Game Scoop! 823: Are These Really the Best & Worst Nintendo Franchises?

27:27Justin Davis:So maybe out of the proper games, that's the least beloved one. I'm so pumped for there to be another Animal Crossing. New Horizons was so good. Yep. It hit an interesting time too. No kidding. Okay. Everyone's going to smash their, whatever they're listening or watching this on. Coming in at number 22, ahead of everything that we've just mentioned, is the Style Savvy franchise. which i would not have guessed this is a nintendo owned franchise yeah i didn't know nintendo made that i didn't know either style savvy indeed was a ds game in 2009 there was a 3ds game styling star in 2017 all right they range from 70 to 80 they all got pretty good toys yeah and then a number 21 is the main kirby franchise yeah i mean out of like the real like real mascot kirby you know real mascot nintendo franchise is your mario zelda donkey kongs and so on like i would definitely say kirby's the weakest out of all of them i would have gerrymandered kirby so all of this these games and then most of those other games would be in the same group and they would get a really low score and then there'd be this little group of really good kirby spin-offs and then the main line like ones where you draw canvas curse or whatever like all those ones be in there and they'd have great that you have you'd have an eight and above kirby by that yeah by that yeah you could definitely gerrymander a really good kirby list yeah i don't know why some of those other games weren't in here but this is you know kirby's dreamland on game boy kirby's adventure on nes then you know dreamland two and three nightmare in dreamland squeak squad triple deluxe you know this is what they consider of the mainline games, I guess.

29:13Justin Davis:Forgotten Land is in here too. And then coming in at number 20 is the Star Fox franchise. Average meta score is 78.1. I feel like we're overdue. Here's my prediction. We're going to get a new Star Fox game this generation. Yeah. Justin, there's no word for this because you keep on using the U shape, but Star Fox only had a dot and then it had everything that just fell off a cliff from there. Yeah, it's the top of an umlaut. That's it. Yeah. I mean, they're mostly all good, except for Star Fox Assault on GameCube. Mm-hmm. Sure. Would DeBriere make that? I can't remember now. What did Star Fox 2 get, which I scored?

29:56Justin Davis:They did not include that. Would you believe they did not include it? Why not? What? You're asking me? It's literally the sequel to the first Star Fox game. But it wasn't released until the SNES Classic, right? yeah yeah it's so cool to me that they did that it was really interesting too they released two starfox games on the wii u guard and zero yeah yeah that was a weird time again they did have they did have a ds game that i liked at that time but i just can't remember it very much anymore starfox command yeah yeah that's it okay coming in at number 19 are the wario platformers cool average meta score 79.5 Wario's getting his due better than Kirby yeah I mean I would agree with that Super Mario Land 3 on Game Boy Wario Land 2 3 wait there's two Game Boy Wario Land 2's oh it's Game Boy and Game Boy Color then 3 and 4, 4 is actually really good I was just playing that on Advance recently Wario World on GameCube, Wario Master of Disguise is the low point on DS but then Wario Land Shake It on Wii I love Shake It again yeah there's big hole for virtual boy there which would have easily scored a 10 or above possibly even an 11 off the charts cool coming in number 18 is the pit cross franchise average meta score 80.4 oh and something is amiss here justin there's only five games listed here well because i don't think like the pit cross games that we all bought on the switch and the 3ds and stuff those aren't Nintendo games.

31:35There's Mario Picross and Pokemon Picross. Nintendo isn't just Owen Picross? No. Oh. And then there's Picross

