 Just a little bit more. What is this that approaches? English are making a sneak attack. They'll wish he's to kill something. He needs help. If you think he's destroying a house, you must save him. No. He's to kill something. Relic in the monastery bite. Right click in the monastery. Are you guys having a good day? Having a good night? Having a good evening? Having a good life? Huh? It's Tuesday. We have Sonic Central ahead. I am so pumped for Sonic Central. We're going to get some news today on a bunch of Sonic stuff. Let's see here. Oh, you know what's fun? You know what's fun about my day? Here's been my morning. I actually have a video done. I have a video done that's supposed to be live. Hours ago. Here's what's happening. You see that? Copyright. Checking if your video contains any copyright content. Still checking. Still checking. Still checking. Still checking. Still checking. Still checking. It's been stuck there for two and a half hours. Two and a half hours. So I was supposed to have a video go out hours ago. But YouTube is like, yeah, you know what? Our system is broken. So you're just going to have to wait, brah. You're going to have to wait, brah. So you know what you don't have to wait on though? This live stream. So I'm probably not even, I mean, I was probably the videos done still, you know, not still checking into the next day. So we have Sonic Central today. It says, right here it says tune in for a sneak peek at some of our upcoming projects, partnerships and events happening in 2022. So we're going to see a bunch of stuff. We're going to start to see some animated Sonic series stuff. Maybe some movie news, maybe some, you know, Sonic appearing in other games. Don't be surprised to hear about other Sonic games besides Sonic Frontiers. We might hear more about Sonic Frontiers, which would be great. I think what's going to be interesting, if we do get a Sonic Frontiers look today, is that this is going to be official marketing from Sega, which might be a little bit of a better look than the way IGN is handling IGN first. Or IGN first is IGN employees playing the game. The way IGN has chosen, maybe through the guidance of Sega, we don't know for sure, to present Sonic Frontiers hasn't, in my opinion, been a very good indication of what the game is going to feel like when we play. They're choosing to showcase it in very specific ways. We want to showcase this individual element. Then we want to showcase this individual element. Then we want to showcase this individual element, which only works when you're an established game. Sonic Frontiers isn't established, so I think this has actually been a really poor way to show it off the way IGN has so far. So an actual banger trailer for Sonic Frontiers today could actually go a long way to reinvigorating some of the hope in the game, or it's going to end up being a disaster. And it's just another one of those 3D Sonic games to follow up all the other 3D Sonic games that are pretty disappointing. And Redman, Sonic has never been good, let's be real, get out of here. What? Sonic 1, Sonic 2, Sonic & Knuckles, Sonic Mania, Sonic Colors, get out of here, man. My favorite Sonic game is Sonic Lost. Get out of here, dude. Sonic has never been good. Look, it's fine if you don't like Sonic. If you think Sonic games are just not fun to you, that's totally fine. I don't know what the hell you're doing on a Sonic stream if you think that. But to say Sonic games have never been good. I just listed off, in my opinion, 4-5 rapid-fire Sonic games I think are absolutely fantastic. So I... I don't know, man. Sonic games, in my opinion, have been good. Even 3D ones. Again, I really like... There was only like one level in Sonic Lost World that I didn't enjoy. The rest of it I found to be utterly fantastic. Unfortunately, they didn't continue to go down that route. I thought that would have been smart to do, but hey, you know what, that's my opinion. Obviously, not everyone's gonna agree that Sonic Lost World is good or their favorite Sonic game. I presume it's Sonic Mania. It's probably the one that people really cling to as being one of the most recent examples of a very good Sonic game. But I enjoyed Sonic colors. Not everyone does, but that's okay. But the athletic Sonic's never been good. I mean, maybe to you it's never been good. But... But I mean, it's definitely been good before. And Sonic Mania wasn't forever ago. Just so you're aware. That happened dis-generating. We just had Sonic Mania. Not that long ago. Yeah, and Sonic soundtracks are almost always bangers, especially if you like rock music. They usually have some really good rock tracks. So Sonic music has almost always been pretty, pretty good, depending on what genre of music you're into. Let's see here. If the game is good or bad, has issues or not, I will still buy and play. I've played much worse looking games. So have I. So have I. I played this hamster game on Switch. That is clearly a mobile game. And look, I don't care if it's a mobile game. I have fun with mobile games. It's just not a good game. Some hamster or something. I don't know. It was not a good game. So I've definitely played significantly worse games. I suffered through Superman 64 and ET growing up. So I have definitely played significantly worse games than whatever the hell is happening with Sonic Frontiers. I've played through games that you can't even get past one level because the game is broken. Like fundamentally broken. Not a get good moment. The game is literally broken. So can't be as bad as that. I'm sure I'll be able to get from start to finish, start to the end in Sonic Frontiers. Best game in the series will always be Sonic is Missing. That's your opinion. I think Lost World translated the classic design very well. The infinite plane allowed the level design to be open. Yeah. And J Digital. The biggest thing about Sonic Lost World is it basically was like Mario Galaxy's Sonic style. And obviously that really clicked with me and I really enjoyed it. And I thought it would have been a smart move to continue that moving forward and keep making improvements. They obviously didn't. The sales of the game weren't great. The reception was kind of middling. It wasn't bad reviews in the 70s. But yeah, it obviously wasn't doing the sales. They hoped it would, especially on Wii U, which obviously not their fault that Wii U flopped. That's on Nintendo. But you know, when you have like a Zelda level in there and they're still unable to really sell it, you know, they probably were like, yeah, you know, maybe this just isn't it. I don't know. I think it's unfortunate because it's my favorite Sonic game to date. But, you know, to each their own, everyone's got their favorites. Let's see here. So the Sonic Central takes place top of the hour. For anyone who wants to watch it and not watch my live reaction, it's going to be at youtube.com slash Sonic. This is where it's going to be. They don't have it up yet. Trust me. I'm there. I'm refreshing. I'll refresh it again quick right here. And they do not have it up yet. So you can't, you can't open it. You can't prepare for it. It's not up yet. But it is supposed to be at the top of the hour. So we plan to be live reacting to it and having a lot of fun. Queen gave me 7A4. Why is your name green? You were gifted a free membership from somebody else. We have gifted memberships on our channel now. So if you are a member, you can now hit the super chat button only on desktop and purchase gifted memberships for others. It impacts a 1, 5, 10 and 20. I make sure I was hearing the birds tweeting outside and not on my computer. All right. No one's late, man. Again, we're 50 minutes away from whatever the hell is going to be in Sonic Central. Where can you get a sweet Prime Gaming Fest sweatshirt? There is a link in the description, but I will just grab it for you guys quick. You can get all of your Prime Gaming Fest merch right here at this link. And this is international. This is an international link. So you can get this hoodie. That's really soft, really nice. It's got the metal around the rope here, which I personally like because you know how sometimes like when you have the draw strings, it can kind of rip the hoodie sometimes. That's what these metal rings do is they provide some rigidity. So I really like that the print turned out absolutely fantastic. We have these flat bill hats for sale. We also have dad hats for sale for Prime Gaming Fest. And then we also have T-shirts. That's all we have right now if anyone wants any other any other merch for Prime Gaming Fest. Let me know and it's something we could throw on there. I have other options I haven't put up. We haven't seen, you know, we don't really sell a ton of merchandise anyways. It's not like something we're always like, oh yeah, like, no, but we're not always pushing Prime Gaming Fest to protect that. What's the update on the Nintendo Prime dad hat? There is no update. There's an issue with the dad hat version. I ordered a sample and it did not turn out well. So don't get mad at me Primeify. I know you want to buy an Nintendo Prime dad hat, but to get samples it costs a lot of money. But getting samples costs a lot. So yeah, I've had two different samples of the Nintendo Prime dad hat and it did not turn out. I don't know why they're having an issue. I honestly have no clue what the issue could be. No issue with this one. No issue with the flat bill. It's obviously a different company doing the dad hat and their embroidery machine is struggling for some reason. Just the words Nintendo Prime. I don't know how hard that is. Hey, we got some gifted memberships in from J. Lo. Be sure to accept those gifted memberships. We got Sonic D. Hedge, Raleigh Leggett got in there. EPS. Be sure when people gift the memberships that if you're on your phone you tap the little gifted thing and hit accept. Hit accept and you will be able to accept gifted memberships. Three of the five have been claimed. Should I just buy a Prime dad hat? I mean, you can. It's up to you, man. I mean, there will be an Nintendo Prime one someday. I just don't, I just can't. Joshua Sten's claimed one and then Quiz, QZ, all five are claimed. Good job, guys. Welcome to the Board of Directors of Nintendo Prime. You will now be able to join Prime Gaming Fest and to some of our member exclusive giveaways. I think that also gets us a step closer to 400 members. So, I mean, it definitely gets us a step closer. I think that puts us at 361 members. Center for Lopez is a member. Maybe. I don't know. Is J. Lo a member? Um, that's a lot of gifts. It is. One