Mike's Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Review - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Summary

Kinda Funny Gamescast: Mike's Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Review

Date: November 24, 2025
Hosts: Andy Cortez, Blessing Adeoye Jr., Mike “SnowBikeMike” Howard

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Episode Overview

This episode is dedicated to SnowBikeMike’s in-depth review of Kingdom Come Deliverance 2—one of 2025's most talked-about RPGs. The hosts dig into Mike’s extensive playthrough, explore what sets the game apart, compare it to other massive RPGs, highlight memorable moments and features, and wrap with tangents about the year’s best games and playful banter about their current gaming habits.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Setting the Stage

• Why this review? The group jokes about finally getting to the hotly-requested review after months of community “pressure.”
  • Andy Cortez: “After all of the hype that chat's been saying. Why won't any of y'all play Kingdom Come Deliverance 2?” (07:39)
  • Mike: “Did it for you, man.” (02:20)

Mike's Playthrough: Stats & Scope

• Game time: Mike played for 83 hours, barely scratching the surface of the side content and DLC.
  • Mike: “I played 83 hours. I could have easily spent another 20 to 40 if I wanted to... I did a lot.” (04:29)
• Approach: He dove into both the main quest and a variety of side activities, illustrating the game's openness and depth.

Top-Level Impressions & Scores

• Immediate verdict:
  • Mike: “It's as good as everyone says it is. Yes. This game absolutely delivered. You should 100% give it your time and play it... It is a 9 out of 10 in the SnowBikeMike playbook if not a 9.5 out of 10. Absolutely amazing.” (05:41)

Why Not a Perfect 10?

• Major ding: The combat, especially early on, can feel frustrating and slow (“a crawl”), but ultimately rewarding.
  • Mike: “It is a very slowed down action RPG... Like these missions that I was on, these side quests would take hours... But they're the most awesome side quests I've ever experienced in games.” (09:17)
  • Cites slow mission pacing and sometimes repetitive or clunky combat, but overall feels it benefits immersion and depth.

Combat & Systems Deep Dive

• Early hours: Combat feels rough until you’ve learned “master strike” from Tom “Tomcat” Tomko, which opens the skill ceiling.
  • Mike: “Once you meet Tom Tomcat, he teaches you the master strike... It really opens up...” (06:48)
• RPG mechanics: Heavy stat and skill progression, with systems reminiscent of Skyrim but “deeper.”
  • Mike: “Everything you do is leveling up something... the RPG mechanics have a lot going on.” (12:05)
• Methods of play: Highly flexible: side quests, narrative immersion, open-ended experimentation with skills, builds, and choices.

Story & Player Choice

• Narrative Impact: While many outcomes converge, players experience notable branchings and consequences—including some harsh, morally grey moments.
  • Mike: “There's a major choice that you can make that would dictate... But I don't think at the end, it is all that massively different.” (15:40)
  • Blessing Jr.: “Does it feel like a definitive moral? Either you choose good or you choose bad?”
  • Mike: “Oh, yeah... you clearly know what was right from wrong and you chose wrong.” (16:14)
• Side tasks: He shares vivid stories, like accidentally killing a quest NPC, underscoring the game’s flexibility and unpredictability.
  • Mike: “The old lady caught me. She started running for the hills... I murdered her. Mission over.” (14:02)

Immersion, World & Visuals

• Atmosphere: Praises the meticulously detailed medieval world, from bustling Prague to rural countrysides—constantly impressive visuals with “no loading screens.”
  • Mike: “The countryside of Prague and what they created... just giant open world, no loading screens, just you on your horse Pebbles... Fantastic.” (21:20)
  • Blessing Jr.: “...One of the best looking games of the year.” (22:23)
• Memorable characters: The cast is lively and well-voiced; even minor figures like “Bathhouse Betty” and in-jokes about people resembling Gary Whitta.
  • Mike: “There are characters in this game... you will never forget. You will laugh and giggle...” (21:23)

Systems, Difficulty, and Save Structure

• Crafting & Alchemy: Deep optional systems for smithing and potion-making can lead to unique quest solutions or failures (e.g., botched healing attempts can kill).
  • Mike: “That was pretty cool to be able to deduce that from the book of Poisons...” (16:52)
• Save system: Criticizes the restrictive saving mechanic, which is tied to crafting special potions or saving on exit only.
  • Mike: “It’s one of the kind of dings... the save system... I wish it was just save whenever you wanted.” (18:45)
• Encouraged modding: Warhorse Studios suggests mods for quality-of-life improvements.

Customization & Persistent Impact

• Visual/Physical branding: Your actions can visibly scar your character, with towns branding criminals (an actual scar) and reacting to your reputation.
  • Mike: “They'll brand you... and it was sick... every time you'd see my character, he had this big brand on the side of his neck. It was awesome.” (27:47)

Historical Inspiration

• The game draws on real 15th-century European events and figures, but Mike jokes about the educational value:
  • Mike: “Did I learn anything? Absolutely not.” (28:42)

Future of the Series: Wishes for a Sequel

• Mike: Wants more side stories, gladiator combat, expanding on the already robust side activities and home-building systems.
  • “Next one I want is like give me the sword, let’s go full gladiator.” (31:21)

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On game’s RPG depth:
  • “If I'm thinking Skyrim, I'm in the shallows... then I go into Kingdom Come Deliverance 2... all of a sudden I'm in the six foot adult zone.”
    —Mike (12:05)
• On slow-burn engagement:
  • “This game is just a crawl all the time, but it's a good crawl... I mean it has a crawl of like, it is a very slowed down action RPG.”
    —Mike (09:17)
• On morality and choices:
  • “You clearly know what was right from wrong and you chose wrong.”
    —Mike (16:14)
• On game world:
  • “No loading screens, just you on your horse. Pebbles. Shout out to Pebbles.”
    —Mike (21:20)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

| Timestamp | Segment | |---|---| | 04:29 | Mike’s playtime/overall scope | | 05:41 | Overall verdict & score | | 06:48 | Combat “opens up” with Master Strike | | 09:17 | What holds the game back from a 10 | | 12:05 | Discussion on depth vs. other RPGs | | 14:02 | Anecdotes of impactful player choices | | 15:40 | Branching paths and outcomes | | 16:52 | Alchemy, crafting, side activities | | 18:45 | Save system criticism | | 21:20 | Memorable companions, immersion, world detail | | 22:23 | Visuals and cutscene quality | | 27:47 | On being branded, persistent consequences | | 28:42 | Jokes about learning history | | 31:21 | Hopes for sequels and new features |

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Other Games and Tangents

After the main review, the hosts discuss:

• Dispatch: Touted as a sleeper Game of the Year contender with stellar writing and episodic structure.
  • “Dispatch is secret goatee.” —Mike (34:28)
  • “Definitely one of the best examples of a narrative episodic game, if not maybe the best.” —Blessing Jr. (37:21)
• Ongoing impressions of games like Kirby Air Riders, Slay the Spire (mobile), Monsters are Coming: Rock and Road, and Demio: Dungeons & Dragons.
• Tangents about city builders, VR game accessories, and other ongoing/future gaming plans.

