this... ...is thewii zapper ! sold exclusivelywith this : link's crossbowtraining ! in a bundlewe can see here. for a priceof 30 euros. what is it ? well, it'ssome sort of plastic piece. there's nothingbut plastic in there. there's no connection,or anything else.
i'll show youhow it works. in theory, we have to put bothnunchuk and wiimote in there. in order toaim better. i'm not convinced,though... it's very easyto set up, look. wait, let's takea better position... we simply putit inside. here, there'stwo little notches. wepush it...
it fixes itself,very easily. so, normally, there'sa compartment here. we're supposed towrap the cable in there we won't do itbecause it's a pain. it's long,and useless ! then we take the nunchuk,that we have to put... damn,i'm struggling... here ! and this small part here,if i get to open it...
alright. by the way, it's quitean elaborate design ! the cable is supposedto pass through it. you see the thing ?err, maybe not... well, anyway,like this. and here we havetwo little notches which correspond, in fact, to thetwo little screw holes in the back. oh, they're reallysmart at nintendo ! and so,now we can...
alright, i thinkit's fixed. it is now. we closethis little thing... and here it is !we use it like this. just likethat. but i can't stay in this positionfor more than 10 minutes. that aloneis a big problem. i'd say there's bothergonomy and grip issues. i'm not saying it's bad,or that the grip is not good. but, i just can'tsee the point.
there's nointerest. we can't aim whenwe have it on the eye. but anyway, precision on tv...we all know there is a lag time. that thing here doesn'timprove the lag time. when we do a simplewrist movement, the cursor on screen won'tmove as fast as the wrist. we must wait something likeone second, you see ? so, obviously, it doesn'timprove anything. in short, i don't reallysee the point.
the cable'shere... i think the wrist strap goesin there, or something like that... ! (laughs) so yeah, i didn't seethe point, honestly... if i tell you that,it's because this bundle is meant to prove thatthis thing here is useful. that this thing is an obligationto play shooter games on the wii. while actually not.not at all. we're most likely toplay normally, like that.
with the wiimote, the nunchuk...and we play just like that. likeeveryone. but no, they wantto sell us this thing. again, it's not crappy,but i really don't see the point. after 10 minutes,i couldn't take it anymore. still, i consider it's alittle more precise. for me, at least,it's better. i also tried this thingwith umbrella chronicles. it's a little bit better, but after10 minutes, i can't take it anymore.
and we have to keepa very specific position. while, when we play withseparate wiimote and nunchuk, we can really putourselves as wanted. like, sprawled on the seatlike a big wreck ! well it works too, butyou see what i mean. there's another thingthat made me laugh i show you thegame cover... it's, of course, thefamous pegi norm. wait, reflect isnot good...
12+ !(equals esrb teen rating) this game is forbidden forpeople under twelve. yeah, link'scrossbow training ! a game whereyou play an elf who shoots on targetswith a crossbow. ok, sometimes heshoots on goblins. it's true, it may be a bit cruelto shoot goblins with a crossbow !... no, but seriously !let's stop this bullshit ! forbidden forpeople under 12 !
what cani say ?... pegi is strictly useless.it has to be said ! kids never look at this thing, andparents don't even know it exists. and to make it worse, there'saberrations of this kind ! same thing for sonic games,forbidden for people under 12. it's juststaggering ! crazy,really... anyway, to concludei would say this : the wiizapper...
...zap it ! ok, we're back onthe title screen. i didn't tell youbut, of course, link's crossbow trainingis exclusive to the wii and it was releasedon december 2007. wow, that goesback a ways ! when we take a lookat the multiple gamemodes, which areavailable at start, we could say thegame is rather extensive.
actually,not at all. because the multiplayermode is worthless as well as the practice mode,totally uninteresting. in fact, the score attack mode isthe only one to be a little interesting. why ? well, in multiplayer mode,we play one after the other. i'll never understand those multiplayermodes where you have to take turns. it's as if we were playing the scoreattack mode one after the other. except that... it'snamed "multiplayer" ! it's thesame mode !
hold on, mywiimote has a bug. that's because i'm tooclose to the screen. gosh, i'll never beable to play like this. wait. i'll have to move backthe microphone. yeah, it's a mess, but all this ishandmade ladies and gentlemen ! so, i moveback a little. damn, if i do this, i can nolonger speak on the mic. likethat ?...
