Kirby Air Riders Direct Live Reaction and Breakdown - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Summary

Kinda Funny Gamescast: Kirby Air Riders Direct Live Reaction and Breakdown

Date: August 20, 2025
Hosts: Greg Miller, Tim Gettys, Blessing Adeoye Jr., Andy Cortez
Episode Theme:
The gang provides a live (well, nearly live) group reaction and detailed discussion breaking down the big Nintendo Direct reveal for Kirby Air Riders, exploring every feature, mode, and design decision, questioning the $70 price tag, and drawing unique comparisons to other games in the racing and Nintendo canon.

---

Episode Overview

The Kinda Funny Gamescast crew sits down together to watch and react to the latest Nintendo Direct presentation on Kirby Air Riders, a long-awaited follow-up to Kirby’s cult-classic kart racing outing. Each host brings their own background, biases, and expectations as they process Masahiro Sakurai’s deep dive into the new game. The discussion moves from initial impressions and character reveals to gameplay mechanics, mode breakdowns, and a thoughtful debate on price, value, and Nintendo’s approach. Personal anecdotes, jokes, and notable asides about Pokemon, family, and the game industry pepper the conversation.

---

Key Discussion Points & Insights

Intro & Pre-Show Banter (00:00–03:39)

• The team confesses this reaction isn’t truly live—it’s recorded after the Direct.
• Lighthearted chatter: Ben's (Blessing’s son) evolving costume choices, spontaneous mascot debates, and Pokemon plush collecting.
• Gamescom is ongoing; they preview the packed schedule of Capcom previews and a possible Hollow Knight: Silk Song reveal.

---

Experiencing the Kirby Air Riders Direct (03:39–26:42)

Opening Impressions (03:39–06:53)

• Initial reactions focus on Kirby’s signature sound design and vibrant visuals.
• The crew jokes about character names and banter about the Kirby anime and classic Nintendo characters.
• “They know it works. Now. Smash Ultimate, Kirby, Forgotten Land, Mario Odyssey…they’re right. Hell yeah.” – Greg Miller (04:07)

Character & Machine Reveals (04:55–19:25)

• The hosts react to revealed characters: Kirby, Meta Knight, King Dedede, Bandana Waddle Dee, and others.
• Observations about vehicle variety and mechanical intricacies:
  • “Even an idiot can play this.” – Andy Cortez (09:01)
  • “It's Mario Kart, but it's really not, in the same way that like Smash Brothers is a fighting game, but it’s really not.” – Greg Miller (10:30)
• Notable appreciation for vehicle diversity, deep color customization, and new music remixes.
• They call out the game’s self-aware, tongue-in-cheek design: “We don’t know how this wheel got in here. We’re confused by it too.” – Andy Cortez (13:34)

Power-Ups, Abilities & Items (19:39–24:40)

• Hosts are excited by the inclusion of unique characters with special moves (e.g., Gooey’s wiggly tongue, Knuckle Joe’s stats, Susie’s magic).
• Strong reactions to the nuanced balance of power-ups, vehicle performance, and stylish attacks.

---

City Trial Mode & Main Event (26:42–47:47)

City Trial Breakdown (30:18–46:39)

• Big anticipation for City Trial, the core multi-phase mode.
• The team notes the city map is smaller than expected but packed with content. It sparks comparisons to Pokémon theme parks and Mario Kart’s open world.
• “This mode stands out to me… way more interesting than battle mode in Mario Kart.” — Andy Cortez (35:46)
• Blessing, as a kart racing fan, is intrigued by the minigame-centric approach and cooperative/competitive hybrid gameplay.
• “The city trial stuff’s frantic and crazy at the end, and I’d like to do it for me. Greg Miller, Games Criticism Person, I want hands on sticks.” – Greg Miller (55:51)
• The stat collection and minigame showdown bring up memories of Smash Run in Smash Bros. 3DS.

Gameplay Mechanics & Concerns (39:05–47:30)

• Discussion over the accessibility ("one button" control, skill floors) and quirky UI elements (real-life PNG food items).
• Not all hosts are sold on aesthetic choices, but all appreciate the vibrancy and energy.
• The meta–momentum-based control links the game more to “3D Sonic” than to Mario Kart, setting up unique expectations and potential audience challenges.
• “It doesn’t play like a kart racer. I can’t stress that enough. ...Your brain’s either going to be able to click and be like, I get it, and go, or you’re going to be like, why doesn’t this play like Mario Kart? I don’t like it.” — Greg Miller (59:57)

---

Post-Reaction Analysis & Debate (47:47–end)

Price Tag Discourse (54:58–58:53)

• The hosts are shocked by the $69.99 price point:
  • “That’s really not great…I am very curious to see what sales numbers will be a year from now. ...Everything leading up until the city trial thing was very underwhelming. ...That was the one thing that was like, oh, I’m way more into this...” – Andy Cortez (54:58)
• Doubts about audience size—will a niche multiplayer experience justify $70?
• The panel ponders Nintendo’s broader pricing strategy and how it affects less-mainstream, experimental titles.
• “...on one hand there’s no way this game should be $70—like straight up, period. This game should not be $70. And on the other hand, I’m so happy this game exists.” - Greg Miller (58:53)

Nostalgia, Value, and Hands-On Hopes

• Both Tim and Blessing, as non-Kirby Air Ride veterans, express increased excitement for the new game, especially city trial and its minigame integration.
• Blessing reflects on its appeal for younger/new gamers, potentially including his son Ben: “He could really get down on that.” (55:51)
• Tim Gettys highlights the fresh, creative experiments Nintendo is willing to pursue outside blockbuster IPs.

Comparison To Sonic & Other Racers (62:45–64:13)

• “It’s giving me what my dream of what I always want Sonic to be, but it rarely ends up being… that fast-paced momentum, roller coaster gameplay, and turning it into something that has substance.” — Tim Gettys (62:45)

Closing Thoughts & Speculation

• Greg theorizes about the absence of an NSO drop for the original game; perhaps Nintendo is worried a direct comparison would hurt sales.
• Andy and Tim reiterate the distinction between Kirby Air Riders’ active, frantic play and the more passive, less engaging open worlds of other kart racers.
• Tim expects the real depth will be in how stats, power-ups, and “city” interactions all play out in multiplayer.
• Final verdicts are cautiously optimistic but ultimately rest on price and hands-on time.

