The Besties - Take a Skeleton Road Trip with Spookware [Resties]

Episode Date: October 19, 2021

On this episode of The Resties, Plante and Frushtick hit the road with a trio of skeletons in Spookware. Finally the dream of a horror-themed WarioWare is realized! Other things discussed: Tales of Arise, Tres-Bashers, Dracula on the Criterion Collection, and Cowboy Bebop. If you're looking for our follow-up discussion on accessibility with Steven Spohn of Able Gamers, that episode will drop on October 22, 2021.  Get the full list of games (and other stuff) discussed at www.besties.fan. Want more episodes? Join us at patreon.com/thebesties for three bonus episodes each month!

hello listener friends it's me christopher thomas plant and i'm russ fresh tick and welcome to the resties a video game podcast about the good games and not so much the bad ones that's that's a new test we might land on it might be a situation where we land on something after like a year we'll just like we haven't even guaranteed that we'll do this for a year but i feel like that's when it would maybe click as we land on something that everyone's happy with and we just stick with that for the rest of the time so it sounds like you're telling me i didn't get it in this one i mean it's just very wordy video game podcast about the good games and not so much about the bad one it also kind of ends on a downer yeah you know like it's about the good games but not

that crap that you know your friend yeah we're trying to bring happiness here it's supposed to be up yeah that's true that is it is supposed to be up so let's talk about that hey everybody this week we're talking about a lot we're talking about spookware uh our i would say favorite new game for the halloween season not of the halloween season but for the halloween season i don't know the difference we'll get into that plus oh, along with that, we will be talking about what we've been playing, including, that's right, Rust Fresh Shit cannot wait for it more, Tales of Arise. I've been assured that it's not a lot more. Did you like that that dramatic pause was almost as long as playing the entire game? And then at the end, we're going to talk about our recommendations of the week which we we always do uh and by always i mean we did it once before and now we're just going to keep

doing it in perpetuity love it so first up spookware and why it kind of has clicked for me this season i mentioned this game briefly on, um, on besties prime, uh, but to remind people of how it works, it's basically, uh, correct me if I'm wrong here,

fresh, because you just started playing it haunted. Warrior where, uh, yeah, so it's warrior where imagine warrior where, and for people that don't know wario where we did a whole episode about a recent wario where game with ron funchess a few weeks ago

but basically a lot of mini games that you can beat in like three seconds or six seconds and you're just kind of getting thrown a ton of those so that's spookware but there's two caveats i wanted to mention caveat a all of the mini games have some sort of horror or uh sort of underworldly bent to them so think skeletons and people with knives and that sort of thing limbs getting cut off like horror horror tropes so there's that element and layered on top of that instead of of just, you know, warrior where generally just throws the mini games at you is also like a point and click almost adventure game. Yeah. So when you're interacting with various people, you're doing these mini games, but they kind

of tie into the story of the adventure game. Yeah. I think that's a good way of putting it. And then the aesthetic is like very, I would say like riffing on that PS1, PlayStation 1 kind of grimy. Yeah, it's very dirty. Yeah, where it's like, oh, we could only get eight polygons to make the world. So we actually are putting just a whole bunch of 2D layers in here. But hey, we did make a room, half of a room. So you kind of get the feeling that you're in a three-dimensional space.

I love the look of this game. The look is great. It's very autumnal. Lots of like oranges and browns and like deep reds. Yeah, I'm not one for colors. So I won't speak to the color choices, but i'll say just the overall style of it you mentioned ps1 which i think is accurate what i think is really cool is that they blend like very shitty photographs like jpegs of like a school for example with like low-res polygons with like hand-drawn art in like very bizarre like you've landed on some weird netscape page from 1994 and suddenly there's three

skeletons doing like three stooges bits it's just this weird amalgam of like six different things at once and i'm really digging it yeah and like that is the game the game is the personality and i guess this is true of most you know micro game games like wario where the micro games themselves are fine like they're a way of engaging with the the world that these weird skeleton characters inhabit and can talk about them very briefly uh but the real fun of it is like just seeing the world the game opens in their like basement den where they are playing micro games together and they have like the three skeletons yeah the three skeletons who are your your kind of main squad of characters. And then very early on, they take a car to the school because they decide to enroll in school for reasons.

