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This week, Niki goes deep on Starfield's DLC, Shattered Space. It's about the snake people, the most interesting part of the original Starfield. Does the DLC have the juice to get folks back into Todd's big space sandbox? Will John have a meltdown comparing the narrative depth and nuance of Tali's Pilgrimage quest in Mass Effect to what happens in Shattered Space? You'll simply have to listen to find out.The dynamic duo also answers your burning Hive Questions, covering ground including:naming pets after video game charactersworking on one game franchise for over a decadecomparing Randy Pitchford favorably to Neil Druckmann3D Mario games vs 2D Mario gamesthe Megalopolis video game of our dreamsthe best steward of a future AEW video gameand more!

On this episode of the podcast, Andrew is joined by his new brother-in-law, Joe Sommer! They discuss the latest game in the 2D Mario series, Super Mario Bros. Wonder! Everything from the Wonder Flowers, to the playable characters, to the fresh art-style and personality of the game is talked about. At the end of the conversation they give their verdicts, is this game one of the all time greats, or can you skip it? Listen and find out!Be sure to stick around at the end of the episode to hear what Andrew's daughter thought about Super Mario Wonder! He recorded a 10 minute interview with her and they talk about Wonder and her thoughts on the Mario movie. TIMESTAMPSBowser Spoilers - 43:13Verdicts - 50:22Check out Joe's writing here - https://www.wowhead.com/news/a-look-back-at-frost-death-knight-in-dragonflight-and-war-within-wishlist-337351 WEBSITE https://www.fngamers.com/DISCORD https://discord.gg/euhEYZxC58 TWITTERhttps://twitter.com/F_N_GamerzINSTAGRAMhttps://www.instagram.com/yourfriendlyneighborhoodgamers/YOUTUBEhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRgS_YRAM8_PlWNvxrjQshAFANTASY CRITIC LEAGUEhttps://www.fantasycritic.g Support the show

We both try to play catch up on some of 2023's best games and check out Super Mario Wonder. We debate how well Super Mario Wonder compares to Super Mario Odyssey and if it is truly one of they best 2D Mario games out there. Support us on Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/workforcegaming

I've got some oomph in my bloom. Welcome back to the podcast! Today, we're talking about Super Mario Bros. Wonder, a new 2D Mario platformer, which in a weird way kind of feels like part of a trend of Nintendo making more nostalgic releases, like Pikmin or Metroid Dread and remaking Link's Awakening and Mario RPG. Mario Wonder is a classic 2D Mario game like we haven't seen since the New Super Mario Bros. games, but unlike those games, Wonder has a direct goal of making more innovations and changing the basic gameplay of Mario. This is a AAA video game, though, so don't expect something so radically different and risky, but with a more whimsical aesthetic and a surprising mechanical section in each level, it certainly feels much different than past games. And this is definitely a good thing, Wonder lives up to its name by giving you something new to discover in each course and encourages you to explore to ensure you see as much of it as you can. In addition, the game contains new powerups, a badge system that can change your moveset and the layouts of the world as well. All this to say, this game isn't the next best thing in the history of platformers or even just Mario. It is refreshing, and fun, and well designed and it looks and sounds very pretty, but it isn't going to stress your abilities, it isn't jam-packed with content and much of the gameplay is straight out of previous titles in the series. This makes up the bulk of our conversation: in a very mechanically driven genre, is what Mario Wonder provides different enough to be recommended despite the polish that comes with being a first party Nintendo title, is it too different, with differences in kind appearing partway through every single level while not giving the base platforming room to shine? We'll discuss this and also be talking about the importance of collectibles and how they influence you as you play, the difficulty management present in the badge and character systems, and we take a hard stance on how Toads are treated in the Mario canon. Thank you for listening again this week! As one of the more anticipated Nintendo releases this year, we were excited to get into it and it is interesting to see how it compared to each of our expectations. Or maybe it was very boring to see and I'm just trying to drum up excitement to try to convince you to listen to our podcast, who's to say? Either way, what did you think of Mario Wonder? Are we just extremely old and have been playing platformers for too long, or was this game easier than you would have expected? Let us know in the comments or over in our Discord! We are getting into the holiday season and so next time, we're going to be getting into the spirit by talking about that classic Christmastime game: Trapt on the PS2. We hope you'll join us then, if only to figure out how that makes sense.

This week on All Things Nintendo, Brian is joined by YouTube and Twitch personality Fadel AKA GamesCage to nerd out about all the little surprises and delights found in Super Mario Bros. Wonder. Both Brian and Fadel have 100%'d the game, so be warned that this episode contains full spoilers for any and all portions of the latest 2D Mario platformer. If you'd like to follow Brian on social media, you can do so on his Instagram/Threads @BrianPShea or Twitter @BrianPShea. You can follow Fadel on Twitter: @GamesCage_, YouTube: @GamesCage, and Twitch: GamesCage. The All Things Nintendo podcast is a weekly show where we celebrate, discuss, and break down all the latest games, news, and announcements from the industry's most recognizable name. Each week, Brian is joined by different guests to talk about what's happening in the world of Nintendo. Along the way, they'll share personal stories, uncover hidden gems in the eShop, and even look back on the classics we all grew up with. A new episode hits every Friday! Be sure to subscribe to All Things Nintendo on your favorite podcast platform. The show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, and YouTube. 00:00:00 – Introduction 00:01:08 – Spoiler-Free Mario Wonder Thoughts 00:10:12 – Spoiler Mario Wonder Thoughts 01:00:56 – Fadel's Sonic Superstars Impressions 01:03:08 – Fadel's Sonic Frontiers DLC Impressions If you'd like to get in touch with the All Things Nintendo podcast, you can email AllThingsNintendo@GameInformer.com, messaging Brian on Instagram (@BrianPShea), or by joining the official Game Informer Discord server. You can do that by linking your Discord account to your Twitch account and subscribing to the Game Informer Twitch channel. From there, find the All Things Nintendo channel under "Community Spaces." For Game Informer's other podcast, be sure to check out The Game Informer Show with hosts Alex Van Aken, Marcus Stewart, and Kyle Hilliard, which covers the weekly happenings of the video game industry!

FINISH HIM. We dove into Mortal Kombat 1 this past week with some friends. We competed against each other in a fierce battle in this beautiful, new fighter game. Does it bring anything revolutionary to the franchise? Not really. Is it a blast to play? Most definitely. We also review Super Mario Bros Wonder on the Switch. This is a fun, accessible 2D Mario game with a ton of variety in enemies, worlds and amazing music.Rocksteady released a video about Suicide Squad. We break down the video, the gameplay and the graphics to talk about whether or not this video put them back on the right track.Lastly, The Game Awards are coming December 7th. We look at the predictions and also come up with what future games we want to see revealed in a World Premiere.Show Notes:1:17 - Housekeeping4:03 - Mortal Kombat 1 Review24:48 - Is Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League on the Right Track?45:20 - Super Mario Bros Wonder Review1:03:00 - The Game Awards Predictions and Who Will Win?1:41:11 - Upcoming Video Game ReleasesBecome a part of the conversation! If you donate $1 or more on Patreon you can get exclusive access to the Patreon-only chat and channels on the server.Visit our website to find our social channels, check past podcasts and donate to the show.Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see all of our latest videos as they drop.Credits:"Blue Groove Deluxe" by BlueFoxMusic on audiojungle.netWoman Announcer - Ariana Guerra; Actress"Wisdom" by Super Nostalgia 64

Is this the best 2D Mario game of all time? What makes this title so unique? Why the hell would Kyle's phone decide to record our audio? We (try to) answer these questions and more in this installment of Quick Shot. Theme Music - "I Love Holy Daze" by Geir Tjelta Check us out on iTunes and Patreon! Email us at PodcastOTR@gmail.com if you have topics or questions you'd like to hear us cover in a future episode!

After a long hiatus, the podcast is BACK with a deep dive into Super Mario Bros Wonder! CMM (Clay) and 1up (Jared) are joined by Mario-expert Theorymon as they break down the game and share their thoughts on 2D Mario's new direction!

It's Mario. It's wonderful. It's Super Mario Bros. Wonder! Join us as we celebrate one of the highlights of the year, and the best 2D Mario since the SNES. Don't forget to leave us a review/rating and come say hi to us over @winnerisyoupod on Twitter!

Lords: * Mitch * https://janmisali.tumblr.com/ * https://www.seximal.net/ * Andrew * https://kittenm4ster.neocities.org/ Topics: * Super Mario Bros. Wonder is the first mainline 2D Mario game since... (how many Super Mario games are there? update) * Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XejJ6PzPtEw * New survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScsj0Yibs4rJjHWjIRVb3wwHsgVS64qYOAoUWqRwrXEfgVeag/viewform * Owning the domain emailfordogs.com for some reason * When I took my driver's test, a kid ran out onto the road in front of me, I braked, and the proctor made a check mark on his forms. * Love in the Age of Google by Brian Bilston * https://brianbilston.com/2018/08/ * The Burrito Run (a form of physical exercise) * The WarioWare series has become increasingly story-driven in every game since WarioWare: Snapped! (DSi, 2008) Microtopics: * Your names. * Jokes that have or have not been done. * The real Jim Stormdancer. (On my birth certificate.) * A game which has no sequels. * Pizza Panda dot Pizza. * Cultivating an audience who loves clicking links. * A polling feature that is great for polling people. * Why not use one thing? Just have one place where you post everything. * How to make your audience stop clicking links. * 358 games that might or might not be Super Mario games. * A game called Super Mario Bros. Something. * All the different years there hasn't been a new Super Mario game since. * A controversy, but not one people care about. * New guy just dropped: guy who gets in arguments about whether New Super Mario Bros. 2 is a mainline Super Mario game. * Super Mario Bros. and Friends: When I Grow Up. * Super Mario and his friends discussing what career paths they might take. * Looking at all these MS-DOS colors. * Brian A. Rice, Inc.: it's just a guy! * Mario games for MS-DOS. * A Mario fan theory that has been disproven extremely recently. * Princess Peach and Princess Daisy having a conversation about something other than a man. * The description of Daisy in Smash Ultimate trying to come up with convincing reasons why Peach and Daisy are different people. * New Super Mario Bros. Mii. * Super Mariologists studying Super Mariology. * Super Mario Bros. Special. * A smeary snapshot of your mind. * A Mario game that was extremely expensive to make. * Working on a game until it's ready. * If you like Mario games, then it's one of them. If you don't then it's not. * Super Mario Bros. Tudor. * Super Mario Bros. Oneder. * Getting email for dogs at emailfordogs.com. * A hobby you used to be able to have. * Enough people making up fake emails for their dogs that some them send email to your fake dog email domain name. * Rip the old spacejam.com. * Space Jam: a New Legacy. * Reusing apacejam.com to capture all the people clicking on novelty domain names that redirect to spacejam.com. * A very small scale conspiracy, between one driver's test examiner and one child. * Being too flustered to deliberately fail your test. * A checkbox on the DMV test labeled "did not assassinate my arch rival, whom I now owe five dollars." * Back in my day kids actually Crossied the Road. * A smoke made with the fume of sighs. * A poem that scans as a poem. * A million monkeys using a million trackers. * One extremely busy monkey using a million trackers. * A new form of physical exercise. * Terraforming the hill to make your exercise routine more effective. * Copylefted exercise routines. * There are very few perfect things in life but this is the perfect exercise routine. * Dogs who are like dogs. * Dog theory. * What's more habitual than eating lunch? * Mathematical proof that all horses are the same color. (Except for the horse of a different color.) * Booger joke fart joke silly game. * A history of storytelling in the Wario Ware series. * Wario's hiring process. * A thing that happens after Wario puts a toilet on his head. * Why the latest Wario Ware game has microgames in it. * The Wario Ware employee who joined the company because he was such a big fan of previous games in the series. * Nintendo games that implicitly support unionization and fan-fiction. * The man who was too many Marios. * Hearing Wario speak in full sentences. * A thing that is nothing to write home about but writing home about it anyways.

