Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Remake Coming January?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.24.25

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2:19Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yo, what's up? Welcome to Kind of Funny Games Daily for Monday, November 24th, 2025. I'm one of your hosts, Blessing, Addy Ollier Jr. Joining me is the Nitro Rifle, Andy Cortez. I don't know if there could have been a hot or cold open than that. Yeah? Like, I mean, these stories seem scintillating. You know what I mean? I mean, listen, JRPG 3.0, I've been asking for it for a very long time. That sounds wild. I don't know what 2.0 is. I mean, I don't know if he knows. We'll get to the story later. I love it. I love it. Because I got so many questions about when 1.0 transitions to 2.0. Right. It reminded me of when people started talking about Web 3.

2:56And I'm like, what the f - He's like, when were we at Web 2?

2:58Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Web 3 means that. Internet 2. Yeah. Yeah. Exciting. Golly. How are you doing this morning, Les? I'm doing good. I'm tired. Yeah? At a late night last night, me and the homies went to get Hot Pot. Oh, okay. It was great. It was at a spot in Oakland called Moo Moo Pot, I believe is what it was called. Fire. Absolutely great. um and then after you eat that you're like i got quite the truck back oh my god dude we got out at like 10 p.m and i left my stuff at their place because we were like oh when we finish hot pot we'll have time to go back and play magic the gathering or whatever and then we get back and i'm like guys i gotta work tomorrow i gotta go i like i don't live here like i gotta go somewhere um and so just got back super late last night didn't wake up early this morning to go to the gym is everything's kind of starting slow for me this morning but i'm getting there how are you doing i see your shirt and uh it says hot boys and all i can think about is how is how we them boys we done boys i saw you tweet that the other day we didn't boys was that last night yeah what happened cowboys are losing 21-0 against the philadelphia eagles couldn't be things couldn't be worse in my life wow close to ending it all wow anyway but we them boys 21-7 happens i'm like oh okay but they're gonna do they're gonna do the dallas cowboys thing 21 14 suddenly i'm like oh shit don't do this don't do it don't get my hopes up 21 21 no shot and they are grasping defeat from the clutches of victory blessing the oh my god the amount of it was just an cowboys win 21 24 wow wow wow come on man dude congratulations and it was like it's a season saver yeah like or else if you lose this you do not make the playoffs wow still a good chance they don't but like really really needed this one and it was oh my god boys we didn't boys congratulations started off the street just play you know put on wizz khalifa we didn't boys and just had a great time that's awesome yeah well you guess what we them gamers let's talk about video games because remember this is kind of funny games daily each and every week they run you through the nerdy news you need to know about live on youtube twitch and on podcast services around the globe if you love what we do support us with the kind of funny membership on 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stream i know i just needed to ask and somebody probably would have hopped off to let me on yeah but i didn't realize it until the very last moment that it was a dnd style thing and i'm pretty sure i played demio in like vr where it's like the that was like the versus mode or whatever i played like the psvr2 like whatever they launched yeah yeah so that was more of like a 1v1 or 2v2 type thing so this is like just straight up campaign and again we were sponsored on frio we're not sponsored to say this anymore but um the uh yeah you so you could still play in vr if you want with a meta quest and like go around the little table and like throw the dice or whatever but it's essentially baby's baldur's gate 3 that's cool where for anybody who has wanted to hop into a situation like that like obviously nowhere near as deep as Baldur's Gate 3 in good ways and in bad ways because I feel like Baldur's Gate 3 can be really intimidating when it comes to inventory management and suddenly you have a shitload of all sorts of stuff you don't know what to do with and the mechanics go insanely deep when it comes to like the battle system like yeah the battle system and what your moves are and what you should upgrade here and it's just like it's a lot more simple and you're just little uh little like toys on a uh you're just a little figurine yeah on a tabletop game or whatever and i've had a blast with it and i want to i want to play more of it because it was really really cool to see the strategies and like hopping in and you know they're flanking us from back here oh my god nick we need you to nix our our little mage halfling or whatever at one point nicks i coming in to save the day and all he did was he accidentally turned himself into a rat and then got lit on fire like it was just like it was a blast a lot of fun a lot of laughs okay good game i'll put that on the list to play with the homies if we ever stream it again let me know because i want to hop on a stream of that that's yeah i really want to do more of it like sometime soon i was hoping to continue the campaign from friday but uh nicks out this week so maybe we have you hop in of course if you're a kind of funny member you can get today's gregway it is 15 minutes covering the new