And watching them explore this world that is kind of just as strange as they are, it's super nice. It's super nice. You know, I've been watching a lot of horror movies lately uh this year which i i know i've talked about on the show before um but despite like getting into like i guess more r-rated horror i have like a real soft spot for 1980s pg horror where they hadn't really figured out pg-13 yet so you're watching a movie that was

like four kids but then just had moments of like very gruesome gore or the adults were just kind of like not behaving right for a kid's movie this kind of falls into that terrain yeah it's definitely not what i would show like an eight-year-old an eight year old. I think eight is probably OK, but like a six year old, certainly not. It's I mean, like some of the minigames are like, I'm going to cut this head off and there's just like a shitload of blood. And that's the minigame. But it doesn't look real. We should clarify. No, that is not like grotesque.

It is very it's very like I don't know like like paper dolls almost yeah a lot of a lot of uh paper doll style it also it has like this veneer of like you're watching it on a shitty vhs tape so everything is sort of washed out and blurry there's yeah i i wouldn't say it's inappropriate it but it does have like a lot of blood and guts. So that's something to keep in mind. But also like the goofiness of it sort of counter counterweighs the like gore of it, where like one of the many games that jumps to mind was like you're presented with like a bunch of skeleton pieces and there's a body in front of you, a skeleton in front of you that's missing those bones and you have to like very quickly place the bones there and then at the end it just says like the patient's dead because it's skeleton that's funny so it does it does manage to sort of walk that line and be entertaining um it reminds me tonally of undertale in a lot of

ways not just because there's talking skeletons but i think like the sense of humor also matches that like weird zoomer not totally referential humor that makes me feel a little bit old but i'm cool with it like it works yeah you're not gonna like have to like get tiktok references to enjoy no yeah no it's more like an energy about it i yeah i don't know do you agree that it's like a zoomer energy i don't know if i would say that because i feel like i would have to retire if i said i don't mean that derogatorily i think it's a good thing no i think it's a good thing i guess yeah i i think there's this weird thing where like the generation a little older than us was very like ironic.

Right. That's like the slacker generation, Gen X, like detached irony. And then our generation is kind of the 9-11 generation, which is like post irony absurdism, which I would say was like heavily influenced by the Simpsons. Yeah. Like Adult Swim, where it was like, oh by the simpsons and like adult swim where it was like oh i didn't expect that and then um the zoomer generation style of comedy i don't i don't i mean it hasn't been around as long so it's hard to kind of like some it feels like an earn there's an earnestness there yes i think that's actually a really good way of putting it there there is

like a sweetness to it while also talking about like the end of the world. You know, it's like, I feel like everything is like apocalyptic, but also like, hey, but, you know, smoke them if you got them. It's like cool, relatable. But smoking is not cool, so. No, yes, correct. Definitely not cigarettes at all all so take that from us your friends the rest is anyway doug uh my way out of that hole i i want to talk about a little

bit more about the mini games real quick yes please because it's interesting from a design perspective when you compare them unquestionably inspired by wario ware like there's no doubt in my mind that that is exactly what they're trying to recreate. But it is interesting from a design perspective because when you play WarioWare minigames for the first time, there's kind of a chance that you're going to succeed with, like, half of them just by sort of figuring it out

in the amount of time that you have. Almost all of the minigames in this, you, like, instantly fuck fuck up you hit a button and it's like the wrong button and you just instantly lose and there's an element of like i'm just gonna keep playing this until i figure out why i'm failing each of the mini games so that is definitely a change i don't know if it's a better change it does make it feel a little more puzzly yeah but you do also have to restart a lot more yeah i i didn't i never felt like um i guess it's not fair in the same way that wario wears

