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0:37 Welcome to the castle super weird lighting cast~! Are you hungover, woolie? Nope.

1:13 so, that majima pirate game, huh? Like a dragon: pirate yakuza in hawaii.

 - 2:11 the premise was leaked 6 months ago but no one believed it. And the steps to how this game got made. I guess I am a pirate.

 - 4:18 a good excuse to reset majima.

 - 5:03 the title is so incredibly blunt.

 - 6:21 the pre-order bonus

 - 7:03 the pirate yakuza part is not the weirdest thing. One of the actors in the netflix series is playing a character in this game.

 - 7:55 so its not as simple as majima loves one piece?

 - 8:35 so, did you watch the trailer? The setup for the trailer is the end of infinite wealth

 - 9:16 was there any attempt to contextualize the samurai games?

 - 10:33 good job, johnnys, judgment is dead. Dont cast real actors.

 - 12:25 majima has shadow clones.

 - 14:03 its coming out in 5 months. Catching up is impossible. And this dealing with the fallout of infinite wealth.

 - 15:19 how is this in modern day?! Madlantis, and have you been to purgatory in yakuza 0?

 - 18:48 “old men doing old man shit.” and is this announcement preferable to a judgment sequel?

 - 21:24 this one being the new “Get in here!” to replace yakuza 0. And Gene Park on the RGG development style. Just reuse stuff! Only one that wasn’t really good was dead souls

 - - 25:06 what’s new in the average musou game? And the fist pump move thats in every game

 - - 26:42 the sega emulator put in the games

 - - 27:19 the location being accurate is part of the appeal.

 - - 28:40 you could probably write a more impressive story if you could move past this city block, but they’ve restricted it here

 - - - 29:50 yakuza 5’s large amount of locations with not much stuff going on

 - 31:16 Woolie has a lot of things he wants to play and not much time. Curating side quests.

 - 33:47 Yuki is back again!

WEEK OF THE BEAST LORDS

WOOLIE

34:26 Woolie got to the steel samurai case in phoenix wright. He has met oldbag. All the criminal archetypes are represented here, including the annoying ass mother in law.

 - 37:47 recurring characters like Gumshoe. And Gumshoe being a bit slow. And the concept of just picking up evidence off the floor.

 - 40:08 edgeworth. He’s such a shit early on.

 - 42:04 you can cheat using magic yourself. And the universe only exists in the courtroom, just ignore possible knock on effects.

 - 45:22 you wont be getting the prosecutorial side of things

46:05 finishing dino crisis 1. This being the weirdest survival horror games of the time.

 - 46:51 It's a shame the worst parts of the game should have been the best, being the T-rex encounters.

 - 48:46 the rest was pretty cool. Look at these characters that are not resident evil characters.

 - 49:36 it had nothing to do with Jurassic park, and 3rd energy.

 - 51:09 moments where you’re free to go all out. And survival horror training you to not waste inventory.

 - 52:30 mixing herbs being incredibly complicated

 - 54:50 frustration was the style at the time. And the difference between FFXIV hunt trains and FF11 hunting.

 - 57:33 games designed around the internet, and being robbed of tension.  

 - - 1:00:48 phoenix wright and there not being anything you can stick them with at a certain point.  

 - 1:02:20 woolie enjoyed it.

1:02:27 shadow of the erdtree. There being nerfs since last time. And the culture around fromsoft games being hard meaning less people will complain.

 - 1:04:32 getting the twin swords. And hands.

 - 1:06:35 the walking furnace where the rules change. Use the consumables. Now. and the reward you get for the first one is the best one.

 - 1:08:25 pat uninstalled elden ring. An incredible game he’ll never play again. Pat wants to play just the DLC

 - - 1:09:17 not feeling that sort of thing for bloodborne

1:10:14 reboot rewind, a documentary series on reboot where there was a special airing in Montreal for the first 2 episodes. Finding the old D1 tapes.

 - 1:12:17 the expectations going in. and the reboot to mad max pipeline.

 - 1:13:33 there was way more info than they expected. And reboot being the start of 3D CG animation.

 - 1:16:38 how cheap and shoddy the initial production was, one of the hotel staff where they were staying at joining in

 - 1:17:35 this is the most definitive collection of details on reboot that currently exists.

 - 1:18:47 walking into a room with other reboot fans. Wearing the jacket.  

