November 14, 2025 • 40 mins
Dust off your spellbook—Wizard 101 just hit consoles, and we’re putting the nostalgia to the test. We talk through the thrill of slotting the right card, timing a big hit, and roaming Wizard City, then stack those warm memories against 2025 realities: paywalls, clunky controller menus, and servers that don’t always keep up. If you’ve wondered whether this classic can still charm beyond a PC screen, we’ve got a grounded, no-fluff take.
We dig into the game’s identity as a kid-friendly, turn-based MMO with collectible card mechanics, where schools like Fire, Ice, Death, and Balance still shape playstyles and personality. Customization has quirks—the name generator limits expression—but the combat loop remains clear and satisfying for quick sessions. On console, the translation shows its seams: UI navigation is slower, pathing can feel sticky, and early lag led to surprise pulls. Crossplay hopes hover in the air, while a potential Switch version raises serious questions about performance and fragmentation.
Beyond mechanics, the Spiral’s worldbuilding still shines. Real-world inspirations meet myth—Sherlock-dog capers, Egypt-flavored tombs, samurai realms, and villains like Rasputin—delivered with a playful, research-backed touch. Pop culture fingerprints linger too, from Nelson Everhart’s magical score to past celebrity tie-ins. But the elephant remains monetization: zone locks and crowns turn progress into a purchase plan, which is a tougher sell now that players expect transparent value. Our bottom line is balanced—there’s genuine charm and a safe on-ramp for younger players, yet the cost structure and console friction keep it from feeling truly modern.
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SPEAKER_02 (00:01):
What up, gang?
I want to talk about Wizard 101.
Now, the reason why we'rereviewing this now is because
recently it is now available toplay on console.
And I remember way back in the2000s when it was brand new.
How okay, here's this game whereyou can be a little wizard and
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you go on to fight thesemonsters.
You have this turn-basedgameplay where it's like sorry,
I'm kind of stumbling a littlebit where you have this
turn-based gameplay that lookslike you're summoning creatures
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or whatnot, and it comes in theform of a car, and there's like
certain effects, but then itjust summons this creature or
whatnot.
And you can also fight with yourpets, like you can buy pets and
they can fight with you.
And essentially, there's like atleast four major arcs in Wizard
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101, which is crazy because Iwas kind of following it up
until like the second arc withuh the evil lady Morgan, and
after that just kind of felloff.
Hearing that it's now availableon console, I'm thinking like,
okay, let's try it again.
And uh let's just say nowadaysin adulthood, if I'm not working
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or working on something else,I'm probably playing other
games, so yeah.
Anyways, Sebi, I do thank youfor being on for this episode.
Uh it is to my attention, likeit came to my attention that you
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also played this game, and Ijust want to ask you, how are
you feeling about Wood's 101?
SPEAKER_00 (01:59):
So, when I was a kid, I used to play this and
Pirates on one religiously.
Like those are my back-to-backtwo games.
I played it prior to like a hugepaywall coming in.
So, when all the paywalls beganto happen and you had to start
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buying things just to evencontinue on with the game, of
course, I lost interest becauseat the time I'm a kid, I'm not
gonna go ask my parents for 50bucks just to unlock a part of
the neighborhood, you know whatI mean?
Like, I obviously everyoneriding around, they're really
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cool brooms and cars, andthey've got the rarest chill,
like pets and all that junk, andI'm just like, no kid is gonna
go ask their parents for likethis amount of money, but I mean
it's crazy because back in thattime, um, the only game where I
felt like, okay, it's fair thatthey gotta keep buying expansion
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packs and whatnot.
SPEAKER_02 (03:05):
It's well, aside from the films, I was gonna say
World of Warcraft, where I'mlike, okay, that kind of makes
sense where it keeps happening,like expansion packs and
whatnot.
But it wasn't a whole lot ofgames where it felt like a whole
investment to play this gameunless it's like a gotcha game
nowadays, you know, like uhBrave Frontier, but that's like
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somewhere in the 2010s.
Uh, but nowadays we got gameslike Genshin Impact, Zenless
Zone Zero, uh Honkai Star Rail.
I don't know if Weather and Wavedoes that too.
Maybe uh Hero can probably tellus because he I know he played
that game.
Uh but yeah, like it's crazy howSun Game just feels like this
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big investment just to play thegame, but I just didn't feel
that for Wizard one of thetimes.
Like it was like fun for thattrial period, but after that, no
thank you.
SPEAKER_00 (04:02):
Yeah, I agree with you 100% on this.
Um, I mean, I thought that likethe whole, you know, you could
create your own wizard, pick acool hairstyle, do you want to
be a part of life, death, fire,ice?
Like the care the customizationfor the characters to me is
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in-depth at least.
I mean, there could be more, butI mean this is an early 2000s
game, and seeing it on consolenow.
The graphics, though they'vebeen updated, they haven't
changed.
I'm not gonna lie to you aboutthat.
It's still the same Wizards 101that you grew up with.
It's like if they put Neo Petson console.
SPEAKER_02 (04:48):
No, you know, you know what I was thinking?
I was thinking for some reasonnowadays, Wizard 101 looks like
one of those games that you'llget like were you around when
serial boxes would have like thediscs, so you would play a game,
and it feels like that to whereyou feel like this uh serial box
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game that's like look kind offun for like a month or two, but
then eventually you um eithercomplete it or you just uh drop
it.
And it's like that game towhere, like, well, hold on,
there's like updates still.
SPEAKER_00 (05:25):
Me with my Sims when I first got it.
I got My Sims in a DVD from aBurger King Happy Meal like
thing.
That's that's the only reasonwhy I got into My Sims so
religiously is because of BurgerKing.
SPEAKER_02 (05:41):
Well, actually, you know what's crazy?
What got me into the Sims wasthe uh spin-off, the herbs,
where it was on GameCube, and uhhaving the GameCube was real
hype back at the at the time.
So I was thinking, okay, I'lltry the Sims um for a good
while, see how it is.
And then I I liked it, I did.
And then eventually it got methinking, okay, let's try the
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other Sims game.
And well, there's my journey.
SPEAKER_00 (06:06):
I'm not gonna say anything because we know how
that is.
SPEAKER_02 (06:09):
Um listen to our Sims review if you want to hear
our two cents on that.
SPEAKER_00 (06:15):
Um but yeah, Wizards 101 is again, it's one of those
games that you kind of like youyou either grew up with or
you're now starting to get intoit as someone who's new.
But here's another thing though,a lot of the veteran players are
douchebags.
(06:39):
I dabbled in it back on when itcame out onto the console when
it was still in the pre-demo.
Of course, um at the time, ifyou bought crowns for the demo,
everything that you bought wouldbasically be sold, and you'd get
those crowns back at the endwhen the game officially came
out.
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But a lot of those veteransplayers went on to the play the
console.
SPEAKER_02 (07:07):
Actually, it is kind of crazy how like I've tried to
play on console and it just feltso laggy to me.
But then again, I was thinkinglike, okay, it was like day one
or two that it came out onconsole officially.
So I was thinking, like, okay,maybe the servers are just
congested and whatnot, but goddamn, like it just felt so
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weird, like, especially whenyou're thinking like you're
trying to walk along thesidewalk because you don't
really feel like um doing allthose fights.
But then next thing you know,you get pulled into a fight that
you didn't think it was gonnaengage, and I I don't know, it's
like I guess the lagginess kindof ruined the illusion of me
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getting immersed into the gamelike I used to.
SPEAKER_00 (07:59):
Yeah, I agree.
SPEAKER_02 (08:02):
Uh another thing, um, when you mentioned the
customization in the classes,like, okay, last time around, I
was a balance mage, and Ithought it was funny how the dog
um Professor Arthur, like he'sone of the only ones that didn't
have uh class, so we had to uhhave class outside, and I was
like, man, damn.
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But uh the second time around onthe console, I was just like,
hey, you know what?
Fuck it.
Uh I wanna uh because last timeI picked like the edgiest
edgelord name for my character.
