Console Draft: Nintendo Gamecube

All right, Nintendo of America.

We have been recruited to figure out how to name this new piece of hardware worldwide.

Now, look, this is our follow-up, the Nintendo 64, and as you can see by this prototype, it is cube-shaped, and you play games on it.

So, really, we're just going to blue sky at any name pitches anyone has for this thing.

I got it.

Yeah.

The Super, Super Nintendo?

I'll write Super, Super Nintendo, and then I'll also write underneath it super, duper Nintendo, which is related.

But so that, those are a couple options.

Okay, I guess eat my lunch.

Hello, my name is Doug Gett.

This is my first and last day here.

I just, I, I, so I've been looking at this, the mock-ups you guys got here.

And I was thinking, you know, I got a box like this with a little lid in my apartment.

Uh-huh.

And I was, I think maybe we could call it the shitter.

The box, the lid, you're referring to your toilet?

You call that a box with a lid?

No, no, no.

I haven't.

I'm on my way towards toilet in that house, in that apartment.

It came with a

came with an exposed pipe

a hole in the ground.

Anyway, the shit.

I mean, maybe it's for kids.

So the pooper.

Okay, shitter pooper.

I'm not going to write those down, but I want to encourage anyone to say whatever.

I just know that there's no way Nintendo of Japan is going to sign off on that.

Oh, what?

Does that mean something different in Japanese?

It means the same thing.

Yeah, no.

So it's equally offensive, is what I'm saying.

Equally upsetting.

And you were saying that you're cleaning the language up because this is marketed towards children.

We're marketing, we want everyone, we want one of these in every house in America.

We want everyone to enjoy this.

Okay, okay.

Let me just say this.

Look, I think this is helpful.

I mean, Dougette, we're here partly so you can lend a different perspective.

So

we're happy to have your input.

I'm just going to say what is and isn't realistic for our business plan this i all right i feel like i may i maybe have it maybe we're thinking a little too hard about this uh-huh you know this thing is cube shaped cube

it plays games yeah yes it's okay i like it

the nintendo game box

oh that looked that that's pretty good that's pretty good Okay, I keep focusing on that lid.

That's pretty good.

Already down.

Yeah.

What if we call it the lid?

Because because it's got that hinge that lid that on the top like yeah

you love top floating you can see what the lid make me want to poop in the machine it makes when i see that lid i'm like oh there it is and my my body starts reacting to it like uh oh gotta go that's how insensitive you are you see something that you can shit in you're like oh man i got a shit look i'm gonna take a i'm gonna say let's take a bathroom break now just as a precaution because i don't know what's gonna happen in this conference room uh but i think this has been productive we'll reconvene in the afternoon.

So thanks, everyone.

And yeah, everyone's fired.

Coming this fall, the new console for Nintendo, introducing Lynn.

We wiggle our C-sticks and pull ourselves up by our superfluous rear handles as we draft Nintendo GameCube games this week on Get Blade.

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

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I'm your host, HAC, along with my fellow host, NW.

Wow, there's an F in there.

An F.

I didn't want to.

I don't want to call you F in NW.

That's all right.

NFW.

The F stands for Frank.

It stands for fucking Nick Wiger.

I'm Nick fucking Wider.

I'm with our third host, Matt Apodaka.

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MKA here.

The initials.

Whoa.

Don't dox me.

What was that?

MKA.

Mortal Kombat Apodaka.

Yeah, let's fucking go.

Finish it.

Well, hey.

We're all back together.

We're all all here.

We're all doing another podcast.

Everyone is here.

Everyone is here.

As was said.

Well, now we're in Flighting Fighting Game franchises, which I'm all for.

We're in a crossover metaverse era of interactive entertainment.

And it's good.

And it's good.

It's all good.

We like all of it.

We love it.

I can't wait till Scorpion despines Sonic the Hedgehog.

I can't wait for Kirby to

suck

Jesus.

You can't just stop there.

I can't wait for Kirby to suck King from Tekken's head off.

There you go.

Yeah.

Good save, buddy.

His cat head?

Yeah.

Got it.

That's a cat guy, right?

Yeah,

cat.

He's like a wrestler with a cat.

Sort of a, well, he's more of like a what is that animal a cheetah

got it yeah got it he's really really cool a cheetah's a cat we don't need to get pedantic

hey you know what you know what's cool

we're talking cool stuff this month's we play a billion dollars you know what's cooler than that a trillion dollars you know what's even cooler than that this month month's upcoming we play you play

is resident evil 4 coming monday april 24th the long-awaited yeah dedicated episode to a game we talk about a lot the remake is out it's drawing raves i don't know if anyone's playing it yet I'm not.

I am.

But Matt is.

But we're going to be doing that in a few weeks.

And also, I feel like we should mention, Heather, you're going to be away for a few weeks.

Yeah.

I am taking

my very first sabbatical from Get Played for a couple of weeks while I

don't, I'm just, I'm, I, I'm going to go on a honeymoon.

Let's just say Heather's going to tie up a couple loose ends and leave it at that.

I've got got beach.

I got a couple of things I got to work through in Japan.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

Oh.

Oh.

But yeah, I'm going to go on a honeymoon and the boys are going to either

sink the ship without me or get a couple of guest hosts.

I don't know what the plan is.

I think a little bit for a couple of weeks.

A little from Column A, a little from Column Beach.

Yeah, I was going to say.

The show will be worse, but we're going to have some great guest hosts.

It'll be a lot of fun.

I was going to maybe say maybe we shouldn't have said anything so people don't anticipate when to stop listening

like oh it's gonna be in a couple weeks okay uh i'm gonna i'm just gonna stop

no keep listening they're gonna be great yeah it's gonna be fun heather will be back and you know when the when the cat's away the mice will play

as the expression goes is that is that it we might get a little silly without heather things might get a little random

Should we talk about, should we touch on while we're talking about the future?

I don't know if it's worth saying now.

We might be putting

Matt's going to be cremated.

Frozen, cryogenically frozen.

That's my plan.

I just want to be left out in the woods.

As a warning.

Yeah.

Just remove my eyes and leap me in the woods.

You should rent an Airbnb when you're going to pass and bring yourself to the porch in the middle of the woods and pass there.

That's a good idea.

Just let it happen.

Yeah.

I was wondering while we were talking about next month's,

we're talking about what's going to be happening in the next month, if we should just jump ahead, because we got this big Zelda video as of today's record

showing off some gameplay.

Aonuma-san was showing off how the, you know, like the fuse system and some of the verticality that exists within the upcoming Tears of the Kingdom.

Maybe we should just spill next month's theme.

Is this too much?

Are we disclosing too much information up top?

This is huge.

We're about to freaking break the internet, dude.

Are you ready to do that?

Because we were talking about a few things.

We bounced a few ideas around.

We talked about doing May Troid.

We talked about doing Mayazaki and doing some fromSoft games.

But what we ultimately landed on is we're all going to be playing Breath of the Wild, Tears of the Kingdom, the new Legend of the Zelda, of Zelda and Trance.

I don't want to say Legend of the Zelda.

We also call it Legend of Zelda, Breath of the Wild, Tears of the Kingdom, which I don't think is what it's called.

Do they call it all four things?

That's canon.

That's canon.

Hey, it's Ganon.

We're playing, it's Canon.

We're going to be playing that game anyway, Tears of the Kingdom.

So we're going, so next month's theme is going to be a link to the cast.

We're going to do a month of Zelda content.

So we'll be exploring a bunch of different avenues and then ultimately landing with a we play, you play of Tears of the Kingdom.

So that'll be a lot fun.

Cast?

Yeah, cast.

Like linked to the past.

Like linked to the past, but linked to the cast.

Yep.

But what is cast?

Podcast.

Podcast.

Oh,

a link to the cast.

It could be a link to the podcast, but that's just like the.

I was like, but cast, but of the games?

Like.

We'll be talking about the characters too at some point.

Hey, it's Rivali.

Okay.

We're mostly talking about different casts.

So we'll do like an episode about the cast of friends and all their different trajectories.

Dave Stormer became a director.

That was interesting.

Somebody maybe with a broken arm.

That's fun.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's a cast.

Okay.

Okay.

I understand now.

I'm sorry.

A link to the slow on the.

No, this is fine.

A link to the apostrophe cast, like the podcast.

There we go.

It could be a link to the podcast, but I felt like syllabically it sounds better to just be a link to the cast.

Yeah.

But maybe I'm wrong.

A pod to the cast.

That's really good.

A pod to the cast.

That is shit, man.

But then you lose link, you lose too much Zelda.

Could be the legend of Zelda.

