FINAL Nintendo Switch Direct Breakdown and Analysis - Kinda Funny Gamescast

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Podcast Information:

• Title: Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast
• Host/Author: Kinda Funny
• Episode: FINAL Nintendo Switch Direct Breakdown and Analysis - Kinda Funny Gamescast
• Release Date: March 27, 2025

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Introduction

In this episode, host Tim Gettys is joined by Blessing Adeoye Jr., Andy Cortez, and Greg “GameOverGreggy” Miller to dissect the final Nintendo Switch Direct. The team provides a thorough analysis of the announcements, discussing their implications for existing and upcoming platforms, particularly the anticipated Nintendo Switch 2.

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Overall Impressions of the Nintendo Switch Direct

The hosts begin by sharing their initial reactions to the Direct, noting a mix of expected and surprising announcements. Andy Cortez comments at [03:08], "This direct very, very much felt like Nintendo's holding the big guns for the next thing," indicating a cautious optimism about Nintendo's future plans. Greg Miller adds at [06:00], "It's the result of it all... a bunch of games that look interesting and stuff that might want to play," highlighting the diverse range of announcements catering to varied audiences.

Tim Gettys appreciates Nintendo's focus on remastered collections, stating at [07:05], "It's nice to see them back... collections that I think are good," while also expressing excitement for new titles like "Eternal Life of Goldman."

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Key Game Announcements

1. Patapon 1 and 2 Remasters

   • Blessing Adeoye Jr. [22:51]: "It's awesome they're here... how much I love Patapon."
   • The announcement of Patapon 1 and 2 remastered aligns with Nostalgia and excitement among fans. Blessing expresses enthusiasm, especially about introducing these titles to a new audience.

2. Witchbrook

   • Andy Cortez [03:08]: "Witchbrook is a big one. That’s a game that I know a lot of Stardew Valley fans have been looking forward to."
   • The team discusses Witchbrook's long-awaited presence, emphasizing its significance for fans of similar genres.

3. Metroid Prime 4

   • Greg Miller [37:50]: "We'll see."
   • Andy Cortez [33:07]: "For me, this looks like more Metroid Prime, and that is the best case scenario."
   • There's a deep dive into the expectations for Metroid Prime 4, balancing nostalgia with concerns over whether it will live up to its predecessors.

4. Marvel Cosmic Invasion

   • Greg Miller [55:50]: "They just have the best art style... I love the way the characters look."
   • The announcement of Marvel Cosmic Invasion excites the group, especially due to its homage to 90s Marvel comics and inclusion of beloved characters like Wolverine and Spider-Man.

5. Virtual Game Card Feature

   • Greg Miller [51:02]: "It's very weird because, again, you own multiple switches... but I'm pretty confused about this."
   • The introduction of the Virtual Game Card system sparks discussion about its practicality and potential DRM implications, with mixed feelings among the hosts.

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Metroid Prime 4 Discussion

A significant portion of the podcast focuses on Metroid Prime 4. Andy Cortez shares his optimism, hoping it maintains the series' high standards while also expressing skepticism about its release timing. Tim Gettys notes improvements in scanning mechanics and psychic abilities, adding depth to gameplay. The conversation reflects a balance between excitement and cautious anticipation, recognizing the challenge of surpassing a beloved legacy.

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Marvel Cosmic Invasion

Marvel Cosmic Invasion garners significant excitement, especially for fans of Marvel superheroes. The hosts praise the game's nostalgic 90s comic book aesthetic and the inclusion of characters like Storm and Nova. Greg Miller lauds the unique art style, saying, "They just have the best art style... I love the way the characters look." This announcement stands out as a favorite among the hosts, indicating strong potential for fan engagement.

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Virtual Game Card Feature

The new Virtual Game Card system introduced by Nintendo leads to confusion and skepticism. Greg Miller expresses uncertainty about its execution, questioning whether it will genuinely enhance the user experience or complicate game sharing among family members. Tim Gettys discusses potential DRM implications and how it might affect game sharing, leaning towards the latter.

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Other Announcements

Several other games and remasters were announced, each sparking different levels of interest and excitement:

• Dragon Warrior 12 HD 2D: Releasing in 2025, this announcement appeals to long-time fans of the series.
• Radar Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army: Launching June 19th, it continues Atlas Games' trend of reviving older titles.
• Shadow Labyrinth (Pac-Man Game): Set for July 18th, though with mixed visual expectations.
• Stories of Seasons: Grand Bazaar: Launching August 27th, it promises to bring fresh content to the popular farming sim series.
• Gradius Origins: Coming August 7th, including a new entry and classic titles like Salamander 3.
• Rift of the Necro Dancer: Featuring Celeste music tracks, which boosts Tim's interest in rhythm-based games.
• Rhythm Heaven Groove: Making a comeback, despite concerns over early announcement timing.
• Tomodachi Life Remake: Slated for 2026, marking the first new entry in over a decade.
• Monument Valley 1 to 3: HD remasters expected to release throughout the year.

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Final Thoughts and Conclusions

The hosts conclude by reflecting on the Nintendo Switch Direct's strengths and weaknesses. Blessing Adeoye Jr. states, "It's for the Switch 2... we don't want to call it," encapsulating a blend of hope and skepticism towards Nintendo's strategic moves. Tim Gettys wraps up by expressing ongoing excitement despite reservations: "We still have games daily... it's a great day of content."

They also engage with fan interactions through super chats, highlighting community engagement and further emphasizing the podcast's interactive nature. The episode ends with an invitation for listeners to continue enjoying Kinda Funny's various shows and content offerings.

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Notable Quotes:

• Andy Cortez [03:08]: "This doesn't look like it's trying to buck what Metroid prime is. It just looks like more of it."
• Greg Miller [06:00]: "We have what we expected, a bunch of games that look interesting and stuff that might want to play."
• Tim Gettys [07:05]: "It's nice to see them back... collections that I think are good."
• Blessing Adeoye Jr. [22:51]: "It's awesome they're here... how much I love Patapon."
• Greg Miller [37:50]: "We'll see," regarding Metroid Prime 4 expectations.
• Tim Gettys [35:12]: "Every single thing they've shown off in this trailer is working for me."
• Greg Miller [55:50]: "They just have the best art style... I love the way the characters look."
• Barrett Courtney [63:00]: "It's the first new entry in over 10 years."

(Timestamps are approximate and correspond to key moments in the transcript.)

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This comprehensive summary captures the essence of the "FINAL Nintendo Switch Direct Breakdown and Analysis" episode of Kinda Funny Gamescast. It highlights the hosts' evaluations of the announcements, their excitement and concerns, and provides insightful commentary on Nintendo's strategic direction moving forward.

Transcript

[Tim Gettys]

This episode is brought to you by Universal Pictures. From Universal Pictures in Blumhouse, come a storm of terror.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

From the director of the shallows. The woman in the Yard. Don't let her in.

[Tim Gettys]

Where does she come from? What does she want?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

When will she leave?

[Tim Gettys]

Today's the day. The Woman in the Yard only in theaters March 28th. What's up? And welcome back to the Kind of Funny Games cast for Thursday, March 27, 2025. Of course. I'm your host, Tim Gettys. I am joined today by blessing. Adio. Yeah, Junior.

[Andy Cortez]

Good day.

[Tim Gettys]

Tim and Andy Cortez, Tamagotchi. Tamagochi. We learned something today. Or did we just hear someone say something wrong a couple times? We got to get to the bottom of this.

[Greg Miller]

We know how Nintendo is. Nintendo has the most stringent fucking. Like, if you do something wrong, you will never, ever play a Nintendo game ever again. You know what I mean? There's no way they would let that go out.

[Tim Gettys]

I don't know.

[Greg Miller]

They have respect, thinking that it was incorrect.

[Tim Gettys]

You know, they ended the show with tomodachi. Like, tomodochi life. I don't even know how to say it. You know what I mean?

[Andy Cortez]

I think that was tomodachi.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Well, right now, I'm looking up Tamagotchi. Enunciation. I can't figure out how to spell enunciation.

[Greg Miller]

Pronunciation.

[Andy Cortez]

Pronunciation isn't. Oh, you're right. Pronunciation.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, it says gotcha. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Ga. Yeah. So we're right. You're wrong. Nintendo.

[Greg Miller]

Yep.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Take that. Well, everyone, we just. What the hell was that?

[Andy Cortez]

Sorry, that's my volume.

[Tim Gettys]

Tamagotchi. Yeah, There we go. There we go. Tamagotchi, everybody. Well, welcome to the Gamescast. We're about to break down the final Nintendo Switch 1 Direct that we just watched. We're going to talk about every single thing we saw, what we thought about the showcase overall and what we think it might mean for the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct that's coming in just a few, few short days. Of course, this is the games cast. Each and every weekday, we get together to talk about the latest in reviews, previews, video games in general. If there's a big topic we should be talking about, guess what? We probably are. And it's only one of the shows we do. We also do Games Daily that covers all the biggest news of the day. And then we also do a flurry of other shows, like In Review, where we rank, review, and recap different movie franchises. Right now we're doing the Alien and Predator movies. And later today, we are doing Aliens vs. Predator Requiem. Can't wait to talk about that with the boys to see where we rank it against the other amazing and horrible films in these franchises. Of course you can be part of this show by super chatting in. If you have any thoughts on what we saw, disappointment, hype, whatever it is, please super chat in and we'll get to those throughout the show. Of course you can get the kind of funny membership it gets you. The show's ad free. You get the Greg Way awesome stuff. You can also be a Patreon producer like Delady Twining, Carl Jacobs and Omega Buster. Today we are brought to you by Stash. We'll tell you about that later. For. For now, let's get into it. The topic of the show. So we're here. We just watched the final Nintendo direct. Bless. How you feeling?

