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 270: February 2022 Nintendo Direct Extraordinaire!
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 269: WayForward Talks River City Girls 2 and River City Girls Zero!
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 268: Banjo-Kazooie Extravaganza + The Artful Escape Switch Review
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 267: What Does the Activision Blizzard Acquisition Mean for Nintendo?
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 266: Chicory: A Colorful Tale Switch Review
Best of the NXpress Nintendo Podcast: A Heated Debate About Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 265: Our Most Anticipated Indie Games of 2022
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 264: Looking Back on 2021, Predicting 2022
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 263: Game of the Year Extravaganza!
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 262: Indie World December 2021 Reactions
NXpress 261: Big Brain Academy: Brain vs. Brain Review
NXpress 260: An Interview with Yacht Club Games on Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon!
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 259: Pokémon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl Review
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 258: Zelda Game & Watch Impressions, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Switch Review, and More!
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 257: Nintendo Earnings Extravaganza + NSO Genesis and N64 Impressions
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 256: ‘Mario Party Superstars‘ and ‘Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water‘ Reviews
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 255: Pikmin Bloom, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Review, and NSO Expansion Pack Impressions
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 254: Animal Crossing DLC, NSO Expansion Pack, and Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl Outrage
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 253: Metroid Dread Review and Tetris Effect Connected
NXpress 252: Sakurai Presents One Last Time
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