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0:00 THEME OF SLAYER; KOREAN

0:34 Welcome to the castle super invisible cast~! Pat can’t see woolie. On the pros of being able to see who you’re talking about.

 - 1:38 Being able to see Sir Meow’s face last week to help with knowing when to reply.

WEEK OF THE BEAST LORDS

PAT

2:15 how’s it going, pat? Pat learned king charles III has cancer in UwU.

4:06 Persona 3 Reload. HEY YOU WANT MONEY TO STREAM PERSONA 3?

 - 5:15 punch-mom had to tap out of P3P due to tartarus, jumping back in with P3R.  

 - 6:01 pat playing the original p4 and p5, but never finishing golden or royale. And never played the answer. Going through an RPG again is a tough ask.

 - 8:38 what version of P3 do you want?

 - 10:07 the loss with P3R of the femC campaign

 - 11:35 leakers that have leaked the answer is coming. Would they release the FemC campaign later too? And a modern persona game bolted on to the oldest modern persona campaign

 - 12:53 the rewind system, incredible QoL. And the Network function. Finding out you can hang out with people on certain days.  

 - 15:55 running around environments and actually being able to see behind stuff. And the new VAs doing their best.

 - 17:06 Talking to people and the text going grey. people having background storylines.

 - 18:34 you can teleport, but you can come across twilight fragments.

 - 20:33 jumping into combat and appreciating how stylish it is.

 - - 21:52 QoL for stuff like shuffle time, but keeping the core the same. Remember the hermit arcana?

 - 23:39 Liking the music. Pat saying it sounds better in game than what they released. And the new tracks.

 - 25:03 full voice acting for S.links are important. And people you dont really want to hang out with but you have to.

 - 27:20 demon fusion upgrades, finally. And still not really figuring out how the fusions work.

 - 29:11 Theurgy. A limit break that builds based on their old AI personalities.

 - - 30:19 will shinji get his great gospel?

 - 30:47 P3R gets to the game fast compared to the other games. And Woolie reading the lines out loud on stream.

 - 34:00 pat has hit the moment in his life where he’s too far from highschool to remember this stuff. Just cheat on the school answers.

 - 37:42 tartarus didnt seem changed up much. Theres a LOT of floors. The flavor text. Persona 4’s dungeons.

 - 40:52 there remixes are pretty good all around, but if you’re used to the old version it’ll sound not right. And looking at the DLC. Pat says DO NOT buy the music off of steam. Its an exe file.

 - - 43:15 one of the strangest process for the sponsor video: asking for B-roll for music. Had to get the music illegally because they only gave him images.

 - 44:56 pat has hope for streaming metaphor, dealing with a publisher that is crazy about spoilers so they just spoil you with the guide on what not to talk about.

47:23 Like a dragon: infinite wealth. There’s SO MUCH. Playing sujimon after palworld. Sujimon is actually just straight up the pokemon ripoff.

 - 49:14 the sujimon stuff is mandatory. Its a really good pokemon knockoff

 - 50:41 you can stop at your leisure, but theres a point where you will start going between locations and you’ll be locked to things in that area.

 - 51:23 find all 400 photos! But pat, its only 110! And sicko snap.

 - 53:05 danny trejo doing a danny trejo, now with TWO machetes!

 - 54:03 kiryu has caught ichiban’s dragon quest dementia. And P3R compared to infinite wealth

 - 55:20 anything like the bread moment? Shaking the ice around in a soda.

56:20 putting the baby to sleep. And watching the 1960 peter pan musical with mary martin.

 - 59:09 pat does not know how long musicals are

 - - 1:01:47 people play hockey for hours!

 - 1:03:39 its a corny old musical, very sincere. The overwhelming cognitive dissonance of a specifically old woman playing peter pan.

 - 1:05:24 hook is the star of the musical. And peter pan sucks.

 - 1:06:39 in a modern context peter pan comes off sinister. “Take me, not her!”

 - 1:09:16 was paige aware of this context? Yes.

 - 1:10:18 knowledge synthesis occurring in his brain. Tinkerbelle just dies. Pat, you WILL clap to bring her back

 - 1:12:45 this is made in the 1960s by british people. So that native tribe of indians… they GO for it.

 - 1:14:32 nana the dog is played by a man in a fursuit.”You can talk about it on the podcast!”

1:16:55 go check out pat over at patstaresat on twitch!

1:17:24 a new silent hill came out this week have you heard about a short message? Its your responsibility to the community to hatewatch it!

 - 1:18:54 the playstation store continues to be hilariously unreliable.

 - 1:19:44 bringing horror to a modern audience. The ‘silent hill’ phenomena!

 - 1:22:08 the game’s premise is insane considering they canceled P.T. And silent Hills feels like it would have gone with the silent hill phenomena.