[Andy Cortez]

It was a direct. You know, we talked about this for the last year. The Four Horsemen, the games that are announced and the games that come out which feel like they're signaling the end of the Switch and feel like they're a result of how late we are into this generation, right? And like that feeling of, oh, Nintendo's holding the big guns for the next thing and so don't expect anything big. And like this direct very, very much felt like that. I think when, when you get a direct surprise announced for the week before The Nintendo Switch 2 Direct, you know what you're, you know what, what you're getting into, you know what's going to be par for the course. And so like we go through this and I look down at the announcements and I'm like, okay, yes, this makes sense. Even though there are surprises here that are delightful, I think Patapon being announced for Switch is delightful just because it's such an unexpected thing. And I think what that signals for the future of PlayStation, especially when we lump in everybody's golf into there. There's a conversation we had as far as, oh wait, if everybody's golf in Patapon can come to Switch just out of NowHere. Developed by Bnight Amco for some reason. Like, what else can that mean? I think there's a conversation that we'll have later about that. But then you get other neat games. Witchbrook is a big one. That's a game that I know a lot of Stardew Valley fans have been looking forward to. I think we asked Joey about that. Joey's going to like, you know, go crazy over how like, you know, Witchbrook is one of those games that has felt like it's Been in development forever. I had a friend text me this morning that was like, oh, there's a game that's. That was announced. I'm not gonna spoil it for you, but I've been waiting for this game since 2017. And I thought I was like, oh, did they announce Hollow Knight? Silksong? And then, you know, seeing which Brook, I was like, that makes sense. Actually, that makes sense that that is.

[Greg Miller]

The one that's been development since 2017.

[Andy Cortez]

That'S been developed for a long time. I think they said they're waiting for it since 2017. So I don't know if that's just like, since Stardew Valley or if it really has been since that long since they announced it.

[Greg Miller]

That's cool.

[Andy Cortez]

But then you have other bizarre things. The virtual game card thing. We're going to talk about that. I think it's weird in how they presented it, and I still don't think I fully understand what it is. But, you know, I'm. I'm excited to talk to you guys about that. But overall, like, there's a lot of stuff here where I'm like, I really just don't care about a lot of these games. But also not everything's going to be for me.

[Tim Gettys]

Right.

[Andy Cortez]

I think the pocket of games that are for me, I'm excited about, even though most of the stuff here doesn't really do it for me. What's up, Barrett?

[Barrett Courtney]

Was there any Wind Waker today?

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, no, there was.

[Barrett Courtney]

Was there any Twilight Princess today?

[Andy Cortez]

I owe you a fucking pizza donut.

[Barrett Courtney]

You owe me a pizza today.

[Andy Cortez]

Bless.

[Greg Miller]

Pizza.

[Andy Cortez]

Wow.

[Tim Gettys]

Well, I'll say.

[Andy Cortez]

That's another thing is we got to have a conversation about the things that weren't here. Because that's going to be such a fascinating. What does that mean for the future? Because yeah, there was no. There was no Zelda, but also I'm wearing my Donkey Kong shirt, my DK64 shirt. There was no Switch Online stuff here, which makes me think, oh, why are we going to get more Switch Online stuff at the Switch 2 presentation? And what form does that take?

[Barrett Courtney]

We saved that for the meal, not the appetizer.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, Donkey Kong 64.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, baby. Fair enough.

[Greg Miller]

They're shutting it all down for switch online 2. They're getting rid of everything else. What.

[Tim Gettys]

What do you think of this?

[Greg Miller]

I thought it was. I thought it was. Okay. We. We got what we expected. This was like. If I were to average out every of every other direct we've ever watched and boil it down to, like, this would Be the. This would what will come out of the lab. This is the result of it all. Right. A bunch of, you know, a couple of games that look interesting and stuff that might. I might want to play and a lot of other things that I have no interest in, but there's clearly a fan base for because they're always pushing games like that. I thought which book, which Brook looked neat. Secret Life of Walter Schmitty or whatever.

[Tim Gettys]

Goldman.

[Greg Miller]

Eternal Life of Goldman. That's the one. Cool look at Metroid. Hadn't seen Metroid in a while, right? This is the second time we've seen actual Metroid gameplay. Really, really neat. Seeing what they're cooking out over there. And then of course that awesome scene at the end with the new suit. Very cool looking. But yeah, just some weird stuff with the. With the game cartridges along with this little app that I can't wait to talk more about. Tim, what'd you think?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, I mean I kind of. Kind of where you guys are. I think maybe at the end of the day, maybe a little higher. Just because I appreciate. I appreciate that Nintendo directs in the last couple maybe like year or two have made space for collections of old games, like the. The grattiest thing and stuff like that. Like recently we got the Marvel vs. Capcom collection, the fighting collections. Like they just keep putting out these collections that I think are. Are good. And like I'm such a fan of those old things, so it's nice to see them back. The amount of HD remasters of classic JRPGs, like, we're somehow not done with that yet. You know what I mean? Frontier 2 remaster, I appreciate that they're like, hey, we're gonna do them all. You know what I mean? And I. They're clearly like any saying is an audience for those. So I think that stuff's great. But on top of that, there was multiple announcements here that I'm excited about. Like Eternal Life of Goldman. Like first time I've seen that. Really hyped for that. Now everybody's golf and pat upon. Like that's kind of big deal stuff just in terms of the inside baseball. Like what's that mean? And like it gets me so excited for some PlayStation IP that I would have never would have thought would ever come back in any way. But now it's like, all right, cool. Well, if you open up to that level of an install base for weird games and Nintendo Patapon could be a Nintendo game, you know what I mean? Right. So I think that that's cool. I do think It's a little weird that Nintendo seemed to almost tit for tat. Have like a call and response for games is like, cool. Pat upon is in this direct.

[Greg Miller]

Also rhythm heaven. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

You know what I mean? And it's like Tamagotchi. We also got Tama Doi. Whatever. It's like, all right, that's. That's interesting. See, Metroid prime, it looks amazing. Like, this looks. There was a long time I was like, wow, Metroid Prime. Before we knew what it was. It's like, it is going to be something totally different. And then when it became clear Metroid Prime 4 is going to be Metroid Prime 4, I look at this, I'm like, thank God they're about to nail Metroid Prime 4. You know, I couldn't.

[Andy Cortez]

I mean, Metroid Prime, Right. I played for the first time with the remaster that came out a couple years ago. And I look at that and I look at this and I'm like, these look like the exact same game in the. In the best way.

[Tim Gettys]

Right.

[Andy Cortez]

Like, Obviously, Metroid Prime 4 has its own things that it's doing. Psychic abilities. We'll talk about that shit. Right? But, yeah, I look at that and I'm like, that looks like the thing I just played. And that's all I want.

[Greg Miller]

Are you still surprised with no date?

[Tim Gettys]

Yes. I'm incredibly surprised. Like, that's the thing. That's why it's like, I'm not like, I don't love this direct by any means. I don't even think that this. I'd say that this was good. I don't think that it was bad, and I think it's a little better than fine. I do struggle a little bit because, like, I feel like I'm always looking for the answers and to the questions you're asking. It's time for a prime release date and. And maybe we get that in a couple days. But seeing it here before then, I feel a little weird about it. Just kind of seems like maybe an oversaturation.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm surprised because one of the things I predicted was that we would get maybe a little taste of Metroid Prime 4 here, and then they would say, look Forward to the SwitchTube Direct for even more about Metroid Prime 4. Because if Metroid Prime 4 is coming out on the Switch to Release Day, then it makes sense of why you don't say it here. But then if you're going to have it here and not do the baton pass the Switch two direction, I just think that's weird.

[Tim Gettys]

Yep. And I think, you know, it's very likely that it is a launch title for the Switch. So all that makes sense. But it's just watching this direct little disappointing, I would say. Even though game looks great to me. Pokemon Za, the. The Royal Tournament. I'm like, that's kind of what I want from a game like that. I think the nighttime stuff looks way better than the daytime stuff. Not like it's a pretty game by any means, but it's like, I think it looks better.

[Andy Cortez]

It looks fun.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, it looks fun, which is great. And then. Yeah, I just think that overall there was a. The Marvel game popping off of that dot. Emu have really been crushing it and they just continue to with Ninja Gaiden. Then there was that game Absolum that I previewed a couple weeks ago. That is a new IP from them and it was. Is awesome. Had a great time with that. Yeah. Looking at this, I'm like, this is cool. And as such a big Marvel fan, I love that they're like, all right, cool. We could just go with the straight up old school. We're bringing the X Men back or whatever. I like they're going cosmic. I like that they're like, hey, people understand these characters in a different way nowadays. Let's like get a little bit more weird and have like some of the main characters be like Marvel Captain Marvel characters. It's not a Nova Nova, so that's kind of cool. But also still have Storm, which is badass. But super stoked for this. So I can't be mad at a showcase that introduces a game like this. But on the Nintendo side, like the business Nintendo side, not one, but two bizarre ass announcements. Like the. Just the way they presented the digital game stuff is weird. I want more info on that because that has to be a good thing. This has to be a step up from what we had. They just didn't make me believe that from how they showed it. Right.

[Greg Miller]

They didn't present it well. Yeah, the message was really not executed well.

[Tim Gettys]

And then the Nintendo Today thing, having Miyamoto come out for that, like that is a WND in the like, oh, wow, this feels like 2013 Nintendo. When things.

[Barrett Courtney]

When I watched that live at first, my first instinct was same as Andy's of like, oh, it's got to be a park thing. Like maybe something we don't know yet. And then I went to what you.

[Andy Cortez]

Said at one point of like, oh.

[Barrett Courtney]

Super Mario Brothers 2. And like the complete left turn again. Yet bringing him out for that is. So why are we ending on this.

[Greg Miller]

This is so weird, but it feels so right.