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Final Thoughts & Recommendations

Bottom line:

• Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 is an exceptionally deep, immersive action RPG that rewards patience and commitment.
• Mike strongly urges anyone interested in sprawling worlds, layered systems, and unpredictable role-playing to give it a shot:
  • “Play this game. It's fantastic. It's a ton of fun if you want a deep RPG... Play this game. Don't be afraid of it. Jump in, give it a try and enjoy. Great time. Great job.” (33:54)

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(End of summary. Clearest take: Mike and the gang consider KCD2 a triumph, albeit a slow-burn that requires dedication but pays dividends in narrative, worldbuilding, and systems depth. It’s a must-play for fans of meaty RPGs.)

Transcript

[Mike]

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[Andy Cortez]

Mike, did you see how Hasbullah and the Rizzler met?

[Mike]

Stop it.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, no big deal.

[Mike]

Really. Did he give him his new Arizona iced tea?

[Andy Cortez]

I don't. I don't know.

[Mike]

Because I'm out here working hard for us to get that Arizona iced tea.

[Blessing Jr.]

What is it?

[Andy Cortez]

What flavor Arizona?

[Mike]

The Rizzler.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I said what flavor does it taste like?

[Blessing Jr.]

The Rizzler. Like what are we doing?

[Andy Cortez]

I mean, it's limited edition. Yeah, yeah.

[Mike]

When you think. I mean, it's like Rise Berry.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Jr.]

Okay.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

They ended up boxing in this full grown man house. Bula, who's like 30 something. Rizzler, like punching Rizzler in the face.

[Mike]

It's crazy.

[Blessing Jr.]

How old is Rizzler?

[Andy Cortez]

Nine.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing Jr.]

What? We can't do that.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, we can't do that.

[Mike]

Yeah. Wow. Meeting has bula big moment. That's crazy.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. The number, the best quote tweet I saw was like, this is like in season, season two of Pokemon when Pichu met Pikachu. It was a great moment. Welcome to the kind of Funny Gamescast for November 24, 2025. I am Andy Cortez and I'm joined by Blessing Jr. And Mike Howard. Hello everybody.

[Mike]

The Rizzler is a Godzilla compared to Hasbro. The Rizzlers, man.

[Andy Cortez]

He's a big kid. Yeah, he's a big kid.

[Blessing Jr.]

There's no way he's that young.

[Andy Cortez]

The Rizzlers. Yeah, he's like eight or nine. Jesus. He's a. He's a young child, dude. He's a kid, man. He's a.

[Blessing Jr.]

He's a dude born 2016. I didn't know he could do that.

[Andy Cortez]

This is the kind of funny gamescast. Each and every weekday we get together to talk about the biggest reviews, previews and topics in video games live on YouTube, Twitch and podcast services around the globe. If you love what we do, support us with the kind of funny membership on Patreon, YouTube, Spotify or Apple. Podcast to get all of our shows ad free. Watch us record them live, get a daily exclusive show and remember, be part of the show with super chats. Get them super chats in gamers because this episode is all about Snowbike Mike's kingdom come deliverance to review. He did it. He's a man.

[Mike]

Did it for you. He's get it for you, man.

[Andy Cortez]

Of the people he cares about you.

[Blessing Jr.]

I'll be honest, I don't like that we're doing this review.

[Mike]

I know. I'm mad that you two aren't involved in this. You both should have played and beaten this game by now.

[Blessing Jr.]

He went the opposite direction because the Reddit was so mean about this one. I remember the first half of the year.

[Andy Cortez]

I'll never forget. I'll never forget when we reviewed Blueprint and we're like, this is our personal game of the year so far. And then everybody was super mean about it.

[Blessing Jr.]

Everybody was me. Everybody's like, how dare you guys not play Kingdom Come Deliverance two. And so I stood tall. I was like, well, now I'm not

[Mike]

playing this game, you guys. Nine months later fighting.

[Blessing Jr.]

You guys.

[Andy Cortez]

I like, however, either blame their PR or blame Greg Miller. Okay.

[Blessing Jr.]

Honestly, that is the reason I was

[Andy Cortez]

supposed to be playing it and never got the code a week later. Got it. But I was already onto a vow by then. Yeah.

[Blessing Jr.]

So if I had started this game back then.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh man.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing Jr.]

That would have been a different story. Instead of playing about. I'm with you.

[Andy Cortez]

A lot of blame to go around. I. I blame Greg Miller personally. We're an 11 person business. All about live talk shows. Kind of funny Games Daily was all about Ubisoft and also trying to figure out what JRPG 3.0 means. After this is the kind of Funny podcast and then following that is a sponsored stream of Mike and Kevin checking out solo leveling. Arise if you're a kind of funny member. Today's Greg Way is 15 minutes covering the new Simu Liu movie In your dreams and why you gotta watch it. Thank you to our Patreon producers, Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Delaney. The som twining for for now, let's begin with what is topic of the show. Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, a thrilling story driven action RPG. Is it dang? It's an action RPG. Look at that.

[Blessing Jr.]

W action RPG. It's a warpg.

[Andy Cortez]

Well, it's an Eastern RPG, you know, man. Like, it's a European RPG. European RPG with a rich open world set in 15th century medieval Europe. In experience the ultimate medieval adventure through the eyes of young Henry as you embark on a journey of epic proportions. Snow, Mik, Mike, you have beaten Kingdom Come Deliverance two.

[Blessing Jr.]

That's kind of crazy, actually.

[Mike]

I've been delivered.

[Andy Cortez]

He's been delivered.

[Blessing Jr.]

How many hours is that?

[Mike]

I played 83 hours. I could have easily spent another 20 to 40 if I wanted to. I didn't get to dive into either one of the three DLCs. I did start one. Okay. A widow came to me and she said, mike, I need help. I've lost my husband. He's died. And I have this beautiful forge. I need you to become the new blacksmith. And I said, miss, I got to

[Andy Cortez]

go play arc raiders.

[Mike]

I got you. And then she's like, can you forge me an axe? I was like, old lady, you don't got to. You don't need to work on an axe anymore. Like, sit down. I'll make porridge for you.

[Blessing Jr.]

Wow.

[Mike]

And that was the start of DLC 1. Wow. And then DLC 3 takes it to the monastery for a murder mystery type vibe.

[Andy Cortez]

I.

[Mike]

There's a plague. And then you got to go kind of figure out what's going on with the church, what can. What's going on with the. The whole building. So I didn't do that. Bless. Didn't do DLC 2. There might be 8 more side quests I didn't complete in the main game. Like, more just kept popping up and I. I did a lot. Okay. I help. I helped Bath House Betty open up a second Bath House.

[Andy Cortez]

I can't wait to talk about Bath House Betty. But first, Mike, I'd like to get little. Just a little top level thoughts from you with your review score.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Let's talk about Deliverance 2.

