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Read the cube

Episode five:
Game Of The Year 2024 (part two)

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Contents
  • A brief explanation (00:01)
  • Absolute Fern Gully (07:44)
  • Getting award season ready (13:36)
  • Can I get a spoon? (15:33)
  • The man that covets the barnet, a chronicle (16:59)
  • Christmas movies (29:00)
  • Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth (35:53)
  • The Chinese mafia (40:17)
  • More wealth (45:23)
  • Turn based games (48:49)
  • Took to the tux tuck tuck TUC Tuck (50:31)
  • The upcoming charity no-nut run (52:09)
  • The story of the Bōryokudan Dattai-Sha (56:16)
  • Sujimon - Super Jittery Monsters (59:50)
  • The plight of Ichiban Kasuga (01:04:10)
  • Silent Hill 2 (01:10:35)
  • Leon Kennedys alternate universal self (01:12:34)
  • James Sunderlands Hottest Holiday Locales (01:14:31)
  • The gift of guilt, an introspection (01:17:02)
  • The real reason Mike loves Silent Hill 2 (01:23:04)
  • Astro Bot (01:26:00)
  • Robot cosplay (01:28:26)
  • Clean gaming, reprehensible rumbles, and difficulty spikes (01:31:30)

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0:01 We are, but we don't have to like. Start straight around yeah, yeah, we can have a couple of takes. See if it sounds good or not good yeah. So if you're listening so. I didn't know Christopher Walken. It's like a very dangerous. 0:18 So I just want to say before the episode. Oh, you lost. It I did lose it, I lost it quite quick. Hey, you might be wondering, no, I can't fucking do it. Hey, this is Jack from the Cube. Just wanted to give you a little bit of a heads up about something. 0:34 This is obviously Part 2 where you're listening to no Part 1. If you're if you're looking for Part 1 and you're thinking, hey, why is this called Part 2? I'm a missing Part 1. No, you know, you're right to ask those questions. We'll fill those answers in for you right now. Come on, fill them in. 0:50 I'm going to fill them in Part 1. I'm a drink. Buy all our collective listeners a drink first. All three of them. Well, something a little bit of a listen back to Part 1. During the editing process, it became quite apparent that it. 1:08 Was non palatable for the years. Almost unlistenable. The audios chop. It is like an echo to it and it seems that every so often. Turn into robots. A couple of us are quite quiet as well. It's It's difficult to hear us, even if we. 1:24 Yeah, even if we're this close, it's hard to hear. Us. The mics weren't picking us up. I just wanted to I'm. Not that strong. I'm trying my best, just not that strong. Technical difficulties. TLDR. 1:40 Yeah, if it's if it's something that people actually wanna listen to, then. Yeah, if you wanna hurt areas, pay money for the privilege. And will likely release it, but as it stands at the moment, I don't think it's a wise decision to put it out. Which is a shame because it was the first appearance of Shaggy on the The Cube, but he'll. 1:59 Be back. He will be back. We'll make up some new law for him. It'll probably be the same law if I can remember it washing up on a beach. He didn't wash up on the beach in the cube and we just got him from the. Yeah, or he just stumbled his way here and then we put him back on the beach at the end. 2:15 I think at the time when you hear this and when this episode goes out and you're listening to Part 2, Part 1, I think, are we making it available? It will be available on picture and like right away if you want to do that to yourself. Yeah, if you want, if you want continuity. I would say that. 2:32 Don't do it. If if you are. Don't do it. I'd say do it. It's probably not worth it, but yeah. I think it's absolutely worth it, I just think you might have a hard time. Don't put headphones on. Don't listen to it on a boom box, you'll make people not like you. 2:49 If you if you're a stickler for continuity, like. Just going to say the exact same quote phrase even I was going to say stickler for continuity. If you're a stickler for cardio, it's much like me and Mike, chances are that you're probably going to want to hear it. But. You can hear Shaggy's hot takes on sparking 0. 3:07 Is that what it's called? An Armored Core 4 if you want to. See 4. Is it 5? I don't know 6. 5 is a Vinta or something. Yeah, Rubicon. On the way it is. Yeah, he's got some decent takes on that. 3:22 So quote UN quote, decent takes on that. He's got some takes on those games. We talks. About them for a bit. Yeah, we have a jib and a jibe. We have a back and forth. If you want to hear what the dog likes with the third person involved, you know, have a listen. 3:41 Be carrying to him because I think he was a bit nervous as well. If you do listen, I think next time we have him on we should get him like mega drunk before he starts recording. But then. I was gonna say very loud when he's he's had a drink. He can't fight the autism. 3:57 When he's had a few drinks, he takes over. But yeah, that's this. That's why we're recording this. We're going to stick this at the beginning of Part 2, but yeah, please enjoy Part 2 of our video game predictions. I've been Mike. And I've been jerk. I'm slowly going insane. 4:14 I remembered I stuck with it. It's going to be my sign out for no one. It's just going to stop you dead every time. Oh my God, it really does stop him dead. I have a bit of an idea. Go on, feed me the lion again. I'm Mike. 4:30 And I'm Jack. There was more to my line than I know. Is that Is that what you want my sign off to be? I'm Mike, right? I said no more. It breaks me. I'm Mike. Yeah. 4:45 I'm Jack. Bye. Thank God we nailed it. That's what we'll do from now on. I had. I had I had a second idea doing that. 5:01 So if you go I'm Mike and I've been Jack and I'm and I just steal what you were going to say straight and I've only got on my vein and I've got insane. You're going on your break. Yeah. Oh, you're just going to steal it every time, right. 5:20 All right, so I've been Mike and I'm slowly going insane, I guess. And I've been Jack. Well, you changed yours then. No, it didn't, I said, slowly going insane. It's always been that way, like for a week. And for the past seven days, it's always been like that. 5:38 Yeah, and I said, you know what I found out? I decided for I'll just stick with this. And then I threw a spanner in your words because you were like, you know what? I'll come up with something like, I'll rhyme whatever you come up with and it'll be so quick. So off the cuff, I mean everything. I'm bit off more than I can chew, you know I. 5:55 Thought you were good at improv? So did I've obviously not like try again because because I actually forgot what what I was going to say then. And in my head I was going to say your thing, but then you said your thing. So then I didn't know what to say after it, but then it came back to me. 6:12 All right, OK, we'll go. I'm Mike and I'm slowly going insane. And I'm Jack, and there's a worm inside my brain. Fair enough. Is that what it's going to be every time or are you going to try and call me something new every time? 6:28 I honestly don't know. Because I thought you were going to go with I was going to do. I'm Mike. I'm slowly going and say it and you go. I'm Jack and I'm slowly dying of a typical brain cancer that's quite rare and not found in many people. I'm an absolute case study. They have no idea what's wrong with me. 6:46 That's it. That every time, you know, I thought might be a good idea. I don't know if if you like this, but every sign off like either I do or you do or both of us do is just a quote from The Simpsons or Futurama or some show. 7:05 So I might go, I'm Mike and you'll have to speak up. I'm wearing a towel. How about that? It ain't bad. We could try at the end of this next episode, but I will brain block creatively not be able to think of anything and say that one. But I'll try and say something different. 7:23 So yeah. Are we still doing the pre looter Part 2 by the way? I mean, it's still recording. You're probably going to stick it all in anyway. No? Enjoy Part 2. Yeah. You can't have like a 8 minute disclaimer, can you? We have to know when to say when. 7:40 Yeah, yeah, I agree it it should be because it is fun. It's fun and you don't get that kind of fun stuff with DC. You just get a edgy teenager type. 7:56 Well, yeah, you're always going to go back with DC. That's why people go there because Oh no, Marvel Comics are too light hearted and we need all our edgy comics and they even like DC. I'm fine with like comic series just being dark and dealing with like dark themes and shit, but I don't even think they do that well. 8:14 It's forced edginess and darkness. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, Batman's so cool. It's got a big axe on his chest now. And how is that cool? You know what good Biggie is? I don't know. He's really gay for Batman. Sounds like gay for big boys. 8:31 I hate it. Everyone did. Everybody did a 180 on it so fast. As soon as soon as his shit bat symbol turned out to be a fucking weapon, everyone automatically loved him. Yeah, hello. And he's got that fat fucking car. 8:49 Yeah, but. It isn't even a car, right? It's not, it's. Super stupid. It's a massive construction vehicle designed for, like, moving large amounts of earth, I guess. Yeah. Tell you what it is, it's the. I can't remember the name of it, but it's the thing that Hexus drives in Ferngulu. 9:08 Yeah, sure. It's got like a. 3 syllable name or something, but it looks a lot like that. It's probably got those giant buzzsaws as well. And a big gas monster that pilot a big pollution monster, a big sexy pollution monster, and he. Sings a sexy song. 9:26 That's it. The criminals, I guess. That is a sexy fucking song. It is. Tim Curry's got such a seductive voice. The video for that's kind of sexy as well. Like, yeah, it's graphic. 9:41 And he's like being, oh, ah, that's kind of nice. But he's like, while he's doing it, he's like a actual skeleton dripping with, like, black ooze. Something about it. Yeah, yeah. I mean I. Never saw the sequel to Firm Building. No, I didn't either. 9:59 I don't even know when it came out. Was it with all those straight to video things? Those must have been. I don't. Even know if the first phone goalie got cinema released to before I'm sure he did I would have. Thought so. I don't. Know why I? Have no idea, I don't even know. What company it was? Because it's not DreamWorks and it's not Disney and I don't know what are the big animation studios we're knocking about, unless it's like a Dom Blue thing, but I don't think it was. 10:21 All I remember thinking is the Chris's father was drawn exactly like the Sultan from Aladdin. You know, a fat pompous Pixie thing. Oh. Yeah, yeah. And it was the. Same voice. So that always confused me per that up with the fact that Robin Williams voice is Batty. 10:41 Yeah. What's going on here? Is this like a weird Disney Aladdin RIP off or something? But I think Robin Williams only did that film. He had a massive pay cut for it. Because you really like the message and you just thought it was important. You just want to get out there. 10:57 But yeah, I want my voice to that. But don't use me for marketing in anything way, shape or form because he was dead against that. And he said the exact same thing to Disney when he did Genie in Aladdin. Don't use me for marketing. Dead against that. And they did, which is why he didn't come back as the Genie in the second. 