[00:00:00] Okay, I just wanted to make sure I get this last bit in there. Shut up! I'm not gonna come, you're a messi! Alright, now we can finally get this show on the phone. You're a messi! Is his voice really that high pitched in the Japanese version? Yeah, you haven't seen it? You need to. That's gross. Yeah, he's- it's like- it's like a very different characterization. So used to his voice being stupid and gruff like this. Almost like, uh, oh, what the fuck is his name from, uh, the Venture Brothers. Um, oh, I don't know, man. I'm-

[00:00:29] Uh, uh, Dr. Girlfriend. I know what you're talking about, but I don't know who you're talking about. Yeah. Dr. Girlfriend. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. It sounds like they've been smoking for 30 million years. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. The show's great. Yeah, it is. Hey man, it's 9-1-1. I'm in here with the old Megalomark, man. It's gonna be booze, man. It's a fire day. And it don't that gum, that cup, that rum, everywhere, man. What it do, everybody? My name's Aaron. I'd rather suck the ink out of a Sharpie than eat my vegetables.

[00:00:59] Fuck you, mom. And Super Pod Saga. Welcome back, everybody. Hey, it's Super Pod Saga, the one and only podcast where, uh, we're gonna discuss every single video game topic in existence week by week. This week, there's no Jerry, though, however. He has, uh, well, not however. There is no Jerry this week.

[00:01:28] He's having a busy week, so he's gonna hop off this one. It's just me and- He's getting his balls removed. Ha ha ha ha. Just like Japanese, uh, Kuwabara. Yeah. They've had to neuter him for the Japanese dub or whatever. But yeah, so this week we're discussing Pikmin. We're taking a break from the usual shit. We're gonna discuss just a single game this time around. Pikmin. It's a good old-fashioned, fun family time.

[00:01:54] Uh, this one, I think we've been planning for months. I forgot when we were supposed to do it, but then I was like, nope, I'm busy. And then I kind of forgot until, uh, until a couple weeks ago. I just want to back up real quickly. Sacrificing all of your pawns to, like, make it to the objective very family-friendly. Ha ha ha ha. Yes. Yes. Horrors of war? Yeah. While, uh, Creed plays in the background.

[00:02:20] Oh, shoulda been dead on a Sunday morning, banging my hip. Ha ha ha. Banging my hip. Go do us a solid. Go check out superpodsoga.com. All of our episodes, socials, links to all of our players. You find a Patreon there, too. It's two or four dollars a month. Go check all that out. Rate and review the show.

[00:02:40] Anyway, that's enough of that. Let's introduce the guests. First of all, well, we've got one brand new guest and one returning guest. Hey, Chris, you're back on the show. What's up, man? How's it going? I'm back. I am doing well. I am very tired. I'm in the middle of moving again, so that's great. Oh, yeah. Um, yeah. Everything's awesome. Everything's awesome. You said you got a new job in Florida?

[00:03:05] Yeah, so it's like, I got headhunted by a bank, and they're like, we need you to do this ginormous project the last year. We'll pay you really good money. I was like, I don't want to do it, but it's really good money that's just going to sit in my bank account, so let me just go do it. And you get head as well. I mean, that's a pretty good deal. I mean, they're hunting you some head. Right? Right. Bad thing is that it's Florida head, but yeah.

[00:03:33] Yeah. It's a little gummy blowjob from the meth head. Yeah. Yeah. Kind of clammy. A little bit sticky and sweaty. It's like the inside of my phone. Will's phone. Or my phone, apparently. Well, that's cool. Are you still going to mainline consoles and stuff while you do all that Florida shit? Yeah, so I'm not going to be selling, but I am going to be buying. So if anybody has any video game collections or video games they want to sell, hit me up.

[00:04:01] Let me know and I'll pay you the amount that I told you that I was going to pay you. Nice. And Aaron sold stuff to me. Aaron sold me like $2,000 worth of stuff. It was great. Goddamn right. Whenever I get a Switch 2, basically, that's when I'll message you. All right. You can just buy it, then immediately sell it. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. Like, what do you want to test if the games work? No, he's just like, I don't want these anymore. I'll just play Mario Kart forever. Exactly. Just fucking scalp it.

[00:04:30] You could play Mario Kart 8 for fucking forever. I mean, you really could. There's like a whole other game in there. Right? Speaking of other games, hey, Will, it's your first time on the show. What's popping? Dude, you're popping. You know what I mean? I just really... I wish. Yeah. I don't know what that was supposed to be, but... You need to wear the Zero Suit Samus outfit for the next episode. Oh, that'd be sweet. Oh, no. I saved that for the Halloween special. The sexy Halloween special. Or the Valentine special, if you know what I mean.

[00:04:59] Aaron's going to talk in Japanese cool bar voice the entire episode. Don't make me cum so quick, you're a meshi. Stop. I can only get so erect. Yeah, man, I'm good. Thanks for having me on. I think this is my first time, right? I've only been on Chris's pod, rest in peace, and Bill's. It's alive. I don't know what you're talking about. Two episodes got uploaded like a month ago. Yeah, exactly. And what was the break between the last two?

[00:05:27] Hey, it's for tax purposes that it's still alive. That's right. Tax purposes. Hell yeah. Yay, money laundering. Woo! Dude, I'm just kidding. It's not money laundering. Carradine comes into the living room and Chris is like, let's cook. Right. Right. Let's get the IRS off our backs. Speaking of that, I'm about to the end of Better Call Saul. And I like hot take. I think I like Better Call Saul better than Breaking Bad. I think that's the general consensus. Yeah.

[00:05:57] I think that's normal. Okay, cool. I never watch either. I mean, the last season of Breaking Bad is like kind of bad. Yeah, there was like a lot happened in not a lot of time. It was kind of just like Gus dead. Now everything's falling apart. And then, oops, Hank found a book. What the fuck's the main character's name? Walt's like, Walt's your drug man. Prison. And then Walt's like, no. And then shit happens.

[00:06:25] Then he changes his identity, becomes the dad of Malcolm in the middle. I mean, yeah. After certain events that I won't spoil for anybody. But yeah, Better Call Saul is really fucking good. Just goes to show. No, I don't want to spoil anything. We'll move on from that. Just goes to show cooking meth always pays. It did. He did. He had so much money. He didn't know. He had no idea how much he had. He was just like, I have cash. I don't know how much. It's not an actual line. But go ahead and plug your.

[00:06:55] For Chris, go ahead and plug your shows. Anything else? Yeah, my Rule 34 Dragon Ball Z studio. It's really good. Check it out. Please. It's so good. I don't want to see that. Yes, you do. I don't want to see that. Anyways, a novel console, podcast, books, games, food. Comes out once every nine months. Yeah. It's going to be. Well, it was six months when I released the beginning of the year episode that we recorded in February. So no, but I got a bunch of stuff that's banked.

[00:07:24] I just have to sit down and actually edit it. And since I'm going to have a lot of free time on my hands, I might just do that. But it's still alive. Thank you to everybody who still pays our Patreon. And I appreciate you because that way I don't have to pay the hosting. And that's a big part. Thank you, everyone. And then there's also consoles and stuff where I buy video games and resell them starting at $1 on Encore.com. So buy Encore.com.

[00:07:52] And you guys can start bidding on games starting at $1 and make your own ceiling and all that. But again, I'm probably not going to be selling for a while. I'm just going to be buying. So if you have stuff you want to get rid of, let me know. I'll buy it. I pay for shipping and all that. It's really good. I highly recommend. I sold Chris a ton of shit, including Xenogears. Yes. I think Custom Robo. That kind of broke my heart to pack it away. But I was like, I played it once. I can just emulate it on the Wii U. So fuck it.

[00:08:20] You want to know something funny about Custom Robo? Jameson bought that. Oh, yeah. He told me about that. Yeah. Now y'all can share DNA in a roundabout sort of way. Oh, man. All three of us have touched the same game. Yeah, yeah. Is there a word for sloppy seconds, but triple triad, I guess? Jameson's trying to open the case like, dude, why is it stuck?

[00:08:48] It's like Cave Brothers, but... Oh, yeah. Eskimo Brothers. Yeah. There it is. Eskimo Brothers. There's Eskimo Brothers. No, we can't say that word. Shit. But you can say shit? I mean, you can say shit. I don't know. I'm confused. You got to say it now, Aaron. You got to say what the word is. What? Shit? No, the words you can't say. You can't say it. You'll get canceled. Exactly. Yeah. Eskimo Brothers is an E-bomb?

[00:09:17] Eskimo is... It's because they want... What do they like to be called? Or what do they prefer... Not like, what do they prefer to be called? It's a slur now? I think. That's what Jerry and a couple other people have told me. I didn't know about this until maybe two months ago. Wow. I think we were talking about something and I brought up an Eskimo kiss and Jerry was like, oh, you can't say that now. And I was... I had no clue. I'm Googling this. I'm very behind.

[00:09:46] The fucking old man Aaron. Very far behind. The term Eskimo is widely considered offensive by many, particularly in Canada and Greenland. Here's why. Imposed by outsiders. It was a term given to indigenous people of the northern circumpolar region by European settlers. Wow. There's a whole lot more here, but I guess we'll stop. Yeah. Wild. I did not know that. TIL. Yeah. Like, seriously, I didn't know that until two months ago. I was very confused.

[00:10:17] Anyway, fellas, just to get to know you guys a little bit better, let's ask you the age old guest question. What is your favorite video game memory? You guys can pick who goes first. Will goes first. Man, there's like too many memories to pick a favorite. So I think my favorite's going to be when I PK'd my first noob in RuneScape and I was literally the guy who was like, I own you, dude. That's how I felt. What does PK'd mean?

[00:10:46] I don't know anything about RuneScape. You didn't play MMOs back in the day? Well, it's not just a RuneScape thing. Oh, is PK player kill? Yeah. Oh, okay. So he player killed you and called you a noob or was it the other way around? No, I player killed him and called him a noob. Fuck yeah. Fucking Dada. Fuck that guy. Poor girl. Some Thrak goblin behavior. I love you, Thrak.

