Most Anticipated Games of August 2025 - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Summary

Kinda Funny Gamescast: Most Anticipated Games of August 2025

Episode Release Date: August 5, 2025

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Overview

In the August 5, 2025 episode of Kinda Funny Gamescast, hosts Tim Gettys, Greg "GameOverGreggy" Miller, Blessing Adeoye Jr., and Andy Cortez delve into the most anticipated video game releases slated for August 2025. The discussion spans a variety of genres, from action-packed sequels to innovative indie titles, offering insights, personal anecdotes, and engaging banter among the hosts. Viewer interactions via live chat further enriched the conversation, highlighting community interests and diverse perspectives.

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Top Anticipated Releases

1. Shinobi: Art of Vengeance (August 5th)

• Hosts' Take:

  • Tim Gettys and Greg Miller express strong excitement for the return of the Shinobi franchise, reminiscing about the iconic Shinobi 3 from the 90s.
  • Greg Miller remarks, "Mafia 3, which came out nine years ago at this point, which is insane... one of my favorite stories of the last generation." (10:25)

• Notable Quote:

  • Greg Miller on storytelling prowess: "They're such a good and talented studio... they've been pushing things forward both creatively and technologically." (27:25)

2. Mafia: The Old Country (August 8th)

• Hosts' Take:

  • Blessing Adeoye Jr. highlights the shift towards a more linear narrative, contrasting it with the open-world approach of Mafia 3.
  • Tim Gettys appreciates the condensed experience, stating, "A 10-hour story sounds cool to me." (26:04)

• Notable Quote:

  • Greg Miller expresses hope: "I really hope it... actually kicks ass." (27:25)

3. Disco Elysium: Final Cut for Android (August 5th)

• Hosts' Take:

  • Andy Cortez introduces Recur, a TikTok-inspired game reminiscent of Braid, discussing its time-manipulation mechanics and puzzle complexity.
  • The adaptation of Disco Elysium for mobile platforms garners mixed reactions, with discussions on its accessibility versus depth.

• Notable Quote:

  • Blessing Adeoye Jr. describes the game’s initial bizarre experience: "They like talking to the king, like they're looking at you... and it looks like they're talking to the king... and then the game started." (02:14)

4. Gradius Origins (August 7th)

• Hosts' Take:
  • A nostalgic nod to the classic Gradius series, with Andy Cortez expressing unfamiliarity but acknowledging its historical significance in the shoot 'em up genre.
  • Blessing Adeoye Jr. mentions, "It's impossible for me not to have played because it was just one of those ever-present games." (20:08)

5. Echoes of the Gardens Between VR (August 7th)

• Hosts' Take:

  • An exploration of the VR adaptation of the acclaimed puzzle-adventure game, with Blessing Adeoye Jr. noting its visually stunning design and immersive gameplay.

• Notable Quote:

  • Andy Cortez reflects on VR's presence: "I'm glad we're doing this episode because it's a good indicator of like, oh, VR is still here." (38:15)

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Indie and Unique Titles

1. Recur

• Description: An auto battler, city sim roguelite game where player decisions influence automated battles.

• Hosts' Insights:

  • Blessing Adeoye Jr. discusses the game's complexity and its mixed performance on platforms like Steam Deck.
  • Andy Cortez highlights its comic book aesthetic and strategic depth.

• Notable Quote:

  • Andy Cortez on visual appeal: "Visually, like I'm digging it. It doesn't have like a release date or anything, but it is called Recur." (05:45)

2. Chiefy Drift

• Description: A cooperative shooter released by Devolver Digital in early access, focusing on dynamic team-based action.

• Hosts' Insights:

  • Blessing Adeoye Jr. emphasizes the satisfying destruction mechanics and fluid combat, comparing it to titles like Final Fantasy and Vampire Survivors.
  • Andy Cortez praises the game's telekinesis and environmental destruction features.

• Notable Quote:

  • Blessing Adeoye Jr. on combat satisfaction: "...it looks awesome when shit breaks... it is so damn satisfying when you're running underneath a building and you see a shit ton of enemies come at you and you chunk a grenade up top and it blows up. It’s so crunchy and good and satisfying." (56:24)

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Remasters and Platform Expansions

1. Gears of War Reloaded (August 26th)

• Hosts' Take: Anticipation surrounds the remastered edition, with hopes for improved performance over previous versions. Blessing Adeoye Jr. mentions past frame rate issues but remains optimistic.

• Notable Quote:

  • Blessing Adeoye Jr. on previous performance: "I was playing it on a Steam deck and went never again... But I'm stoked to see it running fully unleashed." (69:00)

2. Senua Saga: Hellblade 2 (August 12th)

• Hosts' Take: Excitement for the sequel is palpable, especially due to the studio's reputation for storytelling and visual prowess.

• Notable Quote:

  • Andy Cortez on studio expertise: "Ninja Theory is a studio that needs to be protected... they have a lot of good shit going on there." (37:42)

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Community Engagement and Viewer Insights

Throughout the episode, live chat comments added depth to the discussions:

• Royal Ritz Enthusiasm: Viewers expressed excitement for The Royal Ritz, drawing parallels to British YouTubers and innovative art designs.

• Shinobi Nostalgia: Greg Miller shared heartfelt memories, "As a Sega kid growing up in the 90s, Shinobi 3 was my jam." (75:27)

• Final Fantasy Tactics Remake: Discussions highlighted expectations versus potential outcomes, with Andy Cortez predicting Metacritic scores in the mid-80s.

• Unique Game Mechanics: Comments about Void Breaker's telekinesis and environmental destruction sparked interest in its early access performance.

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Personal Backlogs and Gaming Preferences

• Blessing Adeoye Jr. shared regrets over not playing Kingdom Come: Deliverance due to logistical issues, emphasizing the game's depth and time commitment.

• Andy Cortez expressed interest in multiplayer experiences like Abyssus, highlighting the appeal of co-op dynamics and action-oriented gameplay.

• Tim Gettys discussed balancing personal backlogs with anticipation for concise, narrative-driven games like Mafia: The Old Country.

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Concluding Thoughts

The Kinda Funny Gamescast hosts concluded with reflections on the diverse range of upcoming titles, balancing nostalgia with excitement for new experiences. Emphasis was placed on the importance of storytelling, innovative mechanics, and platform accessibility in shaping player anticipation.

Notable Final Quote:

• Tim Gettys on enduring excitement: "These games... just being like, oh, this is a party game. Where they're goofy and doofy, and it works." (41:06)

Overall, the episode provided a comprehensive overview of August 2025's gaming landscape, blending expert opinions with community voices to highlight the month's most promising releases.

Transcript

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Foreign.

[Tim Gettys]

What's up, everybody? Welcome back to the Kind of Funny Games cast for Tuesday, August 5, 2025. Of course. I'm your host, Tim Gettys. I am joined today by the Poppy of all trades Blessing at a. Oh yea, Junior.

[Andy Cortez]

Good day, Tim.

[Tim Gettys]

And the nitro rifle, Andy Cortez.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Hello, Tim. Hello, bless.

[Andy Cortez]

Hello, Andy.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm making my little army in this video game called the King is Watching.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Was just talking a blessing about it last month, I believe. And in the ever evolving state of video games where whenever you want to describe something, it's the most complicated thing, the most complicated genres possible, you're no longer just platforming in video games, The King is Watching is a auto battler City Sim roguelite.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay, we gotta reset. Okay, we gotta reset genres. We gotta do an episode where we just go through genres and just condense all the words.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think everything's just sort of including a bunch of stuff from other genres. So it's like you would be a fool to not say it's a roguelite. You'd be a fool.

[Andy Cortez]

What are all the words he said? Auto battler.

[Tim Gettys]

Start with auto battler.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's an auto battler.

[Greg Miller]

An auto rogue city build.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Auto. There it is. Auto rosem. So an auto battle. The first auto battler I ever played was Loop Hero. And with auto battlers, you're sort of setting things up and then the game plays on its own based on how you were setting things up. Go ahead, Tim.

[Tim Gettys]

Kingdom Rush.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, old mobile game. Oh, God. Okay, okay.

[Tim Gettys]

Do you. Is anyone familiar with what I'm saying?

[Andy Cortez]

No.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, it sounds like every other game that Twitch offers in their bounty section.

[Andy Cortez]

It sounds like an ad I've seen.

[Tim Gettys]

It was a big deal. Kingdom had a moment like, not quite Angry Birds level.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Was John Cena in the commercial?

[Andy Cortez]

Was that the one?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I see the ads all the time where the king and Salava is going to the king and he's got to figure out the match three to get him away.

[Andy Cortez]

Like this is a real game. I like playing this real game.

[Tim Gettys]

This one. Okay, it's OG Tower. I'll probably say it's OG Tower defense. So what's the difference between auto battler and tower defense? Because think I. I played the hell out of Kingdom Rush. And like looking at this is very.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Very tower defensey as well. Yeah, it's Kingdom Defensy. You're a king. The game starts off in a very, very weird way out of like the first thing you see is your hand holding flowers and there's four people in front of you and it's all Pixar. I was like, oh, I thought this game. I only saw screenshots of this auto battler thing where, you know, it looks like you're placing a little plot of ground or, you know, here's army barracks to make dudes. So the first thing you see is a first person view of a pixel art hand holding flowers with four people in front of you. And it looks like they're being, they're talking to the king, like they're looking at you. And when you click on them flat flowers grow out of their mouth and they like die. And so I clicked on all four and they all did that. And then the game started. I was like, what was that all about? Bizarre. It was very, very freaky. So maybe that plays into things later. But yeah, the King Is Watching is so far not a super great game to play on Steam Deck because it requires you have the cursor that you're moving around with a thumbstick or the little touch pad. Steam Deck kind of hard to finagle it to get it to work as smoothly as you'd want. So you would prefer a keyboard mouse. But then that takes away all the, you know, Steam Deck in bed sort of games that I love. It's a cool one so far though.

[Andy Cortez]

Can I tell you about a game I wish listed this morning?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Sure.

[Andy Cortez]

I was on TikTok.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I would love to.

[Andy Cortez]

One of those TikTok games, it's called Recur. It is Braid, but I never played Braid. So like, basically the game, it's a 2D puzzle platformer where when you run forward, so when you're running to the right, time moves forward, but if you run left, if you run backward, time moves back. And so basically as you go. And I might just be describing Braid, I have no idea. But like, as you go, right, like one of the puzzles they show in the TikTok that I watched was them running to the right and a dude, like a robber, takes like crowbar and then hits another guy with the crowbar and then takes the one zip line that you need to. Oh, this is the exact thing. Yeah. So he takes crowbar, hits the guy, and then takes the zip line that you need. And so you need to run backwards and figure out like, oh, okay, what do I do to like, so that I can get to the zip line.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Got you.

[Tim Gettys]

This is rad.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. So then what eventually happens as you see here, right? Like he takes the zipline, he goes. But here your character picks up the Crowbar. So then as he's coming back, hit.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The red dude in the red.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. He doesn't get the thing.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, he gets his ass bolt.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. But now what happens is that the second guy, or I think that guy's actually the robber, but he gets.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The second guy gets chipped up.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. So he gets the zipline. And so now you come back, you come forward in plane. And then this gets kind of complicated in a way that I'm like, okay, you kind of overdid this puzzle a little bit. But he opens this door and then takes this dog's bone.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Well, that's probably for later. That was an achievement. Get the dog bone.

[Tim Gettys]

Give a dog a bone.

