Super Mario Bros. (1993) (and D.O.A.: Dead or Alive (2006)!)

... I'm glad you said all those things there Kat I mean I thought I would be maybe the sole defender of a game that you know is like lost to time you know like this style of game like we definitely have a fatigue of it with the modern games but in 2009 this was like highly engaging and exciting entertaining like the cinematic nature of it all like you said like that was something I was like all in on I do have a bit of a bias towards it as well too I have memories of being able to it was like the job I had at the…

they were in a position to take that kind of risk to say like, yeah, what's the future of games gonna be? And let's make this constantly updating thing. And then for Ubisoft to look at it and say, Excuse me, you're doing fucking what and then just, you know, pull the plug on it once it became clear what the future of this thing was, but games as a service. No, guys, stupid. Ubisoft is a longtime defender of games as a service. What are you talking about? They famously keep their servers online forever. They're…

... Instead of having the over-the-shoulder perspective, they went with a top-down format, very similar to Capcom's Commando. I mean, it's possible. I know Konami had some other games where they were doing different perspectives with a similar military action setting, like Devastators, which very closely resembles the base stages from the original Contra. ...

take their slow time doing it. But Max was watching me play the game. And the stairs, I don't think those were introduced immediately. I think the chains and ropes are introduced sooner. So Max saw that and was like, "Hey, this isn't a Castlevania clone. This is a Castlevania, the adventure clone." And it's like, no, no, it's way better than that. Sorry. That kind of brings me to one of the key things that I would say distinguishes Rusty from Castlevania. So they are similar in a lot of ways from the premise to…