 Hey, so if you're new around here, I wouldn't blame you for thinking that all I do is play my Switch constantly, all the time, never blinking while I'm pooping. Yeah, and you wouldn't be wrong for thinking that. I do play my Switch a lot. However, it might surprise you to find out that I do play a little bit of everything, although maybe it's not that surprising if you look behind me and see that I have video games for just about every system. But I didn't get popular on YouTube talking about the Mega Drive. I got popular talking about the Switch. So that's why, you know, I focus on the most, mostly because I do love Nintendo and the Switch a lot, and whenever I make content that isn't about the Switch, well enough. I am sick of that, because there are so many fantastic games releasing on other systems other than Nintendo's that I just really want to talk about. 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Also, what is in Japan right now, and forgot to tell you a little thing which is, if you click that link in the description, you'll get $30 off your purchase, so just click it. I need to kick this video off with one of the best games I have played this year, Gears of War 5, and I am not kidding you when I say I am one of the biggest Gears of War fans you will ever meet. Not only was I ranked in the top 1000 players for Gears of War 2 online, you won't beat me, that's all I'm a little rusty now. I'm loving Gears 5, the campaign and the online. How much of my loving Gears 5 you might be asking while I'll show you. Look, I got this thing! It's the jack from the game. It's really friggin' cool, and it works. Oh god, it's already getting very far away from me. Come back! Okay, order land! Order land! Okay, it's stopped. Well, that was cool. Great. Alright, I'm gonna go get my drone. It was literally the worst flight of a drone I've ever seen in my entire life. What do you think about that? It was pretty bad. Okay, so I flew it in my house and I hit the wall. Dude! I think maybe this blade wasn't spinning, and that's why I couldn't bring it back. Also, good thing I wasn't standing that way of the drone, because it would have come straight to my face. Alright, attempt 2. Spin it. And auto land. So in the game, it can rip doors open. Apparently it has to rip the door. I don't think it can open doors. Rip the door, Jack! Yeah, let's just slam our collector's item into the door. He was supposed to open it. Here's our feet doing a little shimmy sham. Alright, let's go spying. Let's spy on upstairs. Okay, I'm losing control. Alright, that's where I film. Come home, Jack. You did good. Gears of war. Everyone backs away. Rightfully, sir. Where is Jack? Where is he? No! He's fine. It's cool. Yeah, so I don't always get collector's editions of things, but there was no way I was missing out on getting my own Jack drone. Alright, I don't know where to start. We're talking about the campaign about Gears of War 5. Holy crap, I think Gears of War 5 is by far the best looking game I have played. Maybe ever. Gameplay-wise, it's Gears of War at its best. I honestly feel like they have built on every previous Gears of War game. I kind of like those souped-up superhero abilities. Being able to go invisible and stealth around the battlefield, chain-linking silent kills, and wiping out entire waves of enemies without ever becoming visible was just about one of the coolest things I've done in a Gears of War game. Furthermore, the co-op implemented in Gears of War 5 was flawless and one of the best co-op experiences I have had. As you guys may or may not know, I play a lot of my online co-op multiplayer games with one of my closest friends, who I've been friends with since high school, back in Australia, and we've tackled every Gears of War campaign together. So going into this one, we were very excited. Usually the Gears of War campaign allows up to four players, but they scaled it back to three. Essentially only two, but a third player could play as the drone if they wanted. But the co-op just between the two main players was fantastic. There was moments like when a helicopter went down and my friend fell out of it and he had to do this whole other mission thing trying to find me and I was pinned by the helicopter, shooting and shooting at waves of jubies trying not to die while he was on the way to rescue me. You just don't see that level of co-op immersion in most games, that level of, I would say, effort. But by far the coolest part was playing as the main character or what I associate as the main character, Kate. She was dealing with a lot of issues because the horde infection was seeping into her brain and she kept having these visions. And every time I on my screen were having these crazy whacked out visions, on my friend's screen he just saw my character like having a massive migraine and had no idea what was going on and I was having to explain to him what I was seeing and it was so intense. And as far as the story goes, it was their best attempt at telling a story within the Gears of War franchise. And where it left, it's just my mind was blown and I can't wait to see where it goes next. Not to mention, there's so many modes other than the main campaign. It's like obviously horde, which I've never really been a fan of, but escape I am really enjoying. You get trapped in a hive with two other players, so there's three of you going against waves of enemies starting with literally no ammo and having to find and scavenge for it as you go and escape the toxic fume explosion that you set off. It's really intense and I love it. Alright, next we have a rattling experience. Oh wow, there's two discs in here. Plague Tale is a game that I knew nothing about, but I was perusing Reddit recently and I saw someone shed a gif of these rats in this video game. There was this character holding a torch and these rats were scared of the torch and they were moving away from it. There was something about how eerie it was, not only the context of what was happening but the lighting coming off the torch pushing these rats back and the rats AI scampering around the light as she was moving further and further in taking care of this child. There was something about this imagery that made me want to discover what it was and how I could get involved and it turns out it was a Plague Tale innocence. So I ran to my nearest game stop and I picked it up and I'm really glad I did. A Plague Tale tells a story of just that, a Plague Tale. It's set in