The Legend of Zelda: A Pod to the Cast: Item Draft with Libby Watson

We're supposed, I mean, we're we're supposed to don't want to be a sickler in time, but we're supposed to start like 40 minutes.

I know, it's you know you know where she is?

I have no idea.

We don't have the studio for that long.

There's a million empty studios here.

Do you want to just call her?

Yeah.

I'll just get her get her on the phone right now.

Yeah, put her on speaker.

Hi, hey, oh, I'm sorry, I'm running late.

Hey, hey, hey, I'm there.

Everything's okay.

I'm fine.

I'm fine.

Everything's fine.

You sound a little flustered, and we're just getting a little concerned here because we're at the studio.

Yes, traffic is rough.

Traffic's real bad.

You know, Los Angeles.

Also, I modified, I did some modifications on my car to try and...

try some stuff out and it may have made it harder for me to drive it.

What do you mean we made some modifications to your car?

Yeah, I had some stuff

in my garage and laying around the house.

I thought I might be able to

make some modifications.

So I, you know, like, I, um,

okay, so I made the doors.

I made them much larger and they stick out sideways from the car now instead of like they don't open.

They're like gull wing doors, but they're permanently up.

Uh, I thought you attached something to your car?

Yeah, so I had doors, uh-huh, like house doors, okay, and I I welded those to my car's doors,

and then I opened uh and I reattached the the uh hinge, so now they're gull wing, and I so I've got like imagine if you saw two doors sticking out of the side the top of a car.

Yeah, like you thought you could maybe make it take flight or something, I'm guessing what was going on.

Because I was like, you know, it takes me so long to get to the studio, so I thought I'd I'd I've also got uh

150 fans attached to the back of my car.

Uh, because I thought if I go fast enough, it'll fly no matter how big the wings are.

Yeah, I understand why you're what you're thinking is from a physics perspective.

I'm not sure what it works that way.

Can you actually, can you just put on FaceTime so we can kind of see what you're working with?

I'm burnt.

You're burnt?

You're burnt.

You're burnt?

Hold on.

You're burnt?

Hang on.

Hang on.

Are you okay?

I'm a little burnt.

Just just as a heads up.

You're a little?

I'm a little burnt.

Because, okay, so I was like, why isn't this taking off?

So I thought I would try.

I know the basic principles of an engine are heat and combustion.

Yes.

And then combustion provides acceleration.

So

I created like a...

what is effectively a large waffle iron and I clamped it onto the outside of my engine, like on the left and right side of my six-cylinder engine, and then I tried to heat up my engine.

Turns out my car is much heavier this way, goes a lot slower, and I was arrested.

Okay, I carried the lead there.

Yeah.

So

you went to jail because you did this.

I am in jail.

Okay.

But,

yeah, I brought my switch.

So I think it's going to be okay.

Jail's cool.

Jail is cool.

Are you on the, is there like like another floor above you in the jail?

Oh my god, you're right.

I could totally escape right now.

Yeah, fucking ascend out of this.

All right, hold on one sec.

Ow!

We fill up our inventories and argue over a taxonomy as we draft our favorite Zelda items as a pod to the cast continues this week on Get Played.

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, Nick Weiger.

Oh, that's me, Nick Weiger, and I'm here with our third host, Matt Abodaka.

Hey, listen, everyone.

Hey, listen.

Hey, hey, listen.

It's, I, I, I, I, I always aim at the voice, and it always comes out Mickey Mouse.

I think, I think it sounds good.

I think you're being a little harsh on yourself.

Hey, listen.

Maybe it's like up there.

Maybe.

That's pretty good.

Yeah.

It'd be cool if there was what, like, they, there was a game where it was like, hey, listen.

I hated that.

Something about it was like lascivious.

I didn't care for it.

Hey, listen.

Good fuck.

Hey,

listen.

Is this one of them comic books you're looking for?

We kid.

We have fun.

We're done.

We're joking.

We're done.

A bunch of in-jokes here at the top of our show.

You're on Get Played.

And it's a show where we used to talk about bad games.

And now, as I said, we talk about every game in between, but sometimes we also talk about things from games.

And that's the episode you've got in front of you.

That's right.

And from specifically from the Zelda franchise, because all month long we're doing The Legend of Zelda, a pod to the cast, and that will culminate in next week's climactic finale, where we do our we play, you play, a Legend of Zelda, tears of the kingdom.

So look for that next Monday, May 29th.

And we're all still on track to 100% it by then?

Yeah, I'll have 100%.

Yeah, yeah, definitely.

I will have 100%ed one bridge.

I'm building

a string of logs that spans the equator of Hyrule.

That's my point.

I was literally just thinking, because like the,

you know, there is a finite end to the map at at some point.

But it would be so cool to build a structure that reaches across the entire map.

Somebody's probably doing it right now.

Like Hands Across America.

Yes.

Yeah.

Like the film Us.

That's right.

A good movie.

Yeah.

We all liked us.

I think not even just a good movie.

Yeah.

A fantastic movie.

A good movie.

The way I said it sounded sarcastic, and I didn't mean it that way.

No.

I love it.

It's a good movie.

Did you like that movie, Nope?

Yup.

Fuck yeah, I did, dude.

I love Nope.

This isn't a movie podcast, but of his three movies, Nope is my favorite.

Nope's my favorite.

Yeah, Nope is my favorite.

I fucking love it.

Yeah, well, I mean, we've talked about it a little bit, but it's an Evangelion.

Yeah, it's Evangelion.

It's an Evangelion movie.

It's Evangelion.

Nope is Evangelion.

Nope is Evangelion.

Evangelion, though, is not Nope.

Which he has admitted in interviews.

Yeah.

It's a major influence on the movie is Evangelion.

We love to see it.

And fuck, God damn it.

It's so good.

If you want to make a good movie, and this is not a movie podcast, make your movie Evangelion.

Yeah.

That's all I'm saying.

Do it.

You know what?

It's another Evangelion movie is Kong Skull Island.

Oh, yeah.

Go back and watch Kong Skull Island after you've seen End of Evangelion and you will notice that the shot composition

is direct Eva references and apparently they even had Eva storyboards for certain shots.

That movie owns anyway.

Fucking rules.

Make your movie Evangelion.

Movies are back.

Movies are back.

And this is not a movie podcast?

No, it's not a movie podcast.

But movies are back.

It's barely a podcast.

No, yeah.

Well, at this point right now, that's true.

But once we get cracking, oh, forget about it.

Let's get cracking with our guest today, a writer and streamer with over 600 hours in Breath of the Wild.

Libby Watson is here.

Hi, Libby.

Wow.

Hello, Libby.

For reading the first line of my resume.

Libby, welcome to the studio and also welcome to the United States of America as a new citizen.

This is very recent.

That's the first question.

Why did you do this?

Sorry, I'm going to go, actually.

What?

You made that choice, and you've seen how it is here.

I'm a fucking phone with my lawyer being like, what are my options?

Well, here's the thing.

You do get to keep the British citizenship.

Oh, just your options.

You're like your dual class.

So you could choose your flavor of fascism.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, homie.

Antifascism or.

Yeah.

Do you want children of men or do you want like

patriots?

I don't even know the name front.

Is that it?

I don't know.

It's like one of them is like the purge anarchy and the other one is

children of men.

Which purge movie do you want to live in?

Yeah.

Do you keep your, can you still level up in your British citizenship or is that max now?

Yeah, no, you do have to pick one branch of the skill tree.

Yeah.

Yeah.

What is your skill tree branch that you have chosen as a British citizen and which one are you going to focus on as an American citizen?

Oh, shit.

I guess tea.

Okay.

You know, tea and British citizens?

All right.

You know, I'm always yelling at Nick about tea.

You're a big tea tea, a big tea advocate.

What is your level

estimate

of like, what is your level of tea?

Oh, my level of tea.

Oh, okay.

Are we going out of 100 here?

Yeah.

Yeah, okay.

I guess I'm going to say I'm like a pretty solid like 55.

Nice.

You know, nice.

Like, I'm getting it.

Yeah.

I'm like usually getting it right.

Rare for a bad cup, you know, to happen.

And it does happen, you know?

Sometimes I'll get defeated by the cup and now what are you going to focus on like what's your build for your american citizen citizenship levels oh guns okay good yeah way to go yeah sort of the exact opposite of t yeah that's good i want to know your answers too like if you if if there was a skill tree for an american citizen what would your american centric uh like what would your

loud

loud yeah really good loud's pretty good loud is mine i know nicks yeah

what

White guy?

Say, man.

It's an auto-level.

Take your difficulty slider down.

Yeah, Nick's playing on story.

No, yeah, mine's loud for sure.

Shit, that's funny.

I don't know.

I can't speak to what it would be in another country because I'm very poorly traveled.

Yeah, me too.

I've never crossed an ocean.

Yeah.

I have gone to Italy, but what?

It's going to be fucking spaghetti or something.

Yeah, mama.

Well, I love traveling.

I've been all over the place.

I know.

You've been everywhere.

I love it.

Sort of a Johnny Cash.

I've lived a million lives.

Libby.

Too much shit on me.

Libby, how well traveled are you?

Obviously, you've lived in two different countries, but.

Yeah, I mean, that's the thing is like in America, reasonably well-traveled.

And that still feels sort of like travel to me.

Sure.

