what's up and welcome back to another kind of funny live reaction this time to the nintendo direct for june 18th 2025 all about donkey kong bonanza of course i'm your host i'm joined by blessing adio jr greg miller let's monkey around and andy cortez are we gonna see stanky kong stanky kong the long lost forgotten kong we can only hope greg what kong's we seen in this uh donkey okay other name variety yeah you'll see diddy of course yeah of course of course there's been a lot of chatter from y'all chatterheads like hey where is he what's going on we saw the redesign of the site yeah then do you get cranky yeah you definitely get cranky the preview we played yeah but i'm just saying he's gonna show up today he will okay right now maybe he's gonna hit him you know what i mean maybe you saw cranky guys actually diddy wow oh wow they're very different sizes wow yeah coolio kong what's which one's that one i was thinking the word coolio as well coolio kong is your mind holy shit dude i don't know if i go we still gotta figure out where funk was on january 6. funky yeah okay don't forget let's not forget lanky lanky was at home chilling when you could watch the dudes like the rest of us be like oh god that's not good i i'm uh team dixie over team tiny you know what i mean so i'm gonna get my girl back um but the more cons the better i agree but i don't know nintendo agrees i feel like having more cons it's like a rare thing i feel not like rare in the studio yeah it's like that i feel like nintendo likes to keep it to just donkey and sometimes diddy no i think it's the tropical freeze crew right it's donkey cranky diddy and dixie and funky right and funky yeah that's a good handful yeah not chunky kong though not chunky kong though that's what i want to back um all right everybody let's get into this i think it's like 15 minutes or so we're going to react to that and then we're gonna get into the kind of games breaking down everything that we see um let's get into it not the clap when the world felt so cool what are you doing baby girl the poem i'm fucking right oh yes oh man look at this i can't wait to be friends with her i'm glad there's a vocal theme this is awesome i'm glad pauline's thing is singing yep after i see she has to yeah is she a singer or she a mirror oh my god she's a superstar i don't know how to make her was in terminator yeah she's saying that she's the arnold of the donkey kong universe show me what you got golden bananas the discovery of the century made right here on this is excellent news for number one banana fan donkey kong this voiceover gives like a sudden tempest sends him deep down underground as his adventure begins dk teams up with odd rock odd rock it's no rock at all it's actually a talented young singer named pauline she's a broom yes i'm checking p kong movies yeah remember where they go underground remember they go under the world oh cool jump and climb through each environment using his incredible physical problems you can freely move in any direction wow a little air dash ooh i'll just buy probably both going to take this you can smash crash and bash some good hit stop right there animation that looks good you can even do this to a massive rock formation oh my god if you want as you barrel through you'll also collect golden bananas yeah yeah let's see come on those later let's see how they can do punch smash enemies walls the ground and most things you can get your hands on with incredible force destruction can lead to stuvers so set off a chain reaction and see what happens it's gonna be after about vibration and feel it makes you rubble too unleash a powerful punch directly down how deep you punch it to the ground depends on the strength of the terrain roll forward roll at high speed and send lighter objects soaring combine this with punches and jumps to really mix things up hand slap mess with noise to collect scattered items or detect hidden objects you can even use your feet when your hands are occupied tear it off grab a chunk of terrain and tear it off or tear up turnips to find items and even tear chunks off your foes so why is it locked the tiles oh it'll make sense if you play and swing to it get the things you can use to break stone with ease or Ten Direction or smash like tools 85줄 wow chunk Junk oh this will help you reach new heights throw throw a chunk chunked or aim at a target like this I want to talk about one. It's time. Oh, that's cool.
Oh, shit. There's so much breath in this game. Make use of the power of Pauline's seal. It can also remove these strange seals that someone left behind.
I'm not coming around. I'm not coming around. You have to put a rock in it? I don't make sense if you play.
She wants to be a real girl. I don't want to be a rock no more. We should learn that on the way to Odd Rock, Washington, Steve. The mini layers of the underground world.
Mario Odyssey, like the major of the rock. Oh, shit. I do love this. There he is.
Cranky Kong, he's the Donkey Kong in the OG. That dude's name is Rambi. Time and time again. I mean, it would have to be because of the Cranky though.
Yeah, we need term limits. Those old guys gotta get out. Holy shit. Holy shit.
Look at the back of your horse. I want the ass. I want the ass. What the fuck?
I like that. That's the swift zebra bonanza. Oh yeah, he can also turn into an ostrich. A flying ostrich.
Spread your wings and sword to the sky. You can use updrafts to gain more air. You can transform again by collecting gold to build up your bananas. He goes back to the normal form of his bonnet.
What do you say? Banergy or Banergy. Banergy. Banergy.
Banergy. Banergy. Banergy. Banergy.
Banergy. Banergy. Banergy. Oh shit.
Banergy. At least we're still calling for his audience for some fucking reason. Banergy. Banergy.
Banergy. Banergy. Banergy. Banergy.
Banergy. I feel like we're changing. You know what I was thinking about? I kinda fuck with it.
I wanna dig out. Banandium. Banandium. More words less than that.
There's no words. Sometimes they're varied in the walls, the ground, and other places. There are a whole bunch of... The remix songs are gonna be so good.
You can also obtain these gems by completing challenges in the ruins, found throughout your adventure. Let's do it. And I'm not afraid, Urko. Challenges include time-limited battles.
Who did it once? Oh, you're right, this is a thing like. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Courses where you'll need clever solutions.
Oh, that's awesome. Very cool. Yeah, sick. Oh, yeah, Scrabble Blast, baby.
Oh, wow. Keep your eyes peeled to find the Banandium gems. Those look like some sticker brushes. Oh, you know they're playing that's indie, baby.
Oh, that's cool. It was awesome playing that song for Nick the first time. Yep. It just seemed like, oh, my God.
Like, it needed to be a YouTube video of, like, 40-year-old man listening to DK. Former band major listens to DK's out there. As you collect Banandium gems, you'll gain skill points. These can be used to increase stats such as your max health or the destructive power of your punches.
