And the award goes to…Bill Clinton? This week on the NXpress Nintendo Podcast, Cameron Daxon, Marc Kaliroff, and Campbell Gill celebrate Awards Season by reacting to the good, the bad, and the utterly bizarre at the 2022 Game Awards, along with reviews of the much-anticipated Switch RPGs Harvestella and Crisis Core – Final Fantasy VII – Reunion.
The gang kicks things off by running through the biggest announcements at the Game Awards of 2022 that were most relevant to Nintendo fans. From a sequel to one of the best roguelikes on the market to a surprise follow-up to a controversial award winner, the show certainly did bring a few exciting bits of news for fans of the Big N. Yet nothing compares to the biggest delight of the show: a new trailer for The Super Mario Bros. Movie, which goes where few other game movies have gone before: using music from the source material in the actual film. What a novelty!
Next up, Cameron turns things down a notch with impressions of two Square Enix RPGs that might fail to meet expectations. First up is Harvestella, the apocalypse-meets-farming-sim whose promising premise suffers under a repetitive, basic, and surprisingly barebones gameplay loop. Then, there’s the baffling Crisis Core, a followup to Final Fantasy VII with an excellent remaster for modern platforms that does little to address the oddities of the original release.
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Playlist:
LFXIV – NXpress Intro
0:39 – Main Event: The Game Awards 2022
“Opening – Bombing Mission” – Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
27:00 – What We’ve Been Playing: Disappointing RPGs
“Genova” – Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #149: 'Starlink: Battle for Atlas,' 'Mutant Football League,' and 'Bastion'
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #148: The Final 'Super Smash Bros. Ultimate' Nintendo Direct Discussion
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #147: 'Friday the 13th Killer Puzzle with Jason Kapalka of Blue Wizard Digital
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 146: 'Luigi's Mansion,' 'Dragalia Lost' & How We Would Change a Popular Nintendo IP
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #145: ‘Dragon Ball Fighterz,’ ‘Super Mario Party’ and the Switch 2.0
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 144: 'Into the Breach,' The Switch Online Service, 'Minit' and Animal Crossing
NXpress Nintendo Switch Podcast 143: 'The Messenger,' PAX West and the Nintendo Direct
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 142: ‘Salt and Sanctuary’ and the Trouble with Game Journalism
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 141: 'Super Smash Ultimate' and the Nintendo Online Service
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 140: Piracy, Plagiarism and, Breaking Down the Super Mario Series
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 139: ‘WarioWare Gold,’ ‘Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’ and ‘Octopath Traveller’
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 138: ‘Octopath Traveller,’ ‘Inside’ and Nintendo Horror Films
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 137: ‘Mario Tennis Aces,’ ‘Hollow Knight,’ ‘Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon’ and ‘Figment’
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 136: Our Crazy E3 Trip and the Nintendo Direct
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 135: Streaming Games, Nintendo Crossover Wish Lists, and ‘Hyrule Warriors’ on Switch
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 134: ‘Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze’ plus E3 Rumours
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 133: Nintendo Labo Review
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 132: PAX East and the Best Console Peripherals
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #131: ‘Bayonetta 2’ and our Hopes and Dreams for E3 2018
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 130: Interview With the Director of 'Slayaway Camp'
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