Season Finale - Episode 47
Join Mike, Anton and Al for one last episode in season 1 of the Nintendo Switch UK Podcast in a packed episode!
We've got Indie World news from Japan, new releases announced, business news on the incredible sales and success of the Switch, Game Awards reaction, Rumours and the quiz.
All this plus news on games like, Two Point Hospital, Bravely Default, Fight Crab, Gleamlight, Football Manager, Steins Gate, Luigis Mansion and much, much more.
Don't forget, there will be some special episodes appearing between now and the first episode of season 2 in 2020.
Disclaimer. Transcription and Keywords are generated by an A.I thus may feature errors. These errors in transcription do not represent the views and beliefs of the personel featured in the show.
Transcription [BETA]
Mike Macdermid 0:13
Hello, and welcome to episode number 47 of the Nintendo Switch UK podcast episode 47. Our but not just that it's our season finale.
Al Struthers 0:22
Is it? Nobody told me that? Yeah, it's the
Unknown Speaker 0:26
last one in season one. I know it's crazy.
Al Struthers 0:27
A whole year last year, the whole year we've been going for more than a year now.
Mike Macdermid 0:31
I know we have Well, yeah, just over just over a year pretty much almost to the day during the week. I'm telling you, we're here to Hello, Anton.
Anton Winters 0:37
Thank you for having me. It's been a busy
Mike Macdermid 0:40
week. We pray rid of us if we didn't invite us here most weeks but But listen, yes, we have had a busy week because of course we did the special so if nobody has already or somebody hasn't already checked out the special that we did. During the week we did one on the the indie world direct which was and we're going to talk about it briefly as we go. Today's episode but it was fairly good wasn't it?
Anton Winters 1:03
Yeah it's been surprising online I've been seeing some people with some in my opinion outrageously high expectations but I feel like if you went in with Calif appropriate Calif haven't seen the previous and news world it was a fantastic show.
Mike Macdermid 1:17
Yeah. Well we'll get our thoughts on a minute before we're going to get started quite quickly we will talk about what we've been playing this week. First of all, we've got the website, it's NSU, Kp code at UK and on Twitter is,
Anton Winters 1:27
as at ns UK podcasts and similarly on Facebook, and we've got a YouTube channel which will hopefully do some more stuff in the coming year.
Unknown Speaker 1:37
Yes, absolutely. I'll
Al Struthers 1:39
just slightly more old school you can email us but they still exist by the way, email store thing and it is podcast at NSU kp.co.uk.
Mike Macdermid 1:47
Okay, and what have you been playing this week? Any switch? Are you still being pc?
Anton Winters 1:51
Yes. This week, the combination of nd world I believe we had a state of play from PlayStation and the Game Awards or my gaming Time is just dissolved into a vacuum of conferences and businessman has source fake fake fan over here. How about yourself? And I'll start where we
Al Struthers 2:09
well this week I have been up to my eyeballs in ordering Christmas presents wrapping Christmas presents and generally getting everything ready for the festive season. So I don't think I've actually picked up my switch which is I knew a heinous thing to admit. I know the only closest I got was actually watching a direct
Mike Macdermid 2:22
Yeah, I've had a week of editing podcasts.
Anton Winters 2:25
Pretty much that's what
Mike Macdermid 2:26
that's what we've been doing his podcast because we had a special note week and of course we have a couple of is the end of the season but we're going to have some special episodes over the next couple of weeks to keep me going over Christmas. So I've been in a lot of editing, but I have played in the evenings I've tried to play about an hour and I've actually played Assassin's Creed liberation so I've been playing liberation so I've been really enjoying it It plays really well on the on the switch and a bigger title than I give it credit for for what was the vieta title originally so nice title really enjoying it and I've got the new one in the post. So I'm excited to play that
Al Struthers 2:57
excellent. I have seen quite jealous of the new one. Want to go and get it? Or I might just make yours.
Unknown Speaker 3:02
Yeah, you can borrow after I'm finished. So 2020 follow Nick man
Mike Macdermid 3:07
was there with the time the episodes finished? Some sort of Houdini? also have to say before we start the episode for real? I don't know if you've included Have you included? No, you have I'm just going to quickly check before I say that before it's talked about it just in case you've included this. In your summary this week is Anton sort of puts together the notes for the show for us. And I haven't seen it but I'm just looking. No, I haven't obviously got
Al Struthers 3:29
to be the most detailed show notes have ever seen.
Mike Macdermid 3:31
Yes, yes. There's a lot to get through Anton.
Anton Winters 3:34
Yeah, this week was like going for it. I'm like, all right. That's That's me. Caleb went through all the end the world stuff. Oh, The Game Awards. Oh, no. Yeah. Regular news, rumours. We've got rumours this week, which is quite exciting.
Mike Macdermid 3:46
All right. We're going to find through them in a minute, but I wanted to say the games. I cannot believe it. But after me saying 2020 they're going to release the next two stains gates games on the switch. They went and randomly dropped them this week upon that, it wasn't Nice and by Mr. But we now have Stan gates zero and the other one which is sort of more romance based. I can't remember it. But they've released the next two games the stains gate game world and I am so so annoyed because I'm delighted.
Al Struthers 4:14
That is the weirdest thing I've ever heard and will say I've been led because later
Mike Macdermid 4:19
Yeah, because I want to play them but I've got too many games. So now I'm gonna have to wait. But anyway, it's great. It's fantastic news. Just go prioritise them over something else also football manager came at the same day all this happened to Dave the indie world direct cuz I'm like, stop doing this to me stop bringing out so many games but if you go on as your 2020 is out the touch version for the switch and getting great reviews that actually reckon it's the best one in a good few years. And what's good about that as well is on the switch. I feel like we haven't quite had one for me yet. That has been good enough for me to really sink in the hours that I know I will but I think this one might be but I'm going to wait till after Christmas to buy it.
Al Struthers 4:55
Basically nobody's going to see you over the Christmas holidays because you're gonna be staring a switch screen the entire time. Is that basically what you're telling me
Mike Macdermid 5:01
if I could take the rest of the month off and just play switch games I would saw be up for that. But fortunately reality calls and can come do that
Anton Winters 5:09
unfortunate first 15 minutes of episode for a show going for like the Christmas list of games you've played this year. I
Mike Macdermid 5:17
absolutely will make that my aim. But the reality is, I might get through Liberation's if I'm lucky. Right, let's move on to to well, an action packed week and this week's news what I'm going to do because there's so much to talk about, I'm going to try and kind of fire through as many things will try and keep everything brief just so we can really get through as much as we can. So untold we're going to be we're gonna be getting your thoughts on this as well. I think Alistair and I as well that that will be kind of given our thoughts on as well, but we'll kind of fire through them. So first of all, Korus worldwide and alpha system have announced sister royal sisters royal, which is a vertically scrolling shooter, and it's going to switch on the 30th of January. Tell us about this one.
Anton Winters 5:58
Yes, this one count blue. Like camp I layer era vertical shark Camp 2007 ish and it's acetic however at what camps caught my attention about this one that said yet being built hell it seems a little bit less and hell actually looks a little bit accessible where it looks like it's got a couple mechanics in there that will maybe soften it up it would like had a lot of just this kills everything on the screen moves at which for a bullet hell game of indicate having those little we aids would be quite useful.
Mike Macdermid 6:30
Yeah, it's, it's very bright. It's very colourful, and it's got lots of scantily clad ladies at the side. Yes, yeah pre orders by the way you can get on the 19th of December so I guess with all of these kind of games as well though, it's all about the the controls and how it controls on
Anton Winters 6:49
our definitely it's been it's been a while since I picked one up I really need to pick up the switch side grip to get get these get closer. So many of them comment the switch.
Mike Macdermid 6:58
Absolutely. I think that is the way to These these kind of games all right next up a game that I think is is definitely one that has a lot of love from a lot of people so Hito craft has confirmed that Warhammer 40,000 space wolf will be going to Nintendo Switch on the 23rd of January it's a co op turn based tactical strategy game with a large story and all the DLC from previous versions is the kind of game on on that you could probably spend about 40,000 hours playing to be honest are
Anton Winters 7:25
definitely in there. I know with their camp Warhammer universe its lore felt so I mentioned this is just gonna destroy some people's lives at the fact that is counter quote plus turn base. I don't recall ever having seen that combination before and I i think that has potential be good. I would fear that you would maybe just be waiting around for something else to do their move. But I'm kind of curious to give that mechanica cool if I found the right person to play with
Mike Macdermid 7:52
gives me a bit of the vibe of like Diablo or gauntlet and the way it looks. That kind of top down thing. Obviously the turn based thing. That's the bit that concerns me slightly is, as you said, on Tom's a good idea to have Co Op. I think that's great. Will it work though?
