 I'm podcast season two episode. What is it 58? I think it's 58 today. Uh, how are you guys doing? We're going to have a packed show for you guys. We have some brand new rumors and stuff to talk about. Uh, what is the surprise Nintendo direct and switch to related. We have to talk about our favorite leaker of all time. Um, so that's going to be a fun one. And then, uh, we actually will be having a topic all about love up in here because it is the month of love. If you guys don't pay any attention to my stream, you'll see we have the cupid's arrows and all this stuff going on. Well, uh, for this stream, we're actually talking about why we love Nintendo and a bunch of questions related to that, favorite games and all the stuff and how we got into all this shindig. It's going to be a blast. If you hear our Jake talking about PlayStation, that just shows where his loyalty is truly live. Uh, that being said, uh, we're going to start the show. The same way we start every single week and that is going around the room introducing ourselves. And what have we been playing lately? We'll start with a Nintendo because it has been a while, buddy. How's it going? Yes, sir. It's going good. Uh, my name is Patrick from Nintendo and like most of us, I'm just waiting. I'm waiting for new games. Um, been playing Animal Crossing, Mario versus DK demo was pretty good. It was like 10 minutes though. And, uh, revisiting Arceus, which is the best Pokemon game on Switch agreed. Amen. I would agree. Not to completely throw us all on a tangent already, but you know, I've been playing the DLC and it's pretty good DLC. Once you get past like the first half of part one, like the second half of part of part one and part two are like really good. Oh yeah. I, I don't know. I don't want to like unintentionally plug myself, but I did recently do a review on it. And, um, there was a, there's a lot to cover for the folks that have not played the Scarlet and Violet DLC. It is absolutely worth checking out. It has a little bit of that spirit that I think people have been like, I'm sorry. I'm really, I know I'm ruining the introduction, but like the, there's like this little quest you do at the end of part one where you go on the photo shoot with, what's her name, a parent? I think that that moment really kind of, it felt like modern Pokemon with the essence of like older Pokemon. And that makes sense. Yeah. It's pretty magical, but I'll, I'll shut up now. We'll probably go on this time. Tanged a little bit later. This is where someone else was. You were saying, you were talking about the games that you were playing. Yeah, that's pretty much all I've been playing. I'm just waiting for a partner showcase apparently, but we'll get to that. What? Spoilers? I mean, I don't even put it in my title. I got a clickbait. All right. We're going to get to Sabrina Saffron City TV. Welcome back to the show. How you doing? Hello. I'm doing wonderful. I'm so excited to be here on the podcast as like my second time because I had such a blast the first time. So I'm really glad that y'all invited me back. I like it here. Yeah. Yeah. I would love to come on once a month. I think that that would be totally cool. But yeah, I'm Sabrina, my channel name is Saffron City TV. I pretty much talk about Pokemon games and I have not been playing them lately actually because I'm working on something right now. I just finished playing Pokemon Emerald and Omega Ruby. But in my spare time when I'm not playing games for a purpose and I'm just playing games to have fun, I've been playing Fire Emblem Engage. And it is different. It's very different from what I anticipated because it is, but it's kind of corny. It's pretty corny. That's the only thing. That's the only thing that I'm kind of like, I'll be playing it and I'm like, oh, but outside of that, like the gameplay itself is really fun. It's really challenging. I feel like I'm playing video game chess. It's a great time. I love seeing all of the old Fire Emblem characters, most of which I recognize from Smash, but, you know, for the most part. But at the same time, like I'm enjoying seeing them and getting to know more about the characters. And the actual gameplay is a hoot and I have really been enjoying it lately. Did you play Three Houses? I didn't, but I want to so bad. I keep hearing like mixed things. A lot of people like Engage more than Three Houses and a lot of people like Three Houses more than Engage. And so I'm kind of just like, I need to play both. Yeah. Well, I think Engage is more like traditional Fire Emblem where it's like just the battles with a little bit of story in between. It doesn't like basically lets you jump battle the battle really quickly. Whereas Three Houses, you have to do a lot of like persona-y stuff and build relationships in between each of the battles. And for me, I like that more. I actually like stuff like that. Yeah. I think what I get hung up on as far as Fire Emblem Engage is concerned is that some of the voice acting is spot on and is really, really good. And then some of the voice acting, I'm like, this is difficult to listen to. I wish I could put it in like Japanese and read subtitles sometimes. That makes sense. But so I don't know. I tried, but I thought that's how I played it. I didn't look hard enough to be honest. But outside of that, like I am looking forward to playing Three Houses. Could you gauge it for me on like the corny scale? I didn't beat Fire Emblem Engage, but that's because I got distracted by other games. It's one of those things I've been trying to mean to get back to. Maybe after that Pokemon DLC. Yeah. I mean, Three Houses, I have a waifu, so that's what it is. Yeah. I can have a waifu. Oh, you can have a waifu. Yeah, I made sure. I made sure to support Adelgard and all of her efforts. And all of her efforts. Well, I'll have to find out. There's a certain teacher I was getting down with. It is what it is. The student doesn't come to teacher. Well, I'll have to find a suitor. So I'll check it out. I don't know who I end up being involved with. All right. There we go. Looking forward to it. Look forward to that in a future podcast, everyone. That's going to be Giggity-Giggity-Goo. Eric. Yeah. Let's go down, buddy. Well, you know, table to table. So playing nothing. No, you sort of. There. I beat every shred into your team. Oh, you did? I found him. That's actually a nice accomplishment. Congrats. Yeah. I'm light ruining. So. Hell yeah. It makes things a lot easier. We know where they are. We know where they are because of the shine. Yep. Yeah. Dude, you know how to build a little bike to explore the depth? Yeah. Yeah. That's that's the. Mine kind of goes like this. The light research is tricky, though, because they're like in tough and you can't like get to them. Yeah. The same way you would be on the overworld map. Yeah. The bike. They're hard to find 98% of them. Just grab a little bike and just go around. Right. Yeah. Nice. Did you like the shrines better in Breath of the Wild or tears of the kingdom? Oh, tears of the kingdom. Okay. Definitely tears. It's just there was so much more variety. Yeah. Exactly. That were the same like the ones where they took away all your weapons and things. Those were still different. It wasn't like it was. It wasn't like it was. The combat shrine over. Exactly. They took the one challenge from Breath of the Wild where you go on the island. And it takes away all your weapons. And like that was one of people's favorite parts. They're like, all right, let's make this a common occurrence. And I like that a lot too. Yeah. I will. Nothing. Different. Even tight island though. Even tight island. Even tight island is like still maybe the best. Yeah. Yeah. And that's that's it. Nice. Hey, that's something I feel I haven't been on the shrine yet. So. Jake. Keeping it clean. Are you sure? Keeping it clean. I saw you getting bricked up for a minute. Yang, man. Would you like me to head you in the mark? This is an episode about love and you want him to keep it clean. Well, just wait till we get to the love portion. It'll probably not be clean anymore. It's wholesome love. Wholesome love. That's what we're looking for. All right. All right. So what have you been playing? So I actually. I've been playing dead cells more. I think I was playing that last week too. I've beaten the whole thing many, many times. But like I said last week, I never had gotten all the DLC. So I've just been, I just get addicted to those kind of games. And I just play him a ton. So I've been playing with that. And then I got Monopoly on the e shop for like eight bucks. And I played like three games in a row. And I put like six hours just sitting there. I meant to play like one game, but I've been playing Monopoly on video game consoles since the PS one. I don't know why it's just like a guilty pleasure thing that I do. It's a good version. The switch one's good. The only thing I don't like is that you can't fast forward the AIs turns. Oh, yeah. You literally have to sit there while they do it. And it's not like super slow, but it's slow enough to be to the point where like, okay, a two hour game could have taken me less than an hour. If I could just fast forward, but it's all right. I was still had enough fun to play a lot. Hmm. There you go. I hate my address restart. Who the hell are you? And what are you going to play? Uh, Did I just create an existential crisis? Sorry. Sorry. Am I am I? No, it's one of those things where I don't want to be like egocentric and just be like, I, I am going to become the pirate king. Oh, the pirate king. You found the one piece. Yep. I'm going, I'm going to find one piece and become king of the pirates. All right, Luffy. It's going to happen. All right. We're going to hold you to it. Until that day that I'm going to be talking about Nintendo every day. So yeah, that's what I do. Um, and sometimes I play games that are Nintendo, including Pokemon, but I already talked about that. Um, and it's, uh, performance issues aside, which are constant and rampant and terrible. I'm sorry to hear that. Don't worry. One out of five guys suffers that the game is still pretty good. And there we go. I don't even know what you said. Human and erectile dysfunction. Dirty bird. Oh, word. He was letting you know it's okay. There we go. One out of five guys experience. Application. Good for you, man. Good for you, man. Uh, so, uh, I have done two things this week with the games I played. Uh, first off, uh, for those who don't know all our Super chats and all that, that's how you get your questions in for the Q and a section. We actually, we actually have one to share right now already because, uh, Every time this guy is on the show, I don't know what he's doing. I was the one late. Everyone got the link late to join the show, but, uh, I also, he, what he did know is I said, I will do a shot for every super chat on this show. I made that one. Here's what happened. Here's what happened. So last night we had a crazy live stream. I do these $100 tequila shots. Well, um, we had $600 in the first 10 minutes of my stream last night. So I had to start off the stream with six straight tequila shots. Oh, my God. Promises were made. And so now I'll be doing shots all night, which was not what I usually do on Wednesdays. So, uh, thanks for the starter shot. I'll make it easy. Well, you know, I'll make you a deal. I'll, I'll grab a beer so you don't have to drink alone, but I'm only drinking beer. All right. I'm not doing no damn shots. Y'all are out of y'all's damn mind. If you think I'm going to do that. No, no one else has to actually participate. I told my audience. I listen. Hey, friends do not let friends drink alone. I have a glass of water. Well, he's in vodka. It's ever clear. It's my favorite drink. Oh, I'm literally looking like, uh, what's the weakest alcohol I have? Um, 30%. So, oh my goodness. That's the weakest you monster. I have beer. I could, I might do some beer shots later. If it's a little too crazy. That sounds a little gassy. I'll be back. I will go grab a Corona. I've never had gas on beer in my life. Oh man. Oh, maybe I'm just a professional drinker. I don't know. Yeah. I don't know. All right. No. So what am I playing lately? Uh, one, I think I said I beat it before, but I technically didn't. I finished off Super Mario RPG. Um, finally, like officially beat it. I think I was, I said I beat it before, but I actually was in the final part of the game. Um, so I just counted it as beating it, but I technically didn't. So I beat the game. My opinion hasn't changed. It's still, uh, Oh my God. Okay. It's still beginners. Uh, beginners RPG is what I would say. But you know, I think what it, the game has maybe excited for is, especially now that we have sales figures in for it and is now the best selling outsold the original. I think I'm actually a little bit excited if they actually make another one, like a brand new one. Cause I see a lot of things that they did in this one that they might do different in modern day. Uh, so I, I'm kind of excited if they bring out a new one. That's what I'm more looking forward to than that one. Um, and then I also played a bit more of horizon, zero dawn. Uh, I'm still not like super deep into it because I spent the time finishing off Mario RPG. And then, um, I got like another hour into the game. This week, this upcoming week is probably when I'm going to find people like next week, give you guys some real thoughts on what I think about horizon as a first time player. Um, cause I'll probably get like another 10 hours deep in it. We'll see. Um, yeah. So that's, that's basically what I would, I've been doing game wise. Otherwise you guys see all my content. And if you don't, what's wrong with you? Um, I already see my live streams. And if you don't see those, then I don't know what's wrong with you. I know Sabrina's been at some of them. So I have, I've tried to pop in from time to time. The, the Saturday morning live stream was just texting. I was texting Jake yesterday while I was bricked up. He knew that the key was flowing. I don't know if he knew why. I've never had a screen start. If I had like a, a penny for every time someone told me that anyways, I guess that's a, we'll transition to our first topic. Um, so it is the month of love. It is obviously Valentine's month here, at least in the United States. I actually don't know what the rest of the world celebrates to be to the honest, but hey, it's where I grew up. And so a nice topic that Sabrina actually suggested is talking about why we maybe love Nintendo. What was the first sexual feelings you ever had for the video game character? You went straight dirty. All right. You dirty bird. I don't see that in our talking point question. Oh, I'm just, I meant to read it. Sorry, typo. I don't think I had a serious answer. I got to think hard about it. I would be Final Fantasy characters all day. I'm really trying to wrap my head around. You jumping over to, to a Sony side. No, I was surprised. When I was, when I was younger, when I was like a young teenager, I had the biggest crush on Steven Stone from Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire. I had the hugest crush on Steven Stone. The white hair does it for you. Yeah. Sure do. Oh, Pokemon. I will say Cynthia. Yeah. Oh, Cynthia. I was a pre-team when I was finally introduced to Zero Suit Samus, and that was just on. That's that's what you need. Oh, I need a bathroom. Honestly, my only swings one way, but even I got the hots for Cynthia. So even Steven Stone is the definition of ripped up. Hard as a rock uses only feel types. Hardest feel like he is. He I used to have the biggest crush on the guy. All right. That would be my Valentine. Well, I mean, I'm an adult now. So no. Why would we be a little careful? They didn't quite age in universe the way that we did. I will say actually, he's one of the few that is actually an adult. So so you're in the room. What are you worried about? Hey, man. I'm going to be Zealblade. That's it. I mean, I understand to bring up Pyro and Mithra. I mean, they are. OK, sure. Pyro Mithra, sure. They are my mains and smash. I mean, look, we're going to start. Look, from my adult age, if you're going to bring up Pyro Mithra, I'll just bring up Sia from Hyrule Warriors. I'm just saying no one else is going to agree because none of you guys played the game, but it's OK. God, what's her? What's her name in Tears of the Kingdom? It is so good. Para, anything of Para? Yes. Yes. Yeah, she grew the hell up quick in Tears of the Kingdom. The mods. OK, tell me. Tell me it's Para from from Tears of the Kingdom. Yes, from Tears of the Kingdom. OK. What other Para are we talking about? No, the Breath of the Wild one. Oh, God. That's what I bring up. Tears of the Kingdom. Before. I'm going to have to get up the censor like over 100 years old. Wait a minute. Wait a damn minute. Hold on. What? Actually, you know what? As Van Moen Haas brings up in the chat, the Great Berry from Ocarina of Time is the first time I was asking questions. Say that. Not from Ocarina of Time. Yeah, dude, that's a little. She's got a big shirt. Wait, no, no, no. No, you misinterpreted what I said. I'm not saying that was my crush. I'm saying that's when I started asking questions. Oh, it's probably. Yeah, it's confusing. It's a little traumatic. Yeah, like the question I had is, are they actually triangles? And I was just told sometimes. I think I was mostly just wondering why Nintendo Greenlit that. Like, I don't I don't know how that was OK. The berries in Ocarina of Time are terrifying. There's so many people googling right now. Yeah, we're starting a trend. We're starting a new trend. All right, God, brain was supposed to be a whole brain went off off the rails real far and went the flower in the in Conker's bed for a day. Oh, that was on my mind. Look, Eric, I want serious questions now. We're in the same room. I might go to the other side. All right. The only one that has to give us a turn around there. Oh, lick a tongue. No, I'm getting out there. Well, I was real dirty bird. I'm your favorite Pokemon. Dibs, Guard of War. All right. Oh, God, I think I was lucky, lucky. You're nasty. It's trying to be a wholesome segment. But you know what? Here's the problem. The very first person. What's the first game they got us hooked? And Jake just took it the complete wrong. I love how everyone answered to. That was awesome. It's beyond a Pokemon. You got to go with the flow. Preacher, the 10 talk that you would like to bring up. Wait, what? It you suggest that there's something else beyond lick a tongue. Oh, Jesse. Team Rocket. OK, all right. Well, he's in a bad bronze. I see. I've seen the red. I mean, before someone say that's an anime character, she's in Pokemon yellow. Yeah, she is. She is. Yeah. Yeah. Good taste, Nintendo. Good taste. All right. So we're going to actually save the why we love Nintendo overall question for the final part. We're going to go through this list and we're going to start with what's the first game that got us hooked and wanting to try more Nintendo games? Oh, come on, come on. Jason, go straight up, Pokemon. What was the Gem 1, Gem 2? What have you done? Gem 1, literally when I was in like second grade, like every kid on the block had a Game Boy color. We were all playing, trading, using the link cables. Everyone in school had it, then they got banned from school. But that was in terms of Nintendo. That was the big one. OK, I want to answer next. All right, you go ahead, Sabrina. Because mine is Pokemon Silver, specifically Pokemon Silver, because my stepdad had some neighbor kids and they were my age and they were both girls and they actually let me play their Game Boy color because I was the poor kid who didn't ever have a Game Boy to play on the playground or any video games or anything like that. Like I was the one that was always like, what are y'all doing? I want to see like, can I play for like five minutes? And they would always be like, no, no, get out of here. So the first. So I had had a bunch of hype built up for Pokemon because everybody else was playing it and I didn't get to. And the first time I played Pokemon Silver, it was like hooked. I wanted to play it all day, every day. I only got to play about like four hours of it. But then after that, I was like, it was like crack cocaine. I needed more. Can I piggyback off that a little bit and then you can talk more? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I remember the kids that lived across the street for me during all that Gen One hype. They spoke Japanese and they got silver in Japanese like way before it ever came out here. And they like let me play it also and they would translate for me. Like, I didn't need to know much, but I was like in the mart. I was like, all right, what's pokeballs? That's all I need to know how to buy like. So yeah, like I would figure out like which moves did damage and just like keep playing it. They let me play it a lot. But yeah, it was that was awesome. But yeah, continue. I just you just triggered that memory for me. Oh, no, that's really it. It's just I had so much hype built up around Pokemon and I never got to play it. And then the first time I did get to play it, that is what got me hooked on Nintendo for sure. So that's my that's my origin story. Also, Super Mario World and the boy. All right. You're not allowed to tell your story today. I guess I'll go back. He's back. OK, I go to the next. I'm I'm just I'm getting excited. All right, I'm getting excited for Nintendo. All right, I actually want to follow up just because I mean, it's it's it's I'm going to mention two things, right? But I'm because like I'll just say because you were talking about Pokemon Silver, like I remember when I might my dad had a Game Boy and I remember he had Tetris and you know, you know, the board game Scrabble, there was there was a Scrabble version on Game Boy. But as a kid, I would always I thought it was called Scramble, like Scrabble X, but eventually I did get my own Game Boy. I got a Kiwi, the they look like the lime green color, a Game Boy color. That one is nice looking, too. Yeah, it was so good. And I got Pokemon Silver, right? So that was like my first Game Boy and my first Pokemon game. And I remember just holding it in my hands at home for the first time and thought I had. Well, kind of I I had this the prevalent thought then I had as a kid was like, wow, I can't believe I have this. I feel so lucky. I didn't think I'd be someone fortunate enough to be able to have this. I felt like such a special moment. I was extremely like grateful for it. Like so, you know, I kind of, you know, I kind of get those vibes of like not having everything right by having that. That was it was a real big, big thing for me. And that feeling is is like nothing else because I had that exact same feeling when I got the Pokemon Pokemon Sapphire and a Game Boy Advance for my birthday one year. And that is exactly what I'm talking about. It's this feeling of like, I almost feel like I don't deserve it. And like, I'm going to take good care of it and I'm going to play the shit out of it. And this means the world to me. And then you spend like 600 hours playing the same like three games over and over again. But the first time that you start up that Game Boy for the first time, and it's yours, is it's it's a feeling that is it's not like anything else. What's it for? You will spend the rest of your life kids chasing that feeling and never having it ever again. Like chasing the dragon. But you know what was crazy? Like when we were like nowadays, it's like really hard to like put a lot of time and like keep up with the video games you want to play, right? Like your backlog gets bigger and bigger. And part of it's like a big part of it's because we're adults. You have a lot of other stuff that we're doing. But also I feel like even kids like when we were kids, we didn't have phones and like you didn't have like Netflix. Like we could watch whatever was on cable TV. So it was so much easier to like let yourself get sucked into a game and have that consume you. And I feel like even like obviously as adults, you don't do that, but even kids today, I feel like don't quite get it. And I mean, some do for sure. But like it's not exactly the same. Like that was a really special time, I think. Oh, I agree. It's just the product of the times, right? Like information is just readily available now. And so there's pros and cons to that, right? Like we can, you know, if left, we can research whatever we need to. Most of us don't, but we can, right? Right. And so that's a fantastic thing. Playground rumors and stuff. That was awesome. Yeah, I mean, exactly. Like there was like all these myths that we were like. Playground, playground rumors, like the Mew Under the Truck. Or if you if you do something with the Moss Deep Space Station, you can find deoxys and stuff like that. Like it was all lies, but it was so fun. It was so interesting to do it for yourself. Yeah, I'm missing it was real. Yeah, I'm missing it was real. I was here for years. And that's the thing. There would be one that would be real. So then you'd want to test out all the other things that L is real. L was real. Yeah, L was real. I remember from our 64, like there were so many different stories. I was told about one being you can't find Luigi, right? Which was always crazy, but there is this one that was definitely fake where because when you get to the end of the game, you can unlock Yoshi on the rooftop, right? When we talk to Yoshi, he gives you a whole bunch of lives. And he jumps off the castle in the direction of the waterfall. And so as a kid, I would always try and follow him and try to go through the waterfall. And I couldn't you can't you can't actually get into the waterfall, but I would spend hours just trying to find a way to jump in and through the waterfall. And the thing is, though, there is a level that has you coming out the waterfall, right? And so I go back to that level to try and find Yoshi. Because supposedly if you can catch Yoshi, you don't lock the whole other game. But, you know, that's that's the myth part. But I spent so many hours on that, which is just kind of funny. But anyway, it's like back to your point, Jake, like