Darring Walter Houston in the Colossus of Panama, an original radio play on the Cavalcade of America sponsored by the DuPont Company of Wilmington, Delaware. The War of the United States Senate, the year 1904. Oh, Mr. President, the same of it. Billions of dollars, billion dollars to the American farmers and hand-worsened people. Four people written, younger, a thousand miles from our shores. Now what do we ask? That, ladies and gentlemen, is the voice of the senior senator from Alabama speaking at the turn of the century. His subject, the Panama Canal. That's great work which is so vitally important to us today in the defense of our hemisphere. Our play tonight will tell the story of William Crawford Gorgas, the man who made that work possible. It is called The Colossus of Panama and was written especially for this program by Robert Solomon. DuPont, maker of better things for better living through chemistry, presents Walter Houston in the role of William Crawford Gorgas in The Colossus of Panama. As our play opens, Alabama's Senator Morgan still has the floor. The name of this man, Mr. President, is going to be President for a motion for a recess. If there is no objection, the Senate is recessed. As the senators leave the floor, the sergeant of arms come forward to clear the gallery. But still seated deep in his own thoughts is a mild-mannered gentleman in a white linen suit. He turns to his wife and sits beside him. Well, my dear? I know how you must feel, William, but they had any conception of the importance of your work. The importance of my work? There are a hundred men who could do what I'm doing. It's the canal that grinds the self-cheat. That's something I'll fight for. Dr. Gorgas. That's the tenant. They're clearing the gallery, sir, until you'll be meeting me this afternoon. Yes, look after Mrs. Gorgas, will you? Yes, sir. I'm going to take up Senator Morgan's challenge. Now will you remember? Don't lose it, Heather, please. No, don't you worry, my dear. I'm just going to set the senator's state on his facts. He says it is costing me five dollars to kill one mosquito. I resent that. It doesn't cost five dollars. It costs ten. Well, Colonel Gorgas, I got a hand with you. You certainly are a friend. Ten dollars a mosquito, eh? Senator, if I were really frank, I would tell you that your speech out there today was a little short of peace. Come, come now, Colonel. Let's not be metadramatic. You have your business and I have mine. My business is to save money for my constituents. I have only one business, Senator. To see that the Panama Canal is built as quickly as possible. And I'm not even convinced it can be there, Colonel. The Spanish failed, the French failed. Now we're going to be made the ghost. I tell you, Senator, the only obstacle to the canal is disease. Get rid of the mosquitoes and you get rid of the disease. And I'm supposing you do. Will the canal ever actually repay what we put into it? We have enough merchant ships on both coasts as it is. Railroads are faster than boats. Why should we build a canal that only foreigners will benefit from anyway? There's only one flaw in that argument, Senator. What's that? Japan is building a navy. Oh, yeah. There they rose about in the Yellow Parrot again. I'm supposing Japan attacked the Philippines with a new navy. Or even Hawaii. We'd need every ship we could spare from the Atlantic. Japan would have won the war before we could get one capital ship around Cape Horn. Turn it all this. I respect you as a doctor. As a prognosticator of wars, I do not. Your theory about the Japs is like your theory about mosquitoes. You have a phobia about small things. Little bugs and little people. But let this be understood. Whether Congress appropriates the money or not, I shall continue to kill mosquitoes. And I think you will live to see that it is worth whatever it costs. Do you want to build canal goggles? Well, Dr. Gardner, welcome back to Panama. Have a nice vacation? Well, it was hardly... Let's just say it's nice to do that. How's the work going? Slowly. Too slowly. Another landslide here is to labor last week. That's why I came over here to take personal charge of the whole job. Sure. Then you can help me. Anything I can do, doctor. Just step into my shack here and we'll talk. Thank you. Sit down, would you? Sure. Now, what's on your mind, sir? I've been looking over the records at the Anson Hospital canal. Yellow fever is epidemic again. It's the weather. I've been there, you know. Who ordered my mosquito-killing squad to start cleaning up the streets in the city? I did. Did you realize what you were doing? We have to face it, Gorgas.  That's no excuse for not killing all we can. Gorgas, I know what you're trying to do. But something has to be done about the sanitary conditions in Qoram and Panama City. If Congress ever sent a commission to investigate...  