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Lilliana Wright
You're listening to Metal Game of Things, the.

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James Reichmuth
Greatest Metal Gear podcast ever. I don't agree with you on, but what.

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Alessio Summerfield
About policing on Monday? Every day?

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James Reichmuth
How did you patch into my radio frequency? That.

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Lilliana Wright
Ladies gears, men, babies and gentle lambs. Welcome to another episode of Metal Gear Mondays, the most thorough Metal Gear and Death Stranding podcast on the internet. We talk about all of the creations of Hideo Kojima and beyond. Left to right, up to down inside out, over under loop de loop in pseudo chronological order. I'm your one of your hosts for today, Liliana Rey, and I'm joined by Alessio Summerfield.

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Alessio Summerfield
Hello.

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Lilliana Wright
And da rat King himself, Jimmy Singer. James Reich, mute.

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James Reichmuth
Right. I am here ready to deliver your packages.

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Lilliana Wright
We love. We love a man ready to deliver some packages.

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Alessio Summerfield
If he ain't. Yeah, he ain't zoom. But I'll tell you.

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James Reichmuth
In.

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Lilliana Wright
Doom and he ain't zoom in. Amen to that fella's. It's an exciting week. We are. We? All three of us have gotten our hands on Death Stranding. Two on the beach, and we've had several hours to kind of play it, digest it. And, of course, this is our first impressions of Death Stranding two. I do have something to read.

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Lilliana Wright
Courtesy of kilometers. Davis. Chad in the discord.

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Alessio Summerfield
Oh, shoot. Speaking with that, let me go ahead. You can go ahead and go ahead and randomize our.

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Lilliana Wright
Oh, yeah.

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Alessio Summerfield
For the episode while you read that.

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Lilliana Wright
Yeah. So, Chad, in the discord, which you can join by donating $1 a month to our Patreon, posted some interesting insights. In the these very specific Death Stranding two channel we have open for this game at the moment. There's a book by a person named Neville Shoot called On the Beach, published in 1957. It is an apocalyptic novel, written by this author after he emigrated to Australia.

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Lilliana Wright
It details the experience of a mixed group of people in Melbourne as they await the arrival of a deadly radiation spreading towards them from the Northern hemisphere following nuclear war some years previous. As a radiation approaches, each person deals with impending death differently. So we've been out here making fun of this fucking subtitle this whole time. It turns out.

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Alessio Summerfield
He's Kojima, still playing just like he's in the book.

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Lilliana Wright
Yeah, he stole it like everything else. He's playing 3D chess with us. But there is a meaning behind this. The really dumb subtitle affair.

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James Reichmuth
I was going to say I'll level with you. I don't care if he stole it or if it came straight from his brain. It's still a dumb subtitle. Okay.

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Lilliana Wright
True, true, true.

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Alessio Summerfield
I will put on Front Street two really quickly. Surprisingly lo fi title screen I was.

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Lilliana Wright
Yeah, that was.

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Alessio Summerfield
The fucking jpeg of the box. Like, what am.

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Lilliana Wright
I as a jpeg of the box. Right. Because because we'll get to it. I just when you go from this like really weirdly static lo fi un glossy Jpeg title screen into the opening moments of this video game. It's just it's it's like it's like giving crack cocaine to a kid who hasn't seen fucking television ever, you know what I mean?

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Lilliana Wright
It's like, it's crazy. But,

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Alessio Summerfield
Let me, let me do our show.

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Lilliana Wright
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Alessio Summerfield
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Lilliana Wright
Yeah, you can see our beautiful face talking about this exact subject right now.

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Alessio Summerfield
Yeah, you can see how every fucking episode I tell myself that I'm going to get ready for the camera, and then I show up with, like, the driest skin and dark. It looks like your mouth is.

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James Reichmuth
What I want the next episode you to have, like, very over-the-top makeup on. Oh yeah. Really prepared. Next. Yeah. Compensate for,

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Alessio Summerfield
Off the bat, but, yeah, I'm a dry, tired dad. Come see these pores.

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Lilliana Wright
I'm the exact opposite, because, every week, every week, every time we record, I'm just like, you know, I don't want to put effort in. And then we get to, like, T-minus 45 minutes before the podcast starts, and I'm like, fuck, I gotta do something with this beautiful face. I got to be hot. You know what I mean?

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Alessio Summerfield
So come, come, come check us out on video for two Hawks and or not. And.

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Alessio Summerfield
I'm the not James.

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James Reichmuth


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Alessio Summerfield
Two hearts in a not city.

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Lilliana Wright
I, I do also want to want to point out that James has not re hung the poster that fell down, you know, last week.

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James Reichmuth
Yeah. That's part of the lore.

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Lilliana Wright
Yeah. It's continuity at this point.

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James Reichmuth
You know this is when it's going to return, right. Maybe maybe. Well I don't know. Maybe we'll get to go into it. It's, it's James's poster.

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Alessio Summerfield
Colon on the floor.

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James Reichmuth
There's a, Yeah, yeah, well, we'll get into it, but there's a there's a funny moment at the start of this game that I wanted to ask you all about.

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Alessio Summerfield
Before we get before we get super, super far, I want to hit you guys with a hyper, hyper generalized speed round quickies. Just because I don't think it'll make sense to come later.

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Lilliana Wright
Yeah. Okay.

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Alessio Summerfield
So very first question. Can you summarize your first impressions in a single word. And what is that word off the top of your dome. Don't think about it too much.

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Lilliana Wright
But okay.

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Alessio Summerfield
So is that the word?

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Lilliana Wright
Yeah. Basically I was like, that's basically my word.

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Alessio Summerfield
Nice, nice.

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James Reichmuth
My my my initial like when I started, repeat.

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Alessio Summerfield
Nice. Okay, okay.

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Lilliana Wright
Legit. Legit. Mine mine was, mine was. Whoa.

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Alessio Summerfield
Yeah. This one was just like, oh yeah.

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Lilliana Wright
Which we will we will get in.

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James Reichmuth
My, my full first thought was me leaning forward and being like, all right, let me hear the dynamic drums. I'm just walking and I, I'm really like.

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Alessio Summerfield
I'm on it. Okay. So super, super quick. Next one. Don't think about this too much. Oh, God. We're going to go through the game Pro game rating system. All right. So the 1.01.52.0 yada yada yada to 5.0 yeah. With five meaning outstanding. Four meaning great job. Three meaning good job. Two meaning could be better. One meaning wake me up when it's over.

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Alessio Summerfield
Graphics. What do you guys think?

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Lilliana Wright
Oh five.

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Alessio Summerfield
Okay. Five. Four I'm going to give it a four so far. Okay? Sound.

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James Reichmuth
Sound is 3.5.

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Lilliana Wright
Yeah. Sound. Sound is like a four, I think.

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Alessio Summerfield
Okay okay. Let's go to 4.5 on that one. Control.

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Lilliana Wright
Think it was like a three.

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James Reichmuth
Yeah yeah it does I agree three. It feels somehow you controls a little more unwieldy. It's the first.

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Alessio Summerfield
Oh interesting. Do you guys have it on the performance or visual performance.

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Lilliana Wright
Performance.

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Alessio Summerfield
Nice. Yeah I was really surprised at how pretty it looks. And I don't know if I recall Death Stranding one being in 60, but.

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Lilliana Wright
I think there's some screenshots of like, the faces and like they almost feel photorealistic in some.

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James Reichmuth
Places.

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Alessio Summerfield
Yeah, yeah. It's crazy.

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James Reichmuth
I prefer hair animation. I really come a long way.

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Alessio Summerfield
Oh for sure. I, I thought it controlled really well, actually, but the momentum is fucking something else.

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Lilliana Wright
Holy shit. The momentum. It's crazy.

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James Reichmuth
Yeah, yeah, lots of, like, the content and stuff and moreso like the momentum stuff. Yeah.

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Lilliana Wright
I'm just super glad that I can just pratfall down a fucking mountain and just not be able to get back up again until you hit the bottom. You know, that's just so cool.

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James Reichmuth
Yeah. The graphical enhancement that this is for the video users real quick. Is this this maneuver, right. Oh yeah. And then you got this. Yeah, I you get my bag.

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Lilliana Wright
Jesus.

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Alessio Summerfield
Rotated his head.

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Lilliana Wright
Ash Ketchum realness. Yeah. Oh.

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Alessio Summerfield
Yeah. I'll give you control of for, fun factor. This is a good one. How many hair razors?

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James Reichmuth
You know it first. It like the after the the hour and a half. I played, like, last night. I would have said, like, a three by today. I'm feeling, like, closer to, like, a four.

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Lilliana Wright
Yeah, I'd probably agree with a four.

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James Reichmuth
I'm having a good time.

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Alessio Summerfield
Yeah, yeah, I feel like I'm straight forced right now.

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James Reichmuth
Yeah.

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Alessio Summerfield
Challenge and this, this one actually doesn't have a numerical. It's got, we got some labels here. So we got beginner, intermediate, advanced expert and adjustable adjustable.

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James Reichmuth
I'm saying beginner. Oh, like, especially compared to the opening of, of the first one, I feel like, which I said might be a familiarity thing. Right? Like we know.

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Lilliana Wright
Yeah. Cause you like you, you're the person who's played at the most recent of us, so. Yeah. Yeah, I for me, it's like, I don't know what like the fucking menacing higher difficulties are like. But it seems like I feel like if a game offers like, here's a story difficulty, here's a casual blah, blah, blah, I would call that adjustable.

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Lilliana Wright
I haven't felt particularly challenged yet, and I'm playing on normal.

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James Reichmuth
I was gonna say rebirth on normal. Yeah, I just so I.

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Alessio Summerfield
I usually first go around him like what is the intended.

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James Reichmuth
I'm always looking for that to like I want like the devil wanted this and like okay hit.

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Lilliana Wright
Me I find that, I find that I, I stick with the intended initially. And then if it gets to a point where I'm getting, like, frustrated by the challenge, but I do still want to see the game through, I'll drop down the difficulty if I can. Yeah. But yeah, so far normal seems to be fine. Yeah.

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Alessio Summerfield
I'd give it like intermediate ish. Just because there's, like, intermediate. Not because of, I guess, not because of challenge in terms of like mastery. But I'll give it an intermediate in terms of like just the amount of systems we're dealing with.

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James Reichmuth
Yeah.

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Alessio Summerfield
Though that, that will I will go back to that at a later point. I do really dig how the game doesn't like force you into anything. So like I was very surprised at how legitimately wide fucking open. Yeah. The first like ten minutes were.

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James Reichmuth
Yeah I agree.

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Alessio Summerfield
It's like in the first game it's like very sprawling, rigid. But it was.

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James Reichmuth
Like, yeah, you're going to be very much guiding you down this valley where it's like, yeah, I felt like I kept getting distracted because I just kept like going down other paths and seeing, like, I just, yeah, go over here and, like, circumvent this way. I find that, like, even the, like the, the plotting your route mechanic from the first game let's return is like a little bit better with like the anime they've made graphically to the map as well.

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James Reichmuth
It's like it's a more interesting, like meta game to figure out. Like, yeah, probably going to deviate from this, but yeah, I think this is the way I want to go.

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Alessio Summerfield
The moment at the beginning, the moment that Lu started to cry and then and then I had the thought where I was like, somebody needs to get this fucking child some sunscreen.

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Lilliana Wright
I said, dad, I.

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Alessio Summerfield
Immediately was like, I've got to get her home. She probably has a dirty diaper. Let's fucking go. Like there was no like, stop and smell the roses. This is like the moment she cried. I'm like, we got to get this baby. You know.

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Lilliana Wright
My my first thought legitimately. My first thought after I kind of got over that opening cutscene. And like the introduction when it gives you control, that was like, oh, this is going to fuck Alessio. Yeah. Because like, she's just babbling from the country. You can hear it from the controller and then like, what happens after like,

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Alessio Summerfield
I made a note. I was trying to keep notes, like, very just like whatever. Yeah, it's like nothing too formal. I'm not even kidding. You guys. It was a hundred and 80s in, I legitimately cried. Yeah. It's like whenever you had to rock the baby and she looks dead in the camera and gave, like, a little giggle.

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Alessio Summerfield
Yeah, I think yes. She's like, so I'm going to say this whenever they said she's 18 months old. I don't think it's at the beginning because as the father of an 18 month old, she, like, is crawling and has two teeth like that, like Lou is like barely a year old. If so, if anything, weirdly.

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Lilliana Wright
Well, because.

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Alessio Summerfield
You have a kid, you get weirdly nostalgic for like six months ago version of your.

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Lilliana Wright
It was because, yeah, she just barely because, from the end of Death Stranding, it's 11 months. It said.

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Alessio Summerfield
Oh, okay.

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Lilliana Wright
So yeah, she'd be about it.

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Alessio Summerfield
She has like a head, a head of hair and like, stuff. And she's like, holding herself up, so like. But yes. Anyway, I don't want.

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James Reichmuth
To not.

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Alessio Summerfield
Want to refrain from.

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James Reichmuth
Spoilers. Oh why not? I know we're not spoiling Death Stranding two real quick on Death Stranding one, though I know I'm the one that played this most recently. I didn't remember that Lou was, a little girl or they.

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Alessio Summerfield
They,

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Lilliana Wright
There was a it was like, or they was revealed at the end because they don't really say. And then it's revealed at the end that. Yeah.

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Alessio Summerfield
Yeah. Do they say, do they say Louise at the end?

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Lilliana Wright
Is, I think the last chapter before the free room is Luke.

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James Reichmuth
I feel like I've missed a chunk because in my mind I'm like, wasn't it? I thought, I thought Sam was the baby.

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Alessio Summerfield
Sam was the baby that you're seeing from the movie?

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James Reichmuth
Oh. Right. Yes. Yep, yep. I was just missing a chunk of the story in my memory.

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Alessio Summerfield
That's just a single sentence.

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James Reichmuth
It was.

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Alessio Summerfield
A big.

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Lilliana Wright
Sequence as well.

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Alessio Summerfield
Where it's super clear.

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Lilliana Wright
No, 14 is just is just. Lou. I thought it was Louise, but,

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James Reichmuth
Lily.

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Alessio Summerfield
Is it going to be weird to hear the name Sam like it? Rattling off at, like, fucking four instances?

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Lilliana Wright
It has already been, like, really strange just playing it and hearing Sam, Sam, Sam, Sam. Because that, I feel, has been really weird.

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Alessio Summerfield
I feel like Sam Bridges, dodging the little red X's, on the terrain with me dodging dead, naming you right now. Yeah. Just need you to know that.

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Lilliana Wright
It's it's tricky. And hard because it's it's. Yeah, it's I this this the difficulty on this one is advanced or whatever the game. No, it is really weird. I like not in a dysphoric way, thankfully, but it's just like I was because I had braced myself for it. Because I knew we were going into a game where the main character's name was fucking Sam.

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Lilliana Wright
But it does give me like, it does send the fucking exclamation mark over my head every time I hear it. I'm just like, just briefly, like a little, like, I was like, nope, that's not my name. It's not playing. It's a campfire.

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Alessio Summerfield
Speaking of exclamation points, I just want to put out on Front Street. This is the most fucking Death Stranding gear solid. Yeah, I have feeling we talked about, like. Like specifically, and, like, we'll get into it, but there's, like, a little when you're at home, you can like, VR mission it up. Yeah. And of course of the VR in full list.

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Alessio Summerfield
Of course. Like I'm, I go through all of them. Yeah. And it felt so goddamn Metal gear it like, was not even funny. Yeah.

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James Reichmuth
It does, it does. It's, I feel like. I feel like, on that note, do I feel like, I feel like so far, the cinematography has been the most, natural feeling, like.

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Lilliana Wright
I love, especially at the beginning, like, when you're walking down the ridge at the very beginning. I love the dynamic camera. You can press a button to, like, oh, yeah, and pan.

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Alessio Summerfield
Out like the aerial.

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Lilliana Wright
View. Yeah. It's such that's such a great addition because I don't think that was in the first one.

