 This video is sponsored by Ubisoft, or Ubisoft, I still don't know. Immortals Phoenix Rising is a massive open-world adventure set in Greek mythology. Hey! Who is that? Um, anyway... It's a really fun game, not unlike Breath of the Wild in many aspects, from the ability to climb over everything... No, no, seriously, who's talking right now? Uh, are you talking to me? Uh, I sure am, buddy. Oh, shh, oh, sorry, man. No, no, I'm the narrator. The narrator? A narrator? Yeah, like, of this story, I guess. Yeah, no, this isn't a story. This is my video. I don't exactly need help or narration here. Yeah, but you know, the game is humorously narrated by Zeus and Prometheus, so I figured it'd be kind of funny if, like, the video was as well. Yeah, you know what? I kind of like that. All right, go on, then, do your thing. Uh, hello? Uh-oh. Sorry, are you talking to me? This is gonna be a nightmare. I'm not- really? No, you go. No, you go. No, please, I insist. Immortals- come on, man, sorry, I'm just messing with you now. Immortals Phoenix Rising is easily one of the best Nintendo Switch releases, not just this year, but so far. From a technical standpoint, it is a marvel to behold, visually extremely clean and gameplay as smooth as a salami sandwich. Not- no, but really smooth gameplay. Fun fact, this part of the video was filmed a day later because Wood forgot to tell you to click the link down below to check out the game. He'd really appreciate it. Okay, I did actually. That's a thing. Uh, click the link down below to check out and play this awesome game. With help from Ubisoft, I've already made two videos on my channel playing Immortals Phoenix Rising early. Those were really fun collaborations for me, but I know that people can be apprehensive when they hear the word sponsored. You shill. Yeah, like that. But I want to make this perfectly clear. All thoughts and opinions in this video are my own. And mine, yeah, and his. For starters, I am a Nintendo Switch channel. So with the minimal releases on Nintendo Switch this year, I was gonna talk about Immortals Phoenix Rising anyway. Plus, I've been excited for it since it was revealed like 19 years ago. Well, like a year ago. Yeah, I'm being a bit dramatic, but I've been waiting a long time. But to be even more transparent, here's what I'm going to do. Ubisoft is super chill about all of these videos I've been doing. In fact, this time, they only wanted me to mention five things. And those five things are all just facts. Facts about the game they wanted pointed out. It's not putting words in my mouth. It's just literally, can you mention these things? So this is for you, Ubisoft. I present to you the Five Commandments from Up High. Otherwise known as the Five Talking Points from Ubisoft's marketing team. Yeah, I mean, it's way less cooler that way. Number one. Immortals Phoenix Rising is set in the world of Greek mythology, where you all encounter the Guards of Olympus, and bite mythical beasts like Medusa, the Mediterranean, Cyclops. Come on, Ubisoft. We can spice that up a little bit. Yeah, that doesn't even do it justice, Ubisoft. It's way cooler than that. Not only do you encounter the Guards of Olympus, you have to help them out of sticky, sometimes humorous situations. Like Aries, the God of War, who is cursed and turned into a chicken. Nobody calls me a chicken. And now, he's scared of, ironically, the one thing that he's known for, fighting. Oh. Number two. Progression and customization. You're doing great, sweetie. Aw, thanks. Customize your hero, and skills and godlike powers. Upgrade weapons and armor, and you progress in game. Okay, this is one of my favorite parts about the game, actually. As you play, you unlock all of these armor sets, weapons with varying abilities, wings, skins, mounts, and more, by exploring the world, finding hidden chests, puzzles, or completing main and side story missions. You can equip whatever you want to gain its abilities, but if you don't love the way it looks, you can customize anything to look like anything else you've already discovered. Giving you complete control over how you look and what abilities you have, which is a really nice touch. Number three. Exploration. Oh, this is my favorite part. Is that getting annoying yet? Because it's bothering me a little bit. You'll get to explore seven unique regions and any pace, any order, inspired by different regards, and discover a variety of puzzles, puzzles, and mysteries. That's a small dot point that's going to take a while to break down. There is a lot here. So yes, you have this massive map that instantly becomes your playground to explore, discover, and traverse as you see fit. So go out there and collect mushrooms for your stamina or pomegranates for your health. No pomegranates! Um, pomegranates for your health. No, no, no! That lady does not like pomegranates. So you're tasked with helping a god in each area, so that they may in turn help you defeat Typhon. Aphrodite is the closest at the start of the game, so I helped her first, exploring that area a lot early on. But if you wanted, you could just