it's interesting kind of thinking about how times have changed, right? Because to your point, like we don't have access to the Internet. We don't have access to our phone. They didn't have extra phones all the time. So we're we. Yeah, a lot of it's kind of left more for our imagination. And we were lucky to have access to like a guidebook or something like that. Was lucky. Cool. I didn't even I didn't even like just for like learning how to do stop from looking stuff up. I meant just like as a distraction. Like it's so easy to just like start watching a ton of YouTube videos or just like go on your phone or a touch and span. Sucked social media. Yeah, like it's so easy to just get this like, dude, like I will all sit down and want to play a game. And then I'm like three hours will go by and I've just been like looking at my phone. I'm like, what the hell that happens all the time. Yeah, just to piggyback off all of this, basically, like you got to think I mean, Pokemon is my answer to, but like you got to think it's the 90s. You got the show that just came out. You got all the merchandise. Like all your friends are playing it. My big moment was my neighbor because I didn't have a N64 for a while, but he had an N64, dude, Pokemon Stadium like changed my life. Like the announcer, like you felt like you were in the anime. You were seeing Pokemon 3D for the first time, like in a video game. And that to me was it. And then I found out you can connect your game to it and transfer your Pokemon. Like that was crazy. Playing the original game that three times speed in the dojo tower. That's what's up. And then you could run so fast like level. I mean, that was awesome. You said Lickitung earlier. And now I can think of is the Lickitung sushi mini game. Yes, that was so fun. That was my favorite one. And I honestly feel that, like, the Lickitung toss was the best time period in human history in terms of games, music, the movies were awesome. Like there's so many types of movies that they don't even make anymore because they've just been like there was all those movies like for kids, you know, like blank check and like those Disney movies and stuff. They don't make shit like that anymore because you just make all superhero movies like big fat audience that would like those. And like, I love Marvel and stuff. But like, I don't like it, you know, but like Sabrina knows like you saw like I was at that concert like last weekend. Yeah, it was like all like pop punk like we're going to like the throwback and 41. Yeah. And I'm just thinking of you getting hit by a giant axe or getting knocked over. That's all that's all I can think about when I look at you right now. But Nintendo is a core part of like that 90s experience. Yeah, I watched Jake get bricked up in real life. He sent me a video last night. It was quite entertaining. Oh, yeah, I went to this place where I had to like dodge these like pendulum like axes like a real life video game. Yeah, I kind of got knocked by the last one. You were doing so good that he got to the end. You're like, I forgot how what coordination is anymore. I almost fell, but then I just pushed myself off the axe. So so what about you, Eric? What what video game was it that got you in a Nintendo? Um, that would be Mario Kart 64 Mario 64. Kind of that area and then Pokemon Red and Blue. Mario Kart 64 was like the best game to play with your friends. That was like quintessential friend game to play. You get everybody over on the track and field. It's like a lot of that. I had the NES. I mean, we did play a ton of it, but like, but I wasn't really got me hooked was like for Christmas one year, my parents rented us a 64 and we all of us just sat down and played Mario Kart and it was an absolute blast. That's like a core memory right? Oh, yeah, it is. It is. And so that was kind of what got me, you know, hooked into it. And then, you know, then I became friends with you. I don't know, some some guy randomly, you know. Yeah, I had the Game Boy. You had the game here. Yeah. And then you eventually got a game. Yeah, but yeah, no, and just to go to Pokemon Stadium. The Sandshrew Sand slash digging one. Oh, yeah, that was fun to keep code ever. You freaking taken you turn your controller upside down. So you're holding on to the middle stick upside down and then you just rock the controller bag for you destroy. You destroy everybody because you dig dig that hole in about two seconds. It's like, Eric, can you show me that? Can you show me that motion again? I like that. Oh, yeah. Yeah, totally. Hey, you know what? I got you down and then I have a little something that I want to share with y'all just because y'all said y'all want wholesome vibes. I want to give y'all a good one right now. So me and my grandma used to play the in sixty four all the time. All right. And she used to love her grandma. Dude, my grandma. OK, hold on. I'll tell I'll finish that point here in a minute. But but my grandma was so good at Mario 64 that I was so jealous of her. I wanted her to teach me like, how did you get 94 stars? Like, how did you do it? And she would just kill in it at Mario 64. And that's what we would do. I would get off school. I would do my homework. We would eat dinner and then we would go straight to the in sixty four and play Mario 64 and Pokemon Stadium together all night long. And she is one of the main reasons why I stayed into Nintendo Games because it's one thing to play Pokemon Silver once when you're a kid. And it's a totally other story to have a constant positive influence over and over and over again and make good memories. And she was always well, she is always a major staple in my in my gaming story. And now she has a Nintendo Switch Lite and she has every single solitary Mario game that has ever come out on the switch. She has all of them and she has played through all of your grandma. That's awesome, dude. And she loves Bowser's Fury. She's struggling a little bit on Bowser's Fury, but she loves it so much. She she loved Odyssey and she's she's been keeping the Nintendo spirit alive throughout my childhood. She reminds me of like the Animal Crossing grandma. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, except except that my grandma is a little younger. So she's like I think she's like she's like sixty four now. So like so she's on the younger side. She's not quite like as as wholesome as Animal Crossing grandma. But she's still plenty wholesome. Yeah, I don't know. So for me, so I've been thinking long and hard about this, because like the first game I ever played, they didn't really get me hooked. I honestly think I don't know if I told the story on the podcast, but I definitely told it on the live stream before. I so Zelda is my favorite franchise of all time. And what got me to start playing all these Nintendo games was I was in got elementary school and I didn't have a Game Boy. I barely we had a NES in the house and I think maybe a Super Nintendo. But I just didn't really the Super Nintendo was new and I didn't really know what was going on as we'll see my dads at that time. So I saw somebody playing a game that looked very, very interesting to me in front of me on the bus and I asked him if I could play it. And he said no. And I then said pretty please just until you get, you know, you can have it back. And he said no. Well, I got mad. I punched him in the face. I took his Game Boy. Some people never change boy. Yeah, I look as a bully move. I know now this is Boss Hagen 90s. I don't know what the hell I was doing. Anyways, I took it took it home and it was Link's Awakening in there. That night, I almost beat Link's Awakening. I did not sleep. I was having so much fun playing Link's Awakening. Very next day, I gave the kid his Game Boy back, said sorry. Surprised he didn't tell on me. I don't know. Tatl tailing was like, not a thing back then. You just didn't tell on people. No snitching. Yeah, no snitches. Snitches get stitches. I don't know. He might have needed stitches after I punched him. I have no idea. But I gave him his Game Boy back and again, bully mode, really bad. If you want to know, I got really bullied later in life. I feel like it was karma for that moment. So I just accepted the I just accepted it. You know what duct tape naked under a bench in high school? Yeah, OK, I punched a kid in the face and took his Game Boy. Wait, that's fair. That's fair. But Zelda was worth it. Anyway, the moral of the story is Link's Awakening is the game that made me go, huh, this is kind of cool. So then I my parents finally got a computer or my grandma did. I think a year later, dial up internet. I type in this way and he find out, oh, Nintendo. What the hell is Nintendo? And then from there, I started like, oh, they got all these other games. So then I'm like, oh, wait, we have like a Nintendo. We have some of this at home. I've just never really played it. So then I started playing Duck Hunt and Track and Field on the NES. And then Hogan's Alley. That was also published by Nintendo. And next thing you know, I'm just hooked. I'm like, anything Nintendo has, I'm playing it. If it says Nintendo seal equality on there, I am all over it. And then I got in the third party games. But it's such a weird story that like, OK, I was a bully and it was bad. This is a bad thing. I probably shouldn't say this, but also, guys, it was like 38. That was like 33 years ago. I'd like to think I've grown up a bit since then. So you can't believe isn't that well. Bullying isn't that bad. It lets every every cloud has a silver lining. Yeah, to be fair, that kid went on and he's actually like a CTO and a huge tech company right now. So good for him. But I can even know that is weird. I have no idea what I want to kindergarten with. I don't know what my class size was. Fifty two people. We all knew each other. Yeah. Oh, you say. Yeah. Yeah. Fifty two people. We all knew each other. I live in the big city, apparently. We all got Facebook at the same time. We all added each other. But yeah, we all know what's going on for the most. OK. Interesting. Welcome to small town, Wisconsin. Yep. Plus, I went to a private school, not the public school. So literally, you just know everyone, you know, everyone in every grade. And I got the best of both worlds. I get to know everybody from both schools because I went to both. There you go. Anyway, so that led to my love. Lynx Awakening did. And obviously, Zelda became my favorite franchise after that because I started to discover that was other games like the original Legend of Zelda and and into the past and Zelda 2 and all that. And I started didn't own all the Zelda games when I was younger, but we rented blockbuster was a very big blockbuster moment. The moment I started getting allowance is the moment I started saving it to rent from blockbuster almost every weekend. It was it was great. So. Rented. Yeah, I'm an eye several times. So Lynx Awakening is my story. And yes, Pokemon was a huge part as well. I know you guys can talk about it. Gem 1, Gem 2 Pokemon, the TCG game as well. Like I rocked all of those on Game Boy. Those were very much like favorites to play. The trading card game on Game Boy was the trading card game. Yeah, we bought it back at Anato. It's a few times I've turned the Anato app on. Just have a little reminiscing with the trading card game. So what actually like I think cemented is like I play pool. I think I'm trying to remember the timeline. I think they were all probably within a couple of years of each other. The Pokemon Silver moment. My first memory of a Nintendo game is actually well, I mean, it was on and it was on the Super Nintendo. It was TMNT, right? But that I didn't. That wasn't like a Nintendo game. I would just like literally like to my first memories. I was born 91, right? That the early 90s was a Super Nintendo era. So I literally have memories from like when I was like two. But anyway. The get, you know, Mars 64 was a big deal. I remember that. But I think the the moment like the the the cementing moment like that has like, you know, permanently has kept me as a Nintendo fan forever more. It was for my birthday. I was given Ocarina of Time. And it was at night, you know, all the lights are off. The only light was the glow from the television. You hear the music. You hear the galloping of Link on his horse. You hear kind of like that it just at that moment, that opening. Yeah, you all know what I'm talking about. The opening to Ocarina of Time. Yeah. I just like I saw this magical experience. I was like, oh, this is the like I didn't use the word quintessential when I was I wouldn't doubt it. The way I was just that I just knew that this was this was it, you know, and it just sucked me in. Yeah, I feel that I feel that. That's awesome, man. I remember the first time I played Ocarina of Time. I didn't have a N64, but I want one so bad, but we had a PlayStation to play in 64 in my friends' houses. But the first time I played Zelda, we were visiting my cousin in Michigan. He was like 17 and I was like nine or 10 and he like let me play Zelda. I remember he was like downstairs by the pool table and I was like trying to see if I could go into his room and play as N64. And he was with this girl and I was like, oh, like, hi, who's this? And he was like, this is just one of my hoes, like right in front of her. And I didn't know what that meant. And I was like, oh, OK, can I just go play Zelda? And he's like, yeah, go go ahead. And then I like literally like I didn't want him to go to bed because I just like was glued to the TV playing it for like hours and hours. I got stuck to and I didn't know what I was doing. And I kept trying to ask him for help, but obviously he was busy. But I remember, yeah, that whole weekend, all I would do is just like sleep and then go play Zelda. You guys seen the I think you should leave season three where he's like, I feel like Ronnie's only here for the zipline. And like the guy like just keeps going and using the zipline over and over. It's like a spoo for the bachelor. That was me, except with Ocarina of Time. That's interesting. You know, it's kind of cool thinking it back to like when we were kids, because I remember I had similar moments, right? Like, but on the other side, right? Like, I didn't have a PS one, but I would see people with PS ones or like Sega Saturn's and they're like, oh, what's that? I want to play that. Right. It was it was so curious. Like I'm still not sure which one. It was a bit true. The console that you didn't have that your friend had. Yeah. Yeah. But like, I guess for me, like I was just I just thought it was cool, right? There wasn't like, oh, ill PlayStation. Oh, ill like there's like that whole fanboy thing. Like it's just interesting me thinking back to when I was a kid, like there's that didn't exist. It was just, oh, this is a cool thing. I want to try it out. And then trying to drag your friends into it, too. But good luck, because half of the time they didn't go for it. Yeah, I still try to drag my friends and family to things I like. And it doesn't work always. Although I have gotten a lot of people to become anime fans. OK. We had somebody who wanted to expand this one a bit and just say how I'm making a t-shirt. How young were we when we played our first Nintendo game? I think I was like 10. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. That was the first we were talking about the first Nintendo game that got us kind of a system or published title. Just any any Nintendo game. Because I played the Super NES when I was really young. Same here. Punch out with my three years old punch up, Mike Tyson's punch up. I don't know. Punch out was fun. Yes. Punch out was really fun. Yeah. Also, I just want to come up probably the rest of the time, but like track and feel back in the day when you would do the sprinting, you put the pencil between the A and B button, just like this. And you just dominate tennis. Tennis back in the day was the best one. Tennis. Tennis was the best. We haven't even talked about Mario Party in the N64 when you would like people would like burn through their skin. Yeah, they're trying to play the minigame. Nintendo would send you gloves on the nail like official ones. Like because they lost a lawsuit on it. So they had to remove those gloves. Oh, it was because they got sued. OK, yeah, it's because of the lawsuit. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So now we talked about some old school stuff. Let's flip it to the modern day. This is switch era. What game do we love the most during the entire switch era? I guess we should say so far. Because who knows? Maybe your favorites have to come. Dragon Quest Builders 2. There we go. Really? OK, nice. Yeah, people, the regulars here know that that's my. That's my thing. Super. I won't go off on a huge tangent. I'll let everyone else talk first, but that is still. Ninten talk, I want to know what yours is. Oh, yeah, I'm not going to say Zelda because I feel like some other people will say Zelda. But I'm going to go ahead and say a weird one. I'm going to go ahead and say arms. And here's the thing about our guest. Here's the thing about arms. There's a lot of people who got like a switch, maybe in 2020 or like later, something like that. But, dude, if you are around when the switch first came out, the arms hype was real and the arms like test punch. And when the game came out, like everything felt new, especially since Nintendo was taking a leap forward with the switch. And yet arms was just like kind of a weird game. They introduced new characters. It was a brand new experience. There was still motion control, but you couldn't use a pro controller. I think arms was great. I don't know if they'll ever go back to it. I think it sold pretty well. But then again, it was like one of what, six games that were out. But I remember that time. I like when they do those test things. They did like a Splatfest test or something. They did like a Mario Tennis one. I don't know. Arms is iconic drilled into my brain from that time. Do you think we're ever going to get legs? Maybe. I thought there was a chance when the switch was out with the soccer strap. Yeah, just two of those puppies. You got legs. You'd be burning a lot of calories. But besides that, I would say Animal Crossing. Yeah, that that one is mine. And I am biased because I have been playing Animal Crossing since the GameCube days. I have played it on the DS Lite. I played Wild World. I played City Folk. I played New Leaf. And then when New Horizons came out, of course, you know, I had to get it. And it's just the one game that I always, always, always come back to every single time. I'll step away from it for a little bit and I'll go do something else, because you can experience burnout. I think that a lot of people experienced burnout from Animal Crossing. It was 2020 when it came out. Covid was in full effect. We couldn't see our friends. We couldn't see our families. And it was kind of something that united us. And then Doom came out not long after. So then there was like this harmony between. It was like two weeks after Covid hit. It was crazy. And so like Animal Crossing and Doom fans like kind of united there for a minute, and that was really cool. And but, you know, but I know a lot of people stop playing it after a little while. And that's understandable. I don't I don't knock anybody for having their preferences and for not sticking with it. But I can always play Animal Crossing. I can play it when I'm having a good day. I can play it when I'm having a bad day. I can play it when I'm just feeling creative or I can play it just because I have time to burn. And it is it is a lifelong staple of gaming for me. And it will always be in my favourites unless they do something really stupid with it. But I don't think that they will. So they would never do the Amiibo festival or anything. Amiibo festival was so bad. But but yeah. No, Animal Crossing on the Switch. New Horizons is has to be my favourite because I don't even know how many hours I've probably a thousand hours into that game. I have twenty five hundred. Dang, it's good for a while. It was like your entire YouTube career. Yeah, all right. I know I said I wouldn't. But I just got to say the reason I like Dragon Quest Builders too so much is because it's like Zelda Breath of the Wild plus Tears of the Kingdom mixed with Animal Crossing. And a lot of people look at it and think it's like Minecraft and it's nothing like that. It's much more like the other two games. It's basically like like a full open world Zelda. But it actually does a lot of things way better. And then Tears of the Kingdom, many of their improvements were just directly taken from Dragon Quest Builders too. And a lot of Dragon Quest Builder two ideas. They took some from like Breath of the Wild too. So it's like kind of like they were like feeding each other to become these better games. But like it's so cool because you can recruit like villagers and you get like three different islands and you can build anything you want. And I'm like Animal Crossing where it's like, you have a template and you just decorate the outside. Like you can customize everything. Well, I want to check that one out. You have me, you've sold. I put over a thousand hours into that. Like it's so fun and addicting. And it's just like pure joy. So like, and the only reason I talk about so much, I'm not trying to be like, oh, like your tastes like sucks. Like if you don't think this is the best game, it's just because no one really played it because like they take a look at it and think they know what it is. And so I was like Minecraft meets Dragon Ball. Yes. And like there is some Minecraft. I do not like Minecraft. And if you like Minecraft, I, you know, no offense to it. I just can't get into it because one of the things I need a story. I need a purpose to what I'm doing. And Dragon Quest Builders does that. You don't have to like build in it if you don't want to. It'll give you like templates for stuff that you need to build. I like the first one. The first one was really good. Your second one is so much better. There's so much quality of life that just made, I would actually say don't play the first one, just play the second one. But so, so like as far as that is concerned, like if I did want to get it, which I might because as soon as I'm done with Engage, I'm going to be looking for something else. So if I do decide to get it, you know, do you think that it's something that somebody like me would go back to time and time again? I really, really do. I think most people that like Animal Crossing would probably like it, but especially if you also like the kind of games like Pokemon, like both RPGs and stuff. Like it's an RPG, like for sure. But it's like the combats like Zelda, like, you know, like hack and slash kind of, but you level up. And yeah, it's just like, it's so, so, so good. It is fun. Yeah. What about you, Andres? Well, I mean, my favorite Switch game is Breath of the Wild. So that's, to me, it's the greatest game ever made. So to me, to me, my opinion, don't attack me. Don't be like, oh, there's no dungeons. Oh my God. It's also your opinion that it counts as a Switch game. I think it's highly, I think it's highly, highly reasonable to think that Breath of the Wild is your favorite. I know that people are going to gripe, but I think that that is totally reasonable and understandable. No, any game. It's reasonable. That'd be your favorite. You know? It's kind of like a game that is more like than most other games is debated. Like, oh, how could that be your most liked game? But, you know, that's just because it's so popular, people have opinions on it. But yeah, I mean, Breath of the Wild was a really special moment. Yeah, it was also a Wii U game, but I played it on Switch and it was a magical experience. So, I mean, if I were to maybe bring up a game that is not, that is only for Switch, right? Like, that's tough because there's a lot of really good ones for Gone Land, Metroid Dread, just to name a couple that were like really special. Mario Odyssey. I mean, that's literally. That's a good one. That's a big, that's a big one. That's a good one right there. Sorry. We need more of that. She should come out more. Y'all, the more y'all see me, the goofier it's gonna get because I'm a door cat. You'll fit right in. I love it. I'll bring up the perfect action sometimes, too. And like, sometimes no one says anything and then Nate, like, out of nowhere, is like 10 minutes in and he's like, why are you doing that? Eric. Hey, Eric, can you please stop talking so much? Cause like, we really, we would really like it if you would just tell us what your favorite Switch game is, but you've been talking this whole time. I'll just want to say one more, just to like mention, like, maybe a less, a less, less or no game. It's still somewhat known, but Celeste. I have put so many hours into Celeste. The game, I was completely lost it. The music sucks you in. Like, if you just, if you like playing platformers and if you're also a masochist, this is literally the game for you. Because you can die in Celeste. Like, I love games like that where the focus is on the gameplay, but there's a subtle story that really adds to the whole experience. Oh, yeah. Yeah, for sure. I love that. I mean, it's gameplay. It's not the Switch game that's like that. Which one? Katana Zero. Haven't played it. Evolver Digital. Amazing. Oh, it's good. That's gonna be good then. All right, shut up, Eric. I'm just kidding. She's in the highlighted. Her second episode in, she's like, I run this shit. I'm actually, I'm actually super curious because I know that you've been playing a lot of Zelda lately. And so one might guess that that's your favorite Switch game, but I don't know. So I'm really curious. It is, but at the same point in time, that's the easy answer. And so I'm gonna go with, yeah, I'm gonna go with Mario, Mario Poster Rabbids, Yes. There you go. But did you play Sparks of Hope? And did you like it? Not as much? I did not like it as much. I have liked it a lot, but I didn't like it as much. Have you been on the DLC yet? No, I think the DLC is the most better than the base game. They brought back the musical. Yeah, it is amazing. I