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Alessio Summerfield
It kind of reminds me of the cinematic cam from Grand Theft Auto. Yeah. So one of the very first fucking note I made was this might be the most streamlined visual storytelling that Kojima has ever fucking done. Like, it feels like in the span of Death Stranding to Death Stranding to that like 20 years of filmmaking has, like entered Kojima's brain.

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Alessio Summerfield
And it's like it doesn't feel super Fillory like at least right now. Like it feels a lot more organic, but that it's first.

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Lilliana Wright
It's interesting what I'll say. Well, actually. Well, let me ask. This is something I meant to ask earlier, but I forgot I got distracted by this. James, you said you played about an hour and a half last night. How much have you played about so far?

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James Reichmuth
Probably about four ish hours, I would say. Okay.

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Lilliana Wright
Let's say, what about you?

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Alessio Summerfield
Probably about the same. I, I played for about 3.5 hours this morning, and then I had a little break of like an hour, hour and a half, in the middle of the day, I will say really quickly, we probably should have put this up front. If you're listening, we're not going to go into any spoilers for specifically talking like general generalities.

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Alessio Summerfield
We will talk a little bit about like, systems, as you've already probably heard. But we are the spoiler policy for the show. At no point in the middle of the season are we going to say fuck it all. Spoilers are off. We're going to two chapters at a time. Like, and that is the that is all we're going to cover.

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Alessio Summerfield
We're never going to go beyond those episodes in those episodes. So don't worry if you're listening to like part four that we're going to talk about chapter 15 or something. But yes.

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Lilliana Wright
And it's all and it's all delineated too. So it's just like the first game where you see like episode one is blur and episode two is yeah, yeah, it's it's delineated. So when you see so if you're listening to the first part, we're talking about episode one and two, and you see the title card for episode three, anything past that we won't be talking about.

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Lilliana Wright
Yeah, exactly. Next episode. Just like that. Yeah.

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Alessio Summerfield
Unless it's like a special circumstance, in which case we will call it off.

00;18;53;01 - 00;19;15;11
Lilliana Wright
Yeah. For me. So I'm. I'm definitely further along than both of you. I had a lot of extra. I had more extra time this afternoon than I thought I was going to have. So I just kept playing and to, to avoid kind of, like, spoiling y'all for the time it takes. I'm not going to say how long I've been playing, but I did complete episode two.

00;19;15;13 - 00;19;30;02
Lilliana Wright
I agree in general that yes, the storytelling has become more streamlined like that. That like the way that they throw you right into just just go and you get home and you can get home ever. You want to get home. And then all the scenes after you get home and stuff like that.

00;19;30;09 - 00;19;38;12
Alessio Summerfield
The dialog feels a little bit more like organic as well. Maybe, as we know all of the fucking proper nouns now for the first game, but like, yeah.

00;19;38;15 - 00;19;45;18
Lilliana Wright
If you like ask, because what I will say is like one of the things is like, Sam can now choose dialog options to get more context.

00;19;45;21 - 00;19;46;20
Alessio Summerfield
And a lot to.

00;19;46;20 - 00;19;49;13
James Reichmuth
It's surprising there was none of that. First one, right?

00;19;49;15 - 00;19;50;25
Lilliana Wright
No, I don't think so.

00;19;50;27 - 00;19;53;16
Alessio Summerfield
I think if there were, it was like between two options or something.

00;19;53;16 - 00;19;54;16
James Reichmuth
Right? Yeah.

00;19;54;22 - 00;20;07;09
Lilliana Wright
But like if it for example, like in the first conversation you have in the game, it is very expository in a lot of ways. Because it's having to recap some shit for you.

00;20;07;09 - 00;20;08;09
James Reichmuth
It's like a recap.

00;20;08;09 - 00;20;10;13
Alessio Summerfield
I feel like it could have been longer, though. No.

00;20;10;20 - 00;20;11;25
James Reichmuth
Yeah, but it could have been long.

00;20;11;25 - 00;20;30;07
Lilliana Wright
It definitely could have been longer. That is one thing is like the places where it's expository, like there is another one of those conversations like past where you are that's coming up and it's like, this is also very expository, but it's explaining like new concepts and like new things, and it's trying to get those into your brain.

00;20;30;09 - 00;20;34;01
Lilliana Wright
And it also kind of moves moves on quicker than that.

00;20;34;01 - 00;20;37;23
Alessio Summerfield
There weren't cuts to black and then fade ups on archival footage.

00;20;37;23 - 00;20;38;03
James Reichmuth
That's.

00;20;38;03 - 00;20;38;13
Alessio Summerfield
Yeah.

00;20;38;13 - 00;21;02;25
James Reichmuth
So that yeah, that is true I think for a Kojima game a lot more streamlined. I will say though, like with, with what I was saying earlier about like the first hour and a half and then like my score and joy ability jumping later, my first note that I wrote down was overdone. Exposition in a sequel is a financial decision, not a creative decision, because it did feel a little bit like, yeah, we want to make sure people can jump in if they don't want to.

00;21;02;27 - 00;21;03;09
James Reichmuth
You know.

00;21;03;16 - 00;21;04;01
Alessio Summerfield
That's a really good.

00;21;04;01 - 00;21;12;16
James Reichmuth
Point. And they have the recap like the optional recap in the menu too. So I'm like just interested. It was an interesting choice. And so I'm interested to see.

00;21;12;18 - 00;21;17;27
Alessio Summerfield
Yeah, it would have been different. It would have felt a lot more diegetic if it had been longer than 11 months for.

00;21;17;27 - 00;21;19;01
James Reichmuth
Saying, yeah, but.

00;21;19;01 - 00;21;19;17
Alessio Summerfield
Like yeah.

00;21;19;17 - 00;21;20;14
James Reichmuth
That too.

00;21;20;17 - 00;21;42;13
Alessio Summerfield
Like so I'm not going to say which character a character is talking to Sam for the first time since the first game, and they definitely talk to Sam as if he was hit on the head and just did not recall a year ago. So but again, weirdly enough, it didn't feel patronizing. It didn't feel like the 9.99, or notary games kind of thing.

00;21;42;16 - 00;21;46;07
Alessio Summerfield
Like we're going to repeat the same fucking fact 36 times.

00;21;46;07 - 00;21;47;09
James Reichmuth
Yeah.

00;21;47;11 - 00;22;06;29
Alessio Summerfield
But it did feel, my note was it felt a lot like an escape from New York or LA. Oh, yeah. Became whereas like, hey, Sam, I know you're retired. However, your work all blah blah blah, like, we need you one more time and like so it does have a little bit of it again, which he loves to steal.

00;22;06;29 - 00;22;10;06
Alessio Summerfield
It's not like, I felt like some John Carpenter theft.

00;22;10;12 - 00;22;11;05
James Reichmuth
Yeah.

00;22;11;07 - 00;22;12;23
Lilliana Wright
Which he has done several times.

00;22;12;23 - 00;22;19;01
Alessio Summerfield
Yeah. Which the whole fucking franchise of Metal Gear is probably technically John Carpenter.

00;22;19;04 - 00;22;25;26
Lilliana Wright
Here's something that I will say. And this is a mild spoiler for enemies. Spiders, dude.

00;22;25;29 - 00;22;27;25
Alessio Summerfield
Oh, I saw those out of the canal.

00;22;27;28 - 00;22;28;11
Lilliana Wright
Oh, man.

00;22;28;11 - 00;22;33;06
Alessio Summerfield
I saw them very briefly, and as soon as I saw them, I was like, Fucking Lily. I'm so sorry.

00;22;33;06 - 00;22;38;17
Lilliana Wright
Yeah, I and they're like, not unrealistic either. They're like, it's just like,

00;22;38;20 - 00;22;39;22
Alessio Summerfield
They're like.

00;22;39;25 - 00;23;01;23
Lilliana Wright
I'm going to read. I am going to read. And this is like a location thing, but it's not like very it's not like super specific. But I am going to read this description of a place that you, you, you two and also you, James, you might have seen it. Let's see. I don't know if you have Spider Hill, a steep hill with dense vegetation located between these two places.

00;23;01;26 - 00;23;08;17
Lilliana Wright
The hill takes its name from the mysterious, mysterious, spider like creatures that many people have reported seeing in the area.

00;23;08;19 - 00;23;23;04
Alessio Summerfield
I've see, I saw spiders and I was on a hill. I don't know if it was the titular spider. I probably, also speaking things. Did you ever read Chad's thing or did I just straight steamroll and we just moved on?

00;23;23;06 - 00;23;24;19
Lilliana Wright
Yeah. No. Is it on the beach?

00;23;24;21 - 00;23;30;22
Alessio Summerfield
Oh, okay. Right on, right on. For a second I like, went brain dead and was like,

00;23;30;24 - 00;23;33;01
James Reichmuth
Sorry. We got you. We got you.

00;23;33;04 - 00;23;43;14
Alessio Summerfield
Did you guys notice that there? And maybe I'm stupid. I'm sure people listening to this are like, this fucking podcast sucks. There were two writers other than Kojima credited.

00;23;43;17 - 00;23;44;08
James Reichmuth
I did see that I.

00;23;44;08 - 00;23;46;21
Lilliana Wright
Did not I yeah, look into her.

00;23;46;21 - 00;24;05;14
Alessio Summerfield
As soon as I saw it, I was like, oh yeah. And I don't know if they were in the first game or not, but I was like again, between like the in medias for s beginning and and the better sounding kind of we don't sound like fucking sock puppets dialog. And then the two writers credited, I was like, did my boy grow up?

00;24;05;18 - 00;24;31;14
James Reichmuth
Yeah, he fucking grew up. It does feel like, it does feel like for me, yeah. Like from a credit standpoint, like, almost like the way that, like, you hear Naughty Dog talk about their productions where it's, they're shooting like it's own theater thing along the way. Like, I feel like this. This was like a next level Kojima production.

00;24;31;16 - 00;24;32;21
James Reichmuth


00;24;32;23 - 00;24;33;29
Alessio Summerfield
Been long enough.

00;24;34;02 - 00;24;37;00
James Reichmuth
By the time. Yeah, like that time.

00;24;37;03 - 00;24;41;15
Alessio Summerfield
God, I guess it has been, like, almost six years fucking a year.

00;24;41;15 - 00;25;09;28
Lilliana Wright
Something. Also, I, I want to bring up really before we get too far away from, like, the story stuff and like the dialog and everything like that. All the exposition. There's been a trend in gaming recently. This like active time lore stuff that you can press a button and the corpus stuff. I really like having that where you can just kind of where they mentioned a thing, and you can press the start button and it brings up like a little description because I complained a lot about like having to read everything in the first game.

00;25;10;00 - 00;25;22;10
Lilliana Wright
But I think the difference between that and this in this particular case is that, is that it's like very quick hit. So it's just a book and it's like a paragraph and you're back into it. So you really need that context.

00;25;22;17 - 00;25;25;25
Alessio Summerfield
You also don't have to sift through like a huge fucking list to find.

00;25;25;26 - 00;25;35;02
Lilliana Wright
Yeah, because it'll take you directly to the thing that's been referenced. So I think I really like I, I love Active Time lore as a feature. It was great in Final Fantasy. It was great. And like everything that I've.

00;25;35;02 - 00;25;43;14
James Reichmuth
Seen linked to really good. Kind of like along those notes. Like I do think the UI in general is a big step up as far as. Yeah, navigation.

00;25;43;16 - 00;25;48;23
Alessio Summerfield
It felt like a miliar and also it felt like Death Stranding plus just felt like.

00;25;48;25 - 00;25;50;00
James Reichmuth
100%, which I.

00;25;50;02 - 00;25;52;13
Alessio Summerfield
So the font not being super fucking tiny.

00;25;52;18 - 00;25;53;18
Lilliana Wright
I got my game good.

00;25;53;24 - 00;25;54;12
James Reichmuth
I had the you.

00;25;54;18 - 00;25;58;28
Alessio Summerfield
Remember the Edsel? Yeah. The email text was in the original.

00;25;58;28 - 00;26;01;03
James Reichmuth
Is brutal strain in my art.

00;26;01;06 - 00;26;09;04
Alessio Summerfield
Yeah. Here you're getting like six sentences. They you don't even have to scroll. They're like boom right there. Is. Yeah. Super nice.

00;26;09;07 - 00;26;10;13
Lilliana Wright
Yeah.

00;26;10;15 - 00;26;30;15
Alessio Summerfield
Also it dawned on me, by the way, this time, especially looking at the UI and then looking at the inside of like some of the, the sort of rest rooms that you find like akin to like in the first game. Right. It's like these little rooms where Sam can just like, chill for a second. I was like, this is not anywhere in North or South America, period.

00;26;30;15 - 00;26;44;10
Alessio Summerfield
This is the most Japan like, having been to Japan, I was like, this is the most fucking Japanese room layout. Design. Yeah. UI like they're like, Sam over here. I'm like, no, we're not, we're in. It was downtown Tokyo.

00;26;44;12 - 00;26;52;27
Lilliana Wright
Like, yeah, it was like that in fuckin the first one too. Especially when you're like, walking through is like, this is not Colorado. This is. Yeah.

00;26;52;29 - 00;27;04;14
James Reichmuth
Yeah, yeah. Like Colorado at least were not not I don't think this is a spoiler, but at least we're not being advertised like monster and like the A and like, oh, yeah.

00;27;04;15 - 00;27;05;27
Lilliana Wright
Hey, hey.

00;27;05;29 - 00;27;06;17
James Reichmuth
Right.

00;27;06;20 - 00;27;18;28
Lilliana Wright
Listen, Domino's is coming. I don't know if y'all saw that. Domino's ex Death stranding two. Domino's is coming baby. And nothing nothing is going to stop that new recipe pie am I right. Like it's going.

00;27;18;28 - 00;27;22;15
Alessio Summerfield
To I think didn't Kojima post on Instagram or something that.

00;27;22;15 - 00;27;24;26
Lilliana Wright
Were I saw it on blue Sky?

00;27;25;00 - 00;27;46;22
Alessio Summerfield
No. Okay. Go ahead. I don't want to, I don't I so I do want to ask you all a question, but I'm not going to state the two locations. I'm just gonna generally ask. So during the conversation at the beginning, there is mention of Sam. We want you to go to location X. You're currently in location.

00;27;46;22 - 00;27;58;04
Alessio Summerfield
Why? At any fucking point did we travel? Because I feel like we start the game in location y. We walk out of our house and we're suddenly in location X. Do you guys know what.

00;27;58;04 - 00;28;09;22
Lilliana Wright
I'm talking about? Yeah, we are so close to that first. And, like. Like he. So I was Sam. Sam mentions like in that first conversation.

00;28;09;22 - 00;28;15;23
Alessio Summerfield
Separate country I think like it's they're both secret. It's second like other code.

00;28;15;24 - 00;28;17;22
James Reichmuth
Yeah Florida like the southern.

00;28;17;23 - 00;28;31;08
Lilliana Wright
I think I think he's on the border because he mentioned something about like just I'll just say very vague. He mentioned something about like for, for reasons he has that he says, well, maybe we need to keep moving south. And so I think he's just cause.

00;28;31;08 - 00;28;37;18
Alessio Summerfield
One is like the map and it fills in the little area, you're like firmly in the center of that place.

00;28;37;20 - 00;28;43;06
James Reichmuth
Yeah. This has been a challenge for me as well, where I'm like, how the fuck this place exists?

00;28;43;09 - 00;29;04;12
Lilliana Wright
Then what I, what I will say is that, like, I, I don't think what I will say is like from going from one, you go from one place and then eventually, like they've talked in interviews and stuff, where you go from the place you start into this other place, and this other place needs help. And,

00;29;04;14 - 00;29;10;26
Alessio Summerfield
Where I to be totally frank, it's where I thought we were at the beginning. So I was like, that's the act just happened.

00;29;10;26 - 00;29;39;10
Lilliana Wright
Like, yeah, you get you get some story stuff later and you'll you'll get it soon enough. But they're what what? Get what got me is that you go through and you do this stuff. And like I said, I've been I've been through chapter two and, a conversation you have with one of the, one of the preppers is like, congratulations, you've connected all of this place and it's like, that isn't what that all of that looks like.

00;29;39;13 - 00;29;40;08
Lilliana Wright
What are you talking.

