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 310: The Wii U Turns 10
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 309: November 2022 Indie World Spectacular!
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 308: Bayonetta 3 Review and It Takes Two Switch Impressions
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 307: The Definitive Persona 5 Royal Switch Review Discussion
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 306: Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope Review
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 305: The Super Mario Bros. Movie Trailer Breakdown + The Spirit and the Mouse Review
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 304: Shovel Knight Dig and Taiko no Tatsujin Review!
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 303: The Splatoon 3 Extravaganza!
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 302: The Definitive September 2022 Nintendo Direct Discussion
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 301: Yacht Club Games’ Celia Schilling Talks Shovel Knight Dig
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 300: Anno: Mutationem and Haiku the Robot Switch Impressions
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 299: WayForward’s Tomm Hulett Talks Spidersaurs
NXpress 298: Cursed to Golf Review + What’s the Point of Treehouse Live?
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 297: Kirby’s Dream Buffet Extravaganza!
NXpress 296: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Review, Splatoon 3 Direct Discussion, and Cult of the Lamb!
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 295: Live a Live Review, Pokemon Presents, and Coromon!
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 294: Endling – Extinction Is Forever + Super Mario Sunshine Turns 20!
NXpress 293: Kirby’s Dream Buffet Reaction + Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course!
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 292: Klonoa Phantasy Reverie Series Review, Live a Live Demo Impressions, and More!
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 291: Nintendo Direct Mini Partner Showcase June 2022 Reactions
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