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 290: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Direct Reactions + TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge Review!
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 289: Ben Esposito Talks Neon White
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 288: + Neon White Reviews!
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 287: Behind the Frame and Life is Strange: True Colors Review + Sonic Frontiers Disappoints Again
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 286: Pokemon Scarlet and Violet + Sonic Frontiers Reactions, Pac-Man Museum + Review, and More
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 285: Reviewing Reggie’s New Book, Kao the Kangaroo on Switch, and More!
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 284: Indie World May 2022 Reactions + Fragrant Story Review
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 283: Nintendo Switch Sports Review!
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 282: Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga and The Force Unleashed Reviews!
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 281: Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Movie Review + GBA Games on Switch Rumor Report
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 280: 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim Switch Review + Is E3 Gone Forever?
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 279: Ranking Every Kirby Game, Ever
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 278: Reviewing Kirby And The Forgotten Land!
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 277: Ranking the New Tracks in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass Wave 1!
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 276: A Smorgasbord of Reviews!
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 275: Should Triangle Strategy Put You to Sleep?
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 274: Should We Be Excited for Pokémon Gen 9?
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 273: Interview with Yacht Club Games on Mina the Hollower!
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 272: In Loving Memory, Wii U and 3DS eShop
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 271: Pokemon Legends: Arceus Review
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