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 #168: 'Pokemon Sword' and 'Shield' Direct
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #167: Best Nintendo Consoles List, History of NES/SNES Tech
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #166: 'Detective Pikachu' and 'Mortal Kombat 11'
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #165: ‘Boxboy! + Boxgirl!’ and ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #164: 'Cuphead' and 'Steamworld Quest'
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #163: The Game Boy Anniversary and the Difficulty in Games Debate
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #162: 'Yoshi's Crafted World' and Our Wants for a Switch Pro
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #161: Google Stadia, Apple Arcade and the Future of Nintendo
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #160: March Nindie Direct, 'Baba is You,' and 'Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn'
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #159: 'Ape Out' and Celebrating Two Years with the Switch
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #158: Dissecting 'Pokemon Sword' & 'Shield' Reveal, More 'Detective Pikachu'
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #157: 'Tetris 99,' 'Yoshi's Crafted World' and Video Game Habits
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #156: A Look Back at 'Resident Evil 2,' the Nintendo Direct, and 'Reverie'
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #155: 'Travis Strikes Again,' Super Mario Party' and 'Super Mario Bros. Deluxe'
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #154: Most Anticipated Nintendo Switch Games and Yearly Predictions of 2019
The Best Video Game Soundtracks 2018 Awesome Mix Tape
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #153: Best Nintendo Switch Games 2018
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #152: 'Super Smash Bros. Ultimate' and Gifts for Gamers
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #151: Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee! Review
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #150: 'Detective Pikachu' Trailer and 'Diablo III'
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