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 251: September Nintendo Direct Reactions + UnMetal Review
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 250: Indieland 2021 And Epilogue GB Operator Review
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 249: Celebrating 20 Years GameCube + WarioWare: Get It Together! And SkateBIRD Reviews
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 248: What Is A Metroidvania, Anyway?
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 247: Gameboy Games On Switch, No More Heroes III, And Hoa Review
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 246: 30 Years Of The SNES And WarioWare: Get It Together! Impressions
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 245: Pokémon Presents Reaction And Indie Game Extravaganza
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 244: Indie World Reactions And Greak: Memories Of Azur Review
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 243: The Best Games Of 2021 So Far
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 242: Pokémon Unite Review, Nintendo Mobile Game Shutdown
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 241: Skyward Sword HD Review
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 240: Monster Hunter Stories 2 Review, Mario and Zelda Auction Prices, and More
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 239: Switch OLED Model Reactions, Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity DLC Review, and More
NXpress 238: Mario Golf: Super Rush Review, Kazuya in Smash Bros. Ultimate, and More!
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 237: Reviewing Game Builder Garage, Lego Builder’s Journey, and More
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 236: The Official E3 Nintendo Direct Discussion
Nxpress Nintendo Podcast 235: E3 Predictions Extravaganza!
Nxpress Nintendo Podcast 234: Kirby Manga Mania Review, Nintendo E3 Predictions, and More!
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 233: Sonic and Dragon Quest Anniversaries,Miitopia Review, and More
NXpress Nintendo Podcast 232: Fujifilm’s Instax Mini Link and New Pokémon Snap
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