quote fair but i it didn't bother me yeah it just felt different it did yeah it didn't bother me it felt different i i will admit i had some colorblind issues with this game. Yeah, that's... Specifically when I was trying to play bongos with a bunch of skeletons that were like jamming out on various instruments. Oh. Red was a very important color in those scenarios

and I was failing and I had no idea why. Oh, no. So it happens, but... I don't know. I had a lot of fun with it. It really doesn't feel, even though it's obviously very inspired by WarioWare, it doesn't look like any other game

that I can recall playing. And it doesn't like feel like that mashup of like adding a narrative to the WarioWare format is really clever. And it just feels like its own individual thing. I really, really dug it. Yeah, for people who want to check it out again it's called spookware and it's by beeswax games it's on steam i believe

only pc right now and it's like 12.99 so this isn't a big game one uh heads up for you if you search for it on steam the logo looks like a like really bad military fps vr game or something yeah it does describe it it's it's not a it is a bad top image for a game that has like great art um so if you see that you're like that couldn't possibly be the game that you're talking about click it and then uh look for beeswax games just to make sure and look at the actual art of the game before you uh you make any decisions because again i think that art that art almost turned me off to yeah i think there was also a freeware version that came out last year i remember searching for it and noticing that there was a release that came out in 2020 that i think wasn't it wasn't like

a full game experience probably was just like some mini games yeah i think it's on itch.io and i think it's like 10 of the games are on that yeah if you wanted to just like check out the aesthetic you could do that as well okay let us take a break. Now we're back, and it feels like we haven't been gone that long at all. And I think we should talk about what else we've been playing. I am going to talk about Tales of Arise. I feel like I'm bringing my A game this week. This is the week that I get you on board.

Before we do that, I want to hear what you are excited about because that will fuel my passion. Well, I am more excited about the game that I'm bringing than Tales of Arise, which I think people who listened to the last episode of the Besties Resties would remember. Tales of Arise didn't seem like my kind of jam, but I'm very into my game,

which is called, I don't speak French, so I i'm gonna assume that it's pronounced trey bashers and that's t-r-e-s hyphen bashers as in like you're bashing something like the bash brothers like the bash brothers precisely trey bashers uh it's a game on steam it is a Metroidvania insofar as it's a 2D game set in a large open map. You are a mouse who basically goes around the world hunting cryptids, and you found yourself in a large, I think it's a school, that is completely infested with cryptids, and your goal is to basically go from room to room,

hunting them down using your flashlight uh and when you flash them with your flashlight they become visible and after that happens you bash the fuck out of them with a bat and it's incredible uh so that more or less it's kind of you know luigi's mansion-esque but didn't you wish that Luigi had a bat to beat the shit out of these ghosts? Well, now you can, um,

it's a really cute, like D make. It's like if a game, uh, like a Luigi's mansion game came out on like game boy color. Uh, I launched it on my PC and the window was like maybe a 16th, the size of the entire monitor,

just cause it was like so low res but obviously you know you could full screen it but that you know it tells you what sort of art style they're going for very very pixelated but still like charming and like full of life the the mobility stuff like just moving around the world feels really good every time you like hit stuff with your bat it has this satisfying like uh you know how like ness in smash brothers when he hits stuff with his bat and then goes okay that's what it feels like it feels great um so if you want to if you're digging metroid and you want to try something that plays with the genre in a completely different way trey bashers is very good. It's $10 on Steam.

I'm sure it's on like Itch and stuff like that as well. But definitely check it out. The recommendation came from Derek Yu, the creator of Spelunky, tweeted about it. And I saw that. And there are a few people whose taste I trust more than Derek Yu. So yeah, definitely really good, well worth checking out. That sounds like a good spoopy season game. Yeah, it's great for spoopy season, great.

