Greg Miller’s Steam Wishlist, Hidden Gems - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Summary

Kinda Funny Gamescast: Greg Miller’s Steam Wishlist, Hidden Gems – Episode Summary

Release Date: March 11, 2025

Hosts:

• Tim Geddes
• Greg “GameOverGreggy” Miller
• Blessing Adeoye Jr.
• Andy Cortez

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Introduction

In the March 11, 2025 episode of the Kinda Funny Gamescast, titled "Greg Miller’s Steam Wishlist, Hidden Gems," the hosts—Tim Geddes, Greg Miller, Blessing Adeoye Jr., and Andy Cortez—dive deep into Greg Miller's extensive Steam wishlist. The episode focuses on uncovering indie hidden gems and discussing eagerly anticipated games that might have slipped under the mainstream radar.

Exploring Greg Miller’s Steam Wishlist

The primary focus of this episode centers on Greg Miller's Steam wishlist, which initially contained 25 games but was later trimmed down to 19. The hosts discuss a variety of titles, spanning different genres and styles, showcasing the diverse interests of the group.

Notable Quote:

Greg Miller [11:20]: "I have 19 games on my wish list at the moment. I did. It was 25 when I sat down when you wanted this topic."

Highlighted Games and Discussions

1. Lush Foil

Lush Foil is a photography simulation game that has captivated Greg's interest. Blessing Adeoye Jr. expresses excitement over the game's potential to blend visual aesthetics with engaging gameplay mechanics.

Notable Quote:

Blessing Adeoye Jr. [15:11]: "I am excited for this on many different levels. How long will I spend in it? I have no idea."

2. Wander Stop

Described as a cozy game, Wander Stop features a narrative where a defeated warrior finds solace and purpose on a tea farm. While Blessing admired the setup and characters, Greg finds himself less inclined towards the gameplay involving tea cultivation.

Notable Quote:

Blessing Adeoye Jr. [14:20]: "I was so disappointed in myself of like, I love the setup, I love the characters, I love the idea. I didn't love making tea."

3. Redacted

Redacted, a roguelite from Striking Distance Studios, was discussed with mixed feelings. While the game offers visually appealing elements, the hosts compare it unfavorably to genre favorites like Hades.

Notable Quote:

Andy Cortez [24:01]: "I can't stop playing this damn game. It keeps on getting better and better."

4. Midnight Walk (PSVR2)

A PSVR2 title with a stop-motion aesthetic reminiscent of The Nightmare Before Christmas, Midnight Walk promises an immersive experience both in VR and on PS5 without the need for VR gear.

Notable Quote:

Tim Geddes [10:20]: "It's a super cool stop motion look to it."

5. Tears of Metal

Coming from Paper Cult, the creators of Bloodroots, Tears of Metal is a medieval hack-and-slash co-op roguelite. The game boasts an impressive art style and deep lore involving a dragon meteor and enemy invasions.

Notable Quote:

Blessing Adeoye Jr. [23:27]: "Tears of Metal looks insane. It looks awesome."

6. Masters of Albion

Announced by Peter Molyneux, Masters of Albion is a god game set in the Fable universe. The hosts express skepticism over the viability of the project but remain curious about its development.

Notable Quote:

Blessing Adeoye Jr. [40:04]: "Possess characters at will in this unique God game. Masters of Albion."

7. Rune Factory, Gardens of Xisuma

Rune Factory: Gardens of Xisuma brings seasonal farming, monster battling, and community building to the series. Despite never having played a Rune Factory game before, Blessing is intrigued by its fresh take.

Notable Quote:

Blessing Adeoye Jr. [41:05]: "Welcome to the eastern nation of Xisuma in this fresh take on Rune Factory."

8. Hell Is Us

From Rogue Factor, Hell Is Us is an action-adventure game that blends intense melee combat with exploration. The game emphasizes player-driven discovery without relying on traditional quest markers.

Notable Quote:

Greg Miller [55:32]: "Combat is only 50% of the experience. The other half is all about exploration."

9. Threads of Time

Threads of Time is a turn-based RPG spanning different eras, inspired by classics like Chrono Trigger. The game features charismatic heroes and an intricate plot threatening the fabric of time.

Notable Quote:

Blessing Adeoye Jr. [58:00]: "Threads of Time looks incredible. This game looks like something I can't wait to play."

10. Disc Creatures World

A GBA-style creature collector game reminiscent of Monster Rancher, Disc Creatures World offers players the ability to collect and train various creatures in a vibrant, pixel-art environment.

Notable Quote:

Andy Cortez [60:01]: "Art style is very Invader Zimish,"

Supporting Indie Developers

Throughout the episode, the hosts emphasize the importance of wishlisting games to support indie developers. Greg Miller highlights how wishlists can boost a game's visibility, helping it gain coverage from major outlets like IGN and other podcasts.

Notable Quote:

Greg Miller [39:25]: "Wish listing games helps developers so much, especially indies like it is so helpful for them getting coverage at IGN."

Upcoming Content and Events

The hosts tease upcoming streams, particularly a major GDC (Game Developers Conference) stream where they plan to showcase over 20 new games. This event aims to feature a mix of indie titles and bigger releases, providing listeners with a comprehensive look at what's next in the gaming world.

Notable Quote:

Greg Miller [60:12]: "Next Monday we're doing the GDC mix stream all day and like we're going to get a new round of these games to look forward to."

Conclusion

The episode wraps up with the hosts encouraging listeners to engage with their wishlists and support indie titles they believe in. They also remind the audience to join their Patreon for ad-free content and exclusive daily looks into their live recordings.

Notable Quote:

Tim Geddes [60:28]: "Wish listing games helps developers so much, especially indies like it is so helpful for them getting coverage at IGN."

The Kinda Funny Gamescast successfully highlights Greg Miller’s diverse Steam wishlist, offering listeners insightful looks into a range of upcoming and hidden gem titles while emphasizing the significance of community support for indie developers.

Transcript

[Tim Geddes]

Foreign. What's up? And welcome back to the Kind of Funny Games cast live for Tuesday, March 11, 2025.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Of course.

[Tim Geddes]

I'm Tim Geddes. I'm joined today by Blessing. Adio. Yeah, Junior.

[Greg Miller]

Good day, Tim.

[Tim Geddes]

Greg Miller.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yo.

[Tim Geddes]

And Andy Cortez.

[Andy Cortez]

Hello.

[Tim Geddes]

What's that shirt? Is that a naked man?

[Andy Cortez]

It's Rush. Rush star man.

[Tim Geddes]

You got a naked man on your shirt.

[Andy Cortez]

It's a Starman.

[Tim Geddes]

Wow.

[Andy Cortez]

One of those things that like when you ward if you were a kid in the 70s or 80s wearing this in high school, they'd be like, you're devil. You're going to. You're the devil. Go to church.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Have a pentagram on your shirt.

[Tim Geddes]

Told the story before, but cool. Greg, the first time we got in trouble at school is because he was in like first grade wearing a shirt that said fear drink beer from Stone Cold Steve Austin.

[Andy Cortez]

My favorite.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Awesome.

[Andy Cortez]

My favorite ever.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Lame ass San Francisco teachers.

[Tim Geddes]

Remember everyone. This is the Kind of Funny Games cast. Each and every weekday we get together to talk about the biggest reviews, previews and topics in video games. Live, live on YouTube, Twitch, and then later on podcast services around the globe. If you love what we do, please support us with the kind of funny membership on Patreon, YouTube, Spotify or Apple Podcasts to get all of our shows ad free. Watch us record them live and you get a Daily look.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It doesn't even say it's got a skull where the U goes.

[Greg Miller]

I can say anything.

[Andy Cortez]

It could be, yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

Still the drink beer as a, you know, elementary school kid and I'm pretty sure the back of the shirt had skeleton hands.

[Greg Miller]

You can't see this.

[Andy Cortez]

That's not even a real human though. Yeah, exactly.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We're getting these kids ready for real life. All right, cool. Greg was doing them a favor.

[Tim Geddes]

Exactly. If you love what we do, please get the kind of funny membership on Patreon, YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcast. You get the shows ad free and you get a daily exclusive. Greg Way. Always a thrill, always a great time for a chance to be part of this show though. You can submit your thoughts and opinions as YouTube super chats as we go. If you have any fun little indies that you're looking forward to in 2025, please super chat them our way, give us the little pitch of it and we'll check it out. Because that's what this show's all about today. Remember, we are an 11 person business all about live talk shows. Games Daily was talking about the new little tidbits we got from Neil Druckman about Intergalactic, the Heretic prophecy, AKA I. Thp.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's what we're calling it now.

[Greg Miller]

No, there we go. No name.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Now that we got. Now that we know the Heritage prophecy.

[Andy Cortez]

You can just call it Intergl Pro.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No, because then I go, oh, the Beastie Boy song.

[Greg Miller]

Nobody says that except.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And then he goes, oh, the Nolan film. But when you said it's a different word. Thp. Everybody's like, oh, intergalactic. The heritage of prophecy.

