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 the NXpress Nintendo Podcast: Revisiting ‘The Wizard’
Best of the NXpress Nintendo Podcast: ‘Super Mario 64’
Best of the NXpress Nintendo Podcast: ‘Super Mario Galaxy’
Best of the NXpress Nintendo Podcast: ‘Super Mario Sunshine’ Review
NXpress Nintendo Podcast: How the Pandemic is Shaping the Future of Nintendo
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #202: ‘Carrion’ and The Nintendo Gigaleak
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #201: ‘CrossCode’ and ‘Bloodstained: Curse of The Moon 2’
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #200: ‘Paper Mario: The Origami King’
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #199: ‘Journey to the Savage Planet’ and Games Never Ported
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #198: ‘Xenoblade Chronicles, ‘Shantae and the Seven Sirens’ and ‘Bug Fables’
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #197: ‘Animal Crossing’ Wrapup, ‘Super Mega Baseball 3’ Review
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #196: The Great Nintendo Baseball Draft
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #195: We Just Can’t Get Enough of ‘Animal Crossing: New Horizons’
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #194: ‘Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ After 60 Hours
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #193: ‘Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ Impressions
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #192: Drafting Nintendo Basketball Teams
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #191: ‘Animal Crossing: New Horizons’
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #190: The Mount Rushmore of Nintendo
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #189: Most Anticipated Nintendo Switch Games of 2020
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #188: The Game Awards and the Best Games of 2019
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