[00:11:13] I do that save type of shit in Marvel Rivals or some shit. If someone's whooping my ass and I finally whoop their ass, they'll be like, fuck you, nerd. I used to go on Call of Duty when it was totally rated M for middle school. And I would just fuck up on purpose and the kids would rage and be like, dude, no, this is your fault. Stop doing this. Like, fuck you, dude. These kids are like, fuck you, asshole. I fucked your mom. I'd be like, dude, why are you eating so hard, bro? Stop. Holy fucking shit.

[00:11:43] Fueling that fucking fire, dude. Stop hitting yourself. Stop killing yourself. I probably created a school shooter that day. Oh, man. Rip Dennis or whatever that kid's name was. Yeah. That's great. Staying up late playing RuneScape with the fellas, that's probably a top gaming memory for me. Oh, man. This reminds me. I remember in, I think, middle school, I bought. Well, I didn't buy. A friend gave me his RuneScape account. He was like, I'm not going to play this anymore. Here's my login info.

[00:12:12] So I was like, sick. Like, I logged in, changed the password, because I didn't want him to log back in, because it's mine now. It's all mine. Right. And then, like, didn't play for a week, tried to log back in, I forgot the password. So I effectively lost this dude's fucking account. I was like, I feel so bad, man. I'm so sorry. Hey, you made sure he'd quit. That's true. I was a good friend. Fuck him. It's like true detox. So somewhere in the RuneScape void, there's an account made with a password that you created.

[00:12:43] I don't think they delete accounts, supposedly. Like, accounts with any serious playtime on them. I don't know if I could remember my password anymore. I mean, I'd probably be able to recover it still, but I sure should don't remember. Oh, yeah. I guess I didn't know about recovering passwords back. No, I guess it would have gone to his email, though. Yeah. I wouldn't have a way to open his email. Well, it took them a long time to link it to email, because they were allergic. The company that owned RuneScape was allergic to, like, kind of like Nintendo. Like, they wanted to protect their young user base from, like, getting scammed, I guess.

[00:13:12] And so for the longest time, the only way you could recover it is, like, by putting down old school recovery questions. Oh, I hate that shit. Yeah. I love making them. Because it'll be like, dude, I'm going to remember this so fucking easy. It'll be like, what was the name of your first pet? What was the name of your, like, fourth grade teacher? I'll be like, dude, fucking easy peasy. And the time comes to remember my password or reset my password. And I'm like, dude, did I even go to fourth grade? Did I even have a first pet? What the fuck?

[00:13:42] And a cat just kind of appeared. Is that you, John Wayne? Is it me? John Wayne's my pet. He's my first pet. Down, John Wayne, down! And you're, like, spraying him with gasoline. Chained up next to, like, an old cattle tank or something. What was that skit from Family Guy?

[00:14:07] Was it Joe going, like, I'm John Wayne at the first Thanksgiving, pilgrim? That was this Peter. He did that, like, three times in the episode. Happy Thanksgiving, pilgrim. So stupid. How do we always end up talking about Family Guy? Now, Aaron, if you really want to do the Family Guy thing, you'd cut to Conway Twitty in the podcast right now. Oh, I should. Oh, fuck. That used to be a thing.

[00:14:37] So now, ladies and gentlemen, Conway Twitty. And then it's not even, it's not Conway Twitty at all. It's like Carrothead. It's like Carrothead stand-up. That'd be even worse. Chris, do you have a favorite Game of Memory? Sean Wayne? That'd have been Sean Wayne. His voice gets slowly more Kuwabari. I was trying to figure it out.

[00:15:05] One that I don't think I've ever told is there was an arcade at the local mall, and it had, like, a room for, like, birthdays. So people could do their birthdays and get, like, $400,000 worth of tokens. So basically, for the entire day for everyone. You could just buy the arcade at that point. Basically. And I played... That'd be dope. Make that a thing. What was it? Speed Racer. There was an arcade cabinet with Speed Racer.

[00:15:34] And I played that shit nonstop since I got there until I left. That shit was awesome. I don't even remember what the game was called. I just know it was Speed Racer. You had, like, the steering wheel, and it had all the buttons for, like, the special shit that the car does. So you would press the button, and the car would jump, or, like, another button, and it would boil slick. It was awesome. I remember as a kid going to Walmart, they had... Like, I swear to God, every Walmart in Iowa has one of those Fast and Furious arcade cabinets.

[00:16:04] And I remember watching the movie, seeing them, like... It'd be, like, the shot of them turning the wheel, and then it cuts to their feet, and they're slamming on the clutch, and then it cuts to them, shifting to, like, 50th gear. As a kid, I was like, fuck, that's so sick. And then I would go to the arcade cabinet, and I'd be, like, slamming on the brakes and the gas and the brake, like, back and forth, and, like, shifting into, like, every single gear at the same time. I wouldn't get anywhere, but I'd be like, this is so fucking cool.

[00:16:33] Dude, we had the same exact arcade experience, except that was Daytona for me. I would always just, like, crash the wall. It'd be like, Daytona! And then you'd crash into a wall and explode. I was just complete dog shit. There was a Walmart worker that would look into the arcade and see Aaron and tell a supervisor, hey, that kid that keeps screaming about family is back. What are we going to do about it? They probably thought he was a make-a-wish kid. Family! Family!

[00:17:02] Family! Every time he hits the brake and the gas at the same time. Family! You crash into a wall, Dale Earnhardt's not family! It's like, hey, this special ed kid is back, like, crashing into walls and breaking the arcade for the 16th time this week. Oh my god, it's like that episode of Dexter's Lab where all he can say is omelet du fromage, but it's just family. Classic family. He fell asleep watching the, like, 15 Fast and the Furious movies, so he only knows family.

[00:17:32] It's all you can say. It's all you can say. That's burning my brain forever. That's a classic episode, man. It's such a good one, dude. Omelet du fromage. Not to mention Dexter's mom was caked up. Dude, fucking for real. With the episode where she's making muffins and she just bends the hell over to get the muffins out of the oven. Dexter's dad is, like, drooling.

[00:18:00] It's such a fucked episode, dude. They knew what they were doing. They knew exactly what they were doing. There's an episode that got banned. It's called Dexter's Root Removal where he and Dee Dee have, like, their rudeness taken out of them. And the entire episode, they're just swearing nonstop. Like, uncensored. Oh, I remember... That's great. I remember that on... There's this YouTube channel I used to watch.

[00:18:27] It's all about lost media or whatever the fuck. And, yeah, that episode. And there was an episode of South Park that got banned. There were several episodes of South Park that got banned. I think... It was the... The Muhammad one's the most notorious, but there's been quite a few. Yeah, I think it was talking about that one and, like, the Jesus and Pals one where it's, like... Yeah. It's Jesus and Pals. It was, like, the Justice League, but it's Jesus and Pals.

[00:18:55] Yeah, I think that's the Muhammad episode, isn't it? It might be. I think. Yeah, that might be it. Because it's Jesus, Santa Claus. I think Gandhi was there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And, yeah, yeah. I've seen this. Speaking of Gandhi... There was an episode of the Boondocks that got... That was going to be a great segue, though, Aaron. I can feel it. I know exactly where you're going with that. I'm so sorry. No, no, no. Keep going. This could also be good. I have to say this. There was an episode of the Boondocks that got pulled from the airwaves, and it's not

[00:19:25] because of anything they said or anything they did. It's because they made fun of Tyler Perry, and Tyler Perry didn't like it. So he got so mad that he contacted William Street and was like, I'm not going to fund anything for Cartoon Network ever again if you don't pull this episode. So they pulled the episode, and the episode is great. Fuck Tyler Perry. That sucks. Yeah, Tyler Perry is like... You can't make a show about Black culture without Tyler Perry. Black people don't like Tyler Perry.

[00:19:55] That's the joke. He's got a shit ton of money, too, man. If Tyler Perry threatened to not ever fund Superpod Saga for making fun of Tyler Perry, I'd be like, fuck, all right. You probably want that, honestly. That'd make your podcast way more famous. Madea is the permanent third co-host. Superpod Saga episode 42069. Madea impersonates Jerry. Superpod becomes a certified hood classic. Oh, that'd be awesome.

[00:20:24] Oh, man. I wish we... Oh, that'd be such a good... Like, that'd be a good... Holy fuck. That'd be like a good print-first shirt. Like, Superpod Saga. And, like, quotes. Certified hood classic. Established 2000 fucking... I don't know. 2069. You can have the parental advisory warning sticker on it, too. Oh, that'd be good, too. And they got, like, Madea poking her head out. Smoking, like, a blunt or something. Oh, man. For no reason. I think we're onto something here.

[00:20:53] No, on the back, it's Vegeta jacking off. But anyway... Anyway... Super important breaking news. Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. There, I didn't prepare any news. I apologize. I did literally everything else except for news. But there is... They unveiled a new kind of Xbox handheld. The... I'm trying to load it up right now, but it's being slow. The ROG Ally Xbox thing? Yes. Thank you, Chris. That thing is... I thought it was ROG Ally.

[00:21:22] I always called it ROG, too. Yeah, it's just a ROG Ally. I'm calling it ROG. But, yeah, ROG Ally with a dedicated Xbox interface. And, of course, Game Pass and all that shit. They finally gave us... They finally gave us a little bit more about Silk Song. I didn't read too much into it. I think they gave us, like, a rough release window. Not a date, but a window. And just a bunch of other shit that happened.

[00:21:51] Again, I fucking forgot to prepare news, so... So Silk Song is coming out, like, right after Half-Life 3? Is that the idea? It seems like it. It's the other way around. It's the other way around. Yeah. I don't think there was a ton of news this week anyway. I just asked ChatGPT, and all it's really doing is recapping, like, the various gaming showcases are saying, like, the Switch 2 dropped. Which, I mean, every podcast talked about that. Yeah. Have any of y'all... Have either of y'all gotten a Switch 2 yet? Not yet. I have. I was playing Dave the Diver on it. Hang on, let me grab it.