Power up Donkey Kong to match your playstyle. For example, if you strengthen your sonars, you'll be able to detect treasure from further away, which can lead to new discoveries. Or use skill points to earn new skills. There are all sorts of items to find as you explore.
Damn, I'm going to say this game looks fun. Banandium gems are shaped like slices of banana. And they can be traded for Banandium gems at the Chippin' Shop. Why don't I buy those at an airport?
I want to support. These are $14. For banana gems, you can exchange for useful items at the stuff shop. The stuff shop.
They came up with words for anything else. They're like, oh, we're done. You can trade these for different fashions at local style shops. Ooh.
Yes. Just open the closet and customize the perfect fits for Donkey Kong quality. This is very much Mario. Yeah.
Or even change up your fur coat. Oh, yes. For Donkey Kong. For Donkey Kong.
For Donkey Kong. Oh. Dude, he looks sick. Turn that off, you know what I mean?
It's going to be so cold. It's going to be so cold. It's going to be so cold. It's going to be so cold.
It's going to be so cold. It's going to be so cold. It's going to be so cold. Bananamog, please.
Bananamog. Bananamog. You can also see what you collected. Making it easy to see how close you are to completion.
Damn, this game looks really cool. Can you imagine Mario Kart has this? There's plenty more to do in the underground world but not adventuring. Need a rest?
Oh, yeah. And enjoy listening to tunes with the music player. Mario Kart. Fucking dick, no.
You might even find new discs when the BDS is. This is what they actually want to do. Yeah. Oh, this is $10.
When it comes to moving between layers, subterranean eels have your back. I can't believe they're playing the deal, right? I know. We made it.
Bring back Linky. And if you get out, no need to work. You can always teal port within the layer. Teal port?
You can teal port there? Like teal. I think that's the animal's name. Like teal leader.
In fun mode, you can pre-change the in-game capital and adjust other settings to snap picks. And changing colors reminds me of the most popular music sportless. Yeah, right? Unleash your inner shutterbug and create your own captivating scenes.
By sharing a Jo-Kon 2 controller or using a set set, you and a pal can control Donkey Kong and Pauline separately on local co-op play. As Pauline, you can unleash local blast using Jo-Kon 2's mouse. That looks cool. You can also copy the material of nearby terrain to give your vocals even more texture.
Let's go about that. By working together, even tough enemies don't stand in chains. Oh, cool. Cappy was pretty useless, right?
There wasn't much going on. This game also supports game share. Even if only one player has a game, they can quickly share it to another player so they can join on their own system. Hell yeah.
It can also be shared locally through a Nintendo Switch system. Hell yeah. Plus, you can play online between Nintendo Switch 2 systems using game share via game chat. Fuck yeah.
Wait. What's that? You need a little help? You can do that with Mario Kart as well.
Assist mode is the way to play. It guides you in the right direction. Have the damage to receive and more. Assist mode supports you in your adventure to be the best Kong you can be.
Are these in the power cloud? From the main game. There's a mode where you can carve stone using mouse controls called DK Artist. Oh, cool.
Rotate to paint the music. Andy's going to make some shit in here. Oh, man. Oh, a toothbrush, dude.
Boom. Oh, let's take the Mario 64 title for it. Maybe it's more functional. You need to change the lighting and add to the light of the banana.
Holy shit. Here's your Mario Kart. He's out. This game also supports Amoebo accessories.
A new Donkey Kong and Paul Lee's. I can't be happy about that. That's a freeze here. The oxygen group.
Whoa. I think that's actually good. I'm sorry. Here's the gold Kong tiles with explosive power will appear.
There he is. He was. He was. He was there.
Hey, Drake. Hey, Drake. Oh, that's going to be something in that sphere. They're putting vocals over the DKP.
Maybe if we get to the surface, you and me and Rego, we can make it more than a dream. What's all he doing here? What's all he doing here? What's all he doing here?
Cut to his imagination to his thoughts. He's like, I don't understand what you're saying. He's a picture of bananas. I have no idea what this creature is.
Join the powerful Donkey Kong and the talented singer Paul Lee as they set out on an adventure to the fabled planet core. Wow. Hi. I got a special power.
Hey. Hey. Hey. Donkey Kong.
The drama fan. Available July 17th. Only on Nintendo Switch 2. Pre- orders are available now on Nintendo eShop.
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One of the, I would say, infrequent, but fairly common over the years, solo game directs from Nintendo. The deeper dives, let's get into it. Don't expect announcements. Don't expect all this other stuff.
I will say right there, even though I wasn't expecting announcements, I'm a little surprised that Donkey Kong 64 coming to NSO, and more specifically, Donkey Kong updates for Mario Kart were announced here. There's always still time. There's a lot of time. But I did think that that would have been like a, you have a month away from this, like, do a couple cool things on your Nintendo Switch 2.
Listen, the world doesn't look as favorably upon Donkey Kong 64, so I think the Nintendo state of mind is, let's not ruin people's outside before we get the bonanza. That's fair. But even though I like it. Seeing Dixie, it's like, for Halloween, seeing a baby Pauline, I was thinking it's weird that Mario Kart doesn't have a baby Pauline.
Yeah, that's weird. She's not really a baby. You're right. She's a rock.
She's a shape-shifter, I feel, in some sense. Yeah, it's like the Outsider that each people show you. Yeah, exactly. She's some sort of, like, nefarious creature, yeah.
Yeah, so top up, I want to start off here, because Les and I got to play this game in New York, and I feel like we kind of differed a little bit in terms of our experience. From my gameplay, I was a little let down by this. It felt lesser than when you're expecting a 3D Mario from the Odyssey team, and then you get this. I'm excited.
I love Donkey Kong. I'm one of the bigger fans of Donkey Kong games. But seeing it, playing it, it felt a little bit mindless. Like, the controls are interesting and fun, where it's the top, left, and down face buttons.
Correlate to, are you punching up, left, or down, or side, or down? Which is cool. Definitely fun. But into the 20 minutes we played, it already, to me, got a little samey, and a little bit like, I am just kind of button-mashing my way through this.
