The Besties - The Definitive Power Ranking of Star Wars Games

Episode Date: May 13, 2022

In today's episode, we're exploring the absolutely pristine history of Star Wars video games, and assigning each of them a grade in an EXTREMELY scientific and deliberate manner. It's a journey, y'all. Also discussed: Nobody Saves the World on Switch, Death's Gambit: Ashes of Vados, Fortnite, Rogue Legacy 2 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!

I had a question. Okay. I was in a drugstore recently, a nationally-chained drugstore that... Is there a reason you aren't saying the name of it? They haven't paid us money. Yeah, thank you. If they want to sponsor it,

no free pub is what I've been told by Ice-T, and I'm following his example. As in all things. I was waiting in line for a prescription, and behind me, there was a gentleman there. Seemed like a you know, regular old person whatever. But he seemed to be practicing laughs

and I wanted to know how concerned I should be. What? What an amazing city you live in, Russ. What an amazing city. It takes all kinds. Now, it should be noted it was not one laugh that he was trying a lot. It was like a number of them.

Well, sure. Is it possible that was Dwayne Reed? Just like, oh, welcome. Wait, that's not right. Welcome to Dwayne Reed. Welcome. Welcome. The hairspray

Is over here Dwayne Reed has makeup Don't go across the street for sandwiches You fool Dwayne Reed has egg salad It should be noted Dwayne Reed is a benevolent genie. Right, yeah. I just thought it was a pre-joker, but it could be Dwayne Reed, I suppose.

You gotta get him early. You gotta get him early. He's pre-jokerous. You gotta get him early. He's-Jokerous You gotta get him early He's a benign pre-Joker My name is just to macro and i know the best star wars game that we'll talk about my name is droopy mccool and i'm the best jizz player on the mrs society tattooing oh yeah my name is russ russ i don't even know how to follow my best game of the week i guess i can't there's so many fun names

in George Lucas's twisted fucking mind that you all could have said instead of your own names you could have been Cy Snoodles but instead you could have been Jack Porkins I'm Kit Fisto Chris Plant said that he only looks out

for himself so when we begged him to help us he said that he was going out on his. So when we begged him to help us, he said that he was going out on his own and that he was just a hired smuggler. But I suspect that when we most need him, he might be back. Okay. He also said, he said,

I'm more of a Babylon 5 guy. Call me back for your Farscape episode. Star Wars is... Yeah, please explain to the people. back for your farscape episode star wars is yeah please star wars is the theme of this episode uh it's we like to buck timeliness here on the besties so we put it in between two big news pegs it is neither may the fourth nor the release of obi-wan on disney plus but it is between those two things. So we figure, what the hell, let's fill out May with a little bit more Star Wars. We are going

to be talking about the Star Wars case. Now, I have a question for you guys, and I don't know if there's an easy way of, like, is Star Wars the, I did not realize as I started looking at this, the absolutely staggering number of Star Wars games, which is basically a hundred i

mean you can round it up round it down it's basically a hundred depending on how you want to count is this the most like licensed video game like is there a licensed video uh licensed property that has had more video game adaptations it's so hard to say, man. I think probably if you lump Marvel into one bucket, I think it probably takes the cake just because there have been so many. Yeah, that's possible, isn't it? That is possible. But they have like sub-series within Marvel,

which seems like cheating. I mean, the same is true. That's true, Star Wars. Yeah, I mean, it is true that's true star wars star wars yeah um yeah i mean it's it is definitely up there man because there is uh i thought we would have a good i don't know 30 games to kind of kick around i did don't you remember last week i was saying probably do have a good 30 games there's certainly 30 good games i was saying last week how hard this was going to be because there's just like decades upon decades of like knockoff whatever based on the movie games and spinoffs and

educational games it's a lot so we need to narrow it down in some way because we're going to be here for nine episodes doing this a um a youtube channel called triple Jump did an exhaustive 100 games ranked. And a lot of it was, you could tell guesswork or whatever. But it was like worst to best. The very first one was one that I had completely forgotten about but looked so fun. Do you guys remember the Star Wars Millennium Falcon CD-ROM playset? It was like toys to life so the controller oh yeah strap on over your keyboard and it was like a millennium falcon

controls that you would push the buttons with the buttons that are on the playset so you would like use that i don't know how on earth that would work there are so many different keyboards it seems insane there's there's too much here for us to do today for us justin really quick please explain how we're narrowing this down and then we'll jump to break and then how are we narrowing it down well we're not what we're gonna do is i have a list of uh list of uh 98 star wars games and i'm we are going to be randomly generating numbers i have i have that ready to go uh you have a d100 i have a well i have a d98 on my virtual d98 um and we are going to be randomly generating numbers and instantly rank it. Not instantly, but as quickly as possible, ranking those on a S to, what do you think, D? F.

S to F. I think we save F for a super special game. Yeah. Or maybe several dozen super special games because it is Star Wars and there's been some stinkers. Oh, there have been some stinkers. Let's take it back. We'll break and we'll be right back after this. All right.

I'm ready to begin. Are you ready to begin? Do you have YouTube or something like that pulled up for research purposes? Cause some of these, I bet we're going to have to look at real quick. All right. I played a lot of these bad boys, but not most of them.

Look at this list. They made a lot of them pre like SNES. Pre us being alive also also yeah that that is that is true all right our first role is number 56 and that's gonna get us star wars rogue squadron oh i've played this one on windows and nintendo 64 oh yeah maybe i haven't there's a fucking class oh yeah i mean this is oh n64 yeah yeah no i did yeah we all played the n64 version uh choice like yes choice it's really interesting this had one thing that i uh remember uh being very bizarre is it had director's commentary yeah the N64 version.

And I don't know, it was like very bad, of course, because it's like audio saved to a cartridge. But I did remember that, that there was like director's commentary on a cart. They talked about like developer techniques of like why they designed the level in a certain way and stuff like that. It was really interesting. And I think it was level five was a developer.

Is that correct? Uh, no way. Really? I thought so. Yeah, I think that's right. You know,

I should, I should factor. Here's what I need. Here's Russ. Here's your job for this. Okay. Cause we're all doing different things. God,

I need you to pull up like Wikipedia. Okay. I'll do that. I'll wiki these as we, when we get them. So you can give us the, the hard info. Cause I can't do all these things.