11:13 One second one. But I don't know money's money. And he came back for the third one. I don't, I don't understand why he came back. But yeah, I think the guy who was in charge of Disney at the time for Aladdin 1, he left, but then he also came back or something and then he like sort of talked him right into it, something like that. 11:34 Oh, OK. So the IT. Was like a change. Like someone who we trusted was like in charge of Disney. Then they got fired, and when they got fired, they went against his wishes. But then that guy left and then the original guy came back. So Robbie Williams had a bit more trust in the third one I guess. 11:51 Which is weird that he would even come back for the 2nd and the third one because they were both straight to VHS. They were, but that was sort of the way when it like you put the initial release like the first movie that that gets a theatre release, but every subsequent film is just straight to VHS with. 12:07 Very poor animation quality, like doesn't work. Bad like they work as good as the from your from your. Recollection they might have been great, but if you go back and try and watch Return of Jafar now it looks I'm. I'm watching them in my brain like they look great. 12:24 It looks. On par with the Aladdin TV series like that? Sort of, no it. Cannot look. Honestly, it does. Can't look better. Slightly better. They should absolutely put those old Disney shows on Disney plus because I'd watch her. They did. 12:39 They did a crossover with Aladdin and Hercules in the Aladdin TV series. Insane. Jafar and Hades team up wild. So silly and genius in it. But he has no lines which is dumb. There's no. Lines. Yeah, it's. Something about they couldn't get older Dan Castanella or something or I don't know why. 12:59 He's only fucking doing on the Simpson, isn't it? That's the guy took over the genie for the second one. If you didn't know that, I didn't. Know that no, you do. Every day is. A school day every. Day is a day for education, perfect. 100% education and perfect. 13:35 Anyways, stuff another sort of trapped in the cube. I am Jack. I am Mike. I am. Mike I. I am Iron Mike. Perfect. I was wondering if you'd already hit replay and I'm I'm replay play record. 13:53 I was wondering if you'd already hit it or not. I'm glad you did because I was like, when's he going to do the bit where it gets me? But you found a lull. You found a lull. I got it. Those are the things that that I was going to like start talking about I suppose. 14:11 But I thought maybe like 5 minutes or so that's that's enough for a cold open. I guess where where? I mean, I always feel like I'm such an old man looking for my notes on my phone, I just forget where they are. Fodder for. The cube fodder for the cube fodder for the cube cube fodder. 14:29 So today we're going to be continuing our discussion about what we think. The game of the year was. Maybe what should be game of the year, or maybe more accurately is what we think is probably the best games of the year our. 14:45 Timings all wrong because on Monday day of recording Earth time, that's when they're announcing their. Oh my God, that's when Jeff. Keeley is going to announce the Game of the Year nominees. For the future listener, that's two days away. 15:04 Three days away Monday. Yeah, it'll probably, if anything, it's more like Tuesday because like it'll be 4. Days away, yeah. I'm curious to see how spot on and right we were. There's no room for error. 15:21 I'm curious to know how exactly right we are. Why would we be wrong? We shot. For the moon and we've landed amongst the stars, thought you're. Gonna make it rhyme then was shot for the moon and this is a spoon it worked really well because they can't say you're holding up that spoon that you had prepared it's. 15:40 Quite big as well. It's quite a big spoon. I don't look it, no. The fact that I'm actually leaning over like you've got something. I'm peeping over the fucking laptop. Where is it I? 15:56 Was Yeah, I think he's actually got a spoon. I lied and I convinced myself that you actually had a spoon. I'm still kind of convinced. Again for listener. Mike peeped again. Can't stop peeping. You put things from it to peep over. 16:13 I'm going to pee. I'm going to want to see. Was this spoon God Ash? God damn. Ash really enjoyed that bit. If you heard that, that was Ash batting his back legs on the floor like a fucking rabbit. 16:31 Occasionally in work, if someone asks me for like a spoon, oh, can I, can I get a spoon Please wait later. And they just look at me blankly and go what? And then I'm not explaining it to them because it's just a long winded way for just tell them what spooning is. 16:50 Or I might do variations on it, like not here, it's too public or I'm not really that tired and so on and so forth. I was having a silly laugh with them customer the other day on the headset and they drove around and they went, Oh, can I get can I get one of you Terry's chocolate muffins, please? 17:08 I'm like, oh, I don't know, I'll have to ask him first. And I just did this whole bit where I like move the headset further away. I was like Terry, Terry, Oh, this lady, this person. 17:25 Yeah. This lady, this lady's asking, she can. This lady's asking if she can have one of your muffins. Yeah. Is Terry deaf? Terry, that's why I'm shouting. 17:41 He's right next to me and then I'll pop back on the headset I got. Terry says it's fine. He's not too happy about it, but he's going to let let you have one of his muffins. That's fine. And then she's having a giggle about it, but I think she's kind of annoyed at the situation. 17:59 She just came through for a muffin and a drink anyway. She's probably like late for work. I'm. Doing this bit. Fucking 5 minute long conversation with myself. 18:17 And she just went to window and stuff and my manager said whatever, he's he's having a bit of a laugh with her. He's trying to join in and add to the joke. And I'm like, oh, Terry said it was all nice and good. And I just give him a what? I'm on the, I'm on the machine making a drinks and he's, oh, he's making this quip about Terry. 18:34 He's like, Oh yeah, he's he's, he's not too happy about it. And I give him a walk for it. And I'm just like, don't, don't, don't. You're killing the vibe. You're killing the mood. It's not, not it. Stop it. But he's like sponging off my fucking bit, adding to it. 18:52 It seems so fucking forced. Very annoyed by that. And then when she drives off, it's all like, oh, brilliant flirting that Mike, Absolutely brilliant flirting. You could have got a number if you want to. I went, I wasn't flirting with her. I was just doing a silly bit. 19:08 I didn't know it was a woman when she pulled up, you know, I just, I was just doing a bit and he was adamant that I was like flirting with this woman and that that was the end goal and be all, end of all. I'm like, if it was a bloke, that conversation would have gone exactly the same. And if you stick around long enough, you'll hear me do that sort of shit to men as well as women. 19:26 So I'm just being. So it's like brilliant flirting. You could. I'm not, you know, at least I'm not flirting with a woman. I don't even know how to flirt. Stop it. It's like it doesn't matter. She laughed at you. That means it's flirting. So I'm never allowed to be funny around anybody. 19:42 Thanks. No, just. Not women like, apparently. So insane, but stupid idiot. Oh, he'll listen and he'll go. He'll cry a little bit. Should I say some really mean things to it? 20:01 You can't. You might actually listen because when I want to tell people that this is the thing that we're doing and it's going out there, you'll absolutely have a listen curiosity because I think it's kind of like low key obsessed with it. I've heard some people say in work that he's strangely obsessed with my her and he's like kind of jealous of it in this. 20:23 He's like, he's bald, you know, but he sort of laments the fact that I have her and he doesn't because I've heard him say, well, I've not heard him say, but people have come up to me and told me. They said, Oh yeah, he really likes your hair. And he's told us if I had my hair, I I'd look after it better than he does. 20:45 I'm like, what? What? It's gonna get greasy. How? Does he know what your routine is exactly? You know what I mean? Hey, that's ridiculous. And I just. Know he's seething at my heart, looking I treat you right. Looking at it on my head, I can. 21:02 Take you away from this. I wish I'd look at oh, I heard doesn't appreciate being on your head. I look after you so hard. I'll treat you right. Come home with me, baby. And it's so fucking weird that one fucking I'm doing like. 21:20 Weirdest for I'm doing like. 910 hour shifts daily. There's a journey to get to and from work. If I'm on the early next day, I'm not washing my hair like that night. I'm not washing my hair every fucking night before shift. You're not supposed to anyway, exactly. 21:36 All right, I might wash it like twice a week 3 times like that, but it takes like fucking 3-4 hours foot dry anyway. Ridiculous. But yeah, that's something I think. Genuinely, I think that that's a perfectly, yeah, not just normal, but a healthy way to do it, I mean. 21:54 Like it's, it's thick, it's luscious, it's long, you know, it's all. Those things are more if it was. Unhealthy, I don't think I wouldn't be looking after it right. It wouldn't be none of those things. If you didn't look after it, this man wouldn't covet your hair so much, would it? 22:12 Exactly. He wouldn't be so lustrous of it, but he's. Also got in his head that I've that I've been fat shaming him lately. Oh. My God and. I don't know if this is considered fat shaming or not, but. 22:27 Oh, this will be good podcasting. Oh yeah. Is faction or not in my head but. Tell me if this is racist. God I was. 22:44 Gonna I was gonna do a joke there. I was gonna say bleep her and then you'd bleep it out so it would sound like I'd said something else, but but if you bleep that out, it's just going to sound like I actually said it anyway, so it defeats the object of the joke. Fucking fall into my hands. Yeah, I know. 23:00 I mean, you could still do it now because I've done that bit and then whatever, but hopefully the explanation will save me from you can't get cancelled in the cube. You can do what you want, he says worriedly. But what if, what, what if there's been a crack? 23:16 What, what if the cancel, please can get me in the cube Anyway, so for listeners and whatnot, I've lost quite a lot of weight this year, you know, and I think I've done quite well for myself very well. 23:32 And this guy is like is relatively new to the job. He's new to the he doesn't really know us that well. He's been with us for about 3 or 4 months now. And a lot of people he's he's, he's said to a few people, I am going to try and lose weight. I'm going to try and lose weight. So a couple of people have directed him to my way saying Mike's lost a lot of weight recently. 23:52 Why don't you talk to him about it? So he did, he had a word with me and oh, did you do it? And I taught him the routine. I taught him what I did and whatnot and just told him like, it's, it's no secret. It's just diet, exercise and watch what you eat. You know, it's not hard. And commitment is a big thing as well. 24:08 So why he asked me this? He was getting his dinner and for his dinner he had two sausage bans, two sausage bars. And I'd say to him, I, I. Almost said something. I'd say to him, who's that other sausage bound for? And he went, well, they're both mine. 24:24 I went, well, that was your first problem. That's, that's not going to get you nowhere. If you want to lose weight and you're having 2 fucking sausage bounds, it's not going to do anything. And then as soon as he asks them, he goes into he, he goes, he starts making himself a like a, an oyster drink, like a big thick milkshake. 