But right, you go to you go to different states, that feels like something.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, it's, you know, as big an area as Europe or whatever.

I've been to a couple European countries, but that's it, really.

Very, very sort of vanilla, I would say.

Ooh, Berlin, yeah, whatever.

Do you like driving?

That's yeah, I mean, that's difficult because I didn't get my license till like three years ago.

Wow.

I tried and failed in the UK.

I failed on the Parallel Park, which like, come on.

Yeah, fuck off.

Their roads go the other way.

Yeah.

It's so crazy over there.

Yeah.

Yeah, I don't know.

I don't, I don't love driving, you know, in LA or in D.C.

or any city.

But, you know, yeah, obviously, like, you go out to the desert or whatever and you're like, oh, fuck yeah.

I'm cool now.

You get some little, you get some room to roam.

It's a little bit less stressful.

You got to stay on the, you got to stay on the road, but there's a lot more room out there for sure.

Yeah, especially if you're in like a hybrid Corolla and you're like, okay, well, if I hit a pebble on the side of the road here, that's it for me.

There was a, oh God, there was a video that went viral a couple months ago where there was a loose tire.

The tire.

The tire.

I could not stop thinking about the tire.

The scariest thing I've ever seen.

A car went straight into the air after hitting a tire.

Oh, my God.

Not how it's supposed to go.

Straight into the air.

A tire comes off of a car in one lane of traffic, rolls into the lane of traffic to its left, like rolling straight like a tire if you were a child doing a tire roll.

Yeah.

And a Kia hits that in such a perfect way that it launches it like a video game springboard

straight up into the air.

I saw a steel punk physics video.

Yeah, it looked like a speedrunning game.

It looked like somebody had used stasis from Breath of the Wild

on the car.

It was a stasis launch.

Yeah.

But not funny or good.

No, but everybody, apparently everybody was okay.

Which also is like

incomprehensible.

Because if I had done that in my car, I would have died when it saw the tie.

Yeah, I know.

I'm just going to get the dying with over now.

Yeah, you know, I don't need to see how the rest of this goes.

I died when I started my car.

I'm curious, okay.

So you spent a lot of time in Breath of the Wild.

Is this your first big Zelda game, or were you a fan of the franchise prior to that?

Oh, no.

Oh, no, Nick.

No, not at all.

No,

I'm kind of a real gamer, actually.

No, I'm just kidding.

Oh, yeah.

Finally.

I mean, Zelda was probably like my first big game franchise.

Like, I've I've been, you know, playing games since I was like five.

But when Zelda came out, that was the first time where I was like, oh, I love this and want to be in this.

And which Zelda are we talking about?

Oh, that was Ocarina of Time.

Yes.

Okay, great.

And I'd played Link to the Past, maybe, but I never really got it.

It was too hard.

It's a fucking hard game.

And I've still never beaten it because it's too hard.

Just not enough health in that game.

They should put more health in Link to the Past.

That's my opinion.

Tell somebody.

I'm assuming that's what I'm doing here.

Hearing your grievances.

The suggestions box.

Yeah, yeah.

You'll just get this to someone at Nintendo.

Yeah.

Thank you so much.

Yeah.

Yeah, no.

So Ocarina of Time, and then Majoro's Mask, Wind Waker, Twilight Princess, like everything since Ocarina except Skyward Sword because I didn't have a Wii.

So basically all the 3D Zeldas.

You ever mess with any of the 2D Zeldas on the handheld?

Other than Linked to the Past?

No, I don't think so.

Yeah, I think it was just...

I had Linked to the Past on the Game Boy Adventure or whatever.

Oh, okay.

There you go.

Game Boy Adventure.

That sounds like a bad thing.

I was going to give the benefit of the doubt because I was like, I don't know how they say things in England.

Hey, can I come on your video game honor?

I love the Game Boy Adventure.

But wait, but like, that's an accent.

That's a fucking awesome name for a fucking Game Boy.

If they were to bring back the Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Micro, Game Boy Adventure would be like the Apple Watch Ultra, like a thick,

like secure, long battery life Game Boy.

It's made of like gunmetal.

Immediately.

Why?

Why I was thinking like those cases you see that they only sell at like ATT stores.

This has been tested by the U.S.

military.

It can be dropped from a height of 2,000 feet.

They used to have a thing at the Nintendo World store in New York City, and it was a Game Boy, an OG Game Boy, that I think had been rolled over by a tank in Desert Storm.

Oh, they still have it.

And it's still operational.

Yeah.

It's burnt.

Yes, it survived.

It was bombing.

Oh, that's what it was.

Okay.

God damn.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It builds dirty hardware.

Yeah.

We love it.

How did that get back to Nintendo?

Like, think about it.

I think you're going to want this.

Like, yeah, what happened?

Like, I mean, like, somebody had to pick it up and be like, holy shit, it still works.

And then this was pre-internet.

So, like, nobody was like, put that on Twitter, dude.

And, like, see what Nintendo.

They had to put it in an envelope and be like, look what it did.

Yeah.

They probably took a photograph of it and sent it into Nintendo Power.

And then Nintendo Power was like, we'd like to buy this.

And then they found out that it was like fake.

So they had to recreate it.

That's why we went back to Warren.

Yeah, yeah, like, okay,

it's all a false flag.

We gotta make the Game Boy.

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So, okay, so how do you rank the other De Zelda games or like do you have a favorite non-BOT dubs?

Oh, gosh.

Yeah.

I mean, I guess I'd have to say Ocarina just because I mean, I listened to the Tears of the Kingdom episode that you did and like pretty much pretty much agreed.

Tears.

Tears.

Heather.

Tears.

T-I-E-R-S.

Yeah.

Tears of the Kingdom.

Tears of the Kingdom.

And the people leaving comments and reviews that we spelled it wrong.

They fucking didn't.

I've heard some complaints about that episode, but I have not yet heard the episode itself.

Yeah.

Oh, totally.

I heard you guys fucked up.

No, we were right.

No.

Actually, no, no, no.

We actually did a really good job.

Yeah, what is the controversy?

I don't know.

On the Discord, people are like, or on Twitter or whatever, people are like, you guys fucked up.

Well, there's no way that anybody on Twitter

could say something like that.

That's just so.

Yeah.

I don't understand.

No, so it must have been somewhere else.

I think we did a good job coming to a consensus because here's the thing.

Like, if we were doing it individually, it would be a little different.

But we're also like trying to kind of like, you know, fucking categorize these in terms of

what should be the consensus take on this franchise, on the individual entries in this franchise.

And I think kind of what we did, which is, you know, the big boys kind of being at the top,

I think there's probably like a little bit more of a,

like me, I would rank Majora's Mask maybe a little higher than we ultimately did.

But I think there's maybe a

there's a fanboy aspect of or a or a an enthusiast aspect of I want to have like the more hardcore games or the more obscure games a little bit more forward.

I have that up on my personal list to kind of like for cred, you know?

And I don't think we're trying to do that.

I think we're doing a little bit more of a populist exercise.

Okay.

I don't know.

That's my take.

But I'm sorry, going back to you, Ocarina, you got that.

You like that one a lot.

Yeah, yeah, I would say so.

That's one I still play.

I do the Ocarina Time randomizer thing.

Oh, that's right.

I don't know if you're familiar with this.

No.

It's like a sort of community-made program that randomizes where all of the items in the game are.

Not just the items, it can be the songs and other stuff like that.

And so every time you play the game, it's different.

It randomizes whether Tingle has underwear on or not.

And if he does, you can just trash that seed.

Yeah, no, it's a really fun way.

If you, you know, for example, are like a fucking freak and want to still play Ocarina of Time despite being 32 and having played it over and over since you were a child.

Yeah.

It's a pretty cool way to keep doing that because it's different every time and it like makes the game a little different because you're sort of trying to solve the puzzle of like, where is everything what do i need to be able to beat this seed like oh so you know like and there's there's inherent logic in it as well which is why it works you know like the programmers have made it so that nothing can be locked behind you know itself kind of thing it's this kind of thing that i feel like heather would hate so much

it sounds awful

well so like the because i know they did it for i i know they've done it for like zelda one and i think there's a uh adventures of link i think has zelda two i think also has its own randomizer i mean there's a i think think there's just a big randomizer community.

It's like these games are endlessly replayable.

It's pretty fucking crazy.

That's what they're always saying.

It's absolutely crazy.

Oh, this one has a ninja and a bear in it.

What?

This one, you don't beat Ganon.

You beat the flying spaghetti monster.

It's so fucking weird.

No, yeah, there's one for Link to the Past.

I think the Link to the Past one might be even like a bigger community than Ocuna Time.

And I just started trying the Majora's Mask randomizer too, which is pretty fucking fun.

Because

the way that game works with the time of day structure and everything makes it even harder.

I'm really bad at it, but it's still fun to play.

I want to talk about Breath of the Wild a little bit because you spent so much time in it.

And I've spent

100 hours, 100 plus hours in Breath of the Wild, but nothing close to you.

Why do you find this game so endlessly replayable?

Why do you spend so much time in it?

I just, I'm very stupid.

You know, I just don't enjoy to welcome to America.

I don't read so good.

I mean, it's true.

You know, I don't, like, I have a bad habit of re-watching TV shows I love, replaying games I love, and whatever.

That's not a bad habit.

Don't, you don't know how to nag yourself.

Yeah.

Nablokov said, reading is rereading.

