of all the order meeting of the senior services committee December 6th at 8 AM. I'm simply death chair of the senior services commission. It was sort of around the room at the end of the session. We are not in line to be our friends convening the person. So guys, please come on the mission. Brandy my air, I'm the mission. So you better level yourself and brand forward. So I'm just going to hold on. Here we learned and then the friends. So we had one friends board. I mean, friends board. It's not going to start. We don't. But now it's. I'm on track for something else. Then you rush and then the final. Jack and commission. So he's mission. Allison, do you want to introduce yourself? Hi, Allison. I'm on the friends board. You can see that in the back. Okay, good. And then I'm going to go over on the director of services. And perfect timing. Casey Bradley, city administrators. If we would all stand for the pleasure of leaving. Okay. Please. And I don't really believe in this to be required. And I don't want to be in the middle of it. And two, three, four, which stands one nation. I don't know if you can be involved. Everyone on the commission should have gotten the copy of the July 19 meeting minutes. Any. Moving on discussion, senior services, friends of terms, social operating. So I'll come in here. Mainly when our new city administrators started a month ago, oh, hi, Laura. Right here. Oh, there is one. Okay, good. I was explaining how the relationship between the city and the friends has functioned, especially regarding the financial operations. You maybe you don't know, but maybe you do. For the past however many years, almost all of the financial operations of this organization have funneled through the friends. So membership fees, program fees, the cafe expenses and revenue, trip revenue, as well as charitable. And as we've grown and gotten bigger with consulting with city attorney Adams, that's probably not the best way for us to be functioning. And so mainly I know I had conversations with a lot of you separately, but mainly this group together today is to talk about why we need to make this change and how we can make this change. So Chuck, I don't know if you want to chime in. Yeah. Just to make it simple, the issue here comes down to the IRS. So when funds from the city are, it's improper to cash fare from the city. Basically for the government. That's the problem. We've seen that. We put it on the way. Those who are friends are old friends that stay down on the street. You want to add anything? Yeah, kind of off of that, another issue we ran into and we lucked out. Fortunately, but basically the IRS works out. You're either government or there's no nonprofit. There's nothing in terms of taxes and funds. So we ran into just lucked out in this particular case, but the amount of revenue that's being generated is not in this. I mean, you're looking at $160,000 a year that's being generated with city tax dollars that's going to the friends right now. That amount of money would actually make our loss taxable, which would put the city in a whole other bad situation. So, fortunately, this is not the CDBG and CDBG with this particular program. So essentially where we're looking at going from here is kind of finishing out 2023. As we have been as normal, but there's an agenda item that'll be on the personnel and finance committee next week for the city and then, you know, following council, essentially for a significant budget amendment that would be all of the earned revenues that this entity has been bringing in reflected on the city's books. And of course, the expenses that go along with it. So we've talked about the revenues that have been going to the friends. It would be unreasonable not to recognize that almost all of the, not almost all, but a lot of the operating expenses of this organization have also been paid by the friends. So it's not like this pile of money has been going into the friends' conference to gain every year. It's just that it really should be under the oversight of the city council. So we'll have a budget amendment next week. And I believe I had sent out in the packet what that proposal would look like. The one thing that's still missing is currently Vicki, who is the cafe coordinator, is a contracted employee of the friends. So all of the cafe operations would move into the city too, which would mean Vicki would become an employee of the city. So those expenses are not reflected on the draft yet because we're waiting to have that position evaluated. Oh, we just got it yesterday. Okay, so I haven't seen it yet, but so those numbers will change to reflect how her position is graded. And then of course, all the other expenses that go along with paying someone beyond their hourly rate. So what we're proposing to finance and ultimate city council is that we create a special revenue fund. So the revenues that are generated here stay here. So while they'll be under this control of city council, they'll be your mark specifically for our funds. It's not as if, well, the revenues will go back to the general fund or anything like that. So it's specifically your mark. They'll come in uptown social, it'll be used for either capital or operating expenses for uptown social. We're just going to do the