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Title: Episode 913: Mario Is Curious, if You Will
Post by: NWR_Lindy on February 09, 2025, 12:24:56 PM

I will not.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/rfn/69894/episode-913-mario-is-curious-if-you-will

This week we're going to keep it quick!

Greg has the Switch port Donkey Kong Country Returns HD (00:02:06). James is angry at Nintendo for putting more garbage [Super Ninja Boy] on Nintendo Switch Online (00:33:13). Guillaume has beaten the first Final Fantasy in its Pixel Remaster form (00:58:13). He's also been playing Ridge Racer 64 (01:13:32), also on NSO. Lastly, he's playing bad arcade games (01:18:16).

After a break we hit Listener Mail: Tactics Ogre or Unicorn Overlord (01:27:04), we guess some more C-Words (01:44:43), and we review our memories of Super Mario Bros. on its impending anniversary (01:49:03). Email me; I miss you

Title: Re: Episode 913: Mario Is Curious, if You Will
Post by: jarodea on February 11, 2025, 12:54:08 PM

I second getting Liberty or Death on NSO.  My family didn’t have a PC when I was a kid so Koei’s line of PC-style strategy, exploration, and business games made them one of my favorite developers at the time.  Liberty or Death is easily one of the best of their strategy games.  I liked P.T.O. more at the time, but I’ve replayed most Koei SNES games as an adult and P.T.O. was the only one I found unplayable from a user experience post-2000 (others, like RotTK and Nobunaga, are simply not fun anymore). 

Liberty or Death is still the best strategy game about the American Revolution that I’ve played whether in video/computer game form or board game form.  It’s also the only Koei strategy game I’ve played where the battles hold up to board or miniature wargames (Uncharted Waters 2 as well, though I don't place it in the strategy genre, just one of the reasons it's one of my favorite games).