second. I gotta grab my water. I left my water on the other desk. Give me a second. All right. Now we got my mega pint of water here. See, in that whole, that whole trial, they called what, do a Johnny Depp was drinking a mega pint. Um, this is a mega pint of water. No, IGN's pre-covered joint live. IGN is not the host of, of it. It's IGN's pre-covered joint live. Has nothing to do with the actual thing. They're going to be live too, of course. So they're pre-covered joint live, just like mine. So yeah, this is my mega pint. 64 ounces of greatness. Rick Steens. Rick Steens with the five gifted members. Hey, except those free gifts, everyone. You get to use, you know, right away, you'll get to use free emojis. We're going to be launching a prime gaming fest emoji on June 9th and not just a prime gaming fest emoji. We're going to be launching a prime gaming fest. So you're going to see a bunch of new ones. So Kyrian, Sarah B, Ben Gillan, Leonardo, Lubrez, and Mr. Thief. Welcome. Yeah, custom emojis. Yeah, we got new ones dropping June 9th. If you're using the chat, you can also use it in the comment section on our videos. There'll be a prime gaming fest one and then obviously a whole bunch more. A whole bunch more. I think, let me see how many I can add right now. I don't, but not all of them. Let me, let me go add how many emojis I can add right now. Let's see here. There is, because it's based on how many members you have. For some reason, YouTube decided, hey, members decide how many emojis you can add. Okay. Just let me add as many as I want whenever I want. Click on this. Let's see here. We can add, how many more can we add right now? So, we can do how many emojis do we have? We have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16. So I can add five more emojis. So we for sure will have five more emojis for prime gaming fest. If we somehow get 25 more members between now and then, then I can add another two emojis for prime gaming fest. So, it's all based on how many members we get. Yeah, the emojis are sick, dude. We got some more cool ones coming in, coming in hot. So I hope to keep growing the emoji list. One thing I do, I like the Nintendo Prime logo with the shot glass, right? Because I do shots. What's funny about that is the one logo without the bubbles is like beginning of stream chill, right? Like, oh yeah, he's just starting out. He's just, you know, getting a little serious, throwing back some shots. The other Nintendo Prime bottom logo with the bubbles above the head, that's like end of stream Nintendo Prime. Ooh, he's feeling a little tipsy now. Ooh, yeah. It's funny how we have emojis to represent the two different versions of Nintendo Prime on shot night. More Zelda emojis we'll see. I'm not going to tell you what the emojis are. I'm not going to let them be a surprise. I have them all on my computer right now, but I'm going to let them be a surprise. Obviously we have a ton of Mario ones. So you can probably bet we're not going to have too many more Mario ones. You know, because we got the two mushrooms, the two fire flowers, fire flower, ice flower, we got the question block, the chain chomp, the star. So you can bet it's probably not going to be Mario because we have a lot of those. We do have three Zelda ones right now. One, two Pokemon. So stay tuned. There's going to be more coming in, more coming in like they're hot, maybe. Yeah, I don't drink usually during day streams in general. Prime Gaming Fest has a couple of punishments on our punishment wheel that involve doing shots, but yeah, I don't drink during the day streams. I've got to be a responsible parent. Yep, at the beginning of the stream, at the end of the stream, it says Omega. That's about right. This is going to be sweet, man. I'm so pumped for this. Keep refreshing the sound of it because I have no idea if the stream for this is going to go up. I don't know if it's a premiere or a live stream. They didn't really clarify. So kind of playing it by ear. I'm going to load IGNs quick just to see if they've got and they literally are just doing a blank screen with a countdown timer and I'm assuming music. I haven't muted because well here I'll unmute it. Let me see. Yeah, it's a bunch of Sonic. So they just have a countdown timer. They just have a countdown timer. I'll leave theirs up by the way just in case the Sonic because the announcement says go to YouTube.com slash Sonic. But if IGN ends up being the one that has it, it's fine. We'll run it off IGN. They do have the IGN first going on, so they might be the host of it, but the official announcement didn't say to go to IGN. It says to go to YouTube.com slash Sonic, so that's when I'm relying. You got jumpscared by the song. Yeah. What game are you hoping to see the most at Game Fest and the Nintendo Direct? Nintendo Direct wise, I want to see gosh. I mean, I always want to see Zelda. Anything Zelda. I'm a big Zelda guy, but I feel like it's a cop out to say Zelda because I could basically say Zelda every time. So maybe it would be cool to see what's next for Mario. There's a lot of other IPs I want to see. I want to see the new Fire I want to see more Bayonetta 3 with a release date. I'd like to see a Donkey Kong revealed Metroid Prime remake. I'd love to see Prime 4. I'd love to see a lot of things. I would like to see Kid Icarus come back. You know, whether it's an uprising port or a brand new Kid Icarus game. There's a lot of things I'd like to see, but I'm really interested in what's happening with the new Mario. They haven't had a brand, brand new Mario game since 2017 in Mario Odyssey. We had that sort of side game in Bowser's Fury. I'm very curious what the future direction of Mario is going to be because every time they take this long to make a new Mario game, especially a 3D Mario game, it ends up being something totally different than anything we've experienced before, like Mario Galaxy. Totally different than say, you know, God, the one on GameCube. Why am I, why am I drawing a blank? I'm just going to kill me now that I'm forgetting that one. I know it was part of the Mario All-Stars game. Mario 35. Oh, my God. Why am I drawing a blank on the GameCube Mario game? I feel ashamed right now. Delfino Plaza. I remember Delfino Plaza. How the hell, Sunshine. There it is. Thank you, Noah. Sunshine. So Mario 64 and Sunshine were, Sunshine was vastly different from Mario 64. And then Mario Galaxy vastly different from Sunshine. And then Mario Galaxy 2 came out quickly after, so that was obviously similar to Mario Galaxy. And then we had a long break and then you got Mario Odyssey. Basically. I mean, I know they had 3D World in there, but that was more like a follow-up to 3D Land. So, yeah, you had a long break and then you had Odyssey. And now we have another long break. So it feels like we're going to get something else that's completely different and completely fresh for Mario. So it's going to be, it's going to be really interesting to see what the future direction of the next Mario game is. I love Mario games. I beat them every single time. You know, I don't always 100% them, but I do beat them. So, yeah, I'm really interested to see what the future of that is. And I feel like we're due to at least see it. I don't think it's coming out this year. But I could see a Mario reveal for 2023 at a Nintendo Direct. As for anything else, you know, like Summer Game Fest, there's things I want to see. I really want to see the new Dragon Age game. We have the title revealed now. I really want to see, you know, the Dragon Age Red Wolf, right? I believe that's the title. Dread Wolf, well, if you don't know the history of Dragon Age, no point in really getting into it. But he's basically a Dread Wolf, I think a solace from the game. Solace, how we pronounce it. I played all of Dragon Age Inquisition. I played all of Dragon Age Origins. I love Dragon Age. It's amazing, especially on PC. So I'm really excited to see that, because why would they reveal the title now if they're not going to show the game? Like why give us a title if you're not going to see it at Summer Game Fest? So that's one of the big things I want to see at Summer Game Fest. Also, there's a potential we might be seeing Hollow Knight Silk Song at Summer Game Fest since the PR guy responded to Jeff Keely talking about a trailer that just dropped in his inbox. So that's a potential thing too. We talked about that last night. The industry doesn't need to be saved, fat plumbers saving. It doesn't need to be saved. The industry's in a good place right now. It's very healthy right now. Until the tweeter and an update on Xemar Chronicles 3 Special Edition, they finally updated it. Let's look. Hold on. Let's look together. Let me pull up the tweet. Sorry, I got my wireless keyboard here for my streaming PC. Let's pull up the tweet. If there's an update, we'll look at it right now. No need to wait for me to make a video on it. Let's just look here. They did do an update. Here we go. It's a full screen event. Let's go. I think I'm in the right spot. I'm on camera. Yeah, I am. All right. So it says pre-purchase Xemar Chronicles 3 Special Edition launching exclusively. I hate when there's only one place you can get things. And you can only get this at one place. So this is the Special Edition. You can pre-order it tomorrow. You get the game. You get a steel book. It's just art book. It's pretty. That's a thick art book. How many pages are there? That's probably at least 50 pages. At least 50 pages there. And it's going to have all this really cool official art in it, which is going to be badass. And you can only get it from my Nintendo. I always hate single retail availability on Special Edition. Because when I see this, this isn't a limited edition. Limited edition. Okay, fine. Those are just like a thousand copies. Special editions. There's no reason this can't be a GameStop. There's no reason this can't be a Walmart. There's no reason this can't be a Best Buy. There's literally no reason other than they don't think they'll sell enough of them to put it there. And that's a shame. That's not giving Xenoblade enough love. They have been doing this to Xenoblade since Xenoblade Chronicles. Remember when you could only buy it physically at GameStop? You guys remember that? You guys remember the original Xenoblade Chronicles was only available at GameStop? Remember those days? Remember those days when we had a beg to get that game ported with Operation Rainfall? Only for it to only release physically? Only release physically? At GameStop? With limited copies at GameStop price gouging? Well, this