I just, I just remember. I'm't do all these things. I just remember I'm sorry Factor 5. Factor 5. I do it did have a lot of ships which I genuinely my favorite thing

about Star Wars is it's got some dope ships the A-Wing is my favorite with a bullet or a laser It doesn't even look like an A.

No but it looks fucking cool. And so that was that was my chance. This is a good game. I would put this in in A. You gotta but it looks fucking cool. Thank you. So that was my chance. This is a good game. I would put this in A. You gotta get an expansion pack for it. Oh, that's a good point. Maybe F then? No, I'll go

I think A is fair. I think A is fine. I agree with that. A is good. Great game. Alright, next dice roll please. 46 is gonna get us Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic. republic oh there you go fantastic best best one this is going great yeah i don't know what else to say about it i've played this game so many times it is the it is the only it is one of a handful of star wars games that feels

like you want a star wars like adventure to like you really do feel like it is uh the characters are so great it feels like you're living um like a star wars movie that never came out uh it it like does the whatever it was dnd second edition sort of adaptation of the rule set really well in a way that i didn't understand when i was a child, but then playing it again on iPad as an adult was like, oh, okay. I think it was... One of the things that's so smart about KOTOR is that it manages to make this feel like a lived-in world in a way that the movies make it feel like a setting

a lot of the times, because you don't have the time to sort of like delve into it. But like KOTOR, I feel like really has, brings a sense of like place to this like a real sense of what this world is and a lot of it's just their own license that they've taken you know it's not stuff that they're relying on from the previous series like they're really struck out to make their own uh thing and i think that was so effective. I never played KOTOR. You're kidding. Never played it. Russell.

Why not? It was on the original Xbox, which I didn't have. And I just, it just never, I don't know. I knew it was a long RPG. I want to play it. I know there's a remake coming out. There's a remake coming. Oh my God.

So that seems like a good opportunity. Wait, is there really a remake? Is there really a remake? Yeah, bud. There's a remake coming out and I I'm gonna play its balls off. Okay. Sorry. This is S-Rank, baby. Yeah, I'm fine with S-Rank.

I know you guys feel strongly. It's the entire world. I have only beaten this game on the iPad version, which is exceptional. Yeah, it's really good, except it sucks because I got to a bug that I couldn't get past in... Oh, no. I think it came out on Switch last year sucks because I got to a bug that I couldn't get past. Oh, no. Well, it's on Switch.

I think it came out on Switch last year, too. I'll wait for that remake. If you can't wait. I'm sure it'll be out promptly. Can we discuss KOTOR 2 since we're here? Because I don't have as much of an affinity. We're not there because we didn't get that number. It didn't come up.

The Lords did not accept it. The next one is 38. That's going to get us LEGO Star Wars, The Quest for R2-D2. Okay. So this I'm going to have to look up. This feels like a phone game to me. Let's see. It is a, oh my God, what is it?

Lego Star Wars. It's a two, oh. This is a, okay. So this is a short film. We don't, okay. It was a. No. No, this is a, this is, okay. So this is a short film. We don't, okay. We don't, it was a. No. No, it was an online game on the website.

It was a browser-based game. Browser-based game. It was made by Three Melons. Yep. Noted. Just game developer, Three Melons. Okay. The top comment here is Skywalker World would be so awesome.

Five out of five stars. So I guess that that is, I guess this was a, a collab with cartoon network in the creation of this. Yeah. I don't know about this one. Well, let me ask you,

let me ask you, this is important. So in the, on the Wikipedia page, it says during the, this takes place during the timeline of downfall of a droid do we even know what droid was downfallen problem probably dark probably steve 3po he probably got evil and he's like you know what i'm addicted to spice maybe like uh this looks

this looks pretty bad guys, this one looks rough. I'm looking at Annie, and he's running around. I mean, it looks like a Lego Star Wars game. Yeah, but he's just grabbing a bunch of very static yellow crystals, which is not my Star Wars, necessarily. That's also not Lego pieces, which seems contrary to the spirit. No one cares. I'm going to say C. Wow, C is generous.

No, I'm going to say D. D, D. I'm going to go D. It gets a D. I No, I'm going to say D. I'm going to go D. It gets a D. I'm sure it was a D. It gets a D from me, dog. Next game. Next game. I have to remember Lego Star Wars,

The Rise of the Robot. The Quest for R2-D2. Okay. All right. Everyone's going to have really strong feelings about how we ranked that one. Yeah. All right, here comes a new number. It's 27, and that's going to have really strong feelings about how we rank that one. Yeah. All right. Here comes a new number.

It's 27. And that's going to bring us to Star Wars Trilogy Arcade. Fuck this. Wow. Nice. The jam. Okay. So if you've never played Star Wars Trilogy Arcade, the first game was just Star Wars

Arcade, which was a very rough and ready first person flight combat sim that I think just covered like some of the battles in A New Hope. But Star Wars Trilogy Arcade had, well, first of all, it was punched up. It had X-Wing like space battles. It had the Hoth, you know, at sequence. And then it also had like lightsaber fights that you would use the flight stick to control.

And I could never beat that part of it. But you would basically play through these like big moments from the movies. Like fighting Boba Fett where you have a lightsaber. And the speeder bike segments were great. Like they had a great sense of speed. This is like the quintessential for me like movie theater arcade game. You know what I mean? If they had one game,

it was Star Wars Trilogy Arcade. I think it was the first of those arcade games that I remember being a dollar. Yes, I was about to say the exact same thing. I remember it being like prohibitively expensive, which made my defeat at Darth Vader's hands like all the more punishing because it's like, oh man,

I didn't even get to do the Boba Fett fight fuck i mean it's so expensive it's like a hundred dollars no there's like barely in our any arcade games anymore they're pretty much just i'll take it sure it's pretty much was this a sega was this one of like the mini sega made this uh released in 1998 i mean sega knows how to make a fucking good you know sometimes this thing by the way like sounds awesome and like looks awesome it's like still so crisp like it looks fantastic i was hoping we would get to this one i i adore i would i would s rank this for s rank i don't yeah that's one of my fate it's one of the if i saw if i went to an arcade and i saw this game at the arcade the excitement that i would feel would be palpable.