31:44Justin Davis:3D. Yeah, so there's Mario's Picross on Game Boy, then Picross DS, Picross 3D, Pokemon Picross, and then Picross 3D round 2. We're already at like 20 and this is there, but we haven't talked about Pushmo yet? Not yet, Sam. Pushmo's great. But coming in at number 17 is the Mario Golf franchise. average meta score 80.6 like see like man nintendo is just yeah we're not even into the single digits yet and one of their franchises is just average review scores are all great all great that is incredible yeah i mean the secret is that the floor is so high right like the last couple mario golf games haven't excited me but they're still like competent and like pretty like they're not bad even at their worst unlike the tennis games which can be bad and that's i'm not making a joke they can't do that i agree with that they did not in what they did not include the one for game boy color i don't know why but i mean i think that would still nobody reviewed it that nobody reviewed it covers i guess but that's a great game but mario golf on nintendo 64 has a 90 and then the low point is super rush on switch which yeah i actually didn't even bother with that one because it was getting kind of lackluster reviews i think i really like golf games i like hotshots golf i like mario golf i think there needs to be a new like the tap a twice tap it and then tap it in time like there needs to be a different swing like there needs to be like an analog stick like it's not not that i'm a golfer but it doesn't make any effort to like replicate the feel of swinging a golf club right it's just timing it's just a little rhythm game that you'll do thousands of times well there's during the wii u or the wii era there was some yeah yep there's some waggle golf okay coming in at number 16 is the box boy franchise another one i would not would have known was an intended to publish that box boy it's created by how laboratory box box boy and girl right it's at the i remember there was an amiibo four games box boy box box boy bye bye box boy and box boy plus box girl yeah these are good yeah i mean it's the same same developer as Kirby.

33:56The tricks to solve the later game puzzles in this are like really, really difficult and really interesting. These are some smart people making these games. Yeah.

34:07Justin Davis:Coming in at number 15 is the Donkey Kong main series. Average meta score, 81.1. They have it starting with Donkey Kong Country. So the arcade games just don't exist in this world. All tens. Obviously, it's the country. it's Donkey Kong 64 Jungle Beat is in here Tropical Freeze Returns and then Bonanza of course Okay What a weird Okay that's fine Actually they threw the classic NES series Donkey Kong that was released on Game Boy Advance and that has a 55 so whatever that's dragging the average down Donkey Kong Bonanza is the highest rated Donkey Kong ever with 91 I mean yeah game's incredible and also it's not made by you know it's a different developer and okay I know I said I wasn't going to criticize the list but it's like you gotta there's an like you need to like for like games like put games that are trying to do the same thing together right like Donkey Kong 64 is like an exploration based it's not like you know a skill based platformer at all it's a collect-a-thon yep you probably could have broken up the country and other Donkey Kong games.

35:21So you're saying the actual series comprises only of Donkey Kong 64 and Donkey Kong Bonanza. That's it. That's the series. Yeah, as I say this out loud, maybe it doesn't make a lot of sense. But it makes sense to put Country 1, 2, and 3, and then the other two 2D games. Those are the rare games, right? The rare and retro. Yes, they should be together.

35:46Justin Davis:And then maybe you should just put the arcade games in the Mario versus Donkey Kong category. Sure. Donkey Kong 3 being an out. I don't even know what you do with Donkey Kong 3 because Mario's not even in that one. Yeah, just Stanley and a bunch of bugs. Yep. Okay, coming in at number 14 is Fire Emblem. Average meta score, 81.5. Man, lots of games in the Fire Emblem. Lower than Advance Wars, as it should be. Yep, yep, yep. What is the high point here? High point would be, what are the guesses? Three houses? That has 89. that looks like that's the high point I was an awakening guy myself I like to engage a lot actually I love the Fire Emblem franchise but I also have a chip on my shoulder about it because it superseded and replaced Advance Wars and that makes me angry do you remember Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light is that the old one that was like just sort of dug up and put out on Switch I think so yeah that's like the translation of the Famicom original I think yeah there might be a few that never came over Maybe that was the final one that had never come over.

36:50Justin Davis:They've included Tokyo Mirage Sessions FE in here. For the Wii U again. For Fire Emblem? Yep. Oh, because the FE stands for Fire Emblem. I forgot about that. But I don't even know what Tokyo Mirage Sessions, like what those games are like. I don't even know. I know they're like 100 hours long. Coming in at number 13 is the Pikmin franchise. Average meta score, 81.8. is there like a mobile game dragging that down or there was the pikmin hey pikmin on 3ds 3ds yeah and this is weird the i guess the pikmin 2 port on switch is on here that has a 69 why was i don't i don't know what happened with that pikmin 2 port on switch so they ported two and three and i think they just didn't do anything with them right they just released them on switch but didn't update them in any way like that maybe they're like 60 or something also something probably All I know is that I can't say it enough.