gotta go back. I gotta go back. The music, the music battle in the first one. This is phenomenal. This is one of the best boss fights. I think, period. Yeah, I honestly agree. Although the Great Mighty Poo is pretty bad. The Great Mighty Poo is another good one. Yeah, the Great Mighty Poo. I got a question that might start something here. For Andres, what do you like better about Breath of the Wild than Tears of the Kingdom? I'm sure you've said this a million times, but like... Well, I mean, so I think it's a good question to ask. And the truth is, I'm not sure, because part of me kind of views them as one giant game. So it's kind of a cop-out, I guess you could say, right? But I mean, it is a direct sequel. So there is a lot of that, right? But also the thing is, for Breath of the Wild, I wasn't convinced it was my favorite game at first. It took time. Like over time, I realized just how rooted it was in me and how I can love just going back and getting boss in that world. And so with Tears of the Kingdom, it's too fresh for me to like feel, so I don't feel like I can appropriately assess it and kind of gauge where I actually rank it. I may be able to better do that a few years from now, but I think if I were to make a prediction, I think what I'm gonna end up doing is I'm gonna say Tears of the Kingdom, I agree to love it more over time the same way to Breath of the Wild, but I do kind of see the both games as just like pieces of each other, if that makes any sense. Yeah, I will say, like when I played Breath of the Wild, it was like, oh my God, this is amazing. Like I spent like 10 hours in 10 talk. What do you mean? Like it was amazing like right from the start. Oh, right from the start because like you went from the Wii U and the end of the Wii U was really just sad. There was just like a bunch of garbage. And then just starting with a fresh console and just walking around the Great Plateau, I literally spent like 10 hours on the Great Plateau. So good. And I didn't have that feeling. That's the only thing I didn't have with Tears of the Kingdom. It's like I've been there, done that. I mean, Tears of the Kingdom is my favorite Switch game, but like, I think Breath of the Wild had more of an impact. But I think besides that, you know. I mean, that might be what makes the difference though, because it does have more of that freshness factor. Yeah, I'm sorry. I'm dying to watch a Nate suffer up there. He's making himself suffer. No, Bama Hut did the Five Gifted. And I have to do, I usually do Deer's Blood for Five Gifted. But here's the problem. I have the double shot glass in front of me. So I poured a double when it wasn't supposed to be. Oh, yeah, that, you know, I will be right back. I'll just, I'll just take another sip for you. It's a good thing. The very loud Eric is in control. Thank you, Eric, for being so loud that you've frightened all of us into submission. What's it called? I don't know what's going on. Andres, one thing I've always said, and this is why it was interesting what you just said in 10 Talk is like, I think a lot of people didn't get Breath of the Wild and then gave up on it. And I was one of those people and then I went back to the year later. And what I really think about it now is that Ocarina of Time was my favorite Zelda game. And I feel like Ocarina of Time hooks you in right away and maintains it for the whole game. And the thing about Breath of the Wild, for me and I think a lot of people is it starts like one of the weakest starts of any Zelda game, which obviously some people don't feel that way. But like, for me it was, however, the longer you play it, it actually exceeds the fun of Ocarina of Time. And then by the time you finish it, I was like, oh, I actually like this more than Ocarina of Time now. But I feel like a lot of people don't get to that point who feel the same way about the start of the game as I do. And I wish those people would play Dragon Quest Builders too, but also give Breath of the Wild a full chance. I agree. Well, I'll say this, the start of the game on Majora's Mask was definitely crazy for me. Like that, I'm one of those people that likes Majora's Mask better than Ocarina of Time because it was challenging right out the damn gate. You know, it's interesting me kind of just thinking about Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask and Breath of the Wild cheers the kingdom, because if I'm not mistaken, right? How I remember the beginnings of both games, Ocarina of Time kind of starts a little quiet, but it's almost like a quiet confidence, right? And I feel that Breath of the Wild goes for that similar style, right? Like a quiet confidence is kind of how it opens up, but then you look at Majora's Mask and cheers to the kingdom and those opening sequences are like playable cutscenes. And they get you all riled up really early on. And so it's just kind of interesting how that's how they chose to handle the beginnings for the two direct sequels of the games we've gotten. Hey, Kim, what about you, Nate? I don't even know what we're talking about. He's over there turning to this. After I did that double shot of Dears Blood, I just... Your favorite Nintendo Switch game. Oh, cheers to the kingdom. Look, I know it's the easy answer, but it's literally my favorite game of all time. Look, obviously I started with Zelda, ending with Zelda. It's, I don't really know how to explain why this happens, but every time a major Zelda game drops in it, I thought Eric was leaving for a second. I'm like, what is going on? Every time a major Zelda game drops, it always for some reason comes at a very critical point in my life. And this was an interesting one because a lot of other times when Zelda games have dropped, it's always been at like a critical junction, like the birth of one of my first kids or relationship problems or job issues. It was always there for you. Yeah, it's kind of like a best friend. I'm like, Eric's my best friend and this is like my other best friend that's just there for me when Eric isn't, you know? Holding my hand when I needed it with a nice controller in my hand. And it's always just, I know Zelda's stories typically aren't that complicated, but for some reason, there'd always be a life lesson in the story that would just really hit me at that time. I mean, tears of the kingdom was really interesting because it was maybe the least dramatic part of my life in terms of like having major issues, but also I just went as a full-time YouTuber, which was a major decision in my life. And tears of the kingdom is essentially why I'm able to still do this. If it wasn't for that game and the attention that my channel got covering it, I probably wouldn't be a full-time YouTuber anymore. Now those podcasts would still be going, but I would be working at different jobs. So it kind of raises all ships. And it was a coincidence, right? You didn't plan going full-time because the tears of the kingdom. No, no, not at all. Circumstances with your life. Yeah, my hours got significantly cut at my job and I just said, you know what? And then they wanted me, then right after cutting it, like two days later, they asked me to work for free. And I'm like, this is just... My job dropped. One, probably illegal, but two... Definitely illegal. And I had the money to do anything about it. And I'm like, I think I quit. And they're like, do you think or do you know? I'm like, I'm pretty sure this is my two weeks notice. Oh, you can just not log in tomorrow. You're good, you're done. I'm like, oh, well, cool. You're done with free labor too. Have a good day. And so I made the decision then I'm gonna attempt full-time YouTube. And I wasn't making the kind of, I was worried. I had a little bit in savings. And the savings kind of carried me the first few months. And then right as I was running out of money, suddenly Tears of the Kingdom just took off for me. I literally had job applications in and turned down interviews because my Tears of the Kingdom videos took off. But that's not like why it's my favorite game. Like that's a... It's just noting that, again, another major point in my life and Zelda actually sort of changed my life and kept me doing something that I'm actually passionate about and very fortunate that I can do for a living. If you think about it, there's actually less than 1% of content creators that actually do it for a living because most don't make it. That's just reality. There's millions of people making videos on YouTube, less than 1% of them make anything close to even minimum wage. Stop it, you're scaring me. No. No, that's a thing. It's just one of those things that I'm very appreciative and I got very lucky and fortunate and stick with us, Sabrina. You can ride with us for the switch to time. Speaking of which, today is actually a pretty important day, not only because it's my little sister's birthday. Happy birthday, sister. I love you. Oh, thank you. I was going to hit my birthday button, but I won't play over stream, damn it. And then, but it's also my channel's birthday too. My channel turned one year old. Happy birthday. Yeah. Congratulations. It turned a whole year old. That's awesome. We came a long way into one year. So last year, your sister was having her birthday and you're like, I think I'm going to start a YouTube channel. I don't know what I'm going to do. In your honor, hold on. Yeah. Yeah. I'm really bad with dates, so let me just make this date even more memorable. So the whole thing was that that day, I did spend time with her on her birthday, but then after that, it took a long, long, long time for me to decide that I wanted to do YouTube because I have always been like, I don't know if I want to put myself out there. I'm super nervous. What if somebody tries to haunt me down? What if some crazy shit happens? What if I get really big and then I don't know how to handle it or what if I start taking it too seriously? What if I don't take it seriously enough and my channel never grows and then I fail? So you're an over-thinker. I have big time over-thinker. You and Andres could be literally like brother-sister right now. He over-thinks so much. I've already thought through everything. I don't think. I don't think. But yeah. That's the survival for Jane. Just don't think. Do. But yeah, it took a long time for me to decide that I was going to do it. And I don't know. That day, you know, spending time with my sister, I was in really good mood. I wasn't overthinking it that day. That day, I was just kind of like, you know what? I'm just going to do it. I created the channel, posted my very first video 20 days later, and it's been uphill ever since. So it's been really exciting. So enough about me though. This is not my podcast. Oh, that's awesome. It's okay. Your show started the day after Mewtwo's birthday. You all right? I have to pause for a moment. Oh, she just spilled your beer. My Pokemon Cookbook fell over and it spilled my beer. Oh, Pokemon, what are you doing? Party fall, party fall, party fall, party fall. We don't have any. Pokemon, what are you doing? You don't spill the beer. That's the one thing. Off limits, Pokemon. And I saw it. I saw it sliding this whole time. Where does Lick-a-Tuck when we need them? It was slowly sliding the whole time. I go to push it back and it just toppled right over. We know you're coming. We're just going full send right now. So I will be back. Sorry, I'll be back. To your best. But no, so for me, for like. Hell yeah. OK, so, no, but beyond, beyond obviously what it did in my personal tears of the kingdom, just. Man, it take. I was sitting over here when Jake was talking about, you know, Dragon Quest Builders 2 and the tears of the kingdom took ideas from and I was like rolling my eyes because I played Dragon Quest Builders 2. I'm not nearly the fan that Jake is of it, but I do understand where he was coming from in some of the the base concepts and ideas. I don't know that they actually look at Dragon Quest Builders 2 when they made the game. But you know what? It's OK. They definitely do. I don't know about that. The way the building mechanics is nothing really like Dragon Quest. I'm not talking about the building mechanics. That's not the thing. That's like the core of the game. I understand. Yeah, anyways, the thing I like about tears of the kingdom is believe it or not, it's not even the building. I haven't made like the I haven't I've made the zero crazy builds out of no mechs, no tanks, no crazy flying machines and no crazy fishing monster boat things that you guys have made. I've seen all that crap out there and it looks amazing and awesome and very entertaining. I'm not that creative. So that that's just not me. But it is cool that you can do that. I've seen calculators get built out of the damn thing. It's crazy what people can do with the building mechanics, especially since it's limited. You can only fuse like 20 things together. So it's insane. But honestly, for the first time in maybe the history of Zelda, it was the story. And the story is controversial. And the story has split the Zelda fan base in like 17 directions. But for me, the story, here's the thing. Here's the kingdom has everything I love about Breath of the Wild, which was my prior favorite game of all time. So Breath of the Wild was going to be the answer if we were talking about Wii U, because I don't think it's a Switch game. But but it's OK. It's OK. I understand. Like without Breath of the Wild was a huge deal for the launch of Switches. You can't tell the Switch story without mentioning Breath of the Wild. That is absolutely true. So I get why you would count it. I also get why some people won't because it wasn't Wii U game. That being said, the here's the kingdom basically does everything Breath of the Wild does, except the story is told and given to you in a way that my mind still is blown by it. When I go back and rewatch all the cut scenes, I cry. And I don't it's not like the greatest story ever told. Right. Like there's you just go play Sony games. They have they have significantly better storytelling and all the Sony games I've ever played. But for some reason, this particular story and it's probably because it's a continuation to be fair. Without Breath of the Wild, the story wouldn't be as impactful to me. So it definitely built into the story of Tears of the Kingdom. But the Tears of the Kingdom story just sacrifice. I think that's like the one of the big keys to the entire story is sacrifice, giving up everything for somebody else to do what's right. And I'm not going to get this a personal stories in my life. Sacrifice is a huge theme of my entire life. Well, sacrifice is what defines love, isn't it? Yeah, pretty well. I'm getting. Hey, hey, hitting deep on the on the month of love. So to me, it was the story that really like yeah, and you get rid of the story. Fuck Tears of the Kingdom. Oh, now I have a cat actually. Well, I mean, you can announce whatever you want, as long as it's not against YouTube's terms of service. No, no, no, I just want to say that I started a giveaway today on Twitter. I'm giving away five four day badges to go to PAX East. That is so generous. Well, they gave them to me to a boy. But I mean, actually, yeah, no, it is. Actually, I'm a nice guy. Just take the compliment. Yeah, no, I was too slow on that one. I should have. But yeah, so all you have to do is just like the tweet and then comment. It actually goes to the day's podcast. Any video game that you're feeling nostalgic for. And I'm going to pick all the winners on Saturday and send you send you a DM. They require like your first and last name and an email address. So if you win, I'll just DM you. You send me that and I send it to them. And then they email you directly your pass. Wow. It's only going to pick you. If you go to Dragon Quest Builders, yeah. No, you have to. I'm not worried. Dragon Quest Builders to mention that you're also literally a bookmarked OnlyFans.com slash two inch destroyer. And you're all from it. How do you recommend it? Harding and look at the first one. Oh, no. I have to recommend you. Don't do that if you're under the age of 18. All right. Don't do it. It's a trap. It's a big trap. Please be over 18 before you type that in Google. So this is kind of going a little bit opposite, but kind of relevant. Is there a Nintendo game we thought we would love going in and then it actually ended up just disappointing us overall. I have one that isn't. So I. No, I thought about this one a lot before I came on the podcast. I was going over the show notes and I was thinking about this a lot and I was like, have I even played a switch game that I thought I would love and I really just did not enjoy it? And the answer to that is no, but there is. Actually, yes. Let me say this. Actually, yes. That would be one. Let's go. No, let's go was OK. I didn't hate it or anything, and I did get into it. It was fun at the time, but I wouldn't really love. Let's go. But no, that would be bravely default. I wanted to like that game so bad. I loved the artwork. I liked the music of it. I tried so hard to get into it. And I don't know why, but I could not force myself to continue playing that game. And I it's been a long time that was back in the three days. So I don't know. Maybe things could be different now. Maybe we could give it another shot. But I remember just really, really, really wanting to love bravely default. And I just, for whatever reason, could not. I can't remember why, but I do remember not liking it. But the one that bravely defaulted on that game. I surely did. Oh, surely they did. But but no, the one I was going to say, the one that I was going to say is actually not an Nintendo game, but it would be Kingdom Hearts 3. I loved Kingdom Hearts 1 so much. I loved Kingdom Hearts 2 so much. I loved I played Chain of Memories. I played, you know, 365 over two days or whatever. I played all of the spin off ones. I was so hype. I played Dream Drop Distance. I played so many of the Kingdom Hearts games. I was so hype for Kingdom Hearts 3. And then it came out. You think they can save it with four? Do what? You think they can save it with four? No. Unfortunately, I do not think so. And I think it is because when I played through Kingdom Hearts 3, I was like, this is this is just a bunch of bull crap. Like, I don't know. I was like, this is the same crap over and over and over again. When are we going to get Kingdom Hearts? They removed the Final Fantasy characters. Why would you do that? So there were no Final Fantasy characters in it really. I mean, and then and then it was just it just felt like the same things over and over and over again. I'm just watching a Disney movie and playing through it. Like I don't feel like I'm part of this world. I don't feel like the characters care about me or like I care about them. This is just the same thing. I'm just doing it and tangled now. And as much as I love tangled, I don't want to play a game that is just replaying a movie I've already seen 50 billion times. But that's not what got me because that I can deal with. What got me is that the story just kept getting more and more convoluted and they weren't tying up any loose ends. They weren't, you know, closing in some of the weird loopholes. The timeline was getting stranger. And I was just like, you know what, I'm just checked out. If you all aren't going to start like giving this story some structure, because to me, I've always kind of felt like Kingdom Hearts made up their stories as they went along. Like I was like, oh, they really wanted to go in this direction this time. OK, that's kind of how are they going to tie that back there? You know, or whatever. And then Kingdom Hearts 3 just felt like care of the dog. It just felt like I've already played this game before. Only I'm just getting more and more confused. And I just checked out. I didn't even finish it. And I almost cried, too, because I was like, I really, really wanted this game to be good. Damn, you know, it's bad when you cry. I didn't cry. I did almost, though, because I felt like I was I felt like I was breaking up with a with an old friend, you know, like Kingdom Hearts has always been such a major staple of my of my gaming life and seeing it just it's like a drug addict that doesn't ever heal, doesn't ever get any better. We just keep going back to the same things that make things hard and confusing and not enjoyable. And I was just like, you know what? I'm checking out. I'm checking out this time. And started started so hopeful and. Optimistic. And now we're just like. And then you get older games. It's going to come around. It's going to come around. It's going to come around. Blame me. Punch out. We punch out. I was so excited. Motion control punch out. I'm all pumped. Game fucking sucks. I'm sorry. You guys might love it is everything I didn't want. Punch out to be. So I'm just going to leave it at that short and sweet dance. No long emotional story. Just I love punch out. Not for me. Yeah, the old school punch out was good, though. Well, yeah, of course. Yeah. I mean, a lot of Pokemon games feel that way for me. But I still I still end up really enjoying them. It's just they don't they're not as good as what came before. And that's frustrating. So it's not like I play them and I don't like them. Like I probably put over a thousand hours in the sword and shield and like looking back, that's probably one of the weakest Pokemon games ever made. Word and shield. Yeah, I I can't say that I didn't enjoy it. But it's probably the Pokemon game that I don't and that I enjoy the least out of all of them. Right. Exactly. And that's that's what I'm saying. The Pokemon's like pizza, like even when it's bad, like if you if you like the formula, it's still kind of good. And that was also like what I played when I started my channel. So like I'm like grateful to it in a way also. That's and that's part of why I have so many hours in it. But honestly, I will I will say this to Nintendo's credit that besides like the Pokemon company, like really the other platforms make games that I want to like that I end up not liking way more like Starfield, for example. Like I wanted to be so like I wanted to have Skyrim in space and have it be awesome. And I just couldn't. It was a chore to play. And I really haven't had that experience for Nintendo game in a long time that I can think of. Yeah. What about you, Andres? Um, so. There's a few different things I could kind of bring up that I have a hard time with thinking of a game that I I really wanted to love and, you know, didn't. There's a lot of games that I look at because if I if, for example, like, I know I'm going to like Zelda, I know I'm going to like Metroid. I know I'm going to like Mario Kart, right? So it's kind of like I usually buy what I know I'm going to like. So that amount of games that I try and like, eh, it's not for me. Like it's rare, you know, there are a lot of smaller games. I've downloaded over the years. I don't remember the names for them, right? Like, you know, like the smaller indie games, you know, I'll give them a try where there's a third party game that's on sale. I'll give it a try and I'll be like, yeah, I'll play a first couple of hours. I'm like, yeah, I don't feel like going back to it, right? But in terms of like maybe known games that I'm like, oh, I really wanted to like this. Nintendo, please don't stop being my friend after I say this. But I really, really, really wanted to get into the hype for Animal Crossing New Horizons. And I put in about 30, 35 hours. I do not think it's a bad game. I think it's a fantastic game for what it is. The problem is what it is, is not for me. It's not your flavor. That's OK. It doesn't have to be your flavor. And I feel like I'll probably try it again, right? Because the Animal Crossing does have like a magical vibe to it. And that cannot be denied. Like it has a Nintendo quality. I think that's what that has me like still trying. But the fact matter is that while it has that Nintendo vibe, there's that magic that makes you want to kind of continue playing in the world. And it feels good when I'm doing it. I'm still doing chores. The game is doing chores, and that just gives me an existential crisis. So like any game, though, kind of like side quests and Xenoblade. They can feel like chores like I don't know. I don't do all the side quests in Xenoblade. The grindy ones. You don't have to do everything in Animal Crossing either. But the thing is that you like and do those. And as much as I love Animal Crossing and I do, I love it so much. But as much as I love Animal Crossing and Xenoblade, I'm sure that the chores that you do have a payoff in Animal Crossing. You're doing chores. You're doing the chores so that you can keep the momentum going. That's really like, yeah, like, yeah. Like you you just that's really all it is. You're not achieving anything by doing these chores. Other than just playing the gameplay loop. Well, there's a lot of side quests. And most of them you don't achieve anything. Some of them try to trigger me. Oh, he is trying to trigger me. Unlike unlike most games where the chores that you do have an instant payoff as soon as the chore is done in Animal Crossing, the payoff is in the long game. And that's just the payoff is really just, oh, my God, look what I did. Look, look at what I made. Like, yeah, I'm not criticizing Animal Crossing. Oh, no, no, no, I didn't take it away. It's just it's the what it is doesn't 100 percent vibe with me, unfortunately. Yeah. Hey, man, I like you like chocolate. It's OK if you're not big into designing, you're not going to like really appreciate the game. It's definitely like very different from games like New Leaf or even the first Animal Crossing. Yeah, but you're not saying that it's trash. Like you're not saying it's like Michael's like, I get it. Yeah. You are so, so trying to trigger me to trap. My disappointment is every Paper Mario game since Thousand Year Door. OK. Yeah, they're not great. I mean, OK, the writing is always good. They always look good. They always look like nice. I agree with both of those things. Like the Wii U Paper Mario, the battle system is just awful. The one on the switch really didn't do anything for me. I'm so excited for people