May 17, 2025 • 57 mins
Shangri-La Frontier drops us into a future where traditional video games are considered retro relics, and anything less than cutting-edge VR is dismissed as "crap." Yet it's precisely these supposedly inferior games that have forged Rakuro Hizutome into a formidable player. Known online as Sunraku, he's built his reputation by mastering games others abandon, developing skills and reflexes that give him a unique edge when he finally steps into the god-tier VR world of Shangri-La Frontier.
What makes this series stand out isn't just its premise, but how authentically it captures the essence of gaming culture. The second season brilliantly expands on this foundation, taking us deeper into both the mechanics of the game and the psychology of its players. We witness Sunraku's evolution from a pure solo "class cannon" who eschews armor for attack power to someone who gradually learns the value of teamwork and community. The series doesn't just show gameplay—it explores how gaming relationships blur the line between virtual and real connections, with characters often defaulting to using gamer tags even when meeting face-to-face.
The show excels at depicting the complex relationship between players and developers. When characters discover that a supposedly unbeatable monster had been secretly buffed by developers to extend gameplay, it mirrors real-world gaming controversies about difficulty balancing. Similarly, when players discover unintended mechanics—like using an inventory space as a teleportation tool—we see the eternal dance of players finding creative solutions while developers scramble to maintain game balance. These moments resonate because they reflect genuine gamer experiences, from exploiting glitches to adapting when those exploits get patched.
The animation quality deserves special praise, particularly during combat sequences where strategy and skill combine in fluid, impactful visuals. Whether it's Sunraku's lightning-fast attacks or the awe-inspiring appearance of the Colossi, the animation team delivers consistently impressive results that make each encounter feel unique and consequential.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Shangri-La Frontier.
When was the last time I playeda game that wasn't crap?
This is a world in the nearfuture, where games that use
display screens are classifiedas retro, and anything that
can't keep up with thestate-of-the-art VR technology
is called a crap game.
And you see a large number ofcrap games coming out, and those
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who devote their lives toclearing these games are called
crap game hunters, and rakurohizutome is one of them.
The game he's chosen to tacklenext is shangri-la frontier, a
god tier game that has a totalof 30 million players, online
friends, an expansive world,encounters with rivals these are
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changing rock and roll and allthe other players fates.
The best game adventure tale bythe strongest crap game player
begins now.
Now, first of all, let me justsay I will admit that I slept on
this series during the seasonone premiere when the rest of
the gang was reviewing seasonone, and honestly, there was
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like so many things that had thereview that I just couldn't get
around to it.
It is what it is, but I finallygot around to watching both
seasons of Shangri-La Frontierand I will say that it is pretty
solid, like I want to say atleast a solid eight, maybe bump
it up to a nine because, firstof all, that kick to the face in
episode one, that was all theimpression that I need, that
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this series was going to be kindof funny and the animation is
going to be kind of good, likesee.
First of all, the opening thinggoes hard a funny and realistic
perspective on video games,especially the bad ones, and
everything doesn't always takeplace in shangri-la frontier.
(01:58):
So you can tell that it wasinspired by SAO Sword Art Online
to some extent, and NephilimHollow is a mecha game which is
part of Shangri-La Frontier, butthat was one of the themes that
I wanted for Sword Art Online.
If they had a mecha game, aracing game and a fighting game,
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not like RPG fighting but morelike arcade, one-on-one type
shit with boxing and whatnot,that would have been hype.
That would have been hype, butit didn't get that far, so I
will.
The plot for Single Out Frontierseemed to be centered around
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defeating the unique monsters ina game, and there is an
interesting array of characters.
Uh, I already mentioned rocker.
Oh, he's a tome who's betterknown as sun roku.
He's a major enthusiast forquote-unquote trash games,
because, you know, if it's notvirtual reality, it's crap and
I'm like it's not the opposite,our reality.
(03:06):
I mean we don't have full diveby sao, but uh I don't know
about these virtual realitygames, but it really depends on
the game.
I can understand a horror game,but other than that, I just
don't see the hype around them,which is ironic because VR was
hyped up for many years in media.
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But now that they're around I'mlike I will understand if it
was full dive technology.
But then again, with the waySAO and, dare I say, hat turned
out, sometimes you gotta becareful what we wish for.
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But anyways, with Sunraku, heis an enthusiast for trash games
, to a point where he built up acollection of them and his
performance was affected by hismood.
So in other words, if he's likemad or riled up, then he'll
probably fight harder, or ifhe's like depressed, then he's
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like ah, he's gonna be piss pooror whatnot.
So he's one of those players.
His gaming alias, sunraku, ispartly derived from his real
name, with Sun substituting forHizu, which means sun.
So Sunraku is the type of guythat dismisses the usage of
armor for the best weapons, aclass canon, so to speak.
More so an unorthodox player.
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I'm more of an all-roundermyself, but hey, I respect the
hustle.
There is this one girl, reiSaiga, also known as Saiga Zero
in the game.
She's a classmate of Rock andRoll and has a crush on him, but
too shy to tell him.
But when she finds out that hewas playing Shangri-La Frontier,
she tries to meet up with himso that they can become friends.
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And what not Funny thing aboutSaiga Zero.
Imagine this intimidating Suitof armor looking down on you and
some ruckus like oh, I need tobe careful around this guy, like
he might bite me up like whenhe killed me and then at the
same time, this intimidatinglooking knight character doing
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the whole finger touch shymaiden shit.
And I'm sitting there like bro,I can't take this seriously.
But like in a funny way, likenot to say, like I was trying to
take the whole series seriouslybecause with my first
impression of the first episodeI'm not expecting this to be
like super serious.
(05:40):
But it's like sometimes you'relike good lord arthur pencil gun
uh, it's the screen name fortoa amane, a pk air player,
killer and shangri-la frontier.
Uh, sonaraku first met her inanother game, nebula Hollow,
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where he led a raid on hercastle with the help of Oikatsu
I hope I pronounced thatcorrectly, speaking of which
Oikatsu, real name Keiomi is apro gamer of fighting games and
a long-time friend of Sunrakuand joins Shangri-La Frontier on
Sunraku's recommendation andcreates a female brawler.
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Emu is a vorpal bunny fromRabitza oh, my god, I'm gonna
fucking kill me with these namesLike the rabbit clan, I guess
you could say.
Sonaraku meets her after hisencounter with Lycaon and she
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Allows him exclusive access toRabitusa, rabitusa, rabitusa,
rabitusa I'll go roll with thatand introduces him To the many
important NPCs Found there.
And then here comes the bigsister of Ray, saiga Momo, also
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known as Saiga 100, the leaderof the Schwartzwolf guild.
There's this druid namedAnimala, who leads the guild of
Shangri-La SF2, I guess andobsessed with animals and
obsessed with Emu Biola, who'sthe oldest sister of Emu and the
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blacksmith for the rabbitpeople.
Sessina Amatsuki, also known asSessina of Bygone Days, is a
ghost NPC who only appears in asecret area at night, who has
ties to Weathermon and PencilGun feels a deep connection with
her Weathermon.
The Toon Guard is one of theSeven Colossi and only appears
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during the full moon is theleader of the library guild,
aramis, who's a cat, sith, who'sdeeply in love with Biola Akane
, akaso Akisu excuse me thesecond player to gain access to
Ravisua I don't know what I'msaying and there's other
characters like Seacrew, RustMold and some others.
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For the most part, I just wantto say it's a fairly
entertaining anime, like not awhole lot to say, but it looks
fairly good to me and, with thatbeing said, I'm gonna go ahead
and turn it over to the rest ofthe team because chances are
they probably have way more tosay on it than I do.
So that's my little two cents.
(08:44):
On Shangri-La Frontier, did Isay 8 to a 9?
Yeah, 8 to a 9 out of 10.
Yeah, I'm feeling pretty goodabout that rating.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Hey, what's good everybody.
This is Kokugasu, professorTuck and Mira Jane Rolling in
with Shank the Law Frontier,season 2.
And Season 1 was a trip.
Season 1 was an absolute trip.
Absolutely loved it, thanky'all.
If y'all tuned in for the firstone, then you understand that
we had quite a bit to say intoSeason 1.
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And now we definitely have alot to say for Season 2.
First off, 25 episodes episodeswe is eating.
We is eating for real, becauseI love animated like, just give
us some shows, give us somethingto try to work through.
And there's not a single boringepisode this season either.
Man, season two is an excellentstep up into this series and
I'll be honest with you, I stillhave not had a chance to pick
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up the manga personally, but weabsolutely still love this
series, absolutely love howthings are going.
So, without further ado, we'rerolling into how think, how it
is that we feeling into it.
So first off is a general basis.
Now we're just focusing on justseason two.
How do you guys feel about thatman?
Speaker 4 (10:15):
well for me, um, season one was so great I was
looking so forward to season twothat, um, I started watching it
almost immediately.
You know, I try to watch it, uh, dub, but as the sub was coming
out, I just kept watching thesub and then re-watching it in a
dub.
So, um, it took until today forme to watch the last two
episodes, um, because I was justsaving them, you know, just
saving them for good luck, uh,but everything was dope in it,
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um, the new arena, the monsters,the character development, uh,
all the major battles and thetournament art, uh, which is my
personal favorite, because I'malways about the tournament and
the showmanship of the game,building up on the world, and
it's given us a lot of insight.
I honestly want to.
I know this is becoming, thisis becoming a trend here, but I
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want to say thank you to Talos.
I know we fight, we argue, webicker.
He's my arch nemesis and myrival.
But he was right about anotherthing.
He told me that Sword ArtOnline and Shangri-La Frontier
could be neck and neck and hewould pick Shangri-La Frontier
over Sword Art Online.
(11:19):
Now, I'm not up to there yet,because Sword Art Online is one
of my personal favorites.
But it's up there, I ain'tgonna lie, it's up there.
And the art style, oh my.
The fight scenes, oh, top tier.
It's a god tier anime and it'sa god tier game.
And if they come out with thisgame in real life, oh my.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
I don't think we ready for that.
People be like losing jobs andstuff.
We be like we put too muchdedication for that.
People be like losing jobs andstuff we put too much dedication
into that.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
I'll go work for the company.
I'll go work for the companyimmediately.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
But then you wouldn't be able to play as much.
Who, who wouldn't?
Never mind, I'm the continualproduct tester Vanessa of the
year.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Y'all need somebody to help out?
Yeah, I can help out with that.
No, I ain't got nothing goingon.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Steve can do that for me, see, yeah, whoever, whoever
insert random name that's gonnabe working with me as my.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Oh my god, oh my god so steve's the one that's not
gonna be able to play the game?
Speaker 3 (12:17):
yeah, steve ain't gonna be playing no that's
exactly why we're gonna end upsecond game.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
That's what how do we switch from Shrink or?
Law to some damn hack.
You've all now been trappedinside this game and cannot
leave That'll be cool with me.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
That'll be cool with me All, because Professor Tuck
said Steve couldn't play thegame.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Oh goodness, mary Jane, so far.
How?
How you feeling about thisseason two?
Speaker 3 (12:49):
season two.
I have to agree with ProfessorDuke unfortunately it was a
banger.
The fight scenes are absolutelyamazing.
It definitely expanded upon itsworld and it did a good job of
that, of not losing track of theplot, because sometimes with
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these shows it seems like theylose the main plot.
But this time, nah, we focusedon them seven beats, we focusing
on the lore, we focusing onexactly what's happening, and I
feel like they kind of upped the, the psychology of this one and
like the combat felt morestrategic.
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It didn't feel like people werejust kind of running in.
It's like they had plans thistime around.
I really loved season two.
It definitely made me feel likeI was playing an mmo and I
don't know if anyone has everplayed nine dragons, but nine
dragons was an MMO.
That was like back in oh god.
(13:55):
I don't want to say that, itwas like popular back in like 20
in 2012, because it was ran bya plane and it finally got shut
down.
That's not the point.
The point is it feels just likeI'm playing Nine Dragons and
that is absolutely incredible.
So that's how I feel aboutseason two.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
That's what's up.
That's what's up.
Yeah, absolutely.
I do agree with you on to that.
It does Just like we said forseason one, it does feel like in
watching this it feels likewe're really into it, and I
think it's because of the factthat we are gamers, because of
the fact that we have playedgames, we can relate so easily
into it.
One of the best things I loveabout this, like how you said,
we're kind of we're stillsticking with the lore of the
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seven colossi, but I also lovethe fact that we're actually
able to branch out into otherstuff as well too, because one
of the things about an animelike this and I will say is one
of the things that kind of gotme even with dot hack as well
too is the fact that you focusso much onto this one sole game.