[Greg Miller]

So it's like almost.

[Tim Gettys]

Yo, that's fucked up.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, that is fucked up. It reminds me of like, kind of the complicated puzzles that you get in, like old school point and click adventure.

[Andy Cortez]

Games, you know, A little bit. Yeah. So he takes the dog's bone and then puts it in front of the original guy, opens the dog cage. The dog goes and is almost about to get that guy, but then he runs all the way to the left. So complicated puzzle here. But when you see it all come together, right? The dude knocks out dude. One dog comes, takes out that guy.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And then you get to the zip line.

[Andy Cortez]

I saw this and immediately I was like, I gotta wish list this shit, man.

[Tim Gettys]

That's so cool. And there's like a comic book aesthetic too, like all the little word bubbles. But I was watching on yours, there's like explosions in the background. They have the big boom.

[Andy Cortez]

Visually, like, I'm digging it. It doesn't have like a release date or anything, but it is called Recur. Coming from Kaleidos Cube is the name of the developer.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

How do you spell it? The name of the game. The name of the game.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, Recur. R E C U R. There you go.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Chen.

[Andy Cortez]

Good name for a game.

[Tim Gettys]

Recur. Recur, right? Like recurring. Yes, Very cool.

[Andy Cortez]

Recur.

[Tim Gettys]

Love that.

[Andy Cortez]

Not recur. Wreaker is like, I'm wreaking havoc. Herbivore, Herbivore I'm a wreaker.

[Tim Gettys]

Herbivore, Herbivore, Herbivore this is the kind of thing's each. 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, and I hope you do, please support us with the kind of funny membership on Patreon, YouTube, Spotify or Apple Podcast to get all of our shows ad free in A daily exclusive. Greg Way Today's going to be done by Andy. Do you know what you're talking about, Andy?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's uploading right now.

[Tim Gettys]

What is it?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I just did a little ama, took some questions.

[Tim Gettys]

Cool.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

People talks about backlogs.

[Andy Cortez]

What's on your backlog?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Can we come Deliverance too?

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, you actually. You let the Reddit get to you. Damn. I thought, well, it was one I.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Wanted to play, but then avowed got in the way. And then, you know, for everybody who's like, why don't they, you know, how are they? How dare they skip this game. It was under my request. And then I think the email just got lost in the shuffle. And so they took way longer to get me a code back during the review period, but by that point I had already started a vow. So I was like, all right, well, Kingdom Come Deliverance. So you lost your chance. Because Now I'm like 30 hours into a vowed. Yeah, I kind of regret that.

[Andy Cortez]

Wow. Yeah. I also. Well, I don't want to be mean because I was gonna say I also regretted playing Rebel, but I. Because of that same situation, I didn't play Kingdom Come Deliverance two, which I know people had a lot of good things to say about.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I want to eventually get to it.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I just know it's a long one.

[Andy Cortez]

It's a long one against big meaty video game.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Takes a lot of dedication, hours.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I don't know if I have that in me. Outer Worlds 2 is around the corner.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Fucking Obsidian.

[Tim Gettys]

Housekeeping for you. We're in 11 person business all about live talk shows. We just did a kind of funny games daily talking all about the Nintendo indie world that's happening this Thursday after Gamescast is going to be Nick and Andy playing.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You know what, there's two choices. I want to leave it up to the chat. There's a co op shooter that Devolver Digital came out with. It's kind of an early access called Myco Punk. M Y C O P U N K. Every time I say it, I feel like I'm saying might go punk. But might go Punk is a game that they came out with in early access as a free demo available as well. Or I get Nick started on the altars and we just watch him start to make decisions. And I think Nick would like the altar. I think he would too. Yeah, I think he would too. Especially as he's the dude that loves the. The sort of gathering of materials and building these things up and watching things progress and get better and that Sort of tickle, you know, it itches. That little thing on your brain and you go, oh, that feels nice.

[Andy Cortez]

And the story's cool. The story seems like something Nick would be into.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, yeah, I think so. I think so. I saw Shadow Trickster in the chat. Say, Andy, finish the altars. I've. I've said many times I beat the alter I posted about. I already beat it. Beat the altars already.

[Tim Gettys]

They're done, everybody.

[Andy Cortez]

There's a Michael Punk question in the next season of Game Showdown. Now I might have to change it. We'll see. I probably won't remember.

[Tim Gettys]

So thank you to our Patreon producers, Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Delaney the Psalm Twining. Today we're brought to you by kind of funny in review, but we'll tell you about that later. For now, let's start with the topic of the show. Our most anticipated anticipated titles of August 2025. We are going to go through every game with a release date for August this month that we're in right now. Currently, as of recording, it's August 5th. So we have the majority of August left to go. When it comes to video games, without looking at a list and without clear your minds, boys, what's the one game that comes to mind for August?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Snake Eater.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Solid Delta, isn't it?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Is Shinobi this month?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yes.

[Tim Gettys]

That's up there for me too.

[Andy Cortez]

There's definitely one other game that I'm miss I'm not thinking of that I know is in August because Mafia's in August, but that's not what I'm thinking. Even though I'm excited to play Mom.

[Greg Miller]

I know what you're thinking of.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Or I have a good idea of what you're thinking of. What is it?

[Greg Miller]

Lost Soul aside.

[Andy Cortez]

No way. That's August.

[Greg Miller]

That's.

[Andy Cortez]

You're joking.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It is, but like not really. Like I think, I think it gets delayed again. Yeah, I just, I just.

[Greg Miller]

Because it got delayed from what? June.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They came out with a video recently of like here's, here's a two minute video on the PlayStation YouTube channel. So maybe it doesn't get delayed because it was like we're showing off weapons in the game. Here's some, some of the melee stuff you could use. So yeah, maybe it does come out. I don't know. I just. That game's a weird one because it was. It's been in development for so long. It is a very, very small team. Maybe just one dude. Who knows, Maybe one other person helped print the label. I don't Know, I don't know, Tim. I don't know how busy this dude is. But then some previews came out and some people were like, we may be overrating this. And then I guess the dev came out and was like, yeah, maybe don't expect like, you know, the next big thing. Just, you know it's gonna be a good game, but temper your expectation. I don't know, man. It's in a weird spot. It's in a weird spot.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm putting. I'm putting this on Snowbike. Mike. Gears of War Reloaded. I would like to play it. I would like to play it. Co op, Mike, make it happen. Please.

[Tim Gettys]

Figure it out.

[Andy Cortez]

I want to play Gears of War.

[Tim Gettys]

All right, so we're gonna go in order of release date here and talk about our hype levels and kind of if we have any experience with these games, these franchises or etc. Start with apex Legends Switch 2 August 5th. Today it's out. Bless. I doubt you're going to want to play necessarily on Switch, but is there anything pulling you back to Apex with kind of the conversation surrounding the game?

[Andy Cortez]

Not really. Like I think it would be the people, like if I again, if I could ever convince Andy or Nick or Mike to get into Apex, then like I'll be down to play Apex with them. But like, I don't know. I think the thing that was really keeping me in before was the Arenas mode that they added and then took out, which was like more of a 3v3, like directly competitive thing as opposed to the big battle royale mode that Apex is known for. I fucking love that mode. And it just didn't take off in the way that they probably wanted it to take off and so they took it out. They've added more modes since then, but since then I've just dropped off of it and so I don't have any plans of currently getting back. But it is cool that it's on the Switch to, you know, you assume that it's going to run way better than the Switch 1 version. I never. I tried it once on Switch 1 and went never again. And so love to see a new version come out that's going to run better. But I don't really have any desire myself to go back at this moment.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Same. Yeah, nothing will really pull me back to this game.

[Andy Cortez]

It's Will says they brought it back this season less. I might go back to Apex.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh shit.

[Andy Cortez]

No, you're joking. There's no way they brought Arenas back. I'm going to look this up.

[Tim Gettys]

Look it up next up we have. Also today we have two more games. We have Disco Elysium, the final cut coming to Android. I don't think that it being on Android is going to pull anyone here.

[Andy Cortez]

Due to it, but I did not know this was coming out today. This is one that like, I think it's like a totally different game than the original.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh really?

[Greg Miller]

It's Disco elysium but for TikTok brains.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, like if you. Okay, if you can bring up the trailer for Disco Elysium on Android because yeah, the UI is completely different. I low key want to try it out, but part of me is like, well, the company that, that owns Disco Elysium now is kind of shitty. Or at least like there have been infighting between the original developers of Disco Elysium and the studio that currently does Disco Elysium. So I don't know what's up with that, but this one looks weird. It looks fucking different.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think that I saw it maybe. I don't know if it was through.

[Tim Gettys]

A two or depressed.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't know.

[Andy Cortez]

I mean that is this.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't know if I saw it through a video or whether it was like a post something. But I could have sworn Lucy James was like, hey, this maybe Lucy and Tam saying this was way better than we expected.

[Andy Cortez]

Really?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Because we. Again, it's the. You automatically want to roll your eyes at like, hey, nobody has the attention span to play a 50, 90 hour whatever RPG with a lot of text and reading. And then a couple years ago they added voice acting to the whole thing. But now this is a easily digestible version of the game. That's again for people with brain rot. And it seems like it might work, but I don't think this would be the way that I would want to play it.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, it's like it. I mean the trailer definitely looks like it made all the concessions it needed to make this game playable on mobile. For. Yeah, like a, for somebody who wants to play a game on mobile. You know what I mean? Like they didn't just take the game and port it to mobile, which you probably could have done. Yeah, it seems like it's more made for like a tick tock style. Like you know, you're getting not quick hits but it's just easily.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's being played vertically.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, it's playing vertically, which is weird.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It kind of looked like a visual novel in a way. The way that sort of the text and the screens are presented to you.

[Tim Gettys]

This version's getting really good reviews at first glance. By like, Pocket Gamer, gave it a 9 out of 10.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

So I was writing this one off and there's a lot more going on here. Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm a big Disco Elysium fan, absolutely loved it. Played the final cut. That's when they added the voice acting and that for. Did you ever play Disco Elysium?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No.

[Andy Cortez]

I think you would like disco.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I know I would love disco. I just. It's just a time thing, man. I know that. But it. I tried playing it, I remember on maybe on Xbox, and it was just like, wrong place, wrong time. One day I'll get to it. Yeah, maybe I'll throw. Maybe I'll add that to the Witcher 3 as my. If my plane crashed in Atlanta, Deserted island. Yeah, but as the plane was crashing, they're like, you have picked two games.

[Andy Cortez]

Take one as you're falling. You have to leave all items with.

[Greg Miller]

You, you know, on the plane.

[Andy Cortez]

But these two, these two. This goalie team is fucking phenomenal. You would enjoy it.

[Tim Gettys]

Do you feel the same about Demon Slayer? Commit to no. Yaba. The Hinokami Chronicles 2.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm surprised I made it to.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I thought this was a sequel to the party game.

[Greg Miller]

Remember the party Demon Slayer party game?

[Andy Cortez]

I do remember the Demon Slayer party game. I also remember. Wait a second. Okay, never mind. Because I remember the first one being a fighting game, like an arena fighter, like a Budokai, or like an ultimate Ninja storm style thing. Um, okay. Yeah, that's still what this is.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

All right, cool. I got no desire.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay, well, if you have no desire in this, can I interest you in Snufkin Melody of Moomin Valley Coming to iOS and Android tomorrow? No.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Is that Nico Drico's brother?

[Andy Cortez]

It really is. So my question was gonna be, is, are these the Moomins? Oh, dude, they are the Moomins.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They are.