I think there's like a viewing excitement and then an actual playing excitement that maybe varies a little bit. I would be okay with A. I think it's very, very excellent, but I don't think it's like all-time classic. I think that, I'll say this, part of the reason I would drop it to A as well

is the lightsaber stuff, again, looks cool when you're viewing it, but imagine trying to fight with a lightsaber that's like effectively

glued to the floor. It's not super fun. Yeah, it's not great. Okay. Next. Number eight, that's Star Wars

Trilogy Apprentice of the Force. Okay, this is great because I wanted you guys to watch this game. Star Wars Trilogy Apprentice of the Force. Look it up is great because I wanted you guys to watch this game. Star Wars Trilogy

Apprentice of the Force. Look it up on Game Boy Advance game. Game Boy Advance game. They made some okay Star Wars 2D games. It's one of the 2D platformers. But look at the animation.

This is insane. It has a it's beautifully animated with what almost looks like a rotoscope or like it's reminiscent of like Prince of Persia. That detail to the animation. You're following Luke Skywalker through the events of,

of the, you know, the first trilogy. I will say the space flight segments look pretty terrible. They look like a, one time I was trying to learn unity and i made a space fighting uh sort of demo to like learn the basics of of uh how to use unity and it looked a lot like this i mean it looks like shitty r-type basically it looks like shitty r-type

which like they made r-type i think for gba and it was all right so it's like this is not the the issues that i am seeing here are not a limitation of the hardware no uh yeah good well you can like go into holy shit wait i just got to a point where he used force speed and it like slowed down the whole world now he's just fucking dudes up with a lightsaber this game looks dope this does look pretty good uh for what it's worth for the people that actually played it uh it got 60 on on Metacritic, 6.5 from IGN. eBay rated 4.9 out of 5. Thanks, eBay.

I think it looks sick, but I don't know if it's good or bad, so maybe it's a B. How's that feel? I would give it a B. I'm seeing a lot of different force powers. I like the art. Pretty dope, and the art looks good. I love this this this is the

most fun i've ever had talking about video games very scientific like people put years of their lives and we're like i don't know if i could be i'll watch it for 15 seconds to be all right to be all right next game 78 will get us this list by the way is not in any order okay i was gonna say i thought we were in chronological no doesn't seem like that but we are now at star wars episode one battle for naboo oh is this strategy no no same developer as the as squadron right uh i think so yes and i think there is a naboo strategy game but i can't remember the name of it yeah no this is another factor five squadron yeah also good um the one thing i remember i remember about this game and i think it did also come out on the n64 i remember it running very poorly like running it like 15 frames a second

but again it was a 3d game on n64 how's how's how's this for like the disparity of gaming hardware of the era uh it's got 84 the n64 version of this game has an 84 on metacritic the pc version has a 54 so i don't know if the pc port was terrible or yeah it looks like it was it looks like because ign gave the n64 a 9 out of 10 and and the PC port was a 7.4 out of 10. Yeah. So let's just judge the N64 version for the sake of simplicity. I do remember this felt like, from a feature standpoint, an upgrade over Rogue Squadron.

There was a lot more stuff going on, a lot more unlockables. I remember you could unlock a car, like a Cadillac car as one of the flying planes. Perfect, good, yes. I i gotta say i'm a little bit biased here also because i really really like the look of the n1 it's very cool the starfighter i think it's so cool it's yellow yellow one yeah the turbines yeah it looks yeah it looks sick this is um this is probably uh probably a b also i would say this is equivalent to Apprentice of the Force for Game Boy Advance. Yeah, I would say it's a B.

A high B. A good B, B+, but we don't have those. But it's like a good... It knows. It's an honor just to get a B. Yeah. Should we move Apprentice of the Force to C rank? Maybe we have to move that to C rank now.

Yeah, that's a good good impulse Griffin okay oh Jesus alright alright next game Star Wars Jedi Math oh yeah

baby now we may not be able to find anything on this because it's for the leapster no I'm sure there's something now this

important question do we think Jedi Math holy shit do we think different from normal math um guys guys you gotta watch this video watch it guys oh boy star wars math it's just called star wars math java's game jenna math oh i'm sorry. There's a different Jedi. There's a different Star Wars math. Oh, holy shit.

Because we don't even know if four plus three is the same in Jedi math as it is in our math. Okay. So we are looking at a 64 by 64 pixel game, it looks like here. It looks like a... Oh, my God. It looks like someone's applying for an apprenticeship at Newgrounds, but they're not quite at the point where they could get in yet. And you have to shoot.

So you get math equations and then you have to shoot the ship that corresponds to the answer of the math equation. Why would it work like that? This is shitty math blaster. And I think that this is that if this ain't F, although you do get to play as Plo Koon. Shit. No, I still think that it's got a, I think it's, you can be Kit Fisto too. Wait, it's an E.

I'm not going to give it an F if you can be Kit Fisto. How can you be anybody? The perspective is looking at RTtd2's ass while numbers fly in front of you and it's got literally the wildest anakin i've ever seen in my time i mean i was gonna say it's got kind of horny yoda uh in it and i do kind of like that i'm gonna try and drop horny yoda um let me search real quick let me say this i know we might be inclined to rate this kind of low but i do want to give respect to the person or persons who uploaded footage of the leapster version of star wars like almost for them i want to give it a higher rating but we might not be

able to big ups everyone on youtube in the comments loves it. That's a good Yoda. It looks like a Clone Wars Yoda almost. Fun, sassy Yoda. I'm going to give... Can we go... Can we do D? I mean, I would do that... Do we have an E? Do you go from D to F?

I think you go D to F. That is traditionally how it works. I will say that based on the comments of this alone, people have a deep affinity for this game. I imagine if you got a Leapster for Christmas and you got a handful of games for it, this is probably your favorite one. My favorite Leapster game as a kid,

says Agent Killo on YouTube. Okay, then maybe we go D. This feels D, because it does look like garbage. I can't help your nostalgia. We will find an F. We will find an F. Maybe it will be number 82, which gives us Star Wars Return of the Jedi Ewok Adventure. That's unreleased.