I know it was like Blazesomething, uh, and I end up
being a balanced mage.
But um this time around, I waslike, okay, let me just um think
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of the most like a simple name,you know, like a believable
name.
And then I was like, fuck it,I'll try to go for fire mage
since uh I'm just kind of inspirit mountain just wanna um
see if it's as good as itremembered.
Like honestly, it's one of thosegames where I'm like, I have to
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be pretty vague to entertainthis game, but hey, you know
what?
I'm just gonna play it.
Uh just because it's uh Saturdayafternoon, I don't got shit to
do, might as well play thisgame.
Uh uh.
But uh yeah, I want to saycustomizing your character, like
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the design.
Yeah, there's only some bellsand whistles there.
But if you ask me, I wish we hadthe choice of just typing in our
name instead of uh generatingit, because I don't know, just
not a whole lot um that grabbedmy attention, where it's like
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either it's gonna be either kindof cutesy or edge lord, like
Penelope Unicorn bow.
SPEAKER_00 (10:05):
I don't know.
I used to play this game inItaly, um, where I'm from.
We used to play this game allthe time because one, we barely
had yeah, um Sicily.
Okay, cool, okay, okay, okay.
But we used to play this gamebecause we had one computer in
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the house.
Um and you'd come home.
So I used to go over there allthe time during the summer.
My mom was really big on school,so I would come to America
during the school year, likeSeptember to July, and then we
would go to Sicily, and I wouldgo to school from July until
August or June to August.
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So we would come to my cousin'shouse who had a computer, and we
used to play this game all thetime at the time because it was
in Italian.
They got rid of the the Italian,Polish, and I think Greek
versions of this game back in2024.
So when my cousins messaged mesaying that Wizard 101 no longer
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exists, one of my cousins playedthat game still.
SPEAKER_02 (11:15):
Yeah, I thought Wizard 101 was one of those
games where I thought theservers were shut down while I
mean great that it was stillrunning this whole time, but I'm
like, wow, like it's stillgoing?
People still play it?
SPEAKER_00 (11:28):
Oh yeah, people still still play it, like it's
crazy.
Um, I know with let's say mybrother-in-law still plays the
game, and he's like, I can'twait to get to level, I think
they just released level 170.
They officially can become amaximum level, and I'm just
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like, okay.
I'm just here.
I I was a death wizard.
Surprise, surprise, this Nemokid with Penelope Unicorn
something.
SPEAKER_02 (12:03):
Okay, the whole Bro, I thought you just made that
name up.
SPEAKER_00 (12:07):
No, I can't remember what the latter part is, but I
was Penelope Unicorn something.
And I was a death wizard.
SPEAKER_02 (12:18):
Uh okay, okay.
But yeah, that is kind ofironic.
Like, you were thinking, like,okay, like Penelope Unicorn.
You she must be like one ofthose Hubble Pub type uh
charity, right?
No.
Death Wizard.
SPEAKER_00 (12:32):
Death Wizard.
Boom.
Take that, Master.
SPEAKER_02 (12:37):
Subversion of expectations.
SPEAKER_00 (12:43):
Majority of the people that you see playing
Wizards 101 right now are alladults because, of course, they
grew up with it.
Um because the console versioncame out.
I'm not 90.
I'm not because I don't reallychat in the game, so I'm 90%
sure the chat is still like thatwhole text a great job or good
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better luck next time typestuff.
SPEAKER_02 (13:08):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (13:09):
I know on PC you can text a chat 18 plus, but you
also have to connect your uhyour credit card to your chat
just to verify the account ifyou're 18 or older, because
apparently if you're 18 orolder, you have a credit card.
SPEAKER_02 (13:31):
Oh wow, okay, yeah.
Like by the time you're 18,yeah, like you should be a
responsible goal.
Here's your credit card, goahead and ruin your credit.
SPEAKER_00 (13:42):
We have to run your credit, you need to have a 720
credit score, you need to beable to afford two times your
rent, and you need a downpayment of$1,400 just so that
you can have unfiltered words inWizards 101.
SPEAKER_02 (13:56):
Wow.
Jesus Christ, you gotta have thelike it gotta be one of those
things where maybe your dadmight have started uh your
credit card um or like while youwere like a young teenager, and
it's like, okay, well, it's inyour name, but like, okay, you
gotta use it responsibly.
You know, this is gonna be yourallowance money, so to speak.
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So be careful with it.
Like, um, don't spend it all inone place.
SPEAKER_00 (14:26):
I think the most interesting thing is I'm
wondering, because I know thatas of October 1st, we've got it
released on Xbox One, XboxSeries, PlayStation 4, and 5,
but a Nintendo Switch versionhas been confirmed.
How's that gonna work?
Is it still gonna be like anonline game, do you think?
SPEAKER_02 (14:45):
Oh, I do not amaz like if I just don't think it'll
be running well enough onNintendo Switch.
Like, there's just some thingswith Nintendo Switch where I'm
like the online capabilities isjust kind of limited.
(15:08):
Like, if it's not a Nintendoproduct, for some reason, uh if
not the lagginess, it's thegraphics, where it's like it's
just gonna feel very inferior uhcompared to the PlayStation and
Xbox.
So uh I don't know about theSwitch, but Xbox and
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PlayStation.
Maybe once the um server is likelevel out, maybe I see a lot of
consistent console players.
But I just don't know becauseyou know it was originally
geared to be a PC game, so itkind of made sense in that
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aspect.
But like now that it's onconsole, like whole bunch of
functionalities and whatnot.
See, that's another thing whereI try to pull up the uh menus
and the settings, and it feltlike yeah, it reminded me easily
how, yeah, I remember this wasmeant to be for PC.
SPEAKER_00 (16:17):
I'm wondering if the Nintendo Switch is gonna have,
you know, when you'd get likethe 3DS and it would have like
the Sims, but it was like onetown, and you can only pick the
newbie family.
I wonder if it's gonna be kindof like that.
Like it's just uh like SimsCastaway something.
SPEAKER_02 (16:38):
Uh oh, that's crazy too because I remember
castaways.
Like I it's actually funny whereit felt linear and obviously
sandboxed, but with castaways, Ithought it was kind of funny how
like by the end of the game, youfinally escape the island, you
go home and whatnot, it's alleverything all good and dandy,
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but then you realize you gotbuilt.
SPEAKER_00 (17:04):
Yep.
SPEAKER_02 (17:07):
But oh man, I don't know.
I think it might make it alittle worse.
Like it's bad enough that peopleare kind of complaining about
Pokemon Legend ZA, where theywere thinking that, oh, it's
gonna be in this one singulararea, like you don't get to
travel to the other regions.
(17:28):
But to be fair, it was the samething with Arceus, so y'all
didn't complain then.
Why I mean, I guess thecomplaints weren't that loud
when Arceus dropped, but theywere thinking with ZA that, oh,
I thought we were gonna travelto all these different places.
Or I don't know, like it mightbe in the world of DLC, maybe,
but yeah, like uh I don't knowif people might go for a
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limited, like because you knowthe whole lore with the spiral,
like they're thinking, like, ohwell, we don't get to experience
the rest of the spiral becausewe're on handheld.
Yeah, so I don't know.
SPEAKER_00 (18:12):
I don't know, sir.
There's a lot of what ifs in theair right now.
What if, uh what's it gonna looklike in a year from now?
Or what's the Nintendo Switchversion gonna look like?
I think that kind of really getsme going, is like one, they're
trying to make cross-platformfor both the Xbox One, like the
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main console versions, betweenPC and console.
The Nintendo Switch is known fornot being cross-platform, first
of all.
Great example is Civilization.
You can play console betweenconsole to PC, but you can't
play it via Nintendo Switch toanything else.
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It's kind of just a dead gamethere.
It's kind of the things thatmake you think like, what kind
of like why are we making gamesthat doesn't make sense?
Just give me Nintendo Dogs back,please.