fund balance that. I think that's probably kind of staffing. So I think overall there shouldn't be a whole lot of change operationally. And we're also, we have to reallocate some of our public on news. So we proposed that the city would pay 450,000 out of our funds. If the friends came up with 400,000. You guys are pretty healthy situation is still in the group by council. We can get the gem done. Again. That's kind of our proposal. If you got more activity and more amenities of the facility and still get one of the other things. So from, you know, I'm looking at some, some of like Sue and Marilyn are really connected. So I don't think the general membership participants at that point, I don't think that we're going to have this difference and I don't think it'll be mad to them whatsoever. It's just going to be these two governing organizations overseeing things. And then basically like all the bills get paid and yeah. So I don't think the general membership would really even care to know. Because right now city council is on our side. And they will have a final vote on us. That's the question. Finishing Jim, but in the future, how is the city going to make improvements? Since you own it, is this going to be the budget process area is a capital? Yes and no. So you guys would have by having a special revenue fund building their own fund balance as well. So it wouldn't necessarily be just through the general fund and the allocation for capital, but it would also be, you guys have done that. It's a tribute that maybe we have to ask the general fund for supplementing part of that efficiency. What I'm saying, part of what I'm getting at is okay, is the commission have to go every year to the budget process and say, we're thinking about going back in the year. It will be based on the project. Oh, right now that phase three, we're trying to figure out the portions of the phase two. But ultimately, we can also look at that fund balances that grows to getting those projects done as well. And you guys still have the fund raise. Maybe having counsel for their process. John's on the commission, not the friends. So he's yeah, yeah, that's okay. Yeah, I agree. I think it'll be like as projects come up. It's as it has been in the past. It's always there's always sort of been a conversation between the city and the friends of like, okay, here's what the city can do. Here's what the friends can do when we find a way to like make work together to make it happen. And I think that'll continue to be the expectation. I don't know how this works. That's why we like coming here. So that's the question. So right now I think 60 ish revenue wise. I think about 60,000 so close to that. Wow. It's going to be here. Right. I don't know when the same of this, you know, I'm not familiar with all the other departments function, but I think we're pretty unique and then our revenue is quite a bit. And so when I put a button together, I just try to be pretty conservative, you know, estimate high on expenses and estimate low on revenues. So hopefully you can do better than that. But so my question was, okay, so if we really blow it out of the water and our membership fees are higher, our trips do better, what does all of that money just fall into the black hole that is the city's general fund. And so with this special revenue fund that would be a no. Let's say the budget comes out ahead and extra $50,000 next year, that money would build up. And then if that happens every year, then maybe a few years from now we say, okay, now we can put I'm thinking this up. So we're not actually going to do that. But you know what I mean, like we've got there's money there that that can be tapped into for for projects like this. Um, how are the employees of uptown social, how will they be able to be out of the revenue fund or is that out of the separate? So we wouldn't have to worry about it. There needed to be budget cuts that all of a sudden we need Vicki or Josh or anybody. We wanted to add a staff member. As you do now, that staffing with the exception of the one time employee is 100%. So City Council dictates those staffing levels. So ultimately that would be a ask of city council. And for for one important some of the New York City members, there's been a history of some employees being city employees and some employees being rent employees. I'm not a fan of that for any reasons. I don't think it's fair to the friends employees not getting benefits. They're not accessing. They're not able to access some of the benefits that come with being part of a bigger employer and I wasn't here at the time. But my experience is that it created some animosity between employees that some got this and others didn't. So I've been a pretty loud cheerleader since I started about the friends not having employment also from an operational standpoint. It's a lot of extra work to do the same thing. So it's been really nice not having unemployment insurance for the friends and, you know, not while we have so big he has to get paid but running to payrolls. It's a lot of extra work or not great. I was wondering what you really looked for was fundraising. And that was part of the jobs which was funding. So what role can I think Emily can deal with having fundraising right now? But