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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 954: Thangsgiving

« on: November 30, 2025, 10:07:17 PM »

FYI - your articles have referred to "Age of Imprisonment" as "Age of Calamity" for the last 2 weeks. 

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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 953: Get a Grip, Game Journalists

« on: November 27, 2025, 10:01:34 AM »

Get the bad game.  Let the kid learn.  It's sad.  It's not fun.  They're going to learn how to discern what's a good purchase & what's bad and use judgment.  This is the teachable moment where next time, you say, "Let's look up some reviews."  This'll be a good skill when they're buying cars or making other big purchases in adulthood.  And it was only 15 euro to learn this lesson.

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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 941: Consider Deleting the Last Five Minutes

« on: September 04, 2025, 07:16:32 PM »

The 2014 Gauntlet you mentioned was developed by the same team as Helldivers. I really liked their game before Gauntlet 2014, Magicka.  I never played Gauntlet 2014, but I imagine their Helldivers pedigree behind Gauntlet could produce an interesting game.

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TalkBack / Re: Zelda Movie Delayed Roughly Six Weeks, Now Releasing May 2027

« on: June 09, 2025, 03:04:56 PM »

Avengers 6: Secret Wars was scheduled for May 7, 2027.  Last month, it was delayed to December 2027.

Zelda is swooping in & taking that date.

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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 928: Ultra-Italian Luigi

« on: June 09, 2025, 01:34:33 PM »

We have two dogs & two elderly cats.  We have no carpet in the house & it is such a relief.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Downloads - June 5, 2025

« on: June 02, 2025, 11:17:06 AM »

Street Fighter 6 is only $40 US for Switch 2?  I would've expected it to be $60 at least, unless the $40 version is missing the Year 1 & 2 DLC.

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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 915: Here's Link, and He's Pissed!

« on: February 28, 2025, 01:18:06 PM »

Jon is absolutely right.  Nintendo wanted outlets to write Gamecube as NINTENDO GAMECUBE (all-caps, with the word "Nintendo").  I wrote for a PGC peer at the time, and we ignored that style guidance.

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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 849: Difficulty Hot Dog

« on: November 27, 2023, 07:27:36 AM »

Super Pinball for Game Boy may have become Revenge of the Gator?

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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 839: Man Buys $220 Portable System, Plays Karnov

« on: September 12, 2023, 04:12:45 PM »

I think Nintendo of America published Quest for Camelot in North America, which may explain why it's on the Switch Online selection.
(Nintendo of Europe published it in Europe) .

Which may pave the way for Hamtaro: Ham-Hams Unite!

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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 832: Alex Jones' Shelf-Stable 1-2 Switch Bucket

« on: July 28, 2023, 10:59:45 AM »

About Therm Scissorpunch: I fully believe Solo was intended to be a movie that took the piss out of Star Wars.  Why else would you hire Lord & Miller, the directors of Lego Movie and 21/22 Jump Street?

And then the Star Wars people got cold feet and fired Lord & Miller.  But stuff like Therm Scissorpunch and a main character named L337 still remain from the original direction.

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TalkBack / Re: Disney Illusion Island (Switch) Review

« on: July 27, 2023, 10:29:28 AM »

"this is to Metroid what Super Mario RPG is to Final Fantasy."

That's an evocative quote.

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TalkBack / Re: Witcher 3 Update 4.0 Arrives on Nintendo Switch

« on: July 19, 2023, 11:37:06 AM »

That cross-progression automatic cloud upload is pretty snazzy.

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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 182: With Every Fiber of Your Diet

« on: June 22, 2023, 09:45:10 AM »

n-Space also made TWO Goldeneye games, both for DS.

Goldeneye: Rogue Agent was a DS port of the console game where you were a Bond henchman.  It might be the first online FPS on Nintendo systems.

oldeneye 007 was made to coincide with the Wii Goldeneye.  It feels like a new Bond game in the N64 style, and is pretty cool.

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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 365: Good Vibes of the Kingdom

« on: May 03, 2023, 11:01:29 PM »

This was a good episode, y'all.  Steve was a good guest.

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TalkBack / Re: Super Mario Bros. Movie Tracking For US$146m Opening Weekend, New Five-Day US Record

« on: April 10, 2023, 09:54:16 AM »

The $377 million is worldwide for 5 days.

In the US, it made $146 million over the 3-day weekend (and $204 million Wednesday to Sunday)

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl1930593025/

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TalkBack / Re: Super Mario Bros. Movie Tracking For US$146m Opening Weekend, New Five-Day US Record

« on: April 09, 2023, 07:49:15 PM »

I'm not sure about that 5-Day Record.  There's about 15 movies that have made more than $204 million in 5 days. And several have made $200+ in a weekend (Avengers Endgame made $357 million in the US in its first weekend).

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TalkBack / Re: Tents and Trees (Switch) Review

« on: March 16, 2023, 04:45:50 PM »

This sounds interesting!  I like the artstyle & am eager for a twist on Picross.

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TalkBack / Re: Tinykin (Switch) Review

« on: January 09, 2023, 10:10:14 AM »

I started playing Tinykin based on a recommendation on NWR's Connectivity podcast.  Yeah, it's delightful.

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TalkBack / Re: Pair Of Ys Games Revealed For Series's 35th Anniversary

« on: December 15, 2022, 10:36:13 PM »

Oath in Felghana was a revelation when I played it on the PSP.  It was my first Ys game, and I was not ready for how fast & agile the combat was.

I'm surprised it took this long, considering the Switch is a natural fit for PSP & Vita ports.

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TalkBack / Re: Lunistice (Switch) Review Mini

« on: December 14, 2022, 11:37:28 PM »

It's nice to see all these indie 3D platformers popping up.  How do you think this compares to Demon Turf?

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TalkBack / Re: Yuji Naka Facing More Charges Of Insider Trading In Japan

« on: December 07, 2022, 09:24:57 AM »

Looking forward to RFN's 800th episode, where they do a live prison break of Yuji Naka!

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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 348: Wait, Was 2022 a Bad Year?

« on: December 06, 2022, 05:52:58 PM »

I feel like we're also hitting that general malaise as a system reaches end-of-life, regardless if Nintendo has a successor announced.  We're finishing Year 6.  This is just like Wii circa 2010-2012, where there's a few good games but I'm looking at other options (then Steam, now Steam Deck).

Also, I think Nintendo is probably holding things back for a Switch 2 launch in 2024, namely Mario Kart 9 and a mainline Mario.

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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 797: Careful, Thwimps Can Still Hurt You

« on: November 19, 2022, 04:17:42 PM »

Die Hard with a Vengeance was a repurposed script called "Simon Says", which was originally intended to be a sequel to Brandon Lee's "Rapid Fire".

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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 341: Our Favorite Sassy Microsoft Quotes

« on: October 16, 2022, 05:38:31 PM »

They are definitely Minecraft prose novels.  I bought one for my son written by Max Brooks, the writer of World War Z.  It's fine.

I also read a Resident Evil novel from the late 90s by SD Perry.  It reads like a movie novelization.  Perry wrote adaptations of all the games contemporaneously through Resident Evil 0, with original novels in-between each game.  It was fine but over-explained puzzles from the game.  They're still in print.

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TalkBack / Re: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection (Switch) Review

« on: August 29, 2022, 10:48:39 PM »

I'm glad to hear Radical Rescue holds up!  I played all three of the Game Boy TMNT games so much, so I have no clear idea if they're objectively good.