is cool. This is cool. But also, I don't know, man. I don't know. Why can't Xenoblade Chronicles ever be true? Like as an example, do you think they would ever do this with Zelda? Do you think Breath of the Wild 2, the inevitable Special Edition will only be available on the store, my Nintendo store? Of course not. You'll be able to pre-order it at Best Buy, Target, Walmart, you know, GameStop, EB Games, or anything like that. I don't know. You'll be able to pre-order it at Game... You'll be able to pre-order the Special Edition everywhere for Zelda. Why can't we do that for Xenoblade? I get that Zelda is, obviously, in a whole different popularity tier. Xenoblade Chronicles is starting to sell multiple millions of copies. It's time. It's time. Let the pre-orders get in at the retail outlets. The retail outlets will then send their pre-order numbers to Nintendo, and Nintendo can send the required copies to the store. They can even just send just the required amount for pre-orders. This isn't difficult. Well, EB Games is owned by GameStop, anyways. But this isn't difficult. This isn't difficult. So, I'm glad that we finally know when we can pre-order. It's tomorrow. Even I'll for an update so the pre-orders open officially because the pre-orders sold out within five minutes. Not even. But it's hard for me to even view this as, like, good news. Because, again, it's just going to be incredibly hard to get your hands on the Special Edition. There's going to be limited quantities only available at one online retail outlet. My Nintendo store might even crash while people are trying to pre-order it. It happens with the N64 controller every time. They release new... Oh, here's a batch of N64 controllers. Yeah, it's sold out in 30 seconds in the website crap. Like, I'm glad that we know when. I'm just disappointed that it's only online and only at Nintendo's store. That means there's going to be limited quantities and it's just going to be even harder for people to get their hands on. But unfortunate. Not surprising, but unfortunate. I'm waiting for Xenobank Chronicles the respect it deserves from Nintendo to have the Special Edition available everywhere. We need more respect for this franchise. This is like releasing a limited-run game Special Edition. Think about it. Think about it. It's getting the limited-run games treatment, right? Limited-run games make special editions for digital games to bring them physically and then include some stuff in it and then a limited run, right? You only get a... There's a pre-selected system that are going to exist. That's what Nintendo's doing. They're treating it like a limited-run game. That's the disrespect Xenobank Chronicles 3 is getting with their Special Edition. They're treating it the same way limited-run games run. Limited-run games can do that because these games wouldn't have these editions otherwise. Nintendo's a multi-billion-dollar company and this is one of their major franchises. And it's third while fourth iteration technically. At least we'll be able to buy it physically everywhere. When I could walk in the Walmart day one and buy a Lego Star Wars Skywalker saga Deluxe Edition right off the store shelf I can't buy Xenoblade. Switch exclusive. Special Edition. I'll try to get my hands on a pre-order, guys. I will try to get my hands on a pre-order tomorrow. Maybe we give it away during Prime Gaming because I don't know yet. But I will try to get my hands on a pre-order tomorrow. Do my best. Can't guarantee it. But I am going to attempt to get my pre-order. Might be a Prime Gaming Fest giveaway because some people are going to really appreciate the Special Edition even more than I do. Might give it away during Prime Gaming Fest if I'm able to get a pre-order. So this could be an additional giveaway for Prime Gaming Fest. Hending availability and my ability to nab one. Did you see IGN is also doing a hands on impressions video at noon? I mean, IGN is doing the IGN first thing. Of course they're going to take advantage of a Sonic event to do some more Sonic covers. You really love the giant mega cop. Yeah, these come in handy when you're mowing grass and stuff. You need a giant glass of ice water outside. It's insulated like a cooler so it could stay cold even out in the hot sun. The hard thing is the straw. This is not the original straw that came with it. This is from a different water model. It's a metal straw. It came with a plastic one and I don't know what happened to it. I mean, we've got this from the local fair a long time ago. We've got two of these. We have this one and then a Mountain Dew. What do you say to be shown at the Sonic Central? Well, another look at Sonic Frontiers. Some show slash movie information. Remember, Sonic 3 was announced. And then some side scrolling action, a collection pack update and then I have no idea. I have no idea. That's the fun thing is I'm not really sure exactly what we're going to see. I have some ideas but, you know, that's what makes this event fun. It's kind of like Summer Game Fest. I have ideas of things we're going to show but I don't actually know. You know, you can see here. I had to buy the Wii version off of eBay for $150 to even get it back when it first came out in North America. Dude, yeah. Yeah, I wish the interplay was treated with more respect. Sonic Adventure Remastered. Yeah, you could see some remasters of Sonic games today. I have no idea. Honestly, I have no clue. Besides Sonic Frontiers, that's the one thing you expect to see. Besides that, it's kind of up in the air what the hell else is going to be. They said merchandise. So we're going to see some sort of merch. Some Sonic merch. I don't know what the Sonic merch is going to be but we're going to see some Sonic merchandise. Maybe we can get some soundtrack. That'd be cool. Release some more Sonic soundtrack. I've been playing Xenoblade Chronicles 1 off and on for the last few weeks. Work's been kind of riding me pretty hard. Happens. You own Xenoblade 1 and 2 Plus DLC. You haven't had time to start any of them yet. You know what it talks about? Owning Xenoblade 1 if you own the original, not the Switch version with Internet of Edition, is there's additional content in the Internet of Edition that sort of bridges the connection between the games, which is going to matter for Xenoblade Chronicles. So if you own the OG, it's cool, but you're actually missing content. But if you own it on Switch, the Internet of Edition, then cool. You'll eventually get to it. They're very long games. They're very long games. But I mean, they're JRPGs. You should know what you get into with JRPG. You're going to be in at least a couple hundred hour long gameplays. It's going to take a while to beat them. Even that's just doing the main story. It doesn't feel like if you want to do everything. If you're a completionist that plays JRPG, mad respect, because that is a lot of dedication to 100% these kind of games. Some people do it. Some people do it and more power to them. You love the old school system from the Sonic Mega Drive. Nice. I'm still on Bionis, so I have a ways to go before I can even do the new content. Cool, cool, cool. Good morning. What's the weather like in your area? I was very hot and tired all day yesterday. I'm feeling better this morning. The weather. Well, I'm in Wisconsin in the middle of Wisconsin. Be more specific. Don't send a missile my way. That would be kind of mean. It is mostly sunny right now. 65 degrees. Going to be in the low 70s by mid-afternoon. Nice and sunny, cloudy tomorrow, but 75. Bright and sunny Thursday, 76. Partly cloudy, but mostly sunny Friday, 75. Saturday, 73. Sunday, 76. Monday, we hit in the 80s and we got some thunderstorms on Tuesday, but we hit 85. Wednesday, next week, 81. Looks like we're getting to our summer weather now that we're getting up into the 80s. We basically will sit in the 80s and 90s all summer long. People think Wisconsin is just cold, but our summers are 80s, 90s with high humidity, really sticky. It's like being in Miami basically with less rain. We don't get as much rain as Miami gets. We do have high humidity, but we don't get, we don't have like 12 days straight of rain or something like that. Like we'll we'll get rain for like two or three days, but then it'll be sunny for four days. It gets very hot here in the summer. So hot that I'd rather be in like Arizona during the summer because even though it's like 115, 120 degree heat, it's dry heat, which doesn't actually bother me. Like there's a huge difference between high humidity, 90s, and then add 20 degrees, but dry heat. I'd rather add 20 degrees and have dry heat. It really doesn't bother me. Yeah, that's the weather. It's the weather in my area. What's the weather in LA today? Let's see. We've got an LA today. I got LA on here from when I when I go over there. 66 right now. So we're around the same as LA except they're going to be. We're going to be in the 80s a bit sooner than I am starting Wednesday. Now, I think I have negative 56 in that article. Why aren't articles on here? I have no idea and Las Vegas, maybe. They're going to hit a crisp 104 today. Yep in the hundreds for the next week and a half. Like pretty normal. I don't mind that though. Dry heat in Vegas to Vegas last year. Did not mind it. How does Hades in here? Never gets a hot in the UK. Yeah, I don't mind Wisconsin. We legitimately get all four seasons. We get really hot, sticky summers. We get we get some do like fall and spring. Are you all spring? Spring is really wet. We get we that's when we get our Florida style rain is spring. We'll get like two or three weeks straight of just rain. So we get a lot of rain in the spring. And then our fall. I love our fall. I love fall. Fall is probably my favorite season. It's that nice between whether where you can be really comfortable just wearing like a hoodie outside. No. I say that there are people that that here. Oh, it's it's it's 65 degrees out where you are. Gosh, I got to put on a jacket and I got to wear some warm fuzzy socks. Dude, that's short and t-shirt weather for me baby. Short and t-shirt weather. But if I wore this outside on a on a 65 degree day unless unless there's a strong breeze. I'm sweating. I am sweating. So yeah, we have air conditioning on our house, which is why I'm I'm wearing a sweatshirt right now. So yeah, like it's it's a Yeah, a little different when you grow up and you get used to colder weather, your body adjusts eventually. And then and then all of a sudden shorts and t-shirt weather mean something entirely different in Wisconsin than it would mean in California. Meet