SPEAKER_02 (19:14):
Like, see, and that's another crazy thing to
where I've been saying for awhile that uh while people are
having these console wars aboutXbox exclusive and PlayStation
exclusives, but nobody reallychecks Nintendo because like
they're like the king ofexclusives.
Like I mean, unless you'replaying on PC, I don't think
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there's ever a Nintendo productthat was ever cross-platform
with any other thing.
Like, you'll never catch a Mariogame being played on a
PlayStation or as Buzzword orLegend of Zelda game or
something like that.
It's like if you want to playshit like Kirby Air Rider, the
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new one coming out, well, or ifit's already out, I don't know
yet, but I think it's likesomewhere around by now.
But if you want to play that, ohwell, yeah, I'll play it on
Switch or Switch 2.
SPEAKER_00 (20:16):
No, no, no.
Hits Wizard Wizard 101 is thattype of like I said, is that
turn-based combat collectiblecard game type of MMORPG?
There's again, I'm going toreference it to um Neopets
(20:42):
again.
Like this is it.
Um I also thought it was kind ofcool.
I don't know if you ever seenthis.
There's uh Adventure Time, theDistant Lands animated series.
Wizard City is you actually getto see a little bit of Wizard
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City in that.
They kind of referenced it offof that fourth episode.
SPEAKER_01 (21:12):
Yeah, okay.
SPEAKER_00 (21:14):
So you've got cool pop culture references for like
Wizard 101.
I mean, you had Nick Jonaswriting some of the music, you
had Selena Gomez in the scene.
Ugh, round and round.
That album, A Year Without Rain,is like one of my favorites.
SPEAKER_02 (21:29):
Yeah, I know that's like I remember when that song
was really popping off, andactually I'm glad that you
mentioned that because like it'scrazy how they had Selena Gomez
as a singer with the little guysin the background and whatnot,
and that's great on them, butit's like a missed opportunity
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to have her casting magic whenshe was also the star of Wizards
of Windows Place at the sametime that that was going on.
SPEAKER_00 (21:59):
It's it's like when they got composer Nelson
Everhart to write the music for101 because they initially asked
him to like write a whole HarryPotter soundtrack, and he did
that.
Like it sounded so much likeHarry Potter.
They were like, Okay, I mean,you got the job, but you kind of
need to tone it down becausewe're venturing into copyright
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territory, and then they're justlike, screw it, we're just gonna
give it to Everhart instead forthe I mean, we're gonna give it
to you for the rest of the time.
I mean, he composes the musicstill, but they he they
eventually had to tell him heneeded to tone it down because
of how Harry Potter it became,and I'm like, Wizards 101 is the
Harry Potter game for kids thatcould not afford Harry Potter.
unknown (22:45):
Wow.
SPEAKER_02 (22:50):
That's a way to put it.
SPEAKER_00 (22:53):
I mean, I'm not to be fair, I'm not really wrong in
that case.
I mean we're now com we're nowgetting Harry Potter games.
Like, we've got the one that'son the phone that you can create
your own Harry Potter wizard andchoose your um what house you're
gonna be a part of.
Wizards 101 was the base of thatgame.
(23:14):
I'm 90% sure.
They're like, yeah, we haveWizard City.
There we go.
We have Hogwarts, like to me,there's a lot of similarities
now.
I'm not I don't play HarryPotter because I'm not a Harry
Potter fan.
It's gonna make some of y'allweird it out, but I'm not that
big a fan.
I just watched all the moviesthis summer.
(23:39):
Like I just watched all themovies, I've never seen them
before until now.
SPEAKER_02 (23:44):
Okay, well, that's okay.
Like, I don't think, like, okay,at least you watch the movies,
that's good.
That's how I feel about a lot ofthings, where like, hmm, uh,
that's like me saying I nevergot around to actually watching
shit like Star Trek orSupernatural.
(24:05):
Well, hold on, I I did watchlike a season or two of
Supernatural, though, don't getme wrong, but I just didn't
finish.
And I kind of want to finishbecause you know, the boys
season five is coming aroundnext year.
So what I'm gonna do is oncethat's um finished and whatnot,
I'm like thinking, okay, sincethey want to have a supernatural
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reunion during the boys, mightas well review Supernatural
somewhere in October.
But uh, Dr.
Who and some other IPs where youthink, like, wait, you haven't
seen it yet?
Like, what?
I mean, hell, I didn't even Ididn't care for Star Wars until
(24:47):
like what Force Awakens wasannounced, and now I'm like,
okay, mine as well, sincethey're making more movies.
SPEAKER_00 (24:55):
I'm I'm I'm gonna be flat out with you with
Supernatural.
I've only seen the scenes that Iwant to see, and that requires
me to go on YouTube and justclick on the best edits of
Supernatural.
So when they find the fanfiction, yes, beautiful.
When Paris Hilton is in it, yes,beautiful.
SPEAKER_01 (25:12):
Like, yeah, like I just want to watch the scenes I
want to watch.
SPEAKER_02 (25:20):
I was gonna like, is that really the guy heard it in
it?
Okay, sure.
I mean, she was like talking offat the time, so I'm like, okay,
sure.
I guess.
My god, they were trying to putParis Hilton like damn near
everything while back in there.
SPEAKER_00 (25:36):
Paris Hilton is bomb.
I love her.
Go, Queen.
SPEAKER_02 (25:41):
I wonder what she's doing nowadays.
SPEAKER_00 (25:43):
She actually runs a non-profit for kids that are
like like kids that are inacting so that they can get
their money, because a lot ofparents are abusive a-holes in
the acting world, not saying allof them, but she helps kids try
(26:03):
to win their money back.
Same thing with uh McCaulayColkin.
He is in the same boat as well,but I also know that he has a
she has a mental health program.
SPEAKER_02 (26:12):
Oh no, hold on.
I like how you said all thatwhen all this uh drama we're
hearing about Disney kids andNickelodeon kids, you know, like
quiet on setting or whatnot,like geese, yeast, yeast.
SPEAKER_00 (26:27):
I watched that show and that I know we're going off
on a tinge here, but I watchedthat show and went, holy moly, I
didn't expect a lot of that tohappen.
I know with Paris Hilton duringthe showing of the girls next
door, that was the that's fiveseasons of three of Hugh
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Hefner's girlfriends at thetime.
Paris Hilton was like 17 to 19years old.
She was going to Hugh Hefner'sparties practically naked.
And so she's got a program thathelps try to like fight things
like that.
Like I think she's reallyadmirable, but she definitely
(27:12):
turned her life around likeLindsay Lohan did.
SPEAKER_02 (27:16):
Right.
Like, oh god, like okay, thatverdict it was gonna be an
abdural especially with all theuh darkness being revealed in
recent times about things thathappened in the past where I'm
thinking, like, damn, like Imean, I was just a kid at the
(27:39):
time, I did not know all thatwas going on.
But uh, yeah, but uh was itone-on-one?
Um whatever so called that uh ohuh can we talk about malice
there a little bit?
Like, okay, like this guy, hismain thing was he just wanted to
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uh resurrect his dead wifebecause you know shit happens.
And he also has this brotherCyrus who was part of the myth
school and whatnot.
And my whole point being is thatum despite all this, like you're
thinking like, okay, that's allhe wants really.
So like there's a reason whyhe's uh a bad guy and you fight
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him, and you're thinking, like,okay, you killed him, and he's
gonna uh reunite with his wife.
Nope.
His uh spirit might have, Ithink, yeah, his spirit might
have, but his body didn't.
And I'm guessing that uhMorgan's using his body to
essentially try to get revengeon you for killing him.
(28:49):
So it's almost like, yeah, youknow, I finally got to reunite
with my wife, but uh, I can'tlet that one kid slide by
defeating me.
So I need uh I got someunfinished business to take care
of.
SPEAKER_00 (29:04):
Can I just say that Sylvia Drake 2011 is such an
upgrade from 2000?
Um, sorry, Sylvia Drake from2019, she is beautiful.
2011, when Arc Wizard put herin, she was a blob.
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She is so gorgeous now.
