 Okay, I'm here. I'm alive. Sorry. I'm just gonna drag myself out of my editing hole I like an idiot decided to make my Pokemon Scarlet and Violet review another big mega 30-minute long video and it is taking me weeks to edit. I feel like I'm dying. Oh my god What am I doing? Why am I here? Where's Chris Pratt? Actually speaking of this is really cool We have Chris Pratt on a zoom call and we're gonna be reacting to the Mario movie with him It's like a little way of like making up Chris. Are you there buddy? Hey word? Thanks for having me. No Yeah, I'm really glad to have you on what's your experience been like working on it so far Well, it made me British for one, but I had a yeah, how long am I gonna keep this bit going? I have no idea what footage my editor is going to use for that. Well dragon quest treasures is out Are you guys liking it? 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This seems so unreal I'm just glad that people are showing recognition to Nintendo games and I do think this is the one that deserve to win best sim Strategy I don't know if I actually agree with it But that is what I pick best family game was a confusing category But we did pick Kirby and that one and I'm so glad that game got recognition Of course Elden Ring one best RPG. I mean, I'm sorry everybody else, but it was so obvious I feel like the game awards kind of give themselves away sometimes you can't have a whole category for best RPG and have one of the games in that category also be nominated for game of the year But then three of the other games aren't in game of the year. I mean basic math knowledge I don't even know what word it is tells you that if those three games aren't in game of the year They're not as good as Elden Ring. You get what I'm saying The only other game that could have won this category was Xenoblade 3 because it's also Nominated for game of the year best action adventure game was of course got a war best action game was actually Bayonetta 3. Are we paying attention here? I feel like Nintendo actually came out pretty great in the game awards this year best indie I also got right but again, this was just the basic science I mean stray is voted for game of the year and none of these other games are best performance was Chris judge He also had the best performance on the night of the game awards yet a ten minute long performance on stage my friends and fellow podcast co-host Bob Wolf and skoodish wheel watch Reacted to the game awards together. Oh my god. That was so much fun But when it got to Chris's speech and he just kept walking. Oh my god I started to get really anxious because my guy did not stop talking It just went on and on and on and on what walked away for a good three minutes and when he came back Chris was still talking He came back best audio I got wrong, but we won't talk about that best score and music I also got wrong. I voted for Elden Ring best art direction I voted for horizon on this one only because of the mechs best narrative was always obviously going to go to war best game Direction was always going to Elden Ring I should have put money on because I tweeted saying that I would put stupid amounts of money on Elden Ring winning I just I knew it's so It's so it was so obvious to me She's got to take your bias out of it You really do the reason why I think people are getting confused is just because they are the complete Opposite of each other and they appeal to different audiences. Elden Ring is very much open world go wherever you want Brutally difficult everything is your own adventure tailored to the way you want to play Whereas God of War is much more the straight cut action adventure game. It's narrative driven It's very much like you're playing a great movie It can be as hard as you want it to be but it could also be very casual And I think a lot of people love that experience and just don't understand the other experience But I think what you need to understand when Elden Ring released it took the world by storm Everybody was playing it. Everyone was talking about it for months People were still talking about bosses or beating it. It was in the zeitgeist for so much longer It made such a bigger impact God of War's hype has already quieted down and ultimately God of War Ragnarok didn't do anything too different Or overtly special over what the first release did whereas Elden Ring completely shook up its game genre And created something very special the likes I don't think we've ever seen before There's a bunch of things I couldn't predict like all the reveals that were launched and released and revealed during the game awards And there were so many good ones Jeff Kealy if you happen to be watching this was by far The best game awards we've ever had. I really can't stress that enough every year. I feel like I complain I have something negative to say or maybe it was a little snoozy I have nothing bad to say about this game awards I actually feel really bad that it was so great It went off without a hitch and then it ended with some little Walking up on stage and ruining the biggest moment of the night. I hate that it ruined Jeff's really great event I don't want to be bigheaded here because I really don't want to be bigheaded But I know Jeff has seen my previous videos I've had people tell me that he's seen them and I know that he does engage a lot with the community and And really cares about feedback and something I said a couple years ago was they would never show the clips of the actors In their roles they would never show highlights of the actor's performance They would just list the names give an award and move on and maybe Jeff regretted giving Chris a microphone this time But they did what I said I think they should show clips of everyone's great performance and it gave everybody who hasn't played the game Context on who was winning and what they did to get the award. It really felt official I think they did a great job and I would never have expected some of these insane reveals I mean we started off with freaking dead cells dead cells was the very first game I ever covered on my channel in the i'm addicted to series and that title took off and I've made so many others since then I've always wanted to go back and play more and now they're collaborating with castlevania Which is wild because dead cells is a game that's inspired by the whole genre that castlevania created That reminds me of like when crypt of the necro dancer people got to work with zelda Which is so cool such a cool moment for the developers and I'm so happy for that. I'm not gonna go through everything I think the new hellboy game looked pretty cool. We got some dlc for horizon that looks pretty cool Easily the most epic moment of the night for me was hades. Who I love Hades so much. It's one of my favorite games Then we have the bayonetta game that I talked about the prequel Autistic indie looking bayonetta game. I made a tweet about this and people are already upset at me. I'm sorry I'm a little worried about it It's giving me travestrikes again vibes of this smaller budget kind of experimental Version of the main title games and again, I'm here for it, but it's 60 dollars Ah, yeah, I just I don't know. I think we definitely have to see more of this game before I get too excited The people that made celeste are making a new game now. I'm being just a buzzkill in general I don't think this game looks as pretty or as Engaging to me as celeste was. I mean if I just pause on this one screen. I mean it looks kind of like a flash game I mean, I don't know. I need to see more of this game for sure I don't know if I ever