up in Antarctica confirmed. Yeah, we're meeting up in Antarctica. You know, next time it hits negative 102. That's when our meet up is all four seasons of one month here in Minnesota. Yeah, Carl and I are the same thing. The whole Midwest or the upper Midwest, which includes Minnesota, Wisconsin, deal deals with that deals with the whole Michigan, I think, too, probably, especially the upper peninsula deals deals with the you can get all four seasons in a month. You can get like you can get all four seasons in a week. Sometimes you'll get snow on Monday rain Tuesday very next day. It'll be like mid eighties and hot and sunny and beautiful swimming weather. And then the like literally the very next day the leaves are falling off the tree because the temperatures match. Like, dude, it's crazy, man. The upper Midwest for like part of for like what usually happens around spring is to transition from spring to summer. There's always like a month to a few weeks in there where we just get like all four seasons. Like rapid fire. It's insane. Happens every year. It happens every year. But you mean you get used to it but like it gets kind of crazy where one day you're out in the beach swimming the next day you're wearing a winter jacket. You're like, what the fuck? Yeah, it's it's insane, man. I remember one day I woke up the earlier this year to get to take my kids or to get my kids on the bus to go to school and it was like seventy eight eighty degrees out. This was like back in March. Yeah. So it was like eighty degrees out in the morning. By the time the kids got off the tree it was like eighty. And by the time the kids got off the bus the temperature had dropped to the fifties and we were having light snow flurries. They were melting because fifties won't keep it because you got to be in the thirties to keep it but the fact that we had like a little bit of light snow flurries after starting the morning at eighty was welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome to the upper Midwest. Just that's what that's what we experienced. Did you just order a prime gaming facility? Hold on. Let me pop up. Did you really order one? Toto dope. But bam baby. That's what I'm talking about. Dude these hoodies are sick. Hold on. Hold on. I gotta play something for that. I gotta play something for that. I gotta play something for that. Man thank you Toto dope. It says twenty five minutes ago you bought a prime gaming fest hoodie. Hell yeah let's refresh that notification. Let's go. Let's do it again. Bam. Look at that. I got a prime gaming fest hoodie. Dude that's awesome. Enjoy it man. It'll probably it'll probably won't well. No it probably won't be there before prime gaming fest is over. It usually takes seven to nine days. But maybe you'll get lucky. Maybe they'll get it shipped out this week and it'll be here before we're done on Tuesday. So you might get lucky but either way it's usable all year round. You can obviously you know rock it when we do prime gaming fest again because you know this probably isn't going to happen when we do prime gaming fest right. We've now basically done it back to back years. Eighteen minutes away. Awesome. I'm really glad that someone else is buying merch man. And it's comfortable. You know I've been wearing it around. You know people don't really ask me questions about it which is fine. People ask me questions whenever I wear a Nintendo Prime merch or Nintendo Prime podcast I get asked about that which means nobody knows what prime gaming fest is so they see you wearing it out but that's the thing that's the key in like five years. I want people to ask you questions when you're wearing prime game wait a second what is that I've heard about that five years from now the general public will finally ask questions about prime gaming. The podcast has been going on a lot longer the channel's been going on a lot longer so that usually draws more attention anyone played free battle royale game on switch called cursed code it's kind of like pub G but very clunky and kind of funny they still have a ranch in Petaluma, California I now live in Fairfield, California I love cold weather we get free weather occasionally one day sunny thunder then hail hailstones and then snow all in one day with a few years back now yeah that happens that happens Yulia almost got in a really bad accident some years ago it was like it was like mid sixties and it was driving to work this is actually February I think it was like mid sixties and she was driving to work and then out of nowhere a giant ice sheet just fell from the sky and literally smashed the car smashed the road got all slippery she flew off across the highway and flew right in front of a semi and was this close from dying she ended up down in the ditch on the other side of the road it just came out of nowhere like that storm like there was nothing on radar just out of nowhere from mid sixties to instant freezing cold ice sheets falling from the sky it was you know she's on the highway at 65 so she's speed limit is 70 so she's going 75 on the highway you know not thinking anything of it it's 65 degrees though why would you be worrying about an ice sheet about the fall that you can't even see because it's above you like it's above you you don't even see you see some clouds like you don't think anything of the clouds it's 65 degrees what the hell are you worried about oh maybe there's some rain you know you're not worried about it you're going 75 and 65 degree weather you're cool then all of a sudden out of nowhere like it fell from hell or some shit I don't know it was insane she's okay the car was okay thankfully I mean a little bit of work needed to be done on the car but nothing major the most important part is that she was okay she was shook up about that for a few days we're almost there 15 minutes away and they still don't have it up and the IGN countdown doesn't say anything it just says 15 minutes so I guess we'll just see what happens I want to watch the official Sonic one but we'll see what happens does Prime answers cancel? no nope just been doing a lot of prep work for Prime Gaming that's all a lot of stuff like hey I just want Prime News I have Prime News in a hot minute lots of preparation for Prime Gaming Fest Prime Gaming Fest is eating up a lot I haven't gotten a ton of videos out did YouTube even approve my most recent video finally I'm not going to send it live now I'm going to wait until after the Sonic to spread out my content a bit my last published video was an advertisement for Prime Gaming Fest on Saturday and then my last video before that was a Prime News episode three days prior on Wednesday and then there was a two-day gap and then a three-day gap so you can see I've been having large gaps when I look at like here you go you see it I was going May 22nd May 23rd May 24th May 25th May 26th May 27th and then boom I started having massive gaps since then I've published three videos since May 27th and it's because I've been preparing for Prime Gaming Fest it's been eating up a lot of my time someone said it's live so let me check here I am not seeing it on Sonic the hedgehog's YouTube and that's where they said to go it's youtube.com slash Sonic maybe it's on Twitch maybe the Twitch version's up let's go check Twitch twitch.tv slash slash which dot tv slash Sonic on a doesn't that spell Sonic right? no I cannot apparently it's a too complicated type they're not live on Twitch yet either so I don't know where you're seeing it's live we're gonna watch the official Sonic one it's just not live yet the only one that's live is IGN and IGN is not the host of it IGN is just doing what I'm doing watch the Topcom ever movie last week wow so yeah I've heard a lot of people say it's good I haven't seen it yet I'm not sure if I'm gonna go to theaters or if I'll wait oh hell yeah no we just got keys for Prime Gaming Fest so we got keys for let's see here we have keys for Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic we have keys for Knights of the Old Republic 2 which doesn't come out till tomorrow all that won't matter because we're not gonna give away the old Prime Gaming Fest and then let's see we also have keys for Star Wars Episode 1 Racer thank you Aspire I'm gonna forward those over to Eric so he can get them added to our list but yeah we've got nine new game keys added to our Prime Gaming Fest giveaway but if you like some old school Star Wars games hell yeah baby hell yeah it's nice it's nice to get keys for a release that hasn't even happened yet still getting giveaway codes right up to the last minute I'm telling ya right up to the last minute we're getting giveaway codes it's insane I mean they gotta get this thing up soon right I mean I guess they could be like me they could just like have nothing up until the exact minute that's why I got the IGN one IGN one in front of you it's worth it to watch in cinema to feel the roar of the planes I mean just on this TV with a surround sound system can give me that roar to you theater is not the only place that you can get the roar I hear what you're saying dude I love the original Top Gun so it's more so a timing thing I don't have time to go to the movie theater I'll let Eric know alright we're almost ready 10 minutes guys so when I want to know what are your guys' thoughts on Sonic Frontier so far like legitimately what do you guys think about that game I've given my thoughts a number of times I want to know your guys' thoughts and opinions like what how are we feeling what's the feeling in the room right now on Sonic Frontier sighted, cautiously optimistic hyping responsibly, disappointed how we feeling I definitely think we're getting a new look here in about 10 minutes all these people I'm not playing I'm getting invited to these stupid uh not stupid I'm in these Madden leagues and I told them I'm not playing the rest of them keep getting invited even though I said I'm not playing probably not people just don't pay attention alright let's see what you guys are saying about it um I think it looks okay I think it looks good not ready leaning towards no not a fan of the character design it clashes with the world aesthetics it looks fun my iPad has an odd visual glitch where the entire screen goes static and Apple themselves told me it's common current just to punch the Apple logo in the back just punch the logo I'm cautiously optimistic um the stream's audio bit rated my audio bit rates at zero that's not true you will be able to hear me um common occurrence is just to punch the Apple logo cautiously optimistic about the game it looks nice