Welcome back to Pursuing Pixels.  We've got the usual trio in the house once again this week, and we've all been playing some stuff on Nintendo Switch... First, John's been continuing to dig through his backlog of indie games and shares his feelings on Paratopic — along with some additional thoughts on various low rez horror games and walking simulators. It's all things 2D Mario after that, as Randall & Kevin have both been diving full-tilt into Super Mario Bros. Wonder — and they each have all sorts of things to say about their time with the game so far!   Timestamps: Paratopic  -  00:03:23 Super Mario Bros. Wonder  -  00:13:33   Thanks for taking the time to listen!  If you'd like to find us elsewhere on the Internet, you can find us at:   

Al and Micah talk about Harvest Moon: The Winds of Anthos. Timings 00:00:00: Theme Tune 00:00:30: Intro 00:02:58: What Have We Been Up To 00:32:53: News 01:12:15: Harvest Moon: The Winds Of Anthos 01:50:34: Outro Links Disney Dreamlight Valley Upcoming Releases Disney Dreamlight Valley Apple Arcade Edition Roots of Pacha 1.1 Update and Console Release Ooblets 1.4 Update Everdream Valley 1.6 Update Slime Rancher 2 Update Echoes of the Plum Grove Kickstarter Snacko Early Access My Time At Portia Optimisation Concerned Ape Cool Fruit Contact Al on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheScotBot Al on Mastodon: https://mastodon.scot/@TheScotBot Email Us: https://harvestseason.club/contact/ Transcript (0:00:30) Al: Hello farmers and welcome to another episode of the harvest season. (0:00:35) Al: My name is Al and we’re here today to talk about Cottagecore games. (0:00:37) Micah: And I’m Micah! (0:00:44) Al: And you totally didn’t forget and suddenly remember that you had to say your own name there, did you? (0:00:49) Micah: I just, I never know when to like, you know, it’s, I’ve got the brain of a five year old. (0:00:56) Micah: So I need someone to say, and now’s the time that you say your name. (0:01:00) Al: Well, the problem is, right, that you’re on like two episodes a year, right? (0:01:01) Micah: Yeah. (0:01:06) Al: It’s not like, you know, the others are on like, you know, once a month or something. (0:01:09) Al: It’s much easier to remember how it goes that way. (0:01:11) Micah: I feel like I’ve gotten better about the outro, (0:01:14) Micah: but yes, you’re totally right. (0:01:17) Micah: It’s not, you know, it comes to me again as we’re doing. (0:01:23) Al: Yeah, that’s the thing I could hear when you said, and I’m like, I could hear, you were like, “Oh yes, no, I need to say it now.” Welcome. Anyway, welcome. It’s been a while. (0:01:28) Micah: You can hear the gears turning You can hear the cogs clanking around in there Yeah, thanks. Thanks for having me. It’s always fun to be on Talk about some of my favorite genre my favorite genre of games (0:01:39) Al: Welcome back. It’s good to have you on. I notice how you said ‘favourite genre games, (0:01:49) Al: favourite games because well, we’ll see. (0:01:52) Micah: Not all of them, you know [laughs] (0:01:53) Al: Let’s not conclude on the game yet before we even said what it is. (0:01:59) Al: So, first of all, transcripts for the podcast are available in the show notes and on the website if you need them, although they’re whether you need them or not, but now you know where to go if you need them. (0:02:10) Al: We’re going to talk. (0:02:12) Al: You know what it’s going to be because we got Micah on. (0:02:15) Al: You know it’s going to be either Harvest Moon or Story Seasons. (0:02:17) Al: We’ve got a Harvest Moon, the Winds of Anthos. (0:02:21) Micah: We sure do. (0:02:22) Al: So we’re going to. (0:02:23) Al: We’re going to talk about that just as a preamble to that. (0:02:28) Al: I will not be playing the game during the episode because I’ve already sold it so that probably explains my feelings in summary, but we’ll get to that when we get to it. (0:02:38) Al: But, yeah, no, I. (0:02:39) Micah: Well I’ve got a digital so it’s not even an option for me, so… (0:02:41) Al: I know better than to buy a Harvest Moon game digitally. (0:02:45) Al: Come on. (0:02:46) Micah: I actually told you about this, but I’ll save it for when we get there, I guess. (0:02:47) Al: Yeah, yeah, we’ll go. (0:02:50) Al: We can leave that for the yeah, yeah, people can hear. (0:02:53) Al: The fun story. (0:02:54) Al: We’ve got a bunch of news, a bunch of exciting news to talk about. (0:02:58) Al: But first of all, Makar, what have you been up to? (0:03:01) Micah: Uh, I just recently got back from Japan and My partner and I went for about two Three weeks something like that something we’ve been planning since originally planned on going in spring of 2020 World event Happened and I don’t know. I just everything feels weird after (0:03:19) Al: Classic. (0:03:21) Al: Yeah, what happened in spring 2020? Nothing. Nothing happened. That’s the point. (0:03:30) Al: I know. (0:03:31) Micah: 2020 and I don’t know what it was. (0:03:33) Micah: I Yes, it was a great time. It was something that we’ve been looking forward to it for a long time. I put a lot of time and effort into the planning the itinerary and Making sure that we had a full schedule, but also a flexible schedule, you know, I for a bit there It was getting to the point where I like I’ve got you know (0:03:53) Al: Don’t do the minute. (0:04:01) Micah: some levels of ADHD and OCD that I have been formally diagnosed with that manifest itself in things like that where I’ll just lock in on an Idea and then I’ll just run with it and then I’ll just keep going and then I’ll get deeper and deeper And it was pretty much to the point where I was like Google mapping If I took the train from this location at this time of day in Japan (0:04:29) Micah: what train would I take and… (0:04:31) Micah: where would I transfer and how much would it cost and then like figuring out travel costs down to like you know the individual train ride and things like that. (0:04:42) Al: Oh, you’ve got to know the best way to pay for it, right? Do I get a travel card or am I buying individual tickets? You know, that’s important. (0:04:43) Micah: That originally was the plan but then you know it just got to the point where it was it was like things that you especially knowing now you would not be able to like (0:05:02) Micah: plan for really given like you know how travel works like mass transit travel works there but which beautiful by the way beautiful transit system could not say anything bad about that transit system and then we came back here where it’s just cars. (0:05:22) Al: Well, you presumably weren’t traveling in peak hour, peak time, you’re commuting hour. (0:05:28) Micah: Uh, there was a lot of it where we were, which was a little, you know, that was a little challenging being absolutely crammed into trains, like, just packed with people. (0:05:29) Al: Oh, OK. (0:05:46) Micah: It was an experience that I’m not used to, but yeah, it was an experience. (0:05:52) Micah: I did a lot of looking at retro games and stuff like that. (0:05:55) Micah: We did a lot of, you know, we did some– (0:05:59) Micah: theme cafes and things like that, Dragon Quest Cafe. (0:06:02) Micah: Went to the Dragon Quest Island. (0:06:04) Micah: Dragon Quest Island was a bucket list item. (0:06:06) Micah: And I was very excited to do that. (0:06:06) Al: Of course. (0:06:10) Micah: Very awesome, just like a real life JRPG. (0:06:15) Micah: You just like walk around a town and get quests and then go fight stuff and then come back. (0:06:21) Micah: And it’s a lot of, you know, like, (0:06:24) Micah: what do you call it, fetch quests, (0:06:25) Micah: but it still was a very cool experience. (0:06:28) Micah: And while I was there, they were promoting and releasing Mario Wonder. (0:06:35) Micah: So I picked that up while I was there because the exchange rate was absolutely in our favor. (0:06:43) Micah: So a brand new Switch game wound up being like $36 or something like that. (0:06:48) Micah: USD once you convert it. (0:06:52) Micah: And I’ve been playing that. (0:06:55) Micah: I picked up the metal gear. (0:06:59) Micah: Collection was there too, because it came out around the same time and I played a little bit of that. (0:07:05) Micah: But mostly it’s been I’ve been playing Super Mario Wonder and trying to get through the Pokemon DLC. (0:07:14) Micah: And I’ve picked up Disney Speedstorm and I’ve been playing a lot of Disney Speedstorm, which is their cart racer. (0:07:19) Al: Is it any good? (0:07:21) Micah: It is actually incredible. (0:07:24) Micah: It is remarkably good. (0:07:28) Micah: There is two mechanics that I think separate it quite a bit from being just like Mario Kart. (0:07:37) Micah: It does feel just like Mario Kart but with Disney characters. (0:07:41) Micah: But one of the mechanics is that you instead of having like just this selection of power, like item block, (0:07:53) Micah: you get the item block and there’s like a selection of items that you can get out of that. (0:07:57) Micah: I (0:07:58) Micah: And everybody gets the same thing. There is one item that is like your ultimate move For whatever your racer is and all the racers have different ultimate moves and Even beyond that there is a basic ultimate move and there is a charged ultimate move where if you charge you hold the button And charge it up then it’ll do something different So as an example, I’ve been playing a lot of Donald Duck and Donald Duck’s (0:08:05) Al: Right. Okay. (0:08:27) Micah: basic move. (0:08:28) Micah: The ultimate move is that he puts a shield around himself, and if that shield gets broken, then he has these energy fists that punch all the other racers around him. (0:08:42) Micah: But if you charge it, then it immediately does the fists, and it also boosts you. (0:08:50) Micah: So there’s different ways that your ultimates can come through. (0:08:55) Micah: The big thing for me I think is that there is (0:08:58) Micah: a combat mechanic to it where you can slam into other cars and push them into an obstacle or whatever and a lot of the power-ups and stuff like that or a lot of the items can be translated directly into combat So it really there’s a there’s a really (0:09:28) Micah: Powerful feeling of getting into a race and immediately shoving everybody around you into the wall as Donald Duck and then just like blasting your way through the finish line. There’s something so Kind of yeah, yeah, it does have it the especially in in the single-player because if there’s not, you know, if there’s (0:09:43) Al: So it’s basically it’s Mario Kart crossed with Barnett. (0:09:56) Micah: There’s opportunity. (0:09:58) Micah: There’s time for that. It slows down a little bit and shows the cart that you hit spinning out or whatever. (0:10:03) Al: Yeah, classic. Yeah, yeah, sure. (0:10:05) Micah: Obviously, you can’t do that in multiplayer, but that definitely makes it feel more like burnout in that way. (0:10:13) Micah: When you’re hitting something and it’s spinning out and you’re watching it in slow motion. (0:10:18) Micah: Yeah. It was good. (0:10:18) Al: Burnout was always my favourite racing game when I was younger, just because of that. (0:10:22) Al: I was never a huge fan of the realistic races, because it just isn’t fun. But Burnout was like, “Yeah, I can drive and smash people into walls.” Amazing. (0:10:26) Micah: Yeah. (0:10:28) Micah: Yeah. (0:10:31) Micah: It’s great and it’s yeah, that’s like the big difference for between it and Mario Kart like there’s obviously there’s combat Kart combat quote-unquote with the items that you get and things like that in Mario Kart, but this is like physical combat. It’s like It’s much more cutthroat it feels it is a really satisfying game and it’s doing the whole you know Like they’re they’re doing seasons and they have a battle pass and you can buy like a premium battle pass that gives you you know more or whatever. (0:11:01) Micah: It is not bad. A lot of it is very cosmetic focused because there’s outfits for racers. There’s different like paint jobs for racers and things like that. They have things like victory poses that you can get. There are some bundles where it’s like you can buy these upgrade packs for like the specific items that you need to upgrade your racers and stuff like that. (0:11:02) Al: So that’s my next question, how bad is that? Because obviously it’s free to play game. (0:11:31) Micah: There’s a lot of content to it. There’s like for the single player portion of it. There’s there’s seasons and every season has like a single player chunk where it’s all of these like kind of it. It’s like chapters and each chapter has, I don’t know, 8 to 10 races in it and the races will unlock it. (0:11:38) Al: Is that something you can get for free if you work hard enough? Or is that? (0:11:41) Al: Right, okay. See, that’s the key for me. (0:11:59) Micah: and the races will unlock. (0:12:01) Micah: You can unlock chests that have the upgrades and stuff like that in it. (0:12:05) Micah: But there’s like, I don’t even… (0:12:09) Micah: 10 chapters or something like that for each season. (0:12:11) Micah: So right now the season is highlighting Aladdin. (0:12:15) Micah: And you can select the battle pass. (0:12:19) Micah: Through the battle pass you can unlock Jasmine. (0:12:22) Micah: And you can unlock Genie