[Barrett Courtney]

It feels so right for the final Nintendo Switch 1 Direct. It felt.

[Andy Cortez]

And that's the funny thing is I thought it was going to be like, like a, hey, this is the end of Nintendo Switch 1. You know, focus directs or something like that.

[Greg Miller]

Right.

[Andy Cortez]

Of, hey, this is an ushering into the next generation of Switch. Even if it was just that, I would have been like, oh, that's fun. Like, great that they brought Miyamoto in for. In for it. The him coming out for this I think is, yeah, weird. But also I do wonder if we are downplaying what they're trying to do with it. Tim, you know better than anybody, like the smash. Like it was the smash Brawl era where they had like a new smash announcement every single day. Maybe they're trying to recreate that for the Switch 2 and use this as a really big marketing push of, hey, there is news to look forward to every single day after the Switch. To direct about the Switch 2.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, they literally said like, hey, we're going to like put out information about Switch 2 after that. Which I do think is exciting. The idea of Pikmin 4 comics, there's a lot of potential here. We'll just see how far they take it. And six months ago or whatever, they put out the Nintendo music app and I think that that also has a lot of potential. And so far I wouldn't say it was a failure, but it also isn't succeeding as much as it can. Like, they keep making weird decisions. They put out Kirby in the Forgotten Land soundtrack a couple days ago, but they only put 23 songs from it. And we're like, hey, the other songs are coming later. And it's like you're drip feeding half of a soundtrack. Like, what are we talking about here?

[Greg Miller]

I will be setting an alarmo alarm.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

To check the.

[Andy Cortez]

Do you guys also think that this is probably just future proofing for Twitter? Because, like, Twitter is already a place where it is.

[Greg Miller]

That's a great point.

[Andy Cortez]

That's the Nazi app. Like, that's like the, you know, Elon Musk is doing his best to, you know, that place up. Maybe this is a thing of. Oh, man, we've been relying on Twitter for so long for a lot of our social media interaction. Let's have a place that we can own, that we know if every other social media platform goes down, this is still the central place to go for Nintendo news.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, I just don't see it working. Like, to me, I feel like, like that's all a great idea and that's awesome. Even just looking at Nintendo's like social media presence, like, they're very bizarre and just like Nintendo, there's no rules, but like the amount of times they've promoted Donkey Kong Country Returns HD in the last like four months, they promoted this game more than they promoted any game ever. And it's like kind of weird. It almost feels like a very tone deaf type of thing. And I, I understand people's jobs to promote the games. It's weird when you like go look at Nintendo of America's Twitter and just scroll back the last couple months and tell me it's not weird. I just feel like it doesn't really give you what you're looking for. But I love Donkey Kong. I love it. I just think it's weird. So I don't really have faith that, oh, we're gonna get interesting content every day. I guess that's, that's what I'm saying. But more than that, spreading it across a bunch of apps is not a good idea. Like if this was embedded into a Nintendo Switch online situation where there was one app that got you all these features that connected with your games and it got you these social features, a Miiverse, if you will. Like, I think that there's like levels there that could be cool, this just being a Nintendo news app that might have some comics for a bit until they decide it's not worth it anymore. Yeah, I, I just don't know. I hope I'm wrong. I hope it's awesome, this exciting news coming out. But the thing that worked so well about Smash is it was a single game with a like, single understanding of like what would make the fans excited if you're. And they would drop like a new stage in the background, there'd be like a picture of an item we hadn't seen and people lose their minds if they do that. And it's a screenshot of Donkey Kong Country Returns HD and people are just like, like, you could jump. You know what I mean? It's like, oh. And that's what I think it's going to be.

[Greg Miller]

Man, I think it would be so sick if for switched. Well, it won't be oled, so that sucks. But like, you know, you know with oled, when OLED is first introduced on handheld products or whatever, they have like the night mode where you just like leave your phone docked or whatever and it's, you only see like info that lights up and not the whole screen is lighting up. Or whatever. But if this whole news app was implemented an OLED device, obviously the Switch 1 is has an OLED vary variants of it. But it would be so cool to like wake up and on that app you get the first news blast that like there's a direct coming tomorrow and you're like oh this, this came here before Twitter or before you know, any other sort of news outlet. They put it here first.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

If you start putting news there first then people will know to check that first.

[Tim Gettys]

I just don't think they will. But I, I, you're right though.

[Greg Miller]

I think they, I think they will because this, because it's way more important than like checking a soundtrack. Right. Like I, that's such a different element. And I think if you condition the audience to know this app is going to be the place where we're putting first unless they just move everything to 4chan, you know, let's go all in.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, very, very interesting stuff. But let's get into the thing by thing, game by game conversation here. Starting off with kind of some back to back Japan classics here with The Dragon Warrior 12 HD 2D come in 2025.

[Andy Cortez]

Dragon Warrior. Fancy guy over here, huh? Don't want to call it Dragon Quest.

[Tim Gettys]

I it up every growing up reading goddamn magazine. You get it?

[Andy Cortez]

You're all cool.

[Tim Gettys]

It was. No, no I'm not. I, I am so ignorant of this franchise and I apologize and people call me out about it all the damn time. But yeah, this is cool. I'm happy it's happening. But this is another example of like no new info here. Right. Like we already knew that these games would come in 2025 so yeah, it still looks good. Yeah. Then we had the, the I saw files.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

No sleep for date and did you notice a super chat from the person I called out Jace, who was saying yes, bless. That is the same the developer from 999.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh okay. I got that right. Holy.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, if you look at the super chat they call out the name of the director. I, I didn't see the exact name but it was the director.

[Tim Gettys]

Jace says PSA play the Somnium files. It's a goated series. Yes, bless. Same guy behind 999 Uchikoshi. Don't miss.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. As far as I understand these are games that Sickles love. So if you're a sicko, like yeah, check out Somnium files. Check out 999. These are games honestly where if I had all the time in the world, I'll for sure check them.

[Tim Gettys]

Out.

[Andy Cortez]

Because the way people talk about, I'm like, oh, that sounds fascinating. That sounds really cool. So if you want some deep shit.

[Tim Gettys]

Then we had Radar remastered. The Mystery of the soulless army coming June 19th. This is one of them Atlas Games. Barrett Bless.

[Barrett Courtney]

Never heard of this, but it looks neat. I like that Atlas continues to kind of look back at their, their older stuff and, you know, bring it to newer audiences. Andy, hey, this is, this is the one for you. Because it's not turn based.

[Tim Gettys]

So, you know, this is the one for you.

[Andy Cortez]

You think it's the one for you to play.

[Barrett Courtney]

You, you, you just hate turn based so much.

[Greg Miller]

Finally in.

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Next up we have the Shadow Labyrinth, which is the, the Pac man game. We finally get a date here, July 18th. I'm excited about this, but I gotta be honest, I was a lot more excited seeing at the Game Awards, like, seeing a little bit more of like the gameplay just happening here. I'm like, ah, I don't think this is going to be as good as it possibly could have been. And again, I know that I am being very hopeful of wanting this to be cool.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I, I really like the idea. It's. I, I like how bizarre this has been as a rollout, right? Because it got that episode in Secret level that was, you know, based on Pac Man. But then you watch and you're like, oh, this is a weird take on Pac Man. And we get this announcement, we're like, oh, all right. I guess the, you know, the episode take is way more about this than it is about the, you know, the core Pac man thing. I think that's lovely. I love that kind of order, order of operations. I look at this, I feel you're saying, as far as it, this doesn't look as, I guess, high budget as you'd want it to look. But I still, I'm still very intrigued and I still, this, to me still looks fun. This looks like it's, it's a game that I'll get lost in. Right? Like, have they talked about it being, have they said Metroidvania or have they talked about deeper? About, like.

[Tim Gettys]

No, but I mean, it clearly looks like a Metroidvania with like Mega man influences to an extent. Like the more action side of things.

[Andy Cortez]

This, this one is one that I think could surprise people if they get the gameplay down. Right.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm, I'm again, I want this to be cool because I like the idea of a, a weird Pac, Pac Man, Metroidvania. I guess the thing to me is it looks Like a PSP game. Like, it has just that vibe, like, art style wise. And I'm like. I don't know something about that.

[Greg Miller]

It lies on that thin line of, do I fuck with this 2D art style or not? Unfortunately, it's on the other side of it where I. I don't really vibe with the way the character moves or animates. And especially when they. When he gets into that big sort of mech thing and. And you're gobbling up. It just. It's got that. It's got that puppet tool flash thing that I just do not love.

[Barrett Courtney]

It's very 2010 coded.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Barrett Courtney]

In terms of, like, indie.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Barrett Courtney]

Art direction.

[Tim Gettys]

Then we got.

[Greg Miller]

Even the way the character's moving right here. You know what it reminds me of that one Nickelodeon show where it's all like. It's like the. The real kind of human faces mixed in with, like, weird Ramona. No.

[Andy Cortez]

Are you talking about in Kablam?

[Greg Miller]

Yes.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, I think he's talking about the Kablam show.

[Tim Gettys]

I don't think that opened up the Digimon movie. Angela Anaconda, probably. Yeah, probably.

[Greg Miller]

That's what it reminded me of. The way that. The way the mech thing was moving. That's what it reminded me. Oh, my God.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Yeah. You're talking about Angela Anaconda. That's the Digimon movie. Opened up with a big Kaiju.

[Andy Cortez]

You are also talking about the Nickelodeon. Because I know exactly what you're talking about.

[Tim Gettys]

This is that.

[Andy Cortez]

Wait, is this. Is this the same?

[Barrett Courtney]

No, Angela Anaconda wasn't complem.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, it's gotta be.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Hold on.

[Greg Miller]

This is the most important thing.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. No, we gotta get to the bottom. I was never able to make.

