Please reorient your life to Nintendo's schedule, lest we deny ourselves this transformative opportunity.
Splatoon 2 is out, but you know that since many of you are probably playing it as you listen to this. That said, there are other games to talk about, and this week Guillaume starts off New Business with Death Squared. The unexpected star of Gui's social calendar, the co-op puzzle game about exploding boxes turned out to be a surprise blast. Jon turns up the anime with Raiden V for Xbox One. This scrolling shooter mixes classic Raiden game play with absurd presentation; James is smitten. James, Greg, and Gui are all deep in Splatoon 2. A lot of the talk is about things the crew is surprised weren't changed in the sequel, and talk turns to the seemingly-unplayable Salmon Run. James is full of hot takes; feeling unfulfilled just recounting an...unfortunate stream, he also finds time to badmouth completely fictional characters for their vapidness. Truly, times have been tough on him.
After the break it's time for a couple of Listener Mail questions. First up the crew is asked to pick a game for a remake à la Metroid: Samus Returns. The crew rambles off a list of impossible suggestions, furtively searching for the one game that can prevent the unpreventable. Alas, history has already made it clear that they've created the circumstances that will lead to Super Mario Sunshine DX. The second email asks what Sony and Microsoft can learn from Nintendo. No, this isn't another multiverse question. You can ask us how to show cars at your stage show by sending us an email.
RetroActive has always been about summer-time fun. Prove me wrong. In that spirit, this time we're taking a look at Super Mario Sushine for the GameCube. We'll be having our feature conversation in mid-August, so get started and contribute your thoughts to our talkback thread so we can use them on the show.
Because it was brought up, here's a list Mega Man Battle Network games:
MMBN (GBA)
MMBN 2 (GBA)
MM Network Transmission (GC)
MMBN 3 Blue (GBA)
MMBN 3 White (GB4)
MMBN 4 Red Sun (GBA)
MMBN 4 Blue Moon (GBA)
MMBN 5 Team Protoman (GBA)
MMBN 5 Team Colonel (GBA)
MMBN 5 Double Team DS (DS)
MMBN 6 Cybeast Gregar (GBA)
MMBN 6 Cybeast Falzar (GBA)
All of those were released in the US from 2001 to 2006. Japan saw 2-3 additional releases, one of them being a cross-over.
I resent the description of the stream as unfortunate! I was very fortunate to have so many people come in and have an interesting time experimenting with different scenarios, even if many of them involved 3v1 against James!