it does not change. The jobs don't change. This is just strictly bringing the money back to the city dollar. She's always looking for a break. Yeah, I think we just wanted to make sure. Yeah, I know we talked about it in our tour only next year. Yeah, and I think Chuck can explain it a little better than I can why it's okay. In essence, what's happening is, you know, they may be concerned as well. Emily raised a point for a private organization. Pay your dollars and make money for a private organization. I don't see that necessarily being an issue. It's a lot like the bond issue. This is an issue where we can make this a complex complex. It's for the sense that we talk about social issues in the end. She is meeting other people and other community friends. To do that, we're going to work simply on raising funds to help support social. That's perfect to find. Some little friends started going into other things, which can't be faced by their charter. But that could be a problem, but that isn't going to be the case. It's a special, special fund with our revenue. And, you know, we generally have a budget in that the friends don't have to come for every expense to say, coming to this and to that. Do you know what I mean? Correctly, the other part of the budget. So we still have the flexibility that they have on this. Special projects and ultimately we'll have that part of a capital plan. So that's also part of the budget process. Yeah. My question. Yeah. Rich, you're going to go ahead. You had a question. I do know what, um, and this is at another organization. There's someone going into the physical, let's say a pool. Because I never see this going into the physical. That's what I hear. But it's a city where we're going into, or to work. If you get the grant, the grant is getting the full amount. So you can, you can handle that two different ways. You want to come here, you're right. I mean, so you wish, I've got something that they wanted to ask right now. But you can. They could donate it to the problems and get back to right now. And frankly, one of the things they can. Loan it to the city. And that's a question that I'm sure is coming up. That question has come up a lot. We've also started, that's, that's a problem in and of itself. So now we've started where when folks make it, I know, I know, but it was quite a problem that caused me a lot of headaches. So now when folks make it in kind donation to the friends, we have a form that they sign that says, I recognize that I'm donating this to you. It's more property guys ask for it back because if they're getting the tax donation as a, as a, if they're getting the tax right off, they can't come back and pass this three years later. And we're still using it and requested back. Back to the gym. Since we're starting in 2024 and your budget's already set. Are we just going to have to go through the council process to get the money? So that's on the agenda for Tuesday night. Monday. Or is it Tuesday? It's Tuesday. I already went from first reading the city council last month. So then following Monday, it'll be on the council for the final two. So in that, we've allocated. We're reallocating. Substantial amount of our performance with other projects. And our proposal is that we allocate $50,000 to this project. In anticipation of $400,000 coming to the front. So in that way, the construction team yesterday, we're going to look at if this is all approved, hopefully get them out and change. Hopefully have construction underway. What type of funds that housing is that original grant we refer to? Is that what the answer? No, it's our fund the city. It was part of the public funds that went out. We had a couple of projects that are related. And ultimately I have one of those. So it's all together. So we basically went down the capital list of projects that were available. And this is one of them. A great opportunity with this process. And what the fund balance is. It's a good way to partner with you. I'm also not going to have the full weight of the project. I think it's a good idea. Originally there was a lot of support for giving much money. I'm going to talk about getting this done also helps generate more revenue. So kind of two-fold. And so we spent a lot of money. We spent a lot of money on the benefit of council so specifically. Yeah. So one thing we actually already used some of our funding for the first phase construction. So we have the community development block grant funding for the majority of it. And then when that was capped, I think it was about $700,000 for the part of funding was used. There's an audio and with anytime there's a funding resort, there's stipulations around it. And so one of the. And then the way that we were able to say that we can use this funding is by as a response to COVID relief efforts specifically by having vaccine. So when we did the vaccine clinics earlier this year, not only was that, you know, a good thing to do for the community and a good thing for us, but also satisfy that requirement. We hope to continue doing that. Moving forward. For those on the commission who weren't quite as familiar with what's been going on with the friends, you know, initially the discussion even before I was hired was that the city would want the