Wow.

What the fuck?

He said, playing Zelda is cool, and you should do it all the time.

Yeah, I did that.

Sounds awesome.

Roche Lina.

Good book.

Palefire, another one.

Those are the two I've read.

Got it.

Vladimir Nablikov.

And he's like, thanks for the plug.

Yeah.

He's our guest next week.

Nick does so much psychic damage to himself in the future with things he said here in the past.

I wouldn't know anything about that.

I've never regretted anything I say because I just don't remember any of it.

I'm glad there are hundreds of hours of me talking available online.

No regrets about that.

Yeah, I don't know.

I guess, like, I mean, part of it is it's been out for six years now.

Right.

And I actually didn't play it until December of 2017.

The Switch

launched in like March of that year or something.

And for some reason, I didn't buy one.

I was like, oh, it's too expensive or whatever.

They were also kind of scarce for a bit.

I think they probably were, yeah.

And then my husband got it for me for Christmas.

And I remember actually he put...

like the gift note in it was this is so you'll stop playing wind waker all the time

and uh he kind of you know that's the the whole like don't ever what's the phrase don't get what you wish for what is it you don't care what you wish for

yeah you know that phrase don't get

what you want

hey buddy don't get it it's not good um because then he's he's seen me play breath of the wild for you know 600 hours whatever but i mean it's from i don't know it's like if you think about that as a hundred hours over the each year i've had it you know roughly i've basically just like played the game six times you know?

I mean, that's a lot, but I mean, it's a great game.

Is it?

Is it a lot?

Well, you play other games, though.

Yes.

Yeah, I do.

Yeah.

No,

I do tend to like mostly play

sort of the biggest games, I would say.

I'm not great at playing, you know, indie games and stuff.

I've played a couple.

Like, I really liked Return of the Oberdin.

I just played that with Lou, my husband, recently, and

fucking rocked.

Oh, man.

I think we're.

You don't like me.

You're the east to my west, the north to my south.

We're going to have to defeat each other in battle.

Thankfully, that is my skill.

Yeah, no, that's true.

I was going to say, because I am shit at combat.

So maybe that's part of why it's so replayable for me, because like combat is so much of Breath of the Wild.

And if you never get good at it, it's always fun.

But yeah,

I play a lot of different stuff.

I play Fortnite.

I play Halo.

I'm a gamer.

I know how to gamer.

Heather's back.

The magic word.

Now, you started streaming recently.

It's twitch.tv/slash Libatron.

Is that correct?

That is right.

As a newish streamer, what have you learned so far?

Because I know you're a Twitch fan.

We've watched a lot of Twitch streams.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, I had a kind of enormous leg up in that a lot of the people who watch my stream are people who

I was in the chat with for the Go Off King stream.

Oh, yeah.

And we're all just like a bunch of freaks with exactly the same sort of freak sensibilities.

Sure, yeah.

Which is really great.

And, you know, I mean, the other thing is, is it's just such a remarkably nice community.

Like

the one, like, the number one thing that was stopping me from streaming on Twitch over the last, I don't know, couple years was worrying about people coming in and being mean to me.

And that has not happened literally one time, which is insane to me.

And so,

you know, I mean, I do feel like I've had a little bit of a different experience sort of like importing a portion of an already existing audience to my stream.

I don't know.

I haven't really thought about my takeaways other than just like, damn, it's fun to play games and talk to people on the internet, huh?

I love how there's basically no correlation with a username and then how someone acts.

Like, you can have just like the gentlest, sweetest person, and their username is like underscore piss cannon.

Yeah, it's, I'm, it's have you been streaming?

Have you streamed any Tears of the Kingdom?

Yeah, I've done a couple Tears of the Kingdom streams.

I streamed it like when it, because you know, we are on the West Coast and it dropped at 9 p.m.

for us.

So I was like, well, fuck it.

I might as well just do my, you know, my first playthrough on stream or whatever.

So I did that.

And then I played it 12 hours a day over the weekend

and

did not go outside.

Actually, you know what?

I did go outside and I regretted it.

Like my husband was like,

why don't we go for a nice little walk?

You know, why don't we get you some sun?

And I went out there and I was like, fucking sucks.

I need the sun.

But yeah, so I've done a couple streams.

I actually just did one today where, you know, because I don't want to stream story stuff.

I don't want to stream quests and stuff because people are still playing it.

And,

you know, that's also,

that's for me, you know, to find all that stuff.

Sure.

So I invented a game within Tears of the Kingdom.

It's like an Excel spreadsheet.

And there's three columns and there's a list of type of vehicle, place to use it, and a goal.

And then it randomizes.

And so, for example, it would be like, all right, you've got to fly a plane in the depths as far as you can.

Or you've got to build a double-decker bus and carry as much cargo as you can across the desert or whatever.

And it turns out I

just find new ways to blow myself up every single time.

Every single time I'm like, yeah, a rocket is probably fine on this, right?

We can probably do rocket on this wooden structure.

That's probably good.

And I explode.

And it's a great way to play it without, you know, doing any story.

That's really fun because

people love suggesting, like, hey,

why don't you put a wheel on that?

Why do you activate one of these things and not the other or whatever?

And then sometimes it, I've done, I've had maybe like two successful vehicles and then everything else has just like exploded or hit me in the head or whatever.

So it's really fun.

That rocks.

Well, look, that segues into the other question I have for you and I have for everyone.

And I think we're all going to be talking about the same thing this week.

What are you playing?

Thanks, Link.

Oh no, he died.

He died.

That's

life in service.

The grid game over.

I do kind of, I do kind of, the game over, which you get in Tears of the Kingdom and Breath of the Wild, like, it does make me miss the you died.

I was just like, if they just had taken that from Soft Games and throw me a you died.

Yeah, you can't trademark dying, can you?

Yeah, no, yeah.

It's like, what happened?

Game over?

Okay.

Does that should we just have a general, you know, kind of preliminary discussion about Tears of the Kingdom, or does anyone else have anything else they want to talk about?

I have something else.

Okay, heather's racing around.

So, you know, Tears of the Kingdom came out this weekend.

I played for about two hours before I was like, boy, this game is awfully slow.

You know what game's not slow?

Fortnite.

So I

signed on for the second or third, maybe it's the fourth, fourth, get played Fortnite private server event, which was this Saturday from 11 o'clock to 1 o'clock Los Angeles time.

Had a full blown blast

playing that game with all of our listeners.

And

wanted to give a couple of shout outs also after

we played the

private server event.

I signed on later that day and with a couple of days, it was like there was a rotating cast of listeners who would, who would drop in,

but always Adam was always online with us.

And I played Fortnite for six straight hours for the first time since I've been able to play the game.

Wow.

Mary was out of town and I was like, this is my Zelda weekend.

And instead,

I locked into Fortnite and got guilt-tripped

into eating my food in between rounds by one of my squad mates.

Because I was like, all right, I'm going to go eat dinner.

And he was like, What are you talking about?

Just get your dinner from because I had dinner delivered, and I and he was like, Just get it, bring it into the garage, and play when we're like launching.

And I was like,

You're right, I don't know what I was thinking.

So I played from four o'clock until 10:30 at night.

It was fucking crazy.

Wow.

Um,

and then did almost the exact same thing on Sunday, woke up, played an hour of Zelda, was like, Boo, fucking God, this is slow.

You know, it's not slow playing with the lightsabers in Fortnite.

So I have played a lot of Zelda since, but that's what I did on Zelda launch weekend was played Fortnite.

Look, I mean, don't feel bad about it.

You had a great time.

I had a fucking great time.

I had the most fun I've had ever playing Fortnite because you get into like a long, I'd never played that long.

Yeah, right.

And so like you got into like a real rhythm with your squad mates.

Yeah.

And like the second day we played, we, i think got maybe 11 crowns in a row like it was just like relentless progress uh and on the day before that we were doing we were trading like we'd crown and then lose and then crown and then lose it's it's great uh Coming up, I think this week, there will be three different sets of powers in Fortnite for those of you who can peel away from Zelda.

One is the lightsabers and force powers.

One is the ODM gear from Attack on Titan.

And one is Ascend.

And one is

And one is the launch of all of the Spider-Verse powers.

Whoa.

So you're going to have Spider-Man, Attack on Titan, and Star Wars all interacting in the same play space.

And that's pretty fucking cool.

But the ODM gear is basically web slinging.

It's like

web slinging.

Yes, but it's sword-based.

Oh, okay.

So like your powers when using the ODM gear are also to attack from above because that's so much of what the Attack on Titan experience is, is lining yourself up and then sorting somebody to death.

So there's the meaty part of their neck.

Whereas I wonder if Spider-Man will be faster and more mobile,

but not have an attack built into the web slingers themselves.

Yeah.

Or maybe it's just taking photographs.

Delivering pizza.

Yeah, they lean on the Pier Parker side of things.

Yeah.

I mean,

I think that would be fine.

That would be cool.

I want to mention that's,

hey, I'm glad you're still having fun with that.

I want to shout out a game real quick, which is just to put it on everyone's radar.

There's a game coming out from the developers of Dream Daddy.

Jory Griffiths and Leighton Gray chiefly are working on, have a retro survival horror game called Homebody.

Homebody.

Homebody is releasing on June 1st.

So people want to, I'm going to, I've just got that on my radar, but if anyone wants to wish listed on Steam, I think that's one to track because I'm a huge fan of Dream Daddy.

