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You may have heard Tears of the Kingdom is upon us, so we spend a bunch of time on early impressions and BOTW comparisons this week before moving on to the delightful people-puzzling of Humanity, the Overwatch 2 PvE cancellation, some sure-to-be-timely speculation about the new Mortal Kombat, and more.

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(00:00:00) NOTE: Some timecodes may be inaccurate for versions other than the ad-free Patreon version due to dynamic ad insertions. Please use caution if skipping around to avoid spoilers. Thanks for listening.

(00:00:10) Intro

(00:02:15) The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom [Nintendo Switch] on May 12, 2023

(00:41:54) First Break

(00:41:58) Humanity [PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, PlayStation VR, PlayStation VR2] on May 16, 2023

(00:54:47) Cook Serve Forever [PC (Microsoft Windows)] on May 15, 2023

(00:57:47) Second Break

(00:57:51) News

(00:58:10) Overwatch 2 canceling PVE Hero Mode

(01:10:42) VICE Media filing for bankruptcy

(01:20:31) Mortal Kombat getting (another) reboot?

(01:33:29) Pac-Man 99 going offline

(01:36:06) Nic Cage making his video game debut

(01:40:54) Sony's PlayStation Showcase announced

(01:44:29) Emails

(01:52:35) Wrapping up and thanks

(01:55:35) Enjoy your Zelda-ing

(01:57:16) See ya!

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Justin Galletly

Brad once again showing his ignorance of Majora's Mask. The map of Termina in Majora's Mask is COMPLETELY different from Ocarina's map, like entirely, also no, Ganon isn't anywhere to be found at all in Majora's Mask. Writing off Majora's Mask as an Ocarina of Time expansion pack just because it uses many of the same assets is really underselling just how gutsy and ambitious the game is even when put up against Ocarina. It's one of the most unique games in the entire franchise, by far, with arguably the best story of the whole series.

Michael Polston

Consider this my petition for Brad to continue playing Breath of the Wild on streams, maybe a Monday stream if Hitman isn't coming back.

Mike

Waypoint is the only good part of Vice. Vice was founded by dirtbags and led by dirtbags for the majority of the time. I’ll have a great summer if I never see another f’ing vibrator article from them ever again. Vice is awful and deserves to go down. Waypoint was the only special part and deserves so much more. Office culture at Vice/motherboard was very disturbing from a harassment point according to my friend who jumped ship in 2019.

swiftdraw

I didn’t care for BotW, to me it felt like a more restrictive Skyrim. But, in fairness, I modded the heck out of Skyrim and I think my inability to do so with BotW led me to put it down after 2 hours. I have no desire to pay $70 for a similar experience. Might have picked it up on sale, but Switch games rarely do and I am expecting not much of a price drop on the used game market. Edit: I will say, I am enjoying the crafting videos coming from Tears. My favorite so far is a guy made a helicopter gunship to strafe enemies and dubbed Fortunate Son over it. One thing I love about OW2 self-destructing it that Team Fortress 2 and Deep Rock Galactic are seeing a influx of new players trying something else. Keeps the communities from getting stale :)

Rob

In Tears, eventually you will be able to buy pictures you are missing. This was also in Breath of the Wild, but you had to complete a specific side quest first. Not certain if this is also the case in Tears of the Kingdom.

MunnyShh

I have had the same feelings as Vinny in regards to some of the exact same set up with TOTK. Still playing a lot regardless and enjoying the new stuff, but there are pangs of disappointment I experience. I'm not sure the new good necessarily excuses it but there's a feeling of excitement and wonder that was lost for me. It shows up on a smaller scale, locally. At a grander scale, there is the the sky and depths, but half of the grand wonder is a bit dampened for me.