miller]

Changed men.

[Tim Gettys]

But there was a funny thing that happened where. Yes. So the reason why there was nobody at the Donkey Kong Bonanza stations is because they designed it to be the way out of the event.

[Greg Miller]

So now your fish. Your fish going upstream, trying to get.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Which wasn't. It wasn't really even like that.

[Greg Miller]

Right.

[Tim Gettys]

Like, we could have just gone back the hallway, gone back through the hallway. But the person that ran the demo for me was like, oh, you can grab a backpack if you want. And I was like, oh, a backpack?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Roger Picorni]

I was like, no, I don't think we need it. We're gonna be care. He's like, no, no, I need a backpack.

[Tim Gettys]

Like, okay, cool. It was mainly the thing of, like, Roger was like, oh, just get a backpack later. I was like, well, it's gonna be nice to just have something in case I want to carry things. And so I go And I'm like, hey, can I get a backpack? And they're like, yeah. And then, like, they, like, put a thing to my wristband, cut the wristband. I thought, for some reason, just not thinking through it, I thought they were, like, gonna punch a hole through it. I was like, oh, they're gonna punch a hole to see that I've already gotten a thing. Then they cut off the wristband.

[Greg Miller]

And I was like, your powers are gone.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. I was like, oh, I don't want to. I don't want to leave.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I just want to get so scared.

[Greg Miller]

I was like, I'm sorry. Once it's cut, it's cut.

[Tim Gettys]

If it was any other company, I wouldn't have been scared. Just the fact that it's Nintendo know, and it's the fact that the GDC thing happened to me just a few weeks where I couldn't get into the GDC Awards because I didn't have the right badge. Like, I was like, oh, no, I'm not gonna be able to play the rest of the games. I want to play the rest of the games.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Hilarious. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

So I was like, oh, like, I want to go back. And they're like, oh, yeah, that's fine. All right.

[Roger Picorni]

And they took away the backpack. As they're heading back. You're like, I want to keep on going. You're like, okay, yeah, I want to keep on going.

[Tim Gettys]

And they took the backpack away. And I was like, all right, cool. Now I just have a cut wristband, but it's fine. Put in my pocket. And I was like, hopefully nobody asked me questions.

[Roger Picorni]

They didn't.

[Tim Gettys]

Thankfully, nobody asked me questions because my girl T had me go get tea.

[Greg Miller]

Go get tea. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

She literally was like, if anyone gives you problems, send me tea's way.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. But then, yeah, we me and Roger make our way back upstream, go back into the big room with all the games. And then it really is like, we look at each other and we're like.

[Roger Picorni]

All right, what do we do?

[Tim Gettys]

What do we do? Let's just play games. Like, let's find the stations that are free. And so it is Tim, you know, playing his games. I think he went to Bonanza after we did, but then went and played some games.

[Roger Picorni]

You played some Street Fighter?

[Tim Gettys]

I played some Street Fighter 6. I played, like, I mean, talk about the third party stuff, right? For me, it was Street Fighter's 6 and Cyberpunk being the games. I checked out. Roger checked out Yakuza 0. My third party impressions from Street Fighter and Cyberpunk. Street Fighter 6 looks like how it kind of looks on the Steam deck, which is not. Not great, but not the worst, right? It is just Street Fighter 6 a bit. A little bit more foggier than you're used to on.

[Roger Picorni]

You're going to hear that a lot. It looks like the Steam deck looks like.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, I think that's a good thing. But like, then I played Cyberpunk 2077 and I was actually pretty blown away by how much they retained the look and style.

[Greg Miller]

Like regardless, you said it was a recommendable version, right?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, perfectly recommendable. Recommendable would be the way that I'll describe it right Where I'm playing it and when I'm looking around the environment, when I am talking to characters in dialogue, I'm like, yo. I would actually play the game this way, which is more than I would say for a lot of third party AAA Switch stuff where it is like, oh man, this is the bootleg version of Mortal Kombat. Oh man, this looks kind of fugly. No, like, like Cyberpunk looked great. It had motion blur at first and I turned off motion blur and it's like, all right, cool. This is seemingly 30 frames per second of just being it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And the game was in development for seven days.

[Roger Picorni]

They said what?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No, seven weeks. Seven weeks.

