GameSlop: Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour

This is a head gun podcast.

Man, I am loving just walking around this welcome tour environment.

Yeah, I kind of thought it would be a little whack and like maybe I wouldn't like it so much, but it's actually

really cool.

Physically being on the surface of a Switch 2, it just feels right.

And also, I'm just loving being isometric.

I'm loving that.

Yeah, I haven't really been isometric in a long time.

So this has been very exciting for me.

Hey, do you guys want to take a quiz?

Yeah, let's go over.

Matt, this is part of the experience.

We go over.

Hey, do you want to take a quiz?

By the way, I found these glasses, but I'll turn them in.

No, I'll take them.

Thank you so much.

Hi, welcome to the Switch.

Welcome to our quiz area.

We have a feature you probably didn't even know the Switch has.

Why don't you?

It's got a lot of, I know it's got a touch screen.

Yeah, I know that's it.

I learned all about the touch screen, learned about the mouse functionality.

Absolutely.

Do you want to hop right to the quiz?

Yes,

let's do it.

Okay.

Question one.

Oh, you took a dump on your Switch.

What kind of,

what do you use to clean it up?

One, paper towel.

Two, dunk it in water.

Three, talk nice to it.

Or four,

throw it in the trash.

No, hang on.

This isn't fine.

I took a dump on it.

Yeah.

First of all, we took the dump.

I consciously or accidentally.

I'm just, I don't understand how this would even happen.

Second.

I can't do it on purpose.

My main issue so far is that at the other quizzes,

there's like three to five little things to read so you can prepare for the quiz.

And there was none for this one.

There's a pop quiz.

You can read about it.

You can read about it.

I've got all the information you need here on a napkin.

Let me see this real quick.

Here you go.

Okay, so going on, yeah, there's a drawing of

a realistic drawing of me taking a shit.

Yes.

Let me see.

Yeah, I mean, that is very

disturbingly realistic.

Yeah, this is horrible.

Which one is it going to be?

One, two, three, or four?

I guess I'll do the throw it away because I probably am not going to just have the association of.

Yeah, I guess if I'm taking a shit on it, I probably don't want it anymore.

So throw it away.

Maybe I'll sanitize it and sell it to GameStop.

I don't think I'm going to want to be playing this hardware anymore.

God, that's horrifying to think of.

Okay.

That there are so many shitted on things that I've bought at GameStop that were cleaned.

Okay, question two.

With 3DS had Dookie on it?

It's just nasty.

My solid snake amiibo is in somebody's ass?

You guys want to do question two?

Yeah, sure.

Let's do it.

Okay, question two.

Uh-oh,

you got drunk and you pissed all over your Switch too.

You brought it with you to the doctor's doctor's office, and now everybody's looking at you in the waiting room.

Number one, wipe it off with a paper towel.

Number two, put it in the drinking fountain and try and get the piss off of it.

Three, throw it away.

Four,

you tell the doctor, where's my mom?

So this is another how do you clean it up question?

Yeah, another bodily function.

Well, that's the booth you're at.

H booth has to clean it.

Oh, that's what that's the theme is.

Yeah, how to clean your switch.

Well, again, I just, I didn't do the research in terms of why I just got it.

He's got the napkin.

Do you want to read that napkin?

And here's me taking a piss on it.

Okay, so which one?

Who are you doing?

All right.

I was going to say, it could have been a little nicer to me.

Which one is it?

One, two, three, or four.

There's a line forming.

I don't know.

I guess probably my best play here is to ask the doctor about my mom or whatever the fuck, just so they're like, oh, this guy's guy's insane.

Yeah.

As opposed to best case scenario, at the end of this interaction, I'm in a padded room.

Okay, fine.

Question three.

The hardest question.

You've been blackbagged and you're in the back of a truck.

They bring you to a secure facility.

It's probably

a yellow site.

And then a guy's, you're tied to a chair and a guy's showing you nasty pictures until you shoot your cum all over your shoulder.

I mean, you see, Jesus Christ.

Like involuntarily?

It's torture.

I don't,

nothing that happens in torture is above.

I'm seeing so many things

that are nasty.

These images are so arousing that I am spontaneously, I guess I'm nude in this scenario.

orgasming onto my Switch 2 hardware.

How do you clean it up?

I mean, look.

What?

Not my first rodeo here.

Paper towel.

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Welcome to Get Played, your one-stop show for good games, bad games, and every game in between.

It's time to get played.

I'm your host, Heather Ann Campbell, along with my fellow host, Tiger Weiger.

It's me, Tiger Weiger, along with our third host, Matt Apodaka.

Hello, everyone.

Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the premiere video game podcast, where this week we are are talking about Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour.

That's right.

And I feel like Nintendo Switch 2 is just kind of on the brain right now, partly because they had this big Donkey Kong Bonanza Direct that

I don't know.

I found pretty, like, I was, I was pretty enticed by this.

I was like, this game's looking good.

Here's what you got to know about me.

Yeah.

I didn't watch a second of this direct.

Yeah.

They had me at,

they, they had me from the jump.

I didn't need anything.

I hate it.

Yeah.

New Donkey Kong, 3D Donkey Kong game.

I didn't need, I've seen all I need to see.

I'm good.

The Pauline confirmation was that you didn't even need that.

Didn't even need it.

Yeah, you were going in anywhere.

I mean, I was too.

It just looks like so fun to run around this Donkey Kong bust and shit.

But I like the redesigns.

I'm on board with those.

I like that we seem to have some official clarification that Cranky Kong is, in fact, the original Donkey Kong.

Yes.

That they were just establishing that as lore, not as fan theory, not as this thing that's implied in the rare games.

But it just looks fun as hell to play.

I

saw some screen grabs from the direct.

I didn't watch the direct directly,

but I was interested in that there's the theory that it is running on the Breath of the Wild engine, that the

landscaping is so similar in design that it must be the same engine, only now you can deform it physically.

The UX seems to weirdly have a little bit of Breath of the Wild to it too.

So I could buy that.

I mean, you know,

these studios reuse engines.

Why wouldn't they?

Yeah, why wouldn't they?

I'm just excited to have...

I just love Donkey Kong.

I guess I don't really think about it that much.

I love him.

Do you know what studio doesn't reuse engines?

Square Enix when they're making Final Fantasy games.

Every time they completely rebuild an entirely new engine.

Yeah.

Was 16 on Unreal engine?

Was that what it was doing?

It's finally on Unreal.

Yeah.

But 15 was designed from the ground up and then never used again.

Man, I love, I love 16.

I know you do.

I'm a sick fuck.

I'm a sicko.

Sue me.

Oh, sorry.

I love Final Fantasy 16.

God, I wonder if.

I will sue your ass.

All right, I'll see you on the ass charges.

Oh, man.

My lawyer's going to love destroying your life.

Oh, man.

Can't wait till I'm co-hosting Doughboys with Mitch while you're fucking rotting in a jail cell, bitch.

She's just rice.

I want Doughboys.

Why would you want to be on Doughboys?

No, nobody wants that.

I completely forgot what I was going to say.

Oh, Final Fantasy 16.

That

in an alternate dimension, my game for winning the Switch 2 bet was Final Fantasy 15.

Oh, interesting.

That would have been interesting.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think you made the right choice.

Yeah, I think ultimately Mother 3 is the better choice, but boy, oh boy, I love 15.

I think we would, I mean,

I think I've started 15 at some point within the last year.

Great.

Just to see what it was like.

I think you made the right choice.

And I think if you had picked 15, we would all would have, I think we would have had a bad time.

I think maybe, maybe your reaction to the Final Fantasy XV movie, Kingsglaive, was enough for me to step back from that instinct.

I was trying to pull Kingsglaive and I almost said Knight's Blade.

And it was something like that.

equally

equally stupid

i i look i i kind of jumped right into video games but i feel like we should talk that about the cheeseburgers we're going to eat because i'm really excited about

i'm sorry i'm sorry that we started the video game show by talking about video games too fast We didn't derail the show by talking about how we're all excited about the burgers.

To be fair, Nick is in visible physical pain.

Look at the way he's sitting.

He's like in self-protective mode.

Yes.

Like,

we're having, okay, listener, we're having cheeseburgers after this record.

Oh, yeah.

And Nick is really excited about it.

He even texted us midday and said, can we have cheeseburgers for dinner?

It's all I've been thinking about.

Yeah.

The only thing keeping me going through this day is the prospect of cheeseburgers at the end of this record.

That was me today with the Coke Zero.

I've been like licking my lips thinking about just chugging a Coke Zero.

Nice and cold.

Right.

Oh, man.

It's, and it's, it's it's been hitting we should mention our our yo ranch is out of town right now our our our buddy uh engineer of the year uh sam rogic is here guesting sam uh where do you stand on a cheeseburger how do you like a burg you guys might not like this but i get no cheese on my burger no cheese on a burger yeah

do you have a cheese a melted cheese aversion what is it it's i'm very picky with cheese and yeah i think in general i just am not that big of a fan do you like do you like pizza pizza i can do for some reason i can get down with mozzarella and i think yeah it's just i have an aversion to cheese on a burger interesting which is weird and everyone in chicago that i grew up with thought it was insane i don't think it's that weird i think it's a completely reasonable way to to yeah i i used to opt for no cheese on burgers so yeah i would do a double meat from in and out burger me too that's what i do double meat good plain meat and bread well no no i get all the fixins on it you get the sauce on there you get the veggies i do a sacrilegious thing at in n out what's that what's that i don't get the spread whoa no spread i do yellow mustard i ask them for yellow mustard instead.