[Mike]

Top level thoughts. It's as good as everyone says it is. Yes. This game absolutely delivered. You should 100% give it your time and play it. If you are interested in playing a deep RPG or an action RPG or just looking to get lost in a medieval world, the team over at Warhorse Studios and absolutely delivered on a follow up to Kingdom Come, Deliverance one. In a big way, in a way that you can get lost in, you can live in, you can explore and have so much fun in the narrative, the writing, the decision making, the mission structure, and just the exploration of Prague from the Trosky region to the Gutenberg region was just an absolute blast. It's one of those games, it starts off at a crawl and it takes some time to get into. I know both of you have played the opening couple hours, so you know that feeling of learning all the big time systems, experiencing the combat for the first time. And until you meet Tom Tomcat, who teaches you the master strike, it does feel like the combat isn't all that great. But once you meet Tom Tomcat, he teaches you the master strike. He also teaches you some different sword move techniques that will have fun. It really opens up from the Archery with the bow and the crossbow and also the pistol to then just having the axe, the mace, the giant spear, the sword, all the combat and different weapons can be a ton of fun. But the game really opens up into however you want to play. You can get lost and just do a bunch of side quests. You can get deep into the narrative of what is going on with Hans and Henry. These two fantastic main characters that were voice acted impeccably. They were fantastic to follow. These two was a lot of fun. And so yeah, all in all, the game is as good as everyone says it is. You should absolutely play it. It is a 9 out of 10 in the snowbike mic playbook if not a 9.5 out of 10. Absolutely amazing.

[Andy Cortez]

Damn. Lived up to all the expectations after all of the hype that chat's been saying. Why won't any of y' all play Kingdom Come Deliverance too?

[Mike]

Absolutely. There are some games out there. 2025 will go down in the history books. Absolutely. Delivering video games. And there are a couple of video games out right now that people have really cheerleaded for. They have pushed their favorite people to play their friends, their families, their favorite content creators. And a lot of us hear that and it's noise and maybe we get battened down of like you keep talking about it. I don't want to play that. You're annoying me now. And like at the same time, if you do listen and give it the time, those games are fantastic. Right? I'm looking at you and Expedition 33. I'm looking at you, kingdom come, Deliverance 2. I'm looking at you, blueprints. I'm looking at you. I mean, I'm talking about all these games that have just been fantastic this year. I mean it's tough because we all can admit there's not enough time in the day to play all. You would love to play them all. And I get that we get agitated from the reddits to the comments saying play this game, play that game and it just starts to sound like noise. But. But it's true. All these games are really freaking good.

[Blessing Jr.]

It's true that these games are really freaking good.

[Mike]

I'll give it that.

[Blessing Jr.]

It's just also true that just don't have time to play every single thing as 80 hour RPG. But that's.

[Mike]

You can commit to it.

[Blessing Jr.]

I'm not going to commit to an 80 hour RPG. Stop pandering. You're going to piss me off. I'm not doing that. I'm not giving you 80 hours of my life for a game I'm not going to love. I forgot my point now.

[Andy Cortez]

He hasn't been in, in Speranza.

[Mike]

You know, I've also been.

[Andy Cortez]

So what kept it from a 10 out of 10 for you?

[Mike]

Other combat for me, it's just a little bit frustration. There are some pieces that there's just frustrating pieces in it. And I described it to Greg, I was like, this game is just a crawl all the time, but it's a good crawl. And I guess, I mean it has a crawl of like, it is a very slowed down action rpg, right? Like everything that you are doing will take minutes to hours, right? Like these missions that I was on, these side quests would take hours and I would be like, man, I'm going to, I'm going to tear this game up tonight. I'm going to get to the end and next thing I know, I've only done two side quests and like, they're the most awesome side quests I've ever experienced in games. But it's been three and a half hours and I've gone nowhere in the story, right? But I had to go help that girl who, who ran away from her family because she fell in love with this guy that her father didn't approve of. And now they're trapped in a cave. Wolves outside of this cave and they need help, but the father won't give him help. So I got to go back and forth between the family to try to bring them together. I killed the dad. Okay, made it easy. Killed the dad.

[Andy Cortez]

Gotcha. Okay, that's a good call.

[Mike]

And so like the combat when you're first introduced from a beginner's eye, looks like fana, right? You get hit with the classic star, which is up strike left or right strike, the downward strike, right? And you start to figure out, hey, if he's holding his sword on the right, I shouldn't swing at the right because clearly he's going to block me or repost me, right? And then on the flip side, you're trying to figure out where he's going to go. So you can either block, riposte or dodge. And then of course you meet Tom Tomcat, which teaches you the master strike, which is the ultimate move for beginner players like myself. And if you don't vibe with the combat, if you can't grasp the different combos that they teach you throughout, you can go to different trainers, they teach you new moves, they elevate your gameplay in certain ways to make you stronger and better. But if you can't vibe with it, you just do the master strike, which is when they attack. As long as you're on the opposite side with the sword, you can kind of repost them. Instant counter automatic move, right? And you just do that over and over again.

[Andy Cortez]

Now, what's his real name?

[Mike]

His name is Tom. Tomko.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay, Okay. I wasn't sure if you were doing it.

[Blessing Jr.]

Yeah, I didn't know.

[Mike]

And her name is Bathhouse Betty.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, okay. Okay. Don't you the message. Did you make the names for this game?

[Blessing Jr.]

Mike. Yeah, Mike was the consultant. He's in the credits.

[Mike]

They called me.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, that's my friend Jammer. He works at.

[Mike]

He works.

[Blessing Jr.]

What is it?

[Andy Cortez]

As an rpg.

[Blessing Jr.]

When we think about the, I guess the legacy of Western RPGs warp as we started calling them as of now, right? You think of a Baldur's Gate, you think of a Witcher, you think of a Skyrim, you think of all these different games that allow you to, you know, have this open world, do these quests, like, kind of experience. What is it about Kingdom Come Deliverance to you, for you that stands out? What would you say is the superpower of this video game?

[Mike]

The depth? The depth of the game. If I'm thinking Skyrim, I'm in the shallows, the three foot zone for the kids, and then I go into Kingdom Come Deliverance two, and all of a sudden I'm in the six foot adult zone, right? I've gone even deeper, or I can jump in deeper into the swimming pool and like dive in and get really lost in it, right? Everything you do is leveling up something similar to Skyrim, right? If I use a sword, I'm leveling up my sword capabilities. If I'm carrying a bunch, I'm leveling up my strength, right? If I'm stealing a bunch, I'm leveling up my thievery and onward and so on. So, like the RPG mechanics have a lot going on, right? And then that also fits in to the narrative and, and what you're doing with the dialogue structure of any RPG that you've played of, like, hey, you're really good at charisma. Do this. Oh, you're really strong and like you're intimidating. Do this move, right? And they all have opportunities to land and not land. And so you do it no matter what. But like, it just has a depth to it that when I think of these Western RPGs, we're like right there, but it goes just a little bit deeper to where it becomes a Little obtuse sometimes and frustrating. But. But if you spend the time and slow down and really dive into it, you go. You get an appreciation for it going that deep.

[Andy Cortez]

Were there any moments in the game design Mike, that you could. You could see past the game design wall and go, oh, okay, I. Right here, I feel like I have full freedom or whatever, but really, when I ever. Whatever I'm choosing here, it's because the game is limiting me in this way. Because you can't have, you know, us. You can't have these characters react in every which way possible, because that's just not super possible. Game design wise. Were there any moments where you saw, like, this is where the game is being made.