well at least, if i play bad,i'll have an excuse ! this wayit will be fine ! so, the practice modeis a bit pathetic too, because we'll only be able to replay thelevels we unlocked on score attack mode. but there's no tutorial, or anythingelse specific to the practice mode. it's the same levels thanthe score attack mode so, i don't understand !i really don't !... i can't seethe point. ok, eventually, if we want to startdirectly to the second or third stage,
we can do it withouthaving to play the first one. which is impossible inthe score attack mode. so, how doesit work ? as you can see, there's a total ofnine levels including a final one. each one consistingof three stages. but you'll see, i'm goingto do the first one just to explainto you the basics. alright, here we go.ordon target practice... i'm pretty sure ordon is thefirst village in twilight princess.
of course,i didn't tell you but this game is a spin-offfrom twilight princess. it's not a classicadventure zelda game. like i said earlier, it's kindof a promotional game for this weird thingcalled the wii zapper. by the way, i don't play with it,it's really too painful for me. so i'm playing with classicwiimote and nunchuk. i'm gonnaget this one... the first time i played this game,i thought it was very easy.
why ? because, what you needto know is, we have infinite ammos. so i play like this,frenetically. and i destroy everythingthat appears on the screen. there we go,it's party-time ! there, and there,and over there.... special goldentarget there. it brings ina little more points. i destroy everything,including vases here. i zoom in with thenunchuk's z button.
alright, i made a flyingwatermelon appear ! there, i'm knocking off thescarecrow, vases here and there, all targets whichappeared here, in short, i thoughtit would be child's play. as it turnsout, no. look at my score,i only have 4150 points. and right now, we're just startingthe last part of this stage. as you'll seein the end... my score willbe terrible.
why ? because we haveto do more like this. we must not shoot frenetically.the objective is to make a combo. look, everytimei shoot a target. there'sa multiplier. my score is multiplied.x10. x11... x12up there ! i got a 5000 pointsbonus from the triforce because i knocked out allthe targets in that stage. if we can't destroy them all,there's no bonus in the end.
see, i got10 818 points. if i'm right, my bestscore was around 30 000. and yet i'vedestroyed all targets ! in theory, i should havethe maximum score. but no ! can i get outof here ?... i can't,hold on. let's skip that stage."gerudo stalfos: defender"... there we go,"level select". by pressing the a button, we canchoose to stop the current session.
we'll do thesame stage again. wow, actually, i got morethan 55 000 points ! nearly56 000 ! while i just did10 000 points ! why ? because ofthe multiplier. it means that whenwe'll hit a target, points will be doubled each timewe'll hit another target, and so on. but, on the sole conditionof not missing it ! if we fire,errr...
i mean, if weshoot an arrow, since we're supposed to use acrossbow, if you didn't get it. so, it's very simple, whenwe shoot with the crossbow and if we manage tohit the target each time... i'll try to getthis scarecrow. eight, we shoot up there...then it explodes. if we manage to hit thetarget each time, you'll see. there, i justgot 30 points. you'll seethe principle...
i got30x2. there,30x3. and so on,until the end. when we reach theend of the stage, it can be multiplied by50, 60, 70, 80... you see whati mean ? that's one of thegame's basics. there, for example,i missed that one ! the golden targetcame off too fast.
i shot,i missed. you'll see that now, themultiplier has returned to zero. here we go !back to 30. it's not evenworth it. keep playing whenwe missed a shot is justpointless. continuing a stage whenwe messed up is pointless. we know we won't beable to perform a high score. and scoring is the wholepoint of this game !
making ahigh score ! there's no othergoal to achieve. it's a good idea,but also a reproach. because if we miss a shotat the end of the stage well, we're offto start again. it's no longer worth itto continue, you see ? let's give the firststage one last try. this time, i'll try tobe more focused. but, again, i'm insuch a position that
it's difficult forme to play well. another thing,we have to succeed... wait, i'll try to getthe scarecrow because actually, there's a secretwith these scarecrows. we hit them eight times,then, their head swells. and when we blow it up,we get 1000 points. afterwards, if we findanother one in the stage and if we do the same thing :eights shots in its body, its head swells, we shoot it,and collect 1000 points,
then, we'll have kind of an alternativeway through the end of this stage. allowing us togather more points. i'm not fastenough there... ok, i got itthis time. 150x12. oh, and you must know that, themore we hit a target in the middle... look ! the scarecrowis right there, but i won't hit it,i'll focus on the targets. see, i hit this one right in themiddle and got 30 points.