Well, now that's an exaggeration. Not at the person's death rate of yellow fever and malaria. What do you propose that I do? Give me back my mosquito-killing squad. I can't do it. You're the only one who can, Colonel Gorgas. Well, you may as well know the truth, Gorgas. The Admiral said he would order our ships home unless something was done about the smell. I couldn't allow that to happen. Well, I can and I will. I see. Will you take personal responsibility for whatever happened? I will. If the epidemics would become worse, we might even have to stop operations, you know. Then I hope it happens. Then we will know that disease and nothing but disease is our obstacle. And that, Colonel Gorgas. I can prove. What happened? And I had to stop working till labor today. Men are afraid to work there too many down with a fever there the past week. Does that mean the end of the canal? Well, not yet, no. Bortles is still hopeful. He thinks transferring Jamaicans over there, the ones that are immune to yellow fever will solve the problem. What do you think? Well, it'll solve the yellow fever problem there for the moment, but not the malaria. I told him so.  Oh, don't they know it's the mosquitoes and not the philtrum? Of course they know it, but they say there are too many of them. But it's hopeless. Man, I had to admit they were right. It does look hopeless. What are you going to do? I don't know. I've disobeyed orders. I refuse to resign. I can even decryde a manslaughter or heaven or a swap. I have to go through with it. Oh, William, I'm so worried for you. Is there anything I can do to help? I wonder. Tell me, Ellen, are you a good liar? William, why do you ask? Because I'm going to disappear for about two weeks. Disappear? Fair. No, don't worry. I'll be right here in my laboratory. Nobody is allowed in. Nobody, you understand? Yes, I do. And another thing, don't kill any mosquitoes you see about the house. Catch them alive and bring them into me. Mosquitoes? Well, I thought you already knew everything there was to know about them, William. Yeah, that's what I thought, too. I forgot that I'm a scientist. Canals seem to mean so much more. Tines seem too precious to waste in research. But now? Yes. Well, I might have known all along. Nobody ever knows enough about anything. You are listening to Walter Houston as William Crawford Gorgas in the Colossus of Panama, an original radio play on the Cavalcade of America, sponsored by the DuPont Company of Wilmington, Delaware. Two tiny mosquitoes. By name Segomaya and Anopheles, they were everywhere. Their strength had been greater than all the accumulated knowledge of mankind. Yet the faith and labor of one man stood against them. William Crawford Gorgas.  I want to see your water pitches. Oh, you are serious? You used to buy fabrics? You like these big ones? Let me see them all, Senora. It may take me some time to find the one I'm looking for. In the Americano, who has a big job in the canal, yet spends his time examining water pitches in the slum. Even the Americano is thinking strange. Nurse! Nurse! Yes, Dr. Gorgas? Who put the pans of water under the lead legs of this ward? Why, is it my superior, I did it, doctor. It seems you want some crawling up on the bed. Well, get rid of them. Do you hear? I'll throw them out. Doctor! I haven't time to explain to you. Just do as I say. And after this, no fresh water in the wards, except in covered vessels. Understand? Yes, doctor. I'll take care of it immediately. By the smallest details. In some quarters, he's conducted the scandal. My family are of the oldest mobility in Panama. What do you think this upstart has entered into my home? A cemetery, Gorgas. I'll tell you I will not support this incident. I am bankrupt. Ruling. He's finally got dead in Panama. And this assassin. He puts black oil in my water supply. He drains my beautiful lagoons. Water lilies, worms. Everything's beautiful in here. I'll go to the authorities. My wife and I came here for vacation. We haven't had a moment's peace. Restrictions, quarantines, searches, some peace. You wanted to see me, gentlemen? Yes. You know the admiral, I believe, and Commissioner Schaum. Yes. Good day, sir, Commissioner. I assume you know the purpose of this meeting, Dr. Gorgas. No, but I am glad you asked me to come here today, gentlemen. I believe I have found the final answer to the problem that has confronted us. I think I have a way to eliminate not just a few, but all the deadly mosquitoes in the canal zone, and perhaps even from the entire western hemisphere. Dr. Gorgas. Please, please, time it of the essence. I must get this information across to you quickly. Very well, doctor. I only wanted to say... I'll say it later. Gentlemen, I have sought, dreamt and observed, nothing for two weeks except the habits of two mosquitoes. I have developed a strategy which I believe will ensure success in the battle against them, not in a matter of years as we once hoped, but in a few months. A strategy, doctor? Colonel, when you go into a battle, what is the first thing you try to determine? Well, the weak places in the enemy's defenses, is the rule. Precisely. Now, take the Stegomaya, the Lofiba carrier. This mosquito has lived with mankind for so long, it has become over-civilized. It is Swedish. It lays its eggs only in clean water. To deal with it, we will have to go into every house in the canal zone and insist that every best will contain in fresh water to be tightly covered at all times. That sounds simple enough. But, uh, Dr. Gorgas, about this matter of invading people's houses, there have been complaints of more serious nature. I expected there would be. You'll take a very cavalier view of the matter, Dr. Gorgas. And if I may say so, this nonsense about mosquitoes