Critics SLAM The Super Mario Galaxy Movie - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.01.26

1 Apr 2026 · 1 h 7 min · 27 chapters

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In short

Critics roundup and debate on the Super Mario Galaxy movie’s reception, plus news about Mind’s Eye DLC claiming sabotage evidence, and broader discussion of review culture.

Guests

No named guests appear; the episode is hosted by Greg Miller and Blessing Adebo (with other Kind of Funny staff referenced for upcoming “In Review” coverage).

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Key claims

Super Mario Galaxy movie scores are low (Rotten Tomatoes 44%, Metacritic 37). Critics cite thin/no central story, mostly fan-service/Easter eggs, and “member berries” over substance. For Mind’s Eye, CEO Mark Gerhard says a DLC mission (“Blacklist”) will include evidence of alleged sabotage, possibly using real people’s names; he claims US/UK authorities are investigating. Publisher IO Interactive denies paid-negative-review claims.

Notable examples

IGN 6/10 (Easter eggs over story); Variety says no character is central; Empire 2/5 (loud/bright without point); New York Times “meh”; Deadline praises redemption/father-son Bowser and Peach origin. Mind’s Eye DLC discussed as potentially “spiteful” and legally risky.

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Episode Discussion

0:00 to 14:03
“This episode is brought to you by Fandango.”

Critique of Mario Galaxy Movie

14:03 to 14:50

Discussion on the thin plot of the Mario Galaxy movie and its reliance on brand.

Character Development Issues

14:50 to 15:38

Examination of character development and the movie's approach to storytelling.

Super Chat Discussion

15:38 to 16:26

Response to a listener's question about hypocrisy in movie and game reviews.

“And none of the reviews we read for Crimson Desert.”

Review Standards Comparison

16:26 to 17:49

Comparison of standards between game reviews and movie reviews.

“The last time I've heard something like this was funnily enough from someone else named Kevin who broke out in hives because of how much he hated The Last Jedi.”

The Nature of Movie Reviews

17:49 to 19:19

Discussion on the disposable nature of movie reviews and reviewer experiences.

“Can we watch the trailer or will we get clipped for it?”

Challenges in Game Reviewing

19:19 to 21:28

Exploration of the difficulties faced in reviewing video games compared to movies.

“I've never seen a zero before in my life.”

Marketability of Video Games

21:28 to 22:43

Discussion on the marketable aspects of video games and their review dynamics.

New Minds Eye Mission Announcement

22:43 to 25:02

News on the new mission for Minds Eye and its allegations of sabotage.

“Now, granted far fewer games, but they could review so many things.”

Reactions to Sabotage Claims

25:02 to 27:32

Discussion on the creator's claims of sabotage and the community's response.

“I'm reading from Rebecca Valentine at IGN.”
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Corporate Espionage in Gaming

28:00 to 29:10

Discussion around alleged corporate espionage affecting a game's development.

“right and we're gonna get to the bottom of it in the dlc for the game meta they got into the game plus and last minute changed the entire game to be so boring.”

The Unhinged CEO and Game Drama

29:10 to 30:50

Analyzing the bold actions of a game studio CEO in the face of controversy.

“And then this, and just Mark, like at every point where Bill, the rocket boy CEO, Mark Gerhardt can act like he's not crazy.”

Gameplay as a Narrative Device

30:50 to 33:00

Exploration of how gameplay can reflect real-world issues and conflicts.

“My immediate read is like, oh, you feel wronged by some woman.”

Legal Implications in Gaming

33:00 to 36:10

Discussion on the legal ramifications of using real names in video games.

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Patreon and Ad Reads

36:10 to 36:55

Promotion of the show's Patreon and discussion of ad sponsors.

Community Reactions and Super Chats

38:16 to 42:00

Reactions from the community regarding the game and discussion of viewer comments.

“Barry, you said you got something for me.”

The Impact of Reviews on Gaming Hype

42:00 to 43:20

Explore how marketing cycles affect game and movie reviews.

Super Meat Boy Stream Madness

43:20 to 45:56

A personal recount of frustrations during a gaming stream session.

“I feel like ever since we had the HR meeting the physical violence talk is way up.”

The Acquisition of Unbound Studio

45:56 to 47:06

Discussion on the acquisition of Shinji Mikami's new studio by Shift Up.

Nintendo's Patent Revocation Explained

47:06 to 50:04

Understanding the implications of Nintendo's revoked gameplay patent.

“As part of the acquisition, ShiftUp will publish Unbound's upcoming titles and support the studio in building its own global service capabilities.”

We News: Tiny Game Updates

50:04 to 52:30

Brief updates on various gaming news items, including new releases.

“Last September, Nintendo was granted a U.S.”

Pragmata and Game Innovations

52:30 to 55:00

Discussion on the upcoming game Pragmata and its innovative features.

April Fool's and Game Anticipation

56:00 to 56:40

The hosts discuss the implications of companies' April Fool's jokes and their excitement for upcoming games.

“And they're like, oh, that last April Fool's joke.”

Debating Game of April: Soros vs. Pragmata

56:40 to 57:59

A lively discussion about which game will dominate the month of April, analyzing Soros and Pragmata.

“What do you think your game of April is going to be?”

Super Chats and Fan Interactions

57:59 to 59:11

The hosts read and respond to viewer super chats, touching on various topics from personal anecdotes to game news.

Food Preferences: Soup vs. Sandwich

59:11 to 1:00:53

A humorous debate on the merits of sandwiches compared to soups, highlighting personal food preferences.

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Viewer Questions and Responses

1:00:53 to 1:02:30

The hosts field various viewer questions, maintaining a lighthearted tone while discussing games and personal opinions.

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1:40Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Today's gaming news stories include critics have harsh words about the Super Mario Galaxy movie, Mind's Eyes DLC will reveal how the game was sabotaged, and stellar blades developer acquires shinji mikami's new studio of all this and more because this is kind of funny games daily yo what's up welcome to kind of funny games daily for wednesday april 1st april fool's day 2026 when your host blessing adio yay jr join me is the legend Greg Miller. My last day at work. Oh, no. April Fool's! Oh, damn. I got you, Blizz. I was like, damn, is this spring break starting early? Unexpectedly on Thursday, I'm leaving.

2:27How are you doing, Greg? I'm good. How are you? Doing well. Did you get got yet by any April Fool's? No. No, I don't think so. Because you usually start reading the headline, you're like, this is stupid. This is April Fool's. You know what I mean? I don't know. Do you care about it? Do you find any enjoyment?

2:43Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I think since starting this job no because my job is to compile news yeah and so when i'm compiling news on april fool's day it actually makes my job harder yeah like one of the ones that did get me as i was putting together khd was ign's april fool thing oh i haven't seen it what is it it's pretty good actually because honestly it's one of those ones that actually tricks you it's not like you know the live action zelda thing where it's like if you know playstation announces project playmo yes next gen dual sense this one uh you know playstation's got a lot of bad ideas so that does make sense yeah and like i think this is like loosely based off of patents that had yeah yeah yeah and so as i'm reading it i'm like oh shit it's happening and then i get halfway through and i was like no this this can't be real and then i remembered no i can't do it they definitely got me on this one yeah i don't know i feel it's hard to tell sometimes is it just that just because of april april fools in general is it just a not even a young person's is it just am I jaded by just wanting to do my job and the world being as bad as it is that I don't need a bad April fool's day jokes or is it?

