Next year for RPGs is going to be a blood bath. Especially in Europe where it's everything North America gets plus everything that slipped from last year like Super Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, Yo-kai Watch, Stella Glow, Legend of Legacy and Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold.

Guillaume (referring to Linkel): "...the fruit of the forbidden love between Link and Tingle."

Thank you, Guillaume, for making me choke on my beer.

Good show. Witnessing the reaction to Cloud in Smash was a high light of the week.


Having Nintendo Direct return in such a strong fashion is such a cool thing. Also, it illustrates the distinction between the good Directs and the disappointing ones. The amount of information and surprises (depending on how closely one follows the rumor mill) is great to have and is due to the long time since the Nintendo Digital Event at E3 2015. The previous schedule of having a general Direct every other month or so is perhaps too frequent for Nintendo to put on a satisfying show. I hope in the future that these general Directs happen every quarter or so.

To be fair Tantalus owns Straight Right, who handled the excellent Wii U ports of Deus Ex and Mass Effect 3 (and the ZombiU port to PS4XB1). So they'll probably pool resources from them. It won't be all Funky Barns and Ben 10s.

I thought this was what Shibata was referring to in the EU Direct when he said Tantalus "has a great track record with remakes", but sadly the cheap gag was too tempting for me to resist. My personal experience with the Deus Ex port was quite positive, and I really have no major concerns about the technical aspect of this remastering; it's more a question of whether or not Nintendo will prioritise tweaks to the game design that make the experience significantly smoother and more enjoyable than it would be to simply replay one of the existing versions.

This is only tangentally related to this podcast, but Daan Koopman has been an avid fan of Collectable badge center, and posts videos every time new badges comes out for his japanese 3DS. the ammount of yen he has given nintendo is staggering.

He tend uploaded a 41 minute preview of the EU version of Nintendo Badge Arcade.

http://puu.sh/lnK8U/fc707342b0.png






This was a pretty great episode, and Bill Trinen was indeed my favorite part of Nintendo direct as well. Oh, and I suppose Cloud, but moreso because the Midgar stage looks epic! I think though what I would have enjoyed for this was if we got playable Gilgamesh and multiple Final Fantasy job Mii costumes. Think about it. Gilgamesh is this dimension traveling goofball who's trying to collect legendary swords, and how many friggin' legendary swords are there in Super Smash Bros. 4?!? (Master Sword X 2, Ragnell, Falchion X2, Binding Blade, Galaxia, Palutena Bow's split-apart blades) He'd be frothing at the mouth, and his weapons that he uses for his special attacks could all be some sort of crazy reference to all sorts of different Final Fantasy stuff and reprisent multiple games pretty easily!

Keep up the great work, and enjoy your upcoming weeks off in preperation for the telethon! I should have the 5th available to sit all day and listen in!