37:46Pikmin 4 is incredible. It is. Yep. Underrated. Everybody needs to play that game that has a Switch. And I say underrated, like, look, it got great reviews. Everybody loves it, but I still think it's underrated because it's like legit. Like it's one of the best games on the Switch. And I don't think it's quite held in that esteem.

38:02Justin Davis:I agree, but it's not the high point for scores. The highest rated game is Pikmin 2 on GameCube. Interesting. Interesting. Disagree. coming in number 11 we have another tie it's the pokemon core series and paper mario that's spicy they both have an average meta score of 82.5 yeah i mean it's another one of those series with lots of highs and lots of lows right there's some really really good paper mario games and some not so good ones and obviously same with pokemon i mean if nintendo could get a time machine they'd go back and not screw up Pokemon games, but they end up screwing up Pokemon games because they put out so many of them, right?

38:41So you get these years where the Switch can't run a Pokemon game. Everybody, everybody's like, okay, well, why did this happen? It is a little bit awkward. Like, you know, Nintendo does not make Pokemon games, right? Game Freak makes them, which is not Nintendo. Like, that's a third-party company. And so, like, this huge multibillion-dollar franchise is like, like, what conversations do you think Nintendo has with them? We're like, what the hell, guys? It's like, just make a good video game. They're like, do you want to have some tips for designing your game on this engine? Because we just made Breath of the Wild.

39:14They're like, nah.

39:15Justin Davis:No, we're good. The high point for that series is Pokemon Gold and Silver on Game Boy Color. The low point is Pokemon Scarlet and Violet on Nintendo Switch. Yep, Gold and Silver is the highlight. All right, go Togepi. And then on Paper Mario, there's not really any low point here. The original has the highest score, the Nintendo 64 game. But then Paper Mario, Sticker Star, and 3DS has a 75. Yeah. I mean, Thousand Year Door is the one that everybody loves. Rightly so. Yeah. Super is great, though. Weird game. And then coming in at number 10 is the Mario and Luigi franchise. Ugh. Ugh? Did I hear an ugh?

39:56Yeah. I mean, but Brothership was just not very good. So it's like, for the most part, we've been talking about how the Switch era was so strong for Nintendo. But there are some exceptions. and like brother ship was like very forgettable obviously pokemon was in a lull well these are

40:12Justin Davis:all very high highly reviewed the original superstar saga and bowser's inside story are both 90s then brother ship is a 77 paper jam is a 76 yeah i mean they're they're they're legitimately funny like they're they're like the writing in them is under it's just very very good well pick one of them and play you don't need to play the whole series play the original play superstar saga it's great yeah or i hear inside stories like the funniest one if you just do want to experience good writing in it which brings us to the single digits uh the top nine of nintendo franchises so number nine is metroid average meta score 83.3 wow that's kind of low i mean i guess metroid 2 and mother m right it drags it down federation force if they're not gonna have a spinoff one pinball federation force federation force is a low point and then it's the it's the original nes game dragging it down because they have that in there and they have and game boy right the nes the game boy advance port the metroid 2 on game boy has an oh no no i'm saying really yeah well i mean i guess it i mean that i that does that does check out a little bit even other m has a 79 yeah yeah i remember i questioned that one high pointed super super metroid 97 one of the absolute highest rated games of all time and pretty good pretty good game too if i say so myself yeah stone cold classic was what i don't remember the last time ign did a best games ever but you know pretty pretty safe bet that it's been in the top 10 in most of those lists yeah yep then coming on a number eight ahead of metroid is f0 average meta score 83.7 weird there's just not that many of them yeah i mean they're all good man like the two on the two on game boy advance were good that like you know replicated the smes style and then obviously uh f-zero gx on the gamecube is incredible f-zero x on the n64 is incredible it makes me so sad that like nintendo's just let f-zero lie i don't know i think miyamoto was walking around a corner with a wii remote in his hand and he was about to say what about f-zero and then the creators of F-Zero just dive in front of him with Excitebike.

