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Joseph Hooper

Joseph Hooper

Host of Player Player Podcast, Left Behind Game Club, and the Crossplay Conversations and Can't Pause YouTube channels (@th3hoopman).

Jul 1, 2026

7:08
Why?
7:09
Essentially, when we have Pokemon today, there's a lot of requests from a lot of different audiences.
7:15
I think the biggest request is, oh, it needs voice acting.
7:17
Oh, the graphics need to be better.
7:19
But...
7:20
In some ways, I'm kind of like, hey, if you kind of just iterate on the mechanics that you have been putting in these games for well over a decade, multiple decades now, like, we'd be good.
7:31
So, like, Hermit and Pig really modernizes, like, the turn-based combat, makes it way more engaging.

12 MINS LATER

19:33
You get stuck into a conflict with a megacorp who's essentially dumping... waste everywhere which is causing problems in forests water cities etc and it's your job by the end to um to beat that corp it's not immediately evident that that's what you're doing but that is kind of the thing that you're eventually tasked with

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