 - 1:24:02 talking about gameplay first. Its a walking sim with light puzzle solving. Its a 2 hour full game that is free. Two problems: your turning radius is slow. And the final chase sequence is insanely difficult for some reason.

 - 1:27:54 the setting and the story. Pat describes an emotion: steve buscemi with two skateboards going ‘how do you do fellow kids.’ crossed with bernie sanders saying ‘all women know how to do is eat hot chip, charge they phone, and lie. And be bisexual.’

 - 1:29:14 pat goes over the basic premise of the story, on suicidal idealization.

 - - 1:32:08 the scale of bojack horseman to 13 reasons why. Where’s this? Pat can’t place it.

 - 1:32:41 This is not by bloober team. one of the only games pat can think of where the basic statement it argues with is just incorrect. Strongest animals dont need help.

 - 1:35:22 there is a narrative here, right? Its a mess. On the ‘how do you do fellow kids’ bit he was talking about earlier. An apathetic apology from an older generation.

 - - 1:37:10 an example on tone deafness and weirdness with maya, the graffiti artist and the main character’s feelings toward her.

 - 1:39:49 can we talk about the core narrative? SPOILERS FROM HERE.  

 - 2:01:56 pat and something controversial: silent hill 2 is the worst thing to happen to silent hill. No one can do a crucible of trauma story right. Shattered memories was a good attempt.

 - - 2:04:11 downpour is the worst

 - - - 2:06:09 shoutout to homecoming and downpour where you can get the joke ending by accident

 - 2:06:45 woolie coud imagine a story that took its time to analyze the initial premise. Pat says dont. THe series has been terrible for so long.

 - 2:08:08 so what are the silent hill 2 devs doing?

2:11:32 but hey, we’re getting a NEW silent hill 2! Let’s talk about silent hill 2. THe silent hill 2 combat trailer got released.

 - 2:13:18 the discussion on how to remake something.

 - 2:14:23 silent hill 2 and the bizarre problem on how to remake it. An example with the voice acting in the original.

 - 2:18:04 The combat trailer tightening up the combat. That was never the issue. It was never to provide a thrill.

 - 2:20:32 should silent hill 2’s gameplay should be bad on purpose? Pat on how to modernize it. Creating Anxiety. Look at signalis.

 - 2:22:23 “reap what you sow.” The moment pat knew this remake was fucked.

 - 2:25:02 What is the most hack shit the remake could include: if you go to the bar early, you CAN see a hole. But what if they let you have pre-order weapons?

 - - 2:27:04 the most likely hack shit: Maria and Mary having the same models, despite only having the same face and voice in the original

 - 2:29:17 so… how was layers of fear? They were pretty bad

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WOOLIE

2:39:53 More Palworld. That weird feeling of the game not coming back in, so there’s only exploration and you figure it out.

 - 2:43:25 going up the tech tree, the oversight booth. And various types of medicines and drugs.

 - 2:45:18 woolie is missing moments of arriving somewhere or having done something. Wanting a more directed experience.

 - - 2:47:04 sudden teleports into fromsoft boss rooms. Its just there.

 - 2:47:54 the copies keep selling! And Woolie recalling vampire survivors and it’s progression.

 - - 2:49:58 version 666 of vampire survivors. What even qualifies as beating vampire survivors anymore?

 - 2:51:33 at some point he’ll have had his fill, but until then, there’s a pall with a samurai sword!

2:52:19 Tekken 8’s story mode. So far, its been pretty wacky and wild. Them straight up addressing all the people jin killed.

 - 2:54:09 every member of the family sucks. Except lars. reina totally learned all that mishima stuff off the internet

 - 2:55:13 tekken force mode equivalent. Being reminded of the gamecube naruto games with 4 players but not being able to focus on more than 1 opponent

2:56:51 Half-life 2. He’s enjoying it so far. Riding boats lasts a WHILE. Getting hit by severe motion sickness

 - 2:59:37 G-man’s lines, the expectations from how people talk about this game. What the game actually is. Thought it would be a narrative shooter like gears, but this is one of the earliest iterations. LOOK AT THESE PHYSICS

 - 3:03:05 the vibe carrying over from black mesa. And the power of the crowbar.

 - 3:04:07 playing it mouse and keyboard seems fine due to being less strain. Woolie has yet to get the gravity gun.

 - 3:05:23 seeing the issues from ultrakill propping up here., even if half-life 2 is much slower. re-keybinding controls. And jump crouching

 - 3:08:12 hoping to get past the motion sickness issues. Fighting the helicopter.

 - 3:09:13 Knowing he’ll get attacked by a horde of one guys. Formative experiences as they get older will get weirder.

 - 3:11:30 The spin-offs all look pretty good. They’ll be done if/when woolie gets around to them. And opposing force.