We can't hit that one. Wait, they're making an Ewok Adventure game? It hasn't come out yet? No, I think it was an Atari. It was for the Atari 2600. They just didn't do it they were like this is bad yeah um so yeah we'll give that one a u we will rank it i'll give it an f if they couldn't even finish it yeah it gets a u for unreleased all right next next is 85 which let's hope that's

uh a real game okay star wars the empire strikes back 1982 for the atari 2600 in the television now we're now we're cooking kids kids get in the way way back we're taking you back to the 80s so this one i've seen in screenshots because there's a very classic oh yes of the atat which is like giant dinosaur-looking robot dude, on Hoth, and you're flying out with a snow speeder. It looks like Defender, I want to say. Wasn't that that game where you save the little people on the planet? Side-scrolling

shooter? Yeah, it looks terrible. Which game did I say this is? Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back for the Atari 2600. Okay, perfect. Yes. Yeah, they never made a good Atariari game is the is the problem and this doesn't this certainly doesn't seem like you're a child you're a child this doesn't look like a hero yeah about pitfall what about yeah you're describing bad boring games that

don't feel good to play it and they look like shit but i do think that this is one of those games because you're just blasting here's my here my problem. I'm looking at this game. It is just blasting at-ats with a very, very small ship that is comprised of, I believe, nine pixels. And you're not using a grappling hook to trip up its legs. You're just blasting it with lasers. You're just flying back and forth around it. And this does not look fun gang this looks pretty bad to me a lot of people you have unlimited lives when your speeder is destroyed

you start again if the lead walker reaches the rightmost edge of the map then the game is over so the game goes on forever and the walkers get faster and you can't i mean do you guys remember that part in this where they just shot the ads with a spaceship until they exploded um i would say they don't even have the thing where you wrap around that's what i just said this game sucks shit you're right forever i think we give it an f because it's on the atard 2600 there's no good games except for hero and biffle it was published by parker brothers noted video game publisher parker brothers they make board games does parker brothers exist still they get bought by hasbro i think they were bought by russ you wrote the book yeah i'm pretty sure it's in the book that they yeah they got purchased by hasbro oh okay two, which gives us Star Wars Bounty Hunter from 2002 on the GameCube and PlayStation 2.

Oh, this is where you played as Jango, right? Right. This was like the only thing people... Oh, my God. I accidentally left the tab open with that game playing in it, and nothing sounds worse than Star Wars 2600 games. Yeah, it was bad. Bounty Hunter. yeah it was bad um bounty hunter so one of the only elements that seemed to like actually click with people when the prequel trilogies were released were was uh jango fett and his whole

deal so this is like i think uh cashing in on not cashing in but capitalizing on that maybe is a fair way of putting it yeah it, it was a third-person action game. Yes. Where you just, like, ran around and, like, did bounties on Coruscant and various other places. And I remember there was some weirdness with, like, because you had two blasters, which was Jango's typical MO, and you could lock on to two different targets at once.

And I've watched gameplay of it, and it looks heinous today. But I feel like at the time probably looked pretty good i'm watching this uh a long play of it and i about half of what i've watched so far has been sidling across ledges and that's not what i want to do i mean that was the time gamecube yeah it was 2002 that can't penalize it for the trends of the era. Yeah, it got re-released in 2015 on the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4. Wow. So there is a modern version of this game if you want to experience it for yourself.

I don't think it's very good. Are we ranking? Is that game on the list? Or should we factor in that? Probably not. I think it's the original version. I don't think. The remake looks pretty not great either.

So, yeah, I don't know. It just looks kind of uninspired a little bit. It just doesn't tell the story of Jenga is the problem. Like his true story. What were the reviews like, Russ? The reviews were, let's see. IGN gave it a 7.8. Oh, I'm sorry. IMDB ign gave it a 7.8 and oh i'm sorry imdb apparently gave it a 7.8 ign gave it an 8.3 okay i think we gotta go i mean i feel like b i think a c okay b or c i'd be happy

b is what i was low b low b low b i'm put put embarrassing b all right and we can adjust slightly at the end if we need to 20 that is good for oh my god yes what star wars screen entertainment star wars screen entertainment star wars screen entertainment it's join me Join me for the Screensaver collection Star Wars Screen Entertainment It's got This thing's got everything You wanna see blueprints of TIE Fighters?

It's got it You wanna see Quotes From oh they've got like You can pan around the cantina and hear about some of the people in there they got like little stories

about the people in the cantina so this came out in 1994 on the box it says it's got screensavers it's got posters it's got animation and it's got an insider's view of the epic film i'm not sure which film they're referring to i assume the whole trilogy but but it also has a bonus

a message from george lucas on the next star wars trilogy i assume that that being the prequel this is how they announced they announced the prequel trilogy through star wars entertainment and it appears looking at the box that it came out at a time when pc game boxes were very weird because this one's kind of like shaped like a trapezoid i do like that i do missed we have a whole babbages where you could just put whatever you wanted to um do you guys i listen guys i'm looking at some of the character bios on this, and I feel like when someone wrote this, I don't think they expected history to turn its eye back on their work. I think they were probably just trying to get home that day.

They hoped that history would not, but history has. So let's talk about their character bio for Han Solo. Do you guys love Han Solo? I love this scamp. Here's the story with Han. Han was a spunky child. Spunkier. Han was a spunky child.

Spunkier than most Corellian children. What the fuck? Well, they're not very staid children. So boring. He did well in school and was immediately accepted into the Imperial Academy. After graduating with honors, he sailed forward towards a commanding rank in the Imperial Navy, where he would have been able to use

his talents to their fullest extent. One day, however, he found a noble Wookiee being beaten in a nearby slave camp, and compassion directed him to interfere. Imperial law declared all Wookiees fair trade, and Han was forbidden to counter that ruling in any form.

But that did not stop him. He rescued the Wookiee and was subsequently discharged. Although the Wookiee, Chewbacca, pledged his life to Solo, he found little reason to feel proud. This is, if the next line of this is like, and then their feelings grew, and then on one rainy night inside the ship, they began to make tender love.

I guarantee there's slash fiction for them. There's no doubt. Well, yeah, for us. But you don't expect the screensaver bio to be written in that same style, to be fair. This screensaver has, it has, hold on, it has a script of the trilogy along with storyboard. This is a good screensaver.

It's probably a bad game. I don't know how. Yes, bad game, but good screensaver. So what is that, D? Do we need a new tier list just for screensavers? Yeah, I'm going to add, I'm going to add, maybe we should put this in the same camp as the Ewok Adventure. No, no, I've got it.

I've got it. I've got it. You guys have to, hold on, wait. You guys have to see this. This Death Star Trench part of the Street Saber loaded up. Yo, this, oh my God. Wow. This is an animation moving at, I believe, about 700 frames per second. Yeah, imagine walking past your fucking accounts receivable

director's desk and he's just like, God, the depth stopper is blazing. I think this may have been an error in recording. This is possibly that thing where processors are faster now. Can I advocate for an SS rank for this?