as racers. (0:12:26) Micah: And you unlock them really early in the battle pass. (0:12:31) Micah: And you can get them early even without the premium battle pass. (0:12:38) Micah: But then all the way at the end of the battle pass you get special outfits and special car colors and whatever. (0:12:45) Micah: Like paint jobs and stuff like that. (0:12:47) Micah: But the single player portion of the season is all Aladdin based story content. (0:12:55) Micah: Where it’s like races that you have to do with specific conditions. (0:13:02) Micah: And there’s so much content for it. (0:13:04) Micah: There’s like an unbelievable amount of content that’s just like free content. (0:13:09) Micah: So there is a lot of opportunity to get that stuff yourself without paying anything for it. (0:13:17) Micah: It’s good though. It’s a really really good racer. (0:13:18) Al: OK, that’s good. That’s good. (0:13:22) Al: I’ll need to try it because I’ve tried a number of different car racers and most of them, I’ve just not enjoyed the controls. (0:13:31) Al: Like, they’ve just never felt like they’ve worked as well as Mario Kart. (0:13:34) Al: So I’ll need to try this one and see how that goes for me. (0:13:35) Micah: This definitely is the most Mario Kart similar I think Right Yes, I do too (0:13:38) Al: It doesn’t need to be the exact same. (0:13:41) Al: I just use that as an example because like I like the controls in Mario Kart. (0:13:46) Al: it’s very smooth and it’s very controllable. (0:13:48) Al: Every single version of it, whereas like, you know, if you take like crash team racing or sonic racing or whatever, I hate, I just, I know I don’t enjoy how they control. (0:13:56) Micah: Yeah, we’re in the exact same boat. (0:13:59) Al: I always feel like I’m just not in as, as control as, as I am with Mario Kart. (0:14:03) Micah: Yeah, given that and how similar I think our feelings are on that, I feel like you’ll probably like it because I’m very much the same way. (0:14:13) Micah: I did not, was not a fan of Crash Team Racing and Sonic Racing and how that felt. (0:14:19) Micah: It does. (0:14:20) Micah: Um, I think probably just because of history with it, I’m most attuned to- (0:14:26) Micah: to like Mario Kart controls and things like that. (0:14:31) Micah: And it feels the most like that. (0:14:32) Micah: Like, you know, there’s- you go off a jump and you can hit a button to do like a flare or whatever to like give yourself a little bit of boost. (0:14:39) Micah: And the drift feels like Mario Kart and there’s like drift chaining and stuff that- (0:14:45) Al: I have actually downloaded it on my switch. I’ve just not opened it yet because it’s like free to play game that I know I’m going to play at some point. Of course, I’m going to download it, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It came out of early access a few months ago, I think. So yeah. Oh, interesting. (0:14:48) Micah: Yeah, and it’s also, I think it’s on every platform now, but you can chain your account. (0:15:00) Micah: It’s like super easy to link your account between platforms, so that’s also really nice. (0:15:05) Micah: Oh, you know what it is. (0:15:07) Micah: It’s coming to mobile soon is what I remember. (0:15:10) Micah: So if, yeah, we’ll see how the game changes at that point, but you know. (0:15:16) Al: - Yeah, I don’t, having said I liked all the Mario Kart, (0:15:18) Al: I don’t like live, I don’t like Mario Kart live, (0:15:19) Micah: No, I don’t. (0:15:20) Al: I don’t like how, I just, no. (0:15:21) Micah: Not a fan. (0:15:22) Al: I want something like that, I want the new, (0:15:27) Al: I like everything that it does in terms of the live service stuff, (0:15:31) Al: I just want that on a switch with controls rather than the, no, I don’t like the, anyway, whatever. (0:15:36) Micah: Yeah. (0:15:37) Micah: Yep, no, I feel you. (0:15:42) Al: So I too have been playing Mario Wonder. (0:15:45) Al: No finished it, I think in the last episode I said I was nearly done and I just had one level to go. (0:15:51) Al: I have no finished that one. (0:15:54) Micah: Dang, I have not finished it. (0:15:56) Micah: I’m very excited to see that. (0:15:57) Micah: What are your thoughts now that you’ve finished it? (0:15:58) Al: I really love it. I think it is one of the best 2D Mario games they’ve done. I think it’s really good. I think what I think is amazing is see if we had this game and one in every four levels had a wonderful hour. We’d think that was a really cool idea and it was really interesting that they did that. The fact that they’ve done this in every single level and every single level has a different thing that the wonderful (0:15:59) Micah: It’s so good, isn’t it? (0:16:28) Al: flower does. Every single level is incredible. Yeah, I love it. I love it. I also feel like unlike most Marios, I feel like I could figure out most of the secrets myself. So there’s a few that I just didn’t quite get and I had to Google. But with most other (0:16:29) Micah: it’s insane. Yeah, it’s insane. And there’s like multiple methods through the levels to like, it’s just it’s crazy how much detail and love (0:16:58) Al: Mario’s, I’ve been like, I have absolutely no idea how to deal with this here. I don’t know where to go here. And maybe that’s just me getting better at figuring out their secrets. (0:17:07) Al: That’s a possibility. But I’ve just felt like, yeah, it just, and I feel like when I got to the end of the game, I wasn’t hugely far off 100% because it just felt like everything was really fun to continue doing. I like got close to 100% in each world that I did up to like four, and then five and six, I just was like, I just want to finish this now. So I did what I needed to, but I think, yeah, no, I think it was, and I think there are quite a few levels at the end that are like really difficult. And they’re not like, you know, Mario, Mario maker difficult, right? Like they’re not like insane. You have to have like split second reflexes to ever do this, but especially the very last level, (0:17:53) Al: which you know, when you get to it, that one in particular was so frustrating. (0:17:55) Micah: I had… (0:17:58) Al: I, I’m not joking when I say I, it took me 60 lives to get through that game, that level. (0:18:05) Micah: Holy smokes, I had actually read someone had had said that they felt like it was the closest to Mario. (0:18:16) Micah: An official Mario game has come to feeling like a Kaizo Mario game, which if you don’t know, Kaizo Mario games you like, they call them like Iron Man Mario games. (0:18:28) Micah: Like insanely impossible, like super, you know, reflex. (0:18:35) Micah: Heavy like you have to jump with a shell at the right time and then kick off of that shell at the right time so that it hits a wall at the right time and then jump off of that shell after the fact, you know, all of these like really precise movements and things like that. (0:18:51) Micah: And they said, well, it’s not a Kaizo Mario level. (0:18:51) Al: Yeah, there definitely are a few levels like that. I understand there are people who are like, “I want more like that,” and that’s fair. But yeah, I certainly think there are some levels in this that are some of the hardest that have ever been in a Mario game. So yeah, (0:18:54) Micah: It is the closest that a core Mario game has come to feeling like a Kaizo game. (0:19:09) Micah: Yeah. It’s really fun. (0:19:12) Al: I really, really enjoyed it. I think it was fantastic. Yeah. (0:19:15) Micah: It’s such a I was and I was really kind of like on the fence about the the the theme or like the aesthetic of it being like, you know, I don’t know, LSD induced, whatever is happening, whatever. Yeah, whatever hallucinogenic effects these. (0:19:30) Al: Yeah, I was thinking more magic mushrooms, but yeah, sure. (0:19:39) Micah: Wonder flowers have on these wonder seeds have on everybody. (0:19:43) Micah: I was a little bit on the fence of like, OK, I don’t know if I’m, you know, elephant Mario and whatever. And it just felt a little too wacky, maybe to when I first saw the like trailer for it and stuff. Obviously, it still looked good. (0:19:59) Micah: I was still interested in it. I’m happy that didn’t like deter me from it at all because it’s it’s awesome. It’s such a good Mario game. (0:20:07) Micah: and that like aesthetic is… (0:20:09) Micah: It’s really well done throughout the game without feeling overly wacky or whatever. (0:20:13) Al: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it’s been a really good year for games because I also have been playing Spider-Man 2 and I’ve been loving that. It’s a great game. I feel like I think I’m like 80% through the main story, but there’s still quite a lot of side stuff that I need to do. But I’m at the point where I’m like, I just need to like finish, I need to main line the story, finish that before I tidy everything up. (0:20:17) Micah: They’re killing it with Mario lately, huh? (0:20:28) Micah: Yeah? (0:20:46) Micah: I don’t know too much about what’s going on in Spider-Man 2, but from what I understand it’s both Peter Parker and Miles Morales and… (0:20:56) Micah: Okay. (0:20:56) Micah: Are you like swapping between them? (0:20:56) Al: So the first game was… Yeah, so the first game was Peter Parker and then there was a Miles Morales game where Peter goes on holiday, and that’s the explanation as to why you’re just Miles. Okay, fine, sure, whatever. So what you can do is there are specific things that need to be done by one Spider-Man. So obviously, the storyline with Miles’ mum has to happen with Miles, right? (0:20:59) Micah: Right. And then there was a Miles Morales game, right? (0:21:04) Micah: Okay. (0:21:08) Micah: Got it. (0:21:10) Micah: He needs a break. (0:21:24) Al: It doesn’t make any sense for it to be Peter. (0:21:25) Micah: Right. Right. (0:21:26) Al: And the stuff with Mary Jane has to be done with Peter, it can’t be done with Miles. (0:21:30) Al: And there’s like a few kind of like side stuff, like there’s one of the like collectibles thing is to do with Peter’s job, and one of them is to do with Miles’ uncle, (0:21:43) Al: and so those obviously need to be done with that Spider-Man. But other than that… (0:21:46) Micah: can’t be with Peter’s uncle but is that am I allowed to say that I don’t know I’m allowed to say (0:21:55) Al: Wow. (0:21:56) Al: Oh, my, but other than that, you can just freely switch between the Spider-Man. (0:22:06) Al: So you’re just floating around and you can just pause the game and press square and switch to the other one and they’ll pop in and you can do whatever you want. (0:22:14) Al: So I have generally just been going through the game because obviously the story switches you between them for different parts of the story. (0:22:21) Al: So I’ve just kind of continued with whatever (0:22:23) Al: and they’ve dropped me in on until they then switch me. (0:22:26) Al: Just because I felt like that’s the way that kind of felt most natural to me. (0:22:30) Al: But it’s been quite enjoyable doing that. (0:22:34) Al: Obviously, they have different powers. (0:22:36) Al: They’re not exactly the same. (0:22:38) Al: And they do some things that I’m not going to spoil to kind of level Peter up. (0:22:43) Al: Because obviously, Miles has his electricity powers, (0:22:47) Al: which makes him objectively better than Peter. (0:22:51) Micah: Oh, I didn’t even know that was a thing. (0:22:52) Al: Oh, do you not know this? (0:22:53) Al: this. Yeah, so miles can go invisible, first of all. (0:22:54) Micah: What? (0:22:56) Al: You don’t know this! Yeah, oh my word. There’s so much Spider-Man lore you don’t know. So miles can go invisible, but he also has electricity powers, so he can zap people and stuff like that, which Peter obviously doesn’t have. But those powers, one from a different reality. (0:22:58) Micah: I didn’t know this. (0:22:59) Micah: No. (0:23:10) Micah: What kind of spider did that come from? Sorry, never. (0:23:13) Micah: Oh, okay, well. (0:23:16) Al: No, I’m not even joking. That’s serious. Anyway, not important. How far deep do we need to (0:23:19) Micah: Yeah, I can see that. (0:23:26) Al: go with this? But that makes him objectively better to play as than Peter Parker. So they have had to do something to level up Peter Parker. And I’m not gonna say what that is, (0:23:39) Al: but they do it, and it feels great. Like, you don’t feel like you need to be miles. (0:23:44) Al: It doesn’t feel like he’s automatically better than miles. I think they’ve balanced it really well. So you feel like you can be either of them. And it will be interesting to see whether (0:23:57) Al: those powers continue on to the next game. I’ll be interested to see what they do then, (0:24:02) Al: but it’s been good fun. (0:24:02) Micah: I maybe this is what I thought I don’t know how I would know this is a spoiler but I thought I had seen me and maybe I’m like crossing the wires between other something else Spider-Man but this does Peter is like the was it the symbiote or whatever not in the that yeah like Venom’s like doesn’t just does Peter get because there’s like a symbiote suit for (0:24:23) Al: Venom. (0:24:25) Al: Venom is in this game. (0:24:32) Micah: isn’t there like in in Spider-Man lore I don’t know I don’t know is it I thought I like I thought this was in the trailer