42:32They're like, no! They're protecting the franchise. F-Zero, F-Zero, and I say this with love as a Nintendo fan, it's too cool for Nintendo. It's like, look, we're watching footage of F-Zero GX. This game is fast as fuck. It's incredible. The sense of speed in this game is absolutely unmatched. And And like, I just, I have a hard time seeing as much as again, Nintendo is in a really good spot right now from a game development standpoint. It's like they wouldn't put out a game like this now. Yet, apparently Pushmo is better.

43:07Justin Davis:No, Pushmo is not better. Well, you're right, you're right. Sorry, sorry, sorry. Let's keep it with races. Apparently Wave Race is better. Yeah, Mario Kart is still to come. Well, coming up at number seven is Nintendo Wars, which is Advanced Wars test. i don't know why they call it nintendo wars yeah well because i know why is because they weren't all on well they do call them advanced wars in the united states but there is battalion wars on the gamecube and actually advanced wars i don't know they have battalion wars one and two in here yes really oh and then they there were wars games going all the way back to the nes famicom wars and super famicom wars but they never came out in the united states never came out in english i've never played them i'd be curious to go back and try them someday i played this one it's fun yeah yeah they've got advanced wars one two dual strike days of ruin and then one and two reboot camp and then battalion wars one and two one was gamecube two was we great music great gameplay i like that every stage had like two different ways you could win like just war of attrition and beat down your opponent or sneak around and capture their hq it's great and finally coming in number six is the push mo franchise average meta score 84.8 four games two of them four four games push mo crash mo push mo world and stretch mo who makes these games hey i forgot about stretch maybe hal yeah i think so i don't think it was maybe i'm conflating it with box boy yeah box boy is how love this game i've never played these games but they look really cute really good puzzle games and and they make like pit cross they make like classic designs in the end which you're surprised by wikipedia says intelligent systems makes the push mode games who also makes makes fire emblem in the wars games ah okay crazy okay number five is the mario kart franchise average meta score 86.7 the highest well this is crazy The high point is the original Super Mario Kart, which, you know, it's because those scores were rendered at the time and have never been updated or revisited.

45:22Don't tell us the low point, though. Sam and I should guess. Okay. We know it's Double Dash 7.9. I think it's probably Double Dash. No, I think it's advanced. Yeah. Oh, but nobody liked the mobile game, but it went on forever and people played it forever. Yeah, Mario Kart 2. I'm going to say Double Dash.

45:40Justin Davis:The low point is actually an outlier. I'm trying to figure out what the actual low point is in the main series. Because the lowest rated one is Mario Kart Live Home Circuit. Which is what you use along with the toy, right? Yeah, the toy. That one's, oh man, what a cool idea. Yeah, but also not a real Nintendo game. So yeah. The other two low, a tie would be Mario Kart 64 and Mario Kart Wii. Both have an 82. That's the lowest score any mainline Mario Kart game has ever received. Wow. Which brings us to the real heavy headers. number four is xenoblade chronicles average beta score 87 wow cool which is chronicles 3d x2 3 and x definitive edition yeah i keep like wanting it's like i'm interested in playing them but then you see that they're all 100 hours long and what there's four of them now and i'm like well never gonna do that yeah i've never played those but i hear good things if i was gonna play a one of like you know one of the last five years of like giant rpg series games i wouldn't pick this i would pick like a dragon quest or something like that well that that's exactly where i like it's like you know i can i can do one of these games a year one big giant turn-based rpg and it's like i'll do i'll do drockway or i'll do like a trails you know another trails game or something like that instead yeah okay only three left number three is the super Mario franchise.

47:08Justin Davis:Average Metascore, 88.5. Wow. This has got to be the longest. So we only have Zelda and Kid Icarus left. Yep. Yep. Obviously, it's everything from the original Super Mario Bros. all the way up to Super Mario Bros. Wonder. Which is like, when you have such a huge sample size, it's amazing that just the stupid bonehead average is still so high. Yeah. If it's only Super Mario, so it's not counting spinoffs, but just the core 2D platformers and 3D platformers uh what's the lowest one lowest one is uh mario 2 uh ds super mario 64 ds what about that one mario 64 ds maybe the lowest score is an outlier it's super mario maker for nintendo 3ds oh maker that's great i bet the 3ds the 3ds version i guess i can't oh that's right because it got ported to 3ds and it was yeah but other than that nothing let's see oh super mario land on Game Boy has a 78.