Zelda

to the cast.

All right, that's pretty good.

All right.

It's that.

Okay, that's really good.

Matt, edit all this out and just say, just leave in that.

No, no, no.

Keep the conversation.

We got to fill time.

I think

you can't just present something that good without showing your work a little bit.

People are going to call it like, they're going to say that we didn't come up with it.

Right.

Anyway, so yeah, here will be the pickup point, Matt.

Next month's theme will be.

Nope.

The legend of Zelda, a link to the pod to the cast.

I don't know if we should.

I mean,

I don't do a ton of editing to this show.

Really?

I mean, I actually, it's not true.

Jordan sees the sessions.

But

I don't know.

I don't have one more I can do.

Truly, truly, I think we keep the whole conversation in there because it incorporates the people who listen into a sort of parasocial experience of the evolutionary idea.

or the evolution of an idea.

I would even call it revolutionary idea.

It's really good.

Can I solicit this if anyone has any Zelda stuff they'd like us to cover?

We have some ideas of our own.

Yeah, we have them on the Discord.

You got lead time.

The talk starts now.

Send it in.

Wherever email is probably the best place for it, something like that.

Yeah, but you can post in the Discord, too.

We have like a channel for suggestions.

That's true.

Yeah.

All right.

Can I talk about one more thing before we start to get into the podcast proper?

I'd love it.

Sure.

This is going to sound like influencer payola.

I assure you it is not.

I went and saw this movie on my own at a preview screening.

Dungeons and Dragons, Honor Among Thieves.

And it fucking rips.

That was a fucking hoop.

All I've heard.

All I've heard is that it's good.

Yeah, it's great.

It's funny in a way that doesn't like break the fourth wall.

It like respects the source material.

It doesn't take the piss out of what it's actually doing.

Cast is great.

It feels like a Fast and Furious movie just with high fantasy.

And

it's just a total blast.

And it has just enough fan service to still be inclusive to people who don't know what the fuck it is, but like really tingle the nerds in the audience, which mine was largely a crowd of complete fucking nerds.

I will say that typified by Outside Afterwards,

there was a group of five people, five friends, and they were discussing how faithful the movie's representation of the druid class was.

Look, this fucking rules.

That's awesome.

I'm not surprised it's good.

I

have been sort of

keeping an eye on that movie as a movie that I've been interested in watching.

And the thing about it to me, though, is something that surprised me about that movie was that my mom was like, is all in on it for some reason.

She's like, I can't wait to see Dungeons and Dragons.

It's a great, it's a great fun adventure.

And

I don't know.

I hope they make 10 of these like Fast and Furious is.

There's also like there's, I'll, this is not a spoiler.

It like is in the first 10 minutes.

It's just a throwaway piece of dialogue.

But like, I get, I like really roll my eyes at MCU stuff where it's like, like, wow, Hawkeye, I met Doctor Strange.

And people are like,

you know, like, I like, I just don't, I, people, when people like Matt are like that, I just like, I don't,

what the hell?

But I do go fucking nuts when people meet in movies.

Yeah.

But, um, but like, but that's also just like a Marvel is not my cultural touch.

So I didn't, you know, I didn't really grow up reading comics or whatever, but like, there's a, there's a line in the first 10 minutes where he's like, okay, well, we'll take the boat to Baldur's Gate.

And I was just like, let's go.

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That reminds me on a previous episode,

I

pulled a old edition of Dungeons and Dragons off my shelf and showed it up to the room.

And there was some conversation on Discord, and they identified the Dungeons and Dragons

book that I had, which was like

sort of a spiral-bound

red book.

And sure enough,

but I found another one.

Wow.

And I wanted wanted to hold that one up.

All right.

Heather is stepping away from the desk for a second.

If you're planning on,

you know, taking a pause from the podcast when Heather is not away, not here, that's maybe a little preview of what it's going to be like.

That's sort of exactly what it's like.

We're going to be describing what we think Heather's doing.

Heather's probably in Japan right now.

Talking about

Sinconsen.

Which is

Dungeon Masters Guide by Gary Gygax.

Wow.

And TSR Games.

It's hardbound and it's copyright 1979.

So I think

this is older than the one that

I pulled up previously.

And it has

inquiries regarding this work should be accompanied by a stamped return envelope and addressed to AD ⁇ D Questions, TSR Games, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin with a little P.O.

box number in it.

And

I think this is older than the other one.

Because the other one was from the 80s.

And this one is from 1979.

So it's got a

really

charming, but ultimately crude drawing of a red devil holding a lady in his hand and like a

wizard and a

swordsman.

Can you hold it up again so we can see it?

Yeah, that's great.

That's really cool.

That's like heavy metal shit.

animated movie.

Yeah, it looks great.

Yeah.

So I've got that.

And then I also found all of my old

modules for Dungeons and Dragons, which are just like individual

dungeon modules for

like the 1981 edition.

It's pretty.

I love DD.

It's a good time.

Wow.

It is fun.

I wish I sort of had more.

I've played in a couple of games or campaigns with the same group of friends, and they always kind of fizzle out because we get too busy to do it.

I wish we could have seen one all the way through because we were

having so much fun.

Yeah, I get it.

The movie did make me want to play

fucking PNP D ⁇ D again.

I was like, man, that fucking.

It just has that sort of sense of adventure to it.

Could be, could be an episode.

Could be.

Could be.

That's pretty good.

Maybe we'll do it.

Maybe we'll do it.

Maybe when Heather's not here.

Yeah, we don't do video games when Heather's gone.

Look, speaking of video games, we got a lot of games to discuss, both past and present.

And, you know, there's been some

backlash, I would even say rage to some of the characters who have been in here.

But also, it's not true.

It's made up.

It's also made up.

We're making it up.

We're also making it up that since the departure of the Resident Evil merchant, who will they reappear at some point before we play you play of Resident Evil 4?

We'll find out.

But I do think this week's guest is really going to knock everyone's socks off.

So actually, Jordan, if you want to open the door there.

And yeah, here you go.

You want to

just grab my mic.

There you go.

It's a me, Pratt Mario.

Oh, shit.

Wait, this is actually huge.

This is huge.

The movie is coming out

this month.

That's right.

The movie is coming out on April 5th in theaters everywhere.

Let us agree.

Oh, my God.

Wow, look at his little mustache and his little hat.

That's right.

It's really Pratt Mario.

It sure is.

Mommy Mia.

Oh, man.

I have so many questions.

What is your relationship to Christianity?

You know, of course, Mario is a good Christian.

That's what attracted Pratt to the character originally.

How about

what is your favorite, and I know it's probably going to be pretty authentically Italian.

What's your favorite Italian meal?

Oh, great question.

As Mario, an Italian-American with strong ties to his cultural heritage, you know, I love

a Reuben, a Bristrami Reuben.

Mommy Mia.

Hey, can I do one more?

Can I do one more question?

Hey, Pratt Mario.

Yeah.

Can you just give me a taste of what it would sound like if your little bum got burned by lava?

Oh, right.

Yes.

Yeah.

Well, that's a common scenario that, you know, Mario can find himself in in his many adventures as he's trying to rescue his dad, Luigi, from the villainous Bowser.

So anyway, I'd be like,

oh, no, my butts in lava.

Yahoo.

All right.

Yeah, that's like,

it's perfect.

It's just like, I can't believe that it's happening.

I cannot wait to see this movie.

I can't wait for everyone to see this movie as well in theaters everywhere.

April 5th.

Yeah, that's going to be huge.

And I can't wait to see how you face off against the various enemies

in the film.

Do you have any maybe, who's your least favorite enemy in the Mario, in your world?

Oh, hey, there's lots of villains that, of course, that Pratt Mario has to face

in the Hyrule kingdom.

Of course, there's the Shy Men.

There is the

Boob bombs.

There is, of course, the

Oopa Loopas.

And then there's the little guys who look like mushrooms.

Of course, those are the Roombas.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

I fight all of them.

I love to stomp on Roombas.

This movie is going to be really good.

This movie is going to be a sensation.

Excellent.

It's going to be really good.

I can't wait to see it.

I legitimately can't wait to see it.

And I just can't believe that you would even take some time out of your busy schedule promoting this film to come promote it on our little show.

So, so thank you for being here, Pratt Mario.

Yeah, a real pleasure.

Fuck Charles Martinet.

Anyway, that's a, that's a, and that's, can I say, that's the official stance of the show.

yeah too we we we agree um

yeah no oh

sorry sorry Charlie yeah sorry Charlie uh anyway uh I have a question for all of you of this copy I've been handed uh what are you playing thank you that was thank you that was so good that was great wow can't I can't believe that he showed up that was that was amazing Our show is really becoming something.