but also I don’t know for sure okay because that’s a thing that’s existed in Spider-Man lore for like a while right is that at some point Spider-Man has like a symbiote like suit right I don’t know okay all right we can cut all this out (0:24:34) Al: All right, so we’re just fully smiling this, then, are we? (0:24:42) Al: I mean, well, Venom is in the trailer, sure, (0:24:46) Al: but it doesn’t really talk about what that means. (0:24:56) Al: Yeah, I don’t want to say too much. I don’t want to say too much. I mean, people who know a lot of Spider-Man lore are going to be able to predict a lot of this story, right? Like, (0:25:03) Micah: I don’t know how to spoil anything but okay sure yeah (0:25:08) Al: it’s not fresh and new, but it’s still fun to do. And, you know, I think a lot of people don’t aren’t that deep into Spider-Man lore. What I will say is one really annoying thing. (0:25:19) Al: So yeah, Venom’s in this game. Do you know what Miles’ electricity powers are called? (0:25:22) Micah: electricity powers? (0:25:23) Al: No, they’re called venom. (0:25:24) Micah: Wait, what? (0:25:27) Al: He calls them venom! His venom powers! I don’t know why! (0:25:28) Micah: I’m confused. Wait, why does he… (0:25:31) Micah: Oh, that’s weird. (0:25:34) Al: So there’s two venoms in this game and it’s driving me insane. (0:25:36) Micah: What a weird decision. (0:25:39) Al: Also, my other annoyance with this game, right? I love the game, but my other annoyance is they just refer to each other as Spider-Man. (0:25:50) Al: So you’ll be like “Oh, hey Spider-Man, oh hey Spider-Man!” So they’re constantly just referring to Spider-Man when they’re talking. (0:25:56) Al: It’s worse because the subtitles will say “Spider-Man is saying this” so it’ll say “Spider-Man colon” and then what he says. (0:26:00) Micah: No way! (0:26:02) Al: But you’re like “Which one?” But they try and deal with that by having a little face, right? So there’s two little faces, right? (0:26:02) Micah: Oh, I see. (0:26:08) Al: But it’s of the mask. But the problem is, do you know what the masks are? The masks are red and black or black and red. (0:26:09) Micah: They’re both wearing a mask. (0:26:12) Micah: Okay. (0:26:15) Al: And these are teeny tiny little images on a 40-inch screen 12 feet away from me. (0:26:23) Al: I can’t figure out which one it is, it’s dre- (0:26:25) Micah: Yeah, this seems like an oversight a little bit (0:26:26) Al: It’s real bad! And I’ve turned the subtitle size up to max, because I like reading subtitles. (0:26:37) Al: It helps me understand what’s- But the picture’s still tiny! Why is the picture so tiny? And also, (0:26:40) Micah: ID too, same boat (0:26:44) Al: you change their suits, right? Nobody stays in the default suits in this game. That’s part of the fun of it, is changing your suits. So I needed to- Part of my problem is that I always- I have a very (0:26:56) Al: specific aesthetic of Spider-Man suit that I like, but I can’t put them both in the same aesthetic, (0:27:01) Al: because then I can’t figure out whose is who. So I’ve had to do like- So I have to decide that this is the colour for Peter, and this is the colour for Miles, and I’ve had to kind of stick with that, (0:27:11) Al: so that I can tell them apart on screen. I know, I know. But it’s- But it is really fun. It’s a really fun game. It has done the same thing, in my opinion, for Spider-Man. (0:27:13) Micah: What a nightmare. (0:27:26) Al: Spider-Man games, that Tears of the Kingdom did for Zelda games. I think it’s done- It has taken a game and done what you think is basically the same thing, but then layered so much more on top of it that it feels so good. (0:27:41) Micah: Yeah, huh It looks really good. I didn’t it seems like the reaction to it has been very good. I just saw today I saw it tick-tock that was somebody saying like I Don’t care what you say Miles and Morales and Peter Parker are my friends. They’re real people. They’re my friends They’re we’re we’re best friends. They’re the boys like And I think you know just saying that like the characters are done so well that it feels like they’re you know (0:28:11) Micah: um but I Not knowing really much about spider-man There is a part of me that wants to play it purely out of like seeing how much Like open world traversal there is for like I’m a big sucker for when there’s like true to life in-game recreations of like real locations So like being able to traverse New York City, I feel like would be (0:28:42) Micah: very fun, even if it’s just I Have not no I Uh Not no, not really that I can remember I mean I do I’ve seen people play them and I’ve seen like, you know, there’s a Again on tick-tock. There’s like occasionally I’ll see a tick-tock live of somebody. That’s just like No camera or anything. It’s just their their gameplay of them Swinging as spider-man and I’m assuming the like previous one but it. (0:28:43) Al: So if you don’t play any Spider-Man game, even like the early 2000s ones or anything, (0:28:50) Al: the Tobey Maguire tie-in film ones, no, that’s fine. (0:29:06) Al: Yeah. It’s absolutely incredible. It’s absolutely incredible, Michael. There’s no traversal in another game that is as fun as this, and they added extra stuff on to what the games had before to make it even more… You have a wingsuit now, so you can fly. So you can swing and swing and go high, and then you fly in your wingsuit, and you can… You’re gliding, right? You’re not flying, (0:29:36) Al: ages. And there’s slip streams around the city, so you can go so fast through the city if you catch the right slip stream, and they’ve added in a bunch of stuff. You can surf on the water for a short period of time and then jump back up and stuff like that. There’s so much in… It’s so fun. (0:30:00) Al: It’s just incredible. And there’s also stuff like you might have seen… Have you you haven’t seen any of the NPC conversations. (0:30:06) Al: There’s like full-on full-on 10, 15, 20 minute conversations that these NPCs have. (0:30:07) Micah: I don’t think so. I don’t think I’ve seen any of the NPC stuff or like (0:30:17) Micah: Oh, like, not like cutscenes, it’s just like listening to people. (0:30:18) Al: If you like just drop down onto the street, no, if you just drop down and there’s two people talking, they will have a full-on conversation for 15 minutes about the most random stuff. (0:30:29) Al: But it makes sense. (0:30:30) Al: It’s incredible. (0:30:31) Al: Like there was there’s ones that I’ve seen which is like, you know, people who were on a work site and they were complaining about their boss. (0:30:36) Al: And then there were people who were talking about like their children and then there’s just so many and it’s wild. (0:30:43) Al: I cannot imagine like it just feels like they’ve gotten in some voice actors and said riff on this and they’ve just spent 20 minutes talking about it. (0:30:50) Micah: Yeah, I can imagine that would be the best way to do that too is to just have people like That’s awesome Who’s the is it rocksteady as a developer Oh insomniac, okay (0:30:51) Al: But it’s incredible. (0:30:52) Al: Yeah. (0:30:54) Al: But they’re everywhere. (0:30:57) Al: I don’t understand how they’ve done it. (0:30:59) Al: It’s like so much. (0:31:01) Al: It’s not. (0:31:02) Al: It’s Insomniac. (0:31:06) Al: It’s incredible. (0:31:07) Al: And it’s also they’re doing a Wolverine game as well coming out in a we don’t know when but presumably like five years or something like that. (0:31:10) Micah: Oh, okay, cool. (0:31:12) Micah: Yeah. (0:31:13) Al: Who knows. (0:31:14) Al: It’s made me really excited for that because like I’m just yeah. (0:31:17) Al: Well I say so yeah having so much fun. (0:31:19) Al: And we probably don’t need to get into a huge conversation about this but also been playing the watermelon games. (0:31:26) Al: It’s a week out game or whatever they call it. (0:31:26) Micah: Yep. I think everybody at least has touched it at some point or see. (0:31:28) Al: It’s been good. (0:31:32) Al: If you haven’t played it. (0:31:33) Al: If you haven’t seen it go play it. (0:31:34) Al: Go watch a video of it. (0:31:36) Micah: And it’s like, what’d you say? $2? (0:31:37) Al: Yeah. (0:31:38) Al: Something like that. (0:31:38) Micah: I bought it when I was on the Japanese eShop. (0:31:39) Al: A thousand yen or something. (0:31:40) Micah: So it was like, I don’t know. (0:31:43) Micah: Yeah, it was like 200 yen or something. (0:31:43) Al: I do even know is what that means. (0:31:45) Al: Yep. (0:31:46) Micah: Yeah. (0:31:47) Micah: It was– yeah, it’s very cheap. (0:31:48) Al: Yeah it’s very cheap and loads of fun. (0:31:50) Micah: It’s like $2 on the– (0:31:54) Al: I like I play a couple of times a day. (0:31:56) Al: It’s good fun. (0:31:58) Al: Oh this is. (0:31:58) Micah: very good. Yeah, we there’s not a whole lot to say about watermelon. You drop you drop fruits into a bucket and they combine if you match them and just don’t overflow the bucket and that’s it. Yeah. It reminds me of there’s some like old arcade game I can’t remember what it was where you’d like shoot balls at each other and if you hit the same color balls then they would combine into like. (0:32:01) Al: We talk a little. (0:32:07) Al: Yeah. (0:32:10) Al: It’s like physics version of Candy Crush or whatever. (0:32:15) Al: Or marriage was the marriage marriage games. (0:32:27) Al: Yeah, I think there’s a few, yeah, there’s a few different games that have done this similar sort of thing. (0:32:28) Micah: a different color and it was like that same. (0:32:31) Micah: Yeah. (0:32:34) Al: This just does it really nicely and the physics aspect of it changes the game entirely because like you drop one and it bounces off stuff and you don’t know for certain where it’s going to go. (0:32:45) Al: So it adds a little bit of, you know, just randomness to that as well, which is fun. (0:32:49) Al: Oh my God, this isn’t going to be a short episode, is it? (0:32:51) Micah: No, I guess not. (0:32:52) Al: We’re going to talk about some news after half an hour. (0:32:56) Al: Um (0:32:57) Al: So, first of all we get Disney Dreamlight Valley. Um, so before we get into the brand new news about this, I just need to talk to you Micah. So, had you seen that the game’s no longer going to be free to play? (0:33:08) Micah: I did. You are actually not the only person to have reached out to me after the news dropped to ask me how I felt about it. Well, I mean, I feel like, you know, if I had to pay for it, (0:33:09) Al: How do you feel? (0:33:25) Micah: then everybody else should. I’m just kidding. It’s kind of a weird move to like start something and say like it’s free to play because usually it’s the other it’s the other way around right like something is paid for it’s like a paid experience and then eventually when it’s not performing the way that they want it to anymore then they move it to free to play like that’s usually the way it goes not the other way around where it starts free to play and they’re like actually you know what we’re gonna charge money for this kind of a weird thing but (0:33:30) Al: Justice! (0:33:30) Al: Or it’s going to be free to play, yeah. (0:33:55) Al: Yeah. Well, it’s also a bit weird because it never was and isn’t going to be now free to play. The weird thing is it’s not gone free to play too paid. It’s gone from paid but we’ll be free to play to actually, no, we’re not going to be free to play. (0:34:13) Micah: Yeah, yes, like free to play, but you have to pay for, like, (0:34:17) Micah: stuff to get access to it anyways, like. (0:34:22) Al: It’s wild, it’s weird, it’s weird, but anyway. (0:34:22) Micah: Yeah, it is a weird thing. (0:34:25) Micah: I don’t I don’t really know how I feel. (0:34:30) Micah: Other than that, like it’s it seems like a weird choice for them. (0:34:34) Micah: I now my concern is, are they going to charge me (0:34:34) Al: I mean you must be less frustrated about buying it now. So they’re not. So I guess what I should say, just a quick summary for people who haven’t listened. So the game is going to come out of Early Access on the 5th of December. There will be a new update at that point. We got more details about that. (0:34:42) Micah: again for the actual (0:34:43) Micah: game since everything that I bought was like basically cosmetic stuff and currency will there be an actual okay, all right good (0:35:04) Al: last week, so I’ll detail. We’ll go over that in a minute. But your early access will continue on. And in fact, you will get extra stuff because you were early access. So you will you get like there’s a few extra cosmetics, including you get capybara. So, you know, (0:35:16) Micah: Oh. Okay. (0:35:24) Micah: Oh Now I’m not upset at all I was a little bit upset but now I’m not Yeah I’m not like opposed to that, but I’m curious to see the I know we have a roadmap that we’re gonna look at But I’m curious to see how frequent paid is gonna come into play because that can kind of (0:35:27) Al: here we go. But, but, but. (0:35:34) Al: they are doing paid DLCs, which will (0:35:46) Al: Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. So a couple small things first. So first of all, the soundtrack for Disney Dreaming Valley is out. You can go get, go stream it or buy it now. So that’s, that’s a thing. I feel like it’s a pretty standard thing