and water pictures is wild, simply wild. Gentlemen, please, you agreed to hear me out. We, uh, stand corrected, uh, go on, Dr. Gorgas. Thank you, Colonel Gorgas. Our second enemy, gentlemen, is Anasili. The malaria mosquito. It is, well, it's a little more of a problem. It will breed in any kind of water. Mud puddles, car tracks, anywhere. Are you going to propose abolishing cows to the zone? Gentlemen, I have never been more serious in my life. Please give me a moment more. Sorry, Doctor, I won't interrupt again. Well, the malaria mosquito has a fatal weakness. It cannot fly more than 200 yards from its leading place. Are you absolutely certain of these sites, Dr. Gorgas? I expect my reputation on them. Well, what's left of it? And, uh, that's, uh, well, let's be candid. There's not much at the moment. However, if what you say is true, then it simplifies our problem. Then we shall have to enforce drainage for only 200 yards around the work and residential zones. It's worth trying, isn't it? Well, gentlemen, what do you think? Dr. Gorgas, let me say that I would like nothing better than to put you to work on this scheme of yours at once. Unfortunately, I cannot. But why not? The President of the United States is on his way to Panama at this very moment. I say to see why that should interrupt our work. The President will be greeted when he arrives, Dr. Gorgas, by a filth and stench of cologne in Panama City. Gorgas, entirely by your neglect of sanitation while you were preparing your scholarly treatise on the habits of mosquitoes. Then you refuse, you refuse even to let me start this work? I suggest that you wait, Dr. Gorgas, and discuss it with the President himself. The Commission will naturally abide by his decision. And we are fairly confident of what that decision will be. The President of the United States. Mr. President, welcome to Panama, Mr. President. Hi and welcome, Rocky St. Paul, dead cat to the street. No wonder all the men are dying. What's the excuse for this, Gorgas? Mr. Gorgas is in charge of sanitation, Mr. President. You'd better ask him. Gorgas, eh? You're Gorgas, aren't you? That's right, Mr. President. You've got gray hair since you were, eh? I don't want it. Do you realize the whole country's up in arms against you? And meet you because of you? Because of me. I started this whole project mostly on your say so. You said you could get rid of these smells. Make this a good place to live. Like you did in Nevada. I cleaned up Havana, yes, Mr. President. I made the mistake of cleaning up Havana. Eh? Come finally close that window, will you? Never heard anything like the racket down here. Now, what's that you were saying? I said cleaning up Havana was a mistake as far as the yellow fever was concerned. A mistake? Whitewash never killed one single mosquito egg, Mr. President. No, maybe you're right. What about it, Gorgas? Can you build this canal or not? Mr. President, if I could only be sure of the supply of healthy labor, then... Well, get them. Never mind the cost. They won't work for it at any price. Oh, scared, eh? You've been hardly blamed them. I'm a little frightened myself, Mr. President. What about you, Gorgas? Are you scared of this thing? I've already had yellow fever, Mr. President. I'm immune. You must have a fine physique, sir, dividing a thing like that. No, there are worse things in yellow fever, Mr. President. Seeing men die, for instance, when you know the way to prevent it. Then what if you do something about it? They tell me you spend all your time oiling pools and stocking streams with fish. That's right. Tell me, what are the fish for, sir? Well, to put it simply, they eat the mosquito eggs. Before, they can hatch out, eh? See, that's really... You never tell my son about that. How did you find that out? I worked for them doing it. That's really bully. Well, eh, Krishna, I'll have to take all this over. Now, Mr. President, there's no time to think it over. Give me the authority. I can have the men back at work at a each time. Then they eat them for one day and the epidemic will be out of control. You have got to decide tonight whether you're going to build the Panama Canal or not. Things are that bad, eh? Well, gentlemen, we'll do it. We've got you, believe me. I think Dr. Gorgas is my man. It's your decision, Mr. President. I'll take personal responsibility. Mind you, don't make a fool of me again, Gorgas. I think I can promise you results this time, Mr. President. Really? Well, good day, gentlemen. And I want you men to get behind Gorgas, all of you. Those are my orders. Panama. Squads of men work feverishly against time and against the most relentless heat on the face of the earth. They see me heated the jungle. They cut back the brush, spilling the stagnant pool of the free precarious of death. Volunteers go ahead with tins of oil. And where they have walked, the freshwater stream shall be marked of the Americana of Gorgas. The little rainbows smear of oil on the surface of the water. Look, Compa Leros. This is again. Yeah. At least it's fresh oil. They must be nearby. Hey, here they are. Listen, we are just ahead. Hola. Hola. We found them. Come. Well, we're certainly glad to see you. We have the food to get it out. And they're drinking water. And the letters. Ah, thank you. All right, man. You can knock off for a while. Lunch. Ah, all right. All right. Not a nasty job. How much longer are you going to keep it at this, Colonel? Until there's not one case of yellow fever that ends on hospital. That'll be the millennium, won't it? That's just what it'll be, son. Then you'll get it out of there. The letters. Aren't you going to read the letters? Oh, yes. Yes. Thanks for reminding me.  