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2:18What's up, everybody? Welcome to Kind of Funny Games Daily for Tuesday, December 9th, 2025. 25. I'm one of your hosts, Greg Miller, alongside Forbes 30 under 30, a.k.a. the second best baby blues in San Francisco, a.k.a. the expectant father. Just a little over a month ago. How's that feeling? Oh, it's a lot. It's a lot, but no, it's good. You know, it's what is the date? What is the expected dating? January 17th. Oh, wow. Wow. Wow. Yeah. So we're, we're really, we're about to be in the like you know for some reasons i thought it was january 20th january 17th it's real that's real real real it's definitely in that like i'm not allowed to leave the the city type thing yeah yeah yeah yeah there is a big fear you're in the drop zone that's what they're calling it yeah there's a real big fear for me that matters more to me and gia than most people on the planet lay it on me we need to be in san francisco when this child is born or else we can't say the child is born and raised and we know some kids that this was a problem they're all like oh we're gonna take a day trip to sonoma oh cool you got a marine kid now you know oh we're about to go whatever i mean it's not just san francisco bullshit current wanted his kid born in oakland more than anything guess what born in fucking san leandro oh embarrassing yeah see that my god see that big deal is it a big deal the g2 the biggest Because it's like one of the things I love about your relationship is how loud and proud you both are to be born and raised San Franciscans.

3:54Like I know how much that means to both of you. But I never thought that you took it that literally. Oh, yeah. I mean, my mom was. My dad was. My brother is. Her sister is. Sure. We've got to keep this going. Sure, sure. I've just never, ever thought about. I've never assigned any importance to where I was born or where Ben was born. Because you weren't born in San Francisco. Of course. Of course. yeah and i mean i lie all the time i guess i want no i don't say i guess you don't see me saying glen ellen born and raised a lot so i get away with you shout out glen ellen though of course i mean i was raised there for sure the mean streets that i'm on a corporate glen ellen no sidewalks what up you know what i mean but technically born in winfield but this has been a big conversation in our household interesting that's very very interesting so like has it been because we went to a birthing class and they they put the fear of god in us they're just like yo Like if there's often not room.

4:41So you're going to have to go somewhere else. Oh, now, luckily, the hospital we're going to, there's a lot of space. I mean, more luckily than anything, you know, Kevin, I do. Kevin can do anything. Kevin can do anything. Kevin will solve this. You roll up to a San Francisco hospital. Like we got no room. My first call would be Kevin. Get the towels. Call some arranger danger. Meet me in the parking lot. Wire cutters. We're going to fucking get this baby out. You know what I mean? It's happening. I appreciate that. Damn. Okay. But other than that, are you excited? Yeah, of course I'm excited. I'm also just terrified.

5:12I'm in a place where right now, real talk, I'm trying to just celebrate my final moments without a child. And I mean that in a positive way. Of course. Right? It's just like I'm going to have an entire life with a kid. I'm looking forward to that more than anything, honestly. I am legitimately so excited. So I don't want my excitement for my time right now. And my excitement is not even it. My just concern of seeing it just lose. seeing the sand fall through the hourglass, right? Like, that's not in opposition to my excitement. It's also just a reality. Of course. Every single moment I have, I'm like, what should I be doing right now?

5:50You know what I've been doing? Just casually, randomly, playing through Metroid Zero Mission. Oh, okay. Enjoy that. That's what I want. It's a me time. You know what I mean? G went to sleep, and I'm like, I'm in such a Metroid mood because of Primes. The last couple nights I've been playing, I'm about to beat it. What a good time. Yeah. Yeah. Some old school Nintendo games. I was like, that's what I need. I love my final hours. Kevin, can you do me a favor? Go to Tim's one. Give Tim the one. And then can you give me a digital zoom to make his face very large on the screen? I know I'm asking you to do things, but I know you can do them.

6:19Okay, great. And then bring it up so we get more of his hair. So I want the audience to take a screenshot. Because everybody always talks about how gray Greg Miller is. And screenshot this, everybody. And then mark the date. And then every December 9th, I want to come back and check in from here on out. Tim, rotate your head. There you go. Perfect. Screenshot that for me, everybody. You can BS it at me. That's a blue sky thing. And I'll save it, and then I will put it in the calendar that December 9th is when you need to check in on it. Yeah, and it's deceiving as well because I put a lot of schlock in my hair, and it definitely hides it.