Al Struthers 8:08
Yeah, it does sound like a very old idea. I'm fascinated. I want to see how it works. But I'm going to reserve judgement until I've actually seen it.
Mike Macdermid 8:16
Yeah, yeah, it's an interesting one. But, um, but yeah, we will see, we'll see. And it's coming out fairly soon. So the 23rd of January is the date that that that is going to be released. And again, it's the kind of game that has a huge following anyway, so next up, we've got one from FL a RB or Florida, Florida. They've announced demons tilt, which is a pinball game that is part Enter the Gungeon part Sonic spinball. I'm kind of like an idea that's already on IT support portrait mode, Anton.
Anton Winters 8:50
Yeah, this game I was just like, oh, there's like 15 dozen pinball games that you can even get for free but having to look over it's kind of like a RAW plus Cal fan. Almost like a 16 bit soundtrack, it's a little bit over the top and eccentric. It's Calvin brace and the fact that as a pinball game, and just has a lot of character and then it looks surprisingly fun. I don't know how far the mechanics go in terms of video game, cafe, Allah Sonic spinball. But from the offset, it looks like a pinball game with a little bit more character than the average.
Mike Macdermid 9:26
I have a slight love for pinball games, because I like Yeah, I love this
Al Struthers 9:31
secret entirely.
Mike Macdermid 9:32
I love pinball machines. I'm very good at them. But are you a pinball wizard? I wouldn't go that far. I wouldn't go that far Who? I'm not not a pinball wizard, but I do like pinball games. And I think it goes back to back in the very old eight bit days of the spectrum of the Commodore 64 pinball games. There were a few of them around and there were one of the games that work quite well in that era. And in terms of fast paced games, because a lot of the games but then obviously the can be quite slowly sluggish, quite a lot to cram into such a small amount of space and pimble games tend to tended to work all right, so this one looks very frantic which I think is cool for a pinball game. It's certainly got something a little bit different to Anton so
Al Struthers 10:14
it gets good reviews mean it's been on steam for a while now. And it's got a very very positive review so that's always encouraging Yeah,
Unknown Speaker 10:20
maybe it's a one
Unknown Speaker 10:23
Yeah.
Anton Winters 10:25
I've always loved checking in on their Kal Penn board genre because it quite often they're the ones that are able to push the graphics of the console the most like once we've gotten the switch it's like oh, that's close to 40 realistic but obviously this is a different take. So depending on price, this could be an interesting by
Unknown Speaker 10:42
I mean, it's not pinball per guy game is it's very, very cool. I like to look at
Mike Macdermid 10:48
it different. And look, there's one good thing about this, if you are a pinball fan, then you're going to save yourself a lot of money in the long run, buying one of these rather than going to a pinball place and putting coins in the pinball arcade that's the one It's been so long since I don't think there's many of them around still but you know if you do want to spend your money then maybe this is worth not sure if ever seen a real pinball game in any
Al Struthers 11:11
arcade ever.
Unknown Speaker 11:13
What I
Al Struthers 11:14
have obviously missed them. I'm just never caught them. I've always gone straight for the video. I
Mike Macdermid 11:17
think you're just deliberately missing.
Anton Winters 11:19
And mentally pinball machines have always been more of a bowling alley thing for me.
Mike Macdermid 11:23
Yeah, yeah, I get you. I'm with you on that Anton, but ya know, I do like the old pinball machine or pub you get them in pops. Maybe not so much in 2019. Anyway, rocket vault share, have a nice cannibal cuisine. It's a four player overcook style game you need to kill humans and then kick the boys going on. What is going on right now with cooking style court games because we had one in the in the there was one of the underworld Yeah. Which was that
Anton Winters 11:51
like, I know, it's kind of been a thing where we've been like up it's an overcooked game. This one's been the most explicit. We're like five seconds into the trailer. They have the characters from over cook on a staff. So they're self aware that say, an over clone. And but, you know, I find that interesting because it's adding an extra step into overcook which overcooks quite often chemical in a rhythm of like three steps. And everything's kind of where you leave it sort of adding and humans that move around and jump around and you have to chase them and catch them and kill them. That's adding a little bit extra to the classic Overwatch forum we'll add an overwatch overcooked formula and which could be quite interesting.
Mike Macdermid 12:33
I'm also have the have they nailed this one stone dead or have they overcooked it?
Al Struthers 12:40
Why why why does he I genuinely fascinated with them. I want to go and play this game because it does look it looks good one I like I like the dark comedy idea. appeals to me. I mean,
Mike Macdermid 12:53
yeah, I have to say that it probably is a lot of fun. My biggest thing is that I get stressed playing overcooked. So my worry is that
Al Struthers 13:00
stress will get iPhone eight with five friends so far I've got six friends I can still play with one left.
Mike Macdermid 13:06
All right, next up we've got sorry Anton. I was gonna say next up with Doom we've got so much to get through this. I know I'm just trying to be I'm trying to be fair to every game and every item we talked about, but next up is really cool. Doom is getting some free add ons. Final Doom from 1996 including 32 new levels and sigil sigil. So right yeah, yeah. sigil sigil sigil single player level created by john Romero in 2019. So basically, if you're a Doom fun you can be playing Doom pretty much forever because there's so much Doom on the switch.
Anton Winters 13:39
Yeah, the new central especially it's a new campaign. And it you can generally tell customer Merrill worked on all the classic a Doom games and it's a true looking at the trailer you're like that is some master class, county level design. And even then, it's like just pushing the doom image. engine to its absolute limit. It looks fairly impressive, so I'm very excited to get that goal because it's just something we don't really get like we don't get a new Sonic campaign for Sonic to every come knows unless exactly mania, but nevertheless so much more content. Also You're too scared to play the idea.
Al Struthers 14:18
I am slightly too scared to play it yes I'm not gonna I'm not gonna be shy about admitting that
Mike Macdermid 14:22
will you let the grown ups have a go and we'll let you know how it is I'll go off and play Mario here's the game you might want to play though because in the world speaking of India, well just to quickly go through them first of all, what did you make I'll start off the because I know you've you haven't listened to our podcast which is slightly offensive. Sorry buddy. But with Lizzy was slightly offended by that. But
Al Struthers 14:41
what it did was the direct the direct and it I came away from it really happy. Like it started off so strongly. I mean it came out the very first thing I think was this is for storage to talk about, which instantly made me happy and set the ground for a really really good direct bought I bought I was a 4.2 the stop calling the Mindy's The very first one was on India.
Mike Macdermid 15:02
I think this is slightly different I think was not a different thing and then these are still there are no
Anton Winters 15:07
no I think it's literally the dead have several events called Mandy's, like going back to even the new era and I think it was just a case of whenever Lee uploaded that everybody hated the record
Unknown Speaker 15:20
I liked it I don't like this rebranded in the world I like an indeed. It was fun to refer to that and then
Mike Macdermid 15:25
I keep trying I keep going to call it the Indies, I must admit admit admit to say the word admit I said Mitch, so anyway so what
Al Struthers 15:34
are your standout games I mean sports story hands own sports story and then actually the second one the short description rich streets Yeah, for I got quite excited what we thought I can picture you me soon after recording podcast and we're getting a hold of people it's funny
Mike Macdermid 15:46
you say that and had you listened? You would have heard Anton say that he because he's in a slightly different generation of gaming to us growing up why's he didn't really get the chance to play this kind of game and it was all the rage back in the day. 19 oh my
Unknown Speaker 16:00
gosh Just stop it just
Unknown Speaker 16:02
dude. Why are you doing I'm just talking
Anton Winters 16:06
I've only been able to go back retroactively and just play like a single player. I've never had the experience of doing the field for player like Simpsons arcade or our biess or anything like that I've never been able to get I
Mike Macdermid 16:18
think so we should do it and and put it on YouTube and stream on YouTube we should we should need to be following one of us the other game I thought it was looked interesting was similar James May five was coming up tomorrow we can take turns sorry. so forth. Yes. so forth. So we so the way we described it was a bit like Black Sails meets. What was the other game titled?