There's nothing else out there.
It's like, oh, this gameovertakes everything else.
There's nothing else out there.
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This is the top tier game.
Nobody's playing anything else.
No other game exists and we geta chance to take a momentary
break, with our main characterbeing able to go ahead.
I want to say son roku that'shis title.
He goes by because it's thesame thing for me like at this
point we just go by the gamertags.
That's pretty much what we dohere.
We don't really use eachother's real names too much like
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that.
We just go straight up by thetag names.
That's just what it is into it,and I love that, even when they
, like, interact with each otheroutside of the game, it's kind
of the same thing.
It's like it's kind of hard tocall you by your real name.
I just called you by your gamertext.
I've known you.
That's just what it is.
That's a fact by me.
I don't know you by no othername.
This is what it's like havingthat work name.
(15:39):
Like you know, you go to work,you have that name.
That's it.
There's, there's nothing else.
It's like oh, who's that?
It says so, who is?
Uh, shannon, who shannon,shannon?
I don't know nobody known byshannon.
They say you talk to shannonall the time.
I'm talking about her name,shannon, what you talking about?
Shea, shea, oh, shay, shay,yeah, I know she gave me shay
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shay hr.
Yeah, they're like.
Why did you say that, shannon?
Don't, nobody call her Shannon,oh God.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
I got a cousin.
She was a fat baby and hername's Fat Baby to this day,
Skinny is I don't know what, butFat Baby.
You're going to stick everytime.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
That's just how it is , man, you've said it for so
long.
It's ingrained.
Trying to call them by what thegovernment name is, it just
feels so unreal.
You're like who, but yeah, andso getting the opportunity being
able to talk to them outside,into other games as well too, I
love that we're exploring that.
It's not just shangri-lafrontier name and anime is
shangri-la frontier, yes, butwe're following the players into
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it.
You know we have mostly we'refollowing son raku, but we're
actually being able to have evenlike a episode where, hey,
let's see what kyle's is doing,you know, let's see what pencil
going is doing, let's see whatis happening in their lives,
type of thing, and we get achance to kind of just let them
see them do other stuff.
We're seeing other games.
You know I love that.
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We had a couple episodes of abreak to be able to see a robot
game, dang.
I really wish Talos could be onhere because, come on, met God
himself.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Yeah, Met.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
So like, aside from the fact that he's definitely
one of the main ones to put usreally heavily to say how much
we would love to show, and alsoconsidering the fact that
there's a whole mech sequenceinto it.
And then, oh, girl Rust, I hadto stop playing S.
Then old girl rust who I hadstopped playing shingle on
frontier because we ain't raninto no robots.
And then soraka was actually Ihave a robot, you what?
Bring us right back into thegame.
That's how I felt as far as Iwas like, yeah, yeah, I've done
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that, I've had a person.
I was like I had to drop theseries, drop stuff like that.
Somebody tell me it does getbetter, you do get what you want
.
At this episode you're like,wait, seriously, so you get up
to the episode.
You're like, yeah, you're right, we did get there and that's
just.
You know it gets better.
Into that.
So I absolutely really loveInto it.
Now I do want to say one thingas well too.
This was going to be to me as acounter for what you had said,
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mira Jane.
We had more strategy in seasonone.
For season two, there was nostrategy.
There, no strategy.
There is not a single scenariothat they were fully prepared to
be in this time, especiallywith fighting like a gone bruh,
they would just wandered in.
The only people who weresupposedly prepared was sf zoo
and they got wiped by like agone, like it was nothing, and
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then getting a chance, like ourmain characters and ray, they
finally jumped in and like, okay, we're not prepared for this
fight.
Everyone.
They finally jump in and like,okay, we're not prepared for
this fight.
Everyone else just shows up andthey're like, honestly, we were
not prepared for this fightwhatsoever, but we're going to
try to pull through the bestthat we can, pulling out all the
stops.
So last minute strategy I coulddefinitely see into this, but
there wasn't a real strategy inthis, so this was a straight up
go with the flow.
We're not prepared to die today.
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We're not prepared to die today.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
We're going to just do this best that we can.
That was the best strategythough.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Yeah, that's all you could do with that kind of
opponent.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
The best offense is a strong defense.
The best strategy is no plan atall.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Exactly.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
Sometimes you got to pop out and show them.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
You know what?
You're not wrong.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
And, as you see, it's a little bit of foreshadowing
as it prepares for the ultimatebattle that Son Raku got to go
through, because that's going tobe epic.
It's going to be like Voldemortversus Dumbledore or Dumbledore
versus literally anybody.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
True, true.
I am kind of curious how thisnext season is going to go
because of how it ends, becausewe was really hoping that, yeah,
it's going to be.
This is a chance.
We're not going to focus onsome rock anymore.
We're going to get a chance fork to get his shine, get his
revenge back and stuff, and youknow, him versus selby and see
how this is going to go.
But then at the last minutethey switch it up that it's
going to be Son Raku versusSelvi and it's like seriously, I
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was like I don't know.
I think that revenge issupposed to be more personal.
It doesn't feel as personalright now because y'all
switching it up.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
I mean, it's what the fans want.
They got the similar play style.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Yeah, true, but considering the fact that they
have a similar playstyle, that'swhat probably make it even
better for K To be able to reignon top, because you know, k
still has a 60%, well, 60-70%Win against Sunroku when it
comes to fighting games.
So it's like you know.
But Sunroku is that jack of alltrades.
Oh, speaking of them cards,though, hitting them tarot cards
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, dude, getting the Joker.
I'll be be honest with you.
I can see how joker works forhim.
I could not be the joker.
I could not do that.
Them drawbacks is entirely toohard.
Double the buffs, defense isgone.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
He still can't equip armor like oh yeah, my boy going
through it.
If he ain't had that speed it'dbe over with.
He would've been big.
That's it.
The opposite of him would be.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Maple.
Probably Maple yeah, fromBofori.
Yeah, having that ultimatedefense, but he has absolutely
no speed whatsoever, hasoverpowered strength attacks.
I mean she put all her defensepoints.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
You know True.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
What did y'all think of the pacing?
How was the pacing compared toseason two versus season one?
Speaker 2 (21:18):
So personally, the first couple episodes felt a
little slow to me at first, butI wasn't mad at it.
The only thing that kind of gotme into when I say into that
slow pacing, is that we got moreexplanation of stuff and then
we finally, once we got intoaction, we was into action.
There was a second moment aboutgoing back to those tarot cards
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.
We only heard of two different,two different of those things
you know.
We heard the world that thatRey has and we heard about the
fool that Sunraku has, but wedon't know nothing about the
other ones.
If we had that pacing like howwe had at the beginning, that
detailed, explained out somestuff, explained what was really
going on, given that lore andstuff, I want to see what those
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other cards are, what are theother possibilities that you can
have what's going on type ofthing into that.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
So that's from me.
I think that's something thatcould be revealed later.
I think, yeah, that is true,cause, like I mean, it also sets
up the possibility for evenstronger villains.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
This is true, okay.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
I mean, I like how they had sent us off with you.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Go ahead.
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
No, you're good.
No, I was just going to say Ilike how they had sent us off on
the three different storylinesthat they could follow.
I'm excited to see what isgoing to be in the beginning of
season three.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
It could be any of those true, true, I mean because
, in fact, first off, son Rakuhas now had two additional
unique scenarios outside ofPencil, gone and Cops.
You know they're going to bemad because he still hasn't told
them.
He said I told them oh, by theway, I did beat Like A Gone wait
what?
But found out it's a ghost.
(23:06):
So we actually did not fightthe real one, that little shadow
.
He said I told him oh, by theway, I did beat like a gun Wait
what?
But found out it's a ghost.
So we actually did not fightthe real one.
That little shadow dog thatkeeps going around is actually
just that, it's just the shadow.
Like seriously.
And now getting this point,like oh yeah, I'm also into
another unique scenario.
I'm fighting one of the otherseven colossi as well.
Now too, like wait what?
I'm fighting one of the otherseven colossi as well.
Now too, like wait what?
Speaker 4 (23:25):
You just jumping answers he gonna get beat up.
I'm talking about knotted up.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Especially because, in fact, one hit kills him.
They're gonna keep doing it.
They're gonna PK you over andover again.
Keep trying Not keep trying.
But for reals though.
He's was like I'm just playingfor have fun and stuff.
Yeah, no, you purposely hitthat.
You was like, should I saysomething?
No, I'm not gonna say nothing.
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And then, ray, good lord thatgirl.
I don't know why it is that shejust still can't straight up
tell him hey, I actually knowyou, just so you know we go to
school together.
I know who you are.
It's just like girl, son ofzero bro.
But the thing about bestanimation right now, straight up
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dude, apocalypse, apocalypse,oh my god, apocalypse.
We finally got a chance andsaid this is the attack that
gave me the title Attack Master,and nobody has been able to
beat it.
And we were sitting herethinking too like, oh dang, we
thought Lycagon survived it.
And it was like what?
(24:40):
Even Apocalypse wasn't enoughto put you down.
And then he finally fades awayand we're like, oh, okay, okay,
you had us there, you had usthere, you had us in the first
half and I'm not going to laughRight.
You sat here and was like, waitthat part.
I was like I was like I don'tpull out all the stops.
(25:03):
You done already pulled outyour robot and used up all his
energy.
It's a very smart move on tothat, so I would give that
strategy into it.
The robot was very confusedinto this aspect.
He's like I could tell.
It was one of those momentsthat Simon was like what was
that delay?
I think delay was supposed tobe like I'm attack wing, like,
literally, the name of the robotis pretty much attack wing,
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it's a phoenix attack wing.
Pretty much attack wing, it's aphoenix attack wing.
So it's like so you don't wantme to attack, you just want me
to fly around and just blow awayclouds.
I was like I don't know how.
I would feel pretty bad aboutthat too.
To be honest, like you know, Ispecialize in slashing up people
and you're telling me I justneed to blow some clouds away.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Really, okay, I guess how strong are the colossi guys
?
Gosh, you was fighting a shadow.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Nobody can defeat a shadow because, in fact they
found out, the shadow is puremana at that, nothing but just
pure magical energy.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
So yeah, they just constantly kept repairing itself
I just wonder how many peoplefelt stupid after they found out
.
Like just the regular players,just like we don't know them,
but they just hear in the rumormill and they like, are you
telling me this all the time?
You know how many times I died?
Speaker 2 (26:18):
that part first off.
No, you can go even furtherinto that.
How rude the dead, that onedead girl is the fact that they
found out it's like.
Oh, the shadow was supposed toalways be beatable and I was
wondering why nobody beat ituntil I looked into the game
logs.
And once I looked into the gamelogs found out someone secretly
buffed it.
Why does he have a secondshadow?
Speaker 3 (26:44):
I ain't gonna lie, she would have got throat punch.
Oh my god.
Oh, never mind.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
It didn't say no, just disrespectful it is because
she's like I want people toenjoy the game a little bit
longer type thing.
You know, we don't want to moveand progress in too fast.
This stuff like no, no, you'repunishing people.
The fact that someone has to goout the way, have all these
glitches, do all this extrastuff in order to beat this
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extremely souped up characterthat you had?
Seriously, no, you're doing toomuch.
That's what the problem withyou're gonna make an unbeatable
character it's not fair.
I would be like listen.
You know how many meals I don'tmiss.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
You know what you owe me.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
You owe me dinner, you owe me breakfast and then,
on top of that, how dare you toextend the fact that, hey, we're
gonna give you this specialinventory.
It's unlimited inventory spaceand it's like, oh sweet.
And then they find out, oh, Icould teleport into the
inventory and teleport back out.
Oh interesting, I'm able to useit to evade attacks.
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And there's like we didn't planfor this, so now we're gonna
have to change up the monstrousai, so we're gonna release a
secret update.
No, no, don't punish me for thefact that I pay attention.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
That's not fair that, that I didn't care that, but
that's that and that's.
I think that's what made iteven feel even more realistic,
because that is exactly whatwould happen in an mmo.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
They find out that everyone is cheating and they
like oh no, it was like gettingmarried in room skate oh yeah
yeah, that was a big cheat intothat one, being able to share
inventory and do all this typeof stuff.
They were like, no, we didn'tthink it was going to be that
serious, but apparently y'allabused it and no, we didn't
abuse it.
(28:33):
You set out the parameters andwe followed it.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
That's not abuse it's not my fault.
I got proposed to within.
I took all that man money afterthe divorce.
