Ghostly Humor, Bioshock Movie Ideas, and PlayStation 5 Price Drop Talk | The Gamerheads Podcast

In this week's mini-episode of The Gamerheads Podcast, Phil and Mike fill the Roger-sized gap with ghostly humor. While Roger is off on a ghost-hunting adventure, they ponder why modern-day ghosts seem to be missing and imagine today’s spirits in pants and graphic tees.

Video Game Adaptations: From Bioshock to Alan Wake
Phil and Mike discuss their dream game-to-movie adaptations, like a spine-chilling Bioshock film and an Alan Wake series fit for Netflix. They also explore other potential projects, including Vampire Survivors, Dead Rising, and a Resident Evil series that sticks to the games.

Luigi’s Mansion and Left 4 Dead as Movies
They envision a Luigi’s Mansion film and the thrills of a Left 4 Dead movie, drawing inspiration from the Super Mario Bros. movie and imagining survivors battling zombies.

PS5 Price Drop and Gaming News
The hosts debate the recent PlayStation 5 price drop, weighing game libraries, titles like Spider-Man and God of War, and the appeal of trading in old games.

Game Reviews: Darkwood and Katamari Damacy
Phil and Mike review Darkwood, a survival horror game with an eerie atmosphere, and discuss the quirky fun of Katamari Damacy. Plus, they reveal their next horror game assignment from Retro Game Frankenstein: the Dead Space remake.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Ghostly Humor: Why Modern-Day Ghosts Are MIA
• 6:05 Video Game Adaptations: From Bioshock to Alan Wake
• 12:34 The Charm of Luigi’s Mansion and Left 4 Dead
• 16:19 PS5 Price Drop and Gaming News
• 27:03 Game Reviews: Darkwood and Katamari Damacy

Transcript

Roger: 0:00

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Hey, this is James from Mega Cat Studios.

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Hey folks, this is Matt aka Stormageddon from Reignite and the Fun and Games podcast.

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This is Stephanie from the Boss Rush podcast and the Boss Rush Network. Hey, this is Mark and Kion from Bonta Affold. Hey, this is Sebastian with thepronerdreportcom and the Single Player Experience Podcast. Hi, this is Chris, mike and Garrett from Daylight Basement Studio. Hey, this is BaronJ67 from Level One Gaming. Hi, I'm Jacob McCourt from the Left Behind Game Club Crossplay Conversations and Video Game Trivia. Hey, this is Todd Mitchell from Code Right Play Salutations. This is Mike Carroll from Stroll Art.

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Hey, this is Jeff Moonen from Fun and Games Podcast.

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What's good y'all. This is Adam from Respawn Aimfire. Hey this is Patrick from the Backlog Odyssey. Hey, this is.

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Rune from Runic Codes. Hi, this is Andrew from Spaladabirds.

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Hi everyone, Jill Grodt here from the Indie Informer. Hello, this is the Crypt Master and you're listening to Roger Reich Richie. You're listening to Roger on The Gamerh eads Podcast.

Mike: 1:54

And welcome to a mini episode of The Gamerh eads Podcast Gamerh eads.

Mike: 1:57

It's a smaller one. Gamerh eads.

Mike: 2:00

Gamerh eads. Yeah, I don't know, it's later. I'm tired. My brain is not operating at full capacity right now.

Phil: 2:08

And I work today, so this could be just an absolute treat for your ear holes listeners. Yeah, well, hey everybody, this is Mike, I forgot, we're supposed to singular, that Singular not, because we're talking to one person, not a group of people. I learned that lesson the hard way.

Mike: 2:19

Hello person, I'm Mike. With me, as always, is Phil Phil. How's it going? Um I'm mike. With me, as always, is phil phil. How's it going good? Good, how are you, mike, doing? All right, roger is once again not here. Uh, this time he's out um ghost hunting. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's going to uh going to various places, uh, to uh get some emps and some.

Phil: 2:44

EMPs and Q&As and TNA. Whoa, he's going to a lot of different places. If he's going to get some TNA someplace, yep.

Mike: 2:52

Yep, so yeah. So he's going to come back and let us know about all the ghosts that he communicated with.