3:49Blessing Adeoye Jr.:It was, was that companies caught on to the fact that they could do April fool's jokes and with the internet and social media and all that stuff, more and more companies jumped in. And it's like, it's like when you have a meme that's funny the first day and then by day three, you start to see a company jumping in on the meme and it's like, okay, well now it's not funny anymore. Yeah. it's that thing right where like and i don't i i can't i worked there many years after i i worked there for many years after and participated in the april fools but i also just feel like it peaked with the zelda trailer at ign when they did the live action zelda trailer and everybody thought it was real and it was like a huge deal and then ign always chased that high even when i was there and even that was like a little bit like all right you know what i mean like yeah this is cool yeah optimus prime and titanfall okay yeah yeah 100 yeah i will say like the playmo thing like i i think this year's ijan's joke is good but it's just that i'm tired yeah you know i blame the holiday more the quote-unquote holiday more than i blame the lack of effort from my god oh yeah yeah this isn't us not although like here's the thing right today would you other live action trailers for ign yes uh we followed up when i was there and i say we like i had anything to do with i didn't but nick was the director on the halo bollywood shoot where they did a halo live act they did they did the whole thing with helio bollywood that was one of them that was live action i think that might have been the only other live action one that jumps to my mind but chacky be honest on that i forget if i'm wrong about that because my thing is if they stuck to hey we're not even like doing we're not trying to trick people it is just straight up every year we're just doing another fake live action trailer yeah movie i think that could just be a fun tradition that said now we're in the age where every video game is getting a live action movie so it might just now be confusing if they did it.

5:31Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I don't know. But happy April Fool's Day, Greg. Happy April Fool's Day, boss. Let's get into the actual real news. Because remember, if you're watching live, you can be a part of the show by super chatting in over on YouTube.com slash kindoffunnygames. Remember, we couldn't do this without our producers. There was a Harry Potter Aurors trailer as well. Harry Potter what now? Aurors. Aurors. A-U-R-O-R-S. This is like, why did this one fail? Because it was just like, yeah, who was that deep into Harry Potter bullshit? Nick was. read through the goddamn harry potter like golly uh patreon.com is kind of funny uh shout out to our patreon producers carl jacobs omega buster and delaney the song twining for now let's begin with what is and forever will be the roper report it's time for some news we have five stories today A Baker's Dozen!

6:24Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Starting with our number one, we got a Mario Galaxy review roundup. They're all great! I'm sure they're all highfalutin' good scores. Right now, on Rotten Tomatoes, Mario Galaxy is sitting at a 44. Metacritic, the Mario Galaxy movie, is sitting at a 37. Let's start off with one from Clint Gage at IGN, who gave it a 6 out of 10 and says, the Super Mario Galaxy movie ditches an engaging story in favor of a pipe-bursting amount of Easter eggs, but that's not an altogether bad thing. I'll jump. I got, like, more reviews than general, or than usual for this review roundup, because there's a lot of shit people have to say about this movie.

7:03Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Let's hop over to Owen Gleiberman at Variety, who gives it an unscored review, but says, not a single one of these characters, including Mario and Luigi, occupies the center of the Super Mario Galaxy movie, and that's because the movie has no center. And Helen O 'Hara at Empire gave it two out of five stars and says, the moments of fan service might keep the hardcore happy. But for everyone else over the age of five, it's just a succession of loud, bright things happening without any real point. New York Times, I just took the headline from the New York Times review. Where they just said, it's a meh.

7:38That's really good. Really, really good. That's really good. I like that. Kevin Mayer gave it a crazy one.

7:44Blessing Adeoye Jr.:All right. This is Kevin Mayer at the Times. they gave it zero stars which i didn't know was a possible thing um they titled their review the super mario galaxy movie review is this the end of cinema wow it's a supremely vacuous anti-movie that climaxes with a sequence featuring full-screen nintendo gameplay as if to remind us of the levels of rancid commercial whoredom we've reached the film is torturous to sit through and for me provoked periods of actual physical discomfort i had a stab myself repeatedly in the hand with a pen to distract from the howling distress it's that bad and that offensive it was hitchcock who said always make the audience suffer as much as possible i don't think he meant it like this everyone's entitled to their opinion but kevin really kevin let's swing back to a more positive direction i'll close this one from glenn garner at deadline he says you're watching a movie kevin you're watching he was being tortured he was in a torture chair go play a game you hate for 80 hours on deadline glenn garner at deadline says uh overall the super mario galaxy movie is a fun sequel of full of nostalgic references all-star voices and epic animation grounded by the father-son story of redemption for bowser aka jack black and a sisterly origin story princess peach yeah i see a sisterly origin story princess peach both of which paved the way for more video game adaptation fun greg yes is the movie as bad as they say no i mean yes no i i mean i came home and shut the door and jen's like how is the movie and i'm by the way of course tomorrow uh we return to in review for super mario you'll have myself you'll have blessing you will have tim you will have nick you will have andy so there's full uh team there to go through and do our usual thing where we we recap rank it against the other mario movies etc etc you know in review please come watch even though you're gonna hear about me boss talk about came home last night or two nights ago whatever it was monday night shut the door jen's like how was the movie and i'm like i remember and i was like listen i remember leaving the original mario movie and being like that was a collection of scenes that happened back to back to back there wasn't really a narrative to it that much i mean there is but not really it was colorful i wasn't i didn't stab myself in the hand with a pen but it wasn't peak cinema or anything like that yeah but the more i watched it especially the more i watched it with the bet with bet with the band with the band with ben i was like ah you know this is more enjoyable than maybe i originally thought in the theaters and i'm the exact same way with this one where i left that one and i was like this was a collection of scenes did i not off at the final battle i did i was very much like all right we're just doing a thing here i think personally i'm more of a mushroom kingdom new york i like that mashup more than we're in space and anything can happen as i'm not the space person usually sometimes you know i don't know that still holds true but like what i said i was talking to another uh reviewer who were there who will remain nameless and he was like that was a lot worse than i thought it was going to be and i'm like listen I said everything I just said, and I'm like, but here's all I know.

10:56Tim and Blessing are huge Mario fans, and they were talking about how much they enjoyed it, and I know how much my four-year-old's going to enjoy it. So Nintendo's pretty happy they hit the target market on this. What did you think? Yeah, I mean, I got to sit on it for a while, right?

11:10Blessing Adeoye Jr.:You know, in review, I think I'll be able to spill my full thing. Sure, sure, sure. Yeah, just let a little steam out of the kettle. Yeah, let a little steam out, right? Like, I enjoyed it for what it was. i'm not mad at the bad reviews for it because i totally see where they're coming from i think plot wise character development wise like there are so many better written animated movies i look at like peak pixar i look at peak dreamworks i look at the puss in boots movie from a couple years ago and i'm like damn this got me emotional these are all kids movies yeah i'm sure one of the pieces of defense that people will throw at this thing throughout the critics right is like it's a kid's movie how seriously you want to take it and all that stuff but there are great kids movies and that's my thing just to jump in i wouldn't let you keep going on but like as somebody who watches so many kids movies the amount of times jen and i walked to the kitchen crying over and i always say he doesn't know how good he has it i remember when our movies and tv shows were just nonsense now they're actually amazing good yeah and so like for people who are coming at it hard as a for the story for their i totally understand and honestly i agree even though i enjoy the movie like my enjoyment of the movie comes purely for me as a nintendo adult yeah right like i grew up on mario i am even for this thing as a what hour and a half collection of see of random colorful scenes right i'm watching it and i'm like oh that's from this oh that's from mario 3 oh that's from a lot of member berries a lot of member berries so many the whole movie is member berries yeah like then that's honestly the amount of times chad that tim went and i was like oh there's a song or something's happening that he recognizes i'm just like mario's doing things the biggest compliment and the biggest insult i can i can um give to this movie is that the entire movie is member berries which is bad if you're coming to this movie for an experience that is a moving plot or something that's that you're gonna leave and be like damn there was substance in how they built bowers's character there was substance in how they built this relationship between rosalina and other characters and all this stuff right no like it was so so much of that stuff is so paper thin, but I didn't leave that upset about it because you know, if I was my Mario upset level about it would be that I think they flirted with it as a, as somebody who I enjoy playing Mario video games, but I'm never into the Mario story of the video games.