for the next one, i'll shootnear the edge and you'll see. i only got10 points. it's either 10 or 30 pointson those targets dependingon... ok i got it.i'm focusing a little bit... another thing, by pressingand holding the button like i just did it triggers some kind of charge.just hold it for 2 or 3 seconds... then, we can throwan explosive arrow. let's wait fortargets to appear...
there we go !i got all targets at once ! it's not very usefulin this stage. but sometimes,in the others... i'm too slow, i shouldtry to be faster... err, x40. i'm stilltrying to focus better. alright ! i got everythingand the 5000 points bonus. i got 33 000 points but,if i had got the two scarecrows, i'd have gained accessto a new part of this stage where i could haveearned even more points.
now you knoweverything ! so bye guys, and seeyou next time ! no, i'm justkidding ! so, the game is alwaysdivided into three stages. we just did...err, wait. each, err...how could i say ?... each level, as it'swritten up there (level 1). each level is dividedinto three stages. we just did the first stage,we'll do the second one.
generally, not always though,those stages keep the same concept. here for example, it'sa defender trial. first, we have athird-person view of link. that wasn'tthe case earlier. all i can do ismoving from left to right and movethrough 360... damn, i missed it,so i've lost the combo. also, we have to use the radarto see where the skeletons are. when we destroya green skeleton...
...we obtain some kind ofcrossbow-machine gun. i didn't see thepoint though, since it's impossible tokeep the multiplier, or to continuemaking combos. i mean, ok, we're butcheringeverything on the screen. but it's impossible toto make combos with this. we can only do so byshooting like this, manually. hit by hit. otherwise we're notaccurate enough.
i'll try to keepmy combo... damn, i missedit again ! ooh, that's goingto be bad ! that's goingto be so bad... ooh fuck,fuck, fuck... fuck !! 6 142, thatwas... pathetic. you may have seenthe last skeleton hit me. we don't have anylife bar so we can't die.
but when an enemy managesto get closer and hit us, we losepoints. 100 points each time weget hit by an enemy. i told you, the whole pointof this game is scoring. apart from that,there's nothing else. so, this bringsus to stage 3. "move using the control stick..."yeah, that's the third stage. and there, thehandling is awful. in the previous stage already,with the 360 degrees movements...
...it wasn't so good,i mean, the gameplay. but that's evenworse here. because we're controlling linkwith the multi directional stick, the nunchuk'sanalog button. i'm playing so badly.i should aim better... a little betterat least... i could clearly play a bit better,but right now, i'm really... therewe go ! you...
...didn't see me,so that's good. now we'll shootdown the pig, trying not to lose themultiplier by the way. for him,a little zooming... for him, no need, but we haveto watch out for his arrow. also, when anenemy hits us, with an arrow oranything else, we lose ourcombo too. so it getsback to zero.
oh, wow, thatone was close ! careful... of course, wealso have a timer. i've got 27 secondslefts to kill... "enemies left",you can see it on the right. damn, i've lostthe multiplier. there's one enemy left, buti've no idea where he is. there's nobodyleft here. i see himover there.
wait, isthat him ?... no, that wasjust a scarecrow. is he inthere ?... where thehell is he ?... oh,right there ! damn !!i missed him ! damn it ! i had only one second left,and i didn't see him earlier. there wasone enemy left...
anyway, those stageswill always be the same. we'll have 60, 70 or 80 secondsto kill around 20 or 25 enemies. and try once more topreserve our combo. to multiply the scoreby 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, etc... and manage to gather themaximum amount of points. of course, we'll have to unlockevery level one by one as we'll move forwardin the game. and we'll get medals.i got 65 000 points so... logically i should getthe gold medal, but...