Phil: 3:00

He's hanging out with Zach Baggins.

Mike: 3:02

God, I hate that guy. Did we have that conversation about him not on the air.

Phil: 3:08

You and I did, and roger was even in out of the chat. Yeah, with his inability to say mercury oh yeah, that's right.

Mike: 3:13

Mercury yeah, we, uh, I, and actually it was funny the next day at work, uh, with some of my core.

Mike: 3:18

Actually one of my co-workers is a ghost hunter and uh, and they're like, and he's like, yeah, everybody in the ghost hunting realm can't stand the guy is uh, man, I want to talk to your co-worker because it's something that actually fascinates me, because my mind is open when it comes to said things and it's something that I wouldn't mind dabbling in, but all of it just seems so I don't know if auspicious is the right word but that's the word that I'm going to use, just because, it's fun.

Mike: 3:45

Oh shit, there's a spider on my lamp, oh so did I tell you my the reason.

Mike: 3:50

So I I'd be. You know, I would like to believe that there's ghosts and stuff out there but, there's the here's. The reason why I don't is that every time and I think I may have said this before, but every time you hear a ghost story it's about let's say it's a woman ghost, right? The women are all dressed in white or dressed in Victorian era clothing.

Phil: 4:16

Yeah, there's no modern ghosts.

Mike: 4:18

Yeah, there's no modern ghosts. It's like you're walking around a spooky haunted house and you see a woman in curlers with a garfield I hate mondays shirt, you know. Then I'd be like all right, like oh, you saw, you know. You saw somebody wearing, you know, like a I don't know a uh woodstock yeah, you never even.

Phil: 4:40

You never even hear stories of like hippie ghosts or anything like that right, it's all, it's all these old ones.

Mike: 4:44

So is there like, like, when you go over to the ghost place, is it like, all right, you can make yourself known, but not for, like, you know, at least 75 to 100 years? Like, what's, what's the?

Phil: 4:53

rules. I'm really sorry you died in 1996, but here's a long, flowy white dress for you which you would not have worn at the time. We would have given you some cross-colored jeans and a backwards white socks hat, but that's not available in the afterlife.

Mike: 5:08

You didn't read the handbook yeah, exactly, I will say this. There was this movie I saw, I think, on netflix. It was called I am.

Mike: 5:14

The movie was called I am the pretty thing that lives in the house and it's one of those slow burn horror movies where it's like there's a few things that happen here or there, but the thing like that, the real shock thing happens at the end, one of the best death by ghosts I've ever seen. But because it's all, it's so normal and natural and makes sense, and when they, when they show the ghost in full form, like even just remembering the ghost in that movie, like and I'm going to use pun is intended on this it haunts me to this day. Because it's so, it's such a good ending. I would, um, it's a long one, but uh, I'll let you know. I mean, the movie's probably like about 10 years old now or whatever, so, but, um, I'll tell you about it. If you want to know the ending, I'll tell you about it after the show, because we're talking about video games.

Mike: 6:05

This is a video game podcast since when since just right now so we'll start off with our icebreaker. So, speaking of video games, let's talk about horror movies. Last week, our icebreaker was what horror movie would you like to be seen made into a super massive style video game? Let's flip it around and we'll talk about what horror game or horror adjacent video game you would like to see made into a movie, or we could even say a tv series. So, phil, what do you got?

Phil: 6:45

Well, I put a lot of time and effort into this list that I drew up and I'm going to rattle off a couple, some of which are very cliche. If anybody's ever listened to the show, you know of my affinity for a certain game called Bioshock, which I just want Bioshock in any kind of form that I can have Bioshock, and if I'm being absolutely honest about the entire thing, just because it captured that creepy vibe so well, both from the I don't remember what they were called now that sucks, not the Big Daddies and Little Sisters, but all the other creatures that were running around, that were modified humans that had just gone sideways. I mean, you take all that into consideration. And then your big bad guy, in all of those games as well, was a sinister human being as well, um, who's always trying to take genetic modifications to the next level and, uh, make the world a better place via, via, science, that that went sideways, which has been done time and time again in multiple movies.