24:41 What we, what we sell with all manner of like syrups in it, like fudge brownie or whatnot in it and all that shit. I mean, we're having that form. Why you having such a big one? That's insane. You want to lose weight, right? It's like stop fat shame. Stop fat for shaming. I'm not fat shaming. 24:56 I'm just calling out you being a little piggy. OK, I didn't say that, but I'm just calling out. I might just watch what you eat. You know, just don't over indulge. You don't. You absolutely do not need 2 sausage bombs for your for your break one or do you? 25:14 How many sausages per balm is it? Yeah, 3. The fur thick as well little thick boys but you don't need 6 sausages on your on one break. That's that's over indulgent to me. Food. Bombs as well. Hey, what's what's the circumference of the bomb? 25:32 I wrote. Huh, quite high as well. They're very they're very stodgy, quite a lot stone baked stop. They're actually they look kind of small in comparison. They're not like, you know, people listen to. What? Because if you went to. If you just held your. Hands up if you went. To a supermarket and you know you get those 6 pack of baps for the listener. 25:50 Mike held up his hands. And you did. This this. Is what he did and he said he would not be OK that's. A bit too, right? Like essentially Mike describes 2 bin lids. 26:10 OK, they're not that big. OK they are relatively small, but one's still enough to fill you up. Be better. If I had bacon on there, it would be better with an extra sausage on there, in my opinion. But I think 2 is enough. One's enough even. But if you throw in, I didn't know if he threw away the the bap for the second one and just have like a big sausage thing because sometimes I'll occasionally do that at work. 26:32 I'll, I get a sausage and I get a bacon balm and I'll take the bacon off one of them. Just put it on the sausage and throw away the bread, you know? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, if I can't. Be bothered going buying a sausage bacon balm from like the local Greggs or whatever. But every day I keep like checking him for not checking him. 26:50 But every time I see him overindulge or have a little snacky snack or something on shift, I'll have a go at him for it. And he says it's fat shame. And I'm like, did you want my help or not? And he went well? No. Well, why did you? Why did you? Ask anyway, he said. He says, All right, in the new year, I'm going to set this challenge right. 27:08 I'll put money on it. I'll set you this challenge. I'm going to get to like fucking 80kg or 70 kilograms or whatever he said it was. And you can do the same thing and the winner gets £10 or something like that. And I went, well that's not fair is it? 27:24 Like what? Why is it not fair? And anyway, actually, actually, if I win, I get to shave your head. And I went and keep. Your hair, which is what I. Think he was getting at and went well, no, because it's because it because it's still not fair. Is that why is it why is it not fair? Why is it not fair? It's like because one the goal that you've set for yourself and meet to reach I'm kind of nearly at like goal myself like if I put in a little bit more effort into what I'm doing, I could get to that goal before the next year starts. 27:53 So that's and then he thought about it for a second. He went well that's not fair then is it I'm like you, you you set the parameters for this challenge. There's no way you're getting my hermit. There's no way you get my because that's clearly that's all he wants and he's trying to come up with some convoluted solutions to trying to get my hair any way shape he can and you know he'd have to be wanted to shave it because it's obviously going to be some sort of like a fetish thing for him. 28:22 Oh. It'll be cooling it with his fingers for a good 10 minutes before he even turns the Clippers on. 100%, OK. Goddamn BAE leans. In and whispers to my ear and he does the noises of a shaver so he's like making me convinced he's cutting it. It goes the big in here to. 28:41 Be fair, it's a. Bumblebee my hair does. Grow like really fast anyway, so it'd only take me about a year to get it to this length again. We should just anger him even more. You know you'll still be here in a year, so I'm going. I've usually done that again. Why shaking his first at me? 28:59 Another annoying thing you did recently, and this is him like I get it, he's trying. He wants us to all like he thinks it's in the spirit and he thinks it's fun and it's just a little game that work people can play. But I think it's pathetic and I think it's way too try hard. He's got a list of Christmas films on the wall. 29:17 He's got a little tally next to it going you can tick for your favorite 1, you know, see which one wins is the ultimate Christmas movie. No prize in it, no nothing. Just see which film wins the ultimate Christmas movie. The thing is, there's too many films up there on this little board, too many options. 29:32 There's about 17 staff members in total and you've already got about like 9 films up there and that's stupid because and there's room. So if your film's not up there that you want to add, add it yourself. So every everything's going to be everyone's just going to write their favorite film there and nothing's going to win. 29:49 One person wrote the Nativity 1-2 and three down one not classic films because the relatively new ish. I think it's. Also not one film it's also. Not one fucking film. And one of the films in his, his suggestion was Christmas Chronicles and I went, what the fuck is the Christmas Chronicles anyway? 30:08 Oh, it's a classic film. It's a classic. I went when it come out, I don't know, a few years ago. No, it's not a classic. Oh, but it was so popular, Michael, it was so popular. How come we got a sequel? That means nothing. That means fucking nothing. And you, the people know your audience, the people that you work with, aren't they? 30:25 We're not a lot of these people. They're not film people. They're not moviegoers. They just, people are watching casually. Yeah. Right down Home Alone, right down Muppets Christmas Carol, right down Die Hard. Whatever. And Die Hard is up there on the elf. That's another one that'll probably win. Yeah. 30:41 Yeah, You know, but Dyad's up there as well. And it's like every single person is. You settle the debate, you settle the debate. It's Dyad a Christmas movie. I'm sick of that. I'm absolutely sick of people saying it's Die out of Christmas movie. One, it is, and two, move on. Yeah, like there's no argument to say why it's not, you know, I did. 31:00 I don't see why it is or it isn't. It's like I don't put that again. I'm like in the camp of like, I don't think Die Hard 2 is a Christmas movie, even though it is so Christmas. And I feel like people are get angry at that because it's like, I don't know, the themes of Die Hard 2 don't really resonate Christmas for me. 31:18 It just doesn't. And then people are like, well, if Die Hard's a Christmas movie, Batman 2's a Christmas movie, I'm like, well, no, just because it's sat at Christmas doesn't necessarily mean it is a Christmas movie. Bruce Wayne's not trying to see his family for Christmas is. 31:37 It he'd like to. Oh yeah. He'd love to see what what his mum and dad got him for Christmas. But I say the same thing about Iron Man 3 because people use that argument as well. Iron Man 3 is a Christmas movie because it's set during Christmas. What makes you say it's set during Christmas? 31:54 There's a scene when his house gets attacked and there's a Christmas tree in a big teddy bear, like wrapped up in a boat. I'm like, oh, I guess it is set near Christmas because it's directed by Shane Black and Shane Black sets all these things, right? Christmas. I'm like, not a Christmas film, but was it? He's not trying to see his family. He's not trying to like there's no love, there's no warmth, there's none of that Christmas spirit. 32:12 There's no Christmas music in there. Yeah. Iron Man doesn't say ho ho, ho. No. I have a report sublaster at any point. Yeah. I'm sick of the argument still going around because it's like people have been argumental. It's. Hard didn't go through sizes that day. 32:28 Yeah, not. Like fucking Hans Gruber's. Thank God. No, I'm just I'm just sit to death for the argument of Die hard. Is it or is it not a Christmas movie? Because it shouldn't be an argument. It just shouldn't be an argument. And at this point, I don't care if you think it's not a Christmas movie. 32:46 I'm not going to argue with you think that be wrong. I'm not going to try and convince you otherwise because I feel like I've been having this argument discussion since I was like 13. And I'm I'm a few years older than that now. I'm almost drinking age. 33:03 Hey, they can't see my face. They don't know how old I am. They just have got long luscious Baker that's coveted by a 40 old fat man. Hey, you don't know his age, but yeah, you're right. He's for absolute dachshund. 33:20 Him. You're gonna find out where he lives. Get on the Internet. Fuck, dude. What's it called where you send a a SWAT in where you just send a SWAT, an army and SWAT people to his house. 33:38 He's got a. Sausage bar maybe? I said to him as well, in the new year, if I catch you, if if you want to do this challenge that you've set yourself, am I about to slap sausages out your hand? He was. It was a fun moment as well. He was talking to some one of the new hires, one of the Christmas tents. 33:55 They're all like 19 or lower. You know, it's like working with children's always a bit weird, especially in an environment when everyone's like, mature enough to be talking about what you got to watch what you say and shit like that. Yeah. Yeah, but. We're talking about how old you think I am, old you think you are and whatnot. 34:11 This girl, she was saying, oh, do you think I am? As, I don't know, at 17 or something? She was 16. And then I said, oh, do you reckon I am? She says like, and my man is just the and I'd swear down he's like, I can't show his. I can show you his face, but the listeners can't see his face. I'm like, oh, do you reckon I am sure. 34:28 I don't know about like 2526, something like that. And I smiled, beamed at this because naturally I'm going to do if someone says a lot younger than I am. A lot of people say I still like in my 20s, which I think is understandable, but managed to just look distraught by the fact that I looked young and people think I look young. 34:48 And his face was like it was like Doc Brown when he set his rags on fire in in Back to the Future Part 3. Then immediately I'm going. How old do you think I am, if you don't mind me asking? Then her turn around. I don't know 104. 35:06 I don't know. How old is Mr. Burns and The Simpsons? Do you know? Do you know actually you're a celebrity you remind me of. Have you ever seen, have you ever seen the Brendan Fraser's of the Mummy? You know, when they first find the Mummy. 