 - 1:20:05 they’ll start airing on the 24th.

1:21:25 astro bot is such a video game. Look, its the pocket station and all the friends you love that are never coming back! And playstation not owning the characters but there’s an association there. The ape escape bits

 - 1:24:42 the god of war level

 - 1:25:21 some real fun platforming. But is it as fun as concord?! Astro bot just being incredibly competent.

 - - 1:27:45 who talked about astro bot before release?

 - 1:28:57 it is a full priced experience.

1:29:20 pokemon: close combat. It's a fun little indie fighter. Has a solid cast of 20 characters.

 - 1:32:53 a video of tyrogue evolving into one of its evolutions based on what types of moves you used the most

 - - 1:34:22 budokai tenkaichi is right. And wanting more mechanics like that

 - 1:37:25 if you beat arcade mode without losing, you unlock gorochu. The secret master of gorochu is…?!

 - 1:39:18 it's constantly updated too. Its fun!

1:40:22 Go check out woolie over at woolieversus!

PAT

1:40:47 pat’s not been doing a lot of streams this week to take a break from constantly streaming. Falling asleep trying to play plucky squire, even though it's a great game.

1:42:12 pat played more kinitsu-gami. It continues to be amazing. Introducing more mechanics and incentives to replay levels

 - 1:43:31 any boss fights? Yes. and does it still feel like a tower defense?

 - - 1:45::17 so what do you buy with the rewards? The upgrades

 - 1:46:22 pat is mad it’s so good. And the new game plus.

 - 1:47:05 is “it's pretty solid” good enough these days? And it sold 500K copies so far. And the ps2 look.

 - 1:48:29 pat having fun going back doing old levels. And how bad the okami stuff looks.

1:50:14 space marine 2. It’s incredible. “Hey pat, has paige seen a necron once?” and now she's into 40k. She has the infinite and the divine. Shes playing rogue trader.

- 1:52:52 shoutout to bricky. And also playing space marine with mandalore gaming.

 - 1:53:41 there’s a threat of 40k minis invading the house. And has paige played grim fandango…? Manny is not her type.

 - 1:54:41 he’s also streaming 40k: darktide. And 40k is the only one where the sci-fi setting is more popular than the fantasy setting

 - 1:57:31 the question of what makes warhammer so good?

 - - 1:58:55 remembering friends being into warcraft 2, and then starcraft, then world of warcraft. When’s world of starcraft?    

 - - 2:02:40 starcraft 2 not really taking off as expected.

 - - 2:03:35 space marine 1 & 2 are starcraft ghost. Still wanting ghost.

 - - 2:06:00 an enemy you cant defeat in space marine 2

 - - 2:07:08 warhammer is starcraft without restraint

 - 2:08:10 pat is going to start reading warhammer books. Soon, he’ll wind up painting a figure.

 - - 2:09:34 age of sigmar is cool. Age of ligma or age of sugmar?

 - - 2:10:16 what's the point of minis you don't paint yourself? And paige will be streaming rogue trader.

2:12:09 this week will be big. State of Play tomorrow, MK DLC, terry bogard, a stream on wednesday at 2pm, 40k darktide, space marine 2, frostpunk 2 and age of mythology retold all over at patstaresat! And on the state of dawn of war 2.

NEWS

2:15:15  nintendo is suing palworld over patents. Woolie questions about the other pokemon-likes. People think perhaps this is more about the catching mechanics.

 - 2:18:00 palworld coming to competitors may also be a tipping point.

 - 2:18:57 the company might have to make gameplay changes. The lawsuit is probably in nintendo’s favor. Remember the article on “we dont know what to do with all this money?”

 - 2:20:54 reminder, this is patent infringement. And nintendo starting genres that others take further.

 - 2:22:28 with nintendo, as long as you’re making money, you are in the line of fire.

 - 2:24:54 we’ll see what happens. Patent law is its own zone. And video game patents that other companies own.

 - - 2:27:44 terry bogard and street fighter’s history.

 - 2:29:40 this lawsuit is hilarious. Cant we hire a guy like kiryu to shake em down?

