We Played Marvel Cosmic Invasion, Beat Elden Ring Nightreign - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Summary

Kinda Funny Gamescast: Episode Summary

Title: We Played Marvel Cosmic Invasion, Beat Elden Ring Nightreign
Release Date: June 24, 2025
Hosts: Tim Gettys, Greg “GameOverGreggy” Miller, Blessing Adeoye, and Andy Cortez

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1. Introduction and Event Announcement

The episode kicks off with the usual camaraderie among the hosts. Tim Gettys welcomes listeners and introduces Snowbike Mike and Greg Miller, who humorously mention their old-school approaches to streaming without internet connectivity [00:07-00:24]. The conversation quickly shifts to announcing an upcoming Championship Parade scheduled for Saturday, June 28th at 10:00 AM Pacific Time, taking place outside the Ferry Building on the Embarcadero. This event coincides with Pokémon Go Day, where fans will celebrate team achievements and enjoy refreshments at Square Pie [07:00-08:08].

Notable Quote:

Andy Cortez at [07:29]: “We’ll be celebrating. Me and me doing the impossible. Andy leading team Blue to their third championship in a row.”

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2. Marvel Cosmic Invasion Review

The primary focus of the episode is a detailed review of Marvel Cosmic Invasion, a side-scrolling beat 'em up game featuring 15 Marvel heroes. Tim Gettys expresses his excitement, highlighting the game’s animation and gameplay reminiscent of classic titles like TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge [10:35-16:47]. Andy Cortez shares his transition from a beat 'em up skeptic to a fan after experiencing the game’s flawless mechanics and nostalgic elements.

The discussion delves into character selection mechanics, where players can swap between heroes like Captain America, Storm, and Venom on the fly [14:36-16:04]. The hosts praise the game’s pixel art style, smooth animations, and the depth added by unique move sets for each character. Tim emphasizes the game’s ability to infuse modern elements while paying homage to 90s beat 'em ups.

Notable Quotes:

Tim Gettys at [16:04]: “They are nailing this. I think it’s exactly what you’d want out of it.”

Andy Cortez at [15:15]: “Storm felt good too. You know, they talked about her being lighter, more elegant.”

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3. Elden Ring Nightreign Experience

Switching gears, Greg Miller and Andy Cortez discuss their experiences with Elden Ring Nightreign, a multiplayer-focused iteration of the famed Elden Ring. Initially plagued by matchmaking issues and negative reviews, the game saw improvements over time, enhancing solo and cooperative play [24:17-35:14]. Greg praises the game’s fast-paced action, varied boss battles, and dynamic map exploration, ultimately rating it 8.5 out of 10 on the Kinda Funny scale [29:36-35:14].

Notable Quote:

Greg Miller at [25:09]: “This blend of high paced action, extreme difficulty with From Software game design...”

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4. Death Stranding 2 Review

Andy Cortez shares his final thoughts on Death Stranding 2, awarding it an 8.5 out of 10. He commends the game’s storytelling, expansive environments, and emotional depth but critiques the boss fights for lacking the complexity of previous titles [38:16-44:55]. Tim Gettys echoes similar sentiments, appreciating the narrative and artistic elements while pointing out areas for improvement in gameplay mechanics [40:13-44:55].

Notable Quote:

Andy Cortez at [40:13]: “...the gameplay of making deliveries. I don’t enjoy fighting the BTs. I think the AI could be smarter...”

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5. Tech Review: TechFolio Tank Backpack

A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to reviewing the TechFolio Tank Backpack from sfbags.com, promoted by Andy Cortez [57:35-66:12]. Andy extols the backpack’s versatility, spacious compartments, and durability, making it ideal for gamers on the go. He highlights features such as dedicated slots for gaming consoles like the Xbox Series S, Switch, and Steam Deck, alongside compartments for accessories and personal items.

Notable Quotes:

Andy Cortez at [58:16]: “Nothing drives me more crazy than having a backpack that looks like garbage or a backpack that doesn’t store all the stupid shit I need when I’m off on the road.”

Greg Miller at [62:09]: “So you open it. You can like have open heart surgery on and get in there and stuff.”

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6. Super Chats Highlights

The episode concludes with a segment dedicated to Super Chats, where listeners submit questions and comments. Highlights include:

• Gondor’s Condor praising the Lies of P DLC, calling it "phenomenal" and comparable to standout titles like Shadow of the Erdtree [65:36-66:40].
• Queries about achieving trophies in Elden Ring Nightreign and the feasibility of solo play, with hosts providing candid responses [66:04-66:50].
• Encouragement for listeners to check out upcoming reviews and participate in future events [67:10-68:51].

Notable Quote:

Andy Cortez at [66:04]: “This game is great. Go play with your friends. It’s a ton of fun.”

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Conclusion

This episode of Kinda Funny Gamescast offers an engaging blend of game reviews, personal anecdotes, and community interaction. From the nostalgic beats of Marvel Cosmic Invasion to the intricate dynamics of Elden Ring Nightreign and the artistic journey of Death Stranding 2, the hosts provide insightful and entertaining commentary. Additionally, the in-depth review of the TechFolio Tank Backpack caters to the gaming community’s practical needs, rounding out a comprehensive episode that both enthusiasts and casual listeners will find valuable.

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Note: Timestamps are approximate and correspond to the segments within the provided transcript.

Transcript

[Snowbike Mike]

Foreign.

[Tim Gettys]

What'S up? And welcome to the Kind of Funny Games cast for Tuesday, June 24, 2025. Of course. I'm your host, Tim Yetis. I'm joined today by the master of hype, Snowbike Mike.

[Greg Miller]

Hello, Tim Gettys. It's nice to see you. I did not bring a computer out. We didn't have Internet.

[Tim Gettys]

Different vibes.

[Greg Miller]

And so, yeah, I just brought a notepad.

[Tim Gettys]

Old school.

[Greg Miller]

I had a lot of games. Yeah, you know, I just started right now. I got a lot of games. Yeah, I was playing video game charades with the chat earlier.

[Tim Gettys]

Fun.

[Greg Miller]

You missed on that one. They did a good job. Good job to everybody watching out there.

[Tim Gettys]

Good job to everybody watching. We also have the big daddy himself, Greg Miller.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm so sick of Instagram's let me post a story from the web browser. So I have to go in here and copy and paste. But then this didn't copyright, so now I got to do this. I just want people to know we're talking about video games.

[Tim Gettys]

Something I learned about Instagram recently that upset me is like, you know, on your Instagram page, there's the, like the archive thing you can have, so you can have like, set little circles. That's very nice. I'm like, I like that as like, hey, cool, here's some collections for us to be able to go. That can only be stories.

[Andy Cortez]

What the fuck are we doing here in a post?

[Tim Gettys]

Let me make a collect in a post. We're gonna have to talk later. I don't understand.

[Andy Cortez]

I have all these ones pinned at the top like, that are just there, so.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, yeah. No, but I like that. I like the little. I want collections of stuff. I want it to just be like how stories look. But like, not limited to 60 seconds. Just let me have a bunch of my longer videos together, like game reviews. That'd be nice. You know what I mean?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, that'd be great. Really cool. You know what I discovered yesterday? I was doing something. I forget what, but it was that thing where I did something Instagram, and I went on one of my pin posts of the photo of Ben's birth or whatever, and I discovered that when I did the, you know, fuck Elon and fuck Trump thing at DICE Awards right now, all these kids, all these people got really, really mad, right? They had come to my pin posts and were really negative there. And it was so funny to go through and delete all these comments like, oh, you thought you were really doing something. I didn't notice. That was in February. I Didn't notice till June. This didn't affect my life whatsoever.

[Tim Gettys]

And rounded out the group today we have the nitro retro rifle. Andy Cortez.

[Snowbike Mike]

I have a problem with this company.

[Tim Gettys]

This company kind of funny.

[Snowbike Mike]

This or Instagram. This company funny. I don't think we're. First of all, I don't think we're doing enough fair to. To make fun of the fact that Barrett's missed the last two days because he got sunburned. Like, what do we. Come on. If it were anybody else, I mean.

[Greg Miller]

If it was snow.

[Andy Cortez]

Mike.

[Greg Miller]

Mike. We'd just tear him.

[Andy Cortez]

Dude. When the. When the slack went out on Monday, that was one of. I'm too stunned to speak. I was like, cuz you. Of course you want to dunk on him for it or whatever. But then it was just like, man, that is just not an excuse I've heard for missing work. I got too sunburned over the weekend.

[Tim Gettys]

Here's the thing.

[Andy Cortez]

But I've been there.

[Tim Gettys]

I have been there multiple times.

[Andy Cortez]

I was a child.

[Tim Gettys]

I was an adult. Things happened. I will say, like, you're right, Andy.

[Snowbike Mike]

We're not doing enough.

[Tim Gettys]

Like, you're so.

[Andy Cortez]

I honestly feel like it's. It's one of those. When you're friends fall down, you're like, are you hurt? And if they say no, you immediately start making a fun of them. And if they are hurt, let's convalesce. Let's get you. Let's get you back in the office at least. So then be like, you fucking idiot.

[Tim Gettys]

Because I'm with you, Andy. We're definitely not doing enough. Having said that, the bravery and courage that this man, Barrett Courtney had to say this publicly to us. I think we have to give him the pass.