35:28 He wishes he was that skinny. Oh my God, God. I've been holding on to all this pre ramble all fucking week, knowing, keeping it in my head, knowing it's going to be good fodder for the cube. 35:50 Cube fodder. Right, so video games we're actually up to. We did spark in zero last. Do you want to talk about infinite wealth or something to I'll talk about? Infinite wealth. We'll talk about infinite wealth. I've rambled on a bit. 36:06 You can ramble on just like see. If if I take infinite wealth, it's gonna be about, I'll say if I take Silent Hill too, then that leaves you infinite wealth. And then you have to talk about that game and you've not even played it, that is. True, and I've struggled. There's a person in it. 36:25 It's war it. Never ends. You like infinite wealth, right? Yeah. I really enjoyed it. I really enjoyed all the. Yakuza like a drug, yeah. It's off the top of that. I couldn't tell you what number it is, but it is from I bet I. 36:40 Could go on 12 let me. Do a quick look so. Include Zero and the zombie game and the one set in Fuel Japan as well. Asian Asian are you doing? This because you've already looked it up? No, no. No, no, I'm not looking up. 36:57 I don't fucking know. The fucking memes means to fucking research. You don't have the Internet, I mean. OK, OK, the the world with all the the the the botheredness. Let's see. So 6 main line games plus zero 12. 37:16 Seems well off. I don't. Think it is that far off, you know? Yeah, sorry. Plus zero. Plus zombies, plus Ishin, the man who raised his name. All right. Like a. Dragon like a Dragon 2 What? About there's those two detective ones. They're set. In the same universe, but they're not they're not a part of the story. 37:34 Although saying that two of the characters from that game do appear in infinite wealth, so you. Got there for like connected all of. Our cult scene Bill. Then they part. Of the same fucking world then. Well, I. Guess you'll absolutely be 14 then I suppose. So without those two, would it be? 37:51 Yeah. 12 Oh fuck man. It's going to do the actors though. He doesn't know already. I didn't know already. That's why I told you to add those extra ones because I thought we were far off. I generally didn't. Just poured it out my ass. 38:08 I had my fingers in my in the eye cone and as you could see, yeah. Do you think I can lock and cone at the same time? Do you think I am the fucking mathemagician who sees? My God. What'd you give it out of 10? 38:26 It's a really good fucking game, we'll be honest with you. Like a nine. Yeah, it's the latest of the. Greatest. Well, I don't know. About greatest I mean nines. Pretty fucking great, I mean. All of them are pretty fucking good games. You can also. 38:41 Include the Yakuza TV series in the kind of video game scene. Yeah, they did. A movie like Did You? Do a film a couple of years ago, it's like straight to DVD as well. Yeah. Was that any good? I've always. Seen like little bits of it what I saw. Yeah. No, it wasn't bad. 38:57 Do you know what I mean? Wait, I. Forgot that they did a fucking film but. Yeah, placed in the series of the Yakuza or Like a Dragon, not the. Infinite wealth series? No, no. That's just the subtitle of the Way as well. Until what's that new one called? 39:13 It's what's going to be coming in. It's like Pirate. It's just is it? It's not. Is it infinite wealth? A subtitle in it as well? Is it Yakuza? Hawaii pirate I think. It is Hawaiian pirate, isn't it? I'll have a look. For you while you're having a chat. Anyway, well, we're not going to talk about Hawaiian pirate. 39:29 That's not what we like a dragon. Infinite wealth is Well, I'll just tell you about the series. It's. Not like a dragon pirate yakuza in Hawaii. I am looking forward to it. Yeah, it. Looks fun, I've never really finished the Yak as a game, I have a dabbled in a few of them. 39:49 Looks really. Fun and the main character is fun favorite as well he is. A fun guy. I remember him from like 0 and one, I think from the games I've dipped into. He's always seems fun. Yeah, really. And it's straight up action. Yeah, character action, which I always fuck about with. 40:08 But it was said that the Like a dragon games from the Yakuza series are turn based. I saw a team fight type stuff. Essentially what the storyline to these games is an ex Yakuza which for the listener is Japanese mafia so. 40:26 An ex Yakuza member is a Japanese mafia member, no? The Yakuza, you said the. Ex Yakuza, is that not what you said? You hurting? My feelings I heard. You say this is about someone who was an X yak is a member and then you said an X yak is a member and I did not. 40:44 Imply and I was. Expecting, is it not? Implied the the prefix of X. Means you know, isn't that? Anymore, Yeah. And you said an X jak is a member is known as Chinese Mafia I. Did not say I cannot. Wait for you to I cannot wait till you play this fucking bat and you edit and while you're editing, tapping away you go son of a gun. 41:07 Well, I got I got to move, so I don't want like a fucking fool now, right? And you will allow. Me. What is the next Yakuza member called? Chinese mafia? Japanese. Mafia Japanese. Mafia that that. Is staying in. You definitely said the next Yakuza member's called. 41:25 Allow me to reiterate then. The main storyline of Yakuza follows an ex Yakuza member. A Yakuza member is someone who was a part of the Japanese mafia. 41:42 What I'm gonna? Do is I'm gonna cut it? No like 5 minutes before Wasn't it just just is it in the apart from you saying Yakuza is Chinese mafia? You absolutely won't do that, because one. 41:59 Because. One, this is all funny and part of a bit and then you being serious and me looking like an absolute fucking racist idiot isn't as funny as this entire bit and then also explaining the bit is also funny. It's. Funny also. 42:16 It sounds like a lot of fucking effort that I know you won't want to do it. Well, easy, I'm telling you, don't do it. Keeping it. Just keep everything in. I'm gonna. Call, I'm gonna call all of the Lycodragon stuff we saw from you saying. So this entire segment is, do you want to talk about Yakuza Infinite wealth? 42:39 Yeah, I do. And then me going Chinese mafia, just leaving it and then carrying on. And that's the whole bit now. Then you talk about side Hill now, so it's gonna play. That's going to be so confusing and boring to the listeners. 42:56 I'm keeping all this in justice. For me, yeah. Better leave it in, Oh my. God so this X Yakuza member. Chinese mafia. That's got to be a T-shirt if we have a new merch X Yakuza. 43:15 Chinese mafia. Or maybe we could remix that into a song. For the Cube Chinese mafia. X mafia for the cube. Just put some put some oriental sounding things above that as well. 43:38 Look, if we. Can get away with it in the 90s, we could get away with it now can I get? Cancelled in the can I get? Cancelled in the cube. It's been established. If in Rush hour 2 when Chris Hooker goes to fucking China and then they just start playing Asian themed music, I'm sure we can get away with it. 43:56 Yeah, I think so. Yeah. Yeah, I'll. Yeah, if you ever rewatched Rush Hour 1-2 and three. Incredibly problematic if you rewatch it. I haven't seen them for a good many years. I. Rewatched the first two like about a year ago and I was just wincing a lot throughout like oh don't remember these being as racist as what they are awful and incredibly fucking kind of not. 44:24 It's only sexist but really fucking pervy. Like Jackie Jam perving on a fucking woman through binoculars going I slow down the baby. Yeah. 44:41 Because that's how he says it. I mean, Chris Tucker taking his binoculars and also looking at her and then they go in and save the girl and they only saved her because they were fucking perving on her. But then Jackie Chan's like saying, Oh no, what I was doing was cute women like cute. 44:57 I'm like Snoopy. I'm like, none of this makes no goddamn sense. What a weird thing to say. Sorry I was only permanent because I'll be like Snoopy. Maybe I'm remembering the bit wrong there. Do not do not remind you of Snoopy. You know, remind me of a snoopy perv. 45:14 You fucking snoopy perv. You perfect. So like a dragon? Well, say in Hawaii, for the most part of the game, you control two different main characters at different points. 45:35 There's a lot of fun, silly little things that you can do. You know what I mean? Still do. Karaoke in this one still do. Karaoke you can. You can sing karaoke as all of the main cast. Oh, that's cool. Of which there's like 9 of them. I think like 9 to 10 it's too. 45:52 Many to do karaoke with. They all get. Like 2 songs each. I think it is. It's an. Achievement to do them all, yeah. I think so they should be. For every. Like lighthearted silly, like stupid joke type stuff. There's an incredibly brutal underlying sort of factor to everything. 46:10 Because it is about the mafia, you know, isn't it? Just like every yuck is a game, though. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Great. Rescue this baby from these evil people. Yeah, I'll do that. But first, we just played Go Karts. Yeah, in the first Like a Dragon game, Yeah, they had a full Mario Kart game. 46:31 Dragon Kart. Good. Yeah, there are arcades that you can find where you can play full games in. There are. Old State Games as well in IT like virtual fighter and shit. Yeah, you can play. Darts you can go, bowling, you can play golf, you can go to a batting cage. 46:49 If you wanted to do you could. Did they ever? Put like a full original Sonic the Hedgehog in one of the games because they should have done. Because that's the only reason I'd get it, just to play Sonic again for the millionth time. Oh. So what's your favorite version of the Sonic the Hedgehog? 47:05 Or it's the one that you can play in Yakuza. That's the best one. But I'm sure it's like if they put a full virtual fighter in there, there's. It's not inside the realms of possibility that they could have done. Yeah. But then again, it's not really an arcade game, is it? It wouldn't make sense. I think the. Last two games have had the full game of Virgin Fighter three and five that's. 47:25 Insane, but that makes sense for an arcade I guess. And it is like rooted in the 90s. Weren't they were in the 90's? The original Yakuza already just sat when they came out the first part. Of the first game was sitting like 95. Fair enough. 47:41 Then he goes to prison for 10 years. Oh. Yeah, it's. Hard cuts to 2005 and that's what sort. Of similar to the progresses. From 2000. And five game driver parallel lines where the first half of the game is the 70s and then the second-half of the game is set in 2005. 47:59 You know what? I don't know if it's even 2005. That's just me pulling out my ass again, but it'd be crazy if it was right, you know? I never. I played driver power lines and I really enjoyed the 70s part of it, but soon as I went to prison and then did the 2000 section I just stopped playing. 48:16 LA wasn't as charming in in 2005, yeah. Boo. Actually. Oh. So close 2006. Oh shit. Oh what a what a year to pull from. That was so close. Yeah, if ever release you something I'd probably play that again. The concept seems cool, but as soon as I weren't wearing orange Floyd pants, I just didn't. 48:38 This is shit now it's. Absolutely shit swapped out these fucking brown clothes for these leather jackets. Boom. Look at hell yeah, yeah, yeah, I know that you don't like turn based games. Not a big. Fan. I don't. Like turn based games either. 48:54 Lies. I can name at least two turn based games that you absolutely love. Like a dragon. Yeah. Hawaii. Infinite Hawaii. Infinite is Hawaii. Not in the title, no. No, it should be. It's set in Hawaii Infinite. 49:10 Wealth. Oh, it's the next one that has Hawaii in the title. Yeah, so infinite Hawaii wealth and. Like a dragon. Hawaii forever. 