since i already had the platiniummedal, i've got nothing. look, here we cansee those medals. for levels 1 and 3,i got the platinum medal. we have to score atleast 80 000 points for it. to obtain the gold medal, which i gotfor levels 2, 4, 5 and the final one, we need at least60 000 points. for the bronze medal,which i got for level 8, we only need20 000 points. and to get the silver medal,as you see for levels 6 and 7,
we'll need40 000 points. knowing that we'll onlyneed the bronze medal to gain accessto the next level. you knoweverything ! now, i'll show you theforth level because i like it. "zora river target practice".yeah, i like it ! now for the game itself,it's graphically twilight princess. there's no evolutioncompared to it. so it's...very average.
despite whatcould be said. i'll try to shootthe vases first... damn, i'm playinglike a douche. i'll try to keep themultiplier this time. this level remindsme a little bit of tetris wait, not tetris.another game... what's itsname already ?... well, there's a game like thiswith the same principle... it's a bit like tetris, but that'snot what i wanted to say.
damn it ! i missed thetarget, you saw that ?! now it'sover for me ! i already know it's over,you see what i mean ? as soon as welose the multiplier... sometimes, when we destroya vase, or any other element, there's some kind ofalveolus flying away. you may haveseen it. it must be destroyedas fast as possible. as fast aspossible...
...to collect themaximum points. i think it startsat 1000 points. then, for each second lost,we may lose 50 or 100 points. so, even if we have the multiplier, wecan still shoot on background elements. but if we miss one,we start over from zero. look, i'mstill at 18. 19, 20,21, 22... sometimes you can seetargets with a blue cross on it. we must nothit them.
too bad i failed to keepthe multiplier earlier... else it would havebeen really good. i could have done a goodscore, like 25 000 or 30 000. but there, it'sjust pathetic. i'll still show youthe second stage. about the musics,it's quite simple. almost all musics arefrom twilight princess it's not even remix versions, it's reallyjust the twilight princess's musics. that sucksa little bit.
also, i found out this gamehas sold 4 millions copies. i'm quite gobsmacked,i have to say. ok, let'scharge. in order to get thoses batswith an explosive arrow. i'm using the radar to seewhere the enemies are. oh, let's getthe firefly. now i should getthe machine-gun. herethey are. this game is really...how could i say ?
it lacks content,in a blatantly way. i mean, we unlockevery level in... there,quick ! it takes less than an hourto unlock every levels. because, getting the bronzemedal is extremely easy. i'll try to get them all, soi can get that triforce bonus. so, yeah, unlocking everylevels is extremely easy. the only thing remaining in theend is to seek the high score. ok, i totally failed.8 000 points is... sad.
there's nothing more left in theend than just ranking up. you know,raising score. yeah... i must have played this gamefor something like 2 or 3 hours. i won't say i didn'thave fun, honestly. it's not a crappy game,i still had fun playing it. but, that still remainsfar too limited. there's justno content ! wait, i'lltry to...
it's just like the first level,we have to move by ourselves. it's extremelybad ! so, why, why is thegameplay this bad ? because, in order to move the camerawe have to move the wiimote. the aim cursor is what makeslink turn, you see what i mean ? and the nunchuk isonly for moving forward. it's verybadly done ! the fact that wehave to turn like this. and by this, i mean makingzigzags with the wiimote.
it sucks ! i think it would have beenwiser to turn with the nunchuk. and maybe moving forwardjust by pressing a button. like this useless z button.(hooper's note : not z, but c) since we zoom usingthe z button, like this. i don'tget it. i'm about to makesome really poor score because i wasn't worryingabout the combo at all. so it's going to bepathetic in every way.
ok, where are theother spiders now ?... there's stillsix to kill. i'm an idiot,i should rather use... there ?wait, no overthere ! at least i would have got that one.how much time do i have ?... let's just try shootingeverywhere, after all. up there,maybe ? not even one up there ?there's two on the radar, though.
there ! that one washidden behind a tree. here... unfortunately, i stillhave two spiders to kill and i've zeroseconds left. well, this performancewas... quite pathetic ! i have toadmit it. so, i was sayingthis game was sold, as i saw whileenquiring about it,
over4 millions... 4 millions !! they've sold4 millions of this thing. it shows that, with a licence,we can really sell everything. because frankly, a onehour long game like this... even if we can still play a fewmore hours for fun, or scoring. but, seriously !there's way too few levels ! and it's alwaysthe same. but for me, the mostunacceptable point
is that gameplay,in each third stage. frankly, it'sreally laborious. and that'sunacceptable. we're sold this thing,the wii zapper, which is supposedto bring us flexibility, to make the gameeasier to handle. and that's nearlynot the case. at least forthe third stages but even the second ones, wherewe have to move through 360 degrees.
