# [[MFP02 - “Against the Cruelness of Batteries and Time” with Cameron Hawkins]] Transcript This transcription was completed on March 4, 2026 with the application MacWhisper on macOS. This was done automatically, without human input during the transcription process. The transcription used the Parakeet v3 model. My hope is that by offering this transcription – however accurate it may be done by a machine learning/AI – will help you, the listener. I’d love to offer full, proper transcription some day, but that is not feasible at this time. Thank you for listening and reading. I hope you enjoy the show and that this document was helpful. Enjoy. --- It's not like I hate it, it's just like you gotta pick better names, you know? *00:00* But what I want to really talk about up front is what you're doing now, which primarily streaming on Twitch and IGN's podcast unlocked. *00:00* It was just one of those like uh come to realization moments where I'm just like, I'm f---ing friends with Ryan McCaffrey. *00:00* And then he was just like, you know, after he spoke with the first person um that I I heard when I walked into the r uh the room, he was just like, well, I gotta say hi. *00:00* So I just must have overlooked it and then by the time uh because I was looking at the emails of my email after it was announced and I realized that I was selected and I was like *00:00* Uh Oter Otero. *00:00* Damn it! *00:00* And I'm I'm I'm I'm aware that that's an issue and I and I have to find ways and but then there's like last week's episode where *00:00* I'm doing the same thing right now, but with the word or sound. *00:00* But it can play up to like Game Boy to Game Boy Advance games and then like what uh like game uh Game Gear. *00:00* Should have probably gotten the case, but I have I still have like my old Game Boy bag, you know, and stuff like that. *00:00* It's like I need this to get this properly replaced. *00:00* It's just that. *00:00* I begrudgingly bought Ruby. *00:00* I don't wanna mess with emulation, that's just not my thing. *00:00* I'm gonna play through all of the other ones leading up to it. *00:00* I'm one of those people that likes to get anything like hardware software related new if possible. *00:00* So I just have to like learn how to set it up really at this point. *00:00* So I basically bought every like, yeah, for those listening, my dad passed away unexpectedly last year. *00:00* Chrono Trigger or not Chrono Trigger like Chrono Cross uh why to buy Chrono Trigger 2 but just really to have it, I'm gonna play it on a different version *00:00* Uh but then we moved into this new two bedroom and I have an office now and I actually have space for things. *00:00* And I was just like so when I found out the analog pocket about I was like, okay, I'm definitely gonna buy a copy of Superstar Saga. *00:00* And so I had to buy the box and the manual separately, and then you The one the GameCube one? *00:00* But when they did the reprint, I'm like awesome. *00:00* I would rather just take the two seconds to switch out the cart, and I'm good, you know what I mean? *00:00* I f<unk>ing want Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn because come on. *00:00* Yeah, no, no, no. *00:00* That story is about Riku. *00:00* He's a relevant enough character. *00:00* I need the 1. *00:00* But I think it's I think it's awakening. *00:00* So I'm so that kind of sucks. *00:00* And then I don't know if you saw this recently uh on my like on your timeline on Twitter, but I got the official Pokeballs. *00:00* Well yeah, so are a lot of characters. *00:00* He praises Naughty Dog to the to the son and back, and I think they're one of the most overrated developers out there. *00:00* Right. *00:00* You know, they're in their own little corner and they're just like, I I hate you, I'm jealous that you're in this position, so I'm gonna just hate you forever. *00:00* 'Cause he's the one who like basically got gate got me gave me the opportunity to be on my first uh PAX panel. *00:00* It's rough out there. *00:00* The that that's like kinda like my mentality since I've started streaming. *00:00* So that's so you're gonna play both the PS2 version of the first game and the remake. *00:00* And they were all there. *00:00* Yes. *00:00* In a few you could beat him in a night. *00:00* Yeah. *00:00* Speaking of which, uh just uh completely unrelated to collections, but regarding Metroid Prime trilogy, so apparent uh so from what I've uh heard on through the grape grapevine is that Nintendo *00:00* It's Metroid's thirty-fifth two exactly. *00:00* This is potentially probably travel. *00:00* Uh Kyrie's training under uh Aqua now. *00:00* Um so Winnie the Pooh just hold holds a very special place place in my heart. *00:00* I dunno I don't think the last of Last of Us Part II does that like that's like kind of like its goal, right? *00:00* And Lost Legacy 2 agree. *00:00* It's it's it's it's so good. *00:00* Started doing the kickm, and then that's just kind of like how people know me. *00:00* I've never been a huge fan of my name in general, so I'm just I love my last name. *00:00* uh been there, had it. *00:00* I'm telling you, I know that like a lot of people like try and say that it's not as much of a level of luck *00:00* somehow Alar Alana Pierce already knew who I was before then and I'm like, how? *00:00* He had a Twitter spaces and I hopped in there and I requested to like to talk, you know, because I actually wanted to like uh he was like just kind of taking like Xbox questions and stuff like that with like a bunch of unlocked listeners. *00:00* I just, I just, it's one of those things like I I can tell you like beat for beat like how I got here, but then I'm also just like, how did I get here? *00:00* Um I used to listen to Beyond. *00:00* To this fifty percent luck. *00:00* And I was just like, and I and the t and the and I I so I just kind of like overlooked it, I guess. *00:00* You know, great for them. *00:00* I still need to be on NBC. *00:00* from Sam Claiborne getting the gig and then uh and then it just snowballs into here's John Ryan, Miranda Sanchez, um *00:00* Yep. *00:00* Yeah, so uh there is no like we don't cheat on that show, so you trying to pull ahead here before uh your next hiatus here? *00:00* So I mean that's still nothing for them, but still um It's so much money. *00:00* And like sometimes I can I get that vibe that like Ryan is like kind of caught off guard that I'm like, oh he's still going, he's still talking. *00:00* I don't know, that's just like how I like to explain things. *00:00* you if you're throwing in the lines den, it's it's a little it's harder. *00:00* Like going into last week's episode, I was just like, okay, I gotta I gotta focus on not saying like that that that is my goal for this for this uh episode. *00:00* And that and if I do have ADHD, that makes a lot of sense for a long time. *00:00* since I've been on the show. *00:00* People don't like change and then the anonymity of the internet, you know, they have some profile picture that's not a real person, yeah, and they can just say whatever they want and there's no consequence. *00:00* anymore unless I'm interacting with my f my family because they don't have Twitter. *00:00* Liked you on the show, but try and do this like next time or like work on this. *00:00* more than PAX East in the sense of like just like the games that were there and things like that. *00:00* The uh but my buddy Brendan, he so j for those that don't know what the analog pocket is that are listening, it's basically like analog is a company that makes their own hardware to play older software that already ex exists. *00:00* Why did you do this to yourself? *00:00* Yeah, so that morning was rough. *00:00* I remember specifically I was tweeting about the same issue and y your order had already gone through and you responded, you're like, just wait, it'll go. *00:00* But I think that one's like Persona 5's is the best. *00:00* But like outside of that, nothing really worth uh worth mentioning. *00:00* It's the first time I played that game in a very long time. *00:00* And I go to their retro store and they always have good sh they always have at least one thing that I want to buy. *00:00* Um, which is great. *00:00* But yeah, Leaf Green, uh, Pokemon Blue. *00:00* Outside of Heart, Gold, and Soul Silver, which I was all on because you know Johto Best Gen, um I missed a lot of like basically all of the Pokemon side games. *00:00* Side like uh spin-off games on the DS. *00:00* And now platinum's like a ninety dollar game. *00:00* I don't know where it is. *00:00* But I send them articles whenever I see them that say Charizard $300,000. *00:00* I actually just bought Sapphire, fifty-five bucks. *00:00* So I got Pokemon Ruby and stuck uh like and uh and just dealt with it. *00:00* Cause that's the Pokemon I catch, you know? *00:00* Th I have these save datas that are finally protected and save, you know, against the cruelness of batteries and time. *00:00* Cause I I know there's uh times uh where I don't think you were in the Discord by the time Scott White came into d uh dual shockers. *00:00* Leading up to Rifted Part in June. *00:00* I was just like, I don't care. *00:00* Because for interesting because at first I thought you had to copy him, but then um it wasn't working. *00:00* And then and then Do you have two factor authentication on I turned it off? *00:00* So like I played Final Fantasy Seven because I had a friend that had a PS1 and I played at his place. *00:00* That's how I played all PlayStation games as a kid. *00:00* So I'm gonna get zero mission and fusion as well. *00:00* So I'm just like, mmm, should I stream them? *00:00* Death Stranding was my first Kojima game. *00:00* Outside of one game, I want to drop like everything that I'm playing right now and just play through Death Stranding. *00:00* I like I'm not crazy about the dual sense. *00:00* It is my favorite PS4 game. *00:00* I'd miss that one game, so I don't know if I want to, but I kinda do, because it's like my first time playing those games, and I just I don't know. *00:00* Uh for whatever reason it had Twilight Princess with it. *00:00* You gotta be willing to say no and like know when to when to wait like to max your bid. *00:00* And I had bid, I think, $110. *00:00* Did you like do the all the Shantae stuff when it hit limited run? *00:00* I listened to the music and I was like, man, the music in this in this series banging. *00:00* Uh for Switch, and I'm like, okay, like but I but like all like the thing is like all of these games are on Switch. *00:00* Me too. *00:00* Cause it the thing is is just like I'm investing heavily on this on Switch as a console. *00:00* Like whatever the next main console for Nintendo is going to be, I 100% think it's gonna be backwards compatible for Switch. *00:00* Yeah, uh and there's something just cool about having the carts. *00:00* Or developer, whichever one was how much is it going for now? *00:00* Thrill I do is just like, ah, this is valuable. *00:00* There's definitely been times in my life where I'm like, I need money. *00:00* And the final form version is not easy to find. *00:00* Before I like by the t like by the time I was in like going to college in twenty thirteen. *00:00* Like there's the like the sticker here, it hasn't been cut or anything, and it doesn't look like that it was like replaced either. *00:00* Oh thank you. *00:00* torn, you destroyed everything. *00:00* If you think like if you actually like look at the behind the scenes development of that game, like Namura was kind of like in a situation, like granted, like *00:00* d the whole time travel thing. *00:00* That's what the Remind DLC is in the second half. *00:00* Cause I know that was like one of the big things like oh she's a fans in distress again like they they they fix that uh I think in a way that makes sense in the way that Kingdom Hearts does it fit because you know like Kingdom Hearts is a lot of *00:00* Kyra and Sora uh Sora, sorry, Sora Ka Kyrie and Sora against Zayonort. *00:00* They do not give Riku the respect that he deserved. *00:00* than Kingdom Hearts. *00:00* And Dream Drop. *00:00* Because I ported all those saves over, I looked at my uh Battle Network 3 white save. *00:00* with that secret movie, nothing was more hype. *00:00* Why are there so many key blades? *00:00* Like I think people like game plays great, it looks fantastic. *00:00* Game's a little too easy. *00:00* I think Kingdom Hearts 2 with like the different forms was like the way they did the different forms was like perfect. *00:00* I still think like as it goes along, Kingdom Hearts has like one of the best like stories in video games. *00:00* It's very Kingdom Heartsy to say the least. *00:00* The end of chain of memories. *00:00* But I don't I haven't told many people this, but well, like obviously I've said on Twitter all the time, like I want Titsu Nomura to sign my arm because I want to get tattooed. *00:00* I have the 2. *00:00* So I'm kind of waiting until we move into an apartment and stuff like uh to to get that. *00:00* the GameCube is themed? *00:00* One thing I'm super happy with is that I have all of the Fire Emblem Collectors editions. *00:00* Uh and then I got uh warriors as well. *00:00* Because I when I pre-ordered it at GameStop, I think they said that they have like two per store. *00:00* Yeah, that was my first Fire Emblem game. *00:00* I got the I got the UK one for for definitive edition because it came with the vinyl. *00:00* They had a they had a wave bird and it was like in pristine condition. *00:00* That's cool. *00:00* I did have it pre-ordered. *00:00* So that one I had to like, you know, but the charity one was in the US, but I just bought it too late before it like uh left the store. *00:00* Plug away, my friend. *00:00* Uh but kids across the street, they had PlayStation, that's where I met Crash, Sly Cooper, uh Jack and Axter, all that stuff. *00:00* Which is that's a fun reveal. *00:00* They kept building, you had Uncharted 4. *00:00* Like you know, like things like that that I was just like, uh you it it very much like if you take the game for what it is, then sure. *00:00* And where do you go from that? *00:00* Okay. *00:00* He's killed and brutalized and broken rules and so on and so forth. *00:00* In even part of 2020, championing out just tweeting every time I could just like play this game. *00:00* Just the way that they play with those themes in the final season is just wild. *00:00* Still need to play that. *00:00* I my f favorite name you've used is i is something like hot is it hot take Hawkins Cameron? *00:00* Yeah. *00:00* over dual shockers. *00:00* 2019. *00:00* Tool shockers as we knew it no more and don't really want to get into that. *00:00* It's completely luck. *00:00* Um, at least that's what I thought like I think I thought at the time. *00:00* I had like numerous people hit me up and be like, yo, like, give me I need advice. *00:00* During b back in 2020. *00:00* Um to the point where it doesn't even feel like I have asthma anymore, like this type of stuff. *00:00* I'm great like grateful that I've gotten as far as I did. *00:00* Like what? *00:00* I used to listen to Unlocked regularly and then I I fall out of it and I come back in and all that kind of stuff. *00:00* And she was like the manager at Inside Gaming at the time. *00:00* You want to do this for two, three months? *00:00* And she was just like, hey, like, who are some black creators or like black people in the industry that we should get on our shows? *00:00* Like a bunch of people are just like you should get Cameron on the show blah blah blah blah and then next thing I know I get a message from Autumn and I'm just like Me like out of all these other people like like I like you know I'm like there's so many people that I'm sure that went for this like me *00:00* So but neck you know, this year, this year we gotta you know I was gonna say you're going for it this year. *00:00* And I s I went to the IGN offices and hung out with the Wiki people. *00:00* listeners are are listening the Google Docs do have the questi do have the question for like the trivia the trivia *00:00* But like the the answer's not there. *00:00* I mean one one two. *00:00* So sad. *00:00* How's that like how has that response been for you? *00:00* You know what I mean? *00:00* uh that because it's something that I'm working on, but I'm not the best orator. *00:00* Writing's easier for me in that regard. *00:00* Let me explain it now. *00:00* Where they like doubled the prices. *00:00* They don't want to rise uh raise the price of Game Pass. *00:00* raising the price of gold was their them as a uh like the compromise. *00:00* So like and it was one of those things for me, like I personally would rather them just at like you know again pull off pull off the bandage and just *00:00* So why not just do it one time? *00:00* You know what I mean? *00:00* So, because that's like one thing that I have noticed is that I I I think I go a little bit more in depth on my like thinking viewpoints than like the rest of the panel. *00:00* The it was just like that was one thing that was just like I'm explaining my point. *00:00* And like, do do you just want me to say like price increase bad or price increase good? *00:00* And I could tell I was off my game. *00:00* It's super important. *00:00* That's just the way it works. *00:00* I do think that this does help. *00:00* Holy shit, I completely forgot to to like focus on not saying like, but thinking about thinking about it, I don't think I really have said it that much. *00:00* So I I think there's just certain days, you know, like certain