And I heard about this game and I'm excited to check it out.

It's very much got like, it's anchored in that, what was that game we played on here?

Was it called Back in 1995?

What the fuck was it?

Back in 1995 was like an attempt at that sort of like recreating that, that you know, early survival horror aesthetic.

Um, and I don't think it really succeeded, but this one look like looks much more like you know, uh, aesthetically on point for that.

Um, and yeah, and it's like a cool take on a completely different genre versus that, uh, that that original game.

I feel like I saw Nick's programming for just a second when he called it home buddy because I know how often he says, hey, buddy.

Is that true of the same thing?

Yeah,

it was just defaulting to the most used word.

You know, like, ultra-correct.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

There's a little squiggly lines of it.

I'm going to start saying that to my wife when I return.

Home, buddy.

She's just a skeleton in a chair.

I put on her clothes.

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I eventually got off that roof when the sun rose.

All right, let's uh let's let's get to the oh wait, no, no, let's talk about Tears of the Kingdom before because we're gonna talk about it at length next week, but but Libby, you're a huge fan.

You've played a lot of it.

You probably played more than any of us at this point.

Your thoughts on it, and I want to get our thoughts as well.

Well,

I want to be careful about.

I don't know what we're doing about spoilers.

Let's try and let's be spoiler-like because I think the story, honestly, I still don't know what the story is.

No, I pretty much don't.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, it's fucking incredible, isn't it?

Isn't it just the best fucking game?

I don't know.

It's great.

It's really fun.

It's pretty nuts.

I love it.

Within minutes, I was like, I can't believe they did it.

Yes, it's really crazy how immediately it's like

every worry I had about it not living up to how good Breath of the Wild was

is just out the door.

I I had exactly the same reaction.

I mean, again, because, you know, having spent 600 fucking hours in Breath of the Wild, I was like, honestly, every time a trailer came out or whatever, I watched it, but I was like,

yeah, this isn't going to be good.

You know, I was thinking, oh, this is going to be silly.

Like, the stuff is going to be too much.

They're like, it's going to be gimmicky or whatever.

And within the first, like, I don't know, hour or two hours, maybe, I was like, oh, they fucking did it.

They absolute Batman.

Like, they actually did it.

I made it for 10 hours straight on Friday.

And I was just like, oh, I haven't done that since

Animal Crossing came out to Switch.

That's exactly the other thing.

It's like, so many of my friends are playing it.

It was so nice, like, you know, turning on my Switch and seeing so many people online.

Normally it's like, oh, you have two friends online.

And then suddenly there was like eight.

And then, you know, I would check in with the group chat or whatever, and we'd be like giving each other little hints and stuff.

And it just exactly felt like Animal Crossing again.

I've been two screening it.

I like to play my Switch on the TV,

but I've been taking it in handheld mode.

I do have an OLED Switch now, which has a delightful screen, and the scene looks great on it.

But I've been doing that while

playoff basketball is going on, and I'm always watching the playoff games.

And I keep like, while I'm playing, I keep hoping for a blowout so I can focus more on Zelda.

Just give me the shitty game that I don't have to care about.

Yeah.

I mean, it's really engaging.

It really is.

And I think the other thing that struck me, and I had a really stupid moment the other day where I was saying to Lewis, like, How is this game so big?

Like, I don't understand how they fit so much more game in this game.

And he was like, What do you mean?

And I was like, Because, you know, like,

this is 1990s kid brain i was like it's all on one cartridge like how we're putting it all on the same cartridge as breath of the wild he's like what the fuck are you talking about it's just an sd card

but i was he was like i can't believe how much more there is every single aspect of the game they just kind of like opened it up and stuffed more game in yeah you know like i think uh gene park said that this game was twice as long as breath of the wild jesus and i was like but and he said that you know like the day before it came out or whatever and i was like no fucking way that can't be right.

And he 100%, you know, I mean, maybe I'll be spending 1200 hours in this.

It's also like, you spend so much of your time trying to be like, can I make an Apple gun?

Yeah.

Like, is there a way to create a weapon that can execute things by like throwing things at other things?

Like, can you make a machine Apple gun?

And then you're like, what have I been doing for the last two hours?

Yeah.

Like, this, this, I didn't accomplish anything.

I'm, I had an idea for something and it didn't work.

And I was like so hyper-fixated on it that I never let go.

And I'm just in the same field.

Yes.

And being wrong doesn't feel bad.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Because it's like you feel like you're getting closer to the thing that you're trying to accomplish.

But we talked about this last week with Eva.

I said that Breath of the Wild was so great because it was sort of just like kind of like a vibes game where you can sort of like, I'm just going to go in this direction and sort of see what's going on.

You can't just go in one direction anymore.

You can go up or down now.

So it's like, you can really like, you could try to like

do a mainline quest and then get distracted for 10 hours and then be like, oh, wait.

Oh, I'll go back to that thing that I was doing earlier.

I went and did like 10 shrines or whatever and I found a bunch of side quests and I wanted to go help with, you know, this particular one and then follow that for a long time and then get back to the main thing.

It seems like there's an infinite amount of things to do.

I had that say that exact sensation the first time I got into the depths because

there's, you know, like the, I forget what the nerd guy's name is, but he's like investigating the depths.

He's like, come, come check it out, like help me out over here.

I was like, okay, I'll go check that real quick.

And then like, I like 90 minutes later, I was like, I need to eat dinner.

There's this whole underground biome I didn't know about that has like this, that's endlessly expansive.

It's like seems as big as the overworld.

What is it called in Persona 5?

When you go into the Mementos.

Mementos.

Yeah, that's Mementos for

Tears of the Kingdom.

But it feels more daunting than mementos.

Yeah, because mementos is a little bit more, you know, linear and

level-based.

And here it's just like, this just keeps going.

And yeah, it's so fucking dark.

It's scary down there.

It's actually dark.

Yeah.

No,

I think the depths is the coolest thing that they've done in Zelda ever.

Wow.

It's really cool.

Can I say two things?

Can I offer the coward's perspective real quick?

I've got to go to the depths.

Yeah, so there's, there's, there's, there's so much.

I love it.

I've just been trying to make an apple gut.

And I cannot stress that enough.

You don't have the paraglider.

No, because I didn't, first off, no, I don't have the paraglider, even though I've done a lot of stuff because I didn't know that you had to go somewhere to get it.

Yeah.

It's amazing they let you leave the sky world without getting the paraglider.

Unbelievable choice.

Yeah.

Wait.

It's in the sky world?

No, it's not in the sky world.

I was like, that's so long ago.

And the thing is, you can get back up there.

So I've been trying to make a bucket with a funnel that I could fill with apples that then has like a whip at the bottom, like a whipping, rotating thing, so that I can make an apple Gatling gun because what Zelda needs is a gun.

Yeah.

In the next game, it's going to be set in the United States.

Can I offer the coward's perspective real quick on this game, which is that I'm afraid of heights and afraid of the dark.

And this game is a nightmare.

You start out in the sky, you're so high up.

And there's not like a, like a, you know, like a wobble animation that comes on if you get a little too close to the edge.

You can just walk the fuck off and then fall into oblivion.

And he falls for a while and you can like dive while you're falling.

Yeah.

This is all pre-paraglider.

And so like, like, that first part of that game scared the shit out of me.

And honestly, I had feelings of

vertigo that I didn't have since the Abby sections when she's watching this, walking the skybridges in Last of Us Part 2.

Similarly, like, freaked the shit out of me.

And that's the tutorial area of this game.

Yeah.

You and I had different different experiences of that.

I couldn't wait to jump.

I was like, fuck yeah, I can jump.

Oh no, he's going to die, isn't he?

Time to die.

Like him racing at a concrete barrier.

Crown of his head first.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Just directly, but that's a concrete.

Do you spend a little bit of time in the sky area in the tutorial section because you get basically most of the abilities that you need for the game at the start.

And then there's a moment where you get back down to, you know, the ground

without having the paraglider.

And this was my first death because I just like barely hit the edge of the fucking water and just

like killed Link.

First opportunity for him to die.

Everybody's gonna,

in the high roll, it's gonna find that body and be like, what?

Like

he has this like new arm and like new abilities, it seems like, but he's dead?

Yeah.

It's like a drunken college kid who tried to jump off the balcony into the pool.

It's just like straight up.

Yeah.

Jesus Christ.

Yeah,

I'm loving it so far.

There's just so much content.

There's so many mechanics.

It's overwhelming.

I've been talking to some people off-pod about how it does make me feel dumb and old because

so much of the first 10 hours, basically, maybe more so, is just teaching.

They're just teaching you new mechanics and how they work together.

And I still feel like I'm fumbling with it in terms of like how to specifically fuse this thing to this weapon or whatever.

I saw a really funny tweet that I wish I had saved it or screenshotted it so I could give credit to it.

But it was basically something like when you were a kid and you were playing Zelda and you couldn't solve a puzzle.

You just had to wait and more brain matter would come.

Now it's a race against the clock because you're getting dumber actively as you're getting older.

Really funny.

If I find, if I can find it, I'll link it because it's really good.

See, maybe I'm a sicko, but I just, I love that feeling of like being in a shrine and having no fucking idea what to do.

I'm like, this rocks.

I don't know what to do.

I'm stuck.