Because I think it needs a ranking. That's okay. I like it. That it needs its own ranking. That's okay. I like it. That'll get confusing, though. Yes, that's the point. This is all dumb. Listen, I like how we are... So far, this feels worthwhile to me because we are being very rigid.

Sure. And mathematical about this. And in this case, we're being rigid because it is by far the best screensaver that we've mentioned. So I would say for that, rigid sure and in this case we're being rigid because it is by far the best screensaver that we've mentioned so i'm gonna say i would say for that it is a d it is a d rank title yes unplayable heart that's tough it's tough to get past d but it does look like a good screensaver i would use the screensaver today for sure okay all right for. Hey, can I ask you guys, are people still using screensavers?

Yes. I guess. I use it. I just let him know. You gotta save that screen. Least surprising thing I've heard all day. How many more do we have time for? I wanna do about,

I could do three hours of this. Yeah, me too. Then let's not worry about the time. Let's do three more. Three more? We've been going for 35 minutes okay there's no b segment right where can we do a break and then come back at this time sure let's keep it going okay perfect welcome back to our star wars power rankings the next number is 75 uh that's gonna be star wars episode one the phantom Menace for PlayStation and Windows.

Sucks shit. Did you play it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, I didn't play this one. I feel like there were a handful of types of first trilogy, or I guess trilogy one through three games that got made,

and one of them was this category, and it was just sort of uninspired not very fun like uh 3d action games yeah the reviews were not super kind game spot gave it a 4.2 out of 10 i'm sorry no this is an important distinction the pc version got a 4.3 out of 10, whereas the PlayStation version got a 4.2. Thanks, GameStop. They were way too ambitious. It tried to be this kind of big, almost open-world style action game with huge levels to explore,

but it just was the antithesis of fun uh it looks so bad yeah you wander around with jar jar binks at some point uh yeah i would i would f this i i would put this in the f bin oh okay without hesitation it's different yeah i just heard jar jar say exquisite me Me, so I'm going to say D. Because Jar Jar said Exqueeze Me. Why D? What is redeeming about this game? Because Jar Jar Binks says Exqueeze Me. Don't you want bad rather than it to be

like, I want bad and boring to be F. Bad and interesting should be D. I would also say it's probably the only video game on the planet that has Liam Neeson on the cover. I would also be, well probably the only video game on the planet that has Liam Neeson on the cover. True. I would also be, well, what about Love Actually? I would also say that these people were probably hindered by the secrecy surrounding this game.

Like, this can't have been an easy project to get off the ground. All right, let's get through these faster, especially if we know that they are junk from an ass like Phantom Menace PS1. We don't know that. They're randomly generated. How do we know? Next game. Which part of this is complicated to you?

24. Star Wars Yoda Stories. There you go. There you go. Finally. Okay, so Star Wars Yoda Stories. Who the man? Yoda man.

Yoda man. There was a game called star wars desktop adventures and it more or less used the same framework as yoda stories which is to say this was like a very shitty looking kind of shareware looking top-down pixelated adventure game imagine like the worst version of zelda imaginable yeah and and that was yoda stories and you would go on these like quasi randomly generated missions to like destroy a bunch of clone capsules as various characters in the star wars series including yoda i believe and this shit looks like jazz ball i mean it looks so good there's a there's i just saw a screen where you lose

and Yoda says, try again, forgetting his- His very public feelings about trying. All right, Russ, it sounds like you have the most experience. I'm gonna give it a C rating. I have some fondness. I'm going to give it a C rating. C rating. A C rating. Some fondness. It looks so bad.

I have some nostalgic fondness for it. And it's also for what it's doing. Now, are you looking at the Windows version? I don't need to. I remember playing it. I don't need to look at anything. No, no, no. I'm asking Griffin if he's looking at the Windows version.

Yeah. Well, my entry on the power ranking list includes the GBC version. So go ahead and pop that out real quick i cannot even quick i cannot even find a star wars i actually kind of like the art style the windows one it's got like almost a chibi version yeah that's what i'm saying characters it's cute um the game boy color version does not i mean yeah it looks pretty bad but let's just go with the version that Russ knows. Yeah, the version that I know.

I'll grant you see. And I would also say it is the very first time I ever remember hearing the words clones or Clone Wars in the context of Star Wars. This was before any of the prequels or anything like that. So they were ahead of their time. Yeah. Okay, next. Next is number 88.

That is gonna be Super Empire Strikes Back on the SNES. We are like crushing it. Really good. We've had such good luck. I think the three Star Wars SNES games are identical in my mind. Okay. And I would give them all an a i think i don't like

they are never if i'm like playing a you know emulator or something like that i don't remember the first one i remember empire strikes back but i do not remember uh a new hope the the video this is uh for so these are side-scrolling action adventures that i guess more action games side-scrolling action platformers platformers I really the thing that I and this is probably JVC titles I believe JVC made like a bunch of licensed stuff and they all

looked and felt the same these look this is the era for me that is like the sweet spot of nostalgia and I think it's part of visually and I think it's part of why I am so not in love with like 8-bit because this era for me is like the the sprites are beautiful like we it's just it's the peak of 2d where it's like it's all so richly detailed and the sprites look great and like the background like the

you know whatever mode seven backgrounds they have going yeah look great. And like the background, like the, you know, whatever, Mode 7 backgrounds they have going look fantastic. And just like everything looks great. It sounds great. And they're fun. And you could just bust out a lightsaber or blaster depending on the situation. I don't know.

I love these games. Yeah, I would say though, I'm looking at the Super Star Wars, which was the first game gameplay at the moment. That has nothing to do with what we're talking about. Well, no, we're talking about the trilogy. We're talking about Super Empire Strikes Back.

But you were saying it was all the same game, effectively. I mean, I was saying that. I don't know. I was saying number 88 is Super Empire Strikes Back. Well, Super Empire Strikes Back is the best of them. You start with a fucking lightsaber. Honestly, I kind of wish that the movie empire strikes back started the same way where luke is just fucking hauling ass across hoth lightsabering the shit out of everything yeah i mean he really doesn't in the movie so i do i do want to say in return of the jedi you can play as

wicked and for me that is the superior title but. But I would give this an A rank. Yeah, I think A. I really like these games. Do we have time for one more? We have time for 80 more. What are you doing? When you ask that question, you waste the time we could be spending talking about good Star Wars games.