[Andy Cortez]

I mean, it's all. It's one of those things. Like, we all give each other a lot of shit here, and we have safe words to stop, which we don't use all that often. But you want to see an example of how much I think we all truly love each other? It is the fact that Barrett's like, I'm too sunburned to come. We're like, it's okay. Feel better. Like, it's not a memo.

[Tim Gettys]

Like, I do. I do get it.

[Andy Cortez]

Imagine you working at the Best Buy. You called in, got sunburn. I can't come more.

[Tim Gettys]

2B back to back. God, I freaking love it.

[Snowbike Mike]

Part of it is also probably like, have you seen.

[Greg Miller]

I wouldn't.

[Snowbike Mike]

I. I saw him the day of. And I didn't notice when he Walked by me. But then he, you know, he was like, what'd you get into today? I was like, what'd you get into? He's like, I went to the beach and then. And he was like. And I got hella summer. And I kind of looked at him, was like, oh, shit. Yeah, you did get hella sunburned. And it's probably just much worse now.

[Andy Cortez]

I was gonna say. Is he blistering? Do we know?

[Snowbike Mike]

I have.

[Andy Cortez]

I.

[Snowbike Mike]

The past two days, I've just been hearing him like, wheel out. No, I've been hearing him like, scurrying about here.

[Andy Cortez]

Alyssa changing the iron lung.

[Snowbike Mike]

I've been hearing, like, really slow footsteps. The move. Dude got to be tough sunburn.

[Andy Cortez]

So, like, I had a blistery one when I was a kid. Horrible.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, dude, you burn like nobody's business.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, I fucking. I hate it.

[Andy Cortez]

Back when we thought Mike had his life together, Mike taught him son.

[Snowbike Mike]

Safety.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, exactly.

[Greg Miller]

Safety. Are you ready to practice proper sun? Safety. This Saturday, we're going outside Big Dog for the number one, right?

[Andy Cortez]

That's right.

[Tim Gettys]

There's. I don't want it. Hold on. I want to get there in just a second. I do love the segue. That was good. But I don't want to leave Barrett yet because I do want to say, I know we've been hyping up his Naughty Dog video for the last week. It's finally out on Friday. I watched it over the weekend and I legitimately am so impressed by this video. Like, I. I'm a fan of Barrett, period. I'm a fan of video essays, period. He's done so many that I've been a big fan of. Like, specifically his God of War and the Jedi Fallen Order ones. Like, really, really looked at those games from a perspective I simply wasn't. So I. I've always been very impressed with that, but I think this is definitively another level for him. Like, this was a very, very, very good piece of content. He should be very proud of himself. Like, I don't agree. Take he has. But that's part of the fun. Like, it's really. I think that he stands by a perspective throughout the entire thing and, like, found the point of the video in such a beautiful way. I highly recommend everyone watch it because I. I told Bear this, but I expected that it was going to be good. This is way above my expectations. This is very, very good. Definitely check it out.

[Andy Cortez]

Wherever he may be, he may be.

[Tim Gettys]

A little housekeeping for you. We're an 11 person business all about Live talk shows, games daily. We talked about Xbox's upcoming layoffs after this. The Jabroni boys are streaming Dune Awakening with less.

[Greg Miller]

We have a. We have a new Jabroni boy entering the desert with us. And we're going to just let him live up in the space?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, yeah, he's hyped.

[Andy Cortez]

He talks some shit on games daily. Nick came in, pulled the cards to get in there. You're going to. You're going to.

[Snowbike Mike]

So exciting.

[Andy Cortez]

Not verdance. Whatever. The welcome is.

[Snowbike Mike]

Iraq.

[Tim Gettys]

Iraqis.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, we're very excited.

[Andy Cortez]

Hey man, I watched the movies. I just don't remember an alternate universe.

[Snowbike Mike]

Jessica never had Politrate.

[Tim Gettys]

You watch Dune?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Jen's big into it, so I had to watch them both on first nights. But like what?

[Greg Miller]

What did you think? Dude, how did I not know?

[Andy Cortez]

I'll tell you what I think. I'll tell you what. Wait on me. Come on, Batista. I walk alone. That guy rocks.

[Greg Miller]

That guy rocks.

[Andy Cortez]

Fucking Batista. He's back, baby.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh my God. If you're a kind of funny member, today's Greg Way is all about death. Stranded. Two commenters and how they actually got under Greg's skin yesterday.

[Snowbike Mike]

Oh, I didn't expect to see the move.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm ready.

[Snowbike Mike]

That was spit taped, man. Holy.

[Tim Gettys]

Thank you to our Patreon producers, Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Delaney Twining. Before we get into all that stuff, I want to go back to what you. You were talking about, Mike. Which is the Greg Miller kind of funny game Showdown. Championship parade Saturday is going down Saturday, June 28th at 10:00am Pacific.

[Andy Cortez]

That's right.

[Tim Gettys]

Correct.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. We live in. We live in the Pacific.

[Tim Gettys]

Yes. Just making sure. We will be meeting at.

[Andy Cortez]

We will be outside the Ferry Building on the Embarcadero. 10am we will all congregate. I urge you to bring your own signs.

[Greg Miller]

I'll bring a sign.

[Andy Cortez]

I'll bring extras. Wear your shirt. Of course. Confluently.com store probably couldn't get to you in time if you haven't already ordered it. But try and then, yeah, we will walk the Embarcadero during Pokemon Go day. Apparently with him they're trying to get his Pikachu or whatever. And we'll be celebrating. Me and me doing the impossible. Andy leading team Blue to their third championship in a row.

[Tim Gettys]

Three.

[Greg Miller]

People say it couldn't be done.

[Andy Cortez]

We'll end up at Square Pie, guys. We'll have some pizzas, we'll have some beers. We'll hang out till about noon. Chill out. I'm Calling it a walking meet and greet.

[Tim Gettys]

I love it. Yeah. And more information on this, right? It is Pokemon Day 1 of Pokemon Go Fest. All right. Annual event, Andy. Very, very, very.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, it's annual. So it's like, doesn't happen all that often.

[Snowbike Mike]

Weird time.

[Tim Gettys]

This is a big deal. Not only is this a big deal, because it's about Go Fest, I'm going to be very, very intently playing this game. So I'm going to be walking with y' all.

[Andy Cortez]

Everybody talk.

[Tim Gettys]

First and foremost, I'm playing this goddamn game. Okay? But second of all, I can now say definitively that it will be that day that I hit level that you 50. I will be bringing my jacket, and I will not be allowed to wear the jacket until I hit 50. But I have to get 999 excellent throws, which is not easy. Not the most challenging, but it's not that easy. And I have about 150 left. I'll definitely edify that.

[Snowbike Mike]

When do you hit level 49?

[Tim Gettys]

I hit level 49 over a year ago.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, it feels that way.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. This, the last level has been a grind and a half, so, yeah, I don't love that. The day that I've been working for very hard, spending a lot of money, spending a lot of time walking miles and miles and miles.

[Snowbike Mike]

Should have said Assassin's Creed, you know.

[Andy Cortez]

Got a climbing game. Who would have known?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, I know.

[Andy Cortez]

What's the deal? You retiring or not?

[Tim Gettys]

Thank you to our Patreon producers, Kyle Jacobs, Omega Buster, and Delaney Twining. Today we're brought to you by Cash App and Mood, but we'll tell you all about that later. Let's start with the topic of the show. We played a whole bunch of video games, y' all, and we're gonna talk about them. We played Marvel Cosmic Invasion. Somebody here, Mike has beat Elden. Ring Night Rain. We're going to talk about all that and more. But I want to start with Marvel Cosmic Invasion, because I'm personally very excited about this. Greg, you played it at Summer Game Fest. The embargo is finally up, so you can actually talk about it. It's a cosmic battle awaiting. Choose between 15 Marvel heroes in this frenetic action. Beat him up. To fight against the deadly annihilation wave threatening the galaxy from New York to the depths of the Negative Zone. The future of the Marvel Universe will be fought for across the stars. This is from the team that made tmnt, Shredder's Revenge. Obviously, the moment they showed this, both the animation and gameplay, many of us Here are kind of funny. We're popping off. I am a huge fan of Marvel, of side scrolling beat em ups and specifically of 90s Marvel video games. And this seems to be taking all of that just being like, here you go, Tim. Does it live up to all my dreams, Greg?

[Andy Cortez]

Yes, and more so I think.

[Tim Gettys]

Let's go.

[Andy Cortez]

You know, I have an interesting take on all of this. Where this debuted of course, at a Nintendo direct. It was an early morning one, I do believe, where I think I was at home doing dishes, or maybe I was at home doing dishes because Ben was sick. But at some point I was at the sink and I got a text from one of my Mr. Nintendo's who was like, I think you're gonna love this next thing. It's been hard to keep it from you. And I went, holy fucking shit. And I opened it up and I think it was the next thing actually was Pat upon if that. If I'm getting these right. And I was like, oh my fucking God, Pat. Or it wasn't. No, I was here for Pat. It was something that's a great game that made a debut there, Freedom Wars, I don't know. And he was like, what? No, I mean that's cool, but not that. And then it happened and the trailer was going as it did and I was like, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God. And then it got to being a beat em up and I went, oh. And my history of beat em ups is I am a child of the 80s into the 90s, right? So I played a lot of them and I always found myself frustrated with them not feeling good, them not feeling right. I'm Superman and the Death and Return of Superman, right? And I'm trying to punch to the right, but I'm off by a few pixels. So I'm punching at somebody's calf and doing no damage. I'm like, I was fucking as annoying as shit. And there was that deal where even Scott Pilgrim, when that one dropped and I was at IGN and everyone was all about that on the first, first release I played enough of it, but I wasn't a Scott Pilgrim fan. And then I had this aversion, I would say, for Beat Em Ups. After playing so many of them and not having the experience I wanted, that I really stayed the fuck away from them. This demo was so good that at the end, in the tribute games was there doing it with me at the end they're like, so what did you think? And I said, I literally was like, this is going to sound offensive. I'm sorry, is this what tmnt, Shredder's Revenge was like? And like, what do you mean? I'm like, I never played Shredder. Like, what the fuck you never. And I'm like, why? And I gave a recap version of that. Like, yeah, this is what. And I immediately went home and started playing Shredder's Revenge because I've been chasing the high of Marvel Cosmic Invasion since I played this in. Shredder's Revenge is a fantastic game, and I know this is what you've been playing. Me and Ben love it. Ben loves it. Can we play Ninja Turtles?