It really is becoming something.

And look, I have four games to talk about for what you're playing.

I don't want to do it.

I don't want to dominate the conversation more than I already do.

So I'm going to go in multiple shifts and I'll try to do this quickly.

But

why don't I just start off and we'll start off with something, Matt, that you and I can both talk about, which is I spent some time with the Diablo 4 open beta.

I didn't get to play it during the closed beta the previous weekend, but I got to play for only a few hours on Sunday night.

I got a, I got a rogue up to level 11.

That was pretty much the extent of my playtime.

But Matt, you've also been playing some more Diablo 4.

Yeah, I got back in there with my

sorcerer, Decha.

Wow.

Yeah, and

got him up to level, I think I'm at like level 20 or something.

I think it caps at 25

for the beta.

Yes.

And it's just,

I

know that it's, it is, I said this last week.

It is going to become a big problem, I think, in my life because

I

can't stop looking at it when I'm playing it.

It looks great.

I feel like it plays really well.

I haven't had a lot of experience, like I said, on

mouse and keyboard Diablo.

So I'd be interested to hear what you think about that.

I've been reading a lot of people

favorably comparing it to Diablo 2,

but there are things about it that people are comparing it to Diablo 3 that they don't love, like it having to be online all the time and stuff like that.

It's a super cranky fan base.

Yes.

The Diablo fanbase kind of just all wants everything to be like a game that came out 20 years ago.

But

I do think this is, from what I played,

and I was dealing with

some latency issue

as would be expected.

Servers were super impacted.

But I had a blast.

I thought it's super fun.

I think it looks fantastic.

I was playing in widescreen in my widescreen monitor.

Pretty gorgeous lighting.

The things that I sensed were, first off, there's a new potion system.

There were the health orbs that were added in Diablo 3, which was, again, very super controversial at the time with a cranky fan base that eventually adapted to it.

But there also were consumable potions, at least in my memory.

It's been whatever, 10 plus years since I've played.

How fucking long ago did that come out?

It feels like 10 years ago.

Yeah, I mean, just about.

I got to it late, but it feels like it feels like it's been out for a long time.

Yeah, and then the Reaper of Souls, whenever that came out, that was like kind of like

May 15th, 2012.

Jesus, yeah.

So it has been 10 years since I was actively playing it.

Anyway,

the potion system now has a it's like just a

you just have a limited inventory and then you get more potion charges by killing enemies, which just has a different feel to it.

I do kind of like the scarcity of like there were some times when I was kind of in like a mini boss fight or something and just surrounded by mobs where I kind of felt like, oh shit, I'm down to one potion.

I got to get some potion charges and so I don't get, you know, murked here.

I kind of liked how it felt, but it is definitely a change.

There's also a Dodge that's on a cooldown, which is similar to the role that was added to the console versions of Diablo 3.

And that was the point when I saw that was in there.

I started playing it.

I was playing with a mouse and keyboard at first.

It's how I usually play Diablo, but I switched over to play with an Xbox controller on my PC.

And you know what?

I do think it feels better.

I kind of really liked the

at least the class I was playing was, you know, just super action-y.

It felt like like mobility was a big part because, you know, like the rogue has a bow, but then it also has a pair of short swords.

And so some of your abilities let you like phase through enemies.

So you want to stay super mobile and then also create distance so you can use your ranged attacks.

And so for I kind of, to me, it just felt better on a controller, but either way, it felt pretty good.

The other thing is that there's a.

They do, they have like a, they have like cinematics with your created character, which is very, which feels like a departure.

Like, and I don't just mean like isometric, we're watching, we're staying in the same perspective as the game camera and we're hearing a bunch of dialogue.

Like, like cuts to, to, you know, like, here's a close-up on your character's face, and then here's a, uh, here's a counter shot on the NPC, and they're like having a conversation, like, feels like a real cutscene, uh, you know, like in a triple-A game, but like in a Diablo, and it's kind of jarring.

I didn't dislike it, but it definitely felt like a format break from the previous games.

It is, it, I, I mean, I haven't played a lot.

It is, it did feel feel strange to me.

I was like, oh, wow, this is like,

not like, this is like a real game, but it was like, it's like a different kind of thing entirely.

Like, I'd never seen it, I hadn't seen that in any of those games.

So it was cool to see.

Yeah, I thought I had a fucking blast, though.

I'm excited to play it more.

I know.

I can't wait for, I mean, it comes out in June.

There's like, I feel like five huge games releasing in between like now and then.

But I really can't wait to play it because I did find it very satisfying to be clicking around

and I was starting to get more magic powers.

One of my favorite ones right now is Summoning this like Flame Hydra that like which class are you playing around me?

Sorcerer.

Okay, yeah, yeah.

And it's it's it's very, very cool.

Um, but I do

I kind of want to start it

with a with a druid uh because I do like I do like druid classes when I when I play D and D.

Uh so I think that could be fun, but I also I switched um difficulty um because I was getting smoked by a a boss.

And I was like, I think I got to take this down a little bit, just one down because

I want to have fun.

Right.

And did you consider for a second?

Getting good, yeah.

I tried to get good.

And

I was like, well, it's going to be faster to do this.

And then proceed.

And I, you know, I turned it back.

Yeah.

Because in the first two difficulty levels, you can switch back and forth at any time at the this like well or whatever.

But if you go hardcore, which I've never done before, you die and then you got to start all the way over again, which doesn't seem fun to me at all.

I kind of like hardcore characters.

I didn't play it for the beta because, you know, but I just like, I do like that.

But there is a period where you just get murked.

Yeah.

It's like, well, that was 30 hours of my life.

Yeah, I would be,

I'd be so mad.

Yeah.

But, but it's in terms of talking about hardcore is different from the different difficulty levels you can play like within the game.

I will say,

and, you know, there's nothing nothing loaded behind this.

I'm just like every guy who's played a ton of Diablo.

I actually had more fun when I upped it to the veteran difficulty because I felt like I had to like just, you know, I had to be a little bit more strategic in my gameplay.

But I thought it was great.

I also say this is

maybe a, I don't know, maybe some people find this a weird thing to say, but I do kind of feel like there's a lot of good developers at Blizzard and the company's been kind of like dealing with some shitty things that come largely from management and and decisions that are from people above the, you know, the, over the heads of the top line workers.

And like that led to Diablo Immortal coming out.

That certainly led to a lot of like human rights abuses or,

you know, human resources abuses that took place in the, the, within the company.

Yeah.

All that shit is like really shitty and gross.

I know a lot of people were, maybe some people were kind of upset about Overwatch 2 launched.

This one feels like, hey, this is actually a good game that, you know, the people who worked on it can feel good about.

And hopefully it comes out and is well received by the fan base.

At least in terms of the open beta, I felt like they did it.

It's really well executed.

So, but yeah,

I had fun with the open beta, a long story short.

Matt, any other things you've been playing?

So

I played that a little bit.

I started the Resident Evil 4 remake and

basically got through the demo part of it again with the chainsaw man.

But this time, I was able to kill the chainsaw man.

Oh, yeah.

And instead of just running around like a chicken waiting for that bell to ring.

But I also saw on a TikTok that you can shoot the bell and make the, and I didn't, which I didn't know.

I saw that on the TikTok also, and I was like, man, this game.

I was like, the game is good.

The game is like that.

It's really, really good.

You can make them like, you can trigger the event and then have them go.

They're like, oh, I guess the bell's ringing.

Yeah.

I better go.

Fucking idiot.

Yeah.

Well, they're infected, Nick.

Give them a break.

We're all kind of infected.

Okay, now I'm back on board.

Well, and the woke mind virus.

Yes.

That's Resident Evil 9.

Leon trying to

get rid of the Umbrella Corporation's man-made woke mind virus.

But I also, because I didn't finish Metroid Prime Remastered last week,

I was very, very close, as it turns out.

I'm even closer now.

I have one more artifact to get

and then have to take down Meta Ridley.

Yeah, and once you take down Meta Ridley, the game's over, so don't worry about that.

No, there's like other spirits.

You're set after Meta Ridley.

No, that's no, that's it, Matt.

There's got to be other things, I'm sure, right?

There's probably like a big Metroid or something.

But that made me so scared.

The thing about it, I said this in the Discord, and I didn't say this to you guys.

I wish I would have said this on the show last week.

I like that Samus' ship looks like her.

It's like my favorite thing.

It's so funny to me.

The ship is just like her helmet.

Yeah, I mean,

they have when that was around, I think, in Super Metroid, I think is when the ship premieres.