That's fine.

I just like it more.

The only thing that is a specific need for me at In-N-Out Burger is extra crispy bun.

Oh, you like a toasty bun?

I love extra toasted bun.

Yeah, that's good stuff.

Man, these burgers can't come soon enough.

I'm so excited.

I'm saying.

Well, here's.

You got to do the episode to earn the burgers, but I'm just like.

I know.

And then, but here's what I tried to do.

I tried to be really bad, didn't I?

I was trying to be so bad before we started because we can't order the burgers

to order ahead.

Yeah, this particular place does not allow you you to pre-order on the app.

Once you place the order, the burgers are on room.

So I was like, just order them and then we'll stop when they get here.

Yeah, well, like, so like at this point,

we'll take a break and start eating cheeseburgers.

Come back to the front at the end of the episode.

Think about this.

We could be eating the burger right now.

It's my only counter.

I rest my case.

Man, you're going to get destroyed in court.

Are you representing yourself?

The

half-lawyer, half me costume that I'm gonna wear you get locked up what did you

what like what do you have a favorite burger do you have a go-to

I mean I God I love in-and-out stuff yeah me too I mean probably my answer is just in and out by default it's probably just in and out but I like

you know this is gonna sound like a crazy answer yeah

whatever the burger is in hand I just love burgers I think burger top three food for me i think yeah for sure i mean i'm the burger boy i i as far as like other burgers, I've really enjoyed the Culver's burgers in Wisconsin.

Culver's, yeah, you'll know that as someone from the Midwest, yeah,

Smash Burger before Smash Burger almost like fantastic spot.

Love them.

And then AW Canada, which is a different company than AW in the U.S., but the burgers they do up there are different.

I want to shout out a local Chicago, as long as we're on Chicago,

char-grilled burger joint called Charcoal Delights, where they had an open charcoal grill

inside of the kitchen with all this venting.

And so you would get burgers as if they were cooked outside, but inside.

And it was pretty fucking great.

Everyone working the grill getting black long.

Two places just came to mind that are local to Los Angeles.

Yeah.

Father's Office, kind of a hoity-toity burger.

That is like an upscale burger.

That's one of the OG, like elevated burgers.

Had one of the worst dates of my life there.

But the burger, I think.

I'm sorry.

I think the burger really, really good, though.

I think this is a delicious burger.

I probably have that like.

Once every like three years.

I don't go very often.

Yeah.

But that's got like, it's got blue cheese, caramelized onions.

Yeah, it's got an onion jam.

That's the thing that I really like.

Exactly.

And this is like a 20-year-old establishment.

Like it's a long-term L.A.

local breast.

This is one of the first, like, when this, when gastro pubs were like a novelty.

This was one of the first places.

This was a trailblazer that had like, like an elevated burger.

Like, they have a burger that was like $20 at a time when that was like a lot of money to pay for a hamburger as opposed to what a Wendy's combo costs.

Now, did you guys ever eat at the Bowery?

Yeah, the Bowery burger was great.

It was on an English

burger.

So fucking good.

I've had this.

I've had this.

It's gone now.

At Father's Office,

they don't have ketchup because the chef hates ketchup.

So

you can't get fries with a side of ketchup.

And this is why i don't go that often because i i think i did this year yes i'm not kidding you my wife and i both decided that we both love ketchup ketchup's great love ketchup they also

allow zero substitutions on the boat yeah and their french fries come in a shopping cart right a little tiny shopping cart like on your like a like a Hot Wheel style

but larger.

The other LA place that I think is really, really great, and I think this is like a classic place, the Apple Pan.

The Apple Pan town is the best.

Oh my God, I love that.

I don't like it.

I don't like apple pan.

I loved it.

And I've gone more than once because I'm like, I must be wrong because everybody loves apple pan.

I just don't like, I don't like it.

I'm in heaven when I'm sitting at the counter there.

It's a beautiful restaurant.

A great counter.

Yeah.

Great pie.

I really haven't had pie there yet.

The pie is incredible.

But

it's at a part of town that I'm just not at enough.

Yep.

So I've only had it like a handful of people.

Have you had Cassells?

Is that the

Cassells is good?

I have not had that one yet, but I've heard that.

What are we doing?

I guess

we give burgers five forks or something.

I was looking at pictures of burgers earlier, just thinking about what my night was going to be.

Yeah, no,

Nick sent a single text to himself of the burger emoji.

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We got burgers on the brain.

We got them on the horizon.

But right now, we got to talk about some video games we've been playing.

It's what are you playing?

What are you playing?

Heinz me, the Resident Evil Merchant.

And I'm going to ask my friends what they've been playing.

Cause I'm out of work.

And this is my job.

Meta Madunga,

what are you playing?

Thank you so much, Resident Evil 4 Merchant.

Thank you, Resident Evil 4 Merchant.

This is your job.

Did you know cigarettes are bad?

Bad?

Bad for you.

Yeah, yeah, I did know that.

Yeah, that's news to me.

Oh, no.

Are you smoking?

Because I used to smoke.

I quit smoking many years ago, but I do miss them.

I know this information.

Yeah.

And every time it comes up, I just like can't pick.

I can't picture me with a pack of parliaments.

No.

My early 20s.

Wow.

Really?

And I think I

knew you when you were a smoker, and I can't imagine that.

I would overlap for a little bit.

See, but see, here's the difference.

Sam's dipping.

Sam's cool.

Sam's cool as hell.

I can't picture you doing anything cool.

Jesus Christ.

Fucking coming for me today.

I'll see you in Court.

No, I guess you were young at one point.

I could see it then, maybe.

Now it would make no sense for you to smoke a cigarette.

Yeah, sure.

Except unless we got new information that they're good.

They're not.

No, they're bad, apparently.

They're real bad.

I'm always hoping that they're going to be good.

Real bad.

Don't, don't, don't, no smoking, kids.

Or adults.

You know what it is?

I don't mean to be coming for you.

I just haven't spoken to anybody all day today.

Oh, no.

I was at home all day.

Wait, really?

Yeah.

These are your first IRL podcasts.

These are my first interactions I've had today.

Oh, okay.

I know.

That happens.

That's why I dream.

Yeah, I'm kind of on one, I guess.

Me and off.

I've been here at Headgum all day long.

I've done, this is my third podcast recorder in a row, so I'm kind of like at wit's end.

You walked in here with your metal lunchbox

hard hat.

Punch the clock.

Only apples inside.

How many do you think you could take down in a day?

How many apples could I eat in a day?

Yeah.

If my goal was to eat as many apples as possible,

30.

You think you can eat 30?

I think you eat 30 apples.

It's such a funny number.

You would have insane diarrhea.

Yeah, I know.

Midday.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Non-stop fiber.

I think honestly, I'm good for like three, maybe.

In a day?

If you were maxing?

That's as many as I'd want.

I don't think I'd want more than that.

But that's a different question.

Yeah.

Like, like, like, in the scenario you were proposing, it was like, how many could you get through if you were pushing?

I could easily get 31.

What is,

oh, my God.

What is a day to you?

Is it 24 hours or is it like 15 awake hours?

Yeah, I think it's like dawn to dusk.

I think it's like from I'm rising until I'm blind.

So you're looking at like a 10 to 15 hour window.

So you're eating two apples an hour.

Yeah.

I think I could do that.

That's achievable.

You could do it.

I think

I'd have a tummy ache.

I think I'd have the rumblies.

But I think I would be, I could do it.

Are you going to do one apple?

variety or are you going to do a different uh you mix them up you know i have the chat if i have the leeway to try different apple varietals then i'll absolutely do that yeah why why wouldn't i wear it up yeah it's interesting i don't know maybe we should try it i uh i've there's a place here that sells freeze-dried apple slices oh and uh

no sugar apple fruit roll-up and both of them are impeccable oh wow wow apple a good flavor it is good flavor i really i love it i love an apple butter oh my god apple butter is so good don't come in look we're just hungry i used to have apple butter all the time it's so fucking good i had to stop having it in my house you would buy it Yeah.

You can do that.

Yeah, you can do whatever you want.

What?

You can buy apple butter.

You probably get at the grocery store.

I gotta go.

I gotta leave.

Okay.

I sort of have a big, a big one to talk about.

Oh, oh, oh, oh.

Because, you know, obviously we've been playing a lot of Switch 2 stuff.

You know,

been doing a lot of Mario Kart.

Been doing a lot of Pokemon Scarlet and Cyberpunk.

But

a new game has entered the chat for me.

Here comes a new challenger.

Here comes a new challenger from my backlog, from my Nintendo Switch 1 backlog.

USA!

Japan!

I've been playing Hollow Knight.

Wow.

And Hollow Knight.

There it is.

So

here's the deal.

Here's my story with Hollow Knight.

By the way,

we ranch not here, but Ranch had been playing Hollow Knight for the time.

I think almost all the way done with it.

Yes.

So I'm just trying to be like Ranch, you know?

Yeah.

We all are.

Yeah, we're all just trying to be like Ranch.

I had picked it up a bunch.

I mean, I probably bought this game

five years ago, like, or, you know, whenever.