That was his fault this is true.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
I wanted to base it off of something Kind of
realistic, and this is how itworks Exactly.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
And I just needed to be rich.
So I mean, what else can I do?
Speaker 2 (29:03):
I learned so much more about you and it scares me.
It's unrealistic.
It's just like I'd like to domore podcasts.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
I'd do with Jameerah Jane.
I'd learn so much more aboutyou, and it scares me, it's
unrealistic, it's just like Iwouldn't do that in real life.
Real life, oh, I was a demon.
I was definitely a demon, demonempress.
Oh, absolutely, oh my God, ohmy god.
And I'm so glad nobody knewthat I was also playing Guild
(29:32):
Wars, because I was also a demon.
I miss those days when Iactually had time and I didn't
have a job.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Oh, my god.
I mean, in fact our charactershere are 19, except for Tomo.
She's the only one that's likeAn actual adult Top model and
stuff Like model.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
One's a pro gamer, One's a model like Bro, I just
Play trash games so good.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
I'm great at stuff.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
It's not even fair.
It's not fair.
I will say I'm great at stuff.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
It's not even fair, it's not fair.
I will say I am happy to get achance.
One of the things they didexplain more the technology
thing of how it is that Sunrockwas as good as he is about the
fact that trash games because heexploits the glitches, and we
thought it was like, oh, he justexploits the glitches and he
just pays attention more.
But then he got a chance toexplain when he finally got that
super developed, uh, vr gamingthing and it was like, oh yeah,
(30:29):
it really tackles on all yoursentences and stuff and really
it pays more attention.
We get a chance to explain thefact that him using these
glitches is the fact that itwould normally overpower his
brain, overpower anotherperson's brain, like when we
deal with the, the met game,nephilim, where he explains the
fact that trying to go so fastand stuff it's it will tackle on
(30:49):
a lot of people's mentality toomuch and they will get a mental
strain.
But for him he's able tomentally handle it because he
just kind of relaxes into it.
More so his body is.
He has literally trained hismind and body to be high
reaction speeds and stuff intothese VR games because he
literally puts himself into it,and so I'm happy they got a
(31:12):
chance to actually explain intothat that it's like oh okay, so
you've mentally fried your brainso much that this is what it is
Explains a lot.
This is probably the only timeyou could probably be like yeah,
video games are bad for yourhealth In this case.
Yeah, it would be.
Yeah, video games are bad foryour health In this case, yeah,
it would be.
Yeah, because understanding itdoes fry their brains.
You made a fact, but can yousurvive that frying though?
Speaker 3 (31:40):
I mean, if you can survive, that means you can
thrive.
So therefore, if they didn'tmake it.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
They just didn't make it.
They need to go and play lessergames true, and that's what a
lot of people do and stuff, ohman, but then loving that
opportunity of like seeing somany other people have such
great gamers as well too, andit's like, oh, we're not
following the best gamer in theworld, type of thing.
And it's like, oh, we're notfollowing the the best gamer in
the world, type of thing.
And it's also understanding, byfar sun roku is not.
(32:10):
Like you know, kautz hasactually proven his himself to
be significantly better than sunroku in a lot of different
things, in a lot of differentregards, because he's that gamer
that pays attention to stuff.
You know, I like to look at thelore, I read the background, I
understand, I look at the upsand downs and things like that.
I kind of do the same thing,like when I play Mario Kart,
like when I go through all thelittle vehicle aspects of the
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Mario Kart and then choosingyour character, even when you're
choosing your me, depending onhow heavy you make your me and
stuff, and if you want to makeyour me more realistic, if you
make them look more adult, likeyou usually add, oh well, adults
have a little bit more weightto them and that's going to drop
the weight of your car.
It's going to make a bigdifference, so that's
automatically going to startchanging up how your your mean
goes into his racing andeverything pay attention to.
(32:54):
You know as far as the driftthat you would have.
So I love, like I do, some ofthe same things.
He's probably the characterthat I most relate to.
Um, it definitely feels likeMira Jane is the absolute pencil
gun of our group, stealingpeople's money and stuff.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
You just willingly admitted this.
That's not right.
I completely agree 1,000%.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
I feel called up.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
But is it wrong?
Speaker 4 (33:32):
Yeah, it's not wrong.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
No, it's not wrong.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
So if I could highlight any character for
Kokugatsu, it would probably befrom Hmm, he would probably be
the villain in glasses.
I think that would be him.
So much strategy, yeah, so muchstrategy.
So much thinking, analyzing andthen all around evil, just to
(33:58):
get the job done, whatever ittakes for us to accomplish the
mission.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
I don't do that.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
You'll push your glasses up and it'll be over.
We're gonna get it.
Wait, I don't do that.
You'll put your glasses up andit'll be over.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Like yeah, we're gonna get it done Wait.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
That actually isn't how to do that.
That actually fits.
I plan out for everyone'sbenefit.
Okay, there may be sacrificesalong the way.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
I'll prove my point.
I guess, you got a plan for thefuture and look, he built the
whole city, made sure everybody,he started the government from
scratch.
Ain't nobody did that sinceAlexander Hamilton oh my god
that would be cool, alexanderHamilton oh, my goodness anyway.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Oh, now, I did want to go to to chance to highlight
as well I love that we got achance to see more of sf zoo and
understanding their thing intoit.
I like that little strategythat they had when it came down
to fighting against lycagon andthey was like, straight up,
they're like, yeah, this is astrategy that we use to even
take down dragons and capturethem and stuff, and I'm like
that's a pretty good strategy.
The only thing they clearlydidn't plan for is the fact that
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the developers was like, oh, hesays we gave him a second
shadow that you just weren'taware of.
Just straight up, bull.
But um, as far as like how theyhad planned out their strategy,
I did like that, um, havingthat moment of understanding.
Okay, we gotta some peoplegonna take the tent.
We're gonna have the tanks takethe hit.
That's your point.
(35:28):
You guys are the high defenders, take the hits.
Once you take the hits, thenwe're gonna go ahead and move
through from there and havingthat whole capture spell.
Um, what was it?
A pot, not a pot.
What was it?
Uh, some in the abyss and likehades of the abyss hadades, yeah
, cuz her.
Her magical attacks were basedoff of Greek mythology and I
(35:49):
like we get his little paint,pay attention to that.
Every unique weapon there arespecial abilities is based off
of, like Greek mythology andstuff from different mythologies
.
Then we wound up seeing Greekmythology and I do like it was
some rock who you pay attentionto, a lot of his abilities and
stuff.
His abilities are really basedoff of Hermes the messenger from
greek mythology as far as hismasterful speed, constant, being
(36:11):
able to bounce around and stuff, and so I love we get a chance
to like see things into that.
You know what you got mestarted because you said it
called me out for being astrategic person, don't you?
Speaker 3 (36:23):
you know, I mean if the shoe fits um.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Son rocco also kind of reminds me of ikers he does
fly too close to the sun halfthe time, doesn't he?
Speaker 3 (36:37):
he does, he does and I was kind of peeping that, more
so during this season, becausehe keeps a lot of things close
to close to the chest, so like Ijust feel like we gonna get to
that point where he's flying soclose to the sun, like are his
wings going to burn.
That's kind of what I kind of,I kind of want to see that that
(36:58):
happened.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
That happened to like a gun.
Earlier he was so confident thathis confidence in trash games
was the fact that like, oh, Ican do this all by myself type
of thing, and he got swept out,literally his feet swept from
under him, completelyannihilated and given a curse
mark specifically that hindershim even further as punishment
(37:19):
for doing so.
So I think that was kind of hisstory starting off is that he
flew too close to the sunbecause every single battle that
he's been in so far he can'thandle it by himself, even this
one where he uh fought againstthe king of the great deep, this
uh two, two elemental giantshark whale is the fact that,
like that one, he still had torely on some help.
He couldn't do it by himselfand he knew he couldn't.
(37:40):
So now he plans better toworking with other people versus
being the trash gamer he is.
He doesn't play with otherpeople, he fights against them.
Every other trash game he'sdone, he's always rocked solo.
This is one that he's finallyagreeing to work with a party,
understanding he has to workwith people and stuff.
He wound up being helped, beingfound a guild and everything
(38:01):
Something he would never dobefore.
Speaker 4 (38:03):
He started off that humbly.
The season three of sword arton mine, because the first two
seasons I'm a solo player.
No, I can't do it.
I'm a solo player like bro.
It takes a village, bro.
You gotta have a team to workwith you.
And the developing charactersare also nice as they help craft
different entities in the storyand we can branch off.
(38:23):
I know we said it before, butbranching off to those different
characters and then developingand building up their own
stories can help develop furtherin the future.
I want to see all thecharacters come together to
fight.
I don't know one of the Colossiin Avengers and Thanos type
deal That'll be dope in thefuture.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
I mean to be honest with you, with one of these
colossi right now that they'refighting against.
It's a good possibility thatthat may wind up happening.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
I definitely think, we definitely won't get it.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
That'd be it, because I don't think he's going to
beat Sittonit.
I really don't think he's goingto beat Sittonit Like at all.
I know we're waiting forAbyssal Time, but I think even
with all this build-up that he'sdoing, he's not going to beat
him.
Sittonit is entirely too huge.
He's a completeunderwater-based fighter, like
that entire thing.
(39:18):
I don't think he's going towork out.
So I'm really curious on howthat's going to be Now.
Now, that sky emperor that'sthe one that really got me
interested because,understanding, as far as we knew
, like gone was the only onethat cursed someone, that gave
him a mark and stuff.
They fought against, um, someof the other, um, some of the
other seven colossi before, andno one has cursed them before
(39:39):
until, all of a sudden, the skyking decided to curse, um, this
this name is kind of long KitanaKaru, I don't know the ninja
girl.
That's all I'm going to have tosay.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
Unfortunately, good job look, the shinobi sounds
good.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
The shinobi, yeah, I want to see them fight too, that
would be crazy.
Speaker 4 (40:05):
I mean we're want to see them fight too.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
That'd be crazy I mean, we're gonna see how this
goes because, like I like herability.
Honestly, it's funny.
She shows up.
First thing she does issubstitutes her juices over and
over again replacement.
It's just then, all of a sudden, they're like oh okay, you keep
doing that, we're good to go.
Actually, I have to haveconsumable items to do that and
(40:27):
I used up all my consumableitems.
They're like what?
Yeah, I can't do it no more.
And it's like why would youTell us this at first?
Speaker 4 (40:36):
so we can properly plan.
Yeah, we done.
Developed this whole schedulearound you.
Now we got to change up.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
Again, but I mean, it happens though those things do
tend to happen, but it's stillsometimes.
Even just those last minutehelps they.
They make a big difference.
Even if you can't keepexploiting them like you want to
, they make a difference.
So just do what you can, ohgosh.
Otherwise, I mean there'smultiple different things into
(41:05):
it.
I do wish we got a chance toexplore deeper into the library
and, honestly, based on howseason one ended, I really
thought that we was going to getdeeper into the library this
season and I was reallysurprised that that didn't
happen.
So I don't know, it's just itfelt like it was setting up to
that.
Was that just me?
Speaker 3 (41:28):
no, I felt, I definitely felt the same way,
because there's so much hiddenstory and it definitely felt
like that's where we're goingand I'm agree with you, that's
kind of where I'm hoping, thatthat's where we go.
We may not.
I'm not reading the main, Idon't know.
I ain't gonna read it either.
(41:48):
I ain't gonna sit up here andtell you that I am I'm not, so
I'm not reading the same.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
I think it's because the anime is so good.
It's one of the ones that youdon't necessarily feel like you
have to type of thing like youcan, like absolutely can.
But because they're doing sowell with anime, I don't feel
like I need to because from myunderstanding, they're doing a
great job, doing a greatadaptation of the anime.
There might be like a couplethings that's left out from the
manga, but nothing that's likeso major that you're just like
(42:18):
oh my god, you really have toread the manga to truly
understand.
They still do a great job inhelping you understand what's
really going on thank you, itit's.
Speaker 3 (42:28):
I don't feel like I'm missing anything.
I'm not looking for moreinformation, I'm not like, okay,
maybe I need to go google thisbecause I know I'm missing
something I legit just warpedinto the story at this point
absolutely, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
I mean we was literally just talking about
both three earlier and I'll behonest, I still haven't watched
season two, both three.
I literally took a pause ofthat to watch this one and I'll
probably talk we'll talk aboutwhen I do that review, but it's
gonna be one of those ones ofevery anime is definitely tuned
to different people and bothfree is just not for me.
