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Andy
Hello everybody. Welcome to gamescast Plays the stream where we get together and play a new video game for you all. We're going to really get to see Bless in the open battlefield for Nioh3. Blessing, how much Nioh3 have you played?
Blessing
Only about an hour. We got the code in and this was one where of course many games coming out in February, so I kind of had to pick and choose. Sadly. I wish I could play all of every single game coming out, but I at the very least wanted to hop into Nioh3 just to see what it played like just to see what the vibe was played the first hour. I'm excited to play more, especially because I didn't even get to the open world area. I didn't even get to, you know, fight a bigger boss for my first hour. I'm just solidly in the game now.
Andy
You're in that. Yeah, you're in that prologue zone now. I'm stoked to see you get through it. Remember, you can write in with all of your questions, comments and concerns in the chat or YouTube super chat to support the company. Support a small company. Keep the lights and the mics on. I'm excited to see Blessing play this, to see somebody else kind of experienced this because I put in about 42 hours into Neo 3, having a really, really good time with it. I think I'm gonna see it through. I have 10 more hours ish left, I'm assuming. But I want to keep playing this video game because I think. I think it's video game junk food so far. It's doing the open world stuff that I just like kind of completing all these missions because it makes me feel good and I see it cleared off the map and I get all the loot for it. But Nioh 3 is the follow up to Nioh 1 and 2 from Team Ninja, One of many a game they've put out in the last decade or so. They are known for wo long Fallen dynasty from 2023. They also came out with Rise of the Ronin, which was one of those that I thought was gonna be a lot more because I remember it being the PS5 exclusive. Yeah. And it was like, oh, this one's only on the new console. And that I didn't put a whole lot into time. Time into that one kind of fell off it pretty quickly. But they also came out with Ninja Gaiden 4 earlier this year that they worked on with Platinum Games. They've been working. They've been churning out content. Yeah.
Blessing
I mean, I think that's one of the things about Team Ninja that I appreciate as a studio, is that they are workhorses. They will get a video game out, and that's more than we can say for a lot of other studios. They'll get something out the door. Now, whether or not that thing out the door will resonate with you in a bigger way. You know, I. I do think no matter what, they have a solid fan base, a core group of action. Action gamers is what I'll call them.
Andy
Yeah.
Blessing
For the sake of it.
Andy
Right.
Blessing
That follow them and really, really do dig their games. And I get it because, like, even with Long Fallen Dynasty, which we mentioned on the review of NIOH 3, I think we all kind of gave it that 3 out of 5 area. Right. Maybe 6 or 7 out of 10. Still is a game that I'm glad I played.
Andy
Yeah. I mean, I mean, I think all of us kind of have the same feelings where we really dug the combat because they cannot miss with the combat. So there's obviously still a lot there to love. And I think this game, I think aside from Stranger of Paradise, which I also love for the goofy aspects of it, but still having a lot of really fun and engaging combat, I. I think this is probably my favorite one of all of them so far. Yeah. Fun combat, great freedom of expression with the way the combat works. Very, very deep with how the mechanics go.
Blessing
Now, do you have any games cast game tips for me at this moment, this point of the game? I'm picking this up for the first time in the net in the last, oh, I want to say three to two to three weeks and so I'm getting my bearings still.
Andy
Why are Andy and Bus so far apart? That's a good question. I don't know.
Blessing
Yeah, we don't like each other.
Andy
Yeah, it's funny, I was gonna.
Blessing
I'm digitally like remake.
Andy
I can move. I can move closer.
Blessing
Yeah, you guys can move closer.
Andy
He's playing. I'll move closer. It'll probably look better in the window as well. Oh, yeah, I gotta get Lee Rude from Jesus. How do we look now? A good chat. Andy didn't touch on Crucibles in the review. Do they get repetitive? Yes and no. Crucibles are these open world spots that, like the thing with me, the Crucibles, to me, very similar to attacking enemy encampments in Ghost of Tsushima or doing anything repetitive mechanic in a game where some people can go, ah, it's just the same thing over and over again. But I kind of found fun in the. In the getting into the rhythm of it and getting that xp. So I. I haven't found them repetitive because I. I'm actively kind of seeking them out because I'm like, oh, I want to clear. I missed one. Let me go clear that one out. You know, I mean, I'm enjoying kind of doing the completionist stuff in this video game. It's good junk food. It lets me see a map and it makes me want to clear out all of those things because the combat and the gameplay is very good.
Blessing
Now, isn't me or is this screen really dark?
Andy
No, I think it's just the lights from the glare.
Blessing
Okay. Oh, you know what?
Andy
That. That probably is because, like the bright stuff is bright in this game. You know, like I couldn't tell if
Blessing
it was the TV settings or like my PS5 settings or something, but yeah, I think it is the TV player.
Andy
We're good.
Blessing
False alarm.
Andy
Yeah. Yeah. There are enemy camps in addition to the Crucibles, which are very similar. Well, I mean, very similar in a way that they're just things I want to clear out in the game.
Blessing
Oh, I like that.
Andy
I like that.
Blessing
Yeah, that's better.
Andy
Now one thing you need to do is crouch and take them out from behind because these enemies are dumb as rocks. And they won't hear you if you're seven feet away from them.
Blessing
Good call.
Andy
Yeah. Like if you take out a dude seven feet away from the other dude, he'll probably notice. But like they. They have about like Snowback Mike's cone of vision around them. Like they don't. They don't see or hear anything. You have to just kind of like be crouching. But this isn't. This isn't like an Assassin's Creed or any sort of even Elden Ring. Will they note. They notice you pretty quickly. This. They're very, very dumb in this game, which is nice because it makes things easier to clear up. No, that's just loot. Yeah, those boxes are just loot. There's all that loot. So the color structure in this game is white is common, gold is uncommon, or the yellow uncommon. Usually gold is a legendary at the very, very top.
Blessing
Yeah.
Andy
Gold is the second level here. And I'm assuming all the other Neo games have worked like this. I'm sure Rise of the Ronin and Wolong also work like that. But blue is rare and then purple is kind of your legendary. I also love anytime you come up to one of these wells, you can sometimes that little. You already got it. But the little thing will be sitting, so you can just kind of whack it and it'll usually give you an item. Sometimes an enemy pops out. Me.
Blessing
Are those Shokai in the enemy ranks? Chat. Has Neo and Near ever had a crossover? Remember in 2017? I feel like everybody got those games mixed up their titles.
Andy
Outer worlds, Outer wild sort of thing.
Blessing
Yeah, it's like, oh, you play that new Neo like, you mean Near Gold
Andy
not being a high rarity feels illegal. It is kind of odd cuz at first I was like, damn, I already got a legendary drop. And that's not how it works, unfortunately. But don't fret, because you have more loot here than your heart will ever desire. Okay.
Blessing
Constitution.
Andy
Heart.
Blessing
Okay. Heart affects key and key recovery. So that's like stamina. Constitution is health. What was your strategy for leveling up?
Andy
So I went for a lot of constitution because a lot of the heavier weapons that I prefer using use constitution. And you'll see where the weapons, how the weapons scale once you open up, like your weapons menu. But I went for I like having a big health bar and I like. I like doing damage. That's normally what I kind of lean towards now. It's weird that what you would think is heart is stamina.
Blessing
Yeah. And then they Also have a stamina thing here.