---

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Even an idiot can play this.” — Andy Cortez (09:01)
• “Mario Kart, but it’s really not, in the same way that Smash Brothers is a fighting game, but it’s really not.” — Greg Miller (10:30)
• “We don’t know how this wheel got in here. We’re confused by it too.” — Andy Cortez (13:34)
• “This mode stands out…way more interesting than battle mode.” — Andy Cortez, on City Trial (35:46)
• “It doesn’t play like a kart racer. I can’t stress that enough.” — Greg Miller (59:57)
• “I feel hypocritical…there’s no way this game should be $70—like straight up. ...But I’m so happy this game exists.” — Greg Miller (58:53)
• “It’s giving me what I always want Sonic to be…” — Tim Gettys (62:45)
• “I think this presentation was good…city trial stuff’s frantic and crazy at the end, and I would like to do it for me. Greg Miller, Games Criticism Person, I want hands on sticks.” — Greg Miller (55:51)

---

Final Verdicts (54:58–64:13)

• Andy Cortez: Not likely to buy unless friends do. Underwhelmed by everything except City Trial. Concerned about the price.
• Blessing Adeoye Jr.: Intrigued, especially for the minigame approach and what it could mean for kid gamers. Wouldn’t buy at $70, but wants hands-on time.
• Tim Gettys: Very interested by the juxtaposition of classic kart racing with new mechanics; feels the price is tough, but the concept is exciting and worth supporting if well executed.
• Greg Miller: Loves that the game exists and is finally realized; however, the $70 price is a huge sticking point, as is Nintendo’s strategy of not making the original easily accessible.

---

Closing Reflections & Community Interaction

• Fun banter about Pokemon, the possibility of story mode, and shout-outs to chat contributions.
• The team plugs upcoming Gamescast and Capcom previews, promising more first-hand impressions.
• The group ends on a note of cautious optimism mixed with pricing skepticism, echoing their desire for Nintendo to support both mainstream and niche innovations.

---

Release Date Announcement: Kirby Air Riders launches on November 20th, 2025.

---

Quick Reference Timestamps

• Initial Kirby Air Riders Direct Reaction – 03:39
• Character & Vehicle Reactions – 04:55
• Discussion of Mario Kart Comparisons – 10:30
• Mechanics, Items, and Modes – 13:01, 19:56
• City Trial Mode Reveal & Analysis – 26:42, 35:46
• Gameplay vs Other Racers/Sonic – 59:57, 62:45
• Panel Final Thoughts & Recap – 54:58 (Andy), 55:51 (Greg), 57:04 (Tim), 58:53 (Greg), 62:45 (Tim)

---

In the words of Tim Gettys (62:45):
"This looks fun. This looks different. This looks like something I want to get into. I think right now I’m in a place where it’s on them to let me down…”

And as Greg Miller sums up (58:53):
“On one hand there's no way this game should be $70—like, straight up, period. ...And on the other hand, I’m so happy this game exists.”

---

For Listeners

Whether you’re a longtime Kirby Air Ride fan or a newcomer, Kinda Funny’s thoughtful and unfiltered take offers a comprehensive rundown of what’s new, what’s familiar, and what’s worth being excited—or cautious—about in Nintendo’s bold new racer.

Transcript

[Greg Miller]

What's up? And welcome back to another kind of funny live reaction, this time to the Nintendo Direct for Kirby air riders from Mr. Sakurai himself. It's not actually live. This happened yesterday at 6am we couldn't wake up that early then. We had a lot to do because it was Gamescom, but we wanted to still do a live reaction to this. So the four of us have not seen this yet, so we're going to be watching it for the very first time. Full transparency. I did skim through it a little.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Bit yesterday morning before I knew we.

[Greg Miller]

Were gonna do a reaction when I thought y' all were gonna be haters on the Pink Pu.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I would never.

[Andy Cortez]

I would never be. I want to visit his forgotten land.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, this isn't that bad.

[Tim Gettys]

You remembered it.

[Andy Cortez]

I remembered it.

[Greg Miller]

Never forget it.

[Tim Gettys]

Remember the land.

[Greg Miller]

We have blessing out of Aoe Junior.

[Tim Gettys]

Good day, Tim.

[Greg Miller]

Greg Miller.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I can't believe you would think that I want to be interested in this. Of course. I just came back from Pokemon Worlds, so a game star and a Pokemon. I'm all, yeah, let's see what he's up to.

[Greg Miller]

It's great. And Andy Cortez is here.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Dude, Ben loves it.

[Andy Cortez]

Really?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

When Ben gets mad, he does the Jigglypuff anger thing.

[Andy Cortez]

I love that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It led to us in Tahoe buying this whole set of Pokemon, and then I have to give him to him one of at a time. But he forgot he has to be good. It's a whole thing.

[Greg Miller]

He forgot he has to be like.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I gave him four. He got to Jigglypuff, and they just forgot about him. He's got six.

[Greg Miller]

He got the one he wants above the fridge.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's just like, all right. Oh, well, it wasn't at random. He could decide what he wanted, you.

[Andy Cortez]

Know, I love that he loves Bulbasaur, by the way.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, he loves Bulbasaur.

[Greg Miller]

Anyways, everyone, this is Gamescom week. A lot going on. You can check out our live reactions to the show.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Conversation over here. Went to Costco. All right. This kid, for months has been on and on and on about breaking his father's heart. Breaking his father's heart. What do you want to be for Halloween? He says he wants to be a jaguar. Mom and dad are zookeepers. Originally said hunters. And I'm like, yeah, we'll be zookeepers. He's like, okay, cool.

[Andy Cortez]

Not from an ip.

[Tim Gettys]

No.

[Greg Miller]

He loves.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Just love jaguars. He loves jaguars.

[Andy Cortez]

Really?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But then we were at Costco this weekend after all the Pokemon world stuff, and we walked by and he saw the Eevee costume and he said, I want to be Eevee. Buy me that costume. And I was like, slow your roll. I've seen. I've lived this game before where you for months and months and months, you want to be something. Then you see this new hot costume. You choose that costume and then you switch back. Talk to me in a month if you still want to be Evie, we'll get you.

[Andy Cortez]

You'll be back to talking about Blaine Gabbard and Maurice Jones you very soon. Exactly. Those are Jacksonville Jaguars.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I was lost on that reference, but.

[Andy Cortez]

I was with you.

