Topic: Episode 581: Washer Dryer Time Machine 2: It Never Gets Better

[NWR_Lindy]

We've spent the last few years really making the 2010s a firestorm, let's go mess up the 1980s too.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/rfn/47791/episode-581-washer-dryer-time-machine-2-it-never-gets-better

Let's get right to it! James kicks-off New Business this week with a look at the big new JRPG taking Switch by storm: Shining Resonance Refrain! He spends roughly 10 minutes saying, "Well, it's fine..." It sure is a Sega JRPG; remember when this series was a Fire Emblem competitor? Guillaume has finished off Mario + Rabids and moved onto The Next Penelope. The game might resemble F-Zero, but it's without hideous characters and adds more shooter gameplay. Greg has a look at Sonic Mania Plus, the add-on to last year's Sonic Mania. For the first time in over a decade, new came to a well-liked 2D Sonic game, now without cart docking. Jon closes out New Business with a look at Mega Man Legacy Collection 1. If you haven't seen Mega Man 1 in a while, you might not realize how much of a bastard that game is. Come for the classic games, stay for Legacy Collection 1's awesome museum.

After the break, we take on a trio of listener mail. This week we send games into the past, decompose entertainment industry jargon, and test market portable Virtual Console devices. You can try to convince gamers of the 1980s that Cybermorph is the future of games by sending us an email.

[Enner]

Peter Moore? Peter Molyneux!


Shame James isn't taking to Shining Resonance Refrain as Syrenne did. Syrenne's review has encouraged me to get the game first, over Octopath Traveler, since I'm more in the mood for summer breeze anime times.

[Lemonade]

I hadnt noticed until James and Greg brought up NES or Nes. Now that it has been pointed out, I find it weird that americans dont call it the Nes. I have always called it Nes and Super Nes.

[Lemonade]

Project X Zone 2 has an even better version of the ending music for this episode
https://youtu.be/9cEkqBqT6Vs

[KDR_11k]

The reason you fall so fast off the Gutsman platforms in MM1 is that they forgot to reset your vertical velocity when standing on a sprite platform like that or the magnet beam, your velocity increases constantly like you are falling so the moment you don't have the platform under you you rocket downward. Speedrunners love that but everybody else...

[Kobeskillz]

Megaman 1 is tough but not as much as you’d think. It has some bs sections later in the game but generally areas where you think is impossible to not get hit you can master them.

No not in 100 hours or even 10 hours. Really just replay an area for 30 mins to an hour and you’ll master them.

Doesn’t take long at all honestly. Even if you abuse save states to try a particular tricky area to improve.