[Greg Miller]

Are they fucking gone?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Either way, it was like insane. CD Projekt Red was just like, yeah, we got this working like super, super quick.

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah. And they also said that it's 30 to 40. They're still working on it, but they're. They're hoping for a 40fps mode as well.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh really? And yeah, I like perfectly recommendable play through a. A full mission. I was like, yo, this is awesome. And yeah, that then led into Rogers. Yakuza 0 gameplay. Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

One real question I saw from there and I, I never heard it. Can you do mouse with the Cyberpunk?

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, I didn't try that. Yeah, they had a pro controller and if I asked them they would have told me to go to nintendo.com and.

[Roger Picorni]

Then yeah, I booted. Right next to it was Yakuza 0 cut, which is. Has English VO, which is new for Yakuza 0. It has some new cutscenes and it has a multiplayer mode, a 4V, something, whatever. It's just a beat em up thing with a bunch of your friends. The only new thing that I played in this was the English vo. Then the demoist was like, hey, if you really try really hard, you can get to the Majima section. If you just, if you just go really Fast. Okay, cool. And like speed. Run this thing. And like five minutes, like, I'm like, I'm there. And then it's just, thanks for playing. And I'm like, okay. So there was no Majiba area, but whatever.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I.

[Roger Picorni]

And that's where Majima is.

[Tim Gettys]

I.

[Roger Picorni]

The English video was whatever. I mean, I think it's fine. I'm not a huge fan of the voice acting for Kiryu. That's just a general complaint. But it's fine here for new players if you want to play the English stuff.

[Tim Gettys]

But is it the same voice actor for the recent. Like a dragon?

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah, exactly. I think he sounds a little too young. It works here because he is. Is younger. But still, I'm just not a huge fan of it. Besides that, the. The game does not look good. I don't think it looks great. It feels lesser than the Steam deck. They say it's 4k 60, which I don't doubt the 60fps it ran fine. But the 4k was definitely from a very. Like, it was maybe less 720p or something. It was very jaggedy. Like, everything looked like it was dlss up res in performance mode. It did not look crisp or like the way that I want Yakuza 0 of all things to run. Like, if it's cyberpunk right next to it.

[Tim Gettys]

Right.

[Roger Picorni]

Cyberpunk looked really good. It looked good. And of course it didn't look, you know, native 4K or whatever, but it looked good. It looked passable for this game. Like, this game should have looked really good. This game should have looked like the preferred version of play, Yakuza 0. And I would recommend if you have a Steam deck, just play it on there.

[Tim Gettys]

You know what did look good though?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What?

[Tim Gettys]

Breath of the Wild.

[Roger Picorni]

Tell me about it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Or did you play Tears of the Kingdom?

[Tim Gettys]

Tears, Sorry, not Breath of the Wild. Tears of the Kingdom. Nintendo Switch.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Tears of the Kingdom was one of the only games that we got to play in multiple modes. Modes. Like every demo kiosk was kind of like, this game is on TV with a pro controller. This game is on TV with Joy Cons. This one is handheld only. This. So this one was handheld. And yeah, with a pro controller.

[Tim Gettys]

And let us play like the opening section of Tears first, right. Where on the handheld we do the thing where you get out of the cave in the sky, you hop down, do that little cool title sequence, and then land in the water and then like run around for a little bit and yeah, looked fantastic. And then played some on the TV where you get to kind of choose where you want to. They had five different saves that had five different locations. And so I put myself just out in the random open world, ran around a little bit, just did random Tears of the Kingdom gameplay and I was like, I love how this looks like it was nice. Yeah, it was, it was, it was nice. And it was also one of those bummer things where like my. One of my first inklings was to jump into one of the like big holes in the ground that leads to the depths. And so I went to one and as soon as I tried, fucking demo ends. And it's like thanks for playing. I'm like, you motherfucker. Knew exactly what I wanted to do. But yeah, that was, that was definitely very impressive. As far as that jump from Switch one to Switch two.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, third party wise HADES two. It's Hades two and it's awesome. But yeah, ran flawlessly, looks beautiful. And I don't remember if I played any other third party. I don't think I did.

[Tim Gettys]

Was there any other third party stuff?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean we didn't play Hogwarts, right?

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah, we didn't play Split Fiction.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I didn't play Split Fiction.