[Andy Cortez]

What's funny is that whenever we do.

[Greg Miller]

Say intergalactic, I think of there was like a Netflix show with Kid Cudi or some man.

[Tim Geddes]

Sounds like a big problem.

[Greg Miller]

Intergalactic.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I solved it. Everybody.

[Greg Miller]

It. Can we call it the Heretic?

[Tim Geddes]

Joy kept doing that earlier, Andy, but the gate was not picking him up fully. So I just. Classic after. This is going to be the continuation of our Pokemon Nick Lock. Andy, you have been in that room for many hours. How are you feeling about the journey? Where are we at now?

[Andy Cortez]

Yesterday was always already kind of a breaking point. You know, Nick loves going to the mall in Goldenrod City and Mike had kind of had it with the mall. And it's just like Mike wants to just push on. But we all know what awaits us at this third gym. Tim warned us. Tim's the rival in this game. But still the real Tim, you know, has warned us before. Professor Adioye has also tried to help us along the way. This motherfucker doesn't know anything about it. He doesn't know anything about this play. Dude, full sprite. You gotta watch our content. Well, now I do less is fully animated. The Tim. I don't know if you saw the intro animation. You have.

[Tim Geddes]

No. Oh, the only thing I've seen is the. The bump.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, the push. Oh, Kevin, if you could find any of that footage. Yeah, let me.

[Greg Miller]

Let me look for that. Okay. We're not gonna find the time to watch a.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

12 hours.

[Greg Miller]

12 hours.

[Andy Cortez]

Let me just. Let me just let you know, Tim, that worked really, really hard to try to encapsulate the spirit of Tim Gregg. Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

And the spirit. The spirit of Tim it. Well, that's one thing that didn't work because in the game the rival red hair. And they always say there was a red haired kid and I typed in blonde hair to replace red hair. And that take didn't work. Whatever, but got it. The animation of whenever Tim comes into the. Into the battle animation. There's three frames at the normal rival does something like a point or whatever. But I had Tim Go.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

He does a Dude. The sort of shrug with the clap. Oh, it's so. It's so good. I'm so proud of it. Tim. Yeah. We got blessing in the game. I was trying to get Roger to be the assistant, but this. The assistant in the Pokemon center or in the Pokemon Lab with a professor. Adio. Yeah. Is also just a generic little character that shows up everywhere, so there'd be a ton of Rogers all over the place.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I love that.

[Greg Miller]

That's crazy. So maybe that is actually my dad.

[Andy Cortez]

Maybe we don't do that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Awesome.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

I got to change it to Professor Bless, because I gotta change it back to Professor Bless. I don't know if you heard bless on another great little moment right here. We're just talking about the. I'm just. I love talking about myself, everybody but the.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You should be proud of what you did.

[Andy Cortez]

So in the. In the mod, in this program, I can do a search and replace. So that made it a lot easier this time around in a way, because last time when I wanted. When I wanted to change Professor Oak to Professor Kev, I had to search Oak and look for all the times that Oak spoke and then manually type in Kev. Anytime he's mentioned, change it. You know, it's a. Yeah. Kind of a pain in the ass. This most recent one, though, I searched for the word Elm because it's Professor Elm. Search for Elm, replace it with bless. And we're like, cool. That. Wow. This. This is so easy. At first it was bless. Okay, I did it. I did a bless this first. And then a character would do a move and it would say, your character.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The.

[Andy Cortez]

The Pokemon is over. Blessed.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So it replaced any time it found it.

[Andy Cortez]

Anytime it was overwhelmed. Overwhelming or overwhelmed. Bless would. Was now in the word.

[Greg Miller]

So now it's over.

[Andy Cortez]

W. Well, now I replaced any of those instances and put like, Adio in its place. But then yesterday we had a great one where a Pokemon got hit. And, you know, if you want to make sure. You want to water the plant and get it Scoello and it's soak. So the oak and oak became Coelho. But those are little bugs. I'm not even. I'm not too worried about crushing it. We're killing it. We're doing a great. You know, we're not doing.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Here we go.

[Andy Cortez]

We're not having great, you know, momentum.

[Tim Geddes]

I love this.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You crushed it. Look how good he looks.

[Andy Cortez]

Tim is. Or angry. So, like, Mike has not been happy with the progress, you know, Dude, I.

[Tim Geddes]

Missed the piece of rivals. They don't make them like they used to.

[Andy Cortez]

Such an. Dude, this guy is a jerk, man. Everyone nowadays blessed just like they want to hold your hand. They're like, hey man, great battle out there. I can't wait to keep on. This guy is such a dick. It's kind of awesome.

[Tim Geddes]

Rumors are it's Giovani's estranged child.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Here we go, here we go, here.

[Andy Cortez]

We go, here we go. So there's that little Tim versus animation and then we get the little hand clap right here. Dude. There it is.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Everybody check out the Nick.

[Andy Cortez]

But we're worried about this third gym.

[Tim Geddes]

You should be.

[Andy Cortez]

We are worried. Everybody's telling us to worry about. It's a normal type gym. What's the big deal? Oh, but one of them.

[Greg Miller]

Oh no.

[Andy Cortez]

But this Sabrina lady, I think teenage witch Whitney.

[Tim Geddes]

Whitney psychic one from the first one.

[Andy Cortez]

Also you walk up to the sign, it just says like, you know, you usually walk up to the sign, it'll be like, oh, this is the gym that belongs to Blaine. The fire. Whatever the hell. It just says the attractive girl or whatever is what they call her. But she's got a mil tank. And this miltank move apparently will wreck parties. Which is fine when you can just resurrect your characters and level up more. But not in a. In a permadeath run.

[Tim Geddes]

Blood will be shed.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, we're worried about it, but Mike just wants to get to it.

[Tim Geddes]

I get it.

[Andy Cortez]

He wants to quit dilly dallying, but then that's going to lead to an early death.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So what are you guys trying to.

[Andy Cortez]

What are you guys going to blame?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What do you guys got to do?

[Andy Cortez]

I'm worried about it. I'm kind of worried.

[Tim Geddes]

I hope he. I don't want you all to over prep. I want them to die.

[Andy Cortez]

No, it'll be better for content. I see where Mike's coming at it from but that's also like us redoing a lot of stuff and it's probably Kevin and Nick being like, Andy, can you just reset the things to whatever? I would never ask that of you. I added like 90 ultra or 90 rare candies last time for you. It's, you know, it needed to be.

[Greg Miller]

Remember that room where they would just keep populating.

[Tim Geddes]

Good lord. Enough about that though. You can wait and watch that stream right after this though. It's going very, very well. Shout out to Andy and all the boys for putting so much work in and making some awesome. And also thank you to our Patreon producers, Delaney Twining. Carl Jacobs and Omega Buster. If you're a member, you also get the Greg way that I was talking about. 16 minutes about reviewing games and the PlayStation Portal ruining Greg's life. Wow.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Allegedly.

[Tim Geddes]

Allegedly. Yeah. Today we're brought to you by Monster Hunter Now Built Rewards and Stash. But we'll tell you about that later. For now, let's start with the topic of the. The topic of the show stems from a couple days ago. Plus going through his games daily, little Steam wish list, looking at some indie hidden gems potentially that might be coming up. Greg Miller has a big old wish list himself.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, there's actually some. You were talking about wanting to do this hidden gems thing. You were talking about the games from showcases that we've seen and you forget about and yada yada yada. And you had a bunch of examples in my thought. I took your topic to be. Oh well, what's funny is we see this. I have my Steam open whenever we do this I wish list the games and then completely forgot about them.

[Andy Cortez]

Totally.

[Tim Geddes]

Totally. And because yeah, it started with I wanted to do a topic that maybe at some point we'll do in this format of thinking about games that we saw in a showcase from anybody, whether it's an indie showcase, PlayStation showcase, Xbox showcase, Nintendo Direct, whatever. One of those games really can go, whoa, this looks cool. And then we totally forget about it. And then maybe it comes up at another showcase eventually or maybe it doesn't. So it would require us to kind of go back and like pull some of those from them. Because the, the impetus for me was a midnight walk, which we saw at a PlayStation State of Play.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Kevin, can I see Midnight Walk? I don't remember this.

[Tim Geddes]

A year ago or so. It's the PSVR 2 game, but it's also playable just on PS5. Super cool stop motion look to it.

[Andy Cortez]

And like Nightmare Before Christmas.

[Tim Geddes]

Exactly. I, I wanted to, to. To shout that came out and be like where is it? And then a week later the state of play answered the question, gave a release date and here we are. So, so now we, we've shifted the topic a little bit here to. To be more just like looking through the. The wish list of Greg Miller and see what fun games he's looking forward to. Remember this one? There's a little dude.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, vaguely. I remember this.

[Andy Cortez]

This was a good. I mean the latest showing of this was fantastic. Yeah, really kind of like, oh, we were kind of sold already. And this one is. Looks really awesome.