Andy
And the stamina icon is an arm, which usually means strength to me. Very confusing. But yeah, they. I basically just looked at what they were improving in the moment.
Blessing
So I went for a lot of equipment.
Andy
I definitely went for Constitution and went for my number one. Two and three are Constitution one, Stamina two, Heart three. And I basically just looked at the blue numbers and like what numbers are going up that I want to go up.
Blessing
I like that.
Andy
You know, then you'll also see the affected weapon types down low and what weapons get stronger based on how you're leveling up those items.
Blessing
All right, we're going heart.
Andy
There you go. More health.
Blessing
The Amrita there.
Andy
Yeah.
Blessing
When you said Amita on the review, immediately I was like. I was like, what is Amrita? Cuz I know that word from Persona. And so it was one of those ones where I was doing Wikipedia and I was like, if Andy asks me what he's saying right now, I'm not going to tell him shit. I was like, I know what's happening. Right? Like this is my possible. Either I don't know if it's undiagnosed ADHD or I just don't pay attention. It could be one or the other. But this is one of those ones where I was very cognizant of it. Of like, if Andy asked me a question right now I'm not going to be able to tell you anything.
Andy
I'm looking at Amrita.
Blessing
I'm on an Amrita trip right now, big boy.
Andy
So the blue things are where you could summon a homie to help you out. Oh, just kind of like a ghost version of themselves.
Blessing
Nice.
Andy
And then the one really neat thing that I like, these red things around the world are fallen homies. Like fallen other players. You can fight them for loot, get, you know, more EM read or whatever.
Greg
Let's go.
Andy
I don't know how one to one it is, but I killed a lot of these little red revenants. I just like summoning them and killed them. And then eventually whenever I would kill one, I would see the red things kind of fly up and go somewhere. And a little thing on the top left of the screen would say the revenant. I don't know. Specter. The revenant Captain. I don't know what they called it, but it's being, you know, the red fucking gloop from this enemy is guiding you somewhere. And it guided me towards a very, very strong revenant. And it was like all of the revenants you killed have all combined to make this one dude. Oh, this dude is all of the revenants you've killed combined. And I don't know if it's actually one to one. If it's like if I killed a hundred, does that mean this guy has this much more health now or whatever. But it was really cool and the dude dropped a ton of loot and it was, you know, really fun to sell and get souls for or whatever.
Blessing
I just need to know. Vasquez in chat says he's cracked. Listen, you know, I don't know if you just caught what I just did there, but I was locked in.
Andy
He was locked in. I was locked in. He was locked in or.
Blessing
No, he's saying the Blood Edge Demon is cracked. Never mind.
Andy
Oh yeah, Blood Edge Demon. Yeah, yeah.
Blessing
I thought you were saying I was cracked.
Andy
I got.
Blessing
I got a counter off those, you know. Felt pretty good to do. Also, while I'm here, let me check my equipment. I feel like people might see me.
Andy
No, no, no, dude. This game does not worry. They could have been 10ft in front of you. They won't notice you. So you're going to look at the reference stats on the bottom, right. You see underneath base attack.
Blessing
Yeah.
Andy
Those are the three things that your scales with.
Blessing
Yeah.
Andy
So chest is so for me, I was like chest, arm and heart. That's what I just kept on looking at.
Blessing
Nice.
Andy
Which was constitution, stamina, and then strength. No, I forget. Whatever. Yeah, chest, arm and heart was what I was leveling up the most. And so I wanted weapons that were using chest, arm and heart. And that just so happened to be big axes. But then on the ninja side of things, when you swap to the ninja, if you hit R2, you should switch to your ninjas.
Blessing
Yeah.
Andy
Which is a different weapon set, different armor set, different everything. So that's another thing you kind of are going to want to manage because they use different everything. And then it's got a good. You know, just like a lot of teen ninja games have very, very good customization and making your dude look sick as hell. So you unlock transmog pretty early on and you're able to just make whatever armor you want to look like and just want your dude. You just want your dude to look the way he does with the old armors cuz it just looks sicker or whatever. So you can have two separate sets of like Transmog armor. So like whenever I switch to my samurai, I look like this and my ninja guy looks like this and my ninja guy Always had like the. The Naruto, like, headband kind of thing. Yeah. With like my sick ass hair and the little, like, mask around my face that just. I got to pick the arm and make my. My dude look. Sick Games has game tip. Make a. Make an offering. See, you could sell a bunch of. You're not going to use right now.
Blessing
So this is what you're talking about during the game.
Andy
Make an offering.
Blessing
Got the co op right there.
Andy
I mean, sell some right now, boot
Blessing
up your game, hop in, you know.
Andy
Oh, oh, Crossplane. I don't think so. Right?
Blessing
Oh, that's a good question.
Andy
Probably not.
Blessing
Yeah, probably not. See, make an offering.
Andy
I thought you were going to be playing on PC anyway. That's why I asked you.
Blessing
Oh, I see. No, yeah, I was playing. I started this on PlayStation. I don't know why I still haven't. I'm still in the weird place of.
Andy
Oh, I'm surprised by that.
Blessing
My transition into a PC gamer and I don't know, like, the part of me is still connected to my PlayStation.
Andy
Yeah.
Blessing
Whenever I get the. If Greg is like, oh, we got a code coming in for a AAA game, I think that's where I start to stumble, where I'm like, let me stick on PS5, because I know it's gonna work.
Andy
Comfortable.
Blessing
Yeah, I'm comfortable with it. But if it's an indie game, I'm
Andy
like, oh, yeah, that'll work. My Steam deck.
Blessing
Give me that for Steam.
Andy
All right.
Blessing
Is there a way to organize? Yes, there is a way to sort.
Andy
Yeah. There's a lot. Like, good sorting served by rarity, sort by type rarity. So blue is your rarest. So you could sell a bunch of these items at the bottom that you're not going to use. Yeah. So what you could do is hold the Y button down or the triangle and then just hit the. Up. Up in the D pad. Hold up on the D pad.
Blessing
Wait, what? I don't think it's my triangle.
Andy
Oh, is it my. It might be R2. It's swapped for me.
Blessing
No, because that's. Wait, R2 is select.
Andy
All right. There's one that. Just let me select one.
Blessing
Is it this thing? This thing is popping up.
Andy
Kevin just hurt himself. Yes. Triangle. So it is triangle. Yeah. No, wait. Yeah, because square is locked, so.
Blessing
Oh, you know what?
Andy
If you're. If you're hovered over something, you're not equipped, you could just hold the Y button.
Blessing
Yeah.
Andy
And just hold up on the D pad. If you just hold up on the D pad, it'll go and just select everything.
Blessing
I don't know what it was. Is that like, this is maybe starter armor, so I couldn't sell it.
Andy
No, it's what you have equipped right now.
Blessing
Oh. Oh, gotcha.
Andy
So you could kind of like. So by the end of it, I was like, all right, here's all the. I'm using. Yeah, I'm going to hold the Y button and just hold down on the D pad. And I just went and I just scrolled for what felt like seven minutes. Got to the end of it all. Sold all of it. Got a shitload of souls or Amrit or whatever. Gotcha. And you're going to want to hit yes there, cuz you're. That's just saying.
Blessing
Well, I want to make sure. Cuz I don't. Oh, I guess. Okay. I thought I selected something that was powerful. Equipment of common or greater rarity is selected.
