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0:00 THEME OF SLAYER; KOREAN

0:34 Welcome to the castle super witch abs cast~! Woolie is a simple man. Witch abs WILL make him goon. The designs in hades 2 are top notch

 - 1:27 Hecate is being voiced by Amelia Tyler, too. The flipside of talking to hades.

 - 2:38 Woolie is curious, when was the last time Pat got hit by nosebleed action? Moros.

 - 4:16 how do you improve on aphrodite?

 - 4:55 where are you at in Hades 2, woolie? Only managed one quick run. He beat hecate.

 - - 5:44 how are you feeling on spoilers? You should play hades 1 before this.

 - 7:42 on the mechanical structure of the game compared to 1. The mystery staircase and the new areas being counterpoints to the issues from the areas from hades 1

 - - 10:55 internalizing annoying things as ‘because the game is hard.’

 - - 12:25 the 3rd area. A huge area and combined doors.

 - - 14:07 the 4th area. A binary choice between upgrading or going straight to the boss, that you can repeat.

 - - 14:57 chronos is way harder than hades

 - - 15:26 hades 3 is going up

 - 16:50 woolie is fine just lightly scraping it until it's officially released.

 - 17:27 ping ponging between above and below. And the cauldron upgrades are better now. Every upgrade is mechanical instead of cosmetic.

 - 19:30 have you gotten to a point where you have as much as zagreus had? No, because the arcana system is different. And any opinion on mechanical obtuseness? On how the cards work.

 - - 23:22 “this is a woolie problem.” and pat explaining it differently. And on Magic.

 - - 26:06 the mana bar is super interesting. Some boons activate at 0. And attaching boons to sprinting.

 - - 29:16 DoTs that can cash out a stack. Old abilities incorporated elsewhere, like doom being zeus’ shocked now.

 - - 31:25 demeter is inverted now. Freezes instantly, then thaws.

 -  - 31:56 getting more busted stuff instantly.  

 - - 32:56 apollo making your moves bigger

 - 33:26 casting has been improved. Cast is now a ‘get off me’ button

 - - 35:34 status combos are still around, but statuses are rarer. And more on casts.

 - 39:37 there's a lot of structurally interesting stuff. Meeting Eris.

 - 40:32 the change in quality of runs depending on weapon. And the weapons arent 100% there. The torch being terrible. The axe being amazing. The skull as zagreus’ cast and making it useful.

 - 45:42 getting something that makes a build, and the accessories.  

 - 47:36 the boon rings and how it works now.

 - 48:58 Nemesis. Shes not tsundere, shes just awful. A living hater. Replacing thanatos and has a bunch of stuff she can do. She can steal boons from you and buy stuff out of the shop. She’ll take chaos gates too.  

 - 52:54 a great game that is definitely not done. And odysseus.

- 53:43 have you seen chronos, woolie? Talking shit to you and teleporting you to the wrong location. He can teleport you to stuff in hades 1.

 - - 55:00 the details in chronos’ design. And new chaos.

 - 57:10 pat describes what's missing, but there’s still a lot.  

 - 58:35 Pats limit for early access.

 - 1:00:20 pat cant find zagreus. And characters that have placeholder art.

 - - 1:02:12 entirely new art and the response to it.

 - 1:03:35 the theme remix is good, but woolie misses the bass from 1. And Chronos’ theme.

 - 1:04:42 pat is so glad he doesn't have to play elysium anymore. And balancing passes in 2. And on theseus and asterios.

WEEK OF THE BEAST LORDS

WOOLIE

1:07:35 X-men 97. It is so consistently tight and amazing. morph being great.

 - 1:10:12 looking at the camera and saying the meme. The space adventures with charles were just as lame as one can recall.

 - 1:12:57 getting classic of charles screaming. Woolie buying comics right around the time bastion was being reintroduced in the aughts.

 - 1:16:09 moments that would be a new issue reveal with a new costume are now super saiyan moments.         

 - 1:17:27 pats favorite x-men is nightcrawler. Seeing bamfing.

 - 1:19:04 and moments of “look, you can see their parachutes!” Hands staying clean.

