Ryrie
Appearances
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
So occasionally we'll get codes a little early, but it tends to be for smaller indie games, right? We'll get a week or two weeks or something for a smaller indie game. This is EA. This is big. And it was big for us. You guys say, and you guys weren't hyped, but I was hyped. I knew it was going to be big. Now, here's the thing.
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
If I know I'm going to be playing a game and reviewing it on our channel, I avoid any reviews to begin with until after I have scripted my review. I was a little nervous, but I have my wife to give me that feedback of what she thinks about it, right? I've got two people who've played this game and have an opinion on it, and we've played a lot of co-op games.
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
So again, we're writing this specifically from a cooperative perspective, which isn't a view that a lot of the other people have. So I wouldn't have even been surprised if... our review varied from other people's reviews, right? Somebody that just played, um, whatever kingdom come deliverance, right? You guys are single players.
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
You might have a completely different opinion than somebody who majored in The major amount of the time plays co-op games. So I was pretty confident in our own score just because we sit in our own little niche of reviewing from a co-op perspective. But yeah, there was a little bit of nervousness that maybe I'm wrong about what I'm saying.
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
But again, with all my reviews, I try to avoid anybody, any other reviews before I script mine.
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
Okay. This is a couch co-op game. And I mean that in the sense that you could play it online, but the entire game is all on one screen, right? Whether you're playing online or playing on the couch, you're going to see the exact same thing. Both characters are going to be on the screen the whole time.
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
It follows the story of Zoe and Mio, who are two authors that get stuck in a simulation of their own stories and they're mixing it up. So Zoe writes fantasy stories, Mio writes sci-fi stories, and you're going to play through these crazy stories that they have written and enjoy the action adventure of it all. All right. I love it.
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
You know, I did. It was very exciting to be playing it a little early. I'll tell you what. I spent like a week trying to research the proper people at EA to contact about getting a review code of this game because I was excited for it.
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
No, I absolutely agree. This game is fantastic, especially from somebody who focuses. I've played hundreds of couch co-op games, and this one is a beat above many of them there. So... I'm excited to talk more about it because it's absolutely fantastic. And I want to get into what makes it so good. Yes.
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
What's the hook for you on this, Ryrie? I think for a lot of people, the hook's going to be the co-op. It takes two hooked a lot of people on the co-op. But for me, who plays a lot of co-op games already, I think the word I'm going to use, maybe Ryan will agree with this, is variation. You are never going to get bored of a game mechanic because it is never there long enough to get bored of. Yes!
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
Yes, that's perfect! You're constantly getting new game mechanics to play around with, new gameplay styles. This is a 3D platformer at its heart, but it's also a 2D platformer, and it's a top-down game, and... whatever else it might be, there is always some kind of variation, some kind of change that makes it. So you're not going to get bored of playing split fiction, dude. All right.
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
Uh, yeah, I do. I I'd say it's probably like 75, 25, you know, my wife is there. She'll record videos with me now and then, but she plays all the games. So, you know, maybe 50, 50, just cause she has to be there to play the game. If she wasn't there, it wouldn't exist.
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
There was a little bit for my wife, maybe not for me necessarily. The game has side stories interspersed in there. I love the side stories. The last three chapters don't have any side stories. That's very true. So when we were missing those side stories, we felt a little bit like things were going on for long because there wasn't a break, but like...
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
Is it really a complaint if we were still having fun? Yeah.
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
Um, but yeah, I do all the video editing, finding the games, downloading games, managing everything, um, and posting the videos and she plays with me and she'll record scripts that I give. And one of the most beneficial things, you know, she gives me her opinion. Uh,
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
I'm torn. In general, I tend to like fantasy more. I'm with you. But I think they had... Their own little variations. The sci-fi levels had more boss fights. Yep. I don't know if you guys noticed that. So if you like the boss fights, the sci-fi, I enjoyed the fantasy stuff just because I lean a little bit more fantasy in the things I like to consume in my life.
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
Um, that's one of the things that really got us into it is we were looking for co-op games to play together and nobody was talking about them and people that were hadn't actually played the game themselves. Uh, so we thought make a channel, talk about games from a perspective of people that have actually played the co-op games rather than somebody who's like, I found out that this game has co-op.