36 is Lego Star Wars 2, the original trilogy. This is from 2006. It was released on everything. Yeah. I mean, everything at this game. I have to say, and I'm going to, if you wonder why I'm hanging back a little bit,

I don't like any Lego game. I don't like any of these Lego games. I think that they are too complex for kids, too boring for adults. I hate the way they look well let me ask you do you remember playing these old ones because the newer lego games have added a lot more complexity we're going to be talking about that on a future episode but the these old ones were just top down kind of mindless brawlers this is the only one that i played uh but it was like i was in college

at that point and it was just like a good if you were maybe even a little bit high on the cush and you just wanted a game that you could just kind of turn off your brain and play with uh i can't remember if it was four players or just two players but i remember playing players and it was great for most of this in just one sitting but it was not particular like i don't know i played it the one time i believe on gamecube is that right and i just it was fine and then i didn't really ever want to play it i remember playing as chewbacca and you could rip the arms off of lego yeah stormtroopers with like the push of a button and i would very much enjoy doing that but i don't think it's a very i don't think

it's like compared to some of the other if i look at the games on this list and try and compare it to other ones i would say it's maybe it's maybe a c well really i would put it at a b personally okay okay what else is in the b category at the moment bounty hunter and battle for naboo then because uh i think all these games are bad all right the c's have it next game oh guys oh yes star wars masters of the terrace this might be the climax of the of the selections i don't think we're gonna top star wars masters of the thank god i was hoping for this or the connect game honestly so this is the uh star wars fighting game uh that is i mean so on paper fantastic on paper the idea of a star wars fighting game sounds like fucking amazing because you've got all these characters that you want to see fight and some of them have lightsabers and some of them just use their like furry fists i my understanding is that it was very bad as a game it was not very it

was not particularly fun it how long are we going for real okay i i they have made good star wars fighting games uh star war as as hard as it is to believe star wars episode three uh for when i can't remember the exact name of the of the title jedi power battles no i think it was like jedi power battles are good uh i think just the star wars episode three game that came out on like xbox and ps2 had like a fight a fighter mode that we played a lot and it was it was really good it was it was choice. Not to mention Soul Calibur. Yeah, sure. We could go there. What version of Soul Calibur had Star Wars guys in it?

Was that a platform-specific thing? I know they did that. It was Yoda. It was Yoda. On the GameCube, right? The Xbox version? I don't know. Anyway. No, Xbox was Spawn.

Oh, God. What a weird fucking time for all of us that was. And then Zelda was on the Nintendo. I do not remember Teras Kasai being good. I remember, did you guys see the screenshots? Yeah, I did. And I don't even know who we're looking at. Is that Luke Skywalker?

That's Luke Skywalker, obviously. You sure it's not Thok? And he's fighting Thok? Thok? It's him versus Thok. Be gone, Thok! It's one of those games that lightsaber people fight non-lightsaber people. Yeah, that's not fair.

This was a bad game, although I do remember there was a character... Look, they have, like, slave outfit Leia in this game. It's, like, it's so wild. I do want to comment, though, on Luke's design. He has such, like, round cherubic cheeks in this game, and I kind of love it.

Yeah, he looks like a cutie patootie. He looks like Yoda stories. This is a D, yeah. It's funny, so it doesn't mean an F. I feel like I am not going to be able to sleep tonight if we don't talk about some of the good Star Wars games. Because I'm looking at this list and it's a little... We've covered a lot of good Star Wars games.

I'm looking at this list and it's a bit, I would say, lopsided toward the back end. We have five games in D and one game in S. All right, you can cherry pick. So you want to talk about the great... Let's each maybe do one or two that we can bounce off each other to see if we all feel as strong i'm going to say my favorite star wars game ever is star wars jedi

knight jedi academy that was the one where you were like the second one i think it was the third or fourth one yeah depending on how you're counting there was dark forces and then dark forces dark forces i don't count dark forces to jedi knight and then jedi knight 2 jedi outcast jedi outcast which was great yeah jedi 2 is my three jedi academy is dope you're like you create your own character who like joins the jedi academy you uh if you didn't play any of those uh you know id tech star wars games they were just like pretty good third person uh i guess they were first person depending on what weapon you were using but just like good star wars action games and in jedi academy you got to like customize your character you could do it had like a dark side light side dichotomy and you could unlock

these different powers that felt really meaningful. And then there was single saber mode and double saber mode and double-sided light saber mode. And then it spawned this whole community that would create servers and mods and shit just to have really, really intense light saber battles. I fucking love this game.

I think it kicks ass.'s on uh switch now too and it has online multiplayer on on switch also uh this is this is uh my favorite of what are already like a really good series of star wars games yeah i think outcast probably wins it for me but this was this was good i remember this being good is you think s good or a good no no no no no i think it's a high b personally but whoa no it's no that's great that's insane it's better than battle for naboo i would agree to an a okay i'm gonna put it in a what are you saying a yeah okay all right what about y'all you gotta have some i mean i want to talk about connect star wars there's really no doubt in my mind do it do it then connect star wars as we all know the connect was the greatest peripheral ever made and here we have a dancing game featuring an extremely catchy

bop of uh the han solo song yeah and he says i'm han solo i'm han solo because you didn't know before the song happened who he was and honestly it's just very true to the franchise like he loves to dance and he's han solo what more do you want from it and that was of course a parody of um the fucking riding solo jason derulo track oh was it yeah i mean all of the songs in there were parody songs. Oh, I didn't know that. Including Empire Today, which was a parody of YMCA. So this is the... Okay, so it's going up in the ratings. It seems insane that we would talk about this

and not play like 30 seconds of it. Yeah, let's see. Break us off on a slice, please. I'm on the solo. I'm on the solo. I'm on the solo. I'm on the solo. Solo. Yeah, I'm feeling good tonight.

Finally feeling free and it feels so right. Oh, time to do the things I like. Like gonna see a princess, everything's all right. Oh, no job but an answer to. Ain't a picture in the palace, ooh. No. And since that carbonite's on me, I'm living life now that I'm free. Time to get myself together.

Now I got myself together. Now I made it through the weather. Better days are gonna get better. I'm so happy the car light's gone. I'm broken down. I'm so happy that it's over now. This is impossible. Can I say something? Where I'm at now in my life, I feel like I really love this because I think it treats this franchise with the exact amount of respect it deserves. 100%.