13:28Right. Cause we're not doing anything ever really with them. Right. We get to, I mean, one of them calls out this Bowser, Bowser Jr. thing. And then some of the stuff with peach in there and some of her relationships where I was like, oh are they about okay no they got they they didn't even get to the they didn't tow the line they they saw the line we were close we were in the same room as the line of doing something different interesting so it's like oh i would have rather seen them commit to this i really would have seen rather them do that but like no it's not on my list of grievances it's just a

13:58Blessing Adeoye Jr.:movie one of the uh an argument that me and tim have had before on the show right was talking about zelda breath of the wild and tears of the kingdom and how like one of my one of the one of the complaints people give to reviews of those games that annoys me the most is they say if you remove the zelda brand from these games these games would get reviewed way worse and i'm like y 'all the games themselves are good like i told i push up i push against that for this movie for the mario galaxy movie if you remove the mario anything that's like mario brand mario ip from this movie it's like it's a white screen it's just exactly it's nothing like it's absolutely nothing like that's how thin some of the plot is here and yeah like i think that's again that comes back to my biggest complaint about it is that like you're waving lights in front of me and i'm like hell yeah i'm mario man and so i love this shit right but for anybody else ah like there's way better kids movies out there 100 yeah and i think you know like in terms of the plot being thin and all this stuff i think i always love it when there's a movie that calls itself out for that i feel like but there's one line in this where when they show up with yoshi and toad's just like oh so now the dinosaur is part of the group it's like yup that's all it took we met yoshi and now he's as thick as thieves with everybody like all right nobody's wondering about okay cool he's just here that's what we'll talk about it more on the in review but there's there's a certain character who has like this flip-flop character development of like i'm on this side now now i'm on this side and i'm like y 'all did not you guys aren't giving me any reason for why he feels this way this second yeah right like it feels it does feel a little bit insulting at times even two kids um that said like zero stars let me jump in there okay if you don't mind and i know you're hosting the show so i hate to do this but there's a super chat from matthew ponton who says isn't it hypocritical to hate on the movie reviewers disliking the mario movie while also defending games journalists that dislike the crimson desert dislike crimson desert and i think that is a straw man argument here matthew where you're you're stripping out all of the context where you're just saying, well, you, you said it was okay for games journalists not to like this, but you're mad at movie critics.

16:03I don't. And none of the reviews we read for Crimson Desert. Did Jeff Grubbs say I had to stab myself repeatedly in the hand with a pen to distract from the howling distress. I never saw anyone say that. It might've been like, yeah, I didn't like playing this. Oh my God. It was annoying. No one's no one's talking about stabbing themselves to focus on their job for 90 minutes. The last time I've heard something like this was funnily enough from someone else named Kevin who broke out in hives because of how much he hated The Last Jedi. That's the last time I've heard someone get like have an extreme reaction to a movie.

16:39And it's like, all right, come on, man.

16:42Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I got two things here, right? One, I don't think we're hating on anybody. Maybe the closest we're getting to hating on somebody is like the zero stars. I call that Kevin by name. I did say Kevin. Yeah, but I'm not even going to. I've not started my hating on that yet because like my hating on that is that me, I have a friend named Lexi and every year Lexi likes to put on a movie marathon and the movie marathon is always with bad movies. And so the last one she did, she put together four really bad animated movies. And when I tell you that's, I can't remember the name of it. There was some movie chat.

17:13Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Somebody's going to know it where all the characters are based off of like brands that you find at the supermarket. And it was a movie that like struggled to get made the animation fucking terrible right it eventually came out animations terrible the characters nonsensical story weird right that's a one-star movie right i've there are zero star movies out there mario galaxy is not one of them and that's the extent of like quote-unquote hate i'll give that's the other thing is to your point uh matthew ponton right like i i don't think the hypocrite hypocrisy comes into play because i don't think any of us would say hey you have to agree with every reviewer out there you know what i mean like i've read crimson desert reviews that i disagree with and i would talk about those right but i'm not over here being like damn paul tassie sucks he has a different opinion like no he's allowed to like the people are allowed to have different opinions on things yes food fight thank you jesus christ that's a real movie food fight is an actual movie that my friend lexi forced us to watch lexi no and when i tell you this shit was a Oh, they have the Sunkissed Tuna guy and the Vlastix Pickle guy?

18:19Hilary Duff was in this? Eva Longoria? I want to watch it now.

18:22Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Legendarily bad movie. I'd recommend it. It's a fun bad watch. Your eyes will start to hurt. How? When did it come out? It looks... 2010, I want to say? Damn. Oh, nine. Can we watch the trailer or will we get clipped for it? Yeah, we will. Damn. We will get clipped for it. That sucks. Yeah, again, I just don't... Hypocritical to hate on. It's like... Well, no. again every review in opinion is a persuasive essay and I don't think in granted the paragraph I've read here Kevin's backing it up enough that he just stabbed himself in the hand to keep watching the movie one blue sky put up yesterday as the movie reviews were coming out was that movie reviews will really remind you how nice video game reviews are it was kind of refreshing reading a bunch of a bunch of reviews coming in that it's like damn y 'all all hated this movie that I totally thought was just fine yeah and like It had me being like, man, we got to explore the scale more because motherfuckers are giving this thing fucking three out of ten.

19:17Blessing Adeoye Jr.:You know what I mean? There was a zero. I've never seen a zero before in my life. If anything, video game reviewers need to get meaner. Like, that's what I come out of this thing feeling like, you know what I mean? You want to know, I think so much of that comes back to is that the difference in the product and what you're doing. Again, I've said this, I think, recently on Greg Waves. I'm sorry if I said it here of like, I had a conversation around the Oscars with Jen. I'm just like, can you imagine how nice it would be to be like, all right, well, this weekend we're going to play all the game of the years candidates.

19:46You know what I mean? Like you can sit there and legitimately watch all the Oscar films in a three day period. Right. Yeah. Granted, that's a lot of movies. But again, it's doable in a way just these aren't. And so my personal interpretation on this is somebody who granted professionally reviews video games. But, you know, right in amateur level. Right. You know, I'm a capstone for college. I had already done my journalism degree. My last class was working at the magazine insert in the newspaper and I reviewed movies there. Right. And so it was this idea of like, I feel like movies, and this is not an insult to their work at all.

20:20Are so for the writer to a degree disposable. And if that's too negative, you get so many more at bats. You know what I mean? I get, I could, you could legitimately, if you were working as a full-time movie reviewer online or anywhere, right? Watch a movie that night, do, you know, do the review during the day, watch a movie that night. you got five pieces in a week versus video game reviewing. That's probably, hopefully you, if you're doing five days of gaming, maybe two games to play, depending how big they are, this, that, the other, where I think when you're invested in something so long, it's easier to be like, well, I want to give credit for this.