Anton Winters 16:38
windwaker and black black?
Mike Macdermid 16:39
Yeah. Black Sails Black Black Sails. It was was it? Yeah, yeah. So but yeah, so
Al Struthers 16:44
it does look? Yeah, it reminds me really strongly of a game which, to this day, since I've watched I've been trying to remember this game. I can't think what it was was original PlayStation. Who's your pirate ship and you sailed around Sid Meier's pirates.
Mike Macdermid 16:56
It might have been some Yeah. Let's, let's double check that way. You're talking about it.
Al Struthers 17:00
Yeah, so you like the look of this one? I do. It just looks like it'd be good fun. And I mean, pirates. You know, mean pirates pirates are great. Who doesn't like playing as a pirate ship? Yeah, I mean, I think building up your own fleet is just kind of cool. Frankly,
Mike Macdermid 17:10
we both thought that it was a really strong indie world direct. You're obviously thinking the same thing as well. Yeah. What? Why don't you said some people have kind of disagreed? Yeah,
Anton Winters 17:20
I've been seeing a lot of things online where a lot of people are like, Oh, it was awful. We had the TED talk about any previously announced games, which I think is fair criticism is fair. Overall, I think for a lot of people, if they're there are ready. Like if they're not interested in the game, when they see it the second time, they're just going to be extra annoyed. So coming out there with like 20 fresh games that nobody seen. If you think it's something you like your it's easy enough to just follow them Twitter and then get the updates on their particular titles that have your attention, but I had fantastic softball round tough, you seen much of a oddworld trader tref HD at all. I'll start it sideswiped a trailer obviously in the direct I don't even begin coming at the first time right I must be completely missed it
Mike Macdermid 18:05
so you weren't the only one because commercially it flopped. Although critically people loved it and it's in the old world universe as Eve's Odyssey and all those games and and Anton's actually played it on several different systems is one of your kind of old 10 game kind of go to games on so isn't it
Anton Winters 18:22
yeah it's a it's a really fantastic titles and Xbox original exclusive and and cowbells meant to be like Microsoft falsely bought rare they bought bungee the boat the count odd world inhabitants the company so it was really had a lot of faith and effort put into it and it really shows it's got a Western theme. And you can pick up that we do that I gushed on there the special so I won't go over too much by highly recommend Kevin weekender because it's a true hidden gem of the Xbox era.
Mike Macdermid 18:52
Yeah, absolutely. Well, look, we've talked about it briefly here. And what was that please? Well, sorry. She was saying saying, Do we just alert city to something?
Anton Winters 19:03
Yeah, you know, joining in on the podcast.
Al Struthers 19:07
Again, never been interrupted by city.
Mike Macdermid 19:11
Now how many people's cities are going to be going off? listening to the podcast? Because
Al Struthers 19:15
we've not had the actual trigger words generally. So whoever triggered until this one Um, can I just go back to the pirate thing, just in case anyone was curious. It wasn't Sid Meier's pirates overboard on the ps1 shoot, and it was a very good very, very good game when you come across a copy of in a secondhand shop. Goodbye, it. There you are.
Mike Macdermid 19:29
Thank you very much. Yup. Yay, check out. So anyway, so if you want to find out more about indie worlds direct, go listen to our podcast. That's a specialist limit. 45 minutes, we run through every sort of title and talk about it in a bit more depth. There's some really interesting titles in there. I think you're right on time, we talked about the games that were missing like Undertale I think we could have had or whatever the new ones called rootin
Anton Winters 19:53
Delrin
Mike Macdermid 19:54
Delta. And the other titles that maybe we could have follow ups to But hey, there's some good titles.
Al Struthers 19:59
I am not can give torsen the most direct Yeah.
Mike Macdermid 20:02
Okay Japanese in the world's then let's talk about this, Anton because there's a couple of titles in there. Tell us about the ones that we missed out on and r1. And maybe you want to keep an eye on.
Anton Winters 20:11
So I would lie, I was entirely caught off guard. It was a completely different direct, completely different format.
Mike Macdermid 20:18
I genuinely didn't know this until you told us on the notes.
Anton Winters 20:22
Yeah, so essentially, it's completely different format over there where they literally have to like animated characters in each of the corners, live commenting, even over the trailers. And so they had a lot of the same games and an awful thing as they had their like 50% of the games they had in the Japanese and the world were from the our August and the world, which was quite interesting to see, but there were some unique titles. And the first title was second of race and rude and it was just an RPG slash scalf Stardew PopCap freedy game about cows going through all the process of making variations of rice.
Mike Macdermid 20:58
Okay. Well cool
Al Struthers 21:03
Why am I intrigued by that?
Mike Macdermid 21:05
So it's kind of like it shouldn't be fun but it's probably the most addictive game ever. What else do we have?
Anton Winters 21:10
Yes, we had snap snap, snap tick drive which was a competitive free t shirt or I believe it was off the top of my head it's a while since I checked out I believe it was top down competitive it wasn't first person but with like a 3d perspective. Cool. Sure. That one didn't really it's obviously not like too much of an empire and I remember looking and be like hey, it was okay. And next up we have coffee, coffee talk which is health official novel you're in a cafe you're talking to the people that come in and out of it. It's very gorgeous Calif like cat new cabinets come pixely
Mike Macdermid 21:46
The setec by Amanda totally in for that I really want this idea.
Anton Winters 21:50
So I want it being a visual novel. I imagine. We will until we can get more shot at or get over here. The next title we had up was fake crap which obviously we saw this he discovered
Al Struthers 22:07
this fight grab this I remember watching the video last time I would look so much want to
Anton Winters 22:12
play that game but this one is more insane there's like bits of the fighting in the kitchen with blowtorch cheese. It looks fantastic said they've confirmed it will be get coming out and camp summer 2020 which is absolutely delighted and it just looks even more insane. And next up we had some gameplay of lonely moments don't help which covering pick play that on PC as one of my accounts, highly recommend looking out for it when it comes out next year. And it's truly going under people's radar and it has such a level of Zane polish. It's a fantastic title from what I played off it so far low but in the short sidebar and I think it's worth experience.
Al Struthers 22:55
From by the title. I'm guessing skiing's no warnings really that
Anton Winters 22:58
it's a basical game so it's called asymmetric at Sam very it's interesting where it's kind of our Katie and it's kind of gameplay but serious and it's world at like it like you do have to carefully obey the laws of physics and that sir, just a surprisingly sane game when you help just you're just casually going through like a nice fluorescent is gorgeous, highly recommended. And yes, and then the final game, it was tools up another overcooked sale game, but this time your account fficult your band and you're just going around building a house putting in the sink, putting in a plumbing, the electricity and all that jazz coming up 2020 which quite love all those overcook games.
Mike Macdermid 23:44
Can you? Can you do you think for a second that maybe overcooks has had an influence on some developers? I don't know
Al Struthers 23:49
what you're talking about, Mike.
Mike Macdermid 23:50
I mean, it really has become the kind of like the new the new genre almost is creating its own.
Al Struthers 23:56
Yeah, I mean, it wasn't anything like it before. It was. I mean, it was really everything. was always
Mike Macdermid 24:00
King mama and stuff like that, I guess but it's not quite the same as it wasn't so I was more
Al Struthers 24:04
Yeah, I don't think it sort of feels like somebody to borrow money when a certain bill each other up let's all work together. Yeah and they came up with will recruit
Mike Macdermid 24:12
that's not a bad comparison I don't think yeah
Anton Winters 24:15
I think it's if we had such a gap of innovation when it came to 2d games like we had innovation up to like the castle like Castlevania Symphony night and then it kept stopped for like one and a half decades and then we started getting innovation again in the early 2010. So it's just fascinating that this has just popped out of nowhere.
Mike Macdermid 24:35
Yeah, absolutely. Right. Well, let's move on to some of the non direct in the world direct news. And this week, brief battles has now got a release date of the 21st of February. And it's got guest stars from ukulele bit trip runner World of Goo Machinarium total temple Deluxe and the stomped YouTube channel mascot stumpy. We've We've had a little look at this and and I love the characters in this I know this is a kind of Smash Brothers type kind of game but my favourite is Professor Tobin's. I also love the fact that you can fight in pants. I just think that's so much fun
Al Struthers 25:13
finding pants and with a monocle I mean like there's not getting better.