[Greg Miller]

Maybe he'll be into Kirby Greg in a couple months. Maybe after this press when he pops.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Up in the anime and Ash catches him. Or is this a Misty?

[Tim Gettys]

It's a Brock, actually.

[Greg Miller]

I really hate it here, everyone. We've been doing a lot of great Gamescom stuff. Opening night live. We did our live reactions and breakdown yesterday. You could check that out. Then today you're getting our Kirby reaction. And then after this we're getting games daily. After that you're getting three back to back mini games. Cast of previews of hands on impressions for three Capcom games. Bless and I both got to go down to Capcom earlier this week and play Onimusha, Way of the Sword Pragmata and Resident Evil Requiem. So we're going to be talking about our time with all of those games. You're definitely going to want to check all of that out. And obviously something big's happening tomorrow. Maybe something small actually, but it's a big deal. What is it, Andy?

[Andy Cortez]

Hollow Knight. Silk Song.

[Greg Miller]

Hollow Knight. Silk Song.

[Andy Cortez]

Shadow Drop.

[Greg Miller]

An announcement event. It might be a Shadow Drop. It might be something else. We don't know our exact plans of coverage yet because we're trying to figure out and get more information on how and when we're going to live react to all that stuff. But stay tuned for us. Just watch Twitch, watch YouTube. You'll see everything that we're doing here. But of course we're going to be talking, maybe playing, maybe playing Silk Song.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Maybe starring in. You never know.

[Tim Gettys]

You do never know the fucking little Silk Song guy.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Open your voice.

[Greg Miller]

Anyways, without further ado, let's get into Kirby Air Riders.

[Andy Cortez]

Great sound effects.

[Greg Miller]

Wow. I love that. They're just committing to the vocal themes now, man.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They know it works.

[Greg Miller]

Now. Smash Ultimate, Kirby, Forgotten Land, Mario Odyssey, Donkey Kong Bonanza. They're right. Hell yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

I love the Commitments of just like this black font. Like it's so cool and different. There's no gradient.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You ride the air.

[Greg Miller]

And the first one was just Kirby's.

[Andy Cortez]

Who's the pirate guy?

[Greg Miller]

Waddle Dee.

[Andy Cortez]

I love that.

[Greg Miller]

That's fun.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Kirby a light floating rend.

[Andy Cortez]

His well balanced hero has no clear weaknesses Tomorrow bless.

[Greg Miller]

That's you.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That is me.

[Andy Cortez]

That is all around King Kennedy Bowser.

[Greg Miller]

Mario Kart World gets on dead. Today will be your boy.

[Tim Gettys]

I don't like they did it like that. I like Meta Knight though.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Remember Mario Kart defender who slashes. I remember that rivals with defensive his sword and slices through the air.

[Tim Gettys]

Think about Sonic racing cross.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh my God.

[Andy Cortez]

Let's go. Bandana Waddle Dee. Man. Holy. That's a. That's his first name. That's his God. Wow.

[Greg Miller]

Only when he wears the bandana, though.

[Andy Cortez]

Otherwise Ohaki, he was in the cartoon, right?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Right back at you.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

I was going say back in action cartoon.

[Greg Miller]

Oh yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

On Fox kids.

[Greg Miller]

And King did today had like a pizza lawyer accent.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Oh.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Take us back. Take us all the way back.

[Andy Cortez]

So 911 was a tough time for everybody.

[Greg Miller]

These times. Bless you and me waking up early.

[Andy Cortez]

And make sure you like comment.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They work together for.

[Andy Cortez]

I don't know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What his company is like this.

[Andy Cortez]

PlayStation.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Here we go.

[Tim Gettys]

We had discussion.

[Andy Cortez]

We did.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

How dope would it be if like, I know it isn't because of working in the future, but he just turned out. It was like, okay. It's just gonna be DLC for world tour.

[Greg Miller]

Jeez. Three, two, one, start.

[Andy Cortez]

Man.

[Greg Miller]

Let's just.

[Tim Gettys]

Is this the year of heart Races?

[Andy Cortez]

Apparently. Good drift right there. This looks fun. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Sorry, Sonic.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's really been made.

[Andy Cortez]

You're not riding on the air if you got a unit cycle though. But it looks cool.

[Greg Miller]

It does look cool.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Did you understand that the rider went on the machine?

[Tim Gettys]

I'm learning right now.

[Andy Cortez]

Even an idiot can play this.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

That'S good. So aggressive looking.

[Greg Miller]

Happy on the box art. Which sucks because the original box art, he was pissed off.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, really?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

That's his parole officer being like, nah, we gotta look happy. Is that how the old game was?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Oh, Jesus. Says this game's the Smash Bros. Of racers. That's a good point. It's like it's Mario Kart, but it's really not in the same way that like Smash Brothers is a fighting game, but it's really not. Second button, baby.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Whoa. God.

[Andy Cortez]

Holy. The whole momentum thing reminds me of that. Remember that running game called Haste where you're just kind of like running through like hills and stuff? It had a kind of Similar thing where you need to land evenly down a hill to kind of keep the momentum going and stuff. Oh, yeah. Who's that guy?

[Greg Miller]

Just one of the enemies.

[Andy Cortez]

The mushroom. A little mushroom. Oh, I don't know.

[Greg Miller]

He was in forgotten land.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Snowball.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm so simple, dude. I just love, like color schemes. Love seeing different colors. Kirby.

[Greg Miller]

There you go. It's awesome there.

[Andy Cortez]

Nintendo. Come on.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Kakshi. Soko technique.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm Cappy. Great comment. Let the lies in there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The Warp Star. The wing Star.

[Greg Miller]

I love their commitment to the dope ass remixes.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, yeah. Music kicking ass.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Sword is graceful. Wagon Star can't boost charge but makes up for it with higher performance than other categories. Wheelie bike races ahead on a single wheel. An interesting design compared to the Star type machines. Shadows Star.

[Andy Cortez]

We don't know how this wheel got in here. We're confused by it too.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Paper Star lightest paper. Excellent acceleration.

[Andy Cortez]

That's probably something you fought in Star Fox at one point. There's a couple of planes. Bulk Star.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Plow forward on burst charges, swerve stuff.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, that's kind of cool. It's like. What's that? That one's super hot. More like a water bug.

[Andy Cortez]

That seems like one of those, like, you know, super hard to master type things. But once the met is learned, they learn the exact way.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, my God. It's Axel from Twisted Metal.