Andy
So it says that whenever you have something even yellow selected. So it's like, who gives a. You're not going to use that right now. You're gonna get a million more things in the next 10 minutes anyway.
Blessing
Yeah. All right.
Andy
So they got you a G, I think, or There we go.
Blessing
Yeah, you gotta.
Andy
You gotta level it. And then right here you can hit R3, use Spirit Stone. And then you could pop those puzzles. Oh, and use them here. Yeah.
Blessing
And then.
Andy
Okay.
Blessing
I mean, let's keep going.
Andy
So again, a lot of quality of life stuff. That's one thing I love is that I think they're very aware in the way that I've talked about how the developer from Phantom, the lead on Phantom Blade zero, was telling me, when you're not Miyazaki and Fromsoft, you have less of a leash to do stuff.
Blessing
Yeah.
Andy
You have less room to frustrate people because it'll go, well, you're not me as I can. Fuck you. I don't want to play your game anymore. Yeah. And the amount of quality of quality of life stuff in this game that just aims to make things a little bit less annoying is awesome. And I really, really love that. Oh, yeah.
Blessing
All right, let's roll.
Andy
Yeah. They realize how overwhelming everything is, so they streamline so much. Yes. It's insanely overwhelming. There's a lot of different. A lot of different systems. And this is what I'm talking about where it's like, cutscenes look amazing.
Blessing
Oh yeah.
Andy
Their cutscenes have always looked great. Very well like choreographed and visualed. And they know how to put light sources to make look awesome. It's Just when you get back into the game that I don't always love,
Blessing
I will say I. I do like the. The yokai design. Like there's something too.
Andy
There's some really cool in this game.
Blessing
The art direction of the enemies. I think it looks really cool.
Andy
How many hours in is this bus is like an hour and a half in? Yeah, something like that.
Blessing
That's cool that there's kind of like a narrative thing to why people just switch between ninja and samurai.
Andy
Did you equip a weapon for your ninja as well?
Blessing
Yes.
Andy
Okay.
Blessing
Yeah, the ninja one is the one I. I think currently my most powerful weapon. Also, I'm a big fan of a kusarigama.
Andy
I love a Kusari Gamma Crimson army.
Blessing
I feel like we should bring those back just in like contemporary weapons like ban guns.
Andy
Yeah. Everybody has a good time.
Blessing
Let's legalize Kusari Gala. Like, you know, make it normalize. Having that just in your home.
Andy
I've been rocking with the wolverine claws. I really enjoy them. The move set on them is awesome. I guess this is the first boss that Mike said. I thought this guy got frustrated and I quit. I got him tied. Oh, Also one thing you can do when you're a ninja form, I think if you hold down R2 for the switch. Oh no. That's your switch. Huh. Old square, maybe. Are you in. Are you in souls?
Blessing
I'm in the. I'm at the default.
Andy
Okay, so it might be triangle then.
Blessing
Oh, for hold heavy.
Andy
No, it's the. On the bottom right. You could throw your kunai. Or you could throw like these. This magical fire orb. There it is.
Blessing
Oh yeah.
Andy
So try. If you hit triangle while you're holding R1. Yeah. You throw like a fire thing at him.
Blessing
Ah, yeah. I remember that from the. From the tut.
Andy
Yeah.
Blessing
You know what's me Perry's. I want to parry everything you can. This game isn't a parry.
Andy
Not until you unlock it. It's in your skill tree.
Blessing
Suda51 would love this game. You hear what he said yesterday? He doesn't like parries.
Andy
No.
Blessing
Yeah. Yeah. Oh, he was like. He was throwing a lot of. From software Shade.
Andy
Damn.
Blessing
Yeah, a lot of low key from software Suda51. And I respected it. Cuz I was asking. I forget what brought it up, but I had noticed that for when I played a little bit of Romeo's a Dead man for the preview, I was like, man, this game. This game doesn't have a parry. That's kind of crazy. And then he mentioned that he just he does not like parries.
Andy
I think if you have a sick ass dodge and like, I'm cool enough with that. Oh, my God. I started playing a Siri yesterday in Witcher 3. She's got that crazy like tracer. Oh, yeah. Dosh, dad. Dash.
Blessing
Dash.
Andy
Dash. And dad. She's got that little dash. Yeah. Because I'm still in the Bloody Baron storyline, which is crazy good playing a Siri in the Bloody Baron just for a little bit. Like you swap off to her and you do a little thing. It was weird. It was crazy. The. Yeah. I think if you have a satisfying dodge enough, I'm totally fine with not having a Perry. There are just some games that I feel like you should have parries in.
Blessing
It's like a gamer conservative opinion. You just should have them, you know,
Andy
you should have Perry's. Remember to be getting your key back whenever you.
Blessing
Oh, smart square with that.
Andy
Whatever. It's hard for me to tell you what button because I don't.
Blessing
It's R1 for me.
Andy
I'm on the different control scheme. Speaking of insane depth that we were talking about on the games cast for the combat unlocking, high stance, mid stance and low stance on the heavy weapons was cool. Crazy to me. I like that. Just added so much more and I was kind of like annoyed by it at first. But it. It's actually pretty neat the way it operates,
Blessing
brother.
Andy
There's that dodge or that. That grab ability again. It's the only one that isn't like a different color. It's like make that a purple or something. I don't know.
Blessing
Oh, I was about to hit it.
Andy
There's that transformation.
Blessing
There was a point where I was like, man, okay, I think I'm doing good. I was expecting to look at his health and have it be like halfway I looked, I was like, All right, Chad, we're locking in.
Andy
Buzz needs to work on his key replenish. Yeah, that's one that. Because it's is something you're just not used to. It's a mechanic that is never really experienced. And there it is.
Blessing
Like, are you hitting it after every hit or after every combo?
Andy
I usually do it after every combo because you. I see the amount that can be replenished.
Blessing
Even. Even missed hits.
Andy
Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. It just becomes second nature because the
Blessing
ninja doesn't work that way. Right?
Andy
Like.
Blessing
No does he does like a little spin spin.
Andy
When you hit the ninja does. Does the like. Leaving the ghost form, the ninja leaves his like little like, you know, phantasm behind.
Blessing
Oh, somebody Says it's time to summon the fallen homie. I forgot about that.
Andy
That's right. Doesn't Hell of us Hell is us have the same mechanic? Yeah, it has a very similar thing too. When you time things correctly, you get all of your. You get health back. Though in that case, I don't think you were getting stamina back. Yeah, you're getting health back. Dark Star.
Blessing
I like you.
Andy
Get Dark Star in there.
Blessing
Dude,
Andy
you invoked the acolyte. Dark Star.
Blessing
I wanted that.
Andy
A little too far. A little too far will be your undoing. That dude's got the Kusari Gama.
Blessing
Damn it.
Andy
You just know after that one big spin. The red's coming.
Blessing
Damn it. I want. Try to parry.
Andy
What am I doing? I'm playing another game.
Blessing
I failed.
Andy
Sick. Oh, crap. Hello. It's another game for my backlog, says Sky Hobie. Only I never finished. Hello, Z. I kind of. I fell off, but I. I enjoyed it enough. I'd say it was like a probably 7 out of 10 for me from what I played. Are they playing co op right now? No, Bless is unfortunately on PlayStation. I'm on. I played on PC. He summoned a. Just a dead acolyte that's out there. You can summon homies to fight with you for a lot of boss fights. And you can also summon bad guys to get, you know, more souls.