And then they built a new one for Metroid Prime, and they tried a few different things.

And they ultimately were like, yeah, let's just make it look like the Super Metroid.

It's like her same suit that you start with.

It's like basically the same shape.

It's no question whose ship that belongs to.

And then somebody into Discord pointed out, they're like, yeah, these pirate logs are like, we can't find her.

Where is this Samus?

And it's like, I don't know, this fucking shit.

Is she here?

It's like, yeah, the ship that looks like the person that's killing everybody.

Yeah.

I think she's here.

But it's, it's, just to reiterate from last week, a fantastic game.

And it's like when they skin the Goodyear blimp to look like a minion.

It's like, yeah.

You know that, we know what that is.

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

But it's, I can't wait to finish it.

It sounds like I'm going to be done after Meta Ridley, so that's, it's good.

Uh, good to know.

But Heather, what are you playing?

Well, it's been a really tough tough week for me, and I've only been able to even dabble in Fortnite.

I know that there was another Discord

private server event on the Get Played Discord

Fortnite channel, which is really cool.

And I wasn't able to attend.

I don't even know if there's a new event happening in Fortnite this week.

There might be.

But I've had such extremely limited game

experiences this week that I wanted to shout out something else.

So, Matt, could you maybe play that sound?

So,

apps

are software.

And

if we had been recording this podcast in the 1990s, I think that educational apps and educational software would have been fine to cover in the What Are You Playing segment.

And I'd like to talk about an app that I've been using on my morning walks walks with my dog every day.

And this app is called Merlin Bird ID.

I feel like I've talked about it on the show before, but I asked the boys and they said no.

Merlin Bird ID

allows you to shazam bird calls.

Wow.

So you hold up your phone to

to the sky while you're on a morning walk.

And if there's a bird nearby, it'll automatically populate your phone with what bird that is and give you a photo of that bird.

And then

you can talk to the bird using the app.

So you can press play on multiple various or variations of its bird call and communicate with the bird in such a way that it will almost often always

fly over to you.

and

it is

turned the real world into Pokemon Go for me.

Yeah, like I

there is a Cooper's Hawk.

Also, I'm starting to recognize bird calls, and I wasn't a bird person before this, but now I'm a bird person, so like I'm like, oh, that's the Cooper's Hawk.

Oh, that's the house finch.

Oh, that's the mocking jay.

Um,

I have started communicating with a Cooper's Hawk using this app

and it has flown down to the

low shrub in front of the house where I can like view it and it is fucking enormous.

Wow.

But I was like, this is such a transformative like experience that is kind of gamifying nature in an interesting way, but also giving me like education about like what I'm experiencing.

And I just, that's been what I've been playing this week is the Merlin Bird ID app, which is connected to, I think, Cornell University.

You're also helping them because the sounds that you're recording are giving them information about where these birds are migrating, what birds are in certain areas.

There are different like tiers of your

information sharing with Cornell.

So you can like choose to be like an active, almost like, you know, the people who like review everything on Google Maps, sure, you know, it's it's like that, but for birds, um,

it's been it's been a really cool experience.

And if I like, if I legitimately had a couple of hours, I think I would just sit outside with this fucking app

and see what kind of birds I could get to come over and land near me.

Sounds like a hoot.

I'm just, I'm done.

I'm fucking done.

I'm not going, I'm not going to fucking.

That stopped being my fucking track.

I need a two-week break from your fucking bullshit.

That's what I mean.

Because also, the time,

you manage to time those things after I'm vulnerable in any way.

And the thing is,

he probably, he's been sitting on it.

But the little devil he is.

It's like a fucking headshot every time.

It's like a a no scope headshot max kill max damage

like i'm just fucking blasted every and it's i'm done we're having fun that actually does uh that app does sound cool as hell i loved hearing the bird sound yeah i love the bird sounds it was i was like i could hear birds all day they're great yeah that's pretty good i will say when you're like hey i i you know i haven't gotten a chance to play a game but uh yeah i do want to play this audio i was half hoping you were going to play the dunkacino ad

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I'll give my Securo update in the spirit of Heather's ongoing Fortnite update, which is that I have beaten a late game boss who is a that this was last I think update.

I was like, I got to this boss.

My update is that I beat this boss.

I had very limited playtime in between my full playthrough of Metroid Prime Remastered,

but I got through that, got through that entity and am now in a late game area, which is optional, but is needed for, from what I've read, for the good ending.

So I'm through that and I'm at the point where there's a boss at the end of that area.

I'm being very circuitous because I don't want to give, I don't want to be too deep into spoiler country.

And some of these characters that you're facing tie into the story.

And, you know,

so like I'll be coy purposefully, but I'm on a boss now that, from what I've read, is like the most difficult boss in the game.

And that's where I got up to last last night, actually.

I got shithoused about 12 times in a row.

I was like, okay, this isn't happening.

I just got to go to bed and I'll figure this out later.

But yeah,

it's great.

I will say there are a couple late game encounters that I was like, fuck, because the combat system is really designed around, you know, one-on-one and

deflecting and parrying and counter-attacking against one opponent, especially when you're dealing with mini-bosses and bosses.

And some of the late game encounters, they set up scenarios where it's like, here's two, here's basically two mini bosses at the same time.

And I was dealing with like, fuck, I just don't know how to, like, I'm like sprinting away frantically, trying to get separation between these two characters so I could just face one off one-on-one.

And I ultimately was just like, I just got to look at a guide and get some sense of how to do this.

And I look at the guide, I was just like,

well, well, oh, there's the

it's just a high-level version of the stealth mechanic where there's this

shinobi prosthetic you get called the furl the finger, the furl finger furling call, whatever the fuck it is.

It's some sort of finger calling thing that is like a furled finger and is used to draw enemies away to that specific location.

But I, you know, it was out of my mind because it has such limited use cases, but it ends up being a thing where just like, if you're just paying attention to the game and how the mechanics work, which I wasn't, you could have perhaps figured out that like, oh, if I go to this specific spot, I can use this

I can use this curled finger prosthetic to call one of the mini bosses away from the, you know, the action and take them face them individually or stealth kill one of them or what have you.

And it's just like, oh, this is like,

this isn't the best comparison, but it kind of felt like watching like a Michael Haneke movie where I'm just like, I'm just too dumb to really understand this.

I need to read someone's writing to like really comprehend what's going on here.

And it was the same sort of thing.

It was just like, oh, I'm just too dumb to pick up on this, how this encounter is designed and how you're supposed to actually approach it.

Because when you do do it, it's very manageable.

Then you can face them one-on-one and you could just get through them.

Once they do that technique, it was like two tries, but it just was not a thing that I was able to intuit.

But it was a thing where it's just like, wow, this is really thoughtfully designed.

And this really integrates all of the, by the time you're in the late game, all of the different systems that are coexisting, which are overwhelming, but it is a really truly impressive and super fun game despite its challenge and despite the roadblocks.

Let's talk a little bit about a few games I streamed.

A couple of games I streamed.

So, those I was playing for fun, a couple of games I streamed on our Twitch channel.

This is a new thing I'm calling

Stream Daddy.

All right, great.

So, we got the Stream Daddy Sting there.

Courtesy of Jordan.

Thank you, Jordan.

We did?

Yeah,

it'll be in there.

Oh.

So we're just supposed to imagine that it happened?

You'll hear what it's like, and it's good.

I will.

I'll hear it.

You guys listened to the show after I edited it, right?

Oh, of course.

Of course.

It'll be good.

It takes me hours and hours.

I'll listen to it on half speed.

Okay.

It'll be good.

I streamed a couple of games on our Twitch channel, twitch.tv slash get played pod.

First was a game called A Memoir Blue.

This is an indie game developed by Cloysters Interactive that was on Game Pass, and I picked it because How Long Do Beat said one hour, and it is an hour long.

It is a short,

very twee game with limited gameplay.

Heather would not like it,

but it's got some cool art and it's got some cool sound design.

It's basically like a you're a swimmer who's lost touch with the mom who raised you and it's just like it's just dealing with you grappling with your memories and that relationship and whatever.

It's kind of low stakes and sweet and charming, but there's not a lot to it.

It is the kind of game that when people make fun of indie games, this is what they're picturing.

But, you know, whatever.

It's on forever much longer.

It's on Game Pass.

Worth checking out if you're into that sort of thing or just want to

just want some easy trophies.

Slash achievements.

I also messed around with this game called Project Zomboid.

And shout out to the Twitch chat for cluing me.

And I should have written down who specifically recommended this, but a few people were shouting it out.

It is an early access on Steam.

