oh my God okay it's happening everybody stay calm everybody everyone what's the procedure guys I cannot believe NFL Retro bow is finally here this is the first time I'm getting onto the game I want to give you guys my first impressions I've been waiting so long to play I stayed up until midnight the night before then I sat in alarm for 3:00 a.m. thinking maybe it would release at you know midnight in California cuz that's where Apple's at still nothing so then I waited 8 9 10:00 and then around 10:08 for some reason it's finally here so let's get after it guys if you are excited for NFL Retro bow 25 be sure to like the video you guys can vicariously live through me if you don't want to pay these seven or eight bucks uh per month to play the game so let's get after it let's just experience this game and see what this game has to offer so I like the colors right away very Punchy you know different variations of blue okay I I don't I don't need all right let's just hope it goes away at this point we're going to start a new game here NFL retriable 25 you're about to start your first season as the head coach of an NFL franchise the path to success is an arduous one but if you believe in yourself and can Inspire your team then Gloria awaits we love to see it we love the use of uous every single time there's a new game and it is just so crazy that the game is actually licensed by the NFL and you see all these sweet logos it is just so clean but I think with all these new coaches that we have at our disposal I mean there's a lot of a lot of I mean these are all new faces from what it looks like tell me this guy doesn't look very similar to me just as a whole I mean my hair uh when I get a little haircut it might look a little bit more similar taking the reins here who are we going to take control of now in my poll on YouTube which I put out last night I put a couple different options I said the Cardinals potentially uh I said the Panthers I said the Washington commanders but I think for now let's just get after and see what the game has to offer I just want to experience it with you guys so we're just going to take control of we'll just take a team that's pretty decent so let's take control of the Baltimore Ravens a team that's very good in real life uh we have the same exact oh wait we don't have extreme anymore so there's Dynamic hard medium and easy that's very interesting see I was debating whether I'd even play on hard or extreme because I want these star rings to really play true to what they are uh but I also want to challenge as well so very very odd that that's not an option in the game but we will have it on a hard my favorite team unfortunately is the Carolina Panthers so let's just hop into it this is where your path to the top starts do you want to choose a mix of NFL Superstars for any of your franchise to be the star players who lead the Ravens to Glory or skip choosing with quick start and take over the Ravens with superstars from their current roster so if I do choose players I get to basically just have like a free-for-all I'm assuming under the cap or whatever it would be quick start would just be with the Ravens roster I think it's probably going to be more fun to choose the players just because I I think that's an awesome feature that they're adding so you can sort by free agents which is actually crazy I was wondering if they would have free agents that are NFL licensed we have Tai Montgomery Robbie chosen bad guy Bailey zappy but that's not even what we're really worried about we can sort by uh we can sort by position as well so we have 1 2 3 4 5 6 we have 12 24 36 48 60 72 we have almost we have over 80 we have what is it we have exactly 80 quarterbacks at our disposal wow so I guess a lot of my predictions were pretty far off because I said that I wasn't sure if they were going to have NFL licensing for a lot of players someone like Patrick Mahomes clearly in the game an absolute Beast somehow not a five star a four and a half star I don't really know how it gets much better than that those stats look like five star to me uh but then we have Josh Allen with the potential holy hell look at his overall Max potential is absolutely insane and then are these contracts so the contracts I don't think are actually accurate to what they are in real life but it looks like they might potentially be what they would be offered if this was what the player looked like if that makes any sense so a fourst star quarterback with a four and a half star potential if he was a free agent would be offered a $40 million contract I also love how you can see overall outline for the player you can see their whole body I do wish that the you know arm sleeves that you see on someone like you know Skyler Thompson that's a terrible example I wish you could see something like tua's tattoo and you know wristbands first of all how is tua's arm strength maxed out that's not even doesn't even matter I don't even know uh but regardless of the fact I wish you could see the little pixels in game I think the gam playay is probably just going to be exactly the same but it is really cool to have the player model there as well so I do want to I guess I will just choose random Ravens Maybe cuz there's so many at your disposal that's pretty crazy random Ravens and you can just literally rotate between however many players they have so we could do Lamar Jax with a four and a half star five star overall potential player somehow not maxed out speed as well very weird kind of kind of peculiar but that's fine Derrik Henry Isaiah likeley Tylan Wallace Patrick mcari I think first of all offensive lineman probably not going to be very useful for us so maybe we go ahead and go with uh tight end we go look for wait Brock Bowers is in the game too so they got Rook as well I mean they really have just about anybody that you could ask for I also don't know what this is being sorted by it seems like it's kind of just up in the air or maybe it's just based on we have bills Steelers Dolphins Broncos I Browns I is in order at all for anything it doesn't really seem like it Jaden Daniels is here so the ratings are pretty terrible for