first phase of construction. The friends would fund the gym. I was hired. We've been fundraising fundraising has been challenging. For a few reasons, one, a lot of the local population is not super familiar with the friends. So it takes anyone who knows fundraising knows it takes a few years to build relationships. And so I share that because I just I don't want anyone to think that we can go from zero to 100 overnight. And because I like numbers sometimes they can be fun. I did add things up in the time that I've been here. I was the friends, including the vaccine grant have raised over $400,000 in the three years. Looking at the friends history, all the way of QuickBooks records. It was 14 years prior to my hiring. The charitable giving was $274,000. So I just I share that as context to say, like, no, the friends have not raised all the money needed for the gym, but the growth in charitable giving has been substantial. So in talking with the friends, where we were finding a lot of success over the past year, much more so than anticipated was on the revenue side, where the memberships were exploding. The trip income was exploding. The program revenue, all of these things were significantly higher than anticipated. And so in a pivot of how to get the gym done, the plan at that time was to finance to pay some upfront for the gym, but then finance the construction, relying on the intended earned revenue coming in over future years to pay down a loan balance. And then obviously now with all of the revenue going over the city, that's not an option for the friends. And if the friends moving forward are going to focus solely on charitable giving that then that, you know, anticipated revenue isn't there to pay back a loan. So that's why kind of this pivot and strategy of how to make it happen. Any further discussions? And we didn't have a number before. We're moving on. Moving on to gymnasium financing, which is kind of running we're touching on. I think we need to add anything else there unless anyone has any additional questions about the gym financing. Yeah, so just really quickly, I have a couple extra copies of anyone wants to see it, but basically, for the first time, we've seen our membership dip a little bit which our staff kind of expected because we're one year out and so we know we expected to see a little bit of attrition now as folks who signed up right when we opened, maybe aren't renewing, maybe they moved out of the area, maybe they passed on. So that's, you know, we're still hovering right around 1400 peppers unique visitors continues to be at about 60 plus a month. So we're still getting an influx of new people coming in to check us out. Average daily attendance. I mean, for those who are here on a daily basis, you can feel the difference with the weather cooling down. So as we're learning, we know we're very weather dependent. If it's nice outside, people will go outside and we love that for them. And if it's not outside, which is fine too. Any questions about participation? I do have a question. I noticed the furniture outside the room that seating areas of the town paid for. Is that furniture? Is that you're wrong with me out there or we will store again somewhere? We'll pull it. Okay. So it'll be stored on top of you. Yeah. And the liners are out of the winter weather for the first year. Any further discussion about the participation trend? Do we, when people's memberships are coming up, are we addressing that with individuals? So Jane, once a month, looks at the upcoming month and will send a reminder to everyone to say like, hey, your membership is up for renewal on such and such date. And then she'll say, you can either come in and renew at the desk, you can mail in a check, or there's a link to do it online. So those who are active, you hopefully already noticed this, if you haven't 100 big kids who've been working on the last couple months was getting for you active and silver sneakers up and running. So that is those are medical reimbursement programs for folks who have policies that qualify. So how they're working is people who have the ability to give us their reimbursement number. So when we waive the membership fee and we waive their fitness class fees, and then once a month, we send in a report a company times they check in and then we get a reimbursement from either renew active or silver sneakers for those times. So we just got our first monthly check from renew active. I told it was the first month we had about 400 plus dollars. But we think we'll continue to see new folks coming in to utilize silver sneakers and renew active. So you get more reimbursement. If you have more attendance. Yeah, so we don't, if you sign up as a member and never show up, we get nothing. But every time you check in. No, so actually they my interpretation of how they call the benefits work and they know that whether you're showing up here to socialize or to go to a class, it's good for you and it's good for your health. So, like we do have, I won't use names, but one pool player becomes five days week every week to shoot pool. And that's a completely reactivity. So prior to this program, apart from his annual membership, we have $30. That's all he was spending and now he's spending nothing. But we're getting the cap that we do that per person is $20 per month. So we're getting $20 per month. So it's, you know, but there, there are certainly some super users of fitness classes that are maxing out for reimbursement, but it's it equals out. I think in the end it'll be more advantageous for us to be part of the program. Any further discussion. All right. Our next meeting is January 17, 2024. Again, here in the creative studio. If there's nothing more, I'll take a motion to adjourn. Any second. All in favor. All right. This meeting December 6 of the senior services commission meeting.