days, you know again, it it depends on what you're talking about. *00:00* Um, but I I realize it's an issue and I am trying to not say it as much, and I don't think I've even said it that much like during this podcast, so which is which is good. *00:00* Um but but no those are that's a valid thing that I've been trying to work on for a while. *00:00* But ye it it's more the YouTube comments that like I try and refrain from. *00:00* I am in the podcast unlock group and I, you know, I told them like they they knew who I was because I guested on the show before, but I told them like, hey, I'm gonna be a temporary host for like a few months while Dustin's gone. *00:00* v validation or negativity to to justify those things. *00:00* And still in a way positive, like, hey, I liked what you said about this, but try and be more concise on the way you say it, like *00:00* Things like that. *00:00* There can be a con this year. *00:00* Whatever the pocket turbo graphics console is and Neo Geo. *00:00* We're good, you know what I'm oh my god, I can't I I knew exactly what I wanted. *00:00* I can't remember if it was my I think it was my phone that finally went through. *00:00* I guess you and I are just forever opposite. *00:00* I managed to get all that. *00:00* But the initial wave of pre-orders here should be coming out sometime in May. *00:00* One to two months away depending on how you look at it. *00:00* Based off the photo, a pretty clean copy of Pokemon Yellow. *00:00* Uh I saw the steel book and honestly I think Persona 5 steel book is like because I have all the Persona 5 steel books. *00:00* is in Carson because he uh he used to be out here. *00:00* Um the only thing that kind of sucks is that the front page of the trainer guide's a little ripped, but gotta do what you gotta do um for now. *00:00* Just a a box and manual that someone was selling on eBay. *00:00* Which is the second mystery dungeon game. *00:00* communicate between the two games somehow. *00:00* I bought Ranger because it was the only way to get a mana fee. *00:00* Was my favorite game of all time. *00:00* Kyogre. *00:00* They were out of Pokemon Sappho. *00:00* Because of my experience with the second game. *00:00* I'm going to play through all the Paper Mario games leading up to Origami King. *00:00* Well, you and me are more similar there than you might think. *00:00* It's more just surpr 'cause there's so many of them. *00:00* With with the PS2 trilogy, I'm gonna be playing it via Vita or PSTV. *00:00* Like why? *00:00* Uh like Chrono Cross, uh Vagrant Story, Legend of Dragon, like all these PS1 games that I just JRPGs that are classics that like I have never gotten the chance to play because I just kind of I never had my own PS1 *00:00* Speaking of which. *00:00* Um because I had to cause I basically had a Vita, sold it so I could get my Xbox One X. *00:00* So, but anyway, ratchet and clank. *00:00* Well actually that kinda ties into the third thing. *00:00* I didn't know that you were like I think I I felt like I knew that you were a big collector, but you don't really show 'em off as much as like I do per se. *00:00* And then there's also uh and I also thought about getting a Wii U again specifically for the virtual console. *00:00* to like eventually play through all the Metroid games. *00:00* I started streaming through the Metal Gear Solid series, but I didn't stream Metal Gear Solid 1, which man, what a f game. *00:00* Gives you that level of like ecstasy that I'm just like I love this fing game. *00:00* The uh but this is the game where like give me that dual syntactic feedback. *00:00* Which is a super slept on at this point, like now that I've played it, like super slept on JRPG series. *00:00* uh complimented from the uh Western audiences, uh the Western community. *00:00* I feel like we're very alike in that way and the there's a thrill of the hunt. *00:00* Twilight Princess on the GameCube, but the disc was scratched and wouldn't load past naming your horse. *00:00* But then but before that my in-laws bought me the game loose. *00:00* I can win this. *00:00* I definitely I definitely need to to that's to that's the one I almost did get was the Game Boy Collar one. *00:00* Um so I had to buy the collector's edition for Shantae on Switch. *00:00* Go on eBay and buy the collector's edition for seven sirens or whatever as well, which is like the most recent Shantae game. *00:00* Uh and if it isn't, I'm gonna be very upset. *00:00* But the switch is so weird because it's a hybrid. *00:00* Um that's why as you can see, like I've got a big red red stack of games. *00:00* For like Nintendo consoles, knowing their history, yes I am. *00:00* You know, listening because you can't see it. *00:00* Those are all Brigh Arts figures anyway. *00:00* How much you would pay for a normal play art because most play art figures, for those that don't know, probably go sit between 160 to 200. *00:00* I would say. *00:00* Metroid Prime trilogy on Wii Steel Case still. *00:00* They just haven't released it because Metroid Prime 4 got delayed indefinitely. *00:00* The GameCube one? *00:00* Twenty dollars per game, you get 'em on Switch NHD. *00:00* We were talking about like not buying things just to sell later. *00:00* Was tempted as well. *00:00* digitally, but I don't think we're gonna get a f separate physical release. *00:00* I haven't sold any of these. *00:00* He did not have the flexibility that he got with Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2. *00:00* Like that Kingdom Hearts 3 met expectations for me. *00:00* Have you not heard any of this stuff? *00:00* So it it's one of those things like part of it is I I I do think like a lot, not all, but a lot of the issues of Kingdom Hearts 3 were Disney's fault and not Squares and Namora's. *00:00* I understood like here's the thing with Xanort that like I personally might m maybe it's an unpopular opinion, but like I know that Xanort is *00:00* Here's the thing, because and a lot of people agree agree that I've talked to feel this way as well. *00:00* And we got to Kingdom Hearts 3. *00:00* Things, the moments that happen in the Remind DLC. *00:00* Literally popping off like while I while I was playing the game. *00:00* For it to double back to the ending of Kingdom Hearts 3 proper with Trinity is very well done in Kingdom Hearts fashion. *00:00* The first half to be a retrend of the uh organization fights that that you know. *00:00* Yeah. *00:00* 420 to save the day. *00:00* Who aren't like us and have played those games. *00:00* I don't it is like you know for those yeah no for those I like I can't tell you like for like at least the year leading up to its release just people saying like *00:00* Like here's the thing, like the only bad Kingdom Hearts game I think that exists is coded. *00:00* I'm t like here, I don't want to be one of those guys, but like I honestly think that if you don't like Chain of Memories or you play Chain of Memories and you didn't like it, it's because you didn't understand the deck building *00:00* Deck building with chips. *00:00* Yeah, like I there are some people I know that jokingly pretend that Kingdom Hearts 3 doesn't exist because of how they felt about Kingdom Hearts 3, and I'm just like that's that's just stupid *00:00* Uh you know, very quad. *00:00* Like, I don't know. *00:00* Uh so that's what she's I guess I guess doing while Riku's trying to trying to find and save Sora. *00:00* And kind and that's basically like what Riku goes through. *00:00* uh tattooed on my myself as well. *00:00* I would never do that. *00:00* And we can't find our pins. *00:00* Um, so I'll probably buy those on eBay eventually. *00:00* D probably that Zelda game I was talking about. *00:00* Um except for Fates. *00:00* So so cool and then I bought the uh art book for Fire Emblem Awakening, which is one of my favorite games ever. *00:00* I've got like a the Spice Orange Japanese GameCube complete with the whole Oh really uh the Game Boy Player and the controller and the Game Boy Advance. *00:00* for the Pokemon XD Gala Darkness GameCube. *00:00* I it was in my garage when I was clearing out my childhood home. *00:00* Yo, can I pre-order this and send it to your house and then you can send it to me? *00:00* for that because the art book for definitive edition is like designed the exact same way as Zenoblight Chronicles 2 *00:00* physical version of Xenoblade Chronicles uh Torna Country, which is like the prequel to two that counted as DLC for two, but it it's it's its own game. *00:00* Uh one that hasn't been ported yet. *00:00* Um deal. *00:00* I begrudgingly bought it and I was like, okay. *00:00* Uh I had to buy that from Japan. *00:00* I I'm I'm I'm very, very happy to have these. *00:00* I think that's it. *00:00* I didn't think it was gonna go n like bad per se or anyway, but like I just didn't know like where the Well given given our our public past of disagreeing and and Kingdom Hearts in particular, I c I could understand the nervousness. *00:00* Um, I don't know how much longer I'm gonna be on the show, but uh regardless, I appreciate you uh if you would too tune in and enjoy us talk all things Xbox. *00:00* You can also listen to the history of Naughty Dog that I wrote during the PS4 era. *00:00* history with Naughty Dog and like why why you love Naughty Dog so much. *00:00* the twenty sixth. *00:00* Like I remember seeing demos for Uncharted 2 and Target in the back when game demo kiosks were in stores. *00:00* And it's the part of Uncharted 2 in the city where you're running, the truck is chasing you, and just I had never played a game *00:00* that put me in the middle of the action like that. *00:00* the the stick on the gamepad, so which is why I call chasing the stick a sort of a mix of put it on the stick, chasing the dragon and you know that. *00:00* to do that, especially the the switch halfway through, you don't get that a lot. *00:00* um ahead of time, which I thankfully did not. *00:00* Not like for me my favorite like very unpopular opinion my favorite un like naughty dog game like from Uncharted to now is Uncharted 3 *00:00* aggressively dislike that game. *00:00* Th that that's kind of like my issue with it. *00:00* Uh but and again again like I thoroughly, you know, and I notoriously not the biggest fan of The Last of Us, um, but I I I do like The Last of Us *00:00* Not to the same degree. *00:00* A lot of people. *00:00* No, it's part of it. *00:00* Ellie would have won a hundred per like this is that's what Ellie would have wanted. *00:00* That's I think up to each individual person to figure that out, but I think he finds redemption in the end. *00:00* Uh for me the like the with The Last of Us is just like I I just feel like that I don't know I and maybe maybe it's like wrong to compare the to compare the games but like I just feel like a lot of comparisons to uh *00:00* W uh like in it in its in its like direct influence to the story than the the last of us while w where the setting feels more li *00:00* For for most of the story feels more l like like like a set piece, if that makes sense. *00:00* But also how you need to react to survive as well. *00:00* And then in the final season, it is like, hey, here's this boy who was born into this world. *00:00* I just um I don't know, I just haven't been vibed with a lot of their games uh recently. *00:00* I think that'll do it. *00:00* Hey everybody, welcome to the Max Frequency Podcast, episode two, joining me. *00:00* This time. *00:00* I've always I my name is just Max. *00:00* Is your name, you know, one of those and it's not. *00:00* hot takes as it is, and then um just really passionate about the way we feel. *00:00* P th they did that on and off. *00:00* that I say it is, but I'm telling it like I'm like at least 50%. *00:00* Jonathan Norton Bush on on on Twitter and he was just like, Yeah, let's get you on because he knew I was a big Kingdom Hearts guy. *00:00* um in the industry and like you know um that's a whole nother subject but you know I'm so grateful that like I got those opportunities like I got on inside gaming *00:00* the people that uh you hear all the time and you listen and you you look up to on some level. *00:00* Man. *00:00* you know, looked up to like I'm you know, I remember listening to Unlocked when it was like Ryan, Marty, Mitch, like you know old school. *00:00* a permanent chair it like on unlocked one day. *00:00* Brendan Graeber, Casey DeFridis joined the team later. *00:00* hitman at the time, I believe, and uh is so fun and cool and you just realize *00:00* 2018? *00:00* with those people. *00:00* Uh like you know before then, you know, he'll add that and it feels like there's new news for Xbox a lot. *00:00* streaming slash recording now like nowadays like Spot on Me uses VMix as well. *00:00* uh we record the podcast because I just I just want that genu you know that genuineity genuineness I don't know what the word I'm looking for but uh *00:00* at least there was a very vocal minority of people that weren't a fan of that. *00:00* Don't doesn't affect me because I'm here already, you know what I mean? *00:00* Um I'm I couldn't be wrong. *00:00* completely, which they don't want to do because they want to give people options. *00:00* long story or backstory or whatever. *00:00* And I could tell I was resting. *00:00* I don't know I don't have I don't have an official diagno uh diagnosis uh like diagnosis on this, but I'm on trials for ADHD *00:00* Shrug it off and move on. *00:00* Yeah. *00:00* all positive comments. *00:00* If there is like a big vocal minority there, then or you know, if there is those negative people, it's a very loud minority. *00:00* You know, part of me wants to see the comments, but you know, at the end of the day, it's just I know it's not for my own good and it's not like *00:00* It doesn't matter at the end of the day. *00:00* But like if you're like you know if someone doesn't like your content or like this podcast or something like that then like just don't listen to this podcast like move on to find a different pod like don't just harass someone you know if you wanna *00:00* If you want to make a change for this show or whatever, be constructive. *00:00* Desperately want to go back. *00:00* So the analog pocket is basically their game their Game Boy Advance. *00:00* So when the pre-orders went up, the pre-orders like sold out in like 10-15 minutes. *00:00* Shadows of Almia, which I think is the second game. *00:00* So so that's like a goal for me right now is to try and get um copies of those games uh for my collection to play eventually. *00:00* I've just found this out semi-recently because I used to own Diamond and Platinum and I sold those to a GameStop at some point because Pokemon Games keeps their value. *00:00* binder case thing 'cause they f the size of a C D and so they keep 'em nice and flat and in good shape. *00:00* My history with Pokemon is weird because when I was a kid, I had blue, cards, toy, you know, the whole thing. *00:00* Don't have this mentality A lot of people are just like okay how like how good are they in battle? *00:00* Oh wait, oh you can't see other side. *00:00* Emerald is like $200 now. *00:00* I uh Pokemon, we got uh Marion Luigi Superstar Socks. *00:00* I went on a bend and I've actually used my Game Boy Player, my GameCube. *00:00* And I'm excited to finally play some of these games that I've I never played. *00:00* I have never I I I I every time a new Pip Mario game comes out, I'm just like, man, that looks really, really cool. *00:00* And what? *00:00* I just got one a few months ago. *00:00* Man, like I I got I got a very good deal on mine 'cause I I had a friend who had like three of them for some reason and he had like and it was you know they were refurbished. *00:00* Too expensive, you know what I mean? *00:00* So I can stream through the trilogy, right? *00:00* So I'm playing the trilogy on PSTV. *00:00* PS3 game and the first of the future trilogy is not on PS Now. *00:00* And well here's the thing, you don't have to copy them from the PS3. *00:00* You can't get via the Vita anymore. *00:00* And once I was like, once I get the money from the for the house, like I'm going to buy literally every single Vita game that I want on this store. *00:00* Um, so I bought like 15 to 20 like games. *00:00* Gotta do what I gotta do. *00:00* Mm well mostly because uh we never had the space for all of it. *00:00* than all the consoles. *00:00* Praying for a PS5 upgrade. *00:00* Bar none, like for sure. *00:00* Sorry, I just want to make sure I do the math right. *00:00* be my favorite JRPG series after Kingdom Hearts. *00:00* Especially what you were talking earlier, having things in the box, complete. *00:00* But I love it and it's a great I love having a Game Boy micro, so it all panned out. *00:00* good games like you know what I mean and so I was like okay all of them are coming to Switch granted like one of them which I did have to pay like more money than I wanted to um already did get a limited run release which was like a Pirates Curse I believe *00:00* And then I had to buy or Half Genie Hero was uh published by someone else. *00:00* uh beforehand on eBay to try and get a copy of before they announced the reprint and I was just like man this is another game I just do not want to spend that much money on. *00:00* And that's it. *00:00* You know, and they and the value always stays up and it's just like you g you gotta go physical and it's I don't know for me it's easier. *00:00* I still have a sealed copy of Cooking Mama. *00:00* sell them like I might not be able to find it again. *00:00* Um which I have all of them. *00:00* Um obviously like a bunch of Kingdom Hearts 