- Can I open this with a joke?
- [David] Yeah. - I'm gonna go
to the land of higher rule.
Get it?
Because it's Hyrule, but there's like Sky Islands.
- [David] Oh, great. Good joke.
- In all seriousness,
I'm not the biggest "Breath of the Wild" fan.
I didn't buy the DLCs,
I don't cosplay as Zelda in bed, or not Zelda;
Mm. Link, rather.
The point is, I've only got about 250 hours in the game.
So I'm only a little bit excited
about "Tears of the Kingdom,"
which is why I'm totally not bothered at all
by the fact that this special edition Switch OLED
we're gonna be unboxing
doesn't come with the game!
I'm okay,
it doesn't matter.
My Super Nintendo with the "Super Mario World"
on the box came with the game,
but that's fine.
I'll buy the game separately.
I'm very ready,
and I'm very confused.
Because why would dbrand sponsor a video
about a device that's already skinned?
Oh.
Oh, shut up.
Oh no, it's not enough to go toe-to-toe with Sony,
they wanna go at it with Nintendo.
They sponsored an unboxing of a skinned Switch OLED,
so they can show their own skin
that presumably they will expect you to choose.
Wow, Illuminati triangle instead of Nintendo imagery.
We're gonna get to that later.
Or, who knows, maybe not at all.
If dbrand goes bankrupt fighting Nintendo in court
and can't afford to pay me.
All right, first off is the joy-cons.
Actually, I'm pretty happy with
the quality of the plastics, here.
You know, I don't check out too many
special edition consoles or anything,
but this is pretty solid.
The gold has a fair bit of actual sparkle,
I really like this matte white that we're doing here,
and how's the quality of the screen printing?
You know what, not bad.
This is really important for something
that you're gonna be interfacing with, day in, day out.
This side's meant to look weathered,
so I guess it wouldn't really matter
if it rubbed off a little bit,
but this side, not so much.
Oh, that's kind of disappointing.
See, I've sequestered myself,
I have intentionally not looked at
any "Tears of the Kingdom" stuff,
including special edition consoles or whatever.
Yeah, that's a little boring.
Like the Switch OLED it's got a little kickstand,
got your micro SD slots so you can back up your save games
if you don't have an Nintendo online subscription.
Just kidding,
you can't do that because Nintendo hates their customers.
Hopefully the dock is a little bit more exciting.
You know, I think I see where dbrand was going with this.
Trying to zhush this up a little bit.
The box looks so cool,
they don't even show the back of the Switch.
Why does the back of the Switch not look like that?
That looks pretty cool,
I am liking the dock.
Backside of the dock, pretty boring,
but realistically you're not
gonna have the cable side showing anyway.
Okay, that's Nintendo's effort.
I'm gonna be firing up "Tears of the Kingdom"
for the first time real quick here,
but first, let's have a look at dbrand's attempt.
Okay, I mean, I can obviously see
the resemblance in the joy-cons.
Got a bubble there, dbrand.
Got a bubble, Clone of the Kingdom.
This side's perfect, though.
Actually, they've gotten really good
at curved device wraps.
I haven't really like checked them out that recently.
Should I attempt to un-peel it and get them out?
- [David] No! - Okay, I'm not gonna do it.
I'm not gonna do it.
I want you guys to help me be the judge, then.
As we construct this, original joy-cons,
or Clone of the Kingdom joy-cons?
The inspiration is very obvious.
We've gone from circles to hexagons,
presumably because they're "best-a-gones,"
we've gone from this
to this, but more different this,
and instead of first party "Legend of Zelda,"
what appears to be a mask of some sort?
Oh, you'll have to forgive me.
I'm not familiar with
this particular bit of Zelda iconography,
and we've got a Illuminati triangle.
Pyramid, excuse me.
- [James] Are there some green that's not black?
- Yeah, that green goes black.
I'm not that into the green, personally.
- [James] Dbrand offers both, if you'd like.
- [Linus] Oh, dbrand has a green one too?
- [James] They do, like the Nintendo one.
- [Linus] Ugh, of course they do.
- [David] I like the black one of the dbrand more,
but I like the white Nintendo one more.
- [Linus] Yeah, this one's cool.
This gold is definitely more glittery.
That's something that stands out about the first party one.
But, what about the switch OLED?
Oh, I would've thought they would go a little more fun!
It's just bestagones instead of circles.
To their credit, they actually end up with
a more complete graphic.
The top of the original doesn't have
that kind of textured look,
whereas the dbrand wrapped one does.
I think that's a point for dbrand.
It's also higher contrast.
What am I even really looking at?
Do they have artist lawyers?
Lawyer artists, is not a thing?
Where their role is to is to draw something
as close as humanly possible to something else,
without infringing the copyright?
'Cause this seems very inspired by.
- [James] Their talking points say that
their shiny gold finish looks different
than on their usual skin.