It just felt geared more towards children, which is not a problem. Nintendo games we're talking about. But as somebody that really cares about, like, the challenge and all that other stuff, collectibles, I was a little concerned. Watching this, it doesn't fully assuage my fears, but there's a lot going on when it comes to the challenge courses, and even just, like, the abilities and skill trees and all that stuff.
I'm like, alright, cool. Maybe I'm still, obviously, keeping an open mind to this one. But I did like the showing quite a bit. What did you think, Plus?
Yeah, I really enjoyed the showing. I was thinking about this this morning, before we got to watch this, of, like, you know, I had, like, a little bit of a feeling of nostalgia slash sadness as I thought back to what Donkey Kong meant to me, like, as a kid, where I'm playing DK64, and I'm thinking about, like, what is classic Donkey Kong to me, along with, like, you know, the original Donkey Kong arcade game, which was playable in DK64, so I found it through that way. But, like, you know, I think there's a sense of thinking forward to what we're getting in this direct, and also thinking about how, man, that Donkey Kong's done. Like, we're getting a brand new kind of interpretation of what Donkey Kong is for Nintendo going forward.
You have the redesigns, you have a new 3D platform, and all this is exciting. I think the thing that excited me the most about the thought was thinking about my nephews and thinking about how they're going to get to experience Donkey Kong, and, like, this is the beginning for them, and I think that's the thing that I come out of this most excited for is, like, oh, this is going to set the tone as far as what DK's feature is for the current generation of children, and as I'm saying all the features, as I'm saying all this, right, like, me and Beryl talk all the time about how much we love DK64, but for me, I'm like, I look at this, and I'm like, alright, this is a DK 3D platformer that is, as I'm watching this is going to be fantastic, right? It's not going to have, like, the weird thing of, like, oh, yeah, I love DK64, but there's too many collectibles, or too many switching between Kongs, and all the issues that come with that game, right? Like, I look at this, and I'm like, wow, you have a fun story set up here, where you have DK and Pauline, like, you know, Odd Rock.
Sorry, Odd Rock, DK, Pauline, you know, nefarious creature, we don't know what's going on there, right? But even when Supergirl was Supergirl, she was still in Matrix in post-crisis, so that's what we're dealing with here. This is post-crisis, post-crisis, I'm heavily influenced, I've heard. I assume that she started off as Pauline and then turned into Odd Rock.
No, no, no, I think Odd Rock saw Pauline in the multiverse, and they were cute, and just, like, yeah, Matrix Supergirl, post-crisis, before they actually entered these cars, of course. I don't know what Able's worth being. But you have this, you know, fun, like, you know, buddy story between the two. You have so much of the musical tracks that helped define my childhood present in the game, remixed in ways that bring me back to Mario Kart World, where I'm like, yo, this is giving me the Mario Kart World soundtrack of Donkey Kong, like, oh, we're winning.
And we heard, like, six or seven different Donkey Kong songs there, so I'm pretty sure, yeah, we're about to get a lot more, all the heavy ears. Oh, yeah, that stuff. You have, like, I think a vastness to this game, too, that we're seeing here that is already beyond the scope of what I was expecting, because coming out of the Nintendo Switch 2 reveal for DK Bonanza, I think I was contextualizing it more along the lines of a Kirby and Forgotten Land in terms of, like, vastness and scope versus a Mario Odyssey, which I see as just a much more bigger and mainline thing. The more we see out of this, the more I'm like, oh, this might lean more toward the Mario Odyssey side as far as, like, scope and size and all that stuff, which is exciting, but also I think is a big challenge to make this kind of platformer appealing on that level, and I'm excited to see they're able to live up to that, because this isn't Mario Odyssey in the sense of, you know, you talk about getting your hands on the controller at the Nintendo Switch 2 event.
I think one of the big things with a platformer for this team is the game feel, and with Mario, it is all about the movement, it's all about throwing Cappy, diving off of Cappy, like, bouncing up, and, like, how good it feels to control the character. In this game, you don't have that. Like, it is, I think there's a different focus as far as the way they want you to play this game. Like, as I'm watching the gameplay right now, right, it is very much more tinkering as far as, like, what you're doing with the environment, what you're doing as far as, like, destruction, what you're doing as far as, like, the collective aspects, and, like, kind of, like, digging I look at this and see so much Odyssey in it, but also don't get turned off by the idea that it's not going to be as precise.
Even when you were talking about the dodge jump or whatever, you were doing air dash when it popped up, like, I feel like he's going to have a movement. Do you, when you two played it, did you have access to all these moves, were these things that you get to see, or were you surprised by the air jumps and the toss the platform and double jump off and that kind of thing? I mean, I think part of it is that we didn't have enough time to really explore the movement options, but also, like, there were definitely things like the chunk surf or whatever it was, like, surfing on top of one of the big rocks, like, we had that, right, and, like, we're digging doing all this stuff. Yeah, and we see a lot of this in the presentation, even in what we played, like, I do feel that the Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom in very different ways, kind of foundations of, not just gameplay, but, like, the systems of that game are in this, of obviously being able to climb anything, but without a stamina meter, but also being able to break anything, and, like, the way that physics all kind of, like, play together seems to be such a big part of this game, so it kind of reminds me of Breath of the Wild in the sense of, like, you start the game off, you have all your abilities already, and it's like, you have your tools, it doesn't matter if you're using them, this game, I mean, we didn't get all of the things they showed, but it did feel like, oh, yeah, we can pull something out of the ground, surf on it, throw it in something else, stick it on something, like, there was a lot of stuff out of this bowl immediately.
And, you know, when we played this at the Switch event, we had, like, Nintendo representatives with us to, like, help guide us, whatever, and, like, there's so many times where they had to tell me, like, oh, yeah, if you do this, and if you like, or I was trying to, like, break a piece of concrete out of the ground, and I kept pressing the button, that would help me, like, you know, pull dirt, I kept trying to do it to concrete, and it wasn't working, and I was like, am I doing something wrong? And he was like, oh, it's concrete, so you're going to have to hold it longer, and I was like, oh, okay, like, it is a big, like, pull it out of the ground kind of thing. I think, in those ways, it's just less intuitive, but more, I think, appealing to, if you are the kind of person that likes to, like, tinker, and, like, you know, it really appears in that sense, I guess, in terms of, like, the way that they want you to think about the game, and think about, like, putting things together, and there's different types of surfaces and stuff, and it almost feels like more of a thinking man's platformer, in that sense, which excites me. But, yeah, like, overall, I'm excited about this, so much game service here, Star Wars, music, world, all that stuff.