Phil: 7:41

Sorry, I was going to say genres, but genres wasn't the word I was looking for.

Phil: 7:45

Um, but I just I love that atmosphere in bioshock so much, even at infinite, where it's not necessarily dark dreary, wet and clammy, but it was just like a lot of messed up stuff happening over the course of that. So bioshock's gonna be my number one.

Mike: 7:58

Answer my number two and it's kind of good answer why, thank you?

Phil: 8:05

my number two answer is going to be alan wake, just because it just seems like it is ripe and perfect for being turned into either some kind of a netflix series or any kind of a tv series and or just a live action movie. Um, I almost feel like it's going to be too long of a story to be told to be in movie form, which is why I say a netflix show or a tv show again just the vibe and the creepiness is there and a lot of the shadow elements would play off perfectly on the big and or silver nope small screen.

Phil: 8:35

Uh, if it came down to it. So I'm gonna throw alan wake out there. Um, I also thought just for funsies and doing like a TV show, vampire Survivors, like flesh out that universe and don't tell me they've already done this or that they're doing it and it's in the works.

Mike: 8:55

Good news yeah, they're working on it. Something's in the works.

Phil: 8:59

All right. Well then, to hell with it. Vampire Survivors does not make my list. I'm moving on to Dead Rising. Ah, because the zombie genre has never been done on big screen or little screen.

Mike: 9:10

We've never seen a zombie movie before. Yeah, you know, there is a Dead Rising movie.

Phil: 9:15

That's it.

Mike: 9:16

I'm fucking out of here, but it's not that good, so I think it was direct to video or something like that.

Phil: 9:22

Okay.

Phil: 9:23

But go ahead, continue, I think it was direct to video or something like that Okay, but go ahead and continue, and I'm just going to throw one last one out there. I'm going to scratch a bunch off my list, and it's a game that is relatively new and does not have a sequel yet, although it does have at least two patches of DLC. I'd like to see drud dredge, not drudge where, just about small town fishing. Don't even start with me, mike, I will leave okay, I won't say it, but it's happening. Remember that time I said I don't spend any time on the internet or social media anymore.

Mike: 9:55

Yeah, yeah, I just proved it. But you know what, though? That just goes to show you that you should get a job in Hollywood. You're ahead of the game on these things.

Phil: 10:04

I'd already be laid off. No, I'm behind the game because these things have already been announced. That doesn't put me ahead of it. I got this concept for a movie. It's about an empire that takes over the galaxy and there's this rebellion that is trying to take down this empire and people fight with laser swords. How does that sound?

Mike: 10:24

You know what I like it. Let's go with it, All right let's run with it.

Phil: 10:27

So those are the ones that I'm going to throw out there Real quick. I'm not going to delve any further into them. Look at me contradicting myself. I'm already in hollywood. Uh, limbo also made my list. Little nightmares made my list. God of war also made my list. Or gears of war, not god of war gears.

Mike: 10:42

Oh man those that gears movie should have been done ages ago there's a gears movie in the works too no, I'm just saying that there should have been one.

Phil: 10:50

Oh god, jeff, Damn it.

Mike: 10:51

Mike Yep, and that Bioshock movie should have been done. I remember when they first announced it in 2003. 2004. Wait, when did the movie come out?

Speaker 1: 11:02

Wait the movie came out.

Mike: 11:03

No, I'm sorry the game? No, the game came out in 2010. So maybe it was like 2012 or something like that that they announced it yeah, we still haven't seen it. Yeah, I got my ears. I told you everybody that, uh, you're not getting me in my best mic mode right now, but that's okay. But they did announce it and I forgot. I think guillermo del toro was supposed to work on it, but then it just never happened because I think the budget got too big well, it's got big daddies.

Phil: 11:28

Those are not cheap.

Speaker 1: 11:30

Yeah, what about?

Mike: 11:33

you. So I'm going to start with something that's already been done, but I need to see Resident Evil done right, Like you can. I've said it before, but you just. If you make a series, just make a series, and each season is based on one of the games. It's not that hard. You've got the actual dialogue from the games. You've got some excellent books that were written based on the games. You've got everything you need. But the problem is the hollywood people have their heads so far up their ass that they don't want to follow what's something that's already been written. They want to make it their own and mess it all up and mess it all up.