[Greg Miller]

No, it's like.

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah, that wasn't a part of Kablam, I'm pretty sure.

[Tim Gettys]

Because then it was part of Kablam. And then the Kablam or Nickelodeon would then just, like, put out the. They'd play a bunch of the Kablam like, sub series.

[Greg Miller]

It was on in between.

[Tim Gettys]

Different.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Huh.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Barrett Courtney]

That's so weird.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

I never connected that.

[Greg Miller]

Anyway, that's what it reminded me.

[Tim Gettys]

Take that chat.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Jesus.

[Barrett Courtney]

All I'm saying is that it said that show country of origin was Canada and this kablam was United States. And, you know, we don't mix.

[Tim Gettys]

I don't know. That's true, though, because Kablam had a bunch of Canadian things too.

[Greg Miller]

I don't know if that's true.

[Tim Gettys]

Like, I mean, like, it's maybe it is like actually like headquartered in America but like I went down a Kablam rabbit hole ah A couple years ago, you know what I mean? So I remember some things. Don't remember most things. Kicks ass, dude.

[Andy Cortez]

Fondue like Action League now. Yeah. The action figures. Oh my God. Prometheus and Bob was my super strong.

[Tim Gettys]

Super naked. We have patapon one and two replay coming July 11th. Greg Miller, is it real? I mean I was questioned it for a while for so many reasons because this just seems so bizarre. I know we're in a world where Lego Horizon exists and the Xbox PlayStation boundaries are broken, but pat upon 1 and 2 being announced in a Nintendo Direct is just a bizarro world I didn't know could happen.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm still fascinated with the Bandai Namco of it all. And what does this partnership look like?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Pulling out a lot of stops here with Bandai Namco. I mean this and then of course hot. Everybody's Golf hot shots. Yeah, you know what I mean? Some weird partnership going on here. Of course. Yes, of course we have the full press release for Patapan OnePlus 2 replay coming to consoles and PC. However, notable for both of these PlayStation owned IPs. Right. Everybody's Golf and this not coming to Xbox. So July 11th PlayStation 5 switch and PC via Steam for Patapon.

[Andy Cortez]

Hayden ass haters.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Very much so. Very clear.

[Andy Cortez]

PlayStation fucking player haters.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This is exciting to me of course, because I love Patapon. Everybody knows that. It's also got a bunch of stuff they're showing here that it wasn't in the PlayStation Remastered. Right. Like it looks like some love and care did go into getting this package together and giving you some special stuff. Whether it be the options you just saw there, difficulty or going on in there and having all the commands at the bottom. As I remember, if I remember correctly, that used to be in the psp. Or maybe I'm wrong about that, but I remember back in the day having them on the screen.

[Greg Miller]

It's really cool kind of seeing the, the, you know I mentioned it a million times in the reaction but like that is the Nintendo font.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, it's very ridiculous.

[Greg Miller]

Very weird mix up cool stuff though.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Tim.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean are you, you're the Patapon guy. Like, you know, you've played the remastered when they came out. Like are you, is this like getting you back in?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I never got out. Right. I, I, I'm gonna get a code and I'm tinker with them both. Right. But I think I'm not like it's awesome that they're here. It's awesome they're there. You know how much I love Pat upon and I thought both Pat upon and pat upon two remastered for PlayStation. Remember how weird that was? Remember how I'd previewed Pat Upon Remastered at some event and literally it took years until we ever heard another peep. And then it was released. We did the whole mission accomplished banner and stuff like that. And then Patapon 2 came out and nobody gave a shit. Like, and I mean like just industry wide. It wasn't like it was a big deal anymore because it wasn't given an event space. Right. So the fact that it's getting something like this here, it's cool. Again, as a PSP fan, it reminds me a lot as being a Vita fan of getting Freedom wars out. I didn't, you know, get lost back in Freedom Wars. I've already got, you know, my trophy. I platinum Pat upon one. I never made it around a Pat upon two, but I already have those games remastered. It's just cool to see him for a new audience.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, for sure. And again a Nintendo audience, which I think that this type of game sense.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, of course. I think same thing for PC, right? I see a Steam deck. Steam Deck is going to be the code I request. And yeah, sitting there on a plane and having that, I'll be stoked about the tinker with it.

[Andy Cortez]

I just love the idea of like in the meeting rooms at PlayStation higher ups, they're like, all right, let's put Patapon everywhere, right? Let's put it on PC. Let's put on Nintendo. And then somebody raises their hand, they're like, what about Xbox? No, that'll move the needle.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What Phil Spencer's been trying to do.

[Andy Cortez]

Put forts on PlayStation.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, exactly. We'll put our games only anywhere but Xbox.

[Greg Miller]

Greg, I already added everybody's Golf hotshots to my Steam deck wish list.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Sure, sure. You want to move on to that one?

[Greg Miller]

Can't wait.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Let's do it now. You want to say that. Of course I'm not saying trouble in the air, but this is not a clap hands. Everybody's Golf, right? Yeah, I don't. I don't like that. I vibing with that off the top. Clap hands. Of course. Are you did Everybody's Golf and Hot Shots forever.

[Greg Miller]

Are you of this sort of. Is this sort of the same vibe of like this ain't a Kojima?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Exactly how I explained it to Roger out there when Roger's like, why does that matter? I'm like, hey, I mean, these people did this the entire time, right? Like, they've been like, the last Hot Shots was so freaking. Or everybody's Golf was so freaking good, right? Like, I look at this and of course I'm excited to get more Every's Golf slash Hotshots Golf. And I'm gonna use them interchangeably from here on out.

[Tim Gettys]

Well, the fact that this is named Both, does that say anything to you?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yes, that I think they confused a lot of people, of course, that hey, Hotshots Golf on PSP and PSP or Hot Shots Golf on PSP and then Hotshots Golf Open T2PSB. And then like all of a sudden they. They're in a Yakuza, like a dragon situation. It's everybody's Golf and has been forever in America. It was Hot Shots Golf. So now, fuck it, we'll put both in the same title. Because I assume there was enough people they think confused by Everybody's Golf that that wasn't there. But for me, it's an interesting one of. Ooh, I don't like that Clap hands isn't the folks on it Hide is who's making it. I look through their thing. Nothing of note that jumped out at me is something we've seen before. I'm excited to have more again. I forget if we've done this. It's the exact same thing. PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch and PC via Steam later this year. No Xbox stuff on there and so it's cool. But if you don't mind running it again. Barrett, as a fan, like for me, and especially coming off Everybody's Golf, PlayStation 4, right. It was about that customization. It was about that depth and what I'm getting glimpses of here, I don't feel look like they're going to have that level of depth to it. And that's just a first, you know, glance. They do talk about new customization options. They're also, I think, very weird in the way they're talking about it, right? Because it's like at first I was like, oh, is this a.

[Andy Cortez]

Is.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Are we doing some kind of Open T Bundle thing too, right? Because it's like everybody's Golf formally knows how to Golf gets up upgrades with improved graphics, new gameplay modes and new customization options. But it's like, what do you. What do you upgrades like you're upgrading the gameplay is how this sentence would read, right? It's one of those long PR ones. So it's like, I guess so. But is this.

[Greg Miller]

Is this like an like A not an HD remake. But is this like a sort of report of Everybody's Golf?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Not the Everybody Golf. We know it might be an old one or whatever, but, like, yeah, the sentence is long, so stick with me. Right? Develop a Hyde and published by Bandai Namco Interactive America Entertainment America. The beloved Golf gameplay from the hit series Everybody's Golf, formerly known as Hot Shots. Golf in North America gets upgrades with improved graphics, new gameplay modes, and new customization options. So the gameplay is getting upgrades to the what?

[Andy Cortez]

Okay, I think they're just saying that, like, this is a step forward in the series.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I guess so. It's just a weird thing with this.

[Andy Cortez]

Going on, because I will say, in watching the trailer, I did get glimpses of. Oh, this does look like a step forward a little bit, right? Like the animation of the girl, like, jumping, like, you know, getting. Getting in place before she's about to, like, take a swing. Right? Like, that seemed like a step forward.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

There was, like a new.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, is that not it? Okay, well, that's in the menus, too, where you had the characters kind of.

[Tim Gettys]

Like, you know, Street Shadow says this is an update of the Vita game.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No, it's not. No, it's not, is it? No, it's not. Show it to me again.

[Tim Gettys]

Show it to me.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They didn't show me the dumb.

[Tim Gettys]

Would this be a good thing?

[Barrett Courtney]

Hold on, hold on.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No, I didn't like the Vita game. I didn't like their progression system. If they've changed that, I'd be fine with it, but I did not like the. The way Hot Shots progressed on the Vita.

[Tim Gettys]

No.

[Greg Miller]

Because last thing Clap Hands worked on was ultimate swing off for 20. No, for meta and everything. 2021 was easy come Easy Golf.

[Andy Cortez]

What about Clap Hands? Everything. Man, who made the VR game?

[Greg Miller]

That was. What do you mean? The. The PSVR one? Yeah, the PSVR one.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Square is saying that this is. Sorry, sorry. The World Invitational remake or whatever.

[Greg Miller]

The PSVR one was Clap Hands. The one for Meta Quest that came out last year was also Clap Hands.

[Andy Cortez]

And then he also made Clap Hands Golf.

[Tim Gettys]

Right.

[Andy Cortez]

For phone. For mobile.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Easy come easy golf 2021.

[Andy Cortez]

That can't be real. I don't think that's what it's called.

[Greg Miller]

It's called Easy Come Easy Golf. Didn't they just get hold of that on. On Android?

[Andy Cortez]

I thought they put out one that.

[Tim Gettys]

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[Andy Cortez]

Because like here I'm on Touch Arcade and they have a review for Clap Hands Golf on Apple Arcade July 21, 2021. But also everything you're saying about easy come easy golf is also true.