00;29;40;08 - 00;29;48;13
James Reichmuth
I have to say, this is probably like 30 minutes or like 30 minutes before we started recording, I hit that spot and I had the same thought where I was like, excuse the sir.

00;29;48;16 - 00;29;52;21
Lilliana Wright
Pardon? What are you talking about? Like, no, no.

00;29;52;24 - 00;29;55;16
James Reichmuth
It's like, don't gaslight me. Like I know where I am. Like, yeah.

00;29;55;16 - 00;30;03;28
Alessio Summerfield
I mean, to to be fair, quote unquote, across the entire country when it came to the original game, was like, I can walk it in an hour and a half.

00;30;04;03 - 00;30;09;10
James Reichmuth
That's true. And even then, like, they had to blow up, you know, the whole middle part of the country. Yeah. Yeah.

00;30;09;13 - 00;30;30;16
Alessio Summerfield
I mean, nobody lives there anyway, right? What is it like? Yeah. New York you got LA and then whatever the fuck I there. I will say, I will say this game kind of did the opposite for me where like, oh, it's so weird. Like, space feels weird in this game because. So at the very beginning, right.

00;30;30;16 - 00;30;51;04
Alessio Summerfield
You're, like, going home. So we'll say that much. You're walking home. Not to like, Sam's like, weird. Like not home, like capital H, but like where you are currently staying, where you were residing. That feels like it takes forever. Yeah. And then in a good way, like it felt fine. But then the sort of first, kind of like, hey, you should go do this.

00;30;51;06 - 00;30;59;02
Alessio Summerfield
Also felt like it took quite a while. Probably like a third of my play session. And then you look at it on a map and you're like.

00;30;59;04 - 00;31;00;24
Lilliana Wright
Oh, that much distance?

00;31;00;24 - 00;31;05;27
Alessio Summerfield
Yeah. Are you fucking kidding? Like, so it feel the map feels both simultaneously like massive.

00;31;06;00 - 00;31;06;18
James Reichmuth
And.

00;31;06;18 - 00;31;09;14
Alessio Summerfield
Teeny tiny. Like it's the weirdest.

00;31;09;16 - 00;31;32;25
James Reichmuth
I agree. And it yeah, it feels like I'm interested to go further because I think it is going to my hope anyway. Is that the map kind of like spiders out in more interesting ways than the map did in Dust Stranding one, whereas like Death Stranding one, it kind of felt like there was a, almost a singular, sometimes a secondary optimal route.

00;31;32;28 - 00;31;41;28
James Reichmuth
Yeah. Whereas I feel like even on the deliveries I've done so far, like I can see multiple angles of approach that I can take depending on like the style of play I want to do.

00;31;42;04 - 00;31;43;13
Alessio Summerfield
Yeah. Gear and.

00;31;43;14 - 00;31;44;02
James Reichmuth
Yeah.

00;31;44;02 - 00;31;45;18
Alessio Summerfield
Yeah.

00;31;45;21 - 00;32;02;11
Lilliana Wright
Okay. Yeah. It seems it seems a little bit more varied hopefully. And so and this being kind of like what I'll say is like the tutorial area, I would, I would say is just like it, if that's how I'm feeling about this area that I'm hoping the rest of it is like pretty.

00;32;02;14 - 00;32;03;04
James Reichmuth
Yeah. Yeah.

00;32;03;04 - 00;32;30;12
Alessio Summerfield
It kind of. So this first location that we're talking about feels a lot like anybody who's played The Witcher three feels a lot like that first sort of known, sort of surrounding area. Yeah. And it also reminds me of, like, breath of the wild, the great plateau, right before you jump off and glide, it feels like, hey, here's a little vertical slice of everything in the game in, like, a controlled environment.

00;32;30;14 - 00;32;51;28
Alessio Summerfield
I did want to ask. And, Lily, you've been further, than we have. So maybe, you know, very generally speaking, there's some crazy weather situations that happen, and the first hour is that dynamic or is that scripted? Not in that like in that moment, I'm sure it's scripted, but like elsewhere, are there like dynamic versions of that.

00;32;52;00 - 00;33;07;28
Lilliana Wright
That I don't know, because everything that I've run into, even past where you guys are is I've run into like one more thing and then you both have, it feels really scripted. It feels good. I would I would love it if it was dynamic. I think I would add a really cool wrinkle to everything, but I really don't know.

00;33;08;04 - 00;33;08;20
James Reichmuth
Yeah, the.

00;33;08;20 - 00;33;10;17
Alessio Summerfield
Time of day is dynamic. The right.

00;33;10;24 - 00;33;12;11
Lilliana Wright
Day? The time of day, I'm pretty sure.

00;33;12;11 - 00;33;13;08
James Reichmuth
Yeah, yeah.

00;33;13;10 - 00;33;19;19
Lilliana Wright
Because and also when you like, go to sleep in your room to assess it as a time past while Sam was sleeping. Yes. I think like there is.

00;33;19;19 - 00;33;20;27
Alessio Summerfield
Morning or night I think.

00;33;20;27 - 00;33;54;23
James Reichmuth
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You can choose morning or night. I'll be interested to see if like for some of like the side deliveries where you have to backtrack through places you've already been if like the weather becomes dynamic in those scenarios because I've had something where like what I've seen so far is still scripted, which was also my beef with the, the dynamic music that was hyped up during that reveal, which like one like so far has just been for that slice that they showed in two, in my opinion, was implemented poorly.

00;33;54;26 - 00;33;55;11
James Reichmuth
Yeah.

00;33;55;13 - 00;34;06;06
Alessio Summerfield
It felt like they just took a section of the song and looped it while. Yeah. Vibing. Yeah. And then whenever you finally hit like certain milestones on your walk, it would be like, all right, let's cue up part two.

00;34;06;06 - 00;34;18;11
James Reichmuth
Well, and it was so funny because I felt like I would I was like taken in the space. So like I would naturally like slow down and like then you start to take a step and it's like, cool. Whoa. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm like, listen, I.

00;34;18;11 - 00;34;32;10
Alessio Summerfield
Will, I will say this loved low roar obviously obviously mad respect, to the to the band and the singer and, rest, rest in peace. But I already am digging the variety.

00;34;32;12 - 00;34;43;28
Lilliana Wright
Knocking on the music is great. Yeah. Although I will say there was there was one point where a specific song did pop in and it made me like, really?

00;34;44;00 - 00;34;44;08
James Reichmuth
Yeah.

00;34;44;09 - 00;34;45;20
Lilliana Wright
Emotional hearing. Yeah.

00;34;45;21 - 00;34;51;05
Alessio Summerfield
So yeah, I'm not sure if I've gotten to that point, but I have been in my feelings during certain moments.

00;34;51;08 - 00;35;21;27
James Reichmuth
Yeah. I felt, I felt the same way where I was like, oh yeah, this is a nicer variety where like it, it still has like there's still so far things that like kind of have that, Icelandic feel that the first score did, but you can tell that they want to incorporate more variety jam. And I'm interested as the location changes to see like what other types of music, that they incorporate.

00;35;22;00 - 00;35;42;17
Alessio Summerfield
I'm curious to see if it's just because we're in the beginning. But I will say this, Death Stranding two currently feels like if Death Stranding one starts on, like, a very lonely note with, like, very dark skies and very, like, sort of somber feelings. Death stranding two starts with, like, excitement and a buddy and.

00;35;42;19 - 00;35;43;26
Lilliana Wright
And very grim. Yeah.

00;35;43;26 - 00;35;44;28
James Reichmuth
Very rare.

00;35;45;00 - 00;35;47;12
Alessio Summerfield
So far. It feels great. Like, I was like, this is great.

00;35;47;15 - 00;35;55;05
James Reichmuth
I do like, yeah, I like existing in this environment more than I enjoyed existing in the first game's environment. Just like a mood perspective. Like, yeah.

00;35;55;05 - 00;35;56;19
Alessio Summerfield
It feels less depressing, way.

00;35;56;19 - 00;36;04;01
James Reichmuth
Less depressing. It's a, I will say about the dynamic day and night. It's kind of scary sneaking around at night. Oh.

00;36;04;03 - 00;36;05;21
Alessio Summerfield
Yeah, I got a little is.

00;36;05;21 - 00;36;07;10
Lilliana Wright
Yeah. I

00;36;07;13 - 00;36;18;28
Alessio Summerfield
Also, I think I have yet to run into this situation, but I will say this and I don't think this is really a spoiler, but like not having your Bebe with yeah to spot thing.

00;36;18;29 - 00;36;20;01
Lilliana Wright
Oh yeah.

00;36;20;01 - 00;36;22;25
Alessio Summerfield
Feels real. I feel wicked. Yeah I feel real naked.

00;36;23;00 - 00;36;46;08
Lilliana Wright
Yeah. As real spooky vulnerable I have this feels like a good time to talk about like how you feel like, have you engage with the combat much and, like, what's going on because, again, it does feel very Metal Gear Solid five like we talked about and I think that. So I've had an opportunity to engage with, mules with the bandit camps twice since twice in this time.

00;36;46;11 - 00;36;52;15
Lilliana Wright
And so the first one I think is mandatory, which went to the first one you run into.

00;36;52;18 - 00;36;52;27
Alessio Summerfield
Is it.

00;36;52;29 - 00;36;54;17
Lilliana Wright
During the day?

00;36;54;20 - 00;36;55;25
James Reichmuth
Absolutely.

00;36;55;28 - 00;36;58;27
Lilliana Wright
Okay. Yeah, I went I went down into it, I, I.

00;36;58;27 - 00;37;17;09
Alessio Summerfield
Oh, that's that's what I was going to say. The fact that the game is totally fucking chill with you, like, I literally like, not only do I circumvent that, but I also like fucking cross that bridge a really weird way and, like, went over the river in a crazy way. And the fact that the game like, was cool with it, like, legitimately like, caught me off guard.

00;37;17;09 - 00;37;22;19
James Reichmuth
I agree, I'd say, very similar experience with that part. Yeah. Was please,

00;37;22;22 - 00;37;39;11
Lilliana Wright
There's there's a part later on after like further along that I did do that and I was just like, this is very clearly supposed to be a pretty big moment. And I just said, fuck you. And I just, like, I have got places to be. I just fucking.

00;37;39;13 - 00;37;48;12
James Reichmuth
I see, Lily, I think the time that you're referencing, that was around the time I started to get chased by one of the bandits.

00;37;48;14 - 00;37;49;07
Lilliana Wright
And then it.

00;37;49;09 - 00;37;58;07
James Reichmuth
Was one night, and then I look, and suddenly a ladder appears from AC Summerfield, my hero.

00;37;58;10 - 00;38;21;28
Lilliana Wright
I think you might be right. So. So there is a point there. So there is a point then where you go and like, you're walking and it does direct your attention towards a bandit camp. And I just decided to go do it. And so the thing that I noticed about that one is that, like I was still kind of figuring things out and I got spotted the gun play, like the shooting is very crisp.

00;38;21;28 - 00;38;45;16
Lilliana Wright
It works really well. Yeah. Like it it feels very much like more. Way more fine tuned, less of a pain in the ass than it was in the, in the, in the, in the first game. The second one that I did, I did all stealth where possible. Yeah. And like, it was so Metal Gear, it was fucking crazy.

00;38;45;16 - 00;38;48;14
Lilliana Wright
It was like sneaking up and like, knocking people out and going around.

00;38;48;15 - 00;38;49;18
Alessio Summerfield
Marking people from.

00;38;49;18 - 00;38;50;19
Lilliana Wright
Your. Yeah.

00;38;50;19 - 00;38;51;13
Alessio Summerfield
Like killers.

00;38;51;13 - 00;39;08;04
Lilliana Wright
Yeah, yeah. Doing all that. And then like, I go in, and I accidentally this guy spins around before I have a chance to sneak up to him, and he's like. And it does that, like, slow down moves, motion like like death Stranding does this, but it came from solid five. But like, slow down like, oh, you have a second to react.

00;39;08;06 - 00;39;20;11
Lilliana Wright
And then the, the melee of me just be like, no, what, what what was like very, very active and very. Yeah, it's very the combat keeps seeking.

00;39;20;14 - 00;39;21;20
James Reichmuth
So yeah.

00;39;21;22 - 00;39;42;19
Lilliana Wright
It's all, it's very like Metal Gear code. And again I think I talked about this in like the predictions in the theory episode. But if a game, if a game that I have been known to not necessarily jive with the combat is like, hey, because of the themes of this game, we're going to do more combat. I'm glad that it feels like a game that I enjoy playing.

00;39;42;22 - 00;39;43;24
James Reichmuth
Yeah, yeah yeah yeah.

00;39;43;24 - 00;40;03;26
Alessio Summerfield
So I will say outside of the VR missions, I have not fired a single shot. Nice. I did all of the all of the training and stuff, mostly because I was like, I'm going to have to know how to use these at some point. I may as well learn that. Yeah, yeah. But I was like, I don't know, in a weird way.

00;40;03;26 - 00;40;21;01
Alessio Summerfield
I was sort of like, let me just see if I can do this. And so it's like the first huge incident, I was like, nope. And then it was like, okay, cool. And then the second one, I was like, let's just sluice. We're a sluice on by scoop or shit and get on out. And it felt good.

00;40;21;03 - 00;40;21;24
Alessio Summerfield
It was good.

00;40;21;26 - 00;40;40;20
Lilliana Wright
Yeah, I will say, I think that I'm still pretty underwhelmed by, like, the big beats. As far as, like, royalty goes. And just like, this is kind of just like a weird sludge thing that I don't really know what it looks like. Infamously the.

00;40;40;22 - 00;40;52;15
Alessio Summerfield
One. And I think it's someone's sex thing. Like it was. It was like during a moment after you go to bed and I was like, someone just had a sexual awakening.

00;40;52;15 - 00;41;14;25
Lilliana Wright
Oh, yeah. Oh, I think I know exactly what you're talking about. Yeah. Jesus Christ. No, but it's just like it's the same. It's just like it's the same, like, squidgy stuff, I think. I think what makes it better is that, again, the combat is improved. And so it's a lot. It makes me feel like dealing with them feels better.

00;41;14;25 - 00;41;24;05
Lilliana Wright
But I think as far as, like they just feel like these weird like edgelord like.

00;41;24;07 - 00;41;25;06
James Reichmuth
Yeah, sludge.

00;41;25;07 - 00;41;31;05
Alessio Summerfield
Caught on this coming. And the person who's obsessed with Kingdom Hearts, they remind me so much of the heartless.

00;41;31;08 - 00;41;33;20
James Reichmuth
They are very heartless. Go to that, I will drink.

00;41;33;22 - 00;41;35;04
Lilliana Wright
I wish that I hadn't.

00;41;35;04 - 00;41;38;00
Alessio Summerfield
Put well, you have a huge Kingdom Hearts poster directly behind you.

00;41;38;01 - 00;41;52;13
Lilliana Wright
Oh that's true, it's very Although I also wish I hadn't put the, the Kingdom Hearts Heartless keychain that I got at Hot Topic today. On my purse. Okay.

00;41;52;15 - 00;42;09;18
James Reichmuth
I think the, the way that they present the mechanics, especially like the weaponry I do appreciate narratively how like, it's clear that, like, they're a little bit less on their back foot with the beats than it felt like they were at the beginning of the first game, where it was like, I guess we're going to figure all these fucking blood grenades.

00;42;09;18 - 00;42;17;24
James Reichmuth
I don't know, man. Whereas now they're like, yeah, blood grenades, they work. We got this gun, shoot blood points, we're good to go.

00;42;17;26 - 00;42;20;26
Alessio Summerfield
We're collecting retro blood.

00;42;20;28 - 00;42;42;18
Lilliana Wright
And this is actually speaking to that like confidence of like, what the fuck's going on? I do want to point out how fucking hilarious it is. Hilarious. It is to me that, a character says the phrase the finest chiral printed diapers. Oh, and I didn't even bat an eyelash. That's just like, yeah, that might as well be a thing here.

00;42;42;18 - 00;42;44;09
Lilliana Wright
Once.