I'm just saying.
SPEAKER_02 (29:30):
Like she's um that reminds me uh when you go to
that other wizard school andthere was like this lady that uh
people were like practicingbefore.
Like, what was her name again?
Like, it was like this oneprofessor, I think it was like
Cassandra or something.
Cassandra Chris, I think it was.
Yeah.
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I thought her design was prettydecent.
Like, even nowadays, when I'mlike, okay, her I can kind of
understand why.
Uh so it is back in the 2000s.
They might have their littleawakening, and next thing you
know, they're Donna.
SPEAKER_00 (30:13):
I agree.
Her name is Belladonna.
I think that's where you do it.
Yeah, Belladonna Crisp.
My goodness.
The glasses, the everything.
Oh my gosh.
It's crazy.
She had to be awakening for somepeople.
I'm just saying.
SPEAKER_02 (30:32):
Yeah, it's like the um the sexy professor with the
uh dressed shirt and theglasses, whatnot.
SPEAKER_00 (30:41):
That's a side profile though.
SPEAKER_02 (30:44):
Yeah.
Like especially in um during theuh, you know how Wizard 101 had
those loading screens, and thenthere was this one that was like
uh where they're like moredetailed, and with her, it was
like, oh damn, like it's likefor the first time, it's like I
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don't mind the loading screens.
SPEAKER_00 (31:12):
Yeah, I can see it.
SPEAKER_02 (31:14):
Yeah, but aside from that, those like a whole lot of
adventuring that they had to dowith the uh with their like side
quests and whatnot.
Like, um, there was oneYouTuber, I think it was Umpa, I
think it was like something likethat.
I know I shared the video ofkids that he did that he spent
four hours talking about this.
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I'm like, uh, I commend you,sir.
I probably not gonna even givemy review one hour.
But uh hey, like I said, youknow, I'm just kind of doing it
for the member berries.
Like, I just remember thatWizard 101 was a thing only
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because it was announced thatit's gonna be on console now.
So I've been like, hey, yo,y'all remember Wizard 101?
But um, Silly, you got anythingthat you want to talk about with
Wizard 101?
Because honestly, I'm kind oftapped out.
SPEAKER_00 (32:16):
Uh I think one, there's too many damn NPCs, and
that's all I'm gonna say.
There should not be 2200 NPCs atall.
But I understand because of howmany different cities there are
and different littleneighborhoods.
But you know, I'm I'm prettymuch done too.
SPEAKER_02 (32:38):
Oh, also, I did like how a lot of these worlds in the
spiral was based on places onearth like Egypt and whatnot.
I like how they had one forAfrica and one for Egypt, but
like, hey, y'all do know thatEgypt is a part of Africa,
right?
SPEAKER_00 (32:59):
Wasn't it like was it Africa or was it like a
safari themed like a type ofthing?
SPEAKER_02 (33:06):
Yeah, it was literally called safari.
SPEAKER_00 (33:09):
Wow.
No, we gotta get that Egypt in,you know.
SPEAKER_02 (33:15):
I mean, kind of makes it, you know, you gotta
have like the Egypt place.
Uh you have the Aztec place.
Uh I'm thinking they have theydefinitely have one based off uh
Beudal Japan, obligatory.
Uh one based off England, ofcourse.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (33:36):
True, that one with the England one, that that's my
favorite.
Like, that's that's my favorite.
I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_02 (33:42):
No, I understand the boy, you know, with dogs and
whatnot.
Yeah, I get it.
Yeah, that was the crazy thing.
It's like uh all these dogs, alllike they were like the
outstanding citizens, and everytime you came across a cat, it's
like, oh well, you know thatcat's up to no good.
It was like that one movie, dogsand cats all over again.
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Every time the cat shows up,there it's up to no good.
SPEAKER_00 (34:07):
No, because okay, so when they get there, uh when
they get there, they're likeSherlock Bones, you know,
Sherlock Holmes, and then youhave Meowdery, which is
Professor Morality, which is thecriminal mastermind of Sir
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Arthur Ken Doyle, or detectiveSherlock Holmes, and then
Newgate Prison is just an actualprison off Newgate Street in Old
Bailey in 12th century England,so they did their research.
It's historical, I mean.
SPEAKER_02 (34:48):
But it kind of went overboard where there's like
there's like three to five clocktowers every time you go around
a block.
I'm like, come on, though.
Like just because Big Ben is inEngland, like literally every
building gotta be a clock tower,really.
SPEAKER_00 (35:09):
Imagine them all going off at once.
SPEAKER_02 (35:12):
Oh, good lord.
That's I'm gonna I'm gonna hateevery time it strikes midnight
and noon to where I'm like, goodgod.
Literally, I'm gonna be annoyedon the hour.
Like, every hour on the hour,I'm gonna be immediately
annoyed.
Like, I'm gonna have my uhfucking uh Azvil on standby so I
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can hear this headache wherewe're like ding ding ding.
You know, like you wonder, like,how do y'all deal with this?
And like, yeah, you know, youjust learned to have earplugs
on.
Like, um I I don't know how youwould live in a place where
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there's like clock tower justgoing off every hour, and it's
like this loud echo all over thecity.
You was like, just letting youknow it's been an hour.
SPEAKER_00 (36:12):
No, but I do kind of have to commend them that they
they really did their research,especially with arc one and arc
two, because you see a lot ofthat old like mythological um
when they defeat the um the Oniof Mushu and then second arc
when they're in um Celestia andZ Balba, you know.
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They they did their research andthey they based a lot of the
characters off of real people.
I mean in arc three you haveRasputin and Xerxes.
So they they they did theresearch, laps off to them.
So okay, yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (37:07):
Alright, and was that all you had?
SPEAKER_00 (37:09):
Yeah, that's that's that's all I had.
SPEAKER_02 (37:12):
Alright, fair enough.
Alright, well, yeah, um, would Irate Wizard one-on-one?
I guess I give it at least threestars.
I mean, commendable that it ranfor as long as it did.
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And uh, I guess it's one ofthose games where you might want
to introduce it to youryoungling.
Like, if you have a littlechild, like, hey, like Daisy's
birds magic game.
Um, I guess, like something toplay with, like something uh
long term that they can play.
And like it's they say it's freeto play, but you know, lies.
(38:01):
Yeah, it's it's lies, it's it islies because uh I was thinking
like that's why I didn't go backto play on console because I'm
thinking like, wait a minute,wasn't it?
Like this whole payroll thing,yeah.
Like you know what Sandy, you'reright.
I I can't understand how onlyadults will play this game in
this bunch because ain't no waya child is going to drop$50 a
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month just to keep thissubscription going.
Like, honestly, I kind of feelsome type of way about paying
like what$13,$14 for FinalFantasy 14?
Like, I mean, come on, likereally, we uh we're doing this,
but yeah, I I'm not doing$50 amonth.
(38:48):
Just do like, I mean, I I'msometimes I like to get a little
hesitant paying like$10 to$20for these battle passes and
small rifles.
So you gotta you got me kind offucked up when you're gonna
think I'm gonna drop$50 for allthis when like there's so many
games that's coming out.
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I'm like, you mean to tell methat?
Oh, well, instead of buyinggames like uh Grand Theft Auto 6
or whatnot coming out.
Yeah, like oh no, no, no, youknow what?
Just reap your subscripts to umWizard 101.
You'll be alright.
You don't really need that game.
SPEAKER_00 (39:26):
I'll just stick to buying Sims back until oh wait,
no, I can't.
Crap.
Oh, I can't do that right now.
Ah I can't buy Sims right now.
I'm on a strike.
SPEAKER_02 (39:40):
I gotcha.
All right, well, uh oh, it's athree for me.
SPEAKER_00 (39:47):
Sorry, uh my rate's a three as well because I don't
want to have to pay every time Iwant to use a stupid card.
I don't want to have to payevery time I want to go to a
different town neighborhood.
SPEAKER_02 (40:01):
It was fun while it lasted the prerun.