[Greg Miller]

Like the one game where I was like, I might, I might bust out my PSVR2 to play this.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah. I'm a dust off the one back there.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

So dusty.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's not dusty at all. It's. It's in a nice Tupperware youe're gonna need a big. It's set to go. You want to play it? Ready to go.

[Tim Geddes]

I'm gonna need someone to scratch them.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'll scratch your ass for you, Greg.

[Tim Geddes]

You want to start?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Sure. Hey, everybody, it's me, Greg Miller. I have 19 games on my wish list at the moment. I did. It was 25 when I sat down when you wanted this topic. But there's games that have come out that I then was like, oh, well, get out of here. Get out of here. Get out of here. And let's just say what blessings. Too afraid to say bless you, Andy.

[Greg Miller]

Everybody's sneezing too much.

[Andy Cortez]

There's.

[Greg Miller]

There's something in the air.

[Andy Cortez]

There's something in the air.

[Tim Geddes]

Dust on the PSVR too.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Let's just talk about how amazing the Steam deck is. You know what I mean? Amazing. Really good thing. And what. God, let's just give it to you as well. The Steam is a platform.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Pretty goddamn impressive.

[Tim Geddes]

Pretty goddamn.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm happy to be part of this new wave of gamers coming to PC gamers that are like normal. Like I'm a normal gamer. For years PC gamers have been there just all glued together, you know what I mean? They're all stuck together in their little basements, their filthy little keyboards. They're cheetos everywhere. They're Dr. Pepper just laying everywhere, you know what I mean?

[Andy Cortez]

You delivering this with your mustache really changes the vibe of it all. He's licking his lips.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But no, you know, I went. I went. Filmed the movies, you all know, kind of funny podcast. Go listen to it. And on the way home because I was studying my lines on the way there, of course busted out the Steam deck. Going through a million different games on here that I'd been waiting for, had taken codes for. I was interested in stuff like While waiting, which we had seen forever ago. A little waiting game where you just, you know, it's. It's similar in vibes, I would say and what it's going for to the British game we really like. Thank you. Here where it's got that it's just all about getting to these jokes or doing this kind of thing. Enjoyed that for a while. I had heard nothing but good things. This is before the review embargo yesterday for Wander Stop. Oh yeah, I booted Wander Stop. And was immediately super impressed with the voice acting, the setup. What's going on? This world. Are you familiar, Tim?

[Tim Geddes]

Is this the one that was formerly the Ghost Bike?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No, no, that's Wheel World.

[Greg Miller]

This is the one that was developed by the same people who did Stanley Peril.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, okay.

[Greg Miller]

But now it's like more of a cozy game where you're somebody who was a warrior, you've been defeated a bunch of times, and now you're kind of like, down. And then you happen upon this tea farm, and then this guy invites you in and is like, yo, you're going to work on this tea farm now.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Really, really well done. Really well voice acted. Yeah. The idea is you are that character there. Yeah. Everything bless said. But what's really cool is while she's hunting for this warrior to learn how to get back to the top of her game, her sword becomes too heavy. So there's a lot of metaphors going on here. And the tea guy can just pick up your sword. So it's not your sword, it's clearly you. And so you stop here and it's a cozy game of growing the tea leaves, making the tea, yada, yada, yada. I was so disappointed in myself of like, I love the setup, I love the characters, I love the idea. I didn't love making tea. I didn't love growing tea leaves and making my plants bigger and all this stuff. Totally a Greg problem. Not a problem with the game. Just not that cozy farm sim game I want. But I recommend it if that sounds interesting because everything happening with it was super, super cool. Lov says, is it Tai Chi? No, of course. Because you can just say chai. Chai means just keep fucking it up.

[Tim Geddes]

Gray Tai Chi.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's a game's daily reference. It's a game's daily reference, everybody. So I jumped around that. I jumped at some embargo stuff I can't talk about and shouldn't talk about, blah, blah. But then of course, I was like, you said this. And it got me thinking about all the things I toss onto my steam wish list. Yes. And so of my 19 games, there's some bangers on here I would toss right at the. They're not ranked, even though I should go through and do that sometime. But the first one here is one that I can't wait for, and I'm a huge loser for Lush foil.

[Greg Miller]

Do you have them all written down?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No, I don't, Kev.

[Andy Cortez]

All right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But I'll call them out if the ones I want to talk about I'LL call it. Can you give me the latest Lush Foil photography sim trailer Kev off YouTube? Annapurna, of course, just did a showcase two weeks ago where they did a whole bunch of games and Lush Foil was in there. Lush Foil one I've been stoked about forever. Of course, this is just the photography game, right?

[Tim Geddes]

Stunning.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Everybody knows. You know what here, Andy. Actually, you know what? You know, you weren't on the kind of funny podcast yesterday. No, maybe you haven't heard. I am a movie star now, okay? That Spider man thing, right? You can see here, you can be. You're my witness. Okay. This is Brandon, Spider man, the guy who wrote the movie or whatever. He's excited to watch, blah blah. And then he says, could you send the behind the scenes photos you took? Right? Put him. And I put him in a Google Drive. What's he say right there?

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, wow, these are great.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I took an intro to photojournalism class at Mizzou in about 2004 and it really rocked my socks and changed everything about me. And so as much as I love a photo mode in the game, you know, when I really am into a game, I usually have on Instagram. Here's 20 photos I'm dropping of all this dumb shit. I did this game just being about photos, walking through with the nice cameras, going to Iceland, Japan, all these different things. Like, I am excited for this on many different levels. How long will I spend in it? I have no idea. I don't. Because even when you look at this, it's like we had photography games before. Lest we Forget Africa, the PlayStation 3 and it's one of those.

[Andy Cortez]

I thought you're gonna say the one that porties in.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, well, I mean to him, I.

[Greg Miller]

Thought you're gonna say Season.

[Tim Geddes]

Pokemon Snap.

[Greg Miller]

I like that game.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, Pokemon sound.

[Greg Miller]

Also we talked about we like it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I wanted to love Season. I think even there they were adding so much stuff in there, right? And they told him has like a narrative as well. And they're getting hats and costumes and stuff. Whereas this is like just go take photos. So I'll be interested to see how they judge my photos. Are my photos good? Are my photos bad? Whatever.

[Tim Geddes]

Things like I said, for about an hour. Summer game, if you remember.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I forget why I gave you the demo because you had to switch something else out.

[Tim Geddes]

I was not happy about it and I was. I was so annoying because I was playing this and like literally every 20 seconds something would happen. Like I would just like whoever was walking by be like, you see the Shit. Like, you see these gates? What are we talking about? Like, this game looks unreal, but I played it, it is real. Like, and it was on a be beefy ass PC and you could set the settings. Like, it seemed like it was a limitless scale. It's like whatever the power of the PC is, you can push it and like, my God, look at this thing. Gorgeous.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Does this do anything for anybody else other than Tim?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, visually it does, but I don't really know how. I'm kind of with you, Greg, where it's like, how long will I actually be in the game? We'll see.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, exactly.

[Greg Miller]

I guess that's my thing is it's more of a curiosity and more of a fascination with it than a. Oh, I'm going to devote my life to it. I want to hop into this game maybe for a few hours and take pictures and like just admire what it is. But I think for the photography sickos out there, I'm like almost envious of. Man, you guys are about to get something really special. Hopefully.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Hopefully. Right? And that's the. But here's something interesting about my Steam Wishlist and I would say my Steam deck is. I feel like. Because I look at Steam as. It's a Steam Deck thing, it's a portable thing and I know obviously I can play it on my computer, but like the way I consume Steam content and I think the fact that we don't. Everything, not every. Yeah, everything we're going to read through here is independent, which usually isn't. Hey, we got to get the review embargo, we got to do this thing. Blah, blah. I'm always way more casual with the games I'm playing on Steam, which I think always leads to like what I just did on this flight while waiting. Okay, I did five or six rounds. I get it. I'm moving on. Wander, stop. Oh, man. I really like it. But not for me. Okay. I played Redacted too, which we've had. Not the joking we were reviewing. Redacted, Redacted from Striking Distance Studios. It came out like last year, maybe two years ago at Christmas time or whatever it was the one where they were.

[Andy Cortez]

It was the Roguelite.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, they put it in the Callisto Protocol thing and it was like I played a bunch of that on this plane where I was like, jumped in. I was like, I was interested. But we had other reviews got in here and it was like played around. I was like, okay, yeah, you're not Hades. If I want to play this, I'd go play It. You know what I mean? So it's like. But that's how I consume it. And that's what I'm thinking with Lush Foil as well. Where. Even though I bet I'm going to play that on PlayStation rather than Steam Deck because I want it to look as pretty as possible, I see that definitely being like, I'm thinking I'm gonna play that for two hours and see if the mechanics work for me enough to make me actually come back and over and over again.