[Andy Cortez]

It's the Moomins. Fucking Sam Lake loves these guys, right?

[Tim Gettys]

What?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What are you talking about?

[Tim Gettys]

Explain more. Hold on. Bring up.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Are these the aforementioned Moomins?

[Tim Gettys]

And you get to see this little fucker and you're gonna be like, oh, that guy.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, yeah, who's that?

[Tim Gettys]

He's a Moomin.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's the meme of this guy holding.

[Greg Miller]

Like a knife that people use all the time.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's a Moomin.

[Andy Cortez]

That's a Moomin.

[Greg Miller]

It's a musical adventure game.

[Andy Cortez]

I bring up an article from Video Games Chronicle from April 29, 2025. Sam Lake would like to make a Moomins game and write a novel after he retires, it goes into detail about how he really loves the movements and.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

He would like to move. Is this something that like maybe a lot bigger in non American places?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Seems like some Lucy James stuff.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, yeah. Like I could.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm gonna call Lucy right now. I want her thoughts on the movements.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I could imagine Gary woulda, you know. Oh, the Moomins.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, he's talking about it like it's Mickey Mouse.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, yeah, like that. It's there to him.

[Andy Cortez]

It's bugs, buddy.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We used to go to Moomin land every.

[Tim Gettys]

Lucy, you're live on the kind of funny games cast. Do you have any thoughts on the Moomins?

[Andy Cortez]

Ooh, I think they're really cute.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I used to live with someone who was obsessed with Moomins, and I went.

[Andy Cortez]

To not one, but two Moomin stores in Helsinki. I thought she was gonna say I used to live with a.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay, well, thank you. We just. We for some reason knew that you would be aware of these little. Little guys.

[Andy Cortez]

Cod. Yeah, all those little weirdos. I have a little.

[Tim Gettys]

I have a little.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

One of the weird guys on my fridge. The.

[Andy Cortez]

The guy who looks like a. I don't know what he looks like. Like, it's such bright with limbs.

[Tim Gettys]

I love you and I love your interest so much, Lucy. Thank you so much.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Thank you.

[Andy Cortez]

Hi, Lucy.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Of course, of course. So she mentioned Helsinki. Okay. It's all coming together. Yes, yes. It all comes. I got to imagine that in their shopping center. Similar to how, like, you know, we may have like a studio Ghibli area in our bookstores or like our, you know, little like trinket stores. They probably have like Moomin's places all over Tintin. Do you think. Do you think they have like Moomin planes so that we, like, you know, Japan has the Pikachu and Pokemon planes and stuff.

[Tim Gettys]

I don't know about planes, but probably.

[Andy Cortez]

Like how many Pokemon planes exist? It's gotta be like a handful.

[Tim Gettys]

There was a Lugia car. PT Cruiser.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, but a car is way easier to make it a.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's different than a plane.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I feel like a Pokemon plane. Like, there must be like one, right? Two.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, there was a fleet of them.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Just used the word fleet.

[Andy Cortez]

A fleet implies at least of I.

[Tim Gettys]

A fleet of planes. You know what I mean? More than one.

[Andy Cortez]

Imagine getting attacked by a fleet of Pokemon planes. They're all different. Pokemon one's Lugia, one's Ho.

[Tim Gettys]

August 7th. We have Endless Legend 2 coming to Early Access on PC.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Never heard of it.

[Andy Cortez]

Never heard of it. Looks neat though. Like I wouldn't play it, but it looks cool. Like an art style.

[Greg Miller]

Sounds like something Mike would play.

[Tim Gettys]

What's quality going on here? Fruit Bus coming to Xbox and switch on August 7th.

[Andy Cortez]

Fruit Bus.

[Tim Gettys]

Also unfamiliar with Fruit Bus. We got a Gradius Origins bear. Could you bring this one up coming August 7th to all platforms. I imagine the answer is no. But did you all play Gradius at all growing up?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I feel like it was impossible for me not to have because it was just one of those ever present games.

[Andy Cortez]

I feel like I must have, but.

[Tim Gettys]

I don't remember good stuff here. I'm. I didn't know that there was an Origins collection coming out.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But is this a left to right or a bottom to top?

[Andy Cortez]

The left to right.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Left to right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh no.

[Tim Gettys]

Like this type.

[Andy Cortez]

You know what? I think I might have played Gradius.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh no, there's a bot on the top right there. Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

Maybe I might have played it recently to mix. Maybe in like one of those museum. Cool. Oh, I know this is coming out. Then it must have been something else. Don't. Don't mind me.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Don't mind me.

[Tim Gettys]

Great soundtrack for these like fun, fun little time wasters here and then. Yeah. M2, they're. They're the kings when it comes to emulation stuff. So we know this is actually gonna be nice. A good collection.

[Andy Cortez]

Really quick.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't.

[Greg Miller]

I don't want us to entirely skip over Fruit Bus.

[Tim Gettys]

Thank you. Please bring up fruit boss.

[Greg Miller]

I just need to bring it up just to see what the vibes are, you know.

[Tim Gettys]

Is it like not what I expected?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. First person.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's like bug snacks.

[Greg Miller]

But you're making.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh smoothies on the road. Selling to. To folks. Food cart. Oh, that's neat.

[Andy Cortez]

How do we describe this art style? Because a lot of games have this God damn. Just the, just the dunking going for the jugular. Yeah. Personally, I mean it's not my taste for sure. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

They're adjacent.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

There is a. How would you just, you know the genre? Friend slop.

[Andy Cortez]

Everybody's been using slop. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's very peak coded.

[Andy Cortez]

Yes.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But it's random slop. Yeah. They call those like repo or any of those games or it's just Friends, which. It's essentially just a party game. But we somehow started calling it Friend Slot. But it's. It's an art style that's acceptable because of what it's going for. And if any other game had those animations, you'd Be like, what the fuck is going on here? Yeah, what is realistic? This realistic looking dude walk this way. But when they're goofy and doofy looking like that, it's like, all right, it works. Makes me smile, I think.

[Andy Cortez]

Was it Janet Garcia? There's somebody who's trying to get. That's the. Instead, instead of calling it friend slop, call it kid Proximity chatters like games that you would use Proximity chat. Yeah, gotcha. Trend slop kind of sounds rude.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, it definitely does.

[Andy Cortez]

But also it's accurate then.

[Tim Gettys]

We have hidden memories of the Gardens between. Coming to the quest three, quest two and PC on August 7th, award winning puzzle adventure. Hold on, it's VR blaster.

[Andy Cortez]

I mean I still have my VR in my closet building up dust.

[Greg Miller]

Actually quest three somewhere around here.

[Tim Gettys]

You know, actual the world to him.

[Andy Cortez]

Is this gonna be like a. Oh, we've seen this game. Wait, hold on. What's.

[Tim Gettys]

Hidden Memories of the Gardens Between?

[Andy Cortez]

The Gardens Between? You guys know the Gardens Between? Nevermind.

[Tim Gettys]

I know the Hidden Garden.

[Andy Cortez]

I guess Hidden Memories must be.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's where the Moomins were born.

[Andy Cortez]

The Gardens Between. I remember playing at a PAX years and years and like 2019 or something like that.

[Greg Miller]

So is it just a VR version of this game?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Neat. All right, that's cool. Good for them. Hopefully it does.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I gotta look up Gardens between because everybody in chat's talking about gardens.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh yeah. Okay. I haven't seen this.

[Tim Gettys]

August 7th, we have the Royal Ritz coming to PC.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh wait, this is the one. God, why do I know these games? This is the one coming from the YouTube. Like the British YouTubers.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh cool.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

British YouTubers.

[Andy Cortez]

The British YouTubers. Somebody in chat.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

How many of them are there a.

[Andy Cortez]

Fleet of British YouTubers. I saw some of the games. Journalists from the UK were talking this.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Up a little bit of like, yo.

[Andy Cortez]

They'Re releasing another game.

[Tim Gettys]

I'll say like looking at this.

[Andy Cortez]

Uh huh.

[Tim Gettys]

There's an art design choice made here that I tip my hat to. I love this. You might on first blush, you're like, oh, this just looks like a lot of. It's like. No, no, no. There's a lot of unique things going on here. Great use of color, great use of that thick black line.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Great line.

[Tim Gettys]

Looks nice.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Making it look like cardboard sort of texture.

[Andy Cortez]

So yogscast is what I was trying to think.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. They're a British entertainment company based in Bristol that primarily produces video game related videos on YouTube and Twitch. And I believe in the last like however many years I've been doing video game publishing.

[Tim Gettys]

Sick.

[Andy Cortez]

It's one of them joints.

[Tim Gettys]

Looks cool. Tiny bookshop coming to PC and Mac August 7th.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It looks like gardens between.

[Andy Cortez]

No way.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, just in the image. I don't know. I didn't see any video of it.

[Tim Gettys]

And then Cat Quest 3 coming to Mac, iOS and Android on August 8th. But the big one that I want to get to.

[Andy Cortez]

Hold on. Cat Quest 3 looks kind of fire. I will say.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, when we talked a lot of shit about Cat Quest 3 and being like, oh, everybody's just, you know, oh, this is just another one of those games to pay the ads from Jeff Keighley on this game awards or whatever it was. And then a lot of people in the comments like, dude, Cat Quest rocks. Actually, you all are wrong.

[Greg Miller]

Friend of the show, Matthew David Rudd, swears by this game.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

All right, jumping in.

[Tim Gettys]

Do you want to play the prequels first?

[Andy Cortez]

I gotta play the first two.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, of course you do.

[Andy Cortez]

I'll get around to it eventually.

[Tim Gettys]

And then the first, I'd say the biggest released so far in August, Mafia The Old Country, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series and PC August 8, three days away from now. How are we feeling about Mafia the Old Country?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We getting one of these codes or what was up?

[Andy Cortez]

I'm curious about it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I. I definitely am. Because it seems like it is a. Because of how linear it's being presented as this straightforward story, you know, not requiring 40 hours of your time. And I don't really know how valid any of the tweets about it have been, but saying that, hey, it sounds like it's gonna be around a 10 hour experience. 10 to 13 hours, that sounds awesome time.

[Tim Gettys]

So it's probably really like 8 to 9.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Sounds great.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

If it's telling us if it's only.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

A cool story like this. Seems like I've been kind of wanting something like this that's a bit more bite sized.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Barrett, where you at with this? As the. The mafia, man.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I've talked about, you know, Hangar 13 knows how to tell a great story. Mafia 3, which came out nine years ago at this point, which is insane.

[Tim Gettys]

Crazy.

[Greg Miller]

One of my favorite stories of the last generation. The game overall, kind of a mid game, but that story I thought was really incredible. So they know how to tell a good story. You know, the. The biggest problem with Mafia 3 was the open world and kind of the open world activities that were fine, but you're just kind of doing them over and over and over again. So if we're cutting that out and we're doing a more linear, uncharted esque kind of path through for a. A story. Like that's, that seems real cool. The game comes out in three days and you know, like, like Andy said, like we don't have code yet and that, that makes me really worried. So like I'm starting to really worry about this game. Hopefully those, you know, that comes up to. To be nothing and it actually kicks ass. But not the best sign to me at least.

[Andy Cortez]

Tim, are you interested in playing this one?

[Tim Gettys]

I'm interested only because a 10 hour story sounds cool to me. I'm not interested in the mafia as a concept and I'm the new country over old country.

[Andy Cortez]

What do you mean you're not interested in the mafia as a concept?