And then, also, RPG elements kind of caught me off guard, but I'm open to it, right, that stuff seems fun. This game just seems jam-packed in a way that I'm looking forward to, so, I really like this, right? Yeah, I have no affinity for Donkey Kong, of course, being a Sega kid, and joining with the N64 era, even Kong 64 wasn't my jam. I think this looks incredible.
This looks, again, I won't be able to put down. It looks like one of those, all right, cool, what do you want to do today? Do you want to go find the bananas? Do you want to take on the boss?
Do you want to go into these little mini games they have there? And the story seems interesting enough, right? I think more than anything, it is the idea that is, like, a blessing to lose to. You see that skill tree pop up, and I'm like, oh, man, I'm going to immediately invest in the sonar, because I don't want to get the bananas to do X, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Beyond that, the boss fights look great as he called out. In the reaction, the world looks gorgeous, and it looks, I guess the biggest thing is, it looks fun to explore. It looks, as I watch this, it reminds me of how much I loved Odyssey, and how I put Odyssey down and never came back to it, and that is a regret to me, right, in terms of how much I loved that game, but to look here, be like, oh, man, like, I'm going to get the same vibe out of this stuff, going through, changing my clothes, you know, building a loadout, challenging myself to get those little things on the side path right there he didn't get. I'm looking forward to this, because it does seem like a game I'm going to get.
Lost it isn't the right word, but I feel like it will eat up all that time, where it will be that I come home and, hey, Ben, you want to play some Donkey Kong, and he gets on that second controller to control Odd Rock, a.k.a. fake Pauline. I refuse to admit that she's Pauline until I have some information with Pauline, exactly. But I think it'll be that.
I see PlaneRise being, all right, cool, let's go through and try to get some of these bananas, let's go through and try to get these things I've missed. I'm looking forward to finding the secrets of it, the smashies of it, I thought that looked incredibly impressive. I'm way more hyped for that than I was before this. Andy?
Yeah, I would say I'm more excited than I was before. I don't think it's going to be something that I'm like, holy shit, we're two weeks away from, oh my god, we're a week away from it. But it's something I'm definitely going to want to mess around with, and a lot of it just comes down to the tinkering aspect, and how fun and silly all of that, all the interactions look. I love in really any survival game when you can dig into the terrain and get the really, really nice sort of, oh, it just makes your brain feel good and fuzzy when you hear the feedback of the jumps coming towards you and breaking the stones and all of that.
It seems like, I mentioned, it reminds me a lot of the sort of interaction with the environment that you have with Astrobat, and I don't mean the breaking of things, just like all of the little particles, all the little objects kind of popping up whenever you break a mountain and you see all the particles and objects on the ground. It looks like a really, really fun time. It doesn't scream to me that this is going to be for, if you're the hardcore Mario 3D player, you are going to be super into this. This just feels like it's kind of going for a little bit something different, and I really like that.
I think it seems interesting enough to where I want to definitely give it a shot whenever it comes out. But I'm not the most stoked for it. I'm mainly excited for a lot of music callbacks, because I'd say the Donkey Kong Country games were really massive parts of my childhood. That's fascinating for me, because I understand different opinions, but for me, this is, holy shit, July 17th can't get here soon enough.
Like, I want to play this one. They were one month out, like, less than one month out, which is very exciting. I am, I'm going to be excited about it, so I'm like, oh man, I'm counting down the day. Oh, sure, yeah.
Well, I would say, if anything, I am really excited to see a Switch 2 exclusive game. You know, like, Mario Kart is fun, and I have definitely been playing that more than I was around when lunch came out, because I was so busy with Night Green and Liza P, but, you know, finally getting the chance. A single player, Switch 2, that's the best a lot of time. And I want to see it on that screen, and I want to see it plugged into the diary.
It's a game that I'm stoked to see, like, oh, this is what the hardware is doing now, as opposed to an older title being updated and maybe run better. Or, I was telling you how bummed out I was that, you know, Scarlet and Viola got the 60 frames per second push, but RCS is still capped at 30. I was like, oh, damn, that's a game I would have loved to have seen run a little bit better. So, yeah, I'm pretty jazzed up to sort of, to see this game whenever it does launch, because it just looks like a lot of fun to run around.
It doesn't seem like a game that, if you have nothing to do, that you're going to put down and be bored by it, because of the tinkering nature of things. The way that I am when I'm sitting down at a table, and I see a wad of paper, and I start turn it up, and just, you know, it's sort of like that fidgety type of deal. It feels like it's going to be really satisfying to scratch that itch. I think coming off of Mario Kart World, I think before World got here, I had slightly less hype for this game, because I thought World was going to give me all, like, the open-world collective on, like, that single-player experience in the free-roll mode.