[00:22:21] Oh, yeah. I saw it on Instagram. I'm getting it in a few weeks. Pretty sweet. The screen is so fucking clear. It's, like, crystal fucking clear. And the speakers sound really good. I've been playing mostly Yu-Gi-Oh on it, because I'm a fucking goon. But... So does your Blue Eyes White Dragon come through clearly? Yeah, I'm trying to think of, like, a Yu-Gi-Oh pun for a... Or not a... A Yu-Gi-Oh dick joke, but I can't think of one.

[00:22:51] My grandfather's deck doesn't have any bad cards, Kaiba. I only duel for power, Yu-Gi. I have both Master Duel and the Early Days Collection. And I've been playing both, like, interchangeably. They're kind of, like, next to each other, but the N64 thing is right in the middle. Nice. Is that the N64 adults-only version? No, I wish, because there'd be way more Vegeta checking off if it was the adult version. Hell yeah, dude. Kakarot, come hit my C button.

[00:23:22] Give it to me in the third prong, Kakarot. Oh my god, could you imagine... Could you imagine Dragon Ball X N64 fucking porn, where they're just... They're inserting the controller. No. No, we're not... If you could dream it, you could do it, Aaron. That's true. Get started on that. I could do anything. I set my mind to reading Rainbow said that one time. Little do they know they would lead to this.

[00:23:50] It's like the first domino that fell to Vegeta porn. Let's try to remember the Reading Rainbow song. Reading Rainbow, butterfly in the sky. I can go twice as high. There we go. That's where it is. I know the edit with little John. I know the edit with little John. Take a book. What? And a look. Yeah. Reading Rainbow. Yeah, you're okay. Hey! Get books.

[00:24:25] It's like how we've spent the Lazy Town song. Oh, dude. Yeah, the Lazy Town song, but it's... Oh, what was that one? There's Thomas the Dank Engine. There was one Lazy Town. My favorite is... Fuck, what is it? Cycle Social and Fruit Salad by The Wiggles. Oh, that's good. That's good. I've seen Psychosocial and Baby by Justin Bieber. Fruit Salad. I did my time. Yummy, yummy.

[00:24:59] That's disgusting. Let's... Let's talk about Pikmin. Woo-hoo! Me! That was the Pikmin dying. And the rain will kill us all. Fruit Salad! Psychosocial. It's crazy that mashups were such a popular thing for a while. Oh, fuck. Remember Epic Rap Battles of Destiny? Holy shit. Oh, yeah, dude.

[00:25:28] Those were wild for a minute. Yeah, high school was lit. Oh, yeah. I was an adult by that time, but yeah. Yeah, I'm young compared to you old men. Yeah, fuck off. Hey, man, I'm only 34. Guys are two seconds away from a Viagra commercial. Dude. Dude.

[00:25:59] No, I'm telling you, dude. You had something. Speaking of Gandhi, I'm about to nuke these Pikmin into oblivion. I was going to say, speaking of Gandhi on Viagra, we're talking about Pikmin. That's why their noses get extra long. You zoom in. Talk about a hunger strike, am I right? I'll tell you what wasn't on a hunger strike. Those ladybug things that were eating Pikmin. I'll tell you what wasn't on a strike. Gandhi's dick. Pikmin.

[00:26:29] Okay, we're talking about Pikmin, the GameCube game. Oh, fuck. Released on the GameCube in December 2001 in North America anyway. Then ported to Wii with motion controls in 2009. Part of the new play control series. What other games were also released in that series? I think Pikmin 2. There was a Donkey Kong game, a Mario Tennis. Dude, they just actively made Pikmin worse. Oh, here you go. Yeah. It was totally fine. Although, I mean, yeah, the GameCube version.

[00:27:00] We'll get to that in a minute. We'll get to that. Then the high def remaster came to Switch in 2023. Pikmin 1 and 2 package. It's really good. It's pretty fucking cheap. It's like 30 bucks for both games. Wait. Is that right? 20 per. 20 per. Okay, yeah. 40. 20 per. It's still great. It's still good. Pretty much the whole story of the game. Captain Olimar crash lands on a planet, which is probably Earth. And with the help of the Pikmin, you gather parts for a ship.

[00:27:28] So you can escape within 30 days because the planet's atmosphere is made up of oxygen, which is poisonous to him. And his life support system will only keep him alive for 30 days. So you have 30 days to gather at least 25 parts. It's like 25 specific parts, too. You can't just gather. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I replayed these games pretty recently on the Switch. Yeah. And the Switch versions, that's what I played as well, too. Holy shit. Sorry.

[00:27:57] My voice cracked and then I burped. My body's falling apart. Ripthrack. Love you. The Switch version is the one that I played most recently and beat. And it was fucking. It was good. It was really good. Each day in the game was what? Like 15 minutes or five minutes? Something like that? I think like 20 minutes. 15 to 20 minutes. 20 minutes. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. And yeah, so there's 30 parts total. Or wait. Yeah. 30 total. And there's like. Some of them are like.

[00:28:27] They're just like a fancy chair or something like that. Yeah. There's like five that are optional then, right? Yeah. I think. Yeah. Yeah. You can beat the game with only 25 parts. But why would you when you can beat the game in four hours? Which I did on stream a month ago. Yeah. Yeah. And honestly, like it's not that hard to get all 30. You can get. No. You can get pretty much like every part in one area in like one or two days. But we'll get to that in a little bit as well too.

[00:28:57] So there's three endings to the game. And there's not really much to spoil. So if you. For the bad ending. If you don't get at least 25 of the required parts. Olimar will. He'll attempt to blast off. But his ship craps out. And he crashes back. Gotta blast. Hi. I'm Paul. And then the Pikmin carries body to an onion. Kakarot. Lube me up.

[00:29:25] Grab the tip and twist Kakarot. I'm going to come. But the Pikmin carry Olimar's body to an onion. Then it becomes half Olimar. Half Pikmin hybrid. It's horrifying. Cute but horrifying. I saw that ending many times. As a kid I definitely did too. Yes. I was really bad at this game when I was like eight. Oh my god. I'm kicking like. Yeah. Kid Aaron. Because adult Aaron just annihilated this game.

[00:29:56] I think I had like three or four days left to go. I was like. I could just. I could just sit in the onion and just whack off for like three days straight. Welcome to the Jackoff episode everybody. Yeah. Seriously. The good ending. Kakarot not my dragon balls. The good ending. If you get the 25 required parts. You'll escape successfully.

[00:30:25] But then. Yeah. The Pikmin basically get annihilated. They get fucking destroyed by the local wildlife. But then. The best ending. So you get all 30 parts. One of which you get from defeating Emperor Bulbax. Which is like the final and like. The worst fight. Only boss. Yeah. It sucked ass. It was a pain in the ass. You can just feed it. Um. Bomb Pikmin's. Just sacrifice them. The. The. The. When I was a kid. I was stupid. I never figured that out. Not that. I totally fed him the bomb ones.

[00:30:55] Yeah. Yeah. Pikmin are there to die for you. Not the other way around. That's true. Yeah. They're a replenishable resource. You can just plant more. Right. Yeah. So you get the part. All the parts. Um. And then the Pikmin. I guess learn to. To learn to fend for themselves. So. Yeah. Right. Not the way that AI behaves. So. They drown. They fall off the bridge and drown. Oh my god. Now. That was the Pikmin drowning sound. The Pikmin gets smarting. And they commit like.

[00:31:25] Bullbacks genocide on earth. It's like concentration camps built for them. Omar comes back like. What have I wrought? They've enslaved all the other types of wildlife on the planet. Oh man. So. Fellas. What's uh. What were your. First impressions. And like first memories. With the game. Will. I'll let Chris go first. No. Go Will. I'll beat ya. Go Will. Alright. Alright. So. Yeah.

[00:31:55] I've told. A funny abbreviated version of the story on Chris's podcast. But. I had the benefit. Of having divorced parents. You know. Everyone thinks that's really terrible. But it means. It means two Christmases dude. Which is pretty lit. If your parents love you. Which. That doesn't always happen. But mine did. And so. I got a GameCube. In Christmas 2001. And one of the games that came with that was Pikmin. And so. My earliest memories. Were just getting lost. Mostly. Like. I would literally. Like.

[00:32:25] I wouldn't intuit anything. Right. Like. I would just walk into the water with my Pikmin. Oh shit. They died. You know. That kind of thing. Um. And. And I would basically just like. I would like Skyrim. I can't suppose the tutorial level. Yeah. Exactly. I mean. Pretty much. I mean. I would go to the Forest of Hope. And like. Eat shit. Because I was like seven. I was like. Actually. Yeah. I was like. I was barely seven. When I had this game. The bull back started eating his Pikmin. And he's screaming at him. Stop. Stop eating my Pikmin. Dude. This game is hard if you're a kid. Like. It is really short.

[00:32:54] But if you're an idiot. It's a. There's a lot of replay value. If you're fucking stupid. This game is not for you. Dude. Like. I would think. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. That I like. Turned the corner. Because I like. Skyrim'd my way through the fucking Forest of Hope. I would just like. Do anything possible to like. Climb my way over. Obstacles. And then another. The Forest name will open up. It was like. Fuck. And that happened again. When the. The impending dawn. Or whatever the fuck. The last part is called.

[00:33:24] And yeah. Took me a long time to beat the game. I don't think I ever beat it. As a kid. I was. When I got my. My GameCube. I got. Metroid Prime. And Pikmin. Metroid Prime was like. The pack-in game that came with mine. And then we got Pikmin separate. Can I ask. Did you know what Metroid was at that point? Because I got Metroid Prime. And did not know what Metroid was. No. I think we even told this. Told each other this story. And in the discord. But. Yeah. We might have. Prime was my first Metroid. And then when I eventually discovered. Metroid Fusion.

[00:33:54] And it was 2D Metroid. I was like. This isn't Metroid. This is 2D. I had the exact same reaction. Little did I know. I would get put on a fucking list. But yeah. So we didn't have a. A memory card. So we would keep trying to do. As much as we could. And try to beat whatever games we had. In like one sitting. Which was. Dude. Your parents didn't know you had a memory. You needed a memory card? No. We didn't even know we needed one. We thought like. This was just how it was. Because we're stupid kids.

