Episode #806 – World War 3: TOTK! Our Honest, Explosive, Zelda Tears of the Kingdom Review
Intro: It’s Zelda night! Gasp!!!
Savral asks- ever played a hard game from childhood?
Voicemail #1: Zelda is GOTY don’t you dare say anything bad.
Toxic positivity
10 sec. spotlight:
Michelle
- Diablo 4 server slam – it’s a journey – and there’s KFC
- Darkest Dungeon 2 (again)
- Tons of Tears of the Kingdom
- Drinking: a fountain Pepsi
John
- Tape to Tape – rogue-like hockey game. buggy but good
- Steamdeck battery death
- Drinking: Athletic Brewing Freewave Hazy IPA
Guest Host: Matto (aka, @MattoMcFly )
- Jedi Survivor (again)
- “I like dressing up BD-1” – Matt
- Playing real chess on chess.com
- Drinking: Coke and Johnny Walker Red
Voicemail #2: xbox is not gonna die / et al. and who the F is that Tiger guy?
Roundtable: Legend of Zelda – Tears of the Kingdom
- Setting the table – a solid gold triangle table
- Matt’s collector pins and his ‘special’ room
- “Side-of-the-road Bradford”
- Michelle went digital / John got the S.E. sword from Wal-Mart
- Personal Zelda history
- Initial experience / the 30 fps experience
- Dick fire, not graphics
- Hell Island horrible introduction / the Banjo Kazooie connection
- Clunky as shit crafting w/o mouse and keyboard
- Tedious backtracking / no object permanence
- Ah-ha moments / “You have a little wii”
- “It’s not a game for me” – Michelle
- Controls are wonky / no innovation
- “I like all of the twists they added” – John
- Nintendo juice sucking and dripping
- Rotating shape preschool / divine beasts, not dungeons
- Different perspectives. “Zelda created the fukking genre” – John
- 3-way chaos with a Canadian bitch.
- Meltdown
- “I need a fukkin beer” – John
- Rationalization
- More scorekeeping
- Who’s stupid? / I don’t know anything.
- This is al least a 9
News:
- A new AAA LOTR MMO game is coming
- Microsoft giving away an old Zune.
- FFXVI coming
- Overwatch cancelling PvE
- John doesn’t need a white knight, just a White Claw
A seven is not a bad review
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