Mike: 12:09

So that's the first one I would love to see. Uh, second one is based on actually, I think we we got just a tiny glimpse of it, maybe about a 15 second glimpse of how it could look, and that is a movie based on luigi's mansion oh, yeah, yeah so in the super mario brothers movie there was, you know, lu Luigi goes into one of the ghost houses.

Mike: 12:34

I think if they flesh that out they could make a really good, even if they did it like a direct-to-DVD or, you know, make a movie based on that. I think that would be a lot of fun. They could really do a good job with that.

Phil: 12:47

I would definitely watch. I'd watch a Luigi's Mansion movie before I watched a Super Mario Brothers movie. I would definitely watch.

Mike: 12:48

I'd watch a Luigi's Mansion movie before I watched a Super Mario Bros movie you know, the thing is I never played Luigi's Mansion when it first came out because I'm like, no, I have no interest in it. But then when I I did play it, like 15 years after it released I'm like this game is amazing. I absolutely love this game.

Phil: 13:04

I should honestly go back and finish 3. That would make my my soul happy.

Mike: 13:10

I might do that do you still have your gamecube? Yeah how many? Just one gamecube yeah I think, so I might have two I if you wanted to ship it out and pay some cash. You know, we'll talk about that after the uh yeah, let me sniff around.

Phil: 13:29

If I've got a second one, it's yours. You don't have to pay me for it well, we'll talk about it later, yeah, anyways.

Mike: 13:37

Uh, so, luigi's mansion, and then, uh, next one. I wanted to go something a little bit different, uh, and that is I would love to see a movie based on splatterhouse oh yeah simple plot guy's girlfriend is kidnapped by uh demons.

Mike: 13:52

A uh, a mask possessed by a demon works. He gets the mask, he becomes huge and let's think of it like that movie, the mask with jim carey. Only he uh turns into just like a rampaging destroyer of worlds, and it's just basically him, just like laying waste to all sorts of demons, like, especially like, if you gave that, like to sam raimi or something you know with, yeah or um, freddy alvarez, who directed the I think he directed the evil dead remake, which was just a bloody good. If you ever saw it, it's awesome, it's a really good movie. Um, that could be like one of those great movies. That's just like. It's just all blood and guts and craziness. So I think splatter house would be a good movie. And then, finally, the one that I have no idea why it hasn't been made, because it has an awesome cast of characters, it has interesting enemies, every level is the exact same plot that you play and it's still a great plot for this type of movie and that is left for dead.

Phil: 14:53

Yep, I, and it's still a great plot for this type of movie, and that is left for dead.

Mike: 14:55

yep, I had that same thought too, that and uh, back for blood, even though back for blood was nowhere near as good I hated but left for dead would be awesome, yeah it wasn't anywhere near as good yeah, I, I just, I mean, even though the characters like they're so, like they don't go really dive deep into their backstories, but they're just, they're just interesting. There's interesting characters with it because of the dialogue they have between them and it's just, it's a.

Phil: 15:20

They could really do some good stuff if they made a left for dead movie just have four survivors that are battling their way through just a monster infested city and just bantering back and forth and finding safe houses that have been set up. I know it sounds very that's what I'm looking for trooping cliche but like the, the the left for dead games just did it so perfectly and it was just a blast to play with your friends and I. I agree with you if it was put onto some kind of a cinematic form it would.

Mike: 15:47

Yeah, yeah, I mean, imagine they're walking around in the sewer and the. Can you imagine the very first time you're watching this movie and they're walking around the sewer and then they all of a sudden, they just hear, they start hearing the witch distance and they don't know what it is like. Oh, I know what's coming, let's see. Better, go around her. Like I don't know. I just left for dead would be so good man. Now I want to play that game somewhere. I Like I don't know, I just Left 4 Dead would be so good man.

Phil: 16:13

Now I want to play that game some more.

Mike: 16:14

I do too, and I don't think I have the original one anymore, which is a bummer.

Phil: 16:16

I bet it's pretty cheap if you find it on eBay.