Oh, I'm, I love shrines.

Heather, I think you have probably a different take on shrines.

Can it be shot with a gun?

I've had more success.

I mean, we'll talk about this at length next week.

I've had more success with the shrines I've done so far

as compared to the ones in Breath of the Wild.

I don't think they're easier.

They're just like...

Well, there's more solutions.

I think there's just more solutions.

And there's also like, I don't know,

the abilities I think are playing a factor into it too.

I'm finding these abilities to be more fun and more

intuitive as well.

Time for a complaint.

The positioning of the dash and jump buttons is

even this far into the game, counterintuitive.

And I switched jump to B.

Like, I switched the location of the jump button, which is the only sort of like controller modification that you can do on the switch.

Right.

Because even they knew, mmm, this isn't normally where jump is.

But, like, your dash is is the top button and jump is the bottom button.

And if you're playing on the actual switch as opposed to like the pro controller, it's impossible to dash and then hit jump without accidentally maybe hitting one of those two other buttons that is in between you on the layout.

And that's.

extremely frustrating.

I don't understand why they couldn't just fully allow you to remap the controls in the game.

Yes, because they're fucking Nintendo.

Nothing is convenient.

It's like like

you have to deal with their aging hardware and their archaic way of doing things and their horrible online infrastructure because they just make masterpieces you can't skip as a gamer.

It's like it's the frustration of dealing with this fucking studio and this fucking company.

I saw that

Jason Schreier

had in when Breath of the Wild was out,

was speaking with the developers about not being able to remap the buttons.

And he's like, you know, that's like a sort of disadvantage for players that don't have the same mobility as you know, as intended for the development.

And the developers were like, That's some, that's interesting.

We haven't really thought about that.

We'll think about that going forward.

That's like something, that's a conversation we're having.

And then they just straight up didn't do that.

Yeah, they let you remap jump.

Yeah, it would be so nice if you would just remap it.

Yeah, it's just like that's one thing you can toggle, that's one switch you can toggle is just a switch where which that that specific button.

Um, it's it's such a strange

factor.

I immediately did, yeah.

I mean, because like, I always am like, how, you can tell how intuitive the control scheme is if you try to do everything in your, as soon as you're born in your very first instance of playing the game.

And it's like, okay, you're running around like this.

Traditionally, you click in your directional.

pad to dash.

Okay, no, that makes him squat.

Okay, interesting.

All right.

Jump is always here.

No, he is not jumping.

Where is jump?

Yeah.

Is jump in this?

Maybe he only rolls.

Nope, there's jump.

It's all the way the fuck over there.

Like you get that.

I think that there's, you can tell, I think, what, how a control scheme is by default.

I mean, at this point, I've mapped enough of my brain over their control scheme that it's enjoyable again.

But those first couple hours, I was like, this sucks.

But I love the game.

I'm complaining about a thing that I love.

No, that's fucking, that is legitimately annoying.

And the other annoyance I have, and this is always the case when I switch between like an Xbox game and the Switch, is

where X, Y, A, and B are like all in different places.

Yes.

And so that always is like press X, like, okay, I'm going to press this face button.

Wait, shit.

I just have gotten my brain used to hitting where X is over here.

And that definitely keeps happening with the jump because jump is X on the Switch, but X is where Y is on the.

Wait, where is the default jump?

Is it up?

It's the top, but the top button.

Yes, so X.

It's strange.

It's a little awkward.

Yeah.

My jump is B.

It works a little better for

because it's also, you know, the button that you use for.

And I can't remember.

It wasn't like that on Breath of the Wild, but it works a little better when you're, you know, in combat, when you're using it to dodge and to

backflip.

Yeah.

But maybe.

It's awkward for jumping.

Yeah.

All right.

Let's get to the order of the day, which is the item draft.

That's right.

Well, Alex, our engineer, got us that sting.

That's the ESPN NFL draft pick sound effect.

Sounds kind of spooky.

Fucking Harry Potter.

Yeah, yeah.

It's good.

Matt was saying before we were recording, it sounds like a Zelda sound effect.

Can you play it again?

Because it.

Yeah, that's a wizard welcoming you.

Bum welcoming you to the show.

It's the same, like

it's the same.

Nick, you know music.

Yeah, it's similar.

But it's the same notes, but out of order.

Is it?

Yes.

Yeah, okay.

I get what you're saying.

Yeah, no, I hear it.

Yeah.

Reordering those intervals.

It's

that plays on ESPN, and then it will be like, you know, with the 21st pick in the NFL draft, the Green Bay Packers select Mark Saxon, linebacker from the University of Florida.

and then everyone loses their fucking minds.

What a country.

Alex just gave us a big thumbs down.

He's mouthing this fucking sucks.

He's a Packers fan who wanted them to draft a running back.

All right, let's talk about

some.

Here's what I want to do first.

I want to have a taxonomical discussion.

Yes.

Because when we're talking items, I have an idea of what that is, but we should all be on the same page.

Okay.

We're not talking swords, obviously.

I don't know.

Fucking what?

This is.

Okay.

That's why we're having this conversation.

Are swords items?

Everything is an item.

You can pick it up.

You sort it in your inventory.

I had two thoughts about this.

Yes.

I have one thought that I think Tears of the Kingdom items are off the table because it could be anything.

Yes.

I was thinking this, like the devices.

Yeah.

Because

almost my entire list would be those devices.

Why are we discussing the rules on the shooting?

Also, because I think some of the items are spoilers

at this point in the tier the kingdom off the table.

Interior is the kingdom off the table.

Second thing.

So Apple gun off the table.

Yeah, you can't do an apple gun.

I'm sorry, you don't want me to have an apple gun?

So this is America.

And then my second thought was,

I think drafting the Master Sword

is bad.

I think it's bad.

You're saying swords.

I don't know.

Yeah, I think it's bad, and I don't want to get into it.

This is like a mind game so that he can draft it no matter where he falls.

Look, I'm not going to lie and say it's not on my list, but it's, I, I, if we, you know, if we're all gunning for the master sword, only one of us is.

I'm not gunning for the master sword, but if you're going to tell somebody, like, if our, if our triforce of podcasting involves somebody whose power is combat, and you tell me I can't draft a sword,

but I think that's a weapon, not an item.

And I think there is daylight.

Is it a bow, not a weapon?

No, I think a bow is an item.

But it's also

I think this is a

taxonomy that's resulting from just like where you are, you're imagining the pause screen.

You know, like on Ocarina of Time, like you've got the items on one thing, and then you press Z and you go over and you've got your tunics and your swords and your shields, and it's like, and you can't put them on C buttons, you know?

I'm like, is it just C button items?

I mean, like, because I'm also thinking back to the legend of Zelda, the original on NES, which was my on-ramp.

And I believe that a bow there is categorized as an item.

In fact, I think it's perhaps the first or second dungeon you clear, you get the bow.

And that's the case with a lot of like 2D Zelda.

So are shields items?

That's what I was also going to ask.

That's my next question.

Shields?

Question mark?

Well,

I did not nominate the mirror shield, right?

But it is clearly an item that does a thing.

Right.

So then shields are items.

And if shields are items, so are swords.

Well, okay, well, what if we say swords, yes, but no one can draft the master sword?

Hmm.

Interesting.

Master sword is off the table.

You have to, like, you'll, you'll get the master sword at some point in the future in your quest.

Well, everyone wants it.

Yeah, we'll all get it.

Right.

Uh, yeah, I mean, I think that's fair.

I think, I think we could say, look, I think we could just ban the master sword.

That's

I think it's banned.

We're doing what the government can't do.

We're banning the most powerful weapons.

Oh, that was so easy.

Yeah, we just did it.

Weird.

Yeah, we all just decided.

You haven't seen the destructive force of the apple gun.

I think we're in a good spot then because I think there are some swords that are items.

Well, I mean, not to get nerdy about it, but in Majaro's Mask, there is a sword that you equip to the C buttons.

I mean, that's a fucking item.

That's an item.

But then there's also nitty-gritty because there's a bunch of different types of shields.

And

I think if we're going to draft shields, it has to be shields at all, not potlid, not

what?

Yeah.

But mirror shield is a different shield than, like...

I think, I think.

I think mirror shield is different.

No.

Than other shields?

Yes.

I mean, yeah, it's got a mirror on it.

Yeah, I think it's different.

It's not.

That's mental.

Well, there's the magical shield, which you can get in the legend.

Like, that's a shield.

That's its own shield.

That's a more powerful shield, but like Light can also eat it.

Is Boomerang a sword?

I think Boomerang is not a sword.

No, I think Boomerang is an item.

But boomerang is a weapon.

I mean, yes.

It's definitely a weapon.

I had a question about whether we're drafting sort of categories.

Like, would one, for example, draft Bo or would you draft Lionel Bo?

Lionel Bo.

Right.

That's what I thought.

This is tough.

This is tough stuff.

Because that's more fun.

I want it to be a more granular draft.

So I would think you should be able to draft Liono about Zelda.

Why don't you just like,

how about you line it up to...

Yeah, let's get as specific as possible.

That's great.

Okay, that's great.

Okay, great.

Okay.

Nitty, gritty.

All right.

So how do we determine what

are we counting heart containers?

No.

Okay.

That's an upgrade.

I thought about this too, Nick.

It kind of is an item, though.

Look, it's kind of an item, and it's kind of not.

It's, you know.