I bought it many years ago at this point.

I am like you.

I have owned Hollow Knight for a long time.

Yeah.

Never really gotten into it.

I think I own it on Switch and Steam.

I was like, I'll play this somewhere.

And I have picked it up a couple of times and it hasn't grabbed me.

And I was just like, oh, maybe this is, it's just not the time.

Similar to Celeste, where I would start it and be like, not now.

Man, I get a segment.

I'm so happy you played Celeste.

I'm so happy I played it too.

What an all-timer.

And I think so good.

I think

that sort of has prepared me for this.

Sure.

Being like, you know,

what's wrong with you?

You have these games in your backlog that you know you're going to love.

Right.

Commit.

So what I would do in the past was that I would just, I wouldn't pick up from where I left off.

I would just start a fresh save because I like had forgotten in between times like starting it.

And so this time I did the same thing.

I started a completely fresh save because I wasn't very far into it.

Like each, each time I've done this, I've probably played like an hour of it.

It was just sort of like, I don't know, I don't know.

Started a fresh save.

I'm about seven hours in now.

And I love it.

And the thing that I'm really loving about it is,

which I guess I had known, but just hadn't experienced experienced yet it's a metroidvania by way of souls games sure okay so it has similar um

elements of of both genres where i mean i guess souls games are also metroidvanias in 3d space in some capacity interesting hmm

i don't travel backwards through a lot of areas i guess not really yeah it's not like the same because i feel like the metroidvania experience is so much like oh this is signposted where i'm gonna to get an ability where I can return to this area and do something new.

Yes.

And there is an element of that in

souls games, but it's not, as I don't know.

I think I'll dispute your hypothesis a little bit.

Look, I've been coming for you.

It's only fair.

Yeah.

So I'd say objection sustained on my part.

I'm getting

my bell rung over here.

Council approached the bench.

Gentlemen, you need to keep it cool and even in this courtroom.

I don't want any more shenanigans.

Both of you need to stay at your respective desks.

I would love, this is, I've never seen this before ever.

Yeah.

I would love to see

the most accurate

courtroom improv scene ever done.

It's never, it's impossible.

Oh, yeah.

Nobody can do it.

Oh, yeah, because like, I mean, you try to, you get lost to the legalese so quick.

Yeah.

And then you start making nonsense, and now it's just silly court.

Do you know what would be a funny TV show?

Is like

a a show called uh do their job

and yeah that is funny and it's it's a show where you take a bunch of people who don't have the profession yeah and you make them do the profession to the best of their ability without any pointers and then you tell them how many things they got wrong at the end so for example you take a like you know a bunch of people and you you make one the judge one the prosecutor one like you you give them all the positions yeah and then for a half hour on television they have to do a court case.

Yeah.

The stenographer like piping as fast as they can and fucking up.

And then at the end, they get scored.

Like, maybe it's a family or something.

Heather, this is a good idea.

And then, like, the next week, you have a different job.

Wow.

Yeah.

I mean, I'm in.

Yeah.

The cop episode, everyone does a good job.

It's like easy.

So

it has, it's a Metroidvania, but the souls element is that like when you die in this game, not unlike

in like Elden Ring or any of these games, you can go back and pick up your lost,

your souls or whatever.

In this game,

they're geos and you use those as like in-game currency, similar to these other games.

My other favorite thing about it is he's just a little guy.

Yeah, he's very much a little guy.

He's just a little guy.

He's a little guy.

I love the world.

I love how weird everything is.

And I like that it's all bugs and stuff.

And

I'm having a great time with it.

I am at a spot right now where i am getting my ass kicked a little bit um and it's uh i mean just so the listener knows for the people that have played the game i'm in the city of tears and i'm on the roof fighting the boss and i can't remember what the name of the boss is currently but he's a big old chunky guy and he's floating around and stuff and he's he's tough but i'm gonna i'm gonna get him i'm gonna get him and i've uh i'm excited to to to finish this game i i i do want to finish this before i start whatever my next big game is i'd love to hear this.

Another big old chunky guy who's pretty tough.

Me, so just watch your ass.

Gentlemen.

Gentlemen.

Here's the scenario.

We're both in court suing each other this way.

You both get put in jail for wasting everybody's time.

I love that you're playing that, Matt.

It's really, really good.

I think if you, I know that you haven't played it, but I know that your alpha brother has.

Yeah, my alpha brother is is like like what i it's a it's one of those games where the percentage is over 100 he's like he's like 180 in that game or something like that and told me it wasn't that hard which is

class classic alpha move it's extremely hard it's a very hard game i get the easiest the simplest stuff has given me a lot of trouble um i learned a mechanic too late in the in the in hours into the game i didn't know that i could do which is like swipe down with my sword and that's helped me a lot i've had some false starts with that game as well, and I do also just need to dig back into it.

I'm trying to get it off my backlog

before Silksong comes out.

Yeah.

So I'll be ready for, you know, so I got time.

Yeah.

Yeah, you got some time.

I think

like Duke Nukem forever saved at this point.

Chinese democracy.

Another reference of

similar type of thing.

Heather, what are you playing?

Well,

now that the strike is over, I've been playing Fortnite.

Wow.

And I've decided that I'm going to give a once-a-month Fortnite update because I'm never going to stop playing fucking Fortnite.

Sure.

But I don't want to inundate the listener.

But it has been a long time since I've been able to talk about Fortnite.

So I am chomping at the fucking bit to talk about it now.

We've just entered a new season, which is superhero themed.

There are your standard guns,

Fortnite guns, some lasers, etc.

But there are

a bevy of superhero-themed power-ups, like a thing that can turn you into a flying bird, like a raven.

There's a set of pom-poms you can shake that turn you into a werewolf.

There are crow gloves that sick like a flock of crows on people.

There is a set of gloves that

can catapult you into the sky

off of the

resonance of a bass note.

All of your wacky fucking Fortnite shit.

the uh main battle pass is Superman-themed.

There is also a crypto the dog mythic item that is a little dog bone that you can throw, and then he flies in from the sky and does like an amount of um structural damage to whatever he hits.

Um, I have discovered that all of these weapons are not for me.

Oh,

and my squad has developed its own personal private meta, um, which is working phenomenally for us, where we don't pick up any of that shit.

Wow.

And it is the first, I want to, I mean, he doesn't listen to the show and kind of makes fun of it whenever I'm squatting with him.

But my friend Barrett was like, hey,

I'm not carrying any of this shit anymore.

I'm only carrying shockwaves, which is a very classic Fortnite item in almost every season.

And

there's like an aerial dash that you can recharge.

And he's like, I'm not doing any of the other movement.

And I have not not had as many victory crowns in a season this early as I have with this loadout, which I have not encountered in any other player.

And perhaps I'm spoiling my own meta here on the show.

But

I love it.

It is a good season.

It is super fun.

I am so happy to be back on Fortnite.

What would it take for you to stop playing Fortnite?

I have no idea.

And I have desperately asked myself this question.

It occupies so much of my gaming time that I feel like everything else has kind of like peeled away.

Unfortunately,

it is not the only game I've been playing this week,

in part because it's been very hot

and so I don't like playing

PlayStation when it's hot because the area I play PlayStation in is a hot area.

So I've been playing Persona 5 again.

Wow, I love it.

And I've spoken before about how stressed out Atlas games get me because I'm like, I'm not doing the right thing at the right time.

This time I am taking the advice in the corner of the screen during loading, which just says take your time and the sort of vibe of the game with the jazzy music and the fact that the main character keeps his hands in his pockets most of the time.

And I'm playing as breezy as I can.

I am not farther than I've been in the game previously because I started all over again.

But my playthrough this time has been been so much more enjoyable because I'm not trying to figure out what the proper thing to do is.

You're not trying to min-max it.

I'm not min-maxing it.

Yeah, I love it.

I'm like, I want to talk to this person.

So I'm going to talk to this person.

I want to read a book.

I'm like, I'm trying to experience persona as if I was the dude and I had no idea how to upgrade stats.

And I'm just like, what would I want right now?

Would I want to clean the curry shop?

Would I want to read a book?

Would I want to go to the video store?

And I'm kind of like following my whims and allowing the shape of my character to be dictated by those

sort of like progressive power-ups of your stats.

Cool.

I'm not going for any particular build.

I'm just playing it breezy.

What's the, there's the, the gamer kid with the hat.

What his hat says, get wrecked.

Is that what it is?

The baseball hat?

I love that hat.

That game, I, I get, I think that's, I, I love that, Heather.

I mean,

I finished Persona 5 Royal, finished Metaphor Refantasia.

I love both those games.

What you're saying, that's the thing I like about the Atlas games because life is all about choosing to do something is choosing not to do something else.

And I like having to make those decision points.

I like that I can't

get to everything.

But it is really tempting to try to be like, I want to just...

absolutely get every relationship to the highest level as quickly as possible.

It's also making me more personally adventurous in my own life

because it is reminding me that this is a huge fucking city with a bunch of stuff to do.

Oh, yeah.

And so like when

the character is like given the opportunity to go to a batting cage, I'm like, why don't I go to a batting cage?

There are batting cages here.

Why don't I go to, I don't have to go to a golf.

I don't have to go to an actual green in order.

I could just go to a driving range.

Like I could do any of this stuff.

I'm an adult.

