Episode #969 - Onimusha, Blood of Dawnwalker, Ocarina of Time!

Intro: Zelda hype is real.

Play one, keep one.

Seeing young Link for the first time. / a gazillion textures

Zelda Notes / is it a recorder or a flute?

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 This week, win :
• The Blood of Dawnwalker

10 sec. spotlight:

Michelle (aka, @CoastalMichelle)

• Blood of Dawnwalker – a point of contention: timed activities
• Final Fantasy Resonance Demo – worthwhile, even with random encounters
• Nintendo in general / Switch 2 system seller?
• Onimusha (later)
• Drinking: Water

John (aka, @blkdog7)

• Alarmo problems?  Alarmo doesn’t know holidays.
• Kevin’s flower problem
• Wardogs – holdover until Call of Duty / demographics
• loving Greyzone / Weakest GOTY field in years
• Bodycam,  briefly – disorientating. Not playing long term
• How to Fish – Friend slop a boat onto an island / grindy, but chill
• Drinking: double dry hop king sue

Kevin (aka, @CCGamesCEO )

• (Switch) Orbitals – play with a friend
• Blasterbug: Last Bug Standing! – not reccommended
• Drinking: Mt. Dew Zero Sugar Baha Blast

Roundtable: Onimusha: Way of the Sword

• Too discouraging to continue?  use Journalist mode
• “A game full of manly people” – john
• Omnidirectional combat / good boss battle design
• Jack Sparrow-esque / It’s fair, not hard
• 12 hour game that takes 25 hours / unnecessary grinding
• a Marvel on the Steamdeck – super playable
• Also on Switch 2 / impressive
• Suck while you hit / slow in the beginning / sex swinging
• “I think this was refreshing” – Michelle
• Demon portal problem in Japan
• Steamdeck/Switch 2 marvel / Capcom has come a long way

News:

• Xbox cloud gaming cap
• Crimson Desert expansion – Charting the unknown
• Killzone coming back!!? remake or make new?
• Jason’s rumor was wrong / Does Sony know what they’re doing?
• Fellowship grants for game designers
• Talk about GTA VI / Playstation controller
• Nintendo puts community first
• Worldwide unlock times for GTA VI
• “Disc to Digital is pretty cool to me” – John
• Sega: rise in engagement with IP’s
• Valheim perfect 10
• Nuketown fake lego set

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