SPEAKER_00 (40:06):
It was fun when I was 10.
Yeah, no longer 10.
I don't want to play it.
SPEAKER_02 (40:15):
On that note, go ahead and close this out.
Seb, thank you for being on.
Uh to listener, I do thank youfor listening to us to the end.
I'm serious about you listeningto our Sims review because we
had a bunch to say about that.
And we're gonna go ahead andzone up out of here.
Go ahead and have yourself agood morning, good evening, good
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afternoon, good night, whatevertime it is in your area that
you're listening to this.
Uh, remember to stay nerdy andthat great things are coming.
Uh, until the next review.
What up, gang?
I want to talk about Wizard 101.
Now, the reason why we'rereviewing this now is because
recently it is now available toplay on console.
And I remember way back in the2000s when it was brand new.
How okay, here's this game whereyou can be a little wizard and
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you go on to fight thesemonsters.
You have this turn-basedgameplay where it's like sorry,
I'm kind of stumbling a littlebit where you have this
turn-based gameplay that lookslike you're summoning creatures
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or whatnot, and it comes in theform of a car, and there's like
certain effects, but then itjust summons this creature or
whatnot.
And you can also fight with yourpets, like you can buy pets and
they can fight with you.
And essentially, there's like atleast four major arcs in Wizard
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101, which is crazy because Iwas kind of following it up
until like the second arc withuh the evil lady Morgan, and
after that just kind of felloff.
Hearing that it's now availableon console, I'm thinking like,
okay, let's try it again.
And uh let's just say nowadaysin adulthood, if I'm not working
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or working on something else,I'm probably playing other
games, so yeah.
Anyways, Sebi, I do thank youfor being on for this episode.
Uh it is to my attention, likeit came to my attention that you
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also played this game, and Ijust want to ask you, how are
you feeling about Wood's 101?
SPEAKER_00 (01:59):
So, when I was a kid, I used to play this and
Pirates on one religiously.
Like those are my back-to-backtwo games.
I played it prior to like a hugepaywall coming in.
So, when all the paywalls beganto happen and you had to start
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buying things just to evencontinue on with the game, of
course, I lost interest becauseat the time I'm a kid, I'm not
gonna go ask my parents for 50bucks just to unlock a part of
the neighborhood, you know whatI mean?
Like, I obviously everyoneriding around, they're really
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cool brooms and cars, andthey've got the rarest chill,
like pets and all that junk, andI'm just like, no kid is gonna
go ask their parents for likethis amount of money, but I mean
it's crazy because back in thattime, um, the only game where I
felt like, okay, it's fair thatthey gotta keep buying expansion
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packs and whatnot.
SPEAKER_02 (03:05):
It's well, aside from the films, I was gonna say
World of Warcraft, where I'mlike, okay, that kind of makes
sense where it keeps happening,like expansion packs and
whatnot.
But it wasn't a whole lot ofgames where it felt like a whole
investment to play this gameunless it's like a gotcha game
nowadays, you know, like uhBrave Frontier, but that's like
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somewhere in the 2010s.
Uh, but nowadays we got gameslike Genshin Impact, Zenless
Zone Zero, uh Honkai Star Rail.
I don't know if Weather and Wavedoes that too.
Maybe uh Hero can probably tellus because he I know he played
that game.
Uh but yeah, like it's crazy howSun Game just feels like this
(03:51):
big investment just to play thegame, but I just didn't feel
that for Wizard one of thetimes.
Like it was like fun for thattrial period, but after that, no
thank you.
SPEAKER_00 (04:02):
Yeah, I agree with you 100% on this.
Um, I mean, I thought that likethe whole, you know, you could
create your own wizard, pick acool hairstyle, do you want to
be a part of life, death, fire,ice?
Like the care the customizationfor the characters to me is
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in-depth at least.
I mean, there could be more, butI mean this is an early 2000s
game, and seeing it on consolenow.
The graphics, though they'vebeen updated, they haven't
changed.
I'm not gonna lie to you aboutthat.
It's still the same Wizards 101that you grew up with.
It's like if they put Neo Petson console.
SPEAKER_02 (04:48):
No, you know, you know what I was thinking?
I was thinking for some reasonnowadays, Wizard 101 looks like
one of those games that you'llget like were you around when
serial boxes would have like thediscs, so you would play a game,
and it feels like that to whereyou feel like this uh serial box
(05:09):
game that's like look kind offun for like a month or two, but
then eventually you um eithercomplete it or you just uh drop
it.
And it's like that game towhere, like, well, hold on,
there's like updates still.
SPEAKER_00 (05:25):
Me with my Sims when I first got it.
I got My Sims in a DVD from aBurger King Happy Meal like
thing.
That's that's the only reasonwhy I got into My Sims so
religiously is because of BurgerKing.
SPEAKER_02 (05:41):
Well, actually, you know what's crazy?
What got me into the Sims wasthe uh spin-off, the herbs,
where it was on GameCube, and uhhaving the GameCube was real
hype back at the at the time.
So I was thinking, okay, I'lltry the Sims um for a good
while, see how it is.
And then I I liked it, I did.
And then eventually it got methinking, okay, let's try the
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other Sims game.
And well, there's my journey.
SPEAKER_00 (06:06):
I'm not gonna say anything because we know how
that is.
SPEAKER_02 (06:09):
Um listen to our Sims review if you want to hear
our two cents on that.
SPEAKER_00 (06:15):
Um but yeah, Wizards 101 is again, it's one of those
games that you kind of like youyou either grew up with or
you're now starting to get intoit as someone who's new.
But here's another thing though,a lot of the veteran players are
douchebags.
(06:39):
I dabbled in it back on when itcame out onto the console when
it was still in the pre-demo.
Of course, um at the time, ifyou bought crowns for the demo,
everything that you bought wouldbasically be sold, and you'd get
those crowns back at the endwhen the game officially came
out.
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But a lot of those veteransplayers went on to the play the
console.
SPEAKER_02 (07:07):
Actually, it is kind of crazy how like I've tried to
play on console and it just feltso laggy to me.
But then again, I was thinkinglike, okay, it was like day one
or two that it came out onconsole officially.
So I was thinking, like, okay,maybe the servers are just
congested and whatnot, but goddamn, like it just felt so
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weird, like, especially whenyou're thinking like you're
trying to walk along thesidewalk because you don't
really feel like um doing allthose fights.
But then next thing you know,you get pulled into a fight that
you didn't think it was gonnaengage, and I I don't know, it's
like I guess the lagginess kindof ruined the illusion of me
(07:54):
getting immersed into the gamelike I used to.
SPEAKER_00 (07:59):
Yeah, I agree.
SPEAKER_02 (08:02):
Uh another thing, um, when you mentioned the
customization in the classes,like, okay, last time around, I
was a balance mage, and Ithought it was funny how the dog
um Professor Arthur, like he'sone of the only ones that didn't
have uh class, so we had to uhhave class outside, and I was
like, man, damn.
(08:24):
But uh the second time around onthe console, I was just like,
hey, you know what?
Fuck it.
Uh I wanna uh because last timeI picked like the edgiest
edgelord name for my character.
I know it was like Blazesomething, uh, and I end up
being a balanced mage.
But um this time around, I waslike, okay, let me just um think
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of the most like a simple name,you know, like a believable
name.
And then I was like, fuck it,I'll try to go for fire mage
since uh I'm just kind of inspirit mountain just wanna um
see if it's as good as itremembered.
Like honestly, it's one of thosegames where I'm like, I have to
(09:08):
be pretty vague to entertainthis game, but hey, you know
what?
I'm just gonna play it.
Uh just because it's uh Saturdayafternoon, I don't got shit to
do, might as well play thisgame.
Uh uh.
But uh yeah, I want to saycustomizing your character, like
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the design.
Yeah, there's only some bellsand whistles there.
But if you ask me, I wish we hadthe choice of just typing in our
name instead of uh generatingit, because I don't know, just
not a whole lot um that grabbedmy attention, where it's like
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either it's gonna be either kindof cutesy or edge lord, like
Penelope Unicorn bow.