5 or yeah, exactly. And. Persona yeah, yeah, you got on your light Final Fantasy 7, I mean the original I've. 49:31 Never played. No, that's it. We won't go into that. The new one's not turn based, but yeah, no, you've played more than a you've played more than four turn based games, Yeah. But I've not enjoyed most of them, yeah. Fair enough, I did. 49:47 Really enjoy personally, right? I did really enjoy Boulders Gate 30. Yeah, why don't I completely forgot about that? Well, I mean. All all the other ones get steel and bowling. Very cool, I know. Boulders gate 3 is a turn based game, but for me it doesn't play like a turn based game. You know what I mean? 50:03 Well, that's. That's the difference, though. Smart. Is smart, Is tragedy play like? A turn base? Yeah, this all doesn't play like a turn base. So many people listening and angry now that yeah, it does. I don't know. I can't speak about. Your opinion? Because we're talking about fact I. Can't write your opinion because we're in the cube. 50:22 Just try. I can't hear you. Just try and get there. So, in trouble for the kids? Yeah. You break down these walls, then we'll see what happens. You survive a fucking albatross tuck in. You can't, can you? My. God, we. 50:39 Veterans are albatross tuck in. No, I just feel like albatross is like some raging drag Queens. Excellent tuck in. You'll never find that albatross is Dick can tuck it so far back in the tuck. That's what maybe that's what a tuck in and is. Maybe he doesn't tuck us in at night. Maybe he tucks our Dick back. 50:57 Oh my God, takes it down. He makes us a lot like women. Then he looks at us and he goes, yeah, alright. Flies off onto his next albatross victim. That's some new law, fire. Perfect new law. He tucks our Dicks back and then he tucks us in bed. 51:13 He. Tucks us and tucks us. That's if he catches us and then he. Then he makes us wear the suit. He tucks us, and he tucks us and he tucks us. He. Puts us in a tux, he tucks us back and then he tucks us in. God, sometimes he's wearing a little microbe and he's got a ball patch on his and we call him Friar Tux. 51:39 Sometimes he buys these little biscuits for us and he talks us and he talks us and he talks us and he talks us and he talks us. Mr. Talks, please. There's only so many talks we can take. 51:56 Well, you should have stopped recording when you stop recording then, shouldn't you, boys? No, Mr. Tox. Essentially you have a bit more control and just I hate you and then you hate me and we do that until one of those dies. 52:14 Yeah. Which is essentially a lot of turn based game, isn't it? Yeah. Which is what makes. It boring you know there's no real skill to adult thing. You just have to be the guy with the higher starts you just got to. Know what buttons to press? When to press them? That's just all video games though I guess. 52:32 Pressing X? Oh God, yeah. You do have some control over. Pressing the attack button at the right time will lead to create essentially, yeah. Give you a buff pressing. Guard at the right time will lessen damage. 52:48 You know what I mean? So so it. Is possible to do a no hit run, not? Necessarily, and well, I mean you could, but you have to really ramp up with your agility stat is I guess is it? Possible to do a no nut run? Is it possible to without any nuts? Yeah, is it? Possible to do the entire game without busting a nut to it? 53:04 Is it not that sexy I mean? I I managed to not managed to do yak. Is a infinite wealth and a no no run? Yeah. That's it. That should be a new a new streaming service, Games for Charity, where we just play video games and try not to ejaculate. 53:24 Should be relatively easy. I don't think I've ever come once from playing a video game well. We're gonna make so much money for charity. Hi, welcome to the No No run of Demon Souls. Easy. Everything's grotesque. The. Special charity. 53:39 No, no, of we're. Gonna we're gonna take our time with it. It's not games done quick. We're not those guys. This is no note runs for no note November. We could also kind of like put all the money to like prostate cancer, something like that. 53:58 Yeah, I think that's a word because, and it seems fitting, you know, just don't come while you play games. Yeah, yeah. And if. You fail, you get no money and I and I feel like it's a good win win situation for everyone because it's very rare that we're going to fail. 54:13 And no, not run. Just don't put like a dead or alive volleyball in our face because that's the ultimate challenge. I don't know, Borders Gate 3 has got some dicey moments because of your romance I guess, but as long as I am not touching my Dick and my hands are on the controller, I shouldn't. 54:34 I should shouldn't. I shouldn't be coming. I shouldn't. Have enough stimulus to in. Theory. Yeah. So come in, no pun intended. Yeah, some point next year we're going to do an in the cube. 54:52 No, not run a video games where we play a game to completion but we will not be completed. The games of completion, but not Jack and Mike to completion. Absolutely not no the game no no run of crash bandicoot 3 warped let's go spyro 3 year of the dragon no not run oh shit, that one has got that squirrel in it She's a. 55:18 Falling shit I don't. Know but she's hot we're all right if we play the PS1 version we can get away with that but remastered yeah she's. Only made out of like 20 polygons in the earth. Yeah, fucking are you thinking? 55:33 About cutting my Dick in her, I guess on all those edges. Nobody wants that. Nobody wants a cut Dick. Sorry for all the circumcised listeners out there who have a cut Dick. It's weird that my my cube would like. To announce an apology to the Jewish community. 55:52 Is it wrong I want to say cut Dick? I'm imagine like a really swole jacked. Up, yeah. Shit, your Dick is cut son. Thanks bro. That's how I imagine it's like going to the gym regular with other gym people. 56:09 It's a shame we're stuck in this cube. Absolute no cut Dicks for us I think. That's about it. For Like a Dragon, you don't even. Tell me what the story is. Oh. Shit, the story follows Ichiban Kasiga is the he's the new. 56:27 He's the ex. Mafia guy, right story. From China, he is actually an X Yakuza as well as the original mainline protagonist. Oh yeah, story starts off. He's trying to help all the X Yakuza find work do. 56:44 X Yakuza have a name? Or is that just something like a specific name, like, oh, he's a gloat. A gloat. Yeah, he's Matthew. I don't know. I'm just trying to think about what would be a name for an ex mafia member. Yeah, I'm just, I'm a gloat. 57:01 Trying to help all the gloats out. Just trying to help a gloat out of a shitty situation. We got to stick together as gloats. Somebody like, what's a gloat? Ex mafia member? Doesn't that mean Chinese mafia? No. 57:16 Common misconception. We call gloats shout. Out to the gloat that helps out. Right. So you're helping out, you're helping out, you're helping out other. Gloats helping out the other gloats as a gloat myself right he's he's working in like a. 57:37 Gloat factory. He's a gloat farmer. He's growing in big crop of gloats. I don't know if you know, Shaggy's not with us this week. Oh. Yeah, after like 50 minutes, let's just suggest I. Just thought it was relevant for the people wondering his part doing he's gone, he's quiet. 57:58 Today, Yeah. Yeah, it was. Quiet like it was quiet. Lastful time as well I. Think it takes a bit of getting used to. It does take. A bit of getting used to talking to. Someone, but also making sure you're talking to a mic as well, yeah. He'll get there. He'll get there. Yeah. Yeah. Next time he washes up on the shows, just what do you do with him after the session? 58:18 We threw him back on the beach, buried him in some sand so he could avoid a severe tucking a. Level 5 talk. He would not survive that. That's what all. Newcomers get that's that's so you know, if you can, if you can manage through your first token, you can survive in the cube. 58:42 Never pleasant. Never. Pleasant. So yeah. You're helping out ex mafia guys. He's he's working in like a work agency type place, you know what I mean? The bluey gets fired. Fair enough, along with his other friends from the first game, Kazma. 58:58 There as well, he gets fired. Not yet. Kazma's not in it for a little bit. Firm. This, this, this part's still setting Japan all right. OK, Yeah. Kazma, that comes into it once you get to Hawaii, what are you? Doing in Hawaii. Maybe I should play this game. Yeah, probably. 59:14 Honestly. It says I got a lot of questions that need answering. Fine, I'll play it. Really good is another little sort of side bit mini game. It's got its own Pokémon adventure I guess. 59:33 Or you. Can catch them and shit, yeah. Can you battle them? Catch. Them love them all. You can fight all the trainers. There were five gym battles. Fork as well. How many? Not Pokémon out of the catch. Oh. Fork like 250? Seriously. 59:49 Yeah, that's insane. Yeah, I know. They're like real world animals. Or are they like Pokémon knockoffs like Power World? Oh. It's more Pokémon style. You're not catching animals right? You're catching. People. People Mom yeah fucking hell yeah have you got elements to it as well have you got like elements or like this is an electric person this is a fire person so on this guy's rock solid there are. 1:00:14 Five types, right? There's Lee's nature, ice. I think it is all cold or something like that. They've got light and dark type as well. Fuck. It seems like there's a lot and it sort. Of works in like a rock paper scissors type thing. Yeah, so like. 1:00:30 Classic Pokémon shit like Blaze will kill Ice or whatnot. Yeah. Well, it's it's Blaze kills nature. Yeah, Nature defeats. Dark defeats. What? It's right. It's fire, grass and water. 1:00:46 Yeah. But they've got silly names. The fire blaze is the glass. Yeah, Glass drinks the water, right? So was dark and the other one come into it light and. Dark is separate in the. They are both weak to each other, right? So. They're like in a relationship, anything. 1:01:03 Else, yeah, I guess just committed. Relationships been going on for too long well. Yeah, there is. There's about 250 things. Do they all look? Interesting. Or are they just people in suits? No, no. They've all got like the sort of gimmick about them, you know what I mean? 1:01:19 And they do level up as well, do they? Evolve they Yeah. Yeah, sorry. Yeah, into. Did they look different when they evolve? Yeah. Yeah, like a. Child going into a guy in his mid 30s and a 70 year old man. No, they're. All adults, right, Like they're not like wildly different like, but it is so none. 1:01:39 Of them turn into like a goro and get extra arms. I'm less interested in this, do you know? There are like 5 God ones, do they look? Weird one. What do they look like? We said God. I said Goro. Yeah, I thought you'd misheard me and said I've got a God one, actually. 1:01:55 Anyway, I didn't say God one. I said a God one. They don't look. Like normal people. Well, I say normal people. They don't look like normal people. They look like people that there's like a werewolf one. OK, that's interesting. I mean, there's like a vampire one. The. Caterpillar one and all that much how does? 1:02:13 A person look like a Caterpillar, he's. Wearing like a sleeping bag that goes right up to his face. Fair. Enough. See. See. But if most of them are like people in suits, I'm not playing it. No, they don't like. People in seas they don't like. I'll have to show you I wish. 1:02:29 Chat I wish chat could see his face. I'm pulling right. Chat she. Thinks his life. One day there'll be a comment section under this under this poddy. Maybe if it goes on YouTube, there'll be yeah, there'll be a, there'll be a comment section. 