2 uh two characters including like just Sora. *00:00* You just gotta you just gotta take what you can get, you know. *00:00* Um, so I do have the normal and the limit form version as well, but those again like aren't that expensive like they're basically like *00:00* And there was only one listing for it. *00:00* Has been sitting on that for a while. *00:00* A lot of people are upset whenever a game gets remade and is full price. *00:00* Uh, I I don't know. *00:00* Kind of brings me and it ties into collecting as well, because uh arguably Kingdom Hearts for me was one of the things that really got me into collecting. *00:00* And uh not a ton of stuff. *00:00* Not even with the Disney stuff. *00:00* Yeah, like let but all she can do is seem to let it go. *00:00* of the Disney Worlds like that you know that in the past that that that he previously had. *00:00* Yeah, it it it's I just felt like Xeonor it got off far too easy. *00:00* Xeonort himself really comes into focus in birth by sleep. *00:00* Uh Alex O'Neill, I don't know if you out uh know who he is, um, but he basically said that when when the remind DLC came out *00:00* stuff. *00:00* So honestly, like I would I highly recommend you go into the Remind DLC and just you know just expect just basically expect um *00:00* characters I feel like you should have been able to play as is the respect that deserved. *00:00* Highly recommend it. *00:00* p I'm bit I've done my time. *00:00* I don't ful I didn't fully understand it. *00:00* Um maybe maybe in the future you might have to based off what they're doing. *00:00* I l I honestly believe that. *00:00* I I love the deck building. *00:00* and their different uh fighting styles and structures and magic. *00:00* I did Ventera Aqua, which I think you know, and then you go into the final chapter and it's just Yeah. *00:00* So like I love Kingdom Hearts. *00:00* And that really just kind of bummed me out a lot. *00:00* They're I don't know. *00:00* Kingdom Hearts is just like the fing poop stain that people like to make it up in the gaming industry like the gaming *00:00* And me and my other me and my f friend have talked about like this at length. *00:00* But like which is you know Riku's Kingdom Hearts 2 Keyblade Um because you know the reason why Riku's my favorite character is because like I see him through me like I like I you know *00:00* Growing up, like growing up, I had like a lot of like anger and and things like that. *00:00* I have basically I just have all the games complete and box. *00:00* Yep. *00:00* Um and then I need the 1. *00:00* when they were new, and then I sold it to get a switch. *00:00* I have that one. *00:00* Anyway, Awakening's the best 3DS game. *00:00* Um oh well I mean like my Pokemon Crystal box is like complete is like definitely one of my pride and joys. *00:00* Series Elite Two, um, the Elite Series Two or the GameCube controller for sure, one hundred percent. *00:00* That's what so that's why my friend uh my friend didn't get the Mario one because he's hoping that they're gonna do a Zelda one. *00:00* I think it was 16. *00:00* And it's different than the coin that came with the master edition. *00:00* So this was a similar situation with me in the whatever edition of Kingdom Hearts 3, the the one with all the statues. *00:00* And that's a long story, but I have all but one of the official Kingdom Hearts plushes, like that are from Square Enix. *00:00* Is the nobody plush. *00:00* So there there there are some that I I uh had to buy for cause because the the unversed one specifically never came to the States. *00:00* That's the struggle of being a hardcore collector and a Kingdom Hearts fan. *00:00* So these I remember seeing you tweet about these. *00:00* You know what they represent. *00:00* really sat down and talked, especially one-on-one. *00:00* This is fun. *00:00* Sweet. *00:00* That's fine. *00:00* PS three. *00:00* Yeah that opening cinematic of Kingdom Hearts One and I was like, yep, I'm sold. *00:00* Uh so they had me close my eyes and they put a book in my hand that was wrapped. *00:00* the big present, like what is gonna make me so excited. *00:00* mm, four Lost Legacy, Two, and so on. *00:00* uh two and three and then uh that was also around the time that the last of us was initially revealed at the game awards that year. *00:00* an RPG where it's or even a telltale game where it's choose A, B, or C and move forward, but just make me feel like the character telling the story that you want to tell. *00:00* Does that particular thing like you feel the result of what your actions are without like with your simple actions without it being like obvious you know like with it being like in your face about it? *00:00* Uh but it's a great game. *00:00* I um I'm one of those people that like thinks Joel is the villain. *00:00* Like praise Joel without like recognizing his actions, if that makes sense. *00:00* Maybe some people also found problematic, but like didn't like just kind of like was like whatever about it or that didn't find it problematic and I was just like *00:00* The just that entire scene in part two where she's just railing on Joel. *00:00* Continue. *00:00* then the people that she met and influenced later on wouldn't have th they that would never have happened. *00:00* I don't know. *00:00* You know, from the get-go, they want you to sympathize with this with this guy who's like not a good guy uh because of something that happened in his past life. *00:00* And I I and and and that's in part because he saved her life. *00:00* I interpret uh the the games because like I I know a lot of people didn't play it, but like uh the final season of The Walking Dead is like *00:00* But like uh, you know, I and I think I do think that like from a technical standpoint, what they do is really impressive. *00:00* Th in most regards, I would say. *00:00* Than The Last of Us in this sense, but like the it it it very much is like a companion piece of the first season where it's like, hey, uh *00:00* Yeah, we um I we I feel like we actually have a lot of our personality in similar similar ways. *00:00* Uh and he would like Ryan messaged me personally, like in my DMs, because he was just cause he's asthmatic as well, and he was just like, hey, you should look into this prescription, like this has helped me a lot, like *00:00* That's where I like to play my games and it just makes the most sense to me. *00:00* four, five years. *00:00* Uh, you know, hit me up. *00:00* these are the people that make me want to do this type of job. *00:00* Yeah. *00:00* And then, you know, we'll hop in Discord. *00:00* Um and V Mix. *00:00* It's a you know it's a way to like do video recording. *00:00* to b I would not do very well at Xbox Trivia. *00:00* Like what the ant answer ended up being right, like a that answer, but then but then I was just like uh well because like 'cause Destin like brought up like the whole family thing and I was just like, man, that actually does make a lot of sense. *00:00* to you uh on the show. *00:00* where I slip up where I'm stuttering and pausing, 'cause it's all uh um and like our filler words while your brain is catching up to your mouth. *00:00* Yeah, and and some people some people you know saw that interaction on Twitter and that like have followed followed me from Unlocked and said like, oh don't worry, like like like legitimately don't worry about it, like you're gray on the show, like things like that *00:00* That was the only time I gotten uh tw Here's the thing, it was a c constructive criticism. *00:00* And now I think it's more common for people to just ignore that. *00:00* It's not good. *00:00* The honestly, the thing I'm most excited to talk to you about, and I don't know how long this particular conversation will be, is the analog pocket. *00:00* Um, I don't know about anyone else. *00:00* At um because they have two stores, but at either of those stores is the steel book for Persona 5 that came in the collector's edition or whatever. *00:00* Um, apartment, not house. *00:00* And then uh I need to pick up uh I want to get Pokemon Platinum, but I want to get that com I want a complete version of that, and that game is very expensive. *00:00* Um oh really? *00:00* I I have a blue cart, because that's the one I had as a kid, and then I have these spin-offs now. *00:00* And I vividly remember going to Target uh as a kid. *00:00* There's it's the uh the future trilogy, which is on the PS3, uh into the neck into the Nexus, and then the remake, the 2016 remake *00:00* Um and I'm just like, even that, I'm just like, oh, I don't really want to deal with that. *00:00* The PS the PS Vita uh the So I don't know if you know about this, um But a lot of the PS Vita games that you can buy like that are on Vita like the the PS1 classics *00:00* You got the big boys, okay. *00:00* And uh shouldn't be that expensive. *00:00* So that was a whole bunch of uh distractions that we just talked about. *00:00* Behind me on the bookshelf is where I've got my Last of Us and Uncharted statues, my Zelda shelf, a Japanese slash Nintendo shelf, you know, that kind of stuff. *00:00* You know, so and at this point like I really want to play it like honestly like I want to almost drop *00:00* Um but you don't have to start from the beginning. *00:00* It it is definitely the JRPG series for you. *00:00* And I'm currently on the second game of the Trails in the Sky trilogy. *00:00* Um so yeah the the trilogy specifically you can play it on Steam. *00:00* I try to do that too. *00:00* They're selling it at Best Buy as well. *00:00* That you know it was just a bit it was just happen. *00:00* Right, and so that's fairly valuable, but I don't really ever plan on selling that. *00:00* Like I I do not want to say on this podcast how much I spent for this. *00:00* Yeah, so this this was not that. *00:00* Mm-mm. *00:00* Like I think it's gonna be good. *00:00* Um but I do but I do believe like, you know, again, there are some things that Namura decided like shows on that and which I'm sure is the stuff that you're more you are more heartbroken about that I I agree like again like *00:00* recognize what you're doing is wrong. *00:00* Mission where uh there was one moment where like I was like on the verge of tears. *00:00* all the usernames from Qi. *00:00* I no, I get the idea of Qi and where it sits narratively and actually what the those characters represent. *00:00* Um do I need a play like yes you need a f like come on you you're talking of this this game gets this game gets trashed all the time about its convoluted story when it's just like lit literally *00:00* Like No, it exists. *00:00* uh how Riku uh it shows like Riku traveling there basically um and then like how ka one thing really cool *00:00* Um so I ha like so that's how I got the 2. *00:00* Um it like kind of slipped out of its place. *00:00* That's one of the last Wii U ones, right? *00:00* Yes. *00:00* And uh so I have a a f somewhat official Kingdom Hearts chest, which is really really cool. *00:00* And uh I'm on Podcast Unlocked, IGN's Xbox Podcast and the number one Xbox Podcast in the world, which you can listen to. *00:00* And then, you know, The Last of Us came out and Last of Us, I think, is a a really, really great game and just kind of kept *00:00* is the kind of stealth gameplay I like, the stories I'm drawn to, and all that stuff. *00:00* That's what I'm going for here. *00:00* achieved what they were going for? *00:00* No, I'm not uh the blanket statement of everyone. *00:00* And well a lot of people like I feel like a lot of people just take w what they got and like, oh, this is Joel and I'm like, you gotta think bigger picture, man. *00:00* not just to Ellie, but I I mean he's a father. *00:00* Credits hit. *00:00* And it's just like I get what you're trying to do, but that doesn't make up that that doesn't that doesn't give him a pass. *00:00* The final years of his li Tommy, the final years of his life, he was a good man. *00:00* No, it's no I defin again like I definitely Th like I will I will give it that like that specifically because of part two there's just like so much *00:00* To Tell Tales of the Walking Dead and I just and that's kind of like my last of us is that like I think that like um I th I I just like liked the you know granted like there had to be *00:00* Uh The People Forgot. *00:00* But uh we we have very dissenting video game opinions a uh most of the time. *00:00* We're not. *00:00* You were still I feel like you were still present for like I would say about like till the end of twenty nineteen I would say. *00:00* Um, and then uh and then I also then got on Ryan McCaffrey's radar and then he asked me to be on a few episodes of Unlocked. *00:00* be like a permanent temporary host while Destin Ligary is on paternity leave. *00:00* Missed the email because f me. *00:00* But Casey does a great job. *00:00* Normally, like a f a like a few days beforehand, Ryan uh sends a Google Doc uh giving us a good idea of what the show's going to be. *00:00* Uh you gotta just You gotta study up here before um before you repeat. *00:00* I I think everyone has one except for Miranda who has three. *00:00* And because like I remember where there was one time where I where I did get criti like I was getting criticized for taking too long to get to the point and I was just like and and I was just like *00:00* And I still think that like I'd probably say by the end of next year, we're gonna get a price increase in Game Pass. *00:00* I I like I know that Microsoft is a trillion dollar company, but I still think at some point they're gonna have to up the price of Game Pass. *00:00* And uh Abby, my wife, she uh s if she's had a long day at work, she's a teacher and with middle school. *00:00* You you know, when you have that rhythm and that cadence, especially with a permanent other host, you get in a flow, you're good. *00:00* the like being a sp a good speaker, an orator. *00:00* And hopefully, you know, I uh even last week I w someone tweeted at me like, hey, stop saying like so much *00:00* right now I'm trying not to say um and we'll we'll see how I did. *00:00* At least in the early days of the internet, you hear that people really embraced all of that and kinda took all of the licks. *00:00* Um and that was at PAX East uh right before everything got into lockdown and hopefully God hopefully we can *00:00* Because my battery was dead and it wouldn't save games and I was just like, I need to get this replay like proper because I'm not doing that electrical table sht. *00:00* Um and so I was just like, well I'm definitely gonna still like have you cut my hair because I I like you as a person and all that stuff. *00:00* And so uh whenever I go over to get my hair cut, I also go over uh to the retro store. *00:00* Because uh there's like there's someone on Etsy that recreate that like remakes the boxes, and so I'm gonna have them remake the blue box for me, and then I'll have a collect like a complete package uh to a certain degree *00:00* Uh for because cause that's like a a big collection goal for me right now and I know we're gonna get more in depth about collections later. *00:00* games, toys, and cards. *00:00* They understand now that they had no idea what they were doing, it was a terrible mistake. *00:00* So I didn't return to Pokemon until the DS, when I was 13. *00:00* the ROMs off of my cartridges and now I have them on my computer, on my mister, I'll be able to put them on my pocket when that jailbreak comes out. *00:00* like the actual cartridge or disc. *00:00* are on PS Now, which I've used PS Now to stream games before. *00:00* old consoles and my CRTs, uh PS1, N64, uh PS2, uh Super N T Wii GameCube *00:00* Do literally everything that game has to offer. *00:00* that uh I'm playing for for the first time that aren't like incredibly long games. *00:00* Um they both like were saying like y'all play this game like the series, it's so good. *00:00* When I do my collecting. *00:00* So I had to buy the collector's editions for because the thing, like, that's cool about limited runs that a lot of their stuff isn't that expensive. *00:00* Like Kingdom Hearts 3 is like on the same level as Kingdom Hearts 2 for him, which I disagree with. *00:00* For me. *00:00* But I digress. *00:00* Uh the the the teaser at the end of Kingdom Hearts 2 final mix. *00:00* But I still think it it was still a j like a plenty good game. *00:00* I mean I'd be down. *00:00* Uh I really want um that I I I don't think I've any told anyone uh I don't think I've t well I know that you don't know, but uh *00:00* sad or mad or maybe happy. *00:00* But yeah, and then other things, I mean I got the new Mario Switch, very happy about that. *00:00* And display very, very nicely. *00:00* And cause Winnie the Pooh is like my like Toy Story is like my favorite movie, but Winnie the Pooh is my favorite Disney property. *00:00* In the end, we both just really care about something. *00:00* Always aware of those series and then uh I got a PS3 Christmas 2011. *00:00* me to Jol is is not his his past sins or even his current ones, because he's not a no no one in that world is good or perfect. *00:00* Arthur's a bad dude, right? *00:00* And that whole game is about his redemption toward society and this group and have redemption *00:00* Cause I don't think he does. *00:00* He was a protector or provider to this community, a beloved member of it. *00:00* Like I I get I I I think it's just cause like and I get I get like how they structure with the narrative and it's just like and maybe that's just cause like why I'm just like so negative about it is just I see what they're trying to do and *00:00* credit there