 - - 3:12:42 Pat’s tiktok addiction. He loves dog videos. Filtering out comments. Pat will absolutely believe someone has died.

3:14:00 continuing tekken 8’s story and more half life 2 over on woolieversus on twitch and youtube! And Pat bumping something two weeks in a row means its dead. Woolie isnt like that he’ll get to it at his own pace. Pat tells an FFXIV story.

 - 3:17:01 the vortigants, one is just a janitor

NEWS

3:17:40 STATE OF PLAY

3:17:50 time for maximum Kojumbo. Death Stranding 2: On the Beach. Decoding his bullshit for the rest of his life.

 - 3:20:02 a pivot from being grounded to more outrageous stuff. Death stranding starting out with mystical stuff, but still solemn and subdued. So where does kojima go from here?

 - - 3:23:22 why it’s second hands

 - - 3:24:10 the guitar as a weapon. The avatar of america.

 - 3:26:00 connecting the network outside america. And woolie remembers ha and ka. Its about the rope and the stick!

 - - 3:28:34 did kojima watch dracula flow?

 - 3:29:34 but what about lou…?

 - 3:31:22 can’t wait to do some trucking! And look at all those environments. And the feelings Woolie felt after the last game felt pretty complete.

 - 3:33:00 there’s a reasonable transition from the old story to the new one.

 - 3:34:23 the end of the various MGS games. The end of death stranding feels like the end of snake eater. And the game was too weird, it felt like he hoodwinked sony.

3:37:03 physint, kojima’s other game after Death Stranding 2. A sneaking espionage game made with sony. They’ve got this, OD, and death stranding 2 now.

 - 3:39:41 so who will be cast as the leading spy man? Pat suggests kurt russell.

 - - 3:41:10 kurt russell declined because carpenter wasnt involved. But carpenter plays video games all day. So…

 - 3:42:33 theres apparently a movie too? And sitting on the line between genius and hack shit. He loves the industry.

 - - 3:46:15 a film nerd pushing a paper forward with the writing going ‘do you like me?’ Bringing it back to the Sir Meow encounter.

 - - 3:47:52 He is IN america living the dream. This is what geoff keighley is trying to protect. Boomhauer isnt the same in japanese!  

3:49:48 Dragon’s dogma 2, the action trailer. A new class that can freely have other moves at the cost of lower stats. The party of 4 is important.

 - 3:53:03 So, do the advantages here outweigh the disadvantages then? Constant hard counters.

 - 3:54:35 The hidden sphinx dungeon. Hope you got the question right. And made fast travel bordering on impossible because they made it interesting to travel. And how fast travel works.

 - - 3:58:10 that one weird trick in dark arisen.

 - - 4:00:08 looking like shit on paper, but the limitations are there for a reason. He’s excited to travel because they said they fixed it.

4:01:06 stellar blade. It makes woolie want to play nier: automata.  

4:02:25 sonic and shadow generations

4:03:02 godzilla x dave the diver

4:03:27 V rising. A game similar to palworld. Woolie wants to have it started as a close up before zooming out. Also woolie has ruined numbers.

4:06:07 JUDAS. Another game inspired by bioshock. And remember how many times they made fake trailers for their games? Bioshock infinite and wasted potential.

 - 4:09:04 ken levine is a terrible manager. And more on big showy nothings.

 - 4:11:34 levine’s long term legacy: the advancement of digital pornography technology.

 - - 4:12:33 the bioshock infinite tumblr post.

 - 4:14:48 the person that wrote infinite doesnt know what infinite means. The twins being idiots.

4:17:30 Metro Awakening

4:18:58 rise of the ronin. Comes out the same day as dragons dogma 2. Also horizon forbidden west is being released the day before.

 - 4:19:39 Finding their stride on what their niche as a studio is.

 - 4:21:40 is there an A team and a B team at team ninja?

4:22:42 zenless zone zero, foamstars… continuing not to care about gacha.

 - 4:24:22 Paige and giving pat food and wont tell him what it is. Woolie and the flanderized version of yourself that everyone points to you and interacts with.

 - 4:25:48 pat was real mean to that guy at that wendy’s

4:26:22 there’ll be final fantasy 7 stuff tomorrow. There’s a demo out now. Pat wants it NOW tho. The Demo is the nibelheim section. And apparently the junon open world to some

 - 4:28:15 they’re going to end the trailer tomorrow with aerith going “how could you have killed them?!” and are they going to see gackt?

4:29:52 datamine finding some T-shirt designs for console exclusive stuff, and microsoft going over their plans on the xbox gonig forward, seems to have given up on console exclusivity. Turning into Sega.

EMAILS

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4:31:42 ever see a bunch of people pissed off at something that never bothered you?

4:40:02 see you tomorrow for FF7R stuff!

4:40:07 END OF PODCAST: end of theme of slayer; korean