[Tim Gettys]

So like I'm trying to figure out.

[Andy Cortez]

What happened, what went wrong.

[Greg Miller]

Your laptop is from the other universe.

[Andy Cortez]

Other universe.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, it jumped after Patapon. We got Story of Seasons Grand Bazaar coming August 27th. So you know, you know, shout out to Nintendo. Took him an entire 14 minutes before we got nine minutes. Nine minutes in. All right. All right. But cool. Cool. I guess. And then Metroid prime for beyond coming 2025. Andy, talk to me.

[Greg Miller]

I mean I. The art style looks Fantastic. Metroid Prime 1 Remastered is one that I really, really need to get to. And it's one that I just didn't have enough time for. The. I guess was it two years ago.

[Tim Gettys]

That it came out sounds right.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, it was like near the end of the year I was like, ah, it's just like I have too many things to play right now. But it's still amazing how they can pump out visuals like this on this hardware.

[Tim Gettys]

Switch one.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, like it's, it's still super impressive. I was kind of, you know, I was hating for the most part on a lot of the earlier looks of. I don't like that, that suit with the purple glow. But I was also spoiled by the Metroid dread suit. That's the coolest looking suit of all time. Seeing the new suit here at the end looks fantastic. Kind of with you that I still don't love the purple glow mixed with that, but I think I'll kind of. It's much more preferred to what we're seeing here. But blessing and you mentioning what is Metroid Prime 4 going to be and it seeming to be a sequel to what you expected it to be. It's like, okay, sick. That's what you wanted. That's what a lot of fans are going to want as well.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. And it's funny because it's like Metroid prime, one of the best games of all time. A game I'd recommend especially the remastered version to anybody. But here we are. Now, Andy, maybe you should just wait and play this one. Like I feel like that might be the move because like they're going to be very similar games. But like, I do think that this one's going to be even more modern feeling and stuff. And like, I. I just don't want you to get primed out, you know what I mean? What do you. Oh, you disagree?

[Andy Cortez]

I disagree. Play Metroid Prime 1. Metro Prime 1 is so fucking good. And like that's the thing is I look at this and there are multiple scenarios of either this is somehow as good as Metroid Prime 1. And guess what, you just played double the Metroid prime good stuff. Or maybe it doesn't live up. Like that's a very realistic thing of this game could come out and like just be like, all right, cool.

[Tim Gettys]

It could be as good as two or three.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, exactly. But like, maybe not, you know, live up to one.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's still.

[Andy Cortez]

You played the best one. Yeah, like that's thing is, I look at this and I'm like, this is. This looks to me like just more Metroid Prime. And for me that is the best case scenario because I played Metroid prime for the first time in 2023 and that shit hit like it was a new modern game. That shit was awesome. That shit was fun. I think like one of the things I see when I see this as well as, you know, I look at some of those enemy animations and I'm like that even that still looks like it's not that far of a jump ahead of what I just played with Metroid Prime 1 Remastered. But sometimes I'm okay with good games as being good ass games. I think in terms of presentation or art style and art direction, I think it's doing the job. I think there are some things here as far as like, okay, it still does look like a Switch 1 game, which is kind of tough when I'm also playing PC games and PS5 games and other shit, right? But at the end of the day, I still look at this and I'm like, this looks like a good ass time. And I'm very excited to see like, all right, what are we talking about with some of these abilities that you're unlocking? They talked about the psychic stuff. They talked about like controlling like some of your. Not bullets, but I guess plasma shots or whatever. And like I'm already thinking about like, what puzzle am I gonna be stuck on trying to control where the this thing is gonna go and try to navigate the level. I don't know. Every single thing they've shown off in this trailer is working for me as far as what Metroid prime is.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, yeah, Prime.

[Greg Miller]

We just had MATO subscribe for 5 months.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, thank you.

[Tim Gettys]

That was really good. I'm so hyped about this. I love Metroid. I love the prime series. And looking at this, I'm like, this just looks like what I want I idea of the Avatar, like planet with the big tree. Like prime games need a great setting and I feel like everything we've seen so far, I'm like, I'm into this. I think this is Nintendo art style at its best of like, sure, technically it's not the best thing, but like I love how this game looks compared to some modern games. Just because it has that style to.

[Andy Cortez]

It has an atmosphere for sure.

[Tim Gettys]

And Metroid needs the atmosphere. I like me and Eddie were saying like, I'm never a fan of that like glowy purple stuff. Like it's my least favorite thing of like the Transformers, Fall of Cybertron, War for Cybertron. Great games, but all of them look kind of generic and because they're just glowing and I don't like that Samus looks that way, but it's first person, so I won't need to care too much for the majority of the time. But this looks awesome. And I, I think that I am obviously under no belief that this is going to be better than Metroid prime one. I don't think that that's possible, but I want it to be. And I do think that there's signs here that it could be better than 2 and 3 that are still great games. Like I would say probably 10 prime ones attend to me and 2 and 3 are like 8, 5 to 9, you know. But the thing about this one that I liked what we saw is we've seen bits of this before, obviously, but the way the scanning is used seems a little bit more in depth here. It feels a little bit more gamified, organic, where it's like Prime One. It's I, I, it was a lot of just like, lock on the thing, scan it. You get the data from reading the thing. This, it was like, okay, cool, we're gonna scan this to, to hear about the wildlife and, like, what it means, like, what, how to open it or whatever, and she blasts it. How deep is that gonna be? I don't know, but it seems a little bit more advanced than what we've had in the past. And that combined with psychic abilities and stuff that obviously we immediately are like, okay, Nintendo's gonna puzzle their asses off here, like, Retro specifically.

[Andy Cortez]

Is there anything they could do to make this better than Metroid Prime One?

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, I think that that's just impossible because of what Prime One is and because of the fact that we just got Prime One remastered on the same hardware that this is running at, and it's already going to be a generation behind because of it coming out on Switch one instead of two. I think that because of all of that, it's like, there's going to be too many comparisons that are able to be made between the two. And Prime One was like, one of the most revolutionary games ever. You know, taking a franchise and turning it into a, like, one of the most graceful transitions to 3D we've ever had, you know?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Yeah. I think that's one of the things I look at, and I'm like, okay, I'm okay with what this is. Because it doesn't look like it's trying to buck what Metroid prime is. It just looks like more of it. Even the psychic abilities that we talked about, right? Like, that feels like a very safe way to be. Like, all right, what's another way we can just give you more of those same kind of upgrades and mechanics that you already know from Metroid and you already know for Metroidvanias, and I'm okay with that. I'm curious to see, like, if we, if we get to Metroid Prime 5, I would like to see, like, a step beyond. No pun intended. I will. Sorry. Pun intended. I would like to see a step beyond. I would like to see, like, what does an evolution of the genre look like? Because I do think that Metro, what Metroid needs to be, is to be the best at what it does.

[Tim Gettys]

Right?

[Andy Cortez]

It needs to be the, like, the game you go to, if you're Wanting this, like, you know, either first person or 2D, whatever. Like, depending on which metro you're playing. I need a, like a perfect Metroidvania. I need like a refined Metroidvania. I need like a game that gives you the best things about what that genre is. And I think Metroid, I would Hope Metroid Prime 4 can give us enough of that. I know that's lofty, but it is what it is. You're Metroid. So I would at some point though, like to see it step beyond, beyond that and give me something where I'm like, whoa, I didn't know a Metroidvania could do this.

[Tim Gettys]

Absolutely. My counterpoint to that would be it's not like we get as many Metroid Primes as we get Metroidvanias.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

You know, like Metroid prime, we have three of them and there's no other game like it. Like, I literally can't think of a game that I'm like, I'd put it in the same genre as that. You can stretch and make some concessions, be like, oh, this one's kind of like that. This is kind of like that, the aura of Bioshock or whatever. But it's not, it's not a Metroid prime game, you know, so it's. I feel like getting a fourth game in the series isn't necessarily like, oh man, we're just doing the same thing over and over again. Even if we are. And I look at like Metroidvania, the Castlevania DS games and Game Boy advance games, full trilogies on each system. Right. Like sometimes when things work, it just works. And we know prime works. So I'm hopeful. But yeah, it's.

[Greg Miller]

We'll see.

[Tim Gettys]

And also when the fuck Is it coming? 2025? Is it a launch?

[Andy Cortez]

Is it not a launch? That makes me think. I don't know, it makes me think that it's going to be launched.

[Greg Miller]

It makes me think it's going to be a launch because, like, why else.

[Andy Cortez]

Wouldn'T they announce it?

[Tim Gettys]

I don't know. They announced games for 2026, bro. You're right. Then they have Disney Villains Cursed Cafe available later today. More classic Nintendo Direct stuff. Disney partnerships, Cafe games, you know. This is definitely a bingo card.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. I want to have a one on one conversation conversation with John Drake because I want to know, like, what is the strategy when it comes to like how you approach like certain games for certain ip, because this makes all the sense in the world to me and I don't know why, like, I look at this. And I'm like, all right, this is obviously. Well, I won't say obviously. I think for the most part, probably not for the people in this office. Even though I kind of want to give this a try. This looks like a game that I'll.

[Barrett Courtney]

Play on in the late 90s on PC. Like on Disney's, like, website or something.

[Andy Cortez]

100,000%. But it's also one that, like, not just a random one though, right? Yeah, it's like Teen Titans Battle Blitz, where we still talk about it too. Like, this looks like the one that I would have played on Disney.com but, like, how'd we get here?

[Tim Gettys]

How'd we get here?

[Andy Cortez]

How'd we get here? I want to know.