It doesn't go in your inventory, though.

No, it just added to your life.

Yes.

I have one more question.

Okay.

Are slates on the table?

Can you draft the Sheikah slate?

Yes.

Yeah.

Okay.

I think so.

Yes.

That's a big one.

Slates are on.

Okay, got it.

All right, great.

All right.

Let's get into it.

Who wants to go first?

Maybe Libby goes first.

I'll let Libby go first.

Yeah.

Oh, shit.

I was supposed to think of this beforehand, wasn't I?

Because I did not do that.

I'm going to go ahead.

I'm going to draft Lionel Bow.

Wow.

Nice.

Oh, isn't that satisfying?

And it shoots three at once.

You load three bomb arrows into that fucker.

And it's just

that is really good.

That's a great, a great pick.

A great pick.

Excellent pick.

And I'm glad I stood by Lionel Bow being an item because I think it's an excellent, like getting it also makes you feel awesome.

Oh, yeah.

Like the first time you take down a Lionel, you're like, yeah, fuck yeah.

Yeah.

Got that mighty Lionel bow.

Yeah.

Does anyone, I mean, like, I'm fine to do this, however, but we could kind of, are we doing snake style or should we just go one at a time at a time?

Oh, no.

Snake style.

Please don't.

You turn a color of red I've never seen when you do that.

It's humiliating.

It's so embarrassing to do it.

It's hard.

I think we could go around the table snake style and either that sounds good to me.

Does that go like this and then back?

Yeah, perfect.

Okay, great.

I'm going to choose the Wind Waker.

Wow.

That's so good.

So The Wind Waker is the magical baton that changes the direction of the wind in a game where you spend most of your game sailing.

It also activates other powers.

But for me, the primary and most exciting thing about The Wind Waker was being like, oh man, I want to go that way.

So I'm going to change the wind,

the

air pressure systems of Hyrule and direct my boat over in that direction by changing the direction of the wind.

I loved it.

I love the music, which would have been my other choice in the music of Zelda.

I love the music when you're on that boat.

The Wind Waker itself.

And also the way that you use that C,

that nub, that like that

Nintendo nipple.

The little clit, yeah.

Yeah.

And you, and you kind of direct,

you direct it with

the nub.

Like it's like you're actually making the gesture that you would make if you had the baton in your hand.

You drove the alphabet on.

The wind waker.

The wind waker.

All right.

Abadaka, you're up.

Okay.

I hate to do this.

You're going to fucking draft the master screen.

No.

I'm going to draft an item that I believe to be equally powerful and useful.

An empty bottle.

God damn it, Matt.

An empty bottle.

I was like sitting here rubbing my little hands together.

Yeah, you little sick pig.

I saw it.

I saw a bottle

with one of my picks.

I can put a fairy in there.

I can put some, you know, health potion.

I could put

whatever I goddamn want.

It's an empty bottle.

Excellent.

Really good.

I love it.

That's my pick.

I was so proud.

That's your fucking pick.

Yeah, I know.

So far, three for three.

I was about to pick the bottle.

Bottles Bottles off the table.

I'm gonna wanted to put hooch in it.

Fucking lush.

I'm gonna make two picks for mobility or one for mobility

and one just because I think it's such a

an important item.

First one, I want that hook shot.

Oh, a hook shot.

No.

Well done.

Shit.

Versatile and multiple Zeldas.

And the other one I'm going to take.

It's a titular item.

Like the Wind Waker.

Give me the Ocarina of Time.

Wow.

Excellently.

Wow.

Really, really good.

I would have liked a bottle, but it's fine.

Can I?

Baby Watson.

Ocarina was on my list, and I want to say why.

Because up until Ocarina is in the game, you have been a fan of Zelda music as a kid, like playing through all of these games.

And to give you the ability to interact with that music as like a core,

like I think the Ocarina is akin to a lot of the building stuff that you can do in Tears of the Kingdom in that, like, oh, that's a thing I like.

Now I get to do it.

Yeah, when I realized that you could, and I forget exactly how it, how it works, Libby, you played the game more recently, you remember, but like you can, that you can fluctuate the pitch beyond the limited number of notes it gives you to have, to play like a 12-note scale with either the shoulder buttons or is it a joystick?

Yeah, that's what it is.

The joystick.

And that was like one of the first things I was like, oh, I can do this.

I'm going to try to play the Zelda theme on the Ocarina of Time.

And you can do it.

That's what everybody does.

That's what everyone does.

Yeah.

He looks it up on the internet.

You play the Simpsons theme.

It's great.

I feel like one of the steward constructs here, like you're coming to me with the Zelda questions, and I'm just my little head is popping out.

It is the joystick.

I love those guys.

Let's go back to Matt.

Okay.

Cackling.

I don't like it when you cackle.

He's Ganon.

I told you.

Watch out for him.

You fools.

You absolute fools.

Foolish mortals.

The paraglider, baby.

I'm ground drafting the paraglider.

Excellent.

Great choice.

I love it.

Great.

I love the paraglider.

I just, the way, the way, the sound it makes when it flaps out.

Yep.

Oh,

I love it.

It's so fun.

I wonder.

I've never made this.

connection in my brain.

I wonder if that sound is the same sound as the sail in Wind Waker.

Oh.

I would love to know that.

Because they're the same like fabric, like

could be.

They're definitely similar.

Yeah.

Could be.

It's really great.

In this one, I'm excited to customize it.

Get some, you know, you know, don't get into too much.

I might get to the end of the game without it.

I don't know.

Yeah, so far you stole it.

Yeah.

I knew you wouldn't miss it because you currently don't have it.

I'm accidentally doing a challenge run.

But yeah, that's my second pick, the Paraglider.

How many picks are we doing?

That's a great question.

I mean, we should at least do a triforce of items.

Yeah, definitely.

We were just going to keep going until we all died.

We're all going to visibly age.

All right.

That goes to Heather.

I just want to see what happens when I say the next item.

Okay, great.

My next item is horse.

Wow.

Is a horse an item?

This is interesting because we didn't, you know, we litigated a lot before we started, but we did cover a horse.

I didn't think there was one thing.

Yeah.

Didn't think that you would, someone would draft a horse.

Is a horse an item?

I think we got to let it.

We got to let it.

You can't add a horse to your inventory is the thing.

But you can add a horse to an inventory.

Yes, you can put it in the stable.

We're going to have to let the courts decide this one, I think.

It's a big, like when you get like your corner in Ocaring of Time.

That's like, you know, and you can kind of, that's just like your horse.

Like, that kind of works the way a Zelda item does.

I guess.

I guess so.

I guess it works.

The horses you had from Breath of the Wild carry over to Tears of the Kingdom.

Wait, what?

Yes, go to a stable.

They're there.

You can take them out.

Wait, how does it know?

If you have the save data, it knows.

So if you download the save data, like if my save data is in the cloud, you download it to your console, yeah, and your horses are there.

Yeah,

my prized horse, Matt, is in the game.

Holy shit, that's awesome.

You played Breath of the Wild when you were eight years old.

I know.

I named two of my horses after my cat, so sort of.

And then one of them, I was like, you know what?

One of these should be Matt.

And he's like a maxed-out horse.

I used him all the time.

Fuck.

That's great.

Yeah.

That's great.

No, I was really mad because I like fucking caught a horse and it was, you know, it took time.

And then I took it to the stable.

And then I looked at my phone and everyone was like, oh, hey, by the way, you know that your horses carry over.

I got this fucking like, you know, royal horse.

It's perfect.

I remember trying to turn in the god and they were like, you can't, you cannot put that in a stable.

Like the glowing

beast of the forest or whatever.

Yeah, yeah.

So funny.

Yeah, so my second item is horse.

Okay.

Which

is one of the most important items that you can have as a swordsman named Link or whatever you want to name him.

Jeff.

Horse.

Horse.

All right, Libby.

You get two picks in a row.

Ooh.

I'm going to go with a little curveball here,

which is the spinner from Twilight Princess.

Wow.

Because what the fuck was that about?

Why'd they do that?

That's great.

And then

I guess I'm going to have to go with another curveball because it's the one that I remember right now.

And it's the lens of truth.

Ooh.

Because truth is important.

And democracy dies in darkness.

Wow.

Get out of our country.

That's great.

Those are great picks.

Great.

Yeah, isn't it so satisfying when you see something that's hidden by the lens of truth?

And you're like, you tried to get, try to sneak this by me, but you didn't.

Yeah, gotcha.

They should hold the lens of truth up to former president Donald Trump.

Well done, Matt.

Back to Heather.

I'm going to pick this because I'm assuming it's my final pick.

But I do have another pick if we need to go.

I think well, let's let's let's at least go one more round.

So we'll go to you, we'll go to me, I'll get two picks.

That'll take me to four total.

Yeah, go ahead.

Okay, then I won't have to pick this because I'm pretty sure nobody else will.

Okay.

I'm going to choose Amiibo as my third item.

You just always want to break whatever we're doing here.

I want to, that's my

with how we behave.

Like, I want to, but that's the way also I interact with the world.

It's like, oh, these are the rules.

Hmm.

Let's see if if I can get some other things into the crevices between rules.

It's such an interesting pick because it's technically correct.

It is

like a literal idea.

And then it also produces items in the game.

This is tough.

This, you know.

Who am I to say no?

I'm just the guy.

Yeah.