- [Linus] It's got a really kind of soft glow to it,
compared to the harder look of the original.
It's not actually the gold that stands out to me as much.
It's more this kind of pearlescent thing
that they've got going on here, that looks awesome.
It's just white on the original,
but you can kind of see it.
Man, I'm not sure how I feel about this.
I think I like dbrand's,
there are three golds here.
Best gold is the original joycons,
followed by dbrand's skin gold,
followed by Nintendo's screen printed gold.
But this is really cool.
- [James] In their doc, they talk about marble.
Would you call it marble?
- [Linus] Is it marble?
I don't know what it is, but it looks freaking awesome.
- [James] They say they have a more distinctive
marble effect around the center design.
- Yeah. Oh, okay.
Well that looks amazing.
Which one do I put the game cartridge in?
- [David] Dbrand. - [Geoff] Yeah.
- [James] The Nintendo one,
because that's where we already updated it and shit.
- The business guy says dbrand,
but the production guy says the first party Nintendo one
because that's where we already installed the game.
How about this for a compromise, business person?
I will put the dbrand joy-cons
on the original Nintendo Switch, deal?
- [Geoff] Let's do it. - All right, deal.
Oh, and I should probably decode this hidden message
that dbrand has sent to me,
that probably is rude.
Thank you.
- [James] They actually, there's two hidden messages,
and then they want you to do this one.
- [Linus] They want me to do, - [James] Not that one.
- [Linus] This one? Okay.
"Haha, Linus is so short and has an ugly car."
There, I did it.
Oh. Oh no.
You want me to, what are these glyphs?
(Linus awkwardly sounding out the word)
Oh, oh, what?
Oh, I'm sorry.
You got the flag this high
and you got the flag this high,
and they're totally different letters.
Though in fairness, I mean,
this is Nintendo and depending on
where you hit the flag poles,
very big difference in points,
which matter in Mario.
This is gonna take forever.
That's the message.
This must be "This funds our".
This has gotta be "R".
Yes, "this funds our legal," something.
It's got defense.
It's gotta be "defense."
"This funds our legal defense."
Oh, I see you buying skins,
I assume.
Alright, dbrand,
I better get paid.
We took cash in advance for this, right?
Oh, good.
dbrand is apparently already on the list.
I have not touched my Switch
since I finished "Breath of the Wild," pretty much.
And for those keeping score at home,
"Breath of the Wild" came out six flipping years ago.
I don't remember the last time
I was this nervous launching a video game.
Like, who cares, right?
But on the other hand,
I loved "Breath of the Wild,"
and I loved it for its differentness.
I loved it for its innovation.
I loved it for its things that were infuriating.
It was the first RPG that I've ever played
that had a meaning to collecting more coins,
or, you know, more rupees or whatever.
The fact that weapon breakage made you explore
all these different strategies really,
you know, it wasn't just another
another Bokoblin encampment or whatever.
I loved that.
Honestly speaking, I was kind of disappointed to hear
that "Tears of the Kingdom" is just the same Hyrule,
but like, a direct sequel.
Literally every review, 10 outta 10
a hundred out of a hundred.
So what do I, what do I make of this?
While we go through this cut scene,
I have something really exciting to show you guys.
Announcing:
LTT Sticklocks.
These are designed to fit on
pretty much every major modern console or controller.
And what they do, is if you're transporting your devices,
you simply put them onto your joysticks like so,
and they lock them in place
so they won't accidentally get bumped,
or wiggled while they're in your bag.
Cool, right?
They're made of a super flexible silicone rubber
and they also double,
actually I think we kind of fixed this issue,
because they used to accidentally pop all the time.
Yes, we have fixed this issue
but you can still kind of,
fidget toy them a little bit.
Oh, they sent a steam deck.
Of course they did.
Project kill switch, blah blah.
Every pack of Sticklocks comes with two pairs,
allowing you to do up two of your consoles.
So here it is fitting on a full size joystick as well.
Oh, this already has dbrand's joystick covers on it.
Sorry, dbrand.
They're not compatible with stick locks.
See you later.
I was like,
"Holy crap, we screwed up the Steam deck compatibility!
This is a big problem!"
There we go.
Neat, huh?
Anyway, the idea is just to
keep your sticks in place in transport.
By the way, this looks awesome.
I think this Steam Deck actually
kind of looks cooler than the Switch.
It helps that there's kind of a larger canvas for it too.
Love these skins on the touch pads.
Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.
I just actually wanna play this game.
Confession: I don't plan to play it on the Switch,
but I bought my game.
I don't care at that point, sorry.
Sorry for anyone for whom this is a spoiler.
I can already see where they're going with this,
I have full hearts.
Obviously we're going to get amnesia
or get all of our, you know,
junk lost or something like that.
I guess I'll have to do this on my own time.
Just like you will on your own time
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