[Tim Gettys]

And then, yeah, next to. We had a couple back to back. I'd call them bangers, which brook looks like it's made for an audience is the note that I put there. It's like everything about this, it's like, huh, this looks a little higher quality than initial glances might make you think. But yeah, this. You guys were saying from the publishers of Stardew Valley. Yep. So much about this as the trailer, when I feel like just got like cooler and cooler and more like, oh, wait, this could be. This could be a major hit, especially.

[Greg Miller]

With the multiplayer component. I. I just love the art that's. There's so many pixels on the screen. Yeah. This look, this screen.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, those might be players, but like just a lot of NPCs on screen.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. I think I. I mean, I think there is such an appetite for games like this, especially mixing in the mystical, magical element. Right. Like, I. We've seen a lot of games like. But I think, you know, games like Fields of Mystria having this sort of fantasy tie in really hits with even bigger to a. To a much larger crowd. I think this looks like it's going to be a hit. I. I would not be surprised if this is a massive hit.

[Andy Cortez]

There's such like a. A Venn diagram between folks who, like, love like the farming, like Cozy Sims, and folks that also love, like, a cot and witchcraft.

[Tim Gettys]

Yes.

[Andy Cortez]

1,000. I was going to say it's not.

[Barrett Courtney]

A Venn diagram circle.

[Tim Gettys]

You got to say it. But on top of. There's a third element here, though, which is like designing things for Etsy. And they let you do that here, too.

[Andy Cortez]

If I call up my friend, like, one of my best friends, Meg, if I call her up right now and told her look up the trailer for which Brooke, when I tell you she would be like, oh yeah. I'm going to play this for the rest of my life.

[Tim Gettys]

That trailer looked like her as a video game. Yes.

[Andy Cortez]

And there's a lot of people like Meg.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, for sure, for sure. Yeah. Anyway, that one definitely, definitely looked cool. Then we had the eternal life of Goldman. This is a hand drawn. You get Kane upgrades. It's a platformer coming this holiday. Definitely one that I'm like, oh, I'm wish. Listen to this.

[Greg Miller]

All hand drawn, all hand animated, no puppetry. It's all just, you know, every sprite is going to be hand drawn frame by frame. It looks so freaking cool getting that little. Getting that DuckTales.

[Andy Cortez]

I'll just say, what is this invoking? It is a DuckTales, right?

[Greg Miller]

It's like, it's like a. The hand drawn shovel knight to me.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh yeah, dude, look at that in the background.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, that's so cool. My one hesitation is the character model looks a little big in some of the things and I always worry when your character's too big, it makes platforming like you're not going to get those like precise challenge platforming. It's going to be more just about getting from point A to point B.

[Greg Miller]

Well, there he looks here, but for the zoom out.

[Tim Gettys]

That's cool. But yeah, I feel like a lot.

[Barrett Courtney]

It'll depend on how well they use like. Yeah, like how much they scope in and out for certain scenarios. For sure.

[Greg Miller]

I was very confused by this section because when they cut to the Gradius collection, I was like, oh, that probably means that goddamn Goldman. I was gonna say Walter Schmitty that that means that Goldman is probably already out and it's not. But I was just very confused by the messaging of what this little section was because they're like, here's a collection of stuff.

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

And they threw in one of the coolest looking things in just kind of a throwaway section.

[Barrett Courtney]

They called it like Action Arcade or whatever. It very much felt like we have like these three other games and we.

[Greg Miller]

Don'T have a good section.

[Barrett Courtney]

Just lump them in together.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, very odd.

[Tim Gettys]

Gradius Origins coming with a whole all the Gradius games, including Salamander 3, a new entry. That's August 7th. This is awesome. And like the music in these games are great. The gameplay is timeless. Very, very, very cool. Excited for that one.

[Andy Cortez]

Did y'all were into Gradius like that?

[Tim Gettys]

I was, yeah.

[Greg Miller]

I think I played like a lot of different free versions of games like this.

[Tim Gettys]

Thunder Force wasn't free, but I don't.

[Greg Miller]

Know how I had access to them, but it was. It was more or less of like this is what I had. So that's why I was playing it.

[Andy Cortez]

Because I couldn't tell you if I've played Gradius. Actually as I look at this, I'm like height.

[Tim Gettys]

Maybe on Super Nintendo. That was like the. Maybe I'd say the big one.

[Greg Miller]

Maybe Turrican.

[Andy Cortez]

Because. Yeah. What arrow is Gradius? I assume. I assume like, like super. Super. Okay.

[Greg Miller]

No, not too.

[Andy Cortez]

I guess I played the old ones because I definitely played like Space Invaders and Galaga and.

[Tim Gettys]

And then we got Rift of the Necro Dancer. Rhythm based combat. We're getting Celeste music tracks available later today.

[Andy Cortez]

They cooking.

[Tim Gettys]

Very cool.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. This is one where if you're watching the gameplay and you're like, this looks like my type of shit. I would definitely recommend checking it out. I think it's very fun. Right. It's another. It's. I mean it's a different take on what Necro Dancer could be, but it is. Think like Guitar Hero, you know, track. You are fighting monsters that are on the track and each monster kind of has like a different way to or like a different effect to it. So like some. Some of them take two hits. Some of them you had to like, you know though you can hit them but then they'll jump to the next rail. And so you have to like know to hit like up and then. Right. And then shit evolves from there. I love that they're adding Celeste music to it. That's enough to make me want to boot it up again.

[Tim Gettys]

Hell yeah, man. Then we got Tamagotchi Plaza coming June 27th. Tamagotchi gochi. Cool. Then Pokemon Za. The Za Royale. The tournament arc at night. More new Mega Pokemon will be announced. Still coming late 2025. I wonder if we'll get the date for this.

[Andy Cortez]

Probably not at the Switch 2 thing next week.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. God, the Switch 2 things about to be interesting. We're doing our predictions topic tomorrow so we don't need to get too deep into everything, but.

[Greg Miller]

So excited.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm hyped.

[Greg Miller]

You think Greg's gonna go through with it? I don't. I feel the. I don't even like saying that on.

[Tim Gettys]

I know.

[Greg Miller]

On the mic.

[Tim Gettys]

Don't involve that. What a monster. And then. Yeah. Rhythm Heaven Groove. The first Rhythm Heaven game in forever. Imran Khan posts on Blue sky saying if people didn't know the series was on ice for so long because the composer Sunuko was diagnosed with cancer in 2014 and had had to take one of his vocal cords removed. They made a note of him coming back for this one. Actually kind of a big deal. So. Yeah, that, that is cool.

[Andy Cortez]

That's crazy.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Get a new Rhythm Heaven, which I'm excited about. I, I love rhythm games, I love Nintendo games and I've never played this, so I'm excited to give it a shot. Do not like having to wait till 2026. That is, I'm gonna say it, unacceptable. Don't talk about this.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I think this is one you could have held for a September direct. I think it's kind of, it's early to announce it. That said, there is such an audience for it. There's so many people that, you know, played Rhythm heaven on, on DS. I forget if there was one on 3DS. I imagine there probably was actually. I have no idea. But I like, I see so many people on social media, on TikTok, on other places, like reminiscently playing rhythm heaven on TikTok lives and shit. Right? Because it's one of those games that people either grew up, grew up with during their childhood and it's also one of those one of a kind kind of things where if you know, you know, if you played Rhythm Heaven, you know how fun it is, you know how cool it is. It's like if warioware went away and like you're just left to play the old warioware games and play like, you know, indie inspired games that are, that have a similar thing going on. And so for me, my entry, entryway was Melatonin, the game that I was talking about earlier where I played that. And I was like, oh, this is awesome. And then I realized that that is exactly what Rhythm Heaven is. And I was like, oh, I gotta play Rhythm Heaven. Like that seems like some cool ass. And so I'm very much looking forward to this. But yeah, way too early for an announcement.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, it's I think very, very bizarre and especially for Nintendo who recently have, have been announcing games and then they release within like three or four months. So just seems bizarre especially for a game like it. It's. I'm not saying that you can't announce a game in 2026 this early. Just not a game like that. Yeah, you know what I mean? Like it would have to be a big IP for it to be like, okay, cool, that makes sense. But that looks like it should be coming out in a couple months.

[Greg Miller]

It seems perfect for the like what blessed is mentioning a September type deal, right? Because you do it on the second that there's way too many bigger announcements coming out that day, you know?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Jordan says, listen to him. You wouldn't be complaining if it was like a new DK or any first party Nintendo thing. I get 20, 26 is a minute away. But people have been dying for this. I mean, like I was just saying, it's like, yeah, I do think certain IP get the luxury of calling your shot that long. Rhythm Heaven simply doesn't.

[Andy Cortez]

Like. I feel like we all said Donkey Kong country returns when they announced it for like the next year.

[Tim Gettys]

That was crazy.

[Andy Cortez]

That was also a crazy thing where we were like, oh, man, that seems like a far away thing.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, but even then, that wasn't that far. That was September, January, I think that was summer. Was it?

[Andy Cortez]

I mean, Kong returns.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Even then, though, we're still talking about longer time for this. But then, yeah, after that, we got the Nintendo Switch digital conversation coming in April.

[Andy Cortez]

Virtual game card.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm. I'm pretty confused about this, honestly. Like, they. And I'm only confused because I don't think it's confusing. They just presented it. They explained something that's so simple.

[Greg Miller]

We already know how things like we. We're aware of the way, you know, sharing. Sharing games work.

[Andy Cortez]

They explain to us how cartridges worked to start this thing off.

[Tim Gettys]

And I think that throws us off.

[Andy Cortez]

It's.

[Tim Gettys]

It.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, it throws us off. But it's also one of those things where I can. I can hear the com. The marketing room meeting where they're like, all right, we have this new functionality where we want making sharing games with family and friends easier. And like, somebody in the room was like, oh, we gotta figure out how to compare this to something. Yeah, we gotta figure out how to make this super easy for them to understand. Oh, what if we called it a virtual game cartridge and just explained it like, it's a virtual game cartridge now. It's just way more confusing because when.