like years after the Black Plague from what I can figure and the Black Plague is happening again, however in this universe the Black Plague is these toxic rats that build these nests and spurt these black veins everywhere and overcome the world and everyone gets eaten by rats. You don't so much get sick while there is some sick people, mostly everyone's just getting eaten alive by rats. So not a world I want to live in. I don't like rats at the best of times. You see the role as a young girl taking care of an even younger brother. He is, as I said before, one of the sickies. He's down with the sickness and you're not really sure what's wrong with him but you know it's obviously linked to everything that's going on and it's your job to protect him as both your parents kind of... It kind of gives me a little bit of Last of Us vibes in that sense but it plays out very differently. The game is focused heavily, primarily only on stealth and I do want to say I usually hate stealth in video games but this game is entirely stealth and yet I still had a fantastic time and that definitely speaks volumes about the game. The gameplay gives you so many options to be stealthy with and even eliminate your enemies with. So for example, the game starts off and teaches you the basics that you get in a lot of stealth games. You can throw rocks or pots to distract enemies and then sneak away from them but then as the game goes on and you start to experience the rats, you can actually start to use these rats to your advantage as long as you're really careful. For example, in the game you get an item that can extinguish flames. So if you're trying to be all sneaky sneaking around and you see an enemy walking towards you near flames, you put those flames out, he's gonna get eaten alive by enemies. Of course you do have your trusty slingshot which you can just... And then along the journey you find a lot of characters that are willing to help you out and then all of those characters can do certain actions which you can control. For example, Hugo I believe his name was, you could have him go on assassinate certain enemies. The story was absolutely beautiful to watch unfold the relationship between this brother and sister who barely knew each other, who barely even met each other before this to the end point and the end boss which was one of the weirdest and most epic boss fights I have had in a video game. I don't know if this game is gonna receive the support it needs to get a sequel but I really want to see one. I can't find the games that I had. I was gonna talk about them. There they are. I'm actually annoyed that it took me this long to talk about this game because it came out like a month ago and boy howdy let me tell you I pumped some time into it. I think I'm up to like 40 hours or something like that and before y'all say oh looky he's addicted. I'm not addicted to it. So if you don't know Friday the 13th is based on the movies where Jason Voorhees is killing a bunch of kids. You can either play as the kids or as Jason Voorhees. Every kid and every Jason has their own stats and attributes and abilities and can do different things and then you all get thrown into this world. You don't know who Jason is gonna be. You can have up to eight players. Seven of you are kids running from Jason and then Jason trying to kill you. The concept in itself I love but they actually implemented so many things that make this game fun. So here's what you have to do. You have to survive. Obviously that goes without saying and there's a few ways of doing that. The rounds last 15 minutes so worst case scenario you hide away for 15 minutes and you can win that way but let me tell you it probably won't work out. Especially in the last few minutes Jason gets all super powered and amped up and he can really hear and sense you and smash down doors. So you have to work together. There is in-game voice chat which is fantastic. One of my favorite things about it is its proximity chat. You scavenge around drawers trying to find utensils and utilities to help you and one of the things you can find is a walkie-talkie. If you get that you can communicate with everyone else that has a walkie-talkie. So when you're searching through these drawers you're looking for things like a fuse and if you find the fuse you can go to the fuse box, fix it and call the police. They'll rock up in five minutes and if you can get to them and that's a big if you'll be saved. Other ways to survive are there's usually a couple cars or maybe a boat lying around the map if you find batteries, car keys, gas. You can fuel these things up and get on your way but starting a car or a boat is pretty loud. Jason can hear it and he's going to be on you pretty quick so that makes the driving away frantic as a heck. Playing as Jason is an absolute thrill ride too. I love getting to be him. He can morph around the map. He can teleport. He can move super quickly. He can stealth. Here's the thing though. All of this sounds fantastic am I right? But it's glitchy as a heck. It's an ugly looking game especially on the Switch. All the characters look like they're made from wax models. I can't tell you the amount of times I've tried calling the cops and then gotten frozen in an animation where I can't move the rest of the game. Stuff like that happens way more than it should and every time it's more hilarious than frustrating. The only thing that I absolutely hate is that there's no lobby system for playing with your friends. You can't lobby up and search with a friend so what it becomes is Sean will search, wait till he finds a game and I'll try and join him. It won't work, I'll get booted and then rinse and repeat until 20 minutes later we're finally in a game and then maybe we get kicked from that game and we have to do it all over again. So the game just kind of is what it is. You're either going to enjoy it or you're not. I love it. Oh shoot. Literally I was about to review this entire game. I don't know if you heard that. I just walked into this mask and then I was like oh yeah. I should really wear this mask for the video and then I remembered I have that. Okay I have kind of a little history with Borderlands 3 apparently. So it turns out gearbox the people that made this game, they're local. They actually have their studio like 40 minutes from me and they invited me out to come and play the game early. Way back in May actually here's some footage of that. I went with my friend Dreamcast guy and