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(to the rythm of boooty rockin' everywhere) Summer Summer Summer Summer Summer Summer Summer Summer summer summer games rockin' everywere

From Cozy Games Direct and Future of Play, to X-box Showcase and PC Gaming Show, everyone from big and small has indeed been informed about summer, and that there are games to be had durning it STAT.

And whew there were alot of announcements, just look at the website.

In our usual fashion it would too long to list every single game that was mentioned, so instead what of the games that looked really hecking cool?

Fredriks choice: SCHiM (by Ewoud van der Werf and Nils Slijkerman)

You play as a silly creature, hopping and puzzling thorugh shadows in a city. Human shadows, car shadows lamps shadows, anything is permitted. And it looks great to boot! Its coming out this year july for all Major consoles + Steam.

Karols choice Battle Suit Aces (by Trinket Studios)

Cooked up by the same developers as Battle Chef Academy (great game give it a go), this sci-fi card battler has style, worldbuilding and even features relationships with your crew! Not the genre im usually into but i believe in these devs. Release is TBD as of yet.

And our shared pick would be Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (by Sandfall Interactive)

Ever since the Paintress arrived, each year she paints a new number: 35..34...33. As she counts down people of that age vanish never to be seen again. Its up to our epxedition (the 33) to give a shot at stopping the paintress in their final year of life. RPG with QTE's in a wonderfully parisian inspired world. Also what a cool premise! To be released sometime in 2025.

We actually picked more games, but for that you would have been a long list.

You have to check rest of the episode for that ;) ta-ta for now!

Is this the real life? Is this just Fantasia?

Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality the orchestra

On today's menu, the original Fantasia all the way back from 1940. Frankly its good! Disney put their whole disnussy into making each segment disctinct and visually interesting.

But how do they fare against each other?

Don't get me wrong, the segments are each their own thing, but with a runtime of 2h there is only so much attention you can hold. The orchestra is phenomenal and will also lull you into sleep (or trance state which honestly might have been the intention as well?) So what shoul you be awake for?

There are bound to be some hits and misses (Sorcerers Apprentice being quite good even today) so lets go through them all.

I would have also included a gif of my best boy Sountrack, but you can guess how hard is to google for him. He is in my heart at least

Jack it into my veins babyy!!!!

This site: What the fuck is with all these animated shows getting terrible live-action remakes? We should start remaking live action media as cartoons to balance the scales.

The monkey's paw: *curls one finger*

I've been having these weird thoughts lately...

Its time to discuss the potential future of Kingdom Hearts! Or well.... bluesky our own wishes and make up interpretations of the teasers we had so far.

With the reveal of fictional worlds is any of this for real? Or not? What about Verum Rex? Whill KH become FF15? What is the Ancient Keyblade legacy anyway? And whats in the box Scott Cawthon Nomura???

And also! This episode that made me redownload KH Unchained X/Dark Road.

KH X: good! Love having access to all accesories with none of the grind. Super easy to go through cutscenes, but you might fall out of order like in Wreck in Ralph world (since some of the scenes take place in different worlds).

Dark Road: Interesting start, but the grind is unbeliveably terrible. I dont want to keep cheking my phone if i got knocked out or not. I guess i am not the audience for idle games so its cutscenes on youtube for me (ʘᴥʘ).

A whole new world game A new fantastic point of view No one to tell us no Or where to go Or say we're only dreaming

Kingdom Hearts 3 has been out for a while already, but that will not deter us about talking bout it. We are trendsetters like that ^_+

So what is KH3? What we are documenting today is:

The Worlds The Gameplay - Summons - Rides - Party Members The Villains The Plot And our overall enjoyement of course.

That is if i can contain myself from talking about end game spoilers in the earlier sections of the video. Im luckly to have Fredrik to rein me in.

Kingdom Hearts 3: 5 Years, 7 Months & 19 Days

A final chapter prologue and part 1 of 3 of our Kingdom Hearts 3 mini series!

Today we dive into the agonizing wait between the announcement and the eventual release of KH3.

Fredrik - our resident expert in field- has catalouged all the announcements and promos in a chronological order, including the likes of:

Developer interviews with Nomura over the years

Information from various E3 and events before release.

Timeline of remasters and new spin off titles like DDD and KHuX

Release of new themes / banging tunes

and more!

Plus we do like the series, like a lot, so we also talk about what excites us about the franchise. Give it a listen!

DEMOLITION MAN 2032

Wake the f**k up, Spartan! We have a city to save.

How did the folks imagine our action packed future back in 1993? Look no futher than Demolition Man, all the way back from 1997!

Its funny how the distant 2032 is only 8 years away. Sheesh :(

Anyway i felt the need for some adrenaline kicks, so a Sylvester Stallone flick was in order. Is fun to count in how many ways some of the things came in fact true: like AI, self driving cars, or sanitization of online and irl spaces. Also while we dont have full dive in neura links yet, our VR guys are working overtime on it, Yippie!

It's not entirely dystopian for us yet, so what is this movie trying to tell us? What steps can we take to stop this grim future from becoming true? Liberty babes, as in how much we are willing to part with it for convinience. oof.

Last but not least: everyone in this movie is so dang pretty, i loved Huxley and John Spartan can giiit ittt

In a schocking twist, we are back for more.

Why yes it is a smash and pass episode, but with a twist!

Given the relationship building nature of the game, Fredrik decided to throw in a challenge where we try to pair off characters and give our reasons behind them. Its especially fun given how we clash on some of each others pairs.

Video Game Mascots

A top ten, but only one of us knows what he is talking about.

So basically we have this handy dandy selection of marketable goobers below (Curtesy of Fredrik), and today decided to talk about which ones are *objectively* *most definetly* *surely* the best and most recognizeable.

Quite a selection tight?

So what are the criteria?

How iconic are they?

How good are the games?

Would your mom recognize this character?

Also link to our episode on youtube, with our top 10 picks!