[Tim Geddes]

Very simulator. Yeah. Like it's very like you. You're tweaking the camera settings and like you. The way that you're. The angles you're turning and like what Dutch angle? It's pretty. Pretty damn cool. But like, it reminds me more of like a Gran Turismo than anything of like you're getting in there with the stuff.

[Andy Cortez]

You ever heard of an F Stop?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh yeah, I know F Stop.

[Greg Miller]

A lot of people.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Was broken in the Dragon age photo mode for a long time. I don't know if they ever fixed it. I was always like, this does jack shit. What the fuck's going on? Now we get into some interesting stuff because there's ones that jump out at me, right? But if I'm just going down my list, the next one is we took that trip. I don't even remember this game. Don't even know why I put it on there. A game made for you to relax while hitting the road. Dive into a heartwarming journey of friendship, loss and reunion Drive. Customize and upgrade your children van.

[Tim Geddes]

This cat's driving.

[Andy Cortez]

Well, no, he's in a passenger scene.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

As you explore ever changing roads to immersive landscapes. This is just a coming soon game from Lucito Locito. So this must have popped up on some showcase. And I look at this again and I go, yeah, I'd fucking play this again. Will I play it forever? Will I just drive around and see what's up? Probably just drive around, see what's up. But Tim, that's what the wish list is about. It's my thing is to keep my eyes on so I don't lose.

[Tim Geddes]

I'm so excited because going into this I was just like, oh, fuck. I've talked about all things on my wish list. I had it sorted wrong because like all the games had come out and then I just hit date at it. I'm like, oh, shit, I have hell.

[Greg Miller]

What's funny is I'm realizing the same thing as I go through my wish list where I'M like, oh, I missed this the other day. Like, I'm like, oh, we got to talk about. At some point, we got to talk about this game called Spine. This is Gun Fu. Okay, you're going to like this.

[Tim Geddes]

Cool.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, that, you know, yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Funny. That one's awesome looking.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Matt. Exposure says Greg loves a game description with the word loss in it.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah, yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I have everything now. You know, I'm living the best life. So I need. I need. I need the games that are the sad ones. Number three on my list is Deer and Boy, a cinematic platformer where you follow the journey of a boy who during his fight. No Flight. Meets an unexpected companion. Together, they will overcome many obstacles that will change their lives forever. You see it here again. Another one that I don't recall well, where we saw this.

[Andy Cortez]

We definitely saw it during a showcase.

[Greg Miller]

It was definitely a showcase.

[Andy Cortez]

It looked awesome. I do remember it. I do remember us, you know, immediately throwing out. Oh, shit. Greg's gonna be all about this.

[Greg Miller]

If you had a guess, because people in chat, there's so many in chat that wants to look up exactly what showcases this showed up at. If you had a guess, what showcase was this at?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Because I'm gonna say sgf. I think it was a little one given out of it. Maybe Game wars pre show.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, it does feel pre showish, but it also looks really cool. I'm gonna say.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm gonna say I'm gonna go with sgf.

[Tim Geddes]

That sounds right. What's this one called again?

[Greg Miller]

I'm gonna say Dear.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Good boy.

[Andy Cortez]

It's got a fantastic art style. I like the. The stylization of the way the character looks. It kind of has the same body style of the graffiti game that Cool.

[Greg Miller]

Greg liked with Concrete Genie.

[Andy Cortez]

Concrete Genie. Yeah. It gives me some of those vibes.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Sure.

[Andy Cortez]

I can see that the deer's growing up. Kind of some Neva vibes.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Number four on my list needs no introduction. Tears of Metal. Ah, this is, of course, Paper Cult. This, of course, from the people who made Bloodroots. I adored Bloodroots. I don't think anyone played Bloodroots. I was so fucking proud of Andy Cortez when we were watching whatever showcase they did, the debut trailer, which isn't this one, they threw up this thing and Andy caught it immediately off the fucking. He was like, I know that art style. Wait, it's Greg. It's the thing. And I'm like, oh, my God, it was blood.

[Andy Cortez]

He did it on a party mode. Yeah, yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Tears of Metal looks insane. It looks awesome. It looks like such an elevation of what they found success with and what I liked in Bloodroots. Tears of Metal is the medieval hack and slash co op roguelite. Carve your way through hordes of enemies to reclaim your island with the help of your formidable Scottish battalion. As you advance deeper into the trenches, uncover more about the mysterious dragon meteor and the treacherous enemy invasion. What a fucking art style from paper cult. You know, Raph over there, a good friend stayed at my house once, hid multiple bonum carnivals in my Christmas tree.

[Tim Geddes]

Oh, shit.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So there you go, you know. But even that aside, just the fact they gave me a bunch of bonums.

[Greg Miller]

Very few game menus, that'll do to me. What? Like the roguelite three choices.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm just a simple man.

[Greg Miller]

All I want in life is, are the three choices in a roguelite of how am I gonna upgrade my character? What choice am I about to make? Like give me plus 10 damage right now.

[Tim Geddes]

Right now.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm such a simple son of a. You know, like, you just, you show me that and then I, I'm like, okay, but like roguelites, you know, it's. They're all over the place. Like, are we getting tired of them, everybody? There's so many of them. And then I'm in and I go, oh, this gives me plus 5 fire damage. God damn, here we go. With his fire build, Greg over the.

[Greg Miller]

Weekend told me about a game. He was like, oh man, this is.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Gonna be such a U game that's embargoed, right?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I don't think I can talk much about it, but it's like a first person puzzle game, right? And at least that's how I've always viewed it as. And I was like, okay, cool, I know I'm going to be into that game. And then I booted up a copy, a review copy of that game, which I can't talk about yet. But like, once I realized that there was an element of repeating, of like, oh, you're going back and replaying elements, I'm like, oh, I'm fully in on this. Yeah, I just love restarting shit.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I played that for a while, but it's like literally once they got to the concept, I was like, text plus.

[Greg Miller]

I was like, I was like, here we go.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I mean, you bringing up. Just kind of going back to when we were looking at the gameplay for Lush Foil, the photography sim. And my immediate thought is, how long will I be in this world until I go, ah, maybe I just do another Hades run. I'm at 78 hours of Hades played. Hades 2 played nice. I. I can't stop. I do many runs a night. I can't stop playing this damn game. It keeps on getting better and better. There's a lot of people out there that are like, yeah, I'll wait until the game comes out, dude. Just, it's. It's unbelievably. It was already great at the Super Pre Alpha. It is just on a different level right now. I can't boot that up. I can't tell.

[Greg Miller]

I keep wanting to wait until that actually happened because I don't want to spoil my dinner.

[Tim Geddes]

I'm waiting.

[Andy Cortez]

With every run. I'm just like, you know, the amount of, like, if I, you know, with these aspects and this go, this will give me this. Oh, dude, it's just so fun.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, you speak my language.

[Andy Cortez]

Build crafting.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Up next is one that's out, but I haven't purchased yet. Sticky Business again. Probably a wholesome direct. I don't know where we saw Sticky Business. It's from Spell Garden Games. Experience the joy of running your own cozy small business. Create stickers, pack orders, and hear your customer stories. Time to build the cutest shop on the Internet. So you just go through and make stickers and sell them in your own little Etsy shop or whatever. That sounds awesome.

[Tim Geddes]

It's very.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

10 bucks. I'm gonna buy it right now. I'm talking to you about it. I'm. Forget about this.

[Greg Miller]

I'm penciling down. I'm gonna spoil a future game showdown for you guys. I'm penciling down game showdown minigame. Where was this game revealed?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, three games.

[Greg Miller]

And I was like, all right, where do we first?

[Andy Cortez]

I mean, I'm already bad at game showdown. If the game is like, what happened recently back then, no memory bless.

[Greg Miller]

Like, Tim is really good at remembering that shit.

[Andy Cortez]

I have no attention.

[Greg Miller]

But here's the problem is Tim is good at everything.

[Tim Geddes]

Thank you. I know all these chat the questions are geared towards Tim video game history. Fucking learn some shit, y'all.

[Andy Cortez]

Maybe add a physical component to the.

[Greg Miller]

Game, like, but also throw this ball.

[Andy Cortez]

Into this bucket six feet away.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

All right, now we're in a. We got a problem, guys. So I went to purchase Sticky Business, but it wants the security code off my card. I don't have my wallet on me. And that's now frozen steam. So we're gonna do. We'll jump to my wish list on.

[Tim Geddes]

My deck while you do that. I got some super chats here. Thank you, Melo. Actually, we get to the Super Chats after a quick word from our sponsors.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

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[Tim Geddes]

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[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

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[Tim Geddes]

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[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

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[Greg Miller]

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[Tim Geddes]

Give it your all.

[Andy Cortez]

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[Tim Geddes]

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[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

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[Andy Cortez]

I've never seen anything like it.