(43:04):
I'm not saying it was a bad,it's not a bad anime at all.
It's just one of those onesthat personally, for me, is it's
just it's not one that I canget into.
But it's understandableconsidering the fact that, like
I really like shangri-lafrontier and you can like both.
But it does have anunderstanding that if you truly
love anime like Shangri-LaFrontier that focuses more on
(43:27):
story and action and getting achance to still relate to the
gamers and stuff, both reads alittle different because you
wind up having a character who'snever uh, never played video
games at all and this is hervery first video game and she's
getting these main characteranime experiences that nobody
(43:47):
else would have, type of thingand it's interesting seeing it
from her point of view.
As far as, like, oh, I'm justassuming this is what's supposed
to be happening and notunderstanding.
The developers are like she'sdoing stuff that we did not
expect.
She's breaking the game, and Ilove that.
Sean Rock is pretty much doingthe same essentially as well too
.
I do like also, we understandthat.
(44:08):
I really thought that he brokethe game entirely by being the
only player to be able to gointo the land of the rabbits and
stuff.
So I was like, oh okay, so theland of the rabbits and stuff.
So I was like, oh okay, so hereally broke the game.
This wasn't supposed to besomething that happened.
But then, all of a sudden, nowwe do have the understanding
that the secret to be able toget into the rabbits Additional,
(44:29):
unique storyline and be able tohave access, to be able to
frequent in and out and haveyour own personal rabbit To be
part of your party, is to becursed by one of the seven
colossi.
So I love that you finally gota full confirmation onto that
one.
It was like, oh, we need to doa hundred counters and stuff
into it.
No, you just had to be a goodenough fighter against the seven
(44:52):
colossi that they wanted tomark you by saying next time you
come back, I I'm gonnarecognize that you were a good
fighter and I'm expectinganother good fight out of you,
type of thing yo, thatconfirmation like warped my
brain.
Speaker 3 (45:05):
I was like I knew it, I was.
There's no way that that wasnot included because like that
as a an additional mechanic islike you're not going to find
out anymore about the storylineuntil you get marked.
Speaker 2 (45:24):
That part, and the other thing about it is that you
can only run it solo.
They did confirm into that onetoo Because that's the same
thing that happened with ShinobiIs the fact that she literally
ran into the Sky King by herselfand clearly it had to put up a
decent enough fight that hedecided to mark her.
So it was like, straight upthat point of you have to do
(45:45):
something that you would neverdo, that you're not really
supposed to do in MMO.
Mmo is all about massmultiplayer, joining parties,
joining guilds.
As soon as you start most MMOs,after you make it to a certain
level, it's like you're forcedto join a guild.
You don't really have much of achoice type of thing into that.
Versus Shangri-La Frontier doesnot force you to do that.
You don't have to sign into aguild to be able to continue the
(46:08):
story and things like that.
You can still roll solo and ithas its own perks and rewards
for doing so, and this justhappened to be one of them.
Speaker 3 (46:21):
It's like it recognizes the determination to
be a solo player.
Speaker 2 (46:30):
Very true.
Speaker 3 (46:31):
At times it also does make you realize like, oh snap,
I think I'm going to need somehelp for this, but I don't need
help for this mission.
Like it makes you make yourealize like, oh snap, I think
I'm going to need some help forthis, but I don't need help for
this mission.
Speaker 2 (46:40):
like it makes you make those choices strategically
this is true, and then beingable to think outside the box
the amount of details into itthey're in.
Oh, I'm so sorry.
(47:06):
My audio went out for just asecond embryo embryos y'all
remember that.
Speaker 4 (47:14):
Yo yo, yo yo embryo.
You don't know what I'm talkingabout?
No, it's from all that.
It was um, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, kale used to be a littlebaby inside the little embryo
thing.
Speaker 3 (47:31):
It was a rapping baby oh my god, oh my god, oh my god
a lot of core memory, huh.
Yeah, why did you do that?
Speaker 4 (47:41):
Hey, I mean, there is something that I remember that
I can't for the life of me,nobody else can remember it and
I can't remember what it's from.
I thought it was from acommercial or maybe a movie.
If y'all know, I swearEverybody I ask about it they've
been telling me like no, Idon't know what you're talking
about, it's a little thing.
(48:01):
I remember it's like a little.
I think it was like a littledinosaur or something like that.
It used to say I'm burning hot,I'm steaming hot.
Do y'all remember that?
Speaker 2 (48:12):
Wait, that sounds actually does sound familiar.
Hold on a second.
That sounds Actually does soundfamiliar.
Hold on a second.
Speaker 3 (48:16):
Wait, hold on.
I thought it sounds like Googleit and you hear it now.
It's a dinosaur.
Speaker 4 (48:23):
I think it was like A reptilian Type thing.
It's I'm burning, I'm steaminghot, and I thought it was like
From Power Rangers or something,but I can't recall.
It might have been a commercial.
Speaker 3 (48:36):
I don't think it was a commercial.
No, I think that was a show.
Speaker 4 (48:41):
It might have been.
Speaker 2 (48:44):
Let's see real quick.
I'm burning hot, I'm steaminghot.
I do remember hearing that.
Are you sure it's not from asong?
Speaker 4 (48:54):
I don't believe it's from a song.
It might be a song.
I thought it was a show, acommercial Power Rangers or
something.
Speaker 3 (49:02):
It sounds like something the villain was saying
.
Speaker 4 (49:07):
It was like an evil.
I don't want to know if it wasevil or anti-hero character, but
I remember they said I'mburning hot, I'm steaming hot,
and then like a tag would happen.
Speaker 3 (49:19):
I feel like that was part of it.
Speaker 4 (49:22):
Yeah, I can't remember what it's from, but
nobody remembers it, and it mademe so mad.
I was like am I crazy?
Am I crazy?
I might actually be crazy.
Speaker 2 (49:32):
I mean, we know that part, but you, betty, I mean the
truth, is we all kind that part?
But you betty, I mean the truth, is we all kind of crazy?
But you sitting here makingarguments of stuff that don't
need to be made arguments ofProfessor Tuck, by the way, I
have to no you don't, I have to.
Speaker 4 (49:55):
You know why it gets the people going.
It builds character.
Speaker 2 (50:01):
Alright, you guys.
Let us know how y'all feelabout that.
Do y'all feel that he be doingthe most Cause we do?
It's the showmanship.
Speaker 4 (50:15):
So extra.
I can't wait to go one on oneVersus Talos too.
Speaker 2 (50:20):
And whatever.
Speaker 4 (50:23):
Jax Checkers, tic Tac Toe, it don't matter.
Speaker 2 (50:28):
Technically you go, technically you went against him
as D&D, use your DM, you theplayer, you destroying his story
.
Speaker 4 (50:35):
Nah nah nah.
He destroyed his own story andthen recreates it from the ashes
.
He is a menace.
Speaker 2 (50:48):
Oh gosh Anyway.
Speaker 4 (50:50):
He'll think you're fighting a rainbow, and then
next thing you know, the rainbowthen got dipped into some
Hydrochloric acid and thenturned into like a super rainbow
from hell.
Speaker 2 (51:02):
So, jesus, he has scarred you for life, yes,
Scarred my baby for life, robertoh my God.
Speaker 1 (51:16):
All done.
Speaker 2 (51:18):
Yeah all done, yeah, but for reals though do we have
anything else for Strangler LaFrontier?
Because I mean, in the endthere's just not much to really
want to break down every singleepisode.
I could spend hours detailingevery episode but it wouldn't
really, I don't think it wouldcontribute to as far as our
review.
I mean, like, what littledetails I could put in during
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the the shark guy that duringwhen, um, he was trying to get
the attention of the king of the, the deep sea king winds up
yeah, when he's like swimming inthe air, he wants to do an
exact same pose that piccolodoes in like almost every single
movie when piccolo tries tobecome a distraction, so that
way the main character can buildup their final attack.
(52:00):
He winds up having like theexact same pose and I don't know
that might have been an easteregg or not, but to me it was
pretty recognizable.
I was like hey, um, and then,just like piccolo, he winds up
getting dumped.
The kids are dumped on him tohave to watch and he does a
fantastic job keeping them alivefor everyone to get his stuff
done and then comes in clutch.
At the end I was like, hey,it's the pickle of the story,
(52:23):
that's what's up, which is sadthat we're not going to see you
again.
I really hope that you become acontinuing NPC.
Speaker 4 (52:28):
That stays with the story, but realistically it's
okay there's so many monsters tofight and attack and so many
mysteries to unravel, especiallywith the colossi, and the
overall plot of the game likeit's a lot, true?
They?
can go in any direction theywant to too, and it reminds me
(52:49):
honestly of, like, uh, thecharacters that I said the
characters, the developers ofoverlord, because it was meant
to be a video game, so there'sso much detail inscribed into it
to actually create the gamethat there's so much information
that you could literally talkabout it for years Now.
Speaker 2 (53:08):
I would say one thing as far as into Overlord but
that won't be a little bitdifferent into it, because he
wound up getting trapped in thegame per se and becoming his own
world isn't that world justfully based on his own mindset
now yes and no.
Speaker 4 (53:25):
Yes and no.
It was like the original game,but there's nuances that are new
, that isn't from the originalgame that he has to kind of
figure out, so it seemingly haddeveloped like a mind of its own
.
So yes and no.
So some of the the corecompetencies of the original
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game are still there, so hefinds it easier to navigate and
whatnot.
Speaker 2 (53:50):
But there's still some surprises gotcha, gotcha,
all right, but look at that.
I mean, in fact, obviously welove this anime.
It talks so much.
It gives us really thinkingabout so much stuff.
It's enjoyable.
It's something that makes youthink about different things as
well, to start really trying tofigure stuff out.
I watched it in me, immediatelywanted to go back and play my
(54:12):
game again.
I'm just like yo, all right,what game I'm picking up to play
?
I gotta prove my skills.
I gotta get back into this realquick.
I know I'm a dad, but I gottaget some skills.
I gotta get back into my gameand probably, like for real, I
do.
Speaker 4 (54:22):
I miss it.
Speaker 2 (54:25):
Save you every time well, I'm too broke for that now
because you got to pay monthlysubscriptions for that now I'm
just an old game.
Speaker 4 (54:33):
Now everything was it was games was 30.
You got everything you'resupposed to have with.
The game is updated, justupdate.
Speaker 2 (54:43):
Oh, you're not wrong.
The game of the year editionthis that came out with the
newest updates and new stuff toit.
Yeah, but yeah, I missed it.
Microwave transaction Gosh wedid to ourselves.
We did to ourselves.
We did it to ourselves.
People support I mean when Isay we, maybe not you and me
specifically, but as a gaminggroup as a whole.
(55:04):
We was willing to put out moregame, more money for more
content, to be better than otherpeople, and they took full
advantage of it.
Took full advantage of it.
Speaker 4 (55:13):
Yeah, that's true, and I do like the skins on
Fortnite.
I ain't gonna lie, I got to beall night.
Speaker 2 (55:21):
What I still have not played that one.
Hey, considering the fact, I'mactually curious.
You know one of the new gamesalso that we're going to see in
season three.
It's pretty much going to belike a Call of Duty
Fortnite-esque not Overwatch I'mnot even going to say that game
(55:42):
because unfortunately overwatchhas really become dead with
marvel rivals lately.
Um, but I am excited to see howthis is going to incorporate
these new um because it's thefirst time that we're seeing a
first-person shooter.
We did get a tease of it, likeduring a moment when they uh
were first talking about the ggc, the, about the game
competition.
There was little video segmentsthat they would showcase next
to the building on the screensof the building, and one of
those video segments showed afirst-person shooter going
(56:03):
through, blasting enemies andstuff.
So we actually did get a littlesnippet of what this animation
team could do with afirst-person shooter video game.
So I am pretty excited becauseeven just those little snippet
videos that we saw, it actuallylooked really good to me.
So I mean that honestly, thisanimation team is absolutely
doing fantastic with this series.
(56:24):
Please don't stop.
Keep, keep it coming, keepcoming.
Just the same.
I love how this has been.
Love how the story isprogressing.
I love this world building.
I love that we're getting achance to see other games in
anime format.
I absolutely appreciate it.
It is fantastic and so much, so, very enjoyable, so very much
enjoyable.
But otherwise I think it'spretty much about time to close
(56:46):
this out.
Unless anyone else has anythingelse, they want to go ahead and
say no, I'm good, I'm about totake a nap.
Mary Jane, you got anything elseyou wanted to add onto the
series real quick no, I don'treally have nothing else to add
(57:14):
okay.