 - 1:20:34 being a fan of the silly shit there.

 - 1:21:21 xavier looking terrible. Magneto was doing great until genosha. Seeing the numbers on his arm.

 - 1:23:26 seeing details that are very character informing.

 - 1:24:36 pat’s one complaint about the finale: its there to cause drama. Why send wolverine to fight magneto?

 - 1:26:57 heading toward onslaught, huh? Going to MvC1.

1:28:28 Miyamoto Musashi’s book of 5 rings as a manga. The artwork does NOT carry that vagabond energy.

 - 1:32:27 woolie understands why it would be difficult to continue, because one would need to unlearn lessons with time

1:33:23 Gundam Seed Freedom. Woolie watched the movie in theaters. Doing it for the bit.

 - 1:35::41 the movie is a proper sequel to the series. There is not a moment where they waver on the original at all. If you loved seed, you love this.

 - 1:37:16 Pat has not seen seed. Woolie explaining seed. Look at all this breakup drama that has extreme space war consequences!

 - - 1:40:45 the power of love is the strongest.

 - 1:43:09 a little girl villain is there too. Just ignore how shes a grown woman in a child’s body.

 - 1:44:31 politics arent real.

 - 1:45:38 quadrupling down on Seed, it being amazingly popular in japan.

 - 1:49:20 woolie says go watch stargazer instead. And pat on the idea of basing your thoughts off a small part of a whole thing

 - 1:50:52 war is bad, cheating is worse. What if cage made omikron 2?

 - 1:53:13 definitely go watch it

1:53:31 polymega. It’ll play all sorts of retro games if you have the physical media.

 - 1:56:15 only thing he noticed thats off is the snes has input lag. And going all the way up to PS1.

 - 1:58:02 woolie finding some of his nes cartridges no longer work. The saturn stuff was solid.

 - 1:59:35 “i need to get this before the company is shut down.”

2:00:42 guitar hero came to fortnite. Getting a riffmaster and playing rockband 4. The downfall of those types of those games.

 - 2:02:58 the active maliciousness of kotick purposely destroying the industry so no one else can have it.

 - - 2:04:45 pat keeps an xbox on his desk. It is doing more as a prop than a console.

 - 2:05:29 booting up rockband 4. The controller that can fold on itself.

 - 2:06:38 enjoying go back to old songs. The game cannot handle normal usage. The gmes getting people into music they didn’t know.

 - 2:09:46 woolie wanting to keep one guitar in his home, pat thinking guitar games are going the way of lightgun games.

 - 2:11:46 returning to an old game, and being unable to handle expert.

2:12:50 go check out woolie over at woolieversus! This time he is absolutely playing monk in DNFduel. More yakuza, and going to combobreaker! Will akuma be banned? On what version they’ll play.

 - 2:17:41 spectator events should be for the spectators first and the players second.

 - 2:20:15 what if theres something screwy with akuma that needs immediate addressing?

 - 2:21:35 just release tigers into the arena for top 8.

 - 2:22:45 finished the FFXVI DLC. fighting a guy with big souls energy. Fighting leviathan.

 - - 2:24:58 woolie wants a big kaiju fight that was still fast.

 - - 2:27::07 why’d they release the DLC in reverse? The bloody palace and getting ultima. Better bahamamut.

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PAT

2:36:22 the black riddler vs. drake. What are you trying to say, riddler?! Just say it!

 - 2:41:40 what's the line in the sand between the theatricality of music vs. social media.

 - 2:44:54 discovering the drake shell company for his security.

 - 2:45:53 how can you hate black riddler, woolie? Pat loves DrakeAnon.

2:52:44 can you even talk about marvel rivals, pat? The wide range of specificity and requirements for getting codes. The commitment form. You are not bound by an agreement you didn’t sign!

 - 2:56:26 please dont talk bad about our game. At all. Forever. Or any of the properties in it. And if you do then pay us. Dont even compare it to competitors either.

 - 2:58:58 the reaction of “I dont know if I’m going to sign this.” And the marvel branding guide. No non-marvel brands on screen.

 - 3:01:10 smaller content creators are being used for advertising. The game is pretty good, which is the weird part.