00;42;44;12 - 00;42;44;23
James Reichmuth
God.

00;42;45;00 - 00;42;46;14
Lilliana Wright
Oh yeah.

00;42;46;16 - 00;42;57;03
James Reichmuth
Speaking of that conversation, no, no spoilers on this because it's like before the first episode, I guess technically, but somebody asks you a question and you can accept or decline.

00;42;57;03 - 00;42;58;25
Alessio Summerfield
Oh, I was 100% going to ask.

00;42;58;25 - 00;43;00;05
James Reichmuth
Did either of you decline?

00;43;00;05 - 00;43;02;00
Alessio Summerfield
I declined every single time.

00;43;02;00 - 00;43;04;22
James Reichmuth
I declined every single time as it is the funniest.

00;43;04;22 - 00;43;05;26
Alessio Summerfield
I like thing.

00;43;06;00 - 00;43;13;14
Lilliana Wright
Oh, God. Yeah, well, I'll talk about that next episode. I've been trained by Pokemon to know that if you say no, they're just going to force you to do it anyway.

00;43;13;14 - 00;43;33;12
Alessio Summerfield
So I in my in my head, I was like, surely? Like, yeah, the whole game hinges on you doing the thing you're being asked, so surely you're going to get to it somehow. Yeah, but what's funny is, like when you say no, it kind of like resets a little bit to the point where I straight up was like, is it replaying the entire fucking cutscene?

00;43;33;12 - 00;43;33;29
James Reichmuth
Yeah.

00;43;33;29 - 00;43;35;27
Alessio Summerfield
And then it has a psych out.

00;43;35;29 - 00;43;36;28
James Reichmuth
And they don't.

00;43;37;01 - 00;43;38;14
Alessio Summerfield
You're asked again.

00;43;38;14 - 00;43;38;27
James Reichmuth
Yeah.

00;43;38;27 - 00;43;44;23
Alessio Summerfield
And it does it again, but in a very funny fucking psych out. But I literally laughed out loud.

00;43;44;28 - 00;43;51;12
James Reichmuth
And it is funny, I, I don't think it's just a gag though. I actually think it is.

00;43;51;15 - 00;43;59;06
Lilliana Wright
Oh like it's. Oh, okay. Interesting. Okay. We will have to get into, what the specifics of that in.

00;43;59;07 - 00;44;03;14
Alessio Summerfield
It's a very early moment, so we'll probably get to it pretty early next episode.

00;44;03;16 - 00;44;05;28
James Reichmuth
Oh, teaser to tune in next time.

00;44;06;00 - 00;44;19;07
Alessio Summerfield
Yeah, I will say this, like, per what we've been talking about in terms of like the sort of maturity with the storytelling, the lack of obnoxious amounts of tutorial thing. Yeah. Oh, man. Oh, I feel so good.

00;44;19;09 - 00;44;20;10
James Reichmuth
Yeah. Well.

00;44;20;13 - 00;44;23;25
Alessio Summerfield
Other than I will say, there's like a little tooltip that like.

00;44;23;25 - 00;44;26;05
Lilliana Wright
They stay on the screen a little to the way.

00;44;26;05 - 00;44;29;01
Alessio Summerfield
Yeah. And I'm just like, all right, I guess. Yeah, I did it.

00;44;29;05 - 00;44;39;25
Lilliana Wright
I did the only one, the only one they all stay on the screen for a little too long, except for the one at the beginning where it tells you how to soothe the baby.

00;44;39;25 - 00;44;40;27
Alessio Summerfield
Oh thank you. Yeah, that.

00;44;40;28 - 00;44;55;09
Lilliana Wright
Oh, yeah, I went away. Really quick and I had to look for it. I was like, oh, okay. And it was after she had already settled down. So I was like, all right, whatever. Yeah. But yeah, that's the only one that's like, okay by me. You don't need to know this. But everything else like kind of stays. It lingers for a long time.

00;44;55;09 - 00;45;01;00
Lilliana Wright
Yeah. So yeah. Oh that kind of sucks. But they're but they're very like, you know, relatively unintrusive.

00;45;01;04 - 00;45;22;23
Alessio Summerfield
I guess the last sort of mechanical thing I wanted to mention is, I guess sort of a two parter. They both involve like, your, like, the avid, like you as you as an avatar, like Sam as the player. I don't remember there being like, a super robust, fucking Elder Scrolls esque, stat system in the first game.

00;45;22;26 - 00;45;24;03
Alessio Summerfield
Like.

00;45;24;05 - 00;45;25;29
Lilliana Wright
Like the start, like how you're you're.

00;45;26;00 - 00;45;28;08
Alessio Summerfield
Yeah, like I remember I remember there being.

00;45;28;08 - 00;45;29;09
Lilliana Wright
Something like.

00;45;29;09 - 00;45;30;24
Alessio Summerfield
Injuries would kind of impact.

00;45;30;26 - 00;45;32;25
James Reichmuth
Definitely more in depth like. Yeah.

00;45;32;25 - 00;45;40;08
Alessio Summerfield
But this is like hey, you jumped a lot. Yeah. Here's some extra jumping stats. Like it's kind of crazy.

00;45;40;11 - 00;45;42;17
Lilliana Wright
I do also love the wood.

00;45;42;17 - 00;45;48;02
James Reichmuth
Yeah. And where it's like he's grown in his skills. The last time he rested, it's like, all right.

00;45;48;05 - 00;45;58;26
Lilliana Wright
I do also love when you go in, you level up. Like when you get those level up stats. Like it shows you, okay, here's your total play time and here's how long this mission took you. Yeah. It's I think that's really.

00;45;58;26 - 00;46;00;27
James Reichmuth
Presentation's really nice on that whole. Yeah.

00;46;00;27 - 00;46;28;24
Alessio Summerfield
Yeah. All the stat right actually. But anyway, last sort of thing about Sam is like, I again, I don't know how much this is going to play into the main game, but like traversing the weather situation at the beginning, the character model is just very impacted by the weather. Yeah. And then whenever I took, shower, it told me, Sam, sunburn has.

00;46;28;24 - 00;46;29;13
James Reichmuth
Yeah.

00;46;29;15 - 00;46;30;13
Lilliana Wright
Yeah.

00;46;30;15 - 00;46;46;16
Alessio Summerfield
And then I also noticed in like, several cutscenes, there were still, like, lingering residue from several things that had to happen. And so I'm like, I wonder how much again, I wonder how much of this is scripted versus how much of it is like just going to be a thing because, like, how much attention to detail is fucking sick?

00;46;46;17 - 00;46;52;13
Lilliana Wright
Yeah, yeah, I feel like I feel like I saw Sam. Sunburn has healed after almost every rest I talk.

00;46;52;15 - 00;46;52;21
Alessio Summerfield
Yeah.

00;46;52;21 - 00;47;08;28
Lilliana Wright
Oh, interesting. So I feel like I feel like there is at least some element of it that is dynamic and is not scripted, but to the extent with which some of the weather you get in this first bit of the game is pretty intense, and I wonder how often that will happen.

00;47;08;28 - 00;47;12;13
Alessio Summerfield
What happens if you allow yourself to get very sunburned, I wonder?

00;47;12;13 - 00;47;13;16
James Reichmuth
Yeah, right.

00;47;13;19 - 00;47;15;27
Alessio Summerfield
There is your stamp. Maybe it's a sign or something.

00;47;16;01 - 00;47;21;15
Lilliana Wright
Probably your stamina takes a hit. I imagine you might even take more damage because, like, your skin is sensitive, you know?

00;47;21;17 - 00;47;26;24
Alessio Summerfield
Do you guys pick up any, I picked up some weird plants that hit me with, yeah.

00;47;26;27 - 00;47;28;16
Lilliana Wright
Sandal sandals. Yeah.

00;47;28;19 - 00;47;32;16
Alessio Summerfield
That was like a foot. Yeah. You can make makeshift shoes.

00;47;32;16 - 00;47;34;11
James Reichmuth
Yeah, those are the. Those are the first one.

00;47;34;13 - 00;47;34;29
Alessio Summerfield
Oh, interesting.

00;47;34;29 - 00;47;37;21
Lilliana Wright
Are they? Oh, I didn't know that. I don't think I interacted with them.

00;47;37;24 - 00;47;45;13
James Reichmuth
Their tutorial, I was like, on the way to the, like the windmill farm, like the other one. And you can notorious. Yeah.

00;47;45;14 - 00;47;46;17
Alessio Summerfield
Section.

00;47;46;19 - 00;47;47;15
Lilliana Wright
Okay.

00;47;47;17 - 00;47;49;20
Alessio Summerfield
But no, I thought it was pretty cool.

00;47;49;23 - 00;47;53;19
Lilliana Wright
I like the s the little bug thing.

00;47;53;23 - 00;47;55;02
James Reichmuth
Little text message.

00;47;55;04 - 00;48;00;13
Lilliana Wright
I've taken to. I didn't realize I've taken to, like, mashing the the middle button. The like.

00;48;00;13 - 00;48;01;05
James Reichmuth
Button. Yeah.

00;48;01;07 - 00;48;13;18
Lilliana Wright
Because you can, like, as many, as many with the bar will deplete and you can like as many times you can hit it in that timer. And I think you, you get more likes for myself the more the more you hit. So I try and I.

00;48;13;18 - 00;48;24;19
James Reichmuth
Also like the play game, the message like on the map where the person like gave you some fucking, like foursquare, like I'm the mayor of

00;48;24;21 - 00;48;27;02
Alessio Summerfield
Yeah. Reminds me of Google. Google Plus as.

00;48;27;02 - 00;48;29;15
James Reichmuth
Well. Yeah, yeah. Google plus. Well rip.

00;48;29;18 - 00;48;31;19
Alessio Summerfield
Yeah, just get the fuck out of my Google.

00;48;31;19 - 00;48;36;00
Lilliana Wright
Plus. Holy shit man. Oh.

00;48;36;03 - 00;48;37;06
Alessio Summerfield
No, I mean, it's.

00;48;37;09 - 00;48;39;12
Lilliana Wright
Not my circle.

00;48;39;14 - 00;48;54;14
Alessio Summerfield
It's more I'm digging it. You guys notice that there were three people credited in the opening? Which, by the way, so breathtaking visuals at the beginning.

00;48;54;17 - 00;49;09;18
Lilliana Wright
I thought that they might have just been like the, the, the before it transitions. The first time I noticed that it was a digital video game was right before you see Sam for the first time. Oh yeah. Some of those shots felt like fucking nature documentaries. So I'm saying.

00;49;09;24 - 00;49;15;24
Alessio Summerfield
Goodness, there's a, there's a film called Electro Comma, which is a Daft Punk musical.

00;49;15;27 - 00;49;16;28
James Reichmuth
Oh yeah. Yeah, that's.

00;49;16;28 - 00;49;17;12
Alessio Summerfield
Why they called.

00;49;17;12 - 00;49;21;23
James Reichmuth
I saw this playing at a bar. I kid you not. It's three months ago. It's fucking.

00;49;21;23 - 00;49;22;02
Alessio Summerfield
Amazing.

00;49;22;02 - 00;49;23;04
James Reichmuth
Fucking awesome. But there's a.

00;49;23;04 - 00;49;46;23
Alessio Summerfield
Lot of material shot in the desert. If anybody has seen the video of Daft Punk, quote unquote breaking up, I mean, they did break up, but the video is not whatever they took the video clip from a part of this movie where you see the robot explode or whatever. Anyway, it's filmed in the desert. They did this thing where you'd see all these beautiful desert shots, much like the beginning of Death Stranding to,

00;49;46;25 - 00;50;05;26
Alessio Summerfield
But one of the shots, I kid you not, is a very tight shot of a woman's unshaved genitals. And it's just, like, hidden in there, and, like, literally, I'd watch the film four fucking times, and you just don't even notice it. Like, And it's so funny because while I was watching the beginning of Death Stranding two, I was like, are they going to put in the crotch?

00;50;05;26 - 00;50;10;07
Alessio Summerfield
Yeah. But no.

00;50;10;08 - 00;50;12;00
Lilliana Wright
Yeah. And everything.

00;50;12;03 - 00;50;38;04
Alessio Summerfield
But the the, the credits were kind of pulling my attention away, which was a little irritating. So I was like, it's a beautiful vista, and I just want to, like, look at it. And then. Yeah, but anyway, there were three people credited that are from the first game. Yep. And I don't know if the credits are just because they are using their likeness in some of the beginning part.

00;50;38;07 - 00;50;41;18
Alessio Summerfield
Or if they are reprising roles.

00;50;41;25 - 00;50;43;01
James Reichmuth
Yeah.

00;50;43;03 - 00;50;43;26
Alessio Summerfield
So I'll be curious.

00;50;43;26 - 00;50;46;21
James Reichmuth
Interesting. And similar thing you.

00;50;46;23 - 00;50;57;22
Lilliana Wright
You, you do in that first conversation, you do see the face of one of those characters. Yeah. And like, is that two of them? And I was like, is that the reason why they're credited or.

00;50;57;23 - 00;51;15;01
Alessio Summerfield
That's what I yeah, that's what I was thinking. Also very weird situation. But the character who's talking to you mentions somebody stepping down from a role. And I was like, yes. Did they step down because they're fucking dead? Like, what a weird way to say that. Oh, like, they, they are dead.

00;51;15;01 - 00;51;16;26
James Reichmuth
Like, oh yeah, canonically.

00;51;16;26 - 00;51;19;27
Alessio Summerfield
So what do you mean this? Yeah. It was very weird. I was like.

00;51;19;29 - 00;51;22;02
James Reichmuth
I don't recall about that. Yeah.

00;51;22;07 - 00;51;23;13
Alessio Summerfield
I want a character death.

00;51;23;13 - 00;51;30;11
James Reichmuth
Like. Yeah, that makes so much more sense because I was like, oh, that's a weird way to do that. And yeah. Yeah, forgetting the context. Holy shit. Yeah. That's.

00;51;30;12 - 00;51;35;11
Lilliana Wright
You have to tell me. I think my brain is like mush right now, so you might have to remind me off mic.

00;51;35;11 - 00;51;43;02
Alessio Summerfield
What you're. Yeah. No, no, no for sure, for sure. And again it's like literally in like the first five minutes of the game. And hopefully I think we've obscured it enough.

00;51;43;02 - 00;51;55;11
Lilliana Wright
But that too is like like again, there was so much like recap happening that I'm just like, yeah. It's like, yeah, I just want to walk now.

00;51;55;14 - 00;51;56;29
James Reichmuth
Yeah.

00;51;57;02 - 00;52;08;04
Alessio Summerfield
Gorgeous game. I will say the difference between PS4 Pro and PS5 going from Death Stranding one to Death Stranding two, doesn't feel like leaps and bounds, but this definitely is prettier.

00;52;08;06 - 00;52;08;16
James Reichmuth
Definitely.

00;52;08;23 - 00;52;09;14
Lilliana Wright
Oh, yeah.

00;52;09;16 - 00;52;19;12
James Reichmuth
I feel like the honestly. Like, I'm a sucker for the, like the haptic feedback and the oh, yeah, I love that shit. And I feel like this makes great use of it.

00;52;19;14 - 00;52;24;24
Alessio Summerfield
Yeah. I've never seen Leah say Du's, gap in her teeth model to such an oh my God.

00;52;24;24 - 00;52;28;28
James Reichmuth
Right. Yeah. The fucking character models on these close up shots are fucking nuts.

00;52;28;28 - 00;52;29;20
Lilliana Wright
The crazy.

00;52;29;20 - 00;52;35;00
Alessio Summerfield
Yeah, it's really cool. Do you think they scanned a baby for live a real baby?

00;52;35;00 - 00;52;36;09
James Reichmuth
Oh, I do it right.

00;52;36;10 - 00;52;40;16
Lilliana Wright
That's a that baby moves like a real fucking baby.

00;52;40;18 - 00;52;50;05
James Reichmuth
Which I do. I do feel like canonically in my mind as I'm playing it, I'm like, yeah, I really gotta take care of this kid because it's the as kid, like, I she. Yeah.

00;52;50;08 - 00;52;52;04
Lilliana Wright
Yeah, I felt I feeling.

