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 129: ‘Slayaway Camp,’ and ‘Kirby Star Allies’
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 128: ‘Mulaka’ Interview and Debating the ‘Super Smash’ Switch Roster
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 127: Interview With ‘Floor Kids’ Composer Kid Koala and the March Nintendo Direct
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 126: The Nintendo Switch, One Year Later + Hall of Fame Part 4 Nintendo Podcast 126: The Nintendo Switch, One Year Later + Hall of Fame Part 4
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 125: ‘Owlboy’, ‘Dandara’, and How We’d Make a Mario Movie
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 124: ‘Celeste’ and Difficulty in Video Games plus Nintendo’s Twitter Direct
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 123: Switch’s Stellar Sales and the Cardboard Craziness of Labo
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 122: The Mini Direct, ‘Furi,’ Deer God,’ ‘World to the West’ and 2018 Predictions
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 121: Our Favorite Nintendo Characters From 2017
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 120: Was 2017 Nintendo’s Best Year?
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 119: Best of Nintendo 2017 plus ‘Donkey Kong Country Returns’
Awesome Mixtape Vol. 4: Best Video Game Soundtracks 2017
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 118: ‘Xenoblade Chronicles 2’ and ‘BOTW: Champion’s Ballad’
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 117: ‘Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp’ and Games We Want Included in the Mini N64
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 116: Switch's Third Party Boon and E-Rated Games
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 115: ‘Super Mario Odyssey’ Spoiler Review & ‘Xenoblade Chronicles 2
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 114: ‘Super Mario Odyssey’ and Mobile Animal Crossing
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 113: ‘Fire Emblem Warriors' and 'Oxenfree'
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 112: ‘Golf Story’ and ‘Stardew Valley’
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 109: ‘Metroid: Samus Returns,' 'Mario + Rabbids' and Nintendo Direct
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