but Sega has a track record of sorts floating rails attached to nothing look out of place I can agree with that I mentioned that in my initial reaction like the visuals of the world but enemies shown so far don't have personality they're kind of robotics you know like robot enemies let's see here Nathaniel Austin says way disappointed by the gameplay it looks like a tech demo I'm excited and going to get it but I hope they polish it up a bit the first 3D sounding game I've actually been excited for so there you go someone's excited we have such a wide this is what happens with Sonic by the way no matter what they show the range of emotions is so wide from excited to disappointed to okay to looking weird to disappointed to tech demo excited it's all over the place it's crazy like I swear Sonic is the only IP that does this where no matter what they release the range of emotions is just so wide I wow wow it's still time to polish it you look at the physics listen I know what I said before but I really want Sonic games to be great Sonic Fringeers looks super empty did you see the um combat one looks too generic let's see here um Riley yeah we're not doing shots today at least not during the stream maybe tonight's stream not this one I look hot today like physically hot it's probably the lighting it's probably the lighting I also have a little bit of a tang going on as we're getting closer to uh in the summer um it looks good but they need to tell the plot of the story even Sonic media had its critics a few people accused it of being unoriginal and pandering to nostalgia yep I saw those remarks yeah we have all over the place all over the place refresh here to see if they got the stream up yet stream is up well not up but they have it up we can go like this and we can flip let me make sure I'm in now you can hear me now you can hear me got it yeah I accidentally what happened on my stream deck is I was in the wrong section so when I hit show um it switched to an entirely different section and it had my mic muted and everything so sorry about that that's my bad I was supposed to be in the prime gaming fest folder and I wasn't I wasn't in the prime gaming fest folder I'm so sorry I gotta get used to it I'm managing everything from inside the prime gaming fest folder and I'm just not used to it yet so whatever this is just my original stream layout not a big deal I think I'm pretty uh this way this isn't too bad of a look I'm not zoomed in enough though zoom in some more where's my camera main camera blow that baby up that's a bit better I like that let's make myself nice and big you guys can see how streams work behind the scenes cool let's do this thing sonar for tears is quite bland in your eyes combat looks way too slow some of the enemies take too long to kill see this is what I find interesting so in most sonic games at least the side scrolling ones the enemies just die like that boom, hit, boom, hit, boom, hit, boom there's no challenge to it boom, hit, boom, hit, boom, hit so like this is the thing I wonder about the combat in this game people complaining that it's slower takes too long well do you want combat to advance or do you just want it to be boom done boom done no challenge because that's the way sonic combat is typically meant there's no challenge to the sonic combat besides bosses and guess what so boss fights are slower all the other enemies die like that so like I don't think they can win 60 seconds apparently here we go drop a like on the stream everybody has me about to get this bad boy going drop a like see I don't pay for vidIQ anymore so it's like oh yeah why don't you view the plans and pay me $50 nah I'm good I didn't use vidIQ enough to keep spending the money on it the hot sauce arrives today the hot sauce we're getting shortly here we go here we go we'll do a quick refresh already six dislikes I like how there's dislikes before they even know what's going to happen yeah pokemon legends arc is great we're getting shortly come on should be a two minute countdown timer get the headphones on should be a two minute countdown timer about to happen let's go we can probably close do they still have a 30 second countdown they're $50 there's more people watching the IGN one than watching the official sonic one that's sad that Sega can't get more attention than a third party stream let me know in the volume there we go that should be good right is that good I wanted to lower the volume on my computer but full screen it they are streaming 1080p I'm sure we got that selected you know I blew it up I blew it up see what we got today Sega yeah baby let's drop those likes let's get over a hundred before it starts we got 50 seconds to go just checking my phone here I got lots of Prime Gaming plus notifications that I got to deal with later alright let's go baby to put sonic as the store today let's do it let's do it do it let's do it do it let's go not getting tingly right now because I'm sort of hyping responsibly right now I'm not 1 to 10 I'm kind of like right in the middle but here's hoping it's like a finger cross let's get something good here we go 5 3 2 1 I like that music I need to turn it up let me know that's an incredible year and now this year is shaping up to be our biggest year in April we saw the incredible success of sonic the hedgehog 2 a little bit once again broke records to become the number one video game movie in the US thanks to all of you that's right we could not have done it without you and everyone's love and support for sonic on behalf of the sonic team and sega family we thank all of you now let's see what the rest of the year holds in store for the blue blur better the games that defined a generation roll back to the games that started at all with sonic origins a new collection including the definitive editions of four iconic sonic titles this makes me want to run this music just want to get on get out there and go for a jog maybe that's the key when I'm going on walks and jogs I should go for sonic see these are good this is a good start this is a good start sonic origins is looking fire right now I mean these are games we already know are good but they added boss rush mode to missions mirror mode all you can play them backwards and a museum okay that's pretty cool hard missions hey hey coming this month on June 23 celebrate sonic central in sonic speed simulator on road locks xbox stuff introducing the new chemical plant where eggman has kidnapped the electric chow and is using their life force to power up metal sonic exclusively for sonic central unlock Amy chow using a designated code free the electric chow and reprogram metal sonic join the fight against eggman on June 11th it's not available now unlock special movie themed character it's not available now both sonic forces and sonic dash super shadow is joining the battle this halloween watch out for mafilis the dark show off your greatest achievements with player banners and welcome sir percival in sonic dash and also in sonic dash plus on apple arcade sonic dash is actually it makes sense to have sonic as a runner sonic prime is coming soon sonic prime anime series here's a sneak peek of our new show for our ultimate fans watching sonic central we're officially about to be copyright claimed we're officially copyrighted that's your preview it's a weird preview i mean i guess it teases shadow please welcome the voice of sonic from the sonic movie with a sneak peek of sonic the hedgehog 2 on blu ray and digital oh they're gonna sneak peek oh no everybody bench forts here i am the voice of sonic the hedgehog please hold your applause please check out the home entertainment release of my movie sonic 2 beyond it being another great adventure for sonic this time with some new friends let's do this yeah it is loaded with a ton of great extras sonic 2 is good sonic 2 is good what did you put in the coffee can you handle it hilarious bloopers he had beans in his hair tons of fun moments from behind the scenes on set and to top it off an exclusive animated short which takes place right after the events of sonic 2 voiced by yours truly bench forts self do me a favor put down that chili dog and take a look right now or soon chili dogs are stupid you guys ever had a chili dog actually pretty good this year we have exciting products from around the world straight from angel island g fuel g fuel go toe to toe with dr eggman with the eggmobile battle set destroy that meddlesome hedgehog with five configurations straight from the games available this fall from jack specific level up your xbox gaming experience with this sonic the hedgehog wireless controller and quick charging stand by razor razor available this summer more art introduces beautiful new art handmade silk screen prints are a celebration of the time this is good the good presentation and sonic the hedgehog capsule collection featuring energetic designs inspired by the high octane speedster himself check out the upcoming collectibles first four figures yes yes first four figures sonic tails and knuckles are now available as pez dispensers yes or just have a place to rest it in between gaming check out the newest cable guy controller holder retro gaming enthusiasts find these iconic early nineties aesthetic inspired statues of the blue blur pan is a special sonic soft final figure standing six inches tall welcome this high speed hedgehog to your room the music continues stay tuned for the return of the sonic the hedgehog symphony yes dude these are some good announcements 30th anniversary symphony concert live in person watch iconic moments from sonic's history come to life on the big screen alongside a full symphony orchestra with a few new surprises in store okay this is pretty good so far tour dates and info coming soon I'm liking this fall guys is going free to play on all platforms on 221 there's your cross there's your sonic being in other games coming to fall guys in august 2022 come play as knuckles, sonic and tails yeah too much time on things to celebrate sonic frontiers we are excited to present a sneak peek of a new animated special featuring knuckles and taking place before the events of the game we hope you enjoy this exclusive first look alright so this is an animated special let's over get it knuckles standing there in the rain got it what a tease here we go here we go come on baby this already looks like the trailer we should have what is this what is that thing gotta go fast catch up gotta go fast okay now this looks sick why wasn't this the trailer like days just a little oh here we go you know IGN visit IGN.com right now until