00;52;52;04 - 00;52;55;01
Alessio Summerfield
And listening along. It's my child.

00;52;55;03 - 00;53;13;13
Lilliana Wright
I legitimately so I have, I have I have met Alicia's child I have held Elizabeth's child real life. I feel so attached to this fucking baby in this video game. And I do legitimately think that part of it is because she reminds me so much of fucking Edith. It's insane to me.

00;53;13;13 - 00;53;30;12
Alessio Summerfield
The only difference between them is that Edith has abnormally curly hair and curly hair than anyone in my family. Like fucking Arby's curly fries. And Lou's hair is not long enough for us to know. Yeah, but, yeah.

00;53;30;15 - 00;53;45;12
Lilliana Wright
It's just wild. It's just like I must. I need this baby to be okay and protect it. And thank you for bringing the diapers, and. Yeah, we just clean that mess up. Please clean that mess off her face, Sam. Like that. I'm just like I need this baby to be okay.

00;53;45;17 - 00;53;50;12
Alessio Summerfield
When Norman Reedus was like, you ready for nom nom? So I was like, I. So here for.

00;53;50;12 - 00;53;54;06
Lilliana Wright
This. You ready for nom nom? Time for swim. Swim.

00;53;54;11 - 00;53;59;08
Alessio Summerfield
You can, Oh, my God, you can change the, background in your price.

00;53;59;08 - 00;54;01;03
James Reichmuth
Yeah, yeah.

00;54;01;05 - 00;54;09;27
Alessio Summerfield
And, a lot of the backgrounds you can choose from are photos that were clearly taken between the first and the second game, and some of them are incredibly cute.

00;54;10;04 - 00;54;27;15
Lilliana Wright
Yeah, yeah. There's like, there's also there's like a part in that first like cutscene before the character you talk to shows up where it's just them in this place, like doing their life stuff and it zooms in on like a collage of those pictures and I'm just like, oh, yeah, this is so cute.

00;54;27;18 - 00;54;32;22
Alessio Summerfield
There's a fun little callback to a certain animal themed, head where.

00;54;32;22 - 00;54;33;22
Lilliana Wright
Oh, yeah.

00;54;33;22 - 00;54;37;15
Alessio Summerfield
I'm a celebrity cameo. Yeah, yeah, that's very cute.

00;54;37;17 - 00;54;42;20
James Reichmuth
But did, did you all customize the, collars or anything? The gear you were.

00;54;42;22 - 00;54;44;19
Alessio Summerfield
Yeah, but I put the. Yeah.

00;54;44;22 - 00;54;45;17
Lilliana Wright
I did some patches.

00;54;45;17 - 00;54;46;09
James Reichmuth
Yeah, I did some.

00;54;46;11 - 00;55;03;02
Lilliana Wright
I got the, I got a little coca patch. Yeah. They order. Oh yeah I also got like the digital like the, like the quokka. Like the quokka character model. That's kind of like the things. Yeah I've seen like a bunch of, like the, some I saw like a, like a chibi Louboutins. I saw like a little I saw one.

00;55;03;04 - 00;55;04;09
James Reichmuth
Was walking by The Revenant.

00;55;04;09 - 00;55;07;17
Alessio Summerfield
Like the, like the hologram that you can see, like in the in.

00;55;07;23 - 00;55;21;19
Lilliana Wright
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The rubber ducky also scared the shit out of me loud and scared me because, like, I was just standing still and I rotated the camera and he was just like, what up? And I was like, oh. Like, I was not prepared for that. But yeah, that's interesting. I really wish.

00;55;21;22 - 00;55;32;07
Alessio Summerfield
I really wish that I don't know why, but I'm like, I wish I could put a hologram of just like a nude man, like it's a hollow hologram made in jail from the beginning of Alan wake to just standing in the fog.

00;55;32;10 - 00;55;34;04
James Reichmuth
No.

00;55;34;06 - 00;55;37;08
Lilliana Wright
Could you put a hologram? Could you put a hologram of nude taint?

00;55;37;13 - 00;55;40;15
James Reichmuth
I was going to say, can we get a nude taint up in here?

00;55;40;17 - 00;55;44;23
Alessio Summerfield
I need a hologram of oyster smiling.

00;55;44;26 - 00;55;49;26
Lilliana Wright
I get a hologram of a hat wobble.

00;55;49;29 - 00;55;54;01
Alessio Summerfield
It it just let me get a hologram of fucking Lisa from TX.

00;55;54;04 - 00;55;57;14
Lilliana Wright
Oh, God. With her fucking shaking ass licking.

00;55;57;16 - 00;56;01;16
James Reichmuth
Honestly, that would be that basic. I'd put that thing everywhere. Oh, look.

00;56;01;18 - 00;56;07;28
Alessio Summerfield
So I'm going to put this out there. I'm all about the verisimilitude and I'm like, I will say this. I very rarely.

00;56;08;00 - 00;56;10;06
Lilliana Wright
Bring him verisimilitude.

00;56;10;08 - 00;56;29;28
Alessio Summerfield
I very rarely hit the sprint button like it was very nice. Like, I just, I was like walking at a good clip. Yeah, that being said, I did not do. I didn't realize that there was like a little optional side delivery that was being asked of me, at like sort of the oh.

00;56;29;28 - 00;56;30;18
James Reichmuth
Yeah.

00;56;30;21 - 00;56;41;09
Alessio Summerfield
Thing. I didn't do it. And so there's a part of me that's like, please God, let there be some sort of fucking fast travel, because I do not want to have to walk all the way back to that person.

00;56;41;12 - 00;56;53;24
Lilliana Wright
There was I mean, there's a fast travel in the first one there after a certain point. Was there. Well, yeah. But it was, it was like you, you used fragile jump. Yeah. With the umbrella. But it wasn't like super.

00;56;53;24 - 00;56;54;11
James Reichmuth
Yeah.

00;56;54;14 - 00;56;55;14
Lilliana Wright
Well implemented.

00;56;55;14 - 00;57;05;01
Alessio Summerfield
Yeah. I think it was just between rooms. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Like safe room. Fuck. Okay. Well, yeah, maybe that's what I'm going to do. I'm not going to you at all legitimately though.

00;57;05;04 - 00;57;21;19
Lilliana Wright
Yeah. Legitimately though they seem to he seems to have streamlined a lot of like systems and features in this one compared to the other one, I think like including the combat and everything. So like, I'm almost wondering if we unlock a fast travel and it is just like, pretty standard. I can.

00;57;21;19 - 00;57;27;16
Alessio Summerfield
See that. Yeah. I wonder if this opening area won't have it because we're not there the whole time. I don't know.

00;57;27;16 - 00;57;28;29
James Reichmuth
But yeah, I.

00;57;28;29 - 00;57;32;26
Alessio Summerfield
Feel like I should probably goddamn.

00;57;32;28 - 00;57;53;14
Lilliana Wright
Yeah, I there is, the converse. There's a conversation you get later, and during that conversation something is said that makes me believe that they're going to implement some kind of, like, got fast travel, teleportation, something or other that gets you back to where you are.

00;57;53;19 - 00;57;58;21
Alessio Summerfield
I just need like so Metal Gear ask truck to pull up and for Sam to just hide in the back.

00;57;58;21 - 00;58;04;03
James Reichmuth
Yeah, and I need it to be blast and some sick tunes when it comes. Oh, like look or peek like.

00;58;04;03 - 00;58;08;19
Lilliana Wright
And. Yeah. Where's Pequod, where's Pequod, where's Queequeg when.

00;58;08;19 - 00;58;15;13
Alessio Summerfield
Pequod is not around I'm asking myself, where is Pequod?

00;58;15;15 - 00;58;16;15
Alessio Summerfield
But yeah, I love her.

00;58;16;15 - 00;58;20;19
Lilliana Wright
But, where's d'Orsay? I need d'Orsay.

00;58;20;22 - 00;58;29;22
Alessio Summerfield
I love that, blue has, like, a little, environment suit sort of thing. Yeah, like, I mean, you little hood. Yeah. Oh my God.

00;58;29;22 - 00;58;30;25
Lilliana Wright
Oh, God.

00;58;31;01 - 00;58;34;10
Alessio Summerfield
So precious. It's very sweet.

00;58;34;12 - 00;58;52;21
Lilliana Wright
I feel like I need to. I need to just say something here. And this is, again, like. I feel like occasionally I'll bring up, like, aspects of my transition that I'm kind of like, going through. I think the and I don't think I know taking estrogen is making me more emotional.

00;58;52;24 - 00;58;53;18
Alessio Summerfield
Okay.

00;58;53;21 - 00;59;03;10
Lilliana Wright
And I think I'm getting that like the baby thing where it's just like where it's just like, I must I must protect the child.

00;59;03;12 - 00;59;04;04
James Reichmuth
Yeah.

00;59;04;06 - 00;59;20;16
Lilliana Wright
I think I think like I said, because like, because that reminds me of Edith. But I think it goes beyond that. I think I'm just like, I need this. I need to protect this child, and I need this. Yeah. And I think, I legitimately think that's like my hormones being all, like, shifty right now.

00;59;20;18 - 00;59;27;08
Alessio Summerfield
I mean, I would like to believe that biologically, all human beings should want to protect children, but they clearly do not.

00;59;27;10 - 00;59;48;28
Lilliana Wright
Yeah. Biologically, yes. But I think like, there's literally like biological imperatives for women. Right, right. If like the biological like women traditionally are the ones that have kids and the and the kids and stuff like that. So I think like the estrogen is making me feel that pretty sure. Or it's very it's very weird.

00;59;49;01 - 01;00;10;12
Alessio Summerfield
There's a part of me that there's a part of me knowing Cosima and knowing that sometimes you can take some cheap shortcuts with his storytelling. Yeah, there's a part of me that's like, are you putting this fucking baby here so that you can twist a fucking knife midway through this game? Is this you use shorthand, trying to take advantage of my emotions.

01;00;10;12 - 01;00;24;17
Alessio Summerfield
And I really hope that he. I'm not saying he has to protect the child, but I just really hope that it's not like a cheap, a cheap get out of jail free heartbreak. Yeah. Credit that he's you know.

01;00;24;20 - 01;00;38;07
James Reichmuth
I agree and I will say I am interested as well because I, I just like that because I was curious. The two additional writers that you mentioned, also credited as writers on duster one.

01;00;38;09 - 01;00;38;20
Alessio Summerfield
Nice.

01;00;38;22 - 01;00;39;04
James Reichmuth
Okay.

01;00;39;07 - 01;00;40;11
Lilliana Wright
Interesting. Okay.

01;00;40;13 - 01;00;46;22
James Reichmuth
I am curious to see if you're not on to something there. And we are gonna ask knife is.

01;00;46;24 - 01;01;06;24
Alessio Summerfield
Damn it. I really hope that there's, Right now it feels like such a straight putz. Is my one negative right now. It feels like such a straight part of the sequel. It is totally like. Hey, you remember this? Yeah. Here it is. But better. Hey, remember this? Here it is. But better. And it's like, when's the escape from LA?

01;01;06;27 - 01;01;08;25
Alessio Summerfield
Yeah, yeah. Shark jam. It's Wednesday.

01;01;08;26 - 01;01;09;28
Lilliana Wright
It's very.

01;01;10;06 - 01;01;11;06
Alessio Summerfield
Moment like.

01;01;11;07 - 01;01;16;09
Lilliana Wright
Yeah, it's very straight laced for as straight laced as he can be I agree.

01;01;16;12 - 01;01;21;22
James Reichmuth
The I mean I feel like the framing so far of the narrative is very like sequel trope style.

01;01;21;22 - 01;01;34;11
Alessio Summerfield
Yeah, yeah, it's kind of feels like it could, obviously it's more than this, but it feels like it could have been a more robust DLC or something currently. So I'm just.

01;01;34;11 - 01;01;42;27
Lilliana Wright
Like, currently, yeah, I'm giving it the that is. I agree, it's a negative right now, but I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt because there's just so much more.

01;01;42;28 - 01;01;48;24
Alessio Summerfield
Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I mean, we are potentially. Yeah. 1/16 of the way through this.

01;01;48;24 - 01;02;05;09
James Reichmuth
Yeah, totally. Well, and I, you know, I had a point where a couple of additional things started to unlock and I'm like, okay, like I'm starting to feel that groove a little bit more. And I do feel like the pace at which gameplay elements become accessible to you is better paced than in the first. Yeah.

01;02;05;11 - 01;02;08;26
Lilliana Wright
And it's like giving you stuff. Yeah, pretty quickly in this one, which.

01;02;08;26 - 01;02;12;10
James Reichmuth
Is, oh my god, like, it feels like a half in sequels. Yeah.

01;02;12;10 - 01;02;13;23
Alessio Summerfield
First game in half.

01;02;14;00 - 01;02;28;05
James Reichmuth
Yeah, yeah, just half when you like come from a game, you, you know, level up your character, get all your shit. And then the sequel, it's like we had to figure a way to get you back to baseline. And I feel like they're doing a pretty good job of that, which is a tough. Yeah, tough balance.

01;02;28;07 - 01;02;35;11
Alessio Summerfield
Yeah. Well, considering that Sam left the, UK. Yeah, I think, there's a good built in lore reason to be like, you don't have the rings.

01;02;35;11 - 01;02;36;11
Lilliana Wright
He doesn't have any of the.

01;02;36;11 - 01;02;36;28
Alessio Summerfield
Stuff, like.

01;02;36;29 - 01;02;38;10
James Reichmuth
Yeah, exactly.

01;02;38;13 - 01;02;47;26
Lilliana Wright
I the thing that I most I, I will say that I'm most excited about, given the fact that like, the dialog feels better and like everybody seems to be like doing their acting and.

01;02;47;26 - 01;02;48;27
Alessio Summerfield
Performances seem like.

01;02;48;27 - 01;03;15;27
Lilliana Wright
Less really, really good. I'm really excited for hanging out on the ship and seeing all the characters that are just there and interacting with them, but seeing them interact with each other and having these like, interactions, these dynamic conversations, because that wasn't a thing in the first one. True, if you talk to one person at a time and they didn't see each other, the only time you were really in the same room as multiple characters at once was at the beginning when you were in there with them.

01;03;15;27 - 01;03;26;03
Lilliana Wright
Oh yeah, die hard men in the hologram family, and they didn't really even interact that much there. I'm just really excited to see, like, how that changes with like, this cast, Motley crew.

01;03;26;03 - 01;03;30;28
Alessio Summerfield
Yeah, well, we know from our interview with Darren that a lot of them were in the same room.

01;03;31;01 - 01;03;58;29
Lilliana Wright
Yeah. So that'll probably help. I'm just like Hideo Kojima has in in in his past created some of the coolest, most iconic like rogues galleries like Foxhound and and like the Sons of Liberty and like these, like, yeah, the Cobra unit, all these like, really great rogues galleries. And I am super excited to see how he tackles a, heroes gallery.

01;03;59;01 - 01;04;07;15
Lilliana Wright
This, like, really motley crew of characters that are just together doing a thing because I don't know that he's really done that to a, to a degree such as this before.

01;04;07;19 - 01;04;12;09
Alessio Summerfield
Yeah, maybe the only thing, closest thing I can think of is like MGS four with like Meryl and the.

01;04;12;14 - 01;04;13;17
Lilliana Wright
Yeah, they're all.

01;04;13;22 - 01;04;13;28
Alessio Summerfield
Rats.

01;04;14;04 - 01;04;26;12
Lilliana Wright
Not really. You're not really with them that much. Yeah. And I guess like technically you've got like five with fucking Miller and Ocelot. But Miller I don't know if I call them, I might call.

01;04;26;18 - 01;04;27;27
Alessio Summerfield
Out on the base. Yeah.

01;04;27;27 - 01;04;31;19
Lilliana Wright
Like I don't know if I put Miller called Miller a heroes gallery.

01;04;31;19 - 01;04;49;14
Alessio Summerfield
That's a about me and Miller going to go get some fucking cheeseburgers, goddammit. Which, by the way, for Edith watch 2025. I handed her a cheeseburger and she ate it. She held it like a fucking crab cake and just a half of a burger.