[Tim Gettys]

I just don't really with mafia stuff.

[Andy Cortez]

You don't say you.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Not with pirates.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, but the mafia are way cooler than pirates.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, shut up.

[Andy Cortez]

No, they are. Come on. Nobody.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I would agree.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

I think mafia's cooler than pirates.

[Andy Cortez]

Mafia's way cooler than one note. I think mob pirates are one note.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, we want treasure and we sail the seas, matey.

[Andy Cortez]

Walk the plank.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, you've seen, you've seen one pirate, you've seen them all.

[Tim Gettys]

You see one mafia dude, you've seen them all.

[Greg Miller]

Shadow picture says Mafia are just land pirates.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Now you're just being racist towards Italians.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, I didn't want to say I.

[Andy Cortez]

Like being on land. I know what to tell you.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, but yeah, that's, that's me. What about you, Andy?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I already talked about it.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, that's on like the Mafia there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, the Mafia. Oh, just not the video game, just in general. Yeah, I think, I think they're cool.

[Andy Cortez]

I think Mafia are cool too. And yeah, I like crimes. I'm interested in checking out the game. I haven't played any of the mafia games prior to this, but whenever I hear people talk about them, my interest is piqued. Especially Mafia 3. That sounds like a really neat game, at least for what they do with narratives and stuff. And so if you're bringing that same storytelling ability to Mafia the old country and you're giving me a linear, shorter experience. Yeah, for sure. I'll make time for that.

[Tim Gettys]

I hope that you make time for a word for our sponsors. This episode's brought to you by our own show, Kind of funny in review. It is our movie review show and it is the best place to get all of our thoughts on all the latest in entertainment. Greg and how has it been this year?

[Andy Cortez]

It's Been awesome because I came back.

[Tim Gettys]

Alien vs Predator in review.

[Andy Cortez]

Super Superman in review. Fantastic Four currently happening in review. It's been a great time and I've been crazier than ever.

[Tim Gettys]

You really have. It's been banger after banger after banger of episodes of Interview. Doesn't mean the movies necessarily work. Sometimes we're talking about some all time greats, sometimes we're talking about some of the worst movies ever made. But no matter what, Greg is drinking his cokes and having a good time and saying some of the craziest things you've said on kind of Funny content ever. That's right.

[Andy Cortez]

If you're unfamiliar, of course, in review is us picking a movie series, watching.

[Tim Gettys]

Them all, then ranking and reviewing them all while meticulously recapping the plot and not screwing anything up. But here's the thing. I know a lot of you are watching live, probably on kind of funny games daily or kind of funny games cast. We cover video games, but we also cover movies and we have a great time doing it. Just best friends hanging out. So don't worry. We're getting back to Alien versus Predator, everybody. Right after we get through some of the biggest summer movies. But Fantastic Four, Superman, Alien versus Predator, it's been a great time. The good times are just starting.

[Andy Cortez]

That's right. So right now, like subscribe, share on your favorite podcast feed or YouTube.com kindafunnygames and we'll see you at the movies.

[Tim Gettys]

That was good.

[Andy Cortez]

Thank you. I mean we stole it.

[Tim Gettys]

It's, you know, I think Siskel and Eber's line. Next up on August 12th, we have a PC game called Abyssus. It's Abyss but with Sus at the end. A wonderful player co op game.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, I'll say Abyss with us at the end because Abyss has two S's not to be that guy.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So it's.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, I guess you're right though because it is us. Yeah, this four of us.

[Andy Cortez]

Four of us.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So is this like when we were talking about Wild Gate? It was like, oh, it's. It's sea of these in space. But is it sea of these under captain Further underwater? Because I saw a little submarine at the beginning of the game.

[Greg Miller]

But I don't know if this is.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But is it just a four player co op?

[Greg Miller]

This is like a four player because.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The first shot had a. I saw that submarine with one of four players. Like oh, are you gonna be come during a ship and going out to do adventures and then coming back to the ship. But no, it Just looks like a one to four player co op game. But it looks honestly pretty neat.

[Andy Cortez]

This looks awesome.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This looks really cool.

[Greg Miller]

Put it on stream.

[Tim Gettys]

It seems like a stream game.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I love it on the street, dude. I love. But I. Dude, man. I'll tell you what man.

[Tim Gettys]

I just love.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I love boss patterns. Like dude.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I love. I love a boss pattern. I love a telegraph. The red lines are here. Jump over there. Like it's just. Oh man. Video games are so, so much cool.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. It's funny because you mentioned so much cool. You mentioned Sea of Thieves at first, right. And like Sea of Thieves for me, like I enjoy playing with friends but I never got too deep in Sea of Thieves just because like the moment to moment gameplay isn't as much my jam. But you show me something that feels a bit more. Fran took it a bit more actiony and I like my ears per cup. I'm like, wait, hold on. Tell me more about this and this trailer. Like seeing how much action, how much like fucking yeah. Boss patterns that we're seeing.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That looks awesome.

[Andy Cortez]

That looks really cool.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm super down put mark that down as a game that we're interested in. Snow Mike, Mike, wherever you are, Snow Mike Mike.

[Tim Gettys]

Put it on the list. Next up, we have Echoes of the end coming to PS5, Xbox and PC on August 12th.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Never heard of it.

[Andy Cortez]

Not familiar with this one.

[Tim Gettys]

It looks of the end.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It looks like a. A one of these video games that comes out that like Sony ends up suing her. You know the game looking like Horizon.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But this kind of I guess third person action maybe. Whoa. Whoa. Looks good. Wasn't expect. As soon as I see a character like I could tell like okay, what kind of quality we're looking. Whoa. The character face looks crazy good. What is. I really hope it's not like okay, okay.

[Tim Gettys]

We're seeing games developer Mirkur Games. M Y R K U R publisher Prime Matter.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Hey, there's too many good games right now.

[Andy Cortez]

How the have we not heard of this before? We got to do these more often because I'm learning a lot.

[Tim Gettys]

Well, hopefully I think we're going to start trying to do these every month, everybody. So if you're interested in hey, what are the games coming out? We'll go through all the releases for the upcoming month, talk about what we're excited about and yeah, hopefully learned about.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'll be real with you. Can't be real with everybody right now.

[Tim Gettys]

Hit me.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Andy Bear. Can I get the one?

[Andy Cortez]

Get him the one.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Thank you. When this episode Started. And we're sitting here and Tim is bringing up Endless Legend 2 and Tiny Bookshop.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm just like, Tim, you could just fast forward to the big ones.

[Andy Cortez]

We can just skip some of these.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But if we would have skipped over this ones that we didn't recognize, we wouldn't have seen the last two.

[Tim Gettys]

That's what I'm saying.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Underwater adventure game along with freaking for spoken to.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Echoes of the End.

[Tim Gettys]

I like. I mean, obviously we can skip through. No, but, like, we could just, like, give a glance, be like, all right, this isn't for us, but give a glance and be like, hey, hold on. Like, I do think it's worth going through every game with a release date because there's not that many per month here, right? So, yeah, Echoes of the End. Let's keep an eye on it. Let's see what reviews look like.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, like, okay, when we talk about the. The action of it, the action of it looked very God of War Coded. Recent God of War games behind the back, less of. When I say action adventure. It's not like it didn't look like you could really just kind of rotate your camera wherever it's like it's behind you. You're kind of in there, right?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

When. And it reminds me of the game about the ghosts. Ghosts of New Eden, Ghost of New Eve.

[Andy Cortez]

Finishers. I was gonna say finishers as well.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Kind of gave me those vibes as well. But that combat was kind of unsatisfying for me. But when I saw the lady do the. The Force push. Yeah. Oh. Because I want you. Like that.

[Andy Cortez]

My same exact reaction. Because I. For me, I was like, oh, man, this melee combat reminds me a little bit of, like, Hellblade.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Right?

[Andy Cortez]

And like, that didn't feel great. Right? But like, yeah, seeing that combined with the, like, the control style. I'm gonna fucking throw this person over here. All right, look out. I'm looking. I'm looking into this more. I'm gonna do some studying.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Shout out to Chris Anka, who started playing Control for the first time recently.

[Andy Cortez]

No way.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And recently hit me with a text of just getting the achievement for Take Control is the name of the achievement, which is the Ashtray Maze level. One of the best experiences in all of gaming. I was like, oh, man. Like, there hasn't been a moment in gaming. I think more catered for someone like Chris Anka and his music tastes like, what a game.

[Andy Cortez]

This game is being published by Deep Silver.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Ah.

[Andy Cortez]

Looking more into it.

[Tim Gettys]

Interesting.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The deepest of silver.

[Tim Gettys]

The Royal Writ comes to PC on August.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We just talked about.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, we talked about that earlier. That's the cast we did.

[Tim Gettys]

I was going to the top, my bad. And he threw me off tracks coming August 12th.

[Andy Cortez]

Fresh tracks. Looks cool. That is a rhythm game. It's been a little bit on my radar. It's like a rhythm skiing game.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh cool.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, it looks like a fun one if you're into the shredded looks.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

God of Metal.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, this looks cool.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Up my alley, man. Not enough. Y' all played hell fucking metal. Hellraiser. What a great rhythm metal doom game. Yeah, play that game if you're into doom and metal metal and raising hell.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh yeah. Rah rah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Boom.

[Tim Gettys]

Coming everywhere.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This is.

[Andy Cortez]

I know this one too. I believe this is a cheerleading. Yeah, this is a cheerleading beat em up game.

[Tim Gettys]

Behind this one. This is Guy Lee Games developed and published.

[Andy Cortez]

Looks cool.

[Tim Gettys]

Interesting. Yeah, looks neat. I don't know how good it's going to be at the end of the day, but it looks kind of cool. Senua Saga Hellblade 2 coming to PS5 on August 12th.

[Andy Cortez]

Speaking of Hellblade.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Now finally I can play it and give it a good review this time.

[Tim Gettys]

Do you think that like we've had a trend of game Xbox games selling very well on PlayStation. Do you think that this. I don't expect it to. To hit the numbers of the previous games that have been ported like the Indiana Jones or Forza, but definitely not. Definitely not like that. But do you think that it's going to be enough to. Does it make top 10 NPD?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No.

[Andy Cortez]

MPD? No. No. Maybe top 10 on the PlayStation Store for the month. I could see that.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean cool. That's awesome, right? That'd be huge.

[Andy Cortez]

I think one thing to note too is that the first Hellblade, when that came out, it came out in 2017 exclusive to PlayStation. It didn't come to Xbox until later. So theoretically there could be already a built in PlayStation audience that hasn't come around to playing Hellblade yet because it hasn't been on the platform that might show up to it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, yeah, that could happen. I would like that. I think that's cool. I don't want layoff stories about.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, because I maintain that like Ninja Theory as a studio needs to be protected. Like they're such a good and talented and like I think they're a studio that is in the process of pushing things forward both creatively and technologically. Like they just have a lot of good shit going on there and so they can get Some sales to help them maintain that. Like let's. Let's do it.

[Tim Gettys]

World War ZVR coming to the Quest series on August 12th. We've seen in a couple different showcases and stuff.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm glad we're doing this episode because it's a good indicator of like, oh, VR is still here.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Because I feel like we don't hear about VR stuff as much anymore in showcases. The fact that we're getting a World War Z VR game less is because we did.

[Greg Miller]

We choose not to cover it because we hate VR and we want it to fail.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. But also, you know, I just don't see it at Summer Game Fest or like anything you PlayStation, you're like, it's not in our state of plays anymore. But also we hate it with all our hearts.