And then once you got to World and realized, like, oh, okay, it's just the key switches, which is fine, but, like, not necessarily what I wanted out of this, I have a way bigger appetite for this now. Like, to your point, Andy, like, I'm kind of primed now to be into what that, like, you know, switch to current-gen exclusive, like, you know. that i know i'm gonna lose 20 25 30 hours uh to just collecting everything um i think they positioned this well as far as like how they have the first party slate going yeah i'm really into the pauline stuff like i'm happy that like that was a reveal that they just got over with and it wasn't like oh halfway through the game you get pauline whatever i like her being a character and then we need to that obviously nintendo's giving donkey kong a huge push with his movie appearances and the theme park and all that stuff but like the redesign and everything like let's give another franchise of nintendo a chance to like be that top tier one of the big five yeah getting that push in pauline as well i think it's cool seeing her start to appear in the sports games and cart and now i've been in this iteration and i kind of like flushing it out and also being a little girl i think it's kind of cool like for this to be a boy feeling game of like there's a big monkey breaking shit but it's like oh like it's got a lot of like uh frozen vibes as well i feel like this is like a very well marketed game to an audience that is going to absolutely adore this thing like boy girl otherwise we don't know what we don't know what gender the rock is so let's not it's one of the rock situation i am a little bit like why are we over complicated this she has like a little rock bracelet on her wrist which i seems to think that's turning her into the rock i'm going to see some great claims here um she's a girl first in the rock i think she's a girl first in the rock she's trying to infiltrate the rock like tribe here's the thing i played jack and baxter for the very first time yeah pretty cool game in that game did you know that baxter was a human that turned into an awesome yes in the game in the series is kind of like jokes about this yeah for a long time i didn't know that yeah he's kind of fine with it for a long time yeah i wonder if there's an element here where it is we gotta get this bracelet off you pauline like you keep turning into the rock you keep turning into dwayne johnson we gotta keep you as pauline i i could see it maybe being something along those lines what i will say of the pauline stuff is assuming because have they ever confirmed that this is a mario odyssey team they still haven't but it is now it's more clear than ever that it is that team i do appreciate how much they're keeping the continuity of all right mario odyssey going into dk bonanza like this feels very much like a prequel uh in that way of like you got the same sort of pauline uh like character model there um you have like this like world that feels like here's the right going back to him i remember on either cage here games when you're talking i think it was you that gave the prediction of like yo this game's gonna end with a little italian plumber coming up some uh you know uh structure and trying to save pauline from you don't come i've never been more convinced in my life that that is going to happen that's going to lead into the final stage takes place in construction stage with the new italian plumber trying to steal pauline yes i did say that the moment that the pauline thing leaked it's like oh my god can you imagine i i am not sure well here's the thing it's i'm of two minds here cranky's in this and the timeline bless the timeline it doesn't matter so more than anything the timeline doesn't matter these are just characters nintendo they don't really actually give us a shit about it being a child already like disrupts that whole like cranky kong is the original donkey kong exactly yeah well it doesn't make sense anymore it doesn't make sense it's a cool it's a fucking rock i've seen these challenge courses that have that show the kind of old school donkey kong um tower going on too so i think it's like it's up like subspace or something like their references i hope there's a ton of them and i'm so excited this is about how they looked obviously very 2d donkey kong country inspired but going through the the different worlds that we're familiar with like ck64 you know what i mean like that's a game that when i talk about some of the complaints in that game too many mini games is like one of the things right but like none of them are really great yeah but it's also part of the identity of donkey kong so for them to have yeah that's right like all the brainless like and the minecart stages like they just seem to be pulling all the most important memorable things from donkey kong history both the arcade game country and the 64 and also like some of the things we're seeing here like clearly this is the mario odyssey team this is the galaxy team there's so much fun flipping perspectives and trying weird different things that uh we rarely see in other games that have that much gameplay variety but uh yes and also all the transformation like there's something about this in our first preview but it almost feels less like a 3d mario and it's more like a 3d mario the 3d like the mario land games and yes it's but the level of platforming what you're doing how you're moving about the world it's a bit more about attacks than it is about you're chumpy you're aggressive you're working through things those boss fights look so much fun i'm so stoked to see exactly what mechanics are they just seems like okay these these enemies look like they're large enough that i want to take down with throwing the rocks at them uh exposing the weakness seeing what the patterns are they just i don't know i just it it reminds me a lot of having fun with uh kirby very similar bosses yeah i love that we got a bunch of super chats that i want to get to but we'll do that right after a word from our sponsor this episode is brought to you by shady rays get ready for the season ahead with quality shades built to 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unverified but it reads legit so i'm just gonna say here uh re-sweets out dk podemos is being developed by a new team that was spun off from the odyssey team there are a lot of younger dads in the odyssey team that grew up playing the dkc games and wanted to make one i've heard the kremlins are making a return 3d mario still on the way i hope that's all true every single thing you don't buy it i don't i don't buy it until i guess official word yeah i guess mario comes out in the next year yeah yeah i mean i will say this does seem like a this does not seem to the scale that i would expect the next game from that team from what we're seeing so far after the amount of time that we've had to wait so the dream scenario for me is we get multiple projects and this is awesome i'm not saying this is a small scale i'm saying it's not this doesn't look like that holy crap i haven't seen since 2017 officially i mean we got bowser's fury but like you know that feels like a smaller i expect this to be much bigger than that game uh really quick before you get into super chat something i saw on social media as well uh it's just like the deep cuts of like this nice canceled donkey kong racing that's right don't get me started man about donk kong racing but we could have you okay that's why i gotta go buy mayor yeah i love this we're getting dixie dude that's awesome that's really really cool can you uh bear can you rewind to the parts where we did see diddy kong and yeah let me let me find where they're sitting at like a table let me find out where it is thank you got a lot of super chat recario says nintendo put in the donk and donkey kong oh yeah that ass is real shaped yeah uh ultra hyper jade says i'm about 15 minutes behind i'm happy to get to watch this live with y'all i'm in vacation this weekend i don't usually get to listen till the night you guys keep up the good work thank you thank you and thank you all for real i think this all kind of started with um the our number of delayed flights from the xbox thing and like reacting to something like i think that's so sick that people want to watch us be enthused yeah very cool stuff a lot of questions calling it now game of the year i feel like that's where a lot of my hesitations i guess negativity comes from is like from my experience with this i'm gonna love this game i just don't think this is going to be a 96 on metacritic you know and like that that's what i want from this team so me being let down it's like only compared to some of the greatest games of all time and also a 20 minute game play demo that i did how much did i spend on this game again for fans critic or ridiculous note um i think it's a contender for like the list yes oh for sure it'll be high 80s mid-high 80s i think i'm with that score right now i can't wait like this looks i'm gonna play the show yeah it's tough to say i think for me it will be determined i'm just getting my hand on the controller i think the thing that immediately strikes me as like a oh it's not blowing my mind are the visuals like i don't look at this game and i go oh this is unlike anything i've ever seen before but i also just don't have that expectation for a donkey kong game on the switch but it is the switch number two you know i mean there should be a uplifted expectation