[Andy Cortez]

That looks cool.

[Greg Miller]

Watching out on the.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Tank Star.

[Andy Cortez]

Porn star.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Shooting star.

[Greg Miller]

Thank you.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Sameo. Machine touch.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, cool. We just removed Cappy from the game for the review.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Gooey. I'm calling Gooey right now, guys. Creature Mysterious origin makes skillful use of his long, wiggly tongue. Just like me.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, God.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Waddle do.

[Greg Miller]

Waddle. Don't waddle. Do has the electricity that comes out of his face.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, I don't like that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Knuckle.

[Andy Cortez]

Joe. Joe.

[Tim Gettys]

I With this guy.

[Andy Cortez]

That just looks like Kirby ate somebody from a jrpg.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It sounds like an insult Trump would have thrown at Joe Biden.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, Knuckles. This lady named Susie.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's magical.

[Andy Cortez]

Dedity is not even in the frame right now, dog. Like, it's so big on this car.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Road rash.

[Andy Cortez]

It's gotta be so annoying for day to day to just hit a Mark McGuire Barry Bond's home run of Cappy and not affect him at all. He just absorbed all of it. Oh, man.

[Greg Miller]

Thinking about the pros out here.

[Andy Cortez]

Fair. We were done with the game two years ago. Then we had to make all the hats for everybody. When we made this decision, we were ready to.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We were like oh, this isn't fun.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, my.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Wheel. Samarima. Push the fashion.

[Andy Cortez]

Tim, when's Forgotten Land to remake or not?

[Greg Miller]

Six days from now, I think. What? Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

No way.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's how I capture.

[Andy Cortez]

That's how the graveler catches them off.

[Greg Miller]

Small stars and acceleration. Small stars do.

[Andy Cortez]

It's like a timid Pac Man.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Star Man.

[Andy Cortez]

Little mouth on top.

[Greg Miller]

Hell yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Finally, shooting style. Look at him go.

[Andy Cortez]

We have the captions. We get the volume like 7 decibels lower. The music, just pumping. And he cops. He's like Mario Kart World.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Tim, you ever met this man?

[Greg Miller]

I did E3, 2010.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

He seems cool.

[Greg Miller]

I was. It was when Kid Akira's Uprising was coming out.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

And he was director of that obviously where the 3Ds was revealed. And I was playing Snake Eater on 3Ds next to him. And I was like, oh my God, Alfredo.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Take a picture.

[Greg Miller]

Took a picture. Take a picture.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Eventually he said you love.

[Andy Cortez]

Did I just see Latin America? What.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The music was?

[Andy Cortez]

Wo. It's like that one scene in 16. I was going to go with the Prince of Egypt.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This looks awesome.

[Andy Cortez]

Dude. This really is the Smash Bros of racing.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Living water.

[Andy Cortez]

This is honestly so much cooler than the tutorial they showed us for 20 minutes beforehand.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They gotta build you up to the main event.

[Greg Miller]

I mean, honestly, I will say, like, this looks, in my opinion, so much better than any of the racing in the original game. Oh, sure, I know it's a game for you. But I'm saying like in terms of fun.

[Andy Cortez]

Show us the takes where you got second or third.

[Greg Miller]

I wonder what other games he directed. His wife designs all the menus and stuff.

[Andy Cortez]

So pretty.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Cavernous corners. Caper around caves. Deep within a jungle. Treasure awaits those brave enough to reach its depths.

[Greg Miller]

Meta Knight's cool.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, he is the meta. Whoa.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Siberian highway.

[Andy Cortez]

This is like what every game does whenever they have to have an astral plane level.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think when you go inside the computer in the virtual world, put cubes.

[Andy Cortez]

Floating in the air.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The two ladies from It Takes Two tumble by.

[Andy Cortez]

I'll split 15. Ah, thank you, Cody.

[Greg Miller]

I wanted to say. Call out Cody. You see, he got married.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Joseph.

[Greg Miller]

Joseph.

[Andy Cortez]

I did play through most of split fiction with my nephew on Switch. Two really good ass video games.

[Greg Miller]

Was it cool?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Wow.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Speed up.

[Andy Cortez]

Now Nobody can hold you back. Boasts impressive speed, but proves stubborn himself slow when it comes to steering. And I'm slick Star.

[Greg Miller]

Do you know the item in Smash Brothers? The Air Dragoon. We have to collect three pieces and then it does that target and you can. That's like the special ride in this.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

In there as well.

[Andy Cortez]

My name's Rex. They all got different personalities.

[Greg Miller]

Thank you, Barry. Oh, my God.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Battle chariot. Now he looks like axel.

[Andy Cortez]

That 3D model looks kind of not great. Like the thing he was sitting on just looks really odd. Like, who said that? Screen cap that for whenever somebody retires.

[Greg Miller]

Can we pause it here? This is the main event, everybody. Oh. This is what this game is all about. City trial. But I can't let you guys know about it right now.

[Andy Cortez]

I need to let you know a.

[Greg Miller]

Word from our sponsors.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Sponsor Voice]

Between busy schedules and summer plans, sometimes all you got is a couple of minutes. Factor helps so many of us here at Kind of Funny. Eat smarter with tasty chef prepped meals that are dietitian approved and delivered right to my door. And now, with more than 65 weekly meals made for how we live and what I like to eat, we've got even more ways to fit in a real meal wherever the day takes us. On many occasions, Factor has completely saved Greg and Jen when they needed it most. Choose from a wider selection of weekly meal options, including premium seafood choices like salmon and shrimp at no extra cost. Eat smart at factor meals.com/kind of funny 50 offer and use code kind of funny 50 offer to get 50% off your first box plus free breakfast for one year. That's code kind of funny 50 off at factor meals.com for 50% off your first box plus Free breakfast for one year. Get delicious ready to eat meals delivered with Factor offer only valid for new Factor customers with code and qualifying auto renewing subscription purchase.