[Tim Gettys]

Door for romantic come in Everywhere except Nintendo. August 14th. Interesting.

[Andy Cortez]

Has this game come out before?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yes. I don't know.

[Andy Cortez]

Trailers.

[Greg Miller]

This 1.0 release trailers from three years ago.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. So probably coming out to a very specific platform. I don't know which.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean it looks cute.

[Andy Cortez]

Maybe all these. I guess it would have. Yeah. Coming out to all these platforms. It probably came out on PC earlier.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't, I don't know what. What you do. Just building city, City Builder. Cute art style. But I don't, you know, how can I carry dorfromantic?

[Andy Cortez]

Reviewed by Game Informer on Switch. There we go.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Wow. How about that?

[Andy Cortez]

And that was in April 28, 2022.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Next. Lantern. Thank you for rating us over here on Twitch. Welcome in gamers. We're talking about our most anticipated for the month of August 2025.

[Tim Gettys]

Dragon Drive coming to switch to August 14th.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Out of sheer curiosity. Yeah, just, you know, it's hoops. It's a sports game. This will be one that we stream one time and we maybe wear some. A helmet and some arm pads and elbow pads.

[Tim Gettys]

I think we need to like plan a stream for this game at the desk. Go all out and like choose the right. Is it three on three? Yeah, choose the right three to just go and try to. To dominate the courts.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No, but you can't at that. You can't be at the desk. You gotta. You just. You think it won't have like screen.

[Andy Cortez]

Bust out the couch?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You're right.

[Tim Gettys]

Making a lot of sense. You have tabletop mode. I want to see you going for it. Andy.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, you know, and also it's like, it's kind of a good point because our computer desks would be. Would shake the cameras a lot. Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Well, as they were showing this video here. You just do it on your legs.

[Tim Gettys]

Ah, yeah, that worked okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I have fat ass thighs too. Well, I have a lot of.

[Tim Gettys]

That's good.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

A lot of real estate.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Thickens over here, man.

[Tim Gettys]

I, I'm very interested in, in seeing where this game reviews. Obviously the expectations are not high and based on my experience with this, it's like I do not want to play this for more than 15 minutes at a time because it's just, it's a lot of a physical. It's a physical situation without much reward.

[Andy Cortez]

But I mean, you're building up arm strength. You know what I mean? Like you told me about your heels last episode.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh yeah, it's bad.

[Andy Cortez]

We got to make sure you're in motion.

[Tim Gettys]

We got to get me going.

[Andy Cortez]

We got to get you going.

[Tim Gettys]

Drag and Drive.

[Andy Cortez]

Dragon Drive is going to be the thing.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's just art style. So ugly. It looks just unpleasant.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean that's the thing is like obviously Nintendo doesn't come up with new IPs that often, right? Splatoon, huge hit. They came out with ours arms. Not a hit, but enough to have characters that make it to Smash Brothers. We're not seeing Dragon Drive characters in Smash Brothers. Like the, just the lack of art style and a song and like any, any level of like that Nintendo charm I find so baffling here.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This is, I mean you will. You know, I could definitely see this as a summon in Smash Bros. You know, like the dude like wheels.

[Andy Cortez]

Like a trophy.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Trophy. Yeah. But I, I mean I just something about what they're going for aesthetically I think just art direction wise. I don't love the look of like the blandness of the red on the court and the metal.

[Andy Cortez]

Why are they in a warehouse?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I wish it was. I wish they just did what arms did art style wise or Crab Stadium. Any of their other Nintendo sort of properties are so bright and colorful. I wish I would have enjoyed the, the vibes of it a lot more. But it really is just this the look of trying to replicate a street basketball court with the sort of very worn down paint. It just. Yeah, I don't know.

[Andy Cortez]

The color palette reminds me of like N64 era.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, me too.

[Andy Cortez]

You know, it feels like very early like we forsaken.

[Tim Gettys]

So like N64 games that weren't from Nintendo. Like that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Biomutant.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, man. Blast core. Madden NFL 26 come in everywhere.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Whoa.

[Tim Gettys]

August 14th all over the place.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

He passed away. He's still getting done.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean I, I. What I really want for Madden in my heart of hearts, is to do another small KFFL short form series. That's the only real reason I'm looking forward to Madden otherwise.

[Andy Cortez]

It's.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I just don't really have time to play an NFL game again. I'm sure we'll do a stream of it or something.

[Greg Miller]

But I like the idea of Madden on the go with the Switch 2 version.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, yeah, that does sound fun.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles tactical takedown coming to Xbox and switch on August 14th.

[Andy Cortez]

Guys know this is getting commercials.

[Greg Miller]

I saw an ad for it, Andy, at a. At the bar near us. I was like, oh, it's that indie game that Oliver Nielsen made.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What did I miss out on?

[Tim Gettys]

Just caught you up.

[Andy Cortez]

That's the story.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's the story.

[Andy Cortez]

That's the story.

[Tim Gettys]

It's cool though, man. Again, another very, very cool game. Reviewed decently, coming to more platforms. That's great. Warhammer 40K dawn of War Definitive Edition coming to PC August 14th.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Is that the AR or is that the CRPG?

[Tim Gettys]

Which.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

On which Warhammer game is the CRPG? Because I've heard a lot of good stuff about their. The. No, this is not the crpg. I don't think this looks like a Diablo.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I was say this is like a.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Well, oh, it's a classic rts.

[Andy Cortez]

There you go. Yeah, it's a military science fiction, real time strategy game from Rogue Traders, the crpg.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This game does have really good ratings. This is like a 10 on Steam.

[Andy Cortez]

Apparently published by THQ. The original.

[Tim Gettys]

Next up we have Bendy Lone Wolf come in everywhere August 15th. It seems to be a way spin off.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The kids love Bendy, man.

[Greg Miller]

I was gonna. What is Bendy?

[Andy Cortez]

Can somebody explain Bendy?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Bendy and the Ink Machine? It's, you know, if you have any kids that are. I don't know if you have kids or not blessed, but the kids love five Nights at Freddy's. They love Bendy. They love these games that are kind of just super horror adjacent where they can play them or watch their favorite let's players play them.

[Andy Cortez]

Wait, is Bendy and the Ink Machine a horror game?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Y' all did a let's play of Bendy, right? Like back in like 20.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We did. Yeah, we did.

[Andy Cortez]

Did Rooster Teeth.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They published.

[Andy Cortez]

Publish. Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. What? Yes, they published one of them.

[Greg Miller]

I just know there's a lot of Bendy. There's a lot of Bendy, like merch just everywhere.

[Tim Gettys]

Very Hot Topic.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's like. It's like a. It's like the Invader Zim of today.

[Tim Gettys]

No, don't say that, girl.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, it is.

[Tim Gettys]

Next up, we have off coming to switching PC.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This has a cool logo. That's all I know about Off.

[Andy Cortez]

Plus, I mean, I don't know much about it. I'm gonna guess. Is it one of them Earthbound likes? You know what I mean? Isn't one of them Earthbound undertale?

[Tim Gettys]

Here we go.

[Andy Cortez]

Top down. Let's get JRPG style thing. Garish art style. Yeah, well, okay. Calm down, Tim. All right. I love these games. Maybe not this one. This one is. Does look kind of garish, actually. But like, still though, yeah, this is like my. My. My type of JRPG that I with for like the 16 bit style. Even though this is.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This is like two bit. This is like. Yeah, it's not.

[Andy Cortez]

This is not 16, but that what we're looking at.

[Tim Gettys]

People are saying this is undertale before. Undertale.

[Andy Cortez]

Yes.

[Greg Miller]

Big inspiration to me. And Undertale, huh?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Says Toby.

[Andy Cortez]

Says Toby Fox in his dog form. Yeah. Rebecca Valentine can probably tell you everything. Every. Everything you need to know about this one. Well, I'm sure she's written about it.

[Tim Gettys]

Well, you can check it out on Switch and PC on August 15.

[Andy Cortez]

Romance, dawn and chat says y' all gotta beat it. We gotta beat off.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's a good quote. That's a good little comment right there. Romance song.

[Tim Gettys]

Next up, stick it to the stick man. Coming to PC.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, it's coming out. No, this is like the one where you're. You're a stick man in, like an office and then you have to. It's like an action game.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, this is published by Devolver.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, this looks cool.

[Andy Cortez]

This looks fun as hell. Yeah, like, very chaotic. You're throwing. You're beating people up in like a 2D. You're like star doors. You're like climbing up. You're almost. It's almost like the original Donkey Kong. The way that you're like Braid.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No, I was gonna say the ra. Oh. Or. Or a judge dread. You're climbing up the tower. Just.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Taking everybody out.

[Andy Cortez]

It's like the Raid meets stick figures meets arcade. Donkey Kong. The way you're climbing up the ladders.

[Tim Gettys]

Tight.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The lighting. The lighting looks awesome.

[Tim Gettys]

Chante Advanced Risky Revolution. Coming up to PlayStation 5, Xbox, PlayStation 4 and Switch and PC everywhere. August 19th. This one's cool, right? If I remember correctly, this was like the. A Game Boy advent. Like a game made for a Game Boy advance that never came out. And so now they're. They're putting it out like releasing for the first time.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, neat.

[Tim Gettys]

Pretty sick.

[Greg Miller]

Guarantee this is the big thing on Thursday.

[Tim Gettys]

The big thing on Thursday for Nintendo Nindy's. Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

I mean, what they mean just like.

[Greg Miller]

Hey, reminder this game's coming. We're gonna tell you all about it.

[Tim Gettys]

Wow.

[Andy Cortez]

I think it's in the middle of the show. It takes up three minutes of the 53 minutes. That's still like.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, that's still a big thing for Jiminy Crickets.

[Tim Gettys]

Sword of the Sea. This looks awesome by the way. The Shantay games are very, very cool. Sword of the sea coming to PlayStation 5 and PC on August 19th.

[Andy Cortez]

Hell yeah, brother.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This is one from snowboarding on from the Pathless devs.

[Andy Cortez]

Yes. Giant Squid. Thank you. That's what I was trying to figure out. Yeah, they made Pathless before they made Abzu before that. It's another game of that vein. If you're not familiar with Giant Squid, there are people from the studio that made Journey and so they took a lot of that talent, made their own studio and they're putting out really cool games. I love Pathless. Pathless is like if I had like a game of the launch of PS5. It's in the top three. It's in the top three dot I fucking love it.

[Tim Gettys]

You were really trying to say something there. You just thought about it.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh yeah. I was like, let me slow my roll.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's not true.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I was like a lot of good games came out of PS5 launch. Let me slow down Astrobot, but fucking love the Pathless. If you're somebody who likes these kind of games, like I'll point to a shadow colossus. I'll point to a solar ash. Right. Stuff that's a bit more like experiential atmospheric. But then also have like a good sense of momentum in the gameplay. This is one that you should look out for.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You're. I mean you're just. You got this hoverboard that can go anywhere and honestly if you're a game dev and you put an underwater sea dwelling creature in a place where it don't belong, I'm in it. I'm into it. I like, I love seeing a whale in the sky. I love seeing like it's so cool to me. But yeah, it looks like just one of those beautiful games with an amazing art style that is gonna make you feel stuff and you're not quite sure why.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, yeah, I, I've been waiting for one of those to hit again because it's been a long time for me, like, I feel like Journey hit such a high and that was coming off of me before that loving flower. Like loving what that team did with even a different style and like less character. Like at least like humanoid character. But any. Ever since then, the Abzus and Sky and Pathless and all that, something about him just it. It always felt like, just more as opposed to like being like a. Oh, this stands on its own is special. And maybe it's just time and place to play in Journey back in the day, but Yeah, I think that's the.