we played the game for like two hours. It was super nice of them and they said go home Woodson upload your footage tonight. You could be one of the first people to have Borderlands footage on YouTube. I got home I looked at my footage and I went I have a switch channel. What am I going to do with this? But it was a fantastic experience being there let me tell you they are super nice people. They even had boxes of Borderlands games for Xbox and PlayStation on the front desk and they were like ah just take it. You want a mask? Just take it. I got this mask from Gearbox headquarters. This was actually from my local GameStop. I think it's a really cool standee and they didn't want it. So I took it. So of course as I said I'm playing through this game with my friend Michael back home in Australia and we are loving it. We had just played through the first and second game in preparation for this game because I'd never played them before. They improved on the franchise so much and they made literally everything better like so many quality of life improvements. For starters you can slide around the map like the floor is made from banana peels and that is oh so enjoyable. There is so many freaking guns. There is a stupid amount of guns. In fact I probably have footage of it but when I was there at Gearbox when I had finished my playthrough I was like yeah I'm done I finished the boss battle you set me up with whatever I think I'm good. He came over and he hit like a button or something on the keyboard a bunch of times and guns were just spawning like hundreds of guns. And then I started to realize the scope of the guns in this game. The stats for each of the guns are also random on top of the randomness of the guns and what they can do so when you mix and match all of it together I asked them so how many different guns are there in this game and they said well if you count all of that as different guns millions millions is what they said. They fixed a lot of the issues I had with the skill trees and abilities. It felt like in Borderlands 2 for example it took forever to get a skill ability and level yourself up. Borderlands 3 it felt like I was leveling myself up for every mission which was very rewarding. The sense of humor is on point. I really enjoyed the humor in the first 2 games I didn't realize how hilariously memable they are but they really amped it up in the third one. It has a ton more mission variety than previous Borderlands games and everything about it is just snippy snappy snappy everything just keeps moving at a fantastic pace and it's just fun at its core in every element. It plays great it looks amazing they did a fantastic job and they mean they're kind of like local to me. So I feel proud almost like they're homegrown even though I've only been here a couple years. If I shout loud enough right now they could probably hear me. You did a great job! Alright it's the moment you've all been waiting for and I know that because literally the only reason I threw this game into this review was to get you to actually watch the entire video and see my opinions on everything else crafty maybe smart possibly clickbait I have no mixed opinions I have what I feel like might be mixed statements and it's gonna make sense when you let me get through it. The first statement I have is this is an absolutely perfect remake that couldn't have been done any better in my opinion for what it is oh! The other statement that sounds a little mixed is this is still one of my least favorite zoutas and a lot of you might get upset by hearing that but let me let me just give me the shooosh. Zouta Link's Awakening tells a story of Link washing up on the shore of an island he's never been to before that has a giant egg set up top of a big mountain he literally is completely clueless as to where he is or what's going on or if any of this is even real. You meet a cast of brand new faces and characters Zouta is nowhere to be seen yet another Zouta game that Zouta isn't in I don't have an issue with that and it's your job to awaken the wind fish which has apparently got something to do with an egg so that you can save or destroy this island it's pretty unclear but it's the only thing Link has to go on so that's what he's going to go and do. The gameplay is a 2D top down style Zouta kind of it's 3D as well with certain parts kind of not being quite top down but it is. The gameplay is perfect it's fantastic it's 2D Zouta at its absolute prime. The only issue I have with this game it's a very tiny teeny tiny issue is it's pacing just feels very slow I found myself grinding for Rupee so that I could afford the bow which was a necessary instrument to one of the dungeons. It took me a long time to get the 980 Rupees I needed and I didn't know I forgot that you could find the Ocarina and you could learn how to warp and I literally didn't learn that skill until I got like right near the end of the game so a lot of my game was having to walk around the map in places I'd already been a thousand times killing the same things a million times going to the same areas a million times and the game as a whole was very linear and you had to do things in a very specific order so structurally it just felt like I was really forced into doing a certain thing at a certain time and it didn't have that freedom that a lot of newer Zeldas have and that's fine I mean it's a remake of a Game Boy game it was the first ever handheld Zelda game it's not going to be perfect but when you actually consider it was the first handheld Zelda game way back on Game Boy holy crap didn't they just do a fantastic job and the way they built the game visually the graphics are so cute and they're just so good and the only reason why I started this by saying it's one of my least favorite Zeldas was because of the competition man when you actually start stacking up every Zelda and going down the list I can't put this above a lot of the main core titles that have released hey guess what guys you did it now give yourself a round of applause a pat on the back you made it through an entire one of my videos that wasn't just about the switch if you liked this video and you would like to hear me talk about games other than Switch sometimes show the love show the support smash that like button and subscribe wait and I gotta do it right flip on that subscribe button and share the video around so that it does well a big thank you to today's sponsor and probably in Japan right now so can eat you