1:02:48 Hey chat, chat this face out. I am doing a Paul attempt. I guess you've tried in the Suji man, do you know what I mean? But Suji. Man, yeah, that's. 1:03:03 That's that's what they're called. Fair enough. No, the the man in the Caterpillar bag soared me on it a little bit. Yeah. So the Worldwide 1 is that a man in a werewolf mask or is he actually a a wolfman? He's like James Wolfman, attorney at law. 1:03:23 His. Base evolution is a guy wearing like a wife beater. He's a little bit hermie, OK, but he like moves around a bit, sort of wolf. Like a bit wolfie, a little bit of wolfie and then as he as his evolutions progress, the more wolf like he his his his stances and his attacks are and the hurrier ear gets OK. 1:03:47 OK so they all become hairy when they fought for just him. Only the wolf. Boom. What the fuck I want? Caterpillar to be hairy, isn't it? Yeah. Big hairy boy. I want him to turn into a big fat moth by the end of it. Naturally. 1:04:04 That should be his arc I think. His final evolution is like an iron worm. Fair enough. So yeah, they get fired from this. You don't need to go through the plot, but like, they get fired from this job, Yeah. It's a bit sort of cancel culturist, you know what I mean? Obviously. Saying some absurd stuff. 1:04:20 It's very. They should have. Worked in the cube. It's very. It's very heavy on how easily data is shared, you know? Yeah, yeah. Fair enough, everyone's. Got a so it's got a. Message, Yeah. In in the pocket as well, you know what I mean? 1:04:36 And anyone could upload anything to the did they get? Fired for reasons that they don't really fully understand, and they have to figure out why they got fired a little. Bit yeah, it sort of leans into the fact that they're being framed, right? For. Something like that was a groat. 1:04:52 Oh, I. Forgot I completely forgot what a groat is now. Ex mafia guy, yeah. Yeah, it took it took some serious brain perfectly to don't even think it. Was groat because I had no groat as that shit that you find in between just scum in between tiles. 1:05:09 Oh it's all in the groat. Maybe it wasn't great, I can't remember Castigans. Public image chat. Was it Groat? Help help me chat so that I could read these comments in like 2 months from now. Oh, even though I could just listen to it back since then, you know. 1:05:30 Yeah, so even though at the end of the previous game Casco became the hero of Yokohama, right? Right. To have a statue built. He's the sort of guy who would have a statue built. I don't think he. Did something else. He is. He's a bit outlandish, but he's also quite modest as well. 1:05:46 You should. You should. Definitely have a statue so it reminds me a bit of, I could be way off base here but you sort of reminds me of Johnny from the Final Fantasy 7 Series. You know the guy who builds up his own hotel, has several clones running around. Anything like him personality wise? 1:06:03 Because he's annoying. I don't see. Casiger as being annoying though. He's lovable Charms, you know. True. He does have that wonderful hair. And that's what it's all about. It's all. About that. That's always about. Like. I should back on this bitch up and actually get myself some of that work. 1:06:24 So as a great, he's being framed by, you know, those videos on YouTube. It's like like an avatar that's telling you something about what's happened. Do you know what I mean? Oh. Yeah, just YouTube drama bullshit. Yeah, it's like it's. 1:06:39 Like one of them quite popular and they've done like a piece on him the claiming the as a groat, he's helping other groats back into organized crime and he's like the wing leader type thing and so. He's been fired for that reason. I mean, yeah, yeah. 1:06:56 So yeah. Even those baseless accusations, but if anything gains it off traction, people take it out. Just gotta. Gotta get rid, because if you don't fire those people involved and everyone believes that you then look like a bad guy for not getting rid of them, then your boss will go. Look, I understand. I believe that you didn't do it. 1:07:11 But we've got a safe face. Yeah, it happens. Yeah, So he gets let. Go and and that's when the game really starts and you know what I mean, he. Immediately decides I'm going to move to Hawaii. He goes to Hawaii to meet his estranged mother. Oh. 1:07:26 Fair enough? Well, the. Whole game after he gets into Hawaii is where is she and why is she being haunted by all these people? So that's like the main plot. Yeah, you've saw me on it. Do you reckon it's going to be nominated for game of the Year? I don't know if. It will or not. 1:07:42 I think it deserves to be. Just with the quality of the game itself, the length, the amount of things you can fucking do, yeah. There's a. Lot of love put into the end games it's like. Last year I thought I really enjoyed Jedi Fallen Order Two Survivor. Jedi Survivor I think it was called. 1:07:58 Really enjoyed it. But I remember last year thinking, it's not going to win Game of the year, it's not going to be nominated because there was a lot of games that were better than it. You know, the fact that Boulders Gate 3 came out last year was like nothing, nothing really study chance. Because rightfully so, that game fucking swept at the Game Awards. 1:08:17 It was like that one year at the Oscars when Lord of the Rings just fucking won everything and he got sick of asking him up on stage. That legit happened with Larry. And last year, another game award. Yeah. So what happens when you just fucking make good games, I guess? 1:08:33 Don't fucking bother with all these fucking monetization bullshit. I bought that game once, fucking loved it, never gave it any more money. But because they're so good, I would happily buy it again. Yeah. Yeah, for no. Reason. Much, well, I'll say much cheaper, but cheaper than the there's AAA as well. 1:08:53 Exactly. And. To me it's AAA quality anyway, if not better than AAA quality. You look at that compared to like a studio like Bethesda, yeah, Bethesda should be putting out constantly. Pump out shit but we all buy it anyway. And then we excuse it for being, oh, it's a Bethesda game, it's got Bethesda jank to it. 1:09:11 I'm like, there's no excuse at this point. There's no excuse. Update your fucking engine, make a game fun. You've got a studio of like 500 people. What? What? What's wrong? Why am I going to a cave that looks exactly like the same cave on a different planet? Stop it. 1:09:28 Just don't. I would love a Larry in style borders gate. What's the other one they did? Divinity. Divinity Original Sin star game bought set in the Fallout universe. I think that would work really well. People get mad at the isometric camera angle and the term baseness of it, but I think it'd work really well. 1:09:46 And it'd be more in line with the original Fallouts anyway. Yeah, I think it worked so fucking good because they've got that charm, they've got that thing to it. But I don't think Bethesda Game Studios would let anyone play with their IPS because they fucking protective like that. And I don't think they like it when other people do play with their IPS and do better than they do. 1:10:07 Yeah, it's like I broke it, so it's mine, yeah. Right. They should have really capitalized on like something with ATV series. Like I'm happy the TV series did well, but they should have really brought it like a re release of Fallout 3 or something. Yeah, but they just thought, no, we'll just do an update to Fallout 76 that, you know, seems to just make them money. 1:10:29 So because people still play it and buy things for it, don't not not interested in it. But yeah, we can go into Silent Hill. Let's talk. About Silent Hill too, Let me just. Check my notes to see if we're talking about silent. So it literally just says Silent Hill too and then Astrobot. 1:10:47 Don't know why I need to check. Yeah. So Silent Hill too, where both me and Jack had played it, really enjoyed it. I played the original back in the day. I think Jack got almost to the end back in almost to the end. But it's very scary and as a child I could not handle it. 1:11:06 I couldn't hack it. I couldn't hack it, couldn't hack it. Ridiculous. You'd been a. Teenager though, weren't you? You would have been about 1513. You're like 13 I. Think yeah. But yeah, managed to do it back in the day. It was a point of like, I've done what is considered the scariest game ever. 1:11:23 I feel very accomplished about myself. And then I just don't really like horror games that much. I love horror games, but I do scare very easily. It's like the I feel like it's more the idea of it more than you actually playing it, yeah. Like most of the horror games I play are like sort of soft core horror games. 1:11:41 Like Resident Evil is not horror, is it? Yeah. The first, the first one was yeah. Then it's sort, then it was steadily into action, weren't it? You know, But I. Did the I managed to get through Resident Evil 2 remake? Resident Evil 3 remake 4 remake and then it's just gotten more action anyway, but Resident Evil 2 remakes absolutely fine. 1:12:01 It's a really good game, solid game. I'd recommend it if you've not played it. 3 remakes OK, It's just really fucking short and it shouldn't have been a full release game in my opinion. Even that that was like that back in the day anyway. You know Resident Evil 3 nemesis was just a very short game that was like rushed out. 1:12:20 It should have even been a numbered sequel. I don't think it was. It was just it was going to have like a subtitle of a thing which is going to be called Resident Evil Nemesis. And then Resident Evil 3 was going to be something completely different or maybe what Resident Evil 4 ended up being. But Resident Evil 4 has got its own weird fucking development cycle anyway. 1:12:37 It spawned 2 games that weren't even fucking Resident Evil. If you did, if you knew that, which is one of them was, I can't remember what one of them was, but one of them was Devil May Cry. Oh, right. OK. Yeah. Originally Leon Kennedy and Dante were the same fucking person, so original concept and early demos for Resident Evil 4 was Leon going to this big gothic castle and it was going to be about more demons and spirits rather than zombies and shit like that. 1:13:12 They really wanted to take the franchise into something different. There's a couple of like prototype videos out there where you see Leon running around in like a big gothic castle and whatnot, and he's looking a lot more like Dante. You know, he's got a different jacket on and shit like that. He's still got the her and he still got Leon, Sir. 1:13:29 He's not got white her or anything. And then eventually after development they were all like this is not Resident Evil anymore, let's just make our own fucking game which is similar to this but whatnot. Then that's where Devil May Cry 1 comes from. So Devil May Cry 1 is a byproduct of Resident Evil 4 being so shit. 1:13:46 That's why when you look at Leon in Resident Evil 4 with all the shitty quippy 1 liners, that's why Dante's got all that sort of shit as well, because they are based around the same archetype and they're both fucking virgins. Canonically, they don't. 1:14:01 Fuck, you never knew that. I didn't know that. I'm quite surprised, but well. We're saying that I'm I'm not super into the Devil May Cry series. Yeah, but I think you might know enough about Resident Evil series to know that fact. 1:14:17 I know. That they're silly. Right, OK, fair enough. Fair enough. But no, I'm enjoying. Do you? Know what I mean, boys? Well, that's how Devil May Cry came about. But yeah, I know it. Silent Hill 2, considered one of the best, spookiest horror games of all time. 1:14:35 I think it's always up low. And so I'm very excited for the remake. I was a bit worried going into it when he first came out because I was like, will, will they be able to manage it? Will they handle it? Will they do it justice? Will they cut some of the themes out or make the themes a bit more on your nose? You know what they're going to change about it because obviously it's not the original team behind it. 1:14:54 It's like an American team. And some of the American Silent Hills were shy, you know, at homecoming and downpour was a little bit better, but it was wasn't great. But yeah, no, really fucking good. Story's amazing. Basically, guy has a dead wife that used to vacate in Silent Hill and vacate Silent Hill. 1:15:14 And he gets a letter from her and he's got to go find her. He's confused why he's got this letter. And as you venture forth in Silent Hill, Spooky. Yeah, Spooky. Foggy. Spooky. There's monsters. All the monsters are sort of manifestation, manifestation of like James's psyche. 