to finally experience like. Like I didn't I didn't hate the battle system. But what I hated was there was no incentive. Like you don't like get experience like you don't you don't need the battle. So if there's no point, if you're not like like gaining something from it, then why wouldn't you just skip every battle you can? That's interesting. Like it's like a Pokemon game where you put a level up. Like why would you battle them? I do want to speak on that, actually, right? So I like Origami King a lot, actually. I'm hyped for Thousand Year Door for the record. And I do like the Thousand Year Door formula or the original Paper Mario formula or the original Mario RPG formula. But the Origami King, I vaguely remember those details that you're alluding to. But for me, what I remember is that I would like getting into the battles just so I can see if I can pull off better combinations or if I could solve it faster. Like for me, the the reason I would battle is for the satisfaction of the battle, right? And then going to Xenoblade, right? I love battling just to see if I can pull off an even higher chain like chain attack combo. Like that's why I do the battles. I don't do it to gain more levels. I do it to see if I can handle the battle system even better than before. And back to Animal Crossing, I will say there is a part of me that wants to complete that aquarium. So it's so satisfying, but it's the long game that you have to play for like a whole year. I have to deal with the existential crisis. And yeah, and actually, you know what? Maybe it's part of that. It's the consistency Animal Crossing rewards consistency. Yeah. And I'm just not that responsive daily, daily consistency. So it's a commitment or time. Oh, yeah, you can time traveling. Yeah, a more modern game that kind of disappointed me. And I don't know why, because it's better than I think two in the first one is Splatoon 3. Like I love Splatoon 3. Yeah. Yeah. But I just don't go back to it. I like Splatoon 2 better, I think. Yeah, like, I don't know if I'm just outgrowing it or they need to change the formula a little bit. But I just don't do it just a minute. It's fine. I might have, which is scary. I don't know. I can see that I haven't actually even played Splatoon 3 campaign yet at all. Oh, it's good. It's fun. It is good. Yeah. Yeah. But I enjoyed the. You know what it is? I think it's just like the on the online issues of like drops happening too much, because when I've played, the disconnects happen too often. Yeah, that is true. Unless I have to keep that kept me out. I have bad internet, so I know exactly how you feel. And it's hard when you're doing well and then you end up getting bumped out. And that happens if it's good internet and it's still draw it still happens. Well, imagine when it happens to you. It probably happens to me about three times more. And it makes the game damn near unplayable. Yeah. Yeah. I just haven't seen like a proper evolution of the series. Like you go to the first one, the second. Like it's the same thing. It's four before there are other modes like salmon round and stuff that makes it up. But salmon is my favorite mode. Yeah. And I like the new bosses that they introduced in salmon round too. Like those were all super cool. I don't know. I think it's just I don't I don't know if it's the new characters or if it's the gameplay or if it's the clothing or if it's just the new stuff not hitting as well as I anticipated or the splat fests not being as good as I remember them being. Like, I don't know. There's just something about Splatoon 2 that was super memorable and something about Splatoon 3 that doesn't quite fully connect. Yeah, I I kind of wonder if it's just like or it just kind of in part sort of coincide just with like the fresh new launch of Nintendo Switch. Right. Because like when the switch came out, especially coming off of the Wii U and 3DS, like there was a lot more excitement early on for a lot of these games, including Splatoon 2, like we had the fancy pro controller with like, you know, it was yeah, it was there was a lot of promise. And I remember just being really in on a lot of Nintendo games, including Splatoon 2, I 100 percent of that game. That was that was good. I mean, you know, single player wise with multiplayer, that's a whole other that's a whole beast. But I definitely put a lot of time in it. Oh, and the Octo expansion. Oh, that one was good. Crunchy says in the chat that Splatoon 3 should have been saved for the Switch 2. Oh, boy. Well, it was closer than I think maybe maybe. What about you, Eric? I'm going to probably get roasted for this, but I'm also going to preface mine with I've only played it once and it was kind of in a time crunch to kind of get a feel for it for the podcast. But Mario Wonder, I just I love Mario games. I just couldn't get into it. I don't know why. You fucking piece of shit. I know, right? Right. But, you know, I like I said, I've only played it once. I was trying to get into it for the podcast, just get a feel for it. I just I don't know what it is. I just couldn't get into it for right now. I mean, I got to go back to it and play it. Maybe I'll I'll actually get into it. But for some other reason, it was just not my cup of tea. I absolutely love Mario games. You're such a good listener, Eric. He is a he is a very good compliment. All right, look, you want to bitch about life. He'll listen. Don't worry about it. You're all right. It was it was supposed to be ironic because he was talking. All right. All right. He actually is a good listener, though. Everyone went right. We're going to we're going to actually skip to the last question just so we have time to get to our second topic. But the last part of this topic is I think maybe the best part because it's all about love, right? Why do we love each other? No, wait. Sorry. Why in the end do we love Nintendo? And if it's not love, because it's a very strong emotion, we seemingly have a passion for some of the content they make, like what draws us to them specifically? Wait, I'm so sorry. I don't know why I didn't register that. Can you like repeat that? I think you can just understand the podcast and I can read it for yourself. Basically, why do you like Nintendo? Like, what draws you to Nintendo? OK. I'll let other people answer. I go first. I'll let you go first. Yeah. Yeah. I would I would say that. It's the for me, it's the Nintendo magic. You know, not every game has the Nintendo magic, but a lot of them do. Like when when you when you know the Nintendo magic, like, you know it, right? Like when you're playing Super Mario Odyssey, right? Or even, you know, Animal Crossing New Horizons has a Nintendo magic. There's just something about like these these games that when you play them, Kirby Forgotten Land has it. Metroid Dread has it. It's just they just feel magical. They bring you into the world. I'm trying to say something. I wasn't as good as I thought it was going to be. My bad. Sorry. Remember last week when I ate a banana? No, I thought Black Cherry was a good flavor. I'm not mad. You posted Super Chat. I just I'm trying to say something. I just see you making faces. All right. I'm like, all right. So that's how you feel is about my opinion. I guess I'm just. Yeah, you know, it wasn't very good. I was a natural reaction to a really nasty tasting shot. My bad. When Andres is talking, I will only drink good tasting things. No, no, no, no. I am dying. That's fine. No, I actually wanted to hear your story. I'm not kidding. Yeah, I was I was invested. Keep going. I just wanted I just, you know, with Nintendo games, they they even like within the case of Mario Wonder, right? Like we heard of that game. They they developed that game without a deadline, right? And so when we play that game, there's just a certain attention to detail that you don't see. And they're they're always trying to it's it's not always the Nintendo magic isn't always the exact same thing, right? But there's always something special that you don't really find elsewhere at Nintendo. And so I think that's what kind of continues to bring me back. OK, once the next. How about Eric? Go, Eric, before everyone else because, look, you haven't always been Nintendo. It's been Xbox and it's always been Nintendo. I mean, oh, here we go. No, it's always been Nintendo. Nintendo has always been number one. Xbox was in there. Yes. But no, Nintendo is always number one. Majesty. Yeah, PC. I mean, yes, you act like you don't dabble in other places. But no, I've thought about this actually throughout the day. And, you know, Nintendo, it it gets a lot of shit for being, you know, a four kids console. But to a certain extent, that's a brilliant idea, because then they get you hooked from a really young age and then nostalgia holds you through and the games just are amazing. And so to me, it's it's they get they got me hooked young on the games and they just keep putting out these great games. And it just kind of keeps me there. And I want to go back and keep taking a bite of that apple. And it's just, yeah, I would love to piggyback off of that because that is my point exactly. And listen, I'm going to get a little sappy. So we all have your tissues ready. But no, what keeps me coming back to Nintendo is I'm not going to share too much. OK, I'm going to keep it kind of bare minimum. But I had I had. But I had a pretty rough childhood. I grew for instance, my grandparents raised me. So, you know, when I'm sitting here telling stories about you know, my grandma and I used to play Nintendo 64, she was like my mom and I consider her my mom, you know, and she's always been my mom. And so that being said, Nintendo was something that always brought us and kept us together. And it kept my mind off of all of the bad stuff that was happening outside of my bedroom, you know, like outside of playing Nintendo with my grandma, you know, like outside of syncing my time and my energy into Pokemon or syncing that time and energy into, you know, other games that I really, really, really love. One of those being a guilty pleasure of Sonic Adventure 2 Battle spent a lot of time in that game. Nothing guilty about that. Some people hate it. Some people hate it. Arrest, take me away. But like Pokemon, Sonic Adventure 2 Battle, Animal Crossing defined my childhood and they were my escape into fantastical worlds that were wholesome and felt good for the soul, you know, as opposed to, you know, for me personally, games that were like shooting games or sports games. And I'm sure that other people might connect with those games just fine. But Nintendo had something wholesome to it that meant a lot to me because there was no, you know, I don't know, it was just I needed the happiness and the happiness was there, you know, that's what I needed. I needed to pick me up. And Nintendo has been picking me up time and time again every single day since I was young and it continues to do so. And it probably will until my kids call Nintendo their pick me up, you know, and then they go on to live their life like I grew up with my mom playing Nintendo. And that's that's I feel like Nintendo is maybe the only franchise that will always be able to do that no matter what. That was awesome. That was a great story. I love that. How about how about how about the PlayStation? Not in my by the way. Thank you for sharing that. I think everyone enjoyed that. All right, Mr. PlayStation, what do you have for us? Oh, that's you. Yes, I got to get a banana. Someone else got I'll get it back. Oh, God. Oh, Mike loves his banana. You know, oh, he does love a good banana. All right, Nintendo talk. I'll go I like to see what Nintendo is coming up with and laugh half the time. And I know that sounds weird, but like they're they're the king of innovation, but they're also the king of like pain, not innovating at the same time. Yeah, it's like graphics, who cares, like performance, whatever. But you never know what they're going to do. Like they could come out with the cardboard VR thing. They could come out with the motion control thing. Everyone thinks that the next console is going to be switched to and it's just going to be like a better switch. But will it really like we don't know. Like Nintendo is just so weird. Sounds like I should have saved you for last for the transition. I that would have been good. But I don't know. It's also the obvious the series like, you know, Animal Crossing. We you can expect a new Animal Crossing every console. Smash Bros. Mario Kart. It's like the staples of gaming, honestly, not even just Nintendo. And like the other companies have their thing, you know, like Crash and things like that. And Xbox has Halo. But I feel like it's not even close in terms of, you know, the big where spoiled is Nintendo fans. You know, we have things like Metroid and Pikmin. It's just it's just so iconic. And the quality of games, for the most part, is the highest in all the industry, I think. Yeah, I agree. What about you, Jake? Except Pokemon. How dare shots fired over here catching strays. Hey, the Pokemon spin offs are good. Poké tournament, new Pokemon Snap. Arc Seas. Did you did you find that banana? I would argue that's not it's technically mainline. But also it is my favorite Pokemon. It's in a weird space to me. I don't think it's quite mainline, but it's not quite. Oh, man, all right. I'm really dumb. But so like the question is just like, I could be wrong. What I like about Nintendo. I mean, it's what keeps it coming back. What keeps it coming back? It keeps it right up. Yeah, about Nintendo. There you go. Oh, I think. OK, so there's like a lot of franchises that are exclusive to Nintendo that are near and dear to my heart. There's so many probably more than, you know, than any other platform. There is like games that like you just identify as Nintendo. Pokemon once for me, but I love Zelda. I love Mario, you know, even like stuff like Kirby and Donkey. Like even Nintendo's like they're like B tier and their C tier is better than a lot of other companies like S tier. Like their games are just like that's the one thing is like, sure they have flops like like you mentioned with like the Paper Mario series and like how they they changed that up and it wasn't good. But like they are like so like consistently good. Like there's always any given year. There's always going to be at least one Nintendo game that comes out that will probably end up being one of your favorite games ever. And that like consistency and quality, I guess, is is is why I keep coming back. And even when it's like not good, like Pokemon Sword and Shield, it's still Pokemon. You know what I mean? Like it's just it's still so good. And like I said, I love that game because some of what you were saying about Zelda, it came out at a time where I had just started a YouTube channel and I was playing it on my my channel like every single day. And so that's always going to have a special place in my heart for that reason. So I don't know, Nintendo is just it's great. So wholesome. All right, Nate, what about you? I told you, you hit it. There it is. And it's not an ordinary banana. It's like a double size. Look at that. Actually, it's pretty normal size. It's pretty genetically modified. Some GMO is going on in that banana. What's that about four more inches than you need? Or what? Yeah. Oh, it's all. I tell my story while Jake eats a banana. Anyways, so I thought earlier about about how special Zelda has been for me in all the different times of my life that it came around. But honestly, Nintendo became special to me as a child. I don't talk about this often. But I grew up in a maybe not the most ideal situation, certainly way luckier than most people. I have both my parents are still married. They're still together. They're wonderful people. But it wasn't always the case when I was a kid. I was their firstborn and they they would fight all the time, all the time, like nonstop, screaming at the top of their lungs at each other, screaming at the top of the lungs at me and on top of that, my dad had a drinking problem back then. I know Ironic I drink a lot, but I got the fun drunk genes like my uncle, not not the the pass out in the middle of the street and have your 15 year old son with his temps come pick you up from a ditch in the middle of the night when I can get arrested. That's not fun. And my dad has since gotten sober and God bless him. I'm so happy for him. That's highly, highly relatable. And he almost ruined his entire life in his marriage. So I'm very glad he got his life together. But I'm proud of him for that. But it doesn't change what my childhood experience was. And at graduation, me and Eric running around trying to stop my dad from while drunk, chucking shit at people's cars. Nobody's apparently noticing this is happening but us. And so all of that to say that it's not like I had the worst childhood ever, like there's way more. You know, I wasn't like, you know, beat or anything or had any abuse like that. It was all mental and verbal stuff. And you got duct tape naked to the bench. Yes, by the football team. It is what it is. Oh, my God. But there was more than that. There are other months. A month that happened in January. Oh, God. Yeah. There was there was like four feet of snow on the ground. It is what it is. Anyways, I like to think it was hazing, but I don't really. I don't really know. I got picked on a lot in high school. But the big thing is for me that I bring all that up because that's what made me run to Nintendo in the first place. And it is a credit to my dad who first introduced me to the Nintendo Entertainment System, all that. And I don't get in a game. Nerd. It's getting nerd. But like as much as I can escape for me, it wasn't just Zelda, like I have all these fond memories of Pokemon and Trading Card Company going down and even playing like the Pokemon Trading Card Game down at the car shop downtown just to get away from home, just get on the bike, go downtown, back when it was safe to get on your bike and leave it from your parents and go downtown. You can't really do that today. It's not really that safe anymore. But back when you could do that and then, you know, that was a huge part of it. And Super Mario Land and Mario, just I'm going to cry. But Nintendo is just kind of better constant. And look what I look at my life today and what Nintendo has done for me, not just my career, but just helping me through life. I play everything, right? I got a PlayStation 5 on me. I have the Xbox, I PC games, and I play at everything. Wherever there's a game I want to play, I want to be able to play it. And I have fun fun connections to things like Age of Empires. And, you know, even the Spider-Man games, I love those on PlayStation. Big Halo guy. I love Halo. Well, the reason I play Madden, I'm in Madden Leagues and stuff. But honestly, I'm not emotionally connected to any of those games. They could basically not exist. And I would be fine. But if I don't get a Mario game, if I don't get a Zelda, if I don't get an Animal Crossing or a Xenoblade now, because Xenoblade is such a big series now, a Metroid, like I can't, there's a lot of things in life I think I can't live without, right? My fiance, my kids, I don't know if I want to live a life where Nintendo doesn't exist. And that's how important it's been to me and that's what drove me to do what I do as a content creator is just my love and passion for what this company does. And they're not perfect. And they do dumb things and they make anti-consumer decisions and they're not perfect. I've criticized the hell out of them over the years. But at the end of the day is that I keep bringing the damn games I want to play. I'm going to be here. And for all you guys that get mad at me over the damn rumors, tell Nintendo to announce a game. That'd be great. Not one for my childhood. How about an actual new game? I know Princess Peach Showtime might be legit. We'll see. Well, I completely, I completely and totally relate to your story. I think that that it's awesome that we all get to have Nintendo in our lives and how lucky we are to be living in a time where Nintendo exists. I mean, could you imagine if we were born 50 years earlier or something, you know, and not be able to enjoy it as much as well? Maybe maybe like 70. Let me put let me change on to like 70 because they're 80 year olds now that could play. But you know, but you know, imagine like 100 years ago, we didn't have this to enjoy and you know, I'd be a pirate. Yeah, you could. You really could be one. But you would be a Nintendo list pirate. And what kind of life is that? My good one. But still, I think it's great that we all get to have Nintendo in our lives. I think it's impacted all of us pretty severely. I would say that none of us would be who we are today without it. And that's why it's super exciting that there are things coming up soon that we have things to look forward to. Yeah, I love about Sabrina. I just want to add one thing. Two episodes in and she like runs the show. It's great. She's good. I also want to add one thing. And that was like I saw like someone like throw shit and eight for like crying. And I just want to say you're a little bitch because first of all, when you like cry, like it sneaks up on you like that. Like it's not a controlled emotion because it's like it's an emotion. So like that's like men who don't cry. Yeah, exactly. I don't trust you. You can literally suck a fuck. And if you're wondering how does how exactly does one suck a fuck? Don't learn. He's not going to tell you figure it out. So whenever I watch, oh, by the way, some people are saying I was holding back laughter. No, when Nate started crying, I was like, OK, I got to be serious now. Nate's got shooters. Not because I thought it was funny. It was like, no, no, I didn't actually plan to cry. I'm like, all right, we're just going to tell the story. I'm going to be all smooth. That's cool. But you know what? Halfway. And I'm like, nope, I can't stop it. And you know what? You know what, though? I think it's cool that you have a space where you can cry and everybody stands in solidarity with you and says, you know what? We all feel that one asshole. I want to and that one asshole can go suck a fuck. I will say I did see his comedy. And it made me laugh. I think that's what you were laughing at. I think that they were talking about. I thought it was just so ridiculous. It was hilarious. Yeah. But yeah, so. Crying is a totally fine occasion. I think it's I think it's awesome that we all have such great memories to look back on. And all of them sound like they are basically unanimously good. I know that we probably had some bad memories of Nintendo, but they're really hard to think about throughout the sea of how much awesomeness is up in it. A partner showcase. Yeah. So now we have something forward to look. Now we have. Well, so maybe the. I'm not excited. I'm excited. So what do we think? I'm excited. What you got, Nate? So our last time in the night, it's kind of a dual family topic because of a couple of rumors. I guess if you want to call them rumors, I don't know what you want to call them. I don't know what else you would call them. It's from somebody who is a no Nintendo insider. So we got something about the next week's direct that is still just a rumor direct. We thought we know 100 percent for sure it's going to happen and switch to which technically we can argue we don't know 100 percent sure is even a real thing. Beyond the caveat that Nintendo back in 2021 mentioned new hardware and Nintendo accounts moving forward to them. So Nintendo is working on hardware. What is it? I guess we'll find out when they tell us. But Nate the hate did a podcast today as he tends to do. He does like one or two a month and his was all about Nintendo today. It was all about the upcoming direct and then most of it was spent talking about Nintendo switch to and the rest of 2024 and a lot of his hopes and dreams and wishes for the platform. You guys want to go watch it? Go check out his YouTube channel. I don't have it linked anywhere. That's what it is. Just type Nate the hate and Google a little pop up. But he said today and notably the reason this matters is because what he said last Friday on a place called Family Boards where he said he knew what the direct was in terms of what form it was going to take whether it was going to be a normal, a mini, a partner showcase, you know whatever an indie world whatever it was going to be. He knew what it was and he knew some of the games in it. Today on his podcast he said that he believes or thinks that it's going to be a partner showcase. He also backed Necrophilipa Lima's report that it was going to be happening next week on the 15th. So there is that as well. That's the date that we sort of expect this to be. I will just add, I will just add I am now openly saying I've heard a partner showcase. You've been watching my videos. I've been hinting it for like nine years. I didn't want to bring it up unless you were okay with it because I am now openly saying I heard. I am not going to say how or why I heard. I just heard and it lines up. I don't not saying I'm a hundred percent confident in it, but the fact that he told me last week, he told me last week, but I didn't say anything. So because he told me that too. That's what friends do. What are we getting the LEGO Zelda set, by the way? By the fall is the current one. Well, the current leak that has a really reliable record says September. Yeah, we'll see. I suppose. Anyway, we'll see what happens with that. Anyway, so he said the partner showcase. So the reason that I don't want to stop there, because we will talk about whether we're disappointed or whatever or whatever this might be, he also went on to note that he firmly believes he's like doubling down on something he said last year after Gamescom that switch to is going to be revealed before the game developers conference, which takes place on the 18th, just because behind the scenes, Nintendo is going to be talking to developers. Now, Nintendo has two presentations are doing publicly at GDC about Mario Wonder and tears of the kingdom. But this is more behind the scenes conversations that is presumptuous that Nintendo would have with other