Question seven refers to this experiment that we did in question number six. We've created a fairly level emission scenario. The emissions are staying more or less steady over time here. And so the question then is, well, what happens to the global temperature, the global average temperature? So that's on page nine of the graph pad. So we can just flick through with the graph pad here, see all these things. We're looking for number nine. There we are. Here's the temperature change in blue from our control case. And here it is in our steady emissions case. So even though the emissions stay constant over time at about 11.2 or something, the temperature just continues to rise. And by the year 2100, we've got about 2.6 degrees Celsius global average temperature rise, which is a really serious temperature rise much higher than people would like to keep the temperature change at by the end of the century.


I get to talk about Age of Calamity. I have been So pumped for this game since it was announced by Nintendo and Age of Nomu It is a prequel to Breath of the Wild and there is a free demo out You can play it right now and I have to say it's quite an extensive demo They essentially gave you the entire beginning of the game. See I went into the demo thinking Oh, yeah, you'll get like the first mission and that's it But you actually get to do a bunch of side missions and other things you get to get into the cooking You get to explore three different playable characters And they all play very differently and we'll get into this I get to see a few of the cutscenes you get to see part of the story You get to learn about the little mini guardian like there is so much packed into this demo It is I my mind is kind of blown. I that This is just the demo. This is just like the opening area of the game My word how long is this single-player campaign going to be? Now I am really really excited and I want to say my general takeaways You know if you don't want any of the fluff you don't want any of the details my general takeaways are this is awesome This is exciting if you are a breath of the wild fan like me You are going to love this game the scenery I mean, I know you're zipping around fighting the model ends and all but like the Zalfos, but the scenery man There is so much scenery in this game seen Hyrule before it was destroyed So much stuff from May Village to Hyrule Castle and in the very first stage just so much more I can't wait to explore the rest of Hyrule Even in these corridor off sections, which they put up the right kind of scenery to make the corridor off sections make sense I can't wait to explore the rest of the world But my word is an amazing are the cutscenes great King Roan Actually acting like a real King like we haven't seen a King in a Zelda game Really stand out or act like a King in the past You know, we've had some fringe Experiences with the King of Hyrule back in Ocarina of Time and he's been mentioned here and there obviously in Breath of the Wild We see him after Hyrule has fallen and there's King of the Red Lions again after Hyrule has fallen in the Wind Waker But we don't really get to see a King being kingly and in this game You get to see it in this demo you get to see King Roan being kingly You get to see him with his badass sword dude He's got a sword that is just makes the master sword look like a little puny piece of crap if I'm completely honest But yeah, you get to experience a lot So my grand takeaway is if you enjoy Breath of the Wild you are going to love this game Even if you're not into the combat and I think that's one thing I want to mention is that you know The combat won't be for everyone now Let's get into some of the nitty-gritty because this is I've been waiting seemingly forever to make this kind of video You start off obviously as Link you're There's an opening cutscene that kind of takes you into your opening battle where you need to defend Hyrule and You're just a normal soldier, but obviously you clearly have a skill set beyond the normal soldiers And these yes, you know, I remember when I when I first live streamed this when it came out So people were like, I don't remember Link having those moves in Breath of the Wild Well, because of course he doesn't have those moves in Breath of the Wild. So when we does like you could shield surf You could paraglide There is a slowdown animation where you could shoot arrows if you jump off of things You do have some of the Sheikah Slate abilities actually have all four of the Sheikah Slate abilities So there are there is some familiarity in some of the movesets, but obviously there's also a lot of you know It's a hack and slasher. That's what this game