for games now. Except Pokemon games. (0:36:03) Micah: That’s also interesting thing, because I don’t know. (0:36:07) Micah: That’s not like, you know. (0:36:10) Micah: Yeah, I suppose so. (0:36:12) Micah: I feel like the standard thing is like, they’re available, (0:36:16) Micah: or like you get the soundtrack with the game or something and not, you know, like, the soundtrack’s out and you can buy it if you want. (0:36:23) Micah: I don’t know, maybe that’s. (0:36:25) Micah: And I don’t know that there was anything really like distinct about the Dreamlight Valley soundtrack that had me like, (0:36:30) Al: No, no, it’s no, it’s no Stardew Valley soundtrack. (0:36:31) Micah: Oh, I got to get this. (0:36:33) Micah: But I don’t know, yeah, that on the other hand outpaid over and over for that. (0:36:36) Al: So the 5th of December update, the 1.0 update, if you will, has been detailed a little bit. (0:36:48) Al: So Jack Skellington will be coming. (0:36:49) Al: Weird that this is coming. (0:36:51) Al: I mean, I guess maybe it makes sense it’s coming between Halloween and Christmas, but I feel like why isn’t this out just before Halloween? (0:36:57) Al: I don’t know. (0:36:58) Micah: You know, I just had this conversation about Nightmare Before Christmas with someone that I work with who said that Nightmare Before Christmas is a Christmas movie and not a Halloween movie and I argued that it’s both. (0:37:12) Al: It’s both. It’s, of course, it’s both, right? (0:37:14) Micah: But then there were other people that agreed with them that said, yeah, it’s more of a Christmas movie than it is a Halloween movie, which like, it’s actually both. (0:37:15) Al: And it… (0:37:16) Al: No. (0:37:18) Al: It’s literally both. (0:37:22) Al: It’s literally both. (0:37:24) Al: This is not a diehard thing, and I’m not going to have that argument, (0:37:27) Al: because my argument about a diehard is, “I don’t care, shut up.” Right? (0:37:31) Al: But, like, this is not… This is literally half Halloween, half Christmas. (0:37:32) Micah: No, this is explicitly bold. (0:37:35) Micah: Yes. (0:37:37) Al: It’s about both holidays. (0:37:40) Al: It just seems like people… (0:37:40) Micah: Thank you, I feel vindicated. (0:37:42) Al: People feel this need to categorise things so that they feel they can watch it at Christmas, right? (0:37:48) Al: And it’s like, you can watch it at Christmas, you can watch it at Halloween. (0:37:53) Al: It’s both. I mean, you can watch it whenever you want, but like, no one’s going to look at it… (0:37:53) Micah: You can watch it whenever you want. Yeah. (0:37:59) Al: I watched it on… I hadn’t watched Nightmare before Christmas, before this year. (0:38:04) Micah: Oh, really? (0:38:05) Micah: Thoughts? (0:38:05) Al: Just hadn’t got around to it, so I watched it a few days before Halloween. Really liked it. (0:38:09) Al: liked it. It was good fun. Good say. I mean, (0:38:12) Al: some of the songs are incredible. It starts out particularly well. Like it’s like comes out of the gate crashing. Like I’m a, it’s really good. Very weird. I enjoyed it. Anyway. (0:38:25) Al: Uh, yeah. So Jax Galton coming to Disney Dreamlight Valley and also multiplayer. So if you really want multiplayer, I’m not going to play multiplayer. Don’t make me play multiplayer. But if you (0:38:36) Micah: I can’t imagine the multiplayer being super smooth based on the gameplay, but I don’t know, maybe. (0:38:45) Al: I feel like it’s going to be basically Animal Crossing multiplayer, like it’s not going to be like Stardew Valley multiplayer or anything like that, it’s going to be visiting someone’s village to see what they’ve done. (0:38:47) Micah: I don’t know. (0:38:49) Micah: Yeah, yeah, that probably. (0:38:54) Micah: Well, because there’s, I mean, they say in the, what’s the wording for that? (0:39:04) Al: enter the valley verse with your friends. Maybe that’s a special place then. (0:39:07) Micah: » See, when I had originally read it, I thought maybe that it was like interacting with Jack Skellington in the Valleyverse with your friends, (0:39:18) Micah: as if you can do whatever that story content is with them, but maybe I just read that (0:39:27) Al: So this update also introduces the highly anticipated multiplayer mode, allowing you and up to three friends to visit each other’s valleys. (0:39:34) Al: Oh, there you go, visit each other’s valleys. (0:39:36) Micah: Okay, yeah. (0:39:36) Al: From showing off your eye for design to checking ScroogeMcDuck’s stock in another v- It’s Animal Crossing. (0:39:38) Micah: Next. (0:39:39) Micah: Yep. (0:39:43) Micah: Okay. (0:39:45) Micah: That I can see a little bit more than like, (0:39:47) Micah: ‘cause when I’d read it, I thought it was, you know, (0:39:50) Micah: you could do story content with your friends, (0:39:52) Micah: and that to me felt like that would be a very not smooth experience. (0:39:56) Al: Yeah, that, yeah. (0:39:57) Micah: But if it’s just like, come check out my valley, (0:39:58) Al: Perhaps more exciting is the fact that the multiplayer mode would continue to evolve over time as new ways to interact with your friends are added in future updates. (0:40:08) Al: Okay, well we’ll deal with them when they come, but yeah, basically the launch version is basically what Animal Crossing does. (0:40:09) Micah: Hmm Yeah when they’re on a When they’re on a content roadmap, then we’ll look at it (0:40:15) Al: Yeah, yeah, yeah, give us the give us the details. (0:40:22) Al: So then we’ve had more information about the paid DLC so (0:40:26) Al: we’ve got a content roadmap with a lot of stuff in this. I’ll link this in the show notes so you can go have a look at it but we have detailed five free updates and three I’m pretty sure three of the same paid DLC updates so this is I think one pack that you pay for and you get these three updates I don’t think these are three separate paid things because it’s all part of one One story, basically. (0:40:50) Micah: Hmm, okay Oh sure (0:40:57) Al: So this paid expansion, which is called a Rift in Time, you visit a place called Eternity Isle, (0:41:05) Al: and you meet Rapunzel, Gaston, and Eve, and go through some adventures with them. And then the spring 2024 says, explore ancient’s landing to uncover more of its secrets and befriend a very lucky villager and you also see (0:41:26) Al: in that picture Gaston, Eve and Rapunzel and then it says some (0:41:29) Micah: Mm-hmm Who do you think the very lucky villagers I? (0:41:34) Micah: Couldn’t figure out from that. I don’t have enough Disney knowledge to based on whatever that door is to maybe look (0:41:41) Al: I don’t know and then summer 2024 it says foil Jafar’s schemes and fix the rift in time so that feels to me like three parts of this one paid day. (0:41:54) Micah: Yeah, that makes complete sense, I think. (0:41:58) Micah: I think that you’re totally right. (0:42:00) Al: Yes, yes, so Jafar being very clearly, he’s the big baddie of this DLC, and that’s interesting. (0:42:00) Micah: And obviously, introduction of Aladdin characters (0:42:13) Al: Interesting that Jafar is the first Aladdin (0:42:15) Micah: And also that it’s not like sticking to one series, like one movie. (0:42:22) Al: Yeah, yeah, yeah. (0:42:24) Micah: It’s like Rapunzel, Gaston, Eve versus Jafar. (0:42:28) Micah: It’s not like. (0:42:29) Al: And one other character, one other person that we don’t know who yet, like wild. (0:42:30) Micah: And yeah, a mystery character. (0:42:37) Al: Oh, yeah, actually, it does say so in these mysterious lands, you will embark on a new main story involving Jafar and the very fabric of time itself taking place across three acts all included in the expansion purchase. (0:42:49) Al: confirmation that those three updates between. (0:42:52) Al: December and summer will be the one purchase, which is thirty dollars, I think. (0:42:57) Micah: It’s not too bad if it’s like a yearly thing, like a yearly expansion purchase or like even, (0:42:59) Al: It’s not it does seem yeah. (0:43:06) Micah: you know, half a year or whatever, which it seems like that probably they’re doing here December 5th to summer 2024. (0:43:15) Micah: It’s like a six month, six months of content for like 30 bucks. (0:43:20) Micah: I guess that’s not too bad. (0:43:22) Al: It’s not terrible. It’s not terrible. We’ll see how it… And I think on top of that they are then obviously doing these other free updates. So obviously we’ve got the the 1.0 release in December which gives you Jack Skellington and the multiplayer and then late winter. It says 2024. It’s a very confusing saying winter 2024. What it means is January or February, right? (0:43:39) Micah: which yeah of 2024 yet. (0:43:46) Al: Yeah, it was just like don’t word it like that. Like this is just whatever. (0:43:52) Al: That is obviously some monster ink related stuff. We’ve got Mike Wazowski and it says scream with excitement as a new realm door opens. And then we’ve got early spring 2024, (0:44:04) Al: a vibrant new villager moves to the valley. I have no idea who… (0:44:07) Micah: Don’t either I was trying to figure that out, but it there’s like there’s like a daisy duck on the front on the like Mast of that ship and I don’t know what that I don’t know if this is like a again, not sure I have the Disney knowledge to know what that’s from but I’m sure it’s from some specific Mickey Mouse movie or you know (0:44:15) Al: Oh yeah, interesting. (0:44:32) Micah: episode or whatever something I’m sure it’s from something really (0:44:32) Al: They’re getting very vague at this point, realistically, right? Because then we’ve got late spring 2024 and it just says, “You don’t find a realm like this every dynasty.” And you’re like, “Oh, for goodness sake, where are we going with this? My word.” Like, someone will know this because there’s some insane fan who knows everything based on… I don’t I don’t know. (0:44:44) Micah: Which like, (0:44:46) Micah: I feel like that’s Mulan. (0:44:53) Micah: Is that not based on the word dynasty? (0:44:57) Micah: I don’t know. (0:45:02) Micah: I feel like that that’s probably Mulan, (0:45:02) Al: Do the flowers relate to that? Like, there’s flowers coming out the door? (0:45:05) Micah: but they’re just doing like, they’re, (0:45:11) Al: I feel like a Taylor Swift fan right now. And then we’ve got… (0:45:18) Micah: ‘Cause the Mulan is set in the northern Wei Dynasty. (0:45:19) Al: Yeah. (0:45:24) Micah: So I don’t know. I don’t know. (0:45:28) Al: And then we’ve got summer 2024, which that’s the princess and the frog. (0:45:32) Al: Right. That picture is the, I can’t remember her name. (0:45:33) Micah: yes. Uh, shoot. I forgot. Tiana. I think maybe, I don’t know what those are, maybe Benet’s, (0:45:35) Al: I’ve never seen it. (0:45:36) Al: Who’s the princess name from Princess and the Frog? (0:45:39) Al: Ba ba ba ba. Tiana. (0:45:42) Al: Good timing there. (0:45:44) Al: Both Googling at the same time. (0:45:51) Micah: which I like the, um, that like French. (0:45:55) Al: the French pastry thing. I think a lot of French stuff is pastry. (0:45:59) Micah: But it’s also like, it’s like a fritter, but it’s like a (0:46:12) Al: So that’s five updates, five free updates in the same time that we’re getting the three parts of the one paid DLC. (0:46:21) Al: So what I do have one small issue still that with this not free to play thing and and having paid DLC is that they’re still going to have their in game currency that you have to pay for as well, which just like you can buy the game, you can buy the DLC and you can also by around the world. (0:46:42) Al: And it just feels like they’re, you know, double dipping there. (0:46:52) Micah: Yeah, I don’t know. I I guess it my first thought was that it feels similar to like I don’t know like destiny or something where it’s like you have a Like expansion that you pay for and then they do like Event stuff throughout that like season quote-unquote like expansion season or it’s free stuff And you have to like still buy the main game and then the expansions (0:47:22) Micah: So like there is precedent for it It just is a really weird move to go from like it’s gonna be free to play - (0:47:30) Micah: It’s not free to play also We’re gonna charge you for it But also there’s gonna be paid expansions for it - like it’s like doubling down on charging for it like Interesting choice, but Especially interesting considering that I don’t feel like it’s a very like widely talked about game I feel like the fan base is… (0:47:52) Micah: …not massive for Dreamlight Valley. (0:47:53) Al: Yeah, I mean, let’s see, like, a lot of that may well be due to being early access, right? (0:47:54) Micah: So it seems like a weird move to like… (0:48:02) Al: And let’s see what happens over the next couple of months, right? Like, there might be a massive push for it, like, you never know what. (0:48:08) Micah: Yeah, I didn’t realize that Gameloft was the developer for it, they are also the developer for Speedstorm, so they must, I don’t know, maybe Disney is just buying them out or something. (0:48:23) Al: Well yeah, I think they’re still doing a lot of other stuff. But it’s interesting that they kept free to play with Speedstorm, and they’ve not done it with this. Well yeah, but it’s out of early access, and it is free to play. Disney Dreamlight Valley has not been, and