20:55It wasn't the worst thing in the world. Yeah. I didn't like crimson deserts story, but the combat is there. The, I found the fun by finding the open world. Whereas you can go for 90 minutes and be like, I fucking hated this. And here's all the, the bile and hate i have for it i'm going to put out and i'm going to move on to the next thing and

21:10Blessing Adeoye Jr.:review something yeah and i think it comes i know we've talked about this before right but one of the replies to the bs that's a blue sky tim that i got from the post is people saying that like yeah like movie reviews will explore the one through ten scale but like a lot of video game reviews feel like they're exploring the five through ten and one of the added things to that is just the fact that there are so many there's so many video games and they're so long and we have to pick and choose based off of what do people care about the most yep turns out that the things that people care about are probably going to be the better games that are out there we talk about yeah the investments right from uh publishers where yeah the games that are going to be put out by sony and microsoft and nintendo right are you generally going to be hopefully in that five to ten range and even like the third parties are indies right the ones that like y 'all care about a a mixtape y 'all care about a um pepper grinder is my brain i think we talked about they didn't really care about it but yeah a little bit about a pepper grind but even then it's like there are so many ones out of tens two out of tens three out of tens out there we never bring them up because they just like one the marketability is not as easy for those games right like those games don't show up in a state of play it's harder to like surface those games and why do we what will be what to even surface those games yeah and then also like we can't headline a thing that's that's we can't headline an episode of games cast that is us reviewing a three out of ten game that you've never heard of yeah if you've heard again you'd be back to the fact of the time commitment as well right yeah it is that idea that yeah i'm sure they're the steam store is littered with one out of tens but it's that idea of to do that we have to suspend playing the game you really care about to get to it to make it be the content nobody cares our time is limited is what you're back to the argument right of the benefit of a newspaper uh or a dot com that is all about movies right where you can put in the thing that isn't the headline grabber that doesn't need the attention that is going to be there right that somebody who is think of you know when back in the day when even you'd buy an EGM, you know, EGM in the review crew can review so many things.

23:02Now, granted far fewer games, but they could review so many things. They had multiple opinions. They could give you that, Hey, I played eight hours of this and it fucking sucked. And here's my 2.5 out of 10 out of this and move on. Yeah. What's up, Barrett? Yeah. I was bouncing off of your points blessing of just like the, how rare it is for big games to pop through that have that kind of marketing buzz that comes out and we're all just collectively, like what the fuck was this and one of those games not to get too ahead of it is a is our story number two oh oh before you transition you he's trying to fucking host the show i know right you push the fucking space all right nice shirt though but yeah real quick i'll push the button to make

23:44Blessing Adeoye Jr.:less transition right now i got it secretly oh but uh i i want to shout out like one of my favorite reviews i've done recently was for romeo's a dead man not sure which i gave a 5.5 out of 10 and that's a rare game that i get to get like i was excited to give a score that low even though like i enjoyed the game but i'm playing and i'm like yeah no this is not a good i forget what five is on our scale but this is mediocre this is mad whatever it is right like this does not live up to me being able to say this is a good game and it was fun to explore the scale but also yeah like that's the game i had to make time for even with the idea of like hey nobody might care about this game but i care and so i get to put in the time to play this but yeah it's harder to find time in our schedules to like get and get into the bag that deep to play something that might score that low yeah 100 and that's your own enjoyment too right we work at such a different company than a major.com if those still exist where you're given an assignment and this is your assignment to go do yeah it can be that you walk in like yeah we put that on the counter for next week but i don't like that i'm not gonna play okay cool it's not worth a review okay cool strike I can't, we'll put something else back.

24:49Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Let's talk about a game that probably would have came in at under a five out of ten. Story number two, new Minds Eye mission will reveal evidence the game was sabotaged. I'm reading from Rebecca Valentine at IGN. Kind of Funny Games Daily award winner. Build-A-Rocket Boy CEO Mark Gerhard says that the studio is preparing to add a new mission to its game, Minds Eye, which will include evidence supporting his repeated claims that the game was sabotaged by bad actors. Speaking to GamesBeat, Gerhard claims that the new mission will be called Blacklist and will feature a female playable character. Quote, we're also using that to share some of the evidence of the sabotage with the community.

25:31Blessing Adeoye Jr.:He did not provide further information as to what this would entail. However, he previously told Insider Gaming that the studio was also planning to use the names of people who had committed the alleged sabotage in the new mission. Quote, and let's have some fun with it, he said at the time. Let's tell the community the story before it even plays out in court. So, you know, I think this is not us being the victim. We've taken a couple of punches, we've kept turning the other cheek while we got our house in order, and now it's time to start doing this right back at them. And, you know, so let's have some fun with it.

26:05Blessing Adeoye Jr.:At the end of the day, we're storytellers, we're game makers. End quote. The sabotage Gerhardt is referring to is his claims over the last year that there was a concerted effort to trash, sorry to threat no to trash the game studio or the game and the studio by both internal and external saboteurs he claims that the saboteurs paid off influencers or paid for spam bots to denigrate the game on social platforms Gerhard has yet to provide evidence to back up these claims and former publisher io interactive has denied their merit in the same in the same games b interview Gerhard said that authorities in both the US and UK were investigating what he believes to be criminal corporate espionage.

26:49Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Gerhard does admit that the game launched in a messy state with numerous bugs and crashes. He tells GamesBeat that these issues are on us and that the team is continuing to invest in the game and improve it. Greg, are you looking forward to this DLC? See what you got to say? No, no fucking joke. I'm there day one. Yeah. When they're like, we are dropping it. That's a stream. I want to see this fucking incoming cease and desist court order that they will be getting as they air the fucking thing. The mission's going to be stealing the fucking things from Bill the Rocket Boy. Like, what are we doing?

27:25Sounds insane. Yes, let's go. And using like the actual names of people. Like, what are you doing? Do it, man. Tell your story. You're asking to get all of your money taken from you, man. The court won't have anything to say about this. You know, we want to give it to the people. before we talk about it in court i love that i love that i love that it's fucking insane i love

27:44Blessing Adeoye Jr.:the idea too that they're saying that like oh yeah social media influencers were paid to say bad things about the thing but then later on he goes on to say like oh yeah the game launched in a messy state that's on us brother which is it hey there was corporate espionage going on all right and we're gonna get to the bottom of it in the dlc for the game meta they got into the game plus and last minute changed the entire game to be so boring. And that's how they did espionage. I was going to say, what do you think he means by corporate espionage? Because that implies that they bugged them or something.

28:20Yeah, they had somebody on the inside. Yeah, there was an inside person. That's what you got. I've got to imagine that's what this mission is, right? The new mission will be called Blacklist and feature a female playable character. I got questions. Share some of this evidence of sabotage with the community. He did not provide further information with the tail. However, he promised it was studios plan to use the names of people who committed the alleged sabotage in the new mission. Let's have some fun with it. Like you've got to be playing as the role of the woman who in real life found this information, right?

28:57And so you're going to go through and find that person X was the one emailing corporation why all of your secrets and all these different things to screw over the game and then this is your chance to alternate reality stop it and bring justice to them i love it

29:12Blessing Adeoye Jr.:that seems fucking nuts it does this seems like something that's going to blow back on them so it's one of those where you know mine's eye was such a is this game real what is it okay it's just vaporware then it came out it didn't do this the io interactive publishing drama them then saying, you know, we're no longer doing this. You can take the rights back. And then this, and just Mark, like at every point where Bill, the rocket boy CEO, Mark Gerhardt can act like he's not crazy. He doubles down on being crazy and it's working for me. You know what I mean? Like we don't have, we don't have these kinds of people anymore in the industry.

29:52All right. We really don't. We really, everybody's hiding behind a corporation for their stockholders right here. Mark is out here being like, I'm going to take these motherfuckers to task. And I don't know, but I love it, Mark. I love what I'm seeing out of you right now. And I'm playing this day one. All the crazy corporate people. I feel like I have to be crazy behind closed doors. Now you're right. It is rare that we get somebody who's outwardly crazy. He's just saying it.

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30:15Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I'm going to make a DLT. I mean, this is the second number two, the close number two is Randy Pitchford. Randy Pitchford. Yeah, but he's a different kind of unhinged. Like this is again, like Mark is talking, like he's the former CEO of Build the Rocket Boy. This is the kind of shit you usually see people tweeting in the middle of the night, but I've been out of the industry for five years. Mark's like, no, no. I believe in my vision for this game. We got fucked, and I'm going to take people down with it. I'm like, inside the game? Fuck, yeah, I'm down, Mark. Whoever the main... Mark, come let us do the exclusive stream of it.