is. It's a Musso game. It's hack and slash That's not the kind of gameplay Breath of the Wild offers So there's gonna be fundamental gameplay differences Link's not gonna exactly have the exact same moveset that he did in Breath of the Wild Plus you have to consider that while Link was asleep for a hundred years It's possible that he's not quite the warrior he once was in Breath of the Wild It isn't highly possible that Link has forgotten a bunch of his moves just something to consider I think what's more interesting is later when Zelda's playable, but anyways in this first opening stage You are right smackin' up in the middle of Hyrule Field and Hyrule Castle and having a lot of fun Taking out Moblin. It's kind of learning how to play the game. Taking out a whizrobe You get to play as Impa as well So Link is basically all about the sword play plus a bow that you can use the ZR And then there's a whole bunch of slowdown combat and in different combos and stuff you can learn Including when you like take out a whizrobe you actually can use those abilities Then you know whether it's a fire rod or ice rod or electric rod doesn't matter You get to use those abilities as well as you pick them up on the battlefield just like you can in Breath of the Wild So that's really cool, and you can do that with all the characters not just Link But then you get to then you meet Impa and you get to play as Impa and I think what's really cool in playing as Impa is that Impa has some really kick-ass abilities That make you wonder why the Moblins were chasing her and why she was afraid in the first place of course I get that it's just a cutscene, but whatever Impa just kicks a mage rash. She uses a lot of She does do like close range combat like Link does with a sword But the combat's a little different. You have this ability to make copies of yourself by powering up runes And then you can obviously have her ultimate ability as well You know where you have your power everything up, and then you hit a all characters have that ability It's just a different ability for each one The bigger characters like Moblins or the really big Boko Blins That have health bars above them, you know They have breakpoints and different strategies you can use as well And yes, you know she has the ability to use The Sheikah Slate abilities as well which by the way for those who want to know how can all these characters use the Sheikah Slate abilities Well one Impa have the Sheikah Slate at one point and then Link picked it up for a moment And then as later goes to Zelda, but beyond that there's this little mini guardian that's introduced very early in the game I think in the opening cutscene actually And the mini guardian is around when Hyrule's being destroyed and In the ruckus is somehow able to time travel Now this is the first time we have actually seen time travel in the Breath of the Wild universe Obviously it's existed in the Zelda universe, you know Ocarina of Time Hello people But with it's kind of interesting it opens a portal and it's just able to go through that portal And I'm curious why this guardian has the ability to time travel and if that ability is going to come into play Later on in the story also in Breath of the Wild 2 It is entirely possible this mini little guardian character is going to end up in well, you know Breath of the Wild 2 so something that then possibly consider as we explore unless unless the guy ends up getting destroyed During all the ruckus here, which I guess is possible. It creates a timeline conundrum, but whatever Technically could get destroyed. We'll see what happens. I just know that I'm really really excited to see How that particular little character progresses Honestly, it kind of reminds me of R2-D2 Anyways, so Impa plays plays really really really really really fun. The character I find clunkiest was Zelda So you have to play with Zelda not in this stage But in a later stage because you meet Princess Zelda after this battle. There's a whole cutscene about it and Princess Zelda is very very I I just not fun I guess is the way I would describe her combat so in her combat abilities You're able to use you know all of the Sheikah Slate abilities But that's it and you don't get to use them in the same way that Link and the other characters do It's your main button like see hit X right and it's like you know throwing that's your main attack button And you're just kind of whipping a magnet around hitting people pulling up a brick or a block or whatever a barrel out of nowhere You can then you know do combos and bring up the ice pillars You can do the coolest ability She has where you roll the giant bomb and it's a remote bomb then he hits the yard of the detonated That's a really neat ability, but she's really slow and Really clunky. I did not like how she controlled at all, but to be fair Zelda isn't supposed to have combat like training or any combat abilities So it almost makes sense from a story perspective that Zelda would be clunky and so I kind of I was Appreciating the clunkiness of playing with Zelda. Yeah, she can still kick some ass But honestly if you're playing on the hardest difficulty, which I did for a while Yeah, she's not gonna be a lot of people's favorite character to play with She's just a