simu liu movie in your dreams and why you gotta watch it thank you to our patreon producers carl jacobs omega buster and delaney the psalm twining for now let's begin with what is and forever will be the roper report it's time for some news we have seven stories today a baker's dozen starting with our number one prince of persia sands of time remake release update this comes from mike straw at insider gaming the prince of persia sands of time remake is coming sooner than some might think as first mentioned on the latest episode of insider gaming weekly a video game podcast insider gaming has learned when the remake of the 2003 action adventure game is set to release insider gaming's tom henderson has regularly reported that ubisoft's plans called for the prince of persia remake to release prior to the assassin's creed black flag remake and as a publish that remains the case according to sources close to the game the prince of persia sands of time remake is scheduled to release in mid-january 2026 in addition to the release plan sources believe it's likely that the next look at the game will come at the game awards on december 11th 2025 that's also where the official date could be revealed okay interesting stuff okay it's not gone forever this wasn't a game doomed for eternity that eventually just never sees a a release you know you're just sitting there like they'll forget about it yeah they don't talk about beyond good evil 2 anymore okay this is fascinating this is good news for all the prince of persia fans out there we'll see you know when we first got that initial this the second tease of like oh hey we're still working on it we reveal yeah like the hey we're not it's not ubisoft oh it was like a very specific ubisoft studio in some country chat remind me where it was but they were working on it i don't know if you remember the timeline of this where they announced it people were like yeah the art style yeah people like this kind of looks like butt and then they're like oh never mind we're delaying it because it was supposed to come out i'm gonna throw out like a 2023 it was 2022 yeah where they're like oh it's coming out in like january yeah and we're like all right cool and then they delayed it forever because they made this shit again from scratch i was gonna say india i think it was ubisoft india blessing let me blow your mind you said 2023 right yeah it was supposed to come out january 2021 no shot no shot wow it had a release date january 21st 2021 what was the 21st look like in 2026 let's see where are you in january 21st 2021 uh at home like all of us yeah i was at home yeah yeah i think i was trying to grow a beard yeah yeah the 21st is a is a wednesday for 2026 so maybe they release at the you know five years later we're finally back same week i think i had just purchased uh we fit adventure ring fit ring fit adventure yeah my bad ring fit event i forgot what it was called still somewhere in the closet over there i'm not sure where it's at do you think do you ever think about how much time has passed since like 2020 yes yeah i just got a notification that i uh hit five years uploading to youtube is this the original game you're showing by the way yeah this is the this is the this is the 2020 this is a 2020 reveal this is the remake you're no shot you're lying you're playing playstation two footage right now discover a classic tale don't fuck with yeah this was the remake yeah people were not happy with the art style people were not stoked about this sort of stylized look at whoa some of these i don't remember it looking this bad yeah i don't remember looking this bad either i i remember getting you know hearing all of the scuttlebutt and hearing all the the anger online about the look of it and thinking all right you guys are relax it wasn't that bad but looking at this there's some shocking shots this looks like early ps3 yeah like this looks like it was announced at the same showcases resistance 2 yeah and it's also one of those things that i charted one i call out uh quite a bit but it feels like it's more and more relevant with how budgets have kind of constrained a lot of development timelines but it looks like a like a ps3 remaster like yeah hey we're bringing this game back but you know at 4k it's running in 4k now and it's still the same video game you remember we're just kind of we didn't even touch the textures yeah we're just maybe uploading but yeah there was some shocking shots in that yeah no that that looks way worse than i remember it looking at the time yeah yeah that was uh yeah pretty bad barry if you can play the latest trailer again because now what are your first of all is this something that you're interested in yeah only from the all right what what's all scuttlebutt about yeah because i i was never a big prince of persia fan i was these weren't games that i was really trying to play back in the day and i know how i know how everybody feels about sands of time and it's one of people's favorites like video games of all time tim always talks about it but we first saw this the first thing i pointed out and a lot of people pointed out was oh realistic look they're not doing this stylized thing anymore they're changing it notice how crisp this trailer looks i know we're just looking at a candle in a pre-rendered fucking animation yeah but like it feels intentional as far as hey let's re-reveal it put 2026 on it and just make a candle look really really good so they know that it's not going to look like the way we showed them last time i i also want to call this out and this is something that needs to get called