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
Best of Rare’s Soundtracks
Best Nintendo Video Game Soundtracks 2015
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #29: Digital vs. Physical plus Nintendo’s First Mobile App
NXPress Nintendo Podcast #28: Yoshi’s Wooly World and the Recent NX Rumours
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #27: ‘Resident Evil 4’ and Falling In and Out of Love with Nintendo
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #26: Year Walk plus Silent Hill
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #25: Ranking the Super Mario Games
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #24: A look back at Super Mario Galaxy 2 plus Super Mario Maker
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #23: ‘Super Mario Maker’ and Games we Want to See as Movies
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #22: A look back at Super Mario Galaxy Plus Runbow
NXpress #21: Pax Prime and a look back at ‘Super Mario Sunshine’
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #20: Revisiting Super Mario RPG: The Legend of the Seven Stars
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #19: Re-evaluating Super Mario 64 + Super Mario Maker and more
NXpress #18: Tembo the Badass Elephant and our Mortal Kombat special
NXpress #17: The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth and Never Alone
NXpress #16: Virtual Boy 20 Year Anniversary & Super Mario World 2 Yoshi’s Island
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #15: In Memory Of Satoru Iwata
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #14: Deciding Nintendo’s best console
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #13: Brick by brick, a celebration of Super Mario Bros.
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #12: E3 2015 Special and Nintendo’s Digital Event
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