and that's why I like the game. *00:00* And how you try and make them see the normalcies of what society used to be *00:00* And they explore that in also in the TV show as well. *00:00* s say like the different kinds of emotions that I experienced throughout that season. *00:00* This is this is wild. *00:00* You're the only other person I personally know who actually got a pre-order. *00:00* Cause cause so last year I emulated two games and I don't want to emulate any more games *00:00* Yeah, I'd be I take it right now. *00:00* Uh the the two thing the two console I've like thought about getting is one a PS3 because there are some games on the P that are like still stuck on the PS3 that I'm like oh please port these games *00:00* Yeah. *00:00* It originally was on limited run, so that wasn't that wasn't uh too bad either. *00:00* Do you so the value of the games. *00:00* Uh I I spent uh uh or I'm not gonna say uh uh but like I went on eBay to see alright alright, let's see how much this is. *00:00* A villain, or like he's a bad guy, but like I understood where he was coming from, like his his point of view, his mentality. *00:00* One very much shows that Kingdom Hearts 3 should have came out later. *00:00* It just really the moment that broke me was when Sora died, and you just see *00:00* Really does. *00:00* Like Sora's stuff could have been there without actually playing as Sora. *00:00* I've got my Wind Waker Wii U still and on the box and all that stuff. *00:00* Nice. *00:00* Uh but but uh yeah and then oh yeah one yeah uh one E3 they did the the Funko booth had like a treasure chest it was like the treasure chest from Kingdom Hearts and it came with a shirt *00:00* the Uncharted 3 bundle. *00:00* Anyway, I went Christmas Day borrowed Uncharted One from a friend's house. *00:00* of like completely switching the protagonist on you and shifting expectations, especially if you didn't have part two spoiled. *00:00* Hey like but like oh Ellie didn't give consent and I'm like y'all like I don't even like this game that much and I know that *00:00* And I like that for him. *00:00* w in what it resulted in for him personally. *00:00* things to dissect about that game and the characters and the decisions and things like that. *00:00* Here's you know, in the first game's like here's this little girl who has no idea how to function in to survive in this world, right? *00:00* How'd you get that gig, dude? *00:00* Um it I don't know, it's just it's just wild. *00:00* I'm explaining my point. *00:00* Make the price increase instead of it gen like generally going up over time because every time there's a price increase people complain *00:00* Yeah. *00:00* But yeah, I never realized that platinum had shot up in price. *00:00* And I guess I was too into it. *00:00* Very nice. *00:00* One that got away, I guess. *00:00* Yeah, balancing and like triggers. *00:00* I get like a weird I don't think it's weird actually. *00:00* I don't know, I just feel really good about it and you you've got a ton of stuff. *00:00* I was just I was just like and there it was the first game they were doing the the game the Game Boy color like uh stuff and I was just like *00:00* And that just that's just life, you know what I mean? *00:00* The movie. *00:00* I just thought the wrap-up wasn't it didn't we have a soft reboot. *00:00* super evil force that needed to like die. *00:00* It's like I I get what you're saying in like bringing in the mo like a mobile game to to to the end of you know for Kingdom Hearts 3. *00:00* No, no, none of it sealed. *00:00* I don't know. *00:00* I love my way. *00:00* I feel I I I feel like this much cooler for owning them, you know, it's one of those things. *00:00* E3 twenty seventeen I think it was no, it would have been twenty sixteen. *00:00* So I found someone on Etsy who did a like who tried to do a reproduction of that ex that specific plush. *00:00* And I just said this is the best I'm gonna get. *00:00* I'm still not entirely sure, but this might be my favorite thing out of my entire collection of everything. *00:00* They look so nice. *00:00* Put the narrative and the gameplay in my hands as much as possible instead of taking things away from me. *00:00* But I just that's what I've always been drawn to and the people there and how they do it. *00:00* And I think they play really well. *00:00* Don't no no no like okay No, not to the same degree *00:00* trust and things like that with uh Joel and Ellie. *00:00* Yeah. *00:00* And I remember I specifically asked him in the QA at the end, because at the time he was the MVC host. *00:00* games, statues, music, all of it. *00:00* Um and that series uh that's a that's a quadrology that just ended um with uh Trails in the Sky 4 that came out last year. *00:00* A lot of visual like a lot of the battles are like visual like metaphors, you know what I mean? *00:00* There's basically a battle Yeah, I know, so good. *00:00* All hail roxes. *00:00* No. *00:00* Like and and so I a lot of people are theorizing that this next Kingdom Hearts game is going to be basically Dream Drop Distance 2, where you not particularly where it's the same mechanics, but you switch between Sora and Riku. *00:00* is finding his redemption or redemption in some way. *00:00* Influenced by that, but separate. *00:00* With The Walking Dead more is that like I think that they play with the setting more than um *00:00* At IGN. *00:00* And like now I am kind of a part of that and it's you know, granted it's temporary and you know, granted I want to work for IGN one day, I hope to be like *00:00* They had to do that because it's the most they know it's the most popular library, the most popular, the one people want to play on it the most. *00:00* I I don't yeah, he's so lucky. *00:00* Okay, okay. *00:00* It's easy to point at and make fun of, especially if you don't know anybody all you've played is one and two, really easy. *00:00* Ev like it evolved into a keyblade, you know, like his like his weapon evolved into a keyblade. *00:00* Even like if you think about the context outside of the Last of Us story with Joel, like he has done some super f before meeting Ellie. *00:00* The way that they played with I think the reason why I I I vibe with um *00:00* I'm like, oh thank God. *00:00* 5, 2. *00:00* Nice. *00:00* The Xenoblade series is wild. *00:00* It's nice. *00:00* Yeah. *00:00* I'm just like, dog, like I don't know. *00:00* But yeah, I I'll I'll yeah but overall Naughty Dog just like I I I really like I really like the Jack series. *00:00* Because she knew the answer. *00:00* I think that's a lot of it. *00:00* Thank you, Max. *00:00* Yeah. *00:00* So it's weird. *00:00* But yeah, sure. *00:01* But yeah, you know, yeah, it's it it's it's just crazy like, um yeah, uh but exactly you said, like there's just so many people that I just like *00:01* I've always wanted leaf green. *00:01* Like, that is why Entei's my favorite Pokemon. *00:01* It's dangerous though. *00:01* What did you what did like were you upset that like 3D All-Stars was $60? *00:01* You can find more of my writing over here at maxfrequency. *00:01* Yeah. *00:01* Right. *00:01* I if he had w was the world too far gone, yes, I think. *00:01* That's good. *00:01* I don't want Groudon. *00:01* Japanese online shopping to get those uh downloads. *00:01* Um, but yeah, it was just one of those things where uh sh he uh he was like, Oh, you want to continue your training? *00:01* Dude, that's the And the box. *00:01* 5 steelbook, like I oh I know. *00:01* It's it's absurd. *00:01* Wii. *00:01* For for those that are listening, like me and Ma this is like probably the first like real convert like in-depth conversation that me and Max have ever had, even though we've known each other for like well over a year at this point. *00:01* That was after. *00:01* Oh which is is still like super humbling and and crazy that that that that was um almost a thing *00:01* It's like, oh, go to the like there's always that one place on a map where you don't want to go to deliver s *00:01* And then they're like, hey, you know that place you just went you just came from? *00:01* I'm familiar with that that feeling. *00:01* Yeah. *00:01* You know what I mean? *00:01* Yeah, Kingdom Hearts 3 PS4 Pro. *00:01* We really kinda hit everything I wanted to talk about with you, 'cause like you said at the top of the show, we've never actually *00:01* But it's it's his His own redemption in a way like similar-ish to Arthur Morgan. *00:01* It's just messy and it's not so black and white he's a villain or he's a good guy. *00:01* Cameron Hawkins. *00:01* I even met Ryan on the tour, talked to him about Tesla. *00:01* I just I like the look of it and I was like, I'm gonna get that. *00:01* Yes. *00:01* How big of a card do you have? *00:01* I don't agree with this. *00:01* Like way more. *00:01* I I also just feel like that the enemies and like just the combat wasn't as intuitive as Kingdom Hearts 2. *00:01* I had a really good time talking with you, Cam. *00:01* Um what is that like you just hop on and you guys talk on Discord? *00:01* So gotta go with your gut. *00:01* Yeah, you just gotta you just gotta keep that mentality. *00:01* Yeah, they just not a part of my history. *00:01* But all my games are actually in the closet. *00:01* Yeah. *00:01* That was my understanding was it was it took place in that time period. *00:01* Oh yeah. *00:01* Fates doesn't, but that's different. *00:01* He robs her of that choice and he he says even at the end that you could do it all again, he'd do it again. *00:01* Phenomenal. *00:01* That's like the I need the hat trick, you know what I mean? *00:01* Like you know, people are like, oh I loved you when you're on the show before. *00:01* I almost picked they had fire red and leafy in there. *00:01* I know Scott. *00:01* Um so I have thankfully my buddy has a PS3 and I currently am borrowing it because I had a bar I was borrowing it to get into um *00:01* It's a great game. *00:01* Okay, here's something that I'm actually curious about just because we kinda like I don't know, we we're kind of like one of those people that think about value a lot. *00:01* Yeah. *00:01* Oh, so there is a cutscene at the end of Melody of Memory that basically sets up the next game. *00:01* 5 pin. *00:01* Yeah. *00:01* I don't have the system, but I have the box. *00:01* I had the first class edition pre-ordered, but um it got close to PAX East and I needed the money, so I had to cancel my pre-order. *00:01* What they yeah, what they represent about them. *00:01* They just their fun romps uncharted. *00:01* When credits hit, I was just like, oh, I was playing as the bad guy this entire time. *00:01* But I don't think our time never overlapped. *00:01* You also get a flow for those hosts. *00:01* The other thing specifically, well, there are three things, because it's we have a list. *00:01* Or okay, that's not true. *00:01* And one time I got lucky on uh Goodwill's uh auction site and found a a busted three sixty *00:01* But it'd be fun. *00:01* You're like, I hate it. *00:01* And Chain. *00:01* It's the same mentality. *00:01* Um just it just it didn't stick the landing. *00:01* Yes, absolutely. *00:01* Wii U. *00:01* Um Naughty Dog So growing up I didn't have PlayStation. *00:01* I played through Uncharted one on my CRT TV, not even in H D, uh, in one day, one sitting, all of Uncharted. *00:01* Smuggling and murdering people and surviving? *00:01* Like like you made it. *00:01* So that didn't really make a whole it was regarding the whole uh price increase for for Xbox Live Gold *00:01* Most of it has been super positive, uh, which is uh great. *00:01* Yeah, I I would I would say that I enjoyed pac my my time at PAX West uh in when I went in 20 uh 2019. *00:01* No choice. *00:01* I still have my Ruby to this day. *00:01* Yeah, you can follow me on Twitter at CamfinalMix and uh I stream on Twitch on uh twitch. *00:01* So like when like everything that happens to Joel in the second game, I'm like he had a fing coming, are you kidding me? *00:01* Uh you know, so back um, you know, and part of it is part of it was like a last year was a lot to do with George Floyd. *00:01* Do you when you get the the negative stuff, do you just auto block or mute I I'm a mute person myself, but like or do you just *00:01* And I was just like that decision for this, dude! *00:01* Oh, that sucks. *00:01* I still have. *00:01* Yeah, and then like my last things to to nerd out about Kingdom Hearts 3 PS4 Pro. *00:01* I think that'll wrap it up. *00:01* I just want it. *00:01* But then but then late like uh last year I like I saved up and got the prop like another Vita and I got the best one. *00:01* And I haven't even finished it. *00:01* Yeah. *00:01* I mean, like N64. *00:01* Oh my god. *00:01* I don't think the I think that they should have uh I I know that it's a new Kingdom Hearts game, so they like you know they traditionally do an like new mechanics, but *00:01* I I haven't played it, but like as of you know, until I do play it, it's awakening. *00:01* I know you do. *00:01* I think it's still your pinned tweet, correct? *00:01* Jose Otero. *00:01* Yeah, and now and then the backlash was so severe this time. *00:01* Yeah, so but um yeah so that series I'm really looking uh I'm very happy about. *00:01* And m personally my favorite is Birth by Sleep. *00:01* Honestly, depending on the day, I'm with you. *00:01* Anyway, that was the big Breath of the Wild year, and Brendan Graber, uh IGN, the wikis guy, he grabbed me one of the Zelda coins and mailed it to me. *00:01* They were teasing it and stuff and it looked good. *00:01* That was the thing that I listen to all the time. *00:01* So I actually haven't like I haven't really gotten any uh DMs on Twitter saying like you suck, f you, any or sorry, F you or anything like that, but um but I do uh *00:01* I really like I god, I want to go to a con so bad. *00:01* I just got the the game and the uh the the the actual system in the in the in the dock um smart. *00:01* But like for the PS TV, knowing how little I was going to use it, but still wanted it because of certain, you know, very specific factors. *00:01* It's yeah, it's a second a second party uh sort of because it's on PC now. *00:01* I'm I'm totally open to it, and eventually I feel like I'll play, you know, you get that itch to go and play the games again, and I'm sure that'll happen eventually. *00:01* Yeah. *00:01* But when we left for our honeymoon, her family moved all of our all of her stuff to our new apartment. *00:01* Um also part of me wants to buy just the case for Xenoblade Chronicles 2 because the Collector's Edition didn't come with the normal case. *00:01* Like I know what what issues I need to work on as as a co-host um with my communication skills and that's you know I don't need I don't need other people's like *00:02* That's really cool I always thought was cool as a kid. *00:02* It was the reason it's the reason why I play video games to this day. *00:02* They only had Pokemon Ruby. *00:02* That's like my goal. *00:02* This is $35 now. *00:02* It's yeah. *00:02* Like I don't I don't know how much you hated Kingdom Hearts 3. *00:02* Or not even with like the the the the the original story stuff. *00:02* No. *00:02* So Really, I I don't hate it. *00:02* Uh very uh very uh Kingdom Heartsy, um and uh basically like *00:02* Dang. *00:02* Yeah, so what sho show me show me what's your most prized possession? *00:02* What a masterpiece. *00:02* That went by yeah, that went back in stock the day before my birthday, so I was just like I was just like rip my rip my credit card, the Stimmy's coming, I'm gonna buy this. *00:02* It's like there's just so much to think about and digest with that game. *00:02* F absolutely phenomenal. *00:02* But that's part of why I wanted to have you on the show was so we could actually talk together. *00:02* Like, that's why like I do want to go well, I mean, I won't go on a podcast just so I can chat with people, but also it helps my speaking, my communication skills. *00:02* Get it soldered. *00:02* The Yeah. *00:02* Yeah, which let's talk like that's a whole nother conversation about like how much I had to pay for a fing memory card. *00:02* First first hot take of the night, like out of I wouldn't call I wouldn't call it's not a f first party developed game, but I would say like after Persona 5 Royal *00:02* You really especially fusion, zero mission, even Super Metroid. *00:02* Here's one thing I actually want to ask you really quick. *00:02* Oh Wii U. *00:02* It's so good. *00:02* I may have had a two by then, but it it was twenty tenths, probably. *00:02* I think the game goes on for way too long. *00:02* I don't know. *00:02* Then you then uh yeah, you were gone, but like you were still in the Discord. *00:02* They'd bring me back in and they'd kick me out. *00:02* It happened the same day where I had like this flare-up because I'm asthmatic and I had to go to the ER to like uh get oxygen. *00:02* Exactly. *00:02* She knew the answer this time around. *00:02* Practice makes perfect. *00:02* Why do you have the manual but not the box? *00:02* So so almost every time I'm like trying to like I really want to play this game, but it's like on the system's like emulate it. *00:02* It's like I hardly use it, but I'm so happy I have it. *00:02* I I very much am like, buy it now is the price good best offer. *00:02* I do, but like you can but it's very hard to get right. *00:02* Like I under I got the gist, but I didn't fully understand it. *00:02* It's a thing. *00:02* 5 2. *00:02* I just I just I just I just uh think that the s the story feels very shoehorned based off of like everything that we've