[Greg Miller]

This episode is brought to you by Shady Rays. You know that moment, the one when you realize you left your favorite pair of sunglasses at the beach? We've all been there. I'll never forget leaving my incredibly overpriced sunglasses at a restaurant in Santa Monica. That was 13 years ago and it still haunts me to this day. But then I found Shady Rays and everything changed. Seriously good looking, polarized, durable, and not stupidly expensive. And here's the wild part. If you lose or break them even on day one, Shady Rays will send you a brand new pair. No guilt trip, just replacements. So now you can actually wear your sunglasses without fear. Y' all know I've been outside in the sun a lot playing Pokemon Go. And it's such a great experience. Experience wearing Shady Rays when I'm all out and about. Shady Rays is eyewear that has your back. We've teamed up with Shady Rays to bring you an exclusive offer. Check this out. You can head to shadyrays.com use code funny for 35% off polarized sunglasses. Try for yourself the shades rated 5 stars by over 300,000 people. Shady rays use a Code Funny this episode is brought to you by Aura Frames. Our frames are the perfect way to relive your favorite memories that you created with throughout this beautiful, beautiful summer season. No lie. Our frames are undeniably the best gift I have ever given family, friends, partners. Everyone loves being able to have beautiful frames showing off their loved ones and their favorite memories. Our frames are incredibly smart and easy to use, allowing you to upload unlimited photos and videos directly from your phone to the frame. Plus the coolest thing, you can order the frame online and preload it with photos and videos and using the Aura app so it's ready to go right out of the box when you give it to someone. There's unlimited storage so you can store as many photos and videos as you can find. And it's so simple to set up. Start reliving your favorite memories by visiting our frames.com for a limited time. Listeners can get $35 off their best selling Carver matte frame. That's a U R A frames.com promo code. Kinda funny. Support the show by mentioning us at checkout. Terms and conditions apply. Aurora frames.com kind of funny. Sorry to keep you waiting, but here we are, the main event.

[Andy Cortez]

Kept you waiting, huh, Cook? All right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

All right.

[Tim Gettys]

I was expecting. I don't know what I was expecting.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You get around this in like three minutes.

[Tim Gettys]

I was expecting Los Santos.

[Andy Cortez]

There's like a seven minute walk. Yeah, I can jog.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That looks like it looks like that Pokemon. They said they're going to open in real life.

[Andy Cortez]

Japan or whatever you like.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Look at like, this is tiny.

[Andy Cortez]

You're at one on the map. You're like, no, we don't got Uber. We can walk that. The entirety of what you saw was how long it takes to ride through it. We got some depth though.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay, so why is this cool team? What is this?

[Andy Cortez]

They'll explain.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay, thank you.

[Andy Cortez]

Listen, Sa.

[Tim Gettys]

I just love that all these locations are just right next to me.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. See.

[Andy Cortez]

It'S like a theme park where the wall hides the.

[Greg Miller]

Yes.

[Andy Cortez]

I don't know if I'll know eight people in this city that will have this that I know personally, you know, like on my friends.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Listen, free advice from the out there. Sky would be a good kid name.

[Andy Cortez]

I think so. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Getting ready to have a kid Soon.

[Andy Cortez]

I knew I knew Skyler.

[Tim Gettys]

Big Dante guy.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, Skyler. Plus you can kind of do the riff on like, Psyduck when they do something bad.

[Tim Gettys]

That told me.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Infinite Corpse says they'll get Skyler written on their Starbucks. How many times have I gotten Craig Egg people? Fucking Starbucks People had to be kicked in a mule to work there.

[Andy Cortez]

Holy shit. Just like.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, dude. A little slow down there. Halo 2.

[Andy Cortez]

Looks better.

[Tim Gettys]

You could have gone with 3D1.

[Andy Cortez]

You don't like this? The size 70 stroke on it. Panicking.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

On the Kashad. Okay. Oh, my God.

[Andy Cortez]

This mode stands out to be way, like, anytime I played Mario Kart World or any Mario Kart, I'm never drawn to battle mode. Yeah, this looks way more interesting than battle mode.

[Greg Miller]

Did you ever play Smash 3DS?

[Andy Cortez]

Yes, but I.

[Greg Miller]

But Smash Run mode, essentially what this is where it's like you have five minutes just gathering up your stats and like different abilities to then have to face off against each other. But this one has more minigames and.

[Andy Cortez]

Battling for the stats, I think is. Is ne.

[Greg Miller]

Finish.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You this.

[Andy Cortez]

Holy. It's a PvE VP.

[Greg Miller]

PvE PvP.

[Andy Cortez]

Extract with the loot with you and your squad. Go back to your base and upgrade.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, my God, it's dark. Remember the first trailer for Forgotten Land? And we're like, what the fuck is this?

[Andy Cortez]

Hey there, Kirby. Sure you want to do this?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We were in Target the other day and Ben saw the trailer for Forgotten Land, wanted to play.

[Andy Cortez]

Dude, it's such a good game. I don't think he's got the stuff, though. But that's cool.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Eat it, Sonic. I'm going 900 miles per hour. All right, I'm sorry. I took a blind corner.

[Greg Miller]

Got the wrong icon.

[Andy Cortez]

So he made the icon 17ft tall.

[Tim Gettys]

Do you know what minigame is coming up as you're collecting?

[Greg Miller]

Think you do.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

It'S the ice mini game. Get the Fire.

[Greg Miller]

That was definitely the Smash Brothers Battle field Music Intro.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Phylon95 in the chat says, Won't buy Switch 2, but I love how old school this game looks. Why would you buy a switch too? No shade? Just wondering.

[Andy Cortez]

Get the shade ready. Affordability.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But that. I mean, that's like. Okay, I'm not. I'm not gonna buy it soon.

[Andy Cortez]

No.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, but I won't buy a switch too. Like. Ah, mad rocks. Chimes in. Nobody's talking to you.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No, I didn't ask you, did I? I'm having a private conversation. Evan says I'm waiting for Switch two.

[Tim Gettys]

Ol.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm not talking to you, Portland Kevin. I'm a clear comms. I'm having a one on one conversation. God, how rude you people are.

[Tim Gettys]

I really like everything I'm seeing.

[Greg Miller]

Good man.

[Tim Gettys]

I like everything about this.

[Greg Miller]

This is selling to me way more than I was.

[Andy Cortez]

I don't like these images.

[Tim Gettys]

I think, yeah, the jpeg's weird, but I'll just chalk it up to like.

[Greg Miller]

That's what this is. Yeah, I mean they're stickers, right? I'm not saying I like that, but.

[Andy Cortez]

Knuckle Joe, man, these real ass PNGs are just hilarious looking.