SPEAKER_00 (10:05):
I don't know.
I used to play this game inItaly, um, where I'm from.
We used to play this game allthe time because one, we barely
had yeah, um Sicily.
Okay, cool, okay, okay, okay.
But we used to play this gamebecause we had one computer in
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the house.
Um and you'd come home.
So I used to go over there allthe time during the summer.
My mom was really big on school,so I would come to America
during the school year, likeSeptember to July, and then we
would go to Sicily, and I wouldgo to school from July until
August or June to August.
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So we would come to my cousin'shouse who had a computer, and we
used to play this game all thetime at the time because it was
in Italian.
They got rid of the the Italian,Polish, and I think Greek
versions of this game back in2024.
So when my cousins messaged mesaying that Wizard 101 no longer
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exists, one of my cousins playedthat game still.
SPEAKER_02 (11:15):
Yeah, I thought Wizard 101 was one of those
games where I thought theservers were shut down while I
mean great that it was stillrunning this whole time, but I'm
like, wow, like it's stillgoing?
People still play it?
SPEAKER_00 (11:28):
Oh yeah, people still still play it, like it's
crazy.
Um, I know with let's say mybrother-in-law still plays the
game, and he's like, I can'twait to get to level, I think
they just released level 170.
They officially can become amaximum level, and I'm just
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like, okay.
I'm just here.
I I was a death wizard.
Surprise, surprise, this Nemokid with Penelope Unicorn
something.
SPEAKER_02 (12:03):
Okay, the whole Bro, I thought you just made that
name up.
SPEAKER_00 (12:07):
No, I can't remember what the latter part is, but I
was Penelope Unicorn something.
And I was a death wizard.
SPEAKER_02 (12:18):
Uh okay, okay.
But yeah, that is kind ofironic.
Like, you were thinking, like,okay, like Penelope Unicorn.
You she must be like one ofthose Hubble Pub type uh
charity, right?
No.
Death Wizard.
SPEAKER_00 (12:32):
Death Wizard.
Boom.
Take that, Master.
SPEAKER_02 (12:37):
Subversion of expectations.
SPEAKER_00 (12:43):
Majority of the people that you see playing
Wizards 101 right now are alladults because, of course, they
grew up with it.
Um because the console versioncame out.
I'm not 90.
I'm not because I don't reallychat in the game, so I'm 90%
sure the chat is still like thatwhole text a great job or good
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better luck next time typestuff.
SPEAKER_02 (13:08):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (13:09):
I know on PC you can text a chat 18 plus, but you
also have to connect your uhyour credit card to your chat
just to verify the account ifyou're 18 or older, because
apparently if you're 18 orolder, you have a credit card.
SPEAKER_02 (13:31):
Oh wow, okay, yeah.
Like by the time you're 18,yeah, like you should be a
responsible goal.
Here's your credit card, goahead and ruin your credit.
SPEAKER_00 (13:42):
We have to run your credit, you need to have a 720
credit score, you need to beable to afford two times your
rent, and you need a downpayment of$1,400 just so that
you can have unfiltered words inWizards 101.
SPEAKER_02 (13:56):
Wow.
Jesus Christ, you gotta have thelike it gotta be one of those
things where maybe your dadmight have started uh your
credit card um or like while youwere like a young teenager, and
it's like, okay, well, it's inyour name, but like, okay, you
gotta use it responsibly.
You know, this is gonna be yourallowance money, so to speak.
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So be careful with it.
Like, um, don't spend it all inone place.
SPEAKER_00 (14:26):
I think the most interesting thing is I'm
wondering, because I know thatas of October 1st, we've got it
released on Xbox One, XboxSeries, PlayStation 4, and 5,
but a Nintendo Switch versionhas been confirmed.
How's that gonna work?
Is it still gonna be like anonline game, do you think?
SPEAKER_02 (14:45):
Oh, I do not amaz like if I just don't think it'll
be running well enough onNintendo Switch.
Like, there's just some thingswith Nintendo Switch where I'm
like the online capabilities isjust kind of limited.
(15:08):
Like, if it's not a Nintendoproduct, for some reason, uh if
not the lagginess, it's thegraphics, where it's like it's
just gonna feel very inferior uhcompared to the PlayStation and
Xbox.
So uh I don't know about theSwitch, but Xbox and
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PlayStation.
Maybe once the um server is likelevel out, maybe I see a lot of
consistent console players.
But I just don't know becauseyou know it was originally
geared to be a PC game, so itkind of made sense in that
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aspect.
But like now that it's onconsole, like whole bunch of
functionalities and whatnot.
See, that's another thing whereI try to pull up the uh menus
and the settings, and it feltlike yeah, it reminded me easily
how, yeah, I remember this wasmeant to be for PC.
SPEAKER_00 (16:17):
I'm wondering if the Nintendo Switch is gonna have,
you know, when you'd get likethe 3DS and it would have like
the Sims, but it was like onetown, and you can only pick the
newbie family.
I wonder if it's gonna be kindof like that.
Like it's just uh like SimsCastaway something.
SPEAKER_02 (16:38):
Uh oh, that's crazy too because I remember
castaways.
Like I it's actually funny whereit felt linear and obviously
sandboxed, but with castaways, Ithought it was kind of funny how
like by the end of the game, youfinally escape the island, you
go home and whatnot, it's alleverything all good and dandy,
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but then you realize you gotbuilt.
SPEAKER_00 (17:04):
Yep.
SPEAKER_02 (17:07):
But oh man, I don't know.
I think it might make it alittle worse.
Like it's bad enough that peopleare kind of complaining about
Pokemon Legend ZA, where theywere thinking that, oh, it's
gonna be in this one singulararea, like you don't get to
travel to the other regions.
(17:28):
But to be fair, it was the samething with Arceus, so y'all
didn't complain then.
Why I mean, I guess thecomplaints weren't that loud
when Arceus dropped, but theywere thinking with ZA that, oh,
I thought we were gonna travelto all these different places.
Or I don't know, like it mightbe in the world of DLC, maybe,
but yeah, like uh I don't knowif people might go for a
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limited, like because you knowthe whole lore with the spiral,
like they're thinking, like, ohwell, we don't get to experience
the rest of the spiral becausewe're on handheld.
Yeah, so I don't know.
SPEAKER_00 (18:12):
I don't know, sir.
There's a lot of what ifs in theair right now.
What if, uh what's it gonna looklike in a year from now?
Or what's the Nintendo Switchversion gonna look like?
I think that kind of really getsme going, is like one, they're
trying to make cross-platformfor both the Xbox One, like the
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main console versions, betweenPC and console.
The Nintendo Switch is known fornot being cross-platform, first
of all.
Great example is Civilization.
You can play console betweenconsole to PC, but you can't
play it via Nintendo Switch toanything else.
(18:56):
It's kind of just a dead gamethere.
It's kind of the things thatmake you think like, what kind
of like why are we making gamesthat doesn't make sense?
Just give me Nintendo Dogs back,please.
SPEAKER_02 (19:14):
Like, see, and that's another crazy thing to
where I've been saying for awhile that uh while people are
having these console wars aboutXbox exclusive and PlayStation
exclusives, but nobody reallychecks Nintendo because like
they're like the king ofexclusives.
Like I mean, unless you'replaying on PC, I don't think
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there's ever a Nintendo productthat was ever cross-platform
with any other thing.
Like, you'll never catch a Mariogame being played on a
PlayStation or as Buzzword orLegend of Zelda game or
something like that.
It's like if you want to playshit like Kirby Air Rider, the
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new one coming out, well, or ifit's already out, I don't know
yet, but I think it's likesomewhere around by now.
But if you want to play that, ohwell, yeah, I'll play it on
Switch or Switch 2.
SPEAKER_00 (20:16):
No, no, no.
Hits Wizard Wizard 101 is thattype of like I said, is that
turn-based combat collectiblecard game type of MMORPG?