1:15:30 The protagonist doesn't rely. On cheap tricks like jump scares. Yeah, no jump scares anywhere. And like I'd say things make you jump, but I wouldn't call them a jump scare because it's not like a loud noise in your face. Yeah, something's right up close to the camera. Yeah, the horror comes from, and it's done really well. 1:15:48 I've not seen many games capitalize on it, but the horror always comes from feeling uneasy or what might be the that's not actually the yeah, yeah, which is the fear of the unknown. And they do that really fucking well. It's. Atmospheric. And it's psychological, yeah. 1:16:04 And the soundtrack is fucking amazing. And when I say amazing, it's not like I'm going to like listen to it anytime soon like the ambient noise because it's just just constant uncomfortable noises. So someone review it saying it was really bad, like I think it's Tori Hammer who does the soundtrack for it, but he said someone reviewed it as like, Oh well, I can throw a brick in a fucking tumble dryer as well. 1:16:27 It's fine, easy. I was like, well, give it a bit more credit than that. It does sound like a lot of industrial noises slapping together. But even if it was a brick in a tumble driver, it still sound very unsettling just to walk around that. Statement alone sort of cheapens it entirely. 1:16:44 Yeah. Like that's the only sound that you ever hear. Yeah, no, it's constant. You walk into a building, you start hearing strange noises, or the soundtrack will be you're just constantly going through the game, just pulling the face going. Oh God, no. I will say what I think I really like about what they managed to capture in this remake, which they didn't do in the original game, as well as the whole things about this guy just feeling guilty. 1:17:10 Yeah, that's the whole game about. And I feel like guilt is an incredible difficult emotion to come across in film, TV, and especially games, because usually when a character feels guilt or remorse, you get it for a scene or two and then you feel sorry for him during that scene or two. 1:17:27 Like, oh, we did this because he felt guilty. I can kind of see it in his face though. But with this, it's throughout the entire fucking 10 plus hour playthrough. There's certain lines that I said to James, well, like you did love your life, didn't you? 1:17:43 Didn't you? You must have done. And then you get this thing in his AD. The way he emotes in his face is like, yeah, let's of course I did. Let's let's not talk about it. And he's constantly like, I know the facial animation is really well, but it guilt is a hard emotion to get across. 1:18:02 And I've seen people like talk about the game and they feel sorry for James because like spoilers for a fucking 20 odd jewel game. He kills his wife and a lot of people like I feel sorry from this time around, am I? I think that's just because he gets across his guilt really well. And guilt is emotion to people like me and you. 1:18:20 It's something we push down and ignore and don't talk about it. We've talked about anger, we talk about love, we talk about sadness, we talk about regret. But guilt is a hard one because we know we've done wrong. We don't like admitting to doing wrong. 1:18:35 I've done wrong, I'm sure you've done wrong, Everybody's done wrong. We've all done horrible things that we all regretful and we never really own up to it. We just learn to move on. But when someone reminds you of something you did wrong, you kind of just go silent and you show up about you don't want to, you never want to address it. 1:18:53 You never want to talk about it because it just reminds you that some point in your life you are a horrible person or you did a horrible thing. Guilt is such a hard thing to portray, but we all feel it and the way we deal with it, we all just shut up. We go meek, we go quiet and we come soft, I guess. 1:19:09 And it's so difficult to live with Gil and to get on with Gil. And I think it's done so well in the game where that's why a lot of people relate to James. We're not all wife killers and we don't all want to kill our wives, but we relate to him because we relate to the guilt he feels and the way that he tries to repress it and the way that he pushes it down. 1:19:26 Something that I felt playing it this time that I didn't really come across in the first time. Plus I'm a lot older now. I'm a lot older now. I've lived, you know, a life and don't know, I understand not where he's coming from more. I still think he did a horrible thing and he shouldn't have done it. Like maybe if he just waited a couple of days, it would have been fine. 1:19:45 But one of like, he's one of my favorite. Like it is a bit towards the end when he says to pyramid, I don't need you anymore. Pyramid being a manifestation of his guilt. I think it's a bit on the nose, but it really comes across when you pick up his weapon and you slowly drag it through and you feel the weight of it. 1:20:03 Like I get, I get what that symbolizes. I get what it means. I don't think it's on the nose. It's difficult to control. It's difficult to. Wield to move forward while you've got it. You can't exactly go in a straight line. You can't turn that well, if you want to save, you've got to drop it. 1:20:19 You know, you can't do anything. Everything's getting out your way because all that sort of shit. And then at the end of the game, when he sort of owns up to it and he just doesn't feel guilty anymore, I guess he's just walking through Silent Hill. Nothing's really attacking him anymore. He's he's just a guy and he's just his own thing. 1:20:36 Yeah, he's accepted what he's done, Yeah. And but I still think he feels guilty throughout the entire time. I think he feels guilty right up until the very end, no matter what ending you get. Yeah, yeah. You know, 'cause I don't think guilt is an emotion that can be overcome. We'd live with it and we'd bury it. 1:20:52 I think it's. More about Italy. He does feel guilty at the end by by up until the credits roll yeah. It's it's more about the ownership of it Intage, yeah. Absolutely. He's not. He isn't. Running from the guilt anymore. He's not trying to fight it or hide it or yeah, pretend it didn't happen or anything like that. 1:21:09 You know, as ownership of it, Yeah. Yeah, he does, which is why. Things are attacking him, but Silent Hill is still. Silent Hill still. Silent Hill and the enemies are though, you know, like maybe even some of the creatures see him as when when he finally overcomes his guilt and you know, he says to Pyramid, I don't need you anymore. 1:21:28 I don't need you follow me around in my life anymore. I'm done with you, you know, which is him admitting to all his guilt and stuff. Maybe that maybe the creatures see him as Pyramid. That's why they cower away from him while he's walking around while he's doing whatnot. But that's that's that's an interpretation. 1:21:44 I also have a theory that he all he always knows Murray's dead, like right up until the point when he gets the letter at the beginning, you know, possibly she's in the back seat of his car. You know, it's all those theories and stuff like, but it's something in the back of his head that he's just repressed so much that it's like, maybe I should just check it out. 1:22:02 And when it when someone talks about Murray and stuff all the time I'm looking for my wife Murray. You kind of look like her or he's talking to Maria Maria or he's talking to Laura. Laura, it's like, yeah, I'm pretty sure she's here somewhere. 1:22:19 I'm sure at the back of his head he knows what he's done. You know, it's like it's constantly always there. But yeah, no, I think they get, for me, I think they get guilt across very well. I've never seen it done that well in any media, anything shape or form. And you think about it and it's like, it is something that we don't talk about. 1:22:38 Never talk about it. If I've done something horribly wrong, I don't want to bring it up. Makes me feel worse. It's hard to bring up even though those we love and even though it's like you feel in a safe space with. If I've done something like heinous in the past, I don't want to tell someone I've done something heinous in the past. It's something extremely private that we live with ourselves. 1:22:56 That's why when things come out into the open we just regress and go quiet about. Incredibly well done game. Fucking love it. Michael likes Silent Hill because he's done bad things. That's why I'm in the queue. Life could be like Silent Hill because just like James. 1:23:19 I like that hair anymore. He's. Lived a life of sin. I guess. Kill. Your wife and lost it after nurses and the cube is my punishment. It means quite foggy. In here it is. In many ways, Silent Hill is kind of like the cube. 1:23:35 Yeah, just not a lot of like. Dimension. I guess it's own pocket reality that's away from everything else, yeah. I mean, there's no bricks in tumble dryers going off at all times. Thank God it's quite. Quiet, actually, isn't it? 1:23:50 Yeah, it's quite peaceful. Unless ash is like thumping away on something, Yeah. Anything else you want to add to that? Hill No. Do you know what I think? I think you did a really good job of it, I think. I actually spoke quite serious about it and I scared myself a little bit. 1:24:11 Yeah, I think it was quite eloquently poor. I didn't. I didn't want to. Just hanging on every word they want to. Interrupt anything because yeah, no, I feel. I was in. I was engrossed. Think just like when I watched Barbie and Oppenheimer, I wanted to watch Oppenheimer first and then watched Barbie last, which I think is what I did do because I thought it'd be a nice palate cleanser, but I just I did. 1:24:32 I can't remember. Either way both both films shot me to my car. Didn't feel good during both of them. No, I did watch Oppenheimer second. No not cuz I want to do it, just cuz of the way they were being shown. But yeah, there was a man in lid with guilt a lot as well. 1:24:51 John Oppenheimer invents the atomic bomb and then just felt guilty about it for the rest of his fucking life. Like, while they're fucking done, if you ever, if you ever watching interviews with Oppenheimer after obviously the eventually atomic bomb, you can feel the guilt in his voice really resonating. 