June long because sonic frontiers is the IGN first cover story you can watch the world exclusive gameplay right now as well as the first ever hands on preview with more coming later in the month including interviews with the sonic frontiers that was a pretty cool looking little snippet gotta go fast to IGN okay so we'll head over to IGN in a second sonic frontiers is on its way dude that little snippet they showed was sick what were those things that little snippet was insane is that it gotta go over to IGN now I think that's it okay we gotta go over to IGN now go over to IGN to see the hands on impression there are things for watching there are things for watching first hands on here we go sonic's done a lot in 30 years he's been a pioneer of the high speed 2D platformer and Olympic athlete respectable kart racing enthusiast a fighter, a tv star and a Hollywood blockbuster movie star as well but he's never done open world and sonic frontiers fixes to change that I was fortunate enough to be one of the first people outside of sonic team to go hands on with sonic frontiers and let me just say if you're worried about how the blue blur will fare in this unfamiliar genre I think crush 40 probably put it best open your heart it's gonna be alright what struck me about sonic frontiers was how uniquely somber and serene it was right from the outset after flying into a wormhole with tails and Amy sonic finds himself separated from his friends and all alone on an isolated island with nothing but an AI voice guiding him to collect the chaos inwards there's no one for sonic to bounce quips off of no energetic crush 40 soundtrack just wide open fields as far as the eye can see there's an air of mystery in sonic frontiers and it's a vibe that's driven home further by the beautiful yet minimalist piano melodies that accompany sonic as he explores the island all of this is a very intentional choice I asked sonic team head takashi isuka to describe how the tone of sonic frontiers differs from previous sonic games and he said past games in the sonic series have taken different tones depending on their stories and themes this time these mysterious islands are the game's main aesthetic that's why our artists have worked hard to create a mysterious mood big new change in sonic frontiers is the shift from purely linear levels to a huge open world where sonic can freely run in any direction but sonic team doesn't like to use the term multiple islands to describe sonic frontiers gameplay instead of referring to its style as being open zone open world games like zelda or other trip it is open zone you can't just go to any island for sonic the core here is a 3d action game our basic idea was to have that take place in open space what sets sonic frontiers apart is this different approach to an open game world having played sonic frontiers for about 4 hours it's easy to see what isuka-san means there's the boost there's the boost my role is to be able to say that as i go fast there's the boost told you guys you can boost there's a bumper spring that bounces you like a pinball between 5 other bumpers before putting you on one of the many grindable rail tracks or a speed ramp that sets you on a completely different path that's either a collectible or reward or a line of rings that you can light speed dash into essentially they've taken that core appeal of every sonic level having multiple paths that eventually loop back around to the main one and applied that to these giant non-linear open zones one thing that has to be noted is that very few of these elements are built into the environmental design meaning that rails, platforms, boost rings and so on are just inexplicably floating in the air all around which isn't totally unusual for a sonic game but it feels especially jarring in frontiers in particular because of the frequent and sudden pop-in of these objects and the otherwise very naturalistic crystal of course it's worth emphasizing that this gameplay and the version that I played were from an early build but this is definitely an area that would hope to see improvement in the final version you know that are also a wide variety of puzzles and challenges that are littered throughout the zone and completing them is how you uncover sections of your map most of these are very simple requiring you to orient the statue the correct way quickly hop back and forth between colored tiles or a sonic's new side loop ability to draw circles around certain objects in the environment to interact with them the best ones though are the races against the clock where you have to get from point A to point B in a limited amount of time the openness of frontiers level design makes straightforward races like these a ton of fun because you have to try and improvise a path to the end that might not be immediately obvious there are some exceptions but combat in traditional sonic games generally isn't a thing that goes much deeper than jumping, rolling, or using a homing attack into enemies at the right time that changes in sonic frontiers which now has you fighting all sorts of wandering enemies and minibosses using an all new array of incredibly flashy attacks it's not all styled in those circumstances sonic is able to quickly dodge using the bumper buttons on the gamepad and by pressing them together he can even parry attacks with the right timing his homing attack also feels much more powerful landing with a ton of impact and keeping sonic stuck to his enemy allowing for a flurry of follow up strikes one of the things I really appreciate about the combat from what I played is that there are usually multiple ways to deal with specific enemies like take for example this guy who has an impenetrable shell that he can expand into spinning blades and throw at you one way to deal with him is just to carefully time your homing attacks so you don't get hit by the blades if you do that the window to damage him is small to increase that window you can either parry the blades and knock them away right before they hit you or you can even use sonic's side loop ability to encircle the enemy which causes the shell to go flying upwards defeating these enemies will reward you with exp that you can use to purchase new skills from a skill tree which gives sonic frontiers a really nice feeling of power progression skill tree they have a skill tree with different ways that sonic can attack enemies beyond just skill tree jumps and bumps in addition to these smaller enemies there are also a handful of enormous world bosses that I had to contend with these are near shadow of the colossus esque in their scale with one in particular against a beast named usura requiring sonic to bait the titan to slam the ground and then boosts up its arm in order to reach the weak spots on its head it's an ambitious boss battle far beyond anything I've seen in the sonic series to date but it's also the part of the game that needs the most work far too often I'd fly off the boss's arm without knowing why or I'd get to the top and for some reason lack the momentum needed to actually reach the head sonic must hunt down and defeat these bosses in order to collect portal gears is that what you meant? you hit the red shit I swear if that's why you didn't know how you got to the top you hit the red thing I wanna see if your criticism is that you suck at the game because they showed gameplay to show what he was saying and that gameplay just showed that he was sucking sonic frontiers is an exciting new step forward for the sonic series into uncharted territory and based on my time with it sonic team seems to have hit upon a winning formula there's certainly still work to be done before it's released during the holiday season there's a lot of distracting pop in there's a fair amount of bugs still left to be squashed and the big boss fights could do with some tweaking but ultimately my time with this early build answered the one question I had on my mind will sonic's one of a kind gameplay translate into an open world? the answer is a resounding absolutely thanks for watching and tune into IGN for more we got a little bit of new gameplay in there keep it here keep it here Nintendo Prime I'm just gonna do the same so the guy who got to play about 4 hours he got to play about 4 hours from a very early build I like the music it's very different for sonic it's very different for sonic I like the music so he played a very early build interesting interesting I will say this the hands-on preview and the little snippet of gameplay showed by sonic central is the best sonic frontiers look to date the snippet showed by Sega and then the hands-on impression is the best sonic frontiers look my excitement level 4 it just went from a 5 to like a 7 interesting very very interesting what are your guys's thoughts you guys think the game looks better now or about the same better or about the same we had a new snippet of gameplay in the sonic central and then we had the hands-on impression 100% agree big mistake for Sega making the first impression of the game yeah the early build thing instead of true trailer that's the thing you have to be careful with early builds oh the world looks empty if it's a super early build of course the world is gonna look empty cause it's not fully fleshed out and the guy even said there's lots of bugs and pop in I agree that it's probably a bit of a mistake to show such an early build before you build up the hype with trailers and show what's coming we still have not really gotten a full-blown big trailer maybe that's what Summer Game Fest is for maybe we're not gonna get a full-blown big trailer until Summer Game Fest I think it looks better some people saying delay it is a miss speed it's your opinion but this is an early build this is not where the game currently sits does that make sense IGN could have played this months ago to prepare for this IGN first this is not the current state of the game so saying delay it is let's wait I do hope they release a demo I don't know how they're gonna do a demo without just giving us a whole zone but I do hope they give us a demo IGN is a big outlet and Sega is most likely aware that the game is suffering from hypercriticism so having a big outlet to show off the game that makes sense it makes sense to do the IGN first I personally would have said I would have given IGN a more recent build and have them play it now the state of the game currently has set up playing a build from months ago but I also would not have had IGN do their first thing before basically if I was Sega I would have controlled the narrative I would have said