Mike: 16:19

You can get it for like 20 bucks, I'm sure tops, yeah. So those are the video game horror movies we would like to see this Halloween season. Halloween season, um, so there's nothing interesting really in the news. Well, I'll call out one quick thing, but uh, we don't have a whole lot. Phil and I even had a busy week so we didn't play a whole lot. So we're just going to do a few topics. So, first of all, um just announced today the playstation 5 is now 50 off. If you want to get the disc version, it's going to be 450. If you want to get the digital, it's going to be 300.

Phil: 16:53

No, 300 flat. I thought it was 400, yeah, yeah, it seems bizarre to me that the disc version is only 50 more than the undisclosed version? Yeah, well, considering that the add-on disc thing costs 80, yeah, I know, right, well whatever.

Mike: 17:08

So this uh, phil and I briefly talked about this before we $80. Yeah, I know right. Well, whatever. So this Phil and I briefly talked about this before we started recording. We're considering it. Should you get a PS5? Should we get? Because if I'm going to get one, might as well get it now that it's this price. Here's the thing. I'll let you know my situation. So I have a uh at my work. If you do like certain things, you get, like gift cards or whatever you know, and I've amassed 250 gift card to gamestop.

Mike: 17:47

Not only that, but I have enough in my library of games that I'm like you know what I will never play these that I'll get six dollars for eight dollars for that. If I I traded into GameStop, I technically, technically, would only be paying $40 out of pocket.

Phil: 18:07

Yeah.

Mike: 18:09

So the question is should I get a PS5? I thought about it myself and I'm like well, if I could think of five exclusives that I would definitely play, then I'd consider it. So for me, um, well, we'll take the two spider-man games spider-man and miles morales, that's two, god of war, that's three, but that's also on ps4. So then there's um, that new astrobot game, which is supposed to be pretty good, uh, and then there is, uh I think they did like an uncharted um, like hd version or hd, but I think they did. They re-released the uncharted games and I never played any of the uncharted games really.

Phil: 18:56

Oh, I think I knew that actually yeah, so that's potentially five.

Mike: 19:00

I have no interest in last of us because I played the first last of us and snooze um, so I have no interest in playing the second.

Phil: 19:10

Yeah, that's right, I said it, oh, oh he said it before and he'll say it again too, folks that's right, folk.

Mike: 19:18

And uh oh, silent hill 2 just came out is that only on the playstations? It's a playstation exclusive, but I think it's only exclusive for about a year okay so then I'm like, okay, well, I can buy this. But then I turned around and looked at all the other games that I haven't played. I'm gonna do my follow-up box and I'm like why do I need to spend all this? So that's the condon under my men. So, phil, what are your thoughts?

Phil: 19:45

uh, my thoughts are number one. Why would you want to give money to gamestop? Because f gamestop.

Phil: 19:49

Well, that's because I understand the free game, gift card, things go right. Play as well as the trade-ins, but yeah, um. But I'm also in the same boat as you, where I'm stuck in this endless loop of playing the same four games over and over and over again, and for me to sit down and start a new game and to emotionally invest myself in a new game seems like a very taxing chore at this point in my life, which is such a sad thing to say.

Phil: 20:12

But it's, it's very, very valid, unless it's just something mindless that I can play after sweating over a flat top for 10 hours or however long it might've been at work that day. But yeah, I'm in the same boat. I really want to play the Spider-Man games. I really want to play the God of War game. Astro Bot looks cool. I've heard good things, but really nothing else in the PlayStation library. As far as exclusives go, I didn't hate Horizon Zero Dawn, so maybe the sequel to that, yeah, but that seems like an investment as well. I don't know, I'm still kind of and it's not that I'm anti-PlayStation, I'm just so pro-Xbox because I like the achievement system, I like the controller, I like the interface more than anything else when it comes to the Xbox that I can't talk myself into buying a PS5. I can't talk myself into buying a ps5.

Mike: 21:02

I can't, I've tried and I can't do it. Yeah, I, I agree. Plus, not only that, like I'll be honest, this generation has been horrible it sucked and we're on we're four years into the generation, like who knows when the ps6 is gonna to come out.