Blessing
I assume summoning a homie will make his health.
Andy
Probably makes him a little bit beefier. Maybe you can. Maybe you can sell more and kill a bunch of dudes behind or kill a dude or two behind you. Level up a couple times. Yeah, I need. I.
Blessing
What I need to do is honestly just. I need to learn the language of the game. Yeah, yeah, I know it, but it's about internalizing the language. Hitting that R1 button to get that key pulse going. Being used to having the two different fighting styles between the ninja and samurai. Not caring that being the big one. Yeah, I'm so used to parries now.
Andy
Little elixir right there.
Blessing
Hardly nowhere.
Andy
Got him. Ch. Come on.
Blessing
Let's say Wednesday. It's Wednesday Chat, you know.
Andy
Now what can we sell? I bet you got a bunch of that ain't making a damn difference for you right now if you just sell it all. Now you want to equip the good though, so like just equip the good. I mean, what I would do is hit art, go to make an offering. I would hit R1 and just go by weapon. So I first off, equip all the good and then let's worry about later
Blessing
because I thought I had the good equipped. You have like in here
Andy
in ninja style, you have a good weapon equipped. You have a gold one or the yellow or whatever. Yeah, that's the highest one.
Blessing
And if I switch over to samurai.
Andy
Oh, that is the highest one for damage. Okay. I thought the other one was above it, but I think you're sort of by newest, so I was used to not seeing it that way. So you could just sell. Sell everything, dude.
Blessing
Yeah, let's do it.
Andy
Tell it all. Who gives a. You're gonna get 90 new things in the next couple minutes anyway. And just hold that Y button down or that triangle button down and just like scroll down. Yeah. Oh, you probably want to go to all equipment on the left. Oh, smart. L1. Yeah. Yeah. There we go. Hit. Yes. Would that get me only 900 something. Now try to fight one of these little revenant dudes. These red guys behind you. Summon a dude beating Nasser too. Level three. You got that? It's nothing. That's nothing to you.
Blessing
Oh, shit. I forgot he was alive.
Andy
Oh, you respawn this dude.
Blessing
Oh, too early.
Andy
Is the Perrymore Lies of P or Sekiro. It's more Sekiro when you unlock it. But the game isn't based around having the Perry because the Perry is an unlockable thing. You could play the whole game without even unlocking the really good parry, like the deflect. But I would say that it plays a lot more like Sekiro in that respect.
Blessing
Rather die.
Andy
There we go.
Blessing
How do I use this thing to the bottom, right? That's glowing.
Andy
That's. Hold. Hold your heavy. Like charge your heavy. Gotcha.
Blessing
Oh, but it's only as him looking.
Andy
Yeah.
Blessing
Come on.
Andy
Ah.
Blessing
Oh.
Andy
I got it early. Oh, nice. You still get it. Okay. Sick. Nice. Pick up all that. Sell it if you can. I don't know if it's sellable or not.
Blessing
All right. We're slowly getting there. Let's try to get one level in. First of all. Let me see if that any of that shit's good. Nah,
Andy
you're set. You're set. You got the move set. And you got the juice. Yeah. Remember, you could also be just tossing out a bunch of kunai and fireballs at the dude as well.
Blessing
Hey, hold on. I might want to equip this thing.
Andy
I think you're still a couple hundred off. Maybe that was a shirt. Yeah, that's better. Blue. A little bit more armor, but some more perks. And also the more you use weapons, it has this weapon familiarity Feature where the more you use a weapon, the more you get to know it, the more you get to know about its lifestyle, where it came from, the its family, its friends. But the familiarity will go up and it'll equal more damage. So the more you use a weapon type or just weapon period, you get more familiar with it and you get. It becomes stronger over time.
Blessing
Bless you.
Andy
Thank you. Oh my God. How does the exploration level work on map? It tells you certain zones are only recommended for certain levels. So you just know. All right. I probably shouldn't be there if this is recommended. 50 and I'm a level, you know, 35 or whatever.
Blessing
Oh wait, I'm so. I'm still like 600 away. All right, let's kill this guy. Kill a remnant and then I feel like that'll get me there.
Andy
Oh, remember you could, you could creep up to this dude and belk.
Blessing
I want to, man. I want a one on one fight, you know, Put them dukes up.
Andy
Oh, Oh, there.
Blessing
There we go. I just gotta enter the zone.
Andy
Yeah, yeah. Enter the zone.
Blessing
Gotta enter. Enter the zone.
Andy
Let him enter the zone chat. I was saying, I was saying creep up on him though, just to get to do the bigger chunk of damage quicker. Like you. Oh, you immediately like crit him or whatever. Was this katana from a free range spin? All right, do you have any spirit stones to use also? Oh, you did. Okay.
Blessing
I mean, I'm already there.
Andy
You did? Yeah, yeah. All right.
Blessing
What's going to help me help my web?
Andy
I would probably do health again maybe. Cuz sometimes health will level up weapons as well. Oh yeah. Like it's, it's. And also if you level up stamina or strength or heart, it also levels up your health a little bit as well. Like Constitution will always do 30 to 40 extra health, but the other ones might do 10 health while doing damage. So I would go for hard because that's going to boost up your weapon that you're using right now in addition to your health a little bit.
Blessing
All right, I think I'm ready.
Andy
Go for it. You got this.
Blessing
Oh, well, let me look at my equipment that I got from this guy real quick.
Andy
Nino Afrini asks, anybody know when the kind of uniforms usually drop? I want to participate. Next time I would say just look out for different posts on social media and look out for Patreon posts from Greg because he's the one who releases them. Here we go. Here we go.
Blessing
No.
Andy
Oh, there it is. There it is.
Blessing
Oh, I was practice.
Andy
Yeah, his. His controller unplugged. Chat. You didn't. You didn't see it happens. We're gonna have to wait to give it another shot. Less no, because we have to listen to a word from our sponsors.
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Andy
and we're back everybody. I have a super chat here from Gents fc. Thank you for your support. Says I'm in a delay, so please forgive me. This has been answered. You just tried co OP and Neo3. Seems cool based on what I've read and you just. And the boys doing a playthrough.
Blessing
We talked about that during gamescast. We brought that up during the gamescast.
Andy
Oh, shoot. Yeah, we did. We did, we did. Sorry, I looked at the icon and I thought it was today's stream thumbnail. My bad. My apologies. But yes, no, we didn't have any experience with it. Unfortunately. Will be your undoing.
Blessing
Just want to double check you're seeing gameplay out there.
Andy
Yes. Okay. Yeah. Oh, nice. Oh, he's gritted. He's critical.
Blessing
I gotta kill. Oh.
Andy
Oh. Ah.
Blessing
You know what's fucking me up too is I keep trying to do Souls controls and so I'll press RT when
Andy
I don't talk to that dude.
