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 #187: Five Year Amiibo Anniversary, Indie World and ‘The Touryst’
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #186: 'Pokemon Sword' and 'Shield' Review, 'New Super Lucky's Tale'
Best Video Game Soundtracks 2019
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #185: ‘Woven,’ the Importance of Visuals, and Pokemon Backlash
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #183: ‘Luigi’s Mansion 3’ and 'Afterparty'
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #183: 'Luigi's Mansion 3' and Competing for the Future
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #182: 'Trine 4,' 'Untitled Goose Game,' 'A Knight's Quest,' and Pokemon News
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #181: 'Link's Awakening' and 'Sayanora Wild Hearts
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #180: 'Fire Emblem: Three Houses' and Keeping Up With So Many Games
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #179: 'Creature in the Well' Developer Interview, 'Daemon X Machina' Review, and 'Ring Fit Adventure' Impressions
Nxpress Nintendo Podcast #178: Switch Lite, 'Astral Chain' Review, and Standouts From the Latest Direct
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #177: PAX West, 'Astral Chain' and 'Decay of Logos'
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #176: 'Three Houses' Wrap-up, 'The Sinking City,' and Indie World
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #175: Ranking the Super Mario Series and 'Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3'
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #174: Smash's Hero and The Best Games of the Last 30 Years
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #173: 'Fire Emblem: Three Houses' Special
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #172: 'Super Mario Maker 2' and N64/Gamecube Tech
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #171: 'Bloodstained' and 'Cadence of Hyrule'
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #170: Hands-On 'Sword & Shield,' 'Link's Awakening' and 'Luigi's Mansion 3'
NXpress Nintendo Podcast #169: E3 2019 Nintendo Direct!
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