What's the matter, bad news, sir? No, no, it's from Colonel Gothel. They stopped work today at Calabra. At noon? At noon. All right, it's about one minute from now by my watch. I wonder if we can hear them from here. Listen. It sounds like the tenon in the old fort. No, sir, it's not. That's blasting. They've already begun. The southern men have returned to their posts. Confident. Unworried. The great steel shovels whirl about like giant dinosaurs fighting to the stone flesh of the mountains. Sorghum. Yes, Sergeant? After a fortune. The compound is about to be closed and tamed. Drainage and operation. Sir, you may inform Colonel Gothel that work might be resumed to that side of the couple. Yes, sir. Yes, Sergeant. Arrange the plants for your company to charge us. The plane leaves in the morning. But the Great River is forced into a new channel. An evacuated town of 10,000 souls is drowned in margin fields. Silent brown-skinned men and women in their pockets is bolting with sense American dollars. Happily watched the destruction of the homes that have brought them on the move. They will move into new whitehouses along the queen's blue waters that will join the oceans together. Our battle is won. In a few days standing on this hill at sunset, we will see the lights go on from Cologne to Panama. May they never be extinguished. But our job has only just begun. Now comes the most hazardous work of all. Only volunteers will go. We must go back into the jungle. We must follow every stream to its source. We must find a secret place, the endemic source of this disease. And there, we must destroy the one tiny class of insects that started the trouble. Who among you has the courage to do this thing? Gentlemen, I salute you. President, Senator William Crawford Gorgas. Bring him in, bring him in. Senator Gorgas. We meet under the most happy of circumstances. If it troubles an old busybody, you don't know what that means. Perhaps I know better than you imagine, Mr. President. Well, now tell me, how did you do it? I'd be frank with you, I never thought you would. It was a last resort by choosing you. Well, it's a long story. Yes, of course, of course. What about those fish? My son would be like it with that story. He'd be like it. But we finally found where they came from. The Stegomaya mosquitoes, I mean. It was a lake in Ecuador. And you put those fish in there, eh? And they just gobbled them up. Worry! Here's the thing, Mr. President, that it always seems to be the same. When large numbers of people are plagued by some one trouble, it nearly always turns out to be a very small group somewhere that is causing all the misery. Just so. Get this Russian military group in Europe. Don't trust them, never did. And these jets.  That's what they're getting to be dangerous for. And it turns out to be the same way with Yellow fever and so on. Extraordinary. Mr. President, we have a peculiar situation here. As a scientist, I've learned something from politics. And as a politician... Well, let's not go into that. I spoke with the graduation exercises at Walter Reed Hospital the other day. And this is what I said. I'd like to repeat it to you now. I said, Gorgas is the Panama Canal. And the Panama Canal is Gorgas. And no man will ever get higher praise than that for me. That, Mr. President, is all that any man can ask. Thank you, Walter Houston. Ladies and gentlemen, in a few moments we will hear again from our star. In the meantime, we want to tell you a story of a chemical product necessary to the building of the Panama Canal and other great engineering projects in peacetime, as well as a vital force for increasing production and wartime. America, in the middle years of the last century, was an eager, vibrant young nation struggling to grow out to her wider boundaries, struggling but bought. Then in Switzerland, a man invented gun cock. In Italy, another man invented nitroglycerin. In Sweden, a man discovered dynamite. And science placed in her hand the great mountain-moving lever that America needed. For America, DuPont manufactured this new explosive of tremendous strength. Promptly, the gold miners of California found they could chatter and move out of the way four times as much rock. Nevada's silver miners doubled their production. Into the copper, the iron lands of Lake Superior went the new chemical tool, working mass miracles there. In the 1890s, iron production quadrupled. That of copper was multiplied nine times. Cold production increased five times. At last, Americans could use cement as a building material because dynamite made big-scale rock-blasting practicable. Between 1870 and 80, 40,000 miles of railroad tracks were laid. And then in the 90s, trackage doubled. America grew to stature in a roar and thud of dynamite. There are old-time blasting men who remember the great nation-building jobs dynamite handled at the turn of the century. Jobs never before possible, like the Panama Canal