for visuals and graphical fidelity but also like i know that's not what this game wants to do i know this game wants to push as far as destructibility and like textures and stuff like that right so or like i say textures of like the breakable surfaces not textures as far as the textures looking amazing um yeah when he's holding up one of the rocks and i was like man that was a real low ass real low res looking asset with the lighting but you know you gotta make some you gotta make some concessions if everything's gonna be like super destructible so i think that's why if i'm watching a director from watching a trailer that's one of the things that immediately doesn't make me go game of the year but like i think i could see it being one of those ones where once i get my hand on the controller and i get um through the game being like wow like that was a feast of content like wow this really brought me back to childhood or this really uplifted this character in this role for me um but i'll say it's a contender for being a contender yeah you know one thing that like i feel might be divisive but i'm actually really into the voice acting like the weird story but like we don't really get story from the mario side of the nintendo games and then even trying at all like i feel like that could go a long way with these enemies that you know they're seeing the enemies are like okay cool it's obviously made this but they look way more interesting and cool than the the odyssey villains yeah i don't even remember odyssey villains there was a bunch of bunnies they were the wedding planners at some point we gotta talk about mario and bunnies i feel like there's like a weirdness yeah before you're chasing one yeah like that world in a weird way uh yeah even galaxies like running around a little thing rabbits weird uh but yeah i feel like there's a chance for if the uh i don't know if we had evidence of the villains being voice acted as well but pauline should be talking a lot to somebody so it could be cool to actually get some level of like more movie-like feel from these nintendo characters as opposed to a mario that says let's go yeah this dude in the middle reminds me so much of the one of the bad guys in season two of arcane they're like kind of rat looking dude yeah and yeah like it just reminds me so much of that that design also mojo jojo as well yeah uh i will say um they they have subtitles but whenever she speaks she doesn't so i imagine they'll do like dk speak or they're just kind of making noises and we get the uh subtitle interpretation oh yeah when she's singing and he's like uh dan says i thought we may get a diddy dixie announcement for mario kart world in this but at least we're definitely getting some good skins for dk and pauline yeah one weird thing about mario kart world is dk and pauline but dk is the more crazy one only have like one costume like one extra unlock costume i mean so you can get dlc after this yeah yeah uh kibaba says finally uh tlu reboot i can love yep oh last of us man's girl oh i see bk2 bg2 580 says shout out to nintendo getting the universal studios fans working as amiibos excited for the e-rated last of us dk's here that is awesome i saw that and assumed as much but like the theme park wristbands you can actually use like i was wondering what those were i knew the amiibos but i didn't recognize the wristwatches that's cool that's cool and we just saw it for a second like the big kong like the people give you like the kong uh letters like there's so much love for all the old dk stuff here that's like that's what i'm most excited about it's like how deep are we getting into this i think that's the work that you probably should have been doing for a long while as nintendo as far as what donkey kong means to the business like building out that lore building out that like excitement for all things dk this is back to the top five conversation of like yo is dk one of the ones if it is like you gotta treat it like it is and give it the love so that you can have kids and future generations attach themselves to it think about secret brush something how good was on that was look at those kong letters and be like oh man that gives me a feeling on the inside you know totally uh ollie says birthday tax i love that i got this gift from nintendo from all of you i'm so hyped for this game i can't wait for your review sending you some sweet nasty love from germany happy birthday ollie thank you for hanging out with us living legend says i was on the fence initially but after after the direct i'm very excited growing up in the 90s i never liked mario zelda i was a sega kid but i love donkey kong uh cj says sticker brush symphony remix with lyrics and credits if they give sticker brush lyrics they're gonna do it you're right they're gonna fucking do it i mean that's game of the year that's awesome sorry blueprint says uh what's the ttp mythic quest on building features what's the time to play so we get to them building features uh pretty cool i mean i mean we were already doing it i don't know where we were in the game though we didn't still have the rock though we didn't have pauline yeah no i think they dropped us i think that would have been the first game played segment that we picked up at the demo i don't know what cutscene before that yeah i'm gonna say you get a two night cutscene yeah yeah and then you're punching you're punching bright and building kevin t says my first game was the original dk country and i gotta switch to play with my three-year-old with this being one of her first games full circle moments that's gonna be great yeah let's talk about two player mode first up right let's do it it seems like a iteration on what we've seen from nintendo a bunch of times from galaxy to honesty where it's not full on you're doing the same thing it is kind of just you're helping yep i'm excited to try it with ben i imagine though i wind up being uh odd rock you know what i mean like he's gonna want to be donkey calling which is fine and that'd be great i want to have that experience but i sound fun it's only you're kind of pushing back it sucks i don't want to be odd rock but i'm down to help him like again nintendo so good with the assist mode right like i think it's gonna be fun to see ben jump into this and he like remember when we showed he watched us react to the nintendo switch 2 originally so when he saw this this is what made him go i love donkey kong this is just a trailer for this review of an answer like i donkey kong is like jen sent me a video of him talking about donkey kong so he's gonna want to be donkey kong which will probably be maybe this is where we both get our switches up and running we both play the game on our own but i think dropping the assist mode for him and then if i'm going through and being calling for him and throwing stuff we great the share stuff's awesome i was a little confused about i definitely want some more info on this barrett did you find anything because oh i'm not no yeah totally cool but yeah if anyone in the chat understands it's like i would love to know more because what's going on how are you able to play cloud it's gonna be similar to what it takes to does and and um the other one they just came out with uh so is that cloud i thought i was like no yeah yeah it's not no wait yeah when you are the added player when i hopped into somebody's game i was like oh this looks noticeably lower res i'm watching like a feed right now you know i'm not getting a native version of the game right now and i think you're diving as a controller and streaming the yeah the footage um and you know obviously people immediately will worry about that but i talked about this yesterday blessing on the kind of happy hour that mario kart session at la on lax wi-fi pretty fucking crazy pretty good that it was awesome and it was smooth now granted blessing did get kicked before the final match yeah but like on lax wi-fi we were able to play with other people we had uh ignacio rojas who is one of our community members who on the stream was like and i'm in chile and that shit worked that's crazy dude like so obviously anything internet related it's really really natural to go oh nintendo come on but i i think that a lot of stuff has been fixed and will continue to get better and i was really blown away by that mario kart experience and i could totally see this being almost another proving ground to say no this shit works yeah totally i'm there and the chat is something like they explained this in the actual director which i don't fully remember but i'm just talking about the switch one part the switch one being able to do this is like that's crazy cool like but good for them i guess it's not that big a surprise like someone was bringing up the wii u like a very similar kind of thing yeah cool to see them do it yeah absolutely like is this you know no question does this use like internet or is it right like that stuff yeah i was incorrect about uh mario kart world but these are the right now the share locally um able games right now interesting and i do think that's cool it sucks it's not for mario kart but for the second big exclusive to have that feature with switch one is very smart and obviously i would say majority of people that have switch twos at this point also have switch ones in their household like i don't know if we'll ever know that but like i feel like It's a pretty safe assumption. So that's cool to be able to give Ben a second one.