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
It's Zoe writes calm stuff. Yes. And Neo has that.
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
That was stupid. Sitting on the benches when the benches popped up. Oh, every time.
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
I haven't played it, but there's a co-op game for you. So, um, Yeah, that's kind of where we're at.
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
I'll just throw in here. It's fantastic to hear you guys talking about that because I don't play a lot of solo games. Couch co-op games never look this good. There's nothing that looks this good in the couch co-op world. So this is a major step up and a calling card to a lot of people out there that are making couch co-op games. Why? Why can't your games look kind of better, look more like this?
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
You know, I always think it's too hard for them to, to run all of this in a split screen view, but then haze light goes and does it. It can happen. They've proven it right here. Jump up for my genre.
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
My wife always chooses the characters. Okay. So Zoe looks remarkably similar to my wife. Congratulations.
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
Yeah, the story is certainly not phenomenal, but not bad. My wife famously hates stories in games. She pulls out her phone during cut scenes.
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
Oh, no. She did not do that in Split Fiction. So that says something. for the story that she paid a little bit more attention to it it does it was a little bit predictable to us i don't know if you guys felt the same way we were constantly saying oh this is gonna happen two hours later that happened yeah yeah um so a little bit predictable i
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
I think it really helps to tie the story to, to tie the game together. Like Ryan, I'm glad that it was there, but it's not necessarily, it's, it's not a story that you're going to be like, Oh, the story and split fiction is so good. And again, if we're looking at couch co-op games, a lot of couch co-op games tend to be just gameplay, not a whole lot of story.
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
So it is a little bit different for that genre as well, that they're incorporating more of an in-depth story.
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
I did enjoy the parts where it kind of explained the stories that you were walking through. Yes, exactly. Why that specific thing. I did enjoy that part a little bit, but like the overall arcing story, overarching, whatever that word is. Yeah, overarching. Some words.
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
I have one that's in my head, but I want to talk about it when we get to boss fights. So I think instead I'll mention there was a game show level where you play on this game show where basically they're just trying to kill you. You have to... throw a bomb back and forth like hot potato.
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
Oh yeah. I have a pretty special wife. I'm happy. She plays the games with me all the time. You know that she has a pretty short leash. Uh, if she doesn't like a game, she quits it pretty fast.
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
If you don't throw it soon enough, it's going to explode and you have to go through an obstacle course to get it all the way to the end. And we had a ton of fun with that one. I remember how excited my wife was when that booted up. She was like, no way, this is a game show. They made a game show level and it was really entertaining. And honestly, probably one of the times that we died the most.
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
You know, I can understand that a lot of games where we played for like 45 minutes and never touched it again is huge because once she turns off the game, if she did not like it, she is not picking it up again. Um,
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
Are we talking about the one with the boss fight? Yeah. That I mentioned? There's a dentist. uh you play as as little teeth i thought it was our candy land at first yeah you're you're jumping from one cake to another walking along honeycombs or whatever um and the joy that we had playing through this and and even Again, we predicted this. My wife was like, something bad is going to happen.
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
This is not happy-go-lucky. Something is going to go wrong, and you get to the end of this level where you've been jumping around as this happy little tooth on all this cake and candy, and you blow out all the candles on the cake. And then this big old robot dentist appears, and...
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
he's scary man yeah and he'll he'll take his drill and he'll cut you in half you you become two different parts of a tooth it's uh it's insane it's crazy and probably one of my favorite most memorable levels of the game and my favorite boss fight for sure that boss fight was top notch too man it really was an epic epic boss fight uh on that but that's that's the whole game insane
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
There wasn't anything particularly that we didn't like. There was a couple of things that we felt were missing. When I asked my wife what she did not like about the game, the only thing she would say is that the monkey should have been a rhythm-based game. She just wished she loves rhythm-based games. I mean, there's nothing that we didn't like.
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
I felt like if you compare this to It Takes Two, It Takes Two had a lot of really fun, small things to interact with throughout the game. And I felt like this one had less things that were put in just as like mini little interactables. But that's comparing to It Takes Two, which is like the other great game in the co-op genre. So, you know, just as a game on its own, there's nothing wee.