48:06Justin Davis:Yeah, fair. Although I would call Land its own series. I mean, I guess they throw all the... Yeah, they include like six Golden Kois in here, but then it spun off to be a Wario series, right? Yeah, and then they're Wario games. Okay, number two is Smash Brothers. Average number for 89. Wait, so Kid Icarus didn't get it? Didn't get it ranking? Not recognized as a franchise, even though there are at least three games. Three, yeah. There's Of Mists and Monsters, the Sakurai one, and the original. But there's only two Wave Race games, right? So that couldn't be. Yeah. Okay. Okay. So no Wave Race. Darn.

48:40Yeah.

48:41Justin Davis:Number two is Smash Brothers. And then obviously number one is Zelda. Zelda's average meta score is 89.6. Wow. That's so good. That's so high. Which I think it would actually be over 90 if you threw out the classic NES series Zelda 2 for Game Boy Advance and Triforce Heroes on 3DS. Those are the only things dragging the score down. Mm-hmm. What about crossbow training? Here we go. Links pilots of the series. Crossbow training. I don't see it on here. It's all the CDI pig stabber. They did not include links crossbow training. I've never actually, I've never played the CDI games. Surely those aren't on here.

49:24Justin Davis:Those aren't on here either. Yeah, I don't know why. Okay, there you have it. Metacritic's ranking of every Nintendo franchise just based on their review scores, which I think is interesting. Oh, that's more fun than playing the games. Looking at the numbers. It's true.

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53:05Justin Davis:I did have a lot. I do love doing this sort of thing. But of course that ends up taking up a lot of time on the show. So I want to do the fun stuff. There's the news that I promised we would talk about, but there's the fun stuff. The scoop, then there's the game. The game and the scoop. I want to do the fun stuff. So I'm just going to skip over the news for now. Wait, wait, wait, hold on. Did you say that they're making a Call of Duty movie? There's already a Call of Duty movie. Surely there's already a Call of Duty movie. There's not a Call of Duty movie, Sam. Are you sure? A live action Call of Duty movie is finally official after Paramount strikes a deal with Activision, Top Gun Maverick mentioned as the guiding star.

53:43Yeah, I mean, it always would have been Top Gun. So this has to have already happened, right? No.

53:50Justin Davis:The Call of Duty franchise is 22 years old, I think. Wasn't Jake Gyllenhaal in one of these? Well, he's in a war movie. That's the thing. A Call of Duty movie is just going to be a war movie, right? Well, here's the thing. I'm not a Call of Duty expert, but I play every third or fourth Call of Duty that comes out. I get the hankering to play through one of these campaigns. They're kind of not the reputation as being these bro-y, generic military. it's like that's not really like they're usually the storyline of the game is usually kind of anti-war and kind of nihilistic often and like you know what the what is it modern warfare 2 where your character dies in a nuke and then you play as somebody else for like the second half of the game like they they they're more boundary pushing i think than sometimes they get credit for so like you know is the movie gonna clock any of that yeah no 100 not it's just gonna to be top gun maverick and rah rah you know well that's the thing at least in the games like well okay let me ask you this you've you've both seen top gun maverick yeah yeah at the end they go on a real mission right behind enemy lines what country do they go to yeah no it's just the enemy it's never stated they never name it they're just somewhere behind enemy lines somewhere but like irrelevant doesn't matter call of duty gets away with that a lot now by doing terrorists right yeah it doesn't matter what country you're in those are the backdrops but the terrorists are somehow you have to get something something from that extract a lot of its extraction mission so you can go into some cool you know level but you're not like attacking the government of that level on behalf of the united states government yeah i don't know so paramount obviously they they did top gun maverick they also did the three sonic movies which were successful but they also produced the halo tv series no i don't know yeah yeah the top comment on our article is the time to do this would have been 10 to 15 years ago yeah that's that's the that's the that's the rub right although back then you would have a little bit of coin toss with it just being like a knockoff of saving private ryan which is what the campaigns originally were yeah and versus like now we have the modern warfare franchise which is a knockoff of i guess top gun type stuff right we also i mean top gun maverick is they're guiding light it's like that movie is uh nostalgia adjubate, right?