30:50When is the mission ready? I want to play. Whoever the lady is that the protagonist the protagonist is based off of what if it's like what if we're wrong and instead it's like totally like her name's liberty justice you know what i mean liberty justice is hilarious but also like i i had the end like social i never got your last name it's justice social justice that's

31:14Blessing Adeoye Jr.:actually a good one because i because my thing is i don't i don't get the vibe that they're like yo we want to add in more diversity into the game so we're gonna have a playable protagonist to me They're saying something. My immediate read is like, oh, you feel wronged by some woman. And you are starring the game. But no, she's got to be the hero, right? Well, see, I'm. You think we're playing as the bad guys? Yes. I think we're breaking into a place that is a stand-in for Build-A-Rocket Boy. And we're stealing things. And we're going to head back to our base called Stone Hero. I don't know. What's another word for Rockstar?

31:52oh i see you lost me i'm back on it yeah oh did they imply that rockstar is the one yes yes i remember this now because yeah rocks are really scared by this game oh yeah i'm sure

32:05Blessing Adeoye Jr.:rockstar rockstar was terrified by by mine's eye i i lost the chat but someone did bring up a great point how far into the game do we have to get to play that mission silver j hawkins super chatted and it says, can you reach the DLC before the two-hour mark on stream? Like, yeah, how far do we have to get into this game? I hope it's on the main menu. Just to bring it all up here, I'm going to instantgaming.com, who's got the summation of what was going on with that Rockstar thing, okay? During the first mixed previews for MindsEye, Bill the Rocket Boy felt that someone had paid these critics to give a negative review of the game.

32:39Without saying so, the studio accused Rockstar Games of corruption. IGN interviewed Hakan Abrak, CEO of IO Interactive, the publisher that distributes Mind's Eye, and he countered the studio's claim, stating that no one paid for negative reviews. Quote, I don't believe it. I don't believe it. I just think the game should speak for itself on June 10th. And it's fair to say it has spoken for itself, plagued by books, yada, yada, yada. So that was to bring back the Rockstar part of it from these former Rockstar people. Yes, that was the idea. So now I'm going to be, okay. So I'm the person coming in to get the information for Rockstar.

33:11You're the saboteur. You're the saboteur for sure. Mark, I fucking love it. I love it. you're going to jail if you do that though like maybe not jail but you're gonna get fined yeah what do they have to lose anymore you know what i mean because here's the thing right they said they're using real names so like you can't do that right so if this is based off a real person and you call let's say her name is leslie i've got the thing you wanted bringing it over my name is jessica smith or whatever yeah yeah if you're jessica smith and it's like oh that's me you're playing as me certainly you're gonna get a lot of money i think what it would be personally my thoughts would be it's gonna be more the evidence is gonna be documentation i think of it in the bethesda i'm finding a note right i'm getting a data file i'm hacking a terminal and i'm seeing literally emails that whoever mark thinks wronged them sent to mark or whatever you know what i mean like we're publishing our evidence in the game that you're stealing and getting imagine

34:08Blessing Adeoye Jr.:being the game designer and uh what mark gerhard right comes in and he's like hey this is what i need like and you're the one who has you're an artist or a character designer it's like all right i guess i'll make your vendetta dlc like i'm gonna make these real people like that's a crazy position to be in as a designer yeah but you know it you crack that beer you say let's go let's do it let's get messy anyway listen it's the year of our lord 2026 aren't we sick of seeing video game drama play out the same way all the time. We're getting something brand new in the industry where we're taking the fucking shit to the game.

34:46Mine's really innovating the industry here. No jokes. I am going to be watching this with bated breath. I can't stress this enough because for the last two stories, people have been asking about both of them being April Fool's joke. This came in yesterday. I'm like 90 % sure this is not an April Fool's joke. No, no, no. Yeah, no, no, no. This is Rep Valentine. She wouldn't do that.

35:06Blessing Adeoye Jr.:and then yeah this died from i-chan and then the zero the zero star review from variety that popped at embargo of the barrio galaxy review that's not an april fool's joke either these are real guys that's just how crazy the video games industry is that's so cool that's so cool because it's just like i'm reading from the igian article right back to mark here right quote we've got strong evidence of this and can and conducted quite thorough investigations over the month since launch. We've identified parties involved and now it's with the authorities both UK and US to deal with. I can confirm that they're assisting us with this investigation, but it's also in their hands now.

35:45We'll leave them to do what they do make their arrest or any announcements and do course. I think we're not saying anything further at this stage on that. We'll just let the natural course of justice take its path and quote, but we'll also put the evidence in the game. We're going to do it. Go get them. Go get them. Bill the rocket boy this is so fun i i it's like one of those things that just like it again i have been wrong yeah we don't believe you i'm gonna put the receipts in the fucking game you're gonna believe it then when you're reading the goddamn emails from rockstar be like fucking sink them sink them that's a level of spite that i aspire to man because like how many people are gonna play the

36:20Blessing Adeoye Jr.:dlc one i'm in like who the the idea the concept of mine's eye dlc alone is fucking insane when you think about it but you're you're putting in there for somebody like you're not we're putting in there for some reason i should say and that reason is purely just spite by rate just spite how much you're gonna sell off the dlc how much you charge him for the dlc yeah you know what i mean yeah is anybody buying mine's eye dlc maybe this is what turns it around you know what i mean i might buy mine's yeah right if this is actually what it is go get him mark we got a lot of super chats to read okay but before we get there i want to tell you about patreon.com slash kind of funny and youtube.com slash kindoffunnygames where you can go and get the Kind of Funny membership, which allows you to get shows ad-free.