Okay, I'm going to check it out, just like you are going to check out Tales of Arise. Can I, before we dive into Tales of Arise, tell the people what I did when I found it I did homework and I appreciate that so you might think that I did homework by playing the game that is incorrect I did not do that there are limits but what I did do for Tales of Arise because I knew plant after plant was so insistent and wouldn't take no for an answer in terms of bringing it up again,

I went ahead and I watched like three or four, uh, video reviews of tales of arise of just like people going through all the features and watching gameplay and stuff like that. And, um, having watched multiple video reviews at this point, all of which were glowing,

I can safely say that it is not a game I will ever play. But I appreciate that people are happy about it. It brings me joy that other people are joyful and I want to hear why you're joyful and bringing it back again this week. Was there anything in particular that you learned from this deep dive? I wouldn't say learn.

A few things that jumped out at me. One, art style, which just doesn't do it for me. It few things that jumped out at me one art style which just doesn't do it for me it's like a very traditional jrpg art style and it's just a taste thing i don't like that style but it's cool like i don't begrudge people to do the other thing i noticed was that it looked like and tell me if this is incorrect it It looked like if platinum games, makers of games like Bayonetta and Astral Chain went ahead and made a full-on JRPG,

that's what the combat looked like to me, where there was a big focus on dodge and then attack and counter. The numbers going up for how long your combo is going and special attacks. Again, I just have never gotten into the platinum games either. So there's just a lot working against me here.

But I do want to hear what is going on. Why have you brought it back? Yeah, so I think all of that is fair, especially if you are watching it as a YouTube video. I will say this about the art. I think the art is stunning. I like it so much better having switched to playing it on a 4K TV instead of a computer monitor. It caught on 4K it is gorgeous it is it's just very detailed

there's this thing that um the the team who made this who also made scarlet nexus they incorporate particle effects in it and by that i mean like you know like little sparks off of fire and blaze smoke and stuff armor smoke or or you know fire embers and um it just it looks really rich and i i wish i had a better word to describe that but it feels very lived in um and i like something about uh taking the kind of clean anime aesthetic and then adding all of this texture over it um that makes it feel like a place i'm visiting and not like a place i'm watching if that makes sense yeah i mean that what you're describing to me reminds me of like when i played through near automata uh yeah like it kind of had that vibe to

it this felt again i was just watching on youtube so like i i'm not saying i got the full experience this looked closer to a traditional jrpg style than near did the setting for sure yeah i i will say uh near i mean yeah you know i love near adamada yeah i would not say it is i don't want to say it's not the prettiest game i would say it's not the most high fidelity game. It has great art direction, but the fidelity of it is low. I mean, it was a 360 or Xbox One game. Yeah, it was Xbox One. And on top of that, I don't think they expected it to be as big as it was. I don't think they put as much money into it. With this game, it really looks like a modern, I guess, game it looks very bright it looks it looks rich

and expensive um so there's that the other thing that i want to talk about which you you brought up is the combat and the combat is i i honestly i i can't think of anything that i've played like it in rpgs and that doesn't mean that there aren't games similar, but the way it keeps layering on fun, just like it blows me away. So what I mean by that is the way combat works is you run around like the open world, the RPG, you see characters in the world,

but once you run into them, it throws you into like kind of an arena format. And then the combat is you have like these weak attacks which is just spamming one button and then you have different spells that you can cast effectively and you can assign those spells to the face button so it seems like that's just the combat and you you try to combo those together with your character and that's the first hour or two of the game and then it's like hey you know what actually there's other characters and you can kind of assign them what to do you're like okay great that's another layer well then they add on to that and there are suddenly these power moves that you can unlock they're like tag team moves um so like great that that's nice then they add more characters and suddenly you're doing these tag team moves that look kind of like marvel versus capcom 2 where like the entire screen

is taken over by these just massive swells of color and flames and lasers and everybody's just so excited to like kick ass together yeah someone made the comparison to guilty here actually which yeah probably is fair yeah i mean i think that's very fair so you're like okay well that's that then um most recently and this is probably around like the 10 hour mark i got a character who really doesn't shine unless you get these massive combos and i was like well how is that possible because eventually your characters kind of run out of energy when trying to put things together. So I would get, you know, 20 hits, but I couldn't get to 100.