[00:34:24] But yeah. We didn't get very far in Pikmin either. Because we would just get to like. We would get to. I think. Whatever the second area was. Where there was way more water. And our Pikmin would die. Or get eaten. Or literally anything would fucking happen. And they would all die. And we'd be like. Well this sucks. Let's play Metroid dude. And then. Yeah. Fucking great. One thing that I didn't realize as a kid. Other than looking at the map. Which is important. Is that you could literally just reset your day. Like I would always own. Like. Let's say that I had an epic fail.

[00:34:54] Tried to like. Take down the mini boss. Lost my army. I would just eat that. Yeah. I would just eat that. Mass extinction. Yeah. No. I had a neighbor. Who was also a child of divorce. Him and his brother. Fuck. I would thank God for divorce. Of course. They would buy him and his brother. Every single thing that existed under the sun. So they had like these giant stacks. Just like packed with fucking toys.

[00:35:22] They had every single digivice in existence. I was very jealous. Super jealous of those digivices. Have multiples of each. But. They got the GameCube. I went over. And they're like. Oh we have Star Wars. And Smash Bros. And Pikmin. And they're like showing all the neighborhood kids the game. And they played Pikmin. And I was like. Holy fuck. This is. This is an awakening for me. Everything about it was awesome. Like. Using little creatures to kill bigger creatures.

[00:35:52] And like eating pellets. To make more little creatures. To kill even bigger creatures. It. It. It was. Amazing. Amazing. So a few years later. I. Bought a GameCube. When they put it down for $100. With the Zelda bundle. I bought Star Fox Adventures. Because I needed Star Fox. And I bought Pikmin. Because it was 20 bucks. And it was amazing. And I sucked at it. I don't remember if I beat it or not. But. Eventually I did. At some point. It was great. That must have been pretty late. For Pikmin to be that cheap.

[00:36:22] Uh. At 2003 or 4. Yeah. By then Nintendo was like. Oh. We fucked up. Yeah. Fucking. Um. I remember. In. Uh. The birthday episode we just put out. Jerry was like. Telling. He pranked me by talking about like. The peak. The peak of the GameCube. And I was like. What peak? What did it ever peak? In like. 2015. When Retro boomed. Yeah.

[00:36:52] I think it peaked. When. We had a bunch of games coming out. And they were all under $50. Because around. When that happened. We had Pikmin 2 come out. And Soyd's Battle Legend. Which is fucking awesome. Come out for like 40 bucks each. That was great. I feel like if your birthday begins. In like 1990 something. Then. If you had a GameCube. It was the shit. But if you were older. You were like. What is this? Which fucking blows ass. Because if you look at a. Graphics comparison.

[00:37:21] Of most GameCube games. Compared to. For sure anything. On the PS2. Xbox 2 man. I think the Xbox. Is more powerful. But that was for multiplayer. Like most games. Rendered better on the GameCube. Yeah. Yeah. Like fucking Smash Bros. That game. Like. Or Smash Melee. Still looks impressive on there. Metroid Prime. Just like. Star Fox Adventures. Dude. The fur. The fur on Fox. Looks incredible. Incredible. It does man. I mean dude. Twilight Princess plays on the GameCube.

[00:37:49] That's pretty graphically impressive for that generation. Wind Waker. That is really fucking cool. It's like a fucking giant bomb of color. And it looks amazing. Oh man. I'll. I mean. I get why. People didn't like the GameCube. Because you couldn't play DVDs. But. No. It was such an underrated console. I loved that fucking thing still. I've never liked watching movies anyway. So I don't care. The GameCube to me is still better than the PS2. And the Xbox. I also think that that was the beginning of Nintendo. Like doing. Not doing what their customers wanted for the most part.

[00:38:19] Because like. What people wanted. During the N64 and the PS1. Was like. We want our games. But in 3D. In 3D. But then. When the next generation came out. They were like. We want these janky 3D games. But better. Right. Because like. Everything that came out on the PS2. Was like. Metal Gear Solid 2. Hey. This is Metal Gear. But better. Resident Evil 4. Hey. This is Resident Evil. But better. You know. That kind of shit. Whereas Nintendo was like. Here is a gardening. RTS. Star Fox. Zelda knockoff. And.

[00:38:50] Mario has a fucking jetpack now. And cleans up things. That's true. And Luigi. They were like. You know Luigi. Right? Yeah. Well. He's a Ghostbuster now. Oh. And it was fucking awesome. It is. Yeah. It was awesome. Awesome man. But I'm sure that if I was like. 15. In 2001. I would want nothing to do with the GameCube. Yeah. I was. I was like. 16 or 17. And. My buddies and I were having GameCube parties. So.

[00:39:20] Yeah. But you guys are like in the minority. I bet you that most of the. However many. Millions of GameCubes were sold. Halo fucking blows. Halo is shit. OG Halo is pretty fun. Damn. I was. No it's not. I was 10 in 2001. Holy shit. I just know that I. Given that I was such an edgy. Edge lord teen. I would have been like. Give me that PlayStation 2. Give me that Xbox. I would not have wanted a GameCube. Except. Except I would have been going through pure. So it's more like. Give me that PlayStation 2.

[00:39:50] Like playing the suffering. And shitting your pants. While you're playing it. Exactly. You don't even know what the suffering is. It's a. Coheed and Cambria song. That's all I got. Hell yeah. Barney. Third person who are a shooter. Barney. I remember. Yeah. As a kid. The GameCube. Was the first console. That I got. That was actually mine. I don't think it was around the same time. That the GameCube and everything launched. I think it was maybe a year afterward. That I got my bundle. But. At the time. I was like. Dude. I only want Nintendo.

[00:40:20] Why would anybody. Want anything else. And then I saw the PlayStation 2. Got. Final Fantasy 10. And Kingdom Hearts. And there were a bunch of other games. That I really wanted. That weren't on. Weren't on GameCube. And I was like. Fuck. Now I only want a PlayStation. What am I going to do? Did you have PS1? I did. Yeah. Oh yeah. You fucked up. Yeah. My cousins had. The N64. During that generation. So whenever I wanted. N64 shit. I would play on theirs.

[00:40:49] And then I had the PS1 back at home. And of course nobody in fucking Iowa. I'm pretty sure. Owned a Sega Saturn. So that was. That was out of the goddamn question. But. I don't think I knew anyone had a Sega Saturn either. Did the Saturn. Did they have Saturn stuff at the gas station. Where you bought your video games from? No. I don't think so anyway. What about the special needs Walmart? I wonder. Special needs Walmart. I wish I could go back at. Special needs Walmart. I wish I could go back in time.

[00:41:17] And go to the gas stations in Iowa. And see if they had Sega Saturn games. Or Saturn you could rent. For that matter. Because some gas stations. You could rent a full fucking console. And that was sweet. That is cool. Yeah. Iowa's weird dude. Hey. Welcome to the corner store. You want to get some gas. And a Reese's. And a fucking Sega Saturn. Hoo wee. Sounds like a state with social cohesion. That sounded like Mr. Hoopy butthole.

[00:41:50] But yeah. I mean all that is to say. Shit. As much as the GameCube is valorized now. It was pretty. I mean I didn't know this. Right? Like I didn't know what I was missing. Because I was like anywhere between 7 and 11 maybe. But yeah. I feel like everyone hated the GameCube. And I realized that as I got older. And so watching the pendulum swing back was pretty interesting. Yeah. And looking back at it now.

[00:42:17] You get so much fucking bang for your buck with the GameCube. Because you had all the cool. Like you know the Game Boy player on there. You could play. Because like everybody had a Game Boy Advance back in the day. Or not Game. I actually had the link cable. I had one of those too. Nobody else did. But I sure as fuck had one. Yeah no one else did. I had a GB at my mom's house. Because again. Divorced parents. Nice. The fucking movie announcer voice. Divorced parents. Coming September 13th.

[00:42:47] Coming September 11th. Divorced parents. Yikes. Oh that was poorly. I'm sorry everybody. Yeah yeah. The GameCube had a lot of bang for your buck for sure man. You could connect so many games to that thing. To like. Like if you connect Metroid Prime to Metroid Fusion. You could have a Fusion suit in Metroid Prime. And you got the NES Metroid. Yep. Oh. Did you? That's true. Yeah. Yeah it's one of the first times Nintendo brought back.

[00:43:15] Like one of the retro games to a modern console like that. There was quite a few retro games on GameCube. If you knew where to look. Like Animal Crossing. Animal Crossing. So many. I played Excitebike on there so much. And Zelda if you had the right e-reader shit. Yep. And you also had that Zelda collection that came out. Oh that was so good. That was great. Oh. You could connect your Game Boy Advance with like Sonic Advance to Sonic Adventure DX for

[00:43:44] the Chao Guard and you could take your Chao with you on the go. I did not know that. And do some Tamagotchi style shit. I had all of those things. Yeah. It was fucking tight. Fucking sick. So good. Fucking love the Chao Guard. Anyway. We're talking about Chao. We're talking about Pikmin. They're kind of similar but they're not. Yeah. You can't kill the Chows unfortunately. You can throw as much as. Believe me. I've tried. I've thrown them off of everything. They do not die. They just hate you. But. Have you tried drowning them? No.

[00:44:14] I don't think you can. Holy shit. Welcome to the Kid Drowning Podcast everybody. Yay. Welcome to the podcast where we all end up on a list afterwards. If we're not already on a list. Yeah. True. True. But. As far as. Gameplay goes. Because there's not much to the story or anything else we need to go into in there. It's the last major game that Miyamoto I invented I'm pretty sure. I mean it's the wrong word. Created. It's like the last thing that he was a major producer for.

[00:44:43] I think invented is a pretty good word for it. Because this game really. I mean it's. It's an RTS for sure. But it's not. Like. I can't really compare it to like any other game. It's like yeah it's an RTS. But. It's so fucking unique. In so many cool ways. It's very atmospheric. Which a lot of games in the GameCube were. Yeah. I feel like. I feel like Nintendo went to kind of like a cartoony style with the Wii. But on the GameCube. Everything had such aura man.