No, I think it's valid.

All right.

So the Nintendo Amiibo.

are like the little figurines that you can tap on the on the system itself and they will drop items into the game and in uh breath of the wild you get like treasure chests and fruit and all sorts of shit i don't know what it does in tears of the kingdom because i

felt a little uncomfortable dropping stuff in while i'm i'm enjoying the limits of the game itself

but i might tonight break out all my link and zelda amiibo and see what i can get by by tapping that shit to the game uh but yeah amiibo is my third pick wow legend of zelda amiibo Wow.

Fuck, I have that cereal box.

What?

She just remembered cereal exists.

It's really great.

I mean, I like cereal.

There's that.

No, there's a Nintendo cereal that came out that was an amiibo.

Oh.

And I have it, and I've never used it.

I didn't know that.

Yeah, an actual Mario cereal had an amiibo built into the box itself.

Wow.

You have to keep the box and you can tap the box and then that'll give me items in zelda was the cereal good

all cereal apparently is really bad for you and as a lifelong cereal eater this is hard to hear this was

hard to hear i mean it's like i'm sure if don draper found out about smoking he'd be bombed out and for me

they hadn't told him yet yeah so uh so yeah it's um i gotta i gotta break out that cereal box and see what that gives me wow

uh i don't think i'm in danger if I don't pick this item, but I think it's such a unique item that I feel like I just have to,

I gotta pick it.

It's from A Link Between Worlds for the Nintendo 3DS.

And in that game, you can be

3D or you could become flat.

And that is with the power of Ravio's bracelet.

So I'm picking Ravio's bracelet because it's such a fun form of traversal and puzzle solving when you become become flat and have to walk along the walls.

Very, very fun.

It's pretty good.

Yeah, it's pretty good.

That's my third pick.

Ravio's bracelet.

Ravio's bracelet.

Excellent pick.

Here's the thing.

I have to go a little bit nostalgic for this next one, going back to Zelda 1.

I know this is not like a top-tier item.

I know this is a personal pick, but a moment that absolutely blew my mind as a little boy is

when you were able to get to one of the docks that you see across the world map and you can finally cross over it and that that magical sting plays that we know so well.

And to do that, to get over, to get across the seas,

you get yourself a raft.

I'm taking Zelda one raft.

Wow.

Wow.

You can build one of these in Tears of the Kingdom.

So it has its own legacy.

You know,

you strap three rocks or three logs together.

Not three rocks.

That's not going to float.

Yeah.

My logo is.

My rock raft.

My raft is.

Yeah.

Like, Nick, that's not going to work.

No, it's going to.

I put a sail on these three rocks.

We're set.

Honestly, this has already got me thinking.

How many fans would you have to, like, maybe if you just attach enough fans, it'll float.

I'm going to go home and try it.

To a rock?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think we should all spend a little bit of time on some blueprints and then propose some machines in like a shark tank style episode.

Oh, my God.

Strap a Korok to it as a test subject.

There you go, buddy.

Godspeed.

No, the raft is like, I don't know.

It's

that was my, like, my

a lot of the shit that happens in that game is just like you're seeing stuff and you don't know its purpose.

And that was the first time I experienced that in a video game: like, what is this thing?

What are these little things that are jutting out from the shores?

What do they mean?

And then you reach a point where you get a raft item from one of the dungeons, and then all of a sudden, the world is even more open than it already was.

So I have a lot of affection for that raft.

And here's the other thing.

You're going to be trotting around Hyrule.

You're going to need some rupees and you want to hold on to some rupees.

You're going to need the giant's wallet or giant wallet because it changes game to game.

So give me the big wallet.

Giant wallet.

Very nice.

Nice.

It's true.

You got to have a place to store that cash.

Yeah.

That's always a limiting factor.

You get a bunch of money.

It's like, my wallet's too small.

What am I supposed to do?

I got to get a big one.

Leave some of this on the ground.

We're all carrying so much money money on us right now.

You have to.

Today's society, in today's cash world.

It's true.

All right, Matt, back to you.

We're doing one final pick.

One final pick.

And this is going to think, I think it's going to be a big one.

Wow.

Because we talked about this item, but nobody's picked it yet.

I got to pick the fucking boomerang, baby.

Boomerang's a good item.

I love the boomerang.

And you can, the boomerang's back, too.

You can get a boomerang.

That's how they look.

Well,

hell yes, Libby Watson, everyone.

Yeah, that rules.

It's back in the game.

You can get different boomerangs, and you can attach items to the boomerang.

Well, I'll say no more than that.

But boy, oh boy, I'm happy that he's back, and I'm glad he's on my roster.

The boomerang.

Good choice.

Yeah, good choice.

There is an item in the Legend of Zelda Legacy that has

basically painted its bullseye on my heart and thrown a dart right at the center of myself.

And this is an item that I'm pretty sure nobody else wanted or cared for.

And so I feel also a lonely sort of ownership over this item.

In the Wind Waker, you could get the Tingle Tuner,

which would allow you to connect your Game Boy Advance to your GameCube GameCube and unlock separate side missions and stories that weren't available in the main game.

And as a person who loves accessories and peripherals, I was like, holy shit, are you kidding me?

There's like

a little map that you can use to locate items.

There are secret items in dungeons that tell a story called the Legend of the Fairy.

And you can also complete a side quest that allows you to meet Tingle's brother, Knuckle.

That doesn't even make sense.

His name should be something else.

Like Pingle?

Yeah, like Bingle.

Dingle.

Dingle.

Any of the Bingle, even.

Tongle.

Tongle's good.

Anyway,

Knuckle is good.

It was a mini-map, a separate game, separate side stories, and an additional character, all forgetting the Tingle tutor, which, of course, when they re-released it as Wind Waker HD, they had to remove from the game.

Right.

Because you could no longer hook up your Game Boy Advance.

We used to be a country.

Yeah, you can say that now.

And who knows which one I mean?

I cannot tell you guys the pleasure of being able to connect your Game Boy Advance to a GameCube and be like, holy fucking shit, I can't.

Why is how is this not the biggest, most important thing in gaming right now?

What if you got to that, like, you know, the hundred hours into Tears of the Kingdom or whatever, and you're like, oh, there's this quest I haven't done.

And then like right at the end of it, it's like, scan your Game Boy printer.

Like they could do that.

It's Nintendo.

They could do it.

Like they could celebrate these instead of like basically shitting on us with like, you know, any of the collector characters in these games are like absolute losers.

Like

they could just give us like a like a wink and a nod and be like, hey, you still have that Game Boy Advance cable?

What, what?

Why don't you open up that memory card slot?

And you'll be like, no.

And then it plugs into it and you're like, no.

Oh, well.

Yeah.

And it gives you a way to access the eShop.

It gives you one gold coin for the e-shop.

All right.

I guess it's me.

I would say,

knowing that the Master Sword is off the table, I would like to draft the Big Goron sword.

Oh, yeah.

Wow.

Because it does more damage than the Master Sword, except for on one enemy and Ganon.

And

the trade quest to get it is really fucking hard.

Like, you know, when you're nine or whatever,

trying to get the, you know, there's a timed trade quest at the end.

The last couple of things you have to do, you have to get them from one place on the map to the other with a poner without using warps.

And doing that as a kid was just such a triumph.

and then the item you get is so good because it really sucks when you do a long quest and then the item you get is just shit um but it was both so good and uh also like early enough available early enough in the game to feel like worth doing right that was really cool you can't you like repair it right it's like yeah you find it and it's it's busted i i had those flipped in my head of like i i had that i thought that but they i looked at the great fairy sword is the one in majora's mask that's the big boy you get from stone tower temple yeah yeah um and i have another pick right i think we're all at four, right?

Oh, okay.

Well, no big deal.

I mean, we could do another round.

No,

I think we're good.

No, I don't think we could.

What was it going to be?

It was going to be light arrows.

Wow.

Mine was going to be dubious food.

That was, I mean,

we might as well do it, Matt.

I don't fucking know.

Oh, bombs.

Bombs.

Bombs.

Okay, bombs crazy.

No one got bombs.

Bombs is a good one.

I'll take Chica Slate, and that means I have all those abilities too.

Cool.

You want to review what we do?

Yeah, let's recap.

Everyone talk through your five picks real quick.

Libby?

I'm going to go ahead and use the rewind function on this

in the studio.

I'm going to go backwards in order.

So I did the big orange sword, Lens of Truth.

Lionel Bow was one of this is like

this is like that fucking test that they had Donald Trump do to see if his brain still worked.

And he was like, I did it perfectly.

Yeah.

Because I've done that test.

Yeah.

And I didn't do it perfectly.

Man, woman, person, camera, TV.

Was that it?

I don't know.

I think they might be.

Are they different each time?

No, what he, what he said, what he said.

Wow, he just rattled them off.

Lines of Truth.

Shit.

What did I say?

This is so lame.

Oh, spinner.

Right.

That was your fourth.

Yeah.

There we go.

There you go.

All right.

I chose the

Wind Waker itself, Amiibo, Horse,

Dubious Food, and the Tingle Tuner.

I had the empty bottle, the Paraglider, Ravio's bracelet, the boomerang, and then bombs.

Wow.

Wow.

I chose the

Ocarine of Time, the Hook Shot, the Raft, the Giant's Wallet, and the Sheikah Slate.

And also, I can rent any item I want.

like in Link Between Worlds.