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38:15Blessing Adeoye Jr.:And we're back. Barry, you said you got something for me. yeah you remember um the horrors of uh the mega evolution or what have you for uh starmy oh long starmy yeah it stands up right yeah did not like that uh nintendo is streaming a 10 hour looped video of long star running at you so there you go oh that's a good that's a good april fool's bit right that is a good april fool's bit but i also don't like it to my library oh shit i'm ready whenever you're ready mark i'm ready uh let's hop into some super chats you guys have a lot to say between this and the previous story so let's get in there silver j hawkins writes in and says i truly want to see this play out um as if they're completely totally fake and a joke or it turns into a self-report on the guy making the claim yeah i'm so fascinated by what the conversation is going to be in court when these inevitably get brought up of like so what's up with these real names these real people you put into the game they you know this is how it is this is is how it is yeah it's like oh there can't be two jessica smiths and it's like well you're suing one of them so those are public documents you know public documents shortchanged hero writes and it says this is either pure drama or it's the most insanely smart strategy because it's going to spike in sales and in player count but like will it because like maybe for me and greg and for like a handful of people that are watching the show that are also similarly morbidly curious about what's going on but I don't I don't know if it's going to be enough to be like yeah we're going to risk legal trouble in order to sell some DLC I mean like it's one of those what do you got to lose I think a lot I mean but I mean we don't know anything we know minds I did not launch well I can't imagine it sold well I can't imagine it made a lot of money I can't imagine the studio and company are in good shape so what's going to happen we're going to put this out at least get the goodwill of like see we were fucked over and then you get sued into oblivion and you file for bankruptcy and the thing that was already on the ropes is dead it's so like does it end up just being a thing for like the business taking off because i i guess i think about mark gerhardt the person of like your personal now you're getting into yeah libel right of like what he's going to say what's going on so that that's a different thing of how you're using it inside the game sure sure and that's where we get into a hinky we need an actual legal expert on here how to figure that out uh oh what's the spirit i was what i mentioned yeah oh they they ended their i didn't realize they ended their hitman collab oh yeah and i got out yeah so i'm shocked they're ever in that was such a weird we got to look back at that sometime and be like what happened here yeah because it was immediately weird when they said i want to react to his pub is publishing mind's eye they had a really good snake oil salesman that was so that was like a bizarre everybody got the corporate espionage you know what i mean yeah aaron lime writes in and says there hasn't been something this meta since kojima and ground zeros in the fallout with the former konami ceo remember that i do remember that i do remember that um cartel dell writes in and says have we ever seen anything this uh as meta as this before i mean i guess the kojima thing that we just read about mr hawks writes in and says as someone who platinum minds i and knows how bad it actually is i cannot wait for this dlc it's gonna be bad and i'm so excited this is gonna set things right with who people were talking about you know no mate sky 2.0 cyberpunk 2.0 cyberpunk 2.0 starfield 2.0 mind's eye 2.0 this will be the one that we all come back like hey man this game came a long way uh how's it going i'm cohen writes in and says we need mike and nick to investigate this mind's eye dlc i listen i don't know if nick well i was gonna say i don't know if nick will have the context to like no he has no context i feel like you would appreciate hours yeah that was the whole thing where they played the first two hours on stream but just under two hours enough that they could still refund it on steam i see i see uh this is transitioning back into our reviews conversation uh when it comes to the mario galaxy movie kyle labeuff writes in and says reviews have become too closely tied to the marketing cycle of games and movies this makes it difficult to differentiate between hype and opinion throw clickbait on top and it makes it super messy yeah i don't know i feel like critical reviews if you're doing it right should not be tied to hype whatsoever right they should just be tied to how is this thing what is my critical opinion of this thing right you put it out there but that can't come in with the it didn't live up to expectations it did live sure yeah yeah i guess that makes sense right of like oh i'm super underwhelmed by this thing i assume kyle's leading into though and again i don't mean this nefariously but leaning into embargoes all lifting at the same time pre-orders go a lot you know what i mean or like riding that wave of the the game image the movie image with all the stars and all the things and the five out of fives and ten out of tens i guess here uh aaron lime says nobody's clicking on a review for tentacle tentacle group three or nft clicker seven on steam that's a two out of ten games are more of an investment time than two hours max yeah and yeah that echoes what we say right like i'm not gonna play what was it tentacle group three just so i can give a two out of ten score and be like cool there was five hours of my life that i spent devoted to this thing it's like no i'm gonna play super meat boy 3d and then get really mad about it god you were so mad i've never been oh my god i was so mad you were so mad on that stream here in the other room i don't like being fucked with is the thing yeah yeah well and roger and mike like fucking with me they fuck with people but yeah but also like it really came downhill for you when you were stuck on that first boss for a good 10 minutes at least yeah you know so i would i would say it's like they were just you know icing on the cake oh yeah it was just you know but it was the thing where i told roger before the thing i was like hey are you sure it should be me on the stream because mike has beaten the game i've not beaten the game i think barrett should probably take my spot right because barrett's beaten the game and roger looks at me he says oh but you're a draw you're a draw and again whenever he says something like that when you bring up a good point 100 % of the time that is them trying to distract the way distract from the fact that Mike doesn't want real competition.

44:27Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Just a fair fight is all I ask for. No. It was scary. You kept saying, don't fuck with me. I kept threatening to choke Roger. I feel like ever since we had the HR meeting the physical violence talk is way up. This company has gotten more violent with their threats. Watch that Super Meat Boy race by the way. It was really fun. techie has writes in and says just wanted to shout out my country's soccer team for qualifying for the world cup after a 40-year wait let's go iraq uh we needed this hell yeah that's super cool um i was at a concert last night yeah a rapper named dave he's a british he's like a uk rapper right from london sure i've never seen so many soccer jerseys oh yeah one location i went in i was like damn i if i got the memo i would have wore my chelsea jersey yeah yeah and so shout out soccer uh nightlife 2025 brings one in and says the guardian says super mario brothers galaxy is worse than ai i saw that one making the rounds as well that one is like again i'm i feel like i'm not trying to hate on reviews i'm gonna hate on that review that one is a bit much i wouldn't but i i could see the angle i could see the angle and i would love to read it is like something this hollow was actually spent time on by people whereas ai which is a hollow piece of art is no time and made by robots so we expect that of ai but like this i can see that i can see that and i did read more of the review i didn't just read the headline right i actually went in i read read more of it and like that is the angle that i think they were aiming at which is to say like in a world where ai is doing this like how are we having humans make a thing that feels like it's spitting out yeah it feels soulless so i get that but saying it's worse than ai for me it's just that i've seen the movie and i'm like all right guys ai couldn't even dream to make you know i felt after that embargo for ghostbusters frozen empire what movies you people watch yeah let's hop into story number three stellar blade developer shift up acquires shinji makami's new studio this is sophie mcavoy at games industry.biz south korean developer shift up has acquired unbound a new studio founded by industry veteran shinji makami shift up said the acquisition will strengthen its global pc and console publishing capabilities with unbound's upcoming titles in an announcement video mikami shared that unbound is developing a fairly large game and aims to create a masterpiece quote i've come to see my vision and ideals more clearly and i don't think i've ever been in a situation where as a creator our wavelengths and direction align this closely said mikami quote so for as long as my career continues i'd like to keep working together for the first

47:16Blessing Adeoye Jr.:end quote. As part of the acquisition, ShiftUp will publish Unbound's upcoming titles and support the studio in building its own global service capabilities. Quote, I find it deeply meaningful to join forces with Unbound, which brings together a world-class development team led by Shinji Mikami, said ShiftUp CEO Young Tae Kim. Quote, This acquisition will serve as an opportunity to deliver the best gaming experience to users worldwide and further solidify ShiftUp's global development competitiveness. Mikami added, Quote, I am very pleased to be partnering with Kim and all the employees. I sense strong synergy with Kim, who is also an active creator, and I believe this is an ideal partnership that allows us to focus on creativity.

48:00Blessing Adeoye Jr.:We'll do our best to create fun games so that both companies working as one can meet our fans' expectations. End quote. Reports of Mikami forming a new studio began circulating last month, although Unbound's website had been live for some time. The developer was founded in 2022 and began operations in 2023. mikami also established another studio kamoi in 2024 after leaving tango gameworks in february 2023 really interesting one yeah to sum it up the stellar blade developer has acquired uh shinji mikami's new studio shinji mikami of course formerly of tango gameworks made hi-fi rush but then if you're stretching back right creator resident evil evil within evil within resident evil 4 um there's another major com game dino crisis i think he did as well crisis yeah DMC at all what'd you say did he work on DMC at all oh DMC he's listed as executive producer on Devil May Cry I heard Deep Sea and I was like what's Deep Sea did he work on Echo the Dolphins it's crazy interesting stuff yeah cool I mean the way they're talking about it it sounds like a beneficial thing for both parties and we talk about how hard it is to be a developer and like be an independent developer and do all this stuff yourself right so if you can find another studio that is willing to take on that stuff for you oh yeah it's cool yeah exactly i think that's the biggest takeaway from it you know obviously we'll wait and see how this all plays out obviously acquisitions get a bad rap a lot of times yeah hopefully this is a one that's more uh in line with what they expect out of each other right in terms of what he's looking for as a with a publisher what a publisher is looking for as a creative and that's i think more than anything what's good about this is that so many independent studios come around and then flare out before they ever get to that first game so or you know their big game or whatever so to have unbound be created have it immediately snapped up have this level of talent with it you hope for the best yeah 100 and yeah like i say the hell yeah to it mainly because this isn't like a playstation acquires a new developer or like microsoft or embracer acquires a thing right it's for adopting you into a bigger corporation yeah shift up you know i don't actually don't know the size of shift up but presumably very much smaller than a playstation or like a big corporation this seems like it's a hey i fuck with you y 'all fuck with us like let's do work together and hopefully make something special and i hope fingers crossed that happens because i like stellar blade and shinji mikami yeah legendary developer story number four u.s patent office revokes nintendo's patent on summoning characters to make them battle this is chris scolian at vgc the united states patent and trade office aka the uspto has revoked a patent it granted nintendo last year based on a gameplay mechanic used in other games.

