- Hey guys, I'm Jared, and if you know me,
you know I love video games and smoking weed.
Throughout my career as a gamer,
I've realized that getting high can dramatically enhance
or ruin my enjoyment of a video game.
Have you ever played Bloodborne high?
10 out of 10 wouldn't recommend.
This week, I brought in two of my good friends
to discuss if Wolfenstein: Youngblood
is a stoner's new best friend,
or a Nazi-level no-go.
(upbeat music)
So, Stacey, Ify, welcome.
Who are you?
- Hi.
(clears throat)
Hi, I'm Stacey.
I smoke marijuana.
I don't know why I said it like that.
- Hey, how's it going, I'm Ify.
My relationship with marijuana,
we were big buds in college.
Through that, we grew apart a bit,
but we visit each other from time to time.
Maybe like once a year, have a big barbecue,
talk about the old times.
Pretty much, just back and forth forever.
Me and ol' Mary.
- That's so romantic.
I get high every day of my life.
I wanted us to all take a moment
to experience the intro of this game sober.
We really want to get to the bottom of
is this a stoner's game,
or is this a game for the people?
So, let's boot her up.
Onward to victory, hopefully.
- Ooh.
- Why is her vagina highlighted?
- Yeah there's a V and there's like a triangle.
The Illuminati controls it.
- (gasps)
- Old B.J.
- Oh, it's B.J.! - Oh, that's B.J.?
- Yeah, he's old now.
He's on that zaddy train where he's like, "What's up?"
- Choo choo.
- [French Woman] This general is located
in a Zeppelin called The Nachtfalter.
- Bless you.
(laughs) Sorry.
Pop, pop, pop.
Hello?
- Oh, so there's like little co-op
thingy things! - Oh sister, sister.
- Sister power!
- ♪ I've got my own mind ♪
♪ And my own time ♪
- Hello. (gunshots)
- Oh, goodbye.
- Silver coins, collect silver coins
to purchase character customization items.
- Fun!
- [Female Character] Keep up the good work, Soph.
- Keep up the good work, Soph.
Hell yeah!
- Excuse me.
- Oh.
- I love stabbing.
- [Together] Ooo, flashlight.
- So you're a stealth dude?
- Oh yeah.
- You're not into really guns (Stacy drowns out Jared)
- Interesting.
- I like stealthing around and stabbing Kommandant.
- Kammandant!
Ooh, ooh, ooh.
- Ahh! (laughs)
- I died!
- Oh God. (gunshots)
- Ooh, big boy's got fire.
Oh shoot!
- [Together] Waah!
- Oh my gosh.
Wait, are you off the...
(laughs)
- Okay, I think that's enough for now.
- I got you guys review keys.
- Oh my gosh!
- We got it like a week in advance.
So we got some time to play it before the game comes out.
We'll come back in, have our little round table review.
Oh I gave you Stacey's.
And I gave you Ify's. - Oh.
- [Jared] It's very important.
♪ Off to the races. ♪ - Let's go!
♪ We're gonna play the video game. ♪
- Yes!
- Okay, great.
Wow, you're, you're just...
(laughs)
So high energy.
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Okay guys.
One week and one weed later.
We're here.
We're high.
We're ready to talk about it,
the game.
So I wanted to review the game
in a couple of different broad categories.
Gameplay, graphics, sound, and story.
(laughs)
You guys need to not be staring at me like that.
At the count of three,
I want you to answer a yes or no question.
Is this game better high?
Three, two, one, yes.
- Yes. - Yeah.
- Okay, that wasn't really in time,
like I was hoping it would be.
(upbeat music)
- [Female Character] Badass and inspirational, Jess.
- Overall, I did enjoy this game.
Did you enjoy this game?
- I did enjoy this game.
- It was great. - I did enjoy, yeah.
- Okay, fabulous.
My big takeaway from the game was,
I love running around and stabbing people.
And by playing, I can get better at doing that.
And that kind of feedback loop
kept me playing long into the wee hours of the night.
- My favorite part of the game?
I just love collectibles in general,
and this game just has so many of them.
Not only just the coins,
but they also have 3D glasses,
they have cassettes.
I did that for a long time,
which made me not progress in the game story at all.
- I could tell you were having a blast,
and I love that.
And for a completely different reason
than I was having a blast,
but we were having it together.
- Yeah, and it's great.
This game has something for everyone.
What was your favorite thing?
- It sounds like you're from the company
that made this game.
(laughs)
I am paying her, but just the standard day-rate,
not like a bribe-rate.
- I don't work for them,
but if you wanna hire me, hi.
- I like the kind of,
the fluidity of the movement and the killing.
I feel like Apex Legends has kind of made for me,
thirsting after fast-paced gameplay.