I can pay for it and I can go do the things.

So it's been encouraging me to take more,

I don't know,

small adventurous risks,

like cooking a different meal than I've ever cooked.

Just like whatever.

I'm just like,

oh, there's infinite opportunity in this city,

especially for somebody of such extraordinary privilege.

I might as well take advantage of it.

On the batting cages, and anytime I'm like, oh, yeah, batting cages, it'll be fun.

And then I go there and I just get like absolutely shelled by the pitching machine.

I forget like, oh, this is fucking hard.

I have been playing baseball.

I don't think I've mentioned this on

this show, I don't think.

And I've been wanting to get out to a batting cage, but I'm scared.

Yeah.

Because they only throw heat.

I do.

I don't know what to do.

Yeah.

And I don't know what I'm doing.

Yeah, you're holding the bat the wrong way.

I got it in my mouth.

What if we went to a batting cage and that was what we played for a week?

If you want to go, I will happily go with you.

Yeah, let's do it.

Yes.

There's one in Burbank.

We can go.

Great.

Let's go.

Yeah.

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Nick, what have you been playing?

Thank you so much for asking.

I, so here's the thing.

We're on the eve of Death Stranding 2.

And as far as big games go, I was like, I need to set aside a chunk of my life for that.

Yes.

So I, you know, there were some meaty games that I was like, I was a good thing to get back into, but I was like, I'm not going to finish,

you know, Claire Obscura

in one week.

Like, I just, it's not going to happen.

No.

So

I'm going to be like,

I put those aside.

And obviously I got my Bellacho time, which is kind of like my, my fortnight for now.

But there was a major update to Hades 2.

And I've been trying so hard not to play this game until 1.0 comes out.

But this update was like sprawling enough where I was like, ah, fuck it.

I'm just going to get back in there.

Whenever a year this game comes out, and I'm increasingly starting to think it might hit 2025 because, you know, this is just an incredible amount of content and so much polish for something that is still technically in early access.

It's just like, I mean, I felt this from when Hades 2 first went into early access.

I was like, this is like better than a lot of retail games that just like released full price.

And anyway,

I think whatever year this comes out, this will just be my favorite game of that year.

And it's the first time where I'm kind of feeling like, fuck, Hades is one of my favorite games ever.

This might actually just end up being better.

And it's tough to get into the details of this because I don't want to get into spoiler country because I know there are people like me who are like trying to avoid

anything to do with this game until it's officially released.

But

it is just so cool.

And you're always a little bit

has I mean like it's it's failed so many times when they've like switched to a new protagonist for a new entry in the franchise.

It's like kind of a tough thing to pull off.

But you know, I don't know.

I think it's working here.

And

I don't know, man.

I just love the aesthetic of this game.

I love the music in it.

They've added more voice acting.

They've done some more flourishes on the artwork, like the portraits of Waltman plussed up a little bit.

And they've added some more gameplay elements, which again, I won't get into too much.

But if you've played Hades 1 into depth, it's the same sort of things in terms of your arsenal and how you can use it.

Yeah, I mean, it's just...

Matt, you play around a little Hades 2 2 as well.

Yeah, I mean, I haven't touched it since the initial launch of the Early Access.

But I've been tracking the progress and I'm very, very excited about it.

A hotly anticipated Switch 2 title for me, I got to say.

But I'll probably also, I have it on Steam already because I bought the Early Access.

So I'll be double dipping because I love the, I just love the game so much.

I always engage in the story of any game because I'm just like, that's part of it.

But sometimes the story is like whatever.

And especially in like a lot of roguelites, the story is pretty.

I feel like it's often non-existent.

Yeah.

But other times just like pretty superfluous.

But like the story is so engaging in this immediately.

And

I don't know.

I just feel like super giant games, just whatever their pipeline is for development, they're just like doing it better than like any developer, like not just in the indie space, like any developer out there.

Yeah.

And yeah, just this is getting me even more hyped for the 1.0 and also kind of tidying me over before another big two, a Death Stranding 2 on the horizon.

Another's wearing a Death Stranding 2 t-shirt.

It's very cool.

Death Stranding 2 on the beach.

Oh, it sounds fun.

Which

on the beach?

Which I got at the Death Stranding 2 premiere here in Los Angeles.

Nick.

The stuff that we saw was a fucking nightmare.

I just read a thing, actually, from our close good friend Hideo Kojima

that after initial testing of the game, it tested too well, and he didn't like that, so he went and changed some stuff.

Do people like it too much?

That's some DJ college-ass shit to say.

He's like,

This track is too good.

I had to make it less.

I had to get back in there.

They liked it too much.

iTunes had to put on their extra powerful servers for all the downloads my music is getting

fucking liar and i hate eating pussy

guys

should we talk about this week's topic the nintendo switch 2 welcome tour so we were we're talking about this and and we obviously has done some switch 2 content we all have switch 2s at this point Sam was saying he's interested in getting one.

I might get one, yeah.

Do you have a, you have a switch one?

No, I don't.

Wow.

What's your console situation?

The only console I have right now is Xbox 360.

Holy shit.

Wow.

You'll love the Switch 2.

I think I love Nintendo games, and yeah, I think it would be great to have.

And if it's your first foyer into the Switch 1 library, you have so many great, great bangers to play.

That's what I was almost going to offer because, like, you know, now I've got

some Switch 1s collecting dust.

If you want one of those to mess around with for a little bit, please, yeah.

I'll let you borrow it.

How's Fortnite on it?

That's what I wanted to ask.

Fortnite's not good on Switch 1.

It is pretty good on Switch 2.

Wait, are you a Fortnite guy?

My friend has a PS5, and we've been playing the Galactic Battle.

It was the Star Wars season.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

His PS5.

Yeah.

Okay.

And we just trade off, but I have been getting into that a little bit.

So I don't know.

That's encouraging.

That's a fucking great game.

Switch one Fortnite is pretty bad, right?

So Switch two might be the way to be.

But Switch 2 is a really good experience.

Yeah, I got in there just to see, like, it's a pretty seamless.

I mean, it's one-to-one.

It feels great.

Yeah, and the Switch 2 also has a LAN port on

the machine itself, so you don't have to worry about like wireless signals and ping.

Anyway, we were discussing internally, like, hey, we should do something about the Nintendo Switch 2 since it's out.

Doing a comprehensive console overview feels like it's kind of like enough of those exist right now.

What are we really going to add to the Mario Kart World discourse?

Why don't we dig in on this weird fucking thing, Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour, which is one of the launch titles that is inexplicably not a pack-in,

is $9.99.

It's saying that it can be called a launch title.

I know it's worked out for them because apparently one of the best-selling titles on the Switch too.

People have on different forums or Reddit said, when are they ever going to return to the old format?

Right.

Which used to be worst and weirdest.

Well, guys, this is a weird fucking time.

Definitely falls under the weirdest umbrella world.

How to get how did this get played days?

Yeah.

You're talking about the Landport.

I learned a lot about the Landport playing this game.

I tell you what.

I can't wrap my head around welcome tour

i unlocked every area

i uh i started by playing it like

like 100 in each area as i went and then i was like i'm never gonna this is gonna take me for fucking ever right and so then i just

okay we should tell the audience what this game is you are a little tiny person you're just a little guy here's the

And I know what you're thinking.

I know what the listener is thinking.

And I just got to get in here before they think too more.

You're not even thinking about exactly how little, the amount of how small you're thinking is wrong.

And actually, you're kind of dumb for thinking that's how little is.

It's littler than that.

You're so fucking tiny.

And the character selection screen at the beginning of the game is a long line into an expo.

And you pick out who in the line you are.

Yeah.

And then you go into this expo, which is

an enormous Switch 2 and its accessories

laid out like a fucking museum theme park experience.

And you walk around in and on the Switch 2.

Yeah.

Learning, taking quizzes, playing mini games, finding lost and found objects and returning them to the information booth.

And

it is.

If Sony's version of this is Astrobot,

this is the most Nintendo version of what this is that there could be.

It is part brain training, part

Mario Paint.

It is a fucking weird little piece of software.

It's the, it's the, you know, the Astro's Playroom specifically equivalent of that, which was just a pack and which was just bundled with the PlayStation 5 and is such a great like tour of the hardware.

But here...

It's yes, you're right.

In a Nintendo way, it's getting like weirdly way too granular.

Like it's like there's like, there's like less of a game here than,

than Astro's Playroom, but also kind of also way more content than Astro's Playroom at once.

There is, there is, you'll spend, no joke, two solid minutes learning about the development of a hinge.

Yes.

You'll take like five lessons.

Like text lessons laid out in, and I would call the design language very similar to Google's Matter.

Like it's that, that, or, or whatever that Google, the way that Android got reskinned a few years ago, it's got like a very flat aesthetic, um,

very like pieces of paper laid on top of each other.

And you take these quizzes on the surface of the Joy-Con or on the surface of the screen or inside of the console, and it'll be like five,

five one-minute pieces of information with little videos describing how this, how the Joy-Cons lock into the system.

Yes.

And the engineering of the hinge in between them.

And then you take a quiz about it.

It's

one, makes me really appreciate the system.

Yeah, all the craftsmanship involved, all the, everything from the technical side.

But two

is fucking weird.

It's, it's like edutainment, but for information you don't need to know.

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

Yes.