about which you've heard tonight. Men who have worked with dynamite since canal days, grateful for its safety, impressed by the amount of work it does, see in it a chemical tool of infinite potentiality for mankind's benefit, both for today and for the future. At a critical period in America's expansion, DuPont responded with a product filling of vital needs. DuPont has done exactly that consistently in a 140-year history that parallels the history of the nation. Dynamite is a prime mover. In peace, America uses a million pounds of it every day. 150 million pounds of the various types each year, produced by 25 companies in 42 plants throughout the United States. DuPont alone manufactures nearly 200 different types and grades of dynamite. Nitromon, the single-out-one blasting agent, is the safest known. Used especially in quarrying and oil prospecting, Nitromon can be held in a flame or riddled with rifle bullets without danger. In this war year, America will use an estimated 450 million pounds of dynamite. Dynamite is helping to produce more steel, more coal, more copper. Dynamite helps feed cantonments and airports, excavations and harbors. On one island outpost of the United States, dynamite is quarrying 20 million yards of rock for a single giant air base. Between British Columbia and Alaska, dynamite is helping to cut and surface a 24-foot roadway 1,500 miles long, the Alaska Highway. In the Tennessee Valley, dynamite has helped to bring power to our war industries from the great New Dam, Norris, Iwassi, Chickamauga, Cherokee and the others to say nothing of Grand Coulee and Boulder and Shasta of the Great West. At one Navy ammunition storage dump, it's helping build 3,000 igloos, as they're called, each one of which stores a quarter of a million pounds of ammunition. Bad news for America's enemies. DuPont Dynamite, weapons of production in wartime, in peacetime, helps to bring better things for better living through chemistry.  I gratefully acknowledge our applause, not for myself or the cavalcade players, but for William Crawford-Gorgas, whose unshakable faith in pursuing an idea made possible the great canal across the eastern Panama. Today is never before we realize how great was his vision and foresight to the preservation of America and all things that are American. Thank you. Next week on the Cavalcade of America, DuPont will bring you an original radio play starring Paulette Goddard in The Lady and the Flag, a story of a great American woman, Betsy Ross. The orchestra and musical score on this program were under the personal direction of Don Burry. Don't forget, next week on Cavalcade, Paulette Goddard in The Lady and the Flag. This is Clayton Collier, sending best wishes from the DuPont Company.


Hey, so if you're new around here, I wouldn't blame you for thinking that all I do is play my Switch constantly, all the time, never blinking while I'm pooping. Yeah, and you wouldn't be wrong for thinking that. I do play my Switch a lot. However, it might surprise you to find out that I do play a little bit of everything, although maybe it's not that surprising if you look behind me and see that I have video games for just about every system. But I didn't get popular on YouTube talking about the Mega Drive. I got popular talking about the Switch. So that's why, you know, I focus on the most, mostly because I do love Nintendo and the Switch a lot, and whenever I make content that isn't about the Switch, well enough. I am sick of that, because there are so many fantastic games releasing on other systems other than Nintendo's that I just really want to talk about. 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I need to kick this video off with one of the best games I have played this year, Gears of War 5, and I am not kidding you when I say I am one of the biggest Gears of War fans you will ever meet.  I'm loving Gears 5, the campaign and the online. How much of my loving Gears 5 you might be asking while I'll show you. Look, I got this thing! It's the jack from the game. It's really friggin' cool, and it works. Oh god, it's already getting very far away from me. Come back! Okay, order land! Order land! Okay, it's stopped. Well, that was cool. Great. Alright, I'm gonna go get my drone.  What do you think about that? It was pretty bad. Okay, so I flew it in my house and I hit the wall. Dude! I think maybe this blade wasn't spinning, and that's why I couldn't bring it back. Also, good thing I wasn't standing that way of the drone, because it would have come straight to my face. Alright, attempt 2. Spin it. And auto land. So in the game, it can rip doors open. Apparently it has to rip the door. I don't think it can open doors. Rip the door, Jack! Yeah, let's just slam our collector's item into the door. He was supposed to open it. Here's our feet doing a little shimmy sham. Alright, let's go spying. Let's spy on upstairs. Okay, I'm losing control. Alright, that's where I film. Come home, Jack. You did good. Gears of war. Everyone backs away. Rightfully, sir. Where is Jack? Where is he? No! He's fine. It's cool. Yeah, so I don't always get collector's editions of things, but there was no way I was missing out on getting my own Jack drone. Alright, I don't know where to start. We're talking about the campaign about Gears of War 5. Holy crap, I