the rookies but they have a lot of potential which is I guess something you'd expect you can also see Rookie of the Year Awards in the bottom left corner I don't know what the awards on the right are I don't know if that's like super bowl rings that I don't even know if that makes any sense Jimmy garolo does he have two Carson Wentz Matthew Stafford oh my Lord look at the potential that Caleb Williams has what an absolute Beast so listen I'm not going to end up you know doing this franchise I just want to kind of see what we've got here look at all the different players available to us it looks like a lot of the overalls are just a little bit wild for some of the players some some of them are pretty accurate you know Jordan love oh man Big Love guy also look at that even like his jersey is is peeking out underneath uh underneath his player model I I love the attention to detail with all the different players I'm just going to random Raven we'll we'll rock out with this except I do want Lamar Jackson sure we'll go ahead and do this finish it up in a surprise news just before the start of the regular season the Ravens have appointed Hugh Jazz as their new head coach and then we have the ability to see a tutorial which I actually I'm going to go through the tutorial I also love the helmets so much more just like aesthetic so much more Aura with it uh we've got the eye icon nothing looks to be really different we have Stadium training facility and Rehab offense defense coordinators uh but again all new faces all new uniforms as well uh so we're going to go and check out the roster now the NFL superstar screen you can look at someone like Lamar Jackson we have morale conditioning obviously we we know these things that's that's pretty typical it is kind of It kind of be weird now with dilemas cuz are they going to limit the dilemmas based on real NFL players maybe they're not going to allow certain dilemas that are a little bit wild now uh because it'd be like you know offensive or slandering real people as opposed to fake ones um I don't really want to go through like the tutorial I'll just go ahead and skip this part for you guys all right Ravens are rooting for your success as your team embarks on a New Journey it appears to be pretty similar to everything else um like I said you don't have the ability to go onto extreme it's just hard Dynamic easy medium uh weather is on kick returns on and off I would assume it's the new rules that they added to regular retro bow quarter length we can go up to 3 minutes so that is also still the same and then when we go to continue this is just so fire it's absolutely just kickass uh the Ravens you have the ability to see uh your team their team the Bengals the Browns you can just scroll around if you really want to or you can look at the upcoming you know team that you're playing against so we have someone like Anthony Richardson we also don't have the ability to see what their overall potential is uh aside from their ratings so someone like uh I guess we'll look at somebody a little bit more wellknown Alec Pierce Speedster coming out of Cincinnati he's a two and a half star player a fourstar potential but we don't know what his actual you know where the attributes are at so if we wanted to we could offer a pick or a player in in exchange for a trade so if we wanted to offer a player we'd probably have to offer someone similar so he's at two and a half with a fourstar potential so would they do it for justice Hill they did they accepted it uh justice Hill straight up for Alec Pierce now again I'm just trying to see what this looks like and then now we can see the potential for uh for a player once he's on your team although now he doesn't have a number I don't really know what that's about like everyone's got their number which is pretty sweet and then Alec Pierce lost his number look at the Colts logo as well uh also probably should have sent somebody a kick returner so it doesn't really matter it's not a big deal we'll just trudge along here also do we have the ability to simulate games I I don't know I'm going to see how fast Lamar Jackson is this is supposed to be your fastest scrambling quarterback in the game this is on hard Pretty good overall I would say he doesn't feel like game breakingly fast also the stars are kind of getting in my way as I'm trying to throw the ball deep but Mark Andrews makes a nice catch and a hurdle less I it's really less about the game play at this point I just want to see what the actual game has to offer I'm going to take a deep shot to Alec pierce the new acquisition and we've got a touchdown over the top 42 yd bomb we do have the ability to simulate we can activate SIM I am going to simulate the rest of the game uh I just I want to continue to see what happens as the uh as the game goes on although Ravens on the 22 quarterback passing play touchdown two points and score Ravens kickoff I'm actually going to stop the Sim cuz oh they're going to a 61 yd field goal mat G is going to knock it in I mean this series is not going to be a series at all so there's really no emotional investment for you guys but of course I would love to win my first game and Lamar Jackson and Company drive down the field again the stars are blinking very huge and oh my God Lamar's getting Shifty this will be really fun to play with on controller as well because you'll be able to like really wiggle around uh certain players although we don't have a running back CU got rid of Justice Hill so he's slower than hell make the comeback give me some time in the pocket we got Deontay Hardy is that who that is I would assume I didn't know he was on the team but I guess he is 55 seconds left I got to remember there's no running back on the team so don't do that Mark Andrew is over the middle of the field it's a pass in stride 22 seconds left and going down slowly but steadily also like how there's no like popup on the screen uh whenever there's like the option as we score our touchdown to win the game whenever there's a one or two point option like right here I always hated like the screen that would pop up like to to blur out the background I am so much