And then I realized, oh, I can literally switch control between all the characters that I have. Each of them have a completely different unique fighting style. And I can juggle these combos just in constant rotation. Yeah. So I'm suddenly learning right now i've mastered four very different characters all of them complementing each other basically alley ooping myself between one character to the next and then ending with this character who will get a hundred hit combo and then unleash like all of hell's Fury upon my nemesis.

And where I'm at in the game, I realized it basically demands that of me. It never said it in a tutorial. It just kind of assumed that I would figure that out to crack the puzzle of, like, getting any further. And that rules. I mean, it just, it rules. The game is not perfect. I do think I kind of, like, joked about the silliness of the top level story. That's true. The dialogue itself is solid. The acting is great. But the thing that just I can't believe is pulling me through this game, especially an RPG where I usually do not like combat is the combat. The combat is just so propulsive. like combat is the combat the combat is just so propulsive and yeah i i'm not gonna i'm i'm probably not gonna bring it back up again until i finish the game which will be a while um but i

did want to bring it up just one more time because i i liked it when i talked about it last time and now i like i really love this game um and and i think it's something that like if you are if you are curious about it you should check out i do think fresh i think i think you're like hey i do know for a fact this is not for me is fair i don't think this is like like near where i'm like i don't even care if you don't like this i think you should play it because i think it's important sure um i i wouldn't go that far but i i do think if you have like a curiosity about it it's worth the effort yeah no that's that sounds about right can i say just very quickly we've also been playing one other game we're gonna save talking about it mostly for besties but we we both together have played some back for

blood and i'm mentioning it here only because it's good and if if you're curious about it we're gonna be talking about it more um and this is a game i think there's like gonna be a lot of enthusiasm for i it might be a week or two before we get to it um but that game's good yeah no i i've been loving it it's fun if you're you just have two people uh it's fun with a group of four we were able to get all four besties into a game which like very rarely happens just because all four schedules lining up is very difficult and getting everyone into the game and having like a total like zombie shoot fest was really quite a blast and the fact that it's included in game pass i think the game is having like a total like zombie shoot fest was really quite a blast and the fact that it's included in game pass i think the game is going to be like a big popular hit with a lot of

people i really hope i mean i know there was a lot of skepticism that it could be as good as like what a left for dead 3 would be but i truly have no need for a left for dead 3 having played this i i don't know what Left 4 Dead 3 would do for me. I mean, it's the same developers. So like they would, this is for all intents and purposes, apart from the name Left 4 Dead 3. Yeah. Yeah.

So any, anything else you're playing before we get to the recommendations for the end of the show? No, not really. I've been picking at Diablo still in the background it's you know weird and nostalgic and fun but uh yeah no that's that's more or less it i've been playing a lot of abc mouse app for babies and let me tell you i've gotten pretty good at match games um that and honestly it's a blessing because my son i guess this is good he discovered sonic the hedgehog and by discovered i mean i

introduced him to sonic the hedgehog sure and it it's a bit of like one of those curses where you're like this is great and then you have the sonic the hedgehog music playing in the background of your life yeah all day every day um and you're like i don't know if this is healthy for me or him i mean it's either that or raffi right it's true and we know who wins sonic um so now he's kind of splitting his time between uh between abc mouse uh sonic in like not looking at a screen does he know that michael jackson wrote the music no he doesn't you know what i'm not gonna tell him i don't think he needs to know okay so that is everything that we have been playing do you have have any recommendations for folks?