01;04;49;20 - 01;04;51;00
Lilliana Wright
Let's fucking.

01;04;51;02 - 01;05;09;24
Alessio Summerfield
Go. That's all for people who aren't watching the video. I just have to point this out. I was going to bring it up sooner when James said he was searching things online. The moment he enabled whatever is going on with his computer, it looked like he opened an oven and it was just like that came over him.

01;05;09;26 - 01;05;14;28
James Reichmuth
Oh, I've got the suitcase from Pulp Fiction right? To my. Yeah. Perfect. And I occasionally just opened.

01;05;15;02 - 01;05;19;12
Lilliana Wright
Yes, it turns out. Turns out that was a computer this whole time. Yeah.

01;05;19;14 - 01;05;20;13
Alessio Summerfield
I mean, very funny.

01;05;20;13 - 01;05;24;00
James Reichmuth
The Death Stranding script is actually what was inside.

01;05;24;03 - 01;05;26;22
Alessio Summerfield
Interesting one that came before it.

01;05;26;24 - 01;05;29;00
James Reichmuth
All comes back.

01;05;29;03 - 01;05;46;00
Alessio Summerfield
Yeah, I don't know. I think so far I'm pretty stoked. I will say there is a little part of me that's like, I maxed out all these fucking outpost relationships in the first game. So like, a little bit of me kind of got hit with a wave of, like, do I have to deliver 15 things for these fucking people?

01;05;46;00 - 01;06;11;18
Alessio Summerfield
Like, but so far I'm not feeling any fatigue. It's feeling great. I will say, Lili, per what you and I had kind of spoken about, I guess, James that came up on the episode when when we were talking about the predictions. I feel like we've already had a couple environmental boss fights. Yeah, like we had the big, crazy fuckin river with the bridge and all that shit, and then, scaling a goddamn mountain felt pretty, pretty dope.

01;06;11;21 - 01;06;12;16
James Reichmuth
Very fun.

01;06;12;18 - 01;06;13;18
Alessio Summerfield
Yeah. So far.

01;06;13;21 - 01;06;32;28
Lilliana Wright
It kind of. It kind of gave you, like, you know, aside from, like, the snow, it kind of gave you this whole section is kind of giving you, like, a microcosm of everything that Death Stranding one was. Yeah, to kind of like, they really want to get you back into the groove of it. And I feel like this in this area has been really great for kind of like, hey, remember this and remember this thing.

01;06;32;28 - 01;06;45;09
Lilliana Wright
Yeah, I remember how to do this and here's this. Like, I think it's like it sometimes I think it can be to a detriment because again, it does feel like that. Hey, it's a sequel. Yeah. Remember but I think.

01;06;45;09 - 01;06;47;04
Alessio Summerfield
Canticle recap, it's like the.

01;06;47;04 - 01;06;47;22
Lilliana Wright
Yeah, yeah.

01;06;47;26 - 01;06;51;06
Alessio Summerfield
Version of the fuck yeah. Here's what happened cutscene.

01;06;51;06 - 01;06;53;07
Lilliana Wright
I, I personally I appreciate it.

01;06;53;13 - 01;07;10;21
James Reichmuth
Yeah. I feel like they ease they ease it all in really well. And it does make traversing, I think, just more engaging. Like, I find that I'm thinking a lot more about like, where I'm walking. Yeah, a little more on alert. Like the fuck it is an earthquake gonna get me?

01;07;10;24 - 01;07;19;03
Alessio Summerfield
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Those are fucking speaking of. Yeah. Whether there's a fucking earthquake in the middle of walking around. Yeah. That was crazy.

01;07;19;06 - 01;07;21;15
James Reichmuth
Yeah.

01;07;21;17 - 01;07;36;16
Alessio Summerfield
But. Yeah. Oh, so one quick thing. I just want to ask this because if you guys have figured it out, I don't want to have to fucking try to figure it out. So I am engaging a lot more with the whole, like, look at the bubble at the bottom of Sam's feet when you're positioning your luggage.

01;07;36;16 - 01;08;05;20
Alessio Summerfield
So that's, like, not equal to the other. I had to completely empty my backpack and then refill it up in the order that I wanted in order to move some shit around. Can you move individual pieces like around within the backpack? Because like essentially and maybe it was I doubt it was a weak thing. I feel like it was probably just LSU being irritated, but it was like a small suitcase was on the bottom of a huge suitcase on top of it.

01;08;05;24 - 01;08;09;00
Alessio Summerfield
And I was like, I have to fucking change these.

01;08;09;03 - 01;08;37;17
Lilliana Wright
I, I need to get better about that, because for as much as I blustered about it and talked about it, I'm just like auto arrange go. Yeah, I've been doing that. I think the first time I tried to stack it and I was just like, I don't feel like dealing with this right now. I'm baby. And then I just auto arranges, I think, like now that I'm like, probably going to start venturing forth into like the bigger, the bigger world of the game.

01;08;37;17 - 01;08;42;13
Lilliana Wright
I think that's going to become more important. So I'm not sure yet, but.

01;08;42;21 - 01;08;51;05
James Reichmuth
Did y'all did you all find that manually doing it in the first one that you got marginal. You know, lift out of it versus just me? Auto?

01;08;51;08 - 01;09;05;05
Lilliana Wright
Well, my problem is that like in the first one, like I've said this, I it might have been on the episode with Isaac. I don't know that you were on that episode, but like our first episode back, I didn't engage with that at all because I didn't notice it. I didn't know, I didn't notice or know what it was.

01;09;05;05 - 01;09;17;28
Lilliana Wright
Yeah, yeah. So I just auto arranged it every time and then just kind of like like help rebalance. We shift, rebalance, we shift, hold down the brace. Well and I was doing that again here. And I'm just like there has got to be a better way.

01;09;18;01 - 01;09;27;09
James Reichmuth
I, I find that I am like I'm not consciously doing this. I'll just like notice and then like make myself stop. And I'm just like constantly like holding like L2 and R2.

01;09;27;09 - 01;09;27;28
Lilliana Wright
Yeah.

01;09;27;28 - 01;09;32;12
James Reichmuth
Like that's like walking. And I'm like, I don't need to be doing that. I can just balance my.

01;09;32;13 - 01;09;42;15
Alessio Summerfield
Yeah, I don't know what, what are the what are the ramifications of doing that? Because there will be moments where I kind of do it. Because things kind of look a little wrong. Yeah.

01;09;42;17 - 01;09;54;11
Lilliana Wright
I don't think there's any, like, you don't get in trouble for it. You just move slower. You're bracing yourself. You move. Sorry. You're just, like, bracing yourself. Just in case. But, yeah, you just move a little bit slower. So you don't topple over.

01;09;54;13 - 01;10;12;26
Alessio Summerfield
Yeah. One of my biggest fucking endorphin releases in life is to organize the the trunk or when loading a car or organizing the fucking car or any of that shit. Yeah, for me, it's like the sorting of the luggage. Yeah. The game. Yeah, yeah yeah yeah. Oh, shit. Right.

01;10;12;27 - 01;10;14;21
James Reichmuth
Yeah. That's funny, I like that.

01;10;14;24 - 01;10;16;21
Alessio Summerfield
It's my Resident Evil four attache.

01;10;16;22 - 01;10;18;05
Lilliana Wright
Yeah.

01;10;18;07 - 01;10;20;06
James Reichmuth
One. Yeah.

01;10;20;08 - 01;10;30;00
Lilliana Wright
I we're you and I, James. You might remember this better than than either of us, but could you organize your cargo on the fly in the first one.

01;10;30;02 - 01;10;31;23
James Reichmuth
Like if you were just, like, out in the field?

01;10;31;23 - 01;10;41;12
Lilliana Wright
Yeah. Just like you hold a button and, like, manage cargo. Okay. I wasn't sure I can remember. That's pretty cool. I like being able to do that. So kudos to both of the games for doing that, I guess.

01;10;41;14 - 01;10;56;06
James Reichmuth
Yeah. Yeah. I have had some precarious, like, just like tall stacks deliveries where I've had to, like, barely move the stick forward because, like, you could topple over set easily. Yeah. Couldn't do it.

01;10;56;08 - 01;11;13;19
Alessio Summerfield
I can't wait until it gets to the point. Like, I remember in the first game when I was, like, pretty and game areas, I was, like, trying to max out all the relationships, mainly because I maxed out one of them and got like a pretty huge fucking game play. And so I was like, I'd probably go back, do all of these.

01;11;13;22 - 01;11;31;00
Alessio Summerfield
And so I was doing a thing where I had like two little carts and had, like myself loaded up and those things played with that, like a little like I was like, I kind of hit this and then this and then this, and I can off load. And so it's like I, I'm wondering kind of what that's going to be like in this game.

01;11;31;00 - 01;11;32;02
James Reichmuth
Yeah.

01;11;32;05 - 01;11;37;03
Alessio Summerfield
And the peak like I have, although I've got to knock out my laundry list.

01;11;37;03 - 01;11;44;24
James Reichmuth
Yes. I'm very excited to get access to more things to help with deliveries. And I'm also excited to just like drop some infrastructure and.

01;11;44;27 - 01;11;46;28
Lilliana Wright
Yeah, like help people out. Yeah.

01;11;47;01 - 01;11;53;08
Alessio Summerfield
Well, yeah. When James chatted us, I was like, yo, Alessio, your ladder fuckin saved me from a bandits club, right?

01;11;53;10 - 01;11;53;25
Lilliana Wright


01;11;53;27 - 01;11;56;28
Alessio Summerfield
I yeah, I felt great. I was like, that's exhilarating.

01;11;56;28 - 01;11;57;12
James Reichmuth
Right?

01;11;57;13 - 01;12;22;19
Lilliana Wright
Well, even like little thing. See, like I mentioned this in our in our chat, but, I was just walking and then in the, like, a little thing popped up a little, like dialog thing pops up and it said, kilometers. Davis has used the path that you trod or whatever. And it's just like the fact that just like even just walking and going in a direction helps people kind of find their way.

01;12;22;22 - 01;12;24;10
Alessio Summerfield
Oh, yeah. Because your feet show up on you.

01;12;24;10 - 01;12;25;23
James Reichmuth
Yeah, yeah.

01;12;25;25 - 01;12;37;13
Lilliana Wright
Yeah. And so, so people can, like, see. Oh. So Lily went that way and Chad goes, I'm going to follow Lily's path and hopefully get there easier. I just it's exhilarating and it feels really cool. It's like.

01;12;37;16 - 01;12;37;23
Alessio Summerfield
I mean.

01;12;37;24 - 01;12;38;02
Lilliana Wright
Yeah.

01;12;38;02 - 01;12;46;23
Alessio Summerfield
So I not retrieve anything on purpose. No, I put a ladder or like, or like a mountain climbing spike or whatever, like going to leave it out there for the next person.

01;12;46;24 - 01;13;00;25
Lilliana Wright
Next. It has to be fucking. And I was like that in the first one too, but it has to be fucking dire for me to take it back like I like. I've got to be like, I'm going to fucking die if I don't take this ladder. But that doesn't often happen. I've noticed in the first one I noticed.

01;13;00;25 - 01;13;01;24
Lilliana Wright
So.

01;13;01;27 - 01;13;05;28
James Reichmuth
The ladders in the first one, could you connect ladders like you can? I don't.

01;13;05;28 - 01;13;06;26
Alessio Summerfield
Think so. You can kind.

01;13;06;26 - 01;13;12;05
Lilliana Wright
Of think so. That's an area I don't know. You can connect them. Oh, yeah. That's extremely cool.

01;13;12;06 - 01;13;17;04
James Reichmuth
You just. It's like a whole new world. Yeah. I connected, like, three ladders to cross the ravine.

01;13;17;06 - 01;13;17;18
Alessio Summerfield
We should.

01;13;17;24 - 01;13;18;14
Lilliana Wright
We should go.

01;13;18;16 - 01;13;20;10
Alessio Summerfield
We should not. Okay.

01;13;20;13 - 01;13;23;06
Lilliana Wright
We.

01;13;23;09 - 01;13;29;02
Lilliana Wright
If we should not have connected. You shouldn't have made it so easy to connect things. Had audio.

01;13;29;04 - 01;13;59;05
Alessio Summerfield
Another quick sort of weird, UI pet peeve. Is there an easier way when I get to these bases and they're like, hey, we have resources sitting in our stash. Do you, do you want them? And I'm like, yeah, okay. I'm having to like, retrieve all of the shit and put it in a private locker, go into the private locker, select all the shit, and then say recycle in order to add it to my reserve of crafting things.

01;13;59;05 - 01;14;02;13
Alessio Summerfield
Is there not an easier way to do that?

01;14;02;15 - 01;14;03;27
James Reichmuth
I don't think so. I haven't there's.

01;14;04;00 - 01;14;04;20
Lilliana Wright
Like so.

01;14;04;27 - 01;14;05;25
James Reichmuth
That sucks.

01;14;06;01 - 01;14;20;18
Alessio Summerfield
Yeah, yeah. So that's like the what? Everything feels super smooth and streamlined. That feels so fucking. Yeah to air. Like, I don't know, it's like, why do I have to go through four fucking menus to do one thing?

01;14;20;21 - 01;14;22;00
James Reichmuth
Yeah.

01;14;22;02 - 01;14;22;25
Alessio Summerfield
So anyway, well.

01;14;22;26 - 01;14;24;15
James Reichmuth
That section is menu heavy.

01;14;24;18 - 01;14;28;16
Alessio Summerfield
Yeah, we'll keep an eye on that. We'll let you know if had an easier way.

01;14;28;18 - 01;14;33;22
James Reichmuth
I like that you would turn it into, like a weather reporter for a second there was a keep an eye on and.

01;14;33;22 - 01;14;38;12
Lilliana Wright
If we have any. Yeah. Any updates? Tune in to the 10:00 news with Leslie Somerville.

01;14;38;15 - 01;14;41;08
Alessio Summerfield
I forgot if you hit the touchpad that Sam's like.

01;14;41;10 - 01;14;46;00
James Reichmuth
Hey. Oh, my God, I got a little help over here a couple a day. Yeah, I did, I.

01;14;46;00 - 01;14;54;28
Alessio Summerfield
Did that, and then I heard I was like, hey, can I get some help? And somebody else, somebody else responds back, like, yeah, I need some help too. And I was just like.

01;14;55;00 - 01;14;55;26
James Reichmuth
Oh, that.

01;14;55;26 - 01;15;03;12
Lilliana Wright
Actually from like I did it on accident in the middle of an area that had to and I was I've almost shat my pants because I thought they were going to.

01;15;03;12 - 01;15;13;16
James Reichmuth
Hear it. I did it next to a bandit camp and, hi. Because I was like, I was like, oh, this is the button to open the map, right? And it's not. It's the oh, I.

01;15;13;16 - 01;15;20;04
Alessio Summerfield
Guess what a good way to because I was thinking, I was like, how do I get that guy to come over here? I didn't even think to.

01;15;20;04 - 01;15;22;26
Lilliana Wright
Yeah. That's pretty that's a good friendly shit, actually.

01;15;22;26 - 01;15;23;29
James Reichmuth
Yeah.

01;15;24;02 - 01;15;30;24
Lilliana Wright
Was speaking of opening the map has like 1990s Claire's thumb ring that. Yeah. That he gets given to like or like.

01;15;30;29 - 01;15;33;16
Alessio Summerfield
Everybody is like a male in Decoder ring.

01;15;33;17 - 01;15;36;25
Lilliana Wright
Me. Yeah. Two year old team type shit.

01;15;36;29 - 01;15;37;09
Alessio Summerfield
Sam.

01;15;37;09 - 01;15;55;14
Lilliana Wright
So, yeah, it just stops. Yeah. So every time, every time you open your map, Sam gets this ring from that character. You talk to at the beginning, and he just he has to give a thumbs up, and it zooms in on his thumb, and then the thumb becomes the map. And it's just like, this is extremely silly, even.

01;15;55;17 - 01;15;58;01
Alessio Summerfield
For a man with a thumb ring one day. Yeah.