Anton Winters 25:17
It's fantastic. This is the thing I love about the end the the camp and the scene right now similar to what we're saying about overcut before if you want to smash bros, you bought Smash Bros. And then that was it. But now we have this we have the bra the bro holla game. And like there's just so much count coming out. We have the new Shovel Knight game that's came out as shown a bat leg leavers believers. And there we go. We fought brief owls coming out soon.
Mike Macdermid 25:41
Yeah, absolutely. Another big news. That this is definitely big news and something that you could probably do a whole podcast just talking about this. And that is on the careers page of the Official Nintendo website. There's some behind the scenes content on the untitled Breath of the Wild sequel, including concept art. So I think the thing about that is that it just shows that we know that there's stuff going on we're all very excited about it you have to can do it searching just to find anything but yeah, the concept art it's it's a it's an interesting development, you know that at least we know there's kind of stuff happening even though we're in a month where it's busy with lots of other things and time.
Anton Winters 26:24
Yeah, and it's it can makes me sad because obviously the health they had a little weak alpha image where they can't work for it from official concept art to counter their motion capture to the 3d modelling and Maya to actual finished product. And it's a shame because with movies and all these other account form, like even albums, we get a lot of behind the scenes content, but with gaming, and with how much goes into it can't even count cooperating in the fact that it kind of combines elements official culture, such as Philips and our two to music such as just music, and we don't really see much That behind the scenes it's just careful, Austin, it's a force a company with such a history as Nintendo. It'd be great to have more of that moving forward.
Mike Macdermid 27:09
Yeah, it doesn't really give an awful lot away with the concept are Alastair but there are some interesting I love the snow kind of
Al Struthers 27:15
model of link is incredibly detailed in there. But I'm guessing I don't quite understand why it's odd because that's not the art style the game used and emerging is not necessarily games going to end up with no, but it's some really high detail, obviously running behind it when they're putting those things together.
Mike Macdermid 27:29
Yeah, and maybe it's just a case of doing that. And then kind of working backwards on
Al Struthers 27:33
configuring working at lighting and then applying it to a slightly more pixel or social artworks. Oh,
Mike Macdermid 27:39
yeah, it's very exciting. No, and it is, you know, I think we're going to be talking about this for a
Al Struthers 27:44
long time. I think we're gonna want to wait
Mike Macdermid 27:46
yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna ask you some more of these news items because there is a lot so next up just before Nintendo Switch launched in China Nintendo shares hit a 19 months. Hi, is anyone seen the one game on the China East East shop
Anton Winters 28:00
Yeah, that's that's crazy. See? It's almost like why why did they
Mike Macdermid 28:04
bought? I mean, you're not going to get lost in there you know the problem of caffeine that game I was like, Oh yeah, it's Is it not? Is it rabbids or something? That's the only one that's available?
Anton Winters 28:13
It's a no it's New Super Mario Bros. bros you to Lux and it's funny because there isn't like they like every single menu. They've just put in like one of the menus like the best selling menus and then all the other ones are there but empty like recent releases and all that it's just
Al Struthers 28:29
a ghost town. It's a very interesting we're doing a launch but I imagine they're still going to do very well regardless.
Mike Macdermid 28:34
Yeah, absolutely is doing very well right now and we'll talk about that a bit later on. And next up police station is now getting Minecraft cross play with Xbox and Nintendo Switch which is probably good idea. If you are someone that plays on multiple platforms, or maybe you've got friends that play multiple platforms and our Minecraft players so bit of good news, you're probably our resident minecrafter
Anton Winters 28:55
on this. This is quite exciting because historically PlayStations be notorious one for not playing nice with Nintendo and Xbox. So yeah, it looks like we're finally getting our dream of us all and you're not having to buy a console because your friends has it if you like playing on the goal with the switch, you could do that. If you want the ps4 Pro and 4k. You can you can do that. Yeah, so also there
Mike Macdermid 29:18
it's all there for you which is exciting stuff. Next up PlayStation exclusive MLB the show have announced in a tweet that they're going multi-platform 2021 Nintendo retweeted retweeted the tweet. This is the is this the baseball game? And D Yes, this is the one that gets released every year but doesn't necessarily get fantastic reviews. Is that right Anton? I,
Anton Winters 29:40
I'm not too sure how the reviews and all that and I know a couple people that are fond of it. Surprisingly, in Canada of all places, but and it's interesting where as one of the few major sports game that was exclusive to console. And clearly that's not a business model. That works. They're just choosing the Microsoft route of just going multi platform.
Mike Macdermid 30:03
I don't I don't think I mean, again, it's nice to have exclusives but it's not a game that I think, you know, I can understand if it's a smaller title, it's not probably going to get the audience long term on one console, they've given us exclusive for a while and maybe it'll actually help the game develop if they are able to sell more copies in different formats. I saw
Al Struthers 30:21
a funny thing when she's going if things like these streaming services become actually more of a head if you start to play Xbox or Nintendo Switch for example, the harder you're playing on is probably becoming less and less of an issue and let's face it these these games companies don't make that much on the consoles most of them the consoles loss leader so if you can get people to play your games on some of the console why wouldn't you
Mike Macdermid 30:42
seems like a no brainer Alright, well look next up another bit of news from Nintendo Russia, they surprised the fairest big surprise actually given entire frozen to movie audience a free Nintendo Switch. Why does this never happen to us?
Al Struthers 30:54
It's never have to be once Not once.
Mike Macdermid 30:56
I mean, there was a plane that this happened on as well wasn't there. Yeah.
Anton Winters 31:00
Nintendo's done this a few times and I've never been there to get one of
Mike Macdermid 31:05
Russia at the time.
Anton Winters 31:06
But even then when I saw the news I was like, they're probably given away somewhere like the old like old stock with the account old, like rubbish battery not there. They're perfectly new shiny consoles with the red boxes at lunch lucky people.
Al Struthers 31:21
Many of them appeared on eBay, but it's me wonder.
Mike Macdermid 31:24
Yeah, exactly. Next up qubit games. This is a really interesting one. It's getting a lot of love online on sort of bargain websites that I browse now. And then they're giving away 10 free Nintendo Switch games this Christmas for each day from the 16th as long as you've got one of their games, including a free colouring book, which I've downloaded. I haven't played it. I don't know if I will, but it's there. Yeah, on the switch from the 16th. So as we record, it's the 15th It's Sunday, but for Monday, that's tomorrow, you could get Jackie Yaba runner, puzzle book, one strike. I have all of those actually. wreckingball Adventure cola road race di Ron Rex which I picked up which I think gets quite good reviews actually manner spark and a mystery game or 24th of December. It's interesting the way this works is a little bit unique you have to it's like a sequential thing. So you have to have the first title in the run to get the next one free. So if you miss a day, if you want to get the rest free, you have to buy that days so as long as you remember every day to log in and download the next one you'll get them all for free. But you have to remember to do that otherwise you won't get them and you have to pick on wherever the day and clever marketing and you know keep it games fair mix the games in there and then I've got gagger Ghek
Unknown Speaker 32:38
you could try again.
Mike Macdermid 32:39
Jackie Yaba runner which is the thing with pants that you sort of jumped off about collecting pants and
Al Struthers 32:44
let's Be the pants centric. So this one
Mike Macdermid 32:46
yeah. And it's okay at rect gets good reviews. Although I haven't really spent a lot of time one strike is little little kind of pixely fighting game where one hit kills your opponent which he gets good reviews. So there's a couple of decent type was in there and Tom, will you be picking up some of these? Yeah, I've picked
Anton Winters 33:03
up my free colouring book and I plan to just download them all. You know, it never hurts to try these games and yeah, you know, some of them are like this is some clear shuffle, shuffle where but having a we look around as you mentioned, reg seems to be doing okay man a spark, I've seen some buzz not too much. And for that the MR gain game on the 24th having a look at their portfolio, they do have some good bear titles that they could possibly want to give away. And that at the end of the day, and get ready for your top 10 charts to just beat this entire list.
Mike Macdermid 33:36
It will be because Robo knots was the other game that if you have robots you can get all these for free. And robots went straight to number one in the downloads. I have robot actually robots is a very good game I would recommend it anyway and I think you can get it for about 89 pence when it's on sale. So bargain check that one out. Next up to point hospital which I have pre ordered. I can't wait for snow coming out on the 25th of February and it's going to be includes two DLC for free. This is good news because it was going to be December.