It's like, it's like, this isn't teaching me math.

This isn't teaching me about history or geography.

This isn't teaching me a skill like typing.

This is just teaching me all the technical details of this piece of hardware.

This is teaching me that underneath each button, there is a solid metal dome that's deformed and creates a closed circuit in order to make the button presses registered by the main CPU.

So recently on an on a get animated,

I revealed that I was not a great student, which Nick was not shocked by.

I had to really, really focus and try really, really hard when I was playing this game because it hits you with a lot of information.

And you like, my impulse while playing a video game is to like click through menus and stuff and like, you know, just kind of get to whatever I'm supposed to be actually doing.

You cannot do that with this because you will miss critical information and then fail a voluntary quiz.

I think you have to plot, like, I think this is one of those games.

It's like a fucking blueprints where it's actually helpful to have a little notepad to write some stuff down.

Because, yes, I definitely, when I was hit with, you fail a quiz, and what does it just say, unsuccessful?

Unsuccessful.

It makes you feel bad.

It's brutal.

It's so brutal.

And then also, there's when, but there's this game toys with you emotionally as well.

Yeah.

Because

even when

you succeed, it says success, right, or something.

And there's like a check mark, but that check mark does not come fast enough.

When you submit your answers, it's like two seconds.

Yes.

And it's, did I get it wrong?

Yeah.

Am I right?

And then you see the check go through and it says success and then you're happy, but oh man, a brutal wait.

It's it is a baffling,

charming piece of software that

is the most Nintendo thing that I have

that I have experienced in years

because

you're you're you're befuddled.

Yes.

It's It's it's so weird what it's doing and that you pay to do it.

A lot of the you mentioned like brain training and some other like DS things.

Yeah.

And like even the

text boxes and some of the other stuff that you see in the thing, it's giving me big time DS like UI vibes,

which I appreciate.

Yeah.

But then, so there's the quiz element as well, but then you also have you're walking around the surface area of the various

parts of the Switch.

Let me interrupt and say it also reminds me of WeFit.

Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, like that faceless human.

That kind of, yeah, that kind of like aesthetic and interface, but continue.

Yeah.

So you're walking around and

you're encouraged to go up to all of the like buttons or

just anything that has like, there's like these little things that pop up that are like little marquees

that, you know, it tells you what it is.

And you get a sticker stamp.

You get a little stamp.

And let me tell you something about these stamps.

I need to get every single one of them because

you do need them to get them to

open the next area.

But sometimes.

Sometimes they're not so easy to find.

They're not exactly where you think they might be.

Yeah,

it is a hunt where you're a little tiny person running around on

each individual.

So you begin on like the, I think it's the right Joy-Con area,

which is a detached, giant, floating, right Joy-Con.

You have to go up and identify each.

element of the right Joy-Con, the home button, the capture button, if it's on that side, or maybe it's the chat button, the little X, all the individual buttons.

And then at each station, there's a little quiz booth that teaches you about the engineering of the thing, often with a little bit of Nintendo history.

Like it'll be like, hey, this analog stick is different from the Nintendo Switch 1 analog stick in that it springs back to the middle.

But Nintendo has been making

analog sticks since 1996.

Here is a couple of photos of all the analog sticks that have ever been on Nintendo hardware.

Then there is a mini-game, usually in the same area, set up like a booth at a museum.

And the mini-games are fucking frustrating.

They are.

Yes.

Because most of them are mouse-based mini-games.

Yes.

Starting with the mouse, I think, is just such a misstep in terms of the way this is paced out because the mouse is so clunky to you.

Yes.

And it's also like a feature I feel like a lot, like a lot of people just

you don't even necessarily need to learn about.

It's gonna be, I feel like it's gonna be pretty niche uh

implementation of of of mouse mouses in in this in on switch hardware so my experience in this piece of software and i would say i'm probably 75 complete yeah

i would also say 80 of the mini games are fucking mouse-based yes they are uh click on something as fast as you can avoid objects uh some of them are using the rumble feature to uh describe the shape of an object that you can't see and then choosing it out of a menu.

Yes.

I hated that one.

I fucking hated that one.

That one was mean.

That one was hard.

But then it'll also suck.

It's hard and it's unrewarding.

Yeah, you don't get anything.

You don't get anything.

And it's like, I don't need to know what the fuck.

I just, for me, I don't need to know what a shape feels like.

Sure.

That's me.

I don't need, I don't need to know.

But there there was one demo, because there are also demos, and the demos will be like, hey, can you tell the difference?

No, I guess that's a mini game.

It'll be like, hey, did you know that the Joy-Cons can make sound because

of the

rumble engine, whatever the fuck they call it,

can vibrate so frequently that it can create a sonic sound.

And then you'll hear through vibration the joystick make the one-up sound.

Yes.

And it's staggering when it happens.

That was a really crazy one.

Even the Maracas one was also like the Maracas.

The Maracas are fun.

He loves Maracas.

But then there are also things where it's like, hey, here's a mini-game where you have to try and determine the frame rate of a thing that you're looking at.

Yeah.

And at first, the easy version of it is, is it 30 or is it 60?

Is it 60 or is it 120?

And you can kind of get through that without making making an error.

But then you increase the difficulty and it's like, what are you looking at?

20 frames per second or 40 frames per second?

What are you looking at?

And it's a ball flying across a screen fast.

And then it's like, what are you looking at?

110 frames per second or 120 frames per second?

Yes.

And it's a little like,

what am I gaining by spending all my time doing that?

Yeah, as a user, like

my,

what I want as a, as a, as someone who's playing a video game is, I just want it to look smooth.

I just want a frame rate that makes this game, presents this game as most playable state.

Like, me being able to divine

what the frame count is.

That's not a skill idea.

That's a thing I could put, I put in a console command on PC and just

see what the frame rate is.

Like, I just learn that information.

I just want it to look good.

And so I just, again, I don't know

why me

being able to pass the eye test, why do I gain anything anything from that?

Yeah, some of the a lot of the games are not really games.

They're

they feel I mean they all they feel like tests in the way that the quizzes are quizzes, right?

They're tests for you.

Yes, and so the only outcome is you either pass and you you can do it or you feel bad.

You feel stupid.

And so like the I was saying the one I happen there's some of them though that are like I guess just depending on

who you are or something, like they are easier.

Like I got,

because they're also on these, on these ones too, that these games will have medals.

And so you get the medals for achieving the goal in a certain amount of time.

And each one is like faster than the previous one.

So it'll be like 20 seconds, 15 seconds, 10 seconds or more.

When you move the mouse across the screen and click this button in less than 0.4 of a second.

Yes.

And so sometimes you can,

it'll tell you when you fail how close you got to getting it.

Yeah.

Which is

incredibly frustrating.

But one of the ones that I got

correctly and got all three medals first try was this pixel hunting one where there are five pixels.

You have it docked on your TV.

And my TV is probably seven feet away from my couch, maybe eight feet away from my couch.

Let me interrupt and say that the only way

to enter into this particular test

is that you have to previously own a 4k television yeah you have to own a 4k tv you have to own the tv in order to play this part of this software that you just paid for which also

this then the nintendo the nintendo switch 2 teaching me all sorts of things teaching me about the land port the hdmi port the you know

uh the refresh rate of the screen also told me that my television not 120 hertz compatible.

So now I hate my TV.

Now I got to get a new TV.

Are you sure you didn't go?

Because there is on my TV, it's not default allowed.

It does, it's not allowed to show me 120 frames.

And then you go into the menu and you can toggle it.

Dump, dump, dump, do it.

You bought a 60 hertz TV?

Not recently.

Oh.

So this is a TV you've had for a while.

It is 4K, but it's not 100.

Yes, yes.

Oh, okay.

Then that tracks.

Yeah, I've had it for like, probably like, well, what, six months?

Just kidding.

I've had it for like five years or something.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

But yeah, there's the.

120 hertz is new.

I mean, you could have gotten, probably could have gotten one.

Probably could have got it then, but for

$1,000.

It would have been fantastic.

Yeah.

And you're dealing with, you know, not, not a ton of console games are necessarily supporting 40 to 20 FPS at the time.

That's like it?

Yeah.

But I got all five of the pixels that are floating around the screen,

got all three medals first try.

And then I felt really good about my eye.

Let me, again, explain what Matt is talking about just a little bit for the listener who doesn't want to spend $10 to learn this stuff about their own television.

On your screen, the Nintendo Switch 2 generates five

individual pixels on your 4K television

that are

sort of yellow against a red background.

Nearly impossible to see.

And you have to find them while a clock has ticked

in order to solve the test,

which rewards you with nothing.

Yes, rewards you with nothing.

And I think the

fastest time that they had was something like 40 seconds, got all five in 23.

There is a version of Super Mario Bros.

When they're illustrating to you how big 4K is compared to the original output pixel rate of the nintendo the any the original nes

there is a version of mario brothers that is to scale on your 4k television yes

which

as tiny as you are in the game mario is even tiny tiny to scale to the little right yeah it's like it's 200 pixels or whatever across

so you you run the length of the first level world world one one of the original super mario brothers as a straight line across your screen.

Yes.

With none of the screen disappearing in order to illustrate that you can put all of the first level of Super Mario Bros.

on a 4K screen.

It won't even reach across it.

Yeah.

Which

is cool.

I liked it.