Well, the other Ben's in the world that don't have the luxury... Not the Ben who's bad is like you would never want for anything. Switch two downstairs boxes ready for you. I did take the Doc Outs.
Oh, okay. Find Familiar Game says, my friends and I just left our secure, stable job to launch a new game shop in Ohio. Thanks for inspiring us. Just give me the thing and chase our dream.
Congrats. I saw this one I've been looking into. I backed them on Indiegogo. They have an Indiegogo up.
You can go to Find Familiar Games on Instagram. They're really cool. But I'll be getting a t-shirt. I'm really stoked about that.
Mount Vernon, Ohio. That's so cool. You know, not to add more work to your place, but there's a couple of YouTube channels that I've started following recently that are just retro game shop owners. And they just make weekly videos of the people that come to the shop and what they get and things they make.
And I'm like, this is so freaking cool. So, you want more work? Make a YouTube channel too. I'll watch it.
Wendell Shoemaker says, I will not stand for the slander towards the Brutals from Odyssey. Love seeing a new cast of villains outside the Koopalings and they have fun boss battles you can exploit to finish faster. Yeah, I mean, they're definitely better than the Astro Bot enemies. I don't remember the green alien, dude.
I don't remember any of these goddamn buddies. I remember Bowser dressed to the fucking eyes right in a Mary Beach. Yeah, I want to say I'm torn, but I'm not. I didn't like the Brutals.
I want to see a new cast because I guess we can't just do the Koopalings over and over, but we haven't ever done the Koopalings in 3D, right? Am I wrong about that? I guess not, yeah. Let's do it.
The Kremlins, man. We haven't seen them in hell of a while. Are they not in Galaxi? Are they not in Galaxi?
No? Okay. No. We got to have like a summit for 3D platformer like groups of villains.
You know what I mean? I think Andy has an artist. Yeah, like Morveh, we just got to get it together because I feel like even the big dogs are failing on this. Like, you know, with Odyssey, with Astro Bot, like, why are these groups of villains?
I think we have to have Pujima as a speaker. You look back at all Metal Gears. It's always amazing. You're doing Beast.
Yeah, how do we translate that to 3D platforms? You're right, dude. It's important. We should.
Let's have a summit. Let's have a summit. I think these will, you know, at one point, the Koopalings were nobody's to us, right? I think, I'm using the same rationale.
I was like, look, at one point, Will Ferrell and your favorite SNL cast. But I think these people, this group, what are they calling me? The Void. The Void Baskets.
I think they can really, really. More company. Stand the shit up. Yeah, I think they're going to.
Stand up. You look like a gremlin. I'm down. They look better.
I think that these look significantly better than the cast of Nintendo villains that are brand new, like, groups that we've seen, and I'm including Tropical Freeze and Donkey Kong Country Returns. I think that this group feels like it has a lot more personality than the Brutals, for sure. Who were the Kirby and the Forgotten Land villains? There was that big monkey.
There was just a bunch of big animals. Yeah, you're right. Oh, we're so bad. I do want to call someone on the official press release here, because I was trying to get all the names of the Void Company or whatever.
But more importantly, they do call out that the Void Company, they are also responsible for turning Pauline into Odd Rock. Oh, wow. So it is not Odd Rock turning into Pauline. It is exactly Pauline turning into Odd Rock.
According to Nintendo, if you want to believe that, it could be swervenous. It could be swervenous. The whole Direct ended with a dramatic moment of her falling into a Void, right? And then reaching out.
What if the dramatic end of this game is they have to make it sacrifices? Like, do we save this entire world? Or does she turn into a rocket and Donkey Kong fucking punch his hat into oblivion? Jesus!
I think the end of this game is either going to be them facing Mario or Donkey Kong fucking destroying Pauline as a rocket. Sure, sure. But that sacrifice will let her come back as a human being. You're so right.
I mean, the whole game is anti-rock agenda. Wow. Crazy stuff. Jesus.
This isn't a violent bot. As much as I want the Mario ending, Mike Minotti made a good point on Last of the Nintendogs where it's like, Nintendo, they don't want to have Mario be seen as like a villain, quote unquote, or like as an ally. I don't believe that. That doesn't sound like a real thing.
I don't give a tell if you don't give Mario a gun, you will see Mario in Fortnite with a gun at some point. Stand by. He had a gun in the U.S. Remember when they were horrified when they gave Donkey Kong a gun?
And also, Mario was frowning in like the Smash Bros. games. He's been salient. He's been salient.
That's different than being an antagonist, though. I think that if you, at any point, were really attracted to the visuals of Sonic the Hedgehog and you go, oh shit, he's fighting my guy in the Olympics. He's my villain right now. He's my Russia in that one hockey game.
I don't see it as an antagonist thing. I see it as an ending Easter egg of like, oh, it's Mario. Oh, shit. It's so much fun.
Again, we're going to follow the Last of Us thing. We're seeing Last of Us 5s here. Donkey Kong is the bad guy. Mario is the good guy at the end.
Think about that. But halfway through, you have to play as Mario and then you learn a lot about the connection between you. They're holding a lot back in this direction. Oh, man.