Al Struthers 34:03
Yeah. And then it got delayed to march
Mike Macdermid 34:04
out. Well, it was probably a placeholder, but it was seeing end of March notice in February so that's,
Al Struthers 34:11
and the fact that he gives us two DLC is almost as a Yeah, sorry. Yes, actually quite good. I like the way of going about doing this.
Anton Winters 34:17
Yeah, I'm trying to think is this the first time we've all bought a brand new triple A game on release? I've used the same mountain. Yeah, I'm totally on board. I also you know, I love my say skylands I don't like park a, like Planet Coaster. I love my simulation stuff. So yeah, I'm excited for this one.
Mike Macdermid 34:35
Yeah, it's good. It gets great reviews, which I think is perfect for it as well on the goal.
Al Struthers 34:40
I've never played a game like this on a console. I've only ever played them on PC. Yeah, so this is gonna be fascinating. See how this
Mike Macdermid 34:46
play Theme Hospital Pete Well, my other half she's played Theme Hospital on the PlayStation three. And it works really well. It was cool. It was a Japanese indie world confirms fight crabs coming to switch summer 2020 we'll talk to it fight crabbit summer 2020 is when it Coming at New Tetris 99 mode and a team mode fourteens bottle to the death by the way, we should mention our competition is live. And I mentioned this in our midweek episode to win Tetris 99. Head to our Twitter page which is ns UK podcast on Twitter. All you gotta do is retweet the pin tweet about our competition and follow us make sure you follow us if you do those two things we will pick a winner will announce it I think it's the fifth of January the eighth of January or something, something like that. And then we'll announce it on the show and then we will obviously let the person know later that week but hopefully, you know, we'll get a couple of newbies listening to the show that week that's the idea so we will see but but it's a it's the Tetris 99 with the 12 months switch online as well so it's a decent we prize on
Anton Winters 35:42
definitely, you know, never hurts again. And we top up when your neighs online and they're typically name includes the DLC. Yes, I still need to buy and I'm so jealous.
Mike Macdermid 35:52
Yeah, I'm sorry, but you cannot wait. Next up, we've got the brutally hard platformer la Mulana wanting to come in and 20th March and it's going to be getting a physical release we always like the physical release I remember we briefly talked about this before
Anton Winters 36:06
yeah we had we chapel when it was announced several months back but we're finally getting it we have the date now so if this seems up your alley, I recommend given the trailer Luke it looks unlike a lot of platformers works kind of realistic and nc setec scalf I believe you're going in you're going down like an Indiana Jones basically going into some old temples and stuff like that. I imagine that's got a very unique specific audience that will probably love it just with the Calvin realistic tone to 2d platforming.
Mike Macdermid 36:36
Yeah, it's got a nice looking em pack that you can buy on you know, so there's a limited edition pack, which is probably fairly expensive, but it does look nice. I must have managed to check on it. Yeah, well, $60 so this was you know, pirates. I don't know what that would be. But certainly the it seems to come with the whole of the jigsaw also it does. Amazing. siesta in the rooms, jigsaw puzzle. Nice package to it. I Decent I think it looks it looks good it's just one of those that is it going to be topping people's lists unless they really love that kind of vibe so yeah like I say it's a niche audience but
Al Struthers 37:11
hey if you will buy it then that's great.
Mike Macdermid 37:14
Yeah next up Minecraft buzzy bees update is now live and we're going to let you explain this one.
Anton Winters 37:19
Yeah. So the new update is obviously got bees honey the pony stuff at the most exciting thing would be the new honey blocks. What you can use the combiner weifare account let me Slingbox to do some weird crazy redstone contraptions looks like a lot of fun. I would highly recommend giving it a week or because especially just getting the slight jelly box so much easier in the slight
Mike Macdermid 37:44
which will be tonnes of fun. We will agree we will agree even though
Anton Winters 37:47
converse of course I have absolutely
Mike Macdermid 37:51
zero experience in Minecraft any of that. Yeah. Next up Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles remastered edition has been delayed until summer 2020. I think the thing I like about crystal ball Because I really like the art style out of this of Crystal Chronicles and final fantasy world i think it's
Unknown Speaker 38:05
it's where it's reminiscent of the
Al Struthers 38:07
games I wrote about what San Bruno said reminiscent eat very very similar to eat the way it looks which is it's a nice familiar feeling for those of us that remember games going that far back
Mike Macdermid 38:17
Yeah, it's cool I like I like the look of it and Tom Will you be looking at this when it finally drops in 2020
Anton Winters 38:22
I feel bad I picked this game up on the GameCube when it was kind of newish and itself sitting on my shelf to this very day I'm not good but again it I did. I do agree it does look fairly good. That count old camp flash windwaker ss gets ticked at polishes up really nicely.
Al Struthers 38:42
Yeah, but it was no go some of the best reviews of the Final Fantasy games. It was a Crystal Chronicles. It was a bit of a flat reception. I think when it came out first time I
Mike Macdermid 38:50
was different, isn't it? I think I think I don't know if it's a different world line or if that's part of it, but certainly a different feel to it.
Al Struthers 38:56
Certainly not mean main title. No.
Anton Winters 38:58
Yeah, I think I think coming off the box or Final Fantasy 10 and 10 to where they're really kind of trying to be serious I think going back similar to the set ticket had a wonder week our fate where people are like well it says this isn't Final Fantasy 11
Mike Macdermid 39:13
Yeah, absolutely. So pressure isn't it when you more successful you are the more expectation there is a guest next up Star Wars is received three Star Wars outfits refund and assist the trooper and the only thing is with Star Wars we talked about here on to I'm
Anton Winters 39:26
sorry. Yeah, this is awful notes. My part this is a fourth night is guilt free. There we go.
Mike Macdermid 39:32
I'm good. Mr. Public on the switch.
Anton Winters 39:37
Yes, so it's coming to fortnight. And that's just in time because at the Game Awards, which we'll talk about more in detail later, and they've announced they're doing a live stream where you can watch Star Wars episode nine. It's official well about the heart of it. And apparently, JJ Abrams will be there and kill a meeting grid format and game which will be weird but at some point exists now.
Mike Macdermid 40:01
Oh well There we are. Next up we've got Pokemon Twilight wing, which is a new original series coming out exclusively on the Pokemon YouTube channel. Pokemon fans will be happy about this. I mean I don't I'll
Al Struthers 40:15
use it just tied into game I don't recognise the name Twilight wink doesn't realise it's
Anton Winters 40:19
not swords and shields. Ah cool I don't think the titles and reference have anything set in the same region so English Pokemon which will be an interesting blend I think every British
Mike Macdermid 40:35
Yeah, were you saying you've been quite enjoying it and it's a better intro for those that don't play Pokemon before I'm telling you we're saying yes.
Anton Winters 40:43
So like in the game, it's got a lot of a lower lower law. What's up governor? Like? Oh, no, Britishness is fantastic. All right, but your job. Exactly.
Mike Macdermid 40:58
Right next up, they will move on because that still needs to get through I'm still
Al Struthers 41:01
gonna watch that video and try and watch one of these episode he's
Mike Macdermid 41:04
got the trailer ready for Twilight which revealed anyway don't know why suddenly turned into Michael moto moto kind that was the worst Michael Caine impression I've ever heard that's a nice thing something that is an absolute lie It was terrible. Turn your mic off next up telltale have leaked their own press release and this is about telltale Batman shadows addition to know our style visual makeover and graphical upgrade on the Batman telltale series for the price of 2999. Or if you already own the telltale series will be for 99 sdlc now I have it and I'm playing it this week. Have you seen the you seen this? It looks so cool. It does but I kind of almost feel like as someone who's playing the game right now and and and loving it. I just feel like why can't they just read a new story?
Unknown Speaker 41:51
Nobody can be Batman
Unknown Speaker 41:51
and Batman and Nora just made for each other and these games Luke? I
Mike Macdermid 41:57
agree.
Al Struthers 41:58
I mean basically Satan cullerton is highly A few bits here and there is a splash of colour.
Mike Macdermid 42:02
It just looks cool. I just, I just feel they could have gone for another. I not like this could have gone for the next title. Right Anton.