out because i really really applaud the subtle logo change too often nowadays bless whenever there's a an older logo that's a little too there's too much going on a little too old in its style yeah and then you always see the crazy over correction of we need to make this like just basic bold font like you know like we're gonna modernize the hell out of this but i love how like they still keep the spirit while kind of making the logo look less like a 2005 logo i love that congratulations to you i want to see the old logo again because i look at this and for me it is i like the the font but this is the this is the old prince of persia logo okay you know what that's like the old style they look but i love that they went with a little bit more simple of a look with like keeping the spirit of it you know i was gonna hate on it but you're right like i think they did they did do a good job with thank you so much um my biggest question is if we see this at game awards will gameplay live up to the expectation what do they have to do to make us go oh thank god does it have to look like a modern game they've been working on this for four years i think it it has to look similar to what we've seen them do with um what um barrett what was the recent assassin's creed game shadows that was the one mirage mirage it has to be similar to that in terms of visuals it has to be going for realism still while you know this is just such a weird one because i feel like any other studio at any other point even a studio like ubisoft would have given up on this it's such a a bizarre thing that you spend you know four to five years going shit we got to go back to the drawing board especially for prince of persia which is i know prince of persia like you mentioned saints of time it's popular some people's favorite game right like it's of that level but i feel like the ip name the brand name of prince of persia you're not in modern times you're not stacking it up against like an assassin's creator or whatever but i do think the thing i will applaud is that i think right now ubisoft is in a place where they should be looking at some of those dormant ip and revisiting them to see if they can hit like i think a prince of persia is a worthy enough thing to go all right let's give it a shot to see if people fuck with it and buy it because maybe this is a thing we can make more of i would say the same about splinter cell hey let's make a new splinter cell see if people buy it and like it because if so that creates another lane where it's not just assassin's creed after assassin's creed game and in a similar vein with the splinter cell like they've stuck with that weirdly enough even with all the the troubles that is it supposed to be a remake right of one of the other ones like they've stuck with it and now there's a new director that just came on and like all this stuff like there's been so much behind the scenes drama of that game but they're they're not like all right fuck it like let's throw up our hands which is what you're saying yeah i don't even know that's a remake i think that might be a just a new one a reboot i have no idea what that's supposed to be i don't know roger knows yeah he's not here but in a similar vein though of like it feels very un-ubisoft for them to hold on to both of these projects for as long as they have and and i think we'd be in a different spot right now if or or a different sort of line of thinking if prince of persia lost crown comes out to to massive sales where they go damn we really need to get this one right in order to you know think about how successful that version that game is man if we can pull this one off this would do gangbusters and i it's it's kind of just a weird one for me where i i feel like in any other multiverse ubisoft would have given up on this and just said nope not worth it the juice is not worth the squeeze people don't love this art style either just go forward with it and try to make it as good as possible or it's going to take how long to redo everything for no never mind i'm surprised that part of the conversations from ubisoft for like such a corporate entity wasn't hey we're making a slender cell we're making it cheap like give it to ubisoft india like have them like give them only a certain amount of budget and be like yo get it out the door for the fact that they're like ah shit all right people really want this to look good you don't want prince of persia right that's yeah sorry prince of persia's uh sands of time remake yeah the fact that i would think that you would make that cheap um as ubisoft not as me i'm like make us make an expensive prince of person right people right but the fact that they went back to the drawing board did all that stuff i'm so fascinated by how this thing looks once it's revealed because that's gonna be very telling as far as the lengths they went to like make this thing a worthy i don't even know if triple a is the word but like you know a something that surpasses what we saw originally it's got to look good it's got to to me it has to be similar to the way the larger internet and and industry feels about snake eater remake yeah it has to capture the spirit of what the original is gameplay wise but it has to look really good visually and impressive and go oh shit this is the this is the definitive way to play in 2025 sands of time i no longer have to worry about finding ways to play the old version or whatever now it's now i can see this in glorious 4k and have it up res and all that jazz i want to keep on with the uesoft conversation with story number two Ubisoft hasn't exploded.

