Stray Is the Adorable Cat Game We Hoped For – Beyond 759
But first, we jump into some of the PlayStation news of the last week, including the announcement of the new PlayStation Stars loyalty program, whether we hope it means the return of PlayStation Home thanks to its assortment of digital collectible, and how we hope these new features are implemented. Then, we talk a bit about God of War Ragnarok’s new story synopsis (skip ahead if you don’t want to hear any details), as well as PlayStation deepening its investment in the esports space.
Then, we dive into our thoughts on Stray, the new PlayStation-console exclusive from Annapurna and BlueTwelve Studio. Tom reviewed Stray for IGN, so he offers some thoughts from his review about why he thought Stray was great, Jonathon and Mark offer their experiences having beaten Stray as well, and Jada offers her early impressions from the beginning of Stray…as well as how she played Tokyo Jungle to get another cat gaming experience while she waited.
We also dig into a lovely Jak & Daxter Memory Card story, read some of your response to Mark’s TLOU question from last week, and help a listener figure out what RPGs to jump into.
If you’d like to write into the show with questions, Memory Card stories, answers to our questions on PS Plus releases or the best first date games to play, write into beyond@ign.com
Timecode:
00:00:00 – Intro
00:03:50 – PlayStation Stars Announced!
00:15:54 – God of War: Ragnarok Gets a Story Synopsis
00:21:18 – Stray is Finally Here!
00:57:19 – Memory Card & Outro
I very, very highly recommend dragon quest xi to anybody looking to dip their feet further into RPG waters.My jrpg experience before this was basically just Pokemon. I sunk 120 hours into this game, and it's in the conversation for my favorite game of all time. It's not that complicated to get into, the story was very engaging.
Hello all, not sure if anyone will see this. I did the speedrun of stray in 1hr 58 and trophy didn't pop up. Anyone have any ideas? Really liked the game but I don't want to remember it for that reason.
Did Johnathan ever find our Tom's middle name ?
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I really don't get the love for stray. It's just not fun.
Mufasa moment
God of War sounds like it might be a huge game. I hope it's more than a 10 hour game.
God of War sounds like it might be a huge game. I hope it's more than a 10 hour game.
My first movie date with my first girlfriend, we were both 15, was Pulp Fiction. And let me tell you: it is NOT a great first date movie. 😅
My first movie date with my first girlfriend, we were both 15, was Pulp Fiction. And let me tell you: it is NOT a great first date movie. 😅
Not to be rude but BEYOND has become pure cringe. I used to catch every episode but now I can't make it through one even when it may be covering something I'd like to hear about. So sad man.
Not to be rude but BEYOND has become pure cringe. I used to catch every episode but now I can't make it through one even when it may be covering something I'd like to hear about. So sad man.
That memory card 🥲
That memory card 🥲
Mufasa moment
Man, these opinions are pretty different from Kinda Funny. Good to hear!
Lots of cat talk but I still enjoyed it. 👍 I'm still not playing the cat game lol.
PS Plus DOESN'T need day and date games, it needs a consistent variety of Big and Small games – there's hundreds, if not thousands of games on PSN NONE OF YOU HAVE PLAYED, the problem is when you only offer the blockbusters, there isn't that discoverability of smaller titles.
Now why some Sony games, like Journey, Escape Plan, CounterSpy, Sound Shapes, Hohokum, Flower, and The Unfinished Swan aren't there is a mystery – assuming the developer or Annpurna, etc. can't block the games from being on Extra.
Jonathon “To Your Point” Dornbush
Thx fam
It‘s a sweet game
30 min about a cat game yup 👍🏾
Stray jumping felt a lot more natural if you turn off the jump prompts
ugh I'd love more Max and Brian, they have a far better vibe. This is just so drab.
Jayden and Tom sound alike too haha
Stray is an awesome game, if this is an "indie" game then this is one of the best ever. I'm usually not a fan of indie games unless they are really good like Hades and Stray just knocks it out the park. I agree with Tom's rating at 8 it is a high 8 low 9 ish game. I hope more indie developers use this game as inspiration as to what an Indie game should be. Sony should just go ahead and acquire this studio I am very excited for their next creation.
Mark always transmits positive energy with his personality. Thanks, Mark 🙂
That's some bad hat ,Harry.
Thank you for the spoiler warning ⚠️ It's so hard to avoid spoilers nowadays!
The inventor of Bow-Ties should be resurrected – and then executed – My lord are they pointless and look dumb lol… (No offence of course)