6:46Andy was shocked when he saw me recently when I got a haircut, and I was all natural. Yeah. Oh, man. I look like you. I know. It's crazy, man. Imagine what I look like with no schlock in my hair. OMGLX says, Tim, out here, golden gatekeeping. That's a good super chat. The golden gatekeeper. that is actually really good I mean it's not a positive connotation you know what we're kind of if you didn't know everybody this oh god I almost knocked over my coffee it's kind of funny games daily each and every weekday we run you through the nerdy video game news you need to know about live on twitch.tv slash kind of funny games youtube.com slash kind of funny games podcast services around the globe if you like that we'd love you to pick up the kind of funny membership of course we're an independent team of 11 folks in a very busy complicated competitive media landscape and we'd love your ten dollars on patreon.com slash kind of funny games youtube.com slash kind of funny games uh you can do patreon.com slash kind of funny that's a better one uh apple or spotify where you get all of our shows ad free that's more than 80 a month you get your daily dose of me greg miller in a series we call greg way and of course you'd get good karma for supporting a small independent business all about live talk shows uh of course today's a big day because every day is a big day here after kind of funny games daily you're gonna to get the games cast where we predict the game awards predictions i can't wait these are my favorite episodes my thing is everybody keeps leaking things that's how it always everybody this is one of the most pre-brief game awards i've ever been on and that's i say stop fucking emailing me stop saying that is the problem is it's like the leaks are one thing but it's the like tomb raider being there i get i get i understand the point of it is getting people to watch the show so i understand but it does make this a little less fun having said that i think it makes it more fun for us because then we need to come up with some bullshit And it's just hopes and dreams.

8:30But then we look like it doesn't happen. No, no, we don't. When somebody says Jordan Peele comes out and it does. Oh, wait. When somebody said Harrison Ford's going to. Oh, wait. What's he going to say today? What's he going to say? This one's a lock. My celebrity guest this time. I can't wait. But what I love about it is like it's either hopes and dreams stuff, which is always just fun to talk about. But also I'm talking about the bullshit of just like adding all the and this and this type. Yeah. You know what I mean? Because if we, so much shit that I guarantee you there's multiple people in this studio right now that are like, oh, fuck.

9:02I had Leon Kennedy and Resident Evil 9 on my list. It's like, all right, cool. You could get more creative with it, though. You know what I mean? What's the length of his beard? Now we know, so we can't use that. But, like, you know what I mean? We've got to add little X factors to the whole thing. I can't wait for this episode. I got some. Always fun. After the game's cast is Elden Ring Night Reign DLC stream, and you'll enjoy that. If you're a kind of funny member, today's Greg weighs 18 minutes of my hopes and dreams for the Pokemon DLC that launches tonight. Thank you to our Patreon producers, Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster, and Delaney the Psalm Twining.

9:32Before we begin, Krabby Patty gets one super chat in and says, What does the Golden Gatekeeper need when he's thirsty? A Bay Bridge.

9:43No. No. I feel like I might be missing the, like, double entendre. Yeah, I would think is if it was a Bay beer, a beer bridge. Yeah, a Bay bridge is over. This is a peek at Andy in the chat. Get out. Crabby Patty, you can try again. We will give you a second. Of course. I do want to say real quick. There's a one chat I just saw that I want to find because it's very funny to me. Ramirez Jam. Bay breeze is a drink, somebody says. Oh. I guess if you're like fucking on a golf course and you're nine. that is some m &m rhyme scheme shit of like trying to make things right i'm like okay that's only you could do that um ramirez our jam says i still remember when greg predicted on beyond that a giant caterpillar would walk across the stage does that ring a bell no of course not but it was in line with you know i were this is this isn't that episode this isn't that episode but like this is how predictions used to be where it would be uh jeremy dunham once asked me on a podcast beyond yeah like episode 13 you know what i mean like i've not even worked there a full year yet predictions for something that was going to happen i was like they're going to introduce a six-star mascot i'm like i don't fucking know how would i know what the fuck's going on that level i don't i don't remember the caterpillar but you know again when you know too much like i know yeah i'll tell you a few of the greg games i know too much yeah i just know too much yeah hey so everybody watch the episode and anything greg doesn't say guaranteed 100 read into it Don't worry about it.

