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Because I didn't hear about them, until now they were games that came out, I believe on the PSP. If I remember right, it is a spin-off of, and I'm gonna butcher this, the Sagia series. I've always butchered that name, so I apologize. The first one came out in 2008, the second one came out in 2011. They were regarded as brutally hard platformers. The official name, I'm just gonna answer the notes here, says they're called Prini 1.2, exploded and reloaded. Supposedly releasing this fall on Switch, there will be a collector's edition, it's being released by NIS America, so that's not a surprise, they like to do their collector's editions. There will be supposedly additional content, and that's pretty much it. We don't really know much else besides that. There's a little bit of gameplay from the announcement trailer, but yeah, it's a thing that's happening. So for those that look, you know, enjoyed those games in the past, that's a new announcement for you today, so enjoy. A new Trials of Mana trailer has dropped, and it is long, it is lengthy, and you are watching it right now. Three plus minutes in length shows a lot of different things from the game, and Trials of Mana is actually a direct sequel to Secret of Mana, and came out back in the 90s, but only in Japan, and more recently came out in the collection of Mana, the original version of the game back in June of 2019 on Nintendo Switch and other platforms. So yeah, we do now officially have it in the West, the original, and those that have played it and played it back in the day, and even played it last year, have regarded that, hey, this is the third, you know, game in the Mana trilogy, and it is actually better than Secret of Mana, which is well regarded in the West, and actually my second favorite game of all time. Yes, Secret of Mana is that big of a deal to me. Now obviously, I did not enjoy the Secret of Mana remake because I feel like they butchered the art style, but in watching this one, this feels like a much better remake. The visuals look way better, the combat looks, everything about it just looks better, and it looks like a modernization of the original game. So that's brilliant to me. There's even something to be said here about some people that are really, really hyped for Final Fantasy VII, which looks amazing, and there's a demo out for that for those that haven't tried it yet on PlayStation 4, but you know, that's releasing in parts, whereas this remake is the entire game at once. Obviously, we're talking about two completely different types of remakes, so it's almost unfair to compare. Also, the fact that they both come from Square, and I think what's really cool about this trials of Mana remake is it shows that Square is maybe testing the waters to see how popular the Mana series is between the Secret of Mana remake, this one, obviously the Mana collection, yet to wonder if the sales are going really well, will they bring the Mana series back to me? I always felt like the Mana series was actually the superior franchise to Final Fantasy. I know that sounds like blasphemy, but personal opinions aside here, so or I guess not aside, that is a personal opinion, isn't it? Man, my English is bad today, whatever. So yeah, trials of Mana looking really, really snazzy. So let's move on to the next story. The American Psychological Association has reaffirmed in its scientific research that attributing violence to video games is not actually scientifically sound, and that shouldn't really be surprising. There was a lot of research out there that supports this, but we obviously know the media, politicians, and everything for decades now have tried to pin violence onto video games, and specifically when it comes to the mass shootings, and the whole reason this even came back up is because they updated their research by saying that violent video games or video games in general can increase certain behaviors, such as raising your voice or light pushing. Now we know this as gamers, because if you ever play an online game, you can hear a lot of cussing, you can hear a lot of swearing, you can hear a lot of yelling and screaming, and obviously we see videos online where there's some pushing of friends or whatever while you're playing video games, and so that I mean I think is just well accepted and known, but it's a big leap to go from that to I want to shoot up a school, or from that to I'm going to run a bunch of people over, like in Grand Theft Auto you can run people over cars, oh no I want to something go do that in real life. It's a really big leap to go from a virtual thing to wanting to do this in reality. Now they note that the reason they want to reaffirm that violence is not caused by video games is because they want politicians and media and actual researchers to focus on the things that are actually causing violent behavior in people such as mental health. Video games you know can affect you in certain ways, but the people that might be more tending towards mass shootings and stuff tend to all have mental issues and we're not dealt with growing up properly, maybe do the cut in funding or whatever the case may be, maybe parents didn't recognize the signs. It's one of those things where they just want people to know that hey look just because we update on certain behaviors that are increased by playing video games, none of that is violence at the traditional level. None of that is mass shootings or killing of others and they don't want people to be distracted by this update. So kudos to them for even saying anything because obviously the media and everything would run with this update from a huge association that's done extensive scientific research on it and just you know, hey look there's proof see it starts it gets violent behavior going it gets people yelling and more agitated and so does like really bad days at work and you know rude people and when you're driving cars there's a lot of road rage and like what's the root cause of all of it it's not violent video games. So