 - - 3:02:52 explaining Juice. Juice is not sauce.

 - 3:04:18 it is absolutely bootleg overwatch. And walking it back on twitter…

 - 3:05:14 so, since its netease, what horrible monetization did they add? Get EVERY character ‘cause they have different strengths from week to week.

 - 3:07:44 hulk is D.va

 - 3:08:41 loki is an interesting support character. He can set up holograms of himself and swap with any of them

 - 3:09:25 doctor strange and his portals.

3:10:53 stellar blade. The 1.0 release having screwy parry timing but the patches fixing it. The hard mode being the naked outfit.

 - 3:12:24 Despite the character being sexy, the content is sexless and sterile. The Voice acting is terrible. And apparently the story just makes no sense. It's like The Room.

 - 3:13:31 There are other characters too.all of them look like they are from different games.

 - 3:13:58 the story is nonsense.

 - 3:15:24 the game is super solid. Its a great sekiro-like. To repeat from last week, Nier automata with a way worse story but better gameplay.

 - 3:17:09 is yoko taro gooning too? Or just humble? And the music is done by the nier people. Lots of nier influence everywhere.

 - 3:18:08 there’s lots of outfits. And pat is saying his favorite outfits are the completely covering ones.

 - 3:19:14 some taking a stance of not buying until its uncensored. And twitter takes on hades 2 are wild.

3:22:03 FFVII rebirth. The game is gigantic. Some people are saying its too big. Pat is not even halfway through the game. You do NOT have to do all the side content.

 - 3:25:01 proto-relic sidequests are the cool ones that give stuff.

 - 3:28:12 you’d assume thered be a gameplay switch up where you’d play as someone else… but they drip feed you that.

3:29:35 more backlog. He played PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo. He meant to play it for an hour. Played 3 hours. It has the perfect autospeed.

 - 3:31:16 the core premise: getting a stand power to kill enough people with your stand to bring them back to life.

 - 3:33:33 its great.

3:34:21 go check out pat over at patstaresat! More FFVII rebirth! Thursday, pat is watching the FFXIV live letter at 4am PST.

 - 3:37:15 his mother in law is visiting. pregnancy being horrible to experience but your body makes you forget the worst of it

NEWS

3:40:48 Squre Enix layoffs. Lots of game sales selling short of expectations. Lots of restructuring. Trying to work outside exclusivity now.

 - 3:42:36 probably are safe in japan, but you’re screwed in the US while europe might give some forewarning.

3:43:28 microsoft is offering buyouts to other internal studios. And you are not safe in this industry.

 - 3:45:04 matt booty in double fine documentary. And look at all this stuff microsoft just passed up.

 - 3:47:29 balancing a budget on a 90 day schedule. What even is safe now?

3:49:20 adult swim are giving the games back to the devs. This is the bare minimum.

3:51:58 so, that helldivers 2 thing… its not mandatory to sign in, but still cant play.

 - 3:53:47 animal well. No, dunkey didnt make this game. And that warren spector quote.

 - 3:56:32 an update from the CEO of helldivers that is something woolie already said earlier. We need to have it done our way instead of getting people playing the game.

 - 3:59:01 there are people whose careers are based on the numbers of subs going up. Line must go up.

 - 4:01:34 the sale of 80 billion dollars, and how long it would take to make that back. Whats the metrics here?

 - 4:04:44 remember phil spencer talking about how cool it’d be to buy nintendo? Pat’s thoughts: they’ll close down studios to just buy another studio like capcom or konami.

 - 4:07:07 microsoft’s refusal to hire people full time.

4:08:40 before emails, there’s a 3rd strike anniversary celebration manga.

4:09:58 Nick Cage is spiderman noir in the live action TV series.

EMAILS

4:10:40 emails! Send your emails to castlesuperbeastmail@gmail.com! And dracula from castlevania coming to dead by daylight

4:11:30 Can you think of any changes that a dev team has made that was used for something else in a negative way?

4:14:30 are you willing to give gyro aiming a shot?

4:16:30 thats it. Dont get fired. Or struck by lightning.

4:16:39 END OF PODCAST: end of theme of slayer; korean