 - - 2:31:45 how appropriate it is that sega of japan has a 23 part series on how cool the yakuza are given their history

 - 2:32:59 If you like palworld, do try to buy it since it’d be delisted

2:33:19 Toxic positivity. People trying to dissect the death of concord: the supposed 400 million cost and the culture in the studio. On the source of this info being taken with a grain of salt

 - 2:36:22 the actual part that can be corroborated is the toxic positivity in the studio, the 400 million seems suspicious.

 - 2:38:28 Pat recalling the plinkett episode 1 review

 - 2:40:08 the number is probably high enough that sony is still feeling it. They put a real marketing budget behind this.

 - 2:41:18 Is there a “this sucks” “what do you want me to do? It's too late.” The just ship it mentality does not tend to go with “here’s your money back.”

 - 2:43:37 Concord’s deal was the animated shorts. They are technically immaculate. But so incredibly boring.

 - 2:46:02 on rumbleverse’s artstyle. Concord’s complete failure to convert the artwork to models.

 - 2:49:29 It’ll be interesting to see if a sony bigwig will move on to other things after this. Also the head of concord’s team just quit.

2:50:06 FFXIV and 7 rebirth heavily underperformed. Looking up the actual sales numbers. Comparing to 7 remake.

 - 2:52:17 There's a lot of reasons to account for this. FFXV took forever, FF7 remake was asked about for a while. And Pat on FF7 remake series not being an actual remake.

 - - 2:55:46 talking about the series with his FFXIV friends. The different audiences.

 - - 2:57:32 multi-platform vs. exclusivity deals.

 - 2:59:43 FF7 rebirth has a LOT of money in it. For no reason. Pat just wants ever crisis. If FF7 remake came out on the ps2 or 3, this conversation would not be happening.

 - - 3:02:22 When was mass effect trilogy? The second of 3 games has come out after 9 years. A trilogy where you can get through school playing it.

 - 3:05:16 time for the least fair comparison: how many yakuza games were released?

 - - 3:06:24 final fantasy used to come out in record time. And how much more money can you pump in for more oomph before you start hitting a soft cap?

 - 3:07:55 Nomura on why he makes pretty characters

 - 3:08:33 It's rough news. Pat: make smaller games. Make ps2 games.

 - 3:09:55 spiderman 2 cost 5 times as much as spiderman 1.

 - 3:10:37 the talk about investing in game companies and the war of attention.

 - 3:11:17 pat with ratchet and clank: a rift apart

 - 3:12:37 despite pat’s complaints, rebirth is an incredible game

 - 3:13:17 the exclusivity deals will probably be renegotiated

3:14:32 you know what could save FF? Put Cristiano Ronaldo in the game. On putting him in city of the wolves. Woolie believes this is happening is because of saudi arabia

 - 3:17:33 so, is this how you get a mainstream audience to look at your game? Whens jordan blanco?

 - 3:19:23 Pat wants him to be a horribly out of place fighter. Just add goku. And him walking around and people passing out on seeing him.

3:21:06 Johnny Young Bosch as the new voice of dante in the DMC netflix animated series. Will be coming out in April next year. On why reuben langdon is not the voice.

 - 3:24:04 Reuben speaks. And Johnny on Langdon having quit acting. Pat: they should have gotten tim phillips. Or the DMC1 guy.

 - 3:26:44 vergil should show up with johnny doing his adachi voice. And the only other choice probably was alex lee.

 - 3:28:04 get reuben back to voice nero

3:28:50 oz cobb. On the penguin show, “it's not a comic book show, it's a crime drama.” being ashamed of being a comic book.

 - 3:30:54 Colin Farrell and regretting wearing the suit because he got incredibly hot. Pat: just hire an ugly guy. Hire danny devito.

 - 3:34:36 its disrespectful to the past to not show respect for that 60s comic book era shows with all these great actors.

 - 3:36:09 Batman always calls them by their name

 - 3:37:18 the penguin is not crazy, he’s just a criminal

 - 3:37:41 so, james gunn’s superman is up next. Pat wants a super dickery movie. Pat got bright yellow wolverine. All the dumb costumes

3:39:48 platinum games has the wonderful 101 trademark from nintendo. Capcom was right to yell at those dudes - pat.

EMAILS

3:41:28: Emails! Send your emails to castlesuperbeastmail@gmail.com!

3:41:54 On what draws you to a character, and if attractive characters are what draws you.

3:58:10 That’ll do

3:58:18 END OF PODCAST: end of theme of slayer; korean