56:08Like that's what it harkens back, like not just because it's Tom Cruise and his characters back from the 80s but literally like the construction of the film is like simpler times of like good guys versus bad guys and like that's not really Call of Duty, like Call of Duty has always been slightly more shades of grey so at least like the Black Ops games I'm kind of thinking about that era of Call of Duty We should really get them on the horn because I really think they should aim for Nazi moon zombies. Right, yeah Yeah Like Seth Rogen, you know, voicing one of the characters. Yeah, exactly.

56:42Justin Davis:I saw a very amusing meme recently. It was like the film's description, after witnessing the death of a goose, the hero has to raise their offspring, could apply to both Top Gun Maverick or the Wild Robot. And I just thought that was pretty funny. Aw. Very good. Okay, let's just quickly cover off on the Capcom news then also. Capcom's president says, high price of PlayStation 5 has contributed to low sales of Monster Hunter Wilds, which is a very strange story, because first of all, Monster Hunter Wilds is the best-selling game of the year here in the US. Isn't it also on PCs? It's on PCs. I mean, it's also on Xbox.

57:19Justin Davis:What are you talking about? It was the fastest-selling Capcom game ever. But it was also the fastest to stop selling. Well, apparently. But it sold 10.6 million units. That ain't bad! It's not bad! the reason this is happening is because monster hunter world is still capcom's best-selling game of all time and it hasn't reached those numbers it's capitalism and number must go up all the time and like 10.6 is bad when you when the previous one was like 21 or whatever however many 25 million 23 million something like that i mean as far as i know nobody not a single person on this entire planet thought this was a better game than monster hunter world that's the thing So in their most recent financial results, Capcom describes Monster Hunter Wild's sales as soft.

58:08Justin Davis:Obviously,$10.6 million sold, but for the quarter ending June 30th, Wild sold 477 ,000 copies, whereas Monster Hunter Rise, which is a four-year-old game, sold 389 ,000. That's almost as many. Yeah. The four-year-old game sold almost as many copies as the brand new game. So Capcom president... And it's only on Switch or something? Rise has since been made available on other platforms, I think. Okay. So Capcom president Haruhiro Tsujimoto attributed this drop to the high price of the PlayStation 5 and subscriptions, along with the$70 game price. It says it's a barrier for most consumers. The quote is, the console costs about 80 ,000 yen or$538.

58:53Justin Davis:When you factor in the cost of software and monthly subscriptions, it comes to about$672 at the time of purchase. This is not an amount that can be easily reached, especially for younger generations. This situation is not limited to Japan, but is similar overseas as well. I'll just stop making games then, I guess. I just... The comment makes no sense. Exactly. The plate... So, like you say, it's also available on PC, which has a very lower barrier in entry for most people. it's also available on xbox which he doesn't even mention but then the ps5 has been out for five years yeah i think most people who would be interested in playing monster hunter already owned it so like like maybe there's some translation issues but it also sounds like he's kind of pointing at like they need to start doing these on mobile because the barrier of entry so i mean maybe yeah they've done that before i mean i this is also you're the quote like you're speaking to an audience like this is an investor you know call or quote right we're like people that own Capcom stock are like, hmm, yes, okay.

59:53That makes sense. Don't think about it too deeply.

59:56Justin Davis:He seems to be ignoring the fact that it has mostly negative reviews on Steam. And I think the gist is that veteran players think it's too easy. It's like they feel pander to. It doesn't run well on PC. And the overall package just feels shallow and the end game is boring. It's like you were saying, no one sam likes this game more than world right yeah it was a it was a mistake that it made some development bad choices here it could have just been more world than i think it would have been the biggest game in the world which is a rare miss for capcom which we praise often as in recent years ever pretty much ever since resident evil 7 yeah it doesn't even seem like a money grabbing miss you know where they're like made it a live service or like something done with it they just kind of try to make it easier they tried to appeal to a wider audience and disappointed their wii generation of Nintendo right here.