once again, why don'twe move with the nunchuk ?! with the, err,how is it called ? not the directional pad, withthe nunchuk's analog stick ! to move leftand right ! it would have beenway more intuitive than being forced to make large movesfrom left to right with the aim cursor in order tomove the camera ! it's really alousy system ! also, there's only two bosses.one in the eighth level, totally lame.
and the only true one,which is actually the final boss. it's theonly boss. it would have been niceto have one for each level. i don't know, they couldhave moved their ass ! but no, we onlyhave one real boss. i'm going to do level 7,and try to get the gold medal. as you seei got the bronze... not the bronze,the silver medal. since i got45 000 points.
i need 60 000for the gold medal. how much did i have...19 000 at first stage, 12 000 at second,13 000 at third. at least, i'll try to do morethan 19 000 for the first one. so...what is it ? "hit the bullseyes asquick as you can..." i don't remember well,let's see what it is. let's see... ah, yes !i remember !
first of all,let's crush some skulls. it only gives 5 points,that's not a lot. but you never know,it can make the difference. alright,i remember. not bad, now wewait for the other... herewe go ! nice... ! wow, that's really not bad !i've kept the multiplier. besides, it'sa tough stage.
of course, levels areincreasingly difficult. we're playingthe seventh one. so we really arein the last levels. i'll tryto... we must be carefulfor the next ones... becausethere's a cross. i'm goingto wait... ...for this oneto get there. that'snot bad.
it could havebeen worse... oh, damn ! damn it !that's so stupid !! did yousee that ?! there was a whistle, so i thoughtthe target would remain and as a result,i lost the multiplier ! seriously ! i'm gutted !i'm so gutted ! i shot on thetarget, but no.
what i should have doneis to watch the timer and see to the nearest secondthe moment it would end. but i didn't do that,so i'm screwed. now i'm juststrafing all over... on these zombie-like enemies,but i know i'm already dead... that one over there...lost the multiplier again... 17 000... it's over !... unless i play like a godin stages 2 and 3,
i won't getthe gold medal. "city in thesky defence"... "aeralfos"... ?what's that ? "...can fly highor attack..." if that's the onei'm thinking of... oh my, that'sthe worst of all ! just like the previous one,we can only move... damn, it's better to usethe charged shot here. missed him,great !
and i missedhim again ! i suck... i really suck.where's the other ? how do youwant to... how do you want to keepa combo with these assholes... always protectingthemselves ? what ?!i didn't get him ?! no way ! he took acharged shot in his head !! you damnbastard !
come hereyou ! so that i can get thebonus by killing you all. where arethey ?... ...andyou ! the crossbow soundcomes from the wiimote. as it's often the casefor this kind of game. i have to say thissound is quite atrocious. i turnedit down. alright, i gotthem all.
i told you in some previous videothat the sound was horrible. it was in the madworld one,about the chainsaw's sound. i said that was awful and too loud,and that we were hearing it all the time. then i was said in commentsthat i could change it, in the wii menu. indeed, we can change itand that's what i did. that's why the sound you'rehearing is not too loud. i suggest you do the same,and turn down the wiimote's sound. else, it isreally horrible. i've pretty muchtold you everything.
my impression isthat the game's nice but doesn'tlast long enough. now of course, theother good news is that... ...when the game wasreleased, in december 2007, it was soldfor 30 euros. 30 euros withthe wii zapper, that's quiteappreciable. damn bastard !how do you... what a crappyhandling !
honestly, in those3d environments... look at that !there's even bugs ! when i stickto the wall ! nintendo hadnothing to deal with ! but lookat that ! i stick to the wall...and there's a texture bug ! i can see through it.that's unacceptable ! they had nothing to do !unbelievable ! this game was clearlymade in fifteen days
by somenintendo's interns ! they hadnothing to do. they even might not havedone debugging sessions ! that's seriouslystaggering me. how doyou want to... the handlingreally sucks. the problem is, to move left or right,we have to move the aim cursor. but we need it as well toshoot enemies and kill them. so that'sextremely clumsy !
