This is how things get settled in
our home towns.
Ryan is on vacation this week (wow, only 1 episode in and we’ve already killed our first editor!), but Stephen; Austen; and Donald are jazzed up to deliver this very musical encore performance.
In New Business, Donald appropriately kicks off the Prelude with tales of his “No deaths, SNES only, FINAL DESTINATION!” run through
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. Following a brief look at the GBA’s
WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgames, “Impressions are…GOOOOO!” for the DS’s rhythmic
Elite Beat Agents. Afterwards, Austen continues the motif with an enthusiastic look at the recently-released PlayStation Vita/PS3 downloadable musical platformer
Sound Shapes (a game with not one but
TWO Platinum trophies, so of course he had to have it!). Afterwards, strap yourself in for a lengthy Solo about how the writing and gameplay mechanics certainly aren’t the forte in the latest installment of the
Kingdom Hearts series on 3DS
. Find out how the “Drop” system lived up to its name by encouraging him to drop the game after a few disappointingly painful hours. Eventually, Austen wraps-up his New Business with an ironically-brief look at the PlayStation Network’s grind-heavy downloadable dungeon crawler
Rainbow Moon. Finally, Stephen brings the segment to a close with impressions of the perplexing (and apparently steamy) PC RPG
The Witcher; some final thoughts on the 3DS’
Theatrhythm Final Fantasy; and his experience playing the mystical board game (Yes, Board Game!)
The Magic Labyrinth with his son.
After the break, we begin our Second Movement going for the Gold by discussing what we’ve been watching lately, including the London 2012 Summer Olympic Games; the Secret World of Old Nickelodeon TV shows; and the anime Blu-Ray for the terrible, but aurally-pleasing,
Escaflowne: The Movie! Next-up, we have the long-awaited debut of Listener Mail, featuring a submission from beloved NWR listener Sarah from Iowa City asking why companies often release games from similar genres within the same time period! We then conclude the show with our Grand Finale: “1Ups/Poison Mushrooms,” where we hand out praise and derision in equal measure to the best (and worst) things we’ve seen in the past 2 weeks. Some topics include Japan’s fear of reverse importation, the 3DS’ “Download Later” feature, and the sudden trend of developers refusing to patch games on the Xbox 360.
The full crew should be back next time, but we’d love to hear your thoughts on this and past episodes, so feel free to drop us a comment in the Talkback thread or on our
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