think Gears of War 5 is by far the best looking game I have played. Maybe ever. Gameplay-wise, it's Gears of War at its best. I honestly feel like they have built on every previous Gears of War game. I kind of like those souped-up superhero abilities. Being able to go invisible and stealth around the battlefield, chain-linking silent kills, and wiping out entire waves of enemies without ever becoming visible was just about one of the coolest things I've done in a Gears of War game. Furthermore, the co-op implemented in Gears of War 5 was flawless and one of the best co-op experiences I have had. As you guys may or may not know, I play a lot of my online co-op multiplayer games with one of my closest friends, who I've been friends with since high school, back in Australia, and we've tackled every Gears of War campaign together. So going into this one, we were very excited. Usually the Gears of War campaign allows up to four players, but they scaled it back to three. Essentially only two, but a third player could play as the drone if they wanted. But the co-op just between the two main players was fantastic. There was moments like when a helicopter went down and my friend fell out of it and he had to do this whole other mission thing trying to find me and I was pinned by the helicopter, shooting and shooting at waves of jubies trying not to die while he was on the way to rescue me. You just don't see that level of co-op immersion in most games, that level of, I would say, effort. But by far the coolest part was playing as the main character or what I associate as the main character, Kate. She was dealing with a lot of issues because the horde infection was seeping into her brain and she kept having these visions. And every time I on my screen were having these crazy whacked out visions, on my friend's screen he just saw my character like having a massive migraine and had no idea what was going on and I was having to explain to him what I was seeing and it was so intense. And as far as the story goes, it was their best attempt at telling a story within the Gears of War franchise. And where it left, it's just my mind was blown and I can't wait to see where it goes next. Not to mention, there's so many modes other than the main campaign. It's like obviously horde, which I've never really been a fan of, but escape I am really enjoying. You get trapped in a hive with two other players, so there's three of you going against waves of enemies starting with literally no ammo and having to find and scavenge for it as you go and escape the toxic fume explosion that you set off. It's really intense and I love it. Alright, next we have a rattling experience. Oh wow, there's two discs in here. Plague Tale is a game that I knew nothing about, but I was perusing Reddit recently and I saw someone shed a gif of these rats in this video game. There was this character holding a torch and these rats were scared of the torch and they were moving away from it. There was something about how eerie it was, not only the context of what was happening but the lighting coming off the torch pushing these rats back and the rats AI scampering around the light as she was moving further and further in taking care of this child. There was something about this imagery that made me want to discover what it was and how I could get involved and it turns out it was a Plague Tale innocence. So I ran to my nearest game stop and I picked it up and I'm really glad I did. A Plague Tale tells a story of just that, a Plague Tale. It's set in like years after the Black Plague from what I can figure and the Black Plague is happening again, however in this universe the Black Plague is these toxic rats that build these nests and spurt these black veins everywhere and overcome the world and everyone gets eaten by rats.  So not a world I want to live in. I don't like rats at the best of times. You see the role as a young girl taking care of an even younger brother. He is, as I said before, one of the sickies. He's down with the sickness and you're not really sure what's wrong with him but you know it's obviously linked to everything that's going on and it's your job to protect him as both your parents kind of... It kind of gives me a little bit of Last of Us vibes in that sense but it plays out very differently. The game is focused heavily, primarily only on stealth and I do want to say I usually hate stealth in video games but this game is entirely stealth and yet I still had a fantastic time and that definitely speaks volumes about the game. The gameplay gives you so many options to be stealthy with and even eliminate your enemies with. So for example, the game starts off and teaches you the basics that you get in a lot of stealth games. You can throw rocks or pots to distract enemies and then sneak away from them but then as the game goes on and you start to experience the rats, you can actually start to use these rats to your advantage as long as you're really careful. For example, in the game you get an item that can extinguish flames.  