It has been for a while, as far as I can tell.

And it is a zombie survival game that's isometric, that is intensely detailed.

It basically takes place on day one of a zombie outbreak.

There are, and you are in a,

as far as I can tell, as in this demo or in this early access version, you're in one of four towns in Kentucky, and you're just going around and just like

it's to the point where you have to monitor your character's satiety and thirst and exhaustion and boredom.

And then you can like, you know, things like, hey, here's a car, but you know what?

This car doesn't have any gas.

You don't have keys for it.

Or, you know, like, you need to find a place to sleep.

Yeah,

like, oh, I broke a window and climbed through it.

Wait, the glass cut me and I have a specific laceration that I need to treat.

Wow.

So it's, it's, it's super duper detailed on a granular level that's really impressive.

And also there's a, there's dynamic scoring that kind of happens, you know, programmatically in terms of what's going on in the game action.

When you actually get surrounded by zombies, it's legitimately scary because you are just a person with just like a makeshift armament and trying your best to defend yourself.

So it's like, hey, here's a, here's a bunch of zombies running at you and you have a rake that you found.

And you know what?

You can't actually hurt someone all that much with a rake.

So you're kind of in trouble here.

You know, climbing a fence exhausts you.

It just felt like a game where I was like, I'm really, really impressed by how much detail they put into this.

And it was super tense and

fun to play in the limited amount of time I spent on stream, but I am going to play it more off-stream.

But yeah, that was another one that wasn't on my radar.

And shout out to Twitch chat for cluing me into it.

Anyway, that's enough out of me.

That's enough out of us.

That's enough.

What do you play?

And let's get to the business of the day.

It's time for our console draft for the Nintendo GameCube.

Was that the GameCube intro stay?

I was doing my best.

That was great.

That was really good.

That was really good.

For a second, I thought,

are you trying to do the NFL draft theme?

And then I was like, no, Heather's not going to know that.

And you know what?

I don't know it either.

Anyway, there's a...

Here's the thing.

We'd covered Metroid Prime last month.

We're covering Resident Evil 4 this month.

We're like, what do these games have in common?

GameCube classics.

Why don't we just try to pick up from the best of the bunch for this particular Nintendo system?

So we're not just doing Nintendo consoles when we do these console drafts.

That's just how the last couple have worked out.

And so here we go.

We'll go snake style.

We'll pick five games apiece.

Any pre-draft thoughts before we get into this?

I didn't have a GameCube, but so I'm drafting games.

that I would have liked to play and then maybe have some limited experience with as well.

But I'm I'm excited because the GameCube, a great console, great lineup.

This is going to be a tough one, I think.

I'm really excited about this draft because I think that the GameCube has a bunch of A-list players.

But if I'm really building my perfect little GameCube, I don't think I'm going to be in competition for a lot of these heavy hitters because there's a lot of niche titles on this machine that

really, really fucking work.

And I'm really excited to have a kind of a casual conversation about

cool shit that nobody's played.

Well, let's work our way through it.

So here's all I'll say.

I had the third pick last time.

So I'm fine with whatever draft order, although I'd prefer maybe not to have the third pick.

Okay, I'll go first.

You know what?

I think last time we did this, I did

take the first pick.

I'm happy to go third.

I'll give the first pick to Heather.

All right.

But then you only get one.

That's fine.

Okay.

I'll go third.

Yeah.

One, two, three, three.

Yeah.

Two, one, one.

Yeah, that's snake style.

We'll go back and forth.

Okay.

And it's not Heather, you don't have to do it.

Snake style.

The thing about the snake character is that the snake loves doing, like, the snake seems like it's having the best time.

Ooh, it's time to do a draft.

Snake.

A draft became institutionalized in American sports in the late 20th century as a way to ensure parody across different franchises.

Parody?

Like Weird Al?

That's great.

That is great.

God damn it.

That was great.

Holy shit.

No, Snake, you fucking idiot.

Just listen to me.

God damn it.

Let the colonel talk.

God damn it.

You wouldn't know what I was talking about if you let me finish.

God damn you.

I love Snake.

I miss him.

He's good.

All right, Heather, your pick.

All right.

So

I'm going to go out of the gate with a game that goes against the preface that I set up as the concept of my draft because I didn't know that I was going first and I want this fucking game on my GameCube.

It's The Legend of Zelda, The Wind Waker.

Wow.

I

don't think there is any game

from

more than 20 years ago, which visually holds up as well as Wind Waker does.

It's

incredibly gorgeous.

Yes.

It is incredibly soothing.

Sailing that fucking ocean, people were like, ugh, I hate this.

It's the best.

It is the bird watching app of video game travel.

It is so fucking nice.

It is a smooth feeling.

And I remember being at

anime expo, I want to say, in the early 2000s and somebody had this little crt that was showing the trailer for the wind waker which we'd only seen in magazines because this is an ancient time right

you'd only seen this art style in print so you didn't really get a grasp of what it looked like to watch it move and watching it move felt transformative i was like oh my god This is a cartoon.

I'm looking at a cartoon.

And the thing that really like pushed me over the edge on my enthusiasm for the game was the look of the explosions in the Wind Waker, which were like these spiraling, like

cell-shaded.

It was so gorgeous.

I've never beaten the Wind Waker.

I get like fucking lost on the ocean in that second half of the game.

And I'm like, I don't really want to do any of this.

It's a tedious endgame.

Yeah.

Where you have to collect a bunch of shit, a bunch of trifles pieces.

But that opening and that, and the and Link's design,

like the sound of Link in that game,

so fucking good.

Good stuff.

Um, so that's my first pick, which isn't one of these niche titles that I am, that I'm excited to champion.

Uh, it's just such a fucking good game.

So, The Legend of Zelda, the Wind Waker is my first draft pick here on the GameCube console draft.

Great pick.

Great game.

It was on my big board.

I was hoping to have it on my roster.

Not going to happen.

But what I will say is I remember,

I too remember the hype cycle slash backlash cycle as the Wind Waker was announced and then the run-up to release.

And another big GameCube game went through a similar cycle.

You know, I was remembering the, I was just thinking, do you ever see like the, the, there was a pretty, there was a meme recently with the, where, or it was when Horizon Forbidden West was coming out, and like people were like fixing like Aloy's, like, like, like, here's what she should look like.

They were like, like, she doesn't, she should look like, you know, like, they were like fixing her character model.

And the same thing was happening.

I don't remember this with this, uh, Heather, with Wind Waker, because people really didn't like the chibi link.

They were like, they would, it should be, like, have a different sort of, yeah, the, the character model should have like a like different proportion, should look more like a, like a traditionally animated, you know, a Western animated C, like a 2D link.

I remember that same sort of backlash cycle, and the same thing happened, not in the exact same way, but the same thing of like, how are they going to make this happen?

They're going to ruin this franchise that I love with a game we just covered, Recency Bias Ahoy, but I feel like if I don't take it now, Matt's going to take it.

Metroid Prime.

Arguably

fucked.

I should have gone first.

Arguably,

arguably, and maybe people's list, not mine, but definitely up there as the best GameCube game, undeniably good.

And, you know, took a franchise that it's a premise that shouldn't have worked, taking this 2D franchise and making it into a first-person game.

And they absolutely fucking crushed it.

And it still holds up as we experienced with Remaster.

So that's my first pick.

Metroid Prime.

Matt, let's go to you.

You get two picks in a row.

Okay, I get two picks in a row, so I'm going to make these two picks count, okay?

Because I feel like there's a couple of things that I'm looking at that maybe nobody's going to pick.

So first one out the gate.

I'm going Mario Kart double dash.

Wow.

Because

I love Mario Kart.

I wish the double dash mechanic was back.

I've played a little Mario Kart Double Dash with some friends.

I love double dashing.

I love having another friend.

In the cart with me.

That's fun.

I like that.

Bring it back.

At least as a mode.

It doesn't doesn't have to be the whole thing.

Right.

You can just put it in there.

So, Mario Kart Double Dash, my first pick, my second pick, also a Mario game,

but it's one I've never played before.

But I've played other entries in this particular franchise.

I'm going Paper Mario, the thousand-year door.

Fuck.

Wow.

There's, I thought it was like, there's no chance he's going to play.

He's going to pick this.

I love.

Because I know you haven't played it.

I haven't played it, but I want it, and it's mine.

I love how cute he is.

I love Paper Mario and how cute Paper Mario is.

He's so cute.

Another game like Wind Waker and Metroid Prime that has a big collecta-thon in its third act that kind of is a little bit of a grind.

But yeah, I love that game.

It was on my list.