Blessing
I don't. I have a weird thing with switching controls in games where like as soon as I see what the default is, like my brain just locks in. And now it's that when I switch it, my brain wants to do. I don't know, it's like. It's a weird thing. It's like I want to click the default even though I just switched it
Andy
to the thing because it works out just as good. It's like it's not like I'm switching control schemes and. And being really like experiencing a mechanic in a very detrimental way. Like everything still works like it should. Be your undoing. This is one of those definitely Patient Pete fights chat where you're not gonna kill him in four hits. You're gonna want to just poke here and there, bounce out, poke here and there, bounce out. And then recognize the big spin is going to lead into the red. And that's where I'm going to really punish his ass. I always set an action game to Soul controls. I need it just cuz I want my thumb to stay on the right stick rotating the camera, Get a couple licks in, bounce out. This dude probably filtered a ton of people. The demo had a million downloads. Yeah, probably. But I also think Team Ninja has been doing it big enough for a long time that I think if you're downloading the demo, you know you want to play this game. And if you're downloading the demo, you've played a lot of other Souls games too. Like if you're downloading the demo for Neo 3, there's no chance you aren't into souls games. You're not just happening upon it. You've definitely been through the lies of peas and Neo2s. And Wo Long.
Blessing
Wo Long.
Andy
And Wukong.
Blessing
And Wukong.
Andy
Yeah. And Wu Chang. Fallen Feathers.
Blessing
Wukong, Fallen dynasty.
Andy
You should play Wu Chong Feathers. Yeah, it's better than this game.
Blessing
From your very body. Oh, not what I wanted to do.
Andy
Needlessness. Your Rob ball. Thanks for gifting out a subscription. Appreciate you. Nice dodge. Low stamina.
Blessing
Where are you? Oh, he's doing the grab.
Andy
I see. Yeah, the grab is the worst. Some of these dudes have incredible grab attacks. The animations are great, but like, man, they just hurt so much. It's the same speed as 1 and 2. If anything I've seen that, say, 2 is a lot harder. That's what I assume. I assume that 1 and 2 are harder than this. Cuz I. I would say Wo Long Fallen Dynasty. You know, I was spending several hours on bosses in that game and this one, I think it's a. I think it's a lot easier. Like the max I've taken on a boss is about I think an hour. And that was like one boss every. Everything else was like a couple tries, if not like 30 minutes or something. That attack is nasty.
Blessing
Crazy.
Andy
Oh, that's like you really want to bait out that. That red one's a good one. Oh, get in there. Get in there.
Blessing
Why didn't you do it? Why didn't you do it? Oh, God.
Andy
I think you were maybe moving or maybe you didn't have enough key. And I normally do that with my. In samurai mode. It may not make a difference. Oh, but to me I'm like, oh, I have a stronger weapon. This is better, right? But maybe it isn't.
Blessing
Kevin, did you just burp?
Andy
No, I think an enemy got it.
Blessing
Oh, was that the enemy? I heard what?
Andy
Or I heard that sound, but I think it was somebody like, I thought
Blessing
Kevin burped in the microphone. I would never do that.
Andy
No, Kevin is very anti burp.
Blessing
Cole's barking. Could it be that.
Andy
No, he was definitely not that. I don't think so.
Blessing
Oh, it's video game.
Andy
Anthony Davis to the Wizards. Dude, the Mavericks, man. The Mavericks traded Luka Doncic for Anthony Davis. And they said defense win championships. And then they know that Anthony Davis's ass is always in the hospital. Cuz he's always hurt. He's always on the bench. And they traded him. That's insane.
Blessing
The P rears its head I from your very body.
Andy
Needlessness will Be your undoing. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Remember to be throwing your fireballs out, too. Whenever he's busy. Oh, he's hurt. There we go. And I think these regenerate. Maybe there's something about my build, but during my fight, my. During my fighting, my ninja will always regenerate. Like the little feather and the. And the throwing stars. And they're good just to spam and take out more ticks of damage. Oh, get in there. Nice. Was able to withstand that hit, though. That was nice.
Blessing
Oh, nice.
Andy
This is the run Chat. Everybody get. Everybody get ready.
Blessing
No.
Andy
As I was streaming the Witcher. As I was Streaming the Witcher 3 yesterday, I was just like, dude, sorry, Chat. I played Neo for about eight hours today, and every button in my mind is like, Witcher 3 already. Kind of controls in a weird way. Like, not traditionally to what I'm used to with, you know, the more modern action games, but my brain is in a totally different control scheme. Like, I'm doing everything incorrectly.
Blessing
Oh, I have to have a thing to summon them. I didn't realize it was, like, a currency.
Andy
The one you had to, like, spend
Blessing
a currency to summon your homies.
Andy
Oh, I didn't know that. Is it gold or just, like, some.
Blessing
It was like cups.
Andy
Hey, let's be clear. Nico was the only one who said defense was. Oh, no, I know. Nico was the only one who said that. I know, Chat. I know. Dallas has been booing and hating Nico forever ever since they traded him. Oh. You need to fight the red remnants and you get the cups to summon.
Blessing
Okay, First, Berserker Gazan does the same exact thing.
Andy
All right.
Blessing
Oh. Oh, crazy wind up.
Andy
I never summon in these games, and that sounds like a flex, and it's not. It's because the enemies being aggroed by other people throws me the off.
Blessing
Oh, yeah.
Andy
And, like, the same thing happens in Elden Ring, where I'm used to the 1v1. I know how you move, and if you're getting distracted and then you come to me, I'm like. It throws me the off, and I hate that.
Blessing
Oh, oh,
Andy
Oh.
Blessing
I got thrown off.
Andy
I got thrown off. Yeah, you were. I was locked in. He was in the.
Blessing
I was in panic mode.
Andy
He was in the. I was trying to.
Blessing
I was trying to, like, recap. Re. Re.
Andy
Get. Like, they put him in the blender right there. Thank you, Tom Hughes, 33 months of support using your Tier 1 love on Twitch, supporting us here at Kind of funny. Thank you so much for the love. You help keep the lights and the mics on you help us stay in business, so thank you for your support.
Blessing
I don't know why I make that sound. I feel like that's a new sound for me.
Andy
What?
Blessing
Yeah.
Andy
Oh, man. I'm always yelping and yelling.
Blessing
I do yelp a lot while I'm playing these games. But that specific sound, maybe I do that on stream and because I have my headphones in, it doesn't sound. Sound is weird to me, but not just doing it in the big studio.
Andy
Now imagine this. Imagine you're fighting. You have a back paddle on your back.
Blessing
A back paddle would change the game right now.
Andy
Come on, man. Come on. Yeah. Remember to just be key pulsing. Keep on doing your key pulse. Recharge that stammy from your very body. I just hate the angles he comes from. Dodge into the attacks. When you dodge away from the attacks, it's always gonna clip you on your little ankle on the way out. Dodge into the swing. Yeah. Always go into the direction of danger. Yes, yes, yes. And at this point, run away. Throw a bunch of fireballs, back the up and just like, just hound him with. With the. Yeah, the triangles. Just. Just hit him a bunch of. Use all of them. Throw all your kunai and they'll recharge during the fight.
Blessing
No, no.
Andy
Did they buff this guy since the first ammo? He seems a bit beefier. I have no idea.
Blessing
He does seem like he takes a lot to take down. But this is my. Also my first boss fight in this game, so I don't know.
Andy
Yeah.
Blessing
The norm
Andy
for me, the quintessential bless on is. Oh, when he starts doom scrolling. You're wrong. Oh. Oh.
Blessing
I don't even. I didn't even know that was a sound.
Andy
Me either. I didn't know that either. But that's kind of like the.
Blessing
Oh, I was reading comments.
Andy
That's the sound everybody makes. Whenever you're looking at a. At a web page. You're scrolling a web page you're going to see here.
Blessing
Oh, I pressed.