There's again, I'm going toreference it to um Neopets
(20:42):
again.
Like this is it.
Um I also thought it was kind ofcool.
I don't know if you ever seenthis.
There's uh Adventure Time, theDistant Lands animated series.
Wizard City is you actually getto see a little bit of Wizard
(21:06):
City in that.
They kind of referenced it offof that fourth episode.
SPEAKER_01 (21:12):
Yeah, okay.
SPEAKER_00 (21:14):
So you've got cool pop culture references for like
Wizard 101.
I mean, you had Nick Jonaswriting some of the music, you
had Selena Gomez in the scene.
Ugh, round and round.
That album, A Year Without Rain,is like one of my favorites.
SPEAKER_02 (21:29):
Yeah, I know that's like I remember when that song
was really popping off, andactually I'm glad that you
mentioned that because like it'scrazy how they had Selena Gomez
as a singer with the little guysin the background and whatnot,
and that's great on them, butit's like a missed opportunity
(21:51):
to have her casting magic whenshe was also the star of Wizards
of Windows Place at the sametime that that was going on.
SPEAKER_00 (21:59):
It's it's like when they got composer Nelson
Everhart to write the music for101 because they initially asked
him to like write a whole HarryPotter soundtrack, and he did
that.
Like it sounded so much likeHarry Potter.
They were like, Okay, I mean,you got the job, but you kind of
need to tone it down becausewe're venturing into copyright
(22:22):
territory, and then they're justlike, screw it, we're just gonna
give it to Everhart instead forthe I mean, we're gonna give it
to you for the rest of the time.
I mean, he composes the musicstill, but they he they
eventually had to tell him heneeded to tone it down because
of how Harry Potter it became,and I'm like, Wizards 101 is the
Harry Potter game for kids thatcould not afford Harry Potter.
unknown (22:45):
Wow.
SPEAKER_02 (22:50):
That's a way to put it.
SPEAKER_00 (22:53):
I mean, I'm not to be fair, I'm not really wrong in
that case.
I mean we're now com we're nowgetting Harry Potter games.
Like, we've got the one that'son the phone that you can create
your own Harry Potter wizard andchoose your um what house you're
gonna be a part of.
Wizards 101 was the base of thatgame.
(23:14):
I'm 90% sure.
They're like, yeah, we haveWizard City.
There we go.
We have Hogwarts, like to me,there's a lot of similarities
now.
I'm not I don't play HarryPotter because I'm not a Harry
Potter fan.
It's gonna make some of y'allweird it out, but I'm not that
big a fan.
I just watched all the moviesthis summer.
(23:39):
Like I just watched all themovies, I've never seen them
before until now.
SPEAKER_02 (23:44):
Okay, well, that's okay.
Like, I don't think, like, okay,at least you watch the movies,
that's good.
That's how I feel about a lot ofthings, where like, hmm, uh,
that's like me saying I nevergot around to actually watching
shit like Star Trek orSupernatural.
(24:05):
Well, hold on, I I did watchlike a season or two of
Supernatural, though, don't getme wrong, but I just didn't
finish.
And I kind of want to finishbecause you know, the boys
season five is coming aroundnext year.
So what I'm gonna do is oncethat's um finished and whatnot,
I'm like thinking, okay, sincethey want to have a supernatural
(24:26):
reunion during the boys, mightas well review Supernatural
somewhere in October.
But uh, Dr.
Who and some other IPs where youthink, like, wait, you haven't
seen it yet?
Like, what?
I mean, hell, I didn't even Ididn't care for Star Wars until
(24:47):
like what Force Awakens wasannounced, and now I'm like,
okay, mine as well, sincethey're making more movies.
SPEAKER_00 (24:55):
I'm I'm I'm gonna be flat out with you with
Supernatural.
I've only seen the scenes that Iwant to see, and that requires
me to go on YouTube and justclick on the best edits of
Supernatural.
So when they find the fanfiction, yes, beautiful.
When Paris Hilton is in it, yes,beautiful.
SPEAKER_01 (25:12):
Like, yeah, like I just want to watch the scenes I
want to watch.
SPEAKER_02 (25:20):
I was gonna like, is that really the guy heard it in
it?
Okay, sure.
I mean, she was like talking offat the time, so I'm like, okay,
sure.
I guess.
My god, they were trying to putParis Hilton like damn near
everything while back in there.
SPEAKER_00 (25:36):
Paris Hilton is bomb.
I love her.
Go, Queen.
SPEAKER_02 (25:41):
I wonder what she's doing nowadays.
SPEAKER_00 (25:43):
She actually runs a non-profit for kids that are
like like kids that are inacting so that they can get
their money, because a lot ofparents are abusive a-holes in
the acting world, not saying allof them, but she helps kids try
(26:03):
to win their money back.
Same thing with uh McCaulayColkin.
He is in the same boat as well,but I also know that he has a
she has a mental health program.
SPEAKER_02 (26:12):
Oh no, hold on.
I like how you said all thatwhen all this uh drama we're
hearing about Disney kids andNickelodeon kids, you know, like
quiet on setting or whatnot,like geese, yeast, yeast.
SPEAKER_00 (26:27):
I watched that show and that I know we're going off
on a tinge here, but I watchedthat show and went, holy moly, I
didn't expect a lot of that tohappen.
I know with Paris Hilton duringthe showing of the girls next
door, that was the that's fiveseasons of three of Hugh
(26:48):
Hefner's girlfriends at thetime.
Paris Hilton was like 17 to 19years old.
She was going to Hugh Hefner'sparties practically naked.
And so she's got a program thathelps try to like fight things
like that.
Like I think she's reallyadmirable, but she definitely
(27:12):
turned her life around likeLindsay Lohan did.
SPEAKER_02 (27:16):
Right.
Like, oh god, like okay, thatverdict it was gonna be an
abdural especially with all theuh darkness being revealed in
recent times about things thathappened in the past where I'm
thinking, like, damn, like Imean, I was just a kid at the
(27:39):
time, I did not know all thatwas going on.
But uh, yeah, but uh was itone-on-one?
Um whatever so called that uh ohuh can we talk about malice
there a little bit?
Like, okay, like this guy, hismain thing was he just wanted to
(28:02):
uh resurrect his dead wifebecause you know shit happens.
And he also has this brotherCyrus who was part of the myth
school and whatnot.
And my whole point being is thatum despite all this, like you're
thinking like, okay, that's allhe wants really.
So like there's a reason whyhe's uh a bad guy and you fight
(28:25):
him, and you're thinking, like,okay, you killed him, and he's
gonna uh reunite with his wife.
Nope.
His uh spirit might have, Ithink, yeah, his spirit might
have, but his body didn't.
And I'm guessing that uhMorgan's using his body to
essentially try to get revengeon you for killing him.
(28:49):
So it's almost like, yeah, youknow, I finally got to reunite
with my wife, but uh, I can'tlet that one kid slide by
defeating me.
So I need uh I got someunfinished business to take care
of.
SPEAKER_00 (29:04):
Can I just say that Sylvia Drake 2011 is such an
upgrade from 2000?
Um, sorry, Sylvia Drake from2019, she is beautiful.
2011, when Arc Wizard put herin, she was a blob.
(29:27):
She is so gorgeous now.
I'm just saying.
SPEAKER_02 (29:30):
Like she's um that reminds me uh when you go to
that other wizard school andthere was like this lady that uh
people were like practicingbefore.
Like, what was her name again?
Like, it was like this oneprofessor, I think it was like
Cassandra or something.
Cassandra Chris, I think it was.
Yeah.
(29:52):
I thought her design was prettydecent.
Like, even nowadays, when I'mlike, okay, her I can kind of
understand why.
Uh so it is back in the 2000s.
They might have their littleawakening, and next thing you
know, they're Donna.
SPEAKER_00 (30:13):
I agree.
Her name is Belladonna.
I think that's where you do it.
Yeah, Belladonna Crisp.
My goodness.
The glasses, the everything.
Oh my gosh.