This is exactly, like, this is what it should be. This is the exact level of respect that is deserved here. I was looking to really put a number on the amount of respect that this has shown the original property. I was looking at the lyrics of Ride and Solo by Jason Derulo while that was playing

and they didn't change a lot of words they would just change like one word to have it be like princess or cloud city and then of course i'm han solo but like a lot of the a lot of the stuff in here is just lyrics from ride and solo that they did not change which is fucking great i i really got a kick out of i'm so happy the Carbonite is gone. Because that was one thing that we didn't really explore in the movies was how happy he was after the Carbonite was removed from him.

He's probably pretty stoked. Yeah. This is, I feel like, actually... I knew that this would line up. I didn't know it would be quite this great. This game is released in April 3rd, 2012. Disney acquires Star Wars on October 30th, 2012. Like, absolutely.

Someone was like, no. No more. They are at their weakest. We must consume them. This is the moment for, like, this is what Star Wars had become by this way. You can never complain about what disney has done to this franchise they owe everything to disney uh all right so where do

we put if we strip irony away from the ranking i don't know where where that leaves star wars it is genuinely catchy but i guess they're parody songs so they should be catchy but they're not but they're the laziest fucking parody songs ever. But it's not just dancing, guys. There's like pretend to have the force type stuff. That's true. And I bet it worked. It's not just dancing.

I bet it worked. Those other non-dancing ones were really bad. All right. So F then or D or S? It's either an F, a D, or an S. It's one of those three for sure. I think it's D for dancing. Okay, fine. It's so an F, a D, or an S. It's one of those three for sure. I think it's D for dancing. Okay, fine.

It's so unhinged. I have to give it a D. Okay. It's not boring. It's like... Oh my God. I'm watching more clips of it. Watching Darth Vader with...

I cannot believe this exists. This makes me so happy. I give it an A. It's a little average let's let the difference call to see okay move on um thank you star wars um i was trying to think of like stuff that we hadn't talked about that i have like a great affinity for um definitely that that jedi knight series is one that i was deeply into i never got uh very deep into the i know there's like this whole star fighting you know uh 3d space sure uh those franchises that people are very big on that just

didn't have a tie fighter x-wing well we did the uh uh the vr one i think last year the year before last the one that like came out and you could play it in VR and that was pretty fucking cool. Vader Immortal, I believe it's called. Oh, I wasn't even thinking about Vader Immortal.

I was thinking about the Starfighter one, but yeah, Vader Immortal. Squadrons. All right. None of those have really blown me away.

Can I give a special shout out to Star Wars Galaxies? The only MMO I've ever played where I could be a beautiful Twi'lek man named Johnny Perfect, who was an esthetician. Everybody else was like, that game was not good. The way that, like, I remember hearing about the things you had to do in that game to, like, unlock the Jedi class, because there were only, like, a handful of Jedi on each server, because it was not, like,

a thing you could pick. Not like the Old Republic M mmo which was very good um and from you know what i've heard is it is actually still a pretty fun game that lots of people are into uh galaxies was like so obtuse and clunky but there i i can't help but be endeared by a game that's like, you can be a beautician now that can work on Twi'lek head tails, and then maybe if you eat your vegetables, we'll let you get a lightsaber in like two years. To me, that game occupies a very special game,

a special place in my heart. A good friend of mine got married in Star Wars Galaxy, so it's hard not to have some fun. I also know someone who got married in Star Wars Galaxy. Maybe it's the same couple odd maybe i'm gonna say c rank for star wars galaxies for its bold ideas yes in the mmo space is there another s rank we can put up we only have kotor up there right now do you know kotor was supposedly the most expensive video game ever made i could see that what i mean 200 million dollars $200 million is what the

rumor is. But these days, there have been games that have been more expensive than that, right? I mean, I don't know. It wants you to adjust for inflation. What about Fallen Order? Yeah, I was going to say Fallen Order. It came out recently. I'm not pitching that for S because I did not click with that game, but I

know a lot of people did. I really liked it it's probably just from like if you take nostalgia out of it and just as like a game that i want to play today probably the highest on my list of star wars games i think narratively it's extremely strong it's one of the best star wars stories i've experienced in a while and as gameplay it's like a very good souls like third person action combat game um yeah great game i'm super psyched about the sequel i i would probably high a or s quite honestly russ did i finish that game i don't know thanks a lot i did i don't know what that means

oh it was really hard to find things right oh yeah i think you got stuck in hoth which is like the second map system was actually pretty i it was my favorite thing about the game is that like the map was very good about showing you like what how the gear gating progress was going so there were like doors that would be like uh red if you just could not get through them but they would be like yellow if you had the skills now to get through them but yeah it was like metroidvania e yeah it Yeah, that part of it wasn't bad. I just, for whatever reason. Slow start for that game,

but it actually got very good towards the second half, which is rare. I would be willing to put that in S if you feel strongly about it. Meh. Do I feel strongly about anything is the real question. Okay. Fallen, okay.

Wow, fantastic. You guys been playing anything else uh hey what about can i just real quick can i just dip my head in here and just say shadows of the empire just real quick can i just dip in there really quick with a quick shadows of the empire for was that the n64 game that was the n64 no no absolutely not dash rendar yeah baby yes no no kyle katarn no dash rendar dog Katarn, Dash Rendar, you're right. Don't try and throw disrespect on Dash Rendar's name like that. Those games suck so bad. That game was so good.

Shadows of the Empire sucks so bad. You could get thermal detonators and just like, fuck dudes up. Any game. Any game. I'll say it again. I said this 12 years ago on the joystick podcast i'll say it again here any game where you tell me there are people running around with superpowers and laser swords and i am some dude with a gun and a jet pack that barely works is the equivalent of making a game

called help me spider-man where you get pinned underneath a car and then spot you wait for spider-man to come rescue you why do i want to be this person i don't wow i want to be spider-man please so thank you to paint a picture here when the n64 launched in 96 i want to say yeah it was they were very hard to find uh but you know what was harder to find were games for the nintendo 64 so our our parents who did a kick-ass job i would say every christmas at like trying to you know turbo man it up for the boys uh got it scored an n64 and we're like fuck yes and then the next thing we opened was uh wayne gretzky's nhl hockey 96 or something like that and we were like oh okay um where's the where's the rest of it and they were

like oh that was the only game that we could find and i remember we went out to babbage's like that must have felt that must have been really rough on them shout out to them that's yeah that's really tough you feel so good about getting 64 because those are really hard to find and then you can only swoop wayne gretzky's nhl hockey music but we went to babbage's like the weekend after christmas and we found shadows of the empire is the only other game we could find in stock and the rest that's the shit we had just rent from blockbuster like poach it the second that somebody else returned it so we could play it so like shadows of the empire was the only not sports game that we had on ncc4 and i know that that colors my my love of it but man when you beat boba fett you get