talked about the last jedi game. I always forget what it's called The guy with the orange hair that game was really fun I played through it a couple of times, but they're making a sequel and I loved it I loved it one game I never talked about even though I wrote a whole freaking review that I never even shot was desh randy I really did think it was fantastic. It was an experience. I enjoyed very thoroughly But I think the biggest issue in that game was the first three chapters Set you up to really make you feel like sand porter Briggs was trying to undertake a very mundane and massive task The first few chapters. They really wanted you to feel that trudge I really have to walk everywhere and then all of a sudden out of nowhere in the fourth chapter It's like a firework goes off and the whole game is a roller coaster from there And I feel like that was just a heavy bar and people never got through the first few chapters And then they just thought it was a walking simulator and I really hope that the pacing is fixed for this sequel There was diablo four or armored core I know I mentioned some things that a lot of people are going to be really hyped for and that's the thing I think every reveal catered to a lot of people and like you can look at a reveal and not be excited for it But at least acknowledge that it's a big hype reveal that a lot of fan bases are going to be stoked over They did a really good job But we also got a look at the mario movie again And this is where I want to bleed into my next conversation of um, I'm pretty sure I was wrong about this whole movie And I even legitimately do want to apologize to chris pratt. Not that he's watching or cares. Well, maybe I don't know maybe Um, probably not definitely not initially when all the voice actors for the mario movie was revealed It was obviously a massive meme around the internet. I think I had a pretty epic reaction to it I think alo by far had the best reaction Oh and dunkey as well What? He's so cool He's so cool It felt like a joke The biggest thing I couldn't wrap my head around was that none of the actors had ever done voice Character work before and what I mean by that isn't they weren't in another Animated movie, but every animated movie they've ever been in they just played themselves chris pratt just did his own voice in the lego movie Seth rogan did his own voice in sausage party and on and on and on and on But then we keep getting more looks at it and it's kind of all making sense to me So this was the trailer from the game awards But before this we actually got another look at the movie and I want to start there first up the music some of them Give me chills Like I absolutely love the care and the passion they've put into the music But it doesn't stop there every single scene are crammed with nostalgia hidden moments secrets It's very clear that whoever has made this movie in conjunction with Miyamoto has had so much passion for the mario universe And that's why I've really come around on this I didn't like that I'm coming around on it big time, but at first I was like let's go you didn't even try pratt I'm really sorry man. I'm really sorry. I'm so sorry Cranky Kong in the background there. You've got the new redesign at dunkey kong, which looks so great I really still love what jack black is doing with bowser. We hear charlie day for the first time I love charlie day and he is luigi personified and then we get peach This is where I came around on chris because they've toughened peach up She's not a princess who's about to be stolen by bowser. She's a woman about town She's rough and tough and ready to fight and she has this strong sturdy voice to bowser is coming Not like a mario. It's like a it's a strong voice I love what they've done with the character and when I loved that It felt contradictory of me to then be upset with chris for not doing character work Right because at that point we have another character who's just a human just a person just doing their voice And I love it. So then I was like, uh, well now I would be hypocritical to be mad at chris for not going full in on the mario voice Yeah, you Look at this scene. I paused on it's like right out the freaking game the bridge and everything so good. Tanuki mario fireball We had a clip of all the yoshis running also talking about the galaxies. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay Can you imagine the crowd launch day in the theater seeing this scene for the first time Screaming out of their seats for freaking mario kart in the movie trailers ruin everything I feel like they didn't have to show this they could have left this out This scene is actually what sold me on chris. There's two parts here. Listen I'm actually really impressed. I think he nailed that listen to this first laugh It is such a nice blend of chris and charles I dare you at home to do a better mario laugh than what chris just did I don't know man. I couldn't do better than that and then the wahoo which some people have said is a little weak I don't know for the moment the way it's animated It's kind of just like a nice little wahoo But also he's playing this character more grounded. I guess more real So rather than going wahoo and like way over the top like it's almost silly that he even does that in general So the fact that he even leaned into it a little bit is already kind of silly Now we have another look at it too. And this isn't even a trailer. This is actually a scene from the movie I love that they have these coin blocks and I guess they've like got them in the town And their job is to hit them all day to get money out of it mario really has no ass in this movie, huh? He is not dragon a dump truck. That's for sure. I didn't notice that said antiques the old coins and the old eight bit My god, that's so cute. Listen to the music man Let's go back to this one real quick. Listen to the music here Oh, it's so good, dude Oh my god And then you have more of that remixed music here But it feels like you're watching the movie But like it's all the video game levels like the donkey converse mario the mario car just the platforming But not only have they done those easter eggs But they've put the music in that we love from those parts of the games And they've just twisted them into like this movie cinematic version and the characters are so good And I don't I was so wrong. I have no complaints. I honestly I do think this is going to be the best video game movie we have ever had I mean, I know the bar is like abysmally locked, but I think this is going to smash barriers It's going to crush the box office. I'm all in day one midnight release. I can't wait to watch it Get chris back on the phone. I'm still here. I want to say I'm sorry, man You're doing great, man. You really are doing great. Oh, just a quick question though chris Sure. Well, what was the name of the things you used to stomp on in the arcade? Cooper's Cooper's right. That's it. That's the one. Sorry. Sometimes I forget to but I'll let you go You're probably got the next galaxy movie to to film. Oh, okay. All right. Thanks for hanging out chris And thank all of you for watching the video I was really excited to talk about all of this but now I need to send this to my editor So I can get back to editing the pokemon review, which I'm really hoping will go live a couple days after this I'm almost done. I think I love you guys like comment and subscribe Let me know what you thought of the game awards Let me know what you think of the mario movie and I hope you're having a happy holidays I'll talk to you soon. Okay. Bye. Bye. Bye. Get out of here. Bye. See you