[Snowbike Mike]

Favorite turtle.

[Andy Cortez]

You know, he gets around, but he usually comes back to Leo. Okay, he's usually coming back to Leo. You know what I mean? But then it's the classic that I do it, and then I pick some alternate skin for Rapha, for Michelangelo, and he's go, dad, give me your controller. So I have to pass it back. And then I'm. You know what I mean? It's all anyways, though. Cosmic evasion. Yes. For somebody who slept on tmnt, who loves the property of tmnt. But, like, you know, I didn't want to go to this. You are. It's a side scroll and beat him up, just like you would expect. Just like the thing said there. It plays a lot like tmnt, as you would expect, right? You have the light attack, you have a power attack. You have a special meter that builds up and goes. The change here would be, as we watch the she Hulk, Rocket Raccoon debut trailer, right? Is the idea that you are picking two characters that you can then swap on the fly with just a button and press. You could also play all the way through with one, and then if you know you got KO'd, your second character would step in or whatever. This comes down to the fact that something they talked about in the demo that I didn't know at the time, but now, you know, Future Greg would have understood it better of, like, in tmnt, right? They're all fucking turtles. Like, you know, yeah, you got Splinter and you got April, and there was DLC characters, but, like, the core characters all felt pretty much the same. Turtle, like here with Cosmic Invasion. The first thing they did when we went to the character select screen because we didn't have everyone to play with, sadly, all 15 weren't there. We had Captain America, Nova, Storm, Venom, Wolverine, Phyla. Vel. Yeah, Okay. I don't know.

[Tim Gettys]

Not familiar from X Men. Dark Phoenix.

[Andy Cortez]

Right.

[Tim Gettys]

Of course.

[Andy Cortez]

How could I forget. And Spider Man. But when we sat down and we're at the character select screen, tribute was like, hey, we recommend pick a flyer and then pick a ground person. Right? Because obviously we're dealing with superpowers here. Rocket is going to feel different than she Hulk, even though I'm just watching them and saying that, right? But Cat feels different than Storm, right? And that's who I picked. I went with Cap, of course, because Avengers. Come on now.

[Snowbike Mike]

Come on.

[Andy Cortez]

Marvel's Avengers. Crystal dynamics. Never forget. You were too harsh on it. You also that Black Panther footage. You try to change your tune. Too late, too late. And then I just went with Storm because I wanted to see a flying character, right? And it was that idea of, you know, something I have right now in TMNT to a degree, right, of like flying characters come in and it is okay, I gotta jump at the right time and hit you the right way. Whereas when more people are flying inside of this game, I would switch over to Storm, go up there and beat the shit out of them. And then when that was done, go back to Cap, because Cap's fucking awesome. Throwing the shield, catching the shield, bouncing.

[Snowbike Mike]

Off a bunch of people.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, it's bouncing off people. It's feeling real good out there. Real good. And Storm felt good too. You know, they talked about her being lighter, more elegant. Right. I jotted it down, Right. I think it's final.

[Tim Gettys]

Was in guardians three. That comes from jumps 004. I think it was the little girl.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, okay.

[Snowbike Mike]

Storm, the Captain. Captain Capitol. That's all I was thinking of. I was just trying to find a storm. The Capitol, you know.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, oh, Keep working on that. You're almost there. You know, Storm, like, she has like the dodge attack, that cross screen that comes back and then attacks the other way. But then you see her calling down lightning there for her big special. Everybody feels powerful. Everybody feels good. You know, we went through. I got to play Venom. So you're swinging with that. You know what? I'm swinging a spider man. You know, as you see throughout this, Venom's the symbiote is constantly being deformed and moved around. It's slammed around, making it feel really good for me. Something we didn't get to see there. But I know from Ninja Turtles, right, is like, with my history of ultimate alliance and sitting there like a moron and grinding these characters to 100 for no reason, just sitting there.

[Greg Miller]

I love that game.

[Andy Cortez]

Kamala Khan Attack. You know what I mean? Just getting it all, the idea of leveling these Characters up. Like you level up the Turtles and Shredder's Revenge. Super exciting for me in terms of how I want to go and attack it, but so, so good. Obviously gorgeous. If you're watching it. If you are a listener for some reason haven't seen this game, I urge you to go watch a trailer, go catch some stuff, go see some screens. It's got that pixel based sprite stuff you expect from like X Men arcade or from the classic 16 bit games. Obviously it looks modern, it's HD, all that jazz. But yeah, Tim, they are nailing this. I think it's exactly what you'd want out of it. It's definitely what I want out of it. And I can't wait to get Ben's hands on even more. Playing turtles. I'm like, like, Ben, isn't this gonna be fun to be superheroes? Like, yeah, like we're, we're stoked at the Miller household for this one.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. I'm obviously very hyped for this. And it. A lot of what you said does resonate with me as well, where I love the games in the arcades, the Simpsons and X Men and all that stuff. But even as a kid, I never liked how it felt. And even with Shredder's Revenge, that, while that was still true, I feel like they added enough things that I could kind of deal with it. I'm in the same place as you with Scott Pilgrim, with the exception being I love Scott Pilgrim and playing through it. Like I beat it. But at a certain point it felt like a chore more than it felt like I'm actually enjoying myself. But there was a lot of that game, the soundtrack from Anamataguchi specifically, that like kind of kept me there. But something so special about Shredder's Revenge and what seems to be for this too is the amount of love in the background and the amount of just character everything has. And like this being like watching the. The characters move, they look like the fighting game Marvel characters from the 90s. And the sound sounds like those fighting games, the Marvel and Capcom games. And seeing some of the move sets, even from Wolverine and Cap, it's like, oh, that's straight up their move set from some of those games which, that. It's those little references and nods and the love that they put in, like the storytelling of the, the backgrounds of the. The different locations you're in. I feel like that's the difference between like, all right, cool, it's a side scroll. Beat him up. And like, there's so much Love being put into every single thing. Where it does have that theme park feel where it's like playing it. Part of it is the gameplay, but another part of it is kind of just taking in the.

[Andy Cortez]

The whole scene as you go through pause. If you can go back one and pause Daily Bugle. Of course in the background Spider man is front page. There's the overt stuff like that. Right. But as you kind of saw it in one of them, but you'd have to be looking for it in the back of one of them is a billboard for Secret Hospital with Mary Jane. Like they're making references to deep cutting stuff that like you don't necessarily know off the top of your head if you weren't paying attention, if they weren't calling it out.

[Tim Gettys]

But even like the obvious, like yes, there's going to be just random things in the background to look at. But even just like the fun animations that are unique to just one specific screen. Of course you'll only get there like a lot of that. Like Metal Slug love. Like part of the reason I love Metal Slug is the charm of the. The character animations and all the different weapons they have. And the. The team over at do really have figured out the secret sauce when it comes to getting all of that and applying it to a gameplay with leveling system that are great. Streets of Rage 4 is a highlight for a lot of people in the genre. This seems very interesting adding the tag team element because obviously the fighting games do that, but I don't think I've experienced that in another game. And starting with 15 characters pre DLC which you imagine this will get you hope so. That's wild. Like that is a. A lot of different playing characters with entirely different movesets. You're talking about the kind of like the Flyers, the non Flyers. Like that's a level up of this like classic type of gameplay that I'm really excited to get my hands on. Andy, I know you didn't really vibe with Shredder's Revenge because it still didn't solve the up and down issue for you.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Do you think that this moving right gets you in here?

[Snowbike Mike]

You know, it's always, it's. It's not even the I'm punching on the wrong plane. It's just like, you know, I can move left to right in about a second and going up takes about three seconds.

[Andy Cortez]

Sure, sure.

[Snowbike Mike]

I've always been a bit more bothered by that. I think the art style is something that I. It's worth even booting up for Me, I'm just so into the pixel art style. What I wanted to know from Greg were what any, what if any superheroes do you think should be in this roster?

[Andy Cortez]

Well, I mean, that list is as long as your arm, right? I feel like it's. When you get into it now, you start questioning, well, how. What slots are you going to give to who? Right? So I didn't. I. So let me add here, because you got she Hulk and you got Rocket. Now I'm going to turn these bullet points. Watch this mike to numbers. All right. That's how good I am at Google Docs. Oh, fuck. It changed me to different letters. Oh God. It cuz it doesn't know me running. You know what I mean? Hold on. There you go. That's nine. So you're talking. There's only six characters left. You figure Iron Man's got to be there. Yes, we have to have an Iron Man. Right. Let's not be silly about it. And then you start getting interesting because I think even she Hulk and Rocket are interesting picks. Right? So.