Anton Winters 42:12
See, I completely agree with you. But when I saw this I'm like up this is the new company try to figure out a way to make some cheap money quickly. Yeah, they're getting money raising capital, because this is one of the best regarding Telltale games ever done. But it's great. It's only the first season. And that's the thing that's been putting me off. Obviously, we've had some fantastic sales on this game. But I've loot time to like, it's an unfinished game, and we don't know if it's gonna be finished. So I think this is I'm trying to get the capital to do more with it. And obviously it's a new team and a new studio. So maybe this is as well as that may be their way of going in there. And like modernising it to the vision of the new creatives that are going to be heading the franchise moving forward.
Mike Macdermid 42:58
Yeah, I mean, it Certainly it looks great but then the game looks great anyway the telltale game does look really good but at 499 DLC I might be tempted you know as a you know as a kind of an extra because I own the original What does the other Batman game though Anton which wasn't telltale but it was the next competent Arkham lot no no no there's another telltale style game on the switch Yeah, there's to them.
Unknown Speaker 43:21
Yeah, I'm trying to think we could is definitely
Mike Macdermid 43:24
this definitely is let me just say but it was another it was the other company that took over from telltale that meet that finished it Batman The Walking Dead No, no, it's not it's Batman.
Unknown Speaker 43:36
And we've been doing this are
Unknown Speaker 43:39
we missing it? So let me just check this because my mic is currently switched googling
Mike Macdermid 43:44
Batman just gonna get my my my switch if you want to see it, but there's two of them. There's the tilt is a telltale CDs, which is the first one was not called a telltale series. It's not that I think what it's cold. It's gonna know me. I think
Anton Winters 43:56
you're going crazy. I know. I know.
Mike Macdermid 43:58
I'm not sure how late Did you say Last night, man 100% not going crazy. Nintendo Switch I was furious googling going here Mike's
Al Struthers 44:06
Flying Cross the keyboard there
Mike Macdermid 44:07
are Batman games. Look, I'll show you it's it's not I'm not
Anton Winters 44:13
a Lego Batman.
Mike Macdermid 44:16
The enemy within Batman The enemy within the ego all five episodes, it's on the switch. I own that as well.
Unknown Speaker 44:22
All right. It's cheating game.
Mike Macdermid 44:24
It's right now. So that's so that is it. Yeah, so it is from telltale, but it was when telltale went bossed around at that time and another company kind of came in and and kind of finished off so you have so not only do you have the telltale CDs the first one you also have Batman The enemy within?
Unknown Speaker 44:41
Are they linked in any way?
Mike Macdermid 44:42
I think they are I think they are because it's still a follow on it says it's I haven't got to that but yamana chapter four of the first one so but an all new season from the award winning so all new season. There you go. So it's five. So you have got a second season in there. So how fascinating and it's 400 Right now on the store so well worth it anyway there we are but yeah we basically what we're saying is this looks really cool but can we have another season?
Anton Winters 45:09
Basically? Okay good excellent all right next up chinesey shop have launched one game New Super Mario Bros u Deluxe we talked about that so we'll move on to the next item and that is gleam light publishers d3 have respond responded to claims of being a hollow night clone it is kind of pollinate either Anton right. I think everyone that saw it, and was like, yep, this this looks good. But holiday like, even when we mentioned like sales, the first thing we mentioned about it was Oh, that seems like holiday. Yeah, that that wasn't nice, necessarily a negative thing, but it seems to have cut a little bit deep hasn't.
Mike Macdermid 45:44
Yeah, I think people are sort of a little bit annoyed about just how close it is. I love how the dev team says we would await of hollow night but the game has nothing to do with that title. I mean, I would say looking at it. It's a little bit more than aware. I'll start you surely the
Al Struthers 45:59
mid Gemini. It is possible that two people or two students have made exactly the same game it's very possible
Anton Winters 46:05
just quite unlikely the same yeah and I want to say this I feel like gleam light looked more like hollow night to then Holly night's silk song because it's been all fairness I mean that it's really a shame praise like that small that's necessarily a bad thing but and there's there's far too many caps similarities whether it be the gameplay the visual aesthetic even the character designed to be like another completely different like even the the old game the Caliph at portal nice metally or similar gameplay an art sale, but the characters the universe, I felt like a different universe, whereas this feels like very much the same sort of universe. Yeah.
Mike Macdermid 46:47
Yeah, it does. Yeah. And I think that's always going to be the capacity. We've talked about comparisons between games previously, and it certainly seems like they've been picked up on that and, yeah, we'll see. I guess how it plays as well when it comes. That's probably Quite an important part to it. Next up, Reggie has predicted that gaming is going to go close as the technology evolves to be closed. And as download speed increases, what it means is you're going to be able to play any game on any device at any time. And it'll happen over the next decade and be something that's really meaningful for players. I think we all call it that's not prediction. Anyone can make that prediction. We all agree with that. But that was probably cuz he was talking. He was at the Game Awards, right? And on deep,
Anton Winters 47:22
yeah, the fan of faith and trust and all this because I believe we had something up from ratchet before he liked where he was essentially being like, yeah, we don't see a future in streaming. And since he's left Nintendo, he's like, yeah, this is a future, which means Nintendo's maybe not where they need to be in terms of the streaming or a fit with a PR.
Mike Macdermid 47:38
Yeah, yeah. Well, you know, maybe that's not Nintendo's niche at this moment in time, but I guess within a few years is going to be you know, it's definitely going to be next up. This was really big news. And I was absolutely amazed at this Nintendo Switch has already outsold the Xbox One having sold 45.95 million consoles. We know until in Japan that Xbox, Microsoft don't have a A big presence. I suspect that's a lot to do with these incredible numbers on the switch. But isn't that absolutely amazing?
Al Struthers 48:06
That is phenomenal and it is only an Estonian moment is not 100% been guaranteed but I think came from VG charts calm. They did our analysis. I think Xbox One was at the time they'd written it's like 45.24 million units and the switches at 45.93 I think it was okay after mad
Mike Macdermid 48:24
still amazing on high demand and consoles we've sold of the switch.
Anton Winters 48:29
Yeah, because considering the fact that the Xbox One had a four year Head Start I said the previous scalf heads like the head console, obviously the free sexy one the seventh generation war if you can't not and ps3 8 million constants I believe it was having surpassed the account previous leader in the industry with and physically switches three years old that is absolutely remarkable, and it's going to be very curious to see how bad the war heats up next generation With what seems to be a Microsoft that's a lot more competitive. Yeah, Nintendo that has a very unique product on their hands. Yeah, there
Al Struthers 49:08
was one question I've got about this. And I don't know if it's because I've been trying to find information couldn't find it. They say it's also the Xbox One. Does that include all the variants? Or is that just the basic xbox one? Which aspect is what it is?
Anton Winters 49:20
I believe it's all the variants ran. I don't think the bloke vehicles because it's via VG charts, it's pair platform, nom, like individual system. Like on there. They don't have less things for Xbox One, SES x, etc.
Al Struthers 49:35
Well, all I can see.
Mike Macdermid 49:38
Absolutely. Alright, let's quickly briefly go through the Game Awards. And they were of course this week they have there's something else happening that night as well, that made a lot
Al Struthers 49:48
of popularity voters and
Unknown Speaker 49:50
maybe No, it wasn't that Britain
Mike Macdermid 49:53
will not mention that because you know, this is not a politics podcast. So the Game Awards, I'll just quickly go through the award. Because I think we can just quickly mention anything you want to say so Tripwire Interactive. Oh no, that's that's not that's an extra
Al Struthers 50:06
little bit don't know. Okay,
Mike Macdermid 50:08
yeah, I'll come back to that in a minute. So and Nintendo still there. What are we okay, we find our Fire Emblem okay there we are so fun. Fire Emblem three houses best strategy game Louise mansion three one Best Family Game award Reggie presented did a speech which we talked about there as well. He presented the best indie game which was discovered the scene which is not switch sadly, Wolf Among Us too has been announced no consoles yet but hopefully switch Surgeon Simulator two has been announced with these all know about the game of wars. Yeah, indeed. Yeah, yeah, Fast and Furious Crossroads was announced humankind by Sega was announced Helbig to was also announced no exclusivity was mentioned, but was unveiled right after the new Xbox console also Tripwire Interactive announced monitors coming to switch on the 22nd of May. Nintendo announced more DLC for Marvel Ultimate Alliance three, the black order the big ones I think everyone was talking about was Bravely Default to which is coming exclusively to switch in 2020 and we had a new trailer for No More Heroes three coming to switch and 2020 so an awful lot to digest there obviously we are running short of time because there's so much to get to this wee bit. I'll start out of those which was the one that kind of caught your attention
Al Struthers 51:17
of the announcements. End of it. I'm going to say that the I'm a bit of a sucker for fast and furious I'm sure the game probably is not going to be that great, but just sitting in Fast and Furious I'm just going to keep my attention if nothing else.