I couldn't complete it, though.

I couldn't complete that demo for some reason.

There's one of the,

each demo comes with like a list of tasks that you can do.

And I can do most of them, but there was one task that I had to explore every, I maybe had to like do everything in one know or something.

Yeah, yeah, I couldn't do it.

Yeah,

like, how

annoying is it that this costs money?

Because, like, again, if this is free, all of its little quirks are kind of like, oh, well, that's part of its charm.

It's just Nintendo being weird, but just like also that it's $10.

I have two men.

I'm $10 for this.

I'm of two minds of this.

Yes.

I mean, well, first of all, collectively, the three of us, we spent your favorite amount of money.

$30.

Second,

I cannot condone Nintendo charging $10 for this at the same time.

I think it's worth spending $10 on.

I think it's dumb that it costs that much money and it should have been free at the same time.

I think if you're curious about it, it is worth spending the money on.

Right.

If what we're talking about.

If going inside of a Joy-Con and learning about each individual chipset or learning about how

they re-engineered the left and right buttons on the top of the game controller because the controller is larger than the original Switch.

If all of that information is interesting to you, as it is for me, because my brain sucked all this information up like a sponge.

Like, I was just like, oh, wow, look at the way this,

there's travel on this hinge.

I want to 100% this game.

And I want to do it so much much that when I saw that you had to have the camera in order to do one of the sub-games,

I insta-carted the fucking camera myself.

Well, and so that's an interesting thing too, right?

Like, I feel like there's been a lot of coverage of this,

that there are certain things that you need accessories for to complete in the game.

But I believe there is a system within the game, within this game, to call it a game.

That's the other thing.

Like, what is this?

I like that.

We all are like kind of mad, but also having fun.

I'm glad it exists, but it makes no sense.

Like, that's where I'm at.

It's not really a game, right?

So, to there's a system within this experience, I think, is the verbiage

I'll land on there.

Where if you don't have, you know, a 4K TV, if you don't have the camera, if you don't have some other fucking thing you might need for this, the steering wheel.

Yeah, you know, yeah, I don't have the wheels.

I don't have the wheel.

Guess who's getting the fucking wheel?

There's a thing in the game that they'll give you the stamp for it or something.

Right, you hold down Y or something near the information booth, and it's like, or near the

demo area, and it'll give you the stamp, even if you don't have the equipment.

Yes,

but then you miss out on

so

when you bought the Game Boy camera, there was a little pack-in uh piece of software with it that let you like make faces and like make stamps and shit and it was like oh cool this is like the demo of the game boy camera in the same way the camera mini game the first one that i played on the switch to welcome to her is a thing where

you have to match the face that a

like 3d emoji is making.

Yes.

Using your camera and your own face, and then you get graded on

how

similar you are to making that face with this emoji.

And I have never been more aware of where my eyebrows are on my face and how little control I have over them.

Right.

As somebody who also has just watched all of the rehearsal, this one made me very nervous.

I was having a hard time with this one.

Like I'm not ever very aware of where my eyebrows are at any given point.

It turns out.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm like, is that a surprised face?

Yes.

What does surprise feel like on my face?

How do I make the eyebrows go where I need them to go?

Yeah, I thought they were all mad at me.

So I don't have the camera.

Like how much camera content is there?

So far, that was the only thing that I needed the camera like actually for.

And then it's like information about the camera.

I mean, here's the thing.

In the camera area, there's a fucking mouse game.

So like, I don't know if the camera games are going to come up ever again.

When I got to the camera area and played the camera game and I was like, here we fucking go.

Now we're doing Nintendo stuff.

And then the next one was a mouse game.

I almost threw my Switch across the fucking room.

Oh, and this is another annoying part of playing this.

Obviously, you need to do this because

it is showcasing all the different ways to play the thing.

I played this for a good chunk today, for like a few hours today straight.

Yeah.

To just have enough of an experience that I'm getting up.

I'm pulling the thing out of the dock.

I'm re-docking it.

I'm disconnecting the Joy-Cons.

I'm putting the mouse.

I'm doing so much stuff.

That's another thing.

It's making you do a lot physically with your Switch, too.

I thought I was going to, I was like, stop making me do so much stuff.

It's a little, honestly, it's like a little nerve-wracking to be like, I'm playing a game.

I'm supposed to detach the Joy-Cons mid-game and I guess put my, like, you know, I'm playing in a handhold mode.

I got to put my system somewhere.

You know what I mean?

Like, you're doing all these things with like this brand new piece of hardware that you spent $500 on.

It's like, I don't know.

I really want to, I don't want to be manhandling this thing for a bunch of different tasks.

It was tough.

And, but I will say that hinge on the back, the

stand, I think it's fucking sturdy.

The hinge is slick.

Well, the stand is slick.

It works very well.

There is a mini game that utilizes the stand.

And that's one of the games where I was like, oh, thank God, I'm not fucking playing with the mouse.

The mini game is, what angle is your switch at?

So you, you, it tells you, like, try and do like a 35-degree angle with your switch.

And you look, it shows you a picture of it.

And you just got to like take the stand and bend it out a little bit and then set your switch down on your table and be like, I guess that's 35 degrees.

But I'd rather do that than another fucking mouse game.

That one like legitimately impressed me.

I was like, how does it know?

I loved that one.

It is kind of dazzling.

But again, to what end?

Why am I doing this?

It's just, okay, it's not edutainment.

No.

It is like a corporate compliance software.

Yes.

It is creating.

So here's.

HR is making you play this when you start a new job.

Right, right.

But it's, but it's in the way that Sony has figured out that Astrobot like creates brand synergy between you and your PlayStation.

It makes you anthropomorphize your PlayStation.

It makes you love your physical piece of hardware because Astrobot's showing you stuff that you used to love and taking you on this tour inside of your system.

Nintendo is trying to do the exact same thing and they are doing it like somebody who doesn't know how to eat your cuterie at a party.

Like they are like

manhandling like pretzels and like being like, boy, parties are fun, aren't they?

Yeah.

And you're like, I don't know if I'm enjoying having this conversation if you're a company and you want to create brand identification and brand loyalty sony does it by charming you with a little guy yes nintendo does it by making you take a test yeah homework yeah right no astro's playroom reverts you to childhood with like the unbridled joy of running around a playground yeah and

the welcome tour reverts you to childhood with the feeling of having to go up to the blackboard to spell a word.

It's like it's

it's it's boring and confusing and anxiety-inducing.

Like it's, it's a weird, it's just a profoundly weird experience, but also

weirdly compelling.

It's kind of compelling.

Like you want to keep going and like exploring it.

I think the aesthetics are really charming.

Like I really like to look at this game.

I love the isometric thing.

Didn't touch on the character selection screen,

which for my ass, just the default is what I'm remembering.

I know

before.

One guy with a buzz cut in shorts, like immediately.

Day one, booting this up.

Yeah.

What, two weeks ago now at this point?

First guy I see, I take a screenshot and I go found Nick and just send it to the chat.

Which I think you responded, what the hell?

It's also like the awkward attempt of somebody who's really proud of what they've done

to tell you all of the stuff that they've done.

But, like, the language that they use and

the way they present it,

like, when you think about, like, what's his name?

Johnny, Johnny Ive, Johnny Ivey, the guy who used to give the speeches about iPhones when they would come out, and he'd be like, What we've done is we've wrapped it in titanium, but we've machine manufactured it so it's as silky as a glove.

Remember, like that guy, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Well, this is like somebody being like,

the deep head is really good now, guys.

And we did so much work on the D-pad.

It's the video game equivalent of me explaining to my family at the holidays what a podcast is.

Yeah, I mean,

we made a lot of comparisons to Astro's Playroom.

I think another comparison that I've seen some other people make, and I think is useful to draw on because it's another Nintendo first party game that was a pack-in and was a full-fledged game and was fun.

Wii Sports, in terms of showing off what the hardware could do, Wii Sports was like the perfect showpiece.

This is like the complete opposite.

It's just, it's, it's, it, it's, it's in many ways just not even a game.

But we sports was not telling you how the remote worked.

Right.

It was, it was giving you something to do with it.

This is like,

I, I keep harping on the hinge because the amount of times I had to look at the way the Joy-Cons snap into the actual console

was

staggering.

Why do I care?

Because

if you retain the information, you're like, oh, when Heather came in last week, she was like, I'm a little worried about the travel on

the magnetic Joy-Cons because it doesn't feel stable.

And there is a fucking test about how that's on purpose, good for the system, and makes it stronger.

Yeah, and they're basically like, you couldn't fucking break this if you tried.

It's like we

thought about all of these things so specifically

and we engineered solutions for them that the give you feel in the Joy-Cons is there to protect the connection.

We made this console with the people in mind, with people in mind who an egg shatters at the mere touch of it.

Don't,

that's not,

it said it in there.

I'm getting better at eggs.

I believe it.

Insane thing to say.

Which part?

Mine are hers.

I'm getting better at eggs in isolation.

I am.

I'm getting better at them.

Yeah, were you using a strainer?

For what?

For the shell?

Yeah.

I only had one piece of shell in one of my eggs.

Hey, that's pretty good.

And I didn't have any that I...

I've gotten a little bit better.

I believe it.

I'm also,

I've discovered a new thing, which is when I hard-boil an egg, somehow when I'm taking the shell off of it, I destroy the egg in the process of removing the shell.