[Barrett Courtney]

You guys were watching a chat was like, so it's DRM with extra steps. And yeah, if that's like a. The conversation of DRM that they were having in like, boardroom meetings, they're like, how the do we sell that to.

[Andy Cortez]

It's the most. It's the most like, hey, how do we Nintendo fi this thing and, like, make it kind of cute.

[Greg Miller]

I know that they said virtual game cartridge, but the way it was being presented still made me feel like there was a physical component to it. Like, I was like, oh, so are they selling, like, still something? Because they kept on showing these Fucking little squares going into the. Into. Yeah, obviously, yeah. What are you doing, man?

[Tim Gettys]

It's weird to me because again, I. I own multiple switches, one of them being a Switch Lite that I use fairly often for games. And it's pretty inconvenient because you need to have like your primary account and then a secondary account and you're kind of limited on what you can do that the secondary account has to like check the Internet for like verification that you're able to play or whatever, which like minor inconvenience. But I've had more than my share of issues of for some reason it just taking longer than I want it to and not working or whatever. So that's been inconvenient. On top of that, not every game has cloud save compatibility. So like things like the Pokemon games and I think even Animal Crossing, that can get very frustrating. So this doesn't seem to solve that at all. And more than that, as a Nintendo fan, the biggest issue I have with the physical digital conversation is I buy my games physical, but then I don't get them digital. So when I buy a physical game, I can't then play it on a different system without physically putting that card in.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

And that's something that I was hoping they were going to be like.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, that's how it felt like they're setting it up.

[Tim Gettys]

Yes. So I don't know that. That seems like this seems like a letdown to me there. At the end of the day though, this does seem like they are trying to speak to the families that have multiple switches that are about to buy a switch to ensure them they can continue to play and share it within the family. All stuff, this all seems like good stuff if it works better than the account switching, which is finicky good. But yeah, that's.

[Andy Cortez]

I think that's the part that for me was confusing. But hearing you explain it makes a lot more sense. Right. Where I don't have multiple switches. And so as they're explaining this, I'm like, is this a problem that exists because I like I. The way I do it. Right. With PlayStation, for example, I have a PlayStation at work and I have a PlayStation at home. Right. It works so easy. I'm just logging a PlayStation at work and then I can play. I didn't know for switch it was such a hassle to do that shit.

[Greg Miller]

And I think about the casual switch audience that maybe only owns, you know, a couple of switches, maybe one or two, but they their whole life have known. Yeah. You could put any super Nintendo cartridge into another game or whatever that, you know, like that it's always been just a natural thing to just put a game somewhere else. Why doesn't this work for our switches? Why is this so tough? I mean, you know, maybe this sort of bridges that gap. I don't know.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, we'll see. We'll see how this actually plays out. I don't think it's gonna affect most of us here. I think me probably the most just because I do have the. The multiple systems. But I don't know, we'll see how it shakes out. Maybe we'll get more answers with the switch.

[Andy Cortez]

This graphic is insane, bro.

[Barrett Courtney]

Like, at first I was like, if it's a virtual card, do you have to download it? Is it just in.

[Andy Cortez]

Like, are we transferring it?

[Tim Gettys]

You'll definitely have to download.

[Barrett Courtney]

No, I know that in the moment.

[Greg Miller]

It was just so.

[Barrett Courtney]

I think the biggest thing here, I think this was all of this is just to be able to lend copies of digital copies of things to people in your family group, which I think it's very select use cases. I think it'll be great for parents and stuff.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, I don't think that's select use case. I think that's like anything.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, right. Like if your brother wants to play the Mario game.

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah, exactly. Or like, even when Alyssa saw me playing Balatro on my Switch, she was like, how do I play that? And I was like, I own it. But, like, how do I get that? Like, she doesn't want to buy it. How would I do that? Stuff like that, I think is. Is great, but. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, it's very weird to me that it seems like you need to be with the people. Like, it seems like a local Internet thing.

[Andy Cortez]

Or in Ohio, I imagine you can do it through Internet, right? I think. Did they say that? I feel like they might have said.

[Tim Gettys]

They did, but like.

[Greg Miller]

But they showed them real close.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, exactly.

[Greg Miller]

So you have to be in the same bedroom.

[Tim Gettys]

We'll see. And then, yeah, after this, we got a little montage of some third party games coming. High on Life coming in May, Wandering Village, A couple other things. Then we got an HD remaster of Saga Frontier 2 launching later today. Definitely didn't impress me visually. Then Monument Valley 1 to 2 coming April 15th.

[Andy Cortez]

Cool.

[Tim Gettys]

Monument Valley 3, summer 2025.

[Andy Cortez]

That's neat.

[Tim Gettys]

Then. Yeah, everybody's golf. We already talked about that. Followed up very quickly by Dottie Moves. Marvel Cosmic invasion. Coming holiday 2025. I'm gonna read some of the press release here.

[Greg Miller]

You got Some gators reading off a paper.

[Tim Gettys]

I know it is. It's very weird.

[Greg Miller]

I saw him like rifling through sheets.

[Tim Gettys]

I don't know. I appreciate it, but. Opening with spectacular hand drawn animation reflecting the game's visual homage to colorful 90s era Marvel comic books, Dot Emu revealed the first set of playable characters. So there's gonna be more that's exciting. Captain America, Wolverine, Spider Man, Storm, Phylavel, Venom and Nova. The trailer sneak peek at gameplay finds these legends uniting to throw down against menacing enemies and classically inspired side scrolling brawls. Seems like we're going up against the Annihilus wave, which is cool. Again, like that they're focusing on the cosmic stuff, so that's interesting. But the biggest news comes from Twitter. Teelopes tweets out saying it's a marvelous honor to announce I've once again teamed up with Dot Emu and the extraordinary Tribute Games to bring you Marvel Cosmic Invasion. Please enjoy the trailer with music by me and the spectacular Johnny Atma on guitars. This is about to be a banger. Shredder's Revenge was a banger. This looks to be no different. I love that. It's a brand new thing. I love seeing Wolverine in. In that outfit. Hell yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

I love this.

[Greg Miller]

They just have the best art style. Like I don't know if anything can really take this on visually. I love the look of it. I love the way the characters look. They have their own. They have their own personality. Even though the characters are still obviously who they are. I just love the way that they sort of make them their own still. This looks awesome.

[Andy Cortez]

We got to put them like, I think higher up in the conversation of like developer dude.

[Tim Gettys]

I've been saying this for. For a couple months now after my preview because Absolum was amazing. Like that game I think is gonna like really take people by surprise. And then Ninja Gaiden.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, Ragebound looks awesome. They're doing Metal Metal Slug Tactics, which looks awesome. And they got Streets of Rage 4 that they put out like what, four years ago? That was also awesome.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, like people loved that game.

[Andy Cortez]

So yeah, they remind me of a, you know, a blue point when we talk about studios that specialize in a specific thing that are really, really good at that specific thing. Shout out to y'all really quick.

[Greg Miller]

They're publishing.

[Andy Cortez]

Thank you.

[Barrett Courtney]

Really quick. One Armed Wonder super chatted $10 and said first time. Super chatting. But a day one KFBF on project lead for Cosmic Invasion at Marvel. Glad to see you're all excited for it. We aim to make this game truly special.

[Tim Gettys]

Very, very cool. Shout out. Dude, that's awesome.

[Andy Cortez]

They did Windjammers, too.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, man. Dude, they're really, really good. And Wonder Boy and all that stuff, Like. Yeah, love them. Tomodachi Life was the last game that we saw. Tomodachi Life living the dream. Coming in 2026. What are we talking about? This one is the first new entry in over 10 years. Barrett, can you do me a favor? Can you go to the end of this trailer, and I want to watch it again with sound, please.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, the.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, the giant.

[Tim Gettys]

Ye.

[Andy Cortez]

Did this activate something in you? Because this is a thing for people. I'm just saying.

[Tim Gettys]

Did you want to talk.

[Andy Cortez]

Hidden Kinks, the video game? Come on.

[Tim Gettys]

Only a dream, just lurking in the back. Dude, it's not no dream. That was one of the weirdest things I've ever seen.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I. It's. But as the music was playing before that moment, you were like, this is just so Nintendo. And, yeah, it's. It's a combination of music, the weirdness. They just. They do things. They march to the beat of their own drum.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. I will never forget, and this is a little different, but also very, very in line with what we're talking about here. I'll never Forget. It was E3, 2013. I want to say. Super Mario World. Super Mario 3D World's being talked about. And we go in to do the demo, and it's. It's all the grown men in cat outfits, you know, and it's like, this is that energy.

[Andy Cortez]

I.

[Greg Miller]

So when did this game get released? We're doing that. Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

I. Tim, you know this. I never owned a 3DS, right. I was unfortunate. Couldn't afford it. You know, I was the Squidward meme of looking out the window, seeing everybody having fun with their three DSEs. I remember the Nintendo Direct, where they announced tomodachi life for 3Ds. And when I tell you that I always wanted to play it, never got around to it, obviously. But, like, this might be my. My gateway.

[Tim Gettys]

Hey, you just need to wait a year.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. 2026. I'm about to be different.

[Tim Gettys]

And then, yeah, they're like, that's the last game. But, hey, guess what, motherfuckers? We have one more announcement. We're gonna bring Miyamoto out. And. Hey, Nintendo today. Wow. Wow. We'll see. We talked about this at the top of the show a bit, but I don't have high hopes for this. As always, whenever I'm pessimistic about A Nintendo thing. I hope I'm wrong, but I don't have hopes for this.

[Andy Cortez]

Their first example being Pikmin 4 comics.