1:25:07 Like he's just doesn't like the fact that he's created the next super weapon, I guess. I mean, it was always going to happen anyway, with or without his input. Yeah, that's the thing. I don't know. Guilt seems to be a very interesting subject that we don't look at a lot, so it doesn't even get telegraphed a lot as well. 1:25:26 I think it's just because it's so hard to portray. And I think the best way to portray is through a video game because you actually get to play it. But I guess media literacy is also a thing. I imagine you can play Silent Hill from start to finish and not get any of the themes at all for any of the characters. And I'm like, Oh yeah, I enjoyed it. 1:25:43 Very spooky game. Yeah. What do you think about this? What do you think about that? What do you think about that? Why were the walls covered in flesh? What were the giant penises about? OK with Dicks, Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, more white hearted. 1:25:59 No. We can end on a game that we played that might be nominated for game of the year. Maybe. Celebration of video games? Yeah. You know all this, this definitely deserves it as well, this 100. Percent. Absolutely. Deserves to be considered as games the year. Astrobot. 1:26:15 It's just called Astrobot. Yeah, I think it. Isn't it astrobot? Rescue Mission was the free one that came installed on the PlayStation. Or I might be thinking of AVR, the VR game that came out for the VR. There's been three Astros, there's been 3 Astrobot games. There's AVR one that came out for the first VR headset. 1:26:33 There's one that came pre installed on the PS-5. Brilliant free game by the way. Yeah, but you can get a platinum on as well, which is insane. Brilliant free game just showcases off the controller which does amazing things. It feels amazing. It's some of the best fucking vibrations and haptic feedbacks you'll ever experience in a fucking game until you play Astro Bot the full release 1 fucking amazing. 1:26:56 But yeah, plot is. Sort of going back to the no note ones. I know, I know Mike has just said that there's a lot of vibration. I'll take feedback but do not live here. I am not being completed, no. Not for the no no run of Astro Bot, absolutely no. 1:27:14 We'll manage it. We just won't hold the controlling area. Dicks. But yeah, no Astro Bot celebration of video games you play as a little robotic mascot for Sony, I guess. Yeah, yeah, flying. Around space and you could ship PS-5 because it is that gets attacked and then all the 100 and odd So Astrobots gets thrown about the Galaxy and your job is to rescue them and it's just a throwback to fun platformers from back in the day. 1:27:46 Yeah, from Crash Bandicoot to Mario or whatnot. The 3D ones it's just a fun run and jump platform face. Not too difficult. Well, it's got some challenging. Levels. Charging levels are fucking diabolical. Yeah. 1:28:03 Other than them, not too difficult. Very easy to pick up and play everybody. Everybody should play this game and. If you've if Shayu. Was here I'd land past him for not playing. I'm not even want to play it because he seems to poo poo it as a game but he's not interested in I'm like why? 1:28:22 Very fun, very charming. There's a lot of love in it if you've been playing games for more than 20. Years. 25 years? Well, if you want. To get the full experience, yeah. But yeah, even just like the odd thing five years will net you like. 1:28:38 Oh, there'll be. Something in there for you? Yeah. There was something you'll absolutely adore or something that will remind you of your childhood or something. Yeah. Because each of the other little robots are crew members as well. Yeah, I suppose you could call them. They're all dressed as all the protagonists from other games. 1:28:57 Not even protagonists. Just. Characters. Like some of the like side characters stuff I. Wouldn't I wouldn't say that the necessary side characters because they're all still part of like the main cast, aren't they? Do you know? Yeah. One of the new Astrobots from one of those speed remissions, which I did today was Wesker from the Resident Evil franchise, and he fits right in with the rest of the resident. 1:29:18 It was Wesker and then the guy from destiny, you know, the role working guy didn't play Destiny, so I wouldn't know. But like I said, there's something in there for everyone. Like there's things that I found hacking in way back to the PlayStation one, which I thought were forgotten about. 1:29:36 And there's like, holy shit, there's that character that's fucking amazing. And I think that's a big part of the charm. Like, even if there was no, Because I wouldn't say like, yeah, predominantly they are like Sony PlayStation mascots, but I don't even think it's necessary. I'd say it's only half of them are Sony based. 1:29:52 I think the other half are just from other video games. Yeah. Like, Yakuza's not a Sony thing. And, you know, Chasm is in there. Silent Hill's not a Sony thing. And Pyramid Heads walking around in there. Tomb Raiders no longer show anything. She's in there, you know, loads of JRPG guys, yeah, loads of sword guys from games that I've never. 1:30:13 Heard of just fucking deeds with massive swords everywhere? Speaking of deeds with massive swords, no Final Fantasy characters in that because the Square Enix didn't want any of their games to be involved in it, which is dumb. Why wouldn't you fucking? 1:30:28 Lame, but yeah. Like absolute randomness turn up like fucking Octodad. Yeah, that's a fun one. Yeah, some fucking old PS1 game called Devil Dice turns up in the amazing. But even if the game wasn't about collecting all your crew members and getting 100 and all of them or whatnot, the levels are fucking good in themselves. 1:30:49 The charming, the bright, the colourful. They've all got their own theme or gimmick around them, yeah. Yeah, it's slow down. It's like a little. Clerk that you can do for that level, yeah and it. Never gets old. It's never always another. This level is another time stop level. 1:31:04 It's always fun if I'm doing a time stop level and it's like setting a spooky graveyard one or a casino one, right. I was like, oh, speak you on. I wonder who I'm going to find in this level. Just fucking Simon Belmont or fucking all you card cool. 1:31:23 Here's Dante. Cool, here's Kratos. Cool. Just fucking loved it. Just a good fucking game from start to finish. Never had any issues. Never find a single fucking glitch in it. Yeah. Very clean, yeah. Super clean. Nothing. 1:31:39 Dirty not. Single speck of shit on it. Yeah, A. Lot of part of the experience comes from the controller as well. Rocking on sand, you can feel it. You're walking on glass, you can feel it. It's. Raining, feeling, feeling. It's fucking raining. Did it do the rain? Quite well inside hill too. Did you notice I did not in the controls like I got that Astro bot rain going on inside the hill too. 1:32:00 I also felt suddenly, I know. That's good. I also felt there was like uneasy scary moments within the haptic feedback in the controller to Silent Hill. Like what was that rumble? Why did that rumble just on one side for no fucking reason? What? Why is the controller giving me Spooks? 1:32:17 Right. They put Spooks in the controller. Guilty Spooks. The controller rumbled, hit controller rumble, and I was immediately reminded of the time I stole from a Christmas tree when I was 9 from a hospital. 1:32:34 Oh my God, I've lived. With that, All my life and that controller rumble reminded me. So yeah, not really a lot to say about Astro, but just it's really fucking good. I mean, the story's bare bones it is. What it is in it, Yeah. It isn't a story giving a story driven game. It's just a collection of little platforming levels. 1:32:52 Yeah, you just have a shit load of fun with Yeah. Some some challenge run levels as well towards the end. Very fucking difficult. Too difficult. Some say the time attack levels that have just got all the DLC stuff, they weren't that difficult to be fair. Only told me about two or three goes on each. 1:33:08 The last one was the worst one because it was a fucking climbing 1. You had the monkey paws. Oh yeah. So to climb up the walls and shit like that, but you've got to race like two birds, a Bluebird and a red bird, and the red bird's got the fastest time on it. So if you beat that, you get the second character basically. 1:33:24 But yeah, I had to turn off the motion controls for that one because it's like you have to pull, pull up the controller for which arm you want to move. So you got to go left, press that one, go right, press that one, and so on and so forth. So I just took off the motion controls for that. It was a lot easier because you could just use the analog stick to do it. But yeah, as soon as I did that, it was easier. 1:33:42 It's a bit of a jet, though. There's four DLC levels and often those five DLC levels and four of them the secret characters you unlock and each one is a hell diver, hell diver, hell diver, and a hell diver. It's four different hell divers. Only one of them has like a unique animation to it. 1:33:59 Like in the end he gets a big super, a flag and he fights off some bugs. It's charming but feel like they wasted some characters just by having four hell divers in there. Can't remember some of the characters you unlocked. I don't remember the ones I got today, which was Wesker and the other guy from. 1:34:17 Destiny. Oh yeah, yeah. Oh yeah. Rescuing. The guy from Destiny? I can't remember some of the other ones. Oh oh wait, no, the chick from Stella Blade was one of them. Celebrates like a brand new game as well, which came out this year or last year? This year, I think it was this year. 1:34:33 Yeah. I don't know if that's going to be in the ring for Game of the Year, but we didn't play it. Played a demo, yeah. Played a demo of it, very good. It does look like a game that I probably will pick up at some point. I don't know if we're failing the no absolutely. Doug, we're not. Failing No, not running Stella Blade some of them cautions you can look for Stella blade. 1:34:50 I believe that Jane blade never going to happen. Yeah, star blows again that came out this year Yeah, I sure about really enjoyed it. We're at. We're at an hour, man. Yeah. But over 30 over. 30 You didn't even hold up the sign I. Know I forgot to engross from the conversation I may think. 1:35:07 Of this this has only been an hour long. Well, we didn't hear the albatross come in, but. Yeah, we can. We can. Wrap it up before the albatross gets yeah, we can. Definitely do that because I don't want to get tucked, tucked, tucked and tucked by. Mr. Tuck wearing a tux? 1:35:26 I'm lost. Is he wearing like an old fry tuk uniform or is he Is he wearing a tuxedo? He's wearing the fire tux costume. He's going. To put us in a tuxedo. Tuxedo, while he. Tux us back and tux us in. And gives us tuck biscuits. Gives us a tuck biscuit, Yeah. 1:35:43 Yeah, I think we can avoid that tonight. I hope so, 100. Percent. So yeah, I guess we'll just fucking leave it, I guess. Yeah, I guess so. Right, Mike? I was right. Go on. What was you gonna say? I mean, I'm still, I've still been Mike. 1:36:00 You can carry on. I was. I was thinking about doing like a honourable mentions type thing. Do you know what I mean? Oh yeah, it's it is difficult to try and think on the spot, remember what's actually come out this year. Do you know what I mean, Stella? Stella Blade even surprised me. 1:36:18 I see what? Else, Suicide Squad. I've been Jack. I've been Mikey, what a shit game that came out this year. Yeah. Hello. How unfortunate. Absolutely unfortunate. Yeah. Imagine coming out with a fucking Arkham universe game and not making me interested in playing it. 1:36:38 Well done, Warner Brothers and Rocksteady. You succeeded. Have you hung up? Have you ended? Yeah, fine. I've been Mike. And I've been Jack, get on your bike and please come back.