[Snowbike Mike]

Well, to have so much screen time in the trailer. I would reveals.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, this is. They have their own trailer when they got it. Oh, this is just those they got announced. Yeah. Yes. Oh, new trailer with just.

[Tim Gettys]

I wish Venom was blue. That is one of my only issues of what I.

[Andy Cortez]

Well, I mean, you figure there's gonna be all costumes again for the turtles. That's cool. Whatever for this game. Old costume. I'll be Mark.

[Snowbike Mike]

Dude, that's got to be so much.

[Greg Miller]

You think you'll see a fantastic form with the movie tie in. Yeah, it's close.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. But who do you put? I. I think you put. Do you put Mr. Fantastic in? Because I feel like, you know, are we doing this is very comicy rather than MCU, Ms. Marvel.

[Tim Gettys]

Well, if we're not getting Hulk, I think thing could make sense.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. She Hulk though, right? I mean.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, but that's a different type of like brawler.

[Andy Cortez]

I hear you. I hear.

[Tim Gettys]

I guess Venom's a little more similar.

[Andy Cortez]

Well, that's the thing is you look at like the classes you already have and start really going around that like.

[Tim Gettys]

Where are the holes?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, yeah, dude.

[Snowbike Mike]

Alt costumes seems like insane if you're not just palette swapping things. Because for a 3D model, when you make a new skin for somebody, you make the 3D model and then you just have to make sure that you're. Everything is the. It's hard to like say this in a. It's called painting weights where you were like, making sure that, like, everything looks good in animation and the animations stay the same. But this is essentially, like, repainting over every frame of animation.

[Tim Gettys]

I think it'll just be different colors and stuff.

[Snowbike Mike]

Just.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Shutters Revenge. I'm pretty sure that was the case. We're not getting, like, trench coat Donatello.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

No, no, no, no. Yeah, yeah. If you didn't play Ninja Turtles. Yeah. It was like. Yeah, you had different colors. You had. No, it was that. And then you put eyes in it, and then you had, like, you know, the red thing on Raphael's face and stuff. Like, it was a different. You had the Game Boy versions, like. Yeah, I'm talking about Venom being blue, I don't think.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, okay.

[Andy Cortez]

You have, like, Lady Venom instead of that.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

The chat's saying that Sue Storm is in the game and has been in the. All the trailers.

[Andy Cortez]

Really?

[Snowbike Mike]

Damn.

[Andy Cortez]

Damn. There she is. Well, there you go.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, I'm super hyped on this. And. Yeah. Seems deeper than even Shredder's Revenge. And Shredder's Revenge, like, had so many spectacular moments of, like, just vocal tracks coming out of nowhere. Like, they got Wu Tang Clan in that.

[Andy Cortez]

They got your ass. She's the Invisible Woman. That's why she's in the trailers. You. You faces in the chat. You got him.

[Greg Miller]

How about baddies? Did you see any bad guys? What can we expect?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, well, it's the overall thing of the invasion. It's Annihilation. Is that what the main guy's name is? Right. So you saw his little, like, basic starros. It's a D.C. person, like, attaching to people and making them. Making them worse. So we fought Beetle. We fought. I put it down. Taskmaster. Yeah, we had these, you know, the Bebop and Rocksteady kind of fights. They're not together, but, like, in terms of, like, you know, TMNT at the end of it. But I. Again, it's interesting to see them, I think, diving deep into the Marvel catalog. Right. Like, MCU is so well known. Marvel is so well known that you're bringing up Beetle. We're gonna have you fight this guy as a boss. Like, okay, cool.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm excited to see what else is there and what we're gonna build to as well.

[Tim Gettys]

At some point, we see them fight this, like, pterodactyl looking guy that. I think his name is Sauron.

[Snowbike Mike]

He's the dude for a Spider man comic.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, I only really know him from Marvel Snap now, so really, he's one.

[Andy Cortez]

Of the starting the Spider man comic. All right. Of like with how smart you are in this thing, you could cure cancer. But I don't want to cure cancer. I want to turn people into dinosaurs.

[Tim Gettys]

Let's move on from Marvel Cosmic Invasion to Mike. Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Me and Andy beat Elden Ring Night Rain. We're going to talk all about it. But before I do, we got to bring up a big crime that's been committed this last generation of video games make fun of Barrett and that's Nintendo Switch and Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3. Greg being trapped on that system. That's up. That is. That game rocks. But that this game will scratch my itch.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Good enough. Okay, I'll take it. What about now? Let's talk about Ellen. Ring Night Raid. Of course. It is an from software experience made exclusively for me. The only jabroni who loves multiplayer games mixed with battle royale. Closing circles and sprinkle in a little from software magic. This is a game that I love to death. It will probably go down as one of my top favorites in the. The company's franchise list here.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah. I mean you're. You were saying this is probably going to be your number one of the year.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

Really enjoyed it.

[Greg Miller]

This will go down as my favorite is everything that I want out of a fromsoft experience. Being able to share it with my friends. Most importantly, having it being very fast and not have it. Hey, let's slow down. Let's read these stats. Let me guess. If I put 50 into health, how much more will my health bar go up? It's just simply hey, drop your runes off here at this site of grace. Let's level up. Let's move on to the next awesome piece of action. And so it's this blend of high paced action, extreme difficulty with from software game design. And then on top of that, of course my favorite is the map exploration. I am always wowed and impressed by all the cool scenes that we see, all the different bosses that they mix in to the different locations. And having what, Andy? 10 bosses. How many they have eight to 10. They have a day.

[Snowbike Mike]

Eight unique bosses.

[Greg Miller]

Yes, eight unique bosses. And then each one of those bosses has a just splattering of different amounts of bosses that you can fight before them too.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah. A bunch of different Elden Ring enemies. And you know, we reviewed this already in a way that was kind of like yeah, we played it. We were doing our best. It was a weird review period because this. I think this game is very much a. Your mileage may vary. Whenever anybody asks, should I Play this. I have no friends to play with. I would say no. Probably because it's the same thing as signing on to play, signing on alone to play Squads in Fortnite, when two teammates immediately, immediately run opposite directions, you're like, oh fuck, this is why am I even here right now? And that can happen quite a bit in the Elden Ring Night Reign experience based on just reading a whole lot of tweets. I know the first couple days in they're having a lot of matchmaking issues and it took a while for the game to kind of get its rating up above mostly negative or mixed on, on Steam because a lot of people were having issues with networking and just with what the game was. And then they made playing solo a bit easier.

[Greg Miller]

Not even fun. Andy, people want to know, is solo fun?

[Snowbike Mike]

I, I think solo is much better and easier to deal with now because they gave you a free res. So whenever you do go down, you can just kind of come back during a boss fight. And I, I mean I, I, my opinion of this game has only gone up. I think the game really, really surprised me with how much deeper it was. I thought it was, it really just felt like, wow, this is a, like one of the best mods you could download on the Internet. And you know, they, it's cool what they've done here. They just want to. This was just one of the teams on FromSoftware saying, I really want to make a kind of roguelite, fast paced multiplayer experience. And you know, we look at this as hopefully their testing grounds for their future in multiplayer and making things easier to squat up with friends. But I would say that my, yeah, my opinion, this only went up because I think when the game came out I was like, yeah, I think it's around an eight out of ten. I'd go up to like a nine. I, I think that the explorable areas with how the world does change with these shifting lands and how much adventure we found where once you beat a boss, then the next time you drop into the world there will be a massive part of the map that is different and changed and exploring that was so much fun. Trying to find the balance of we're running out of time. But I really, really want to explore this having those sort of mini metagame excursions where you go, I mean, Mike, it felt like every round we were going, oh, we gotta go take on that rooftop boss. Because it was so challenging. I think we could take it on now you got Loretta the Run Killer. Like there's just so Many awesome moments in this game that are fun as hell and the ability to. I think having that RNG is also a lot of really fun. Like I know some people can look at RNG as something that can just kind of get in the way, but whenever random number generated, that's what it means. So I hate saying rng and some people just don't even know what that means. But the RNG of sometimes having to run and then suddenly the build is working out and you go, oh, this is going to be a special one. It. It just gets really exciting. And then us beating the bosses and having people from Chad join us. It was a good time. I had a. I had a lot of fun with it.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Mike, what are you prepared to give it a kind of funny score?