[00:45:13] And I don't think that's just nostalgia talking. Because I had a Wii growing up as well. Yeah when I'm. When I mentioned earlier that the world Pikmin is in. Is like Earth. Like you really feel that. I mean of course. There's grass and water and bugs and shit. But a lot of the. A lot of the. Like scenery. Looks like. Shit you might see in someone's backyard. Like there'll be like a. What is it? There's like a. A can of beans or whatever. In the first area. Like the Garden of Hope or whatever.

[00:45:42] Like they push that. Box of something. So you can walk across. Oh yeah. Shit like that. Even more so in the second game. Like you're collecting batteries. And like Vlasic pickle jars and shit. Yeah Duracell. Kiwi shoe polish. And you get the gigantic. Like. You get the buff purple Pikmin in that game too. Yeah. So Pikmin. Like I mentioned. It's pretty much just an RTS game. Olimar. Well. Command Pikmin. You can whistle to. Bring him back from wherever they're at. You can throw him. At enemies. To attack enemies. You can. Throw him at a wall.

[00:46:12] To break down the wall. Little certain walls. Um. There's other walls that. You can only break with bomb Pikmin. Which we'll get to in a little bit. That's pretty much it. Basically you're just. You uh. You get to a new area. And there will be parts. Littered. All across the area. And you'll have a map you can look at. That'll show you where parts are. And shit like that. But. Basically. You just kind of. Scout a route. To each part. My approach was. I would take a day.

[00:46:42] To like scout the area. Break down shortcuts. Find parts. Get everything all. All situated on the map. Plant Pikmin. Harvest those Pikmin. Second day. Tackle all those parts. At least like half of them. And then. Yeah. Well. I don't know if that's what. You're supposed to do. Or if that's what you guys did. But that's. Yeah. I mean it's whatever you want. I have personally just. Concentrated on murder. That's. That's. The Pikmin or the enemies. The enemies. Just start off. And it's on site. With everyone that I see.

[00:47:13] If there's a wall. Protecting you. From me. That wall's coming down. My Pikmin. By any means necessary. Then the. The stage. With the water. Where you get the. The blue Pikmin. The only goal there. Is getting to the blue Pikmin. So that I can. Make a bunch of them. And then start collecting. Everything else. From all the other stages. Before I continue. Murder everything. In the water. I remember that. I always got lost. In the forest navel.

[00:47:43] That's. The last stage. No. That's like the. The second stage. Unlock it to the underground. One with all the fire. Like the flames. Coming out of the ground. Oh yeah. I always get lost there. Yeah. That's. That's the one with the. The water Pikmin. But. There was some stuff. That like you could tell. They hadn't baked the game. All the way. Yeah. And the design of that map. Was one of them. And the AI Pikmin. Constantly fucking off. And doing their own thing. Was the other one. Getting stuck in corners and shit. Yeah dude. Like they would have. Ramps going. Like from this area.

[00:48:13] To that. That. And they would. The ramps would be like super narrow. So the Pikmin. If you're not. Because you could use the C stick. To uh. To make them like form up. In like a line. Or go. Or go. Left or right. Or whatever. So if you're not. If you're not making them line up. They would fall off. Of the fucking ramp. And just stand there. Like bumpkins. And god forbid. You leave them. Overnight. They would die. Yeah. And that's why the Pikmin. Committed genocide. In that stage in particular. If you don't break down. All the walls.

[00:48:42] And you just have a couple. Oh yeah. Knocked down. And the Pikmin. Are so fucking stupid. That they will ignore those. And go around the whole fucking map. To get to the ship. That drives you. Definitely learn that the hard way. The fucking wall. They're so stupid. But. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. And. Yeah. Because I had no strategy. I would just like. Go for the first part I could see. Which is part of why. I got a lot of replay. Out of the value. Out of that game. Because I would constantly. Run out of time. Because I would learn lessons. The hard way like that. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:49:12] And that's. That's one of the coolest things. About the game. Is that like. Sure. Yeah. You. Run out of time. And then you know. That's it. Olimar's dead. Pretty much. And you have to start over. But. Yeah. That's like. Like. It's not that hard. To really get. Or it doesn't take. Really that long. To get back to where you were. Really. Because if you were like. Five parts in. And then you fuck up. And you waste all your days. And you're dead. Like it's. Now you know. Like now you've tempered. Your strategy a little bit more. And it will take you even less time. To get those five parts.

[00:49:42] Like. If. If your route is good enough. Like if your plan is good enough. You can get like fucking. I've gotten like four parts in one day. Oh yeah. And I'll be. Flying back up in the atmosphere. Like. Like yeah. Yeah. Fuck yeah. Yeah. Especially in that. That one stage. With the. The fucking. The. The spider. That spits stones at you. Yep. Just plug its hole. Kill it. Get the part. Is that in. And then. Later on. Yeah. And the. The fucking birds. The. The burrowing snaggrids.

[00:50:12] I hate those. Oh yeah dude. Ugh. And there's. I think those have two parts. I remember that anytime I would discover a new mini boss. I just knew. Oh man. My army's going to get murked. Just throw Pikmin and pray. Yeah. Pretty much. So there's. Five areas in Pikmin 1. There's the impact site. The forest of hope. The forest naval. The distant spring. And the final trial. Well the impact site was just placed to farm Pikmin really.

[00:50:42] Yeah. And so. Oh. There's a lot to the gameplay. Holy shit. Yeah. As Olimar. Alone. You can punch. But. The range is. Super. Short. And you might as well just not do it. And it doesn't really do anything. It does some damage. Does it do a pretty good amount of damage? If you're in like a dire straits type situation. Which I sometimes wasn't. Yeah. You can kill some of like the more minor enemies with Olimar. Yeah. Yeah. Like the little. You just have to be really quick. Yeah.

[00:51:10] The bold warps are no match for Olimar's mighty fist. Do you think you could do like just a solo Olimar run? There's no way. Right? Because you can't break down those walls. No. You can't break them down. You know someone has done that. That'd be fucking insane. Solomar. Solomar. And you can do your whistle to return Pikmin to you. Because when you throw a Pikmin. And there's nothing for it to do. It'll just stand there.

[00:51:40] And it'll turn gray. And you can whistle at it. And it'll come right back to you. Or if you throw all your Pikmin at an enemy. And say like enough of them. Pick it up. And start carrying it back to the ship. You'll have some left over that weren't able to pick it up. Because there's not enough space. They'll stand there. And you can whistle. Bring it back. You should probably talk about the three kinds of Pikmin. Because it's like a pretty big part of the game. Yeah. Oh duh. Yeah. Yeah. So there's three kinds. Red. Yellow. Blue.

[00:52:09] Red are the first ones you get. They're immune to fire. I think it's yellow you get next. I think they're slightly better in combat in that game too. But I might be wrong. They're slightly sturdier. Something like that. Red are always the stronger ones. Yeah. Yellows are the ones that go the highest. And then blue can breathe underwater. But then later on in the games they all get special abilities as you go on. Well yeah. Red also becomes like fucking worthless after the first game. Yeah.

[00:52:38] And the thing is Red does 1.5 damage instead of. That's what it was. Yeah. So yeah. It's not even that great. No it's not. Red definitely gets like early installment syndrome where by Pikmin 4 you are never using them unless you have to. Yeah. That sucks. Like they didn't put any more fire in Pikmin 4. Not really. There's some caves that have fire and they tell you you gotta bring fire Pikmin.

[00:53:05] So you just bring like half of your army making fire. But even then. Throughout the game you find flowers and you end up sacrificing the red Pikmin. Yeah. Oh no. They nerf like the penalty from burning because like in the early games if your Pikmin like catch on fire they're gonna die. Yeah. But like by like 3 and 4 if you just whistle them fast enough no one dies. So you can just like Skyrim your way through it. That's so stupid. I mean I guess it's not. It makes the game a little bit less frustrating but like.

[00:53:36] That was. Man that was a it was a big thing in Pikmin. I remember when I was a kid whenever Pikmin started on fire I would try to get it into the water but of course if it's if it's a yellow one it's fucking dead. And also aren't yellow ones the only ones able to hold bomb rocks? Yes. Yes. Until 4. Oh that's right. Jesus. In 4 Olimar holds the bomb rocks. Yep. Olimar is a bomb.

[00:54:04] That confused me for a second because I played them all back to back. Like I did 1, 2, 3 and then 4 when 4 came out and I was like wait what's going on? 4 is so good though. 4 is great. 4 is a great. It is low key a top like 15 Switch game. We definitely need to do an episode for each one. I don't think I'm very far into 2 is just kind of boring though. 2 is bad. Yeah it's probably the weak. 2 is not great. I hate 2. It's kind of like what they did with Echoes. Like Nintendo realized oh we're losing money on this console.

[00:54:33] Let's just use let's reuse assets. So Pikmin 2 is just like reusing assets. Yep. Yep. Metroid Prime 2 Echoes same thing. Yeah. Fuck that sucks. Kind of hate Pikmin 2 so much. Yeah it's the most pain. The boss rush is legit like impossible. That's so stupid. And another big thing about the first Pikmin that if you go and play Pikmin 2 you'll immediately realize like so in Pikmin 1 you have 30 days to get at least 25 parts.

[00:55:02] Then you also have I think we said it was like 13 or 15 minutes per day roughly. Something like that. To get done what you need. But I think in Pikmin 2 they totally take out that 15 minute timer don't they? There's still a timer in the sense that like there's days that go by but it doesn't matter anymore. Yeah. Oh but they took out like the 30 day limit though didn't they? Right. That's what's out. I'm pretty sure the reason behind that is just like widespread internet access because if you think about it what made Pikmin because Pikmin is like a really short game like

[00:55:32] you could beat it in four hours like Chris did. What makes it replayable is unless you have a guide you don't know what the fuck you're doing. So you're probably going to replay it even as like an adult a couple times. If you're a kid like several times by 2004 you can just be like hey Google where am I supposed to go? That's really true. And that like that kind of sucks because one of the one of the coolest parts of Pikmin

[00:55:56] for like the first Pikmin for me was just planning out that strategy and kind of watching it all come to fruition because like yeah at the end of the game beating Emperor Bulbax I had like four days left and it was just because I used my time so wisely. Like if you just plan your attack on the whole goddamn thing and play your cards just right and use your time as wisely as possible dude it's just it feels so good. It's like a well-oiled machine.

