Topic: Episode 652: Notanyfe, Anyfe, Thatsanyfe

[NWR_Lindy]

Dear Pokemon Company, if you use these names we will sue you. - The Management

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/rfn/52362/episode-652-notanyfe-anyfe-thatsanyfe

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Episode 652 starts off with us making up for our recent neglect of the inbox. Our first task this week is setting Pokemon in our "Home Region," and while a series of Pokemon species that are just various sizes of pick-up trucks is deeply appealing, it's quite clear that one other part of the world is long overdue for the Pokemon treatment. Next we enhance Miyamoto's horror at Donkey Kong shooting an actual shotgun by pitching him significantly more objectionable ideas. In our last email we debate the market value of "retro" games on modern platforms, and even try to dissuade some of our members from launching their own October Revolution to seize the means of production. You can send us your questions via the inbox.

After a break we find a little time for New Business. Guillaume finally got around to finishing Ys: The Oath in Felghana on the PSPgo so that he may be free from guilt now that he is starting Ys VIII. Jon is playing Sega Ages: Phantasy Star, and this is a very old JRPG. That comes with specific challenges. Finally, Shovel Knight: King of Cards is finally out, closing the out a six year saga. Greg, Gui, and James are all in the middle of it, and have thoughts on the final chapter of this long voyage.

[KDR_11k]

The most annoying part about those arcade archives and virtual console games is that they're only on consoles and consoles get obsolete. I have a bunch of those games on the Wii, PS3, Vita, Wii U, ... that aren't available on current systems. Meanwhile those collections I got on the PC still work on my current PC. The slow rate of releases certainly gets worse when you can't even have all of them in one place.

I wonder what a Pokemon game based on Germany would be like... Notable flora and fauna includes the world's deadliest mushroom and the largest catfish (big enough to eat small dogs). Notable evil plots...

To shock Miyamoto I'd try coding Donkey Kong black. Like give him a rap theme song and...

[pokepal148]

Black and White is definitely where this weird real world connections with Pokémon designs thing started the way we know it but since they decided to have 153 new Pokémon for those games the design work isn't all that consistent and it's nowhere near as on the nose as later stuff is.