look we showed off that initial teaser we showed off another little 38 second gameplay clip that got gameplay clips sneezer teaser that ended up getting people a little hype I would have followed that up with a massive 5 minute gameplay trailer shown off by Sega themselves so Sega can show the current state every time Sega shows something it looks great the 38 seconds teasing IGN first looked great the little snippet they showed us in Sonic Central today looked fantastic Sega is able to show it in current states whereas IGN can only show what they were able to play in a limited demo for months ago so it's cool that IGN is probably a static that they got that early access and got to spend 4 hours playing an early version of the game but the way that Sega can show it is going to be a much more complete version so I think it's a bit of a mistake I would argue the IGN first coverage so far has been a mistake I think we could have did without the initial 2 gameplay snippets from IGN just did a first impression then basically I wanted to let Sega do its thing drop the first impression video today the same day as you get a little tease then right after the gameplay impression you have your mega trailer drop at Prime Gaming Fest and then have a deeper dive with the developers later this month that's if I was Sega how I would have handled the marketing still do your IGN first let them have the first gameplay reveal by doing this hands-on impression hands-on impression was a much better look than the 2 gameplay things we got first so it should have been a tease IGN first doing their initial impressions on an early build noting the whole time it's an early build like that's the thing you get the early build notation in there people start to go ok and they go yeah this is an early build it's got bugs it's got poppin it's got this like fully admitting that hey this is obviously not an intended public consumption build this is just what we got to try out of the game to give them feedback so you get that initial impression you drop the mega trailer at Summer Game Fest then developer deep dives later this month it was a mistake to let IGN put out what was it 10 minutes of gameplay 12 minutes of gameplay it was a mistake to let that happen because that gameplay was showing the game in a state that it is not currently in and that was a mistake of Sega to let IGN do that Sega should have told them that's not how we're handling the marketing for this game you are not putting out long gameplay sessions of an incomplete early build of the game because it's a bad look for the game all by the way all early builds of games look bad all early builds of games look bad ok it goes they look empty they look drab they have pop-in issues they have bug they're early builds all games are that way Breath of the Wild's early builds were bad why we never saw them because companies don't allow that to be the impression of their game they want you to see it in a more finalized form by the time we played Breath of the Wild at E3 2016 the game was done the game was done that demo the 45 minutes we got to play across two different demos it was like a maybe it was 35 minutes it was like a 20 minute demo and a 15 minute demo whatever it was the game was done we were seeing a complete form of Breath of the Wild at E3 2016 the game was done that's the way Nintendo wanted people to get their impressions of the game was a completed version this was not a complete version so I think there was just a little bit of a mistake from Sega to let IGN do the gameplay reveal the way they did they should have let them do the impression video and then do the big trailer drop and then developer I think all of us can agree the game looks better today than it did with the way that IGN was allowed to release gameplay footage and the funny thing is they never noted in the gameplay footage that one it was beta or an early build they never said that and that's a mistake as well the reason the hands-on impressions comes across better is not only because we see a wider variety of gameplay it's also because we get to hear the actual opinions of the person playing it noting hey this is an early build hey there are issues hey I'm not just going to sit here and give Sega a pass on all these things but there's a lot of potential here and I think it can get better here and you know Sega is obviously hearing that feedback from IGN a much better look than just releasing first ever gameplay and then it's a beta build it's not indicative it's not indicative of the final product but hey we got cool things that skill trees confirm there is a skill tree hey so Sonic Frontiers looks better today than it did before and I think after Summer Game Fest it's going to look even better it's going to look even better so pretty excited I appreciate your channel all the upgrades you've done in the past year we're still for Prime Gaming Fest and glad to be a member and appreciate it thanks Nintendoer you see the new Xenoblade Chronicles 3 trailer was there a new one that dropped today was there a new one that dropped today I've seen all the ones up to today but if a new one dropped today I haven't seen it I'll just go to the YouTube channel so if they dropped a new one today I haven't seen the last Xenoblade thing was like I've already 11 days back and there's no Xenoblade definitely was a bit of a unless it's on the last Xenoblade Chronicles 3 trailer was a bit of a now when you say things like oh the Xenoblade Chronicles 3 trailer looked better than Sonic Frontiers one, subjective, they're completely different types of games but also Nintendo would never let a beta version of their game that's a difference between Sega and Nintendo Sega allowed IGN to show an unfinished beta might not even be beta, it could have been alpha beta, like they let them show an unfinished early build that is not indicative of the final experience Nintendo is not going to do that Nintendo is going to show you finished products in trailer so it should look better example, the little snippet we got in Sonic Central looked really good that looked like a finished experience we were seeing in that snippet looked good so there's a lot of differences in how Sega basically the only mistake Sega made is allowing IGN to put out that early gameplay footage, completely beta no notes on it, no nothing that was a mistake that was a mistake and I think Sega has probably realized at this point based on the reaction, man we probably shouldn't have let them do that that was kind of a whoops whoopsies and it's supposed to release this year why does everyone feel like they are now suddenly game developers do you know what an early build means what IGN played was likely from last year people don't pay attention to development cycles what IGN played was likely a build from last year but then why show it they didn't show it their IGN showed it they have yet to show that particular build and in none of the footage from Sega themselves have they showed that build that are clearly newer example, we just saw Sonic fighting flying bosses in the air you see that in any of IGN's coverage no, because it's a way newer build than what IGN's messing with I think they thought that the game would be so impressive, I feel like they thought it would be a breath of the wild feeling and they thought people would get I legitimately think Sega just thought Sonic running in an open world was going to make people get jitters, because it probably gives them jitters what happens when you're developing a game is you get so proud of what you're accomplishing they're probably super proud of the way Sonic moves the way the world feels and they probably feel so proud of it that they thought that their development pride and what they're accomplishing even at an early stage was worth showing off and would drive height for the game not realizing that hey, we've had a billion games like this we know this is new for you we need more and there is going to be more but this excitement you guys have building the game is not going to translate and how fans are going to react until they see the complete vision come together early open world Zelda builds probably would have been downright embarrassing to show off but when you see the complete vision put together after the wild ended up brilliant and I think Sonic Frontiers has an opportunity when it's all put together to be brilliant it's just we haven't seen it, like as ever we haven't seen anything to the story yet, right? nothing, nada I'm sure we will have Prime Gaming Fest I'm sure there's going to be a nice 2-3 minute trailer Sonic Frontiers made by Sega at Prime Gaming Fest and the game is going to look badass and then you might go, oh well this game looks much more complete than we think yeah, the only reason you think it's incomplete is because IGN released footage of an early build that Sega should have never let happen that's it bottom line is IGN right now in their gameplay segments are why we think bad of this game you eliminate those 2 videos nobody's thinking bad about Sonic Frontiers right now 38 second tees cinematic tees the little boss fight and then the hands on impression none of that looks bad if you just take those, separate them out looks good here's gameplay sessions from early build looks bad so it's a marketing mistake that's what I'm saying, it's just a marketing mistake but hey, Sega making marketing mistakes who would have known, who would have guessed Sega never screws up marketing their games right guys? they always do it perfect every time they're super consistent we all know, we all know anyone who's a fan of Sega knows that it ain't perfect every time but it looks a lot better man it looks a lot better now and I think it's going to keep looking better moving forward I think we saw the worst it's ever going to look and I think it's going to look a lot better moving forward not Sega without marketing yeah, if you ever pay attention to Sega they flub with their marketing quite a bit I'm not even like I'm not trying to make fun of them I'm a huge fan of Sega they got creative whatever, they got the Total War series under their belt, I love the Total War series but I'm just being honest man they screw up their marketing so much the games deserve better marketing than what Sega does most of the time so I think we're fine I think Sonic Frontier is looking good I'm going to reserve my final judgment obviously until I play it but I'll have I think a better what did I say after we got those two gameplay reveals by the end of this month we will know what this game is and then we