Of course you do have your trusty slingshot which you can just... And then along the journey you find a lot of characters that are willing to help you out and then all of those characters can do certain actions which you can control. For example, Hugo I believe his name was, you could have him go on assassinate certain enemies. The story was absolutely beautiful to watch unfold the relationship between this brother and sister who barely knew each other, who barely even met each other before this to the end point and the end boss which was one of the weirdest and most epic boss fights I have had in a video game. I don't know if this game is gonna receive the support it needs to get a sequel but I really want to see one. I can't find the games that I had. I was gonna talk about them. There they are. I'm actually annoyed that it took me this long to talk about this game because it came out like a month ago and boy howdy let me tell you I pumped some time into it. I think I'm up to like 40 hours or something like that and before y'all say oh looky he's addicted. I'm not addicted to it. So if you don't know Friday the 13th is based on the movies where Jason Voorhees is killing a bunch of kids. You can either play as the kids or as Jason Voorhees. Every kid and every Jason has their own stats and attributes and abilities and can do different things and then you all get thrown into this world. You don't know who Jason is gonna be. You can have up to eight players.  The concept in itself I love but they actually implemented so many things that make this game fun. So here's what you have to do. You have to survive. Obviously that goes without saying and there's a few ways of doing that. The rounds last 15 minutes so worst case scenario you hide away for 15 minutes and you can win that way but let me tell you it probably won't work out. Especially in the last few minutes Jason gets all super powered and amped up and he can really hear and sense you and smash down doors. So you have to work together. There is in-game voice chat which is fantastic. One of my favorite things about it is its proximity chat. You scavenge around drawers trying to find utensils and utilities to help you and one of the things you can find is a walkie-talkie. If you get that you can communicate with everyone else that has a walkie-talkie. So when you're searching through these drawers you're looking for things like a fuse and if you find the fuse you can go to the fuse box, fix it and call the police. They'll rock up in five minutes and if you can get to them and that's a big if you'll be saved. Other ways to survive are there's usually a couple cars or maybe a boat lying around the map if you find batteries, car keys, gas. You can fuel these things up and get on your way but starting a car or a boat is pretty loud. Jason can hear it and he's going to be on you pretty quick so that makes the driving away frantic as a heck. Playing as Jason is an absolute thrill ride too. I love getting to be him. He can morph around the map. He can teleport. He can move super quickly. He can stealth. Here's the thing though. All of this sounds fantastic am I right? But it's glitchy as a heck.  All the characters look like they're made from wax models. I can't tell you the amount of times I've tried calling the cops and then gotten frozen in an animation where I can't move the rest of the game. Stuff like that happens way more than it should and every time it's more hilarious than frustrating. The only thing that I absolutely hate is that there's no lobby system for playing with your friends. You can't lobby up and search with a friend so what it becomes is Sean will search, wait till he finds a game and I'll try and join him. It won't work, I'll get booted and then rinse and repeat until 20 minutes later we're finally in a game and then maybe we get kicked from that game and we have to do it all over again. So the game just kind of is what it is. You're either going to enjoy it or you're not. I love it. Oh shoot. Literally I was about to review this entire game. I don't know if you heard that. I just walked into this mask and then I was like oh yeah. I should really wear this mask for the video and then I remembered I have that. Okay I have kind of a little history with Borderlands 3 apparently. So it turns out gearbox the people that made this game, they're local. They actually have their studio like 40 minutes from me and they invited me out to come and play the game early. Way back in May actually here's some footage of that. I went with my friend Dreamcast guy and we played the game for like two hours. It was super nice of them and they said go home Woodson upload your footage tonight. You could be one of the first people to have Borderlands footage on YouTube. I got home I looked at my footage and I went I have a switch channel. What am I going to do with this? But it was a fantastic experience being there let me tell you they are super nice people. They even had boxes of Borderlands games for Xbox and PlayStation on the front desk and they were like ah just take it. You want a mask? Just take it. I got this mask from Gearbox headquarters. This was actually from my local GameStop. I think it's a really cool standee and they didn't want it. So I took it. So of course as I said I'm playing through this game with my friend Michael back home in Australia and we are loving it. We had just played through the first and second game in preparation for this game because I'd never played them before. They improved on the franchise so much and they made literally everything better like so many quality of life improvements. For starters you can slide around the map like the floor is made from banana peels and that is oh so enjoyable. There is so many freaking guns.  