[Tim Gettys]

I don't know if anybody.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Funny. But yeah. Then on the first party side there was a bunch of other stuff that we didn't get to talk about yet. I got to play Kirby in the forgotten land. The new star. Obviously all know how much I love that game. Getting to play more of it is very exciting to me. This is seemingly a whole new world.

[Greg Miller]

And don't you dare close your eyes.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Exactly. And it was awesome. New music, new mechanics, like new or the new abilities. At least this one you could. Yeah, like this like spring Kirby. It was super fun game. Looks amazing. It's just the same game but now it's in 4K baby. And that's really all you really need from that. But had a great experience with that. Can't wait to play it. And I like that at the end of the day we haven't talked about this much but how The Nintendo Switch 2 editions are being handled. It's kind of like best case scenario for me of most of the games get a free upgrade for just the resolution and frames per second and refresh rates and stuff like that. But then there's also going to be a handful of games that get new modes and new content. New content. I'm like, oh wow, that is. That's awesome. And we don't know full pricing details on all of it, so it might not all be the best News ever. But so far none of it is bad news in my opinion, from what we've seen. And I think that the variations we're seeing of what the modes are adding has been interesting. And I think Mario Party is probably the best example of what we actually got to play in terms of new stuff. Stuff. We played the Mario Party Jamboree TV mode.

[Tim Gettys]

It's like Bowser's TV or something like that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Something like that.

[Roger Picorni]

I think it's just Jamboree tv, I.

[Tim Gettys]

Think, is the whole package, isn't it?

[Greg Miller]

Yes, the whole package.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The plus Jamboree.

[Tim Gettys]

But we played the Bowser mode specifically.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Roger Picorni]

Plus Jamboree tv.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And yeah. So we got to play this, which was classic demo at an event situation of cameras and mics and stuff are just simply not going to work great because there's freaking red light and colored lights everywhere that are getting in the way. And there you are, we're playing this game that we're popping up on the TV in little pipes and like Roger, who was the cameraman, getting fucking picked up and they're putting him in pipes. Like it was. Yeah, it was like utter chaos. But like, I think that's kind of the point. You know, the camera didn't look great, but I think that's kind of the point.

[Greg Miller]

But it was impressive.

[Roger Picorni]

It was impressive, though, because it picked me up and I was way to the side.

[Tim Gettys]

So it's.

[Roger Picorni]

It's fov.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's a wide.

[Roger Picorni]

Huge.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And I didn't. I didn't catch this until reading up on everything. It. The. It. The USB C just allows other webcams. Yeah. So you don't need this Nintendo camera.

[Roger Picorni]

I wonder how that's gonna work.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Other cameras.

[Tim Gettys]

That's why I put my camera in there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So the hori. Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Amazing.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's awesome. But yeah, Mario Party was super fun in a dumbass, gimmicky way. You know, I don't know if this is gonna be like a long stack. I know for a fact it won't be alongside anything we do that much. But I think in for what Mario Party is like, this is a cool addition. And I do think shows off the switch in a fun way.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Talk about Dragon Drive.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We do.

[Roger Picorni]

Oh, yeah, we gotta talk about that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay, so Dragon Drive is the game. The. I would say the ARM successor in some ways of like, hey, let's really kind of like use what this system's abilities are. This being the mouse Mode and the HD Rumble 2 so 3v3 basketball game.

[Tim Gettys]

Where everybody's in like, like I don't know if they're calling them wheelchairs but essentially they're wheelchairs that you're in that you're using the mouse controls on two JoyCons to kind of push yourself forward. So you can push your two. Two wheels, you can push your right wheel to turn left, push your left wheel to turn right. And us three played together against three of the Nintendo workers that were there. And I'm curious on what your guys thoughts. Cuz off the bat I'm going to say I had a fun time with this thing. More, more of a fun time than I even expected. But I don't know if you guys.

[Roger Picorni]

I walked in expecting like a fun enough time and I walked like I'll never play that again. I did not like that time. It was. It was too frustrating to do this over and over and over. Oh yeah, I'm moving, I'm moving my hands and I. It worked well enough but it. I didn't see any use case where one, I would have a bunch of friends with me and tables in front of us and being able to do this. And two, I just wasn't having fun with the actual gameplay of it. Maybe I just not good at it. Maybe I just needed more time in it.