Speaker 1: 21:17

Could be tomorrow.

Mike: 21:18

Yeah. So I'm thinking I'll just save my money and I'll pick up something else that will really aggravate, phil?

Phil: 21:28

No, don't get that.

Mike: 21:29

You don't want that, it's not even a real thing yet. Yeah, so yeah, I don't think I'm going to, because then I'm like you know that $250 that I've got I can buy three other games or wait you know, and 10 other games when they go down to 20 bucks, which is what I normally do. So, but if anybody's interested you can get it on. You can get it a little bit cheaper Now. You can get a PS five for $50 off.

Phil: 21:54

And if you do good for you, Let us know what you picked up as well.

Mike: 21:56

Yeah.

Phil: 21:59

Let's see, or even just try to talk us into, why we should get a PlayStation 5.

Mike: 22:04

Yeah, let us know. Tweet me over at PezGuyMike. Say Mike, you need a PS5 and here's why Sony's the best. I love Sony. It's not going to convince me, but it's a good start.

Speaker 4: 22:17

I pushed Square.

Mike: 22:21

I saw that I caught that Next topic. I need some more advice this weekend. Have you ever gone to a convention by yourself?

Phil: 22:31

I've been to a lot of places by myself. Yes, I've been to a convention by myself.

Mike: 22:34

All right, there's this convention this weekend and I'm trying to decide if I want to go or not. But I don't think I'm going to go. I'd be going by myself. But is it worth it? Do you think? Is it worth it to pay to get a video game autographed?

Phil: 22:50

What's the game and who signed it?

Mike: 22:53

Well, I'd be getting two of them signed. First one is a Dragon Ball.

Phil: 23:01

I'd be getting that signed by the guy who does the voice of goku that's pretty rad voice actor.

Mike: 23:05

And then I would get my switch game and then at that point you could just say, no, it's not worth it. Uh, super mario 3d all-stars you know, that's super mario 64, mario sunshine and mario galaxy.

Phil: 23:18

I would get that autographed by charles martinet, who's the voice of mario okay, that might be worth it mike, you think so it might be how it depends on costs of admission to the convention as well as 40 bucks to get in, probably 60 bucks for each autograph and how long are the lines going to be, especially for Mario? I don't know.

Mike: 23:50

That's one of those things that I'd weigh out to. Time plus money equals yes or no, so you think it might be worth it. It's a tough one.

Phil: 23:53

I don't know, man, $40 to get into a convention seems like a ludicrous price to me because somebody somewhere at that place is already going to get your money. I understand that the people that are hosting the convention need to get into a convention. Seems like a ludicrous price to me because somebody somewhere at that place is already gonna get your money. I understand that the people that are hosting the convention need to get paid as well, but 40 just to step foot in the door to maybe be or maybe not buy anything and or interact with anything else is right is it c2e2?

Mike: 24:14

no, it's uh called like chicago collecticon or something like that it's, it's something.

Speaker 4: 24:18

I just.

Phil: 24:18

Yeah, so it's either that or I wait a couple of weeks, spend only 60 bucks and get my McFoley autograph. You know which way I lean on that one.

Mike: 24:32

McFoley 100 percent. So as much as I love video games, mcfoley's had a bigger impact in my life than mario has. So yeah, so I don't know, I that's, I, just I.

Phil: 24:46

Every time I've gone to a con, I've always gone with somebody and I just don't like, I don't know, I just feel weird about going to one by myself, but then I, you know the nice thing about not going with somebody else is you're not being pulled in the direction they want to go and you can just freely do whatever you want to do and you're no longer stuck looking at somebody sketching anime girls not saying, the people you hang out with are into that, but I'm just throwing that out there.

Mike: 25:08

I think one of them might be so. But yeah, that was it. That's the other thing I was thinking about doing this weekend, but I'm not sure. If I'm going to, you'll have to let me know, let the listeners know too. They care, and you can follow me on Twitter, and if you were to, blog about your adventures.

Phil: 25:28

Where would you blog about them?

Mike: 25:31

All right, so let's talk. Well, we're going to talk about what we played, phil and I. I mean, did you play anything outside the norm?