Anton Winters 51:28
Yeah, I've got a good team this time around. Obviously the Fast and Furious has never had a good history of games especially looking at showdown that was released on the Wii U love this new ones done by slightly mad studios, the creator of Project CARS, which said those classic tales stay were great. They were hard but good. Yeah. So be interesting to see them going to a more or at least what I would hope to be an arcade game. But it's a very cinematic it's got a campaign isn't just racing.
Al Struthers 51:56
You know, I bet you'd be happy if it wasn't arcade games all Fast and Furious games are Arcadian, it annoys me. I want to do proper actual racing, but in that street environment I've
Unknown Speaker 52:05
been cool. Give me that.
Mike Macdermid 52:07
Well, you never know you might get it. You might just get it. Until What about you? What was the one that caught your attention?
Anton Winters 52:12
And I think an underrated title, which really came out of nowhere would be Man Eater, and you play a shark and you're essentially it's about evolving to become like some crazy mutant Cyborg sharks that kind of take on and can kill destroy, it's more more and more humans and eat bigger and bigger boats. And it's kind of similar a setup to maybe central for and so a very polished title at the trailer for No More Heroes. Heroes free was absolutely fantastic. I was watching I'm like, Oh, this game looks fantastic. And that just kept gives you a sucker punch. And it's like, oh, this is No More Heroes. Well, and, and obviously getting the Wolf Among Us That said, if you're not familiar, that's telltale. Yeah, yeah. No, that's so that's our first original title sense. The collapse of the shoe and they have been fairly good to switch so yet no consoles were not so far. I feel like there's some potential there.
Mike Macdermid 53:09
Yeah, we were looking at the money to trailer and I did see this actually and when you mentioned I remembered exactly what you're talking about and it reminds me of like Ecco the Dolphin on a really good
Al Struthers 53:19
What I wanted was to start I was up Baby shark doo doo doo. Let's hope
Mike Macdermid 53:25
so. Yeah, the Wolf Among Us too. I think there's the one that really excited me I love Telltale Games anyway. And I think I would be really excited to see if that does become a switch game and briefly default to I think that's a massive announcement for Jrp. And for you know, for just for fans of that series, I think,
Anton Winters 53:45
yeah, and obviously going from a free DS to title and for a lot of people I've heard it sir, like, won't they who played it? See, it's the best for the title ever meet. It's to get that on a big home console is gonna be very exciting. Luke's a little bit free DSC where it's called count the chibi small model models but it looks surprisingly Polish but I do love Hawaii messed up the titles are going from Bravely Default bravely second to briefly default to even not support title the franchise. That's
Mike Macdermid 54:13
all really bizarre, so bizarre. But anyway, good news, lots of news and I don't think there was a huge amount but what was there was solid as well The Game Awards during the week if you did miss that, right, let's talk about this week's rumours. So then according to Kings l who if we've heard about many times, leaking stuff, he's dropped in a rumour threads that he's saying that Breath of the Wild two still on track for 2020 and that's good news. Because given that we're still seeing art concepts or concept art Alistair It feels like that's going to be a push, but maybe
Al Struthers 54:50
Yeah, I suppose it depends if they're being very, very closely guarded stuff and decided to to strategically release the concept art. It'd be great if it came out in 2020. I'd be so happy for you 2020 I'm not sure who it feels like it's really close to serve several others elder things merely had links awakening came out last year. Okay, it's no it's not a new title. But this year in fact, well new in near the last year depending when you listen to this episode, okay.
Unknown Speaker 55:15
And it will be lovely to have it I'm not holding my
Al Struthers 55:17
breath. But you know, he's never been proved wrong get he's always been pretty accurate. So,
Mike Macdermid 55:22
yeah, I tell him what we see this year.
Anton Winters 55:25
Next year already totally. on board with it for a couple reasons. One, Nintendo and the switch has been quite good for not announcing games too early. Also, maybe Metroid Prime for websites restart. And looking back to the n 64. Era Lee what top and Majoris mass was what top fairly quickly. And even looking back to the era when we had a camp the two Zelda games on that one I can remember the latter Skyward Sword. They put them together fairly quickly. And I'm hoping considering everything Camp Bref the well being technically count just delayed to be on switch that the movie had a decent amount of time to put into this new title.
Al Struthers 56:09
And I guess they are working on an already established engine. They basically have already got all the basics for this game in place.
Anton Winters 56:14
Yeah, we think yeah,
Mike Macdermid 56:16
I think I think there's definitely a good chance it could happen but yeah, it's weird because we have seen so little, I guess is the the one caveat to that. Next up, we've got some Halo related news as well. MCC is making its way to Nintendo Switch according This is the rumour. Master Chief Collection. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. And that's a yes. Or possibly Super Smash Brothers are both so I would love that. That would be great. If you get some some Halo on the switch. That would be weird.
Anton Winters 56:45
It would be. Yeah, definitely. I think what's interesting about that is offsites came to PC for the first time and free for free. It's been really working hard to win back the hopes of the fan. I think if it wasn't King zeal coming out and saying these rumours, I think it wouldn't have as much pre calc credit as it does, but, and this this was the man that leaked entire Nintendo directs play by play. And so he clearly has some kind of a tap to the insights.
Mike Macdermid 57:16
Yeah, absolutely. His name is dee da B or w s er. Right next up, he didn't confirm or deny this question, but he was asked about Paper Mario or this is another rumour or pigment for coming to switch, which I think both would be quite probable. But he did say seeing more stuff can get into trouble these days. But I think 2020 is going to be a good year. I agree with that. I mean, I think the analysts record 2021 is going to be the big year for switch in terms of moving into the second cycle of it by 2020. What's the titles those titles seem to me? They're like titles that we would expect at some point.
Al Struthers 57:52
Yeah, they both feel like mid cycle games. Think about when people will come usually appears on consoles is picking on him for a while now. It's normally running About halfway through so yeah that makes sense.
Anton Winters 58:02
Yeah and I remember back even less This was when we used to cover like we use off me and more coming out and being like yeah picnic force right to equal and then we haven't heard anything about it so I think time ago
Al Struthers 58:15
yeah she yeah you're right actually that's just been dragged from my memory good point
Anton Winters 58:20
yeah so I think a lot of these titles obviously the we use like all right there's no point wasting two main games on there at Pac Man it's not really a game you'd launch a new console webstore Calif doing these as mid generation titles makes absolute sense as you say Alistar
Mike Macdermid 58:34
Yeah, absolutely. I'm looking forward to seeing what 2020 brings. Right that look, we think we've we've fired two things actually pretty quickly. We've actually done not that bad because I think we had about three hours worth in there and we're just coming up to an hour notes as
Al Struthers 58:45
impressive shepherding my friend.
Mike Macdermid 58:46
Not bad, a little bit harsh on the old moving forward, but you know, that's all you've heard. Well, speaking of hurting, I think it's time now to move on and do this week's
Unknown Speaker 58:55
cool Wiz.
Anton Winters 58:59
Yes, so This is the finale of me has crystals. Yeah. So why are you taking over? Oh, I wonder who we'll find out in season two looking forward to see what you do with the quiz.
Al Struthers 59:13
Oh doggy hope somebody Don't get your hopes up you've been massively disappointed now Okay, sorry I have ideas I have an idea an idea it might work out Am I know it will try it. All right. I the resize. Don't do that again. I won't. Okay. I'm
Mike Macdermid 59:25
over to you then. What's our first one today?
Anton Winters 59:27
Alrighty. So, just before we get started, I just want to say the theme of this week's finale will be Nintendo Switch games released in 2019.
Al Struthers 59:37
Oh, I should have been paying attention.
Mike Macdermid 59:41
She definitely be listening.
Anton Winters 59:42
Alrighty, so I imagine you know, these are professionals. You should get these quite easily. Oh, Alrighty. This game is the second and a franchise.
Al Struthers 59:59
Shovel Knight to I It's not out yet. That doesn't work. I
Mike Macdermid 1:00:03
don't know. There's too many.