known up to that point with with Nathan's characters like oh he has a brother now? *00:02* Uh you're on Twitter at Cam Final Mix. *00:02* Wow. *00:02* Like I'm explaining all the reasons as to why I think this. *00:02* And that was my first episode on the on the show once I got like as the temporary host gig. *00:02* I live in a very small apartment. *00:02* I would rather just like, hey, I have this game, it's mine now, I don't have to worry about anything else, you know, that type of thing. *00:02* I think it's definitely like a major improvement on on Sony's controllers because I think I've always thought like DualShock, it's not great. *00:02* Yeah, the ending was very anime tropey, one hundred percent. *00:02* Like I recently played 13 Sentinels, like last year, and I I enjoyed that game, but I could not give you the lowdown on what that like on uh like beat for beat story points because I'm just like *00:02* It's very good. *00:02* Oh, you don't have it sealed. *00:02* And I'm like, uh w it it's because of the pin though. *00:02* My Kingdom Hearts 3 pins are still in my deluxe edition. *00:02* I've got um here's the thing. *00:02* So when I have my collection, I have all the Xenoblade Chronicle games except for two, like in the normal cases. *00:02* I'm sure it's coming though. *00:02* Because it came out like eight years ago. *00:02* I don't think he does. *00:02* I feel like 2018. *00:02* The answer's not there and we do not look up the answers beforehand. *00:02* 'Cause at least like I remember when Max and Brian joined Beyond and there was not *00:02* I needed something consistent, at least on a monthly basis, to you know, keep this my voice and being able to talk and all that stuff fresh. *00:02* Yeah, I was like scared because like why won't it let me check out? *00:02* Um, so during uh so Square Enix has their playcai arts line or they still have it, but Kingdom Hearts does bring arts now, which are like smaller uh figures *00:02* And once we got to Kingdom Hearts 3, uh, which I don't agree to the sick same degree, but like *00:02* And I love the deck building and chain of memories. *00:02* And then Which is so good. *00:02* What we we live in Florida, we had Disney passes back when we had these pin, you know, pin collars and we trade and stuff. *00:02* Yeah, I think Uncharted Three is the best Uncharted. *00:02* But you can't buy them. *00:02* Oh they are? *00:02* Here you go. *00:02* Yeah, yeah. *00:02* Yeah. *00:02* But they but they had to put Sora in there because it's Sora. *00:02* I had to buy the chirothy. *00:02* I remember working with her all the time. *00:02* I know Tim Geddes got one. *00:02* It's so it's gorgeous. *00:02* And then I also bought red rescue team for Game Boy Advance in case I wanted to stream it. *00:02* I don't care. *00:02* I technically haven't played uh Ultra Sun or Ultra Moon either, but every other Pokemon game I've played. *00:02* Yeah. *00:02* So last year I decided uh when Origami King, Paper Mario the Origami King got announced, I was just like, I'm going to stream through all the Paper Mario games. *00:02* Just give it to me. *00:02* Yeah, it's just like ten dollars, I think I've seen somewhere. *00:02* And Interesting. *00:02* There's technically 14 games in the series that have come that are like uh that are stateside, I would say, specifically *00:02* It's uh I remember I got the Famicom Game Boy Micro. *00:02* And here's the thing, it doesn't they say that it was it was opened, it doesn't even look opened. *00:02* So like with uh Frozen, right? *00:02* What? *00:02* And I haven't I haven't played since. *00:02* Yeah, collections, you know, after a 30-minute uh Kingdom Hearts uh three conversation. *00:02* We've never done a one-on-one shot. *00:02* Okay. *00:02* It's it r like I honestly think it's better than the first season. *00:02* And you can follow me at maxroberts143 and go to maxfrequency. *00:02* Dude, I don't fing know. *00:02* And uh so I've been on the show, I wanna say, for like at least two months now, and I think I have at least two more weeks left, like two more episodes left. *00:02* I don't know anyone else off the top of my head, but I just vividly remember both of them tweeting out that they were like trying to get it. *00:02* So I never played like any of the Mystery Dungeon games. *00:02* So uh like like uh once I'm done I'm currently streaming Neer Automata, but once I'm done with Neerotomata, I'm gonna start streaming through all the mainline Ratchet and Clank games. *00:02* Because I kinda like when I when I stream through a series, I like to be able to stream all of them. *00:02* And there's a lot of them. *00:02* Like it was like a bad breakup and you're just like, I hate Kingdom Heart. *00:02* Literally, everyone who says that, at this point, it was just someone I don't even know. *00:02* Like basically like Master Cid was like, Hey like um come on. *00:02* It's the best game that originally launched on the 3DS, if you ask me. *00:02* Which is uh something I would never have expected to uh I I did not expect that game to be in my top ten last year. *00:02* If uh you know here's the thing, I like I like the last of us part two for all the wrong reasons. *00:02* It's not short for Maxwell or Maximus or anything. *00:02* This is wild. *00:02* It is. *00:02* Yeah, it's one one two right now. *00:02* But I got black, uh the dock. *00:02* So when I So when I it came to uh you know like Entei, my favorite Pokemon ever, is because I think he's the coolest looking Pokemon. *00:02* I've realized that I should have just bought all the Pokemon games even if I couldn't play them because apparently they're worth the hundreds and hundreds of dollars. *00:02* You know what I mean? *00:02* You could really do some interesting stuff with the tension. *00:02* Yeah, no feel. *00:02* Yeah. *00:02* I was on board. *00:02* You just you have to build your deck and customize it. *00:02* So I'd be fine with that. *00:02* I guess like I guess just uh just like the way it's executed for for like is what makes you find him so compelling. *00:02* But it's it's it's interesting to hear that Twitter's actually been fairly nice. *00:02* I've never got it. *00:02* We've really been d dancing around it, but just you and I both collect a ton of stuff. *00:02* I was like, ah, surely someone will outbid me and then I won't feel bad about spending $110. *00:02* And like I could I can always buy I can buy those things back later. *00:02* It didn't. *00:02* Who are these? *00:02* So my the those two Kingdom Heart pins, I still have the 2. *00:02* To share that story with as many people as possible. *00:02* Um that's awesome. *00:02* I wanna Yeah. *00:02* It's like uh it's like how a lot it's actually how a lot of people uh do like higher production uh *00:02* Like there's been this conversation that like Game Pass is so good for its value that eventually they're gonna have to raise the price. *00:02* But yeah, I was explaining like all the all the reasons. *00:02* And she's like, just get to the point. *00:02* Oh yeah. *00:02* There's so include all the spin-offs and stuff. *00:02* I'm glad we're on the same page there. *00:02* Okay. *00:02* I remember PS4 not launch night, you know, they tease it. *00:02* Cam Hawkins. *00:02* We have a producer that uh that like does like a clean feed and like a uh we like record through we've been recording through VMix uh current like recently *00:02* Yeah, I made like yeah, you know, I I I'm here like y'all hating like *00:02* Yes, it's major, but just do it one time and then you don't have to worry about it for like another ten years instead of like *00:02* I put I picked up Pokemon Blue. *00:02* Yeah, uh Emerald is the one Pokemon game that I'd never played. *00:02* Huh? *00:02* Like I I I'm like 30 hours in on and I'm like on chapter three still. *00:02* Like for example, like uh so so what this is is um uh it's for those that are *00:02* Because the thing that sucks about the Remind DLC is like the first half of it is basically a retrend of like the first half of the the Keyblade graveyard. *00:02* No, that was awesome. *00:02* Riku's my favorite video game character, period. *00:02* 5 uh limit limited edition because I want that pen. *00:02* Um like I think that like cause the way 'cause the you know, it uh the it's very different *00:02* Um, you know, and then I uh I was supposed to uh be selected for TGA uh TGA's future class, but I *00:02* Yeah, I should have gone with my gut. *00:02* So part of me like part of me wants to know what people think and then the but the majority is like I don't care I'm here *00:02* I used to do a weekly podcast with Logan Moore for two, three years. *00:02* Like Groudon's ugly. *00:02* I know I only show off my my crystal and my uh oh it was on the right side. *00:02* Which is why I like the analog systems. *00:02* Granted, like I'm gonna try and play some games in between that because I don't want to get burnt out, but that is my goal. *00:02* So uh so yeah, so I have to use the PS3 and get uh some pre-owned copy of Tools of Destruction *00:02* Like it's it's such a that game is such a like masochistic experience for me because you just have those *00:02* Like I I I want like I think the rumor mill has been turning that for a bit. *00:02* So Well there's I mean we Wii U We GameCube like Well it was it was *00:02* Like it's just like it's just like one of those like maybe it's just growing up as a Game Boy kid. *00:02* Um so they d for Kingdom Hearts uh for Kingdom Hearts uh play arts they did *00:02* Yeah, so it it's also easy to make fun of it, all of it, for the naming conventions. *00:02* Um it's uh basically you find out like the name of the city uh that Sora and Riku are in uh which I think is called uh quadratum. *00:02* That's the one thing I need. *00:02* I got I have 'em all. *00:02* But like Shadows of Valentia, art book. *00:02* And I was just like, you're coming back up with me. *00:02* So so they're technically just cases that you just open. *00:02* Yeah, exactly. *00:02* And the way my my family gave it to me was it was actually not wrapped at all. *00:02* So or like you know that I got this opportunity. *00:03* It really is. *00:03* Cause it wasn't okay, because the thing is that the recipient wasn't like the Game Awards or Jeff Keeley or like it was it was like some random name *00:03* Like I would still love to be on Beyond Here and There. *00:03* The only one I want to stream them. *00:03* It is so good. *00:03* You could throw us a bone. *00:03* 280 bucks. *00:03* Okay, like I don't I don't want to get deep into this conversation because this was the conversation I was dreading to have during this podcast. *00:03* Like, does that make sense? *00:03* I get it. *00:03* You do. *00:03* Yeah, that's cool. *00:03* Like I I legitimately think that like I think that game has one of the best endings to a video game. *00:03* Um, but yeah, some of them I had to buy from Japan though. *00:03* Yeah, this was great. *00:03* Like there's you know in the in the specific sc oh god, it's so it's so hard to talk about without going into spoilers, but like *00:03* Yeah, exactly. *00:03* But the kicker cam is the cards, they made me shred them. *00:03* But then not even the trilogy. *00:03* I turned it off and it still it still wasn't working. *00:03* Because limited run games sometime go to Best Buy. *00:03* Nintendo's believe it. *00:03* I might do it. *00:03* And like they um like they said like oh you can you can do Toy Story but then you have to do this. *00:03* Um especially after Especially after Dream Drop, like come on now. *00:03* Okay. *00:03* That's like trap is X the one that is like prob I think that's like the last major *00:03* It will forever be there, chillin'. *00:03* I'm so excited, dog. *00:03* So I was just like but I was like, you know, at that point in my life, Pokemon Crystal *00:03* Um I have the box too. *00:03* And I think he gave it to me for like $90. *00:03* Yeah, exactly. *00:03* Like in that I'm only two games in. *00:03* Most most Nintendo consoles, home consoles, are not backward compatible. *00:03* There's like a battle with uh without going into uh story spoilers, there's a battle with like *00:03* I do hope they uh make the comeback. *00:03* Haven't been around that that wheelhouse for a long time. *00:03* Granted, they want people on Game Pass, that's their goal. *00:03* I'm going into the nit like sure I'm getting into the nitty-gritty, but like I'm just like I'm just trying to explain my mindset here. *00:03* So uh yeah, so we I have a retro store in Reno, um, but yeah, their inventory's always like not good. *00:03* Like it was very like bland in that sense. *00:03* Like there were moments that like I had I was I was *00:03* Okay. *00:03* But um They look good. *00:03* So a lot of the pages corners were like crunched. *00:03* Yeah, these might might be my favorite thing in my collection. *00:03* I need I need the Yeah, you get all three. *00:03* You've got Ryan, Miranda, Destin came back this week. *00:03* I know that they're not connected in any way, but I just like this is this is a good reason for me to do me to play through *00:03* It's just like, oh, this new game from a series that I've always wanted to get into is coming out at whatever point this year. *00:03* That's more criminal to me than Ratchet and Clank. *00:03* Yeah, exactly. *00:03* Once you have them purchased on the PS3, you just go to your download list on your Vita and it's there. *00:03* It's dangerous too though, because you spent you spend a lot of money, like you spent a lot of money. *00:03* Um but yeah, so this this isn't like my favorite piece in my collection, I would say, but it is definitely one that I cherish the most. *00:03* I don't I definitely don't know. *00:03* I grew up on like the Game Boy Playing uh battle network, Mega Man Battle Network 3. *00:03* Yeah, like I I I I think the g you know, my some of my issues like in general, like *00:03* I'm sure it's coming. *00:03* I'm like, so but granted, the one I got right, you know, she did not get right, so *00:03* I still have the manual and the box. *00:03* And then Super Metroids on, you know, everywhere. *00:03* I'll I'll send you a picture later, but I've I've got them all on shelves and stuff. *00:03* So like I have um by my shelf I have a a m mostly sealed copy of Ocarina of Time on the N64. *00:03* You know what I mean? *00:03* It you know, your is it play arts or chi arts? *00:03* Nothing in gaming was more hype than that trailer. *00:03* I just I think I was more disappointed with three than I thought I would be. *00:03* 5 pin. *00:03* And so I always try to look at someone's name and introduce them with their actual name. *00:03* It your experience actually reminds me a lot of my wiki experience. *00:03* Exactly. *00:03* And uh but I but that was just the cartridge. *00:03* Yeah. *00:03* Um sorry, this is so good. *00:03* And she was willing to do it. *00:03* These were only in ja these were only released in Japan. *00:03* That was like the Spike T V T game awards, right? *00:03* I in particular do really enjoy the stealth in The Last of Us and Uncharted IV and Part Two and *00:03* Um just again, I I had a really great time talking with you, Cam. *00:03* Um and then uh which was great and then um I got onto uh Beyond because I'd started like interacting with uh *00:03* And it's just like cause you know, like again, like that inside gaming gig was 100% like Autumn Feral. *00:03* She does like I think she who does like stuff for a hundred thieves now *00:03* I do I do that a lot when I tell stories or do anything. *00:03* Like if you don't like if you don't like listening to you know if you don't like listening to this specific person, like granted, like we're we're a group, so that's different. *00:03* It is. *00:03* So I have it incomplete now. *00:03* Nice. *00:03* Like you can download them, but you can't buy them off the Vita? *00:03* Like he just didn't because he had a diff there's I believe that. *00:03* Birth by Sleep. *00:03* Lost to the wind. *00:03* It's still cool. *00:03* I made a trip out to San Francisco. *00:03* That's really really cool, yeah. *00:03* That's so uh for all my DS games, I actually would take the manuals out of the box and I put them in an old C D *00:03* Um, so uh, so for me, I was like, oh, I can't wait to get Kyogre, like Sapphire, so cool. *00:03* Yeah, because I didn't grow up with PS1. *00:03* You can start with Legend of Heroes, technically Legend of Heroes 6, which is uh Trails of Cold uh Trails in the Sky. *00:03* It's so well written. *00:03* It there's some things you're just like, yeah, I'm glad I still have this. *00:03* Yeah, that's you see him and all that stuff. *00:03* Yeah. *00:03* That's cool. *00:03* College needed money. *00:03* So that's you know that's what collections are for. *00:03* Yeah. *00:03* And that was their goal, this active cinematic experience, and putting as much of the gameplay in the story on *00:03* He's a protector. *00:03* I don't really care though. *00:03* And I think it's really good that you've adopted that of just staying away from it, because I think that's unhealthy to be deeply engaged with all that stuff. *00:03* Oh he did? *00:03* You have to copy from the PS3. *00:03* How big of a member card do you have? *00:03* I I I get immense satisfaction finding and completing things. *00:03* You know, you're out, you're on eBay. *00:03* I had chills. *00:03* I understand where the narrative is, but there are people who played Kingdom Hearts two and then just played three. *00:03* And that's why I really connect with this uh with his character. *00:03* Um could tell pretty early though that that's kinda