[Tim Gettys]

Dude, I'm sold on this.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I hope it's under $50. Were you doing it for the holes or do you know? Okay, foreign break open a crate. How am I supposed to know what's in there? Don't get mad at me if I build the wrong kind of machine.

[Andy Cortez]

Sa watching our future stream of this, like.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Why is he. Why is he packing up the heart and the big thing? Just get one of them.

[Andy Cortez]

Typing in chat with all the omega ls like, lose it l l.

[Tim Gettys]

The food PNGs are killing me. Like the items I can get used to is the food.

[Greg Miller]

It's how it is in every Kirby and Smash Brothers.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, but like the games, they look so good now. You can't be this vibrant and colorful and then have real action this morning.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I do like how it feels like cars are the machines. Andy. These machines, you're a rider, remember, Are like pretty much just like almost platforming adjacent. Like it's not a pain in the ass to I gotta reverse and I gotta miss that like it movement feels very, very nilly.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

He just picks all those things up. What are you doing? What's your meta?

[Andy Cortez]

No, you're right. I'm gonna be so mad at the Kirby just splitting the sword move. Nerf. That dude might have earned too many power ups.

[Greg Miller]

At E3 when they announced we fit trainer as a playable character in Smash ultimate. And like a behind closed doors thing announced it. Everyone's excited. And then the games media person came up on stage and was like, let's do a first match. And he just whipped their ass. Didn't go easy on them at all. Just talked exactly like he's talking about. It was hilarious.

[Andy Cortez]

He is.

[Greg Miller]

Awesome.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Do you know who it was?

[Greg Miller]

No.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No.

[Andy Cortez]

He's looking back at the crowd like it's light work, man.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Don't let anybody write about game show.

[Andy Cortez]

So free right now.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I want to let this man review it. Don't Trust his reviews.

[Tim Gettys]

Look.

[Andy Cortez]

We'Re just watching a. Let's play.

[Tim Gettys]

Saying this. That's crazy. We'll listen to kg be like, yo.

[Greg Miller]

These guys are spit.

[Andy Cortez]

He said, I don't think there's many games. Like, this is what he just said. Look, they showed off sky. And at one point he was like. And that's pretty much it. And I was like, it. This is super lame. Like, but all of. All of this section has been so much cooler than.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They ramped up really well.

[Greg Miller]

4, 3, 2, 1. Time.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The music ends right on time.

[Andy Cortez]

They got Clark. Got that right.

[Greg Miller]

I love this guy.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Get the score panels and earn points tonight.

[Andy Cortez]

I want to see him like trying to go live on this. Let's play Twitch Stream. Like audio's not coming through.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Dude, you're getting audio? Are we sunk? Is it sunk?

[Andy Cortez]

Why am I not getting audio? It was working yesterday.

[Greg Miller]

Oh.

[Andy Cortez]

Uncle Joe. What's he doing out there?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Cocktail.

[Andy Cortez]

Get another mind game.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

For you.

[Greg Miller]

Bookworms.

[Andy Cortez]

Started proudly explaining how it's a one button game. Major win. Ronin Kaiju. Thanks for using your prime on us. Appreciate you, Ronan.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Chris, show me how game chat works with us.

[Andy Cortez]

I need somebody to animate all of us to that to like an anime intro.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Running in like in a cornfield or something. Let me check the Nintendo app.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The music. Nintendo music.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, but I want to see the app. I haven't checked in anymore.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think there's fun to be happening.

[Andy Cortez]

They're talking about Waddle Doo's ability, which is fire.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Always a pleasure. Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm so ready for little baby Ben to become a master Kirby fan.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Forgotten land.

[Greg Miller]

One more thing, guys.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I would have heard.

[Andy Cortez]

Sephiroth is Sephiroth.

[Greg Miller]

What the. Like Meta Knight doesn't look cool enough. There's a new cool fucking dude. Sick.

[Andy Cortez]

Damn dude.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

November 20th.

[Andy Cortez]

I thought Barrett accidentally clicked on a fucking the Final Fantasy movie. Advent Children.

[Greg Miller]

There you go, everybody. Kirby Air Riders. Andy, what'd you think?

[Andy Cortez]

I thought it looked neat, but probably not something I will look into buying. Unless all of my other friends decide to buy it and try it out. I. How much?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

70.

[Greg Miller]

It's $70.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

69. 99.

[Andy Cortez]

That's really not great. And I am very curious to see what sales numbers will be a year from now. I know Nintendo loves. I mean Nintendo owners and Switch to owners love their sort of. You know, the attach rates are always amazing. We know their game sell a lot. But I just wonder what the audience will be for this video game a year from now. But everything Leading up until the city trial thing was very underwhelming. And this was. That was the one thing that was like, oh, I'm way more into this than everything you've shown prior to this, Greg.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, this will be an interesting one. I think this presentation was good. Like we're talking about it warmed up. The city trial stuff's frantic and crazy at the end, and I would like to do it for me. Greg Miller, Games Criticism Person I want hands on sticks. I think this was a very long presentation with a lot of information for a game and IP I'm not familiar with. So as a kart racing fan, I want to try it and play and see how it feels to step back from that, but keep keeping it. Yeah, $70. I wouldn't take the chance on this one. Obviously, we'll probably get review codes for this. And then what will be interesting is introducing it to Ben. Ben loves Mario Kart World, does play it every chance he gets. He was playing it last night when I came home. So introducing this, probably hot on the heels of him playing Forgotten Lands, it'll be interest to see what that is. And with that battle mode or, you know, the city trials being so frantic and leading to races and leading to cool minigames, I could see him and me doing that a lot in a way that we do battle mode in Mario Kart World Tour, but he prefers just to do free roam with me there, where we just drive around and chase each other. This giving a little bit more like, hey, we're doing all these things and collecting all this stuff to then go do this. I think he could really get down on that.

[Andy Cortez]

A lot more active in that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Plus, yeah, this looks super fun. I'm. I didn't play the original Kirby Air ride. Me and you talked about it earlier on kfgd. And so going into this, I was very interested on what can you show me to make me really interested in the game. And everything they showed me got me really interested in the game. I. I think I'm. I differ. I differ from Andy in the sense that before we got to the city trial mode, I was in on the visuals. I was in on the idea of, like combining the different characters with the gears and like, how they look, how. How fast the game is, all this. Right. Like, I think the idea of having something that is traditional kart racer, but then taking a strong swerve into being this weird thing I'm all the way into. I like the pace of it. I like kind of like the roller Coaster kind of aspect to it. It all speaks to me. And then when you bring in the city trial stuff, all that stuff looks really fun. I think the price conversation is tough. And that's obviously going to be a. To each their own as far as what money means to you and how much money you feel like you have to spend on the games that you want to buy in the review code conversation. Like if we get this game for review codes, if you have enough and I end up getting one, yeah, I'm going to play the fuck out of this game. Would I spend $70 on it? That's a totally different conversation. I won't know till it's out.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But I say that's part of the review, right?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

When you get the review and you know. Yeah. And you see other people playing and talking about how much they're into and your friends.