19:31Blessing Adeoye Jr.:This is Joshua Wolins at PC Gamer. Last week, Ubisoft delayed its quarterly financial report and called a temporary halt to trading in its stocks. The internet immediately did what it does best, descend into wild and frenzied speculation. To be fair, it did all seem quite portentous. You know that one? Yeah. Portentous? And in a world where Saudi Arabia bought EA and Microsoft bought Activision, the theories that Ubisoft had itself been acquired or undergone some kind of enormous financial calamity didn't feel totally out there. But staying down, folks, Ubisoft's delayed financial report took place earlier today, and it turns out all the hullabaloo was per company big boss Yves Gaumont, for perhaps the most boring reason imaginable.

20:16Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Well, we appointed a new panel of auditors that was approved at the annual general meeting last July. end quote. In essence, Ubi's new numbers guy decided that revenues from one of his partnerships from the fiscal year before this one needed to be recognized in a different way. The long and short of this process is that the new way of recognizing those revenues meant the company suddenly overshot a covenant on how much net debt to core profit it's meant to maintain, and it had to quickly fork over 286 million euros to pay off some outstanding loans and get the ratio back down which is i'm sure you will concur very boring and not at all as apocalyptic as online profits were forecasting last week so if ubisoft hasn't hasn't suddenly become someone else's property or vanished into a financial black hole did anything actually interesting come out of its delayed financial report well we did learn that ub is pretty chuffed with how assassin's creed shadows is gone chuffed is good chuffed is good it sounds bad it's a good word the company's earnings report said that the latest ac plus the rest of the brand's catalog have been overperforming against expectations though it's keeping stum stum stum stum uh is keeping shroom about specific sales numbers stum means it's a british slang term for silent or quiet okay they're keeping quiet and they're also proper chuff there can we talk about the The British.

21:41Blessing Adeoye Jr.:They're proper. Why not just say they're keeping quiet? I mean. What do you mean they're keeping? They're keeping stuff. They're teaching us stuff. Stum. Shuff. Stum. The proper. You're adding R's there. Portentous. Okay, well, that's not a British term. Yeah, what are y 'all doing over there? Fucking eat your beans and bread. And use regular words. Portentous is not a British word. That's like a British slang term. portents just be like it it's showing that something in the future may happen man we're gonna get on the tube and have a conversation about this one the presentation accompanying the report notes ubisoft's lineup of upcoming games you've got dlc for avatar rainbow six mobile the division resurgence resurgence i hear the british goes with these words they're resurging over there freaking uh another mobile thing uh which is the division resurgence and the remake of Prince of Persia, The Sands of Time.

22:35Blessing Adeoye Jr.:But included on that list is a blank box marked unannounced title. That could be anything, but for my money, I'd guess we might soon be laying eyes on the Assassin's Creed 4 Black Flag remake that everyone knows is coming, but Yubi refuses to let anyone speak about. A lot going on at Yubi. Proper chuffed. They're proper chuffed about it. Yeah, I guess this wasn't as interesting as we all thought it'd be. We were, you know, at one point when we were last week when I was hosting and you were in the second chair, you mentioned you brought up the genius idea, which would have been really, really bad in hindsight.

23:08But you brought up we should react to this.

23:10Blessing Adeoye Jr.:We should do a live reaction. Turns out it was at 3 a.m. So it would have been a nobody was going to wake up for that. But like in a different world, this could have gone a different way. I'm still kind of shocked about the overperforming part. Why is that? I guess it doesn't feel like the conversation feels like it moved on but I wonder if that's just a maybe that's how Assassin's Creed always is but maybe because it's usually in the fall we don't feel that as strongly because like we move on from things I think faster in the fall another game comes out Christmas is here it's a new year alright who's talking about Assassin's Creed in January I feel like by that time it's like everything's moved on but because it released in February?

23:48Blessing Adeoye Jr.:March? like the conversation moved on as it usually does but I guess because it's a game that came out this year I feel like it should still be in the conversation I also wonder like what they what they're in especially because what's the term that they're using they're they're being they're being stum about their actual uh numbers like what their expectations were for shadows in particular like the first big ac to come out since Valhalla because Mirage was originally dlc that was gonna that turned into its own game and they didn't really advertise it like as this big entry right uh Valhalla was I think the best selling in game in the series so I wonder why they I don't know like it the way they talk about it sounds like they had uh like lower expectations for shadows rather compared to Valhalla and I wonder why that is is it possibly the same year of Yote like it does that have anything to do with Do you think that execs, something that just popped in my brain is, do you think execs, some execs may be too online with some of the, oh, we hate that a black man is in this video game type of online nonsense?