In fact I probably have footage of it but when I was there at Gearbox when I had finished my playthrough I was like yeah I'm done I finished the boss battle you set me up with whatever I think I'm good.  And then I started to realize the scope of the guns in this game. The stats for each of the guns are also random on top of the randomness of the guns and what they can do so when you mix and match all of it together I asked them so how many different guns are there in this game and they said well if you count all of that as different guns millions millions is what they said. They fixed a lot of the issues I had with the skill trees and abilities. It felt like in Borderlands 2 for example it took forever to get a skill ability and level yourself up. Borderlands 3 it felt like I was leveling myself up for every mission which was very rewarding. The sense of humor is on point. I really enjoyed the humor in the first 2 games I didn't realize how hilariously memable they are but they really amped it up in the third one. It has a ton more mission variety than previous Borderlands games and everything about it is just snippy snappy snappy everything just keeps moving at a fantastic pace and it's just fun at its core in every element. It plays great it looks amazing they did a fantastic job and they mean they're kind of like local to me. So I feel proud almost like they're homegrown even though I've only been here a couple years. If I shout loud enough right now they could probably hear me. You did a great job! Alright it's the moment you've all been waiting for and I know that because literally the only reason I threw this game into this review was to get you to actually watch the entire video and see my opinions on everything else crafty maybe smart possibly clickbait I have no mixed opinions I have what I feel like might be mixed statements and it's gonna make sense when you let me get through it. The first statement I have is this is an absolutely perfect remake that couldn't have been done any better in my opinion for what it is oh! The other statement that sounds a little mixed is this is still one of my least favorite zoutas and a lot of you might get upset by hearing that but let me let me just give me the shooosh. Zouta Link's Awakening tells a story of Link washing up on the shore of an island he's never been to before that has a giant egg set up top of a big mountain he literally is completely clueless as to where he is or what's going on or if any of this is even real. You meet a cast of brand new faces and characters Zouta is nowhere to be seen yet another Zouta game that Zouta isn't in I don't have an issue with that and it's your job to awaken the wind fish which has apparently got something to do with an egg so that you can save or destroy this island it's pretty unclear but it's the only thing Link has to go on so that's what he's going to go and do. The gameplay is a 2D top down style Zouta kind of it's 3D as well with certain parts kind of not being quite top down but it is. The gameplay is perfect it's fantastic it's 2D Zouta at its absolute prime. The only issue I have with this game it's a very tiny teeny tiny issue is it's pacing just feels very slow I found myself grinding for Rupee so that I could afford the bow which was a necessary instrument to one of the dungeons. It took me a long time to get the 980 Rupees I needed and I didn't know I forgot that you could find the Ocarina and you could learn how to warp and I literally didn't learn that skill until I got like right near the end of the game so a lot of my game was having to walk around the map in places I'd already been a thousand times killing the same things a million times going to the same areas a million times and the game as a whole was very linear and you had to do things in a very specific order so structurally it just felt like I was really forced into doing a certain thing at a certain time and it didn't have that freedom that a lot of newer Zeldas have and that's fine I mean it's a remake of a Game Boy game it was the first ever handheld Zelda game it's not going to be perfect but when you actually consider it was the first handheld Zelda game way back on Game Boy holy crap didn't they just do a fantastic job and the way they built the game visually the graphics are so cute and they're just so good and the only reason why I started this by saying it's one of my least favorite Zeldas was because of the competition man when you actually start stacking up every Zelda and going down the list I can't put this above a lot of the main core titles that have released hey guess what guys you did it now give yourself a round of applause a pat on the back you made it through an entire one of my videos that wasn't just about the switch if you liked this video and you would like to hear me talk about games other than Switch sometimes show the love show the support smash that like button and subscribe wait and I gotta do it right flip on that subscribe button and share the video around so that it does well a big thank you to today's sponsor and probably in Japan right now so can eat you