little slow a little clunky a little more difficult to pull off things She has no close range melee ability so enemies get really tight on her it can be a little difficult But I mean she's got her own unique movesets and and she's an interesting character to play with but she's Clearly in my opinion one of the least powerful characters of the at least the three we could play so far Obviously links pretty OP obviously inputs pretty OP Zelda's kind of the weak link of the three, but it makes sense. She should be the weak link of the three in fact Well, one of the one of the scenes you do you're running away from a guardian And you're trying to activate two other guardians that'll help you out And like there's a scene for where a majority that battle link is kind of or link Zelda is kind of like a damsel So like you're trying to protect her and everything and then she finally decides to help out with combat But again, she's not that great at it. So it is what it is I actually barely survived that full-stage encounter and I only played it on normal difficulty I can't imagine when I go to very hard on that one because I like to play through other warriors I'm very hard How difficult that battle is going to be because the guardians are no joke man I don't know how many more guardians you face off against but they are no Joke they're almost harder than they are in Breath of the Wild So like don't you don't want to mess with guardians in this game if you if you can avoid them I don't know how often you'll be able to avoid them There's probably gonna be maps later where you have to face off against multiple of them But who knows maybe the other champions have better abilities are working and some when you get to finally play as them Because it seems like the next stage after this demo is to choose one of the champion areas to go to or you're obviously Going to be unlocking one of the champions to play with as you're going on your recruiting spree because Zelda is told to go recruit people to run The divine beast now again King Ron is very kingly throughout all of this kind of reminds all the hey Don't get sidetracked don't do this you do what I tell you to do you guys all do what I tell you to do He's very like yeah, like I'm in charge I just want to reassert that I'm in charge because I'm in charge. I'm the king Which is exactly what a king does especially in a time of crisis in a time of war Hyrule is that war in this game guys, you know, they call it Hyrule Warriors. It's literally a war There is a war happening and you're a smack dab in the middle of it from the get-go And I really like that now When you talk about specifics one major criticism that's come out about this game is the frame rate The resolution as well now I played this on a giant I did play a little bit in handheld to get to get a grasp of the experience I did play this on like a giant 60 inch or 65 inch TV or whatever 4k TV at that And it's definitely not 1080p. I think the official numbers are out there. I think the top end it hits is 720p And it dips as low as 540p in Doct mode and then in handheld mode like it tops out at 540p and dips as low as 360p whatever those are kind of like resolution numbers Those don't matter to me as much as say the frame rates So right now this game targets 30 FPS.  There's no performance mode again Just a demo the final game might have a performance mode that lets you hit 60 FPS or unlocks the FPS because your lower resolutions I'm not sure. I bring this up because fire emblem warriors ran very very well You were able to run it at close to lock 30 or close to lock 60 and you would you know just change it Which mode you prefer do you prefer prettier visuals lower frame rate or do you prefer higher frame rate and lower resolution? So I don't know if that's gonna be an option in the final game So I do need to note that about these impressions, but it does have frame rate issues It frequently dips down to 20 FPS And I don't just mean like when you're doing the purposeful slowdown animations where like you can jump off a cliff or jump off You know an ice block or whatever You know to you know do your little slow motion firing arrow trick or whatever attack you're using with the way whichever character You're doing it with but I the frame rate is a problem. It's a problem in so much that If you can't handle gameplay at 20 FPS This is going to really frustrate you you I hit 20 FPS minimum all the time Every single I don't think there was a single battle. I was in the way I didn't dip down to 20 FPS at some point. I could just you could feel it now. Does this bother me The thing is Hyrule Warriors originally back on the Wii U had a lot of issues And if you've ever played Dynasty Warrior games, you would know that most Dynasty Warrior games have a ton of frame rate issues This is extremely common and I've seen some people walk around like oh is Nintendo being lazy Nintendo didn't make this game Koei Tecmo in this game Nintendo assisted the way Nintendo assisted wasn't with gameplay gameplay was all done by Koei Tecmo and they just have a horrible habit with Musou games of Not nailing frame rate now I hoped they learned their lesson with Fire Emblem Warriors because we got really great frame rate But now we're back to Zelda a