Andy
Kind of makes sounds.
Blessing
Sons of team Ninja. You know, I pressed the button.
Andy
It's because we're playing with a bunch of delay here. Blast. It's not your fault, man. It's the player Goliath.
Blessing
All right.
Andy
Don't blame the tech side. We've done a lot of advancing with technology.
Blessing
All right.
Andy
A lot of strides have been made. You're right. You're right. Anytime in the past, I'd have to play a game out here. Dodging to the move. Go into the danger. Let tried Go into the danger zone anytime. We've had to play a game out here, Chad. I'm like, all right, I'm going to be playing with a second of delay.
Blessing
We fixed that.
Andy
You did. No, they totally did. They totally did.
Blessing
All right, hold on.
Andy
Let me just.
Blessing
We reorient.
Andy
Buy more of the red guys. Get the juices to summon the blue guys. Fight the red guys.
Blessing
The red guys. I'm locked in.
Andy
Yeah.
Blessing
He's like, I'm locked in.
Andy
He's locked in.
Blessing
I'm not locked in.
Andy
He's not.
Blessing
I'm not locked in.
Andy
This guy's a righty. And you keep on dodging to the right as well. Just go to the left, and it's gonna just change your whole.
Blessing
I don't know, you pay attention to, like, if they're a rider or left.
Andy
Well, he definitely will swing left every now and then, but he keeps on doing this.
Blessing
Yeah.
Andy
And when he's doing that, if you dodge away, the end of his stick's gonna hit you.
Blessing
Yeah.
Andy
When you're dodging away. So I always, like, go into the danger. Go to where the swing is coming from. Why aren't gamescast plays in the lab? They usually are. This one is not. Because they're doing something in the lab right now.
Blessing
And also. Wait, you don't like that?
Andy
Yeah, what's up? No, I think they're just saying, like, well, isn't it a better gaming experience in there?
Blessing
Oh, yeah, sure. Yeah. Actually, that does make sense.
Andy
I always dodge left or right. Don't dodge back. Th percent th percent. You dodge back, you're going to get clipped on your little. Your little toe.
Blessing
This is the one. I was. I was locked in for a few runs, and then I lost it. But I think I'm. I need to get back to how I used to be, you know, mess around and become the old me.
Andy
I would say when you're. When you're feeling the fear of being far away, throw all your. Throw your kunai. Throw all that. It'll. It'll regenerate during the fight. Throw all of it and then get back into the battle and throw more of that. Yes, yes, yes. Just spam that. Yeah. Oh, that's a tough one. I didn't think you got hit there. I'm gonna check back the tape. Ah, nice. Nice.
Blessing
Oh, man
Andy
chat.
Blessing
How long did it take you guys to beat this boss?
Andy
Everybody say three hours. Somebody said 17 tries.
Blessing
17.
Andy
I. I did see that earlier.
Blessing
Make me feel better, Chad.
Andy
Make him feel better. Make him feel better. You got this dude, you got this. Once again, this is gamescast plays. Thank you everybody for watching and hanging out with us. We are checking out Neo3, which comes out fully tomorrow, but there's a demo available right now that you could download. Play it. Tell me how wrong I am about all my bad opinions. But it's a. It's a real long demo, which is amazing.
Blessing
Oh, I was blocking. I broke my thing. Oh, I had the right ideas.
Andy
Yeah, Throw that. That grab is just so nasty. It's so hard to see. Oh, nice. There it is. There we go. There we go.
Blessing
Oh, I for some reason thought that might have given me shield or something.
Andy
You will have upgrades that allow you to take more damage when you're charging ahead.
Blessing
Okay.
Andy
You'll have more like, you know, take 12 less damage while charging an attack or. Or while attacking, period. They should give you the option to run away, right? What if I choose peace? You know, I love that. I love the movement. Got him in the blender now. Doesn't know where the hell he's going. Yes, the saves do carry over.
Blessing
Strength.
Andy
Chat. I need us all to type in the number one. Cuz Blessing's number one. I need to see all the hype. I need to see all the excitement in chat. Let's hype him up. Let's get this dub right here. And also let's dodge left less.
Blessing
This is the one, Dodge. I don't know why I didn't realize I had the habit of dodging. Right.
Andy
I think Dodge is what you're comfortable with.
Blessing
Yeah, but this one doesn't count.
Andy
Yeah, that one doesn't count.
Blessing
This one doesn't count. This is my.
Andy
It's just the end of his attacks are always going in there. There's the ones. There's the ones. I also, he's using a stupid controller Chat. You know, he doesn't have the back paddles.
Blessing
I didn't want to be here today, Chad.
Andy
Yeah, he does. He's pissed.
Blessing
I told Roger. I was like, yo, we had to do games.
Andy
He was in Greg's face earlier. They were yelling at each other.
Blessing
Neo Headlines is a lot, is it not? Why are we doing two Neo Headlines
Andy
back in the back?
Blessing
God damn it.
Andy
My head. It's windy in the studio. Exactly. There's a lot of stuff happening.
Blessing
I can put up Tekken. Let's call Mitchell. Saltzman
Andy
taking it. Mitchell. Sa.
Blessing
Get Mitchell.
Andy
Give Mitchell that ass in here.
Blessing
All right. Why isn't he here playing the game
Andy
that he loves so much?
Blessing
God damn you. Give it a 9 out of 10
Andy
you make him play it. Let me get in there. Let me just do one. I'm not I'm not going to beat it.
Blessing
Oh yeah, I'm not going to beat it.
Andy
I just want to see what the. And I'm and I'm just know I
Blessing
have the default controls on.
Andy
I'm not saying I'm not going to beat it because I'm not trying. I'm just not going to beat it cuz. Cuz he will likely. I'm going to swap over just real quick. Just real quick chat. I'm going to go to type D. Type D chat.
Blessing
I don't have o type these nuts.
Andy
All right. I all right. My dodge is still going to me up.
Blessing
Oh he's locked in. He's locked in.
Andy
He's going to beat it. How do I heal up?
Blessing
I failed.
Andy
Bait that out all the time. You want him to do that. He thinks that's going to help him. It's not blessed you want that.
Blessing
Guy knows the buttons, man.
Andy
But dodging so weird. Not on the back paddle. I'm cheating with the back paddle. Dodge.
Blessing
He's locked.
Andy
Punish that. Make sure he regrets using that move.
Blessing
This a bad idea.
Andy
Oh, I think he does like some different here. Does he do something else?
Blessing
Oh does he have a phase two
Andy
I I thought or he adds like a new move to the arsenal. Oh, I thought I did it.
Blessing
He went easy.
Andy
Not know my own strength. Come on, you got this. You got this.
Blessing
I like how you dodge directly left and right. Like usually I dodge like inward like I have the like I kind of want to like always kind of like go for like the what you call the eye frame there but you kind of like do a side step that I like.
Andy
I usually I I guess I try to go into wherever the attack is coming from. Thank you Giant bomb for the raid. Welcome in Giant bomb. How we doing Gamers bless is trying out Neo.
Blessing
Yeah like that. You kind of do like a lesson left, right Dodge.
Andy
I've put in a buttload of hours in you. Oh my bad, my bad.
Blessing
I was like what's happening?
Andy
My bad.
Blessing
What are the buttons?
Andy
R R1, L1.
Blessing
What's the key?
Andy
Triangles. Oh square. Square. Okay. Triangle is a form switch.