11:12Let's begin this show with what is and forever will be the Roper Report. Time for some news. Seven items on the Roper Report. Oh, Baker's Dozen! Number one, Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced is the name of Ubisoft's long-awaited pirate remake. This is Tom Phillips at IGN. Assassin's Creed Black Flag re-synced is the full name of Ubisoft's Pyricle? Is that a real? Oh, Practical. God damn it. I got so hung up on the pirates. I thought you were thinking of Pyricle. Practical remake that's had more leaks than a sunken ship. There's your pun. The game's new title is now visible on the Peggy European Ratings Board website, which is about as official as it gets.

12:01There's someone on the roof. There better be. Either that or someone. Do we have knowledge of a man on the roof? because I'm definitely here. We never do. Santa here, it's a little early. Something's up there. Maybe it's a bear. Parentheses, the game is rated 18 for violence in bad language. Additionally, there's a mention here that Black Flag Resync will include the ability to make in-game purchases. It is still unknown how Resync will plug into the franchise's existing Animus Hub, which lets you buy optional cosmetic content. Alternatively, this could potentially signify the ability to buy DLC further down the line.

12:33is the game's memorable freedom cry add-on in the line for remake 2 today's development comes just a few weeks after the game's release date was reportedly spilled online during ubisoft's latest financial results the french publisher laid out a slate of upcoming games set to arrive before the end of its current fiscal year on march 31st 2026 the name of one of these games was left as unannounced though a subsequent report by insider gaming stated this was the not so mysterious project was or that was this was the not so mysterious new version of black flag which is scheduled to arrive during the week of march 23rd 2026 yeah very interesting that we're still hearing about this you know where there's smokes i always say i think that this does make a lot of sense specifically because ubisoft didn't have a forward this year right yeah they didn't have a space to talk about the games they had coming obviously ubisoft in a pretty interesting spot the last couple years but we do know about the kind of already announced remakes in the form of splinter cell and prince of persia sands of time and this was the the third one that everyone's kind of like it's going to happen eventually and then it's like okay it does seem like it's actually happening so all of this not surprising me at all there is an additional thing that i've seen chatter about it actually being january instead of march where this thing is ready but there was also conversation about that for Prince of Persia.

13:55I can't imagine they would put both out so soon, but I think there's a high likelihood. If you're Ubisoft, Assassin's Creed, Black Flag, re-synced. Black Flag, an amazing Assassin's Creed game. I adored that one. Adored it. I'm not going to replay this one, probably. There's too many other games to play all the time. I've had my fun with this. I'm not stoked. I honestly feel like This would be, okay, the rumors of it being January. I would try to drop it on the day. I'm sure they're doing physical copies, and I'm sure it is where we get sticky with it all. Yeah. But in the same way we did Elder Scrolls Oblivion remake, bam, and granted that kind of leaked as well.

14:38I think this would be such a fun Game Awards. Here it is, and it's available now. I don't know. I feel like there's still, to the point you're making, I think January is a better spot for it because I think that January is relatively slow. Yesterday we looked at the calendar and it's not like there's major releases coming out. We always talk about January and February. Such a sweet spot of it's Christmas. It's a new year. We said goodbye to all the game of the years. Now we look forward to get something fun. And no better way to look forward than a remake. But I think that February in the last couple of years has really kind of just become like overwrought.

15:14Like you've got to get out of February. There are way too many games coming in February. But January 2026, as of right now, we'll see after the Game Awards. looks a little like there's some space, some room to bring a big guy, like Assassin's Creek can come in and make some motion. Right. And to your point, I do think there's a chance that you, a Greg Miller does play that in a way that you wouldn't play it. Right. Like, I just think timing wise on that. But I do think that the game awards shadow drop type thing, it's like, I still think specifically this year, there is such a drive for people.