It's crazy.
She had to be awakening for somepeople.
I'm just saying.
SPEAKER_02 (30:32):
Yeah, it's like the um the sexy professor with the
uh dressed shirt and theglasses, whatnot.
SPEAKER_00 (30:41):
That's a side profile though.
SPEAKER_02 (30:44):
Yeah.
Like especially in um during theuh, you know how Wizard 101 had
those loading screens, and thenthere was this one that was like
uh where they're like moredetailed, and with her, it was
like, oh damn, like it's likefor the first time, it's like I
(31:04):
don't mind the loading screens.
SPEAKER_00 (31:12):
Yeah, I can see it.
SPEAKER_02 (31:14):
Yeah, but aside from that, those like a whole lot of
adventuring that they had to dowith the uh with their like side
quests and whatnot.
Like, um, there was oneYouTuber, I think it was Umpa, I
think it was like something likethat.
I know I shared the video ofkids that he did that he spent
four hours talking about this.
(31:36):
I'm like, uh, I commend you,sir.
I probably not gonna even givemy review one hour.
But uh hey, like I said, youknow, I'm just kind of doing it
for the member berries.
Like, I just remember thatWizard 101 was a thing only
(31:57):
because it was announced thatit's gonna be on console now.
So I've been like, hey, yo,y'all remember Wizard 101?
But um, Silly, you got anythingthat you want to talk about with
Wizard 101?
Because honestly, I'm kind oftapped out.
SPEAKER_00 (32:16):
Uh I think one, there's too many damn NPCs, and
that's all I'm gonna say.
There should not be 2200 NPCs atall.
But I understand because of howmany different cities there are
and different littleneighborhoods.
But you know, I'm I'm prettymuch done too.
SPEAKER_02 (32:38):
Oh, also, I did like how a lot of these worlds in the
spiral was based on places onearth like Egypt and whatnot.
I like how they had one forAfrica and one for Egypt, but
like, hey, y'all do know thatEgypt is a part of Africa,
right?
SPEAKER_00 (32:59):
Wasn't it like was it Africa or was it like a
safari themed like a type ofthing?
SPEAKER_02 (33:06):
Yeah, it was literally called safari.
SPEAKER_00 (33:09):
Wow.
No, we gotta get that Egypt in,you know.
SPEAKER_02 (33:15):
I mean, kind of makes it, you know, you gotta
have like the Egypt place.
Uh you have the Aztec place.
Uh I'm thinking they have theydefinitely have one based off uh
Beudal Japan, obligatory.
Uh one based off England, ofcourse.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (33:36):
True, that one with the England one, that that's my
favorite.
Like, that's that's my favorite.
I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_02 (33:42):
No, I understand the boy, you know, with dogs and
whatnot.
Yeah, I get it.
Yeah, that was the crazy thing.
It's like uh all these dogs, alllike they were like the
outstanding citizens, and everytime you came across a cat, it's
like, oh well, you know thatcat's up to no good.
It was like that one movie, dogsand cats all over again.
(34:03):
Every time the cat shows up,there it's up to no good.
SPEAKER_00 (34:07):
No, because okay, so when they get there, uh when
they get there, they're likeSherlock Bones, you know,
Sherlock Holmes, and then youhave Meowdery, which is
Professor Morality, which is thecriminal mastermind of Sir
(34:28):
Arthur Ken Doyle, or detectiveSherlock Holmes, and then
Newgate Prison is just an actualprison off Newgate Street in Old
Bailey in 12th century England,so they did their research.
It's historical, I mean.
SPEAKER_02 (34:48):
But it kind of went overboard where there's like
there's like three to five clocktowers every time you go around
a block.
I'm like, come on, though.
Like just because Big Ben is inEngland, like literally every
building gotta be a clock tower,really.
SPEAKER_00 (35:09):
Imagine them all going off at once.
SPEAKER_02 (35:12):
Oh, good lord.
That's I'm gonna I'm gonna hateevery time it strikes midnight
and noon to where I'm like, goodgod.
Literally, I'm gonna be annoyedon the hour.
Like, every hour on the hour,I'm gonna be immediately
annoyed.
Like, I'm gonna have my uhfucking uh Azvil on standby so I
(35:36):
can hear this headache wherewe're like ding ding ding.
You know, like you wonder, like,how do y'all deal with this?
And like, yeah, you know, youjust learned to have earplugs
on.
Like, um I I don't know how youwould live in a place where
(35:56):
there's like clock tower justgoing off every hour, and it's
like this loud echo all over thecity.
You was like, just letting youknow it's been an hour.
SPEAKER_00 (36:12):
No, but I do kind of have to commend them that they
they really did their research,especially with arc one and arc
two, because you see a lot ofthat old like mythological um
when they defeat the um the Oniof Mushu and then second arc
when they're in um Celestia andZ Balba, you know.
(36:40):
They they did their research andthey they based a lot of the
characters off of real people.
I mean in arc three you haveRasputin and Xerxes.
So they they they did theresearch, laps off to them.
So okay, yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (37:07):
Alright, and was that all you had?
SPEAKER_00 (37:09):
Yeah, that's that's that's all I had.
SPEAKER_02 (37:12):
Alright, fair enough.
Alright, well, yeah, um, would Irate Wizard one-on-one?
I guess I give it at least threestars.
I mean, commendable that it ranfor as long as it did.
(37:34):
And uh, I guess it's one ofthose games where you might want
to introduce it to youryoungling.
Like, if you have a littlechild, like, hey, like Daisy's
birds magic game.
Um, I guess, like something toplay with, like something uh
long term that they can play.
And like it's they say it's freeto play, but you know, lies.
(38:01):
Yeah, it's it's lies, it's it islies because uh I was thinking
like that's why I didn't go backto play on console because I'm
thinking like, wait a minute,wasn't it?
Like this whole payroll thing,yeah.
Like you know what Sandy, you'reright.
I I can't understand how onlyadults will play this game in
this bunch because ain't no waya child is going to drop$50 a
(38:25):
month just to keep thissubscription going.
Like, honestly, I kind of feelsome type of way about paying
like what$13,$14 for FinalFantasy 14?
Like, I mean, come on, likereally, we uh we're doing this,
but yeah, I I'm not doing$50 amonth.
(38:48):
Just do like, I mean, I I'msometimes I like to get a little
hesitant paying like$10 to$20for these battle passes and
small rifles.
So you gotta you got me kind offucked up when you're gonna
think I'm gonna drop$50 for allthis when like there's so many
games that's coming out.
(39:08):
I'm like, you mean to tell methat?
Oh, well, instead of buyinggames like uh Grand Theft Auto 6
or whatnot coming out.
Yeah, like oh no, no, no, youknow what?
Just reap your subscripts to umWizard 101.
You'll be alright.
You don't really need that game.
SPEAKER_00 (39:26):
I'll just stick to buying Sims back until oh wait,
no, I can't.
Crap.
Oh, I can't do that right now.
Ah I can't buy Sims right now.
I'm on a strike.
SPEAKER_02 (39:40):
I gotcha.
All right, well, uh oh, it's athree for me.
SPEAKER_00 (39:47):
Sorry, uh my rate's a three as well because I don't
want to have to pay every time Iwant to use a stupid card.
I don't want to have to payevery time I want to go to a
different town neighborhood.
SPEAKER_02 (40:01):
It was fun while it lasted the prerun.
SPEAKER_00 (40:06):
It was fun when I was 10.
Yeah, no longer 10.
I don't want to play it.
SPEAKER_02 (40:15):
On that note, go ahead and close this out.
Seb, thank you for being on.
Uh to listener, I do thank youfor listening to us to the end.
I'm serious about you listeningto our Sims review because we
had a bunch to say about that.
And we're gonna go ahead andzone up out of here.
Go ahead and have yourself agood morning, good evening, good
(40:38):
afternoon, good night, whatevertime it is in your area that
you're listening to this.
Uh, remember to stay nerdy andthat great things are coming.
Uh, until the next review.
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