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.  So I'm really glad that y'all invited me back.  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.  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.   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.  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.  I'll, I'll grab a beer so you don't have to drink alone, but I'm only drinking beer. All right.   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.  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.  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.  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.  Tears of the Kingdom. Before.  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.  And the first time I played Pokemon Silver, it was like hooked.  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 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.  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.  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.  And then I'm like three hours will go by and I've just been like looking at my phone.   You got the show that just came out. You got all the merchandise. Like all your friends are playing it.   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.  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.  And like, I love Marvel and stuff.  Yeah, it was like all like pop punk like we're going to like the throwback and 41. Yeah.  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.    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.  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.  And then from there, I started like, oh, they got all these other games.  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.  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.  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 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 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.  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.  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.  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.  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.  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.  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.  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.  Like, if you just, if you like playing platformers and if you're also a masochist, this is literally the game for you.  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.  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.   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.  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 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.  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.  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 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.  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'm not that creative. So that that's just not me. But it is cool that you can do that.  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.  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.  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.  Like, I don't know.  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.  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.  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?  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.  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.  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.  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.  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.  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.  But no, I've thought about this actually throughout the day.  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.  And so that being said, Nintendo was something that always brought us and kept us together.  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 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.  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.  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.  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.   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.  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.  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.   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.   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?   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.  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.  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.  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.  I think the game developers.  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?  I want to hear what Nintendo Hawk is trying to say. Yeah, pansies.  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.  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.  I'm just speaking off the dome here.  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 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.  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.  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.  It makes me feel like I'm experiencing FOMO.  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.  Don't push the visuals.  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 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.   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 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.  Because here's the bottom line.  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