1:00:49Justin Davis:Yeah.

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1:04:08Justin Davis:And Jesse says, in the recent 20 questions, Damon tried in vain to assist the question merchants by dropping the hint. You aren't the question merchants. You're not buying, you're not selling questions. What are you buying? By dropping the hint that the game they were grasping to guess was the most famous one to come out of Australia. The answer, of course, was rock stars L.A. Noire. I would suggest, um, actually, that Howl the Night and potentially the upcoming Silk Song have usurped the Australian top spot as the most famous game. Sure, that's fair. So what you're saying is Hollow Knight is the most popular Australian game, huh?

1:04:41Justin Davis:Well, what's every country's most famous, I wonder? What do the Scoopers think? I'm Canadian. I'd wager ours is the Assassin's Creed's, but I personally prefer... No, it's Punch Out for a week. I personally prefer the Mass Effects or Far Cries or Luigi's Mansion 3s or Bellatro. The most famous Damian game from Canada is Darkest Dungeon, of course. This is Jesse speaking for me, which I don't know. that'd be a real Sophie's choice between Dark Extension and Blot Show for me. Sam's favorite Canadian game would likely be Tunic. Well, I think Mass Effect 2. Did that count? And last, but most likely not least, Justin's favorite would be Factorio.

1:05:21Justin Davis:But Tunic is amazing. I don't know where any game's made. I don't think Factorio's actually made Canada. No, I think it's made in like the Czech Republic or somewhere. Is it? Jesse from Hamilton, Ontario thinks it is. well they might be remote but the developer is is wu wbe might be wube i'm actually not sure i'm such a fake fan but like their office is in prog so but who knows maybe there's developers spread around worldwide i mean that's true for everything now but i respect canada's game development market i also respect australia's game development market and i didn't even know that elena war was made there yep eleanor was be right hollow knight uh is also there but we should also mention both um cult of the lamb and untitled goose game hail from australia great games but we're all kidding ourselves the most famous games to come out of australia are fruit ninja and crossy road wow fruit ninja is a worldwide phenomena yeah half brick still around still making games sam if you ever find yourself in a Charles Entertainment Cheese you will still find that Fruit Ninja and Crossy Road are both still beloved by kids today.

1:06:36At that Redemption place I was at there was the giant Fruit Ninja thing still.

1:06:42Justin Davis:And Doodle Jump. All these games are at my local Chuck E. Cheese. Could have been Flappy Bird but nope. Timeline diverged. Maybe that was the start of everything going wrong. we're in the we're in the no flappy bird time we scared the developer a flappy bird away from making games ever again look what happened well then it started the divergence spelling bernstein bears all differently yep i because of kids birthdays i occasionally find myself at a chucky cheese the there's not a single traditional arcade video game in there that you'd actually play not a single one everything is a ticket redemption well and you would think so everything whatever they know what they're doing at chuck e cheese but like you would think so every single kid is there with a miserable parent right it's like put a bank of like old school games in the corner throw a galaga in there yeah the galaga would make so much money yeah look this is my own fault but i only have seven minutes to lose 20 questions now okay well let's jump into it then