[Mike]

There's some dialogue moments where, of course, you know, they have to get to point A, right? And no matter how hard I push to point C, it's going to, no matter what, push me to point A. That happens everywhere. But I mean, when it comes down to just, like, player choice, right, we're talking about 80 hours spent in this game, and I could have spent even more. There are moments where it never pushed me to continue the main quest. It never said, hey, you got to get back on track. If I wanted to go that way, I could go do that. I killed this old woman. She caught me stealing for the side quest that this guy wanted me. Okay, so he liked this girl, right? Let's get this. We don't need to know spoilers. Like, we don't girl Andy. And so here's the deal. This guy liked this girl, but her father wanted her to marry somebody in the town that had more reputation. He was the son of the king, right? And he was mad and frustrated that he couldn't get the girl of his dreams, even though she loved him, but she didn't love this guy. And so what he wanted was, was for me to plant some things on him from town, around town, and then we could label him as a thief. Well, here's the problem is I went up to steal the first thing. The old lady caught me. She started running for the hills to try to get the guards. I murdered her mission over. You know what? I mission over. So, yeah, there's just like, fun openness that you can do anything. And, like, you're not punished for doing one thing. You know, you kind of end some ways for that. So, no, I didn't see many game design walls.

[Andy Cortez]

No. Do you feel like there were many people in the. In your Twitch chat on Twitch tv, Snowback Mike telling you, wow, I had a completely different outcome here or. Holy shit. My story has gone so much so. My story is so much different than yours is right now.

[Mike]

I would say 30% difference from love interests to maybe people around you. And then there's a major one. But I wouldn't call that like a game defining, game changing one. But there's a major choice that you can make that would dictate where you kind of are and what you did. But I don't think at the end of the game, it is all that massively different.

[Andy Cortez]

Gotcha.

[Mike]

But it is a big one. It's a big choice. And I chose wrong.

[Blessing Jr.]

What do you mean you chose wrong?

[Andy Cortez]

Does.

[Blessing Jr.]

Is it. Does it feel like a definitive moral? Either you choose good or you choose bad.

[Mike]

Oh, yeah. It felt like, oh, Mike, you should have listened a little more and you should have paid a little more attention, Mike, because you clearly know what was right from wrong and you chose wrong. And so, yeah, for sure chose wrong.

[Blessing Jr.]

So how much did you interact with side activities? When I played the game early on, they introduced you to, like an alchemy kind of system going on where it is, you can go in, like, you have access to like all these different tools to make potions and all this shit, and it was super overwhelming, but also really cool to see them have a system that introduce a system that early that seemed that deep. Are there other things like that? Did you interact with things like that?

[Mike]

There is the smithing for blacksmithing. There is alchemy right there in this hunting out there. But I don't know how deep the hunting gets of. Like, when you think of alchemy, like, you brought up, right, the apothecary station is wild, right? You are brewing and creating potions on the fly whenever you want. Right. And so there are missions that will kind of make you do it and. And they do it in a great way of like, instead of being like, I don't have the ingredients, I got to go out to the field now and go find thistle, go find tumbleweed, like rosemary. They usually have a chest next to you that you can break into, get all that ingredients. But on the flip side, it was really cool. Like, there was different murders that I solved by figuring out, like, what happened to the dead body. Let's investigate this a little bit further. Oh, now I'm going into my alchemy book and I'm looking up the book of potions I or of poisons and see what they killed this guy with. And that was pretty cool to be able to deduce that from the D the book of Poisons and then be able to make those and like maybe put it in somebody's drink, put it in their food. You know what I mean? Kill people that way was really cool. It's also. That's one of the kind of dings that I have along with the combat is the save system. Now they've encouraged you at Warhorse Studios to like hey, add mods onto your game so you can save whenever you want. Because they built a save system around kind of the Apothecary and these potions. Right. So you have two options. One, you can save and exit the game. Which I'm not doing that. Right. I'm not saving and rebooting the game over and over again. That's just not my move here. Or you can make potions where you'll drink and save during the game and they give you those throughout it. But like honestly and truly you probably have to make more of those than you were getting for free. Cuz I didn't ever feel like I. I had enough of them when I wanted them the most and then I had a couple of them when I didn't need them the most. So it's one of this dance of like I wish it was just save whenever you wanted.

[Andy Cortez]

Like the co op system in Elden Ring.

[Mike]

Yes. And like later on they. They clearly say when I started games like hey, put on some mods to make the game better. The whole chat was like you might want this mod. It's going to make the experience better. So there's some small.

[Blessing Jr.]

Why do you think they did it that way?

[Mike]

I don't know.

[Sponsor Announcer]

Maybe.

[Mike]

I don't know. That's a great question. Why would you do that? Why I would. That's a question you have to ask them like why save and exit? Why not just save game? Right. Maybe probably because they wanted me to use that Apothecary more.

[Blessing Jr.]

Right.

[Mike]

Like there's moments there. Bless what's like you never have to use the Apothecary if you don't want to. You don't ever have to brew a potion really. I didn't have to bang steel and make swords and axes all that much. Probably three to four times on both of these maximum. I think it was just encouraging you dive a little bit deeper into some of these cooler systems they got.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. It seems like immersion is kind of at the top of their list of we want everything to, you know, for. For reasons why people don't love red Dead Redemption 2 because everything is so like particular methodical. It it's so methodical. It is so like everything requires many, many steps. But that's kind of what makes the experience special. I see Washi Washburn in the chat say, I, I witnessed this man murder somebody while trying to heal them because he. His skill wasn't high enough. So the potion you brewed for them was like, not good enough. And they ended up dying.

[Mike]

Deep system. There are pages upon pages of different RPG elements that you will level up. Skills that will go into perks that you can choose from. And it's like there are so many that I could have played this game a hundred different ways that I didn't. Right? It's like, man, oh man, you. If you were really into this, you could do it all day, every day and just like level up to the maximum. I didn't do much into, you know, hunting. I think of ax. I didn't fight with an axe ever. Bow and arrows I was awful with. I never used that. There's so many different systems I wasn't into at all.

[Andy Cortez]

Were you making friends outside of just the one? Dude, Were you. Were you forming groups and having like a lot of different. Oh, yeah, squad mate.

[Mike]

Me and the dry devil, we rolled. Catherine was out there. She's a super spy.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Mike]

My main man, Ziska, that guy's a leader. That guy's gonna go places. Okay, well, we fought in battle and I sliced his eye. I thought he was gonna lose his eye, but then it turns out he was really a good guy and needed some help. So, like, that was pretty sick. There's Eric. Eric will remember my name. He's going to look for me. Eric for sure is going to kill me. He's going to hunt me down.

[Blessing Jr.]

Okay, he's your friend or you're just saying he's a guy?

[Mike]

No, he's out there that you'll never forget. Like Von. Lord Von Berghoff. You'll never forget him. There are. There are characters in this game, if you play it and see it do that you will never forget. You will laugh and giggle like the ginger King Sigismund. You'll never forget him. He had some great moments that. There's some moments in this game that are like really heartfelt and beautiful. A page ripped right out of. What was Mel Gibson when he had the face paint Braveheart. Brave Heart, right where you're like, oh, he's giving the speech. This is wicked. And then there's like Monty Python type skits in this that'll make you giggle and laugh. And it's like they hit all of These fun moments where it's like, hey, great job with the writing. Fantastic cutcenes and cinematics and. And also the world of Prague is beautiful. The countryside of Prague and what they created with this just giant open world, no loading screens, just you on your horse. Pebbles. Shout out to Pebbles. Just riding Pebbles in two different massive regions. Fantastic.

[Blessing Jr.]

That was one of the things I wanted to ask is again, in my short time playing the game, I was blown away by the visuals right as you're describing. The countryside, like the forest, the leaves, the greenery, all of it looked super beautiful. And the cutscenes looked incredible. Incredible as well. So much so that I'll say this game is one of the best looking games of the year. Does it keep that up through the entire experience?