Well, until next time, you guysstay nerdy, stay fresh.
We'll be able to go ahead andkeep you guys up to date on so
many things that we do check usout, not just on our podcast,
and thank y'all so much forlistening, but we do have some
great things coming right nowstill working on to a youtube
series.
We're becoming more present ontiktok, since that band keeps
getting pushed back.
They're not gonna get rid of tof TikTok.
(57:35):
So we're becoming more presenton TikTok.
We're still working on ourYouTube series.
We have a lot of differentprojects coming out.
So definitely check us out and,of course, check out our
website.
We have a lot of differentshops, a lot of different 3D
stuff.
So until next time, stay nerdy,guys.
Tatiazzo.
Speaker 4 (57:52):
Let's zone out.
Shangri-La Frontier.
When was the last time I playeda game that wasn't crap?
This is a world in the nearfuture, where games that use
display screens are classifiedas retro, and anything that
can't keep up with thestate-of-the-art VR technology
is called a crap game.
And you see a large number ofcrap games coming out, and those
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who devote their lives toclearing these games are called
crap game hunters, and rakurohizutome is one of them.
The game he's chosen to tacklenext is shangri-la frontier, a
god tier game that has a totalof 30 million players, online
friends, an expansive world,encounters with rivals these are
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changing rock and roll and allthe other players fates.
The best game adventure tale bythe strongest crap game player
begins now.
Now, first of all, let me justsay I will admit that I slept on
this series during the seasonone premiere when the rest of
the gang was reviewing seasonone, and honestly, there was
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like so many things that had thereview that I just couldn't get
around to it.
It is what it is, but I finallygot around to watching both
seasons of Shangri-La Frontierand I will say that it is pretty
solid, like I want to say atleast a solid eight, maybe bump
it up to a nine because, firstof all, that kick to the face in
episode one, that was all theimpression that I need, that
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this series was going to be kindof funny and the animation is
going to be kind of good, likesee.
First of all, the opening thinggoes hard a funny and realistic
perspective on video games,especially the bad ones, and
everything doesn't always takeplace in shangri-la frontier.
(01:58):
So you can tell that it wasinspired by SAO Sword Art Online
to some extent, and NephilimHollow is a mecha game which is
part of Shangri-La Frontier, butthat was one of the themes that
I wanted for Sword Art Online.
If they had a mecha game, aracing game and a fighting game,
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not like RPG fighting but morelike arcade, one-on-one type
shit with boxing and whatnot,that would have been hype.
That would have been hype, butit didn't get that far, so I
will.
The plot for Single Out Frontierseemed to be centered around
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defeating the unique monsters ina game, and there is an
interesting array of characters.
Uh, I already mentioned rocker.
Oh, he's a tome who's betterknown as sun roku.
He's a major enthusiast forquote-unquote trash games,
because, you know, if it's notvirtual reality, it's crap and
I'm like it's not the opposite,our reality.
(03:06):
I mean we don't have full diveby sao, but uh I don't know
about these virtual realitygames, but it really depends on
the game.
I can understand a horror game,but other than that, I just
don't see the hype around them,which is ironic because VR was
hyped up for many years in media.
(03:28):
But now that they're around I'mlike I will understand if it
was full dive technology.
But then again, with the waySAO and, dare I say, hat turned
out, sometimes you gotta becareful what we wish for.
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But anyways, with Sunraku, heis an enthusiast for trash games
, to a point where he built up acollection of them and his
performance was affected by hismood.
So in other words, if he's likemad or riled up, then he'll
probably fight harder, or ifhe's like depressed, then he's
(04:11):
like ah, he's gonna be piss pooror whatnot.
So he's one of those players.
His gaming alias, sunraku, ispartly derived from his real
name, with Sun substituting forHizu, which means sun.
So Sunraku is the type of guythat dismisses the usage of
armor for the best weapons, aclass canon, so to speak.
More so an unorthodox player.
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I'm more of an all-roundermyself, but hey, I respect the
hustle.
There is this one girl, reiSaiga, also known as Saiga Zero
in the game.
She's a classmate of Rock andRoll and has a crush on him, but
too shy to tell him.
But when she finds out that hewas playing Shangri-La Frontier,
she tries to meet up with himso that they can become friends.
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And what not Funny thing aboutSaiga Zero.
Imagine this intimidating Suitof armor looking down on you and
some ruckus like oh, I need tobe careful around this guy, like
he might bite me up like whenhe killed me and then at the
same time, this intimidatinglooking knight character doing
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the whole finger touch shymaiden shit.
And I'm sitting there like bro,I can't take this seriously.
But like in a funny way, likenot to say, like I was trying to
take the whole series seriouslybecause with my first
impression of the first episodeI'm not expecting this to be
like super serious.
(05:40):
But it's like sometimes you'relike good lord arthur pencil gun
uh, it's the screen name fortoa amane, a pk air player,
killer and shangri-la frontier.
Uh, sonaraku first met her inanother game, nebula Hollow,
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where he led a raid on hercastle with the help of Oikatsu
I hope I pronounced thatcorrectly, speaking of which
Oikatsu, real name Keiomi is apro gamer of fighting games and
a long-time friend of Sunrakuand joins Shangri-La Frontier on
Sunraku's recommendation andcreates a female brawler.
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Emu is a vorpal bunny fromRabitza oh, my god, I'm gonna
fucking kill me with these namesLike the rabbit clan, I guess
you could say.
Sonaraku meets her after hisencounter with Lycaon and she
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Allows him exclusive access toRabitusa, rabitusa, rabitusa,
rabitusa I'll go roll with thatand introduces him To the many
important NPCs Found there.
And then here comes the bigsister of Ray, saiga Momo, also
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known as Saiga 100, the leaderof the Schwartzwolf guild.
There's this druid namedAnimala, who leads the guild of
Shangri-La SF2, I guess andobsessed with animals and
obsessed with Emu Biola, who'sthe oldest sister of Emu and the
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blacksmith for the rabbitpeople.
Sessina Amatsuki, also known asSessina of Bygone Days, is a
ghost NPC who only appears in asecret area at night, who has
ties to Weathermon and PencilGun feels a deep connection with
her Weathermon.
The Toon Guard is one of theSeven Colossi and only appears
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during the full moon is theleader of the library guild,
aramis, who's a cat, sith, who'sdeeply in love with Biola Akane
, akaso Akisu excuse me thesecond player to gain access to
Ravisua I don't know what I'msaying and there's other
characters like Seacrew, RustMold and some others.
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For the most part, I just wantto say it's a fairly
entertaining anime, like not awhole lot to say, but it looks
fairly good to me and, with thatbeing said, I'm gonna go ahead
and turn it over to the rest ofthe team because chances are
they probably have way more tosay on it than I do.
So that's my little two cents.
(08:44):
On Shangri-La Frontier, did Isay 8 to a 9?
Yeah, 8 to a 9 out of 10.
Yeah, I'm feeling pretty goodabout that rating.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Hey, what's good everybody.
This is Kokugasu, professorTuck and Mira Jane Rolling in
with Shank the Law Frontier,season 2.
And Season 1 was a trip.
Season 1 was an absolute trip.
Absolutely loved it, thanky'all.
If y'all tuned in for the firstone, then you understand that
we had quite a bit to say intoSeason 1.
(09:24):
And now we definitely have alot to say for Season 2.
First off, 25 episodes episodeswe is eating.
We is eating for real, becauseI love animated like, just give
us some shows, give us somethingto try to work through.
And there's not a single boringepisode this season either.
Man, season two is an excellentstep up into this series and
I'll be honest with you, I stillhave not had a chance to pick
(09:44):
up the manga personally, but weabsolutely still love this
series, absolutely love howthings are going.
So, without further ado, we'rerolling into how think, how it
is that we feeling into it.
So first off is a general basis.
Now we're just focusing on justseason two.
How do you guys feel about thatman?
Speaker 4 (10:15):
well for me, um, season one was so great I was
looking so forward to season twothat, um, I started watching it
almost immediately.
You know, I try to watch it, uh, dub, but as the sub was coming
out, I just kept watching thesub and then re-watching it in a
dub.
So, um, it took until today forme to watch the last two
episodes, um, because I was justsaving them, you know, just
saving them for good luck, uh,but everything was dope in it,
(10:35):
um, the new arena, the monsters,the character development, uh,
all the major battles and thetournament art, uh, which is my
personal favorite, because I'malways about the tournament and
the showmanship of the game,building up on the world, and
it's given us a lot of insight.
I honestly want to.
I know this is becoming, thisis becoming a trend here, but I
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want to say thank you to Talos.
I know we fight, we argue, webicker.
He's my arch nemesis and myrival.
But he was right about anotherthing.
He told me that Sword ArtOnline and Shangri-La Frontier
could be neck and neck and hewould pick Shangri-La Frontier
over Sword Art Online.
(11:19):
Now, I'm not up to there yet,because Sword Art Online is one
of my personal favorites.
But it's up there, I ain'tgonna lie, it's up there.
And the art style, oh my.
The fight scenes, oh, top tier.
It's a god tier anime and it'sa god tier game.
And if they come out with thisgame in real life, oh my.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
I don't think we ready for that.
People be like losing jobs andstuff.
We be like we put too muchdedication for that.
People be like losing jobs andstuff we put too much dedication
into that.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
I'll go work for the company.
I'll go work for the companyimmediately.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
But then you wouldn't be able to play as much.
Who, who wouldn't?
Never mind, I'm the continualproduct tester Vanessa of the
year.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Y'all need somebody to help out?
Yeah, I can help out with that.
No, I ain't got nothing goingon.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Steve can do that for me, see, yeah, whoever, whoever
insert random name that's gonnabe working with me as my.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Oh my god, oh my god so steve's the one that's not
gonna be able to play the game?
Speaker 3 (12:17):
yeah, steve ain't gonna be playing no that's
exactly why we're gonna end upsecond game.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
That's what how do we switch from Shrink or?
Law to some damn hack.
You've all now been trappedinside this game and cannot
leave That'll be cool with me.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
That'll be cool with me All, because Professor Tuck
said Steve couldn't play thegame.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Oh goodness, mary Jane, so far.
How?
How you feeling about thisseason two?
Speaker 3 (12:49):
season two.
I have to agree with ProfessorDuke unfortunately it was a
banger.
The fight scenes are absolutelyamazing.
It definitely expanded upon itsworld and it did a good job of
that, of not losing track of theplot, because sometimes with
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these shows it seems like theylose the main plot.
But this time, nah, we focusedon them seven beats, we focusing
on the lore, we focusing onexactly what's happening, and I
feel like they kind of upped the, the psychology of this one and
like the combat felt morestrategic.
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It didn't feel like people werejust kind of running in.
It's like they had plans thistime around.
I really loved season two.
It definitely made me feel likeI was playing an mmo and I
don't know if anyone has everplayed nine dragons, but nine
dragons was an MMO.
That was like back in oh god.
(13:55):
I don't want to say that, itwas like popular back in like 20
in 2012, because it was ran bya plane and it finally got shut
down.
That's not the point.
The point is it feels just likeI'm playing Nine Dragons and
that is absolutely incredible.
So that's how I feel aboutseason two.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
That's what's up.
That's what's up.
Yeah, absolutely.
I do agree with you on to that.
It does Just like we said forseason one, it does feel like in
watching this it feels likewe're really into it, and I
think it's because of the factthat we are gamers, because of
the fact that we have playedgames, we can relate so easily
into it.
One of the best things I loveabout this, like how you said,
we're kind of we're stillsticking with the lore of the
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seven colossi, but I also lovethe fact that we're actually
able to branch out into otherstuff as well too, because one
of the things about an animelike this and I will say is one
of the things that kind of gotme even with dot hack as well
too is the fact that you focusso much onto this one sole game.
There's nothing else out there.
It's like, oh, this gameovertakes everything else.
There's nothing else out there.
(14:58):
This is the top tier game.
Nobody's playing anything else.
No other game exists and we geta chance to take a momentary
break, with our main characterbeing able to go ahead.
I want to say son roku that'shis title.
He goes by because it's thesame thing for me like at this
point we just go by the gamertags.
That's pretty much what we dohere.
We don't really use eachother's real names too much like
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that.
We just go straight up by thetag names.
That's just what it is into it,and I love that, even when they
, like, interact with each otheroutside of the game, it's kind
of the same thing.
It's like it's kind of hard tocall you by your real name.
I just called you by your gamertext.
I've known you.
That's just what it is.
That's a fact by me.
I don't know you by no othername.