Matt, while we were talking about it, can we play a little bit?

Can I put something in the chat and we can play it?

Yeah, of course.

Here's a great track from the GameCube Paper Mario.

This is Rogueport from the town of the same name.

When I hear that, I much like channelism

on the YouTube comments here.

Quote, I hear this, and it's 2007, and I am 12 again.

My childhood.

This is really good.

I'm excited that...

Ooh.

I'm excited that I got to pick it.

Yeah.

And I'm looking at Paper Mario right now.

And I just...

He's just so funny to me.

He just looks so funny.

I love him.

Yeah, he's great.

And they play around with him being just like a 2D entity,

which is just a fun running gag in the series.

Great game.

I think the best in the series.

A couple of good picks for you, Matt.

It's back to me.

Now, look, RE4 is still on the board.

I could take it, but

I do think it's kind of a multi-platform game, although it debuted on the GameCube.

But also, there's a game that I just have to have on my roster, and it reaches a certain point where I have to just be Sam Presty on the Oklahoma City Thunder, the GM who's just like famously drafts players he likes perhaps earlier,

even knowing they might fall to him later because he's just like, I have to have this guy.

And this is my game.

This is my number one on the console.

Super Smash Brothers Melee.

I'm happy it still survived Matt's two picks.

So I got to take it on my roster now.

So Melee, you're on the board.

Joining Metroid Prime.

Welcome to the team.

That's a really solid,

that's a solid pair.

And like

Smash is weirdly something I often forget about, even though I do like...

Smash.

Yeah.

It's just not my go-to for some reason.

But that's a great, that's a great pick.

You know what?

Hey, I love that platform fighter sort of thing.

I mean, I guess I really just love Smash, although I played other platform fighters, but

I just have a lot of fond memories of that game.

And to me, that is just like a game that is like, that's what the GameCube is all about.

And people who still have GameCubes and wired controllers these days are a lot of times just using it to play melee because there's still a competitive scene.

So great game.

And that's my second pick.

Heather, you get two in a row.

All right.

Well, my first pick here is going to be a game that I have talked about on the show before before and

celebrate mostly because of the way it incorporated peripherals.

I'm talking about Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles for the

GameCube,

which

let's cue that song

has one of the best scores in all of Final Fantasy games.

Just an honest

adventure sound

that draws you in.

It's like, hey, guys,

we're about to go on an adventure together.

But in order to go on an adventure together, you had to have four Game Boy Advances and four friends.

Which

I want to, can I drag a image into the...

No, I can't.

You can text it.

I can text it to you.

All right, great.

Or you can share it on your own screen.

I'll just drag it into the chat.

All right.

there you go

so not only could you play

final fantasy crystal chronicles with four players each having their own separate information screens on their control on the on their game boy advance via the Game Boy link cable, so you'd have like mini maps and one person would have like, hey, there's a, there's a treasure this way, and you'd all follow them because that treasure showed up on their Game Boy.

So it was this conversation-inducing experience.

But if you managed to have five,

if you had

five GameCubes

and four of them had the Game Boy Advance player

and you had five CRTs,

you could put all of that information on separate CRTs so that you would have this like war room experience of playing Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles with four players, and then you could all share the information as you were seeing it.

I

true nonsense.

Butterfly.

I love the sort of

audacity of this game.

I love that it's like, hey, if you really want to experience this, you've got to be not only a Nintendo household, but a Nintendo community.

Because people would have to have their own Game Boy Advances in order to participate in this thing.

So I'll confess, I've never fucking played it this way.

Like I had my Game Boy Advance and I had a friend and he would play on the, on like the controller on the screen and I would have my Game Boy Advance for my second player experience, but it was really boring that way.

Like it's designed for four people to experience it at the same time.

Fucking like

someday I'm going to get to do that and it's going to be fucking fun and awesome.

And it's neat that that experience is still waiting out there for me in the future.

I love it.

My final, also, I like that.

Let me just read this from the Wikipedia.

Deciding to partner with Nintendo for game development following severe financial problems created by the failure of Final Fantasy The Spirits Within.

Franchise Creator Square formed the Game Designer Studio as a shell company to develop Nintendo hardware without impacting games for Sony platforms.

They were so fucked after Spirits Within that they had to like

jump through hoops in order to make this game available on the GameCube.

It's a game I've always wanted to play.

I've never played it before.

And I was disappointed to learn that the Nintendo Switch port of it is bad.

Yeah, it's not very good.

All right.

so that's one.

Okay, that's that's one of them right there.

That's one of my that's one.

Okay,

and then my

my next

my next pick is not going to pull anything off the board for you guys.

It's a game that I have pushed us to cover on the show many times.

Oh, yeah.

From Grasshopper Manufacture, it's killer seven.

Wow.

A game where you play as a guy who's got seven assassin personalities, which you choose between before you enter into this like 90s VR looking visual experience

that is about how

I think it was the United States government was helping control Japanese politics.

It's been a long time since I've played it, but it is one of the

like weirdest fucking games.

It is a singular experience.

There's nothing that's like Killer 7.

It's not like, oh, it's a Killer 7-like.

And I also thought it was interesting that the core adventure-style gameplay has been compared to Snatcher, right?

Goichi Suda, who is the director of the game, was a sort of

a protege of

Kojima.

So there's elements that sort of borrow from the themes of Kojima's work.

And it's it's fucking great and very weird, very weird game.

And so even though it's not a GameCube exclusive, I felt like it played best on GameCube.

And

yeah,

that's my third and final pick.

Killer 7.

Wow.

I think we get five picks.

What?

Are we doing five?

Yeah, we're doing five.

But

you're doing,

you did two back-to-backs.

Two back-to-back, yeah.

We got some more roster slots is what I'm saying.

Oh, God.

Okay.

It's not a Triforce of.

This is the draft.

It's a different format.

Okay.

Triforce is three.

The draft is five.

Oh, God.

Okay.

Great.

Well, don't be distressed.

We'll figure it out.

There's lots of good games on this

system.

By the way, Killer 7 had a Windows remaster in 2018.

So we probably could play it.

I don't know how the remaster was received, but we could check it out in the Steam store.

Who knows?

It's deck verified.

This is a game that, yeah, I never played Killer 7, but I'm more of its art style.

It's kind of like sell-shaded plus first person.

It's really, yeah, like looks like nothing else.

Really cool.

Great pick.

I would call it off-putting.

When you play it, it's a little like...

Somebody's shoving tinfoil in your mouth.

Like, it's a little bit like, whoa, okay, look out.

All right.

All right.

It's It's my third slot.

And

ooh, ooh, ah, ah.

Everyone's going bananas because it's time for my ape pick.

That's right.

This is my ape slot.

What?

Now, you might be here in ape slot and you're like, okay, I think I know where Weiger's going.

Super Monkey Ball, of course.

Gonna get Super Monkey Ball, which I did get at launch.

I waited in line outside of GameStop and picked up a launch bundle, which included Super Monkey Ball.

And it is a great game.

And if I had more slots, it would be on my roster.

But instead, I have to pick a game, which, as

to Heather's point about

ludicrous peripherals in this particular console, Donkey Konga.

Give me those Donkey Kong

bongos.

The game is called Donkey Konga, but they are bongos.

And you know what?

It's cool as hell.

They also released a game, DK Jungle Beat, which is basically like a platformer that uses the bongos, which is a fun use of the peripheral.

But hey, it's one of those things that I wish I still had, like the Sama Day Amigo fucking Maracas.

It's just like, why did I ever not get rid of this thing?

But it is a cool piece of hardware.

And you know what?

It's a fucking

uniquely Nintendo and it's a great use of the Donkey Kong property.

And I love that shit.

Back when they used to actually make dedicated music peripherals, this was one of the more ludicrous, one of the sillier, and a very cool game attached.

And you know what?

It kind of fills out my roster with like, hey, I got like a, like a first-person, you know, single-player adventure experience.

I've got a sort of party fighter, and now I just got a straight-up party/slash rhythm game.

So that's my next pick, Donkey Konga.

That's a killer pick.

That's so fun.

I've never played it before,

but it seems like it's cool.

Sucks that you don't have it anymore.

My next pick is not a Nintendo exclusive, but started on the GameCube.

Wow.

Was eventually ported over to the PS2.

I love this game.

I know that none of you guys are going to pick it, so it's kind of a safe pick.

I could save this one, but I'm just going to pick it now.

Beautiful Joe.

Wow.

I love Beautiful Joe so much.

Gorgeous game.

Gorgeous, really fun, funny.

I love

the combat style.

It's just a lot of fun.

I wish there was a modern port of it.