[Tim Geddes]

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[Andy Cortez]

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[Tim Geddes]

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[Greg Miller]

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[Tim Geddes]

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[Greg Miller]

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[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

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[Greg Miller]

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[Tim Geddes]

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[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

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[Tim Geddes]

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[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's how easy it is, everybody. Sticky business. We got it. We're up there. We're making it.

[Tim Geddes]

Making them stickers.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We're doing it. We're doing the damn thing. And a beat where she's like, you know, at her desk doodling.

[Tim Geddes]

Low five.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You know what's up?

[Tim Geddes]

How you doing, mellow fellow. Super chats in saying Little Goody two shoes. Just play the trailer. Kev, can you bring up the trailer for little Goody two shoes? I'm excited.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's gonna be.

[Greg Miller]

It's like a different kind of pollen in the air today.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, it's hidden different awesome dust. Spring.

[Greg Miller]

It's the PSVR2 dust.

[Andy Cortez]

I think it's review season. Spring is sprung for sure.

[Greg Miller]

It is review season. I forgot about that. Yeah, I didn't think about the season.

[Andy Cortez]

The forecast was sort of looking at review season.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, hold up.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Little goody two shoes. Oh, I remember this.

[Greg Miller]

This looks cool. Oh, feels like a Yu Gi.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

There was a lass whose fate was.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Led by a pair of ruby red shoes and a burning desire for everlasting fortune. But fate had other plans for her.

[Andy Cortez]

There's too many good games.

[Greg Miller]

She looks like, like Sailor Moon.

[Tim Geddes]

Sailor Moon was in Yu Gi.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

In the remote town of Kieferberg, forced to be a maid of all work for the town's old crones.

[Tim Geddes]

This is kind of rap.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

Kind of a bunch of different styles.

[Andy Cortez]

And escape.

[Greg Miller]

Like if Stardy was warioware.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Luckily, Al has her dearest friends by her side.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, man. I can't wait to get back to Guild of Mystery.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yet at Nightfall.

[Tim Geddes]

Not all I love the anime cutcenes.

[Andy Cortez]

The woods beckon her to face her.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Fears, entertain her dream.

[Andy Cortez]

Like a top down adventurer with a bunch of different genres. Is it top down? Is it orthographic? We don't know.

[Tim Geddes]

Don't ever say that word again.

[Greg Miller]

Oh my God.

[Tim Geddes]

This is crazy.

[Greg Miller]

It's kind of cool.

[Tim Geddes]

Oh no.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

There you go, you pervs.

[Tim Geddes]

Sick ass. Title treatment. Okay, out now.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Out now.

[Tim Geddes]

Oh, wow.

[Greg Miller]

What are the reviews?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Hold on a second now. Not a second now. Little Little Goody Two Shoes.

[Andy Cortez]

A lot of games, man.

[Tim Geddes]

A lot of games.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I know, right? No, it's time to play the games I got now.

[Tim Geddes]

Jam Van says I'm looking overwhelmingly positive.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Are the overall reviews. Very positive in recent reviews.

[Andy Cortez]

Came out in 2023.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Venture into the woods as you play little goody two shoes. A phasmagorical horror narrative adventure. I say what I said there where your decisions matter.

[Tim Geddes]

Jam Van says I'm looking forward to date everything. The dating sim where you can date all the things with the crazy voice cast with Ashley Johnson, Laura Bailey, Neil Newburn, newborn and more including KF favorite Ben Starr, Neil Newman.

[Greg Miller]

I believe Neil Newbin, the voice actor for a starion pronounced that.

[Andy Cortez]

I think it's new bun. Yeah, New bun or newborn.

[Greg Miller]

They probably misspelled it.

[Tim Geddes]

Oh, gotcha. Cool. Y'all hyperdate everything.

[Greg Miller]

I am. I like a quirky dating simulator. I feel like the last one I played was a while ago. I don't know if you guys remember Boyfriend Dungeon.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, of course.

[Greg Miller]

But I've been craving something like that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

I don't know. There is something nice about like, I don't know, just a bunch of quirky. Like in. In Boyfriend Dungeon it was the fact that you were dating your swords and then taking the swords into dungeons or whatever. Date everything being a thing of. I'm dating literally all these inanimate objects and they're voiced by like all these cool ass people. I'm in the mood for something like that right now.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm glad that you enjoyed the voice acting debut of Andy Cortez.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Wait, you were in Boyfriend Dungeon?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. No, you weren't really in the most minimal fashion.

[Greg Miller]

No way.

[Andy Cortez]

Every character was supposed to have like a lot of lines and I recorded a lot of lines but it was reduced to just efforts of ah, just stuff like that.

[Greg Miller]

I missed this.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. I was just a little npc. Tiny little. You know, I didn't know this either.

[Tim Geddes]

That's awesome.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, that's crazy.

[Tim Geddes]

Damn. How many games is Andy? We just don't know.

[Andy Cortez]

Kill it with fire too.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

Mellow fellow says Spark the electric Jester 3. Best way to describe it is it's a spiritual successor to Sonic Adventure 2.

[Greg Miller]

I'll put it up.

[Tim Geddes]

Spark the Electric Jester 3.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, man. Dude, just looking at this guy's character design, I'm like, I would have been drawing this motherfucker nonstop in elementary school.

[Greg Miller]

It's crazy the chokehold that Sonic has on some of us. Because I don't even like Sonic Adventure 2. Hearing Sonic, I'm like, oh, it's I wish list.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I own and I own it. I'll tell you what, you one thing, you guys, I've never heard you talk about it, but the Sonic live action movies are good. Ben's been watching Sonic 2 a lot. We've been watching a lot of Sonic 2. Get off this piece of shitake planet. That's good. Jim Carrey.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, you're good.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You ad lib that.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, interesting.

[Tim Geddes]

I like this.

[Greg Miller]

I mean I'm getting Sonic like heroes, but I guess that's just because I.

[Tim Geddes]

Fuck with sonic heroes.

[Greg Miller]

Because I like sonic heroes.

[Tim Geddes]

Cool.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Hell yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

Greg, let's get back to you.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Up next is Project C. Not much to say on this one, right? You're talking about, of course, Half Mermaid, Sam Barlow, you know one of these kind of games. You know how I love everything Sam Barlow does? You know her story.

[Greg Miller]

Immortality.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Immortality. Of course, the most recent one. No, just in for whatever he's doing. So remember this is that weird thing where Half Mermaid announced like three games at once or some shit. It was like weird things and started putting up pages. So of course I wish list that I'm not worried about not being able to keep up with it, but I would need to be there. I need to be on it. And again, if you are and this is a Blumhouse game, remember too? I love Blumhouse and horror movies, let alone them doing more horrific games and and stuff while we're here. It's worth pointing out you'll hear a lot about it on Monday where we of course are doing our big GDC stream. Something like six. I think it's 20 developers or with more than 20 games coming through. We're kicking off with the mix. Kind of funny spring game showcase. Like we do everything. You will hear it throughout that day. Driven in your head. Remember, remember, remember. Wish listing games helps developers so much, especially indies like it is so helpful for them getting coverage at ign. So Helpful for them to get raised up on the Steam Wishlist, to get in front of other podcasts, other press, stuff like that. Like, if you like a game, you need to wish list it. Which is why I've been more and more adamant about it over the years. When do you think we see this game, Project C? Who the fuck knows? Because again, I can't remember. They didn't. They have a Silent Hill one, two. Don't they? They got. Didn't they announce something?

[Greg Miller]

They announced, like, they announced multiple projects.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. And I can't keep them all straight. I'm just waiting for them, whatever they.

[Greg Miller]

You know, because I'm. Is too risky. I was going to be like, is this like a fancy critic? I should get in on this? Because I feel like now with. When I look at Sam Barlow, I'm like, you're guaranteed.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Like, you make bangers here. There's no way this is coming out this year, right?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I would think. No, because we know so little. But who knows? I don't.

[Greg Miller]

Crazier Telling Lies came out in 2019. Immortality came out in like 2023, 25.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, that makes sense.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. It's not coming this year.

[Andy Cortez]

2026.

[Greg Miller]

There's no way.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay. The next one I have on my wish list here at number six is Masters of Albion. Of course, this is the one where God is Guy, not Peter Moore. Help me out.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, Peter Molyneux.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Peter Molyneux popped up and announced this. And he's like, he's always full of shit. I'm like, well, I gotta watch. I gotta know what's happening. Build by day, fight by night in this epic story of power and consequence. Design, build and customize your world. From the food your people eat to the clothes they wear, the weapons they wield, to the homes they live in. Possess characters at will in this unique God game. Masters of Albion. Of course, Peter Molyneux, known for many different reasons in the video game industry. Maybe you think he's a genius, maybe you think he's a fraud. Somewhere in between. He is definitely someone interesting to watch with what they're doing with games. So they announced this one, and I wanted to make sure I was keeping tabs on it because it is outside of my normal wheelhouse, but I'd like to see what's up with it. Of course, this is the one where he came out afterwards and was like, it's in the Fable universe. And people are like, but you don't own Fable.

