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Not a Wind and Truth spoiler. We couldn’t very well call ourselves respectable readers if we pulled stunts like that. 😉 This is a side story that takes place near the end of Words of Radiance.

@ k good I can watch it

Thanks John! 😁 Have you been listening to them for a while? What's your favorite album of theirs?

@@SimplyNerdy I have been listening to them for a long time. Train of Thought was the first album I was introduced to. Since then, I have loved listening to them share some of the best rock music ever made by some of the best musicians ever! Systematic Chaos is probably my favorite album. I am also very happy that Mike Portnoy is back. I have been following his work very closely since he left and he did a lot of great stuff with the Winery Dogs and some other individual projects that were some of my favorites.

That's amazing! Yeah, each musician is just mind-blowingly proficient at that they do. I was introduced to Scenes From A Memory back in high school, and have followed them since. Also, I've followed Mike Portnoy for many years as well, including his work with Neal Morse, Transatlantic, etc. You'll have to stay tuned for our upcoming full discography review in the near future!

Wow, thank you! That is very kind of you!!

I think we have a way to show the cards on the channel but if not, we’ll reach out!

Sounds good. Just thought I would offer since I’m sort of local. I’m about 30 minutes from salt lake.

Great question! Our discord members seem to agree that The Thousand Year Door is the safest bet! Have a merry Christmas!

Oooo, that's a good catch! Is there a particular song of Morse's of which the solo reminds you?

how do you manage to get around that?

That is correct! I just kept the audio to prevent copyright issues with the video. -Austin

Unfortunately no…

@@SimplyNerdy That was how we dealt with similar issues when making storm breakers when End Game came out. PLA is just not strong enough on it's own.

@mcichon81 thank you!

I have hyper-focus powers. Especially when I’m excited!! Hahaha! I’m so ready to play!

Literally you picked this up from our house yesterday lol it looks so awesome I'm so excited. I'm nearly done with book two and I'm trying to get book 3 read before dragonsteel wish me luck!

Hahaha! This is probably true! 😂🤣

Yyeess!!!

Haha we’re just giving Aquarius the critical love it deserves! Every album has its highs and lows, and we're here to dive into all of them. No Aquarius slander intended-just sharing our honest take!

I bought all my games digitally so the fact the Switch successor will be backwards compatible, I’m positive I’ll be able to download and play those switch games on the successor.

We completely agree. No Nintendo!

It should be called Super Nintendo Switch.

And I don't know if this counts as a spoiler but it's pretty obvious, the second one it's a sequel

That’s the plan! We are excited to give it a try!

Hahaha! It’s the only word that came to my mind in the moment after freaking out!

I think we’ll be trying the second game too in the future! We had a great time playing this! And yes, it freaked us out too! Hahaha!

It really is a great game! We went in blind and we were pleasantly surprised!

Thank you so much for your kind words and for the sub!

Yasunori Mitsuda, Nobuo Uematsu and Yasunori Nishiki 😁

Some other top favorites of mine who also deserve particular mention, just for the fun of it: Manami Kiyota, Kenji Hiramatsu, ACE, REVO, Grant Kirkhope, David Wise, and Gareth Coker

No Koji Kondo? Great taste with Uematsu and Mitsuda btw, though I'm not familiar with Yasunori Nishiki.

Koji Kondo is deservedly iconic, but I find myself consistently less driven to listen to his music outside the context of the games they play in. There are a few notable exceptions - Super Mario Galaxy being foremost among them - but my experience has generally been this: while his compositions are an indispensable part of the in-game experience, that doesn’t necessarily translate to music I want to listen to just for listening’s sake.

Also, Nishiki was the composer behind Octopath Traveler. That soundtrack positively blew me away and consequently rocketed Nishiki straight to the highest tier of composing excellence in my mind.

Yep.

We’re going to have to agree to disagree on that. 🙂 But I do have one question: have you tried playing on Hero Mode?

@@SimplyNerdy Yes. The fights are a bit better, but it doesnt change a thing when it comes to puzzles or rather the lack of them. Can I ask you a question? Where do you see opportunities that force you to get creative? 95% of the time I use water cubes and flying floor tiles, because climbing and crosding chasms is most of what this game asks you to do. Sure, once in a while there will be a legit puzzle, but it's extremely rare.

This was last year so hopefully we’ll hear something at Dragonsteel this year!

I get your point but real adoration of a piece of art tends to push boundaries instead of stay within them. Not everyone is as big a fan of animation as you are. Restricting the favourable perception of the creation of art to a narrow field is the creative equivalent of a rhetorical question.

@Cringleneck_Macforwardstare brother I'm not a huge fan of animation. Im saying that the tech isn't there, we can't have kaladin flying through the sky or see someone of the Nth heightening in the quality it deserves, in live action. You've gotta remember that these worlds are not earth, they are different from earth in nearly every way, there's so many massive, fantastical and epic things in the cosmere. That means CGI GROUND, CGI SKY, CGI PEOPLE, CGI SPREN, CGI POWERS, CGI EVERYTHING. I say animation is better because it has the most potential to do right by the source material. I get the sense you're either a young person with a thesaurus and an old soul, or you're an older person who thinks animation is for children. There is plenty of high quality art in the form of animation.

@@WholeBitThe I can imagine animation but that doesn't make it beautiful. You're more a "eye of the beholder" person in this argument but I want MORE beauty, something I can't imagine and haven't seen done a dozen times before. DreamWorks Prince of Egypt, Atlantis, the Lion King, Castlevania, I get it.

Of course mario invented platformers and collectables, such a brain moment

@ZeraSoul stop ✋️ just stop ✋️ dude I bet Sony bought a switch and bought every Mario game played thru each one and took their ideas verbatim. This is not it's similar it has not one original idea!

I would argue that this is not a bad thing. In our video, I made the argument that originality is not a prerequisite to excellence. Astro Bot is, by the strictest definition of the word, not in the least bit original. Instead, it built upon an established and proven foundation and - I would argue - IMPROVED on it. This is exactly the kind of game design I want. Don’t get me wrong - I don’t want everything to be a Mario wannabe from now on - but I strongly argue that originality is NOT always a virtue, and imitation is NOT always a vice. So, Astro Bot may very much be Sony’s “Mario”, if you will, right down to the game design elements themselves. But is that really a bad thing? Iteration is the soul of invention. If everyone in history had decided they couldn’t copy the wheel because someone else had already invented it, we’d still be in the stone ages. Building on the excellence of the past is what has given us the accomplishments of the present. With that in mind, I will argue again: Astro Bot is a modern masterpiece.

@@SimplyNerdy Agreed completely there, i kinda hate nintendo fanboys though

I don’t see why that’s necessary. For example, I don’t understand Elden Ring ultra-fans - I much prefer Sekiro myself - but I don’t hate them. Let’s keep our debates and disagreements civil, please, regardless of how strong our opinions might be.