[00:56:24] You'll send Pikmin this way and have them carry that back to the ship and then at the same time you're going to like this area to break down a wall. And then while they're doing that you can go goof off over here and take out enemies to make sure you can get to the next part without any interruptions or whatever. And dude it just it it's so good. It's like a little factory kind of it's it's just. Yeah. Yeah. I mean it's like the final exam. You know what I mean? Like you got to take all the skills you learned and then execute them. Yeah.

[00:56:53] Three three is the best one of doing that where you have three totally so you can like divide and conquer really easily. So the time 15 minutes for a day it's basically a lot of time because you can do a shit ton of stuff with three people running around. Yeah. And the final boss is like a more extreme version of the final boss fight one. I hate the final more extreme. Yeah like you need to you need to like bring all your skills to bear and all your like

[00:57:23] time management to bear. Yeah. Oh shit. Yeah. Because it's like trying to grab what you're carrying and run away but at the same time you're trying to fight it. Plus break down a bunch of paths on the way to get out of where it is. It's it's. I really didn't think it was that bad to be honest. I didn't like it. I hated it. Especially when you actually fight it and it starts like changing elements on you mid fight. That's the fun part. No I fucking hated that.

[00:57:51] It's making my heart hurt just listening or just hearing about it. I really don't think three is that bad. The boss rushing two is the hardest thing you'll ever do. I think three is great. The final boss just sucks. And all the extra content of three is great. It's so good. Yeah it is. It's they give you like after the game they give you like like time management levels where you have to get like X amount of fruit or get to the end of the level. So it gives you like probably 10 to 15 hours.

[00:58:17] You got like 15 days you get to play as Olimar and then you get like the time management challenges. Some are like grow Pikmin. Some are collect the fruit. Some are kill everything. They're pretty great. Yeah. Pikmin 4 has side content out the wazoo. I mean it's a surprisingly long game. Probably took me 50 hours to beat it all. Holy shit. That final cave in Pikmin 4 is insane. It's crazy. Yeah I had to watch a guide for sure.

[00:58:43] Especially the one where you got like five purple Pikmin and you got to kill 40 roaches with them. That was fucking wild. Yep. Yeah Pikmin 4 has like night raid missions. It has like time challenges. It has different kinds of time challenges. Resource management challenges where you can't you're kneecapped at like what you can do but you still got to clear the dungeon type thing. It kind of has like a little remake of Pikmin 1 built into it. It's great. Yeah. I never thought Pikmin would turn into like a dungeon crawler.

[00:59:13] That's wild. Yeah. The final is really where that starts. Yeah. Yeah. Those little caves. Oh those caves fucking suck. They're so bad. Another thing we didn't really talk about was how to make more Pikmin which is just yeah each color Pikmin has their own colored onion. So there's a red onion, yellow onion and a blue onion and the onion is just like the ship where they all live pretty much.

[00:59:40] And you just if you kill an enemy you can have them bring the enemy's body back to the onion. It'll sprout more seeds. There's little pellets you can pick up. They'll have a number on it and that number if you bring it back to the if you bring it back to the onion that is the same color as that pellet. It'll spawn that many Pikmin seeds. You bring it to one that's a different color. It'll spawn like half. I think half of that number or something.

[01:00:10] So yeah. So it's wouldn't you get the seed if it's five you need five Pikmin to carry it. You take the red five to the red and it gives you seven. If you take it to the yellow I think it gives you five. If I'm not mistaken. So they want you to color coordinate everything. And they'll eventually do away with all that too in the Pikmin franchise. Like eventually you get so many that it doesn't matter.

[01:00:39] That's good because that was kind of fucking annoying. Like I just want a bunch of Pikmin. God damn it. Like let me just carry fucking anything back and spawn more Pikmin. It gets it gets crazy like specifically in three when you beat the first boss it's like this giant centipede. And like you have a bunch of Pikmin like grabbing it by the head and dragging its whole body around the fucking field. They're like ants dude.

[01:01:02] I can see why they did away with it because it would be such a pain in the ass to have to like color coordinate five different fucking colors of pellets. And not accidentally have them bring it to a different colored onion or whatever. That yeah it sounds like a. And it's all based on like how many Pikmin are carrying it too which is kind of annoying. Yep. God forbid you accidentally get an extra one on one of them and then it fucks it up. You know. When you do that command ability where you just send all your Pikmin to rush after stuff and pick it up you never know what's gonna happen.

[01:01:32] Wait is there nine onions in four? Four. I think so. There's quite a few. Yeah it's pretty much like every type of Pikmin in all the past three games. So red blue yellow purple white. Pink. The flying ones they're pink. Stone. The rock ones. And white. And the green ones. There's the luminous ones. No the luminous ones don't have an onion but. Oh that's true.

[01:01:59] Oh the cool thing about the luminous ones is that if you're in a cave and you start losing Pikmin and you have the luminous seeds. You can just throw them and then throw them into flowers and you get Pikmin back. Yep. They're also pretty OP in combat. Oh yeah. Especially with the charge ability. Yeah. That reminded me of the different stages of Pikmin. Like at the tip of their head their little antenna thing it'll have like they'll start off as a leaf. Yeah.

[01:02:26] And if you have them suck on some nectar which you'll. Oh yeah. They can pull out. Suck on my nectar Kakarok. Swallow my nectar Kakarok. That wasn't even fucking Vegeta. That was like some trucker guy. They can pull grass out of certain areas to get nectar and there's also flowers that I think drop it and shit like that. You know they'll go from leaf to bud to flower. Right.

[01:02:55] And that'll affect like how much. They'll go. They're faster too. Leaf to flower and then whenever they start taking damage like being flung off of enemies or hit by something and knock back then they go back to bud and then from bud they go back to leaf. Right. If you leave them on the ground long enough they go bud then flower. Yeah. Because you can leave them overnight. Like so. You know how like when you put a pellet into the onion that sperms them out. You can just leave them there. Go somewhere else.

[01:03:25] When you come back they'll all be flowered. Oh that's cool. Yeah. Do they they do more damage when they're flowered right? They're faster they do more damage. They're faster they do more damage. Yep. Okay. Yeah and that's that's really really good for uh breaking down walls because sometimes those walls take forever. Even if you have like a bunch of Pikmin on there sometimes it takes fucking forever if they're just leaves. Yeah. Bunch of leaf Pikmin trying to take down a black wall. It's terrible. It takes forever.

[01:03:52] I think that's pretty much it for the gameplay. Um should we haven't even done an ad break. Should we take a quick ad break and hear from our sponsor? Sure. What do you say Will? Is the sponsor Pikmin weed killer? No it's something totally completely unrelated. We'll be right back. Trying to leave a good way to start this. Uh um. Penis. So safety. Yeah penis. Safety. Safety is number one priority.

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[01:05:17] They'll even suck out their DNA and inject that DNA right back into you. Oh my god. The Alfred Hitchcock one. Yeah dude. Jesus Christ.

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[01:06:26] Hi I'm big bird. In like his Sesame Street voice. They start singing B-Y-O-B by Sister Adele. I'd be sweet too. What's your favorite? Everybody's going to the party. What's your favorite feature? I'm just singing like each time they're like pecking their eyes out. Jesus. I like that verb. Everybody's going to the party. Have a real good time.

[01:06:53] And there's just like brains being splattered everywhere like continuously. Like when they get to the la la la la la part you see like the row of big birds going like la la la la la la la. It's great. More like la la la. This is their mouth. They're like ooh. Will. What's your favorite part of Murder of Crows? My favorite part of having a Murder of Crows is that for three easy payments of 1995 I can kill my enemies. Yes. You just throw the lead crow.

[01:07:22] You kind of like swing them around like a sling. Can I throw them like Pikmin? They go. Quacka. Quacka. Quacka. You can't except they're all immune to water and fire and bombs. They're also the bad guys in Pikmin. You know? Crows are? I mean those little bird things could be crows. I don't know. But they're. I don't think they're black though. Hey, hey, hey. Let's not bring race into it. Oh, the snaggrants. The snaggrants. What'd you call me? No, they're snakes. Yeah, what'd you call them?

[01:07:52] I'm just kidding. I'm black. Oh, what's. That's. That's about it for murder of crows. Yeah. So. So next time you want to keep your family and friends safe, you know, just whip out your your Willy Wonka flute. And then your murder of crows will be summoned. And you'll see. What if I whip out my dual disc, Aaron? Oh, you play the murder of crows card. You got to do cool. I play the murder of crows in defense mode, Kaiba. Yeah.

[01:08:22] Yeah. And then they block out the sun for a minute while like this, this huge swarm of crows flies from like, I don't know, 10 states over, over to your exact location. It's like when, when Griffith turned on to be the belleth and the sun turned black and all the demons came out except it's all crows. And one of the crows eats somebody's arm. And like the background, instead of being like, um, eldritch, like demonic shit, it's just a bunch of crows. It's more crows. It's all crows.

[01:08:52] It's the berserk eclipse, but it's fucking literally all crows. Ah, that's a great card. I can't do Joey's voice at all. I'll just, hey, you and all his cousins. Dude, imagine big bird. But yeah, he's got like a, like a crow's beak and all his feathers are black. And he's just like, is there a black big bird? I got to check that. I know there's a green one. There's a green big bird. What? Yeah. Yeah.

[01:09:21] Like every single country that has Sesame street that has a different language that Sesame, uh, street, they have a different colored big bird. And the green one is the one for Spanish. Yeah. Why? I don't know. Please, Chris, tell me. Hold up. Big bird, Sesame street. I'm kidding. You don't have to look it up. I'm just joking. Okay. Okay.

[01:09:48] So the Dutch version has a blue bird named Pino, uh, Latin America version. Plaza sesamo has a great green parrot called Abelando Montoya. Yeah. What? Yeah. Um, let's see. Other examples. My name is Abelando Montoya. You killed my family. Prepare to die. Yeah. There's like one for a bunch of. Thanks for the grub. Yay. God. There's a pink one, a green one, a yellow one, a blue one, a red one. Shit.