50:41Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Last September, Nintendo was granted a U.S. patent which covered the action of summoning another character and making them battle on the player's behalf. Two months later, USPTO director John A. Squires personally ordered a re-examination of the patent, the first time since 2012 that a USPTO director had personally done so without another company officially getting involved, citing previous patents which might have made it invalid. Now, as reported by Gamesfray, The USPTO has decided to reject all 26 claims made in the patent, meaning it has now been revoked. This is a non-final decision. Nintendo now has two months to respond or longer if it asks for an extension.

51:23Blessing Adeoye Jr.:And there can be an appeal made to the federal circuit if it doesn't agree with the decision. I know oftentimes you do required reading. I'm putting in an optional reading. You don't have to read it, but you can if you're more interested. go to the Video Games Chronicle article because it goes way longer talking about some of the details of the other patents that got in the way of this patent and why was it John A. Squires? Yep. Oh I nailed it. John A. Squires wanted the re-examination of it because it basically conflicted and he's like these two things can't coexist in the way. Got it. So VGC is where you can find more of that.

51:58Blessing Adeoye Jr.:But yeah, hell yeah for patents. Yeah when this one got announced we were all like that's a really dumb patent to give out and it's way too broad and we understand you want to protect pokemon because people like power world keep ripping off pokemon but there's got to be a better way than this again would nintendo wield it like a scalpel or would they wield it like a gigantic you know swinging sword and taking every you can't work it's you can't have one without the other both once you open that door you can't close it and it doesn't even matter what they would do in the short term with it versus the long term with it so yep i thought it sounded like bunk before and i'm glad they're uh re-examining and dialing it back yeah uh greg this revocation that's a word right sure yeah this revocation of this patent that's a big deal it is it's a big word it's a big word for elmo but if i wanted something smaller say the tiniest news i need to know about where would i go you go to our last story the we news channel where we tell you all the tiny news items you need to know about story number five we news is it rat coin yeah like raccoon yeah yeah raccoon oh that's cool yeah raccoon has already sold over a hundred thousand copies you can get lucy james's preview on the kind of funny games cast from monday i have a feeling it's gonna sell a lot more i agree i mean that's gonna be one that like gains ground as it goes yeah that feels like it's going to have that viral like people telling everybody else and by this time in two weeks we're gonna be talking about a million or something yeah i think it'll have like a slower build than bellatro but i think it's gonna have like a similar type of like people getting more and more addicted to it yeah especially i think it was the big man jordan mendler who said once it's on mobile it's it's game over have they announced it for mobile no but it's one of those that like it can we can probably work on mobile pokemon home is getting pokemon legends z a integration april 2nd there you go now you're all set yeah pokemon champions right around the corner start bringing them over give me leaf green though i mean let's get us there uh playstation plus essential games for april have been announced you're getting lores of the fallen tomb raider one through three remastered and sword art online fractured daydream crimson desert has sold over four million copies nice try roger come on can't wait for that pizza uh we have two games that have gone gold Saros and Pragmata.

54:17Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Pragmata. Pragmatic. I'm never going to be used to Pragmata. I was. Stigmata. We said it for so long. We just, you know, in a certain way. Super exciting. I am Jesus Christ, dude. Minos is how I'm going to pronounce this. M-I-N-O-S. Launches April 9th. This is one that I saw this trailer and kind of, I'm kind of excited for this one. Oh, yeah? It's a maze building roguelite where you, the fabled Minotaur, must defend your sanctuary from bloodthirsty adventurers. So here, it looks like you're building a maze and building a bunch of traps to not let adventurers get through the maze. Seems super cool, seems super fun.

54:51Blessing Adeoye Jr.:And it's from Devolver Digital as well. So, you know, they put out me. They got the quality they're looking for out there. Yeah. Minos. Table Flip Simulator launches May 21st for PS5, Xbox, Switch, and PC. And then finally, Pragmata is a Mega Man game. This comes directly from a tweet. if I can open up the website if the website can look quicker actually I got the thing here this comes from at Pragmata game where they tweeted out Pragmata is a Mega Man game April Fools hashtag Pragmata Moonbites part 6 I don't know what that is but they posted a video of the guy from Pragmata in a Mega Man outfit I believe his name is Hugh how long until we're getting that outfit in the game oh so quick yeah you think that's like as that as that at launch is that dlc is that a special unlock just remember i remember playing dead rising right and it was always so fun to go with the mega man stuff and run around to that and clearly if you've gone to the that looks pretty great that looks really great it's got a movable face plate that's a real costume i would assume so how are we getting that in you i'm gonna say it's either we got two options it either has game plus either happens well new game plus is my secret third option either happens within the first week or it happens next April Fool's.

56:06Blessing Adeoye Jr.:They give an update. 2027 April Fool's. And they're like, oh, that last April Fool's joke. That's crazy. I feel like that always happens where like video game companies will do an April Fool's joke, realize that people want the thing. It'll take them a year. I just think it looks too good. Like it looks, that looks like obviously they actually spent time on it. Yeah. Look at the texture there on the like the padding on the front of the helmet. But for sure, we're going to be using that at some point. Also, never stop with the kids drawings. They're so fucking funny every time. I can't wait. I'm fiending for this game a little bit.

56:35Yeah, I'm looking forward to it. We like everything we've played from it. I'm ready to try a deep dive with it. Do you think... Well, that is it for Wii News.

56:42Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Do you think... What do you think your game of April is going to be? Let's say we're doing game of the month. Do you think Soros or Pragmata? Or is there another one that you think is going to be like... Are we allowed to say the Starfield DLC? No. Okay. Soros, then. I think Soros. You think Soros is going to... I think Soros is going to have the... And, you know... Yeah, you haven't played it either. Obviously, Andy and Raj have. I think Soros, from everything they say, you know, of like, it's going to have the juice of Returnal, but then also not be as punishing and also have a better story.

57:11Like, or better, maybe this isn't the right word, but more focus on a story. Like, that sounds like my fucking jam. Like, I'm very excited for Soros because of that. Pragmata, I think, has really great moment-to-moment gameplay. I love the hacking. I want to see how that expands and goes on from there. But am I going to connect with the story of Pragmata? Pragmata. Mata. Mata. Mata. It don't matter. Mata.