24:59Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Maybe they saw Star Wars Outlaws, how that did as well. And they're like, oh, man, everything, you know, maybe the type of games we're making right now aren't. Avatar. Did Outlaws not do well? I thought it did. Outlaws? Outlaws did not do great. Yeah, as far as I recall, Outlaws did not do well. not only just from uh i don't know if they ever said that though i don't know if i'm saying this based off of conversations i know it like reviewed like kind of like whatever but i feel like there was more people out there actually playing it though this from the people in the streets that i'd be talking to sometimes i've heard that star wars outlaws said not it did not do well but that was also i mean i'm pretty sure you're not wrong like i'm but i can't remember if they have if they've actually come out and said that yeah it's uh i i you're definitely not wrong about star wars outlaw sales it didn't just underperform critically it also was financially star wars outlaw oh that's it yeah i'm not gonna read the ai one that was that lost sales star wars outlaws has not met sales expectations well this is just a reddit post this is from tweet town.com i know tweet town here we go star wars outlaws missed ubisoft's expectations again despite content update and this was this is back in this february but yeah i guess we'll go we'll run with with the truth that star wars outlaws didn't perform i don't know maybe there's some trending thing there i also just don't know ubisoft as a whole right like i feel like they're in such a weird place as far as their overall output and so even if i guess i look at assassin's creed and even if assassin's creed meets its sales expectation I would be surprised if Ubisoft's overall output overperforms or meets those expectations just based off of them not having that many releases.

26:50Yeah, I'm with you. I think that if we think about Ubisoft struggling, it doesn't necessarily mean that Assassin's Creed Shadows can't still overperform.

27:03Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah. I think when we think about Ubisoft in the past, there's always a lot of different games that they are putting out and they have a larger library to sort of point to and say this is a success that was a win that was a win that one kind of underperformed but that's fine because we've had three other games that have really kind of overperformed and it's just it's a different era for ubisoft now when i don't know what the sales and success numbers have been for rainbow six siege x i don't know if that's something that can maybe kind of bolster up this lineup of games and maybe that's something they can kind of say yeah we can always rely on the consistency there i don't really know what their consistent output can be and i guess maybe we just answered that question for me maybe it is shadows yeah maybe it is ac and i guess again like to barrett's point right if you say hey we're gonna sell five copies you sell eight copies you over perform like it's all based off of what their own projections were um curious to see if prince of persia spends the time overperforms i'm also curious to see like what was the last word we what was the last we heard of hexi remember assassin's creed hexi right the witch one they get the witch trials one right where's that in the lineup when are we seeing that is that 2020 that's got to be next i'm assuming next year well i don't know the way like the black flag rumors have been ramping up it feels like black flag is yeah black flag would be next year yeah because they also like it was four years in between valhalla or five years almost uh in between valhalla and shadows so i i imagine if hexi is their what they see as their next big one i could see it being a couple more years four years between that's crazy dude yeah and then they also canceled the civil war one i need to see i need a this is what we need to do i want to do a heist with you okay okay i want to sneak into the ubisoft offices because i just want to see what what was the proposed time let's talk to the mustache i just want to see whatever calendar they have like hey this was our proposed plan because like i don't understand yeah where black flag hexi the civil war one that they were they were like ah we can't have black people killing nazis the people will freak out like what when was all this gonna happen in regular content updates to all in what was the uh infinite assassin's creed infinity dunder mifflin infinity yeah you want kevin feige to show up on the to show the board and say like here's our release yes yeah release count oh dude that might fix ubisoft ubisoft needs kevin feige to come out on stage and be like here are the next 10 years leading up to assassin's creed infinity war that would go so fucking hard and one of them is like assassin's creed hex he goes but we didn't think that name quite fit yeah and then it's puts his finger up and it changes to like the witch trials witch trials fucking crazy dude oh man man take me back to like peak marvel peak marvel time mcu is maybe the happiest i've ever been in my life i get emotional thinking about it oh leaving infinity war that feeling of like wow they did it oh man we got a lot more to talk about on this episode but before we get there i want to talk to you about patreon.com slash kind of funny and youtube.com slash kind of funny games where you can get the kind of funny membership which allows you to get shows ad free speaking of ads let us tell you about our sponsors the wait is over solo leveling arise overdrive the action rpg based on the popular solo leveling franchise is now available on steam as i previously mentioned I'm a huge solo leveling fan, and this game comes at the perfect time as everyone is patiently waiting for the next season of the anime.