[Mike]

Yeah, it keeps it all the way up from the cinematics to the narrative being tied into all that. Plus the character models and design all look fantastic. Sure, you'll have moments where I could like pause the game and it would look like the Skyrim model where he's kind of looking at me sideways. That happens in all of these games, but most of the time it's like, man, like you look fantastic on the screen right now. Oh, smokes like that. Cut scene is awesome looking. Run it back. So yeah, it was. It was at a high level the whole time.

[Blessing Jr.]

Nice.

[Andy Cortez]

I'd like to talk about customization and what you're doing visually for your characters, but we'll talk about that after a word from our sponsors.

[Mike]

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[Mike]

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[Andy Cortez]

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[Mike]

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[Andy Cortez]

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[Mike]

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[Andy Cortez]

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[Mike]

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[Andy Cortez]

And we're back. Make sure you get all your super chats in for any questions you got for Snow. Mike. Mike. About his kingdom come. Deliverance 2 journey.

[Mike]

Going to talk about customization.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Let me talk about when they branded me.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, no.

[Mike]

And I got one on my neck. It was sick. So you commit crimes in the cities, right? They're going to come and chase you, right? You're going to get. You're going to start to be known for some things. When I murdered that old lady, they were hunting me for a while.

[Blessing Jr.]

You got.

[Mike]

And you can Leave and like explore Prague. But just know when you come back to that city, they're going to remember your name, right? And so when they come up to you, you can pay a fine, you can get put in the stocks for a couple of days, right? That's when the hole. And then they throw things at you, right? And then if you commit a really bad crime, they'll brand you. And then from that point forward, whenever you go back to that city, you know, vendors are going to treat you differently. The town will treat you differently. So I did get branded by one town. Could have got branded by two. I think I did save scum. Or maybe I killed all the guards. One of the two, I don't remember which. But I did get branded and it was sick. So, like every cut scene, every time you'd see my character, he had this big brand on the side of his neck. It was awesome. Yeah, it was very cool.

[Andy Cortez]

Very, very neat. Yeah. Get your super chats. And we have a question here from Demon Hacker who says Kingdom come, Deliverance 2 is real history. Learn anything, Mike?

[Mike]

Yeah, I learned about the ginger king.

[Andy Cortez]

Tell me all about the ginger king.

[Mike]

Sigismund from Hungary. Ah, okay. So Sigismund and his men came to Prague to try to take over Prague with. You know, maybe they wanted to push one of the kings out and have a new king come in. And Sigisman and his men came to help. But then, get this. When I stole all of his silver, he was like, it's not worth it for me and my crew to be here if I'm not paying them. And I got to get back to Hungary anyways, cuz they stole his throne and now he's in this predicament where he's trying to leave and come back and somebody definitely swiped his.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, that's crazy. That's crazy.

[Mike]

And the ginger king, he's got the locks, bro. He's got curls coming down. They look great. They look great.

[Andy Cortez]

Omega Buster. Were they?

[Mike]

But did I learn anything? Absolutely not.

[Andy Cortez]

No. Okay, gotcha. I mean, you learned about Jiska. Yeah.

[Mike]

Is that a real person? Yes. Oh, he's cool.

[Andy Cortez]

Now you did. You did mention that, you know somebody. You had some an outcome happen that was very, very bad. And you're like, if only I would have paid attention a bit more, I would have.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Maybe chosen the right thing. So I'm not too surprised that you maybe didn't.

[Mike]

Well, like, here's the deal. You're getting pulled along, right? Like, did I actually know what was happening? No, because like, you're getting at it from both sides. You don't know who's bad and who's good. Or at the beginning, right?

[Andy Cortez]

A lot of gray areas.

[Mike]

Von Berghoff is telling you, like, hey, these guys are thorn in my side. Like, they're doing things that aren't okay to the kingdom. And you're like, well, like, Hans's daddy sent us out here to see you. So. So you got to be right. And on the flip side, right, these guys were acting in the shadows, and I didn't know what they were doing. And then all of a sudden, like, he left his wedding, and I went to go cheer up the bride. They caught me with the bride. We weren't doing nothing wrong. We were just having a little cheers, and then, you know, they threw me out of town. How was I supposed to react to that? Was it supposed to side with them, or is it supposed to side with Lord von Bergoff? The guy's been treating me well. I mean, you're making great.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, you know, you're making good, real talks.

[Mike]

What do you want me to say?

[Andy Cortez]

Great. Super chat here from Rabid, who says, I've only played a few hours, but I'm slowly getting into the gameplay. Story question. If a third comes out, what would be your biggest addition or change you would like to see?

[Mike]

Oh, wow. If a third came out. Well, I haven't told you guys about Gary Whitta. We got the adventures of Gary. Gary Whitta is in this game. Like, it's not actually Gary, but, like, when you look at him, it's Gary Whitta, okay? And he has an incredible story. You know, he's living his life. Bless, okay? He's having a great time at the bath house. He's enjoying his retirement. And they call him, and they're like, gary, you got to go get the boys. They're in trouble. And Gary rolls out of bed, he's like, you see, I'm having a good time here. I don't want to go.

[Blessing Jr.]

Right.

[Mike]

Like, Gary gets to step in. I would love number three, all about Gary Whitta.

[Blessing Jr.]

Okay.

[Mike]

And his stories, because he's fantastic. What would I add? Well, you get to have a house in this game with DLC one. So I get the HGTV home decor designer that I've always.

[Andy Cortez]

We love that.

[Mike]

I love that. World of Warcraft added that, as we know, Right? Like, I'm all about having my own little space. They did that. Combat is good, especially when you start learning the combos is pretty nasty. There's a pistol there.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, you know four player PvE.

[Mike]

I would like to see gladiator battles. They have a lot so like a lot of side activities. When you start early on in the game a lot of the activities in the regions will be like hey, we run an illegal fighting ring, go to all these different farms and fight these guys that fight my boy who's the king of the fighting ring. And so you'll, you'll bare knuckle box each other but like next one I want is like give me the sword, let's go full gladiator.

[Andy Cortez]

Gotcha.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay, super chat here from Trevor who says oh I'm sorry from Omega Buster. Ten dollar super chat says this sounds like Mike hanging out with his best friends in Medieval Lake Tahoe. No wonder he loved it. Expedition 33 When Mike Expedition 33 this

[Mike]

week I'm on a tear of video games that'll put me played a little bit of Hollow Knight. Played Hades 2 sucking haze to suck at. Hollow Knight played Kingdom Come Deliverance.

[Andy Cortez]

Thank you bro. You can beat all these.

[Mike]

I'm trying my best. I'm trying. But yeah, Expedition 33 I'm this week. And yeah, I mean this game was a lot of fun. I gave myself to it. I opened up my heart like I said when it felt like there was a crawl and I was, I just wanted it to progress. I also was having the time of my life with the side quests and the shenanigans that I was getting into where it's like I appreciated everything that I did throughout this journey. There was never a bad night, especially at the end when it's like I wanted it to end but then at the same time it's like well I could spend another five hours just doing side quests. And I did and I had a blast.

[Andy Cortez]

Delaney twining with a $20 super chat says Mike during the second week of college football Colorado defeated Delaware 31 7. You went on to KFGD and said the Blue Hens were some no name team. Colorado is currently 3 and 8. Delaware is 5 and 6. Who's the no name team now?