57:32Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I'm with you but mainly because Returnal was my game of the year 2021 so Saros is just such an easy slam dunk for me the thing I'll give to Pragmata is that it's still somewhat of an unknown quantity 100 % and like I can be kind of a freak a little bit when it comes to games that just are not something I've experienced before oh yeah for sure Pragmata brings enough fresh shit to the table and if Saros is like oh I played this I can just play Returnal then I can see Pragmata like sneaking through and end up being a game that I fall in love with a little bit more but Saros of course has the juice for me right now um let's hop into some super chats greg super chats we got a birthday tax from the stoner sensei who writes in and says birthday tax yes my birthday is actually april fools my whole existence is a joke smoking a bone while i watch along with with you uh boys for my 35th please keep plowing that chicken into eternity jesus christ happy birthday lot and there was a lot unpacking there but happy birthday um the daniel the daniel the danish and then it cuts off the danish gh writes and says bless are you excited for the new strix haven set also how many commander decks do you do you have and which is your favorite um so i have i have a lot of commander decks mainly like the pre-con ones i never use them though because okay i like making my own commander decks and so i have one uh that is um my girl why can't i think of her name zamone my zamone the black blue one uh that gives counters every single turn that's one of the commander decks that's like my most powerful one i have another one that's a shadow of the hedgehog commander nice that's like my trickster commander deck i love using it um and i'm excited for strict saving although i know very little about it i know news is breaking this morning as far as so some of those details so i'm gonna check those out later mike like music writes in and says cdpr is april fool's joke today is hilarious i missed this one did you see this one there can you see if you can find cd project red's april fools thing and then aaron lime writes in and says bless is pressed about the near joke me too i don't know what the near joke is um but i'm scared i'm scared uh we got another one from lala drona who says would y 'all rather eat a really good sandwich or a really good soup come on be brave give me an answer i'll go you one better it can me the best soup in the world and I'll take the really good sandwich.

59:53I agree. I 100 % agree. Soup sucks, you know what I mean? Yeah. What am I? In Russia? Starving in 1942? I'll do you one better. What am I? Thirsty? Like, fucking food. I want fucking food. I want to eat something. Soup sucks. Yeah. Now, of course, pho's great. Pho's great. Ramen's great. Yeah, I love pho. Sorry, yes, I'm sorry. I'm in the middle of talking about them and things.

1:00:14Blessing Adeoye Jr.:What are my favorite soups? Ramen. You can have a soup that's hearty and and good like a pho. No, I'm good. Yeah, I'm straight. I like pho, but I still like the sandwich more probably. Yeah, give me a sandwich. Give me a chicken. I had this decision yesterday where I was at a... Oh, what's it called? Panera. What up? Panera. No, it was at a ramen spot yesterday really close to the Fox Theater where I saw Dave. And I was looking at the menu and it's a ramen spot, so I'm like, I could order the ramen, but then I saw they had a burger. Yeah. It's like a pork burger. And I was like, give me that burger, bro.

1:00:51Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah, yeah, yeah. I ended up ordering neither, though. I thought about the burger, and then I was like, ah, but they got a same and three-way rice bowl. Oh, okay. I went with that instead. Rice bowls are good, yeah. But I almost went with the burger. Sure, fair enough. Was never going to go with the ramen. No. Yeah. You have to be in a mood. You got to be in a soup mood. I got to be ready to sweat. Yeah, yeah. Let's bring in one from Foxy Steve, who says, just wanted to say that as a partially disabled man, working out can be demotivating, but bless your gym gains encouraged me to continue going.

1:01:18Blessing Adeoye Jr.:thank you so much foxy steve i posted a story up today on the in the in the gym i get very not self-con i'm i'm not great at posting selfies i don't like posting myself sure you know i don't i feel like i'm doing i feel like i'm being corny when i do it or cringe okay fair but i don't think you are i'm trying to like get the confidence go for it thank you i'm gonna do it okay good do it for me every day do it and say this is for greg really confuse your audience and then uh we got one from Corey. You got all these DMs like, your boss can't ask for selfies. I don't know. I didn't read that in the handbook.

1:01:52Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Corey C307 writes in and says, I don't get to watch y 'all live very often due to my work schedule, but I'm off today. So here I am. Love you guys and keep up the great work. We love you. Thanks for hanging out. Thank you so much for hanging out, Corey. I packed a lunch now. I really want a really great sandwich. Or even a mid sandwich. A very good sandwich. What about a really good soup? A bread bowl? Greg? No. You know how like I'm not a fucking 75 year old Tourist at Pier 39 I'm at the Bowden Bread Factory I got a bread bowl, it's clam chowder You know how you order a grilled cheese And it comes with a tomato soup What are you doing with that tomato soup?

1:02:30I pour it on the ground

1:02:33Blessing Adeoye Jr.:What? I'm here for the grilled cheese bro You're not dipping that into the tomato soup? I mean I am What the fuck are you doing with your bite? But I'm not doing it every time I've never been more angry at you. I never asked for this tomato soup, but just came with the thing. Kebabs referring to Mario Galaxy says, sounds like it's the Pokemon ZA of movies. I disagree, but I mean, I guess I can see your take on that. ZA was a great game. Silver J. Hawkins says, the only way I'm watching this Mario movie is unless it's retold somewhat vaguely back to me by Greg. Am I the one who recapped Mario? Oh, yeah.

1:03:13Mario recap. Are you going to be able to recap? No.

1:03:16Blessing Adeoye Jr.:um we are a liminal face it says moving too fast wish they did mario world first i mean we'll talk about it in review because i have thoughts i have some thoughts there and then ah fuck i am talking a lot nash says april fools should be misinformation awareness day i agree with you there it sounds like you're doing the recap that's bad good luck maybe the wikipedia is up yeah i don't like doing that i'll give you my spotty recollection to be fair there's not a lot of details yeah yeah yeah it's gonna be pretty simple uh let's hop into you're wrong where you write in let us know what we got wrong as we got it wrong so you can correct it for those watching later on youtube control f soup and just delete them all because there are no you've never had soup from here this soup's great blah blah blah grezik writes it with a good one minus is how it's pronounced not minos minus i assume because of Minotaur.

1:04:10Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah, that's what I thought too. But Minos.

1:04:16Blessing Adeoye Jr.:But again, language isn't the vocal chords of the beholder. So if we say Minos, Minos, whatever we say is what it is. Back to Pragmata. You know what I mean? Pragmata. We made that. That's how it is now. Tato-Potato. Exactly. You don't like it? You should have had a microphone in front of your face, Grezek, instead of fucking doing real work over there. Jet244 says, not really a you're wrong, which I almost just stopped reading there, but just a friendly gotcha. Greg says he avoids early access games, but skate is an early access game that he puts in his top 10 last year. Yeah. But how many other early access games did I, you know what I mean?

1:04:47It's the no homers club. I can have one. And here's the thing. Skate early access is the closest it's going to get to 1.0. Let's be honest. Skate's never getting out of the crib. All right. EA's already got the pillow on its face right now. Greg, that brings us to the end of this episode. Wow, what an episode. I hope we have a banger games cast after this what is that games cast how to fix Xbox oh that's got to be a banger oh yeah it's gonna be people mad Paris Lily's calling it oh tune in for that right

1:05:15Blessing Adeoye Jr.:after this and all this stuff happening after of course this has been kind of funny games daily if you love what you do remember support us with the kind of funny membership on Patreon or YouTube to get all of our shows ad free and get a daily exclusive show sassy sassy sassy soothsayer says as a soup hater stay strong boys you're on the right side of history hell yeah all these fucking soup people you know what i mean you gotta have a conversation about the soup people just like what do you do for nourishment if you're just drinking water for those kind of people you can't trust in a bathtub because they'll just start drinking it thinking it's soup you know what i mean these psychos these fucking psychos enjoy the games cast next and everything after but until next time game daily

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Critics have harsh words about the Super Mario Galaxy movie, Mindseye’s DLC will reveal how the game was sabotaged, and Stellar Blade’s developer acquires Shinji Mikami's new studio.

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Run of Show -
- Start - Mario Galaxy Review Round Up - New MindsEye Mission Will Reveal 'Evidence' the Game Was 'Sabotaged', Claims CEO - Ad - Long Starmie & SuperChats - Stellar Blade developer Shift Up acquires Shinji Mikami's new studio - US patent office revokes Nintendo’s patent on summoning characters to make them battle - Optional Reading: https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/us-patent-office-revokes-nintendos-patent-on-summoning-characters-to-make-them-battle/ - Wee News! - SuperChats & You‘re Wrong

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