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35:13Blessing Adeoye Jr.:We're back with a surprise. Tim Geddes. He's appeared. I'm here, everybody. Story number three. Tim, I want to talk to you about this game called Wild Blue.

35:21Nick Scarpino:Wild Blue Skies is the name of this game, which is really exciting. It is a Star Fox 64 like, which the world needs way more of. We also just need more Star Fox, period. And if we're going to get more Star Fox, I'd rather it be Star Fox 64, okay? But the thing about Wild Blue Skies is it's by Chuhai Labs. I was trying to figure out, like, when this happened, and I couldn't put my finger on it just from YouTubing. This was one of the games that they announced. In the last year, I want to say, we were watching some showcase, and the trailer came up for this, and it was, like, announcing, like, the people working on it, And it was like a really wacky out there trailer that had less to do with the game and more to do with the people that worked there.

36:03Nick Scarpino:And we all really dug the vibe of it. Do you remember what I'm talking about? It was like low-key. So extra, like so over the top. And then they were talking about, yeah, we're doing this game. Anyways, I got to play it finally. And it is very exciting. We've seen a lot of games try to mimic the Star Fox 64 style, right? And I don't think that any so far have fully achieved it. this one I will say for my I don't know hour or so that I've got to play the game is the closest we've gotten so far in fact I think that in some ways it just is Star Fox 64 the first level of this I am almost shocked is not just a one-to-one recreation of Corneria from Star Fox 64 slightly different looks slightly different sounds but like the beat to beat what happens like every set piece it is all exactly the same and that's a good thing because i think that that's them putting their foot down and being like hey y 'all have just been asking for star fox 64 here it is then the next couple levels i played including this one uh hurricane were different were brand new but still had that kind of vibe of star fox 64 and you might ask andy what is the vibe of star fox 64 what is it that makes that game so special obviously it's your companions it's you and three others ai flying around you, and they're all chattering nonstop, right?

37:23Nick Scarpino:But it's the personality of these different characters. You're this little dog. You got a kangaroo. You just got a bunch of animal friends, and they're all talking to you, and the character archetypes you would expect. One of them is a little fuck-up, and he needs your help all the time. More anthropomorphic animals. We just need them. We just need them. So, yeah, it's kind of what you would expect. But every level ends with the boss fight and the more, like, all-range mode type thing you got going on. it's just star fox 64 and that is the highest compliment i can give because star fox 64 is one of my favorite games of all time um but it looks great i love the cell shade cell shaded art style that it has going it makes the um kind of like hit boxes very clear it makes the tax very clear you know what you're trying to dodge and what you're trying to like go through um it it seems very very very promising i played it on my steam deck and absolutely loved it thought it looked great things i think it sounds great in terms of sound design and all of that i will say and this is such a tim getty's thing the soundtrack is a bit of a letdown to me in terms of quality like if you're gonna take an n64 type game and then make it look this good i think it also needs to sound that good too and i don't think that it does and i think that's a unique thing to starfox because starfox assault was like one of the first games to actually use an orchestra so i already

38:39Blessing Adeoye Jr.:have an understanding of like star fox deserves real shit yeah um but the style and like tone is

38:46Nick Scarpino:so nailed here and the gameplay is perfect i am really really excited for them to keep working on this and put it out i think it's going to this is going to be one of those indie games that i think kind of is a step above like i think that people are going to be talking about this once it comes out because of how much it is nailing the thing it's trying to emulate um and yeah i I always say like when PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale came out, I'm like, you tried to copy Smash Brothers, but you tried too hard to make it different. Just fucking copy Smash Brothers. They're just copying Star Fox 64.

39:16Nick Scarpino:And I think that they know that people from the original Star Fox team are working on this. Who also worked on Mario 64 and 1080 snowboarding. Like, they got the pedigree. And yeah, this is it's really cool. Can we do me a favor? Can you go back to the beginning of this trailer and can we listen to it with audio for a second? I would love to see Hang on, we'll get through this Yeah, this is very Star Fox

39:53I wish the characters were the 3D models Looks like we're not the only ones lost

40:02Nick Scarpino:Alright, you can pause with it, but you get it, right? And then when you get to the boss, the bosses sound exactly like they should. And when you take them down, they're like, you'll never defeat our boss. Like, it's, again, just Star Fox 64 with a different coat of paint. And it's a coat of paint that I'm super intrigued by. So the homie Tom Davis is working on this. So that's how we knew about it. Excited about that. But, yeah, keep your eyes out on Wild Blue Skies.