15:47I don't know a single person that's in the gaming sphere. that's like i've played every single thing i wanted to this year like there's always like i want to get back to that i want to get back to that and it feels a little bit more real than prior years sure like there's always interesting going back to games but this year it's like and i think especially after the game awards like i think people are gonna like people that are your wine yeah it's gonna be like all right cool there's a lot to do and a lot to play and i also think there's gonna be multiple shadow drops at um but here's so here's my you're not wrong everything you just said makes a lot of sense and maybe i'm just being bullish on a remake that i'm and i guess that's it too right maybe that's part of it too where this is a remake and not a remaster i'm kind of treating this like a remaster i guess yeah my my own argument falls apart there i think because this is going to be a bigger deal than a just a remaster everything looks nice yeah i mean i gotta say it we'll see what roger gets on fantasy critic and if that god damn don't get we started there but i i am a storied person when it comes to not being a fan of getting cute with the remake remaster names you don't call it resync yeah i mean i get it they sink in the game nobody gives a shit like call it something that we're gonna understand but whatever i think the moment we see this game we'll understand what level it and that's and you know honestly even back to your point of like what i you might play the january greg you're right i might i guess if it's if it's a remake i was very hung up on remaster so yeah because that's interesting i okay now i'm i'm doing this uh kobe uh writes in super chat and says will the remake be going uh will the remake going is the remake going i'm gonna add a little bit i'm gonna edit as i go will the remake be more in line with the modern rpg style or will it be more in line with the original that's the thing is like i think that's what i'm interested in seeing is how much of a remake versus remaster is it's where i do think my expectations are it will implement some of the odyssey valhalla stuff and see now again now you are talking my language now again i was everybody kevin give me the one hey everybody it's me greg miller i want to apologize i did i broke the cardinal rule i threw the baby out with the bath water all right remakes not that exciting or a remaster is not that exciting but i can conflate it i conflated in the same way the oblivion thing i was like oh this is fun to tinker with i'm not going to put i guess i put 20 hours in but i'm gonna put you know a million hours in right i'm wrong if this is a fucking remake of black flag and it is everything we loved about black flag and then some of this uh fucking rpg stuff on top of it and yada and like who is on our roof is it santa i'll be all about it thank you very much for yeah and real talk to that point we got to think about the context of ubisoft we've been talking about this a lot where they're not in the best place assassin's creed shadows doing very well outlaws not doing as well as they needed it to those are the two big guns right and now we kind of see a lot of projects being canceled a lot of teams being shuttered just a lot of not great news and not hearing too much from them and i think that when you look at all right well what do they have what are the wells they can go back to to kind of like get back on track and that i do think relies on some kind of remakes reimaginings also sequels we're going to get a new far cry at some points but i also think that even that franchise like they're taking the right amount of time right now because i think if they went any sooner there is a fatigue already right and i think when it comes to assassin's creed black flag is in the perfect spot where it's kind of beloved and it's old but not too old so it's like a it doesn't need a full reimagining it just needs kind of a modern a little some tweaks and modernizations that they're adding from the template and systems they already have yeah applying that to the pirate world apply the viking stuff by the the greek stuff to the pirate world and the biggest thing about that is we're talking about black flag which was a ps4 xbox one launch title debatably the launch title for those consoles right like that was the title that i would say most people played on their brand new next-gen consoles that was two generations ago right like so it has been enough time so i think it's kind of the perfect move to present this not as just a simple remaster but actually as like a hey we're putting our flag down our black flag down on um this being a major title for us that i wouldn't be surprised if we end up getting dlc for see and that's yeah i wouldn't be surprised either when you know going back to the article here from tom where he talks about their being in game purchases and bringing in it's unknown how re-sync will plug into the animus like every assassin's creed before the animus and i think after this animus hub thing right i didn't play a lot of shadows but like when you're on the main menu there's always the whole go buy this costume right there i i'm not as hung up on what could this possibly mean it's going to be fucking boat skins and screen yeah exactly yeah so i'm not too hung up but yeah dlc would be cool all right i'm you know what put me down is tentatively interested tentatively interested everyone put it on the board busy january lot will be happening on the island of smallville and animal crossing all right we will have lots of things to get ready before the 15th and then after the 15th but i will keep my eyes peeled for this as will everyone here at kind of funny game daily number two on the roper report another leak for you leon s kennedy is in resident evil requiem this is a playstation store leak uh we go back to tom phillips at ign.com there it is look is that's him that's him back there uh at long last leon s kennedy has been confirmed to appear in resident evil requiem via a leaked image on the playstation store the reveal of new cover art for the game featuring leon finally puts to bed one of this year's biggest gaming mysteries something developer capcom itself has refused to address just days ahead of requiem's appearance at the game awards presumably we'll see leon officially announced there this morning resident Evil fans began spotting new cover art appearing on the PlayStation 5 in the pre-download screen for owners of the standard non-deluxe version of the game.