yeah that's really it. Kudos to the American Psychological Association for appointing this out and keep trying to keep trying to get the conversation to stop these things going in the right direction. So the ESA might be forced to close E3 2020 or cancel E3 2020 this year. Now we know that E3 2020 was actually talked about potentially being closed before but the ESA came out and said hey look we're not canceling it and this is due to the breakout of COVID-19 better known as the coronavirus. The reason we're talking about it today is because LA has declared a state of emergency over the coronavirus after somebody passed away from the virus sadly on a cruise ship in California and it's not just that there have been other confirmed deaths. The outbreak is spreading in California and in Washington state particularly in the Seattle area and there's a lot of concern now that this is going to become a rapidly growing epidemic because it that's kind of how it started in China with a small amount of people and then it just blew up so now we could be seeing one or two new centers in the United States rapidly spreading this virus. So that obviously has prompted the ESA to have to release yet another statement about E3 and here's what they said. The health and safety of our attendees, exhibitors, partners and staff is our top priority. While the ESA continues to plan for a safe and successful E3 show from June 9th through the 11th 2020, we are monitoring and evaluating the situation daily. Our E3 team and partners continue to monitor COVID-19 via the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention the CDC and the World Health Organization also known as WHO. We are actively assessing the latest information and will continue to develop measures to further reduce health ricks at the show. Again please know that we will continue to evaluate new developments and provide updates as needed. What this reads as is obviously the ESA does not want to cancel E3. We know that E3 has been going through a transition going through a change I mean about bare minimum E3 has become less relevant and been going through changes to try to maintain relevancy and what would be a big blow to the ESA would be if they had to cancel E3 altogether and this is why I believe they're going to do everything humanly possible to try to not do that to not cancel. I could see them doing things like handing out hand sanitizer packets or little things to every attendee when you enter every single day of the show to have hand sanitization all over the show floor and at every entrance and exit to maybe even having masks and stuff like this. I could see them going every measure humanly possible that they could do to keep the show going because the the worry for the ESA has to be if E3s cancel and all these companies decide to just do their own thing. Microsoft could still do their own thing without the involvement of ESA in fact they pretty much do during E3 because they do everything in the Microsoft theater so they could still do that even without the ESA around. You know Nintendo can still release their digital event without E3 yeah they went to that show floor presence and that would suck but they could still do the digital event still do that Nintendo direct style presentation still build a lot of hype for their games and they could still bring game demos to other events like they've already you know they do the first Animal Crossing demo actually came out of packs not an E3 which obviously that would make a lot of sense. Well E3 last year would have been nice to play Animal Crossing whatever it doesn't matter it's in the past. The point is that the ESA could be in big trouble if E3 gets canceled not just because it's their biggest moneymaker of the year but because it could put the future of E3 in massive doubts there's already some contract issues with the LA convention center and how maybe they won't be continuing to host it there they might be hosting it somewhere else in a different city somewhere and that could complicate things because a lot of major western AAA studios are located there but it also costs millions and millions of dollars for these studios to have booths at E3 hence why the ESA makes so much money and honestly we're at this point now where E3's relevancy is in doubt and now if the coronavirus forces them to have to like absolutely have to shut it down I think these other companies are going to realize that they don't need E3 all they have to do is release trailers online do digital events like Nintendo and Sony and Microsoft do and they might see the sales of their games are just the same as when they did E3 so that can make E3 extremely extremely irrelevant and then you have to wonder what does E3 become if it continues in the future although E3 could shift focus to be more about indie games or this and that but it's going to be difficult I think for the ESA and E3 to recover if there is no E3 at all this year but again you know obviously health is the number one concern here we don't want much people traveling to E3 to get sick I am debating myself I was already wondering if I should go to E3 but Nintendo for sure is going to be there so then you know me and my fiancee were going to go and do coverage but I don't know I mean is it worth the risk if LA is becoming a center for the the coronavirus is it worth the risk to go there that is something that I'm not so sure about right now we'll have to see how things develop I think I have until the middle of April to make that decision because that's when they close off being able to buy gamer passes and stuff so I don't know you guys let me know what you think if you think it's even worth going to E3 you think E3 is dying out do you think the days of E3 mattering are now done that's what I really want to know and if it's canceled this year is that the death of E3 let's move on to our final story and this is kind of a cool one although I don't know there's been some weird reactions lately the wonderful one-on-ones Kickstarter has crossed $2 million and over 30,000 