40:24Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Do they have, like, a release date or anything? I don't think so. It looks like they just renamed it to Wild Blue Skies also. Yeah, because it was just Wild Blue before. And on their Steam page, I'm not saying a release date. Yeah. But you can add it to your wish list.

40:35Nick Scarpino:Wish list this one. I think it's going to be worth it. Oh, yeah. Goodbye. Thank you so much, Tim.

40:40Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Thank you, Tim. If somebody out there were to ever make a kind of funny video game, I feel like that would be the type of game. I would love that. Each of us voice like a character in there. I feel like we could do that. Can I be like a frog or a chameleon? Only if I can be a hedgehog. Okay. Just a blue hedgehog. Just a blue hedgehog. Let's move on to story number four. persona and metaphor re-fantasio creator says he wants to create jrpg 3.0 shit this is george young at games radar speaking at korean gaming conference g star 2025 metaphor re-fantasio and modern persona director katsura hashino says that the jrpg genre is entering its third iteration he calls jrpg 3.0 during a talk uh called when experience becomes memory designing lasting impressions through art and structure with art director shikinori sojima hashino discusses where he sees the future of the jrpg future of the jrpg as a genre during the talk which was reported by for gamer hashino discusses how the genre has evolved through the ages he separates jrpgs into three eras jrpg 1.0 is the style of jrpgs of the past jrpg 2.0 represents games of the present and jrpg 3.0 embodies the jrpg's yet to come i still don't know i need the line when did we start when did we enter 2.0 it's the current it's the current one but like when did the current start yeah currently was it 3d was it like ps3 like what it's just the one that came out right now everything else is one point i gotta know what 2.0 is as translated by games are a plus hoshino says jrpg 1.0 includes the true classics he says the genre split into its second iteration with its current style which feels higher quality due to how much more responsive they are to the player i need kevin feige to show up on so like okay well we'll come back to it because i want to break that down because that might tell us something however the most interesting part of hoshino's speech was his description of the next generation of jrpgs he isn't sure what jrpg 3.0 as he calls it will look like but he hopes his next game will be part of this new iteration on the genre according to the article he believes quote there will be a greater dimension to these games and they'll change the genre structure and presentation at a fundamental level end quote all right a fourth dimension a fourth dimension so he says second iteration current style it feels higher quality due to more being more responsive so like persona is that what we're by responsive though or could it be mario and luigi yeah does mario is that the split was it mario rpg with like the like the real time like yeah i think that was mario and luigi or is it just more like paper mario i think it might have been paper mario you know no it was mario and luigi i don't think paper mario fuck i don't remember chat which mario rpg had like the parries and shit and the jumping i thought it was paper mario i thought they both did all of them had it like the first one you know oh so it was super nintendo i think chad is saying they all did okay so mario rpg i don't think that's what he's saying though do you think well because he's saying like that's when you when the player is feeling more active and more a part of the battle okay let's do this forget what he's saying where would we say jrpg 2.0 started i'll go first Final Fantasy 7 Is that what you're gonna say?

44:13Yeah A third You know All the different dimensions You know You had like Different forms Of the characters Art wise Where it's like Here's a little baby That they look like On the When they're in the overworld Yeah And here's like How they look in battle And here's how they look In like cut scenes Or whatever Maybe he's talking about Production as well

44:34Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah You also had like The limit break system And like I feel like system wise They were doing things In Final Fantasy 7 that are really cool. But like, does any of those systems, which are great systems, and you know, I'm talking about Final Fantasy, I'm talking about Persona, Expedition 33, Mario RPG, whatever. Are any of these things that like fundamentally change what a turn-based RPG is that would turn it into a 2.0? Because I get what you're saying, Andy, of like, yeah, Final Fantasy VII being like a big step up production-wise, but are we talking about presentation value or the fundamentals of what an RPG is, which I personally, there's been a lot of great pushes and innovations.

45:14I don't know where like a clear 2.0, oh, these ones are now like a fundamental, like complete change and evolution of what 1.0 was. See, I think of the impact.