[Andy Cortez]

And he's like, ah, you know, I said, fuble.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Albion. It's all the same world. Like people need talking about. How is that possible?

[Greg Miller]

Like Mike shit to do.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I just said it. Now I can't take it back.

[Andy Cortez]

The legalities be damned. Who cares?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

From there I would jump to number seven on my list. Which is Rune Factory, Gardens of Xisuma. Rune Factory, a well known franchise throughout the world. And one I've never ever, ever, ever, ever, ever played. So I don't even remember why. This one got my attention going as we watched the trailer. Welcome to the eastern nation of Xisuma in this fresh take on Rune Factory. Use your powers as an Earth dance. The land, its people and even its gods along the way, battle corrupted monsters, rebuild seasonal farms and villages and form bonds with the locals.

[Andy Cortez]

This is something you'd make fun of us for liking the title. Only this.

[Tim Geddes]

You're just like game freak. What are you doing? Get your shit together.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. For sure.

[Tim Geddes]

Even if Pokemon game looked like this, we'd celebrate in the streets.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. I mean as we watch it now. Gorgeous art style. Again. I don't. I. The dancing part. I'm all about. You know what I mean? The. The town building again. This is what I'm talking about though. Is my Steam Wishlist is the. I'm interested in that. I want to know more about it as it comes. And again, I think we're so good here and I should only talk to myself. I'm so good at knowing. Obviously. PlayStation, Xbox. What's the big thing? What's the next big. What is Ubisoft doing? Sure. But I think little things like this slip by me. And so I want to be better obviously about that as we get into it. It seems simple enough. Right. As you get into it. But maybe it's not. And that would turn me off. Because when you start getting complicated. Right? But we're locked to a grid as we see them build here. I'm fine with that. It's the one I'm trying to do these fallout shelters. And I'm putting things on. Not fallout shelter. Fallout 4. I'm trying to build shelters in or whatever. And it was not looking good. I got all pissed off. This seems like something I would touch and leave immediately. But.

[Andy Cortez]

Really I'm tied by it.

[Tim Geddes]

We got a couple super chats coming in. AP says run the trailer for Holston, please. H O L S T I N Ah, you know those one.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Holston is a kind of like very old school take on survival horror. And whenever you go, you know you're kind of watching your character in Third Person with fixed camera angles and then as soon as you go to like shoot a zombie has a really awesome art style and it goes to like third person and you're kind of right there. Then it zooms back out. But the art style is kind of what's really, I think the one selling it. I hope I'm wrong. God, it'd be so funny if I'm just like explaining the wrong game. Yeah. Totally different thing. Yeah. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's. I'm pretty sure that's the one I'm thinking of because I've seen it circulate on Twitter a whole bunch in the last couple years, sir.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's circulating.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Whenever you see the indie developers will be like, yeah, post a screenshot for your game. Yeah, here it is. And yeah, I think the art style is just really fantastic. It has that very sort of old school 3D. Oh, I've seen this pixel art.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

Beautiful.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Using awesome rendering tech.

[Greg Miller]

Was this at sgf?

[Andy Cortez]

No, I don't.

[Greg Miller]

Maybe I'm thinking of something.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm not sure.

[Tim Geddes]

Damn, that's cool.

[Andy Cortez]

But it's just that. Yeah, the camera angles whenever you sort of zoom in. Looks really awesome the way it works in action.

[Greg Miller]

There was some Resident Evil game that was at SGF that was like top down like this. And then you would aim down sights.

[Andy Cortez]

It's very possible this is it.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

It might be this.

[Tim Geddes]

Damn. Yeah, that transitions.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I just added this to my wish list. That's awesome.

[Tim Geddes]

Then Alec Bobco says, Rune fencer a Lilia a 2D metroidvania with a dope art style. Kev, that's Rune R U N E Fencer. Like it sounds Lilia F E N C E R Fencer Musashi Lily Is I L L Y I A. Thank you.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Are you lost child?

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, is this another one of the. No, never mind. I was gonna say, is this another one of them Twitter games that I've like wish listed from Twitter?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

People who arrive here don't come by choice.

[Tim Geddes]

Oh.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They come by the will of the goddess.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, maybe this is the one I was thinking of.

[Tim Geddes]

What?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Games are so fucking cool.

[Tim Geddes]

They really are. Man, this looks sick.

[Greg Miller]

Like, show this to a child in 1992 sick. And you'd be like, oh, that's game of the year.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

This starts a massive franchise. Yeah. This changes the industry.

[Greg Miller]

This comes out in 1992. It starts like it is what Mario is right now.

[Andy Cortez]

Universal Studios has an Ilia land or whatever.

[Tim Geddes]

Matt Egman says the indie I'm looking forward to the most is Pony Island 2 Panda Circus. I love Daniel Mullins and have great memories.

[Andy Cortez]

The Inscription.

[Tim Geddes]

That's right. Okay, you guys hyped for that one?

[Andy Cortez]

I mean, I'm just hyped for whatever Daniel Mullins is working on. Like I. After playing Inscription, it's like, okay, this dude is.

[Greg Miller]

He's different.

[Andy Cortez]

Different creatively. And I, I know that it's always going to be a kind of a mental ride that he takes you on.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I never, I never went back and played the Pony island game that came out before Inscription. I feel like I should just based on the fact that. Yeah, Inscription works so well on us. I know Pony. Pony island has some of that weird shit going on too.

[Andy Cortez]

I don't know why in my head Canon, I assumed this game existed. Only without a first one ever coming out.

[Tim Geddes]

I thought that like.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, maybe I created that in my head.

[Tim Geddes]

It was like R. Kelly's Ignition Remix. There was no Ignition.

[Greg Miller]

That's not true.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Right?

[Tim Geddes]

I've never heard it.

[Greg Miller]

Oh no. Yeah, nobody's heard it.

[Tim Geddes]

Does it exist? I don't know.

[Greg Miller]

And I'm not looking down.

[Tim Geddes]

He's canceled. It's over. The world will never know.

[Greg Miller]

That's fair.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Nobody cares anymore.

[Tim Geddes]

Greg.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. Up next on my list, I have Hurdling Guide a herd of mysterious creatures on a stirring and beautiful journey into the mountains and beyond. This is an okamotive game published by Panic. We've seen it. Like I said, most stuff we've seen before. Right. Throughout many different showcases. Maybe just the Panic showcase. I forget. But it's these giant weird ass creatures. Herd them around, get them all, you're walking them across. It seems like another weird introspective game. Right? We know very little about it. I don't think there's much going on. This is the ID at Xbox showcase. But.

[Andy Cortez]

Right, okay, I do remember this.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Guide these guys out. Let's go be a shepherd. You know what I mean? We got these weird horned creatures. I'll get them where they're going.

[Andy Cortez]

You're hurting them. But can you herd your feelings? Actually, you know, that's kind of.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This is all happening because of course grandma died, you know.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, grammy. And you had to take over her little homestead.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, 100%. So, yeah, beautiful big environments, moving these guys around. A different kind of gameplay. I mean, I know we've heard it things before, but I'm interested See what they're whipping up with this. This looks like a goofy little story. So yeah, let's get in there like.

[Andy Cortez]

The death stranding of kind of whatever this is.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, exactly.

[Greg Miller]

I remember being a shepherd.

[Andy Cortez]

But again, I'm just such a big fan of when a developer can just focus real hard on one mechanic and build the whole thing around. How can we, you know, like I installed Death Shining last night, reinstalled it. Yeah, just to kind of like run around and it's like, man, running around in that game just feels so expertly done because that's like the main thing. And in this, like to have a developer go, we're going to hyper focus on whatever this mechanic is. Let's really do it like better than anybody's ever done it. And I, I love when developers can really get in there.

[Greg Miller]

What if we came together as a family and re reviewed Death Stranding?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, Greg's in that.

[Tim Geddes]

I got it in me, man. I don't think I'm ever finishing that thing.

[Andy Cortez]

I mean, with it.

[Tim Geddes]

I tried, dude. I tried recently, hard.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We should try to do it, what, a month out you think from death training to. Are you worried about burning out?

[Greg Miller]

I am a little worried about burning out.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But like two months before S382, then you got a month off.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We should look at the calendar, figure out where that does and where we. We should actually look at big game release.

[Greg Miller]

I mean, I'm still fresh on it because I already. I just beat it. Two years.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You don't even have to play it. I'll touch it. That sucks.

[Andy Cortez]

What if we steal Tim's phone and just like, you have to do this. Tim, don't listen.

[Greg Miller]

If we like put him on content, that way he has to play it. Be like, oh, you're scheduled on the stream.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Go beyond the. Yeah, go be on the stream with Mike where he walks.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah, I'll do that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay, fine. Fair enough.

[Greg Miller]

I was gonna say, I guess we line it up for when they beat it. So we could have a seven person gamescat.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, we could do that. We could do that. That's smart. I like that idea.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, but I don't even think they know what they're.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No, I don't know.