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This week, we have the pleasure of delving into TWO quality games that couldn't be more different! Brad looks back on his time with Super Marios Bros Wonder and applauds it's accomplishments while pondering it's place in 2D Mario history. In the 2nd segment, Nick and Chris Davis dive into Alan Wake 2; a long-awaited sequel that brought the best out of Remedy thanks to it's ambitious, open-ended design and it's dramatic pivot into the horror genre. Of course, it's not all rainbows and lollipops. We discuss Konami's baffling decision to lead the Silent Hill reboot with Silent Hill Ascension; a perplexing and somewhat embarrassing experiment that nobody asked for. Housekeeping / Fantasy Critic Discussion Silent Hill Ascension and the reboot of Silent Hill (22:56) Impressions - Super Mario Bros Wonder (33:50)  Impressions - Alan Wake II (58:50)  4Player Minute - (1:34:44)

Diese Woche haben wir im PC Games Podcast Numero 53 zwei absolut interessante Spiele für euch im Gepäck. Zunächst quatscht Podcast-Host Maci mit Redakteur Chris über die gar nicht mal so friedliche Welt der Na'vi. Mit Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora bringt Ubisoft zusammen mit Entwicklerstudio Massive Entertainment einen neuen Shooter im Kosmos der Kino-Blockbuster von James Cameron auf den Markt. Schon am 07. Dezember ist es soweit und wir können in die Haut eines der blauen Wesen schlüpfen, Chris durfte vor kurzem bereits einige Stunden in Frontiers of Pandora spielen und verrät euch, was ihr zum Release erwarten könnt. Kommt die typische Ubisoft-Formel auf uns zu oder erwarten uns tatsächlich Innovationen? Lauscht gespannt! Im zweiten Teil unseres Podcasts ist's zwar mit der Farbenpracht Pandoras vorbei, doch Alan Wake 2 beweist, dass auch Horrorspiele extrem gut aussehen können. Tester und Co-Host Michi bekommt Unterstützung von Remedy-Fan Carlo und auch Chris kennt sich gut in der düsteren Welt des Schriftstellers aus. Das Trio taucht ab in die schaurige, aber auch fantastisch inszenierte Geschichte des Abenteuers - natürlich komplett spoilerfrei. Dem finnischen Entwicklerstudio ist mit der Fortsetzung des 2010 erschienenen Alan Wake nämlich ein absoluter Hit am Ende des Jahres gelungen, den jeder selbst spielen sollte. Wen das Spiel ganz besonders anspricht und vor allem, welche Erfahrungen wir mit den hohen Systemvoraussetzungen und auf verschiedenen Plattformen gesammelt haben, klären wir in unserer tollen Runde. Die Themen von Ausgabe 53: 00:00:00 - INTRO 00:02:35 - PREVIEW: Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora 00:42:26 - REVIEW: Alan Wake 2 Die nächste Ausgabe unseres Podcasts erscheint am Donnerstag, dem 09. November 2023. Wir hoffen, ihr habt Spaß mit der aktuellen Ausgabe! Wenn ihr Wünsche für die Zukunft habt, etwa spezielle Themen, aber auch Kritik, Anregungen oder Lob, dann schreibt Maci gerne eine E-Mail (Marcel.Naeem-Cheema@computec.de) oder erreicht ihn via Twitter (@Macimodo). Ihr habt außerdem Bock auf Super Mario Bros. Wonder? In unserem News-Feed zum Thema findet ihr alle wichtigen Updates zum Spiel und im Test einen detaillierteren Einblick in das großartige 2D-Mario mit hübscher Optik und vielen kreativen Spielereien. Wer über diesen Amazon-Link zuschlägt, der unterstützt uns darüber hinaus, ohne dabei einen einzigen Cent auszugeben. Danke und viel Spaß mit der Folge. Super Mario Bros. Wonder (Switch) bei Amazon kaufen: https://www.pcgames.de/podcast-SuperMarioBrosWonder