[01:10:18] Holy shit. Thanks Sesame street for sponsoring this episode. Big bird really is like Pikmin. There's one that's on crack. Yeah. It looks like it's on crack. Yeah. That's the, uh, Brock's version. Thanks Sesame street. Hey, where's the gabbagool? That's so good. We're back by the way. We're so back. I hope people listen to that ad and buy stuff.

[01:10:48] They will. They're definitely going to buy crows after that. I don't think there's anything else as far as gameplay. That's pretty much it. Yeah. It's pretty short game. There's not, I mean, it's a complex game, but there's not a lot there at the end of the day. Yeah. It's worth mentioning. It did not sell well. Yeah. Of course it didn't. I mean, it's a great, um, a great speed running game. Cause each run you can do a whole lot better. I think I've gotten it down to 14 days. So it's a really good game.

[01:11:17] Metroid prime is also a great speed running game. Fuck that game. Metal Ridley can eat a dick. You don't like Metroid prime. Chris. Metroid prime slaps, dude. I don't like the Ridley fight. I've also noticed that I don't like the Ridley fights when their final bosses in the Metroid games. They all fucking suck. Like robot Ridley at the end of Metroid zero mission is terrible. I mean, yeah, the best boss fight and, um, Metroid prime is probably the Omega pirate.

[01:11:46] It's all downhill from there. The Omega pirate. I don't, I don't know. That's like the gigantic space pirate that you fight like towards the end of the game. I thought you said you played it. Which one? Metroid prime. I did. It's been a really long time. Oh, okay. Yeah. It's like maybe the third or fourth to the last boss. Yeah. Also that last boss kind of sucks. Having to swap weapons. The last boss always sucks in those games. Yeah. It's really egregious on prime too.

[01:12:14] Cause you're just like mashing a basically to fight dark Samus. I remember at the end of, we're not the end, the final boss of the first Metroid, the way you're supposed to do the phase on beam. I couldn't fucking figure it out. Cause again, I'm a stupid fucking kid. It literally tells you on the screen what to press, but I didn't understand what was, I didn't understand like where to go. Cause you had to be in the phase on. Oh yeah. Which the game fucking tells you, Hey, don't go in phase on. It does not tell you. That's true.

[01:12:45] Uh, so a little kid, me was like, okay, I better, Oh, better watch out for that fucking dodge. But, uh, yeah, the other, you won't do, you won't do anything if you don't do the baby little kids. If you're listening, go into the phase on touch it real life to drink it, drink it, touch it, feel it, bop it, twist it. Yeah. I mean, I, I got Metroid prime pretty young too, and it definitely is a Ray T game. Cause I remember just like not knowing what the fuck to do ever until I got, like I had come around to that game.

[01:13:14] I probably turned like 10. I wonder if it was Ray T cause you're here. Cause little kids are too stupid to play it and not because it's scary or, or how totally themes that, that little kids shouldn't play. Yeah. I mean, there's nothing really like scary about the game or what the fuck, except for when you get a game over, what are you talking about? That shit freaked me out as a kid. It's like, it's like, but like nothing inappropriate happens in that game.

[01:13:43] But it's just, you know, like on the radio when, um, when there's a storm coming and it's like, this is a national weather service. And it's like, it's like, that was scary shit as a kid. And then, yeah, when you get a game over in Metroid prime, like I was, as a kid, I was like, turn it off. Turn it off. I like how sometimes you can tell like what the rationale was like. Shadow of the Hedgehog is rated E 10 and up just so you can be like, damn, not here. You're going to hell.

[01:14:13] But Metroid, there's no explanation. Yeah. It wasn't rated E 10 for all the cop killing. I'll see you in hell, Eggman. I wish that was an actual like part, you know, on the ESRB ratings, they'll have like gun violence, smoking, sexual activities, where I wish one of them was cop killing. Rated E 10 plus for cop killing. But let me, let me back up real quick. Like we all were there at some point in our lives where we're at the GameStop and you see the rated M game and why it's rated M.

[01:14:42] You're like, dude, that sounds so cool. Dude. All the time. Like whenever I would go look at, what the fuck was it called? There was, there was some game. I think it was vigilante or something like that for game for PS2. I think that's what it was. Vigilante 8. There's nudity. There was all this other stuff. And I was like, dude, that's so sweet. Too bad. I'm only 11. No, it wasn't. Vigilante 8. It's the fucking God of War 2 cone titties.

[01:15:12] It was BMX triple X. That's another one. Yep. BMX triple X. Wasn't there legit like a sex game or something? That's it. That's BMX triple X. There's a bunch of them. No, but there's like a famous game that some like famous game creator made that is like infamously bad. The dude, the dude game. That's it. That's it. Yeah. That one's bad because it has an underage girl in it. Oh, nice. Dude.

[01:15:40] So every time that somebody pops up in one of my reselling communities with that game being like, hey, I'm looking for like $170 for this game. Everybody's like, nah, just eat it. Like burn that shit. Nobody. Don't sell that. You're going to be. You're going to be like. You're going to end up on a list for real. Kick that out of the community for peddling child porn. Like it's so funny. Oh, man. Like all the dislikes and like all the shit they give them for like, why would you even spend money on that shit? Like, why would you buy it?

[01:16:10] You know, it's not. No, don't try to destroy it. What game did that studio make? Because that studio made like a well-known game. Someone's got to Google that. I know they're famous for something. Is it called the dude game? The guy game. Oh, the guy game. Okay. The guy game. Xbox. It was Xbox, right? And PS2. But not GameCube, which is why no one wanted it. Whatever.

[01:16:39] We had BMXXX. Gathering. Oh, it was by the Metroid Prime developers. Oh, boy. They made Darkstone. It's development was led by former Metroid Prime developer Jeff Spangen. Spangenberg. Spangenberg. Who sought to create an interactive game with appeal to men inspired by the Girls Gone Wild series of pornographic videos. Damn. Well, that sucks. That was an era. That was a fun era. We really just drew a line from what we were talking about to this.

[01:17:09] I knew it had something to do with a GameCube studio. Speaking of GameCube, dude, that's it. That's Pikmin. There's not really anything else to say other than like the first Pikmin. Not Pikmin. Fuck. The first Pikmin. Pikmin rule 34. Let's see what I can find. Dude, I hope it's red Pikmin with gigantic breasts. Breastuses. Boy, that sure is not what it is. Jesus Christ.

[01:17:38] The first Pikmin. Yeah, it's literally just like gay shit. Oh, I bet it. Yeah, it's just a bunch of orgies all the time with Olimar and the Pikmin. It's like Louis caked up. Of course. Of course, Louis caked up. Caked up like the caked in jizz or like just like. Yeah, I'm not going to go into any descriptive images. This is burned into my brain now. Gross. See, these rule 34 artists should really like lean into their rule 34ness and buckle down and do a hundred Pikmin orgy.

[01:18:08] That would be good. I'm surprised that isn't a thing. Maybe if I scrolled far enough, I would have found it. Just keep scrolling. Maybe that's what AI is for. Let us know if you find it. No, yeah, I'm done. I'm done. I just want to know if you find it. I can go with that incognito tab. Oh, yeah. So the first Pikmin is still really good. I think probably the easiest way to play it is the GameCube version, which is still really good. On the Switch. The Switch version. What did I say? The GameCube version? I mean, it kind of is. Sorry, I'm an idiot.

[01:18:38] I don't think it's the Wii port. But the Wii version is pretty good. The whole motion thingy point and shit makes it a whole lot easier than it should be. But it's still pretty decent. Hell yeah. Nah, dude. Get your motion controls away from me. Stay out of here with that. I hate the Wii, dude. I'm like a passionate Wii hater. I don't mind it.

[01:19:04] Speaking of things we don't mind, it's time for... Random Recommendated Games! Yeah, it's Random Recommendated Games. It's the saddest part of the show. Also the most generous because we're generous lovers, generous people. We're going to leave all you listeners with a random recommended game. Just any game we feel like shouting out. We hope you check it out and love it as much as we do. Chris, Will, which one of you dudes wants to go first? This time Chris is going first.

[01:19:34] So I have one, but I'm not sure that this is the one that I want to shout out. Do both? I'm not sure. But I wanted to look at my Steam Deck because I've been playing some really cool shit on the Steam Deck. I hope to God one of these is a hentai game. Sex with Hitler. I don't have any hentai games this time. Okay, that's fine. Damn. Do it? No, no, no. I haven't played any in a while. No. So Wukong. Black Myth Wukong.

[01:20:04] Ooh, yeah. I have been stuck playing this damn game for a while. I think it's the only thing I've played since last Monday. And it is fantastic. It's so good. You're a monkey and you have a stick and you beat the fuck out of monsters with that stick. It's great. It's so much fun. It's a Souls-like, but it's kind of like Stellar Blade in the sense that everybody can pick it up and play it and beat it.

[01:20:30] Because it's hard, but only hard because you're stupid and doing shit the game doesn't want you to do. Yeah, that game got really popular, but I never knew anyone who played it. Oh, it's so good. The last boss that I just beat was the boss at the end of chapter three. And he kept wrecking my shit. Like, he was fucking me up. And I started noticing that every time I did certain things, he would, like, power up and fuck me up really hard.

[01:20:58] I'm like, what if I don't do those certain things? And I just breeze through the entire fucking fight. Like, I told you guys, once I beat this dude, I'll hop on it. I just fuck the shit up. And they have, like, these little movies, like, little videos between chapters. The one between chapter two and chapter three is, like, puppet animation. And it's really, really good.

[01:21:26] And the stories are, like, very dark. And the one that I just saw is one that I've seen before on, like, TikTok and shit about, like, this giant deity that they find out at sea. And they bring it on to shore. The villagers are going to eat it. And then it kind of, like, scratches and starts bleeding gold and pearls and shit. And then they kind of turn it into their god.

[01:21:51] And every time that they go to pray to it, it would scratch itself and drop gems and stuff for the people to, like, make their town prosper. And it just goes off the fucking rails. And it ends up that that deity and another deity had, like, some sort of bet that they were trying to figure out who was right. It's just fucking crazy. It's so good. And in between, you have, like, an awesome soul, like, with a fucking monkey, with a stick. It's great. Fuck, yeah.