[Greg Miller]

On the kind of funny scale? I would give this an 8.5 out of 10. On the kind of funny scale. It is great to amazing. It is an absolute blast to play. This is, like I said, a game that is strictly for me. And I think there are others that probably found a lot of fun with their friends doing this. But as someone who's always wanted to share the Dark Souls experience with others and then having that turned up to 10, where there is a giant map, there is a closing circle and it is, hey, we can't stand around at the site of Grace and discuss what move sets we should get. We just need to go, go, go and have that all mixed in so well. Where. Yeah, there is a little bit of thought process. Right. Any of like what are my passives on all these weapons that I grab? What is that next thing that I should be looking for? Whether it be a buff to maybe help some of my moves or is it something that will affect the boss in a different way? Different like poisons. Holy damage. What should we be kind of gearing towards? So there is a little bit of thought process to that. It's not mindless. Just run around and constantly attack. You do have to be kind of mindful of what you're thinking you should be building towards. But I love the just fast paced nature of this. I think the bosses are really tuned well for a three player situation. Each boss felt like they were coming after every single person on the screen no matter what. There wasn't much free time. The only time I ever felt like I was free to just kind of be quiet and easy was when I had a weapon that said, hey, the boss will rarely look at you. Right. And so I think they did a great job tuning these three. These eight Bosses to, hey, three players are on the screen, and they really know how to attack you. I think in other FromSoft games, they're not really tuned to have two or three other people on the screen with you. It is usually a 1v1 fight. And so to see them say, hey, this is the core of the game. Let's build these bosses out like that. Every single one was so much fun to see from, of course, the beginning when the wolf turns into three wolves and all of you are getting attacked one by one. I think that's really cool. To the final boss, where he can just, you know, close the gap and create space so quickly on you that you're never really safe, no matter how far away you are. I think each of the character classes are really built out in a fun way for you to try and be something different than you normally would be. I'm usually a sorcerer, and even the sorcerer in this class is different than how I would play. Right. Because there is no mana flasks here. You have to kind of play that a little bit differently. How you get your FP back to use magic spells. And so each one, from the Super Tank berserker guy to, of course, the guardian Eagle, who is kind of the. The big shield man, all have their own unique stuff. And I think that's what will get me coming back, Tim, is there's things that I want now in the future, now that I've beaten it that I want to see, but really, I can jump back tomorrow because I have, what, six other characters to play, five other characters to go check out, a lot of other characters.

[Snowbike Mike]

And in the last. In the last week, they kind of just out of nowhere dropped an enhanced version of one of the bosses, and they're like, this is the extra hard version of it for people that want the extra challenge. And it's not just we gave it a bigger health bar and it does more damage. It has new movesets and new, completely new mechanics that it does in. In the second. It starts off in its second phase. So when one of these bosses kicks up its second phase, you go, oh, the purple lightning is going to start happening. The boss starts off in that phase, and then suddenly, I don't know if you saw any of the footage of this mic, but there are those wind currents that shoot you up. You know, like the Blessing calls them the trampolines. But this boss creates, like, a gigantic purple tornado, and you have to jump into the tornado. Like it's. It's wild what they're doing. And Then now this dude who is one of the more annoying bosses to deal with the big sort of man. Horse.

[Greg Miller]

Centaur man.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah. Centaur guy. There's. They are releasing the enhanced version of him in the next couple of days as well. It's just really cool what they're doing to keep players in while this next big DLC will happen. And this next big DLC should be awesome whenever that does happen.

[Greg Miller]

Another wild one from software again, drop C. No microtransactions. It's just all in the game.

[Tim Gettys]

Right?

[Greg Miller]

Like, that was the one when we talked about. It's like they could make millions of dollars selling skins if they wanted to. Right. They have a rabid fan base that is all in on this. They could have easily been like, hey, we got a bunch of these skins, five bucks a pop, and people would have gone crazy. Right? But they stuck what they normally do of, hey, we're not charging you anything. You just play the game and have fun. And it's wild to be sitting on that end of it looking back and going, man, they didn't charge me a dime for any of this. I had a blast with just the upfront cost and I'm loving every moment of it.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Closing out the Elden ring talk here. Shea Slay super chats. Insane. Did you platinum it? It took me forever to get three wins trophy. Andy, I know you're not a trophy guy and you're on PC, but are you interested in doing all the achievements?

[Snowbike Mike]

That's too many other things to play. No. Like, I've never been that dude. At one point, we were close to getting the three wins in a row. The turkey. And we got our ass at me, Mike and I forget who we were with. Got our asses handed to us. It was like, all right, well, that's gone. And I'm not.

[Andy Cortez]

We're never doing that again. We're not gonna do that.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

I'm not like super pumped or. That's it. Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

This game is great. Go play with your friends. It's a ton of fun. I can't wait to see the future of this. How they incorporate new bosses. How do they add other bosses from the games to be kind of the minor bosses? Will we see a switch up of the map anytime. What are the new added things like, Andy brought up with just changing up the world in just a small, slight way. There's. And the little side quest future to this.

[Snowbike Mike]

There's a lot more to this game than I thought that there would be. Not that I should be giving them credit for making a, a, you know, a full developed game. I just, I expected, you know, I, I think the negative part of me looked at this as like, oh, multiplayer cash grab. And there was a lot more in here than I thought there would be. When it comes to different characters having their own mission structures and, and conversations that they're having with other people and like getting lore bits about all of these different people about why they're here. Really, really damn cool. Awesome game.

[Greg Miller]

Can't wait.

[Tim Gettys]

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[Andy Cortez]

Hello.

[Tim Gettys]

A couple days ago you sat at this very desk. I think it was yesterday actually.

[Andy Cortez]

Yesterday.

[Tim Gettys]

And y' all reviewed Death Stranding 2. Everybody gave their scores.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

You had not beat the game, you've now beat the game. So you're now giving your final score for Death Stranding too. I'm very interested. What is it on the kind of funny.

[Andy Cortez]

Thank you. Yeah, yesterday when we did this, I was still an hour and a half away from goal, you know what I mean? And always an upsetting place to come up short, you know what I mean?

[Tim Gettys]

And it's a Kojima game, so an hour and a half. What's that look like? Cinematics are there.

[Andy Cortez]

The problem is when it was 12:15 and I was in episode 14 of 16, according to trophies, it's too late at night for me on Sunday, Monday morning to text Blessing, like how far am I actually out? So it was that thing of I could keep pushing, be blurry eyed in the morning, but there's no guarantee I'm actually going to get there. So when I got it and I told Bless, he's like, you're an hour and a half away. Fuck. Fuck. You know what I mean? It's interesting. Yesterday on the review I said that I for most of it I thought I was cooking at an 8. And then as we ramped up to the end there, my final couple play sessions which were media, I was like, okay, I see an 8, 5 here or whatever on the end of it here, I think I lock in at an 8. 5. There's no reason. It's a great game. I do think that the very ending of it, the final boss fight, no spoilers of course everybody. But it is a tale of two games where it is. The first section is exactly what I bitched about yesterday in the review of like, I brought up to the table with Jericho and Bless, I'm like, does Hideo Kojima still have it as a boss fight guy? We talk about all the Metal Gear games and how amazing these boss fights were. But for Death Stranding 1, I don't remember any of them being spectacular. And In Death Stranding 2, no spoilers. The, the big things you build to for these fights I don't think are that interesting. I'm fighting a giant bt. I'm fighting this guy. So it is shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot. He warps away. Then I hide or I find him and I shoot you. It's not like it's. It isn't what it was back in the day.

[Snowbike Mike]

Not a whole lot mechanically to him.

[Andy Cortez]

Exactly. So then to get here at the end of this one I. There's another. There's the guy. Shoot, shoot, shoot. Okay, he went away. The ping. Oh, he's over there. Walk. Shoot, shoot. Okay, this sucks is what I'm thinking as I play it. And then the second fate not even phase. The next part was when I was like this is hideo. This is what I want out of these games. Of this batshit crazy blah, blah. So I think I've been thinking a lot about it obviously of where I my final score is. I end on an 8 5. Because truly the stuff surrounding the few things that I don't think are amazing. The stuff surrounding it is amazing. It is spectacular. It is what I want. It is a gorgeous environment. I do like the moment to moment gameplay of making deliveries. I don't enjoy fighting the bts. I think the AI could be smarter when I'm trying to stealth around whatever. But that's not what the game is. The game is that experience of trudging across Australia, trudging across Mexico, putting the thing in, getting that like getting the new thing that changes how I play it and putting the battery on my car to drive and be faster. And of course it is the batshit insane story that is death training in general.

[Tim Gettys]

Forgive me if you said this yesterday. I know you're busy giving Death Stranding 2 and 8.5.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

What would you give Death Stranding 1 in 2025?

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, see, I don't. I can't answer that question because that's the thing of like this is one of my points yesterday, especially with Blessing and Jerika having played Death Stranding one way more recently than me in 2018 when I reviewed it with Fran, Imran and Andy, it was that idea of like when I was playing Desk Training two, I was like, yeah, it's more Death Stranding. So to see all the reviews when people were like oh, but they improved this. So they got rid of this friction point of That I was like, oh, I don't. This is the rose tinted glasses of what I remember Death Stranding 1 to be for you, Tim, and for anybody who didn't catch it yesterday, I brought up Superman in review, where I thought Nick made a salient point in Superman 2 where he's like, this is Superman 2. It is part two. When you were like, oh, this is why so much of the stuff from the first movie was here. Right. That's what I think Death Stranding 2 is as well, where it is just the next part of Death Stranding, the next chapter in the story. It's not radically different because I'm still on the same journey just 11 months later.

[Snowbike Mike]

You build for a lot of people.