[Andy Cortez]

I've just been hearing like I walked.

[Greg Miller]

Past Mike's desk and I saw him on Amazon with treadmills like, like open on the page.

[Andy Cortez]

And then. And then I heard. Yeah, but your plan isn't even to beat it. And it's like. Well, no, I don't think we, you know, I don't know what. There.

[Greg Miller]

They got something going on. I think the idea is someone plays it while Mike walks But I was like, mike, why don't you just play?

[Andy Cortez]

He's like, I'm going to be walking.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Point.

[Andy Cortez]

No, but you can do both.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Huh? Okay. It's always interesting to find out what people are doing to this company.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah. Yesterday I was walking in the bathroom. Mike looks at me, he goes like, hey, Tim, call peloton. Let's get a sponsorship for the the Treadville. And I'm just like, not how it works.

[Greg Miller]

But the whole reason this was an idea is because Roger has a walking treadmill. So why Mike is probably gonna buy his own treadmill.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

He wants thousand dollar trees.

[Andy Cortez]

He wants a heavy duty one that he can run on that he. That can handle like running. Because that's what he.

[Tim Geddes]

God damn it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

A treadmill in this office would turn into a costume closet so quickly. People just laying their on it. And I should say. And I know because I'm using the poles out there as jacket holders. I'd be the one putting clothes on it.

[Greg Miller]

Remember the balance beams that we had? We used for like one week.

[Tim Geddes]

They were everywhere.

[Andy Cortez]

I used mine.

[Greg Miller]

They were under every desk. I used mine for months. And then one day somebody threw them all out.

[Andy Cortez]

Probably Nick.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

My next one on my list is Wheel World. You might remember. This one is Ghost Bike, which is a much better name, but they changed and they put a whole statement about it because it turns out ghost bikes are for people who got killed on their bikes. So it makes sense, but it's still not a great name. Wheel World. This one, I've always liked the art style of. I like the biking part of it. But again, it was Annapurna's showcase a couple weeks ago where they did the whole thing where the devs talked about everything they're doing and I could be wrong. Hold on. I guess. I don't have to guess. Yeah. One thing I did not know. Everybody here kind of funny. Best friends and everybody here. I was watching this presentation and they immediately caught my attention when it was revealed. Even though it's their name, they didn't change anything. I just didn't know because I'm an idiot. These are the same people who made Nidhogg. Oh, yeah, of course. We adore it. Kind of funny. We adore Nidhogg and we've done. That's why the game we streamed or done party modes of the most. Right.

[Tim Geddes]

Anyways, they do summon Satan.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Exactly. The whole. The whole showcase is the developers talking and then introducing their trailer. It was great stuff. And when they went in, they were like, oh, this is very Much like Burnout paradise, but for bikes. Oh. And I was like, what the fuck? Like, really? And like, as you watch this trailer, like, with the sound down, but you saw, like, it said Rome, build, whatever, and it's like, oh. Like, it's all been there. It's been in front of our face the entire time. But, like, it just didn't dawn on me what they were doing with it. Right. Yeah. So, like, I. After I watched the Annapurna Showcase, I added this to my fantasy critic because I was like this. I mean, I'm not expecting tens, but I'm like, this sounds like something I'd be super into. And I bet a bunch of other people will be into as well. And hopefully It'll get me 85.

[Andy Cortez]

I love the character art style. So.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, right.

[Andy Cortez]

With the character's face looks so good.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. So I thought, yeah, this is one that I added to my list a long time ago just because I was like, oh, it looks cute. But then the more I hear it, I'm like, wait a second. This sounds really fucking cool. And it's climbing my list there for games. I can't wait for this year.

[Andy Cortez]

Play the demo a bit during Steam Next Fest. Not a whole lot, but just enough to be able to talk. You know, bike over here where they tell you to go and you talk to some NPCs and then they tell you about a part that you can find over there. So you bike over there. It's like, oh, this adds. Here's this new brake thing or this new pedaling system or new wheels or whatever, and you just kind of like start to upgrade your bike. It's. It's really cute. I think it's.

[Greg Miller]

I think just shot up like this game. Way up my list of anticipation.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I. I would say go grab the part from the showcase on. Kevin, I know you're doing a million things. You're doing a great job. I will try to make you find it. I'm not sure if they broke it out, but it would be interesting. Watch there because I really thought it was cool to hear them talk about it.

[Tim Geddes]

CJ Split Song says. Anyone else looking forward to Demon School?

[Andy Cortez]

On paper, I've been hearing about this forever.

[Tim Geddes]

Which one is this?

[Greg Miller]

Plus, this is one that is very Persona like.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They came through for the GDC showcase. Yeah, they see Showcase last.

[Greg Miller]

They came through. Yeah, for the GDC showcase. The Mix Showcase. But yeah, it's like a Persona like game, but the combat is a bit more isometric. Really cool art style and it is. Yeah. From indie devs. Looks cool, but it's. I don't know what it is. I think it is maybe just the isometric aspect that like doesn't really do it as much for me. Yeah, it throws me off. It's not like my preferred kind of combat style, but it's very obviously inspired by like JRPGs like Persona IGN. Oh yeah. We might want to fast forward a game.

[Andy Cortez]

Was this not at. We had this at one of ours. Yeah. Yeah, that's right. Okay. Sorry.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think they opened the indie mix kind of funny showcase last or two years stream. Yeah, two years ago. Last year.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. It is the thing of. You're going from like, you know, being in a classroom, hanging out with the homies and then. Yeah, you go into these dungeons.

[Tim Geddes]

This is cool.

[Greg Miller]

It's very stylized.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. Still dope. I know we're getting along in the tooth. And again I said I had 19. That was. We only got to number nine there. So I want to give two more and then we'll go feel it out. Whatever. One surprising no one. We've talked a lot about it. Hell Is Us. This is that Nacon Non Con. Night Non con. Whatever. The Nacon game from Rogue Factor, which is the old. The folks who used to be over at Eidos Montreal. And this is the crazy one that's if war is the closest we get to hell on Earth, it's because Earth harbors the worst of demons. Humankind in an isolated country ravaged by infighting, discover the secrets of your past and deal with repercussions of a mysterious calamity. This was just in that PlayStation showcase. It turned a lot of heads there after we got a very. What brief synopsis before and everything else. Now you're seeing investigation gameplay of it. It's, you know, meant to be. They talked about it in their jjb right? Or jjb. No, JJB did his blog post when they originally announced it talking about like it's not a souls game, but it kind of is. Like we're not putting a lot of information in the game in the HUD world. We want you to discover it, we want you to find it, we want you to go out and venture forth. But you got guns. That's cool. You got this cool thing here.

[Andy Cortez]

I have a quote here from a write up from GameSpot. This is from Darren Bonthe. Because they. They recently had the Nacon sort of direct where they showed off a couple of different games and Hell Is Us was part of it. And yeah, they talked about this investigation gameplay and the Quote is from the creative director, Jonathan Jacques Belletet.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's JJB.

[Andy Cortez]

JJB who says combat is only 50 of the experience. The other half of the game is all about exploration. The discovery, the joy that's related to them and how they play essential role in your journey. Unless cool, right?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The investigation they're doing right there.

[Andy Cortez]

Unlike traditional games, Hell Is Us doesn't rely on quest markers or a guided path. There's no magical compass pointing you to the right direction. There's no quest journal with a shopping list of everything that you need to do in which order. Our player plattering approach encourages you to follow your own instincts, discover clues organically and chart your own course through the adventure.

[Greg Miller]

Let me tell you, Andy, last night I rolled credits on Outer Wilds and I still gotta like, I think, I think I have a lot more to do, but I want to talk about it later this week in full of like my full impressions. What I will say is that like that is a game that has a lot of investigation and a lot of like, hey, no way points, no direction. Just fucking like do your thing and figure out like what you want to figure out type shit. And I think that might now be my favorite genre of video game. And like, I mean, hearing you read that and talk about it, I'm like, oh, hell is us having like this cool ass. Like half of it being the combat and like, you know, all this cool shit we're seeing on screen, but then the other half being, hey, explore yourself and figure out what's going on in this world and everything we see visually. Like, I'm very fascinated by what the fuck is going on in this world.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I'm so excited for this, Charlie. It's always sunny in Philadelphia with the me. You know, like having that string theory sort of thing in Outer Wilds was fantastic. Kind of putting all the clues together. And I'm having such an awesome time right now playing through Dark Souls 2 for the first time, where I'm actually for content, but also just for my own knowledge. I'm keeping notes as I'm going. So whenever I talk to a new NPC or they have something new to say in the game on stream, I'll pop up the notepad and I'll start to write in. Oh, that person's actually, that, that's his daughter. Oh, hold it. We just found out who they were and it's really elevating the experience a lot. And I, you know, I really assume that this will be a big notebook game for Greg, you know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, that's what it gets. I mean like Hell Is Us is a third person action adventure game that combines intense melee combat with a thrill of exploration. Explore a semi open world and find answers to your questions and face mysterious creatures all along your way. That all sounds awesome to me. My one concern is, is it going to be soulsy like and super punishing and I got a dodge and do it. Like it doesn't sound like it, but that's my concern. Otherwise yeah, I think I'm right there with it. I'm going to have my notebook out, ready to go and like try to keep track of what's going on because it just seems like a really cool world.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah, I. I can't believe this game's real. Like this is one of those ones. When we first saw it a couple months ago, it was just like I.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

See you in seven years and now.