[01:22:19] I think I have put, like, an hour into that. I think it came out on Game Pass when it came out. Unless I'm thinking of a different game. I don't think so because it was only on PlayStation and people were really mad about it. And I was like, who? I don't know what this game is. I've never even heard of it. Yeah. It's coming. But now it's on Xbox. It's coming to Xbox. It's not out yet. It's coming to Xbox. It's not delayed due to the Series S, which Thrak thinks is a myth. What the fuck did I play? You probably played Lysa P.

[01:22:49] Lysa P was really good, too. No. No? It wasn't that. There was some other Souls-like game. Wolong. That's what it was. Wolong was pretty good, too. It had that really cool counter mechanic. Fallen Dynasty. Yeah, that's what I played. Yeah, that was pretty cool. I don't really play Souls-likes very often, though. Like, other than Jedi Fallen Order. I don't. I really don't really like them. But there's a few that I've been like, these are fucking great.

[01:23:19] Lysa P is one. Stellar Blade was fucking fantastic. I heard it was really good. Yeah. This one is really good. And I decided to pick up Elden Ring Night Rain to play with my buddies. And it's literally Elden Ring Fortnite. So it's fun. That's what I've heard. Wow. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So other than that, I don't have anything. Like, the hentai games that I've played were Scarlet Maiden. It's basically.

[01:23:48] Oh, you were serious about this? Yes. Yes. Scarlet Maiden. It's basically Dead Cells, but hentai. That's it. Yes. It's fun. Yikes. It's fun. It takes about eight hours to beat. But it's fun for the whole family. I mean. It's good, wholesome family fun. It has, like, nuns and blacksmiths. Turn into a monkey and beat me, Kakarot. Beat me with your staff. Whack my stick, Kakarot.

[01:24:17] Pull my tail, Kakarot. Yeah. Will, what do you got for us? That's it. Man. Oh, fuck my bad. I'm not really good at the whole random recommendation thing. I'm going to do. I'll do something that I've played recently and then, and then like a really obscure game. So game I played recently is Donkey Kong Country Returns, which actually missed on the Wii. That was good. I bought it because you were talking about it on Discord. There you go. And I beat it before you did too. It's tons of fun. You did. Yeah. I moved.

[01:24:45] Well, you know, what's funny is I really have no excuse because I was like in my two week notice period, but I get distracted easily. Lemo. Lemo. No, I was from USAA, but yeah. Um, I, uh, had a lot of fun with it. It's a pretty faithful retelling or reimagining of Donkey Kong and the fucking barrel rocket levels suck ass, but thankfully they'll let you cheese it because I would not have beaten this game without that for sure.

[01:25:12] Um, and it's only 40 bucks on switch. I don't think it's that expensive. 50. That's not bad. Ah, 50 is kind of rough. Yeah. It's 50. I mean, trade something in. Yeah. I don't think I can get it. Fair. I mean, it'll probably go on sale. Yeah. Um, but I played tropical freeze, but I never played returns. I actually kind of like returns more, I think, but I'll replay tropical freeze. Let you know what I think. I played a little bit of tropical freeze and I, I don't think I like it as much as returns and I played it like immediately afterward.

[01:25:42] Yeah. I'm about to do that too. Once I get all the moons and odyssey. And then I'm going to give you a game that was given a 2.8 out of 10 on IGN and it came out in the same era as Pikmin. It's called super bubble pop. You ever play that? No, it sounds cool. It is a puzzle game that is basically Tetris where it has a pretty good soundtrack. I had this game as a kid and just like played it intermittently because for the soundtrack basically. And, um, it's on GameCube. It's on PlayStation two.

[01:26:12] It's on Xbox and it might be locked there. I don't think it's ever been re-released, but it's on Game Boy Advance too. Um, has got a, it's got a great soundtrack. So you should just YouTube that and not play the game. The game is basically shitty Tetris where like you're trying to get the right color balloons or bubbles, I guess, to pop. And then if you, if you combo enough shit, you can use a special attack and beat your enemy. But the game is broken and the AI is like way too smart and will like wreck you.

[01:26:39] It looks like, um, isometric puzzle, uh, bubble bobble. It's literally isometric, like Tetris. I'm looking at an image for the game. Let me find it again. Yeah. Super, super bubble pop. It's from Pico interact. Basically I'm looking at an image from the game and two, the characters are T posing for whatever reason. And like, this looks like, what is this? Oh, it's an online store for retro games. Okay.

[01:27:07] So for, for whatever reason in this one image, the characters are T posing for some reason. And I assume it's not supposed to be like that, but Hey, who am I to judge? It was called zombie studios, which I've never heard of, but it seems like they are still around or were around for a long time and made a bunch of military games like for the U S military. They made America. They made America's army special forces.

[01:27:37] What the fuck? I'm not kidding. They made Tom Clancy's rainbow six covert ops in 2000. Yeah. They just made like a ton of like spec ops games, which was like a little, a lesser known shooter franchise, like the late nineties, early two thousands. And then the super bubble pop game that sucks. They were like, man, war so fucking sick, dude. War rules.

[01:28:04] And then they were like, no bubbles rule too. Yeah. They're like after the Iraq war, we can't condone this anymore. So we're going to make super bubble pop. I'm kind of, I'm kind of burnt out on war. Kind of all about bubbles now. My trigger finger hurts. Um, my, my random recommended game is bomber man quest, a game that Chris recommended to me like a million bajillion years ago. It's funny. Cause I recommended it to you and I never played it.

[01:28:33] I, um, so I, I'm playing it on my Amber Nick and it's pretty fucking cool. It's getting kind of frustrating at the part that I'm in though. So I haven't played it for a while, but what does that come out on originally? Game boy color. Yikes. Yeah. So it's like, it's like a Zelda. So it's bomber man. If it was Zelda, if it was a Metroidvania, because you'll, so it's like, it's top down,

[01:29:02] like older Zelda's like, uh, like links awakening and, um, link to the past and all that stuff. And if all you do is just, you can lay down bombs to, uh, to break rocks or attack enemies. And the whole thing is that bomber man ship was carrying a bunch of monsters that he captured and, uh, coincidence, just like Pikmin, he gets hit by a meteor and crash lands on this mysterious planet and all the monsters that he was carrying escape.

[01:29:31] And the whole point of the game is to just go to this planet or go like venture into this planet and defeat and capture all the monsters that escaped. And as you go along and do that, you'll unlock new powers. Like pretty much just a bunch of bomber man, uh, pickups that you would see in bomber man games, like the bomb kick, the bomb gloved, where you can pick up bombs and throw them to hit aerial enemies. Cause there's some areas with monsters that you can't hit cause they're flying.

[01:29:59] So you have to wait until when you come back with the bomb throw, so you can throw bombs at them and just fucking blast their faces off like the murder of crow some earlier. And yeah, there's a lot of, then you can mix and match bomb parts to make new bombs. So you'll start off with just random plain Jane bombs, but then you would get like rubber bombs that'll bounce off of walls and shit, or you can get mines that'll explode when an enemy does sound like Metroid. It's, it's fucking sweet. It's, uh, it's not very long.

[01:30:28] I think I'm a little over halfway through it and I've only put maybe like, like maybe two hours, maybe three hours into it. So, Hey, yeah, check it out. It's pretty, it's pretty cool. I was looking at the developer and I've never heard of them. It was developed by some studio called 11, which no longer exists. And apparently they were spun off of Kaneko, which I've also never heard of, but they made like Japanese arcade games in the eighties and nineties.

[01:31:10] It's time to go. I'm, I need to go to bed. It is bedtime. Well, everybody, that's it. That's the show. So Chris will, I want to thank both of you guys for coming on and talking Pikmin and Dragon Ball Z, uh, porno and crows and Spanish, uh, big bird on crack and all that. It's, it's been, that big bird picture is horrifying. It should be part of the thumbnail.

[01:31:38] You gotta put it, you gotta put it in the thumbnail. Did you send it on discord? Yeah, I did. Yeah, you did. Ew. What? That's really in, that's really in their Sesame Street. It's gotta be. It's not Mexican big bird, but it is a big bird. That's, that's fucking terrible. Imagine being a, like a five-year-old kid excited to see your favorite, uh, Plaza Sesamelio character or whatever.

[01:32:07] And then you got big bird, like hung over from a fucking meth binge. It's just like, this big bird saw too many cartel execution videos. He was the one doing the execution in the video. Yeah, there it is. It fucking was a dude. These are like a big sleep paralysis demon. Holy proud. Oh Christ. But yeah, that's it. That's the, that's the show. Uh, again, thank you dudes for coming on.

[01:32:37] This has been really fun. Do you guys want to plug anything else real fast or? Uh, I occasionally write blogs that Aaron forgets to publish on his website, the Super Pod Network. By the way, everybody needs to go check that out. Superpodnetwork.com. We're all on there. Uh, yeah. Will, Will writes really good blogs, especially that series of like, where are they now? Where you're talking about Nintendo and Sony and Xbox. Is the Xbox one out? I think that's the one you forgot to publish.

[01:33:06] Shit, I need to go and look. Or either of the PlayStation one, I can't remember. I for sure did the play. There's for sure two on there. So I think it's the one that's missing or one that I forgot. I'm not sure. We'll check it out. I got another one coming down the hopper. So hurry up. I will. I'll get right on that. And then, uh, Chris also wrote a blog about, uh, was it Power Rangers on SNES? Yes. Hell yeah.

[01:33:28] And I still, I still want to do the one about Eiffel 65 and the games that they talk on about on their song, my console, if they're good games or not. And I played through one of them and it's not a good game. So I still got to get through that shit and write it. Was it the guy game? No. Yeah. It was Omega Boost. That game. So we should make the guy game too. And just do our shitty Goku and Vegeta impressions. Do our own rendition of the guy game.

[01:33:58] But yeah, it's all just Dragon Ball C porn. The cake was delicious. Oh my God. Well, yep. Listeners, uh, be sure to tune in next time where, uh, Jerry, I don't know, he shows up for an episode because he's not so fucking busy with work. Uh, and yeah, that's it. Everybody say bye. Bye. Bye. Okay, bye.