I'm just going to leave that one alone because I just don't, I don't know what to do with it yet.

How are you with like

crab legs?

What?

Well, because you're also, that's also shell removal.

Yeah.

But it's like you can be a little bit more destructive.

And I feel like your ability to exert a lot of force might actually be

I've never had an issue with crab legs.

Okay, so so that's easy for you to extract like extract the crab meat yeah extra crab sometimes long piece of meat god that'd be so such a funny move

a bunch of king king crab in here or from hooters

from bigs bibs

nintendo switch 2 welcomes tour sitting at 55 on meta metacritic um 3.6 user score generally unfavorable so definitely a lot of mixed reactions to this piece of software i think for me

that's low.

That's still too low for what I think this is.

And I know that there's like things to be, to nitpick and things to

view cynically because this, I think, is a cynical presentation.

Is it?

It's not joyful.

But it also feels very earnest.

It's very earnest, I guess.

Yeah, but I guess it's not, it's not, I don't think this was designed with fun in mind.

Yeah,

that's what I'm almost wondering is like, was this designed to be a pack-in?

Yeah.

And then they see what it is, what the finished product product is or they see what direction it's heading during development or like all right let's make this a little curiosity that people can pay for but we're not going to have this be front and center be the first piece uh the first game that people boot up on this uh this this by default i do have i wonder i wonder as well i i think

if this was nintendo switch 2

wario presents welcome tour and it's a wario wear style game showing you how the various elements of the nintendo switch 2 works that's immediately more fun and interesting to me.

I don't care about learning.

Also, sounds like a video game.

Yeah.

Every person, every NPC you talk to in this game is

having the same sort of strange experience that you are as a player.

That is, I picked up on this as well because I talked to somebody who was looking at one of the Joy-Cons going into the thing, and he's looking at it like, huh, I didn't know it could go in like that.

And I'm like, you fucking idiot.

Like,

they're also like, wow, the screen sure is slippery.

Yeah.

I guess that's really good.

Like, which I just, I actually don't understand because is that supposed to be good?

Like, I guess for finger traveling, I'm not touching.

I hate touching the screen.

So you didn't do the 10, the 10-finger game?

I know, and I did it, and I immediately then like wiped it off.

Please, I hate, I hate that.

I hate touching.

I never once wanted to touch the Switch one screen.

One of the games, dear listener, is a game where it says, hey,

the Nintendo Switch screen can differentiate between 10 different simultaneous finger presses.

So why don't you play Twister with your fingers?

And it's

like a grid of different colored circles.

And it'll be like, okay, first finger put on a pink circle, then green, then blue, et cetera.

And you have to try and strategize where your fingers are going to go in order to get all 10 of your digits pressed against the Switch 2 screen simultaneously.

There's also like a HDR, SDR thing, which is another thing of just like

the FPS one of like,

I don't know why.

I just want it to look good.

Like I don't necessarily need to know the difference between these things at a glance.

Yeah, I think that's probably, they're probably just being like, look how shitty it was before.

They're trying to show it off, but it's just like, this is an odd way to show it off to make it like, to present it this way.

Okay, I figured out what the game is.

One, the game is directly from me, two, it is an episode of Get Played that's game and tell.

Yeah,

and the game and tell is as if I was doing an episode on the pocket station.

Me just walking through all of the different things that the pocket station can do and the oddity of its release and the fact that it wasn't brought out in the west is Nintendo being like, Hey, did you know that there was,

and this is from the game, did you know that there was a

screen,

that there was a way to put your Wii U controller on a table, not unlike the way that the Switch 2 can sit on a table?

Look at the evolution of how we've done handheld gamepads over the history of Nintendo.

That was the most interesting stuff to me, which was like when they would just show how iterative they've been over the years.

Cause, like, that is, I don't know, it's cool to see stuff like that.

Like, if this was just like a museum that I could have gone to instead, I think I would have liked that more.

Yeah, honestly, even

the element of just if they just remove the gating and you could just sort of free roam and just sort of walk, like explore at your own leisure and not feel like, well, shit, I need to progress through this

area to unlock the next biome so I can, you know, play some more mini games.

Yeah.

You know,

play.

Yeah, because like, I mean, gosh, the ones that I didn't get all the medals for, I have no desire to go back for.

I did like the golf one.

Love the golf one.

The golf one is nice.

Also, the difficulty curve on these mini-games is absurd.

Yes.

And the amount of things you have to unlock in order to unlock the top tier of the mini games.

Like

you get like two little medals for successfully completing a minigame to your maximum ability.

Like it's like, wow, you clicked that button in less than 0.4 of a second.

You get two medals.

Some of these fucking areas are asking for like 80 medals.

Right.

And you're like, how, what am I going to have to play in order to unlock?

Yeah.

Are there 40 mini games in this fucking thing?

I've just already made the deal with myself that I'll just never know what that.

those ones are.

I have no interest.

I'm going to 100% this fucking thing.

i i'm gonna get the wheel not for mario kart but for nintendo switch welcome tour

but yeah it's it's kind of like erratic in terms of the difficulty too yeah it's like somewhere it's like like okay this will be to beat a child in tic-tac-toe and then over here you gotta catch a mosquito in your eyelashes you know what i mean it's like

i i i i don't it's it's just a it's truly a truly a baffling experience it's wild yeah

also to find find out after I get the Nintendo Switch camera that it works with any

USB camera.

Yes.

Yeah.

Shocking.

Whoever wants to do this, make a USB-C Game Boy camera.

They'll procure some of that.

Wait, you can totally do that.

You can do that with an analog pocket.

Yeah.

Oh, interesting.

Use that.

Oh, I wonder if that would work.

Because I can, I've output the analog pocket through my computer, through USB, into zoom when you go home tonight see if that works wait so I can just plug my razor webcam into the switch to yeah they said not every camera works but if it doesn't work it's on the camera side of things you should be able to you should be able to do it like these cameras wouldn't work right it's too much

The camera's in the studio.

The camera's in the studio.

Yeah, that would be overkill.

I was shocked that the,

because when I was like, oh, I got to get a camera, I'll get the Piranha plant camera because it's Hori's made little Piranha plant that's got the camera inside it.

Very cute.

But it's only 480p.

Yeah, dumb.

Yeah, it's, I wanted that one so bad.

And the fact that it was worse, even though the official one is not much better,

I just couldn't.

I just couldn't.

Why would you do this?

The only good thing about that one, though, is that the stem of the plant with the camera in it is detachable from the base.

So you could, instead of taking the whole thing away, you could just take that part out and plug it directly into the top of the switch.

That is cool.

Oh, side note.

Yes.

The the way that the camera attaches to the switch too is dog which sucks

it connects to the USB-C port on the top of the switch now why is that important it's so that you can be playing in handheld mode and have the camera sitting on a table in front of you sure aesthetically it's the worst thing I've ever looked at yeah it's it's really unfortunate because

You would want it to be, I don't want to be plugging it and unplugging it every time I want to use it.

I would like it to be plugged into the dock yeah, and then just have it be done, right?

And then that's that.

But they want you to be able to play it in table mode and game chat with your friends.

So they make the worst but most pragmatic decision to make it stick out of not the center of the top of your console, but slightly off sides.

Yeah, like a big, thick, black hair

like as if your Switch is a face and it has one hair.

A Pikmin.

Yeah.

Almost.

Fucking ugly as shit.

An ugly Pikmin.

I don't know.

I love this.

I love the software.

They're all kind of ugly.

You think the Pikmin are cute?

I think they're kind of weird looking.

I guess they're bug adjacent, aren't they?

Yeah.

I guess they're cute.

I don't know.

They're cuter than the little Splatoon

freaks.

Captain Olimar is not cute.

Who's that?

The Pikmin Pikmin guy.

I don't know any of them.

Why are you trying to drop Pikmin on me if you don't fucking know the game?

I know what the little guys look like, and I know that they're Pikmin.

That's all I need to know.

I don't like the way Pikmin look because it looks like they're being squeezed out of a tube.

Yeah.

I don't like that.

That's not my.

I don't like it.

What's his name?

Captain Olimar.

I got to get into Pikmin.

What if you'd like Pikmin?

I never really clicked with any of those games.

I was so hyped for the original Pikmin because I was like, oh my God, a new Miyamoto design.

This is like, this is going to be fucking incredible.

This is going to be like a Mario or Zelda tier franchise.

And then you mess around.

I was like, Like, oh no, he just got really into gardening and made a weird like RTS, you know.

It's fine.

I probably won't investigate.

I think they'll be all right.

Yeah, but now I know

one other character.

Pikmin and this other guy.

Captain Olimar.

Captain Olimar.

Mario Backwards.

He's a fucking genius.

That's amazing.

Anything else to say about the Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour?

It It sucks.

It doesn't suck.

It's just a bummer of a thing, but I do enjoy it.

I give it a big thumbs down because I just

like,

is there anyone

outside of people like us who are like sickos?

Yeah, exactly.

Like, like true freaks

who are into curiosities.

You could not, like, like as someone buys a Switch 2 and is like, like, because a lot of casual gamers are going to buy this, this hardware.