Blessing
It's okay.
Andy
You still got full stammy. That's the. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Blessing
Ah I gotta change the controls anyway.
Andy
Yeah yeah. This game's super easy as ninja. You want to get behind impossible. Yeah, the ninja does more damage when behind. Oh yeah.
Blessing
I remember them saying that in the early game
Andy
and that's where you're in classic souls mode. Go to configure controls and then type A. Type A. And in classic control souls. Sort of a terminology. You want to get in that cooter from behind, hit him in the butt. It would be hilarious if. Let's got this run with a new button layout.
Blessing
I know. For a second I was like, oh, this feels kind of good. And then I forgot everything.
Andy
It's the square in the triangle that will really kind of mess it up.
Blessing
And you got the muscle memory for that down.
Andy
Yeah. Once you start seeing that spin, you just know. All right, here, dodge left, Dodge left triangle or whatever it is for you, because that's. That's gonna do the most damage for sure. Oh, great. Dodges. There we go.
Blessing
My f.
Andy
No, stammy back away. No.
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Andy
Oh. That was a fire move. I was like, what was that? How you do a bomb.
Blessing
Oh, I see what you mean by. By dodge, dodge. Then triangles.
Andy
That. You're heavy.
Blessing
No, what's triangle for you?
Andy
Triangle's my form change. That's my. My like big Perry or whatever. Yeah. The moments where you were behind him doing a lot of damage, but you had no key. No. Stammy left at that point. It's like, pull out of the fight. Let that recharge. Yes. Yeah. Low. Stammy, back up, back up. The disrespect healing in his face. Oh, he's so low to being broken. Go for it. Yes. Now he's broken. Do the thing.
Blessing
I was standing still.
Andy
Oh, nice side dodge. Like that.
Blessing
What. What is that sound? You hear that?
Andy
That's your character going like. Like.
Blessing
Oh, it sounds so much like Kevin burst into the microphone.
Andy
It sounds like it's on a different sound layer. Yeah. Like it's not.
Blessing
It doesn't sound like it's from the game.
Andy
It's not super mixed in. Well, it sounds very like above the rest of the mix. Yeah, like somebody forgot to add reverb and integrate it correctly. You just hear a bunch of. And then like way too high. Yeah, this guy's pissed. Cuz. He. He just. You're pissing him off. He's like, enough. We're going to come.
Blessing
There's two of us pissed right now. I'm pissed on playing this right now. Oh, I'm not. I'm not locked in.
Andy
Oo.
Blessing
Try to get there.
Andy
Recognize that spin. Yamagata is so sad when he has lost like 1/6 of his health. Don't be so, so hard on yourself, bro. Just. Just watching this. I could Tell it's not for me. Sage, do you mess with any Action Combat RPG games? Action RPGs or character action souls? Like, See, I thought that was the grab because I thought I saw the sparkly. Yes. Bait that out.
Blessing
It's the thing where I keep getting the controls mixed up with themselves. I keep wanting to play this, like, another souls game, and then I keep. If I use the other controls, I'll do the same thing.
Andy
Yeah, yeah. Everybody has performance anxiety, but sometimes.
Blessing
Oh, it's not even that. It's just that I'm not used to the game yet.
Andy
No, I'm just talking.
Blessing
Yeah.
Andy
Bait out that if you stay close enough, he's going to continuously do that, and you're just like, I want you to do that. You think that's your move? That's my move, dog. Listen. You think that that's, like, your advantage? I see that red. I'm seeing red. You know?
Blessing
R you to switch dance.
Andy
Yes, yes.
Blessing
From your very body.
Andy
Back up. No stammy. There we go. There we go. Needlessness will be yours. This isn't Ninja Gaiden. We're not spamming buttons. We're not playing DMC or Bayonetta. We have a stammy bar, and we are abiding by it. Love it. Back up. Yeah. Good. Yeah. Oh, yes. Love that. Love it. I felt the horniness.
Blessing
Yeah.
Andy
I felt. The horniness was palpable. I felt blessed. Like, I'm gonna kill you right here. I wanna.
Blessing
I just want his health to be lower. Is that too much to add?
Andy
Yeah.
Blessing
He's like, why do you have so much junkie?
Andy
He's chunky. You could try to level up one more time. Like, it doesn't take much. There's a. There's a lot of people you just walked by that are gonna drop and kill them.
Blessing
I'm locked into this guy.
Andy
I feel that. I feel that.
Blessing
I also don't know how much time we have left in the street.
Andy
I feel that.
Blessing
So I could probably.
Andy
We're going until you beat this guy.
Blessing
I was gonna say one or two more times.
Andy
You got this guy. You got this guy.
Blessing
It's okay. I don't need to beat this guy.
Andy
You're always gonna want to. Like, it sounds dumb and easy, but you're gonna want to attack when he's done attacking. Of course, Andy, that makes sense. But when he's attacking, his key bar is going low and low and low and low. Yeah. Because he's expending his stamina, and then that means it's Less for you to break him because you give him a chance to breathe like that. Then you could do, like, poke damage. But his key bar is going to go all the way back up. I'm just gonna call it stammy. You know, say Stammy. Stammy from now on. Stammy key. Oh, yes, Yes. Couple swipes and then hit that. Regen. Stammy. Regen.
Blessing
No. Oh, no. I didn't want that. But it's a.
Andy
Okay.
Blessing
I hate the controls in this game.
Andy
Dude, I'm telling you. Swap over to the other controls right now.
Blessing
No, I'll it up even worse if I. If I swap. Oh, I wanted that. I, like, went in for the counter. Ah.
Andy
Okay. One more try.
Blessing
One more try.
Andy
One more try. Chat. One more time. We bring it home for the troops. Is there anything more satisfying in this game than a perfect parry? Dude, when you can finally upgrade your and you get the Sekiro deflect. It sounds so nice.
Blessing
Very funny. One more try after this one.
Andy
Yeah, one more try.
Blessing
I can't do one where I get hit first.
Andy
You know that's a bad omen. No, no, stammy. Omega Buster. 62 months of support. Thank you, Omega Buster. Appreciate you subscribing. Supporting. Should the deflect have been sooner? What do you mean? Like the. The acquiring of it. Because it doesn't take very long at all to acquire the defl. Yes. Yes. Yeah, it doesn't take very long at all, Sphinx. It's like one of the first things I got. No Stammy back up. No stammy at all. Yes. That 4 combo is a nasty one.
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Andy
Spin and coming down red. Oh, no. Damn, I thought that was the red one.
Blessing
Ah. One more. Last one.
Andy
He's getting.
Blessing
This is the last one.
Andy
He's getting this one. This is the one. Chat.
Blessing
At the very least, I want my last room to at least be a good one. Even if I don't kill him, I want to like. I want to feel okay with it.
Andy
No stammy. No stammy. Gonna unsubscribe unless Annie interacts the chat more sleepy dad. Thank you for your prime gaming. Yes. Wow. That was scary. Massive. Nah, that grab ain't doing dog.
Blessing
Oh.
Andy
I'll tell you why I have the tendency to dodge left and right. Because I can never dodge towards him when the attack is like, right coming down at me. Yes. Massive. That's huge. Oh, that's a secret red one.
Blessing
Damn it.
Andy
That's what I meant by the second face stuff. He changes it up and like, we'll bust out the red one quicker and it kind of really throws you off. But one more try.