[Tim Gettys]

I was hooping. Yeah, that's fair.

[Roger Picorni]

I didn't have a good time.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I feel like I'm kind of in the middle of the.

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah, you were not having a good time in the beginning.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh yeah. Well, no. So here's the thing. It's funny because it's like it controls the way you'd think it does and I love that about when Nintendo things actually work right. I think that it was very, very responsive. I think that this is a great example of how good this mouse mode can be tied with HD Rumble. It felt great. It really felt like there was a physical thing that you're working with and you push both forward to go forward, you push both back to go back and then you do the. Exactly what you would think to go left or right. And it really worked well. But what Roger is talking about, my reaction was how absolutely insane how much movement there so much you to do. It should be a thing of like, yeah, push forward and you're going forward and it's not. You have to just keep going. I'm like, oh my God. I'm never going to want to play this game for more than two minutes. Like it was absolutely incredible. The expectation of physical motion they're expecting you to do here. But then when we got into the actual game, not just the tutorial part. I was kind of having fun.

[Tim Gettys]

I was having a good time again.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This reminds me of the Mario party thing. Like, I think this will be a very funny like 3v3. A kind of funny. Let's play that. We do like stream. I don't think that I'm going pro in a drag and drive, you know?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. How many times do you think you'd actually play this?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I literally think it'll only be for a stream and never again.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, exactly.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But bless. What about like you. You're higher on it. Do you see yourself?

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, I don't. I don't see myself going pro and Dragon Drive, but I do think it. When we get our hands on it on the switch to. I think it's one that I'll boot up maybe for like, maybe for a week. I. I could see myself coming back to it and being like, all right, let's see if there's a leveling system or let's see if there's like any sort of progression thing that I can chase after and like see how far I can go with it. It's one.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, sorry. Real, real quick because I forgot to mention this. Like, so you, you just do all the wheel stuff, but then when you. You throw the ball, you actually have to like do the throw.

[Roger Picorni]

That's what was good. That worked really well.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Roger Picorni]

Being able to have your hands on the table and then put them up and then immediately have the ball and hoop. That was cool.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. My one thing with this is that I. Yeah, you compare it to arms. Arms, when it came out, I believe was like a full price thing. Right. Like, Was that the $60?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

I don't. I hope they don't charge full price. This feels, at least from the demo that we played. We didn't see menus or anything. Right. We just got a tutorial and a game. But it doesn't feel like it's GM packed stuff. Like, I don't get the vibe that this is supposed to be a full fledged thing.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I get the fifteen to twenty dollar vibe from this. I can push thirty.

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Like it's more than that.

[Roger Picorni]

This is about before 40. There's no way. There's no way.

[Greg Miller]

This is.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think you're right. I think you're right.

[Tim Gettys]

I hope that's not good because I think that'll then be the death of it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Right.

[Tim Gettys]

Like even arms was the thing that was like arms I think had more issues. But I don't. If that game came out for like 20 or something. I think that now we're cooking.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, I'm saying this right now. Arms is a better video game than this.

[Tim Gettys]

I think I'm gonna have more fun with this than Arms, at least for me.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Wow.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't know.

[Tim Gettys]

But, yeah, no, I had. I had a really good time with it. I don't. We'll see how it hits when it finally comes out. I don't think it's necessarily going to be the talk of the town, but I should see it having, like. Like, a small audience that, like, fucks with it and, like, will evangelize it in the way that, like, we do Gotham City imposters or some shit like that.

[Roger Picorni]

Damn, that was a pull. And I evangelized that.

[Greg Miller]

I. We've spent so much time talking about software, I feel like we. You feel like you've been in a good spot.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. Hold on. Let me see if there's anything we're missing because. Was Elden Ring there? No, no, no Elden Ring. Yeah. We got to do the GameCube stuff. We did a full breakdown of that.

[Greg Miller]

I loved hearing the controller. Felt good.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, it's the controller, man. The controller's awesome. The gameplay experience, I'm a little bit more. More mixed on. I just. I. It's fine. I just wish they went further that. It's another bummer where they announced a bunch of stuff afterwards, like the CRT filters, and there's gonna be new modes. We didn't get to play with that stuff. And I'm like, I really would have liked to do that.