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U novoj epizodi EmuGlx Podcasta Nick i Doktor zajedno sa Mr.Grinchom i Haseom pričaju o nekoliko najnovijih igara, Marvel's Spider-Man 2, novom 2D Mario nastavku Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Sonic Superstars kao i Assassin's Creed Mirage - a tu je i komentar EmuGlx ekipe na vesti o kupovini Activision Blizzarda od strane Microsofta.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) jump into the latest 2D Mario game with Super Mario Wonder. We talk about how this is quite possibly the best 2D Mario game since Super Mario World, why everything works so well, and drugs.

 Pez got his grubby Ninten-Nerd mitts on Super Mario Bros. Wonder. What does he think about Nintendo's latest entry to the 2D Mario landscape? Also Wabba is back from Disney. Are there any spooky tales from the House of Mouse he can share with us? #ubisoftpartner READ: https://threedadsconsole.com CHAT: https://twitter.com/threedadspod CHILL: https://tiktok.com/@threedadsconsole https://instagram.com/threedadsandaconsole 

Die heutige Folge des PC Games Podcast wird euch präsentiert von Ghostrunner 2, dem knallharten Nachfolger des gefeierten, blitzschnellen Slashers, der in einer postapokalytpischen Cyberpunk-Welt spielt. Mehr zu Ghostrunner 2 für Playstation, Xbox und PC erfahrt ihr hier: https://www.pcgames.de/Podcast-Ghostrunner2 Unser Podcast-Menü für diese Woche: Die Marke Xbox kann aktuell schwer beeindrucken, doch in einem Bereich zieht die Playstation davon. Wir haben eine ausgiebige Diskussion zum Konsolenkrieg und seinem möglichen Ende, außerdem gibt's ein schönes Gespräch zu Super Mario Bros. Wonder – dem "besten 2D-Mario" seit dem SNES! Die Themen von Ausgabe 52: 00:00:00 - Intro, Ghostrunner 2 00:02:00 - REVIEW: Super Mario Bros. Wonder 00:32:10 - Das denkt die Redaktion: Xbox, Playstation & Activision – steht das Ende des Konsolenkriegs an? Ihr habt Bock auf Super Mario Bros. Wonder? Auf pcgames.de findet ihr alle wichtigen Updates zum Spiel, ebenso unseren großen Test, Marens umfangreiche Komplettlösung zum Jump&Run und vieles mehr. Wer über diesen Amazon-Link zuschlägt, der unterstützt uns darüber hinaus, ohne dabei einen einzigen Cent auszugeben. Danke und viel Spaß mit der Folge. Super Mario Bros. Wonder (Switch) bei Amazon kaufen: https://www.pcgames.de/podcast-SuperMarioBrosWonder

Super Mario Wonder is here, and it's amazing! Join Logan, Justin, and Chris as they dive into their adventures in the Flower Kingdom. Hear about the Wonder Effects, level design, power ups, and a lot more in this hour-long discussion about the latest 2D Mario.

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This week we detail our impressions of Super Mario Bros. Wonder. Is this the 2D Mario game we've all been waiting for? We also discuss recent Nintendo and gaming news, including a more open interview with Doug Bowser, new F-Zero 99 tracks, a Halloween Splatfest, and much more. We close the episode with the games we've been playing. Listen to Super Switch Headz on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you enjoy podcasts. 0:00:00 Introduction 0:08:47 News and Rumors 0:34:15 Super Mario Bros. Wonder 1:32:53 Games We're Playing Discord: https://discord.com/invite/CWbF4gb Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/switchheadz Website: http://www.switchheadz.com/

Two of the most anticipated video games of 2023 launched this week, with Sony and Insomniac's Spider-Man 2 for the PS5 and Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. Wonder for the Nintendo Switch. We've been extremely excited for both, and so far, they haven't disappointed. We give initial spoiler-free impressions of both games on today's show, discussing how Mario Wonder delivers a deliriously fun re-invention of 2D Mario platformers and Spider-Man 2 serves as both a compulsively playable superhero game and the PS5's best tech demo to date. Sean also talks about finally diving into Baldur's Gate 3, and we remind everyone to listen to Japanimation Station's Kyoto Vacation,the amazing new season of our anime podcast that just launched last week! Enjoy! Time Chart:Intro: 0:00:00 – 0:06:13Baldur's Gate 3: 0:06:13 – 0:24:43Super Mario Bros. Wonder: 0:24:43 – 0:48:58Spider-Man 2: 0:48:58 – 1:21:00Support the show at Ko-fi ☕️ https://ko-fi.com/weeklystuffRead the book 200 Reviews by Jonathan R. Lack in Paperback or on Kindle – https://a.co/d/bLx53vKSubscribe to JAPANIMATION STATION, our sister series about the wide, wacky world of anime: https://www.youtube.com/c/japanimationstation  Explore our archives and subscribe to The Weekly Stuff Podcast on all podcasting platforms:https://weeklystuffpodcast.comFollow The Weekly Stuff Wordcast newsletter for regular updates and extra content! https://weeklystuff.substack.comMusic by Thomas Lack https://www.thomaslack.com/ 

In deze aflevering van Side Quest bespreken we onze Super Mario Bros. Wonder Review. De game is inmiddels een paar dagen uit en Tom heeft hem voor release al uit kunnen spelen. De hoogste tijd dus om deze onder de loep te nemen. Verder bespreken we de aankomende Xbox presentatie, is Tom naar LEGO World geweest, had EA FC 24 een bug die de game verpeste, hebben we mogelijk de lelijkste game van het jaar gezien en nog veel meer. (00:00:00) - Intro / wat is er gespeeld?(00:20:00) - Super Mario Bros. Wonder Review Discussie(00:34:50) - Microsoft Preview Event komt eraan(00:38:05) - Tom was naar LEGO World(00:41:50) - EA FC 24 had game breaking bug(00:46:20) - Skull Island: Rise of Kong is niet best(00:50:40) - Media tips(00:54:05) - Poll uitslag & outro

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In honor of Mario Wonder's release we put every 2D Mario on a tier list. Ok, so we left off Mario's time machine and Hotel Mario, but you all know those go down to D tier anyway.

Super Mario Bros. Wonder is set for release on Nintendo Switch in just a few more days & with comes the potential of a historic release. With more than a decade since the last 2D Mario release, Super Mario Bros. Wonder has a great deal of hype & anticipation. We analyze the history of 2D Mario releases, their release timing, reviews, and sales to forecast where Super Mario Bros. Wonder may land amongst them. Will it rank among the greatest of the 2D Mario franchise? The potential is certainly there...Support the show

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In this episode of The Game Informer Show, we discuss our latest cover story for Super Mario Bros. Wonder! Brian Shea has spent more time with the game than anyone outside of Nintendo and spoke with members of Nintendo about creating the big step for 2D Mario. Then we kick Brian out of the show to welcome Wesley LeBlanc to tell us about his experience with Assassin's Creed Mirage. Wesley has finished the game (and it took him less than 20 hours) and has thoughts on the game's strange place in the pantheon of Assassin's Creed games. Lastly, Alex shares his latest Pokémon card escapades and decides who in history he can successfully fight. Watch Game Informer's Weekly Podcast: Follow us on social media: Alex Van Aken (@itsVanAken), Kyle Hilliard (@KyleMHilliard), Marcus Stewart (@MarcusStewart7), Brian Shea (@BrianPShea), and Wesley LeBlanc (@LeBlancWes). The Game Informer Show is a weekly gaming podcast covering the latest video game news, industry topics, exclusive reveals, and reviews. Join host Alex Van Aken every Thursday to chat about your favorite games – past and present – with Game Informer staff, developers, and special guests from around the industry. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app. Matt Storm, the freelance audio editor for The Game Informer Show, edited this episode. Matt is an experienced podcast host and producer who's been speaking into a microphone for over a decade. You should listen to Matt's shows like the "Fun" And Games Podcast and Reignite, a BioWare-focused podcast. The Game Informer Show – Podcast Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:03:42 - Super Mario Bros. Wonder Preview 00:26:52 - Forza Motorsport 00:36:06 - Assassin's Creed Mirage 00:48:02 - Pokémon TCG: Scarlet & Violet—151 00:58:19 - Odds & Ends - Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, Baldur's Gate 3, Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp 01:01:17 - Roman Empire Chat 01:05:14 - Housekeeping

The Super Bros. Wonder Direct showed off the next extry in the 2D Mario series and, OH BOY, did it look good! John & Drew talk about that, if game reviews are broken, house cleaning & more! PLUS the games they played including Pikmin 4, Red Dead Redemption, Undead Nightmare, Sea of Stars, Moving Out 2 & more! Our Substack including links to all our socials and our merch store: https://dadsafterdarkshow.substack.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dads-after-dark/message

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Matt joins John and Neal to talk through the titles that redefined console gaming. How has the original Super Mario Bros. aged? What's the best version of Mario 2? Can anyone think of anything bad to say about Mario 3? And is anyone even watching Marvel Secret Invasion? Connectivity has joined Twitter, so be sure to follow @ConnectivityNWR to be up to date on any announcements. We are wanting more listener participation, so feel free to ask questions, they may show up in the show! Please send in some hard-hitting questions for the Connectivity gang to ponder over: the address is connectivity@nintendoworldreport.com

Super Mario Wonder has a massive roster of playable characters, and with a 2D Mario staple being different characters having different attributes, today we break down every character on the roster, possible DLC characters such as Pauline and Rosalina, and even the newcomer - Daisy! We also answer your fan questions from the last episode talking about Super Mario Odyssey 2, the future of the Nintendo Switch, including the possibilities of what a new gimmick could be for it's successor. All of that and more in the fifty-third episode of Nintendo Tonight!

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Nintendo has spoken and Krispy agrees... the people are ready for an amazing 2D Mario game! We dig into all the big announcements from Nintendo's summer showcase including Super Mario Bros Wonder, a remake of Super Mario RPG, and a new Princess Peach platformer! Annapurna also brought it with their latest showcase thanks to the announcement of an internally developed Blade Runner game. In the second segment, we take our first dive into the meat and potatoes of Final Fantasy XVI, Chris makes a strong case for playing Aliens: Dark Descent, and Nick gives his initial thoughts on Trepang2, an indie successor to the original FEAR. Oh... and Brad found his new drug in Halls of Torment, a successor to last year's mega-indie, Vampire Survivors.  Housekeeping Fantasy Critic Update News - Nintendo Direct Recap News - Annapurna Interactive Showcase Recap Impressions - Final Fantasy XVI Impressions - Aliens: Dark Descent Impressions - Trepang2 Impressions - Halls of Torment 4Player Minute