[Andy Cortez]

No, I did the exact same thing you made fun of me for in the original review of Take a Penny, Leave a Penny Guy, but I just take the pennies. But to my defense, this is something we complained about in the review is the fact that, you know, we had three weeks with the game. Week one was literally, hey, it's Switch and you're going to sgf. So I started week two where a lot of people have already built stuff and I was like, cool. And I would contribute a little thing here or there's week three, which was when I put in the bulk of my review time. They had turned off servers, so just me. So it's like, do you want to build this road? Nothing is in it. I'm like, well, no, because I don't think I'm gonna get back to this in the review period. That, that. So again, I'm very excited to do more of the side stuff and flush it out more. Again, that's where the 85 comes in. I think where it is that idea of I think the clip at which we had to play or I had to play for this. The sticking points I had of, like, well, what I want about, like, I don't think the boss fight complaint is going to matter as much in 20 hours when I'm still delivering packages and doing this thing. And like, what speaks to me and speaks about how loudly this game is already impacting me is the fact that I was making clips yesterday and the day before to send to Tim. Like today when he had a brief second when the Internet went down, I brought him over and I showed him the ending of the game. I showed him a thing, I texted him, I sent him music this morning from an artist that the game turned me on to. Like, it's interesting how I think straight.

[Tim Gettys]

Up remixes the gamecube intro song, it turns into like a whole like freaking jazz. It's really sick.

[Andy Cortez]

It's interesting to me how, you know, Hideo Kojima in auteur movies, the music, his Instagram, all this stuff. The fact that this game is out for me and I've been playing it and has influenced me to that level where my Spotify is now littered with songs from this that have not only introduced me to the artist in the song, but then I've drilled into their album to find things I'm listening to off of that to send to Tim that it wasn't from the game. And of course the clips I'm sending around and the references I'm making. Like again, this probably sounds too hoity toity, but I think games in general are art. Clearly Kojima's trying to make something bigger than a game and I think he achieves that with death straining too. And that's why I think it's an 8. 5. Even though I don't think the boss fights have it like they used to. Even though I think it's easy to cheese the stealth the way I did and it's a viable strategy. But does that mean I don't want to go back and 100% the game and do all these different things and walk across with money? No, I want to do all of that. I want to keep playing.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, you. Okay, you just said that you want 100% this game. Like, do I see yourself platinum?

[Andy Cortez]

No. Back in 2019, I had no children. In 2019, I had no children on all the time in the world and I never made it back to Death Stranding 1. And I think it's the exact same situation here where you don't think Ben.

[Snowbike Mike]

Would be into this dude, shout out to Troy Baker's tentacle tongue comes out of his.

[Andy Cortez]

We had such a breakthrough this weekend, right, of like him having video game time letting. But he not only did he let me nap next to him on the couch while he played, at one point he wanted me to play everything co op. And I did a lot, a lot of co op, right? But I was like, hey, daddy, you know, reviews video games for a living. Would you mind if he played a game next to you on Portal? He's like, no. So he was playing on Switch on the TV and I was playing their next on Portal. I'm like, this is the dream that rocks. All right. This is the fucking life. As he's playing Princess Peach Showtime.

[Greg Miller]

Hell yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

I had a I saw a good Blue sky post just to Go back to your original thoughts on on or any of our original thoughts on Death Stranding 1.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

This is from Chris Plant of the Besties, who says as The Death Stranding 2 discourse ramps up, remember that everybody played a different version of Death Stranding1.1 is 95% hiking. Barely any user built support structures and a busted difficulty curve. 2 User support and lots of vehicles, but fussy controls and buggy physics.

[Tim Gettys]

3.

[Snowbike Mike]

Director's cut with a human Catapult this game had a lot of different iterations where suddenly the Director's Cut comes out and it's hey, we added a bunch of. To make the the world and traversal a lot more fun. And I. It is really, really neat.

[Andy Cortez]

It's you just Blue Mike's mind.

[Greg Miller]

There was a human catapult the whole time. I was walking my happy ass for hours.

[Snowbike Mike]

We would have launched your ass across.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm really interested to see if you're at death training too. You guys dive in and really get nerdy with it. Not to mention see what's already built.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Because when that first the week I had with it where other people had built and like, oh, hey, thanks, Young. Yeah. You made this for me. That's exactly what I need. Like, oh, and I'm not going to spoil things that are in there. But it was like that idea of like that that was super cool. So, yeah, no best intentions. I'd love to. I imagine it's going to stay in my hard drive for all I want to. But guess what? Free afternoon today. No meetings after I do Greg Way. No other things to do.

[Snowbike Mike]

Goon awakening.

[Andy Cortez]

It's time, everybody. The Xbox turns on.

[Greg Miller]

Whoa.

[Andy Cortez]

And we are doing it. The real playthrough of Expedition 33.

[Snowbike Mike]

Oh.

[Andy Cortez]

The next thing on my horizon that I really got to play and can't wait for Donkey Kong. So let's bust this shit out. I got a few afternoons clear here. Let's get in it. Let's see it on a tv. Not started on low settings on a deck or whatever. Let's actually go let it go. We're gonna fucking let it ride.

[Tim Gettys]

I feel like we need to figure out the right way to do this, but we need to record your reactions to certain key points in this game.

[Andy Cortez]

I'll let you know. One of the biggest things. Nobody in chat, be fucking cool. Everyone on the table, be fucking cool. I've shut my eyes and taken off my glasses and I've rubbed my eyelid. Essentially. One of the big things that made sure of like, obviously all of your Praises. All of the praises online. But every so often, eyes are closed, ears are shut, hearts are open. Someone's like, oh, but the Act 2 twist, or the twist between Act 1 and Act 2, blah, blah. And I've heard that enough where I'm like, that's interesting. I don't think about it. The one and only Aunt Lucy James was over for, I think, Fourth of July, Memorial Day. Memorial Day. And we were out back, barbecue and hanging out or whatever. And she mentioned it offhanded, of this whatever. And then she started to say something. I'm like, she's like, what? You don't know about this? I'm like, no. I'm like, I've been. I've. Stay clear. And Jen's like, well, I want to know. So I closed my. I did the. COVID my ears and sang a song or whatever. And when I came back out, when Jen. Jen's like, oh, you got to play this game. Like, all right. Like, I was going to anyway. I knew I needed to. But here's the moment. I'm in this place. I'm ready to embrace it. I've played the opening three times, but I'm ready this time to be like, no, it was a preview. It was on the deck. It was just not the right time. The third, this fourth time's the time where we're fucking in it.

[Snowbike Mike]

You don't want to P5 Pro it?

[Andy Cortez]

No, because I want to be able to take it from the Xbox to the handheld. Ah, the rag Ally has changed my life, everybody. And if I can. That was the same thing of, like, fucking, tell me.

[Greg Miller]

Tell me about it.

[Andy Cortez]

I fucking play Cosmic Invasion.

[Greg Miller]

Okay?

[Andy Cortez]

Is this Shredder's Revenge that I said, I'm going to buy this tonight? Went back to my hotel room, opened up the switch store, $40. I was like, hold up a sec. And then I went. I hovered on buying and went, wait. Opened up, guess who's on Xbox Game pass.

[Greg Miller]

You know where it's at?

[Andy Cortez]

I got it on. I got it on the rock.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm.

[Andy Cortez]

And I'm telling you, like, if for Marvel, like, it's the same thing with Marvel or the. It's the same thing with Marvel of, like, I want to put so much time into that, and I want my progress everywhere. So I was like, shit, am I going to buy multiple versions? And I was like, wait, make this fucking Xbox game anywhere game so I can do this exact situation again.

[Tim Gettys]

I need to run to a call. But real quick, I just got to say this, Andy, because I don't know if you knew this, but GeForce Now ultimate that we've been raving about on steam deck. It's on steam deck.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

You can connect your game pass. So if you have game pass, any game on game pass, you then have on GeForce now on your Steve deck. We're living in a good time. Good time, everybody. I'm gonna run. Mike's taking over. I love you all.

[Greg Miller]

Let's finish it up. Greg.

[Andy Cortez]

Hi.

[Greg Miller]

Any more thoughts on Death Stranding 2 before I move on?

[Andy Cortez]

No. There's a. There's a lovely review yesterday we did. Jerrica came and visited. Thank you so much to her. Yeah. Please go check out the full blown review there and more thoughts. But I have so much special games.

[Greg Miller]

But I want to save him because me and Roger played this Friday, of course. And there's just so many things I want to know about from the boss fights to more. But we'll save it. We'll save it. Let's move on to the next part of the show. Andy. Hey, you beat the Lies of P dlc. You put a lot of time into this one. How did. How did it go?

[Snowbike Mike]

Lies of P DLC Overture I have a problem with the games industry. Okay, all right.

[Greg Miller]

What's wrong with it?

[Snowbike Mike]

I had a problem with the company earlier for not making fun of that sunburn.

[Andy Cortez]

Is that also the problem with the industry? That the industry at large, the industry.

[Snowbike Mike]

Has not capitalized a lot of Pierce.

[Andy Cortez]

Blue sky about this.

[Snowbike Mike]

I. Here's the thing, man. I finished this experience and then I go, oh, I drafted this on my fantasy critic 84. That's got to be a minimum 91.92. This is one of the best DLCs I've ever experienced. This is an. An amazing portion of, you know, just even better boss fights with some of the most gripping, heartbreaking storytelling you will ever experience. This, this is like. This is gonna be like my shadow of the erdtree last year where I had it way the high, way high up there. And everybody's like, but it's a DLC and you can't play with the core one. I was like, I don't give a damn, dude. Like, okay, they made it. Unless. Unless Barrett and the government comes to me and says, no deals. He's on your list. And I won't put it there.

[Andy Cortez]

You can't just make the rules.

[Snowbike Mike]

But I'm not going to not put it on the list. I think this experience was phenomenal. The added weapons are so great. And more importantly, it really does come down to how great the boss fights were and the storytelling to go along with it. I think the game is phenomenal.