This is what it's like havingthat work name.
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Like you know, you go to work,you have that name.
That's it.
There's, there's nothing else.
It's like oh, who's that?
It says so, who is?
Uh, shannon, who shannon,shannon?
I don't know nobody known byshannon.
They say you talk to shannonall the time.
I'm talking about her name,shannon, what you talking about?
Shea, shea, oh, shay, shay,yeah, I know she gave me shay
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shay hr.
Yeah, they're like.
Why did you say that, shannon?
Don't, nobody call her Shannon,oh God.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
I got a cousin.
She was a fat baby and hername's Fat Baby to this day,
Skinny is I don't know what, butFat Baby.
You're going to stick everytime.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
That's just how it is , man, you've said it for so
long.
It's ingrained.
Trying to call them by what thegovernment name is, it just
feels so unreal.
You're like who, but yeah, andso getting the opportunity being
able to talk to them outside,into other games as well too, I
love that we're exploring that.
It's not just shangri-lafrontier name and anime is
shangri-la frontier, yes, butwe're following the players into
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it.
You know we have mostly we'refollowing son raku, but we're
actually being able to have evenlike a episode where, hey,
let's see what kyle's is doing,you know, let's see what pencil
going is doing, let's see whatis happening in their lives,
type of thing, and we get achance to kind of just let them
see them do other stuff.
We're seeing other games.
You know I love that.
(17:02):
We had a couple episodes of abreak to be able to see a robot
game, dang.
I really wish Talos could be onhere because, come on, met God
himself.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Yeah, Met.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
So like, aside from the fact that he's definitely
one of the main ones to put usreally heavily to say how much
we would love to show, and alsoconsidering the fact that
there's a whole mech sequenceinto it.
And then, oh, girl Rust, I hadto stop playing S.
Then old girl rust who I hadstopped playing shingle on
frontier because we ain't raninto no robots.
And then soraka was actually Ihave a robot, you what?
Bring us right back into thegame.
That's how I felt as far as Iwas like, yeah, yeah, I've done
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that, I've had a person.
I was like I had to drop theseries, drop stuff like that.
Somebody tell me it does getbetter, you do get what you want
.
At this episode you're like,wait, seriously, so you get up
to the episode.
You're like, yeah, you're right, we did get there and that's
just.
You know it gets better.
Into that.
So I absolutely really loveInto it.
Now I do want to say one thingas well too.
This was going to be to me as acounter for what you had said,
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mira Jane.
We had more strategy in seasonone.
For season two, there was nostrategy.
There, no strategy.
There is not a single scenariothat they were fully prepared to
be in this time, especiallywith fighting like a gone bruh,
they would just wandered in.
The only people who weresupposedly prepared was sf zoo
and they got wiped by like agone, like it was nothing, and
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then getting a chance, like ourmain characters and ray, they
finally jumped in and like, okay, we're not prepared for this
fight.
Everyone.
They finally jump in and like,okay, we're not prepared for
this fight.
Everyone else just shows up andthey're like, honestly, we were
not prepared for this fightwhatsoever, but we're going to
try to pull through the bestthat we can, pulling out all the
stops.
So last minute strategy I coulddefinitely see into this, but
there wasn't a real strategy inthis, so this was a straight up
go with the flow.
We're not prepared to die today.
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We're not prepared to die today.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
We're going to just do this best that we can.
That was the best strategythough.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Yeah, that's all you could do with that kind of
opponent.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
The best offense is a strong defense.
The best strategy is no plan atall.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Exactly.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
Sometimes you got to pop out and show them.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
You know what?
You're not wrong.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
And, as you see, it's a little bit of foreshadowing
as it prepares for the ultimatebattle that Son Raku got to go
through, because that's going tobe epic.
It's going to be like Voldemortversus Dumbledore or Dumbledore
versus literally anybody.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
True, true.
I am kind of curious how thisnext season is going to go
because of how it ends, becausewe was really hoping that, yeah,
it's going to be.
This is a chance.
We're not going to focus onsome rock anymore.
We're going to get a chance fork to get his shine, get his
revenge back and stuff, and youknow, him versus selby and see
how this is going to go.
But then at the last minutethey switch it up that it's
going to be Son Raku versusSelvi and it's like seriously, I
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was like I don't know.
I think that revenge issupposed to be more personal.
It doesn't feel as personalright now because y'all
switching it up.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
I mean, it's what the fans want.
They got the similar play style.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Yeah, true, but considering the fact that they
have a similar playstyle, that'swhat probably make it even
better for K To be able to reignon top, because you know, k
still has a 60%, well, 60-70%Win against Sunroku when it
comes to fighting games.
So it's like you know.
But Sunroku is that jack of alltrades.
Oh, speaking of them cards,though, hitting them tarot cards
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, dude, getting the Joker.
I'll be be honest with you.
I can see how joker works forhim.
I could not be the joker.
I could not do that.
Them drawbacks is entirely toohard.
Double the buffs, defense isgone.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
He still can't equip armor like oh yeah, my boy going
through it.
If he ain't had that speed it'dbe over with.
He would've been big.
That's it.
The opposite of him would be.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Maple.
Probably Maple yeah, fromBofori.
Yeah, having that ultimatedefense, but he has absolutely
no speed whatsoever, hasoverpowered strength attacks.
I mean she put all her defensepoints.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
You know True.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
What did y'all think of the pacing?
How was the pacing compared toseason two versus season one?
Speaker 2 (21:18):
So personally, the first couple episodes felt a
little slow to me at first, butI wasn't mad at it.
The only thing that kind of gotme into when I say into that
slow pacing, is that we got moreexplanation of stuff and then
we finally, once we got intoaction, we was into action.
There was a second moment aboutgoing back to those tarot cards
(21:38):
.
We only heard of two different,two different of those things
you know.
We heard the world that thatRey has and we heard about the
fool that Sunraku has, but wedon't know nothing about the
other ones.
If we had that pacing like howwe had at the beginning, that
detailed, explained out somestuff, explained what was really
going on, given that lore andstuff, I want to see what those
(22:00):
other cards are, what are theother possibilities that you can
have what's going on type ofthing into that.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
So that's from me.
I think that's something thatcould be revealed later.
I think, yeah, that is true,cause, like I mean, it also sets
up the possibility for evenstronger villains.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
This is true, okay.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
I mean, I like how they had sent us off with you.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Go ahead.
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
No, you're good.
No, I was just going to say Ilike how they had sent us off on
the three different storylinesthat they could follow.
I'm excited to see what isgoing to be in the beginning of
season three.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
It could be any of those true, true, I mean because
, in fact, first off, son Rakuhas now had two additional
unique scenarios outside ofPencil, gone and Cops.
You know they're going to bemad because he still hasn't told
them.
He said I told them oh, by theway, I did beat Like A Gone wait
what?
But found out it's a ghost.
(23:06):
So we actually did not fightthe real one, that little shadow
.
He said I told him oh, by theway, I did beat like a gun Wait
what?
But found out it's a ghost.
So we actually did not fightthe real one.
That little shadow dog thatkeeps going around is actually
just that, it's just the shadow.
Like seriously.
And now getting this point,like oh yeah, I'm also into
another unique scenario.
I'm fighting one of the otherseven colossi as well.
Now too, like wait what?
I'm fighting one of the otherseven colossi as well.
Now too, like wait what?
Speaker 4 (23:25):
You just jumping answers he gonna get beat up.
I'm talking about knotted up.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Especially because, in fact, one hit kills him.
They're gonna keep doing it.
They're gonna PK you over andover again.
Keep trying Not keep trying.
But for reals though.
He's was like I'm just playingfor have fun and stuff.
Yeah, no, you purposely hitthat.
You was like, should I saysomething?
No, I'm not gonna say nothing.
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And then, ray, good lord thatgirl.
I don't know why it is that shejust still can't straight up
tell him hey, I actually knowyou, just so you know we go to
school together.
I know who you are.
It's just like girl, son ofzero bro.
But the thing about bestanimation right now, straight up
(24:20):
dude, apocalypse, apocalypse,oh my god, apocalypse.
We finally got a chance andsaid this is the attack that
gave me the title Attack Master,and nobody has been able to
beat it.
And we were sitting herethinking too like, oh dang, we
thought Lycagon survived it.
And it was like what?
(24:40):
Even Apocalypse wasn't enoughto put you down.
And then he finally fades awayand we're like, oh, okay, okay,
you had us there, you had usthere, you had us in the first
half and I'm not going to laughRight.
You sat here and was like, waitthat part.
I was like I was like I don'tpull out all the stops.
(25:03):
You done already pulled outyour robot and used up all his
energy.
It's a very smart move on tothat, so I would give that
strategy into it.
The robot was very confusedinto this aspect.
He's like I could tell.
It was one of those momentsthat Simon was like what was
that delay?
I think delay was supposed tobe like I'm attack wing, like,
literally, the name of the robotis pretty much attack wing,
(25:24):
it's a phoenix attack wing.
Pretty much attack wing, it's aphoenix attack wing.
So it's like so you don't wantme to attack, you just want me
to fly around and just blow awayclouds.
I was like I don't know how.
I would feel pretty bad aboutthat too.
To be honest, like you know, Ispecialize in slashing up people
and you're telling me I justneed to blow some clouds away.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Really, okay, I guess how strong are the colossi guys
?
Gosh, you was fighting a shadow.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Nobody can defeat a shadow because, in fact they
found out, the shadow is puremana at that, nothing but just
pure magical energy.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
So yeah, they just constantly kept repairing itself
I just wonder how many peoplefelt stupid after they found out
.
Like just the regular players,just like we don't know them,
but they just hear in the rumormill and they like, are you
telling me this all the time?
You know how many times I died?
Speaker 2 (26:18):
that part first off.
No, you can go even furtherinto that.
How rude the dead, that onedead girl is the fact that they
found out it's like.
Oh, the shadow was supposed toalways be beatable and I was
wondering why nobody beat ituntil I looked into the game
logs.
And once I looked into the gamelogs found out someone secretly
buffed it.
Why does he have a secondshadow?
Speaker 3 (26:44):
I ain't gonna lie, she would have got throat punch.
Oh my god.
Oh, never mind.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
It didn't say no, just disrespectful it is because
she's like I want people toenjoy the game a little bit
longer type thing.
You know, we don't want to moveand progress in too fast.
This stuff like no, no, you'repunishing people.
The fact that someone has to goout the way, have all these
glitches, do all this extrastuff in order to beat this
(27:12):
extremely souped up characterthat you had?
Seriously, no, you're doing toomuch.
That's what the problem withyou're gonna make an unbeatable
character it's not fair.
I would be like listen.
You know how many meals I don'tmiss.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
You know what you owe me.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
You owe me dinner, you owe me breakfast and then,
on top of that, how dare you toextend the fact that, hey, we're
gonna give you this specialinventory.
It's unlimited inventory spaceand it's like, oh sweet.
And then they find out, oh, Icould teleport into the
inventory and teleport back out.
Oh interesting, I'm able to useit to evade attacks.
(27:52):
And there's like we didn't planfor this, so now we're gonna
have to change up the monstrousai, so we're gonna release a
secret update.
No, no, don't punish me for thefact that I pay attention.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
That's not fair that, that I didn't care that, but
that's that and that's.
I think that's what made iteven feel even more realistic,
because that is exactly whatwould happen in an mmo.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
They find out that everyone is cheating and they
like oh no, it was like gettingmarried in room skate oh yeah
yeah, that was a big cheat intothat one, being able to share
inventory and do all this typeof stuff.
They were like, no, we didn'tthink it was going to be that
serious, but apparently y'allabused it and no, we didn't
abuse it.
(28:33):
You set out the parameters andwe followed it.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
That's not abuse it's not my fault.
I got proposed to within.
I took all that man money afterthe divorce.
That was his fault this is true.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
I wanted to base it off of something Kind of
realistic, and this is how itworks Exactly.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
And I just needed to be rich.
So I mean, what else can I do?
Speaker 2 (29:03):
I learned so much more about you and it scares me.
It's unrealistic.
It's just like I'd like to domore podcasts.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
I'd do with Jameerah Jane.
I'd learn so much more aboutyou, and it scares me, it's
unrealistic, it's just like Iwouldn't do that in real life.
Real life, oh, I was a demon.
I was definitely a demon, demonempress.
Oh, absolutely, oh my God, ohmy god.
And I'm so glad nobody knewthat I was also playing Guild
(29:32):
Wars, because I was also a demon.
I miss those days when Iactually had time and I didn't
have a job.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Oh, my god.