[Tim Geddes]

It'S coming on like same thing with Clara Obscur, which is like where I'm like, how is this real? So plus, maybe I've been wrong. Maybe Rise of Hydra is coming out this year.

[Greg Miller]

I mean maybe we're going to see Marvel 1943 get ready.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And then the final one I want to give a shout out to here is Threads of Time. If you think you don't know this one, you do know this one. You definitely saw it around social media. Kevin, don't get the trailer up. Threads of Time is an era spanning turn based RPG inspired by the timeless classics. Embark on a journey through time. Gather a party of charismatic heroes from across the ages and uncover a plot that threatens to unravel the past, present in future. As we are well documented here. I am not the turn based RPG guy. It takes a very special game for me to lock in on that. The art style they're using here, the fact that you're going through time to do it. I keep trying to find another octopath. Like I loved Octopath 1 and 2 and I keep trying to find it right now in modern times to grab me the same way those games did and they didn't. This looks like it has the stuff to do that as we now jump into the far flung future. Like this game looks incredible.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh wow.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You haven't seen this. If you are an audio listener, go find this game right now. Threads of Time.

[Tim Geddes]

This keeps getting doper.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's Rio Games. It's being published by Humble Games. There is no release date. When they put out their initial stuff about it, they were very like, we're blown away that everybody cares about our Little game. Thank you so much. So when we'll get it? Who knows? But this looks awesome. Yeah, this just looks like something I can't wait to play. Even though I'm not the turn based.

[Greg Miller]

I think me and Tim are always being are always like, yo, where's the HD 2D version of Chrono Trigger? Like remake Chrono Trigger using HD 2D. And I realized that they're already kind of doing it right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm so close to buying the Suikoden 1 and 2 collection. Like I just.

[Tim Geddes]

Because it's pretty.

[Andy Cortez]

Well, it's pretty. But I've also just been really interested in like everybody's just thoughts on the story and how kind of ahead of its time it was. And seeing that, that looks freaking fantastic. Thanks for that one, Greg.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No problem, buddy.

[Andy Cortez]

Adding that in my wish list.

[Greg Miller]

Threads of Time.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Threads of time.

[Tim Geddes]

Very cool.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I just need every turn base to feel like clear, obscure.

[Greg Miller]

Man. Can I tell you, this episode got me excited about video games.

[Tim Geddes]

Hell yeah. And Gray already said this but you know, next Monday we're doing the GDC mix stream all day and like we're going to get a new round of these games to look forward to. Like I'm so excited to see like what are going to be the games that each one of us sitting here are like stoked about that we don't know about. So everybody get your wish lists ready.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And get ready for Monday like we said. Yeah. Kicking it off with the showcase which is a filmed, you know, live or taped thing. Debut in 60 some games. I think breaking news on 60 some games. And then yeah, after that an all day live stream with people in and out and some beers.

[Tim Geddes]

I want to get through the rest of the super chats to wrap the show up here. Peaceful Warhead says Mind Wave by Hollow Hammer. A warioware style game with a great art style and soundtrack. The demo's out now, but I can't wait for the game to release.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I think I was on a game city with blessing.

[Greg Miller]

I think it was us too.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, Art style is very like Invader Zimish I believe.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, this is one that you should definitely check out the trailer to see how it actually looks because it is. Yeah, like Andy said, Invader Zim ish but like it's a really cool hand drawn, exaggerated art style.

[Tim Geddes]

Anslo in the chat says that Mind Wave Fox.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, I look at this.

[Andy Cortez]

I have one more Kevin from the at the link that I posted earlier from the assets because the game that I Was very excited about last year was no Rest for the Wicked and we've had that sort of early access drop where people were hopping into it. And while I loved the intro of it, I didn't love what the game was kind of where I could see the game was going. And I think my overall wish for this game was like I just want a campaign to play through. I don't want to log in and see daily missions and know that like oh, this area changes with enemies which is like awesome in a way. But it's like. It's like dynamic but it. I. I guess I'm asking for what fans really or what I'm. What I don't want is what kind of fans want is like replayability and for him like just get me through an awesome campaign. Yeah, get me through a 10, 15 hour narrative with these amazing cutcenes that Moon Studio is capable of. Who worked on the Ori games this. It looks fantastic and today they just had their sort of like direct that they do and they haven't had one in a while but today they announced that they are fully independent from Take Two and they bought the all the publishing rights back for no Rest for the Wicked and the upcoming Update. I believe April 30th is when we finally get the co op sort of update. But the everything else that dropped with it. I have an article here. This is from Video Games Chronicle from Chris Scullion and sort of just writes down things that they are kind of working on and having to do with, you know, gameplay being expanded with a lot more story beats with a lot more weapons and a lot. Mainly a lot of quality of Life stuff. I think the game was kind of in an odd spot where it has the, the Dark Souls trappings of. Do you want your character to be a strength character or dexterity character? Big sword or dual dagger? How you know, or mage, whatever the hell. But. And that was cool. But then you were getting like randomized loot which felt like oh well now I can't really experiment because I'm kind of stuck in here. And. And again I didn't love kind of like logging and seeing like new daily missions. Go take on five of these. Like I just kind of want to play a story and have a game but it feels like we're getting closer and closer there with the more updates that happen. The game looks still freaking fantastic. I think it's just one of the most gorgeous art styles you can see and they've added a lot of cool spells and different play styles for People who aren't necessarily into the. The, you know, melee combat. There's a lot of really cool, beautiful looking magic spells that you can kind of play around with as well. So I'm excited that they're continuing to expand on it and I hope that again, it's not the game that I was wanting initially, but I still think that I can grow to love this game.

[Tim Geddes]

Hell yeah.

[Greg Miller]

You just suplex that guy.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, yeah. They in that little. In the video they are narrating and Genadi the. The leads on it was like we know you all loved suplexing enemies, so of course we have to add a drop kick. And so right after that suplex, the character just does a double leg drop kick.

[Tim Geddes]

Doom Spud says I can't wait for replaced. Still so interested in that. I know you didn't love it that much, Andy, when you played a little.

[Andy Cortez]

Bit of it, but I wasn't in love with the. The combat. But everything else kind of surrounding it seems like this is gonna be awesome and I want this sort of investigative story Beats, you know.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah. Oscar Navarro says Disc Creatures World. It's a GBA style creature collector. Oh God, I love. The games are just everything.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

You know what I mean? It's just like if you like the game, there is a spiritual successor to it somehow, some way. And then Mellow fellow says I'm gonna give one more shout out to Mind wave. Kickstarter did 10 times its goal recently. Invader Zim style art with Warioware gameplay. Indie hit incoming. And then the final one here to Akod says have you checked Urban Myth Dissolution Center? It's a mix of visual novel Allah Ace Attorney with horror game vibes and beautiful sprite art. No, not.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Check that out.

[Tim Geddes]

Kev, can you pull that up?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What was it called?

[Tim Geddes]

Myth Dissolute Dissolution Center. D I S S O L U T I O N Good word.

[Andy Cortez]

Dissolution.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Dissolution is good in the word.

[Tim Geddes]

Now we'll close out our episode today before we get to the Nuzlocke Nuz it. Nick will leave the mall.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Before we talk about this, Tim, what. What was it? This Creatures demo, what was it called?

[Tim Geddes]

Disc Creatures World.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay. Disc.

[Tim Geddes]

It's like a Monster Rancher type situation.

[Andy Cortez]

I hated the Monster Rancher theme song.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Cursed Object.

[Andy Cortez]

Dude. So Monster Rancher, what is it?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What is it? What is it? What does the gameplay look like? Okay, okay. Oh, okay.

[Andy Cortez]

Little investigator thing. This is going to be like on the top 10 of polygons of the.

[Greg Miller]

Besties, right next to Paradise Killers.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah, Love it. Well, everybody let us know in the comments below what games we've missed. This was a lot of fun. We probably will do this again with other people's list to see what they have, because I do have a surprising amount that I didn't realize. But stay tuned if you're on YouTube or Twitch or if you're on Twitch, stay where you are to watch the Pokemon stream. If you're on YouTube, you need to jump over to a different video, but you'll see it. It says Pokemon says Nuzlocke 2.0 Part 3. It'll be there. It's gonna be a good time. Hearts will be broken. Until next time.

[Andy Cortez]

We'll see.

[Tim Geddes]

Love you all.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

See you Monday. For all the indie games.