[Andy Cortez]

Len Art says in baddies. Andy, don't forget the baddies.

[Snowbike Mike]

Baddies. Oh my God. And no, the. The game's amazing. And I, you know, I, I know that they just hit 3 million sold, which is so great. And I hope that they continue to sell, especially because the. For anybody who's always gone, difficulty is just too much for me. I want to try them out. There are difficulty settings now that we mentioned. You know, when the DLC dropped, they released difficulty settings so that the normal difficulty that you play at is now like level three. And then there's a level two that's a bit easier and then level one that is very, very easy. And so you have no excuse now. This game needs to be played. The DLC is fantastic. It is. It cements themselves. As if FromSoft isn't doing one. What's Neow is and round eight doing we can trust.

[Andy Cortez]

Go ahead, Greg. So the difficulty thing. Are you saying the game is so good narratively sorry that you dial the difficulty down to play it that way or is because, like, wouldn't you. I would. I think for these kind of games, so many people are drawn in by the gameplay, by the challenge, by the Perry Poppy stuff.

[Snowbike Mike]

Well, I, I think that you can still be drawn in with the combat, but just not getting one or two shot. You're given, you're given some leniency, you're given some grace to miss a parry every now and then or miss a dodge every now and then as opposed to, I'm fighting this boss and it hits me 1, 2, and it's like, ah, there, there goes that run. And that could definitely push people away. And I totally understand why. Sure. For people who don't even have. For people like us adults with lives, I mean, much less Greg who has children and has like. I understand that time is so precious, especially when souls likes take away so much of that time. I, I think now that if you've ever been interested in these styles of games or even if you played Expedition 33 recently and loved how the satisfying the pairing was there, maybe that. Maybe that's your sort of gateway drug. But the, the parries in this game, to be able to break down, to be able to perfectly time your parries enough to where an enemy's weapon breaks and shatters and now they do less damage is one of the most satisfying mechanics in games. But I, I don't. I also don't want everybody to think that this is going to be the most straightforward in your face story. Still requires some reading. Still requires some library.

[Andy Cortez]

Or am I playing a video game?

[Greg Miller]

Find a random note 20ft off the path that's hidden behind some guy's blubber whale and I'm like, I hate a blubber whale.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's amazing. It's still so fantastic with what it does with storytelling and even some small side quests that are definitely more in your face and more and less of like, you gotta do crazy exploring or whatever.

[Andy Cortez]

It.

[Snowbike Mike]

It doesn't go as deep as FromSoftware does with how they're trying to get these stories across. But it, it's so effective and it, it's so emotional and amazing. The game is fantastic. I'd give the. I'd give this dlc like, oh, here comes. I'd go. I'd go nine, five. I'd go nine, five on the, on the rating.

[Andy Cortez]

Damn, dude.

[Snowbike Mike]

And, and the reason why I'm not giving it, like the masterpiece thing is I think it launches and has a lot of difficulty issues where first off, really, really tough to just Shadow Drop a DLC, especially a DLC that requires you to be 15 hours into the base game, you know, but the sickos wanted it.

[Greg Miller]

The sickos didn't want to wait any longer. The Shadow Drop was a good sell.

[Snowbike Mike]

They didn't know when it was dropping.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. So the sickos were already ready to rock. So they were like, oh, this is celebration. Let's do this thing.

[Snowbike Mike]

No, they're not, though. That's the thing.

[Greg Miller]

Like how long the game had been out. It's been out for a long time.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, but, but getting into new game plus, you'd have to get back up to that chapter point.

[Greg Miller]

You'd have to go backwards.

[Snowbike Mike]

Right.

[Greg Miller]

If I beat the game, I'm not allowed to go backwards.

[Snowbike Mike]

If you locked into your. If you accidentally hit start new game plus, and now you're at chapter one with your new character. Maybe you put the game away, maybe you didn't go back to it. The game comes out and the game says, oh, you need to be a Chapter nine. And it's like, oh, I gotta play a decent amount of this to get caught up. So as awesome as the Shadow Drop is Shadow of the Erdtree much more effective because everybody's getting ready and getting prepped for the big DLC release. Right. And make sure you get to Moog's palace to be ready or whatever for this. It was as awesome as it was to be surprised by it. You know, I could totally see this being missed by a lot of players, even if you love Liza B. Because maybe it's just catching you at a really, really bad time where you're already playing other video games. But I. I'd still. I still think this is, like, easily the most recommendable Souls, like, because of the difficulty issues, because of how amazing the boss fights are, the level design's fantastic, and again, the narrative is really, really awesome. And so wild to see a Pinocchio soul. This is. What a weird thing this is going to be. How silly that they are doing that. That this is. I think when we think of Public Domain and, you know, everybody making a horror Winnie the Pooh game or whatever the hell, to see this Pinocchio game and not be taken serious by anybody. And now it's like, oh, I'd put this over some souls games. I would. You know, this is. This is the one to look for. And they have set the standard for if you want to try to make a game in this genre.

[Andy Cortez]

Like, we.

[Snowbike Mike]

We hit every mark. We're not just going for combat in the way that Stellar Blade and Chris Berserker Kazan does and missing out on everything else that makes the games great. This game is hitting on every one of those aspects.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

Game rocks.

[Greg Miller]

Andy loves that game.

[Snowbike Mike]

Look at that. We got a raid from the Chugs.

[Andy Cortez]

Chugs.

[Greg Miller]

Nice.

[Snowbike Mike]

Adam Cole.

[Greg Miller]

Greg Miller, baby.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

You got a backpack you want to share with us? Tell me all about this backpack.

[Andy Cortez]

Everybody knows. And if you've been watching kind of funny a long time, if you've been watching Greg Miller time, I swear by SFBags.com that's Waterfield Designs. It's my Switch case. But my before. Well, now it's my. It's my Switch case. It's my Steam deck case, it's my Rog case, and it was my Vita case back in the day or whatever. They have this thing called the techfolio Tank backpack. I travel a lot, and I need a backpack that doesn't look ridiculous and can do a bunch of different stuff. So I got it. You have it over there. I have the Tank B. The Tech Folio Tank backpack. You might say it's a backpack, Greg. What's exciting about it and why is it so expensive? Again, sfbags.com they sent me this for review. They make a bunch of different stuff, obviously, but it's all meant to be. Hey, this is a premium product, right? You can get a baggie, whatever. It's a dollar 419 back, Paul.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

A stiff price, I admit. I admit. Here's the thing, though. Nothing drives me more crazy.

[Snowbike Mike]

It's got 300 bucks in it.

[Andy Cortez]

Nothing drives me more crazy than having a backpack that looks like garbage or a backpack that doesn't store all the stupid shit I need when I'm off on the road.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

They sent me this one. And because of how I travel, because of what I do with the gaming of the computers and stuff, and I put it through many trips, let alone just fun trips or whatever, but many trips in particular. The ones I want to call it are PAX Montreal and sgf.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

I use this bag for all three of those trips for entirely different reasons. Okay. For pax, I took it with an Xbox series S in it with the X screen attack attached, the controller and the headset, of course. My water, my computer, the thing. If you want to toss it back up the actual website, it'll look better, obviously, but it expands out so much and is able to hold so much. And it has all the different compartments. I have my switch in there, my dock in there. Right now. It's got controller cases on it. It's got all the different zips for all my different shenanigans of Altoids or power cables up here for my AirPods internal zips.

[Snowbike Mike]

Rocks.

[Andy Cortez]

This dude up here is a magnetic deal. So when I'm. When I'm. I have it, it's got the strap, so you can put it on the back, the suitcase when you're going up. But then here, I toss the passport in there, the keys.

[Greg Miller]

I was just like, don't put your passport in there.

[Andy Cortez]

Superman, we have been missing Superman, we've been missing crypto. So it's nice to know that crypto was still in my bag from one of the other vacation trips we did, the Father's Day trip or whatever. Anyways, PAX had all that stuff. Montreal was my Steam deck, my switch, water, kids, books and toys, and the computer in there, along with a bunch of other stuff. And then beyond that, the SGF one was the special one where it was switch to pro controller, water, computer, and clothes. I didn't bring a backpack. I didn't bring a suitcase to sgf.

[Greg Miller]

I like bring it. So that's my thing is I'm gonna ask you, how much clothes can we fit in this? Because I'm a one bag man.

[Andy Cortez]

You got this.

[Greg Miller]

I don't like bringing two bags. No roller bags. One bag man.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. You know, you can do it all. This is the okay, this is the one that did it. Run through this great video. I haven't actually seen of it or whatever. I love this. It's again, designed to fit gigantic gaming laptops. Again, this is the TechFolio tank. They have a TechFolio back that a bag that's cheaper, that isn't designed to have all this different stuff in it the way this one does, as you see, with all different zips and different pockets and different things on it. They have a million other ones up there. Again, SF bags. I've sworn with them for years and years and years. They're a local company here at SF2. Love Waterfield, love everything they do. You see how much you can store in it. I, again, as somebody who wants to have all their crap in one bag, I was thrilled with this one and the ability to be able to store this stuff. I love using it now as my daily bag. And the best thing, Mike, when I'm not keeping an Xbox in it and a controller and a headset and everything else, it comes down where it's like, it doesn't look like I'm walking around with, you know, a deflated balloon on my back.