01;15;58;03 - 01;16;02;09
James Reichmuth
Yeah, yeah, 100.

01;16;02;12 - 01;16;12;15
Alessio Summerfield
It's pretty tacky. Also, he doesn't take it off when he showers. I was like, follow the fuck, Sam, take that off. Like, I'm sure it's water resistant, but you don't. You don't know. You never know.

01;16;12;18 - 01;16;13;09
James Reichmuth
And you only go.

01;16;13;09 - 01;16;15;27
Lilliana Wright
It's not like, oh, it's like a wedding ring or anything like that. Dude, I.

01;16;15;27 - 01;16;16;28
Alessio Summerfield
Take mine off my fucking.

01;16;16;29 - 01;16;23;08
Lilliana Wright
I do do when I shower, I can't fucking have. I can't fucking have wetness under my fucking finger when I, when I. Yeah, you know what I mean.

01;16;23;08 - 01;16;34;17
Alessio Summerfield
Like, everything like very easily comes off if it gets super wet underneath. Yeah. But anyway, final thought, anybody have any final thoughts?

01;16;34;18 - 01;16;35;27
James Reichmuth
I'm excited. I think.

01;16;36;03 - 01;16;37;02
Lilliana Wright
I'm optimistic.

01;16;37;04 - 01;16;44;02
James Reichmuth
I'm very interested both to see how the mechanics evolve. And, I'm actually, like, very hyped about the narrative, like.

01;16;44;04 - 01;16;45;08
Alessio Summerfield
Yeah. Yeah. I'm curious.

01;16;45;08 - 01;17;06;21
Lilliana Wright
Yeah. Me too. They said I'm very I'm, I'm such like, Alessio, you'll you'll I mean, you've you've read my book. So you, you know this about me. Like, I love character interactions and character development and like, like characters and everything that. So I'm very excited. Like I said, very excited to see how the relationships are built in this one because it is it is like different.

01;17;06;21 - 01;17;30;29
Lilliana Wright
It doesn't seem like the preppers are going to be any different, which is kind of disappointing. But, like the main characters are going to be built a little bit differently. So I'm very excited about that. I said this in the in the discord, but I'll say it here because it's, I mean, it's just it's worth it's worth noting I just happened to have extra time and that's why I be up to chapter two by this point.

01;17;30;29 - 01;17;37;17
Lilliana Wright
And, I want to try and slow play this as much as is feasible for what we're doing here.

01;17;37;21 - 01;17;38;08
James Reichmuth
Yeah, yeah.

01;17;38;15 - 01;17;56;26
Lilliana Wright
Because I want to like this game. I think, again, I people are probably tired of me hearing this, but it's just like we did the first one way too quickly. And I think, I think the, the coverage suffered because of that. And I think that my experience with the first one suffered because of that. And I don't want that to happen this time.

01;17;56;28 - 01;18;13;03
Lilliana Wright
I want to like this game. I want to enjoy this game, and I want to take it in for what it is and kind of give it that sort of like appreciation. And so I'm going to try and slow play it as much as possible, and really savor it as much as I can. Yeah. Because I'm optimistic.

01;18;13;03 - 01;18;19;29
Lilliana Wright
I'm excited about where it seems to be going. So I'm, I'm, especially, especially after completing episode two.

01;18;20;02 - 01;18;20;17
Alessio Summerfield
Nice.

01;18;20;19 - 01;18;25;25
Lilliana Wright
I'm very curious to see, like, how it's going to expand and like, where it's going from there and, like, what they do.

01;18;25;27 - 01;18;33;02
Alessio Summerfield
It has a certain very small, nasty little motherfucker who needs to be smushed. Made an appearance. Yeah.

01;18;33;02 - 01;18;48;02
Lilliana Wright
I was listening to Giant Bomb kind of talk about their initial first impressions about it and the people that love it. Doll man people are loving Doll Man. They're loving his implementation into the mechanics of the game.

01;18;48;02 - 01;18;48;17
Alessio Summerfield
Wait a minute.

01;18;48;17 - 01;18;52;20
James Reichmuth
What? Into them? I have to have to use him. You know.

01;18;52;23 - 01;18;59;02
Lilliana Wright
He's like you. Have you both played God of war, the God of war, the Santa Monica? He's like. He's like Mimir. He's you're Mimir.

01;18;59;02 - 01;19;10;05
James Reichmuth
Oh, God. Is he. Is that played by that same guy? Right. Because. No no no no no. Well, because that voice actor is a voice in, a death franchise. Oh. Oh, Alistair Duncan. Oh, yeah.

01;19;10;05 - 01;19;10;28
Alessio Summerfield
That's right, I forgot.

01;19;11;01 - 01;19;15;13
Lilliana Wright
You know, Alistair Duncan plays the president. We don't know who that is.

01;19;15;13 - 01;19;24;20
Alessio Summerfield
Yeah, maybe it's during the end credits. Somebody says yes. Mr..

01;19;24;22 - 01;19;26;19
James Reichmuth
That's,

01;19;26;22 - 01;19;44;25
Alessio Summerfield
Oh, I need to talk details. I will say, just for the first impressions, I was like, I'm not going to write, James. I'm not going to write Lily. I just want to, like, untainted, like, have my own opinions. But I do think moving forward, I will probably engage in a little bit more chat. Yeah, guys. Yeah.

01;19;44;27 - 01;20;04;08
Lilliana Wright
I do like, I legitimately, like, once you both complete chapter two, I do legitimately need you to, like, message our group chat and be like, tell me what? Tell me how you feel. Because I feel very specifically after chapter two and I will leave it at that. Okay. I would love to know how you feel before we record on Thursday.

01;20;04;10 - 01;20;05;20
Alessio Summerfield
Oh, that sounds like.

01;20;05;22 - 01;20;06;07
James Reichmuth
For sure.

01;20;06;11 - 01;20;20;18
Alessio Summerfield
Yeah. And like I had mentioned sort of at the top of the episode, like, moving forward, like we are going to this is very book club, like, I don't we're not going to be like, if you turn left 75 degrees on a grenade, talk.

01;20;20;19 - 01;20;21;02
Lilliana Wright
To.

01;20;21;02 - 01;20;25;05
Alessio Summerfield
Nettleton. We're not going to do that. I don't think we've ever really done that. Maybe we.

01;20;25;06 - 01;20;33;25
Lilliana Wright
Kind of did it for, like, our remaster of the middle of one season, but like, not, but, like, we haven't really done that.

01;20;33;27 - 01;20;49;03
Alessio Summerfield
Much. So this game just feels so much more dynamic because, like, if I tell you to, like, turn left to grab a thing, I feel like three weeks, right? You know, we're going to be there. Yeah. Yeah. So anyway, we're not going to get that nitty gritty, but we are going to talk like in like in story order.

01;20;49;03 - 01;21;10;10
Alessio Summerfield
We are going to talk about the shit that happens. So if you want to play along with us, you can do two chapters a week. Sorry that we're doing weekly for everybody who wants to play less. But we have to because of Delta. So if you're upset, shake your fist in the air and say, God damn you, Delta.

01;21;10;13 - 01;21;29;28
Alessio Summerfield
But, I mean, I do think we've crunched the numbers, and I guess based on the sort of like alleged play time required and the number of chapters like, I think it's like five hours a chapter. Yeah, and you're fine. Is that still standing, Lily, with you since you've played those two chapters, or do you have a long.

01;21;29;28 - 01;21;30;04
Alessio Summerfield
Yeah.

01;21;30;10 - 01;21;42;23
Lilliana Wright
So it feels like. I don't want to say too much about the length of chapter two and, like, what you get up to in it. Because I do feel like it's going to be spoilers. I will say I believe you.

01;21;42;25 - 01;21;49;18
Alessio Summerfield
Assassinate the president of the United States from a building like this being totally different.

01;21;49;25 - 01;22;09;14
Lilliana Wright
Yeah, I what I will say is, I don't think I think number one, I think it will be fine. Yes. But number two, I don't think that the, the, the experience of chapter two is necessarily going to be indicative of future chapters, if that makes sense. All right.

01;22;09;15 - 01;22;13;01
Alessio Summerfield
So United Cities of America, yes. God yes or no states.

01;22;13;03 - 01;22;14;25
James Reichmuth
That you stand for.

01;22;14;28 - 01;22;18;13
Lilliana Wright
I can't wait until I can't wait until punish die hard man shows up.

01;22;18;14 - 01;22;19;16
Alessio Summerfield
Oh, yeah.

01;22;19;18 - 01;22;21;02
Lilliana Wright
Exile president.

01;22;21;04 - 01;22;41;14
Alessio Summerfield
Dead. Die hard mean. Yeah. But, yeah. No, I'm super stoked. I think, it seems like all of us kind of getting in, so I'm going to roll the clock back. I think this is the first time in Metal Gear Mondays history that we have, other than even Death Stranding. One was like a little weird.

01;22;41;16 - 01;22;53;10
Alessio Summerfield
I think it's the first time that we are, like, dropping this thing on release day and then dropping shit, like consistently, frequently from release. Yeah, until another release.

01;22;53;17 - 01;22;53;28
James Reichmuth
That's pretty.

01;22;53;28 - 01;22;57;02
Lilliana Wright
Rare. That might be the case. Yeah.

01;22;57;05 - 01;23;05;11
Alessio Summerfield
Because I think there was a little bit of a shake up before Death Stranding. One started, so I think it might have been a little misaligned as far as like.

01;23;05;15 - 01;23;13;00
Lilliana Wright
I don't think we had like that was also like pre like early access gets you, you know, pre-ordering the deluxe 50 early access stuff. So so we can we.

01;23;13;00 - 01;23;15;17
Alessio Summerfield
Were as if we were sent codes ahead of time. Yeah.

01;23;15;24 - 01;23;32;17
Lilliana Wright
Yeah yeah. It's with this. It's like with even with Death Stranding one, we released our first impressions episode that you were on. Unless, you know, we released that first impressions episode the Monday following, because we had to play it on release day.

01;23;32;18 - 01;23;34;02
Alessio Summerfield
Yeah, yeah.

01;23;34;04 - 01;23;56;14
Lilliana Wright
To, like, get the impression. So this is probably this is the first time we think. I think like like Death Stranding. One was the first time we had ever gotten in brand new Hideo Kojima game. Yeah. And we covered it upon release. This is the first time. So this is definitely the first time we have gotten, you could get a game that we've been able to have impressions and thoughts about it on the day it comes out.

01;23;56;14 - 01;23;57;10
Lilliana Wright
Yeah. So that's.

01;23;57;10 - 01;23;57;27
James Reichmuth
Pretty cool.

01;23;57;29 - 01;23;59;16
Alessio Summerfield
And we're going to roll right into another one.

01;23;59;19 - 01;24;00;23
James Reichmuth
Yeah. We are.

01;24;00;26 - 01;24;01;18
Lilliana Wright
Yeah.

01;24;01;20 - 01;24;15;06
Alessio Summerfield
Yeah. It's going to be interesting. This is going to be fun. I'm excited. I need something exciting and fun to keep my eyes on because, Jesus Christ, I we live in hell more and more every day.

01;24;15;08 - 01;24;16;20
James Reichmuth
Retweet.

01;24;16;22 - 01;24;44;11
Alessio Summerfield
Yes. So, any who, on that note, we said it at the top. I'll say it again. If you go to Patreon.com or your Mondays for as little as a dollar a month, you can have access to 65 plus hours of additional material, a lot of which is really silly. We talked about we did a whole fucking hour long nostalgia review on NBA jam that I'm pretty sure James was there for.

01;24;44;13 - 01;24;49;29
Alessio Summerfield
We did it. We did an MGM esque episode on Fucking Murdered Soul Suspect.

01;24;50;00 - 01;24;53;23
Lilliana Wright
Hahaha. I don't know about Murdered Souls as.

01;24;53;26 - 01;24;56;11
Alessio Summerfield
Well, but yeah, for his, for his little.

01;24;56;12 - 01;25;00;11
Lilliana Wright
I almost platinum that game. I don't know if you knew that classic.

01;25;00;13 - 01;25;22;29
Alessio Summerfield
I didn't know about that. Yeah. So for as little as a dollar a month, you can get access to all of our backlog. 65 plus hours of, Patriot Club, which is our Patreon exclusive podcast. However, if you want the new Patriot Club and you want access to other fun shit, $5 plus, dollar plus also get you discord.

01;25;22;29 - 01;25;40;16
Alessio Summerfield
Apologies. And $10 plus, you get video podcasts of everything Patriot Club and, the main show. We might do some silly fun stuff per listener suggestion for the Patriot Club visuals. Not this next coming one, but probably another upcoming one.

01;25;40;18 - 01;26;06;05
Lilliana Wright
Could you imagine if we did that suggestion that you got for this next coming one and just not very funny? That'd be very funny. Our for for those who for those who come after, I will say our next, our next, Patriot Club episode is going to be just like a full on, like, spoiler filled discussion about Claire obscure expedition 33, which I did successfully bully Alessio into finally playing.

01;26;06;06 - 01;26;09;19
Alessio Summerfield
And I do like Ian Trophy a week ago. Yeah.

01;26;09;21 - 01;26;20;28
Lilliana Wright
Which which tells me Alessio is not like, focused on the idea of getting platinum trophies like I am in the same way. So that feels like a big compliment. Yeah, yeah, yeah. To the to the game for sure.

01;26;20;28 - 01;26;35;00
Alessio Summerfield
Yeah. Usually I'll just stumble upon them in like Alan Wake or something, just because of my fucking human Roomba who just has to absorb everything and it just pump ups. But with this one, I actively was like, I want to see everything, so let's let's go.

01;26;35;05 - 01;26;36;22
James Reichmuth
It's beautiful.

01;26;36;24 - 01;26;37;14
Lilliana Wright
Gorgeous game.

01;26;37;17 - 01;26;40;20
Alessio Summerfield
Also fun combat system to break. Very fun.

01;26;40;21 - 01;26;42;01
Lilliana Wright
Yeah. Oh, my God.

01;26;42;01 - 01;26;43;09
Alessio Summerfield
I, oh.

01;26;43;11 - 01;26;45;12
Lilliana Wright
Of the broken AI game itself, you can.

01;26;45;12 - 01;26;47;20
James Reichmuth
Start chaining those combos. And, like.

01;26;47;22 - 01;26;51;12
Alessio Summerfield
I was hitting 38 million single wheel hits. Yeah.

01;26;51;18 - 01;26;53;20
James Reichmuth
Nice. Yeah.

01;26;53;22 - 01;26;54;29
Lilliana Wright
Pretty, pretty fucking good.

01;26;55;04 - 01;26;55;26
Alessio Summerfield
But, Yeah.

01;26;55;28 - 01;27;10;09
Lilliana Wright
So. So Patriot Club, $5 and up gets you access to that. And we do video for Patriot Club as well. So in the at the $10 tier. So yeah. So come on in, come hang out with us and let's just talk about Claire obscure next month. Every other.

01;27;10;09 - 01;27;11;29
Alessio Summerfield
Or come whenever you want.

01;27;12;00 - 01;27;18;16
Lilliana Wright
Whenever you'd like, you know, or everywhere. And wherever. Yeah.

01;27;18;18 - 01;27;19;24
Alessio Summerfield
$100 plus, you.

01;27;19;24 - 01;27;42;13
Lilliana Wright
Can never pay. Yeah, yeah, $100. There's a lot, you know, we'll we'll figure something out. You know what I mean? But. Yeah. So come, come see that every other month. We also do like polls. So we'll put up like a couple of topics and let the patrons vote on those polls. The $5 an up patrons to determine, like, what should our next Patriot Club topic be?

01;27;42;15 - 01;27;46;10
Lilliana Wright
And the first one our patrons voted on was serial. And it was a very funny.

01;27;46;16 - 01;27;47;17
Alessio Summerfield
A very fun episode.

01;27;47;17 - 01;27;51;22
Lilliana Wright
Yeah, yeah. So so come, come join us.

01;27;51;25 - 01;28;16;27
Alessio Summerfield
But yeah, so definitely do those things. It is incredibly pivotal if you are hearing this right now, please leave a goddamn review, share it with a friend, post something on social, getting. We don't pay for advertising. So getting the word out is, hypocritical. Yeah. And because of it, like, we'd love to go to more conventions and we'd love to cover more things.