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
I don't think you guys died at all. Yeah. Cause like I said, I made a full gameplay video of this and I cut out all of our mistakes and stuff. And I think it was like 11 hours, 45 minutes or something after cutting all of our fails. Yeah.
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
I wish we had more time to talk about it. I know.
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
Ooh. probably one of my favorite games. Uh, Michael would have enjoyed this, uh, horizon zero dawn. Absolutely loved it. Uh, recently for Christmas, I got, uh, Prince of Persia, the lost crown. Oh, John's playing that right now. I actually love in that one. Had a lot of fun with it. Uh, otherwise recently Nintendo sponsored us to play Pikmin four.
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
I saw it listed on – When I got the review key, they gave me this review guide of all the chapters and I saw that as the last chapter and I was like, Ooh, that's going to be. Yeah.
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
Absolutely. This one is a must play. It's worth finding somebody to play with if you don't normally play couch co-op. You mentioned that it's a little bit difficult at times, but honestly, it's not a hard game. I agree with that. I think it's fairly beginner friendly as well. If you want to try to get somebody that doesn't really play games to play with you, it's worth it.
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
I have no doubts that it will be nominated. Yeah.
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
And like, I got to play like an hour of that for a sponsored video, but, uh, I have played like 12 more hours of that game cause I just been really enjoying it. Uh, yeah. So those are off the top of my head. A couple of the games been playing recently, definitely split fiction. Um, and if we're talking co-op games, it takes two 2021. That was the start of our channel. Absolutely love that.
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
Yeah, thank you so much for having me. It was fun to be here with you. What did you rate this game, by the way? I gave it a 10 out of 10. My wife gave it a nine out of 10, but for the pure fact that you can't, uh, you can't, there's no room for wiggle is what she was, is what she was saying. So basically in my head, that's a 10 out of 10, but I got in trouble with her.
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
Cause in our video, I had it scripted where she said, it's a 10 out of 10. She said, I'm not doing that to the camera. So I had to put gameplay footage over that rating. But it's the only game I think that we've rated a number. We don't normally give our games a number, but we did give this one a 9.5 out of 10 when we split it between my wife.
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
Oh, that's when you started your channel. Yeah. We started our channel February. Oh, wow. It Takes Two came out March 2021. Oh, wow. So it came out like right after we started. Something like that. Happy anniversary.
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
Okay, well, here's the thing that sets me apart, and we've already talked about this. I play co-op games. I don't play a lot of solo games. I listen to your guys' podcasts because I love hearing about them, but I don't play a lot of solo games. So on the scale of co-op games, absolutely, it takes two. Game of the year.
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
On the scale of solo games, I have no clue because I just don't play that many of them.
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
Gonna, gonna lose some hosts. Gonna gain some. Yup. Yup.
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
we've come a long way since then man so hope you stick with us j willis i listened to your it takes two episode yesterday just in preparation for this episode okay and man you guys you guys have definitely come a long way so basically enjoyable but just a little bit different a little bit more hyped up a little bit more quality so yeah you used to suck is what he's saying you used to you were horrible before is all i want
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
Oh, I remember, Josh. No, no, no, no, no, no. We're just talking about split fiction today.
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
He's like, and I'm feeling pretty good about my chances right now, too. I pulled the game of the year. I don't know.
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
Oh, we were we were high. Both my wife and I absolutely loved It Takes Two. We played Brothers A Tale of Two Sons twice because we played the original on the switch where they added co-op and then we played it when they remade it and loved it both times. So we were really excited for this one. We didn't play a way out just because we don't really play rated M games for just personal reasons.
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
over and over and over again my wife and i both i made a a full gameplay video of the entire game i cut out so many clips of us falling off one of us one of us well apparently some of us are better motorcycle drivers than others so you know whatever
Video Gamers Podcast
Sublime Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
But yeah, we were incredibly hyped. And I'll tell you what, you guys may not have talked about it a whole lot. My audience is sick of it. That's why I'm here talking on your... Your channel rather than on my channel. He's like, I need another outlet. I need to talk about this somewhere else. So all my subscribers don't leave me.