[Greg Miller]

Sure.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But, yeah, right Now, I. The GameCube stuff for me is. I'm so happy it's here. The games that they have shown off, including Mario Sunshine coming, so that's good. That game's not lost to Nintendo. Times of. If you didn't buy 3D All Stars, you're screwed. Happy it's here. Wish it was better.

[Greg Miller]

I want to talk about the hardware. I know there's a whole hardware thing up there. One of the big questions I've seen is a super chat here from Phantom's tempest. Does the Switch 2 LCD feel like a big downgrade from the oled on the switch 1? I love the OLED screen, and I'm surprised it took a step backwards. Tim, you are Mr. Screen, Mr. OLED. Yours is the opinion, I think, that speaks the loudest.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I really go as far as saying loved the screen. I think. Yes. I think that this. The screen on the Switch 2 is more than good enough. I think it's great. It's not oled. It is not. I said this in our breakdown, but every time I pick up my Switch 1 OLED edition and I boot up a game, every single time I go, ooh, in a good way, it hits me same way. When I turn on my LG OLED TV and I'm playing the game, it's like, dang, dude. Like, this looks so freaking good. And this doesn't have that, but it is. I was saying before, the PlayStation Portal screen is not OLED. And it's very impressive. The color accuracy, the black levels, all of that stuff is. Is very, very, very good. The resolution, all of that. And I, in my limited experience, feel like this is at least as good as the Portal, but I actually think with the HDR implementation that they have, and seeing it in. In Mario Kart, which is where I had the most experience with the handheld mode of this game, because I don't think that there were many handheld experiences like that.

[Tim Gettys]

And tears.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And tears. And tears. Was stunning. Like, absolutely stunning. And how fast. 120 frames per second. That's another thing. Above the Portal.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

There's just a lot of things going to this that. Yes, it's not oled. Don't expect oled. It's not. But I am very impressed with the screen, and to the point that I am. I really, really thought. And y'all, this might be crazy, but I stand by it. I internally was preparing myself to potentially play some games on my switch 1 OLED instead of the switch 2. When if I was like, I'm going on a flight and I need to play.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Or I want to play Metroid prime or whatever. It's like, maybe I'm going to stick with the Switch one just for that use case, which is a common use case for me. Sure. And with this. Absolutely not Switch one, I'm moving on.

[Roger Picorni]

And variable refresh rate, it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's huge.

[Roger Picorni]

That's huge.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Raj and bless. It looks good to you?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, it look great to me.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And 1080p as well, which is very, very big.

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah, it's. My virgin eyes look good. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Roger Picorni]

It wasn't like. It was like, oh, my gosh, this looks so much. I couldn't tell. I was like, yeah, it looks good.

[Tim Gettys]

Looks good. Yeah. I mean, I. I have a Switch oled. Right. And I love how the Switch OLED looks, but I almost view it as more of, like, a luxury thing of. Yeah. Making it pop that much more. But I think for the Switch 2, as the base hey, this. We're doing this LCD screen. This is what it is. I think it looked fantastic, especially seeing Tears of the King them.

[Greg Miller]

This is an interesting one from Gene Sandoval in a super chat. And I think it might be a little bit hard because I don't think you spent that much time with any of the handhelds, but you moved around enough.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Sorry, real quick, can I kind of stop you there? Because I. Whatever you want sticking on this here Ch11 says. I thought he was going to say he was going to mod the Switch 2 once he gets it to have an OLED screen. I think this is like the best definitive thing I can say about the quality of the Switch 2 screen there. The Takuyudon's probably going to do an OLED upgrade version of the screen. I don't think I'm going to need. Need to do it. I think that it's good enough that like, even me, like, for the upgrades and stuff. I don't think it's necessary say that.

[Tim Gettys]

Right? They're gonna release that Ocarina remake and then you're gonna. You're gonna get.

[Roger Picorni]

You're gonna do it. I don't want it.

[Tim Gettys]

You're gonna get this.

[Roger Picorni]

Wait a few months. You're gonna be like, yeah, Roger, I'm gonna do it on my second switch.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Well, second switch, that's a different conversation. That's a different conversation.

[Greg Miller]

Sand of all super chats and said, did the system feel warm playing in handheld after a while? More importantly, how good was the pizza? Bless. Happy Friday, my dudes.