[Andy Cortez]

Tough thing is can you replicate that feeling again while doing a lot of the same things?

[Tim Gettys]

I don't know. I just don't know. And I think like that, you know, not to say that these things are bad, but like Pathless, I remember playing like enjoying, but like these are the type of games that like when your life has been changed by one before, it's kind of hard to.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Just play another one, you know?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. I think I. For some reason, I know Journey is like the. One of the most well renowned games of the last two generations. For some reason didn't work as strongly on me. And so I think a lot of that energy then transferred over the Pathless when I played it. And I was like, yo, this is. This is what I want kind of thing.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Those music hits, hitting when the boss is doing something super magical looking.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This is all, you know, crescendoing at the right moment. I think the path was hit in a lot of ways for me that I wasn't necessarily expecting it to.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I think also it's just like the amount of puzzles and stuff. Right. Journey is way more about the experience. Way more about that A to B where Pathless had more bespoke, like, hey, no, go over here and solve a thing and then go over here. And it felt more open world, like solving a lot more puzzles kind of thing, which I like. And so I want that from Sword of the Sea and I like that they have a hoverboard.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, very cool. Always cool. It looks like a sword. That's cool.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, it's a hoverboard. One of my things. How did you get around in Solar?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Solar ass. You were just skating. You just had like your feet. You were just doing that.

[Andy Cortez]

You're like Shadow the Hedgehog.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. Now Hyper Light Breaker has the hoverboard that sort of, you know, pops in from nothing. It's just sort of like Tony Stark's helmet sort of thing. Nanotech, magical.

[Tim Gettys]

All systems dance coming to early access. August 20th.

[Andy Cortez]

Not familiar.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm not familiar either. What's this going on?

[Andy Cortez]

Okay, she's dancing. How do you feel about billionaires? Not great.

[Tim Gettys]

They are. We don't like them.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Corporate control.

[Andy Cortez]

This is gonna be one of them anti capitalist games. Good.

[Greg Miller]

Seems to be a lot of those lately.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Well, you can do something about it.

[Andy Cortez]

You can kill them.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Dance. Okay. We're watching this little. This gal jump over stuff and avoid bosses. A movement. Movement seems very slow. But I like just the color. The, you know, the sort of color schemes of everything. Very cute looking.

[Andy Cortez]

The revolution will not be choreographed. All right.

[Tim Gettys]

Early access.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Too much space in between the words. My.

[Tim Gettys]

Put it on the box.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, that's. That's my number one critique.

[Tim Gettys]

Black myth Wukong coming to Xbox series X&S. August 20th. One year to the date since it came wild. Wow.

[Andy Cortez]

I said at the top of the year. All right. And they didn't listen. The black myth Wukong, we're leaving it in 2024. It somehow followed me.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It said, yeah, I'm not gonna listen to you, but this is gonna sell a ton. I think. I think this is going to be one of those that on the Xbox will look so gorgeous to people who aren't really super listening to podcasts all the time. I think this is one of those games that can pop up on the store page or whatever the hell. Whenever you hop into your Xbox, I expect to see a ton of ads like on the dashboard or whatever.

[Andy Cortez]

You know what if they market the hell out of it, then I think.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This could like sell really well.

[Tim Gettys]

We should keep our eye on it because I do think this is actually a good barometer of. Because we've been talking a lot about this, the potential, the sales potential of the Xbox right At this point with the strategies they've put in place with Game Pass. This I imagine not on Game Pass. Do we know?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't believe so, no.

[Tim Gettys]

Yes, I do wonder. Like, I wonder because I. I agree with you guys that this does have like kind of everything going for it to sell well. So let's keep somebody keep your eye on it. Remind us because I want to see when we actually get the. The sales numbers of like, does this hit the charts for. For Xbox? And I, I imagine it will. But like how high, you know, what's it going to actually do here? Void breaker.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Come on.

[Tim Gettys]

Early access PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and S and PC.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, this one.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This is the one. Everybody needs to keep your eyes on this one. After playing the demo so damn much through multiple Steam early accesses. There's a demo still up right now and it's. It got updated like a month ago, I believe. But man, this game is, this is the one that I cannot wait for whatever the 1.0 is going to be because whatever they have with, I don't even know what they're launching with early access. But the product as it stands right now is so damn good and satisfying to play for audio listeners. Void Breaker is a first person shooter. Roguelite. And the way it works I, I love bringing in comparisons of systems and mechanics from other games. So it's got the telekinesis of control. When you're running, you're floating. You can grab that fire barrel, turn around and throw it at an enemy in the distance or whatever. It has the destruction of the finals.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And the destruction is one of the main mechanics of the game. It's not just because it looks cool, because it does look awesome. When shit breaks, it looks very, very like, holy shit. This seems very, very high budget. But you want to play this game in the way that you are kind of, you know, when you're playing a like a Vampire Survivors type game or like a, any, any move where you have like a massive AoE attack and you're leading all these enemies to a certain, you know, like hallway and you're like, oh man, I'm going to destroy everybody with this one big ass attack. It is so damn satisfying when you are running underneath a building that's like maybe half destroyed and you see a shit ton of enemies come at you and you chunk a grenade up top and it blows up the the roof above you and it all falls down on the enemies and you hear all of the sound effects of them all becoming vulnerable because the destruction and falling all the on the enemies is what makes them vulnerable and what makes them really, really susceptible to more gunshots with whatever weapon you're using in that moment. And when you hear all like, I can't even do the sound effect for you, but it's so crunchy and good and satisfying. And when you hear it happen like seven times, you're like, oh, they're all down there, let me throw a bunch of. Let me start shooting the gunplay rocks. It has like, you know what you would want in a first person shooter movement wise with grinding on rails, double jumping, air dashing, all while you are doing telekinesis stuff and throwing. If you blow up a piece of the roof and you could pick up that big ass rocket, throw it at another enemy and then throw a grenade and break down that part of a, you know, a big pillar or a structure. It is so good. Man, this game kicks a lot of ass and I cannot wait for whenever it's actually ready for this August early access launch. This shit rocks so much. Like I cannot. More than any demo I've played recently. It's like, this is the one I want to play for a long ass time.

[Andy Cortez]

Nice.

[Tim Gettys]

Void breaker August 20th everybody. Then discounting coming to PlayStation 5, Xbox series, Switch and PC on August 21st.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Discountee.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, it's Discountee. I've heard people talk about this one.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This is cute.

[Andy Cortez]

Crinkle Cut Games Publisher pcube Manage your own discount supermarket. You already got me. You already got me. Get caught up in small town drama. Oh, you got me. More Organize and plan your shop's layout and strike lucrative trade deals as you expand your secretive aunt's business empire. Selling more frozen fries will surely heal this broken community. Right?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

For audio listeners, it's a sort of top down think like Zelda perspective, but very cute pixel art. Love the little bouncy movements of everybody. And it's just a character running around putting up stuff in her shop. And oh, I also like exploring the city too. I thought it was just all sort of in the shop. Neat.

[Andy Cortez]

But I will say I am scared of like the amount of management stuff they look like there was in the shop where like there's so many numbers and so many items where I was.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Like, it looked like it could get a little unwieldy.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, that seemed kind of unwieldy. But also that seems like it's perfect for the kind of person that loves this kind of game.

[Tim Gettys]

Next we have Inazuma 11 Victory Road. This seems to be a anime soccer game coming from developer and publisher level five.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, less give me a blue lock soccer game. I wish. Here's what I wish. I wish these games were good. That's what I wish.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Are these like. Are. Are these like games that have come out a lot before? Are these.

[Andy Cortez]

I have. I always hear about an Inazuma 11 or. Okay, there's like another one chat. Although here's the thing.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm just totally ignorant to the franchise and the ip.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm also. I'm ignorant to the video games. The more I watch the trailer, the more I'm like, this is not what I would have thought it was. There's like a lot of like it looked like there was turn based stuff going on in the actual soccer gameplay. And there's a lot of Stuff happening outside of soccer in this game.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Well, I mean that is what kind of interesting interested me at first because it reminds me of the high that I've been chasing since I was 8 years old playing Mario golf and Mario tennis on Game Boy of like running around being the new kid in the school, very anime style and oh, you must be the new student. I'm gonna take you down and you take down that person. And I was like, oh, maybe it's kind of like not just playing the game of soccer. Maybe outside of the games you are forming relationships and maybe competing against that one in class or whatever.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Chad's saying this got delayed till November, but I gotta say even just looking at it, this seems, it seems pretty different.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

A lot more heart put into it as opposed to just like hey, let's just this one out.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Gears of War reloaded coming up. PlayStation 5, Xbox Series and PC on August 26th. Like bus was saying co op's gonna be a lot of fun for this one. Exciting times.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm excited to see how it looks because I recently played through one with Rayon Stream and it was one of the Xbox enhanced games. Right. Because this, it had already been remastered but then the Xbox enhanced Xbox series X enhancement and the series S enhancement would hardware bump it up to 60 frames. But not really and not all the time. And there are plenty of moments where you would have like big ass frame drops. And it did its best to try to make an older game run and look smoother. For the most part it worked. But there were tons of moments where it's like oh God, we got to restart the lobby. Because like I'm at 20 frames per second right now. So I'm stoked to see it running fully unleashed. Like not just hey, we're trying to just out horsepower, whatever this engine can do.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Somebody in chat mentioned the other anime football game blessing might have been thinking about could be Captain Tsubasa. That is the one I was thinking about.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Never heard of it.

[Andy Cortez]

A lot of anime soccer games happening and his 11 looks way different than what I would have thought. And also Gears of War Reloaded. I can't wait.

[Tim Gettys]

Same day as Helldivers 2 coming to Xbox Series on August 26th.

[Andy Cortez]

Little trade happened in there. Yeah, little tradesies, little exchanging of the shooters.

[Tim Gettys]

Interesting. You know, I don't necessarily think the best idea to release these two specific games on the same day, but it is what it is. I think it's nice that Hell Divers is going to get some boost in the arm to Some extent of getting a new community playing the game. Great.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I hope so. I hope this. I hope this is another cool little success story because I. I'll be real with you and just shows you like, how ignorant I am to so much of this industry. I didn't expect 4 to 5 to be that massive of a success on PlayStation. I thought it would come out and like do well, but not, oh yeah, NPD style type stuff. Because I just thought my driving game, not necessarily the, like, holy, it's doing really, really well now. Now that just totally change any sort of expectation for. Whoa. Don't just discount these and expect them to do just okay and do just enough. They. They could really blow up over there.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Forza Horizon I think was one that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I know this is a reverse story, but still.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I highly. I highly expected Forza Horizon 5 to do well, but that's mainly because I think the PlayStation audience didn't really have that kind of racing game. Obviously there's Gran Turismo and shit, but Forza Horizon being like more of the arcade open world. Like there's no other racing game like Forza Horizon. Maybe like Burnout paradise or some shit, but that's all. You know what I mean?

[Tim Gettys]

So it was IGN's Game of the year.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

A couple years ago. I do think that that type of stuff kind of like sticks in your mind a little bit.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, for sure.

[Tim Gettys]

Check this out.