can kind of formulate our full opinion on what we should expect going into launch because I told you those initial gameplay reveals we're not going to do the game justice I had an inkling that they were playing an alpha build of the game and alpha builds are super early and basically are just proof of concept builds the proof of concept builds hey we got a few enemies hey we got a mega boss hey we got the world sort of built out that you can run around in they're proof of concepts they're just proof of concepts they're not finalized fully polished fully built out fully populated worlds because that's not what those builds are that stuff comes once you get to almost past beta you got alpha then you got beta and then once you get past beta that's when the polish comes in the polish comes after beta where you start to fix some of the pop-in especially on Playstation 5 and Xbox Series there shouldn't be as much pop-in on Switch, absolutely there's going to be a ton of pop-in on Switch but on Xbox Series X Playstation 5 PC there shouldn't be that kind of pop-in there'll be some but it'll be so far off in the distance you might not even notice it so they got to work on the pop-in they got to work on some of the mechanics and the bugs they got these enemies and they proved how much they can work how you throw more of them in the world like you think when Breath of the Wild came out it started with as many Bokeblink camps like think about all the Bokeblink camps that exist in Breath of the Wild you think that that was around in beta that all of those camps existed in beta that all of those groups of Bokeblink existed in beta of course not they fleshed those out in the world after beta so you had your alpha proof of concept you had your beta bringing it a bit together and yet you have all your polish that ends up expanding upon everything greatly that's how game development works so there's a lot of I think what's happened is a lot of people get confused because when we have public betas companies don't let the general public play betas unless it's almost done you're basically just testing the game and seeing if it's any good before it comes out and I think that's what's confused people because when they hear beta build they're like oh dude when I played the beta build of the new wow expansion pack it wasn't this bad when I played the beta build of this game it wasn't like yeah because when the public's allowed to play the beta it's basically like a live demo of the final game not the same as a typical game beta which has nothing to do with the public plane you know about the Sega Saturn surprise launch yes I do launch is today just announce the system there will be other zones he referenced that the developers are saying it's an open zone open zone concept which means he mentioned multiple islands open zone concepts to me this means we're going to be traveling to other islands each islands a zone so there'll be a hub or a story element or something that you progress to the next zone and each zone is going to be fully open so it's kind of like Mario Odyssey each area is fully open and you can go anywhere right that's basically how Mario Odyssey work except these worlds look much bigger than the Mario Odyssey levels of course there was also significantly more Mario Odyssey levels but the point is that each zone in Sonic Frontiers is going to be massive because it's an entire island so there's going to be multiple islands probably with different aesthetics different weather different whatever and Sonic will be going from island to island we don't know how many islands there'll be you know we don't know how long you spend on each zone but it's a good concept it's a good concept it's one used by many games Monster Hunter uses it Mario Odyssey used it it's not a bad thing open zone is almost as good as open world the big difference between open zone and open world is you would be able to freely go from island to island without some sort of sequence without a teleporter without a you know some sort of load screen without some sort of story element taking you to the next area you could just freely go there right away basically Sonic goes super fast run across the water to the next island that would be open then you could freely just go anywhere you want that's not how open zone works it limits you to some sort of area and this area happens to be an entire island at the time Legend's Arceus for example is open zone as well you go back to the hub you go to different zones I don't know how they're going to handle it Sonic I just gave multiple examples of how they could handle it I have no idea what way they're going to go if there's going to be a hub if there's going to be like a home base if there's going to be like you just complete one zone and then there's like a teleporter that takes you to the next island or like a boat cut scene that takes you to the next island we have no idea how they're going to handle it but the zones are fully open but that's the difference between open zone and open world is being able to literally go everywhere versus you're restricted to an area so going across the island will be boring I agree they could put things in the water they could have animals jump out at you like Sonic by the way infamously can't swim like it's kind of a running joke with Sonic I know there's been some underwater stuff before but Sonic you know infamously is unable to swim but he can run across the water we've seen that in canon Sonic can run fast enough that he can get the water as he goes so it might be pretty hard to have some of this combat happen out in the water because Sonic would sink but it's alright I think it looked good today was a good day for Sonic that was a good Sonic Central that was a good Sonic Central right final thoughts before we sign off thoughts on Sonic Central good was there a good Sonic Central lots of merch announcements Sonic Origins looked really good I don't know I think it's probably the best the only thing I would have wished is if we would have got the big trailer drop at Sonic Central but clearly they're saving that for Summer Game Fest Jeff Keeley has been advertising Sonic Frontiers for Summer Game Fest big time so there's clearly going to be a big trailer for the game at Summer Game Fest so they're waiting for that I would have liked to see the big trailer right now it's going to be Summer Game Fest but I don't look good everything looked good the only thing I didn't like was maybe the tease of the prelude show that's going to be giving you story elements leading into Sonic Frontiers it just didn't show me anything there's knuckles standing there and some rain I would have liked to see a better reveal than a big nothing burger I thought the IGN Hands-on Preview was good the IGN Hands-on Preview is the best coverage IGN has had a Sonic Frontiers today so I will give I will give IGN some credit on the Hands-on Preview I think they did a good job it's hard for me to fully judge it because I didn't play it so I would have to play that preview build to know you know what's going on but I was shocked and I was like wow IGN is not holding back they're saying good things they're also saying things they didn't like so I thought the Sonic Central was good they didn't show a story trailer or not so K-Tode what did you expect from Sonic Central what were your expectation levels I asked this because here is what they said when they announced the Sonic Central I'll show you guys here it is let's click on this here's their unveiling of it tune in for a sneak peek at some of our upcoming projects partnerships and events happening in 2022 projects, partnerships, and events they successfully showed all of that they successfully showed all of that were you expecting too much so isn't it a Nintendo Direct they didn't advertise this as a Direct type event you were going to see upcoming projects partnerships and events we did we got announcements of the concert coming back the symphony coming back, that's an event we got announcements of partnerships for things like merchandise and obviously appearing in Fall Guys we got to look at upcoming projects from Sonic Origins all the way to a little bit of a sneak peek at Sonic Frontiers what more did you expect I want the big trailer too but we already know it's coming at Summer Game Fest it's been heavily advertised for Summer Game Fest, so we already know we're getting it in two days what were your expectations for this I didn't expect a Nintendo Direct it's just Sonic and it was just about Sonic in general we got a tease at some shows we had some talking about the release of Sonic 2 on DVD and digital I don't know it was for the Sonic IP it wasn't specifically a Sonic Frontiers Central does it say Sonic Frontiers Central no this wasn't like a Sonic Frontiers Direct that's not what this was whatever it was, so I think sometimes people have set their expectations wrong and by the way I have no reason to defend Sega or Sonic at all I think some people just set their expectations too high for some of these events you want to set your expectation high for Nintendo Direct I get it because Nintendos had some banger in Nintendo Direct makes you hope for a banger in Nintendo Direct I can get that Xbox with as the showcase you want to be hyper critical, absolutely understand that is their E3 like event we need to know what's coming for Xbox be hyper critical we've had really banger Xbox shows before there is a level of expectation there Sonic Central we've seen several of them they're just like general updates on the whole IP we've seen a bunch of them we know what Sonic Central's are so the expectation should have been for it to just be more of what we've seen before anyways alright, well that's going to do it I think you guys were tuning in I've got a video dropping here in a few minutes and then I'm going to be dipping out for a bit I might be back later today for another video if not I will definitely be doing a live stream tonight as we're getting closer and closer to Prime Gaming Fest talking about more events being announced I have a new announcement for Prime Gaming Fest as well that I will be talking about tonight on live stream brand new announcement just got locked in today so we'll be talking about that see you guys later tonight otherwise I'm going to drop this video and then I'm going to take my lunch break and go chill with my family and my kids and get their lunch taken care of and take a little break and then I got to do my actual job and then I'll come back and maybe do some YouTube stuff later alright guys peace out maybe