1:07:48Justin Davis:And that brings us to video game 20 questions. Our suggestion also comes from Jesse from Hamilton, Ontario. Okay. And with that, let the questioning begin. Is that the same person or is it just a crazy coincidence? Same person. Okay. I thought maybe it was a different Jesse in Hamilton, Ontario. Okay. Did this game come out in the 70s, 80s, or 90s? No. Was it designed in the Americas? No. Was it designed in Japan? Yes. Is it a console exclusive? No. Did it come out in the last 10 years? Yes. That's five. Is this part of a decade spanning series? Yes. decades okay okay okay okay is there a movie or TV show associated with this long running series yes whoa what a long shot that's so good that's like getting a glasses character I think it's an Assassin's Creed game and we're talking about Jake Gyllenhaal again but this was made in Japan oh yes that's why the television show or movie is a long shot so Sonic Monster Hunter also Jake Gyllenhaal was not in an Assassin's Creed movie he wasn't who was in an Assassin's Creed movie it was that other guy Jake Gyllenhaal was in Prince of Persia Prince of Persia movie I don't even remember that existed I'm just making Jake Gyllenhaal jokes over here it's fine we were all picking up what you were putting down wait was there an Assassin's Creed movie yeah it started in Michael Fasco wow how was it I didn't see it I'm sure it was great Okay So this wasn't a console exclusive Right but made in Japan And has a TV or movie Resident Evil Silent Hill Resident Evil Silent Hill Horror game yes Is it in the Silent Hill franchise No Is it an evil Yes that's 10 Okay Okay Okay.

1:10:03Is this game a remake? No. Is it a mainline Resident Evil game? Yes. Was this game regarded as a, you know, a good, great, or even better than that game when it came out? What? A good, great, or better than that game when it came out. But better than what game? Better than just anything. Better than good or great. Better than good or great. Good, great or higher. Was this game better than good when it came out? Yes. So I'm just trying to eliminate six here. Okay. Can you play this game in the first person? Yes. Can you make a funny joke with the Roman numeral version of this game's name? And make a word puzzle out of it?

1:10:52No. That's 15. Is this Resident Evil 7?

1:10:54Justin Davis:Yes. Resident Evil 7. I don't know how you rolled out eight. Yeah. I was going to say, I thought it was... Yeah. Yeah. yeah you can make it you can make a word remember vii and and eight no i thought the well i thought the funny image was with six but that was the funny image of the giraffe but then seven seven is village and but it also has the roman numerals eight is village eight is yeah seven is biohazard seven oh seven has no jokes associated with it so all three in a row so six has the has the giraffe yes seven has the biohazard you know name switcheroo and then eight has the hidden roman numeral which is what i was asking about but still got it wrong but still okay everything's fine great yeah everything's fine you got it it's resident evil 7 which i felt that i mentioned that earlier in the episode i caught my head well i wish i hadn't said that i don't remember you mentioning it why trick here's a look behind behind the curtains.

1:11:57Justin Davis:I try not to mention the 20 questions game because I just don't want it to be there like top of mind, ready to go. Yeah, yeah. No, the power of suggestions too strong, but frequently, not frequently, occasionally we've mentioned it in the episode. Yeah. That would also never work on us. We're not paying. We're not. But now we know. It's not a game we've mentioned in the episode or else Dan would just run off camera. If it's like, if you're wondering what I'm thinking about during 20 questions, it's like when you can see inside Homer Simpson's mind in the Simpsons. It's just nothing in there. I mean, we've done it so much now that the questions just come out automatically, right?

1:12:34Justin Davis:Yep. It's true. Well, nicely job. Thank you for the suggestion, Jesse from Hamilton, Ontario. And also let us know why you were under the assumption that Factorio was made in Canada, because that threw up the whole reason why I said we have a legitimate reason for Justin to talk about Factorio. And why you didn't bring up. Which we ran out of time for. I said I would only do the show if I could talk about it. And Canada's great contribution to the Nintendo development, Uvra, which is Punch-Up for Wii. Yep. Which again, the Punch-Up franchise was not represented on that list. And there's been three of them.

1:13:09Justin Davis:Anyway. Viewers, listeners, if you have your own suggestions for video game 20 questions, email them to me at the email address gamescoop at igin.com. And that is all the scoops we have here this week. Thank you, Sam. Thank you, Justin. Thank you to Jobert working behind the scenes to make this episode possible. My name is Damon. This is IGN Game Scoop. And we're out.

1:13:34Justin Davis:This episode of GameScoop was produced by myself, Damon Hatfield, and Jobert Odienza. Technical direction is handled by Jobert Odienza. Technical production is by Mariah Franzen and Amir Akiv. Audio engineering is by Amir Akiv, and post-production editing is by, yours truly, Damon Hatfield. Graphic design is by Nicole Kagempen. GameScoop is an IGN production and part of the Geek Media Network.

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