backers that is unlocked lukas second mission which is additional content they're going to make for the game it doesn't look like they're going to hit in the the two other stretch goals they have which is like an orchestrated track and then you know extra languages for the game or whatever but what's interesting about this entire Kickstarter is it was actually announced a few days ago that they didn't need the Kickstarter this is kind of a Shenmue 3 situation where the Kickstarter existed to gauge interest in the game rather than because they needed money in fact they had plenty of money from Tencent and internally to do it now they do claim they needed the Kickstarter to self publish the game and this and that maybe there's something with Nintendo where Nintendo wanted to see a certain level of financial backing or a certain level of fan interest in order for them to be cool with it being published on all these other platforms and no they are refusing to talk about the business dealings with Nintendo on this which is pretty traditional for Japan they just say you know this is thanks to Nintendo we're able to do this whether Nintendo is just giving permission for the game to be on other platforms whether they're collecting a fee on every and every copy sold whether or not you know they you know maybe platinum games owns all the rights to wonderful 101 nobody really knows and no one's going to know because these are Japanese companies and that's just how they operate they don't tell people these are business dealings they keep it behind the scenes but uh there are some fans that are a little upset or feel a little bit misled uh because Kickstarter as a platform uh advertises itself as a as a you know like a platform that needs uh fan support or needs funding for projects in order for them to exist this is this is just the general premise of Kickstarter is you go to Kickstarter with a maybe a prototype of something but you also are trying to get backing to make that something in reality whereas wonderful 101 remaster could have happened without that Kickstarter and that funding isn't making the game happen now the the money is going to be put towards the game they are going to use it to develop the additional content uh and to fulfill all the the back rewards they have some pretty crazy back rewards like a vinyl soundtrack and some other crazy stuff they're doing including if you back at the highest level which I think is like $9,000 or $10,000 you can get a like a studio tour of course that doesn't necessarily mean that includes your flight plus hotels so that just you know something to consider uh but yeah I think it's it's kind of interesting that they shemu through read it people don't seem to be as upset but there are some people that are like eh you know did I really need to put my money towards this when they clearly don't need it um in my opinion what they have done with this Kickstarter is create a lot of hype um instead of doing expensive advertising campaigns and commercials and going to e3 and doing all this stuff instead um they created a Kickstarter that drove hype on its own at all these various video game websites and social media they basically use Kickstarter like Shenmue 3 to make this thing into a bigger deal than the wonderful 101 ever has been in the past uh so in that sense it was a successful media campaign and it gets people to pre-order the game so you know they got what 30,000 pre-orders or something like that it's crazy um beyond all that they are doing a celebration because tomorrow I believe about 24 hours after this video airs uh they will be done you dude can't do the Kickstarter anymore it doesn't mean you can't get copies of the game when it releases uh but they are done and they are doing a celebration stream at 8am pacific standard time tomorrow uh and it'll be a stream of the wonderful one the wonderful 101 remastered which should let you know that obviously uh they didn't need our money to make the game because they're already making the game or they're already porting the game or whatever they're whatever they're remastering the game or hdfi net or upping the resolution or improving the visuals the frame whatever they're doing they didn't need the money to do that hence they're able to show off some of the game with a celebration stream tomorrow uh so either way I'm just excited that this game is coming I don't care that it's going multi-platform I don't care if all games go multi-platform the more people that get to play the games the better uh so yeah kind of cool anyways that's going to do it for today's episode of prime news and you might be like today's episode but you haven't had a prime news in forever it's been like over a week it happens um there's been a lot of debates with this show and I obviously want to throw the conversation out to you guys where do you guys want to see happen with the future of prime news I like this sit-down format I like this background um you know I could put some more things on the table and jazz it up sometimes do some some fancy or editing uh but honestly I really want to know what you guys think of this format I really enjoy prime news I like a I like a show that focuses more on the news less on the opinions brings a bunch of stories together uh and just talks about them a little bit uh I'm very very uh interested in this concept of a show I know there are other channels and a small wave uh that does a similar concept show a news wave uh and I want to know how I can differentiate from that a little bit the sit-down format I think helps a little bit but um I honestly uh just enjoy doing it so if you guys have any ideas uh let me know otherwise uh I am Nathan Robindance from The Summer Prime like the video leave a comment uh like you know subscribe hit the bell icon that also get to entry into the Animal Crossing New Horizons giveaway otherwise um yeah I guess I'm I'm out of here oh there was a request someone wanted the return of dance moves I'm sitting down so a little more difficult to dance but uh let's give it a shot