where they were gonna go. *00:03* Like I'm just like I feel like six chapters of that game could have been cut. *00:03* Cause for me it's just like I'm one of those people that I'm like I I didn't think Joel was the villain until *00:03* Like, no offense to the Camerons out there, but I'm just like, I don't know. *00:03* Granted, all these were like six to ten dollars. *00:03* I think it's stayed the same. *00:03* Like you know what I mean? *00:03* I was like, yeah, time travel. *00:03* Why does he look like Roxus? *00:03* Um despite its uh missteps, um a lot of people like to *00:03* It's good. *00:03* So these are the Winnie the Pooh Kingdom Hearts books. *00:03* Um and so I was like when I saw these I like told her about 'em and then she got 'em for me. *00:03* And I open my eyes and on the table in front of me is the PS3 with Uncharted. *00:03* I was just it was like eating popcorn. *00:03* This this this sort of like recognition that um people have for me like that people have is just like for me is just so insane and I because I'm just like *00:03* Oh, okay, okay. *00:03* I'll I sh I actually shared this story on the last episode. *00:03* It was it was a very good deal. *00:03* That's how I played Metal Gear Solid 2. *00:03* So so I basically was just like, okay, I have everything that I want on my like on my Vita now. *00:03* I bought the normal like just standard edition of the Game Boy version. *00:03* Those are all Switch games that I Are you a big physical person? *00:03* They always like the Fire Emblem Collector's Editions are always so good. *00:03* Because I had it as a kid, but I got I sold it at some point, but I still have the box. *00:03* I I l I love talking. *00:03* Like everyone does bad things, but I think that like but like I think that people I don't know. *00:03* Cowboys rob, murder, beat people. *00:03* Yeah, and also just like how how they like *00:03* Like, you know, I honestly any of the podcasts would be great, but you know, Xbox I would think is is just *00:04* And I I remember waiting for that email *00:04* Well, okay. *00:04* And I don't think people get that. *00:04* Yeah, I still think about it uh every once in a while I'm like Brendan why *00:04* Uh get it properly replaced right before, uh like you know, uh before the analog pocket comes out. *00:04* Uh um and but then he moved uh to Carson because he lives in Carson and he opened up his own shop. *00:04* My you might you'll appreciate this. *00:04* So I ordered the reprint. *00:04* They're all like over over here. *00:04* And it was they said it was pre-owned, but they said that it's only been out of box literally to take pictures. *00:04* Yeah. *00:04* Did you play the Remind DLC? *00:04* Like And then Dream Drop. *00:04* The one the one I missed was the Dream Drop Distance uh collection. *00:04* Oh my well, my fiance bought the chirothy one for me for Valentine's Day. *00:04* How how do you check that? *00:04* And usually people don't like change. *00:04* And exactly. *00:04* Like you could you know there could be some improvement there. *00:04* At a store. *00:04* I made a Japanese iTunes account to play it when it launched in Japan. *00:04* Depend like it's it's definitely but for me, it's definitely between the Xbox series uh uh the Xbox *00:04* I know that we were kind of doing our plugs already, but like that's something I was like, wait a minute. *00:04* Uh I I don't know if you remembered me in twenty nineteen, like *00:04* It did, right? *00:04* Like it's it's it's modeled like a Game Boy Color or a Game Boy *00:04* My parents thought I was being obsessive. *00:04* I still have Ranger. *00:04* I was like eight years old, picking up uh one like very excited to pick up Pokemon uh Pokemon Sapphire. *00:04* Hey, uh hey, I've hardly played any Zelda games. *00:04* No. *00:04* Like, why would you why no? *00:04* Have you like have you looked at like even a general a general price? *00:04* That that's that's fair. *00:04* That was an awesome moment. *00:04* Yeah, it didn't stick the landing. *00:04* Which and I and that was like at launch. *00:04* So I So I just bought I bought that. *00:04* We always just tweet back and forth and maybe have been on a call with a bunch of other people together. *00:04* And we had a really great conversation about it. *00:04* Like and they can the and they confirm that in part two. *00:04* I think my last name is really cool. *00:04* It's all fine. *00:04* How do you know who I am? *00:04* Should've went with my gut. *00:04* Th that's why I started this show, 'cause I was recording a a different project *00:04* Yeah, I think Alex Van Aken got one if you know who Alex Van Aken is. *00:04* It's gorgeous. *00:04* Then three of the four Ratchet and Clank games. *00:04* Yeah, I w I kinda want to know like what you have because like this is um because I I *00:04* And then there's uh a duology that never came out west, but it does have an unofficial localization that has been highly *00:04* Like I need money. *00:04* Because no one knows what they're gonna do. *00:04* It's good. *00:04* You prefer Cam, right? *00:04* It is you know, you just kinda have that rush and you learn and you meet all these people. *00:04* Um sometimes it it's hard for me to to find the right words, which is why I write a lot because *00:04* Great, great to see you back. *00:04* I almost I was going to pick up both of them, but then they said how much they cost and I was like, okay, we'll just get one too. *00:04* And they ported most of the games that actually matter on the Wii U onto Switch already. *00:04* Oh, that that one game star. *00:04* Like it put it puts you there. *00:04* But Riku really I Riku does deserve a game, especially 'cause he got *00:04* That's the one thing I need and I'm just like wait hold on. *00:04* So that's cool. *00:04* Like I t I like I I get people I get people whether it be from dual shock, like even when we're like dual shockers of the thing, like *00:04* How do you fill those shoes? *00:04* But I understand that completely. *00:04* Like he used to be like a five minute drive from my house actually, which was really, really nice. *00:04* I th 'cause I've been buying Game Boy games that I've always wanted because of the pocket. *00:04* Actually send me the link to that because I've been looking for something to strip that. *00:04* Okay. *00:04* But yeah, so like once everything comes in, I'll have like all of the Shantae games on Switch. *00:04* Oh my god. *00:04* Nintendo's been sitting on uh their Switch Prime trilogy for a while. *00:04* I might buy a second copy of 3D All Stars. *00:04* I was like, no, I don't want Bon Ripper f *00:04* Um but I need the 1. *00:04* And I just really am attached *00:04* And I think the last of us uh *00:04* She's actually from Florida, which is where I live. *00:04* It's like everyone has one. *00:04* We agree. *00:04* I'm gonna stream it via PS TV, which I'm very happy I have with PSTV. *00:04* Give me that when it comes to like the walking and the balance especially when you're *00:04* You piecemeal the GameCube one? *00:04* It didn't make meet expectations for anyone. *00:04* Yeah. *00:04* Um it should. *00:04* Oh yeah. *00:04* I I don't know. *00:04* I don't know. *00:04* Um I always have my eyes peeled. *00:04* Yeah, exactly. *00:04* And I I like having it on the shelf, you know, I like having that game next to Odyssey and uh 3D world and all that stuff. *00:04* Um and I think Yeah, I d I agree with that. *00:04* And same thing for Abby as well. *00:04* That like, you know, i it was a different relationship from the get-go compared to like Lee and Clementine. *00:04* Like, like tell me like how like how did you get this far? *00:04* I'm like, but it's all important. *00:04* But you know, there are those people on the internet that are just like *00:04* But like when it came to just like the actual people and the interactions, definitely I enjoy PAX East more. *00:04* Thankfully they've said they're gonna try and keep demand up through twenty twenty. *00:04* Four dollars garage sale. *00:04* Oh yeah. *00:04* My we used to live in a a one-bedroom apartment and a lot of my collector's stuff was actually in totes at my in-law's house. *00:04* I've got a ton of st stuff. *00:04* I do have a question for you, because I cause I I I don't know, I feel like you would have probably jumped on this if *00:04* Yeah. *00:04* You know, you can always go buy a PS2. *00:04* You should definitely play it. *00:04* It's so good. *00:04* And because I was just like, oh okay, like because I was looking for Game Awards. *00:04* And uh but p but you know, there I definitely have gotten or seen like comments and like people like tweeting at me *00:04* So like halfway through the halfway through the episode, I was just like *00:04* Like I don't know if you saw my tweet uh like a f like a week ago or something like that, but I just got my uh crystal battery replaced *00:04* But like uh so I go over to Carson City, which is like a 30-minute drive from Reno. *00:04* Um That's the one I have. *00:04* So, you know, I'm used to piecemealing things. *00:04* Like I believe that moving forward *00:04* And it or is it or it's not it's I would say that it's not not easy to find, but it is expensive. *00:04* Makes sense. *00:04* And I agree that like Xanort, here's the thing with Xanort, like *00:04* Like that need to be like destroyed. *00:04* I was like, this is why this is what I fing wanted. *00:04* You know what I mean? *00:04* I have Fates, I have Shadows of Uh Valentia, I have Three Houses, I got the 30th Anniversary One *00:04* So that's that's called Chasing the Stick. *00:04* At least this last time I checked. *00:04* It is so much money, but it's not for Microsoft. *00:04* Um and which I'm kinda glad because I'm ver I'm a lot m more like uncensored on Twitter than I am on Facebook. *00:04* I miss Paxis was m uh twenty nineteen was my first one and I r *00:04* I have I have the box for Ruby as well. *00:04* Like all the all the side quests feel like they they matter because they build upon the world. *00:04* Dream Drop Distance should have been a Riku game. *00:04* That really sucks. *00:04* It did. *00:04* At least 50% of it. *00:04* But then he also asked me, like, hey, I like I also wanted to reach out to you because I want you to *00:04* I did uh I did swing by the end of the tour, but I hung out with just the wiki people. *00:04* The more you do it, the better you get. *00:04* It's so clean. *00:04* But to this day when I play Ruby I'm just like I wish I had *00:04* Yeah. *00:04* It's very hard to get right. *00:04* And I'm like, I hate that. *00:04* Yeah. *00:04* I'm just hoping they don't put out a Zelda one right before they announce whatever the Switch Pro is. *00:04* So um yeah, it it's it's it's been crazy. *00:04* This is like okay, like like what are their what were their options here? *00:04* Um. *00:04* So that's good. *00:04* The hatchet's buried. *00:04* Like it's not bad, but it's still just like, why? *00:04* I love Metroid. *00:04* Really good. *00:04* But I feel like that if you play all the Kingdom Hearts games outside of a mobile game, because you don't really need to *00:04* Like I think it's my fifth favorite game of all time. *00:04* net or check out more episodes of this podcast in the feed. *00:04* Like in the past like two generations. *00:04* You're the first person that introduced me as Cameron Hawkins, so I'm just like part of me is like, oh I appreciate that, but also part of me is just like, eh, whatever. *00:05* And just the idea of being on a show with *00:05* It's basically I like I really don't I can't like explain it to you per se but like um *00:05* I'm so mad too because when I went into this week's like when I saw this week's question, uh my gut was telling me *00:05* It was a compromise so that they didn't have to up the price of Game Pass somewhere down the line. *00:05* Just don't read them. *00:05* Don't don't be an asshole about it. *00:05* And um I got it in black because *00:05* Uh so basically I've just picked I've been picking up a lot of Pokemon games. *00:05* And I'm like, why? *00:05* Gotta go back. *00:05* That's that's how expensive it was. *00:05* And I just remember buying it at GameStop. *00:05* He wanted like Elsa to be a boss fight at some point. *00:05* I I'm a sucker for prequels, so anytime you're setting up the backstory, I'm all in. *00:05* No, very much, again, like I think I think that Kingdom Hearts 3 is still a plenty good game. *00:05* 100%. *00:05* I just I just like I can't vibe with like, oh he's a flawed character 'cause he's a flawed character. *00:05* I mean it it's it is one because I really like Ellie. *00:05* Same thing on Twitch. *00:05* Yeah. *00:05* I need to get all three. *00:05* So I'm just like, oh I can just put it in there and or something like that. *00:05* And then Blue Rescue Team. *00:05* I did that with the Zelda games on GameCube. *00:05* Because I've never played Shantae. *00:05* And then I bought it the l last year. *00:05* I don't hate the game. *00:05* The second half is like that super great earned fan service that we that like that we wanted at the end of Kingdom Hearts 3. *00:05* Like I was like, oh my god, this is absolutely amazing. *00:05* Yeah. *00:05* Like I think all the other ones are I would say are at least good like *00:05* Um and I think that the way that they did it with the keyblade transformations, it just again it just made the game a little bit too easy. *00:05* Show me your most prized possession, hmm? *00:05* Both. *00:05* People mourned his death. *00:05* Yeah. *00:05* So a ton of consoles. *00:05* Why won't and everyone was having this issue I was like why won't let me check out *00:05* Nice. *00:05* I looked at Emerald the other day because I just bought my first Gen 3 Pokemon game. *00:05* Because so so I've been doing like I did the research, and this is so bizarre to me. *00:05* So we had to sell his house, or which was my childhood home, because my mom didn't live there uh anymore. *00:05* I mean like And now switch. *00:05* Like the remote. *00:05* Um and then like you can play as Roxas when Rock when you know during that fight. *00:05* But like I I can see d you not needing to play recode. *00:05* Because I'm basically like I like to collect pins, but I don't have like a place to put them. *00:05* I I got them up on my shelf over there. *00:05* And I have a box for my OGPS2. *00:05* Unfortunately, the art book came in c was like for some reason in really bad shape when I unboxed it. *00:05* And their games are always technically impressive. *00:05* I told him, I said, the first new car I'll buy was Tesla. *00:05* I actually had store credit there. *00:05* But I bought the thingy that like strips it. *00:05* Like that's how good it is. *00:05* And I snatched that for seven bucks on the GameCube. *00:05* I really hope th that series gets ported to Switch because I've never played those games and I want to. *00:05* And because cause at the end of the day, that story is about Riku. *00:05* Um I recently got the Mario 35th anniversary. *00:05* With the Monato. *00:05* I just love I don't know. *00:05* And then Ellie's own revenge stories *00:05* May, yeah. *00:05* I was just like, I can't just not get Pokemon. *00:05* And I'm like, let's do it. *00:05* I think I have like a one I got either I think I either have a 64 or a 128. *00:05* I didn't want to sell it, but I I was just like I was in college. *00:05* And then uh the Cold Steel series is on PS4. *00:05* Like th that's what people want. *00:05* And to to this day, I actually do. *00:05* It's cause the pin. *00:05* Uh and then I finally rebought it uh for eighty bucks at a GameStop. *00:05* I I really hope Xenoblade Chronicles X comes to Switch, because I've heard very good things about that game. *00:05* You were there. *00:05* Yeah, it's always do your gut in trivia. *00:05* I bought Explorers uh of Time. *00:05* I love this game. *00:05* But what I would say is that Kingdom Hearts or the Remind DLC *00:05* Oh my god, thank you! *00:05* And then a buddy growing up had like four and six and I I dabbled. *00:05* So, you know, it it's it is what it is. *00:05* And I think was it *00:05* And I honestly forget his answer. *00:05* Like I do not look up I do not look at the question I don't look at the question in in general until *00:05* But like right, they're about they're they they've been marketing themselves as like, hey, we want to give you guys options. *00:05* I got the game gear adapter, a link cable, and the case. *00:05* I haven't played uh any of the Ranger games, I didn't play Pokemon Conquest. *00:05* Um so but yeah, but even with that you have to strip the uh HDCP or whatever. *00:05* I was just like, what the f and then I I looked at my download list. *00:05* And then there's which most people probably have heard of Trails of Cold Steel. *00:05* Um they yeah, because they they underprint their games *00:05* Um *00:05* It hasn't changed, but maybe in time, maybe in time. *00:05* I gotta I gotta like sell some things. *00:05* So uh just expect I would *00:05* I did the typical things. *00:05* Um that that that's something that is Namora's fault. *00:05* And I I conveniently I didn't look this up beforehand when I played it on PSP, but I conveniently saved Aqua for last *00:05* Because here's the thing with this with this next um Kingdom Hearts game. *00:05* So like it's just like for me, it's just like give him his own f<unk>ing game. *00:05* I've got the master edition of Breath of the Wild. *00:05* I actually that was the Wii U I bought. *00:05* And I think that's why he would have he would have done it all over again. *00:05* Um I don't know. *00:05* And