and we can't even makeacrobatic moves, or rolls, like classic 3d zelda gamessuch as ocarina of time. we can't evendo that ! all we can do is moveforward and backward andthat's all. everything elsewas just... there,i didn't miss him... and himneither ! how manyare left ?...
one, only one !where is he ?! damn,i missed him. 2 500 points...that was pathetic in every way. anyway,what was i saying ?... yes, there'seven bugs ! it'sstaggering me... you have to thinkit's a demo, not a game. only to promotethe wii zapper... even if i thinkit doesn't do so.
because, as i toldyou in my intro, after 10 minutes, frankly,i'm hurting everywhere. it may be a little more preciseto use the wii zapper. i admit that. as well as it may bemore immersive. but that's notergonomic at all ! it hurts hands,dammit ! you have to reviseyour concept ! when something hurts hands,it's just not possible.
so, i've pretty muchtold you everything. of course there's absolutelyno fmv, cutscene or story. we move from level to levelwithout any logic. from the gerudo desertto the lake hylia... then to thezora's domain... there's notany kind of logic. that's pure shooting,with nothing else. a good point maybe, the twilightprincess universe for those who liked it. you'll find the same environments,backgrounds, landscapes, musics...
it's still a pleasure,of course. but it's a little too easy.i call it fan service. clearly, if the game wasn't namedlink's, errr, crossbow something, it would never have sold 4 millions.i mean, 4 millions !! 4 million copies ! frankly, if you wanta shooter game, i had ten times more fun playingresident evil umbrella chronicles ! though it had prettymediocre reviews too. but i had a lot of fun playingumbrella chronicles, from a to z ! i had fun playing this game too,but it only lasts two hours !
i'm going to do the final level.so, a little spoiler alert ! since i'm going to show youthe game's final boss. well, i said "spoiler"but honestly... be careful guys,huge spoiler coming !... ah yes,i remember this. let's shootsome vases first. the multiplier doesn't start with vases,or any other background element. it only starts by hittingan enemy, that we can kill. that's why you saw me shootingthose vases at the beginning.
damn, i missed...wait no, i didn't... ? i didn't miss, so in facti'm playing well. damn it, i missedthe one on the right ! it's over,i lost the multiplier. there should bean alveolus there. i knew it.935 points. it'sso over ! i've lost the multiplier soi know i won't beat my record. look,it's only at x8.
if i didn't lose it,it would be around x30... whata shame. i'll still trynot to lose it again. ah ! i've justlost it again... it's over.everything's over ! i've lost the multiplier again,it's over for me. anyway, i told you everythingi thought about this game. it may be true to considerit's not a real game. since it was sold 30€.i got it for 15, though.
buthonestly, even for 15€, i'd sayi've been a bit screwed. yeah, evenfor 15€. i wouldn't evenrecommand it at 15€. let's say 5€ ?yeah, 5€ is good. for 5€, it could beworth it. 10€,at most. but more than that,it's not possible. there's nothing.this game is empty.
it's nothingness.really, there's nothing. but really, if itwasn't zelda... i mean, the only interestis that it's zelda. because in theshooter genre, umbrella chronicles is superior,as well as house of the dead. even on the wii, there'sway more superior games. so... once again, of courseit's a way to sell the wii zapper. but frankly, even if it'sa little more precise,
i didn't found itto be extraordinary. another stage where we canonly move through 360â°. you see there ?that's what i told you earlier. why didn't they allow usto move link and the camera by using the nunchuk'sanalog stick ? look, we have to makelarges moves with the wiimote. so i do so, but wheni need to hit an enemy, i have to recentrate theaim cursor so that i can hit him. i don't know why !i really don't !
when i use theanalog stick like that, there's nothinghappening at all. all i can do iszooming. seriously, that's nearlya programming error ! so at every second andthird stages of each level, there's a hugegameplay issue ! and to me,it's unacceptable !! for a game like this, whichpurpose is to sell the wii zapper ! it'sstaggering me !!
it's staggering me to see gameplayissues in such a basic and simple game !! i just can'tbelieve it. i see we've reachedthe last stage of the game. againstthe boss. i'll leave you there,i won't comment this. again, the only bossin this game ! that's anotherdeception. anyway, i told you everythingi had to tell about this game. of course, it's just a demo.but even for a demo !
i think we could expect somethinga little more substential. so, bye guys,and see you next time !
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