No, that's a new thing I added.

You can do that.

Yeah, I can do that.

I guess we could all do that then too.

What a draft.

What a draft.

A lot of fun.

What a hoot.

So many great items in the Zelda franchise.

Yeah.

And now they don't really have the same, they're just different in the Breath of the Wild Tears of the Kingdom era.

It's not quite the same thing of like, oh, I got this new item.

Holy shit.

All the new possibilities that await me.

All that stuff is front-loaded.

And then you just figure out whatever the fuck you want to do.

Well, in Tears of the Kingdom, it's like, you want items?

Yeah.

Make them.

Yeah, exactly.

Right, right, right.

Guys,

I saw a clip today of somebody who had made a mothership and a drop drone.

And they flew in over a like over an encampment and detached the drone, which then acted independently while they firebombed with the mothership.

And it was fucking crazy.

I saw someone made like a, out of a log and two boulders, a dick and balls, and then rotated it a bunch and then used rewind and totally fucked up an enemy, and it was sick.

I saw somebody build a mech.

Yep.

Yep, we've seen the mech.

It's pretty good.

It's great.

I fused a stick and another stick.

A really long stick.

Two damage?

Yeah.

All right, let's do a segment.

Can Nick, Heather, and Libby guess how long it takes to beat a game without going over?

It's game overtime.

Wow.

Shit.

Now, and all these are sourced from howlongtobeat.com.

Got it.

Which I'll say, I'll say for the room tends to be these are these are these are gamers who can get through things maybe a little faster than average.

A little faster than average.

In my estimate,

as far as I'm.

And there are usually three, they have three levels.

Yeah.

Main story, main and extra, completionist.

I'm going to say for this one,

You answer with any of those, you're right.

Wow.

I have quite a few.

And you'll see what if but what if someone's one person's closer to completionist and someone else is closer to main story then they'll get it who's they'll both get it whoever's i guess whoever closest without going over well that's tough

main story only all right there we go okay cool

this first one here we go are we each guess yes or do you buzz in uh buzz in but if somebody doesn't get it right you have another opportunity oh okay great How about we do main story, and then if someone wants to guess completionist, they can, like, okay, for a bonus point.

Okay, bonus points, completionist.

These are all entries in the Legend of Zelda franchise.

Okay.

This one's The Legend of Zelda, the original.

How long does it take to beat The Legend of Zelda?

Weiger.

Nick.

Seven hours.

Well, does anybody else want to guess?

Oh,

wait, what?

Nick's incorrect.

Can we all guess?

Yeah, you could all guess.

Okay, so we'll just all guess and whoever gets closest gets it.

All right.

So, Libby, you can go.

Uh, never played this game.

Uh, gonna go, no fucking idea what you're talking about.

Raft?

You insane?

The raft is cool.

No, I think it's, I think that's great.

There's also, there's another part.

Another thing I almost drafted is meat.

Because you get a meat, and then you have, there's a guy who like, he's just, I, uh, he just is saying grumble, grumble, and then you hand him the meat and then he moves out of the way and then you can't cross yeah that's great I'm gonna have to play this game I think this is maybe a stream game um it's dangerous to go alone take this comes from that game oh wow I've seen that on like a t-shirt or something yeah uh

I'm gonna go five hours

should we all guess and then

say you decide who's closest uh three and a half

Nick's on the board with one point it takes eight hours to complete the main story of the legend of Zelda okay so we'll do it like this we'll just each guess and then we'll tell us who's closest.

All right, completionist.

Can I guess is completionist say 29 hours?

Uh, no, that's uh way over, actually.

Way over, yeah.

To do everything, do everything to finish both the first and second quests.

Yeah, wow, okay.

What's that?

What does it say?

It says 10 hours.

Okay, all right.

I guess it's doable.

Uh, snicks on the board.

Next one:

Well, the Legend of Zelda, Ocarina of Time.

Ooh,

21 hours.

I'm going to go 15.

Okay.

Eight hours.

Wow.

Nick's the closest.

Main story, 26 and a half hours.

Wow, okay.

All right.

Chunky.

It's a meaty game, even if you know what you're doing.

Grumble, grumble.

What's uh, does anyone want to guess completionist?

Completionist.

What was it again?

26?

26 and a half hours for the main story.

I was thinking about all the extra stuff you can do.

I'm going to say like 32.

Okay, anybody else wants to 41.

64.

Libby gets an extra point.

39 hours.

Wow, okay.

Wow.

Okay, now we're really cooking with gas.

We're cooking with ingredients to not make dubious food, I should say.

How about the Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask?

Majora's Mask.

How long does it take to beat the main story

of The Legend of Zelda, Majora's Mask?

I'll go 23 hours.

Okay.

See, I was going to go in the opposite direction because I think it takes longer because of all the time of day stuff you have to do.

So I'm going to say 30.

17 hours.

Heather gets the point.

It's 20 and a half hours.

What?

I thought it was smaller.

It's a little smaller.

Anybody have a completionist guess?

Yes.

I mean, getting some of those that

one mask took me fucking forever, getting the last mask.

That was it the couple's mask, the wedding mask, or that was the mask.

Oh my gosh.

Because like that, you have to resolve the quest at like the final hour of the final day.

And if you fuck it up, you have to redo all three days.

That scared me so much as a kid.

So stressful.

Yeah.

But if you really know what you're doing, maybe you can do it fast.

I'm going to say 41 hours.

I'm saying 35.

35.

26.

An extra point for Heather.

Wow.

31 and a half hours.

Ba-na-na-na.

So we have a we currently have a tie.

Nick and Heather with two, Libby with one.

There's still plenty of time to get on the board.

Great.

Everybody's on the board.

Everybody's on the board.

Everybody's here.

The Legend of Zelda, Twilight Princess.

Oof.

Twilight Princess.

My least favorite Zelda game.

I'll go first.

Go for it.

22 hours.

22 hours?

I'm going to say 37 hours.

Okay.

29 hours.

Libby gets the point.

37 and a half hours.

Wow.

Good stuff.

Wow.

Anyone care to guess?

For the completionist,

70 hours.

Wow.

I'll say like 50.

Okay.

Looking at all those fucking bugs.

49.

Oh, oh.

It's 56.

Libby with the bonus point.

Nice.

Libby pulling ahead.

Wow.

Choo-choo.

Choo-choo.

Grumble, grumble.

Don't on the spirit tracks.

Okay, let's just get a couple more out of here.

The Legend of Zelda, Lynx Awakening, 1993.

Okay, so we're talking about the original Game Boy version.

That's right.

Remake for a Switch.

That's right.

And not Legend of Zelda, Link's Awakening DX.

Four hours.

Hmm.

I'm going to say eight.

Okay.

Six.

I guess

Libby's closest.

The answer?

15 hours.

Oh.

Oh, shit.

It's that long.

Huh?

On the Game Boy Black.

It feels like it's short, but I think maybe because Game Boy, it's a little slower.

You're moving a little slow.

This is one of those ones where I just wonder about the sourcing.

I wonder if there's like a fewer people who have played this one versus Legend Zelda.

But also, I can't speak to it because I didn't have a Game Boy.

So I only played the Switch remake.

Yeah, Ani played that too.

I loved it.

It was really good.

A charming remake.

That's a big boy.

15 hours.

You know what?

Then again, I guess

they put a lot of content in those Pokemons on the fucking...

Man, boy, do they.

There's 150 of those fuckers.

Okay, the final one.

The Legend of Zelda, Breath of the Wild.

600 hours.

How long does it take to beat the main story?

So I started off strong here, and then I'm kind of been flailing.

I think I can get it back because I feel like

are people call like contest considering the main story,

you know,

going and,

you know, getting your four buddies and then going to fight Ganon?

Or is that considered main plus extra?

And if you just like go straight to Ganon, are we getting some skewed from people who are trying to speedrun this thing?

Right.

There is a speedrunning category of it that's like all main quests.

Yeah.

Hmm.

I'm going to say.

I'm going to say that

people are

going in good faith here.

I'm going to say 26 hours.

Interesting.

What are your buddies called again?

Your buddies?

Yeah.

You get the four buddies.

Mike Mitchell?

We're not friends.

Shoot, the champions, right?

Champions, yeah, okay, right.

I'm going to say, I don't know.

I mean, again, maybe I'm just, maybe I'm just a simple country gamer and I like to take my time with things.

But I'm going to say, like, 45.

Okay.

All right.

So I'm going to have to change

35.

It takes 50 hours to beat the main 30 hours.

50 hours.

Libby, with the point.

That was going to be my first guest.

Holy shit.

I'm surprised it's that high.

Anybody guess for the completionist?

130 hours.

Okay.

Oh, yeah, well, you got to get all those fucking core rocks.

Yeah.

Yeah, I'll say 115.

98.

Extra point for Nick.

189 hours.

But the winner of our game is our guest, Libby Watson.

Yay!

That is good.

I think that should be.

Yes.

I'm the one wearing a Zelda shirt.

That's true.

It would have been also bad if we invited you to be on the show and then just absolutely humiliate.

Yeah,

sending him crying.

Go back to England.

Oh, you said you know Zelda.

Think again.

Hey, that's this week's Get Played.

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Libby, thank you so much for being here.

What answer.

An absolute joy.

What an honor to be invited in.

Oh, my goodness.

Please come back.

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