Phil: 25:41

Outside the norm. I also played a little bit of Katamari Damacy whatever it is that just came out on Game Pass. Just because I do enjoy the Katamari games, they fall into that category for me of mindless fun where I don't have to think, I just have to push a couple of joysticks around and collect things. For those that are unfamiliar with how Katamari works, you're working for, I believe it's a god who's trying to put stars back in the sky, and in order to make the stars you have to push your little sticky ball around unique areas and situations to make your ball bigger, to turn it into a bigger star to satisfy the god. It's every bit as silly as it sounds, weird anime style of well animation as well as just a nonsensical plot. But it's just kind of fun to see how big you can make your ball within the time frame, to see if you can appease the gods and collect all your stuff.

Phil: 26:31

The controls are a little bit wonky Looks great, plays great Outside like. Once you get the control scheme down, it's all fine. But yeah, so I put a little bit of time into that and I'll probably put more time into it because I do mindlessly enjoy playing katamari. Outside of that I followed. He did the advice of our friend retro game frankenstein, but I think we'll probably just talk about that one together good call and that's what we'll get into now, because otherwise, because I, other than bellatro Fortnite, I didn't play anything.

Mike: 26:58

I've been pretty busy. So let's talk then about.

Speaker 1: 27:03

Do you?

Phil: 27:03

know, what I just realized.

Mike: 27:05

What did you just realize?

Phil: 27:06

When Roger comes back to the show and he talks about games he's been playing good God.

Mike: 27:13

It's going to be an entire episode.

Phil: 27:15

Three episodes. It's going to be a miniseries.

Mike: 27:17

That's true, Roger.

Phil: 27:20

I hope you're listening to this and I hope you're keeping track of the games you've been playing yeah, because I'm gonna go make dinner while you do that, and then eat dinner and then regurgitate dinner and then eat a second dinner I love.

Mike: 27:34

What are you a?

Phil: 27:36

Yeah, I like the leftovers.

Mike: 27:40

So yeah, so yeah, we'll have content for months. So last week our good friend, retro Game Frankenstein showed up. He shows up every October to tell, to give us a game, a horror game to play, and last week he gave us the game Darkwood and Darkwood. I'll give you a quick, uh, long and short of it. Dark wood a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing, free roam world by day. Then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light. Interesting game um, it's got an overhead perspective, it's got a story. Um, you basically, yeah, you have a house and you need to keep the generator running and you need to fortify it and you need to survive and you need to find supplies in the woods and supplies, supplies and there's uh, as you play along different parts of the story unlock. Uh, in my opinion, I think it's really well written. I didn't beat the game. Um, it's, it's, it's very well written and and the production, the presentation is, is really nice.

Mike: 28:56

It's it's a horror game but it's not like jump scare type horrors it's like you're just walking around with a sense of dread for the entire time you're playing, which to me, I think that has a better effect than an occasional jump scare I love ambiotic horror and that's exactly what this game dials in and has nailed down.

Phil: 29:15

I also thought just the presentation, the graphics alone of it were also, um, very unique and also enthralling. Um, I don't really know how else to phrase that. Just I love the ambience of the game. It's just super fitting, super spooky, even if nothing super wild was happening at the same time, man, to say super six more times, um.

Phil: 29:38

But it just kind of gave me that feeling of dread that loomed over you. It was almost like again to bring up dredge, like fishing at night where you nothing was really happening, but it felt like something could at any given time and there was no guarantee that nothing would happen yep, yeah, it was, um, man, even just like.

Mike: 29:58

and then there's like you'd hear like a crack of the snapping of a twig and you'd like turn around and be like okay, wait, what is that? What was that Like? So it like it messes with your head more than anything. It's also I like the animation is pretty good, even though it's like an overhead perspective. I really enjoyed the animation. The game doesn't necessarily hold your hand, so there's not like a three-hour tutorial to get into it.

Mike: 30:23

There's a prologue, but quick 20-minute prologue yeah, so it gives you a good idea of how to how to play the game. But, uh, it's, it's all exploration. Like you've got to like get outside that house and start looking for things in order to to really um, to really get the get the story going and everything I got lost in like a hedge maze yep when I was playing.