[Mike]

Who said that?

[Andy Cortez]

Delaney Twining.

[Mike]

Delaney Twining. I'd like to an issue an apology to all of all of Delaware in Delaware State football. Of course you know you're a mid major team. CU is supposed to run over that team but at the end of the day Colorado, they lost shedeur. Ah rolly time. Yeah they lost all of their weapons and they might as well call me a 35 year old bum to come out and play quarterback because that number One kid in the nation was awful this year. He had no weapons, he had no offensive line. We fell off the. We fell off. How long will Dion stay? I don't know. But to you, Delaware State. Great job. Fighting hands. Send me a, Send me a sweatshirt.

[Andy Cortez]

Blue hands. Yeah, Blue hands. Cool. That about wraps up our kingdom come. Deliverance 2.

[Mike]

Play this game. It's fantastic. It's a ton of fun if you want a deep rpg, if you like the fantasy world or more medieval world. It's not really fantasy. Play this game. Don't be afraid of it. Jump in, give it a try and enjoy. Great time. Great job.

[Andy Cortez]

There's also been a couple of games that have been beat and, and completed in the last week or so. A game that you and me, you and I beat recently. Mike. Dispatch.

[Mike]

We played Dispatch.

[Andy Cortez]

Where are you at with dispatch?

[Mike]

Dispatch is secret goatee.

[Andy Cortez]

Damn. Low key. Low key.

[Mike]

Well, it's like, I mean, y' all are, y' all are riding for Expedition 33. I mean, don't say y' all secretly Dispatch.

[Blessing Jr.]

I probably, I might put Dispatch above Expedition on my list. I love Dispatch.

[Mike]

He said that. It's so good. Bless.

[Blessing Jr.]

It's so good.

[Mike]

Be the one sitting. Andy. Seven and a half hours uncensored licensed music on. Fantastic time. It was everything that I wanted out of a Telltale game. Telltale s game in 2025. Perfect decision making, narrative. All fantastic. The side mini games, from hacking to the dispatching. So much fun. What an absolute blast. And they found this perfect balance of like 20 minutes of, you know, watching a TV show essentially. I turned off the QTEs and just enjoyed it in cinematic mode. And then it was like, hey, here's like 15 minutes of you dispatching. It's not that much. It's not intrusive. You're never going to get bored of it. Oh, lovely time.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, good time. I agree. Yeah, I really enjoy the game. I, it's definitely a, it's definitely a contender. It'll be in my top 10 for sure. I, I, if they were to make a Dispatch too, I would love to see some more, like, some more polish around. I got really annoyed whenever I would click a new mission and people were still talking about the prior thing that happened and my NPCs are still talking while I am, like, already looking at a new mission. Tiny little things that would kind of like bother me or whatever, but they

[Mike]

were yapping all the time.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I, I really enjoyed it. I thought all the characters were fantastic. Voice acting was great. The, the way that every Couple of weeks, you would just wait for those new episodes and they would come out and they would deliver. That's so hard to do, like, in this day and age.

[Mike]

I got to say, I hate the episodic release. I've always been one of, like, I don't trust it. I don't like how they do that. We've seen too many delays with that. But they nailed the release schedule, and those episodes were so good that I have to give it to them of, like, I'm a believer that, like, they did it. I am happy I did it all in one sitting. But if you were doing it week to week, they nailed it.

[Blessing Jr.]

And, like, for me and Barrett, who played it week to week in real time worked for us. I think we really liked the pacing of it. And if you looked at the. At the numbers, the player base, they were spiking with each episode. Yeah, it seemed like it worked on all.

[Andy Cortez]

Spike was getting higher and higher every week. Yeah. I think the only time the weekly didn't work for me was that first week. I think, like, the end of the second episode wasn't like, a Personally, just a great hook to get me to, like, be on the edge of my seat for the entire week waiting for episodes three and four. But then after that, I think, like, every kind of cliffhanger beat after that was so well done. Of, like, damn, they're nailing this. Like, we know where to end. To have people talking for a week and anticipating the next.

[Blessing Jr.]

Genuinely, like, this might be. I don't want to speak out of turn, but definitely one of the best examples of a narrative episodic game. If not maybe the best.

[Andy Cortez]

I would say it's the best rollout for sure.

[Blessing Jr.]

Of how they're treating episodic, specifically.

[Mike]

Yeah. 100% the best rollout. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, young gravy. Let's. Let's try to shine a light. Young Gravy did a fantastic.

[Blessing Jr.]

Young Gravy was great.

[Mike]

You didn't gravy. And then Alana. Amazing. Great job. Right? Aaron Paul. You're right. Andy. He should be 100% nominated for game of the year or Game Awards. Voice acting. That guy was fantastic.

[Andy Cortez]

He was amazing. Yeah.

[Mike]

Holy cow.

[Andy Cortez]

Moist critical did a great job. Everybody was awesome.

[Blessing Jr.]

Everybody was great.

[Andy Cortez]

Really enjoyed the voice cast. Oh, everybody was Bailey. Laura Bailey.

[Mike]

Classic coupe.

[Blessing Jr.]

The humor, the writing.

[Mike]

Yeah, yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

The way that. The way that there was never a moment where I, like, cringe from dialogue or was like, ah, man, don't. That's such a lame joke. Everything was like, Perfectly, like edgy enough, witty enough. Like, it's just goofy. I want you to write for everything, you know.

[Mike]

And the music. Highlight the music. Right. That song is now blown up on Spotify. The. That girl was working in a coffee shop and said that I was getting like 7,000 or so monthly listens to now. I got like 7 million or something crazy. Did you see that song?

[Andy Cortez]

No, I didn't.

[Mike]

So the apartments, the apartment, song, dance music. I put it up on my Twitter. If you follow, you find that girl on social media. She's like, yeah, like, this just absolutely changed my life for sure.

[Blessing Jr.]

Yeah.

[Mike]

So that was awesome.

[Blessing Jr.]

Great framing for a lot of the action as well. Like, again, I don't want to get into spoiling anything for people who haven't played it, but the way in which they'll have action scenes, but it won't just be action scenes. Right. It'll be that in conjunction with another thing happening. And the framing and the. The shots of it, I think are just so good. They're just choreography. Fight choreography looked great. The good game.

[Mike]

Damn, man. Real good game.

[Andy Cortez]

Great time. Bless. Is there anything you've been playing recently?

[Blessing Jr.]

I don't have much to say about it, but Kirby Air Riders. I played a bit more over the weekend. Of course. Me and Mike did a stream this last Thursday. Yeah, Thursday.

[Mike]

Good. That game looks incredibly pretty.

[Blessing Jr.]

I probably played only maybe an hour and a half to two hours more since the stream. But what I will say is that I love how that game is presented. It's presented like a Sakurai game, meaning you can see a lot of smash in it from the menus and the UI to the announcer. And like, I love how much the game is presented as if it's this. It's the most grand game ever. And then you get to the gameplay and it's like, all right, race from point A to point B real quick. Or do this weird mini game where you're flicking your stick and trying to hit another thing. It's. The gameplay is so ridiculous, but I. I bought in so much to it. I. I really enjoyed this experience so far. I want to play all the way through the road trip mode, which I know isn't a long thing. And I want to play more of the other modes in the game. I'm having a good time with it. I'm really.