then to have them be, hey *00:05* And my buddy Brendan, he the old this is this is the reason he missed out on the pre-order. *00:05* Yeah. *00:05* That's actually I've since now moved 'em all back to their boxes 'cause I'm an adult and can take care of my manuals. *00:05* Because they do that FPGA based emulation, but with the th the actual thing. *00:05* I was like, why is this not working? *00:05* Cause like right now I'm playing through Especially the Metroid games you can be *00:05* So they got that got a reprint, which was awesome, because that was another game that I was like looking at. *00:05* Uh-huh. *00:05* Like there are obviously things that I will never sell and I'm just because I just like know that if I *00:05* Is this a Disney vault situation and they're gonna just bring it back out? *00:05* There's no way they put 'em out physically separately. *00:05* And those are mostly like they're side games, but most like *00:05* And I'm not joking on eBay, fifteen hundred dollars. *00:05* Let's go. *00:05* Like uh and like I think uh in in a very unpopular opinion, like I really do not like Uncharted 4. *00:05* Uh in in s in like *00:05* It is. *00:05* Um but *00:05* Like what? *00:05* Yeah, exactly. *00:05* Yeah, just don't read them. *00:05* I don't take constructive criticism as a negative. *00:05* Um so like in the past I've gone there a few times uh the past few weeks. *00:05* I've actually ripped all of my save data and my *00:05* Yeah, that's why I'm not doing the mainline ones. *00:05* I'd say I I just like I like I like streaming games. *00:05* Uh it's really the only way you can play the full trilogy. *00:05* Reim print it. *00:05* Uh Three Houses, art book. *00:05* Yeah, so I have both Breath of the Wild coins. *00:05* So um because it here's here's the thing. *00:05* Exactly. *00:05* I'm not trying to get to a point. *00:05* Because I'm one of those people that like and a lot of people like *00:05* Yeah, um I don't mess with any of that. *00:05* Like, you know what I mean? *00:05* And I'm like, no. *00:05* That's enough for me. *00:05* Um but So where where do they go? *00:05* So it's like a representation of his character and his character development, which is why I really want that uh *00:05* Like something like ridiculous. *00:05* Yeah. *00:05* Uh which I'll show you in a sec. *00:05* And I I definitely like give give it *00:05* All those things. *00:05* Game Gear, Atari Lynx, um *00:05* Like going out, I was like, I know I'm getting white. *00:05* So Diamond was my reintroduction to the series. *00:05* That's how I gotta play Final Fantasy Seven. *00:05* Um to my to my right is all my um *00:05* I wanna stream them, but I can't stream Samus Returns. *00:05* But I'm just I'm I'm just *00:05* Like okay, there's a time where okay, there'll be probably a time where I'm like *00:05* It to me is sixty dollars to sixty dollars and it's twenty dollars per game. *00:05* Uh the the usernames is what just like *00:05* There's like so much uh Kingdom Hearts stuff that's well again like in this this might be one of my favorite this might *00:05* Um so like well I'm trying not to So you know. *00:05* He's a criminal. *00:05* So you know I don't wanna like I appreciate the compliments, but that doesn't mean that I can't improve, you know *00:05* It looks so gorgeous. *00:05* Um we *00:05* One of my favorite games ever. *00:05* I'm definitely uh and another thing that I really wanted to do is like I've never gotten to the Metroid series. *00:05* And so I I just heard that they're like gen generally like *00:05* Um and I had to uh *00:05* That one game that like got Yes. *00:05* But along with Sora, uh just the general like black outfit Sora, they did a limit form version and a final form version. *00:05* The new stuff. *00:05* I It has really great moments. *00:05* Oh interesting. *00:05* Like, give Riku his own fing game. *00:05* Honestly like people just *00:06* But my first name I'm just like I've always asked my parents like why why like why'd you call me Cameron? *00:06* Which I I was on one episode and *00:06* My dad was working on a project there, and so I had an excuse to go out. *00:06* Yeah, and I th I think that again, I I think in general I'm just not a super great orator, but *00:06* May. *00:06* Yeah, it starts beginning the last. *00:06* Tools of Destruction, which is the first *00:06* I hate Kingdom Heart. *00:06* 'Cause they're great. *00:06* 5 uh *00:06* It's like, ah yeah, I I I have the um *00:06* And I was like, how is the book how is a book the *00:06* I was just like, yes, continue *00:06* Play this game. *00:06* I was like, sweet, let's do it. *00:06* So um Casey DeFridis, if you're listening to this *00:06* Yeah, recently, yeah. *00:06* Because I do full edit of the show. *00:06* It's we use them as a crutch the way we speak, and it's hard to be intentional about not using those words. *00:06* What the f the So yeah, I bought them. *00:06* Everywhere. *00:06* Like so good. *00:06* I'm so sorry. *00:06* Uh all of these games are getting steelbooks for it, and I'm a big steel book guy. *00:06* And that apparently is one of them. *00:06* And I don't think they got it right. *00:06* It absolutely is that is the the whole goal of the game is uh this is really ambitious. *00:06* So sometimes I'm just like, oh man, what am I trying to say right now? *00:06* I know a few people that got a pre-order, but my buddy Brendan, who I've been like hanging out with and talk chatting with a lot the past like year or so *00:06* We laugh about it now *00:06* One hundred percent. *00:06* Do you uh sell your stuff or do you get the same *00:06* 90 hours. *00:06* And I'm like I I hope you're right. *00:06* That's awesome. *00:06* Cause I that seems really cool. *00:06* So but they just spent 7. *00:06* It's I I think a lot of people *00:06* No. *00:06* I don't hate the series. *00:06* I remember buying that. *00:06* It's it's so much by the way. *00:06* It's official Disney pin. *00:06* Well 'cause I know that you still have the steel case, which is what I care about. *00:06* Twenty sixteen was when they did Breath of the Wild and *00:06* Yeah people And even if Destin's gone because him and his wife had a kid, you know *00:06* Like that isn't you can say it in a way that isn't negative. *00:06* My friend texted me this morning asking if he could borrow one of my Game Boys because he managed to find *00:06* Like like what are their stats? *00:06* I want to play it. *00:06* Yeah, you have to you have to you have to get them via the PS3 via the PS3 store only *00:06* So I want to stream it all, but it's just like, uh, but I *00:06* Like, oh my god. *00:06* And that wasn't bad actually. *00:06* You know what I mean? *00:06* Like, you know what I mean? *00:06* I Yeah. *00:06* Yeah, yeah. *00:06* And that's what I'm trying to do on this show. *00:06* So that's something I wanted to actually talk to you about uh that I just realized like I wanted to I wanted to hear your your like *00:06* Yeah, way back in the day. *00:06* Um Yeah, for sure. *00:06* Like I I just I just can't *00:06* So like *00:06* You know what I mean? *00:06* So it Wave Bird is my favorite controller of all time. *00:06* Kingdom Hearts 2 opening? *00:06* Um you know, but uh yeah, I mean again like *00:06* Finally. *00:06* Why is this not on PS? *00:06* Alright, let's try and get like let's try and get the best offer in *00:06* Like you see like the there are these boxes that are on top of like *00:06* I wonder if they'll ever do a final mix. *00:06* 8 one. *00:06* It hasn't come in yet. *00:06* But yeah, I don't know if there's anything else you wanted to to to chat about. *00:06* So I just I'm drawn to that and they have a lot of history and stories to tell and *00:06* Podcast Unlocked *00:06* Um we were there together. *00:06* Yeah. *00:06* Like, no, that's not what you w like, that's not a good discussion. *00:06* And again, I don't really get tw *00:06* Yeah. *00:06* I didn't really like, you know, so um I just never never really got into Kojima. *00:06* It's so good. *00:06* And then oh I recently when I w Oh yeah, when I went to my retro game shop, I bought a wave bird. *00:06* Like it's it really is like phenomenal and I I I I'm glad that that that that game got to be finished and see uh see through the *00:06* Nope. *00:06* I don't know how much that's going to be, but I definitely think it's gonna happen. *00:06* It's just it's just one of those things where *00:06* If you like care about world building and in and characters and like um things like that. *00:06* Um *00:06* You're just like, what is going on? *00:06* Um uh *00:06* And I feel like s sometimes we're aligned and sometimes *00:06* She has three. *00:06* Like you just be like, hey, you know *00:06* Uh we were on a panel for uh like w ten top ten games we would like to see become movies, basically. *00:06* I I I totally gave up on this on the swearing thing. *00:06* But anyway, another tangent aside, uh collections, yeah. *00:06* And man, were they like they were so right. *00:06* See, here's the thing. *00:06* See, I haven't either, but I did do it. *00:06* Like, it's one of the most wanted things on Switch is the Metroid Prime trilogy. *00:06* Like, I don't even care if it's a s emulation like you did for f<unk>ing 3D All-Stars. *00:06* Just you were one of the you're one of those people that once you play Kingdom Hearts 3 and you were your heart was *00:06* Like when when like Sora f fights Roxas um you know in his in his heart in Kingdom Hearts 2 and like *00:06* And then it and the way that they do it *00:06* Um so and and literally his keyblade is *00:06* My fiance got them for me uh as a gift. *00:06* I was uh I was like really curious as to how this conversation would go and I'm like really uh happy *00:06* And so everyone everyone asked me *00:06* So um I I really do think that it's um *00:06* Thankfully the main adapter like there's no adapter for it, but the main base of it is like Game Boy. *00:06* Yeah, so I I saw *00:06* This is what you did. *00:06* Uh which is something that As long as that's still up. *00:06* I just *00:06* Exactly. *00:06* That's pro that's why like most of like um the uh worlds were just kind of like *00:06* Right. *00:06* All this is awesome. *00:06* Yes. *00:06* But you can play as different characters now. *00:06* Thank you! *00:06* Awakening. *00:06* I was like, how do you fill those shoes of the guys that you know, Rich George, Jose *00:06* And yeah, and then we you know we just we just chat it up like uh and you know just to sit you know just stay on record in case any unlocked *00:06* Uh so I get that. *00:06* And I'm sure you could go to your first episode of Unlocked, go to your most recent, and you'll see improvement. *00:06* It depends on what you're trying to uh what point you're trying to get across. *00:06* And since going there I found I found some f<unk>ing gems, dude. *00:06* Okay, well okay. *00:06* So the games that you were looking for, those were the ones that I really came back to. *00:06* I have a fun I have a fun, very short story about Ruby and Sapphire. *00:06* Or the Yeah, with MasterQuest. *00:06* Because that game is s super expensive. *00:06* In your collection. *00:06* My buddy Brendan, again, uh he's a big Zelda guy, so he thinks it's uh Link Between Worlds, but personally I think it's all I I've heard it's great. *00:06* They're cheap. *00:06* That was back the Amy Hennig version of 4. *00:06* I don't know. *00:06* It's just luck. *00:06* Except for Emerald. *00:06* One of my favorite games ever. *00:06* And then uh I just bought uh Samus Returns on 3DS. *00:06* And I didn't know you had so much of the uh older hardware. *00:06* But like it's one of those things where like I want to *00:06* I actually just got that disc resurfaced. *00:06* Yeah. *00:06* A lot a lot of people were. *00:06* W Riku only game. *00:06* Um so I kinda have to find a replacement. *00:06* And I'm just like, I'm sorry, but I'm trying to get my point. *00:07* I I think it brings it back to that. *00:07* God. *00:07* Like I have the Royal One, I got the Strikers one *00:07* And so their response was to make me get rid of it all. *00:07* Yeah, I just *00:07* Each like Yeah, oh that's the rough price. *00:07* Those are one night games. *00:07* Yeah, no, yeah. *00:07* Um like oh like *00:07* Like it it was impossible. *00:07* They diagn give a lot of *00:07* It was so good. *00:07* I don't know. *00:07* And then he's she's like, actually I want to train under Master Aqua uh Master Aqua. *00:07* Um just because of just like the sentimental *00:07* New episodes normally drop uh no later than Wednesday every week. *00:07* Not just Ellie. *00:07* Yeah. *00:07* Play this game. *00:07* Um *00:07* Um I didn't I've done nothing of significance to that level where you sh I should be on your radar in any way. *00:07* And I was just like, uh yeah. *00:07* How's the response been *00:07* Uh I picked up uh I picked up a manual for Pokemon Blue, like the trainer guide *00:07* Yeah, exactly. *00:07* Ooh, I could win this. *00:07* You're just like, man, I love carts. *00:07* But more like he's just hey you need to like *00:07* It's I'm I was even on board because really *00:07* I know let's go. *00:07* It's just like I've just kind of like learned to rebuild myself and just suppress it. *00:07* Is your Kingdom Hearts 2 uh like your OG Kingdom Hearts 1 is it sealed with black label? *00:07* Yeah. *00:07* I did see those. *00:07* You know, like again *00:07* Like I I I I I don't know. *00:07* That's how I interpreted it. *00:07* Like what the like like *00:07* I'm explaining my point. *00:07* I know I only I only show off my uh *00:07* I'm following this video like *00:07* Streaming it all? *00:07* Like I didn't have to like pay anything extra. *00:07* Um *00:07* Hot take Hawkins You've done something like that. *00:07* So if anyone really cares, you can go check that out at Camp Final Mix on Twitter. *00:07* And just everyone, like, I granted, I put in my two cent two, but then like *00:07* Uh and we'll edit that, you know, accordingly. *00:07* Because Twitter's usually not. *00:07* So then I bought the I bought like *00:07* You know, uh, let's let's play. *00:07* You know what I mean? *00:07* You know what I mean? *00:07* And even in Dream Drop, when *00:07* Uh super super great game. *00:07* Like there's it's hard to see, but the unverse plush at the very end right there *00:07* Um I savor every moment. *00:07* And that's why I like part two. *00:07* Uh you came back and reviewed games from time to time, like *00:07* And I actually I listened to last week's episode to refresh myself. *00:07* I'm like emulate it. *00:07* And I'm not gonna say I'm not gonna like pretend that like I was *00:07* Nope. *00:07* I was in a parking lot. *00:07* I don't know where they are. *00:07* He's a smug like he's all these things and it's kinda how he comes together at the end. *00:07* And it's um it's implied that his time in Jackson *00:07* But that stuff has always been so exciting to work *00:07* I I provide backstory and context for everything. *00:07* But anyway *00:07* Someone was selling it for basically almost the same price that *00:07* It looks brand new *00:07* I I ham it up online. *00:07* No. *00:07* Like that's fine. *00:07* So good. *00:07* Nice. *00:07* Absolutely. *00:07* I like Crash *00:07* I think she has three now. *00:07* If I have the box *00:07* Like new if it's not *00:07* And it's *00:07* I think it would be insane if it isn't. *00:07* Like this is what I fing wanted. *00:07* When did I have this much time as a child? *00:07* This darn pin collectors. *00:07* It only released in Japan. *00:07* Way back in the day, yeah. *00:07* But like for me, I'm just like, come on now. *00:07* That's just like that that might just be my the way I I *00:07* Yeah, I I *00:07* Oh I saw that there and I was just like, well, I'm definitely picking this up *00:07* But when you deliver that package, it just *00:07* I'm very much not uh I very very rarely bid on things *00:07* You have to *00:07* Or do you For Nintendo? *00:07* Like that's how long I've been waiting to get this. *00:07* I can see it. *00:07* Yeah. *00:07* I found that out like a few weeks ago actually. *00:07* So like arguably the best opening to a video game. *00:07* Mm I mean you could keep a tally of everyone *00:07* So it was a this was a lot of fun. *00:07* I um *00:07* So *00:07* Now we know the aftermath. *00:07* And I was explaining and I was just like, I think that they're doing this because *00:07* You know, you learn how these people talk and how to bounce back and forth. *00:07* Isn't he over at Game Reformer now? *00:07* And the last Pokemon game I played was X. *00:07* Uh my crystal and my harkle or my soul silver boxes, but I do have my Ruby box too. *00:07* But like *00:07* Like cause cause cause cause because I played um *00:07* I believe it. *00:07* Well I was just the the *00:07* Doesn't know anything different, like anything outside of this. *00:07* Because we both worked *00:07* But we get alone. *00:07* No, hold on. *00:07* Which is good on them. *00:07* Like things like that. *00:07* I bought uh a buddy of mine gave me the Ocarina of Time game, but just the disc. *00:07* So I think it is going to be backwards compatible. *00:07* Nope, they did not. *00:07* It's seriously it's one of the it's the most fun so many people uh *00:07* Um but *00:07* You got both sets? *00:07* So you did get that? *00:07* Um I have like all the official I don't have all *00:07* That came from Japan. *00:07* Arguably the last time a a huge game did that was Metal Gear Solid 2. *00:07* Do you okay, but do you think like everyone was like a raider at some point during