[Andy Cortez]

But yeah, I think. But I think to your point. Yeah, it is fascinating seeing like, I think Gears of War is going to do really well as well. I'm so interested to see where does it stack up with a Forza. And then Helldivers 2 is another one of like. All right, let's keep our eyes on how well this does on Xbox. This is one that I think we were. I remember talking. I think it was maybe me and Greg or maybe it was just everybody, right. Talking about, hey, this should be an Xbox game. Like, you should put a Helldivers to an Xbox.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's awesome that these games going everywhere will lead to no layoffs because they're making a lot of money.

[Andy Cortez]

Exactly.

[Tim Gettys]

That's how it goes, right? We can only hope. Story of Seasons Grand Bazaar coming to Switch to switch and PC on August 27th.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Barrett, real quick, can you just not. Can you look up how many Story Seasons games there are? But don't tell me.

[Andy Cortez]

Hold on, don't tell them because I'm making another game showdown question.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Well, I was just gonna guess right now because I was gonna assume that.

[Andy Cortez]

There'S I'm gonna say six. Six? I was gonna say 16.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm gonna say four. There's only four seasons, you idiots.

[Andy Cortez]

Bear.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Look it up. That's a good joke right there too. It's gonna take a bit, but he's.

[Andy Cortez]

Got to do a lot of counting.

[Tim Gettys]

Kirby in the forgotten Land. Switch to edition with the Star crossed world coming August 28th. I'm incredibly excited we're talking a little bit about this during Games Daily. But I love this game. Can't wait for it to perform a bit better, look a little bit better, but also just getting more content. Like I'm. I'm very, very excited for. For that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Super pumped. I was a bit mistaken on the OG Kirby because I thought. I thought he was gonna be a racist. No, I.

[Andy Cortez]

The.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I was a bit mistaken on it because I thought that whenever it would come to Switch two that it would be one of those Bayonetta style games that already had unlocked frame rate.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But rarely ever reached above 30 or 40 or whatever. So I thought, oh shoot, this will probably just be able to hit 60 now. I was like, oh no, it's still 30. Damn. Really gotta wait for that upgrade.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But I'm stoked to see it running super clearly and looking nice. I. I didn't. I had forgotten that Splatoon 3 had that big Switch 2 update and booting that bad boy. I was like, oh, this looks so sharp and good and it runs at 60. Like what the future is here, but.

[Tim Gettys]

Kind of, Kind of maybe a little bit.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

One step at a time. We also have Splatoon Raiders coming at some point.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, I forgot.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm excited for the single player Splatoon. All right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm excited for that.

[Tim Gettys]

Metal Gear Solid Delta Snake Eater. Also coming on August 28th to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series and PC.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What a thrill.

[Tim Gettys]

Incredibly, incredibly excited for this one. Everything I've seen for it has only gotten me more and more hyped. Really, really ready to replay this game.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I'm also ready. I haven't played. We haven't replayed MGS3. Well, I guess since we watched Barrett played on the stream during the pandemic. But even before that it's been some years and so.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I mean, I haven't played these since like the first time I played them.

[Andy Cortez]

No way.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I never went back to replay them.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, I think I played through MGS3. I think three times.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, can't wait.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Super Robot Wars. Why? Coming to PS5, Switch and PC also on August 28th.

[Andy Cortez]

Super Robot Wars Why now Barrett's messaging me.

[Greg Miller]

Well, don't. I don't think you say that out loud.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, never mind. Sorry. My bad.

[Greg Miller]

If you want to use that as a trick.

[Andy Cortez]

No, actually.

[Tim Gettys]

No.

[Andy Cortez]

I actually do want to know the answer now.

[Tim Gettys]

I don't.

[Andy Cortez]

It's fine. I won't use that as a game showdown.

[Greg Miller]

Okay, that's.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, all right.

[Greg Miller]

Well, it's a trick question because Harvest Moon is a part of the Story of Seasons franchise.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yes.

[Tim Gettys]

That seems like.

[Greg Miller]

And there are 31 games in the Story of Seasons franchise.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Remove Harvest Moon.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. What does that look like when you remove Harvest Moon?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Up the. It.

[Andy Cortez]

All the oceans. What are we looking at?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, I just see one of the robots.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Robot Wars.

[Andy Cortez]

Why?

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, is it just robots from all the different anime series?

[Greg Miller]

I guess.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Dude.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, shoot. What the.

[Andy Cortez]

Wow.

[Greg Miller]

It says gameplay trailer, but did we.

[Tim Gettys]

Actually see Colin's Nightmare?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's like. It's like Jump Force.

[Tim Gettys]

Robots. Cool. Good for them.

[Andy Cortez]

What does the gameplay look like?

[Greg Miller]

Six games that are titled stories.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You really don't want to know.

[Andy Cortez]

Wait, Andy. Nailed it.

[Greg Miller]

Six that are titled Story of Seasons.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Holy. I crushed it.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Let's go, dude. That's a critical hit right there.

[Tim Gettys]

Critical hit, everybody. Then we have lost soul aside. PS5 and PC. August 29th. Bless. What you think?

[Andy Cortez]

I got so many questions about this one. You've seen gameplay of this, right?

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

It's like a game that looks like they wanted to make Final Fantasy 13 Versus, but then also wanted to make a platinum action game, but then also didn't have, like, as much budget as the people that would make those games, but also was claimed to be developed by one person, but then PlayStation helped them. So we don't know how many people actually worked on this thing. I'm so interested, fascinated. Like, I think this could, at the very highest, maybe be this year's stellar Blade, and at the very lowest, just be very forgettable and come and go. And I don't know. I don't know which it's gonna be. I don't know where I land.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Andy, do you have any interest in this one?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Definitely. Only because anytime they show those. Those shots of the dude running through an area that kind of looks like the Astral. The Astral Realm or whatever, and seeing those crystal rocks kind of rotate around, just visually, the game is doing some really awesome stuff. I. I hope that, if anything, it. A part of me is like, all right. We do know that it was still a small team, whether it was just one person or not. Probably not like, definitely not. I would say that's where I would bet. But because it's a smallish team, hopefully it's not a long game.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You know.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

If this is like a 12 hour, just, you know, go fight in cool environments with awesome looking, you know, visuals.

[Andy Cortez]

Like, if it's more about the flare.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Than the even, like, substance of what's going on. Right. Like, hey, we're here to take you. We're trying to deliver you in Asura's wrath. Your player sewers wrath.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, no, no, I never did that.

[Andy Cortez]

Game is like 90% fucking QTE. But it looked incredible. And I fuck with the sewers wrath. Heavy. If you can give me moment to moment. Hey, get in this boss fight shit. All right. Let's take you through the coolest. A cool vista. All right. Let's get you to the next thing. Like, if it is a game that is pure aura throughout, I could fuck with that.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. I don't want to be the guinea pig on this, but I want one of you to be like, tim, this is it. You know what I mean? So, yeah. Somebody play it for me, please. Thank you.

[Andy Cortez]

I'll do it.

[Tim Gettys]

I appreciate that.

[Andy Cortez]

Bless Tim.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

How much do I have to pay on how much I have to pay on Patreon to get you to do a full Liza P. Playthrough?

[Tim Gettys]

It's just not happening. Dude.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You put on easy mode. It's Pinocchio leads into Dorothy and you love.

[Tim Gettys]

I do love Oz.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Love wizard of Oz.

[Andy Cortez]

That's true.

[Tim Gettys]

That's true. It's about me for that one.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's a cool Pinocchio story is what I'm saying.

[Tim Gettys]

You know what you will get me for what? Shinobi. Art of vengeance.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, man.

[Tim Gettys]

August 29th. P.S. it's coming everywhere, everybody.

[Andy Cortez]

Strong end to the month.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Y' all play this demo.

[Tim Gettys]

Incredibly strong end to this month, man. Like, you know, I. I'm fucked. Kirby, Metal Gear and Shinobi all within two days of each other. I did play the demo, and everybody could play the demo. It's out now on I'm pretty sure every single console. I was playing it on a Steam deck and it ran like absolute shit until I went in and turned it to Proton Experimental and then it ran great.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, nice.

[Tim Gettys]

Thank God. But man, this game rocks. It is so cool. I love that Ninja Gaiden and Shinobi are both back. Shinobi's back. Remember those PS2 commercials? I do.

[Andy Cortez]

I don't know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I just love that his name is Joe I didn't realize his name was Joe Nobi.

[Tim Gettys]

Joe, you know?

[Andy Cortez]

No.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Joe Muramasa or something. I forget his actual. I don't remember his last name. Actually. Muramasa is the guy from Ninja Gun Ragebound. I forgot what this dude's name is.

[Tim Gettys]

Andy, you actually went down and did a folder preview of this. You've talked a bit about it, but how hyped should people be?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think if you are into Side Scroller Metroidvanias, I think you should be very, very hyped. And I am much more looking forward to this than I was like after I played this. I was less stoked for Ninja Gaiden Ragebound. And I'm happy that Ninja Gun Ragebound resonated with so much people. Mainly for my fantasy critic. But I wasn't like in love with Ninja Gun Raybound. Ninja Gun Ragebound. I think that they set out to do exactly what they achieved and it just isn't exactly what I wanted. This is a. A lot more experimental with the combat where I feel like Ninja Gaiden, this makes no sense. But it feels like it's more one to one. You see the red thing, you do the red thing. You see the blue thing, you hit him with the blue thing. Then there's like not a whole lot of space for expression. Free flowing. Yeah. And with this game, the way that Shinobi allows you to level up skills and purchase skills that then continue combos, it reminded me a lot more. A lot more of my experience with Ninja or the Prince of Persia Lost Crown. And that game is phenomenal. The combat's great. It's so crunchy. It sounds awesome. The. The movement of it all is awesome. It just looks damn good and it feels great to play.

[Greg Miller]

Just something about the visual design in. In terms of the world and then like the way the map slowly unlocks, it's like it's bringing me back to.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, what was that game last year, Andy? Nine Souls.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. It just kind of hit me.

[Greg Miller]

I'm like, oh, yeah, I'm in the mood for this right now, dude.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

100. I like the lighting.

[Tim Gettys]

It really beautiful, man.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It really is the way that the. For me, it really is the upgrade system that sets it apart from my time with Ninja Gun Ragebound. Because I think Tim had the exact same thoughts that I did about Ninja Gaiden Rage Bound. Where you go, oh man, I wish I could use. I wish I could equip more abilities. And you know, this game kind of gives you the. If you hold L1, you have all the face buttons that all have different moves and they all do different things. But there's also not just four that you're unlocking, you can unlock a ton in addition to unlock this move. And now when you hit X after you roll, you knee a character, you knee an enemy in the face and that kind of like stuns them and it does stun damage to shields or whatever. Like there's so much more depth to this video game combat wise than I think we're giving it credit for. And I'm. It feels awesome and it looks great.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. My only hesitation. I can't wait. I loved the demo, but having just beat and really, really loving, it's not perfect, but really loving. Ninja Gaiden Rage Bound. I feel like this is way closer to Prince of Persia Lost Crown in terms of traversal and combat. And I think because it's closer, it's easier to one to one compare. And I don't think it compares. So like that, that is kind of my one thing where it's like, I feel like I can't wait for this. I think it's going to be freaking awesome. But they are very similar looking games. But they are different games. Like the intent of them is entirely different. And I, I think that Ninja Gaiden is a very kind of welcome different type of platform action game. Whereas this I do feel is a bit more in line with what we've been getting the last couple years. Having said that, none look quite this good. Like there's a lot going on here, how fluid it is 1000%. But I think this game's not that pretty in stills, but in motion, it's like unrivaled.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, it's all, all the hand animated stuff looks fantastic. But the. You talking about Prince of Persia, such a great thing to bring up. Again, I, I think because the level of depth isn't quite there, but it's still, you know, if you're talking a diet version of one of the best side scroller Metroidvanias ever, it's still a really, really awesome experience.