I mean, in fact our charactershere are 19, except for Tomo.
She's the only one that's likeAn actual adult Top model and
stuff Like model.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
One's a pro gamer, One's a model like Bro, I just
Play trash games so good.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
I'm great at stuff.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
It's not even fair.
It's not fair.
I will say I'm great at stuff.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
It's not even fair, it's not fair.
I will say I am happy to get achance.
One of the things they didexplain more the technology
thing of how it is that Sunrockwas as good as he is about the
fact that trash games because heexploits the glitches, and we
thought it was like, oh, he justexploits the glitches and he
just pays attention more.
But then he got a chance toexplain when he finally got that
super developed, uh, vr gamingthing and it was like, oh yeah,
(30:29):
it really tackles on all yoursentences and stuff and really
it pays more attention.
We get a chance to explain thefact that him using these
glitches is the fact that itwould normally overpower his
brain, overpower anotherperson's brain, like when we
deal with the, the met game,nephilim, where he explains the
fact that trying to go so fastand stuff it's it will tackle on
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a lot of people's mentality toomuch and they will get a mental
strain.
But for him he's able tomentally handle it because he
just kind of relaxes into it.
More so his body is.
He has literally trained hismind and body to be high
reaction speeds and stuff intothese VR games because he
literally puts himself into it,and so I'm happy they got a
(31:12):
chance to actually explain intothat that it's like oh okay, so
you've mentally fried your brainso much that this is what it is
Explains a lot.
This is probably the only timeyou could probably be like yeah,
video games are bad for yourhealth In this case.
Yeah, it would be.
Yeah, video games are bad foryour health In this case, yeah,
it would be.
Yeah, because understanding itdoes fry their brains.
You made a fact, but can yousurvive that frying though?
Speaker 3 (31:40):
I mean, if you can survive, that means you can
thrive.
So therefore, if they didn'tmake it.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
They just didn't make it.
They need to go and play lessergames true, and that's what a
lot of people do and stuff, ohman, but then loving that
opportunity of like seeing somany other people have such
great gamers as well too, andit's like, oh, we're not
following the best gamer in theworld, type of thing.
And it's like, oh, we're notfollowing the the best gamer in
the world, type of thing.
And it's also understanding, byfar sun roku is not.
(32:10):
Like you know, kautz hasactually proven his himself to
be significantly better than sunroku in a lot of different
things, in a lot of differentregards, because he's that gamer
that pays attention to stuff.
You know, I like to look at thelore, I read the background, I
understand, I look at the upsand downs and things like that.
I kind of do the same thing,like when I play Mario Kart,
like when I go through all thelittle vehicle aspects of the
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Mario Kart and then choosingyour character, even when you're
choosing your me, depending onhow heavy you make your me and
stuff, and if you want to makeyour me more realistic, if you
make them look more adult, likeyou usually add, oh well, adults
have a little bit more weightto them and that's going to drop
the weight of your car.
It's going to make a bigdifference, so that's
automatically going to startchanging up how your your mean
goes into his racing andeverything pay attention to.
(32:54):
You know as far as the driftthat you would have.
So I love, like I do, some ofthe same things.
He's probably the characterthat I most relate to.
Um, it definitely feels likeMira Jane is the absolute pencil
gun of our group, stealingpeople's money and stuff.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
You just willingly admitted this.
That's not right.
I completely agree 1,000%.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
I feel called up.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
But is it wrong?
Speaker 4 (33:32):
Yeah, it's not wrong.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
No, it's not wrong.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
So if I could highlight any character for
Kokugatsu, it would probably befrom Hmm, he would probably be
the villain in glasses.
I think that would be him.
So much strategy, yeah, so muchstrategy.
So much thinking, analyzing andthen all around evil, just to
(33:58):
get the job done, whatever ittakes for us to accomplish the
mission.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
I don't do that.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
You'll push your glasses up and it'll be over.
We're gonna get it.
Wait, I don't do that.
You'll put your glasses up andit'll be over.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Like yeah, we're gonna get it done Wait.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
That actually isn't how to do that.
That actually fits.
I plan out for everyone'sbenefit.
Okay, there may be sacrificesalong the way.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
I'll prove my point.
I guess, you got a plan for thefuture and look, he built the
whole city, made sure everybody,he started the government from
scratch.
Ain't nobody did that sinceAlexander Hamilton oh my god
that would be cool, alexanderHamilton oh, my goodness anyway.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Oh, now, I did want to go to to chance to highlight
as well I love that we got achance to see more of sf zoo and
understanding their thing intoit.
I like that little strategythat they had when it came down
to fighting against lycagon andthey was like, straight up,
they're like, yeah, this is astrategy that we use to even
take down dragons and capturethem and stuff, and I'm like
that's a pretty good strategy.
The only thing they clearlydidn't plan for is the fact that
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the developers was like, oh, hesays we gave him a second
shadow that you just weren'taware of.
Just straight up, bull.
But um, as far as like how theyhad planned out their strategy,
I did like that, um, havingthat moment of understanding.
Okay, we gotta some peoplegonna take the tent.
We're gonna have the tanks takethe hit.
That's your point.
(35:28):
You guys are the high defenders, take the hits.
Once you take the hits, thenwe're gonna go ahead and move
through from there and havingthat whole capture spell.
Um, what was it?
A pot, not a pot.
What was it?
Uh, some in the abyss and likehades of the abyss hadades, yeah
, cuz her.
Her magical attacks were basedoff of Greek mythology and I
(35:49):
like we get his little paint,pay attention to that.
Every unique weapon there arespecial abilities is based off
of, like Greek mythology andstuff from different mythologies
.
Then we wound up seeing Greekmythology and I do like it was
some rock who you pay attentionto, a lot of his abilities and
stuff.
His abilities are really basedoff of Hermes the messenger from
greek mythology as far as hismasterful speed, constant, being
(36:11):
able to bounce around and stuff, and so I love we get a chance
to like see things into that.
You know what you got mestarted because you said it
called me out for being astrategic person, don't you?
Speaker 3 (36:23):
you know, I mean if the shoe fits um.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Son rocco also kind of reminds me of ikers he does
fly too close to the sun halfthe time, doesn't he?
Speaker 3 (36:37):
he does, he does and I was kind of peeping that, more
so during this season, becausehe keeps a lot of things close
to close to the chest, so like Ijust feel like we gonna get to
that point where he's flying soclose to the sun, like are his
wings going to burn.
That's kind of what I kind of,I kind of want to see that that
(36:58):
happened.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
That happened to like a gun.
Earlier he was so confident thathis confidence in trash games
was the fact that like, oh, Ican do this all by myself type
of thing, and he got swept out,literally his feet swept from
under him, completelyannihilated and given a curse
mark specifically that hindershim even further as punishment
(37:19):
for doing so.
So I think that was kind of hisstory starting off is that he
flew too close to the sunbecause every single battle that
he's been in so far he can'thandle it by himself, even this
one where he uh fought againstthe king of the great deep, this
uh two, two elemental giantshark whale is the fact that,
like that one, he still had torely on some help.
He couldn't do it by himselfand he knew he couldn't.
(37:40):
So now he plans better toworking with other people versus
being the trash gamer he is.
He doesn't play with otherpeople, he fights against them.
Every other trash game he'sdone, he's always rocked solo.
This is one that he's finallyagreeing to work with a party,
understanding he has to workwith people and stuff.
He wound up being helped, beingfound a guild and everything
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Something he would never dobefore.
Speaker 4 (38:03):
He started off that humbly.
The season three of sword arton mine, because the first two
seasons I'm a solo player.
No, I can't do it.
I'm a solo player like bro.
It takes a village, bro.
You gotta have a team to workwith you.
And the developing charactersare also nice as they help craft
different entities in the storyand we can branch off.
(38:23):
I know we said it before, butbranching off to those different
characters and then developingand building up their own
stories can help develop furtherin the future.
I want to see all thecharacters come together to
fight.
I don't know one of the Colossiin Avengers and Thanos type
deal That'll be dope in thefuture.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
I mean to be honest with you, with one of these
colossi right now that they'refighting against.
It's a good possibility thatthat may wind up happening.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
I definitely think, we definitely won't get it.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
That'd be it, because I don't think he's going to
beat Sittonit.
I really don't think he's goingto beat Sittonit Like at all.
I know we're waiting forAbyssal Time, but I think even
with all this build-up that he'sdoing, he's not going to beat
him.
Sittonit is entirely too huge.
He's a completeunderwater-based fighter, like
that entire thing.
(39:18):
I don't think he's going towork out.
So I'm really curious on howthat's going to be Now.
Now, that sky emperor that'sthe one that really got me
interested because,understanding, as far as we knew
, like gone was the only onethat cursed someone, that gave
him a mark and stuff.
They fought against, um, someof the other, um, some of the
other seven colossi before, andno one has cursed them before
(39:39):
until, all of a sudden, the skyking decided to curse, um, this
this name is kind of long KitanaKaru, I don't know the ninja
girl.
That's all I'm going to have tosay.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
Unfortunately, good job look, the shinobi sounds
good.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
The shinobi, yeah, I want to see them fight too, that
would be crazy.
Speaker 4 (40:05):
I mean we're want to see them fight too.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
That'd be crazy I mean, we're gonna see how this
goes because, like I like herability.
Honestly, it's funny.
She shows up.
First thing she does issubstitutes her juices over and
over again replacement.
It's just then, all of a sudden, they're like oh okay, you keep
doing that, we're good to go.
Actually, I have to haveconsumable items to do that and
(40:27):
I used up all my consumableitems.
They're like what?
Yeah, I can't do it no more.
And it's like why would youTell us this at first?
Speaker 4 (40:36):
so we can properly plan.
Yeah, we done.
Developed this whole schedulearound you.
Now we got to change up.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
Again, but I mean, it happens though those things do
tend to happen, but it's stillsometimes.
Even just those last minutehelps they.
They make a big difference.
Even if you can't keepexploiting them like you want to
, they make a difference.
So just do what you can, ohgosh.
Otherwise, I mean there'smultiple different things into
(41:05):
it.
I do wish we got a chance toexplore deeper into the library
and, honestly, based on howseason one ended, I really
thought that we was going to getdeeper into the library this
season and I was reallysurprised that that didn't
happen.
So I don't know, it's just itfelt like it was setting up to
that.
Was that just me?
Speaker 3 (41:28):
no, I felt, I definitely felt the same way,
because there's so much hiddenstory and it definitely felt
like that's where we're goingand I'm agree with you, that's
kind of where I'm hoping, thatthat's where we go.
We may not.
I'm not reading the main, Idon't know.
I ain't gonna read it either.
(41:48):
I ain't gonna sit up here andtell you that I am I'm not, so
I'm not reading the same.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
I think it's because the anime is so good.
It's one of the ones that youdon't necessarily feel like you
have to type of thing like youcan, like absolutely can.
But because they're doing sowell with anime, I don't feel
like I need to because from myunderstanding, they're doing a
great job, doing a greatadaptation of the anime.
There might be like a couplethings that's left out from the
manga, but nothing that's likeso major that you're just like
(42:18):
oh my god, you really have toread the manga to truly
understand.
They still do a great job inhelping you understand what's
really going on thank you, itit's.
Speaker 3 (42:28):
I don't feel like I'm missing anything.
I'm not looking for moreinformation, I'm not like, okay,
maybe I need to go google thisbecause I know I'm missing
something I legit just warpedinto the story at this point
absolutely, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
I mean we was literally just talking about
both three earlier and I'll behonest, I still haven't watched
season two, both three.
I literally took a pause ofthat to watch this one and I'll
probably talk we'll talk aboutwhen I do that review, but it's
gonna be one of those ones ofevery anime is definitely tuned
to different people and bothfree is just not for me.
(43:04):
I'm not saying it was a bad,it's not a bad anime at all.
It's just one of those onesthat personally, for me, is it's
just it's not one that I canget into.
But it's understandableconsidering the fact that, like
I really like shangri-lafrontier and you can like both.
But it does have anunderstanding that if you truly
love anime like Shangri-LaFrontier that focuses more on
(43:27):
story and action and getting achance to still relate to the
gamers and stuff, both reads alittle different because you
wind up having a character who'snever uh, never played video
games at all and this is hervery first video game and she's
getting these main characteranime experiences that nobody
(43:47):
else would have, type of thingand it's interesting seeing it
from her point of view.
As far as, like, oh, I'm justassuming this is what's supposed
to be happening and notunderstanding.
The developers are like she'sdoing stuff that we did not
expect.