[Tim Gettys]

I like the pizza a lot. Roger's a hater, though.

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah. You got ground beef on your pizza. What's wrong with Danny?

[Tim Gettys]

Pena took me to this place. I forget the name of the spot. It's right next to the Church of Scientology in New York. And like, we should swing in here too. And Danny's like, just get whatever they have out. Like, that's going to be the best stuff. And I was. And I. They didn't have just based pepperoni.

[Roger Picorni]

You could have asked. I'm sure they would have taken off.

[Tim Gettys]

The D. Pena said, get what they have out.

[Roger Picorni]

And he told you get ground beef on pizza.

[Tim Gettys]

You said, whatever was out.

[Roger Picorni]

Whatever was out, we got.

[Tim Gettys]

And I don't mind ground beef. I like ground beef and I like pepperoni. So I was like, I'm going to get ground beef, pepperoni and that here New York City.

[Roger Picorni]

And you got ground beef on your pepperoni slice.

[Tim Gettys]

He made it. Talk to him. Talk to the guy that made it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I Don't understand. Bagels were insane, man.

[Tim Gettys]

New York bagels are.

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah, they were great. They were good.

[Greg Miller]

That's the problem with New York pizza.

[Roger Picorni]

Shut the up. I'm up now.

[Greg Miller]

I go there and I get order. You went to the wrong place. You ordered the wrong thing. Also, this is just. New York pizza is great. New York bagels are great.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

He was great.

[Roger Picorni]

He liked it. He liked it. I'm just.

[Greg Miller]

I'm just saying it was fine, actually, is what he said there.

[Tim Gettys]

The pizza. I love the pizza.

[Greg Miller]

Tundra boy has a question specifically about Mario Kart.

[Tim Gettys]

I think we skipped the other part. Yeah.

[Roger Picorni]

Was the other.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, did it get hot? Was the handheld hot?

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, we didn't hold it for that long.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's my thing, is. No, in my experience, it didn't. We also did not get to play it that long. And the majority of the time we did play it was tethered to, like, it was insanely tethered, which sucked because it made it very heavy. So our first interaction holding the thing was not accurate to the real experience of it. Later, when we got to actually just hold just the switch, but it wasn't playing anything. Like, when we actually got to naked hold the switch, too, it was off. So it was. But it was like. That felt, I'd say, exactly like the switch one pretty much in every way. It feels like holding the switch one in terms of quality, buttons, all of it. Like, the buttons feel exactly the same as switch one. Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

That's what you guys are saying.

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

I have more super chats to run through before we get out of here, if that's good. If you guys have said the majority of what you want to say.

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah, I just want to go off of that. My biggest disappointment with the actual holding of the console, the way it feels. I needed real triggers. It is. It is such a disappointment that this is the console, that generation for Nintendo, that we're going to get real Call of Duty games on it, and we just don't have a real trigger and we. That just sucks.

[Greg Miller]

Tim's going to buy third party after third party.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I hate that that's the case. Man, I was so excited.

[Roger Picorni]

Feels so good. I want these. I want these to be the ones that I play with, but, man, I need a trigger.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's the problem. My eternal struggle remains eternal. Like, I feel like we are still going to have to make concessions between having the best rumble and having actual controllers that feel good and buttons that feel good. It's rough.

[Greg Miller]

Let me bring in a question and answer but then kick it back to you for a question from me. Kayla writes in and says, has there been any talk about backwards compatibility with Switch 1 Pro controllers or even the GameCube controller adapter? Yes. Switch 1 Pro controllers work. They're doing that GameCube adapter, I assume.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I didn't see that on the checklist one way or another. I assume that it will work work, though, because those are just usb.

[Greg Miller]

So then my question coming back around then is your use, your time with the Pro Controller 2. Did you go like, oh, I would I need to buy this? Or are you gonna be fine with Pro Controller ones?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You'll be totally fine with Pro Controller 1. Like, absolutely, I'm buying Pro Controller 2. But I like. I like the new things, and it feels. The Pro Controller 2 feels. Feels substantially different than the Pro Controller 1. I don't think that the. The buttons or anything are better or whatever. It's just. There's, like a silky finish to it. Very, very, very nice.

[Tim Gettys]

I like it.

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah, I'm not getting it, at least at launch. I. I'll wait a little bit. I'm.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm getting it. Unless they. They charge, like, $150 or something for it.