Mike: 30:47

Then something attacked me. I couldn't that's the things. I couldn't tell. What was it? What attacked me? But I just ran, I got the hell out of there. It's. It's not very colorful, it's. It's black and white, pretty dreary but I think that adds to it.

Mike: 31:02

That does add to it. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, I'm just saying it's. It's there, um, there's crafting involved, so you'll be making different things. So you need to decide am I going to make a bandage or am I going to make a molotov, you know um, but from what I understand, it gets pretty intense later on. So I'm gonna keep playing through it I am too.

Phil: 31:23

Uh, what I like too is that the crafting I'm. Normally whenever I see crafting in the title of anything, it's it's kind of a turnoff to me and I'm just like I don't have the the mental bandwidth to put all this together. Yeah, but it's pretty self-explanatory and pretty easy to do the crafting like. It'll walk you through what you need and what you can craft at that time too. It's I don't know. I my only, my real only complaint about is I kind of wish it had voice acting yeah, that would be interesting if it had voice acting.

Mike: 31:50

Actually, I kind of like the fact that I'm reading it, because it also kind of adds to like, like the, the loneliness, I guess you could say of it yeah, that's a very valid point.

Mike: 32:01

I didn't think of it that way, you're, you're 100, spot on so, but yeah, that's uh, that's darkwood, so you can get the game shoot. I'm gonna let me look it up, let me see if it's even on sale. Um, it was on sale, but we bought I it was on sale for the Switch a while back. Let's see. Oh, that's all time. So right now it's at the regular price for the Xbox.

Phil: 32:28

What's the regular price?

Mike: 32:29

$14.99.

Phil: 32:31

That's pretty well worth it, in my opinion, if that's your style of game.

Mike: 32:35

And it's also $14.99 on the.

Phil: 32:37

Switch Okay.

Mike: 32:39

Can you? Imagine trying to play that game in handheld I did not try it in handheld no, they'd be impossible on that little tiny screen yep, yep, that's just about any game too, true, uh, but it looks like the cheapest it ever got was about five bucks, so if you, want to steal it's yeah, but yeah, dark wood. Good game um from what we played, lots of fun, so highly recommend agreed all right. So actually I think it's about that time. I think somebody's going to be paying us a visit any second now damn it.

Phil: 33:14

What are you doing here this week?

Speaker 4: 33:16

that's right, folks. It's me again, the classic game ghoul. Retro Game Frankenstein. I'm back to assign a horror game to y'all to play. I am glad you enjoyed Deadwood. It was a fun and spooky game for me as well. This week it's a little different. You will play an updated horror classic. Your assignment, boys, is the Dead Space remake. It's sure to get the hair on the back of your neck standing and that makes me sad because I don't have hair or a neck. Oh well, retro game Frankenstein out Okay thanks.

Mike: 33:53

Thanks, frank. Well, looks like we've got our next game to play, so we're going to be playing the dead space remake.

Phil: 34:00

I'm pretty excited about this one.

Mike: 34:02

Yes, I have been wanting to play this for a while. So what an amazing coincidence not something that we came up with, somebody that that amazing coincidence that Frank came up with that same game that we wanted to play. And thank goodness it's on game pass yes indeed, so yeah, so good. Game Pass yes indeed, so yeah, so good. So we'll let you know all about that game next week.

Phil: 34:19

You like the original right.

Mike: 34:21

Oh, I love the original. The original, well, I'll talk about it next time, but I think it'll be interesting to talk about how we feel about it versus the original. Cool, so, phil, anything else you got to go over.

Phil: 34:35

Not really, except you know, you can always support us at Gamerhead Podcast by joining our patreon, as others have done that's right, and if you wanted to read any of our reviews, what website can they go to?

Mike: 34:50

phil? Gamerheadspodcast. com that's right, okay, so good. So, hey, everybody, thanks for hanging out with us for this mini episode. We'll see you all next week. Until next time, everybody stay safe and game on. We'll see you later. Have a good one, so long.

Phil: 35:06

Matt Jill, Sarah take care.