beeline right to the top of the map and start there. Although, I will say, each of these gods will gift you awesome new abilities when you help them. So by starting with Aphrodite, she gave me an ability that allowed me to come back to life one time before dying, and that was a heaven send. Ha, literally. Well, yeah. Next, all the puzzles, vaults, and mysteries. I can barely walk 20 seconds in this world without discovering something else to waste time on for 10 minutes. There's so many different types of challenges, but what I loved the most about all of them was that there never seemed to be a right way of doing something. Since you have so much control over the open environment, carrying whatever you want, climbing over whatever you want, it was really up to me how I solved everything my way. And I did it my way. Hey, that was actually pretty good. Like this one time, I was doing a bull puzzle, and I accidentally yeeted one into space and couldn't find it for a while. And when I finally did, it was rolling down a hill into another area. Nope, nope, nope, nope. Get back here. Where are you going? Of all the places to land, you have to land right here with a big scary thing. Oh my gosh. That's my ball! My ball! I just want to take my ball and go home. I've got my mom's calling me. Goodbye! It's time to get out of here and help me. No, no, no, no, no, no! You're after dieting. This time I'm just going to kill everything. See you later, ma'am! Okay, this is my ball, and I won't drop it for any other reason. Oh, a mushroom. I need those. Hey! It's finally... I can't believe this took like 20 minutes. And that's the wrong call. What was I doing? Well, I believe you said it was the list of commandments from way, way up at UBs. Oh, something like that. Oh, that's right. Number four. Ah! I got it. Number four. Oh, this one's easy. Immortal Spanish Resident releases on December 3rd. So, today, if I get it up on time. On Stadia Xbox Series X, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, PC, and of course, Nintendo Switch. I feel like I should add, though. This game features Cross Saves, which, oh my Greek god, I've been having so much fun with this. This is my first time getting to try out Cross Saves. Ubisoft sent me an Xbox Series X code as well. Oh, two codes. Must be very nice. Yeah, it is, actually. And let me tell you, I've been having a blast. It's so easy to do. Whenever I'm done playing on my Switch, I can just upload my save like this. Then, switch to my Xbox, and play that save. It's perfect for if I'm planning to play on my TV anyway, because as fantastic as this game does look on Switch, it really pops in 4K on my Xbox. Also, it gives you a reason to actually play your Xbox Series X. But he said it, not me. Alright, why didn't Ubisoft commandment left? Yeah. You know, I gotta say, I kind of like doing it this way. It actually makes my job a ton easier. Can I do the last one? Oh, sure you can, buddy. You know, over the last 10 minutes, I kind of feel like we've built a pretty strong connection. Almost a friendship. One that I think, you know, if we worked at it, we could really build something beautiful out of it. Oh, sorry, what? I wasn't listening. Did you say something? Oh, nothing. Yeah, you just read the last one. Okay, so the fifth one, here we are. The Season Pass. Be sure to check out Immortals Phoenix Rising Season Pass. It includes three narrative-based DLCs with new heroes and a new world inspired by Chinese mythology. This one sounds interesting, actually. Yeah, it is, actually. I really haven't seen DLC done this way before. This isn't just some throwaway add-on content. All of these DLCs are huge, varying expansions. The first is a big expansion to the main game, adding in new story content. The second features an entirely new world and new hero based in Chinese mythology. Have you ever seen something like this? DLC being essentially a whole new game. Well, uh, whether you have or haven't seen this before, Ubisoft just did it twice, because the third DLC is another new hero, and a brand new top-down style of gameplay with a new progression system that allows you to create your own play style. Oh, and with that, our hero concludes his video with Immortals Phoenix Rising and sets out on his next perilous journey to... No. That was just me riffing off the dot points that Ubisoft gave me. I still want to do my thing. There's, like, a load more to talk about. Oh, my bad. Sorry, I'm useless. I'll just leave. I'll just go. I'll just get out of here. Stay. I'm just saying. The video's not... You're doing great. I know it's a little annoying having to do this back and forth through the whole video, but, I mean, I think it's fun, hopefully, because I have to edit this. Stay. Come on. We're friends. Okay, thanks. I appreciate it. You're welcome. I've lost my damn mind. It's isolation, man. I can't go outside and do skits. I'm literally in my own head now. My own personal experience with Immortals Phoenix Rising has been a joyous one. I had already played countless hours of the game when I worked with Ubisoft recording those gameplay