[Mike]

Cinematics. This thing's got some.

[Blessing Jr.]

The game looks gorgeous. The cinematics are crazy. Every beat in the story mode so far has me like, yo, what the is happening in Kirby?

[Andy Cortez]

I've seen so many cutcenes. Just kind of spoiling myself on what the game is. Cuz I. I don't plan on playing this. It was too chaotic for me. My eyes like were just burning the whole time. We played it at pax, but watching what some of the cut scenes go, he's just like, this is the same video game. What the insane stuff happened.

[Mike]

You're so right. Bless. It's like this weird mix of like Smash Bros. And Mario Kart but also twisted metal all in one. It's like what is happening on the screen. But it looked like nothing but a good time.

[Blessing Jr.]

Yeah. Oh yeah. It's a. It's.

[Mike]

I.

[Blessing Jr.]

It's a fun game. I. I understand, I guess where the reviews land because the reviews aren't that high for this game. Like they're kind of in that middle range. I guess they're lower than you'd expect for a first party full price Nintendo game. I want to say the Metacritic is somewhere in like the 70s even.

[Andy Cortez]

Open critics at an 81.

[Blessing Jr.]

Open critics at an 81.

[Andy Cortez]

Kind of exactly what I would expect. It's honestly higher than what I expected.

[Blessing Jr.]

Yeah, well, I think the Metacritic might be lower than that unless it's adjusted since we last talked talked about it. 79 is where the Metacritic is at. But like playing it. I'm having such a good time. I'm having such a good time with this game. The presentation I think definitely kind of outweighs what the actual gameplay of it is. But even the gameplay, I'm like, this is so weird and goofy, but also I like that it feels fresh, it feels different. I'm having a good time with this one.

[Mike]

Nice.

[Andy Cortez]

I am also playing another video game that I've been kind of just messing with on Steam Deck and it's called Monsters Are Coming Rock and Road.

[Blessing Jr.]

Oh, we saw this.

[Andy Cortez]

We did see this. And this is one of those where I was making fun of the name. What a silly dumb name it is. Because it does. When we first saw the title, I thought it was like a rhythm game, but the gameplay for audio listeners is essentially it's. It's a roguelite where you are trying to move a castle towards a finish line and the castle is kind of moving and you are Vampire Survivor style fighting enemies. And when they drop the little blue XP gems, you then level up the castle. And when you level up the castle, it'll be like, all right, castle's leveled up. And you'll have like your three roguelike choices or in some cases six choices where it's like all right. Oh, I want to put a cannon on the back side and the cannon will also shoot at the demons that are around it. And then I just got this one new piece that makes all adjacent castle pieces do 50% extra damage. Which is great cuz I just have. I have two ballistas on the side doing damage. Now they're going to do extra. So it just has all the rog light hooks that you would want. Awesome music, fun music. And you're also upgrading your own personal. Dude who is the one running around doing the vampire survivor style combat where now you want to. Now I have like these three freeze beams that are constantly like rotating around me and slowing down enemies. It. It's kind of like a bunch of different serotonin slop games like all mixed into one. And it's been a really, really good time so far. I think I've put in. I've played for about seven hours.

[Blessing Jr.]

What's it called again?

[Andy Cortez]

Actually no. Five hours. Sorry. Monsters are coming. Rock and Road. Name Rock and Road. Yeah, it looks cool, but it looks really cool.

[Mike]

Yeah, it looks.

[Andy Cortez]

It's. It's a. It's a really, really good time. And this isn't an early access thing. It's like it's out. And it's also game pass, I think. I think some people mentioned that it is coming to Game pass soon.

[Mike]

Y' all still messing with Arc Raiders?

[Andy Cortez]

Where y' all at in a while?

[Mike]

I haven't watched in a while either but I. Y' all play that Stella Montis map at all?

[Blessing Jr.]

No, I'm sad I haven't played more Arc Raiders but it's just a matter of like getting pulled to different things. There's always video games coming.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. I've been reviewing another game that we previewed recently. Octopath Traveler 0 been.

[Mike]

Oh, that's cool.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, so that review will be out very, very soon.

[Mike]

Had a life changing moment last night. Keep it going. So I got next, I got a pair of xreal Ones. I got to wear my glasses now.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, nice.

[Mike]

So yeah, I got a pair of xreal Ones. Thank you to X Real and of course Tim out there. And so I was in bed last night playing Dynasty warriors on him. Oh, I'm a believer now. Dude, let me tell you real quick. You know Tim, I never got to wear Tim's. So Tim, Kevin. And you have all worn Tim's glasses.

[Andy Cortez]

Tim let him to me on a flight and it changed the whole flight.

[Mike]

Now it's my turn, right. I put these things on. I'm in the bean bag chair. Giant screen, 178 inches. Losing my mind. I go into bed. I got Dynasty warriors on. I got the cool TikTok shop. Like cool nightlight. You know the astronaut with the nightlight, he puts up the galaxy.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh right.

[Mike]

Like I got a vibe going on in this room and I got these X ray glasses on.

[Andy Cortez]

I believe everything is a 4k nook now.

[Mike]

Believe everything is crazy man. I'm loving it. It was so cool.

[Andy Cortez]

I also talked a bit on Games Daily, Mike, A game that you and I streamed for a sponsor stream on Friday.

[Mike]

I heard you, I watched, I watched.

[Andy Cortez]

And I for the Gamescast audience who maybe doesn't listen to Games Daily, we played Demeo, Dungeons and Dragons battlemarked and again this is not sponsored. We were only sponsored for Friday. But I think this is a game that I really want to play back home with my friends and family. Like having the shared screen experience. I just had so much fun with this game. Especially because it is the very diet babies first. You know, Baldur's Gate 3 experience.

[Mike]

This game rock.

[Andy Cortez]

I had such a good time with you guys.

[Mike]

I loved when we played the first Demio. I love this kind of like tabletop grid system they got going on with really cute minifigures. Right. Like that's always been my dream, Andy. You know me, not artistic, not creative. But I've always wanted to dump a bunch of money into Warhammer and all these like fun little minifigures and start painting them. I know it will never work. Have I bought in some bless? Of course I have.

[Andy Cortez]

Let's get into it.

[Mike]

I have a wall full of them but I don't paint them because.

[Andy Cortez]

Quick interjection, real quick. You know how when I bought the the Verso costume I was like painting some custom stuff to like add battle damage or whatever. And then I remembered I have a link from links a week awakening keychain that's been scratched up and worn over.

[Mike]

Oh.

[Andy Cortez]

So all of that big paint set that I bought, I started painting like over the green and I was like oh my God. This is what it. This is what it feels like.

[Mike]

If you let me rearrange your room. I have a crafting corner. Oh, I didn't know that I got a craft. I didn't know you had you a nice ding corner. I'll get you some drawers.

[Andy Cortez]

Mike, are you, are you going anywhere for the holidays? Cuz like we could invite you over while someone's gone. It's, it's, it's, it's Host of Yo Tanks giving.

[Mike]

That I'm giving play demo if you're interested in this, because this was a blast.

[Andy Cortez]

This was a lot.

[Mike]

I love that it went from PvP to now PvE with their already made Dungeons and Dragons campaigns, which was awesome. And I think you can make your own. If you dive even deeper into that, I think you can make your own scenarios going on and play with friends. So, like, this game seems to have some stuff to it.