21:37IGN has now verified this ourselves and can confirm the image is legitimate. Leon is real. That reads like you're on the battlefield with a microphone. IGN has now verified this ourselves and can confirm the image is legitimate. Leon is real. Leon smashes.

22:02I could not be more thrilled about this. My boy is back. It was almost a foregone conclusion with everything we know about this game. Do you think he's playable? Yeah, definitely. I mean, you know, they've already said there's two playable protagonists. Yeah, yeah. You know, knowing how Resident Evil games work, that it's just everything about this from what we've seen, that seemed incredibly likely. there have been some other leaks slash rumors slash potential fake things going around that have me very interested and some of them concerned a couple days ago uh some images leaked that looked quite convincing um of the second playable character being rose winters who's the daughter of the last of the protagonists the last couple games yeah and that's like uh please don't do this like no well i need to know remember we went to the future and saw her yeah and didn't she get on a bus she didn't remember there was a bus i played that game what uh but i do not want that and like if they're involved i mean i would prefer them not be but like maybe whatever but when there was a brief moment where i'm like fuck is leon not the second character like that was kind of a bummer so now seeing all this look we still don't have things actually confirmed i'm sure in a couple days it's going to be explicitly clear if he's playable or not yeah i hope so at least we're very close to this game by the way right yes uh february 20 yeah i think 27 27 um very close so uh we're about to see everything they want us to see of this game very very soon so i imagine that includes the second playable character and it's my boy leon which is awesome i'm sorry to interrupt diana but a new a woman has shown up i believe it's rose winters she's drank some kind of serum and she's as tall as a building it's a kaiju game that's what i'm pitching you okay okay okay okay you just play as the reporter present evil nine looks exquisite yeah it looks scary as fuck i like that a lot about it i'm excited to see what is up their sleeve yeah i wasn't the biggest fan of the last one but i loved the one before that so like i'm still here yeah here for it i want to try i could not be more here for this it feels like it's it's everything i liked about seven and eight and the originals so it's like combining it if they pull it off based on my preview i'm like they're pulling this off so far and uh i i really think that they are doing something cool i don't know if you saw last week there was a some japanese tv show had footage of resident evil 9 on it and it looked very resident evil 1 like it looked like they're in like a mansion and the old school zombie coming out it was really funny because like the character the the player was really bad and like missed every shot and then the uh i think director of the game came out later was just like hey on japanese tv we can't show headshots the player's not bad oh my god i love really really funny but um every everything i've seen so far it just i'm like yes yes yes so how deep of a dive do you expect the game awards is it just gonna be a trailer showing leon are we gonna get like a gameplay here we go i don't think we need all of that i just yeah just a trailer showing Leon.

25:00That's all we need. They've already sold the game. It looks incredible. What do you think about his new look? This game's cover shows a stubbled and haggard-looking Leon looming over Requiem's other main protagonist, Grace Ashcroft. I would have been surprised if he looked any different, right? Like, what's Leon going to look like in this game? Older with the beard. Still got the jacket, though. Got to have that kind of jacket. Got to have the jacket. There's some other, again, this goes back to the, is it a leak? Is it fake? I don't know. But there's other things circulating today that look real to me and look like him in a different form.

25:28And I'm like, I don't know. Alright, cool. Like, that's Leon. Not mad at it at all. Fair enough. Exactly what I thought. What I want to know is... We should have bet on how long the beard was going to be. I told you. Did you tell me that? I just did. Oh, okay. Well, let's save it for the Gamescast predictions. Yeah, we already saw it. You saw the stubble. It's like mine. How much is going on down here? Maybe he's got one of those like Godfieri Metallica things going on. I really got into Metallica. What I really want to know, though, is story number three. Barrett Courtney's unbeatable review.

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34:26There's also a couple of remixes from a couple of other indie artists, like Lena Raine has a couple of remixes on here. There's a couple of original songs from different artists as well. And a lot of the soundtrack has this kind of garage indie rock sound, particularly from the Japanese music scene that has put out some really good stuff in the last couple of decades, and this game wears that inspiration on its sleeve. Okay. And it really, like, hits those highs of that. How hard is it? It looks hard. Look at this. Yeah, that seems like a difficulty I might not have gotten to yet. I've spent about nearly 20 hours, I would say, in the arcade mode.