[Greg Miller]

You cannot start off with that.

[Andy Cortez]

You can't.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

You got to, like, be like, oh, new character for the next match game. Theoretically, you got to do something exciting.

[Greg Miller]

It gives me vibes of, you know, every week we're going to put out a new Concord, little video, a little animation.

[Andy Cortez]

Wow, I forgot about that. What do you think happened? All those almost cinematic. Yeah, Those have to leak at some point.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, Hopefully.

[Tim Gettys]

Let's get through the super chats to close this out. Here we have Kyle saying, bless. What's your level of regret on Stars in the bank? On a 1 to 10? 10 scale?

[Andy Cortez]

11.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Yeah. Mellow fellow says, I love. Kind of funny. I love Stars in the Bank. Thank you for this gift, Greg. Bless. And I'm assuming, Barrett, truly, thank you, God. I. After everything I've tried to do for y'all, you know, I don't want to say I've given you anything, but I tried so hard.

[Barrett Courtney]

I went to bed early last night.

[Tim Gettys]

Cozy bear says hot take. I expect Metroid prime will still be great, but that trailer felt very banal. I hope they bring the sauce in the switch to direct. I'm incredibly interested in how they show Metroid prime next week, how they position it. It being here really makes it feel to me like they are just looking at as like, hey, it's just another game.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Which is weird.

[Andy Cortez]

I. I think it's just because it's hard to show off Metroid Prime. Like, I don't mind it being here because I still expected to be there next week. If it's not there next week, then it is. I think then it'll feel like, okay, well, what are we doing? But I do think to the super chat, I. Metroid Prime 4 is, I think, one of those games where it's like, all right, how else are they gonna show it, though? You know, I definitely feel the feel of, all right, this doesn't feel like a Zelda trailer. This doesn't feel like a Mario Odyssey trailer. Right. Like, there's not that pomp and circumstance and like, you know, personality and all this. But what they do show looks exactly like Metroid prime. And, like, I think it'll have Metroid prime fans excited. But, yeah, I do wonder how it's going to hit for people that are outside of that fan base.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Demon Hacker says if you lend the game, do you lose access until it's returned? I guarantee, yeah.

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Yes. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Street Shadow says Sony owns everybody's Golf and Patapon. They're licensing the IP to Bandai. It's a strategy to find partnerships to bring back old ip. I love it.

[Andy Cortez]

I love that.

[Tim Gettys]

Ricardo says blessing was on the money. Four cozy games.

[Andy Cortez]

There it is.

[Tim Gettys]

Thank you, Samsonnell. I don't know that I would describe Tama Dochi Udachi as a.

[Andy Cortez]

You don't think it's cozy?

[Tim Gettys]

Not. Not with that giant woman, man.

[Andy Cortez]

It started off and I was like, oh, is this animal crossing? And then she tooted. I was like, this is not animal crossing. They don't do that in that game.

[Greg Miller]

I haven't heard toot in about a year.

[Andy Cortez]

That's exactly what she did. She didn't fart. She tooted.

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah, she did toot.

[Tim Gettys]

That's so fucking funny. Samson L Says, welcome back, WE news channel shit. Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

God, that's hilarious. In app form, Pretty dude says P.S. porting pat upon and Hot Shots. Everything but Xbox is funny. Makes me think they still care about some lines that they don't want to cross. I really do wonder. Like, I. My gut tells me it's not some petty bullshit. Like, I think that there must be business decisions of there just like it's not going to sell enough. It's not even just worth it. But like, that feels wrong. But I don't know.

[Andy Cortez]

I mean, I could see that, but I do. I. And like, I wouldn't describe not putting the games on Xbox as petty, but I do think that probably they have like a red line of. We don't see Switch as a direct competitor as much as we do see Xbox as a direct competitor. And so for an arbitrary reason, we don't want to put these things on Xbox just because that's how PlayStation. PlayStation works. I do think those walls need to come down.

[Tim Gettys]

It's. It's ridiculous.

[Andy Cortez]

It is ridiculous. It's too on Xbox.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. It's silly as hell because I don't know. No, no die hard Xbox user is going to buy a PlayStation and play games like that, but if the opportunity comes up that it's on their store, they have a chance to buy it and that might happen. Like you. You're preventing something that like, just definitely doesn't have a chance to happen. I don't know. It's kind of annoying.

[Tim Gettys]

Kebab says we're definitely getting another Switch One direct. I don't know. I highly doubt it.

[Andy Cortez]

Like a Switch one phone. I mean, why. It's gonna be backwards compatible, right? So, like, if you have more Switch 1 games to announce. You just announced. Announced them during a Switch two direct.

[Tim Gettys]

Come out some chats and I think we are. I mean, I don't know, like, look.

[Andy Cortez]

Here'S like, what game are they gonna announce?

[Tim Gettys]

I can guarantee we will not get a direct that only has Switch 1 game.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, yeah, I'm with you there. I mean, I've already heard people. There's already reports of Switch 1 stock, like being taken down at stores and shit, you know.

[Tim Gettys]

Really?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Like what kind of stock?

[Greg Miller]

Like accessories and stuff like that.

[Andy Cortez]

That seems like premature.

[Greg Miller]

Maybe it's just the store shutting down.

[Andy Cortez]

Years before you take down the Switch one store stuff.

[Tim Gettys]

Then we got David er saying is virtual game card to combat piracy somehow nice to share with family members though a new rhythm. Heaven. Heaven. Hell, yeah. I doubt it. Like, I. I think that this generation that like the piracy conversation has shifted so much gen to gen for what it means for Nintendo. I think with where we're at with Switch right now, they're in a. A complicated space because the. It is easier and more accessible for people in the know than ever to play the Mystery Machine.

[Andy Cortez]

They call it Mystery Machine.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Because they're not allowed to talk about, you know, it's. Oh, does this device play PlayStation 3 games? Yes. Does it play Nintendo Wii games? Yes. Does it play the Mystery Machine? Switch. I don't want to get in trouble. I shouldn't even be saying that. I'm exposing secrets.

[Greg Miller]

Wow.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm a Narcan Damn dude. But yeah, this is one of the.

[Greg Miller]

Situations where you're like, all right, you can't tell anybody this.

[Tim Gettys]

But the, the virtual game card thing, I truly feel like it's just them trying to comfortably get parents to buy a Switch 2 and understand that it's an additive experience to the Switch one and you can play with your kids and like, you're not wasting money, that type of thing.

[Andy Cortez]

That makes a lot of sense.

[Tim Gettys]

Phoenix Warrior says, I believe that Wind Waker and Twilight Princess will show up in the GameCube virtual console for Switch 2.

[Andy Cortez]

Because I want, like, I don't want a GameCube version. GameCube version. No, I want a remaster. Like, I want it to be.

[Tim Gettys]

They already exist. They've done the work.

[Barrett Courtney]

If I have to do the Triforce Quest GameCube version, like, I'm not playing Wind Waker on the Switch straight up.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. So it's the GameCube virtual console, I think is not impossible, but I also don't think likely.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

And I also, I I don't really know if we're gonna get NSO stuff at the Switch 2 event or at least like not like virtual consoles type things. Not old consoles.

[Greg Miller]

I agree. Yeah. I don't think that. I feel like it's going to be pretty focused.

[Tim Gettys]

I think if anything, DLC for new games or that's the way that the Switch to enhancements work for Switch games being tied to NSO. But I don't think we're going to get GameCube or Donkey Kong 64.

[Barrett Courtney]

Fuck you, Tim. I could see world where. What if. And again, weird Nintendo decision. Stick with me here. If GameCube is only accessible on Switch 2 through Nintendo Switch online.

[Tim Gettys]

Absolutely.

[Barrett Courtney]

I could see that. But not like having a whole five minute block of showing a bunch of games. It's just like a 30 second like Gamecube for Switch 2 or whatever.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean that'd be amazing. I don't see it happening this next week. But that. I'm so stoked.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Only.

[Andy Cortez]

Only Switch two would be.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm gonna get a Switch to. Who cares?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, you're gonna get a Switch too.

[Tim Gettys]

So are you.

[Andy Cortez]

I mean, you're right. Fuck the rest of y'all.

[Tim Gettys]

And also it's like, whatever, whatever.

[Andy Cortez]

It's just one of those things where I'm like, you could make it work on Switch 1 though. That's like one of those arbitrary Nintendo things that I totally believe could happen. But I would also be like, you guys are some man to try to.

[Tim Gettys]

Sell things, make money.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

They're putting out Gamecube games that they're also remaking. Put it out for $60, push the.

[Andy Cortez]

Button and just put it on. The other thing, I don't know.

[Tim Gettys]

Push the button.

[Andy Cortez]

Push the button.

[Tim Gettys]

Chocolate Fox 9 says the best announcement was Greg farted in Tim's car. One armed wonder said, first time super chat. Oh, you already read that one. Congrats on working on Cosmic Invasion. Dude, that's awesome.

[Andy Cortez]

Hell yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Danger Daddy D says, as someone who got into SMT late in life, I'm excited for the Ride out remake as the original is difficult to find physical copies. Like 80 bucks and it's not on Steam.

[Andy Cortez]

Damn, that's cool.

[Tim Gettys]

And Demon Hacker says my crew's experience with Rhythm Heaven is the Terry Crews memes.

[Andy Cortez]

Do you know this? No, I don't know this either.

[Tim Gettys]

I don't know.

[Greg Miller]

I have no idea what that is.

[Andy Cortez]

I'll look into it.

[Tim Gettys]

Cool. Well, everybody, thank you for hanging out with us as we reacted to the Nintendo direct and broke it all down. We still have games daily. We still have Alien vs. Predator Requiem in review. We still have Nuzlocke. I think, whatever. It's a great day of content. Hang out, have fun, until next time, do some Nintendo shit.