[Tim Gettys]

And I'm hopeful that, you know, past the demo, I'm totally wrong. And this does end up living up to not just being a diet version, but actually being like a worthy kind of, you know, you know, more than one.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The, the moments in Ninja Garden Ragebound, whenever you summon Homegirl to do her little challenge stuff. And I mentioned in that review that whenever you experience those moments, I was like, oh, we're gonna get some traversal puzzles and some really kind of Rage moments where you are zip in and try not to get hit by that the spiky roof or whatever. And then it never fully kind of lived up to that. This game, this demo that's out available now has moments like that. If you are familiar with the hollow knight path of pain or any of those pain in the ass sort of traversal stuff, I I love that shit. And this game in the demo already has several sections like that.

[Tim Gettys]

Yep, I love those.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I can't wait to see what they deliver for the rest of the game.

[Tim Gettys]

We got some super chats I want to get to to close out the show here. Dave bro says sweet tea lemonade. Hell yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Andy yeah Ghost Energy. It's iced tea lemonade.

[Andy Cortez]

I love sweet tea lemonade.

[Tim Gettys]

Samson L says I will not stand for Kingdom Rush slander. Yeah, I'm surprised you all don't know about that. Kingdom Rush. I love Kingdom Rush. Living Legend said Shinobi is my most anticipated 2025 game. As a Sega kid growing up in the 90s, Shinobi 3 was my jam. Hell yeah. The cinematic hoverboard horseback gameplay was so ahead of their time for 16 bit games of that era. Totally agree. Shinobi freaking rocks. Should only be on PS2. Underrated. It's a swimming in Sevens type game. But like people don't talk about enough for how cool it was his character design. He has like a sick ass long red scarf and it just like gave such a nice visual distinction to games of that time. Like dope stuff.

[Andy Cortez]

Is that 2D or 3D?

[Tim Gettys]

It was 3D. Jackson says Gears of War co ops a blast. Do it bro. Killian says, I kind of wish they were doing more different with Delta. Visually it gives off massive quote Nintendo hire this man energy just feels soulless.

[Andy Cortez]

Like the Unreal demo for like or Unreal remakes people will make of like Zelda and Ocarina I think is the kind of idea they're they're saying there's.

[Tim Gettys]

Nintendo hire this man energy.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

They'll post that video of like those games being an Unreal and then people will like post it on Social be like hire this man because they made the game look better.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They put it in Unreal 5.

[Tim Gettys]

But soulless, yeah, I don't agree but that's cool if you feel that way. Kebab says there's a Wikipedia page for the 21 Pokemon jets. 21 sounds like a fleet to me.

[Andy Cortez]

I mean 21 is a fleet.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's unequivocally a fleet. At what point is it Not. Is it four?

[Tim Gettys]

I. I think it's any more than two. No way. Planes to. It's a fleet. You got.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Depends on how you're more.

[Tim Gettys]

Three planes fleet.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So not two.

[Andy Cortez]

I need four. I need at least four.

[Tim Gettys]

I meant to say more than two.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, okay.

[Tim Gettys]

Did I say two or more? I meant to say more than two.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

Because two is a couple.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, two is a couple. There's a couple planes up there.

[Andy Cortez]

Like you need to. I feel like you have to have enough planes to be in a formation.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

To do a flyover at a Super Bowl.

[Andy Cortez]

That's three.

[Tim Gettys]

That's three.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. I guess three could do a formation.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, because that's flying.

[Andy Cortez]

I guess it's a fleet. This is like a. This is like a. It's a whack fleet. You know, you should usually your three. Okay, but think about, like, what if one of the planes is like, really, really big?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Like what?

[Greg Miller]

Mander planes?

[Tim Gettys]

Charmander, One squirtle and one is Cyndaquil because no one gives a about bulls.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, wow.

[Andy Cortez]

Get the out of here.

[Tim Gettys]

That was for you, Andy. Nightlife says space pirates. No, space mafia. They're called gangs. You ever think about that? Bless. Did you think about that with that context?

[Andy Cortez]

I think, you know, I think the core of it is that I just. I with gangs more than pirates. And pirates are kind of just gangs, aren't they?

[Tim Gettys]

I also want to. They're all gangs. I'm not saying one way or another. My thoughts on pirates. I'm not saying pirates are better than the mafia. I'm saying I don't fuck with the mafia. You have to wait to get my real thoughts on pirates. I'm not giving that out for free.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

When will you. When can we look forward to those stuff?

[Tim Gettys]

I'm not sure yet.

[Andy Cortez]

Pirates of the Caribbean in review, probably in 2025. I'm more scared of the mafia than I am of pirates.

[Tim Gettys]

That seems crazy.

[Andy Cortez]

I mean.

[Greg Miller]

No, I get that.

[Tim Gettys]

What do you not know about you.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Avoid the open season.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, that's my thing. It's like, cool, I'm on land. What are you gonna do as a pirate? Show up to my door with a sword? I'll kick you in your chest.

[Tim Gettys]

Allegedly out of here.

[Andy Cortez]

If you're a mafia and you show up to my door, I'm like, do whatever. I don't care. Like, take whatever blunderbusters.

[Tim Gettys]

Says. Off topic, but I'd love to see an 80s 90s and early 2000s B movie and review series. Just let Nick go all out. Face Off. Dem man, the Fugitive. I feel like we should just let Nick do things alone.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We need to give him something to do.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Hang out with him.

[Tim Gettys]

No, you won't.

[Andy Cortez]

The B. B movies with blessing Nick. Yeah, but the B stands for bless movies. That's not good.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Lost me on that one.

[Tim Gettys]

CJ splits on says Tim. Is. Is Gia still playing Animal Crossing? She is. She's very, very into Animal Crossing. It's been fun to see play. She's been playing a lot of little games. Diving in, getting her little toes wet. I like really small toes. Because she's small.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You know what?

[Andy Cortez]

That makes sense.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Sean McAlpine says Wildwood down, August 7th. It's a very small, very small PNC game.

[Andy Cortez]

Do they mean PC PNC or do they mean PNC Bank?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Wild and Woods.

[Tim Gettys]

Wildwood, oh, Wildwood Now Wildwood down.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, Wildwood down is a charming adventure about a chummy high school senior with down syndrome who gets thrown head first into a murder mystery along the boardwalk of Wildwood, New Jersey. Hold on, I need to look more into this.

[Tim Gettys]

Ty Wilkins says, I remember when the first trailer for Lost Soul Aside came out a couple years ago into my time at college. Yeah, I remember when that trailer first dropped. Like we talked about that on gamescast years ago. And it was one of those, there's.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No way this shit's real.

[Tim Gettys]

And I still kind of feel it. We're a month from release. We'll see. Andy's hesitation gives me pause.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Less than a month, man. Yeah, like it's. It's about to be here.

[Tim Gettys]

Let us know in the comments below. Do you think Lost Soul Aside actually comes out? Is it good? Please tell me. Also tell me what August game you are most.

[Andy Cortez]

Hold on. This Hollywood down game is looks incredible.

[Tim Gettys]

It has a lot of big awards.

[Andy Cortez]

It's inspired. It's inspired by and voice acted by Daniel himself.

[Tim Gettys]

I don't know who that is.

[Andy Cortez]

It's the kid that's like that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The story is based on the guy with down syndrome.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What are the awards?

[Andy Cortez]

Day of the devs. Official selection. Big impact. Diversity winner. Adventure X. The narrative Games Convention 2024.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

All right. Bless. You cannot pick this on your fantasy. Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

Why not?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Is it out yet?

[Andy Cortez]

No, it's out August 7th. I guess by the time the thing would go through, it'd be out. So. Yeah, you're right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. You literally.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I wouldn't be able to.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Well, you also. Your team is full.

[Andy Cortez]

My team is also full and I don't think I have any drops.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, we gotta Talk about. Well, I guess we'll talk about it tomorrow. But some stuff happened off Mainstream Critic.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

You see this over the weekend. Roger's wilding is what happened. Roger's doing it seems like self sabotage is the thing. He dropped Ninja Gun 4 for Final Fantasy Tactics. The Remaster remake. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Boils my blood.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

God.

[Greg Miller]

We gotta have a conversation about remasters and shit.

[Tim Gettys]

God. What do.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Let's just say that maybe there were some conversations happening between Mike and Roger in the official Fantasy Critic Discord.

[Andy Cortez]

What were they trying to do? I still don't understand because like was there and was this end goal to get Final Fantasy Tactics because that's a bad angle.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

He's the king of the remaster.

[Andy Cortez]

Also, Nobody picked up Battlefield 6.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, we don't know.

[Tim Gettys]

Mickey Wall. Final Super Chat says Tim, I bought the Retroid Pocket 5 with the grip after watching the handheld episode. I cannot put the thing down. GeForce now is magic on this. It feels like it's native. Thanks again for this backlog, Destroyer. Oh, dude, you got the winning combo right there. GeForce now on the retro Pocket 5. You just playing state of the art PC games on a Vita, dude, Come on.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Booting up the official GeForce now app the other night on my Steam deck and starting up Final Fantasy 16 and just going, man, this game is just the shit. Like, God, I just love Ralph Innocent and Ben Star talking to each other. Just such great writing.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, dude.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But it's like, dude, this game looks so good and it runs like a dream on this thing and I just don't feel like it's a cloud game. It's amazing.

[Tim Gettys]

It's amazing, everybody. GeForce Now. Anyways, we're about to do the stream. What's up, Barrett?

[Greg Miller]

I just. I'm still trying to figure out what Roger and Mike are up to and I still don't. That's why I blocked it. I didn't like this, you know, them. Them trying to.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think you just got to approve and stop being a hater.

[Greg Miller]

Well, it seems like it's too late because it seems like Roger's already doing.

[Tim Gettys]

So if he did because he had.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

To, you know, let the. Let the world go.

[Tim Gettys]

Barrett spoke.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Final Fantasy Tactics.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Do we think that's going to review?

[Tim Gettys]

Well, yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

I don't know, man.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Even though it looks like booty, I.

[Tim Gettys]

Mean, it's still one of the best tactics games of all time. And that's fair. Now it's voice acted with a great voice cast.

[Andy Cortez]

You know what my hot take prediction. I think they scored the same on Metacritic. I think Ninja Gaiden 4 and Final Fantasy Tactics Remake end up both. Yeah. Having like 85s or some.

[Greg Miller]

Also, we need to have a conversation.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Of what we would rather Mike pick.

[Greg Miller]

Up Battlefield 6 or Ninja Gaiden because he has a free spot.

[Andy Cortez]

So it seems like they just did.

[Greg Miller]

Kind of did this trade without actually actually doing the trade.

[Tim Gettys]

Wow.

[Greg Miller]

But now Roger has Final Fantasy for some reason and Mike still has Crimson.

[Tim Gettys]

Desert, who has Crimson Dawn. Let us know in the comments below if you are interested in Crimson Dawn.

[Andy Cortez]

Very good question.

[Tim Gettys]

The boy's about to stream some stuff. I'm gonna make some phone calls. Until next time. I love you all. Goodbye.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Goodbye.