developers. He thinks it will be revealed before then. So switch to would be revealed before March 18th, which is when it takes place. So first off, how do we feel about a possible partner showcase instead of a mini or general direct? Since honestly, that's really mostly what they have in February is like normal minis and general directs. Andres, you can go first. No, I just see the bit block in the chat. What's up, man? It says, do partner showcases ever have info in them? And I will say that we've seen some pretty cool things in partner showcases. We've seen Hyrule. Not Hyrule Age of Calamity has been in a partner showcase. You see Mario Rabbids in the showcase. Cross over games. Cross over Nintendo games can be in these games. Monster Hunter Rise had a segment. Shemayama Intensity 5 has had a segment. Was it really default to had a segment? So there have been some pretty no more heroes had a segment before. So there have been partner showcases that do have some known third party games that were either big exclusives or big timed exclusives or like Nintendo games that are being made by third party companies. Yes. Like Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity. Cadence of Hyrule, I think, was actually a one. I don't think that was a new one. Yeah, I mean, yeah. That might have been an E3 announcement, actually. So I'm not saying some of these may have not been the first time announced in the showcase, but there are updates on them and some of them have had first time updates there. So there can be big stuff, but like personally how I've ranked them, I think everyone's going to agree. Right? General and Tone Direct, that's the big hype thing. And then Tone Direct and Minis will have some good stuff, but less. And then a partner showcase, it's going to be third party. It is what it is. It's from partners, not directly from Nintendo. And there may be, there's probably going to be some good things in there, but it depends on your cup of tea. If you're only a hardcore Nintendo fan, you might watch a partner showcase and leave very disappointed. But maybe you should try other things then. What if we get a silk song release date? That would be hype for something. So that would huge if they got the, that's, I actually pinned that, I pinned a comment of mine that I made my video for today where I'm like, dude, I don't care what happens. I can forgive not having a General Direct. If they give us a silk song release date. That would be so huge. We've been waiting for that game since 2019. I played that. I played a demo. Sort of Eric. We played a demo of silk song like five years ago. Can we, can we just get a release date, please? That's enough time to make a whole new video game. Oh crap. 2019 was five years ago. Yeah. Like, we don't like, I'm like, I'm sorry to bring that memory up. I think high five. I was a younger man then. I was just figuring out what being 30 meant. It is what it is. So if it is a partner showcase, which is what it just kind of sounds like, it might be, is there something y'all would be looking forward to seeing? High five rush. High five rush. I see an I beat high five rush on Xbox. I might double dip. That game is very bad. There could be a lot of Microsoft or Xbox things. Hell yeah, there better be. The Microsoft hasn't a big announcement to make next week about their game. Yeah. Those are probably happening after that or something. Oh, rare replay will be sick. I think, I think, I feel like we're definitely going overboard. But you know, why not? Dude, a lot of those rare games were on Nintendo in the first place. Let's go. Well, I'm not saying it can't happen. I'm just saying maybe, maybe, you know, one Microsoft game per partner showcase, I feel like is a reasonable expectation. I think that's just don't let me call your eyes. Right now though. Huh? What? I think that might, I think there could be a lot with what Microsoft's doing the way that they're like just kind of blowing up everything. Oh, but maybe you're right. Maybe they're going to be like, Hey, we're actually have an initiative and here's several. That would be cool. Yeah. So I think the rumors are they're ending Game Pass or they're ending day one games on Game Pass. They're putting everything on PS5. So why wouldn't they put stuff on Switch? Oh, I definitely. Insane. What can go on Switch? So what can? Yeah. So I recently saw a Sonic thing lately and I think it was called Sonic Generations. But like they had like the OG Sonic. They had Sonic DX. I've seen someone add in there. I saw some Sonic Adventure 2 battle stuff in there. I saw some shadows stuff in there. And I already dropped the trailer for that. Yeah, I saw the trailer for that. Do you think that something like that would get expanded upon in a direct like this or probably not? That's maybe that. That that's definitely a third party game like that. That's like the kind of game that we could see. Because I would love to see more of that because I want to know what is going on with Sonic Generations. That is definitely a possibility. HD2D RPGs from Square Enix. The T-Masano. Yeah. Yeah. That's another one. Easily. Yeah, like you know like there's triangle strategies that live alive that really defaults like something like that. We could see we could see here for sure. I think that they've actually said they want they have games to announce this year. So, you know, it's under Lotus. Thunder Lotus is third party, right? I think so. I don't even know what Thunder was. That was my nickname in high school. They were the ones that made Spirit fair and I would totally be. Oh, okay. Being more from Thunder Lotus. All right. Absolutely. I'd be excited for like a story of seasons or rune factories. Yes. Yes. Story of seasons and rune factories. But what we're saying is it might be more hyped than you realize. That's kind of what we're saying. Yeah. You don't need no more Harvest Moon. Get that shit out of here. I think the game developers. Get Harvest Moon the hell out of here. Hey, Harvest Moon. Hey, it wasn't back in the day before the flip flop happened. Harvest these nuts. Yeah. On the moon. What is going on? The jig is over right now. I am so down for another story of seasons or a rune factory. Oh, that's another one. That's another game I really, really wanted to get into. But I just couldn't. I couldn't get into rune factory five. And I loved four so much. I loved four. I played the heck out of rune factory four. But rune factory five. I don't know what it was. You didn't know it was playing rune factory game on PSP. That was like a futuristic Harvest Moon. Your girl is too broke to have a PSP. When you buy one for like really cheap and then just hack it and put all the games on, it only takes like 20 minutes. I had a cartridge like that for the 3DS. It was one of the easiest to hack systems like ever. Yeah. Now it's even more so. The games, the game sales weren't even that great on it. Well, if they come out with another, if they come out with another story of seasons, I will be set for a little while. Oh, they will. For sure. I see a kind of new thing. Sea of Thieves is rumored. I'm down with some Sea of Thieves on Switch now. Sea of Thieves is really good right now too. A lot of people are talking about Sea of Thieves. There wasn't a lot of problems when the first game came out because there wasn't a lot of end game content, but that's totally fixed now. I'd be more likely to play that on PS5 where I can actually talk not through my button app. Yeah. That kind of brings me to what I, maybe I'm the downer here. You know, we need to get on a call, pansies. I was going to say like partner showcases. Pansies, what the hell? What the hell? I want to hear what Nintendo Hawk is trying to say. Yeah, pansies. Shut up. I would say like maybe I'm the downer here because like when it comes to third-party games, there's only a few that I would choose the Switch over. Like I have an Xbox one act in the other room. So it's like, I don't know, if Rare Replay came out on the Switch, like I guess that'd be exciting, but I've been playing that for like what, 10 years? Eight years? So I don't know. Partner showcase, the only good thing I think, well, beside the games that we all want, is does this allude to like Switch 2 coming? Ah, there it is. Like come on. Nintendo, coming through with the transitions every time. Before we go there, before we go there, I just want to say like, because we're going to go there, right? Nate and I, I think are already 100% the same page. We both believe that if there's a partner showcase next week, we believe above 98% certain. I'm at 98% certainty that Switch 2 reveal is in March, if the partner showcase. And so I don't want to explain exactly more beyond that, but that's where I would be if that happens, right? So just put that out there. But before we go there, I just want to say, we still don't know about April through June, right? And so partner showcase or not, like that's going to give us third party things. There needs to be like, well, there's this expectation that we're going to, we get Nintendo published games almost every other, every month, right? Every month, not every other month. And so if this partner showcase doesn't like, give us like any new announcements for that point, I would be very confused because they would have, if it doesn't happen, I would actually be thinking that there's got to be like some social media drops. And so, you know, like, what, what could those be? Right? We have Luigi's mentioned to, we have Paramount 1000 year door. Maybe we just get triggers for those with release dates and they fall into the, like the April to July period to help fill it up. And then maybe there's a game or two that is like being, that is being made by a partner, but it's a Nintendo published title that's in the showcase. And so I'm going to throw this out at you guys. And this is definitely me being optimistic, right? And I could be wrong, but they recently announced a Sheikah Slate first four figures that Viz announced the Twilight Princess manga that Nintendo recently announced a new set of pins for, for the Legend of Zelda. We got the Zelda concert, what, tomorrow? Or like a day and a half from now. And there are a Zelda Amiibo restocks coming to GameStop, including Wolf Link Amiibo. Now these happen sometimes randomly, but it's been a little while, so it's kind of curious if all of these things are happening around the same time. And so I've been kind of on the train. Oh, we're getting something Zelda, because something Zelda happens almost every year, right? And based off what we sort of think is going to happen the second half year for Switch 2, we don't think it's going to, there's going to be like a Zelda game to launch the system. And so where do you fit in something Zelda? Well, what if we're going to get like some sort of Zelda remaster collection, or maybe like a Twilight Princess drop or something like that? Like I can kind of see that. And if that's being made by say Tantalus or some other third party company, that could technically be in the partner showcase. I'm not saying that's what's going to happen. I could be wrong on that. But it's kind of putting it out there that there's a lot of like weird Zelda things happening right now. And there's a third party company that's behind like porting it could be the showcase or on the Nintendo could just be like, Hey, these games are coming out. They'll be out in May. Enjoy them. Like they might just drop that like randomly next week before the showcase, right? Or other trailers. So I'm just putting it out there. We might have a Twitter direct and a partner showcase. So I don't think they'll do the Twitter direct because I think if they're doing a partner showcase, they want to highlight the partner stuff. The Twitter direct would be later. Okay. So but so do you still agree though? I'm curious what you got. Do you guys agree that they have to fill up April through June with Nintendo published games? I mean, it depends on what's in the partner direct. I sure as hell hope that they do. I don't think they have exclusive like third party games in the partner direct for those months. I mean, if they're all exclusive, that would be wild. I won't be all of them, but there'll be some. I'm sure they'll have like could be the crossover game or something. The thing is we get exclusives all the time. Crossbow training too. And Nintendo still put their own published title in the same month. Like how many times has that Asano game, like the really default would ever share like the spotlight with another Nintendo game early in the year? Like that happens all the time. So I don't know. Like it would have to be like a Nintendo thing if Nintendo is going to kind of continue this consistency of releasing games almost every month. Sure. Yeah. It's possible. I mean, like we don't know what Nintendo is going to do. Right. We don't. We don't. But I do think it's very likely if this is a partner showcase, like Switch 2 is happening in March, like at least a teaser at least. I mean, do we think we're going to get like a really good send off for Switch though? I mean, do they really? If I'm Nintendo, I'm saving all my firepower for the new system. And they're going to continue to make Switch games like they did with 3DS. They continued making 3DS until what? Like 2018, 2019. So there's going to be some I think seriously, the kingdom was that game. I think so too. The very last thing will be like the cross gen game. And I think that a lot of times like Nintendo has probably not seen the best results from the games that came out right on the cusp of like console changes. Like for example, you know what? I might be foolish and I might not know what I'm talking about. But I don't remember people going that crazy over Sun and Moon. And that was kind of like as some of like the previous ones like X and Y. Like I don't remember the hype for those games being as high as say X and Y or Oris or some of its predecessors. And it was right on the cusp of the Switch. Like I think it came out not that long before the Switch. So I could be totally stupid to be honest. It's okay. Like only like half a million less than X and Y. Isn't the rumor that the Let's Go Johto game is going to be the last Switch game or last Pokemon Switch game? Are they even going to do a Let's Go Johto one? That's a Let's Go Cho-Gi-Pi and Wooper. Yeah, that's a Let's Go Cho-Gi-Pi and Wooper. That's a Let's Go Cho-Gi-Pi and Wooper. That's a Let's Go Cho-Gi-Pi and Wooper. That's a Let's Go Cho-Gi-Pi and Wooper. It's hard to put a lot of stock in 4chan rumors when nothing else they've said has been proven. But that won't be so disturbing to pay attention to. I hope that's not true. Wooper doesn't have to be a Pichu, wouldn't it? Yeah, that's a little weird. Well, Pichu, like you would think it would be a Gen 2 exclusive Pokemon. So it does make sense that it actually wouldn't be Pichu because it's lying. I know Wooper gained a little popularity lately and I understand that. Yeah, no, Wooper is so random, though. I agree. Yeah. There's been a lot of Gen 2 love on Pokemon Twitter. Here's what I'll say I want Nintendo to do. And like I said, if I'm full of shit, y'all feel free to call me out, okay? I'm just speaking off the dome here. You're full of shit. But, dang it, I knew it. God, dang it. But now I think that it might be in Nintendo's best interest to release something that I wouldn't call it middle of the road, but something that is good enough to enjoy on the switch, but also would be great on the switch, too. But something that kind of fills in this liminal space of we're kind of in between, what do we do right now? When we could try to produce HD. Yeah, okay. There you go. She just keeps driving it home. Something that like you can enjoy. Does it not make sense? It's not bad on the switch and it's good on the switch, too. But it's not like a banger, like a brand new 3D Mario game that's like the next Mario Odyssey 2 or something. Oh, come on, legends. Let's go. Like I hope, no, I really don't want them to. I really need them to not until the switch, unless it's only going to be out on the switch. He's talking about before Switch 2 comes out. Yeah, before Switch 2 comes out. We're talking about April or June right now. Okay, but you Pokemon people answer me. Correct me if I'm wrong. We're not seeing an exclusive Pokemon game for three years on Switch 2. No, I am not. Well, that's three years later this year. The Pokemon games are typically behind. So yeah, I think we're two holidays. We still won't have an exclusive release their game on the previous system. Like Black and White 2 came out. Exactly. 3DS was already out. Like Ultra Sun Ultraman came out on the switches out. Right. Like it always happens like that. That's what I'm like. I'm thinking 2026 is when we'll finally get a Switch 2 exclusive. Let me explain. I don't understand. No, but they'd like to have an audience. 10 million switches ain't going to be enough. Let me explain where I'm at, Rick. Switch 2's, sorry. I just want to explain where I'm at. Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you. No, you're totally fine. That's okay. That's okay. As far, I really, really, really do not want another Pokemon game until the Switch 2 comes out. Because they, I think that the Pokemon company needs to learn their lesson at some point about how the momentum, their trajectory looks kind of like a train wreck from my perspective. And if they don't slow it down a little bit, they're going to keep pissing people off. And they're going to keep frustrating people. And the more and more time goes on, the more and more you hear about, I don't play Pokemon games anymore. The last game, the last one I played was X and Y. Oh, the last one I played was Let's Go. The last one I played was Gen 3. The last one I played was, I don't know, before Sun and Moon, for example. Those are the last ones. I'll never play another Pokemon game again because they have no excuse to be this poor in quality. And we kind of talked about this the last time. What's crazy is how violent just sold more than any of those other games that you listed that you said was my last Pokemon game. People keep buying them, so they're not going to learn my lesson. And it's because of the merchandise and the anime that they have to keep going. I'm with you, Sabrina, and that's what I want. But I just don't see it happening. I don't want another, I guess essentially what I'm trying to say is I don't want Pokemon to have another excuse to not do as well as they could. Because at least if they're planning on releasing a game that is just on the Switch 2, we can hold their feet to the fire again. But I'm not here to hear that the reason that it sucks so bad is because they made it for it to be compatible on both the Switch 1 and the Switch 2. I just want them to get it together. And I want their first Switch 2 game to be the evidence of that. That's why 2026, so they have time to do it right. I'm down for 2026. And I'm down for spinoffs. Spinoffs, I don't care. Yeah. I'm talking about the game. She's down to the clown. When it comes to Pokemon, if they do it right. I just want to say that. I'm down to clown. Well, I do agree that they should take a break. They never, they haven't in like what, 15 years or something? No, I'm not anticipating them to do so. I'm just saying if I had it my way. Yeah, what's probably going to happen based off what they've shown us year by year is they're going to start the new generation on the new console. Generations happen every three years. That would line us up for 2025 release. And if you look at when they jumped on the Switch, it was 2018, the second year of the Switch. And if we believe Switch 2 is coming out this year, it lines up for the next Pokemon game to release 2025. However, if for whatever reason, they finally decide to delay things a year, then maybe the next generation comes out 2026. I still think we probably get a game on Switch 2 before them though. I'll actually, I'm actually on the train that we're going to get a game this year. Right. I think I'm, well, I don't, I don't, I think it's going to be gen 2 related based off of Pokemon social media because I like to hint at things. I don't know what it's going to be. I hope it's a Legends game, like Legends Ho-in, not Ho-in Jodo with like Salibi or something. And it'll be for Switch, but maybe they can fit in a Switch 2 patch. I don't want it that way. I just wanted to be Switch 2, but I will take what I can get. I would love a Legend Salibi, please. We'll complain and buy it. I will pull, I will buy it and not complain. It won't be ideal, but for the most part, I would, like I said, I don't consider the Legends games to be mainline. I don't know. And I don't know what the consensus is on that. They were said by the Pokemon company to be mainline. Oh, they, oh, they did. They're also maybe a Game Freak. They don't, either way, you know what? The best thing that happened to Pokemon in 20 years. I'll take Legends. I'll take any Legends game. You can give it to me whenever you want. So, yes. You heard her. You give it to me. You heard it. You heard her. Whenever you want, you just need to be a Legend. Wait for it. Dairy. Of the palm. All right. So, here's a scenario. Okay. Next Thursday, we get a normal Direct and it's a Banger. There's like big, big announcements. What is that? 25. So, it's due 2025. You think so? You think it's a big tell? Dude, they come out with Bangers and they're dropping all these big Nintendo games in a general Direct. Dude, it's 2025. All right. If they show off a 3D Mario. Yeah, exactly. If they show off 3D Mario in a Switch-only Direct. Yeah. I'll be like, All right. It would have to be like two games. Sorry, guys. I'm about to lose half my subscribers. It is what it is. If they announce Metro Prime 4 is coming out like summer or something. Well, but I would say like, Metro Prime 4 is one that, it's a Banger, but that's one of the Switch 2 could still come out, even if that's in. Yeah, it's not the final nail in the coffin, but it's definitely a nail. Yeah, because it's already, I don't even think it's a nail because it's previously announced for Switch. So, they could literally show it for Switch and then have a Switch 2 version. So, I understand where you're coming from. That makes it, that makes sense. But from my perspective, Yeah, Mr. It might need a launch game. It might make sense to be the launch game for Switch 2. Why does this always happen to me when the conversation starts getting interesting? I have a hard stop. I know. Sabrina, good job. Do what? Oh, jeez. What's all right, Sabrina? Thank you for being here. Oh, thank you. To hold it down. Can you reach out behind the scenes so we can schedule you up for next month? Absolutely. I absolutely, absolutely will. Y'all, it has been so fun. I want to keep going on here. Guys, subscribe to Saf from City TV. Hey. Yes, if you like Pokemon regions. Every week, but next week we have openings. So, anytime you want on, let me know. Next week we're packed, but... I surely will. I surely will. Because I have... This makes two times in a row that I've had a blast hanging out with y'all. So, I would love to continue doing it. And y'all are all so awesome. I'm trying to keep them shorter than this, too. And I hate that I have to go right before the conversation gets hype. It makes me feel like I'm experiencing FOMO. But I have God to brush my teeth and get my ass in bed because your girl got to get up and work in the morning. So... Yeah, dude, I got to wait until my kids are cool. It is what it is. I just deal with it. Yeah, I got to scoot, scoot. But I really appreciate y'all so much. We'll see y'all later. Bye. So, what I wanted to say is just with Metro Prime 4, right? If it was to be announced for like, you know, before the holiday, right, in a direct say next week with no mention of Switch 2 at all. And then there's also 3D Mario thing. Like, Metro Prime 4, if it's coming out this year and Switch 2 is also coming out this year and they don't use it as a crossing title, it would be a real head scratcher to me. So it wouldn't be a final nail in the coffin, but it would definitely have me wondering what's going on. 3D Mario in a Switch 1 only direct would that would be the actual nail in the coffin. Could you see like a Breath of the Wild type thing where it's like Switch 2? If you get the Switch 2 version, it's $10 more, but it's enhanced like... Yeah, no, I actually, that's like, I kind of think that. I kind of think Metro Prime 4 is going to have like the whole HDR ray tracing, you know, less boosted. At 70 blocks, and then maybe a week or two later it becomes your Switch for 60. Yeah, I'm Switch 2. Don't say 30 FPS. I don't hate saying that, but... Don't you say that. Don't you say that. Get out! Don't push the visuals. Get out! Buy it on Switch 2, don't worry about it. Oh. You are going to have it on Switch 2 anyways. Come on, man. Metro Prime 1, 60 FPS. Metro Prime 2, 60 FPS. Yeah, okay. Metro Prime 3, 60 FPS. Do you want this to be a visual feast or do you want it to be 60 FPS on Switch? 