This is the big recommendation of the week. Yeah, I guess we're trying to do recommendations that I feel like this is the trend now is to do recommendations that aren't games. Oh, I love it. So I'm going to try to keep that going. I don't know how long I can maintain because consuming content outside of games can be tricky.

But I would strongly recommend for people that have never seen it or people that have seen it but it's been a while cowboy bebop the anime uh it is viewable on hulu for sure it's probably on netflix and hbo max if I had to guess but I've been watching on hulu um if you've never really gotten into anime you feel like it's uh too weird or alien or whatever uh this was the anime that i watched like the very first one when i was in college um that like got me into anime in general um and it's really good timing because there is a live action netflix series that's coming out that may be good or may be totally terrible regardless it'd be kind of cool if you had seen the series already and you kind of knew more about it than anyone else in the room wouldn't

that be neat um really spectacular uh story about bounty hunters in space with an amazing soundtrack by yoko kano who messes with jazz in like really fascinating ways every single episode um i i really i think it's spectacular and and really the height of the format in terms of like anime tv series so highly recommend that's great i love it i need to go back and watch it before the netflix show i'm super excited for the netflix show i i think everything i've seen i'm very encouraged i think the casting is spot on i just know you know it's entirely to do like writing and editing like so much can go wrong in the creation of a show. Even if you have all the right parts, it might not be put together properly.

I hope that's not the case. You know, Netflix did The Witcher show about as good as I could possibly ask them to do it. And so I hope that Cowboy Bebop's the same. But, you know, no telling until it's actually out. I was going to say, I saw the ghost in the movie in uh plenty of evidence of how things can go wrong but i went and actually saw a ghost in the shell at a theater in like the last couple months yeah let me tell you just shouldn't have been adapted like you're talking about you saw the anime in the theater yeah yeah yeah it it's good it's not like my favorite but certainly nothing about it is like

you know what we need we need a movie version of this which is largely just like philosophical dialogue and techno babble yeah no no thank you i mean it's called the matrix that's true and it's great i i would i just wanted to ask before we end my little bit, has there ever been a live action remake of an anime that was good? Oh, man. You know when you listen to, I don't know if you have this experience, I listen to podcasts and sometimes the host ask a question like this rhetorically. And I am screaming at them as I do the dishes. I imagine so many people right now are screaming at us. Please.

That's great. Like a very obvious, great answer. So I'm just going to like give this. Here's a second. Okay. No, you know what? You are right and you're valid. And thank you for sharing that.

You could also share it with at the best use pod. Yeah, please tell us because I genuinely can't think of any. Yeah, I think that's a good idea. Okay, my recommendation. I think this is the last episode before we are out of Halloween season. So I'm going to go for broke. Spanish Dracula. It's actually just Dracula, but it's the Spanish version of it.

It's on the Criterion channel this month. They did a universal horror movie collection. And it is fantastic. When you think of the universal horror movies movies you probably think of like normal quote english dracula sure you think of frankenstein right but the really fun ones are uh often the kind of like really spinoffs or sequels or the lesser knowns one of them is uh the spanish version of dracula when they made dracula uh built it, I believe, in the northern part of Mexico, and they had the English actors of the film and the film is it's funny to say it's sexier because neither of them are like super sexy but it's it's a little more risque uh it moves at i

think a little bit more of a playful clip than the original one i think they're just having a bit more fun with it um than the first i guess the english dracula both of these films are great um i think you if you want a very old very old horror movie um either is worth checking out how do you how do you delineate when you're like going through the menus which is in criterion channel they only have this version oh okay just like they don't have frankenstein they have bride of frankenstein which while not being as significant of a movie historically is a better watch um and you don't need to have seen the first one you you kind of know how it goes also if you want more frankenstein in your life you should watch spirit of the beehive which is also on uh criterion so that's that invisible man is on there and which is probably the most gleeful uh of the universal