Seems like it wouldn't be that hard

to get it over to Switch, um, but it's it's it's one of my favorite games from that era.

I love it, and beautiful Joe 2 as well, but I'm only drafting the first one.

Um, uh, but I was kind of surprised we didn't get more Veautiful Joe.

I sort of for he's in Marvel versus -

right, yeah, he's Veautiful Joe 2, and then there's a, there's another like spin-off game set in the Beautiful Joe, I think, world.

Um, I can't remember what it's called, or there's a DS one, I think, is what what's different about it.

But he's in Marvel vs.

Capcom 3.

I was sort of like, oh, beautiful Joe's here to stay.

Right.

Joe's not going anywhere.

He's in

a fighting game with all their IP.

He's fucking gone.

He's just gone now.

Yep.

Bring me, give me Joe.

Yeah.

So I miss Joe.

So that's

three games between 2003 and 2005.

Or I'm sorry, four games, two of them released near simultaneously, and that's it.

It's a big bummer.

I think, oh, yeah, Red Hot Rumble is the one I'm thinking of, and Double Trouble as well, which is for the DS.

And Red Hot Rumble, I never messed around with Red Hot Rumble, actually.

That's for GameCube.

And PSP.

I love Beautiful Joe.

I just love the way he looks and his whole attitude.

He's kind of a funny guy.

So that's my third pick.

My fourth pick.

I don't know what this version of this game is like.

I just know that when the most recent version of it came out, it took over my life in such a positive way.

And at a time when we all really needed it, I'm going with the original Animal Crossing for GameCube.

Wow.

Wow.

Because I just know that

if I.

If I had to have these five picks,

I'm going to want a game where I could play it for so long

and not get sick of it.

And Animal Crossing is that.

And I do sort of miss that everyday check-in with Animal Crossing.

It made me feel so good doing that.

And I haven't checked in on it.

I just,

I sort of worry about feeling judged by them.

I would hate to know that they were disappointed in me.

And

what am I going to do?

I'm going to be buying items again.

I'm going to be on the turnip market.

I can't be dealing with that again.

But I loved it.

And hey, when there's a new Animal Crossing, I'll be there.

I'll be there.

But I think I did my, you know, once I sunk like 400 hours into it, I was like, I think we're good.

I think we did it.

So, Animal Crossing is my fourth pick for the draft.

And I'm liking my roster.

I got to say.

Mario, we'll recap him later, but it's looking pretty good.

Wow, great picks.

RE4 still on the board.

I think it's going to stay on the board, though, because I think at this point,

I just want to go in a different direction.

And, you know, you talked about some multi-platform games.

Well, this is a game that I originally played, and in fact, only played on the Sega Dreamcast, but it got a remaster of sorts,

an improved version on the GameCube that was well-received critically.

And, you know what?

I think I'd like to have it on my limited roster of GameCube titles.

I'm talking about a JRPG entitled Skies of Arcadia Legends.

Wow.

Give me that Skies of Arcadia Legends.

Played Vanilla Skies of Arcadia on

Dreamcast.

And yeah, give me that GameCube version to fill out my roster with a nice big fat JRPG with some Sky Pirates.

Heather, you got two picks in a row to finish out your roster.

All right.

So my first pick is going to be another cross-platform game called Ikaruga, which is a vertical shooting game that fucking rules.

I have it for the Switch.

I have it for the GameCube.

I have it for the Dreamcast.

I love this game, and I'd be remiss not to include it on a console where I didn't realize I had two more games that I got to choose.

My final pick is Resident Evil 4.

Wow.

Wow.

I start with Wind Waker, end with Resident Evil 4.

It's a fucking great game.

It was an extraordinary, exclusive experience at the time of its release.

And nothing makes the GameCube stronger than its

very few

iconic releases, even though the system itself is a baller fucking system.

Yeah.

Those are my last two.

It's my five.

Very cool.

Very cool roster you ended up with there.

I have a lot of directions I could go with my final pick, but you know,

as much as I, as much fondness as I have for like the Pikmin franchise, I've always felt like those are games more that I wanted to like rather than actually enjoyed playing.

I think they're cool designs.

I think the aesthetic is nice, but I don't necessarily need to have a Pikmin game on my roster.

And, you know, some of the other GameCube exclusives are

that are still available or like a cool, but, you know, maybe more novelties or maybe haven't aged great.

So I'm going to go with a transformative piece of hardware, which, as Nintendo often does, for better or worse, they led the way with a technology that we now take for granted, wireless controlling.

Wow.

I am taking the Nintendo Wave Bird.

We had wired controllers up until the Wave Bird.

Everyone had cables they were stepping over and coiling up.

You go to your friend's place, you play a game, make sure you roll up the controller.

If you don't, you're an asshole.

You know what?

You'd accidentally unplug your controller while you're playing.

That would be a thing.

Mom rolls the vacuum cleaner over your controller.

That creates a whole hassle.

You don't have to worry about that anymore with the wave bird.

And nowadays,

you're not wired unless you're playing like something competitive where you need to have that responsiveness and lack of latency.

So I'm taking the Wave Bird.

Here's a little bit on the Wave Bird from a contemporary review from IGN.

In short, the Wave Bird lived up to or exceeded all of our expectations, some of which were just plain shattered.

If you were considering buying an additional controller for your GCN, then I could suggest holding off, saving for a few more days, and buying a Wave Bird.

It's that good.

With plenty of range, flexible operation, and long battery life, the Wave Bird is a truly amazing controller and one whose impact will will doubtlessly be felt throughout the industry.

True words.

The impact was doubtlessly felt throughout the industry.

And you know what?

It's a great way to game.

What happened with the naming of

that controller?

The wave bird?

It's nonsense.

I don't get it.

I mean, it's like, oh, there are waves.

It's the it's the waves in between you and the GameCube and it's like holding a free-flying bird in your hand.

Maybe.

They had like fucking baffling.

It's really strange.

They had a bunch of different options.

They were considering calling it a bunch of different things, I remember.

But yeah, they ultimately landed on this, and I'm not sure why.

But it was, you know, it was so huge.

And then it was also like that.

Because there were some attempts at wireless controllers, but they were all worked like old school remote controls where it was infrared and you had to like line it up so it was in line of sight of your console.

And this not being that was just completely transformative.

And hey, if you're unless you're playing competitive Smash,

you could do pretty well with that Wave Bird and that Nintendo GameCube.

So that finalizes my roster.

Matt, your final pick or picks?

How many do you have left?

I only have one left.

Okay.

There's a lot of ways I can go because there's a lot on the board left.

And there's, you know,

there's people are going to be mad.

You didn't pick this?

You didn't pick that?

You didn't pick men?

They're going to say you didn't pick men.

They're going to say you didn't pick men.

And I just, you know,

there's just a lot that

there's just, there's so much.

And I just feel like

as a fan of Spooky Scaries, who is a coward,

I can't help but go with my boy Luigi in Luigi's Mansion.

Great pick.

And

solidify my five picks there with Luigi's Mansion.

Wow.

Good game, fun game, fun franchise, great art direction, really good lighting.

He's like, he's funny.

A lot of these guys are funny.

It's a great use of Luigi because it's like this is his core character.

And you know what?

He doesn't necessarily have any special skills of his own, but you know what?

He does have a fucking vacuum cleaner.

Yeah.

There you go.

Yeah.

And, you know,

the house is dirty.

He's going to have to clean it up a little bit too, not just with ghosts.

Right.

And I love a tidy house.

Yeah.

So those are my final picks.

Why don't we go through,

why don't we go through all of our picks here?

I'll start.

My picks were Mario Kart Double Dash, Paper Mario, The Thousand Year Door, Beautiful Joe, Animal Crossing, and Luigi's Mansion.

A lot of good games there.

A lot of good games on the system.

Mine were Metroid Prime, Smash Brothers Melee, Donkey Konga, Skies of Arcadia Legends, and the Nintendo Wave Bird.

Heather?

What did I pick?

It was.

I first picked Wind Waker.

Then I picked Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles with the Game Boy Advance link cable.

I picked Ikaruga, a fantastic shooting game.

I picked Killer 7,

a very weird, off-putting, excellent, interesting game.

And finally, Resident Evil 4.

That's my GameCube.

What's your GameCube?

What's your name?

Shout it now.

Shout it now.

Shout it.

Whatever

you're listening on.

Just shout it.

You're in.

Just shout it.

Shout it at the thing.

Roll down all four windows of your car and shout it.

If you're out on a treadmill at the gym, shout it at the person next to you.

Yeah, I want to be on the freeway hearing NBA Street Volume 3.