And so, you can be real fast with it,
but you can also slow it down,
do a lot of stealth stuff.
Sometimes in a lot of games,
One is more superior to the other.
I feel like this one,
stealth isn't necessarily harder,
it's just a different way
to go about it.
- What else did I write down for gameplay?
I, in all caps and in very poorly spelled, note,
"I JUST SHOT A MAN'S HEAD, AND IT EXPLODED."
Wow.
- It's like so over-the-top.
- [Jared] Yeah. - But it's great.
- It's nothing new for the Wolfenstein series.
- Yeah, I will say I originally thought...
(laughs)
- [Jared] I haven't had any of these.
- Yeah no, don't try those.
Now I thought it was pretty dang fun.
And I thought I switched it up enough
because there wasn't co-op in the other ones.
- True! (laughs)
- So I'm like,
what would it be like running through here with my boys,
cracking a cold one?
- And you can do that now.
- Yeah.
- This is too much flavor for me right now.
(laughs)
There are so many things that I like about this game.
One thing I didn't like,
other than the ping system,
that's like, not anything like the ping system in Apex.
There's like no way to type to them.
There aren't quick commands to be like, "Come this way."
- Yeah.
- I was playing with a human,
and they just ran into an area of enemies
that had the skull next to their name
which means too strong to defeat.
Run, you'll die.
And they just kept running in there and getting killed,
and I couldn't revive them without also dying.
- [Stacey] Oh my God.
- And I had to replay this mission like four times.
And the dude wasn't getting it so I raged quit
and left him there to figure it out on his own.
That being said, the AI is super smart.
The sister picks you up almost instantly when you're down,
so I really don't have any complaints about the AI
except for that she walks really slowly.
- Oh my gosh!
I completely agree.
She doesn't teleport to you.
- [Jared] I don't know.
I appreciate they want the realism.
This is a "grounded Nazi-killing experience."
But that is (laughs) a wellness of life thing.
- The quality of life.
- That's like a quality of life thing.
That's a goodness of my living situation thing.
I would just prefer the AI to teleport to me
if they get too far away.
Just spied those gummy sharks back there so excuse me.
- [Stacey] Well there's a mystery coming in there.
- What the (beep) is that?
(laughs)
It looks like a piece
of chewed up gum.
(laughing)
I'll just eat the ones off the top I guess.
I'm just gonna really quickly run through all the things
that I wrote down for gameplay
'cause I have a lot of thoughts.
Scope guns fell floaty as (beep),
but hit fire feels really nice.
Yes or no?
- Yes. - Yes.
- Okay, great.
This is how we're gonna do it.
The mechanic of the sisters giving each other buffs
with funny hand signals and dances really hit home for me,
and made me feel really sympathetic with the characters
really quickly.
- [together] Yes.
- [Jared] Beautiful.
I love this.
- The one thing that I thought could be better
is that every time you leave a zone in the map,
and you kill all those enemies and then you come back,
it's like the same respawn.
- There's only like six locations in the whole game.
- [Stacey] Right.
- And then there's just different areas of those locations
that you unlock as you play.
So in the beginning of the game,
it is the same courtyard for five different missions.
And every time you're in there,
there's always the same enemies
and they don't change at all.
I think if I wasn't playing the game high,
I'd be like, "I'm (beep) done with this (beep)."
But when I was stoned I didn't mind.
I was just like, "Oh I'll shoot them again."
- I'll shoot whatever.
- I will gladly shoot them more times.
Definitely negative points for sobriety there.
Did you vibe that too?
- Yeah.
- You vibin' that?
- This is what I'm feeling. - [Jared] We vibin'.
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Environments, amazing.
- Beautiful.
- Minus some weird skybox glitching that I got
outside the Zeppelin.
Character models are all over the place.
Wouldn't you say?
- (clears throat) Yeah.
- The sister's hair, I can't stop laughing about.
It's so bad.
But then some of the people in the catacombs are beautiful.
Like what's-her-face, glasses.
- Abby. - Abby.
Like Abby,
I think her character model's the prettiest one.
She looks so cleanly put together.
And then you have the sister's hair.
(laughs)
- Do all have RTX 2080?
- I don't.
Are you flexing on me right now?
- No, I don't have one either.
But maybe it looks good on that.
- Maybe it does.
- Maybe it's worth considering.
- A levelheaded man, I brought you here for a reason.
- Did you notice, wait, sorry.
I have to interrupt.
When you look at your feet, - Please do.
- They look like weird claws in the power stance. (laughs)
- I hate it.
- [Ify] That's tactical design.
I saw no problem with that either.
- I'll go on record saying,
"Made Jared uncomfortable: toe suits."