his fucking jet pack and you get the thermal disruptor and just like that game was fun that game was good also it's the only game on here that i remember the debug code for yeah it was wampa stompa and it let you wow right and you could command any npc in the game so you could run around as a stormtrooper or indeed a wampa and just like fuck people up it was spectacular great justin the pc version had fmv like how are you not with how are you not with us i'll get it eight stars eight stars so what is that i don't know what that translates to it's like a c okay no it's a b i would write it b i would give it a b b all right i'll be i'll be it well i will say this fmv does not look good it's not also it's also not fmv these are just animated cut scenes i've been lied to so why did you lie i mean i

was lied to first all right are we good Are we good to put it to bed? Can you do like a light speed read through of where everything stands? Yeah. So in S rank, standing alone, which I think is fair and appropriate, is KOTOR. A rank, we got Rogue Squadron, Star Wars Trilogy Arcade, Super Star Wars Empire Strikes Back. I would put all the Super Star Wars games in there. Star Wars Jedi Knight, Jedi Academy, Star Wars Fallen Order.

B rank, we have Battle for Naboo, Star Wars Bounty Hunter, Shadows of the Empire. C rank, we have Star Wars Trilogy, Apprentice of the Force, Star Wars Yoda Stories. Some inflation, I would say, in our C rank. Lego Star Wars 2, the original trilogy, Star Wars Galaxies. D, we have Lego Star Wars Quest for R2-D2, Jedi Math, Screen Entertainment.

Yoda's story should be D. Can we bump? No. No. It is or it is. Phantom Menace, PS1, Masters of the Terrace Kasai, and Star Wars Connect. And then F rank, Standing Alone as Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, 1982 for Atari. I think we should put that Lego one from C to B.

I think that was unfair. Russ wanted B. Yeah, I think it's a B game. I think it doesn't belong with Yoda's story. I think it's a B game. one from C to B. I think that was unfair. Russ wanted B. Yeah, I think it's a B game. I think it doesn't belong with the other stories. It should be a B. Okay, we're moving it. We're transplanting that, but the rest, I think, are good to go. Cool.

Perfect. Print it. Print it. There's your authoritative complete list. We will share this on Twitter. Do not try to yell about it. Yeah, don't second guess us. You guys been playing anything else?

Yeah, don't second guess us. You guys been playing anything else? Yeah, actually. So there's new DLC out for Death's Gambit, a game that... Oh, I didn't know that. Still nobody has played, which is insane to me because it is an extremely good Metroidvania, Souls-like,

that I just cannot recommend enough. As far as I can tell, I have not reached any of the new content yet because I started a new save. But it has added modifiers to new runs of the game. And I've been playing randomized loot mode just because I finished a Zelda Link to the Past run like that and really enjoyed it.

And I've been having fun with that, but I've not reached any of the new stuff to talk about uh but i did play a lot of nobody saves the world on switch which oh man and i was i bounced off that game pretty hard when we first talked about it because i was like it's so it is it is only grindy like it is it is all about the grind and that is uh like by design what it's all about. And that is just not the kind of game I like to play on PC. But on Switch, baby,

like just a whole flight passed by in what seemed like 15 minutes while I played through Nobody Saves the World. And that was a good game. That's awesome. So that's where i've been um i've been playing a very important star wars game called fortnight and it's got lightsabers now and that's really good the lightsabers are really good unfortunately they will get removed probably

in a week or two and then they just won't be in the game for another two years but it is wild to me that they keep uh adding stuff like the spider-man web swinging and the lightsabers and they just feel like they would if you made an entire game that was those franchises but it's built within the framework of fortnite that's crazy to me we streamed some of that the other day i mean juice and trap and it's uh we had a very good time we were just trying to all get lightsabers and then just would like kick it on top of a hill and wait for some dummy to come up and get sabered to death yeah love it oh it's great um i played uh i got back into that rogue legacy 2 i just downloaded that i can't wait really

lukewarm on it when it first came out in in the early stages but it's the 1.0 release now and it is really good um there is uh you know everything that we've ever said about rogue legacy stands here um i like the new mechanics it really feels more customizable i think than the last one. There's still tons of randomness, but you do have a little bit more flexibility to make the build that you want to try. And I love the new characters. I think that all the classes are really, really fun. Like the gunslinger is great and fun. I am really, really, really enjoying it.

And it does have – there is a real thrill because of how much, like how many decisions you're making a lot of decisions. So it's like random, but between the two random options, there's like very big divergence with how it would play out. And you can get a really good string of things that feel game-breaking. There was one that I got where if you eat... I had a character class where if you take a hit, it lowers your max health. But your max health replenishes fully after every hit.

And then I found a relic that made it so that every time I ate food, it would extend my max health. So it was sort of like I was able to use those two factors to make something that was like pretty brutal. But I think it's so fun. It's been really fun to return to. Yeah, it's great. I mentioned it when we talked about it on Rusty's, but it

is so perfectly designed for something like the Steam Deck or Switch. I'm sure it'll eventually come to Switch as the first game did. It's not totally the sort of game that I would want to play sitting at a desk or on a couch staring at a giant TV because I think there's some passivity to

it, but I think it's super great. I love it. I've been playing old school RuneScape again, if anyone wants to hear about that. No. Big time not. Next week, we're going to dig back. Oh, let me recap first off.

All Star Wars games. Yeah, please. And then, no, just all Star Wars games. We just read the list of those, so I'm not going to do that again. Russ has been playing RuneScape or something and i played road legacy 2 russ played fortnite with star wars in it and griffin played death scamp at dlc and i played regular legacy 2 there you go um and more not words it's very good oh yeah yeah um next we're going to be talking about some of

the games you might have missed uh we have not had a lot of huge releases lately or ever again. But there have been some smaller things that I'm going to make you guys talk about who pressed mute on Uncle Marcus. There's nothing you can do about it. So look forward to that and lots more, some recommendations. Yeah. Some buried, buried truth. I was going to add, if you need more Star Wars stuff, we are going to be doing Lego Star Wars The Skywalker Saga as part of Resties on Tuesday. So keep an eye out for that.

That is going to do it for us this time, sir. Until next week, be sure to join us again for the besties, because shouldn't the world's best friends pick the world's best games. Besties!