new Warriors game for Zelda and the frame rate is back to being really bad So I don't know if it's Zelda specific. I don't know what's happening again We have the caveat. This is the demo The final game could have options in it that do not exist in the demo currently I would feel like those options should be in the demo since you're literally playing part of the game and you know Good news your save data transfers over so everything I've done in this demo Literally I could just continue it once the full game comes out, but I'm still I can't sit here and pretend I'm not frustrated because I am and I just hope this is something that gets addressed over time You know with updates or whatever what was weird with the original Hyrule Warriors Is it had less frame rate issues on the new Nintendo 3ds when they made the legend version version? Then they did on Wii U and the switch is more powerful than all these platforms, so I Honestly it is something that I wish would get fixed, but you know, that's pretty much my only complaint I was very shocked at how long this demo was It's literally the entire first area all the side quests all the back you can even unlock things and other You know you could replay battles and gather materials and unlock things on other sections of the map You can't visit so like you can unlock stables on other sections of the map You can unlike recipes on other sections of the map that aren't just in your main area You just can't do the big main story progression battles in those areas, so it's just it's a lot There's a lot here. It took me probably an hour and a half. I would say a normal to get through everything You know everything I could possibly do on the mini-map and even then I know there's some hidden Koroks because that they hid Koroks in this game again If Korok seeds and I know the whole purpose, you know what like the Koroks are giving us Korok seeds I haven't figured out what the purpose of that was because before it was all about you know Stuff that happened in the Lost Woods and Hetsu needing his seeds back. I'm like, okay, but now then You know that happened then why are we collecting seeds now? What what's the excuse now? Are we gonna find out I assume we're gonna find out because the game does tell us we need to go to the math Go get the Master Sword, but that the Lost Woods is entirely taken over by the bad guys right now So we get to see Lost Woods pretty much in a destroyed state So that's gonna be interesting to see and try to try to win Lost Woods back Yeah, I'm and obviously see the Great Dacotree Great Dacotree's gotta be involved somehow in this especially with the Master Sword involved So this is going to be a very interesting quest. I'm as a Zelda fan I'm you know my the whole time I'm playing I'm just in awe of seeing Hyrule the way You know that we haven't seen it before in Breath of the Wild. I'm in awe of the story every cutscene that comes up I'm just smiling And the thing is we know there's a bad ending to this or at least we presume it unless they wreck on it I have no idea, but I'm I'm just I want more I didn't want to stop playing and Theoretically, I could keep playing because you can replay battles and collect materials and farm materials Which is something you might want to do anyways because there's an entire upgrade system in here You can level your characters up Links obviously my highest level character because there's certain You know battles and situations you can only use link for but yeah, you can level your characters up You can level your items up You know you collect different items and you know I actually had to sell some I collected too many swords for links So I had to sell off some of my weaker stuff, but yeah, it there's you know changing out a weapon changing out There's just a lot a lot to take in and I implore you it's free Go give it a try you don't have to take my word for it If you want to switch you have no reason not to try it if you're not interested It's because it's free to do if it's not for you I totally get it Musou games are not for everyone, but when it comes to Zelda Dude the story alone makes me want to play and the gameplay is pretty enthralling at first as well Then there's there's something satisfying about taking up hordes and hordes of bokehblint and laselfos Moblins and all that like there's just something Satisfying about something that felt so much more difficult in Breath of the Wild just being able to take him out Like you're this grand master champion that could just dominate basically like you're as good as Ravalli Claims that he is in Breath of the Wild Back in those old cutscenes anyways, you know what you think about it if you tried out the demo I think later today. I might even upload If the news continues to be a little slow today because it was slow this morning I might upload even all of my gameplay. I have recorded for Hyrule Warriors age of calamity I don't normally do that, but man am I excited for this game So giving you guys like an hour and a half of a straight footage, you know, no commentary or anything I think could be a value to some of you guys So let me know what you think down in the comments below I am Nathan Roblijans from Nintendo Prime and I will catch all of you guys in the next video