[Roger Picorni]

How much is it? Did they put it?

[Greg Miller]

It's already been announced1. It was cheaper than Joycon. So it's the $81 then. I think that would make sense. Joy Cons are 90. The Pro Controller is 80. Correct me if I'm wrong. We'll see what happens.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

These tariffs now, I think it's an $80 controller. Like it? There's definitely. It's good. But having said that, like, I'm sticking with my dual sense, even on Switch.

[Greg Miller]

Cool. Tundra boy is a question that I know we all had floating around out here anywhere on 200cc for Mario Kart World, it's hard to go back to the sluggish 150.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No. And, man, let me tell you, I realized this week that I haven't played Mario kart at under 150 ever. So it was. It felt slow, and I thought it was 50, and it was 100, and I can't wait for 150. But no, no, we're in 200, okay?

[Tim Gettys]

I'm about to be roll upset if there's no 200. Real upset.

[Greg Miller]

Play like a normal person, you psychos. You know what I mean?

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, you get better.

[Greg Miller]

There's a lot of jokes about.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Also, sorry. Pro Controller. The embedded paddle buttons.

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, yeah.

[Greg Miller]

The back paddles. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Awesome. Love them. They feel good. They're where I want them to be and they're not intrusive.

[Roger Picorni]

Yeah, none of them were programmed to any of the demos that we played. At least I tried pressing them work.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But I also will say and I know I'm not alone in this, there's something about the, the fidget nature of having them where since back in the day, even with like PS2, like when we're just in the middle of something, I'd hit L3 and R3 just click, click, click. Just like in between things just cuz I like having something to do and I often find with Steam Deck or with a lot of different controllers I use, I might not even be using the paddles for actual gameplay elements. Just kind of clicking them and these are very, very good for, for that.

[Greg Miller]

Okay, good. A little fidget spinners.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, exactly.

[Greg Miller]

Final question from the chat. Super chat over here comes from Riley21 who says just congratulations to the team for an amazing week of coverage. Definitely hype and terrified of the future of the Switch.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Hell yeah.

[Greg Miller]

You guys kill it out there. Is there any usually we make fun of on the way back. Did anybody do something stupid? Did Roger get slapped on a plane?

[Roger Picorni]

No, someone was kicking the back of my chair and I was like I, I. This might be the second moment. What if I get slapped? If I get slapped on a plane with Tim, they might be like oh shit, he deserved it. You know what I mean? Like so I can't get slapped against him.

[Tim Gettys]

We see a car upside down.

[Roger Picorni]

Oh yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Can you send that?

[Roger Picorni]

Fuck yeah. Yeah, let me see if I can get it.

[Greg Miller]

I can start doing you. Look, I'll start doing the outro. Remember everybody that this has been the kind of funny games cast. Each and every weekday we come to you with the biggest topics in video games. Whether they be previews, reviews or things we need to talk about. If you like that, of course. Get the kind of Funny membership. Remember we're a live talk show network. You get multiple shows each and every day. You already got games daily, of course talking about the tariffs. You already got this, talking about that. You got Snowbike Mike doing whatever the hell he's doing as they get ready to drop into Verdansk. That doesn't happen without your support. Kind of funny YouTube.com kind of funny games Apple and Spotify. Nick's this is a note is a post it note that I've been handed. It says it's time for for dance. Stop talking about Nintendo. Nick. We are done. Everybody calm down. Of course. Thank you for your support remember like subscribe share YouTube.com kind of funn twitch tv kindafunny games YouTube I already went through it all remember if you are watching on YouTube there won't be a verdance stream instead it will be it's a twitch exclusive since they're going long Chris Anka is here, they're dropping and you are looking at a car flipped upside down on the highway.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

How does that even happen?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Dude, we don't know. It was crazy to see that. It seemed like everyone was okay. Yeah everyone was fine but man be.

[Tim Gettys]

Careful out there Careful out there New.

[Roger Picorni]

York be wildman Everybody get ready for.

[Greg Miller]

A huge call of Duty warzone stream as Chris Anka regrets his decision to come visit us in San Francisco. If you're a YouTube person you can catch it later. If you're listening on podcast service go check out that YouTube VOD and until next time, no it's been our pleasure to serve.