The DK Artist mode. Oh, crazy. Very cool. It looks great.
Yeah, it kind of reminds me of Tilt Brush or I'm blanking on the actual app name for it, but it was one of those kind of first apps that you get whenever you have your VR glasses because you're essentially using the Joy-Cons and manipulate everything. I think it looks really rad. I mean, what a weird addition to throw in here. That makes really no sense, but they're kind of just throwing everything in here.
It feels like one of those things where once you have the systems of the game established and you realize how much good destructibility you have here, it's like, well, we could turn this into a sculpting thing pretty easy. This feels like the game was done a year and a half ago and then they're like, oh, it's not going to switch too long. So they're like, oh, we delayed that a year and a half. So much of this game seems to me like a kid's first adventure.
This is going to be so many kids' favorite video game, their first favorite video game. Adding these extra little modes that seem more fleshed out than they should be. It doesn't just seem like an afterthought. It's like, let's really get in there and add fun little gimmicks and things that kids are going to want to do.
Like turning on the lights and adding the animated backgrounds and stuff. I've said this before, but getting Mario Paint, I found so much fun in that game and it was just a freaking MS Paint clone. You know what I mean? With minor minigames and stuff.
And the music composer. It gave you so many things to do that felt like you wanted to do. And I feel like with this, very Yoshi-coded, which is a good thing. I like gameplay variations.
But I'm not seeing too many variations here. I think that's my biggest problem is so much in this game, it's like you're just punching a break and shit. And then it's like, here's your ability, you go faster to punch and break shit. Here's another transformation where you punch and break shit.
Oh, you run out water. He's run out water there as a zebra. The ostrich is used for flight. He's got eggs.
For me, it takes me back to the knock-on-country game. You had transformations in those, right? Did you transform into Rainbow or did you ride Rainbow? I'm forgetting now.
You wrote them. In the same story. 64, you transform into them. a cool addition.
I'm sure he did this. You think so? With how much they're showing here, I mean, look at that. The design of the rocks has the old school.
Mario vs Donkey Kong, right? What are they fighting on? What is that? A construction site?
Yeah, yeah. I know what you're talking about because I tried to think of it earlier. I couldn't think of the word I was looking for. They're girders.
They're girders. I steal girders. A little wrecking cruciation. I'm not sure, but.
What do we go to swing a banana for? I mean, that would be the swordfish if there were to be one. A marlin, if you will. Remember when, a lot of you didn't know the word marlin.
No. Are you trying to create narratives because you can remember croissant? Oh, bagel. Well, that was me just forgetting the word.
That was me not being able to remember the name of a word in the way that I never remember words. But yeah, I remember bringing up the word swordfish and I brought the word marlin. He was like, what's a marlin? I was like, what are you talking about?
That's crazy. A marlin looks like a swordfish. Yeah. I'm going to be honest, I didn't know what this was either.
Matt in the chat says, gives love to my boy Squawks. Squawks is a parrot. Which we did see him here. He was one of the things that you can Oh my God, I love that.
Oh, did we, sorry. Bear may have brought up the Diddy Kong and Dixie Kong part and I just wasn't going to be paying attention. Yeah, we froze on it a few times and I was at the store. The stuff shop.
That's pretty fun. So much of the UI in this game is Mario Odyssey with a slightly different font. Like if I'm fake, man, go. Like if you bring them up and I miss them every single time.
Yeah, yeah. They're at the desk. I think I see a competition thing going on here, so maybe they're judges or some shit. That's cool.
They smash the desk. They walk in there, we need a reservation. There are no Kingsley says they smash the desk. I'm sure there are different genuses or species or something like that.
I love the color variants, man. It's one of my favorite things in gaming, you know? It's what, you know, seeing Mega Man get different colored armor is so cool back in the day for me. Yeah, sure.
One of his power-ups is he turns into an ostrich. Oh, you went, sorry. I'll think of the swordfish. I'll think of the marlin.
I'm with you, Andy. They're having different skills. Very cool. I hope there's the transmog or whatever it's called to be aesthetically pleasing and have the power-ups.
They won't. They won't. They're having the music. They'll actually be able to go and choose different songs.
Thank you. That's awesome. And it seems like there's going to be a sizable library of songs. I love the Odyssey soundtrack.
It was such a different vibe, too. I kind of wish that there weren't these RPG mechanics. Not that I'm ever again. I'm never that type of person that when a game adds that stuff, I'm always like, I'm never that dude, but I would like it if just as you progress through the game, all of that stuff became stronger and then you could go, oh, shit, now I'm seeing stuff way deep in my mind.
Let me go back to the first world and see what I could have missed there. Would you rather be, the more you use it, it levels up automatically so if you're paying someone all the time, it's leveled up? Well, no, because I don't want you to be at your desk doing the lockpick mechanic in oblivion. That was a lot of fun, though.
30 minutes. It was 15. Everybody to get to 99. The last 30 seconds, I've just watched Valesco from tab to tab to tab looking at different versions of Swordfish and then he slowly goes to Marlin from Finding Nemo and clicks on it to get to his Wikipedia page to learn more.
We're a broken society. Why would they call the clownfish a Marlin? That's confusing, isn't it? As a child, how am I supposed to grow up knowing what a Marlin is when Pixar told me this whole time that this clownfish is called Marlin?
That's his name. Yeah, but that's confusing as a kid. I guess I also grew up, you know, I'm an Atlanta Braves fan. The Florida Marlins were a team and our team and now there's a Miami Marlins.
That's the only reason I knew they were a baseball team. That's probably where I first heard it, too. Yeah, I keep going back and forth because I'm a swordfish and Marlin. Very different, but also, oh, it's cool to start with some DNA.
You know, I'm trying to figure out for sure. Was it somebody on this panel that asked me about Orcas recently? You may have dreamt that. Maybe it was somebody super fun stream.
Uncharted 2 continuing Naughty Dog week leading into this Friday's Barrett Courtney video essay where he replayed every single Naughty Dog game. What are his thoughts? You'll have to wait and see on Friday. But until then, I love you all.
Goodbye.