35:10I have at least A-ranked every song, and I have S-ranked, I think, around 40 songs on hard difficulty, but there's also Expert, Unbeatable, and then some tracks have a difficulty higher than unbeatable so um i think this experience of unbeatable the arcade game is a nine out of ten like amazing experience uh again the the soundtrack all original uh or mostly original i think it really spoke to me the type of music that i mess with there's one song on here that i think just might be my favorite song of the year there's like a great it's like a six minute song and it has this great vibe it goes into this like from this fun, lighthearted riff into a crazy guitar solo into this beautiful synth keyboard solo.

35:56And whenever I play this track, because I've played it several times, I think to myself, man, everything's going to be okay. And then the song ends and then the horrors come back. And so really, I think this is the most fun I've had with a rhythm game since the peak of the Guitar Hero days. And I highly recommend y 'all checking it out if that kind of tickles something in your brain. unbeatable is also a story focused adventure game where you play as beat a young musician who goes on a crazy adventure with her band in a world where music is illegal and you do crime unbeatable the story focused art uh you know adventure game i think is one that struggles to find a good rhythm for a good chunk of its nine hour runtime um i think the way the game kind of onboards you into the stakes of the world is really awkward and weird um you know we're you know the tagline of the the game right you kind of put together what the you know the rules of the world are but i think the way they introduce you and are purposely vague about some things after a few hours of uh my time with the story mode i was kind of you know i got the stakes of the world but i was struggling to latch on to any like emotional stakes of what our main characters were going through and so you know i for the first few hours i'd only played the story mode and i remember talking to blessing uh we got code over thanksgiving break and i was like man i i don't think this game's hitting for me and i'm really bummed out about that and that was before i got in uh really got into the weeds of the arcade mode um but then eventually and then also kind of in those first hours i think you know you're still doing kind of like rhythm style mini games as you're kind of exploring around like little towns and like the city like uh one of the first things you can do is like help a girl count jump rope but you have to like do it to the rhythm there's a really fun uh batting cages mini game that you do to like a really fun track uh that i think is like really fun and addicting um but like the core gameplay you get from the arcade mode, they don't use too much in the story mode, and they kind of hold that for kind of big set-piece type of story moments, which I think makes those moments feel really high and really cool and really stylish and fun, but I think they wanted to hold off on that stuff, which I think makes a weird pacing for the beginning parts of the game, but eventually, when the game starts to kind of reveal its full hand on what the story is actually about with beat with these other characters what it all means together um and then in turn you know you're getting a kind of better pace of playing the core rhythm gameplay uh in like the later parts of the story this game weirdly got me uh at the end of it where i was really surprised it went into a direction i was not expecting um but i was the last thing I was expecting at the end of this game was to actually like be kind of tearing up a lot and uh I was you know I think it's a messy story mode but it's like weirdly a messy favorite I think like when I was first playing through it I was like maybe this is like a six or something but I think it lands somewhere that like I would personally give it like a seven like a good this is the story yeah this is specifically the story uh part of the game where I think it's it's very messy it's very weird and awkward and the first time that i played it when we got code the game was really buggy they have since done like a big patch where i actually went back and replayed the entire story mode because i think the way they reveal kind of big certain story beats i was kind of interested of like okay i want to go back and see like how this all builds up and like now that i know where it all goes does it feel satisfying and i would say like without the bugs i still think there's like a big awkwardness and like how a lot of things are set up but for me there is a big emotional payoff at the end and I think if you're someone who's ever been really passionate about either making art or just something in your life that you know drives you but you've ever experienced that kind of beat in your life where you feel directionless with this passion or if you're feeling that right now and that in turn causes you to feel directionless in your entire life i think there might be something for you here and i think that there might be an emotional payoff that you get similar to myself um i would say if you're interested in the arcade mode i would still say like and you're not really feeling like uh what the story mode has to offer i would still recommend playing through the story mode um even like maybe with a guide up of just like all right how do i get through this uh the fastest way possible because you do unlock some songs by uh in the arcade mode by playing through the story mode.

40:55And then there's some other like character unlocks that you can use to, uh, for the arcade mode and stuff. And I think some of the best songs you unlock are, are through the story mode. And, uh, like that one I was mentioning earlier, it's like kind of like a song for like a big set piece moment. So, uh, I think as an entire package, what's the overall kind of funny review scale. I think, obviously I think with the, the seven on one side and the nine on the other, I think as an entire package, I think Unbeatable is a great 8 out of 10 video game. I think the lows are low, especially in the story mode.