[Tim Gettys]

Sure, exactly. Right. But like, I think regardless of that, I think the thing that excites me about this game is that it is a weird and more kind of a niche idea that Nintendo has in their bucket that they're reaching into and giving this kind of attention and this kind of polish and this kind of thing too. And I don't want to, I don't want to take that and then go, oh, I'm only gonna pay 70 for the most mainstream of games. Like, I want to look at something like this and go, oh, this is like a weird take on a type of game that has been around over 20 years. Like, I want this to be a thing that is like supported and celebrated and all that stuff. And so I think that goes to a deeper conversation about price. I think separating price out of it. This looks cool to me. I think this looks wonderful.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I'll jump off right where you ended there and say like the, the. I feel hypocritical with my thoughts on this game because on one hand there's no way this game should be $70, like straight up, period. This game should not be $70. And on the other hand, it's like, I'm so happy this game exists. I can't believe we're getting a non Smash Brothers Sakurai game, let alone a follow up to something that was very flawed but very beloved back in the day. I have many memories. I never owned this game, but renting this game many different times for City Trial and me and my friends and my neighbors would come over and we'd play the hell out of it because it just had that multiplayer Nintendo fun and there was a lot there. But I Never once considered buying that game, you know, at a time that I was buying games and buying Nintendo games. So, yeah, $70, I do think is a tough pill to swallow. It seems like they're trying to make and present this as if it is a step up. And in a lot of ways it seems to be. But I'm. I have a lot of concerns with that price tag. And that's, I think, more about Nintendo overall than anything else.

[Andy Cortez]

What are your gaming drawbacks that you saw from this? As somebody who. You're the only one here who's played the original.

[Greg Miller]

I mean, the thing is, it doesn't play like a kart racer. I can't stress that enough. And you get your hands on the stick and the button and you're either gonna, you're not. When you first pick this up, it's just not gonna play the way you think it does. And it, your brain's either going to be able to click and be like, I get it, and go, or you're going to be like, why doesn't this play like Mario Kart? I don't like it. And I feel like from that it's like a lot of us grew up with Mario Kart and kart racers working a certain way, but a lot of us sickos also grew up with 3D sonic. And I think that this game has a lot in to relate to 3D Sonic games and the way the momentum works and the spin dash and just the stopping your direction in 3D and changing and shooting off.

[Andy Cortez]

I love all of that.

[Greg Miller]

There's a lot of really cool stuff there. And at the end of the day, Sakurai makes incredibly detailed games, but I feel like he gets lost in the weed, in the details a lot of the times. And I look at all the Smash Brothers games, some of my favorite games of all time, and then you look at how many modes those games have and then how many of those modes are actually worth a damn. Yeah, and I think that Kirby Air Riders is a perfect example of just. It's that that is the core of the game. It's just all the different modes being thrown into one. And I think the difference is it works more for this type of game than it does for a Smash game because the Smash gameplay is like so great, whereas this, I think, because it is doubling down more on the, the gimmick of this type of racing, which is no other game plays like this. So I'm excited to see what they can pull off with it. I, I love again that he's making A new game and getting a 45 minute presentation. I am undeniably more excited for this game now than I was yesterday. Okay. Having seen this. But it still really, really, really concerns me. It's not $70. I also think it's very telling that this didn't end with them being like, hey, Kirby, Air writers is on NSO now. You can play it because this is the type of game that you spent 45 minutes explaining. Yes.

[Tim Gettys]

Gotcha.

[Greg Miller]

And I think they don't want people playing that game. That's my theory. Why? Because I think they're gonna play that and be like, I'm not spending $70.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Got it, got it, got it.

[Greg Miller]

Every.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Everything gameplay wise in everything having to do with traversal in that sky. Sky. A map or whatever looked like so much more fun than roaming around in Mario Kart's open world for me. And that's one thing that I thought was going to draw me to Mario Kart's open world. And it turns out it wasn't even close to being like a diet version of Forza, which is always kind of like what I was hoping that they wanted it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

But something about just the way that these machines work and move around seems a lot more enticing than. Again, fuck. Ah, damn it. I undercooked that turn. Let me reverse. And kind of everything looks a bit more kind of active and frantic here. And I really enjoy that.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. I think it's given me. I think the Sonic comparison is interesting because I think part of what interests me in this is like what my dream of what I always want Sonic to be but it rarely ends up being. Which is like take advantage of that fast paced momentum in that roller coaster kind of gameplay and turning it into something that has substance. And you're right that like, no, not many other games really do that. When I look at this and I look at the city trial stuff, specifically how the stat system works and how that flows into these different mini games that you're kind of building yourself up to and then getting to choose and try to like battle of all right. No, I'm, you know, I got more heavy stats and more powerful stuff. So I'm going to go for a minigame that does this, that kind of thing in the how that all comes together. Seemingly. I'm like, oh, this looks fucking awesome. Right. Like I'm with Andy where I look at this and I do get more excited than like, I guess how I feel now after playing Mario Kart World and dropping off of world after a couple of Weeks of playing it. I don't expect to play this for months and months and months. And so maybe it is where I'm at after Mario Kart versus where I'm at now after seeing a direct for this. But I look at this and I'm like, man, this looks fun. This looks different. This looks like something I want to get into. I think right now I'm in a place where it's on them to let me down. Based off of what you're saying, Tim, as far as like, yo, this is it kind of is what what it. As far as like the one or two buttons and then go right. Like, if it really is that slim as far as what they're bringing depth wise, then I think that that's going to be a rude awakening when this game comes out for the people who saw this and then went, oh, man, I'm totally in on this. I'm gonna spend 70 for it.