Blessing
I'll do one more. I'll do one more. Yeah. I'll do one more. Yeah.
Andy
Andy, check Discord dms. Okay, I'll check. I don't ever look at Discord DMS because I never. I don't know how to use that app. I only go into chats. I only go into voice chats. It's the only thing I'm good at.
Blessing
I don't have my thing charged. Oh, I'm on the wrong moveset.
Andy
What?
Blessing
I was trying to throw my ninja thing.
Andy
Oh. Filipino Mamba. 133 months says one more for Oakland.
Blessing
Bless, bro.
Andy
Oklahoma, dude. This is for Oakland. This is for Oakland. All right, back away. No stammy. No stammy. Yes. I love this. This is the. This is the energy, right? No more throwables. And even though you can't parry when you're on your samurai mode, the block still does, you know? Stop. It hurts your stamina. But you won't take a health hit if you're blocking. At least. Will been your. Oh, I'm doing. I love the poking and prodding. Right here.
Blessing
Cheeky.
Andy
Oh, stalemate. Yes. Yes.
Blessing
Oh, I thought I hit it.
Andy
Oh. Oh, wow. Holy. He choked that. Yes. I love that. Oh,
Blessing
God. Get out.
Andy
Just on edge right now.
Greg
A might be fitting that of the Crimson Army. You must summon Kuwait Sanagi at once and eliminate them.
Blessing
What is that?
Andy
Hit triangle and circle at the same time. Now you have, like, an ultimate kind of move to like. Or keep on attacking and you'll see your bar go away. But play as you normally would while you're still swinging. Still dodge when you need to, though. Yes, yes, yes, yes. But still keep dodging because getting hit will make it go away faster. Yes. Yes, yes.
Blessing
Let's fucking go. Come on, come on, come on. That's what's up. I needed that. I needed that. I was about to be so salty. I don't know if you understand. That's a rude day. I don't think you understand how salt is. I was fucking getting. I was getting ready to show up to KG tomorrow and being like, yo, fuck this game. Yo, fuck Neo. And he gave it a seven. It should have been a four. It should have been a three and a half. Like, we're not going low enough on the review scale anymore. God damn.
Andy
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Blessing
Oh, yeah, I think.
Andy
Right?
Blessing
Sounds about right.
Andy
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Date: February 5, 2026
Hosts: Tim Gettys, Greg “GameOverGreggy” Miller, Blessing Adeoye, Andy Cortez
Main Theme:
The crew plays and discusses Nioh 3, Team Ninja’s latest action RPG, tackling its gameplay mechanics, difficulty, value, and the evolution of the franchise. Is it worth the $70 price tag? Blessing plays live while Andy, Greg, and chat provide advice, running commentary, and reflections on the genre.
"They are workhorses. They will get a video game out, and that's more than we can say for a lot of other studios... [but] whether or not that thing out the door will resonate with you in a bigger way—you know, I do think no matter what, they have a solid fan base." (03:36)
"This is probably my favorite one of all of them so far. Fun combat, great freedom of expression with the way the combat works. Very, very deep with how the mechanics go." (04:14)
Blessing has played just the first hour; Andy has 42+ hours in and considers the game “video game junk food”—in a positive sense for completionists.
The open-world structure offers plenty of content (side activities, Crucibles, enemy camps), reminiscent of Ghost of Tsushima’s map clearing.
Andy:
"...I think it's good junk food. It lets me see a map and it makes me want to clear out all of those things because the combat and the gameplay is very good." (06:32)
Crucibles and similar repetitive content aren’t a negative for Andy, who finds them satisfying for XP and loot, though they may be repetitive for some.
“Unlocking high stance, mid stance and low stance on the heavy weapons was cool. Crazy to me. I like that. It just added so much more and I was kind of annoyed by it at first. But it’s actually pretty neat the way it operates.” (22:42)
The stream revolves around Blessing taking on the game’s first boss, repeatedly attempting and discussing his struggles and adapting strategies, highlighting:
Comparison to Souls titles, Sekiro, and Lies of P. Parry mechanics are unlocked, not baseline, and not as central as other games.
Andy:
“This is one of those definitely Patient Pete fights, chat, where you’re not gonna kill him in four hits. You're gonna want to poke here and there, bounce out, poke here and there, bounce out.” (38:35)
Both Blessing and Andy occasionally struggle with switching control schemes and muscle memory between similar games.
"The amount of quality-of-life stuff in this game that just aims to make things a little bit less annoying is awesome. And I really, really love that." (18:04)
On Team Ninja’s Consistency:
“They are workhorses. They will get a video game out...” – Blessing (03:36)
On Combat Style:
“They cannot miss with the combat.” – Andy (04:14)
On Game Feel and Junk Food Analogy:
“I think it’s video game junk food so far. It's doing the open world stuff...completing all these missions because it makes me feel good and I see it cleared off the map and I get all the loot for it.” – Andy (02:01)
On Boss Practices:
“This is one of those definitely Patient Pete fights, chat, where you’re not gonna kill him in four hits.” – Andy (38:35)
On Learning Curve:
“What I need to do is honestly just...I need to learn the language of the game. It's about internalizing the language...hitting that R1 button to get that key pulse going, being used to having the two different fighting styles between the ninja and samurai. Not caring, that being the big one. I'm so used to parries now.” – Blessing (27:09)
On Customization:
“You unlock transmog pretty early on and you're able to just make whatever armor you want to look like...” – Andy (13:50)
On Souls Game Comparison / Difficulty:
“If you're downloading the demo for Neo 3, there's no chance you aren't into souls games. You're not just happening upon it. You've definitely been through the Lies of Ps and Neo2s. And Wo Long.” – Andy (39:08) “I would say Wo Long Fallen Dynasty...I was spending several hours on bosses in that game and this one...the max I've taken on a boss is about...an hour.” – Andy (41:15)
On Boss Victory and Salt:
“Let's fucking go. Come on, come on, come on. That's what's up. I needed that. I needed that. I was about to be so salty. I don't know if you understand. That's a rude day. I was fucking getting—ready to show up to KG tomorrow and being like, yo, fuck this game. Yo, fuck Nioh. And he gave it a seven. It should have been a four. It should have been a three and a half. Like, we're not going low enough on the review scale anymore. God damn.” – Blessing (77:18)
| Topic | Summary | Timestamp | |---------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------| | Team Ninja’s Output | Consistent, prolific, solid action fanbase | 03:36 | | Gameplay Structure | “Junk food” open world, satisfying combat, lots to do | 02:01 - 06:32 | | Combat/Systems | Deep, stances, loot, transmog, parry (unlockable), dual loadouts | 13:50 - 22:42 | | Difficulty/Bosses | Challenging but less punishing; patience and learning required | 38:35, 41:15 | | Quality of Life | Notable improvements and friendly to players | 18:04 | | Value/Price | Meaty, content-rich, premium but justified for fans | 77:53 | | Final Thoughts | “Is it worth $70?” — For the target audience, yes. Demo is generous. | 77:53-78:13 | | Memorable Moment | Blessing’s boss victory and salt rant | 77:18 |
This episode provides a thorough, candid, and entertaining look at Nioh 3—from hands-on gameplay tips to franchise reflection and genre comparison. The hosts’ personality and chat’s live input add humor and relatability, making it perfect for both committed fans and curious newcomers considering a $70 purchase.