horror movies uh creature from the black lagoon is on there which is the most beautiful by far it was also shot like 20 or 30 years later than dracula so i would hope it looks better um the one other thing that i want to throw on here a thing that uh our uh co-worker austin goslin recommended to me uh prince of darkness a john I had not seen. I will say nothing more than it is bonkers. It is so, so bonkers. And it's on Peacock. You can watch it ad free. And the way I saw it, they basically put all the ads in the first half because and whoever is working at Peacock, great work. Because, and whoever is working at Peacock, great work. Once the movie makes a turn, it really makes a turn and you would not want it interrupted. And somehow they knew to break up the ads in that exact way. So if you are looking for just something just wild and like I would say almost love craftian in the truest sense um this is this is the movie for you um like all john carpenter movies um not all but most it does have a slow

build sure but the payoff is it is just delicious wow very good i love those suggestions um did you want to call out questions or oh yeah um okay so next time we are back we're going to talk about outer wilds i know that i mentioned that we would talk about it this time uh fresh wants to play the game. I do. Which I respect. Which is difficult for me because, again, I get motion sick while playing it. I think I'm going to try a few strategies to avoid it. I've heard that chewing ginger helps, for what it's worth. Maybe I'll get one of those wristbands.

I'm really, really going to try. And if I can't do it, I understand. Plant will talk about it regardless. But I'm going to really going to try. And if I can't do it, I understand. Plant will talk about it regardless. But I'm going to really try. That sounds good. And we're also going to talk about favorite Nintendo 64 games. Because Nintendo Switch Online is expanding to Nintendo 64 and Sega Genesis. And we also can just answer general AMA questions. And we also can just answer general AMA questions.

So if you have questions about Outer Wilds or Nintendo Switch Online games or... I don't know. Whether you should dry yourself off in the shower or step out of the shower and then dry yourself off. Can I tell you, I change my opinion on this almost every day. There's one right answer. I'm not going to spoil it here, but there's one right answer to this question. So we're going to talk about it next time next time yes okay that's helpful um you we should also talk about should your toilet paper roll be unraveled outwards or inwards also one right answer i didn't even think i needed to i don't think there's any

doubt on that one can i be real with? I've actually changed my opinion on it. Oh my God. I know. I know. Well, we'll have to address this on a future episode. That might be the end of the attempt to the rest. If things don't go right.

I want to have people that you want to, you want to mention? Yes. I wanted to thank a number of people who wrote reviews on the Apple Podcasts feed for the besties, specifically calling out the besties Rusties. So we really appreciate that. Big thank you to Big Poss222222, several twos.

Emmy the Mac, ZForce915, DaleXGrey, and FlexCapacitor. Thank you for writing such nice reviews in the Apple podcasts. Uh, thingy for, uh, resties. We really appreciate it. Um,

thank you to everyone else. I know there was a number of other folks that did that really makes us, uh, get warms our hearts and we really appreciate it. Uh, so thank you. So the games that we spoke about this week, again,

I'll repeat them briefly. Spookware is the WarioWare game on Steam, on PC that you can check out. And I believe there's an itch.io demo for free, I think. Metroid Dread, the latest Metroid game on Nintendo Switch. Trey Bashers, which is the, you kind of compare it to like 2D Luigi's Mansion. Yeah, like if Luigi's Mansion was on a Game Boy Color.

Yeah, which is on PC, right? Yep. PC, Mac, and Linux, actually. Nice. Tales of Arise, which is the GRPG that has made me fall in love with rpgs again that is on pc and consoles briefly touched on back for blood which hey is in all sorts of places but it's on game pass which is very nice and then we also recommended that you check out cowboy bebop uh on i think that's on hulu and it's going to be on Netflix in like a week and a half.

Spanish language, Dracula on Criterion channel in Prince of Darkness, which is on Peacock. Cool. That'll do it. I'm so proud of us. Are you going to say your bad tagline again at the end of the show? Oh boy.

What was it? Oh, and that's it for the resties a video game podcast about the good games and not so much the bad ones but also about the good ones because we like to end on a positive note