videos, but both times, I didn't actually have the game. I was just streaming off random save files. This time, I was able to get the full experience, starting the game from the beginning as a weak little non-cheating human boy. Kind of like you in real life. Hey, I work out. When's the last time you lifted? Shut up. I'll let you stay around. Don't heckle me. You create and customize your own character. Then, you set out in hopes of finding a way to turn your brother and everyone else back from stone. You start by finding weapons from the gods hidden behind challenges. Then, once you have them equipped, you go to work leveling them up and finding new weapons by exploring the world and completing challenges or defeating enemies. Your ultimate goal is to defeat Typhon, one of the deadliest creatures in Greek mythology, and free the world from his grimy grasp. But, just like any good adventure game, you'll spend most of your time messing around with chickens and secret areas. Can I say that I really enjoyed how much Greek lore they used in the story? They spun it all into a very fun, comedic adventure. It was worth every... Yeah, the narration in the game is great. As it's technically all just one big story being told by Prometheus to Zeus. Their quips and comments about what's going on is always entertaining and there's a lot of fourth-wall humor, like Prometheus pretending the game is over before it even begins. Meaning the gods you have to save is always amusing as they have such big personalities and when they come together, it makes for some... interesting conversations. Early on, I found the game pretty challenging. The combat in particular. And I played on normal. There's also hard and very hard. I resorted to a lot of... not partaking in the combat directly but throwing a bunch of rocks at enemies to break their guard and reaching places was difficult due to my limited stamina. It was so rewarding to just spend hours up at night in bed, grinding out the hidden areas, looking for ambrosia pieces to improve my health, diving into what feels like hundreds of very different challenge vaults across the map to acquire Zeus vaults that improve my stamina, defeating enemies and unlocking chests to level up my weapons and potion making abilities and solving the numerous puzzles around the world to gain coins had to breathe. That you can use to improve your skills. Go on. Go on. You'll wanna say it. I know you wanna say it. What? Doesn't this game remind you of another game that you really like that's also on the Switch? Yeah, no, I get what you're getting at and yeah, but no. Not as much anymore. It doesn't, it doesn't. The more time I've spent with Immortals Phoenix Rising, the more I've realized it doesn't really feel like Breath of the Wild. They are actually both pretty different games. I mean, sure. Right from the start and if you compare notes, they seem similar. Immortals has clearly taken inspiration from Zelda as well as some other games and I think that in itself is awesome. With the climbing, gliding challenge vaults the do anything you want and any auto mentality, there's even times when the sky turns red and you become hunted by shadow versions of Greek gods, which is pretty fun. Did you? Did you just bup? Yeah, sorry. Gross. Maybe mute your mic next time? I said sorry. But once you start getting into the heat of the story and deep into the game, it really does flesh itself out as its own unique experience. The world is chocked full of things to do. The personality and humorous tone set by the constant narration and in-game characters is a lot of lighthearted fun. The combat is clearly its own action packed thing. Oh and your weapons don't break. Oh, thanks Zeus. Immortals Phoenix Rising is the perfect switch game and I mean that. I mean, yeah, it'll be fun no matter where you play it but it's right at home on the switch and I believe that Nintendo fans will really enjoy this game. So, are you done now? Yes, I am. And with that, our hero concluded his adventure and video with Immortals Phoenix Rising. Alright, cool. What does that mean for us now? Well, what do you mean? What does it mean for us? Well, I mean that's it, that's the video, right? Well, yeah, but you know, I'll be back next video, right? Well, no, because this shtick really only works for this game in particular. I probably won't need you again. Oh, okay. No, I see how it is. Alright, fine. Help you out, the entire video. No, it's fine, it's fine. I'm not getting paid or anything, but it's fine. I'll leave. I'll show myself out. Good luck in the next video. Wow. Thank you, Ubisoft, for sponsoring the video. You know, it's really quiet now. Obviously, there'll be a link down below if you want to check out the game. I'd really appreciate it. It helps support the channel. And also, it's just a really fun game. That's out now. Play it, get involved, be a part of it. It's a lot of fun. Click on one of these videos, I guess. Like, subscribe. You know, most of you that watch my videos aren't subscribed. Why? Fix that, please. Alright. I never really left. It's my channel now!