- I think it's time for Arthur and Kenneth
to perlustrate this sticky wicket.
(laughs)
- (beep) yeah!
(laughs)
- You guys are weird.
- The voice acting is so convincingly good for me.
I'm feeling the feels.
I'm sister sistering.
I'm connected.
Are you connected?
- Yeah, I am connected.
- Yeah.
(laughs)
Tell me more.
- I also really... - Connect...
- Oh, sorry. - Go ahead.
- No, you go.
- You're both so polite.
- I also really appreciate
the French and German accents throughout the game.
- [French Woman] The wine is excellent (foreign language)
- [Stacey] And also, the German cassette songs you find
and then it just randomly plays, it's my favorite.
- The only other thing for sound,
the directional audio is spot on.
What are you laughing about?
- Well it was different for me!
- Oh.
- Okay, there's like bomb dogs.
- The bomb dogs!
- [Stacey] Bomb dogs!
- RIP for the bomb dogs, first of all.
(beep) this game for putting in bomb dogs.
- It's sad!
- It is sad. - And I don't wanna shoot them
but I also can't shoot them because they're so fast.
They're like, "Bark!", blow up.
- So you have to be on the lookout for these dogs
and I don't appreciate that.
Directional audio, thoughts?
- Good.
- You're bringing so much to this table.
Bless you for being here.
- Wow.
- I'm so happy to have you.
That sounded sarcastic, but I meant it.
I genuinely meant it.
(laughs)
- Check this out.
That's Set's handwriting.
- Okay.
Sound, gameplay.
Love it.
Love them both.
Graphics, pretty good.
Story, ehh.
- I don't know,
I could always use some more B.J. Blazkowicz in my life.
So seeing he's left my life, I was loving chasing it down.
And these sisters,
it really seemed like a fun romp of two hillbilly sisters.
And I'll always be here for that.
- The family aspect of it.
You can tell that these characters had a life
before this game existed.
Truly a masterpiece when it comes to the sister bond.
But, for me, the hook of,
"We're searching for dad and doing chores for other people
"so we can look for dad", isn't hooking me at all.
- So you don't think two hillbilly dogs
will look out for their own pack?
- I think they will do that.
- No, I think that's exactly what they're gonna do
- They clearly love their dad.
I guess I wish then,
that the missions in the game weren't all fetch-quests.
A lot of them are go here,
kill these things, press a button, come back to base,
get some coins.
That gets repetitive after a while.
And without a story that's constantly evolving,
I'm gonna get bored.
Unless I'm high.
Then I'll just keep stabbing people.
- For me, I think for the story,
because I hadn't played the previous games,
it was so confusing.
You start off at your house,
and then the next thing was
you're talking to this French woman, doing surgery.
And I was like, "Okay?"
So I don't know.
- (laughs) It's so sour.
- Oh is that sour?
- (laughs) What were you saying?
(laughs) This is torture.
Oh, I remember what I had to say before I started dying.
There's a ton of collectibles
that give you little bits and pieces of story.
I think that's the disconnect for me.
I do not (beep) with that.
- It does give you hints.
I read one that gave me a hint.
I don't remember what it was,
but it did help me in the game.
- So anyway.
(crunch)
Lot's to discuss.
I did not think of a way
to transition out of that segment
into our closing statements.
So I'm just gonna do that now.
We're gonna move on to our closing statements.
Stacey.
- Yes.
- Give me a closing statement.
- My thoughts on this game,
having only played this for maybe 12 hours,
it's been great.
You get to just mindlessly lose yourself
in this Nazi war-torn Paris area, Europe area.
(crunch)
But I do think that playing high
is way better than playing sober for this game, yes.
- Thank you for your closing statement.
- You're welcome.
- (laughs) It was a good one.
Ify.
- Had a blast.
Just like the other Wolfenstein games
you get to plow through, have some fun,
creative kills, see bodies turn into juice.
- [Jared] We didn't even touch on the juice,
and boy was that a big point I made.
- So many juice.
- I love the juice.
- It's a fun time,
I think it's it's a fun romp.
- You're closing, oh - [Jared] Also a magnificent,
closing statement, thank you.
- Thank you so much.
- Closing statements for me.
I love this game.
Insurmountably, did I say that right?
Insurmountably more fun high, and with a friend.
Whatever the seal of approval is for play it high,
I give it that.
I do wanna say the game is good not high.
So, anyone who can't legally consume mariajuana,
or doesn't want to,
I still give you, go out and get it.
I think especially coming through the lens
of how it's cheaper than an average AAA game,
it's definitely worth it.
So yeah, try it out.
It's a fun game.
Play it high.
- Play it high.
- Ify?
- Play it high.
(laughs)
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