Topic: Nintendo Free Radio Episode 9: Capacity For Rational Thought

[broodwars]

No updates required to enjoy our WiiU day 1 impressions, and it comes with a free Halbred!

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Step right up and enjoy the latest gaming goodness from the Nintendo Free Radio crew. Stephen gets the now-traditional music game out of the way  early in New Business by touching on the Ubisoft creation app Jam  Sessions, which draws comparisons to Windows 3.1, before getting stuck  with Austen on the latest Nintendo RPG/platformer hybrid Paper Mario  Sticker Star. Donald accepts his WiiU-less fate by going ungodly old  school with Donkey Kong: Original Edition (it's a CEMENT factory, thankyouverymuch) and shockingly doesn't want to punch himself out after partaking in Urban Champion (3D Classics), before wrapping with an  extended and spirited discussion of the demo for Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion. Austen brings us to the break with a wrap-up of Assassin's Creed 3: Liberation, proof that one can play Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 without having to deal with the average internet user, and unleashes  holy hell (and man beams) in El Shaddai: Ascension Of The Metatron.

After the break, a wild Halbred appears as the crew ropes in Nintendo World Report features editor Zach Miller for a heavy round of Whatcha Been Watchin' that travels from the sewers of New York in TMNT 2012 to the  local arcade for Wreck-It Ralph and wraps in London with Sherlock Holmes In The 22nd Century, Goldeneye, QI, and Where On Earth is Carmen Sandiego? Also included: The finals of the "Weirdest Anime Ever" contest, between FLCL and Hellsing Ultimate.

Since this show was  taped on November 18th, of course the feature discussion is Wii U: Day  1. Zach and Stephen both got their systems day 1, and despite the best efforts of upgrade servers manage to touch on the Wii transfer process, the eShop, and Stephen's early impressions of Nintendoland. An extra helping of Mushrooms takes us out with love for This Year Collection (http://www.thisyearcollection.org) and free dumping, hatred of Alaskan rocks, and a host falling on his sword (but recovering to help unlock Red Velvet).

We will return in a couple of weeks, but you can  leave feedback for the show here or by sending an email to nintendofreeradio@gmail.com. Also, be sure to check out the Movember page of Ryan MacNeil (Donald's roommate) at http://mobro.co/ryanmacneil1 and hear Zach regularly on NWR's Connectivity and the Frozen North Dinnercast at Crosstawk (http://www.crosstawk.com/newbusiness/category/the-frozen-north-dinnercast).

This podcast was edited by Austen Parkin. All music is copyrighted to their original owners and is used under fair use protection.

[azeke]

Link isn't working for me.

[broodwars]

Link isn't working for me.

For some reason the upload to podbean last night didn't take.  I've re-uploaded and done a test download to make sure it's working now.  The Direct-Download link should work just fine now.  Enjoy! 

[Shaymin]

My foot was asleep for basically two days after recording this.

Totally worth it.

[broodwars]

My foot was asleep for basically two days after recording this.

Totally worth it.

So that's where all the sleep I lost doing those 2.5 All-Nighters I spent editing this show went.

Still, yeah, I agree it was worth it. IMO, this is by far our best episode, and it came together splendidly in the editing room despite our reservations about it during recording.

EDIT: I exported a slightly-updated version of the episode to the site that fixes one of the Yoshi sound effects that went Whisky-Tango-Foxtrot on me at some point during the last render. That had been bugging me listening to the recording today. I already tested the download link, and it works just fine.

[broodwars]

For those that are curious, here is the utterly bizarre sequence from Hellsing Ultimate - Volume 5 that I reference in the episode, presented in its proper English dub form:

[Plugabugz]

This doesn't seem to download by the RSS feed.

[Shaymin]

Delete the entry and pull the feed again - should work.

[azeke]

Whew.

I think it took me a week to listen to this in full.

As far DC animated shows go:

Superman TAS > JLU > Batman Brave and Bold > JL season 2 > Teen Titans (english intro) > LOSH season 2 > BTAS > LOSH season 1 > Teen Titans (japanese intro) > JL season 1

First season of JL is really meh. It was my first DCAU show and it turned me off majorly. It took me a year to give it a second chance with BTAS this time.

[Ceric]

Is LOSH Legion of Superheroes?

I really don't know if I go with that order.  Though where would you place Static Shock and Batman Beyond?

[azeke]

Is LOSH Legion of Superheroes?

Yep, really underrated show. I really liked season 2. Season 1 was your usual kids stuff but still tolerable.

Though where would you place Static Shock and Batman Beyond?

Static would be somewhere lower than BTAS along with Zeta Project.

Batman Beyond i would probably place in the region of Teen Titans with english opening (i split TT because i really liked "serious" episodes with an english intro but the wacky ones with japanese intro were annoying at best and horrible most of the times).

[Ceric]

Legion of Superheroes has its moments much like Young Justice does.

The Zeta project wasn't bad but definitely a surprise when they rolled that off to its own series.

[broodwars]

Batman Beyond i would probably place in the region of Teen Titans with english opening (i split TT because i really liked "serious" episodes with an english intro but the wacky ones with japanese intro were annoying at best and horrible most of the times).

I would really have to disagree with you on that. Some of the "wacky" Teen Titans episodes with the Japanese intro were some of my favorite in the entire show, such as the Control Freak and "Prom" episodes.