this is so much better you can actually see the plays ahead of time as well put a laser on the No Name running back and we should get out of Indie with a win they're going to bomb it and we're going to get it so the Raven side wide receiver Alec Pierce from the Colts in exchange for running back Justice Hill as the news tab I mean that's kind of old news we already we already done did that uh let's go ahead and praise the owner I suppose I love also the NFL logos just fading around the background this is how you take advantage of the NFL license you just put it in everybody's face show it all around because you should you know you have licensing for it you might as well and then look at that League restart screen as well which is something that uh even College retro bow doesn't have at this point who would have thought that NFL Retro bable 25 would have it literally instantly but hey you know whatever whatever I'm not going to say anything about it now we don't have the ability to look at League leaders for stats which is kind of weird because I would assume that's going to be an option can I put Lamar Jackson at kick returner Deontay Hardy Alec Pierce uh we'll go and set Alec Pierce as our kick returner I want to see if we have the ability could we theoretically set all these players uh so that way you know they're not losing anybody or is this all set do we do we do we as the team that we choose get to choose our team and everyone else is kind of just like set in stone or every single time you start a new franchise does it autogenerate every team for you cuz if I had the ability to set each team that'd be pretty fun if that makes any sense basically if I wanted to play against certain Superstars or or even have the ability to remove the salary cap as a whole could be kind of fun could be kind of fun I don't know but I do like the balance that you're going to have see like something like this I was worried like they didn't have Trayvon digs in the game I was wor they didn't have Don Bland and other superstars but I guess the concept is more just like trying to stay under the salary cap with the many of players that the game does have signed way more than I expected so I will I will take back what I said there I will probably make a video and go through anybody that I do see uh I'll do a little bit of research I'm again just getting the game just reacting to it with you guys and also based on just looking at these little uh you know bottom right icons for these players clearly uh those are Super Bowl championships so Odell Beckham Jr with a championship Nelson aalor holy I've never seen a player with the potential that Jamar Chase has he has potential for a completely maxed out wide receiver I don't know if anybody has more potential than that I mean you cannot get any higher than that Cooper Cup right there I don't like how when you go back uh you let say you click on a player you go back it takes you back to the quarterbacks right away I wish it would keep your spot um but that's fine that's it it's it's pretty nitpicky but that could be a nice little quality life thing like now I got to go back to DBS again but show me somebody that's got just absolutely ridiculous stats Tran brisker is a five star it doesn't look like we have as many DBS as we did like quarterbacks so we got 12 24 36 48 uh 4950 51 total DBS it looks like they've got a lot of good ones though Brian Branch with a five star poten he looks pretty cracked 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 120 132 144 they've got almost 160 receivers in the game which is awesome I don't think anybody was going to predict this is how they were going to do it I mean I don't like hate like what they're doing here with this idea of being able to have a ton of players and then you choose if you want to have you know bad receivers but a great running back or you want to have that star receiver but he's going to cost money maybe want to neglect the offensive line uh and make room for more defensive players with your salary cap it's a very unique way of doing it you know they've got four Green Bay Packer tight ends they got four Vikings tight ends they've got a lot of tight ends it appears uh which is great I mean more players than marrier really I'm going to go ahead and spend some coaching credits to see if uh you know if there's anything new as far as it doesn't really appear that there's anything new new that would really stick out scan lines are off but it it looks like they're on just kind of has this like graininess to the game uh and that's cool like it adds like to more of the Retro look to it I'm going to keep the scan lines off though just make it as clear as I possibly can and I usually prefer to play with two-minute quarters just because I feel like the games have more realistic scores to to the NFL in college Retro Bowl I like to play three minute quarters more scoring uh less defense overall that's seems to be pretty realistic from what I've played but guys this is the first impressions reaction to NFL retri bow 25 my key takeaways after about 15 minutes love the player models I love how many players are in the game way more than I expected obviously the exclusivity very weird you'd think that like Android would have some sort of money Google would have the money to be able to also acquire licensing and also just the release of the whole game with the exclusivity I don't know why they think that that's like the best way to do it I think it's I I don't think it's a great idea honestly I there was a lot of negative backlash in the release on Twitter all the comments for the exclusivity for the release and also for the exclusivity for the game being strictly on Apple arcade I know it sucks guys I know it does and I'm excited to start a franchise do different rebuilds different challenges so be sure to subscribe so you don't miss that that's it for my first impressions of the game I hope you guys enjoyed this video I want to get it out to you soon as possible be sure to leave a like subscribe so you don't miss the next NFL run triple 25 video sounds so weird saying that and I'll see you in the next one take it easy oh