She's breaking the game, and Ilove that.
Sean Rock is pretty much doingthe same essentially as well too
.
I do like also, we understandthat.
(44:08):
I really thought that he brokethe game entirely by being the
only player to be able to gointo the land of the rabbits and
stuff.
So I was like, oh okay, so theland of the rabbits and stuff.
So I was like, oh okay, so hereally broke the game.
This wasn't supposed to besomething that happened.
But then, all of a sudden, nowwe do have the understanding
that the secret to be able toget into the rabbits Additional,
(44:29):
unique storyline and be able tohave access, to be able to
frequent in and out and haveyour own personal rabbit To be
part of your party, is to becursed by one of the seven
colossi.
So I love that you finally gota full confirmation onto that
one.
It was like, oh, we need to doa hundred counters and stuff
into it.
No, you just had to be a goodenough fighter against the seven
(44:52):
colossi that they wanted tomark you by saying next time you
come back, I I'm gonnarecognize that you were a good
fighter and I'm expectinganother good fight out of you,
type of thing yo, thatconfirmation like warped my
brain.
Speaker 3 (45:05):
I was like I knew it, I was.
There's no way that that wasnot included because like that
as a an additional mechanic islike you're not going to find
out anymore about the storylineuntil you get marked.
Speaker 2 (45:24):
That part, and the other thing about it is that you
can only run it solo.
They did confirm into that onetoo Because that's the same
thing that happened with ShinobiIs the fact that she literally
ran into the Sky King by herselfand clearly it had to put up a
decent enough fight that hedecided to mark her.
So it was like, straight upthat point of you have to do
(45:45):
something that you would neverdo, that you're not really
supposed to do in MMO.
Mmo is all about massmultiplayer, joining parties,
joining guilds.
As soon as you start most MMOs,after you make it to a certain
level, it's like you're forcedto join a guild.
You don't really have much of achoice type of thing into that.
Versus Shangri-La Frontier doesnot force you to do that.
You don't have to sign into aguild to be able to continue the
(46:08):
story and things like that.
You can still roll solo and ithas its own perks and rewards
for doing so, and this justhappened to be one of them.
Speaker 3 (46:21):
It's like it recognizes the determination to
be a solo player.
Speaker 2 (46:30):
Very true.
Speaker 3 (46:31):
At times it also does make you realize like, oh snap,
I think I'm going to need somehelp for this, but I don't need
help for this mission.
Like it makes you make yourealize like, oh snap, I think
I'm going to need some help forthis, but I don't need help for
this mission.
Speaker 2 (46:40):
like it makes you make those choices strategically
this is true, and then beingable to think outside the box
the amount of details into itthey're in.
Oh, I'm so sorry.
(47:06):
My audio went out for just asecond embryo embryos y'all
remember that.
Speaker 4 (47:14):
Yo yo, yo yo embryo.
You don't know what I'm talkingabout?
No, it's from all that.
It was um, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, kale used to be a littlebaby inside the little embryo
thing.
Speaker 3 (47:31):
It was a rapping baby oh my god, oh my god, oh my god
a lot of core memory, huh.
Yeah, why did you do that?
Speaker 4 (47:41):
Hey, I mean, there is something that I remember that
I can't for the life of me,nobody else can remember it and
I can't remember what it's from.
I thought it was from acommercial or maybe a movie.
If y'all know, I swearEverybody I ask about it they've
been telling me like no, Idon't know what you're talking
about, it's a little thing.
(48:01):
I remember it's like a little.
I think it was like a littledinosaur or something like that.
It used to say I'm burning hot,I'm steaming hot.
Do y'all remember that?
Speaker 2 (48:12):
Wait, that sounds actually does sound familiar.
Hold on a second.
That sounds Actually does soundfamiliar.
Hold on a second.
Speaker 3 (48:16):
Wait, hold on.
I thought it sounds like Googleit and you hear it now.
It's a dinosaur.
Speaker 4 (48:23):
I think it was like A reptilian Type thing.
It's I'm burning, I'm steaminghot, and I thought it was like
From Power Rangers or something,but I can't recall.
It might have been a commercial.
Speaker 3 (48:36):
I don't think it was a commercial.
No, I think that was a show.
Speaker 4 (48:41):
It might have been.
Speaker 2 (48:44):
Let's see real quick.
I'm burning hot, I'm steaminghot.
I do remember hearing that.
Are you sure it's not from asong?
Speaker 4 (48:54):
I don't believe it's from a song.
It might be a song.
I thought it was a show, acommercial Power Rangers or
something.
Speaker 3 (49:02):
It sounds like something the villain was saying
.
Speaker 4 (49:07):
It was like an evil.
I don't want to know if it wasevil or anti-hero character, but
I remember they said I'mburning hot, I'm steaming hot,
and then like a tag would happen.
Speaker 3 (49:19):
I feel like that was part of it.
Speaker 4 (49:22):
Yeah, I can't remember what it's from, but
nobody remembers it, and it mademe so mad.
I was like am I crazy?
Am I crazy?
I might actually be crazy.
Speaker 2 (49:32):
I mean, we know that part, but you, betty, I mean the
truth, is we all kind that part?
But you betty, I mean the truth, is we all kind of crazy?
But you sitting here makingarguments of stuff that don't
need to be made arguments ofProfessor Tuck, by the way, I
have to no you don't, I have to.
Speaker 4 (49:55):
You know why it gets the people going.
It builds character.
Speaker 2 (50:01):
Alright, you guys.
Let us know how y'all feelabout that.
Do y'all feel that he be doingthe most Cause we do?
It's the showmanship.
Speaker 4 (50:15):
So extra.
I can't wait to go one on oneVersus Talos too.
Speaker 2 (50:20):
And whatever.
Speaker 4 (50:23):
Jax Checkers, tic Tac Toe, it don't matter.
Speaker 2 (50:28):
Technically you go, technically you went against him
as D&D, use your DM, you theplayer, you destroying his story
.
Speaker 4 (50:35):
Nah nah nah.
He destroyed his own story andthen recreates it from the ashes
.
He is a menace.
Speaker 2 (50:48):
Oh gosh Anyway.
Speaker 4 (50:50):
He'll think you're fighting a rainbow, and then
next thing you know, the rainbowthen got dipped into some
Hydrochloric acid and thenturned into like a super rainbow
from hell.
Speaker 2 (51:02):
So, jesus, he has scarred you for life, yes,
Scarred my baby for life, robertoh my God.
Speaker 1 (51:16):
All done.
Speaker 2 (51:18):
Yeah all done, yeah, but for reals though do we have
anything else for Strangler LaFrontier?
Because I mean, in the endthere's just not much to really
want to break down every singleepisode.
I could spend hours detailingevery episode but it wouldn't
really, I don't think it wouldcontribute to as far as our
review.
I mean, like, what littledetails I could put in during
(51:39):
the the shark guy that duringwhen, um, he was trying to get
the attention of the king of the, the deep sea king winds up
yeah, when he's like swimming inthe air, he wants to do an
exact same pose that piccolodoes in like almost every single
movie when piccolo tries tobecome a distraction, so that
way the main character can buildup their final attack.
(52:00):
He winds up having like theexact same pose and I don't know
that might have been an easteregg or not, but to me it was
pretty recognizable.
I was like hey, um, and then,just like piccolo, he winds up
getting dumped.
The kids are dumped on him tohave to watch and he does a
fantastic job keeping them alivefor everyone to get his stuff
done and then comes in clutch.
At the end I was like, hey,it's the pickle of the story,
(52:23):
that's what's up, which is sadthat we're not going to see you
again.
I really hope that you become acontinuing NPC.
Speaker 4 (52:28):
That stays with the story, but realistically it's
okay there's so many monsters tofight and attack and so many
mysteries to unravel, especiallywith the colossi, and the
overall plot of the game likeit's a lot, true?
They?
can go in any direction theywant to too, and it reminds me
(52:49):
honestly of, like, uh, thecharacters that I said the
characters, the developers ofoverlord, because it was meant
to be a video game, so there'sso much detail inscribed into it
to actually create the gamethat there's so much information
that you could literally talkabout it for years Now.
Speaker 2 (53:08):
I would say one thing as far as into Overlord but
that won't be a little bitdifferent into it, because he
wound up getting trapped in thegame per se and becoming his own
world isn't that world justfully based on his own mindset
now yes and no.
Speaker 4 (53:25):
Yes and no.
It was like the original game,but there's nuances that are new
, that isn't from the originalgame that he has to kind of
figure out, so it seemingly haddeveloped like a mind of its own
.
So yes and no.
So some of the the corecompetencies of the original
(53:46):
game are still there, so hefinds it easier to navigate and
whatnot.
Speaker 2 (53:50):
But there's still some surprises gotcha, gotcha,
all right, but look at that.
I mean, in fact, obviously welove this anime.
It talks so much.
It gives us really thinkingabout so much stuff.
It's enjoyable.
It's something that makes youthink about different things as
well, to start really trying tofigure stuff out.
I watched it in me, immediatelywanted to go back and play my
(54:12):
game again.
I'm just like yo, all right,what game I'm picking up to play
?
I gotta prove my skills.
I gotta get back into this realquick.
I know I'm a dad, but I gottaget some skills.
I gotta get back into my gameand probably, like for real, I
do.
Speaker 4 (54:22):
I miss it.
Speaker 2 (54:25):
Save you every time well, I'm too broke for that now
because you got to pay monthlysubscriptions for that now I'm
just an old game.
Speaker 4 (54:33):
Now everything was it was games was 30.
You got everything you'resupposed to have with.
The game is updated, justupdate.
Speaker 2 (54:43):
Oh, you're not wrong.
The game of the year editionthis that came out with the
newest updates and new stuff toit.
Yeah, but yeah, I missed it.
Microwave transaction Gosh wedid to ourselves.
We did to ourselves.
We did it to ourselves.
People support I mean when Isay we, maybe not you and me
specifically, but as a gaminggroup as a whole.
(55:04):
We was willing to put out moregame, more money for more
content, to be better than otherpeople, and they took full
advantage of it.
Took full advantage of it.
Speaker 4 (55:13):
Yeah, that's true, and I do like the skins on
Fortnite.
I ain't gonna lie, I got to beall night.
Speaker 2 (55:21):
What I still have not played that one.
Hey, considering the fact, I'mactually curious.
You know one of the new gamesalso that we're going to see in
season three.
It's pretty much going to belike a Call of Duty
Fortnite-esque not Overwatch I'mnot even going to say that game
(55:42):
because unfortunately overwatchhas really become dead with
marvel rivals lately.
Um, but I am excited to see howthis is going to incorporate
these new um because it's thefirst time that we're seeing a
first-person shooter.
We did get a tease of it, likeduring a moment when they uh
were first talking about the ggc, the, about the game
competition.
There was little video segmentsthat they would showcase next
to the building on the screensof the building, and one of
those video segments showed afirst-person shooter going
(56:03):
through, blasting enemies andstuff.
So we actually did get a littlesnippet of what this animation
team could do with afirst-person shooter video game.
So I am pretty excited becauseeven just those little snippet
videos that we saw, it actuallylooked really good to me.
So I mean that honestly, thisanimation team is absolutely
doing fantastic with this series.
(56:24):
Please don't stop.
Keep, keep it coming, keepcoming.
Just the same.
I love how this has been.
Love how the story isprogressing.
I love this world building.
I love that we're getting achance to see other games in
anime format.
I absolutely appreciate it.
It is fantastic and so much, so, very enjoyable, so very much
enjoyable.
But otherwise I think it'spretty much about time to close
(56:46):
this out.
Unless anyone else has anythingelse, they want to go ahead and
say no, I'm good, I'm about totake a nap.
Mary Jane, you got anything elseyou wanted to add onto the
series real quick no, I don'treally have nothing else to add
(57:14):
okay.
Well, until next time, you guysstay nerdy, stay fresh.
We'll be able to go ahead andkeep you guys up to date on so
many things that we do check usout, not just on our podcast,
and thank y'all so much forlistening, but we do have some
great things coming right nowstill working on to a youtube
series.
We're becoming more present ontiktok, since that band keeps
getting pushed back.
They're not gonna get rid of tof TikTok.
(57:35):
So we're becoming more presenton TikTok.
We're still working on ourYouTube series.
We have a lot of differentprojects coming out.
So definitely check us out and,of course, check out our
website.
We have a lot of differentshops, a lot of different 3D
stuff.
So until next time, stay nerdy,guys.
Tatiazzo.
Speaker 4 (57:52):
Let's zone out.
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