Anton Winters 1:00:05
Alrighty, this is a side scrolling platformer and game creation system. Oh. Oh, I think I'm gonna have to give that one towel sir. Sorry, Mike.
Mike Macdermid 1:00:17
Fatty, harsh. It was very very hard.
Anton Winters 1:00:23
Alrighty, see the second title? See she playing in a high rise hotel.
Al Struthers 1:00:31
We just mentioned three. You've got
Unknown Speaker 1:00:33
it. Our third Look at you. I'm on fire Bailey.
Mike Macdermid 1:00:36
I mean, that's still kind of contest the first one but sure.
Al Struthers 1:00:41
To be fair, you'll win the next one then by the game rules you will know thing
Mike Macdermid 1:00:44
i think i think it's going to give us more until I have
Anton Winters 1:00:47
five games ready to go.
Mike Macdermid 1:00:49
Just go to the link because it's going to go quick anyway because x browsers in the room tonight. We're all like him. That's for sure.
Anton Winters 1:01:00
That's FARC title as a tactical role playing a tactical role playing RPG.
Mike Macdermid 1:01:09
Is it Xenoblade Chronicles?
Anton Winters 1:01:12
Two. Sadly, not the title. Okay.
Unknown Speaker 1:01:17
Tactical role playing RPG. Tactical is not really tactical.
Al Struthers 1:01:22
I am going to draw blank because I tend not to pay attention to many of these games I wish I had. Okay.
Anton Winters 1:01:28
Alrighty. This game is normal for for having multiple endings
Mike Macdermid 1:01:34
is it divinity sin divinity or whatever it's called.
Anton Winters 1:01:38
Sadly not the title. No.
Al Struthers 1:01:41
Stolen draw blank. Still wishing has taken more attention.
Mike Macdermid 1:01:44
I need to listen to our podcast more. I don't know this one carry on.
Anton Winters 1:01:49
This is a long running Nintendo franchise that dates back to the NAS. Oh,
Mike Macdermid 1:01:57
is it Mario and rabbids?
Al Struthers 1:01:59
Well, no, because That's not 2019 dude that was like two years ago
Mike Macdermid 1:02:05
I don't play any tactical games
Al Struthers 1:02:07
I can't think of any This is really annoying me
Anton Winters 1:02:10
now carry on give us some some really obvious clue well I probably wasn't really obvious clue Alrighty, and we use by the way everyone stopped screaming at us we know we're stupid this game won two awards at the Game Awards 2019 game
Mike Macdermid 1:02:25
searching similar to no one
Al Struthers 1:02:31
I can read a bit of paper in front of this thing is
Anton Winters 1:02:33
going to start this emulator this list there it was the only obvious one in the list. Okay
Mike Macdermid 1:02:40
Yeah, well done.
Al Struthers 1:02:42
Next Alrighty. Well Mike's getting angry and talking to him. I'm just gonna be quiet. No, no, no. Do you properly know His face is getting really I know famous Robin. I know.
Anton Winters 1:02:53
This game is set and Britain Pokemon sword and shield
Unknown Speaker 1:03:01
You both got the
Al Struthers 1:03:03
high five buddy.
Unknown Speaker 1:03:05
Thanks for the pity
Mike Macdermid 1:03:09
he's a none of these games I play. I'm gonna play that either. Okay, next up.
Anton Winters 1:03:14
Okay, next title is for one of this point. This final title three as a 2d platforming farmer and a long running Nintendo franchise but the second and its sub franchise
Al Struthers 1:03:30
Super Mario Brothers we use super deluxe edition
Anton Winters 1:03:35
edition not the title.
Mike Macdermid 1:03:36
So since it's a long running 2d platformer in Nintendo bit second in this sub franchise of the main one, indeed.
No, they don't know. That's tough. Okay, next clue.
Anton Winters 1:04:00
One of the normal gameplay gimmicks of this unique sub franchise as a fact that you can flip the labels around and play it from the other angle so it's see your your she's that one Yoshi.
Al Struthers 1:04:15
No Yeah, it's totally
Anton Winters 1:04:18
it's as you wish Yoshi is crafted world. Well done but in all fairness, I your yours could have been correct titles. Yeah, yeah.
Al Struthers 1:04:29
I forgot you could flip
Mike Macdermid 1:04:32
and then it turns and you can flip it and you do that in the demo. Yeah. Yeah, you can play from the other side and then come back the other way.
Al Struthers 1:04:39
I don't think I should did that. Yeah.
Unknown Speaker 1:04:41
Oh, well, cool.
Al Struthers 1:04:43
Because my good last one, does that mean that he wins the whole thing? No,
Mike Macdermid 1:04:45
it doesn't mean I actually, I actually would not sleep tonight if I ended up winning. That was our
Al Struthers 1:04:52
last ever quiz with mental well being that was never enter. My comeback will probably cycle as
Mike Macdermid 1:04:57
long as we get another season. I just say Well done on time. Excellent. Well done. Alistair as well for well fought victory. Thank you very much for being a worthy opponent. It's been fantastic fun over there. It was really interesting
Al Struthers 1:05:10
to tally them up to see who's won the more we gave it away. Completely give up. I don't know who
Mike Macdermid 1:05:16
it was. It was probably you slightly i think i think in the end the last couple of weeks.
Anton Winters 1:05:23
You've also caught that the early stuff when it was just me and you going against each other,
Al Struthers 1:05:28
and I lost every week.
Unknown Speaker 1:05:30
Yeah, I think
Mike Macdermid 1:05:32
All Hail King.
Al Struthers 1:05:33
So I quite like my role being a loser. It was it was suited me fine.
Mike Macdermid 1:05:37
I don't I don't like it. I don't like it. I'm not I'm not happy about it. And I don't like it and I'm going to take it out with the management.
Al Struthers 1:05:42
I like you and Antonio fight and probably no more even basis next year because what I have in mind probably requires more powers of deduction. second guessing. Okay, then.
Mike Macdermid 1:05:53
Well, that's good. We'll see. Yeah. Well, listen, that's it for season one pretty much. We are back next week, but we will have a special Episode on the 22nd and then we have one of the 20 29th that are ready to go so that's good and then we'll have another in between one before we launch again I think it's the 15th our first episode but then with 10s to 50 the runners right and we have some info but what we're going to do in season two that's coming up soon so keep an eye out for that we'll we'll keep you updated with a kind of special podcast just to let you know and but the good thing is nothing will change in terms of if you listen though and you listen to season two, that's going to be the same but they're just be some extra bonus stuff
Al Struthers 1:06:31
in there if if people want it
Mike Macdermid 1:06:33
Yeah, absolutely. And remember you can get us on NSU ki p Dakota, UK if you want to leave the review it's Apple podcasts we're on Twitter and Facebook also forgotten Anton
Anton Winters 1:06:42
or twitter facebook youtube. Also the website and we're on iOS and email aren't
Al Struthers 1:06:51
yes we are podcast at NSU Kp code at UK please drop us an email and I will do my best to respond although it is over the Christmas period so I might be stuffing my face. brussels sprouts.
Mike Macdermid 1:07:00
Yeah, a fail reminder as well, before we do take a break is that our Tetris 99 game that we have as our competition is running on Twitter, we just ask that you retweet that tweet and give us a follow on Twitter. So you got to do and everyone that follows will be in the draw. We decided to do it worldwide, but just put everyone in the draw and see what happens. We'll we'll deal with it. If you have to send it to Australia, then that's fine. We actually bought the game. Yeah. Well, good job. Your friend is sitting downstairs and it's cellophane wrapper ready to be used by whoever wins the competition. So yeah. But you can check out on Twitter. We'll keep you up to date on there. And with that, it's been a fantastic season one. I'm delighted that we're wanting to get to the stage of the year and season two is just around the corner. So well done.
Al Struthers 1:07:45
Yeah. Thanks for being on the journey with us. Yeah, good fun.
Mike Macdermid 1:07:48
And thank you, Alastair, thank you on. Thank you, James. Thank you, Emily.
Al Struthers 1:07:52
And every listener and listener kingdom.
Mike Macdermid 1:07:54
Yes, absolutely will be back for season two in January. But we will be back next week with a special episode. And the following week after that as well until then, goodbye cheery
Unknown Speaker 1:08:04
and horrifying unless there's a surprise direct and then