that apocalypse? *00:07* So we'll talk we'll talk more about that after afterwards because I I can keep I can keep an eye out for you. *00:07* It's not like I'm gonna play them back to back. *00:07* You have all the other PS3 Ratchet and Clank games on PS now except for the first one. *00:07* Like I I So there are tech there are technically *00:07* So I'm I think I'm just gonna snack the regular version of that at the uh at Best Buy whenever that comes out. *00:07* But yeah, I highly recommend it. *00:07* Like *00:07* Yep *00:07* I *00:07* He's nice, takes care of women, but he he's a villain in that time, he's an outlaw. *00:07* She never would have *00:07* Yeah, the before they kicked me out. *00:07* How did I get *00:07* I was poor. *00:07* Like I know, I know, and it's just like please just announce it because *00:07* Like the collector's editions are like fairly priced. *00:07* It's brand new. *00:07* It's done. *00:07* Wait, it's wait, it's Wit the the Wind Waker is is a themed GameCube? *00:07* Never been to E3, but I have very little E3 merge. *00:07* That's okay. *00:07* Like, you know, how did you do this and that? *00:08* Um but yeah *00:08* The Vita store days are numbered. *00:08* No, I told you *00:08* I'm again I tw we I tweeted about this like the other day. *00:08* No, real like I oh god. *00:08* So I I I I hit up my fr uh my friend in in the UK and I was just like *00:08* I kind of want to talk about this. *00:08* I was like, I was waiting for it, you know? *00:08* And then like part way through the episode, I just realized because you know I I don't know if um *00:08* I know I'm getting white. *00:08* Um *00:08* So that for so it's a good call. *00:08* Like it was like, oh let's talk about this and this and this. *00:08* Okay. *00:08* Um *00:08* It was so good. *00:08* Yeah, especially when you get to it. *00:08* What other cool cool things do you have? *00:08* Three houses. *00:08* Okay. *00:08* I really like Ellie's character. *00:08* And then I took year and a half two off. *00:08* Yeah. *00:08* Like the you *00:08* And even with that, like we were talking about like how I don't want to mess with em emulation and things like that *00:08* Why why is it like this? *00:08* Yeah. *00:08* Like I have the *00:08* The closest is I've thought about selling it and then I realized I would hate myself if I did that. *00:08* Give he is a he is a he is a rel he is *00:08* I made my point. *00:08* 5 billion, they gotta make their money back. *00:08* So that one interaction would be like the closest thing to a negative tweet that I've gotten directed towards me. *00:08* I have the same mental I prefer to play the game *00:08* And then I got the email that said I won, and I was like, crap. *00:08* Uh play. *00:08* Um, that like I didn't really th see him as like this *00:08* I get that. *00:08* I got both Xenoblade games uh collector's editions. *00:08* I my first PlayStation was a *00:08* Because because for me *00:08* Hopefully I'll I can find another one later. *00:08* Um it's my favorite like Sony, uh like PS4 game. *00:08* Um the only one I don't have *00:08* Like I love Winnie the Pooh. *00:08* And I or like or that doesn't I don't think it's a pass. *00:08* I left PAX East. *00:08* Um for those that don't know is like Bruce uh Green's uh fiance *00:08* You know, if there's new news that comes out um during *00:08* Okay. *00:08* Like I'm not I'm not too worried about it *00:08* Wow. *00:08* I'm like, yo, does the Pokemon look cool? *00:08* Emerald was just one that just *00:08* Yeah, yeah, I will. *00:08* I was like *00:08* Yeah, yeah, th they're not very long. *00:08* Because I went onto a podcast for Rational Passions where we basically ranked all the Kingdom Hearts games. *00:08* I don't think they will. *00:08* You can play as Riku, which is great for me 'cause I love Riku. *00:08* Yes. *00:08* Oh Mark A Mastery edition. *00:08* Like, so good. *00:08* They kept amping up my gift. *00:08* Like uh and and and also just I think the point I mean, everyone's done terrible things. *00:08* I'm like *00:08* So um it really just depends on the conversation. *00:08* And I'm in the I don't go on Facebook very much. *00:08* I'm just like one of those people like I I I just don't want to risk that stuff and like *00:08* That's his answer every time, just emulate it. *00:08* But granted like *00:08* No, for oh see for me I was just like, oh, uh oh. *00:08* They're so good. *00:08* He is a man, he's a father. *00:08* Unless they have a preference. *00:08* We both can have really *00:08* Don't overthink it. *00:08* I listen back to the whole thing while I'm editing it. *00:08* Because when I get my analog pocket, I'm streaming Pokemon Crystal. *00:08* But um but yeah it it would let let's just say this like it this was on my eBay watch list *00:08* Not even that it was impossible, but it was just like *00:08* That's awesome. *00:08* Yeah, no, it's good that they reversed it, but I I do think that like *00:08* And also *00:08* And I *00:08* Uh like older Pokemon games. *00:08* I'll give you the semi-quick version. *00:08* Let me just say, like I'm very happy. *00:08* He deserves it. *00:08* So much money. *00:08* The the s the I got the second set. *00:08* Like they always come with an art like a big art book, which is just uh awesome. *00:08* I'm trying to think about what else is cool that I got. *00:08* It was uh *00:08* That's good. *00:08* Dude, it's it's wild. *00:08* That did not pan out. *00:08* She got ahead of me last week and then she got it right again this week. *00:08* Like they could have removed gold com *00:08* So *00:08* Do you know who that is at all? *00:08* But on my other arm, I want Way to the Dawn tattooed on my arm. *00:08* Have you played Awakening? *00:08* Um and then I recently got the Hardy Daytona. *00:08* And we were busy that day, so I actually didn't play till *00:08* And that doesn't necessarily translate to *00:08* So I *00:08* Yeah, that's the one but Yeah *00:08* I know some people are just like oh I'd just rather download the games that are there *00:08* Saw a complete inbox copy of Path of Radiance? *00:08* Because I was so upset *00:08* 'Cause there's the secret teaser video at the end. *00:08* It was so limited. *00:08* Three houses, yeah. *00:08* tv slash camfinal mix *00:08* If you'd like *00:08* It's just like it it confirms the things that like I thought were problematic in the first game, which granted like *00:08* Yeah *00:08* That's how people do it. *00:08* I was low on oxygen. *00:08* Like what's the prep and cycle that you do to go into Unlocked every week? *00:08* Trails in the Sky. *00:08* Yeah. *00:08* Um *00:08* And it's unfortunate. *00:08* 30th anniversary, art book. *00:08* Oh, I agree with that. *00:08* If you think about He's not a good guy. *00:08* What else have I got recently? *00:08* I got the Persona 4 dancing one. *00:08* Like like I think that by the time I'm done with this series, it might *00:08* Um the duology, you have to get Swifty and do some like *00:08* Are they gonna split 'em up and ten dollar C I think they'll split 'em up and they're gonna sell them? *00:08* But just bringing the mob *00:08* Just up front, and you I also think in context of people *00:08* Yeah, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure. *00:08* So then it it answers the thing. *00:08* Do you want to hear something that'll make you really *00:08* So the two point five pin you can actually get as a like reward on the square innex door *00:08* The book was the Uncharted 3 Guide, which I have on the shelf down there. *00:08* I've never like s heard like feel like someone praised *00:08* Um why am I blanking on his brother? *00:08* Um *00:09* You can say it in a way that is just like that's constructive and like *00:09* Oh, baby. *00:09* Yeah. *00:09* Yeah, like it was all the PS1 classics that I bought. *00:09* I did get it, yes. *00:09* And is that selfish? *00:09* What a win. *00:09* I don't think they will. *00:09* Like, I have played w games with way more confusing stories. *00:09* Oh my god. *00:09* Because like I like I know a lot of people are just like *00:09* Um like *00:09* Um We'll do that after the show. *00:09* Oh, that's dope. *00:09* Then I bought the collector's edition for Switch, and then as well as Risky's Revenge. *00:09* Play chi arts. *00:09* So I had to pay a little bit more than I normally like than its actual price was, but I still have it, so I'm happy. *00:09* There's one for each game. *00:09* Um *00:09* I I I th I think on some level that shows that they *00:09* Exactly. *00:09* Yeah. *00:09* And you know uh Scott and someone else um at Dual Shockers, his name's Chris. *00:09* Because this is my issue with Dream Drop Distance. *00:09* I don't know. *00:09* Because I've I did freelance work with IGN wikis for *00:09* Yeah. *00:09* Or at least like as quickly as they probably were planning on. *00:09* I'm getting the dock. *00:09* Because I didn't get the collector's edition for that game, but I I want to in hindsight. *00:09* I kind of miss *00:09* I was like, I was one of the because I've I've just heard really good things about Shantae. *00:09* I love them. *00:09* And like there was one *00:09* And it and they really it really does uh justice for Kyrie as well. *00:09* They're really good. *00:09* Kingdom Hearts. *00:09* We would know these things at this point, like *00:09* net for the rest of it. *00:09* Uh and three and four are on Switch, but play play them on PS4 *00:09* Like, absolutely insane. *00:09* Um *00:09* I've worked with Destin, uh we were doing promotional material for *00:09* That was actually back when Philip Muson was still there. *00:09* So they're already draining. *00:09* Cause um so so yeah, so I I picked up Ranger one, I picked up *00:09* Um *00:09* Yep. *00:09* Yeah, they wouldn't they wouldn't do that. *00:09* I did not trade them. *00:09* Like I don't have like a wall or anything like that. *00:09* That's sexy. *00:09* Cause I because I bought the *00:09* Yeah. *00:09* Um *00:09* Like I'm going to buy I'm gonna buy everything. *00:09* It's downloaded. *00:09* Which is something that because that's how I played Superstar Saga. *00:09* Yes, I am. *00:09* Decided to buy that from the publisher. *00:09* Why is that not at three? *00:09* Wow, that's awesome. *00:09* Um *00:09* So I was just like *00:09* I grew up with Winnie the Pooh, like before I grew up with Toy S uh uh Toy Story *00:09* So to wrap it all up *00:09* And I'm just like *00:09* Ellie's great. *00:09* And I'm like *00:09* That's what I've learned. *00:09* And all like *00:09* Uh yeah, they would never and they were like, no, it can't do that *00:09* He *00:09* No, I'm just yeah, it's just that's like uh what am I doing in this game right now? *00:09* For those that don't know, that's the PS2 trilogy. *00:09* Oh yeah. *00:09* I've just never gotten rid of it. *00:09* I don't know. *00:09* And you know, maybe he's done too many bad things and *00:09* Yeah. *00:09* You fill those shoes with um plagiarism, apparently. *00:09* I I don't I don't know what it is. *00:09* So I was just like, no more excuses. *00:09* Now that DLC is a thing. *00:09* They always push whatever hardware to the max. *00:09* Like uh uh not not not not for for you specifically but for like *00:09* Like I'm trying to explain everything in detail because it's just *00:09* And it's a trilogy. *00:09* Um but like the Disney stuff like he was basically like *00:09* It just you look at *00:09* It was so limited. *00:09* Is it really? *00:09* Right. *00:09* If *00:09* Because *00:10* Um just cause I got to meet so many people for the first time. *00:10* They didn't they didn't do all the remakes or two point eight. *00:10* Yeah. *00:10* My I did mine did not get canceled. *00:10* But they still look *00:10* Yeah. *00:10* So I guess I'm just gonna keep going now *00:10* And so I tr I'm *00:10* Um, but *00:10* Like *00:10* So I'm cool with that. *00:10* Yeah. *00:10* 'Cause I know that the Fates one specifically was super limited. *00:10* He's done he did some really f like throughout the game *00:10* Like *00:10* It happens every few years or so *00:10* Yeah, super old school. *00:10* And I feel like them *00:10* I again, but I don't I just *00:10* For one, the battery, but also my barber *00:10* I'm like, I didn't give a f like at this point 'cause *00:10* And I'm like. *00:10* Play chi arts, there we go. *00:10* They're well, I've only played *00:10* Like I just *00:10* Um yeah, so there's all those games. *00:10* What a time to be alive. *00:10* I have the box. *00:10* First saw Kingdom Hearts at a friend's house. *00:10* Um I think what draws *00:10* Which is why I asked. *00:10* Like literally last night I was just like *00:10* Yep. *00:10* And I was like *00:10* Like I'm not I'm not like that personally. *00:10* And that's chip *00:10* I actually *00:10* But I but I just never liked Joel. *00:10* So if they did that, that would just be hypocritical of them. *00:10* Yeah *00:10* I found Pokemon Ranger uh complete *00:10* I still need to get Guardian signs. *00:10* Literally, it's just that *00:10* It's ridiculous. *00:10* There's put it on Switch. *00:10* Yeah. *00:10* Almost two years I'd say. *00:10* What were they selling them for? *00:10* They're not being deleted. *00:10* Um and so *00:10* It really though the the moment *00:10* Um You definitely need to play everything else. *00:10* I'm like *00:10* And I'm like, I don't want to emulate it. *00:10* Like they didn't give him the freedoms *00:10* And she's he said, like, that's a great idea, you should do that. *00:10* Like *00:10* But that's okay. *00:10* Um *00:10* So I basically am set. *00:10* And um because right now I'm playing through the Legend of Heroes series. *00:10* Granted, for me *00:10* Yeah. *00:10* Thank you. *00:10* So um Yeah. *00:10* Um *00:10* And I was just like *00:10* One it's good stuff. *00:10* And if Ellie had died *00:10* 'Cause Ruby and Sapphire I'm pretty sure came out really close to my birthday. *00:10* Yeah, I will. *00:10* And I just have always been drawn to games that *00:10* Yes. *00:10* But for me I'm just like *00:10* And I was just like *00:10* I don't know if I want white or black *00:10* I'm pretty I I know I think I'm pretty sure those two got got one. *00:10* So bizarre. *00:10* And I you know, I love uh Aquaven and Terra. *00:10* Yes, it's I haven't looked it up. *00:10* Yeah, yeah. *00:10* Um It's a very nice Vita. *00:10* And I'm just like, I have like I have I have 2. *00:10* It's basically a s like a third game. *00:10* What? *00:10* Because he found redemption, even *00:10* I've actually *00:10* Because I've never played a Ratchet and Clank. *00:10* What a win. *00:10* That's what that's the same. *00:10* They're so good. *00:10* But um I just think that *00:10* Um well 'cause he was trained with Yed and Sid and he had the time thingy. *00:11* And then uh over the next few weeks, Uncharted uh *00:11* So for me personally, I realize *00:11* Do you have one point five, two point five, like the limited edition? *00:11* I get you yeah *00:11* I'm super excited. *00:11* Like I found uh well first off I got uh fire red *00:11* I didn't get the first set, unfortunately *00:11* Here's the thing. *00:11* I think it's *00:11* Bye everyone. *00:11* You know, they wanted to highlight black uh black people. *00:11* Like they they just the best thing that I found *00:11* Like *00:11* I think it was like I want to say it was like seventy each. *00:11* You know what I mean? *00:11* I don't have the system, but I have the box *00:11* No, no, I appreciate it. *00:11* I'm still here's the thing, like again, like I *00:11* Um *00:11* Yeah, I I I think you might have saw that for Final Fantasy VII remake. *00:11* Um, but *00:11* But *00:11* Like during that time, during that time with Kingdom Hearts 2 *00:11* What a time to be alive. *00:11* Um I feel like uh *00:11* Like it's *00:11* That's like the so t *00:11* Um *00:11* Like I'm just like just screw this. *00:11* So I don't remember who *00:11* And that that was one of my big issues with Kingdom Hearts Three is that *00:11* It was just the steel book. *00:11* But *00:11* I'm like, damn it! *00:11* And he's persuaded me and I'm *00:11* And then I come in and I'm telling this *00:11* Like *00:11* Just the end with the flap. *00:11* I love telling it. *00:11* Put it on Switch. *00:11* Your statue of Sora *00:11* If you think about *00:11* Do you play Melody of Memory? *00:11* Um *00:12* You don't have to buy it you didn't have to buy like an adapter for that stuff. *00:12* You know what I mean? *00:12* I will I would like it sealed. *00:12* Thank thank God *00:12* I still need to get Conquest *00:12* Yeah, that's fair. *00:12* Kingdom Hearts has one like *00:12* So cause yeah, because the thing is like *00:12* Like *00:12* Uh *00:12* Like *00:12* Fifteen hundred dollars. *00:12* It's *00:12* But whenever *00:12* I was I was just like, uh oh *00:12* It's like $300. *00:12* And Naughty Dog *00:12* Never never did. *00:12* I don't care. *00:12* Thank you, thank you, but that's what I'm the same. *00:12* Bye-bye. *00:12* Uh but *00:12* Oh yeah *00:12* Um *00:12* But I love Death Stranding. *00:12* Um but uh *00:12* And *00:12* One of my uh *00:12* So good. *00:12* Like I *00:12* I don't care. *00:12* Really? *00:12* I think that's the name of the city. *00:12* Okay sure *00:12* Oh gosh. *00:13* That's good. *00:13* The *00:13* Um but *00:13* Like it was only like *00:13* Um *00:13* Like *00:13* Hmm. *00:13* Um *00:13* Like what what is this? *00:13* Yeah. *00:13* But *00:13* Never did. *00:13* 8 *00:13* So *00:13* I don't know. *00:13* It *00:13* Um *00:14* It was just *00:14* Like *00:14* Oh. *00:14* So *00:14*