[Andy Cortez]

It's one that, you know, with Nick being gone this week, we lost our fourth.

[Mike]

Yeah. We're gonna have him play Dispatch.

[Andy Cortez]

I would love if Bless could replace him and we do some of those streams.

[Blessing Jr.]

I'd be down.

[Andy Cortez]

There were some very, very funny moments, though, where I don't know if Blessing could reach the level of ineptitude, you know?

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

And that did bring. So you're like, you just gotta make. You know, There were just several moments where Nick goes, damn it, I gotta read the. I got. I should have read it.

[Mike]

Don't read any of them. He goes off a vibe.

[Blessing Jr.]

Let's get blessed.

[Andy Cortez]

Like, a couple of drinks in and then have him jump.

[Blessing Jr.]

We all drink it on the stream.

[Andy Cortez]

No, but that would be a lot of fun. Yeah.

[Blessing Jr.]

I mean, I'm down.

[Andy Cortez]

The moment of him being like, mike, I'm gonna come save you. All right. This is like I turn myself into a rat.

[Blessing Jr.]

This is one of the rare, like, sponsor streams where I look at it, I was like, damn, I want to be on that. But, like, the calendar. I was stacked on the calendar, so I wasn't on it. But, like, I wanted to play this. This really cool.

[Mike]

Exploring the apartment, too, Because, like, he's got the table. And then you can also, like, kind of back out if you were in VR, like, you know, with PlayStation VR 2 and, like, you can explore all around. I think that's the coolest. They did a great job with that.

[Andy Cortez]

Really, really neat, great game. Anything else we want to talk about

[Mike]

before I'm gonna play Anno this week. Oh, never playing Anno. I'm gonna play Anno this.

[Andy Cortez]

Whispering is gonna force you to play that.

[Mike]

I got two big ones. I'm gonna play Anno. For the first time, I'm really in the mood for a city builder. Andy, you and I, we enjoyed Jurassic World Evolution 3. Yeah, I know you put a lot of time into that, and I love that. I've been itching for more of, like, city building. That one has too much management, too. I just want to create the park. I want Andy and Nick to Manage it for me.

[Andy Cortez]

Well, you could go, like, super easy mode.

[Mike]

I know, but, like, I'm looking for, like, right now, a city builder, and I'm hoping Anna will do that. I don't know what Anno is at the end of the day, but, like, I. I'm hoping it's more like I'm putting down the roads and the grids and we're building things out.

[Andy Cortez]

I'd assume it's a historical sim city.

[Mike]

I'm crossing my fingers.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Mike]

And then one more that I had.

[Andy Cortez]

What game is that again? Al Fox, Skill Gamer. We were just talking about Demio, Dungeons and Dragons, but right now Mike is Talking about ANNO117, I think.

[Mike]

Yes. And then my final one for the week, because there's only one week left. Fortnite Simpsons Cross Fortnite. It's finally time to jump into Springfield before it's over.

[Andy Cortez]

There has never been a better time

[Mike]

Fortnite, because Bart Simpson.

[Blessing Jr.]

I didn't know that's what they were calling Fortnite.

[Mike]

But yeah, I have to play that. I have to see it. Have you guys gone in and.

[Blessing Jr.]

No, I've been wanting to.

[Mike]

I hear nothing but good things. Same that, like, they made Springfield really dope in this and it's going to end, so I have to see it.

[Andy Cortez]

There has never been a better time to hop in to Fortnite.

[Blessing Jr.]

I alluded to this during our Xbox reactions, but I've been playing Slay the Spire, the first one. I got it for phone because when we went to Pax, I sat next to a girl who was playing Slay the Spire on her phone. And like, in my head, I was like, genius. Yeah. And I was like, oh, is she going to Paxman? I was like, slay. Aspire is probably just a popular mobile game. Like, she probably just plays or whatever. But I was. I've been thinking about that because I play a lot of Magic the Gathering on my phone, as Mike knows. And I was like, you know what? Let me just download Slay the Spire, play it on the Bart play when I'm just hanging out or whatever. And I've been playing it. That game is. That game rocks. I understand the hype now. I understand why everybody's, like, all about Slay the Spire. It's addicting. It very much feels like less so of a 1v1 card battler and more so. Your cards are just attacks. Like, you're just battle. You're just balancing this battle system and trying to balance your attacking with your defending.

[Mike]

And.

[Blessing Jr.]

And it's funny because as I've been playing this, I've been hopping into some other games. Into the grid was one that is out in early access. That came out.

[Andy Cortez]

Right.

[Blessing Jr.]

Oh, I had it pulled up. It came out recently. Right. And it is like a first person sci fi. Almost like a cyberpunky vibe of a Slay the Spire type game. But playing that as well. That has been super cool to kind of see that same battle system applied to a. To a first person. I'm fighting 3D models in a really cool looking space and then I'm in an overworld map. Going from spot to spot.

[Andy Cortez]

Dude.

[Blessing Jr.]

Into the grid is cool. But yeah, been checking out both those games. Really liking both of them.

[Mike]

Yeah. Slay the Spider. They got a board game as well you can bring out to your friends.

[Blessing Jr.]

Yeah, they do have a board game.

[Mike]

Yeah, I see it all the time whenever I go to Gamelandia and check that out. Little call out now, Andy, every time he brings up Slay the Spire. You know what my mind thinks of? Not a card game. I think of Risk of Rain.

[Andy Cortez]

He says that like, big new update recently.

[Mike]

I feel like it's like when you say Slayest Fire. I just think Risk of Rain for some reason.

[Andy Cortez]

There was a massive risk of Rain update that is like reviewing incredibly well. Another game I want to go back to, but I'm also just super sick of y' all ignoring my texts about night rain.

[Mike]

Yeah. What's up with that? Bless you didn't want to make time.

[Andy Cortez]

You. I'm not acknowledging you.

[Blessing Jr.]

I'm not even looking at you now.

[Mike]

What do you want me to say? A bless like le.

[Blessing Jr.]

You know, I'm not. I'm not even looking at you. Part of this. Respond.

[Andy Cortez]

This guy, dude. This guy. We got to do. We got to beat the game before it comes out. December 4th.

[Blessing Jr.]

Damn, that soon? I mean, I'm down.

[Andy Cortez]

We have to beat the DLC for. No, we have to beat.

[Blessing Jr.]

We have to beat the game before

[Andy Cortez]

the DLC comes out.

[Mike]

I DLC comes out in December.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, next week, dude. Shout out, Shout out. Shout out to Elden Ring.

[Mike]

They got new. They got new bad guys.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. New bottles. Trailer for it. Where were you?

[Mike]

I need to see it. New heroes or like I saw the two new heroes. Yeah, I saw that.

[Andy Cortez]

They look amazing. Everybody. This has been the kinda funny gamescast. Each and every weekday we get together to talk about the biggest reviews, previews and topics in video games. Live on YouTube, Twitch and on podcast services around the globe. If you love what we do support us with the Kind of Funny membership on Patreon or YouTube to get all of our shows ad free, watch us record them live and get a daily exclusive show. Check out earlier's kfgd. And we got the Kind of Funny podcast next, followed by a little sponsor stream with Mike and Kevin. But until next time, it's been our pleasure to serve you. Take care of yourself, Take care of each other. Gamers.