[Snowbike Mike]

Bunch of textbooks going ahead.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. You know, and I know again, like, we always talk about this and you know how lucky we are to get review samples and stuff like this. These are luxury products, you know what I mean? These are premium products for what you're doing. The case, I think what the switch cases are like 129, maybe 120 somewhere in there. Again, you could get a case cheaper. But I can't. As somebody I don't know, I mean, the backpack I've had for what, two months now or whatever. I've been kicking the tires on it, first off, not scuffed up and looking like crap, which a lot of my other backpacks would be. But all the cases I have for the gaming handhelds look and feel as good as they were the day I got. Okay, so it's that idea where it's like, this is obviously an investment. It's not going to be for every blah, blah, blah. But like, I'm so sold on this techfolio tank backpack, man. Big fan of it.

[Greg Miller]

Everybody needs a good backpack.

[Snowbike Mike]

Just watching them put the little. The mouse into the internal zipper. Internal zippers is not even something I'd considered how important that's. I just like toss it into my bag. But like the ability to just like.

[Andy Cortez]

And feel soft, everything is. Again, people are. I understand the sticker shock of it. And that's what I'm saying, when somebody said people want TEMU prices for local businesses, that's the whole thing of like again, they found their niche in terms of the audiences and what they're doing and what we want out of it.

[Snowbike Mike]

That's cool.

[Andy Cortez]

It's really good. I'm a big, big fan. Obviously. I'm always happy to support it.

[Greg Miller]

So even when you fill up all these internal pockets, you're not, they're not banging into this. It feels like an easy zip. Like that's the catch, right? You got a lot of things in here, Greg. But I hate when I now I jam both those two sides together and then it gets a little awkward zipping it off. It feels like it's supposed to fit.

[Andy Cortez]

It feels great.

[Snowbike Mike]

So many just cables everywhere and see.

[Andy Cortez]

That again, that's where the zip pouches come in. Like up here too. So you have like two different sets of zip pouches for AC adapters, USB Cs. Then this one, I just put AirPods in there. You put whatever you want. And then I got the L toys. Like I said, Ben bought. You know what, Mike, I want you to have these. Ben bought These M&M's, M&M minis and. But he had like one. So yeah, you got some M and M minis. Don't worry.

[Snowbike Mike]

Hell yeah. I love the other one. Skittles Littles. It's the same thing. Yeah, very cool.

[Andy Cortez]

Anyways, again, soft padded. These. Nice. Feel that. Feel that sleeve. You know what I mean? For getting in there.

[Snowbike Mike]

Oh my God.

[Andy Cortez]

Right? And you could you have two laptops in there if you're that kind of person.

[Greg Miller]

So now let's go over that. I love that. How big a laptop can you fit in that?

[Andy Cortez]

I believe it's 18 to 19 inches. Gaming, gaming. They're promoting on the side and then.

[Greg Miller]

On these, these can fit your switch. Steam deck. Where did you shove that Xbox Series S in this.

[Andy Cortez]

So for the Series S, right, I was running that one in here. So what I like to do with the Series S is I have the laptop there, then Series S with the X screen there, then the controller on top of it. Then I kept the headse set up here because I, you know me, I got no shame. So I was rocking the big giant Xbox.

[Snowbike Mike]

Oh yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

I was like, I gotta have the best. I mean I'm playing outer Worlds at 35,000ft. I need to have the best sound available. And Tim would tell me this probably isn't it, but I need plug and play. I just need it to work. I just need it to work.

[Greg Miller]

Hit the button, turn it on, let's go. Okay, Greg. I mean everyone in life needs a good backpack. And eventually in your life you will look and go, this is going to be the one. I'm not going to buy 7 Jan sports like snow bike Mike.

[Snowbike Mike]

I'm not going to break down seven in two years.

[Greg Miller]

Let's say to you want will eventually someone will do this and see how.

[Andy Cortez]

It like zips all the way down. Yeah. So you open it. You can like have open heart surgery on and get in there and stuff.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

9 out of 10. Amazing.

[Greg Miller]

It's interesting to me because. Yeah, I'd love to test this of like for a snowbike mic trip when I pack my clothes in one bag.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Plus this Steam deck which I always hate bringing because it takes up that so bulky with the case.

[Andy Cortez]

Dude.

[Greg Miller]

It's that extra one. It's like, that's like three T shirts or a couple pairs of jeans. Like it just takes up too much. I was just testing like how much I can shove in there.

[Snowbike Mike]

You know, I was about to bring up though, I wish we just had Ant man technology. Just.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

Because the Steam deck is such a big ass thing and it's just, it's big. It's 40 of my backpack. Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Okay. And where can people find that right before everybody?

[Andy Cortez]

I've been supporting them for years. I'll continue to support them for you.

[Greg Miller]

Take a look. I. I like the look of this one. I actually liked that mocha brown over there. I like the brown.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Leather on the front there.

[Andy Cortez]

My case. My suitcases are always going to be black. I'm always wearing black. I felt like the black was the better choice.

[Greg Miller]

That's n. I like the colors on that chocolate leather. Let's jump into some super chats to round out the show. Of course, Gondor's Condors wanted to know about Andy and lies of P. Hey, guess what? There it is right there.

[Andy Cortez]

Amazing. Because literally as Gondor's Condor sent it and he started talking about it, he goes, well, there's $5 wasted.

[Snowbike Mike]

Thank you. Gondor's condor.

[Greg Miller]

Bander sn writes in and says, I beat.

[Andy Cortez]

And then the other thing too. It just, it stands on its own. It doesn't do the wobble fobble fallover.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

I don't know. I hate a lot of about backpacks.

[Greg Miller]

Bandar Sn Wroten says I beat Pip Estrello this week.

[Snowbike Mike]

Highly recommend.

[Greg Miller]

That's the yo yo one. Did you guys see that I want.

[Snowbike Mike]

To play it so bad, but okay, that's too many games.

[Andy Cortez]

Too many. Too many games.

[Greg Miller]

New Mateo writes in for you and I and he says does your score go down if you're stuck playing solo only for Elden Ring Night Reign?

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, probably, but it'd also go down if I was on dial up Internet or something. I don't know.

[Greg Miller]

Seychelle writes in for you, Andy. Did you platinum? It took me forever to get the three wins trophy. Of course, Andy, not on PlayStation but Steam. You can still get all the trophies and rewards. You'll go back eventually. Do you think you'll try for it at all? I mean, three wins. Pretty cool achievement.

[Snowbike Mike]

I don't think it's something I'll try. I think I will just hopefully get it without really, you know, it's. It's something I'm ever gonna strive for, you know.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay.

[Snowbike Mike]

I want to play more though.

[Greg Miller]

Broken Relic writes in with our final super chat and says Birthday Tax. Happy birthday, Broken Relic. Hope you had a great day spending the day playing Death Stranding 2. Will watch slash listen later today. Well, of course enjoy Your Death Stranding 2 experience on your birthday and then check out the review after you're done. Let us know what you think.

[Andy Cortez]

I saw people in the chat asking about kind of funny games daily as well. We had a complete and total Internet failure. Just dead Internet during games daily. So if I saw people saying they're trying to find in the live tab, that'll be if. If there isn't. If there even is a live thing right now, it'll be removed and it'll be uploaded via video.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. So be ready for that. It'll be on the video tab. Greg, Andy, anything to close out today's show. We had some fun. Excited to play some more games. We're gonna play Dune Awakening right after this live on Twitch. We're gonna go back to the south desert. We're gonna pick up a brand new player, Interacts. We're gonna show bless how to play dude and get him caught up with us. It's gonna be a whole lot of fun with that. Greg. I got Peak written down for all of us to try to play next week. So that's gonna be fun for us to see and rematches somewhere out there. You know the kind of funny team we haven't got together to play Rematch like we should.

[Andy Cortez]

Get out of the.

[Greg Miller]

Game eventually we'll figure it out. But any closing thoughts before we leave the show?

[Snowbike Mike]

No.

[Andy Cortez]

I had a lot of fun. I'm excited to go play Expedition 33.

[Greg Miller]

I'm really excited to hear about this, Greg. Yeah, I'm still waiting my turn to play that, but I cannot wait to hear what your thoughts are.

[Andy Cortez]

I like this shirt a lot. The only thing I. It's not that I don't like. Yeah, the logo looks like Wingstop and it makes me want wings.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, that's good. Have you seen the hat? The hat's the fire piece of all this.

[Andy Cortez]

I like the. The beige sweatshirt you had, the tan.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, you like that one? Yeah. They did a good job with this one. Even Nick is like into this. So maybe getting Nick to buy some.

[Andy Cortez]

But no.

[Greg Miller]

This has been kind of funny. Games cast for your lovely Tuesday. We will be back with more, of course. Don't forget, we are live on twitch and on YouTube, going in to Dune to play some more Dune Awakening and of course, Games Daily. We'll be back tomorrow at 10am West coast, best coast time. What are we doing tomorrow when Superman.

[Andy Cortez]

Interviews Superman is Thursday. Also a programming note for you, Jack Quaid, the boys star.

[Greg Miller]

Ah, this is it.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, he had. He pulled a big card on us and he can't do Wednesday for the Gamescast, so he's gonna do Thursday for the games cast. And Thursday's games cast will move to Wednesday. So tomorrow you get a review of Rematch and Dune Awakening so far.

[Greg Miller]

Fantastic. We'll see you then. Goodbye.

[Andy Cortez]

Don't ever touch.