01;28;16;27 - 01;28;29;08
Alessio Summerfield
And your money helps. The show sound better? Yeah. Stuff like that. So, I mean, yeah, we bought a portable podcast studio that we took with us to Portland. Which which.

01;28;29;08 - 01;28;30;14
Lilliana Wright
It worked extremely well.

01;28;30;16 - 01;28;32;17
Alessio Summerfield
Yeah, it's kind a really good,

01;28;32;19 - 01;28;40;29
Lilliana Wright
I mean, and like, when I says sound good, when I yell, we can really fix that up lickety split. You know what I'm saying? With this apartment, trying to use.

01;28;40;29 - 01;28;45;02
Alessio Summerfield
My isotope and all of that aggression plugins.

01;28;45;04 - 01;28;46;06
James Reichmuth


01;28;46;09 - 01;29;06;26
Lilliana Wright
I will say to, like, we have been posting so we, we do not have a Twitter anymore for I feel like very good reasons. But we have our Instagram and we have our blue sky, so we're Metal Gear Mondays on Instagram and Blue Sky. We have reached the Twitter problem with Tick Tock. We are on Tik Tok, but our tick tock is Metal Gear Monday.

01;29;06;28 - 01;29;09;17
Alessio Summerfield
Is on TikTok. Let it be no.

01;29;09;19 - 01;29;32;12
Lilliana Wright
Yes, the the show as a show as a collective sponsored by Lilly right, is on TikTok. But we post clips, I post, I make and I post clips, on the socials whenever we have an episode, just to kind of like little teasers. So they're perfect little bites for you to share where you share social stuff.

01;29;32;12 - 01;29;33;12
Lilliana Wright


01;29;33;15 - 01;29;35;11
Alessio Summerfield
We're also shorts too, right?

01;29;35;16 - 01;29;51;22
Lilliana Wright
Yeah, we do YouTube shorts, which are like YouTube's version of, of a TikTok. So I upload those same clips to YouTube and they're in a short, short version. And then we're still on Facebook and we still post the YouTube video. And so, so there's plenty of opportunities for you to share a little bite sized clips with your pals.

01;29;51;22 - 01;29;56;08
Lilliana Wright
So please, please, please, please, please leave reviews and share stuff like that with, with.

01;29;56;08 - 01;30;10;29
Alessio Summerfield
People when especially two, because we want to make sure that everybody who's sort of was like, all right, Metal Gear Mondays is done, I'm going to move on with my life. Which we should have. No. I'm kidding. We want to make sure that those people are aware that, like, hey, Metal Gear Mondays.

01;30;11;01 - 01;30;13;01
Lilliana Wright
We're back covering new shit.

01;30;13;03 - 01;30;15;19
Alessio Summerfield
Come on down. So, just please help.

01;30;15;19 - 01;30;35;22
Lilliana Wright
Because be great. As much as we'd like to hope that the people that subscribe to the podcast didn't unsubscribe when the show ended for for nostalgia reasons, we can't guarantee that wasn't a thing because people like to uncluttered stuff. So yeah. So we can't guarantee that, like, the notification of a new episode is going to bring people back.

01;30;35;22 - 01;30;47;06
Lilliana Wright
So yeah, if you're here, you're listening. Please, please, please review, share and, talk about it. And help us really achieve the mountain that we see. That's top.

01;30;47;08 - 01;30;48;25
Alessio Summerfield
Number three, connect to our chiral.

01;30;48;25 - 01;30;56;07
Lilliana Wright
Network. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. In this case, we should have connected and we're. Goddamn it, we're gonna get.

01;30;56;09 - 01;30;57;19
Alessio Summerfield
Hey, James.

01;30;57;21 - 01;30;58;09
James Reichmuth
Yeah?

01;30;58;11 - 01;31;03;01
Alessio Summerfield
What can people check out of yours and shake and,

01;31;03;03 - 01;31;06;02
James Reichmuth
Yeah. Still, I've still got nothing for you.

01;31;06;04 - 01;31;07;13
Alessio Summerfield
That's why I started with you.

01;31;07;16 - 01;31;22;22
James Reichmuth
You didn't find me here. You can find me on blue Sky at duh racking. It's dea racking. As you can imagine, racking as well as just racking was taken, and I'm not putting that number in my handle.

01;31;22;27 - 01;31;26;14
Alessio Summerfield
Yeah, I got I got bogus.

01;31;26;16 - 01;31;33;23
James Reichmuth
I'm working on a couple of things. Stay tuned. Who knows? Who knows what I'll do next?

01;31;33;25 - 01;31;39;29
Alessio Summerfield
I just need you guys to know that trending on blue Sky right now, it's just big balls.

01;31;40;01 - 01;31;44;16
James Reichmuth
Oh, yeah. Big blast. Yeah. Big balls got ousted today. Oh, it's actually great news.

01;31;44;23 - 01;31;46;08
Lilliana Wright
Is this a Love Island thing?

01;31;46;08 - 01;31;48;29
James Reichmuth
No, this is Doge. It's the white House.

01;31;49;02 - 01;31;51;12
Alessio Summerfield
Oh, I forgot, I forgot that.

01;31;51;15 - 01;31;56;20
James Reichmuth
Going to white House away for about two, three months now, we finally got rid of them.

01;31;56;23 - 01;31;57;27
Lilliana Wright
Whoa.

01;31;58;00 - 01;32;04;04
Alessio Summerfield
All right. Cool. I thought it was just the concept for.

01;32;04;06 - 01;32;16;29
James Reichmuth
No. I got a push notification about big balls before we went on, like, it's, you know, it's like a Google was like big balls ousted from white House.

01;32;17;02 - 01;32;19;23
Alessio Summerfield
Like, all those were ousted today.

01;32;19;25 - 01;32;33;29
Lilliana Wright
Jesus Christ, I will say, looking at looking at this with 90% reporting, it does appear that Sara Mamdani is going to become the new mayor of New York City. Hey, he's sitting at 44% with 90 reporting, Cuomo's second with 36%.

01;32;34;01 - 01;32;40;10
Alessio Summerfield
I'm wondering if I can resubmit Edith's birth certificate and have him sign it instead of Erica. Adam.

01;32;40;12 - 01;32;42;05
Lilliana Wright
Ooh, that'd be pretty cool.

01;32;42;07 - 01;32;44;14
Alessio Summerfield
Yeah, but Edith is officially.

01;32;44;16 - 01;32;44;19
James Reichmuth
A.

01;32;44;19 - 01;32;46;18
Alessio Summerfield
True New Yorker. She's got that.

01;32;46;18 - 01;32;49;29
Lilliana Wright
Her true blue, dyed in the wool New Yorker.

01;32;50;03 - 01;32;51;05
James Reichmuth
It's so funny.

01;32;51;05 - 01;32;57;14
Alessio Summerfield
Let's go. But anyway, we're having an awful losing streak right now, so. Yes. Everyone, please. Let's go. Man.

01;32;57;16 - 01;32;58;26
Lilliana Wright
Zahra Mamdani is a Mets.

01;32;58;26 - 01;33;03;00
Alessio Summerfield
Fan, by the way. Oh, well, there you go.

01;33;03;03 - 01;33;04;07
James Reichmuth


01;33;04;25 - 01;33;07;00
Alessio Summerfield
Lily, where can people find you on the internet?

01;33;07;02 - 01;33;32;03
Lilliana Wright
You can find all of my associated things, on my Linktree. Link TRT Lillian of Dawn, that's Lee double and Ayanna. Dwayne. That'll link you to where you can buy my books, where you can get all my socials, where you can buy me steam games off my wish list if you're if you want to, you know, treat a lady.

01;33;32;05 - 01;33;33;12
Alessio Summerfield
Come up again.

01;33;33;15 - 01;33;38;15
Lilliana Wright
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, yeah, that's where you can find me.

01;33;38;17 - 01;33;40;29
Alessio Summerfield
Nice.

01;33;41;01 - 01;33;43;13
James Reichmuth
Tell us about that website redesign, Alessio.

01;33;43;20 - 01;33;47;13
Lilliana Wright
Yeah. It's a lesbian Seven-Year-Old icon, baby. Let's go.

01;33;47;14 - 01;33;56;23
Alessio Summerfield
Baby. I mean, you go. All this is a real.com. I've just been such a fucking busy dude. And I don't even mean that in a positive way. I mean.

01;33;56;26 - 01;33;57;10
James Reichmuth
That I'm.

01;33;57;12 - 01;34;08;27
Alessio Summerfield
Looking tired, bro. But anyway, I, you can me, let's see. Summerfield.com, I think. Actually, let me see if this reboot still works.

01;34;09;02 - 01;34;14;11
James Reichmuth
You're wearing my favorite shirt of yours. Oh, yeah. And that picture. I fucking love that shirt.

01;34;14;13 - 01;34;23;29
Alessio Summerfield
Let's all look at the family. Reroutes still. So you can do AC Summerville. You can do all SC Summerfield, whatever you want. You can do whatever the fuck you want. You can. You can have.

01;34;24;01 - 01;34;35;02
Lilliana Wright
That. Is that, honestly is an incredible picture of you. I love that picture. Yeah. Thank you. When they got, like, the chest hair kind of done is looking very Rico Suave. Yeah.

01;34;35;04 - 01;34;52;25
Alessio Summerfield
My friend Cam in New York took that photo. Wonderful photographer. So he's from South Carolina. Shout out cam. But yeah. So, I will eventually, I swear to fucking God, I will pop champagne on this podcast when I read this website redesign happened. And anyway.

01;34;52;27 - 01;35;00;04
Lilliana Wright
At this point. Yeah, if I can you're you're the website redesign is almost as iconic at this point as there's minds there. Like, I think like.

01;35;00;06 - 01;35;06;17
Alessio Summerfield
Er the website has been redesigned once during that bit, but it's a single fucking page.

01;35;06;19 - 01;35;08;29
James Reichmuth
Yeah.

01;35;09;02 - 01;35;10;15
Lilliana Wright
Okay.

01;35;10;17 - 01;35;35;17
Alessio Summerfield
But anyway, you can find my other shit on here. So it's brand I, MTV, blah blah blah blah blah blah. Well, anyway, outside of that, let's all hope that Isaac gets home from Turkey. Okay, I actually had. Yeah, I had a bunch of signal conversations. Oh. Hopefully they don't get leaked. I don't want to single signal conversations with him.

01;35;35;20 - 01;35;40;18
Alessio Summerfield
He's doing great. He says the vibes a little spooky just because. Yeah, I know what the fuck is going on.

01;35;40;18 - 01;35;41;13
James Reichmuth
State of the world. Yeah.

01;35;41;20 - 01;35;48;07
Alessio Summerfield
He's only like, three countries over from Iran, so. Yikes. Which hell.

01;35;48;07 - 01;35;56;20
Lilliana Wright
Of a time to go to Turkey instead of being here celebrating the release of a brand new video game by Hideo Kojima. With us, Isaac I feel like Isaac. There's your yell for the episode.

01;35;56;26 - 01;35;57;10
Alessio Summerfield
Thank you.

01;35;57;17 - 01;36;06;11
James Reichmuth
As you say, to like, it's kind of crazy to think about, like, being three countries over, because it's not like being in America where that's like an enormous amount of space necessary.

01;36;06;11 - 01;36;07;26
Lilliana Wright
Yeah. That's like close.

01;36;07;26 - 01;36;08;25
James Reichmuth
Yeah. Yeah.

01;36;08;27 - 01;36;19;00
Lilliana Wright
Like three countries over. I don't know specifically the distance between Turkey and Iran, but like three countries over in fucking the Middle East could potentially be like the size of Texas for.

01;36;19;03 - 01;36;24;23
Alessio Summerfield
Yeah, yeah. The distance between Turkey and Iran in a car is only 25 hours.

01;36;24;25 - 01;36;27;19
James Reichmuth
I think you say 25 minutes. And when I say.

01;36;27;20 - 01;36;28;19
Lilliana Wright
You know.

01;36;28;20 - 01;36;42;13
Alessio Summerfield
When I say three countries over, excuse me, they actually touch a fucking border. So never mind. They are literally touching. Yo, I mean, granted, like Tehran is pretty far, but.

01;36;42;16 - 01;36;43;18
Lilliana Wright
Yeah.

01;36;43;21 - 01;36;47;13
Alessio Summerfield
Anyway, So. Yeah. Stay safe out there, buddy.

01;36;47;15 - 01;36;49;15
Lilliana Wright
Are we plotting Isaac's downfall right now?

01;36;49;19 - 01;36;52;13
Alessio Summerfield
I don't want to make the announcement on this fucking podcast.

01;36;52;13 - 01;36;54;13
Lilliana Wright
That would not be great.

01;36;54;15 - 01;36;54;24
Alessio Summerfield
I don't.

01;36;54;24 - 01;36;56;23
Lilliana Wright
Like and do not. I don't like that.

01;36;56;23 - 01;37;09;10
Alessio Summerfield
Anyway, but. Yeah. So hopefully he's all good, I think, I mean, I literally just talked to him today, so he's he's he's good ish. Five hours ago.

01;37;09;12 - 01;37;17;08
Alessio Summerfield
Anyway, Isaac's got a bad habit of choosing weird times to do this because when he and I went to Paris, it was literally the day after the crazy, the.

01;37;17;12 - 01;37;19;02
Lilliana Wright
London bombings and.

01;37;19;03 - 01;37;24;00
Alessio Summerfield
Shit. What a weird time. We were walking around Paris and it was a ghost town.

01;37;24;00 - 01;37;25;13
James Reichmuth
Crazy.

01;37;25;15 - 01;37;28;01
Lilliana Wright
I don't think we've told this story on the podcast.

01;37;28;04 - 01;37;33;12
Alessio Summerfield
And in real life. Speaking of Metal Gear, let's go around with them while I was there.

01;37;33;14 - 01;37;53;14
Lilliana Wright
Sick. It's incredibly funny. So when we were planning the season out, we were just like, okay, Isaac, are you going to be on the season with us? Or at the very least, do you want to be on the first impressions episode? He was like, yeah, totally. Let's do it. And then like a couple of weeks before we're supposed to like start scheduling stuff.

01;37;53;16 - 01;38;02;12
Lilliana Wright
I just like, I forgot that I was going to be like, how do you forget that you're going to be in fucking turkey? Liam?

01;38;02;14 - 01;38;03;18
James Reichmuth
Easy.

01;38;03;20 - 01;38;08;09
Lilliana Wright
Classic. Easy. We've all. Who among us hasn't forgotten we were supposed to be in Turkey, am I right?

01;38;08;11 - 01;38;17;10
Alessio Summerfield
Of course. Which, to be fair, he's there for a friend's, like, destination wedding, so I'm sure he's having a great time. That's sort of bizarre, but Turkey's nice.

01;38;17;13 - 01;38;17;27
James Reichmuth
Yeah.

01;38;17;29 - 01;38;27;27
Alessio Summerfield
Yeah, I have, not been, but Istanbul has been on the list, so maybe, maybe at some point, if I feel safe being on an airplane again.

01;38;27;29 - 01;38;30;12
Lilliana Wright
Yeah. Or being in that general area.

01;38;30;15 - 01;38;57;21
Alessio Summerfield
Or being anywhere near anything. Yeah, right. Anyway, Cool. Well, on that note, thank you everybody. We may still have the interview we discussed potentially, happening post-release. So keep an eye out for that. If it doesn't come, we will let you know. And that's not how that usually works.

01;38;57;24 - 01;38;59;24
Lilliana Wright
Well, what I thought was happening.

01;38;59;24 - 01;39;20;08
Alessio Summerfield
Not coming. No one's ever said those words before. All right. Anyway, bad sex joke aside, I do, I'll have a wonderful day, and we should find a way to get to the end of the show involving a three letter word. It starts with a B, ends with an X.

01;39;20;08 - 01;39;30;23
James Reichmuth
Oh. Is it? It's a box, Mr. Bucks.

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James Reichmuth