[Greg Miller]

Even then, though, like, it is that symbol. Them adding another button does go a. Like it sounds like a joke, but that it adds so much more potential here. Having all the specials, having the different characters have different stats and then having all the different car, sorry, machines, all this stuff does seem like they're adding depth in ways that I feel like it is very, very necessary compared to the. The first game. I want to get a couple super chats before we close this out. Kebab says, shout out to Andy's dope Dragon Ball shirt. Trevor says, I need andy and his PJs reacting to silk Song tomorrow. Maybe. We'll see.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We're debating.

[Greg Miller]

We're debating if we're doing it at 7:30 or after Charles Jacobson says, how many Pokemon can Greg name before he says a non Pokemon name? My bed is 8. Also, I'm excited to see you dress as a clown, Tim. I don't know when I'm doing it, but I will. Great. And definitely name more than eight.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I appreciate that.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I would say you can name.

[Andy Cortez]

He's not going to do it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We're doing a Pokemon episode next week. I would like to continue. I mean, like, okay. I mean, I can go if you want me to do. I just have to beat eight. That's it.

[Andy Cortez]

No, name eight. Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So I mean, my boy Hawlucha. All right.

[Andy Cortez]

I am so fucking mad.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You guys didn't tell me that this motherfucker that there was a wrestling Pokemon. You know what I mean? I go Pikachu. Just get him out of the way. You know my man Evie, Ben's Favorite. What up with that? How we doing? Gengar, Jen's favorite, which I respect quite a bit. You know what I mean? Can't forget Porygon, my favorite, before all this happened. Pumpkaboo, my favorite before I met Hallucha.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm assembling a team, as you can see inside my head here. You know what I mean?

[Greg Miller]

This sounds like an all star team, everybody.

[Andy Cortez]

We're getting you on the Nuzlocke.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Don't insult me. Don't insult me.

[Greg Miller]

I love it. I just love it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

All right. Of course it's not. This isn't me stalling. I'm trying to figure, where do I want to go from here? I mean, I'll put him out there. He's not my boy. He's not really Ben's boy, but we're gonna put out Sprigatito. All right? You know, this other. Okay, I'm not about him. Ben isn't about him either, but somehow talks about him a lot more like that's the whole thing winning him over. Who do I want to put in for my eighth? You know what I mean?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Chad, stop listening stuff.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No, I'm not looking. I'm not. I'm not looking. I legitimately can do this.

[Tim Gettys]

I trust you. I don't trust Chat.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay, thank you. I appreciate it. You know, let's go favorite.

[Andy Cortez]

You know, starter.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Well, no, well, I'm gonna. I could go that way, but I'm gonna toss out my guy because we've been talking a lot about my long tongue here. Let's talk about Vanillite. You know what I mean? I just want to wrap my tongue.

[Greg Miller]

Around that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Ice cream cone. Come on. And there's your eight. Thank you, everybody.

[Greg Miller]

I like that you, you know, you got out of Gen1 a bit. That's nice.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, yeah. Well, I mean, I don't even. I probably don't even. I know the other guys more than I know Gen1, I think.

[Greg Miller]

I doubt that just by sheer. I mean, half your list was Gen one, but.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay, fair.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. And also, even the one. Scarlet and Violet have a lot of Gen one. Gen one.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay, that's what I'm thinking of.

[Greg Miller]

You can't hide from General getting ready.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

For that Totodile takeover. You know, maybe Pokemon Legends. Z to A. Did you know Z2A? I didn't know until I was getting the demo and I said Z2A.

[Greg Miller]

How many times did they. Correct. How many times did you look at Nintendo or Pokemon Rep in the eye and say, zah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I was Very respectful. I'll tell you about it next week.

[Greg Miller]

DJ Kanto says, how upsets Greg that there's no Ecto Star to ride on in this.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, they don't want to sell the game. It's understandable.

[Greg Miller]

And then, Andy, I'll let you answer this. DJ Ko also says, who in the KF crew fits having Knuckle before their name the most? Mike Nick. Knuckle Nick goes pretty hard. Maybe Knuckle Blessing.

[Andy Cortez]

I think. Well, I mean, Knuckle Joey. Knuckle Joe.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, yeah. Knuckle Joey is.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm sure Joey wants to be known as Knuckle Joe.

[Greg Miller]

Knuckle Joe's cool. Just. Nero says, curious to see what's left to announce for this game. It was mentioned there's still more left. Along with a story tease at the end. Yeah, I mean, you know, knowing Saccharine how he does this stuff, that's very similar to the. The Smash Bros Tease with ultimate of they ended that. That final direct being like, oh, yeah, and something else is coming.

[Andy Cortez]

That guy was on his way to murder everybody.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. That's cool. Yeah. To set my expectations for everybody. I think there will be some type of story mode. I think it is going to be way more similar to World of Light than it is Subspace Emissary or anything.

[Andy Cortez]

Which is better.

[Greg Miller]

Wild. I mean, some Space Emissary, but don't around. Yeah, don't.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Me too.

[Greg Miller]

I won't. I won't.

[Tim Gettys]

All right, so Space Emissary is better.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

Robot's also pretty good, though. I like World Light Worldwide. Probably has better gameplay, if I'm being honest about how the Spirit system works.

[Greg Miller]

Thank you. Just way more.

[Tim Gettys]

Just wait.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

No, you're right.

[Greg Miller]

A real conversation.

[Tim Gettys]

My heart says Subspace.

[Greg Miller]

Jake Wyman says you guys should check out Slash Wishlist. Star Garden. It's a spiritual successor to Kirby Air Ride and it looks pretty rad. Cool. You can check out Star Garden if you'd like. Star Garden. All right, everybody. That was Kirby air riders coming November 20th. An interesting release date. Knowing what Nintendo has the rest of the year. Because we have Pokemon in October.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's right.

[Greg Miller]

Right.

[Tim Gettys]

What's one Metro Don't.

[Greg Miller]

Yes. Or is it getting delayed? We'll see.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think December.

[Greg Miller]

I also think it's November, though. I think they can do this and that. Huh? Take that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

He's blew your mind chat.

[Andy Cortez]

Take it.

[Greg Miller]

We're about to do games daily. And then remember, a trifecta of Gamescast coming your way. A bunch of Capcom previews. We will be previewing Pragmata, Resident Evil Requiem and Onimusha Way of the Sword. Because Bless and I played all three of them. We'll talk about that later. Get tuned for games daily. Bye.

[Tim Gettys]

Get tuned.