You know, like, like, hey, does someone like Sam is like, oh, maybe we'll get a Switch 2?

there's no reason to say like hey sam go get the you know what you want to learn about your switch too you want to learn how the uh you know the the internal hardware is working go ahead and pick up the welcome tour that would not make any sense for him to spend his money and time on that i mean even though that the other point of comparison the like the main point of comparison is astro's uh playroom yeah i don't like and obviously like that's like i think that's a recommendable experience right everyone should play astro's play get a playstation 5 is like the first thing you should do boot that up and run around have a great time there is yeah to your point there is no reason to be like oh you you got to switch to?

You got to check out Welcome Tour.

Yes, yeah.

There's no reason to do it.

But like,

if you're going to switch to,

my first recommendation is just play a fucking video game.

Play any game.

Any game you want.

Yeah, you probably got the bundle with a Mario Kart.

Just play Mario Kart.

I'm not trying to be contrarian here.

I really think this game was made exclusively for me.

I don't know anybody else.

Like, here's what I would say.

Yeah.

If you knew me and I got the Switch 2,

then you should tell me you've got to get Welcome Tour.

No, yeah.

I mean, also, like, I

am going to finish it also.

Like, I'm not going to 100% it, but I want to see it all the way.

If Nintendo releases a USB Towlette, I'm going to get it.

And it'll be like, yeah, it heats it up slightly to make it easier to clean your screen.

That's, I am the target demo for that.

Yeah, absolutely.

I am the target demo for Welcome Tour.

In 20 years, it will be like the 3DS Louvre tour.

Right.

Where it's like,

what, what, what, what was happening here?

Who's who, what series of decisions were made in order to make it that the audio tour at the Louvre for a decade, you had to carry around a 3DS?

Right.

You know what would give this game a lot more?

I would give this game a lot more grace if like some of if any of the characters were just walking around or like you could talk to them and they tell you if kirby is telling you that would be fun yeah populate it with some nintendo ip instead of all these like generic looking clones yeah yeah kirby's telling you about you know the

uh refresh rate of the the screen or whatever yes link is is is telling you all about the land port instead of this feeling like a mix between a train terminal and purgatory like have some fun within it uh i i have a i have a screen cap here from the second Magnetic Connector Insights quiz.

The question is, I want to be there.

You will get this one.

What happens to the SLSR buttons on the Joy-Con 2 controllers when they're attached to the Nintendo Switch 2 console?

A, they become easier to press.

B, they harden.

C, they stick out a bit.

D, they sink down a bit.

They stick out a bit.

Yeah, I know it said they stick out a bit.

I'm sorry, the answer is E, who gives a shit?

But also, somehow that information's in our brain right now.

I know this, Dr.

I know this about the Switch.

Your great uncle's name exiting.

North Dakota.

I think I know where it is.

No,

the Switch 2 works on the CEC protocol in order to activate your 4K television.

I know it.

Well, should we do a segment real quick?

Let's do a segment.

Let's do a segment.

We're already here, basically.

Since we all played through a bit of the game, I have compiled some of the quiz questions from the various quizzes throughout the game to see how much of the information you retained.

I'll read the question.

You have to tell me the answer.

Buzz in with your answer.

And

all of these in the game are multiple choice.

I only have the correct answers in front of me.

Some of the

joke answers in those multiple choices were charming.

It would be like, what's inside of the D-pad on the Switch 2?

And one of the answers would be like, mayonnaise.

And you're like, oh, wow.

How do you get such and such thing to do such and such thing?

Ask it nicely.

So just buzz in with your name.

I don't have the multiple choice answers.

So these are just.

So these are open-ended.

Open-ended.

This is going to be tricky.

See if you can just,

because here's the thing.

We made a big deal about the quizzes.

They're pretty easy.

The quizzes are pretty.

There's there's usually one correct seeming answer, and the other ones are dumb bullshit, like it's mayonnaise or whatever.

Here we go.

This first question: How does the weight used for the HD Rumble 2 feature move?

Heather.

Heather.

Side to side.

Okay, Heather gets a point.

What does the gyroscope allow you to do with the Joy-Con 2 mouse controls?

What does the gyroscope allow?

Heather.

Heather.

It allows you to both move it on the surface, but also turn and twist it.

I'll give you that.

You can rotate what you grab with the mouse, is the correct answer.

Heather has two.

Here's the next question.

Still, anybody's game.

Where are the magnets that keep the Joy-Con 2 controllers attached to the Switch 2 console located?

Wiger.

Nick.

Mayonnaise.

That is correct.

Heather.

Heather.

Under the,

it's like the SL and SR buttons.

That is incorrect.

Wow.

That is the magnetic plate.

Oh.

Okay.

I didn't hear the question enough.

The magnets are in the console.

Oh,

but the button itself is the thing that is magnetized.

The buttons are steel.

Yes.

And the magnets are in the console.

Okay.

Here's the next one.

What is it?

What is it about the box that houses the speakers inside of the Nintendo Switch 2 console that helps it produce sound as accurately as possible?

Heather.

So this could be one of two answers.

It's either that the direction of the piping from the box is faced at a downward angle, or it is that the box itself is padded.

Because both of those things help it reduce.

Both of those things are true.

The correct answer is it's tightly sealed on all sides but the front.

But I will give you that because you said you mentioned the padding.

Nick, are you having fun?

Was that correct, though?

Was she right?

No, it's got like a little tube out of the front, and then the rest of it is.

That's sealed on all sides with the front.

I guess you don't get the point.

What the fuck?

You still have two.

Or I guess you have, yeah, you still have two.

Listener, debate that on Discord.

It didn't seem like Nick cared about the game.

Now that I'm giving out points willy-nilly, it seems like he does.

He's interested in it all of a sudden.

No, he just wants me to lose the thing that I'm having fun with.

No, no, no.

The aluminum alloy used in the switch 2 stand is roughly as light and robust as which other material.

Oh, I don't.

We're

titanium.

That is incorrect.

It is as light and as what?

And robust as which other material?

Heather, spider silk.

The correct answer is extra super duralumen.

Of course.

The thing I had been thinking, had been top of mind always until, you know, right before this, I was always thinking about extra super dura lumen.

I love the idea that we're going to get a Nintendo takedown for doing the quiz on the fucking.

Giving the answers away.

Yeah.

What is it?

It's equivalent to the material that comprises Wolverine's bones.

What is the purpose of the Switch 2 game card's distinct shape?

Heather,

it is so that the Switch 1 and the Switch

cartridges can be

determined by the Switch two.

The console uses it to determine the type of game card.

That is correct.

Wow.

Three on the board for Heather.

The chip in the Switch 2.

How many more of these are there?

I got a few all from the beginning.

We don't have to do that many more.

He hates this.

He gave the game a thumbs down.

You're not making him play it.

The The chip in the Switch 2 console that's.

I'm just also like, these are funny to read to me

because

they sound insane.

They're so weird.

It's a game.

What a delightful piece of software.

Remember Mario 64?

Yeah.

The chip in the Switch 2 console that that's designed to make voices easier for you to hear, removes sound from the speakers to avoid which phenomenon.

Weiger, the Doppler effect.

That's not,

that's incorrect.

Heather, feedback.

It is feedback.

Feedback.

That's kind of like if you know audio.

Yeah, sure.

I was going to guess one, but I would have been wrong.

Yeah, I mean, yeah.

Sam should have run right in there with that one.

Okay.

I'll skip ahead to this one.

Okay.

How have the L and R buttons been modified to make them satisfying no matter where you press them?

Heather,

they're longer now.

That's not the correct answer.

Okay.

Weiger, I'll say

they have a beveled underside.

That's not it either.

The answer will shock you.

Two shafts have been added.

That one stood out to me when I was playing it because

I'll be honest.

The phrase two shafts made me laugh.

How old are my Switch to now?

Oh, yeah, I can feel the extra shafts.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Previous Switch only has shafts really make a difference.

Yeah, yeah.

And finally,

what do the magnets held within the HD Rumble 2 parts contain a lot of?

What do the magnets contain a lot of?

Yeah.

No, go ahead.

Weiger.

Magnet juice.

You were so satisfied when you said that.

Magnet juice.

What is the question?

What's that?

What do the magnets held within the HD Rumble 2 parts contain a lot of?

I think it's polarity.

It's like multiple poles in conjunction.

Yeah,

the answer is north and south poles.

So, Heather, you win the game.

Yay!

I actually, I did find that interesting.

I thought it was just one magnet.

It's a magnet with multiple poles.

I didn't didn't know you could do that with a magnet.

Look, we're still trying to figure out how they work, aren't we?

That's this week's Get Play.

Our producers, Rochelle Chen, Ranch Yard underscore underscore sards.

Special thanks to Sam Rogic sitting in.

Sam, any guck news?

Records coming out in August.

You know, keep your eyes out there for that.

Wow.

Nice.

Check that out.

Our music was by Ben Prunty, BenPruntyMusic.com.

Our artist by DeckBrigade Design, DeckBrigade.com.

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Matt, what are we watching this week?

We're watching Gurren Lagan, and we're almost Gurren LaDon, aren't we?

Oh, it's almost Gurren Lagan.

Oh, I'm going to miss it.

Patreon.com/slash get played.

I think this is a rare week where we're the ones that got played, actually.

This is a tough week for us.

We took a big L with

having this experience.

I think the Nintendo Switch 2 hardware got played very well.

And I know more about it than I ever assumed I would.

That was a hit gum podcast.