All right.

Hey, that was our GameCube draft.

Let's do a segment, eh?

That's right.

It's time for a segment.

Can Nick and Heather guess what game is being described with as little information information as possible?

It's time for vagrant story.

Fuck.

Vagrant

story.

So, you know how this works.

I'm going to read a description that I wrote of a game.

Yeah.

The descriptions are not helpful

in any sort of way.

Okay.

Here we go.

Let's just get this first one right out.

Great.

A young man goes to the school of his dreams.

And I just, I just beep it to beep.

Yeah, you can just, yeah, bully

that is incorrect.

Not a bad guess, good guess, but

pretty good.

I think there's maybe something with School of His Dreams that makes me think: are you talking about a Persona game and perhaps the one we've talked about a length of the podcast, Persona 5 or Persona 5 Royal?

Nick's on the board with one.

Wow.

Persona 5.

Here we go.

You're entering into subconscious in that game.

So, you know,

there's not a lot of information in there, but maybe the information in the clues is there to help you in some way.

Right.

But also, they're not helpful.

But they're not helpful.

I'm just going to guess bully the entire fucking time.

Maybe you, maybe, because you are a bully.

No,

you're a bully.

How dare you?

I'm a bully.

Pat is a bully bullying us with these vague descriptions.

Here we go.

A young boy fights to save an island.

Oh.

Bibbita boop.

Heather.

Kingdom Hearts.

Heather, that is incorrect.

What the fuck?

What?

What?

It's incorrect.

But that's what he's doing.

Doesn't mean it's the game I wrote down.

It's not this, but I just want to guess it.

Hudson's Adventure Island.

No, but that's fun.

Okay, we all like that, but that is what the game is.

Yeah, doesn't mean

do we get more guesses, or are there additional clues?

No, it's only one clue.

You can guess as many times as you want, or you can get fed up with it, and I'll tell you what the answer is.

Okay, so I'm trying it again.

I'm trying to fed up.

I'm fed up.

I'm fed up.

A young boy

fights to save an island.

An island.

A young boy.

Oh, oh, Kingdom Hearts 2.

Heather, that's correct.

Just kidding.

No, it's incorrect.

Well, look, I don't think you characterize Mario from

Super Mario Sunshine as a young boy, although he is kind of fighting to

fighting to save an island in that game.

They should do Mario where he is little.

They've done Baby Mario, but they haven't done a full-on Baby Mario game.

Yeah, let me play as Baby Mario.

Is the island surrounded by ocean or is it like an island in the sky?

It's

an ocean island of sorts.

It's an ocean island.

It's his home.

His home.

Have I played this game?

I don't think you have, but I think Heather has, and I also have not played it.

No idea.

Is it the same era as the previous game?

It is not.

Yeah,

you guys want to know the answer?

Heather's about to get really mad.

That's the answer.

Mother 3.

Is that an accurate characterization of Mother 3?

I wouldn't think of it that way, but

I mean, it's appropriate.

Also, I was thinking about Mother 3 the other day because it came up on a shuffle on my

audio when I was on a drive.

It came up as music on my shuffle.

And

it's a great fucking game.

We got to play it.

Mother 2.

It's really nice.

Hey, that was good.

Okay.

You guys are going to be mad about this one.

I'll tell you, Island

will be safe.

A young man trains to be the best and beat his rival.

Weiger.

Is it just Pokemon Red?

No, that is incorrect.

Final Fantasy VII.

That is incorrect.

Is it a JRPG or is it an RPG?

It is not.

Train the best and beat his rival.

A young man trains to be the best and beat his rival.

Everyone who hears the answer is going to be like, that's technically correct.

But Matt

led them astray.

That is incorrect.

Is it a

this really is vague living after the name Vagrant story?

Punch out.

That is incorrect.

Trains to be the best and beat his rival, not an RPG.

Is it a fighting game?

It is not a fighting game.

There's combat in it.

I was thinking about.

It's not fighting.

It's not.

I was just thinking about.

There is a...

a point system, I'll say, but it's not like fighting.

Can you give us a platform?

platform?

Wait, is there a theme for all of these?

No.

No, not a unifying game.

It's random.

It's random.

Okay.

That's the

extra challenge of Vagrant Story.

Is there a platform or era you can tell us?

For this game, I'll give you one.

Okay.

PlayStation 2 era, early 2000s.

Trains to be the best and beat his rival.

This one's maybe not fair because it's deliberately obtuse.

But it's vague.

I'll just guess ratchet and clank.

That's incorrect.

Heather, you want to guess one more?

No.

This is hard.

A young man trains to be the best and beat his rival.

Tony Hawk's Underground.

The issue is that could describe what you said is could describe any game.

That's sort of.

That's sort of it, isn't it?

In that game, in the campaign of that game, you and your best friend have a rift,

and he becomes like your rival, and you're training the whole way through to become the top skater and get signed and beat him.

Eric Sparrow.

Here's the next one:

A man goes to great lengths to complete his goal.

What

a character goes on a journey and learns a lesson.

Yeah.

Okay, well, don't read it.

Sega bass fishing.

That is incorrect.

Can I hear that clue one more time?

A man goes to great lengths to complete his goal.

Is great lengths a clue?

Nobi Nobi Boy.

Heather, did you look at my paper?

Is it real?

No.

Fuck you.

It's about a thing that gets longer and longer until it can touch Pluto.

Snake snake.

A man.

A man goes

to great lengths

to complete his goal.

A game we covered, getting over it with Bennett Foddy.

That is incorrect, but a good guess.

A good guess about a game we've played, I'll say.

Great lengths

gets longer.

Maybe you're thinking of lengths a little differently.

A man.

A man.

So there is a player character.

A man goes to great lengths.

Yeah, that was kind of a bummer part of writing these.

A lot of them are.

This is like boys or man.

This is like GeoGuesser,

except you've just got a sign that says Main Street.

It's like, all right.

Or that, like, that

internet thing that can guess any character.

Right, yes.

But he's like,

you gave him a clue.

Normal man.

Yeah.

A man goes to great lengths

to complete Mario.

Mario Paint is incorrect.

Journey.

The answer

is death stranding.

Okay.

He goes to great lengths.

He goes so far.

Traverses a long distance.

Yeah, sure.

Okay.

It makes sense in hindsight, but I think the challenge is it's like, how do we get there?

It's like there's almost not enough of a clear.

I do think in making this one,

I accidentally made it harder than previous ones.

These are maybe too hard.

Nick has one.

Okay.

Let's see if we go.

Do we have one more?

This is the final one.

Okay, one more.

A man

reconnects

with who he is.

This one's got to be death stranding.

What if I did a fake out and did two of the same one?

No, but that's also good.

Final Fantasy VII.

That is incorrect.

That's a great guess.

That's the whole narrative arc of Cloud Strife.

Reconnects with who he really is?

Yeah.

Man reconnects with who he really is.

Silent Hill 2.

That is incorrect.

But a good guess.

Super Mario Bros.

2, because he wakes up.

That's a great guess.

No, that is incorrect.

Man reconnects with who he is.

This connects a clue.

Reconnects.

Final Fantasy 15, because Noctis takes the throne.

Oh, I didn't realize that Noctis takes the throne.

That is incorrect.

Reconnects with who he really is.

I don't know.

Is this a fucking Kingdom Hearts?

No.

No.

Do you want the answer?

Yeah, I just don't.

Yes.

Disco Elysium.

Okay.

Hey!

There you go.

We should have gotten that one.

Yeah, we could have gotten that.

So I'm sorry that I I made this game so hard.

Yeah, that was too hard.

No, it's all right.

Do you think everyone's mad?

I am.

No.

Nick is our winner with one point.

Very exciting.

I will make it as hard next time.

Wins a win.

And that was Vagrant Story, everybody.

Maybe a little too vague.

No, it's just vague enough.

We got one of them.

And the rest just made us angry.

Well, we're annoyed.

Two sides of the same coin.

That's this week's Get Played.

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Heather, Blue Lock continues.

We're watching Blue Lock, and I think we're on episodes 13 and 14.

Yes, 13 and 14.

13 and 14.

We're on episodes 13 and 14 of Blue Lock, the soccer anime that's actually a combat anime, and everybody who's given it a shot has really enjoyed it, including us.

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Yeah, if I was going to describe Blue Lock, the great anime, in one sentence, I might say, a man has things happen to him.

Oh, Blue Lock, yeah.

Anyway, check that out on Stitcher Premium or at patreon.com/slash get played.

And,

I think

we're all people

who got played.

Yeah, okay.

Okay, I get it.

I knew that's where it was going.

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