60 FPS. Do you want it to look better than Metro Prime Remastered? Or do you rather... It could still look better than Prime Remastered and be 60 FPS. I don't know, Kenneth. Yes, because Prime Remastered is already based off, you know, that that was a few years ago already. They've surely advanced things since then. I don't know, I've seen some performance test that shows the Switch was almost... It may have advanced things since then and don't call me Shirley. No, you're a visual feast. That's all you really are. There you go. But I mean, you know, that we have opinions, so... Yeah, no, it's all fine. Yeah, we have no idea. Obviously, Metro Prime 4 is one of the biggest, like, what the hell is going on with this game? We've been waiting so damn long for it. I do think a partner showcase next week means that we're not getting any... We might not get anything Metro related until the Switch 2 reveal if not later. Sure. Yeah. So, I want to get this last point here before we switch over to the Q&A section. By the way, if you guys have any questions you want to submit, you can use Super Chats. Yes, I get super bricked up if you guys Super Chat. It is what it is. But, well, none of us know when Switch 2 is getting revealed. There is a heavy belief it's happening sooner rather than later. So, let's assume that Nathan Hade is right and it's being revealed in early March. How do we actually feel about the system right now? What are our biggest fears and biggest hopes? Because time is almost out in the world of Switch 2 not being officially announced, because once it is, everything changes. I'll tell you that the speculation on Nate's podcast about the lack of Joy-Cons would be total bullshit. Watch it come out. No Joy-Cons. I mean, I'm not... Hey, if that happens, I feel like it would be a weird choice. You said no Joy-Cons. The way he worded it, people are going to probably interpret it as a leak, but it's probably... I think it's a prediction. It wasn't clarified. I think he wants it to not have Joy-Cons, because they talked about all the things they don't like about Joy-Cons. Oh, and nobody takes them off the rails and play. And I've said that nobody. My fiat thing actually prefers the Joy-Cons over the Joy-Cons. My kids use the Joy-Cons on the side all the time. I feel like it's going to be a good choice. I think it's going to be a good choice. They use the Joy-Cons on the side all the time. I feel like it's going to be a good choice. Goodbye, Ring Fit Adventure. Goodbye, Nintendo level. Elvis kind of worded sword. Look, I have no shade at Nate to hate, but his entire take on this was entirely selfish, and he was thinking of nobody but his own wants and desires, because look, I have kids. Tell me how you really feel. No, it was bullshit. No shade, but we cheer. You need to think about other people. Look, I don't think the Joy-Cons are great. I think there's a lot of issues with them. I don't know. The obviously they can get wobbly on the rails over time. That's a problem that you need to, you know, hopefully make a better solution for. They need to get rid of the plastic. You can tighten them. You know that? And it'll affect. Yeah, I know. I know. You they need to get rid of the plastic nubs and go to metal ones. So you don't break them in terms of the locking system. Obviously, Joy-Con drift, obviously ergonomics, all of that is stuff that I would like to see improved. But my kids are going to be devastated if we're on a road trip and they can't take them off and play Mario Kart with just one little Joy-Con. Because here's the bottom line. We're not packing 17 damn controllers when we go on road trips and they die too. Like, as a parent, it hurt me to hear what he was saying, not because for my purposes. Look, dude, my switch sits in a grip. I clearly don't take my Joy-Cons off. But I watch my kids do it. I watch my fiancee when I hand her a pro controller. I was looking for one around here. I have one over there. Anyways, when I hand my fiance a pro controller, she goes, I prefer the Joy-Cons. Why? Because she likes that the sticks have less travel. I've never heard anybody tell me they like that the sticks have less travel. She does. And I'm sure she's not alone. Yeah, I'm sure she's not alone in that thought. So I'm like, you can't get rid of that option. And they talked about how, well, what they'll do is they'll pack a controller in. They ain't packing no controller in for $400. They're not giving you this and then throwing this in. For $400. That's just not happening. So I think it's $400 is probably. I think it's on the realistic expectation. Oh, yeah. Yeah, take a shot. There wasn't an interesting point made though. Oh, it's Saffron from Beckins. It's Saffron. Oh, okay. Yeah, we got it. We got to do it. Yeah, take a shot. Yeah. The point that was made though I think is worth considering though is that if they did go away from Joy-Cons. And then blood thinners. Not a good idea to drink a ton. But if they went away from Joy-Cons. They could fit in the actual internals inside. You know, they would have more real estate up to fit things. You know what? I don't give a shit. Sorry, Andres. For Saffron. Sorry, Andres. Sorry, we got to get this done for Saffron. No, we'll continue. I'm getting bricked up. I'm getting bricked up, my bad. Too bricked. Nate's had a few, Andres. You got to give them a little. Well now, had a few. We haven't even got started. I'm trying to get her interrupting. All right. I'm sticking up for you. I'm trying to give Saffron what she wants. I know. The people have spoken with money. I got to listen. All right. Now you can go. All right. Joy-Cons, Andres. Oh, yeah. Now I was just going to considering the other perspective, right? Because we do that here. Yes. If they did do it with the Joy-Cons, that would give them more real estate internally to fit more in there, right? And maybe that could even be a little bit cheaper as well. So that's an interesting perspective. But for me, when I just think about not being able to facilitate things like Nintendo Labo, SwitchSports, Ring Fit Adventure. That's $100, Shad. Not a two. You're just taking away so much creativity and options. I would be surprised if that's the direction they go. They'd be like Switch with less innovation. Well, also they've been very much pro motion control, right? Which was like that. Like there's not going to be a big like gimmick or innovation with the Switch, so it's going to be a better Switch. So why wouldn't they just make the Joy-Cons whatever they are just way better and improved, but still have that? You know what I mean? Yeah, I would prefer like, yeah, better Joy-Cons that are more ergonomic. You know, I'm going to buy a pro controller separately anyway, right? Like I agree with Mr. Prime, right? Like it makes sense to just have that separately the same way Nintendo handled it with the Switch launch and just give us better Joy-Cons. I actually remember playing Breath of the Wild for a good while with just the Joy-Cons and the grip. It felt pretty good. Yeah, and they've been, I mean, they did Wario move it. Like they're pro motion control still. So if they get rid of that, I don't know if they're like going to get away from motion control. They had it in Skyward Sword. They had it in Arms. Yeah, yeah. Also, goodbye. We brought out in Minnesota someday. You know, if you don't have that. I'm with Nate on this. This kind of seems like more of like a want or like a wish list than. Yeah. The entire, by the way, I want to I had no problem with him having his want and wish list stuff. I have a problem with him criticizing people like me for doing the same thing. And yeah, it's cool for him to do it. I didn't want to really get into it, but I'm going to get into it a little bit here because I'm going to be honest, his good old buddy MVG said he'll never come on one of my podcasts ever and yet he's never talked about me, but he has the audacity to bring my name up on the spawncast almost every single week. MVG does? MVG does it every week. On purpose to shit talk to me. And I'm just going to say I've never said anything negative about him. I've never said anything negative about Nate to hate. I think they actually have a lot of value in the community. I didn't really like MVG as a person. But yes, I think MVG is an amazing developer. I appreciate his opinions on things. He's very knowledgeable. I don't appreciate being brought up in conversations I have no business being brought up in. I also don't appreciate that Nate the hate thinks it's okay for him to speculate on things that no one else is allowed to because he's an insider. And what I hate about that is because you're an insider, you actually shouldn't speculate so much because everyone takes what you say as fact. So you should maybe shut your mouth and stick to what you know and let your guests talk because when you talk people think it's truth. When you know it's not. When I talk nobody thinks it's truth because I am an insider. I think, all right, to pay devil's advocate, I think it would be fair for him when he talks to make it more clear is this there's not a transparency. You know, he's not transparent about it at all. Well, let me finish. Is this what I think based on things that are real? So I'm guessing that this is probably real or a good point here. And it's like, nope, because the bit block said Jerry, Jerry and Jake's like, no, your mouth has been open like this. Yeah, your mouth is like, are you just ready to take it? Yes, what it is. He's frozen again. I would like to hear like a month and I don't know what's going on. So we're going to say I want to hear it. Yes. So what I was going to say was I think he could do a better job of like explaining what his statement is what before he makes it like, okay, like this is a this is a prediction of mine or this is something I think will happen based on these facts, but it's not something I've heard or this is something I've actually heard from an insider. You know what I mean? Like if he could frame it better, I think that would be better. Or if he's not going, he doesn't have to. But I do agree with you that if he's not going to do that, maybe it's like it's not the nicest thing to like criticize other people for also literally speaking and not making it crystal clear. Because you're not making it crystal clear, you know, just like, I don't know. We're all we're all in the space and like I think there's like a thing on YouTube where when someone's doing a similar thing to you and they're not part of your squad, there is this thing in you that's like a competitive thing. Like an it's almost like an ego thing. And it makes you, you know, want to like shit on people or whatever. And I just think that like it's it's a human nature thing. It's so easy to get drawn up in that. But I think like we're adults here, you know, and like I think like that all of us like can just like chill and let everyone do their own thing. It's part of why I've stopped really doing YouTube is because I don't like that part of it. And it's kind of like inherent. And I have a hard time not feeling offended, you know, or, you know, jealous sometimes or like upset that someone like takes something that I came up with and pass it on their own or says something that goes against something I said when I know what I said was accurate. It's really hard not to feel that gut. But like I think it's really important to just treat everybody with respect. And if you if you can't at least don't drag them. You know what I mean? Like, yeah, I don't know. That's just that's my two cents. I like odd for the best content creators. I love it. We'll feature in a bit because it's going to be part of the Q&A section. But anyway, that's funny. Yeah, that's great. Yeah, that's our last thing is the Q&A. So we already have four questions queued up for it. I just don't like speaking ill of other content creators. Yeah, I got nothing to against MBG and Nate to hate at all. Like, I think they have value in the community. I think MBG is an amazing game developer. And he's brought a number of classic games over to Switch. I just don't like my name being brought up in conversations that doesn't deserve to be brought up in. And I don't like that. Be a man. You got a problem. Me come talk to me. I've never had a conversation with him. And I'll give Nate to hate some credit. I've asked him to come on our podcast before. And he actually had a legitimate excuse not to that week. And he has never badmouthed me in that sort of way. But somebody asking him, hey, why don't you come on to his enterprise podcast? He's like, I'll never be on that show. Well, yeah, because you should talk to me on Sponcast every week. Well, you got a problem with me. Come talk to me about it. You don't want to talk to me about it. Then cheers. Here's what you got to do. You got to go to Spawn, the Spawn Wave, Sponcast, super chat, call them out. Yeah, that won't feature it. John, John. OK, so. No, you'll get it. No, no, no. John, John is a, he's, John and I have had many conversations with leaders and I've been on Spawncast before. He's a very really, he's just a really good dude. But he's super non-controversial. So if I super chatted, he will see it. He's not going to give enough. He'll probably just talk to me more. And John will just sit back and go, yeah, we're not going to show that super chat on screen today. I mean, at fairness, I probably wouldn't do it either, right? Yeah. I mean, and I don't, I'm not this kind of person that gets comforted. Like, you see, I'm not shit talking them. I think they actually have value in the community. I just don't like that my name keeps getting brought up when you're not willing to even talk to me. So at least Nate, the hate will respond when I DM him. So that's all. I just hate it. Yeah, so hopefully Switch2 is awesome though. Dude, Switch2 is gonna be sweet. Sorry, I didn't want to get into this. This is like a conversation I have behind the scenes at one point. This is you having several shots. No, I know. This has nothing to do with the shots. I take it back. I apologize. MPG was brought up and I'm like, dude, this is, I got, I have no problem. This was said publicly, so I'm responding publicly. It is what it is. Jedi's don't speak in absolutes. That's it. Only Siths speak in absolutes. That's the phrase. Yeah. Yeah. But before it was early to me, what's the reason for what? Because he's saying it's going to be revealed before GDC. Yeah. Before March 18th. Wow. Yep. You think a partner showcase doesn't point to that because that would be Nintendo has no first party announcements. I mean, having only a partner showcase in February, without anything at January is because you gotta remember after March, it's literally the Ouija's mansion from Nintendo literally to and thousand year door. They have nothing else on their slate. There's no dates for those yet, either. Yeah. Well, in summer. I mean, I mean, they could do a thing where they just have a direct in March. You know, like if it's one or the other, right? Like, I mean, that's that's a consideration, right? Like if we have a partner showcase in February, then I think we either a I mean, we might need to have a direct in March regardless if all they do is a partner showcase. I think they need to make some announcements for April for June. So either those are in the partner showcase or they happen outside of it in some way. Yeah. Well, and the bit block mentioned that Kit and Krista, former Nintendo employees mentioned they think it's going to launch in summer. I think that also when I listen that it goes out that presumption they announced in March. They only gave us about four months in two weeks between announcement and release a switch. And everyone, I don't know if you guys listen to a lot of Nintendo podcasts. Almost everyone's in agreement that Nintendo is going to do a shorter announce to release than most companies do because everyone's starting to go to announce comes out three months later. And I'm not saying that it can't come out in September because as Andres restart will kindly remind you guys summer runs like three weeks into September. So at least in the United States I'm not saying that's true in other parts of the world but in the United States it runs three weeks into September. So that would still be summer. But it's entirely possible and I'm not saying likely but possible that they announced in March and this thing's out in July or August. It could be done. I got to be honest the switch launched in March. So all that really matters for a successful launch isn't when they launch the system. It's what they launch it with the demand for it and the continued lineup they have after it. If they have a very strong first nine months just like they did for in 2017 it doesn't matter they can launch it tomorrow. It would somehow be successful if you got Mario Zelda Xenoblade Mario Kart and all these other games coming in the first nine months. It's going to be all about the lineup because what happened I saw a tweet by Stealth today shout out to Stealth40k he's a stand-up guy. I bought a tweet mentioning that Nintendo President Furukawa in the Q&A brought up how much they believe exclusives really matter which is the exact opposite of what Microsoft is for selling systems. Then again Microsoft wouldn't know what selling systems means. Sorry I assume you were saying like that. Shots fired. Microsoft is amazing I own an Xbox Game Pass is the greatest deal in gaming but I mean they're going partially third party at least you're coming up. What I what I believe here though is that what Furukawa was saying is that he believes the exclusives were a huge reason Switch was successful and I don't think he's wrong especially in that first year so if they have the lineup it really doesn't matter when they launch it. I mean it wasn't Super Bomberman R it was no Look I owned all the launch games because I wanted to be the guy that could say like a weekend dude I own every Switch game and then I sold them because they sucked I kept breath of the wild Oh I kept one two Switch for a while too I remember I worked at the YMCA at the time and I was an after school teacher we would play a lot of one two Switch for the kids I actually understood what they were trying to do with one two Switch because we would have like 40 people all 40 of us could play and that was wild and people were having fun unfortunately I don't think most people at the launch of Switch have like 100 people that have Switch like even know 100 people so it is what it is but I understood it it should have been a packing game I think people would actually look more fondly if it was a packing but oh here's will there be a packing for Switch too my first thought is no yeah my first thought is no but then if they look at I kind of think if they look at one two Switch and look at we sports and I go maybe maybe we need that packing that can hit on a bigger audience but what's the idea of packing I mean like we can talk about another sports game I was gonna say sports another I don't think it's gonna have one because you look at the previous titles that had practice previous consoles that had packing and it was more like proof of concept of the system like yeah we feel like it's gonna be iterative right like like do you guys think it's gonna be a gimmick like a really big 4k graphics that's all I need but that's why Ocarina Time Remake is gonna be a 4k oh don't even as we're going back to that wait wait wait I gotta ask you Andrews no no I gotta ask you Andrews because we both been covering that for a while and the possibilities and how it makes sense we have like any legit rumors for it besides Zippo because Zippo is now on my ultimate shit list well first off if you guys watch my videos on I always refer to it as a theory right because I think I know that's why I'm asking you if there's it is a much better theory than it is a rumor but there was the I mean I would say pretty much no however when I I mean this is a concept that's been around for years already right like the it's not like anything really new but when I was when I decided to start talking about it last year right and then mysteriously Zippo started talking about awkward time right after I did and then we saw the Serkan Toto thing and then everything wait is Andres Zippo no that's that that is so off no no no no no no no why are you why are you so time out all of a sudden time out time out time out time out Jake what have you said previously on this podcast then Andres is one of the most intelligent people talking about Nintendo you've ever her. Yeah. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde. No, no, go read a Zippo post and tell me that, like, come on. Hey, I, all I remember is he leaked the Skyward Sword direct and got, like, over half the things. Everything he had was on it. Congrats. He made a really safe prediction. He had, like, a list of over 20 things and every single one of them was in there. There it is interesting, Zippo, because for them, I feel like a lot of things he says are wrong, but then there's always, like, occasionally something that comes up and, like, hmm, yeah, that's strangely on the money, right? Like, apparently, like, like, apparently he, for example, was, was, it was DMing Papagenos, and he said there was going to be a partner showcase, and that there'd be a switch to reveal shortly afterwards. The only caveat is that he thought partner showcase was in January, which, you know, whatever. But anyways, what were we, what were we going to talk about? Did I need to go over the 90% of things he's been wrong about? Because I'll, I'll waste your entire night. So, I mean, I'm just saying, I can see all some people might argue, well, there is, like, that 10% or 5% of things that end up being right, and so, you know, on the wall, you'll get your right. Here's what I'm saying, no, I agree with you, like, 90% is wrong, right? But, like, when he hits on something, it's not like, oh, like, one out of every 10 things, like, he'll have one thing that has 25 things in it, every single one. It's almost like he's Skyward's family board and just copy, paste. Yeah, that's, that's kind of my first thought. Some of them would be right, but all 25 were right, by the way, Zippo hates, including what the big announcement was. Well, Zippo hates me, he hates RGT as well. He hates, he, I didn't see the RGT hate, but I'm not sure. He's put RGT in his articles on how much he hates him. That's interesting. I, it's just one of those things where the track record isn't strong enough at all for me to, like, cover it often, ever. But, I mean, I've definitely talked about before, but there has to be, there's usually- You try to take quite a personic generations when it was leaked four days before he put his post up. I don't know. Um, yeah. But anyways, back to the awkward time thing, right? Um, I love it. Just, just, just ignore it because Jake's trying to put up a defense for us and I'm like, dude, Zippo is fake. I mean, no, I think we're on the same page. He's like Tommy Bear knows to me. We're on the same page. I'm not, I'm not defending Zippo. I'm just saying that, like, he has something where like, I think he has a genuine connection somewhere, but like when, when his connection doesn't have info for him, like he'll just kind of pull it from what he, like he's trying to get it from every sources and only one of his sources is legit. And he might not even have that source anymore. But I think he did at one point. Maybe. Um, it's possible though, he's just on some sort of, there are, there are different gaming forums out on there where there are people with sources that share information occasionally, right? And so he might be- He might have walked out on one of, like a couple of times. Right. And see, he just kind of knows who I agree is pretty good at that. And so it may just be a good researcher. Like Sam and Frontier. Yeah, it may be. Sam and Frontier had a hundred percent track record for like six months, turned out she was copying all of her rumors from other places. Can we go back to Ocarina Time though? Yes. That was the original question. Sorry, Zippo only came up because Zippo was- Right. So I brought, I technically brought him up because I was just explaining when I brought back the Ocarina Time stuff because, you know, I- I wanted to know if there was more to it than that other than- Yeah. Well, the thing is that, so there it was though, you remember Game Over, Jesse used to talk about Ocarina Time HD a few years back. Years ago, yeah. That's kind of, there's that, right? And so now the thing is that's Ocarina Time HD is not what would be on Switch, you know? Sure. But maybe that was a project at one point and maybe it was pushed or, or, you know, it's just it was also then not really a legit thing. It's hard to- There's a few different ways to get an interpreter, right? But regardless, I don't really find any of the rumors to be super, super strong. But the theory I think is fantastic because Nintendo needs to have something major for the 3D Zelda fanbase early on for Switch too. And so they're kind of, they can't- They probably can't put it on a whole new game. And then we look at some interviews literally with Anuma, right? One where he mentions a character, Rauru, right? And how he doesn't think financially who that character is anymore. But then the even bigger one with the game, the Game Informer interview where he was literally asked, are you guys going to remake Ocarina Time? And he responds to a comment, considering the context that he was in another interview recently where he was asked about making a Zelda Dungeon Maker and he just cut that idea out immediately, right? So he's letting us entertain Ocarina Time. Yeah, we've talked about that. Right, but he asked me the question and then 10 Talk hasn't been here. So, you know. No, no, no, I wasn't saying to stop. I was just like remembering what we talked about. See, it's in my head now because people were pissed off at me for updating a topic earlier today, but whatever. Oh, no, no, no, no, that's how I meant it. But anyway, yeah. So I just think that there's like literal things. There's other stuff, right? But that's just kind of like some of the points like that I feel like make it more that makes more sense for Nintendo to remake as all the game early on for Switch 2, just out of pure logic, right? And then Ocarina Time seems like a good bet, especially based off some interviews. Yeah. I don't think that's why I lost time, though. I think, yeah, it does make sense. All that stuff just makes it more likely, not less. I mean, let's consider this. Like, what if Nintendo doesn't have any sort of 3D Zelda anything for first like three years of Switch or Switch 2? Like, do you think that's a good idea? I don't. Nope. Yeah, I don't either. Gotta be something. They definitely need Zelda, but they don't. I don't think they need the level of Breath of the Wilds. Like, I think Twilight Princess HG or the Wind Waker comes this year and next year is going to be a new remaster of something that we don't expect. It could be Ocarina Time, which I guess we expect, but. Tears of the Canons may be tired. Well, I'm going to say this. Tears of the Kingdom and Breath of the Wilds, I think are both going to give 4K overhauls for Switch 2. And I think they're going to happen in the first year. Whether or not they're patches you can buy or they re-release them, that that's going to be the big debate. But that'd be dirty. Well, I mean, look, if they're paying attention to Sony, then they like to get real dirty. Real, just right up in there. $70 game, re-released another $70. Yeah. I mean, I'd be down for like an expansion. But they've also told us multiple times that they're not going to do DLC. So we haven't talked about this yet. Like, what are your guys like biggest fears for the system before it's announced? Like, what are you worried about? I'm worried that there isn't a Zelda remake. Okay. I think a stupid name and bad marketing to go with that. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. It's a switch for you, baby. Yeah. Switch you. Oh, Lord. I'll take it. I got a concern. This is actually a legit concern. I'm worried about the triggers. Every time it happens, every time that, you know, Nintendo launches, like I remember with the Wii U, we're like, oh, those look like they could be analog triggers. And they weren't, right? And then when the switch came out, we're like, oh, those look like they could be analog triggers. There's a little bit of a space there and they were not. Right. So I fear that it's going to happen again where we're going to, they're going to show us a new controller. And we're like, oh, there's a bit of space there. It might finally be analog triggers. All right. Let me ask you, it's been seven years. Do you miss analog triggers for any of the games you play on Switch? So no, because the games on Switch aren't made with analog triggers in mind. Mario Sunshine. So do we need them then? Mario All-Stars. I would argue that Mario Sunshine would have felt a little bit better with analog triggers. They make it work, but it's better with it. Also, there's a lot of racing games and shooting games that would benefit from analog triggers. I mean, just giving you more options, you know, I mean. Yeah. But there could be a lot of them. Sunshine and 3D All-Stars, because obviously that was a huge one with analog back in the day. I don't know what the voodoo magic they pulled off, but it actually kind of just works with digital triggers. I don't really know how they made that happen. You think that until you play it with analog triggers again, like it really is nice to being able to control the stream. You know, you're a guy. You know what I mean. Sometimes you want to... Jake, I don't know about you. I'm always full sale. There's a way to communicate with the guy on the urinal next to you if you go back. I'm going to tell you right now. I've never communicated with the guy next to me in the urinal when I'm going... How have you made any friends ever? Well, that's the only way to meet people. I've never met someone in the bathroom. It is what it is. That's fascinating. I'm going to make one more argument for analog triggers. So with the Switch 2, we're hearing a lot about the visual prowess of it and how it's going to be able to run a lot of third-party games. We have the Call of Duty deal. I think now more than ever, Nintendo's primed to have the best third-party support they've ever seen. Having a system with analog triggers would actually be quite fitting with that because, guess what, that is the industry standard. Now, I don't think analog triggers are a deal-breaker, right? If it turns out Switch 2 doesn't have them, I'm not going to be like, oh, Switch 2 is screwed. No, we're going. I'm just going to be like, oh, that sucks. Absolutely. Yeah, I just think it makes sense. Yeah. My biggest fear is the power of the system because whatever we get with this next system, we're going to have for another five to seven years. Yeah. Like, the Switch was already underpowered. It was like, you know. So, the next system, I just, they don't need a lot of power for Nintendo games, but third-party is important. We're not ready for the Switch 2 pro-rumors in 2025. Oh, God. Yeah. I always have a problem with the pro stuff though, right? Because I always hear this argument whenever the pro things start coming around. I was like, oh, well, you know, they need a more powerful system for third-parties. But here I'm thinking, yeah, but you can put out a pro, but there's still a base model has the same power. And so third-party games won't be for that. New 3DS had exclusive games, including Minecraft. Yeah. And Nintendo. That was a big game. Nintendo cut the cord on those new games. Didn't it have like three? Yeah, because it didn't go really well. Well, I don't think Nintendo cut the cord on it. I think companies realize we can't just sell to a tiny audience. We got to sell it as a whole. Yeah, it just doesn't. But I'm just saying, Minecraft was one of those big ones and Minecraft actually had really good sales on 3DS, which you could only play it on new 3DS. Minecraft is also huge. Yeah. Oh, another here I have is if they get rid of Mies. I want Mies still. Keep Mies. Yeah, especially with that, because we usually have like that game. You know what you call it? Like a, like a squishy. A new thing with Mies. Like a new, you know what I mean? Yeah. No, I think that should be, I should be like a launch title, not the launch title, a launch title. Well, Tom was here. He'd say just bring Tomodachi life back and we're good. That could be the back you'd like to do. That'd be cool. But as a launch title? Oh, Tomodachi might have a casual game. Then you do a casual game. Doesn't feel like the kind of, the right kind of casual game to launch. What do you think is going to be the casual game? I don't know. Mario Kart. Not at launch. No way. Oh, yeah. A thousand percent. I mean, didn't Mario Kart 8? Yeah, they're going to pair Mario Kart with 3D Mario at launch. That would be literally the most insane launch of any system of all time. Well, maybe like a couple months out. Yeah. I mean, I think that advocacy. Yeah. Well, hey, hello. And are you, are you bullying him into changing his opinion? I would say Mario Kart would have a bigger impact than a 3D Mario. I think it should be a launch game. I think so. I mean, that's the game everyone plays. Yeah, push it a little bit. We've waited this long. That is interesting. They've never launched a system of the Mario Kart, but it is technically their strongest IP. Like, legit. And we technically didn't get a new one. Since 2014. We haven't had a new one since 2014. It's been like a decade. Yeah. I can see that. I mean, that's one way to sell. Dude, that would be insane. You don't keep thinking I'm changing my name and it's you. I always change it. Oh, I thought it was you. You're talking about me. Oh, no, exactly. I have not touched my keyboard this entire stream. I don't know. So I'll say that I don't think Mario Kart is going to be a launch title, but I definitely agree it's coming out. They have to come out soon because, like, to your point, like they launched, like, the set came out April, right? It was such a big thing. I my prediction has been by the end of the of of the fiscal next fiscal year. So by March, 20, 25, and then to has liked having like those really big megatons in that March time that every month, but a lot of the time it has been. And so I feel like, you know, if it does if it's not out by this holiday, I definitely think that that March period is like when we see next Mario Kart. We're not far off. I definitely think it's at least getting revealed this year. So getting back to my biggest fear. Look, we talked on name. We talked about launch light or whatever. I am actually worried that there'll be a really massive game at launch like a Mario Kart, right? Or a 3D Mario, and then they'll have a Mario Kart a few months later. Whatever. Maybe Yoshi's story. Absolutely nothing. But I'm worried that there might be a gap because they're trying to appease third parties. And so they're trying to get all these big third party games, their own window in the first nine months. And we will have, I guess, six month gap to the next. I'm not saying the next Nintendo game. There'll be ports and but they might get too reliant on like, oh, here's the Kingdom in 4K. That's going to be the big one. Mario Odyssey in 4K. That's going to be the big one. And that in that first year instead of hitting it hard like 2017, they got two heavy hitters in the first three months. And they think they can coast for another six. And I know that I can't so much stuff ready to go. No, again, this is a fear. This is not reality. And that's not an expectation. No, I expect them to have a loaded first year because I'm here to have. Why are you here? Look at this year. But it's a fear because Nintendo has done it before. Oh, I have a fear. Another fear. I have a fear that the next Mario Kart won't have an awesome single player campaign. Another fear. They don't fix the eShop. Another fear. Oh, God. Yeah, they give us the same eShop. That'll piss me off so much. Another fear being that they be so stubborn that they force the same Joy-Cons on us and not fix the goddamn Joy-Cons drift. Oh, my God. Honestly, no actual voice chatter direct messaging. I mean, boom, boom, yeah. You got to still use an app and then it's limited. Oh, man. No, look here. They for some reason because oh, we got away with switch. We don't support Bluetooth headphones at launch just because. Oh, yeah. But just because. Yeah. Or at least give me an audio jack. Another fear. No audio jack. Yeah, that would suck. I mean, YouTube. On the controllers. The Switch itself has one, but the controllers need an audio jack. YouTube channel is starting OnlyFans and then I miss out on OnlyFans revenue because of competition. Okay. Are you saying, wait, are you confirming Sakurai is a 2-inch? I mean, if I was a betting man. If I was a gambling man. He could be a destroyer. Do we think we're going to get like smash soon then? I don't know where they go with smash. The 2-inch smasher versus the 2-inch smasher. Oh, we can flash. There you go. Sakurai. So Sakurai hasn't really given any hints of what the future is or smash other than that. He's going to be involved. But he said that for Smash to continue and Nintendo needs to let him do something new and fresh with it. I don't know what that is. And they're going to let them do it. Of course they are. So I don't know, but I can understand a concern that whatever that new and fresh thing is just doesn't work. And I know Sakurai makes bangers, even like, you know, Kid Icarus Uprising. People who played that game love that game. So I get it that he just kind of makes bangers, but it's always one of those. Man, ultimate was like the perfect direction, but it's also impossible to follow. So how do you follow? What if he thumbles the follow? I think I'll challenge the use of the word impossible. I know that was just an exaggeration. You look at Mario Wonder and I think sometimes, sure, like blowing up the sun with your ass, but I think making a good Smash game is not that hard. Did not have that on my finger card. Nope. Going to change my bingo card for next week. So I'm blowing up. Here we go. Through butt. Specifically ass, probably Wario related. Got it. I mean, actually, actually. Right. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Wario would do something like that in a Wario where I'm just saying. I'm just saying, though, like you look at Mario Wonder, right? And I think that added a lot to the 2D Mario formula, right? Sure. And I think a lot of people sort of thought, well, where do you go with 2D Mario after Mario Maker? Yeah. But they clearly showed it. And from everything we've heard of interviews, they have a whole bunch more ideas, right? Like it wasn't like they were running out. Like there's a whole bunch, right? And so, you know, what can they do with Smash? I mean, honestly, I think they probably should just keep it as is because it's kind of like Mario Kart. You know, whenever someone sees Mario Kart regardless of which gen, everyone who's not even a big gamer is like, oh, Mario Kart, all right, I could jump in. And so I think Smash needs to be, it needs to stay that way as well. But that doesn't mean they can't, for example, give us a kick-ass single-player, right? Like I think they honestly should just do like a subspace emissary, but just make it better. Ugh. Stop being afraid to cut it. Smash is going to end up like Pokemon. There's going to be like 151 brick and characters. Let's do it. It's going to be absolutely insane. Actually, one last thing. Sorry. I'm just going to switch to the Smash. Because something that Nintendo has started doing now is that, you know, Swatoon has had a series of updates, right? Arms had it, right? I bet they might do it with Mario Kart, but also, you know what? They should probably do it with Smash as well. Like, have it be like a game that there is like a more of an online community and there's active events and updates going, moving forward. Obviously, fighters, that takes time to polish up, but there's other things you can do. I mean, they have the spirit events and stuff, and so it's something they've already dabbled with. You know, like that helps give the game more legs and, you know, it'll keep, it'll get people interested for a new one. Well, since Eric is so bored, he's playing a mobile home game. Dude, they should make an intercrossing fighting game. We're going to flip that. We're going to get to our Q&A section. If you guys have any questions, you can just super chat them in as low as $2 to get them in. We got four already. We're ready to go. We got back up, guys. Two is more than enough. Back up account 156 drops of $5 says, Hot Take. Super Mario 3D Land for the 3DS is just as amazing as Super Mario 3D World for the Switch. Both are 10 out of 10. Thoughts? I don't think that's a hot take. I don't think it's a hot take at all. I think that's just legit. I think they're both great games. I don't know. Who was it that thinks? 10 out of 10? I don't know about 10 out of 10, but like it's up there. They're both up there. I don't know why people think 3D Land is bad. I loved it. Dude, 3D, it's a lot harder. Is it? It'll go play the original and then play 3D Land. It's a harder game. I would say like 8 out of 10 games, but they're still both really good. Like, yeah, what's the original? Are you serious? Super Mario Brothers, what are we talking about? Are you saying 3D Land is harder than Super Mario Brothers? Yes. Well, 3D Land is a different style of game, though. That doesn't defeat what I just said. I don't know. I guess I just didn't find it that hard. Yeah, I didn't eat it. Well, I'm glad we got some pro gamers in the chat. Well, I mean, if I remember correctly, I just abused the Tanuki suit. So Booman, he said, which Zelda game do you feel is most difficult questions for everyone? Probably Majora's Mask. And one that pops in my head right away is you squint into the camera. I got it. Oh, actually Zelda 2. Zelda 2 is harder. You actually thought Majora's Mask was harder than Zelda 2. Well, no, I was just thinking about how long it took me, Tommy, years it took me to, first of all, I was thinking 3D is all the first because I'm a millennial. But, oh, come on. Come on, work. Thank you. It's working. While it's working, Jake, what was yours? It was cadence of Hyrule because I could not get the fucking rhythm down and it pissed me off. Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah. If you can't get the rhythm, that sucks. Yeah. Yeah. How about Nintendo? What do you got? What's your most difficult Zelda? Zelda 2 because it's difficult to enjoy it. Shots fired. I think that's the main favorite game. I think Zelda 1 is more difficult than Zelda 2. No, third favorite. Third favorite, Zelda. Get out of here. That's a top five game for Zelda. For Zelda, not top five all the time. What are you? Damn it. You and me are going to have some problems. You and me are going to have some real problems. I hope you do a live stream in 2024 that involves if people super chat, you get punished because you're not going to like me at the end of that stream. I just think it's not a good style for Zelda, like a Zelda game. But it was nice to have you on the podcast when we did Nintendo. You can ignore my invite for next month. No, most difficult for me. I'm going to. So I don't find any of the Zelda games to actually be that difficult, but in terms of like most, it's going to be Triforce Heroes only because the single player is tedious. So it's not like it's not difficult, but it's just not like super fun single player. And the problem with multiplayer is all the online people would just chuck me off the map every time. And so then that's not fun either because they're just trolling you the whole time. Now, this doesn't mean that I think it's a bad game. It's just you have to have friends. You have to have two other friends that are going to be in the room with you to play with you. And I only had Eric. So we always had someone online that was trolling the share on us. And so it's just the way it's designed. But I don't actually think it's it's bad. You know what I mean? Because I don't think any of the Zelda games are bad besides the CDI ones, which look, if we're going to cut the CDI ones, Zelda's adventure is actually the most difficult. But I figured Boomin, he was probably talking about them. They did a Nintendo made ones. So yeah, no one. We didn't need to talk about that. But OK, I really want to get to the PipLock's question. Well, we'll get to it. I mean, he's he's down the list a little bit. We have two more questions before PipLock. Eric, most difficult. Well, you played a whole lot in this old game. Well, you eliminated selection. Let's go. Well, it's difficult. I don't know. I kind of agree with you on that one. Because you didn't try for a series of games. And we tried so damn hard to get that damn walkthrough written. Oh, my God. We it was the worst. It was it was. Oh, guys, chucking us off the map. This is really helping us. All right. Very frustrating. We will get you. You know what? Because. Andress is a co-host. We will go to the PipLock first. What is the sexiest Pikmin? Never played it so. Blue Pikmin. I don't know. What is wrong with Eric again? Why am I switched today? Play Pikmin. OK, so Jake, your logic is that blue Pikmin are wet. So I mean. They like to get wet. They do like to get wet. Yeah, I'm I'm personally a bit divided on this one. Because on one hand, you have the purple Pikmin, which. Andress is sexually attracted to many Pikmin. Right. But then the pink flying Pikmin, they're just so elegant. And graceful. They get a break. That's tough. They do. They're both they're both sexy in their own ways. Agreed. It's red. Obviously red. And what is it because they're fire? Yeah. I mean, you just know they are hot. I don't have reasons. No, it makes sense. Yeah, they're plentiful. Right. It's like that thing. It's like, what's the best part about having sex with 23 year olds? No, boy. Oh, boy. Look, boy, we went there. Look, I might not like mushrooms in real life. But the puffmen do it for me. Whoa. They're on that. No one was going to bring up the puff. I think we can agree that all the Pikmin are fuckable. All right. I think that's what I'm getting here. I wasn't going there. I wasn't just, I mean, if that's the case, what are the rock ones called? Because I need a hard one. They literally. Oh, yeah. Rock Pikmin. They are literally picked up all the way. I thought that's what they were going to call. Thanks for having me. I had a lot of fun. Yeah, he needs to go and look at Pikmin right now. He's like, I don't think he has right now. He's got the whole line. I do. I have the whole. They got they got some high res photos. Got the s reason the camera just switched to follow. They're free. Hey, it's following them. Oh, yeah. The ghost Pikmin are pretty cool. We're good. Hopefully we're good. I have no idea. It's still following you. It is what it is. Whatever, Eric, you are the center of attention of your own camera. So what Pikmin, buddy? For someone who's never played, just looking at the aesthetics of the Pikmin. I don't know that white one. This is your freaking weird. The white one. Yeah, the white one with the red eyes is kind of free. Oh, so you're racist. Totally. Eric, you're like a mother father. So I'm going to reverse this to the chat. Bit black. God damn mother. What's your favorite Pikmin? And do you find any of them effable? Because Jake claims they all are. So we've we've made cases for literally everyone. We haven't got yellow Pikmin yet. Pikmin are like people. Everyone is sexually attractive to someone. That is that not. I mean, I've ever felt like someone out there. Which here we go. Bit black has it. The rock Pikmin say hard all night long. That's the answer. But not just have a joke. Okay. But it's a what game do you actually like? But for whatever reason, the purple Pikmin are begging for it. Oh my gosh. I'm fine. Okay. But not this. God, this is a good question. This is a tough question. That's how they move around so slowly. This is a very tough question. What game do you actually like? But for one reason or another couldn't actually finish. He mentioned that advanced wars got buried for me under a future redeemed in tears of the kingdom. So what's a game that you love, but just for some reason you have not finished it? The advanced wars is that for me. Fire Emblem Gauge as well. There's a lot of games that came out in the beginning of the year that I just need to get back to. Beginning of last year. It's already 2024. Oh my God. They're already about to reveal switch. Oh my God. No shit. Yeah, right. This game is actually on Switch. But Crisis Core, Final Fantasy 7. I beat it on the PSP, but I'm not playing on Switch. I'm playing it on PlayStation for the trophies. And I can't complete it because I'm obsessively trying to 100% it. And it just got to be more of a even though it's really fun. So I just can't complete it now. Yeah, advanced wars is probably one of my answers. But oddly enough, I never finished Age of Calamity. And I liked it. I think something may have come out during then. I don't know. Taking three deluxe. I do see a lot of RPGs in completed, like turn-based ones too. Like Bravely Default 2. This is the weirdest name ever because there was Bravely Default and then Bravely Second. And then instead of Bravely Third, it was Bravely Default 2, even though there was Bravely Second, but whatever. Sure. Okay. For me, it's Xenoblade Chronicles 3. So I've beaten the first and the second. Yeah. Why would you finish this branded game? What? Why would you finish this crap game? Look, I don't care what Jake says about this. I actually really enjoyed my time. I'm just fucking with that. I really enjoyed my time that I have like 20 hours into Xenoblade 3. And I'm not really sure what happened. Like what led me to stop playing it because I was having fun the whole time. I don't know if it was just work, life, my kids. I have no idea. But for some reason I've never finished it. And because of that, I'll probably never finish the DLC, which pisses me off because I finished 1 and 2 plus the DLC. And I've heard so many great things about how the DLC wraps everything up. But I can't, I'm not going to, you know, I got to beat the game first. So it's one of those I keep telling myself. I'm going to go back and actually beat. And I'm so glad Nish Quick Pops isn't on this week because he would be screaming at me right now for not finishing this game. I'll tell you that you could play Future Redeem before playing the main campaign of three. But I still won't. I got to spend it when I started. Either way is fine. I do think Future Redeem does a good job of wrapping things up in a way. But three, I mean, either way, you'd be fine. Um, but yeah, that I don't know why I've just never really finished. I have no excuse because I actually enjoy it a lot. But that's the whole point. It's a game you really, really like. I'm like, I don't know what it is. I just never finished. I got a question I want to address here. I've got a question for everyone too. This one's more important. This one's real quick. All right. So Captain Joe's here. I asked him. Oh, God. Well, we'll just wait till I finish. Captain Joe's here in the chat says, Jake, why is there nothing on your only fans page? And I think you just have to look more carefully. No, there's actually a real reason. Oh, yeah, yeah. That's a good response. That's two inch destroyer. Um, all right. My question was I just thought I'd throw this like a fun thing that we can talk about everybody. Let's go around. And what's your favorite race? Go Eric. Any track in Mario Kart 8? That's why yeah. Um, I'm not going to lie. If anyone ever asked you your favorite race in real life, there's only one wrong answer. We're going to move on to something that is just an amazing username. Clapping Zelda cheeks. Hell yeah. Do you think? And the funny thing is the serious question. Yeah. I love the username. Do you think if it's in the direct answer if is Twilight Princess a port from Wii U or a bit more HD? If we're seeing it in this first, if we're seeing it soon, it's basically just a strict rip from Wii U with just some minor modifications to work on Switch. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah. I kind of agree just because of how much they have with that game. Yeah. I think they just, you know what? Screw it. They went full Wii U tech demo. That's where I'm at right now. They just redid the whole thing. For Switch or for Switch too? For Switch. Maybe added like a seller. Ten million seller dropping this summer. Oh, I mean, that'd be hype as hell. People might forget the hype for Switch too if this is dropping on Switch. Yeah, yeah. I'll say that if they did that, I hope they change the AI for the enemies and make the bosses actually hard. Yeah. The dark nuts shouldn't be harder than the bosses. And like that's like a legit thing for like half the bosses in the game. Right. Actually, maybe every boss, to be honest. Like the bosses seem so epic when you face them. But they're basically giant teddy bears. The atmosphere is amazing. And then you're done in like five minutes because they're not that hard. Yeah. So remix the boss fights. Keep the designs just, you know. The designs are great. Yeah. I remember the first time. I forget the name of the boss, but when you're in the, I think it's the city in the sky. When you're flying around with the dragon in the air. The rock. Yeah. And you know, this is so epic. And then you're fucking done because it's so easy. Yeah. It's pretty easy. I'm like, and it knew me wrong. Look, I got my flight dragon boss fight with Calguera in Tears of the Kingdom, which is exactly what I wanted this fight to be. And Calguera is not a difficult boss either. But it's also not a dragon. Yeah, not technically a dragon. I'm more of like. I thought it was a dragon, but like that first trailer review, like, oh my God, it's a giant ice dragon. And it was actually, you know, it's a giant ice parasite monster. So another random YouTube channel I have no affiliation with, because just because I think it's something every Zelda fan should watch, especially of those games. Oh, is there an end to this? I don't hear what I'm asking. If I can't before I do it. Yeah, sure. Okay. So I've told you guys this before, but internet pit stop on YouTube, that's the channel name internet pit stop. Has a couple Zelda videos that are so awesome. Okay. Especially on the like the atmosphere and like of everything of Twilight Princess. And just highly recommend the content. That's it. Yeah, I might have to check them out. All right, we have a, I think this is the last question of us being more super chats in. I just got picked up. So I took care of that. What is everyone's favorite adult beverage? Calm. That was coming. To be fair, literally I do that. To be fair, you can have that as a teenager. You don't have to be an adult. You never been in high school, buddy. You never been in high school? Come on now. Come on. I like the advice. You had to wait till you were 18 plus for that. I don't think I was clear. I like adult calm. Maybe you, it doesn't matter for you. I like adult. I'm sorry that you had to wait till 18 to experience that. That's all right. I'm not saying I had to wait till 18, but I like the taste of it from adult. I like an adult beverage. Whoa, now. Whoa, now. He's the right teacher. He had the right teacher in his class. All right. More serious note. Are we going to answer the question? Or are we just going to? All right. So I don't have a specific favorite. I'm not like a huge alcohol guy. I hate beer, but I'm going to give you like a handful of drinks I do like. I like Mike's hard just for fun. I have a few. Sometimes I might drink that with lunch. Yeah, Mike's hard. I don't want to come over. All right. I do enjoy white Russians. Those are pretty good. Yeah, white Russians. But that's almost like. Only white Russians? Only white. Dude, that's a party time. You have a drink. The drink is. Dude, white Russians can be a huge party drink. It's pretty fun. I mean, I don't actually like rum and coke, but I'll order it a lot just because it's easy. Yeah. Did you drink that when we were out? I don't remember. It's like the most basic thing that I know. The part I'm just going to hear. I actually don't like it because I like coke. Like it's like Coca-Cola as a drink. Oh, I don't like the rum kind of ruins the coke. If that makes any sense. I actually prefer I actually prefer to drink rum and whiskey on their own. Oh, so you're okay. So I'll drink like you're kind of like my fiance. She she like loves. So she actually really likes daiquiris, but she she'll take what is it a margarita, but she'd rather the tequila be put in shots. So you just get it over with quick and then enjoy the drink. Oh, I feel like a spicy margarita. I'll drink it as is. So yeah, I'll drink it as is as well. But you is like she doesn't like the taste of alcohol that much. She'd rather just get it over with just super quick. Oh, long island. That's fun. Okay. Long islands in general are just those are strong. One one random story for like when I was in college. I was with my friends and there was three of us. We ordered two large blue long islands and they didn't feel like drinking it. And so we already had a few drinks that night and I was an idiot. And so I just took both and that night ended with me crying outside my house at 7 a.m. It does not surprise me. We need to find a time that you and I can have some fun where we're not working. Yeah, we need to get you out of your time. Maybe if someone I come down on a cruise and I have a free day. I don't know him up here. Because I'm coming down. I don't know where you where you live in down in Florida. I'm going to be we're going out of Orlando this year. When you when you came to Miami where where where'd you go? We were we weren't that far away from the ports. Okay, I mean you're probably just like a 20ish 30ish man. This year this year we go out over to Orlando this year. So that's probably further away from you. But I think it's closer to Mike. Because I remember Mike's closer to that or you were closer to Miami. Nate, can you guess mine? I think you know it. Maybe I should just fly down a day early to just like go to where you where you're at. Hang out. That's some fun. Yeah. And then go out to where we need to go. Maybe that's what I need to do. Hey, I know. I'm sorry. See, Jake, I understand you're asking an important question. But it's just literally in June, I'm going to be in Florida. And every time I've gone there, I've always missed the opportunity. In June. All right. In June. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Cool. We're thinking like June 19, June 20. My brother is getting married in July. So I was like, oh, Mr. Han, isn't this our time? Well, who bought the question? That's all I'm going to say. Oh, by the way, Captain Doge. I don't see. I saw it in Nintendo Super Chat today. I always get confused. I kept asking, have I seen an alligator? I always get confused about between alligators and crocodiles. But crocodiles have the more narrow ones. And I'm not even sure which ones in Miami. I should probably know that. But I haven't seen any of them personally, like in like the neighborhoods that I live in, even though there are some lakes and in theory, they could come through like, you know, the waterworks. However, there is a national park that's like maybe like a 25, 30 minute drive from here and like in the Niki Suki area. And there's like a park where you can get a bike and you ride around like a like a like a four or five mile trail. You can walk it too. And there's just alligators all over the place on basically. It's like a sidewalk. There's also like giant herrings. There are like four or five feet tall. Five feet is probably an exaggeration. Let's say three to four. There's like these really tall like dinosaur looking birds. And there's snakes. But you can take kids here, right? Like as long as you don't interact with them, you can literally walk by them or ride, bike, ride them. Like you're, you could touch them. Like there's nothing. This sounds wild to me. I think I want to prefer though. We come to a day early than usual. And then you're going to go out for drinks and we ignore the game. Who invented this country's national park system? The entire thing. Whose idea was it? I don't know that. I don't know that. Gator Roosevelt. Oh, that makes sense. Pretty cool. Sorry. Every time I hear Gator, it's just Gator bitches better be wearing jimmies. I don't know if you guys get that movie reference. It's the other guys. For those who don't know, it's the other guys. This is where it comes from. It's a Will Ferrell thing. What's your favorite adult beverage? Exactly. I was going to get that. I got a top three. I mean, Jack and Coke is the best. Come on. There we go. Corona is great. And then Bailey's on ice. There we go. Damn dude. It sounds like I got to go. It's a shame we can't all like meet up at E3 or something. That E3 doesn't exist anymore. You guys want to go back to E3? I don't think this year. Unless this was a Nintendo live at PAX West, maybe. They're going to announce a new system and they're going to show. I already partied with Jake. He gave me something out of a literal skull at a house. I don't remember what it was, but you know what I did it. Do you remember my favorite alcohol? I think you know it, Nate. Your favorite? I don't remember your favorite. My favorite type? Was it a beer? Tequila. Oh yeah. I was going to say you did some tequila with me. I didn't know if that was your favorite though. Yeah. Well, because it's the only alcohol that's an upper, not a downer. Yeah. And it's the only alcohol that doesn't convert into sugar in your bloodstream because it's made from agave. So it like I try to watch my blood sugar, so. Yeah. Yeah. I remember you telling me that. Yep. Yeah. It was funny because funnily enough, you wouldn't do as much tequila as I was doing. It's kind of interesting. I was getting a little more bricked up than you. It happens. To be fair, you were already bricked up by the time I met you, so. That's true. I had a lot of things in my system. Look, we don't need to talk about those things. Eric, if you had to, what's your favorite drink? Give me an amaretto sour. There we go. Amaretto sour. That's a popular one. That's a popular one. Well, is that it? Mine. So usually when I want to party, I'm doing rum and coke, but it's not because I really enjoy it. It's kind of one of those that like, it kind of ruins the coke, but I know there's booze. And I like Coke. Like you see me drinking Coke zero. It's like, I like Coke. So Coke kind of makes the booze more tolerable, but you want to get me really crunk. Well, one, for starters, I won't turn down any booze that anyone buys me. So you start buying me shit, whatever you buy me I'm doing. Or if you have like, there's this bar in Eau Claire that on Friday nights has, has a God, it's not $1. I feel like we're having a post podcast talk live. No, we're not though. I, this is a, this is a question. You can see it. It's your question. It's a paid question. By you. So what? I was curious. Can I not be curious? Oh, you absolutely can. I'm just saying I know I can ask in the after show, but it's not as much fun. I'm not saying that I'm not. I'm trying to tell my favorite, it's my turn. And now you're just shitting at me. All right. I'll let you go. I like to talk to a top three. Anyways, no, um, so I do a lot of rum and coax in middle light. Those are like the, the standards, but I don't actually like either one of them to be, to be fair. If I'm really going to party, it's going to be a Long Island ice teas and I hate tea. But as I said, there's, there's this place that has like $1 Long Islands and that's dangerous. That is very dangerous. I have $1 all night. You guys might go, I pay $15. I don't tell, I don't know. Their goal is to get a lot more than Long Island out of you. That's what I'm pretty sure. But I don't actually like them because I hate tea. I hate tea. And when it comes to an actual drink I enjoy, tequila sunrise. And it's ironic because tequila is my poison, but I want to get drunk. If I want to get drunk, I'm drinking tequila. Sunrise is all fucking day. All fucking day. Give me all. Also, if you make the Bloody Mary just right, Bloody Mary is going to be really good, especially if you have the right extras thrown in. You'll get the loaded Bloody Mary's. Anyways, if you know, you know, if you don't, you know, why we talk about Mexican Coke. I like my soda as well. I know because it uses real sugar cane. It's in a glass bottle. It's great. It is good. It is good. Anyways, we have no other super chat, so I guess I'll finally hide that. And we will start wrapping up the stream. We're going to go around to everyone in the chat. You can say who you are, where you're from, and just know there will be a post talk show that Nintendo will probably definitely bail from. Let's start with Daddy Jake. Where can they find you? Twitter. I'm not going to give away clearly. Oh, yeah, you can find me on Twitter, where I'm giving away five four day badges at PAX East in Boston, which is March 24th to 24th. If you just look up Jake Randall on Twitter, it's my last tweet. All you have to do is like the tweet and reply to the new game. You don't have to, you don't even have to follow me. I don't care. I just want to do the giveaway. There you go, Nate. And then you can also find me on YouTube, which is just Jake Randall and OnlyFans.com. Let me guess, you're going to PAX East, aren't you? How did I live like that? Did you just interrupt me during my fucking OnlyFans blog? Dude, your OnlyFans has no posts. Nobody cares. OnlyFans.com slash which destroyer. I'm building up my audience. There's not even follow. All right. Every time I go on my web browser on my phone, it reminds me that Jake sent me a link to OnlyFans. That would be funny. Are you kidding me? Are you checking my OnlyFans on my DailyNate? Are you getting ripped up from my OnlyFans? You know what would be funny? If what you did is you posted like a picture of just one of your toes that's about two inches long. So you post it in a weird way. So people, it's left up for interpretation for what it actually is. Just by the way, it says OnlyFans sent by Jake. I don't know if you can see it. Every time I open the tab, it's like the second suggestion. Yet every time I check there, there's nothing going on. He's saving it for the content, man. He's saving it. I'm actually kind of afraid when there is content. So. Okay. Keep it up. I'm going to eventually open up Bandana Charmander's OnlyFans, and that's going to be your biggest competition. There you go. Oh, there it is. There it is. There you go. I'm just going to have another like an alternate OnlyFans called Nintendo Bitch. So we'll watch for that one too. No, boy. Yeah, it's where when I finally wear the Jason Tatum jersey, it's just a bunch of pictures of me. Andres, what you got going on? So, yeah, my name is Andres Restart. I talk about the exact same Nintendo topic every day. So if you like listening to the exact same thing every single day, without any research, without any perspective, or critical thinking, or, you know, nuance. Yeah, check my channel out. Oh, yeah. I'm so glad he said that after I brought up the stupid nature. Nintendo. What are you going on? Yes, I'm Patrick from Nintendo Talk. You can check me out. Today I did my first vertical stream on YouTube. They introduced that. Yeah. What the fuck is that? So, like, it shows up on YouTube Shorts. And how did it go? Dude, I did a two hour vertical stream and I gained like 500 subscribers. But it was like a bunch of, yeah, it was. It was interesting. Did you do it from your phone? No. So if you do like a vertical setup on your OBS, it'll automatically make it a vertical stream. Dude, it's 17,000 views. In less than two hours. Yeah. Holy fuck. This is vain. Well, I'm going to tune in tomorrow morning. Vertical stream. Yeah, I was going to say, I know what Nate's doing tomorrow. So can you, so it's just a vertical setup. Otherwise you can just do everything normal in OBS, right? Yep. Yeah. As long as you have like a vertical aspect ratio, it'll automatically like. So you were about to insult the subscribers you gained from it. What were you saying? Oh, no, I just said it. You could tell it's like the Shorts audience, you know, like they're younger. Well, we do have Shorts. I do Shorts on my channel. So we had to ban a lot of Shorts during the summer. Oh, were they like talking like dumb? It was just like a lot of like. Like dumb, like middle school trolley shit. Yeah. Yeah. And it was weird too. Because I don't know if any of my mods are paying attention. We are totally doing a vertical stream tomorrow morning. Do it. And I don't know who's going to be in school. But it is what it is. I've been doing it for seven hours a night. I just don't know what I would do. I would just do anything. You could play a game. I would feel bad like playing like, for example, I've actually been getting like the edge to like stream. What if I play it again? Yeah, I feel bad for doing it in that way because you wouldn't see the whole game. Or if you do scale it really small. You got to remember, this is how the Jungians are ingesting content. They don't care about that. It's really weird though, because like your viewer count would be like 300 and then 600 in like a matter of 10 minutes. And then like. That is insane. Yeah, I just wanted to test it out. I'm glad that you tested it out because I was very curious. Because I've seen some other people do it. And I was like, you know, it's not going to replace my standard stream at night guys. Yeah, exactly. It's about reaching new audiences and just kind of expanding because we do shorts on my channel about two or three a week. So it's interesting to kind of reach a new audience. And I have to remember the younger. So we probably won't be doing shots. Maybe maybe the right way to drop a hundred dollar super chat. I might show the children what shots look like. But I think I like that idea. So I'm looking at the chat, right? I think was a Pippa Chino saying that smaller screen looks better than the zoom. So maybe the right way to do is have like the game on one half of the screen and then make your camera on the other half. Oh, yeah. Some people do that. Some people do that to me that feels like I would just feel bad. Like, yeah, exactly. I want to show the whole game. But I also feel bad if the screen's too small. But I mean, like if you're watching on your phone, that that that is interesting, though, then that clearly went really well for you. Yeah, it went really well. And one of the things I did at the end was I played Mario Kart 64. And like it works better if you're doing like a four by three. Like so a lot of like classic games and could work. Good. This is found streams about to happen. I legitimately am setting this up tomorrow just for fun. If I have no topic to make a video on in the morning, I might just say, fuck it. Let's try to see what happens. Just to experiment. I don't know. By the way, I don't know that my style of channel is going to click with everyone. But you know what? Maybe I get because here's the thing. I keep thinking about the short than the TikTok. No, no, because I might like, I don't want like a bunch of really I don't want a whole bunch of kids subscribing to my channel. But I will note that I actually know that most adults also just consume content in vertical form. Oh yeah, everyone does. My entire family does. They don't even watch YouTube. So I could actually maybe, even though there'll be a lot of kids, it could transition into I actually, most of the subscribers might end up actually being adults. I mean, the kids will turn into adults eventually. That's true. Sam says play time. Dude, that would be a great game to do that. That would be great, too. Yeah. Yeah. Go on. And so play time. Oh man. Give me a reason to replay a game for my childhood. Um, you know, I don't replay games for the audience. That could be a good one. And I can still have cool things pop up. I still have my confetti go off and do my normal stream shit. It's just on the smaller. Oh man, I like this. Word. Um, look forward to the Nintendo Prime Live probably like 10 a.m. tomorrow. Unless I got a video to make. I've, I'm glad that, so it works really well. I've seen people do it on TikTok. I've never seen it. Yeah, man. Don't worry, Nate. You don't have any videos to make. There's no Nintendo news, so. Yep. There's no Nintendo news. What have I tried my, what would happen if I tried my traditional stream without a game? Just like a- In the score map. Chatting. Just like a chatty stream, talking about Switch 2. Can it work? Can it work? That, I mean, you don't know. It's a whole new audience. Hey, man. I might wake up tomorrow and you'll be at 300 million subscribers. Oh dude, if I kept going, I. I mean, how long was the streaming? You streamed for only two, a couple hours. And what was it? 500 subs? 500 subscribers. Yeah. I guess I'm just curious is like, those are actually, it's a little, Well, you don't know. It's a, it's a, he just did it. He was, yeah. I think those viewers will. Stream or it's just like a. Or they'll watch your shorts. You know, like those streams where like, it just streams nonstop and it watches the person sleep, whatever. Mine's going to be like, streaming until one of my viewers finds out where I live. Dude, that is insane. Turns off my computer. Oh, there you go. Well, I'll stream it. And I think we all drop hints if I'm like getting too tired. Just DM me the answer. That would actually be very interesting. If you just had your phone was constantly live streaming you, and the title of the live stream would just find me. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. Like that's that kind of idea. It's extremely dangerous, but it's also like, this is kind of interesting. I don't actually do that. I'm an old hat man. I don't think of how to reach the young ins anymore. It was a new thing. By the way guys, thank you. Thank you for the blessings. I appreciate it. And I'm kind of thinking like, what would happen? So, because like obviously I get, I get a lot of super chats on my streams. I'm like, what would happen if like I'm like, hey, I throw the shots out there. Does it just go fucking nuts? Because there's like 7,000 people watching. I thought the number would be a lot higher, but it seems like people like, just endlessly scroll. So like I said, yeah, yeah. But yeah, in the moment that they scroll to you, like you got to be entertaining them or they're just going to keep going. Maybe I can bring back Tears of the Kingdom and I could bring back the Lava House building. This is, you should do it. I mean it's going new. It's going to eventually get saturated. All 200 of you, be sure to show up tomorrow while you're working, come support me, you know, because you're adults. I remember when Tears of the Kingdom came out, I had this idea to build a house out of Lava and I spent hours like trying to build a house out of Lava and I thought it was going to be such a great idea, flopped. But Matthew Bob, if you want to reach out to me, I can refund you this. We don't do some requests here in the podcast. So if you would like a refund, just reach out to me and I will, I will send you that. Or you can do it tomorrow. Or next stream. Yeah. I mean, if you, look, can I play copyright music in the vertical streams? I don't know. Probably won't because it's our first one. We'll probably stick with with copyright free stuff. But tomorrow night, if you want to show tomorrow night, I can play that as the first song, just remind me. Or I can refund you if you want. Because yeah, I understand that there's confusion, but yeah, we don't do some requests on our podcast stream. All right. Did anyone else not shout out the shit yet? I'm here. Eric. There we go. I'm here. Every Wednesday, wearing that Nintendo Prime merch. Word. Oh, yeah. Yo, Eric, Eric, Laura beat every shrine. I don't even have that. I don't even have that shirt. Eric is special. He's the only one with it, I think. I don't think anybody has the shirt. That's gonna be worth a million dollars some day. Maybe. You can photo shop your logo on my. Enough. You can follow the real thing. I wasn't making a joke. It's a real thing. It's me going like this with a blank shirt. I know. Everyone's using it to put whatever they want. And you can put it on there. I'd rather just send you an Nintendo Prime shirt and you just legitimately put one on. I don't know. I want to do that. I understand until I have the Jason Tatum jersey. I understand. Hold on. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. For those who don't know, I lost two bets against Jake Randall. He's gonna have to wear a Boston Celtics jersey. It's probably, you know, it's gonna end up on a podcast while the bucks play. So that'll be fun. And then he also gets to control my name and the under thing for the whole stream. And he can't change it. Well, maybe I can give him permissions to come in so he can like change it throughout the whole stream if he wants to just mess with me. But I think I can promote people to do that. I don't know. I got to look at it. But anyway, thank you guys for being here. You can have fun. The Nintendo Prime podcast right here every Wednesday at 8 p.m. Central Time or roughly 8 p.m. Central Time. Next week, we actually are not doing it on Wednesday. We're doing it on Thursday, which one, make sure Daddy Jake can be there because he wasn't going to be there on a Wednesday. Two, it also makes sure that there is a direct on Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday. It gives us the opportunity to actually react to the direct. There are many times when our podcast happens the day before the direct. Yeah. If you work at a, this is an important announcement, actually. If you work since we're not going to meet till after Valentine's Day, if you work at a restaurant or a coffee shop, whatever, and every time you see a couple come in on Valentine's Day, say to the guy, wow, second girl today, huh? Every time you will end at least one relationship, it will be hilarious. Oh, God. Oh, God. So I'm sorry to be a dick. Nintendo Prime does not endorse this stuff. No, I do not endorse this at all. We have Paul Gale Network coming on next week. We got Nish Quick Pops coming on. Botox Games is coming on as well. Andres Riesson might be doing his own thing, which is totally fine. He's not fully committed yet to Thursday. He's always committed on Wednesdays. It's up in the air. It's up in the air. He might be here. He might not. I understand. Dude, a partner showcase comes. You got to do what you got to do. Nintendo talk will definitely not be here, unfortunately. But hey, I sent you a DM and you just ignored it and didn't commit to anything else. I think he hates me. It is what it is. No, I'll be on. I'm always, I'm always around. You're always around. You answer better than Zach does. I'll say that. So we'll do another. No, he went on vacation and just pretend I don't exist anymore. It is what it is. All right, guys. Yeah, I'm sure he'll be back on someday when he eventually checks my DM. All my unread DMs. You guys are awesome. Thank you for being here. And we will catch you not the same time next week, the day after. So it's gonna be a little bit of eight days to the next podcast. Catch you guys later. See ya. I almost just ended the stream inappropriately. Hold on, we have an outro.