 It's time for the Comic Talk Headlines with Generally Nerdy! Apparently the upload got missed last week, MY MOST EPIC APOLOGIES! The episode exists, and I can upload it if the community so demands... just let me know.THIS week though we have ANOTHER strike special! Epic animated metal band RETURNS, plus the return of a community favorite actor might be in jeopardy, and SO MUCH more.Tune in Wednesdays for the regular show and Saturdays for the re-post of the Friday night LIVE SHOW. Plus, don't forget to subscribe for more fresh content.    MusicFollow-ups/CorrectionsZZ Top - New music will feature both Dusty Hill pre-recorded tracks, as well as contributions from current bass player Elwood Francis.New Music/VideoDethklok - Aortic Desecration https://youtu.be/R8r2heCJAUU August 25th. Production feels different on this one.Everclear - Heroin Girl https://youtu.be/Rj68atiZnDs the album that will feature the Year of the Tiger track they released a few months ago will be a live album. Live at the Whisky A Go Go, out Friday Sept 8th. The sound mix here is incredible.Tours/FestivalsBorn Dead Fest - Albany New York's first annual Born Dead Fest from Born Dead Clothing is Sept 2&3. Hatebreed, Bleeding Through, Madball, Vein.fm, Jesus Piece. https://blabbermouth.net/news/hatebreed-bleeding-through-integrity-madball-confirmed-for-albanys-inaugural-born-dead-fest Hell's Heroes - March 21-23 in Houston Texas. Sodom, Queensryche, Candlemass, Rotting Christ.https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/3A005EAF38049DF4 Alice in Chains - Touring with GnR. Starts Sept 23 in Kansas City, MO, through Oct 18 in Vancouver BCAvatar - Chimp Mosh Pit with Orbit Culture and The Native Howl. Starts Sept 10 in Alton VA through Oct 8 in San Louis Obispo CA. https://avatarmetal.com/#tour SuggestsEverclear “Sparkle and Fade”Gaming/TechFollow-ups/CorrectionsBatman: Arkham Trilogy - Physical release on the Switch will be glorified digital download, only with added requirement of having the cart in the console in order to play.Mortal Kombat 1 - Stress Test happened!Nintendo Direct - - Super Mario Bros. Wonder - A new 2D Mario game coming to Switch on October 20, 2023.- Super Mario RPG Remake - A remake of the classic Super Nintendo game, coming to Switch in 2023.- Detective Pikachu 2 - A sequel to the 2016 game, coming to Switch in October 2023.- WarioWare: Move It! - A new WarioWare game, coming to Switch in December 2023.- Metal Gear Solid Collection Vol. 1 - A collection of the first three Metal Gear Solid games, coming to Switch in November 2023.- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom's Zelda and Ganondorf to Get amiibo - Amiibo figures of Zelda and Ganondorf from the upcoming game The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom will be released later this year.- New Pikmin 4 Details and Gameplay Revealed - New details and gameplay footage of Pikmin 4 were revealed. The game is still in development, but it is expected to be released in 2024.- Pokemon Scarlet and Violet Hidden Treasure of Area Zero Expansions Get a New Look - The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero expansions for Pokemon Scarlet and Violet were given a new look. The expansions will be released in December 2023.- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Adds a New Course Alongside Petey Piranha, Wiggler, and Kamek - A new course, Shroom Ridge, was added to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. The course is based on the Mushroom Kingdom from Super Mario Bros. 3. Petey Piranha, Wiggler, and Kamek were also added as playable characters.- Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon Remaster Announced Along With Princess Peach Game - A remaster of Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon was announced. The remaster will be released in November 2023. A new game starring Princess Peach was also announced. The game is still in development, but it is expected to be released in 2024.https://www.ign.com/articles/nintendo-direct-june-2023-everything-announced TrailersFort Solis - https://youtu.be/OBcZGqXv6lE Haven't heard much since the reveal at last year's summer games fest. Troy Baker! August 22.Transformers: EarthSpark - https://youtu.be/2gQn3jP8O3o Oct. 20th for current AND previous gen consoles.Reg ‘ol NewsAmazon - Amazon, our future tech overlords, are enlisting the help of local businesses for delivery. The only requirements are that the business have a certain amount of physical storage and that they deliver 30 packages a day (minus holidays). The TYPE of business is not taken into consideration. Estimations have the per package monetary benefit for the delivery company at about $2.50 per package.https://www.engadget.com/amazon-will-use-small-businesses-to-help-deliver-packages-in-the-us-132503498.html YouTube - AI dubbing is now a thing. YouTube has plans to go beyond translated subtitles by allowing creators to dub videos into other spoken languages. The company announced that it's testing an AI-powered dubbing service called Aloud, developed at Google's Area 120 incubator. The service assists creators by transcribing, translating, and narrating their videos from English to either Spanish or Portuguese. The service is still in testing phase and is not yet available for all languages.https://www.engadget.com/youtubes-new-tool-can-automatically-dub-videos-into-other-languages-093624288.html SuggestsBatman: Arkham trilogyComic Books/BooksFollow-ups/CorrectionsG.I. Joe - Following up on the Transformers joint universe from last week, we now know that G.I. Joe is an image title thanks to Robert Kirkman and his Skybound imprint. Longtime writer Larry Hama and fan-favorite artist Chris Mooneyham and colorist Francesco Segala breathing new life into the iconic characters, with covers by the incomparable Andy Kubert.TrailersFall of X - https://youtu.be/dq9xp_dCa2o Reg ‘ol NewsSpider-Boy - Spider-Boy is a teenage hero who claims to be the webhead's sidekick. He made his first appearance in Spider-Man #7 and was introduced in the finale of "The End of the Spider-Verse" arc in Dan Slott and Mark Bagley's Spider-Man comic. Some of Spider-Boy's secrets were peeled back in Edge of Spider-Verse #3, but Marvel will continue his adventures in a solo series from Spider-Boy's co-creator Dan Slott and artist Paco Medina, with covers by Spider-Boy co-creator Humberto Ramos¹. The series is set to be released on November 1st.https://comicbook.com/comics/news/spider-man-sidekick-spider-boy-marvel-series-dan-slott-paco-medina/ Firefly - Boom! Studios has announced Firefly: The Fall Guys, its first Firefly series starring the original Firefly cast since All-New Firefly concluded. The series will be a six-part miniseries and is set to be released in September. Sam Humphries (W), teaming with artist Jordi Pérez, and colorist Francesco Segalahttps://comicbook.com/comics/news/firefly-series-new-the-fall-guys-serenity/ Batman Beyond - DC Comics is returning to the Batman Beyond future for a new series this summer. The last story to feature Terry McGinnis' version of the Dark Knight was Batman Beyond: Neo-Year. The new series is called Batman Beyond: Neo-Gothic and will feature Terry McGinnis looking for lost children. A search that brings him to old Gotham after teaming up with a mysterious splicer named Kyle the Catboi. Now without Bruce, how will the new hero do against this deadly threat? The series will be written by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing and illustrated by Max Dunbar. It will feature covers by Dunbar, Christian Ward, Ejikure, Belén Ortega, and Dike Ruan. The first issue will be released on July 25th.https://comicbook.com/comics/news/dc-announces-new-batman-beyond-series/#1 TMNT: Saturday Morning Adventures Continued - writer Erik Burnham and artist Tim Lattie will be returning for MORE of this comic book series from IDW.https://www.cbr.com/tmnt-saturday-morning-adventures-continued-writer-discusses-the-return-of-turtlemania/ SuggestsX-Men anything from Chris Claremont's late 80s through 90s run!TV ShowsTrailersFuturama - https://youtu.be/aWmtcYvhj68 New Season July 24 on Hulu. Second reboot?Superpowered - https://youtu.be/NtOcOLUg9wg DC Story on Max. July 20Reg ‘ol NewsParamount+ -  Star Trek: Prodigy has been canceled and will be removed from Paramount+ next week. The show was canceled as part of Paramount+'s merger with Showtime, which will happen at the end of June. The show has completed its run on Paramount+ and will not be returning to the service.https://www.engadget.com/star-trek-prodigy-will-be-pulled-from-paramount-next-week-191704393.html Among Us - An animated series based on the hugely-popular video game Among Us is reportedly in development at CBS Studios. The studio, via CBS Eye Animation Productions, has partnered with Innersloth, the independent game developer behind Among Us. Owen Dennis is poised to serve as the creator and executive producer of the series at CBS Studios and will work in tandem with Titmouse, who is the animation company behind the project. Here are some additional details from the article:The series will be 10 episodes long.It will be targeted at a young adult audience.The animation style will be inspired by the art of the Among Us game.The series will feature a new original story that is not based on any of the existing Among Us content.https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/among-us-animated-series-cbs/ SuggestsTHE BEAR!!MoviesFollow-ups/CorrectionsShrunk - Josh Gad has cast doubt on the Lega-sequel that is supposed to bring Rick Moranis back to the acting business. https://comicbook.com/movies/news/josh-gad-reveals-surprising-update-on-honey-i-shrunk-the-kids-reboot-with-rick-moranis/ TrailersDrive Away Dolls - https://youtu.be/Oy0RYiQRWUk Coen Brothers… not doin much for me.Five Nights at Freddy's - https://youtu.be/MKNl7ZDQmvk Oct 27 in theaters AND on Peacock.Reg ‘ol NewsChadwick Boseman - Posthumus star on the Walk of Fame. https://fandomwire.com/black-panther-star-chadwick-boseman-to-be-honored-by-hollywood-with-an-award-that-was-refused-by-clint-eastwood/Superman: Legacy - David Cornswet and Rachel Brosnahan have been cast as Clark Kent and Lois Lanehttps://deadline.com/2023/06/superman-legacy-david-corenswet-rachel-brosnahan-cast-1235420180/ SuggestsHoney I Shrunk the KidsRumor MillNew RumorsStar Wars the Acolyte - Cancelled? Also Leslye Headland (director) fired?Deadpool - Ben Affleck's Daredevil said to have a cameo.The Marvels - Plot leak and post credits scenes leaked. Plot revolves around an incursion and Monica Rambeau getting stuck in a different universe. First post credit scene sets up Young Avengers. Second post credit scene sets up a Maria Rambeau from 838 universe feeding into other rumors saying that 838 and 616 are leading up for a major conflict in the Secret Wars movie.Metal Gear - Metal Gear Solid IV: Guns of the Patriots is supposed to have been leaked as the next remake on Konami's docket.You can support this show by visiting our merch store, or by leaving us an Apple Podcasts review.

Check out the Twitch channel: Twitch.tv/PixelHate_ Links to ALL of our stuff: linktr.ee/PixelHate Adam, Jamal and Wopeh lead this week's Nintendo-riddled episode. Last week's Nintendo Direct had some downs but plenty of ups with games featuring Sonic, Batman, Olimar and his Pikmin, and many more. Super Mario Bros. Wonder has caught the eyes of many a Nintendo fan with it being the first new 2D Mario game in years. SUPER MARIO RPG IS BACK BABY! And what do the guys expect to see in the inevitable Tears of the Kingdom DLC coming down the line? Tune in and join the party on this week's episode of PixelHate! SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/pixelhate23 Timestamps Intro 0:00 GGBG 0:51 Nintendo Direct Highlights (and Lowlights) 19:42 SUPER MARIO RPG 47:18 TotK DLC Expectations 1:10:48 Outro 1:27:51

 It's time for the Comic Talk Headlines with Generally Nerdy! Apparently the upload got missed last week, MY MOST EPIC APOLOGIES! The episode exists, and I can upload it if the community so demands... just let me know.THIS week though we have ANOTHER strike special! Epic animated metal band RETURNS, plus the return of a community favorite actor might be in jeopardy, and SO MUCH more.Tune in Wednesdays for the regular show and Saturdays for the re-post of the Friday night LIVE SHOW. Plus, don't forget to subscribe for more fresh content.    MusicFollow-ups/CorrectionsZZ Top - New music will feature both Dusty Hill pre-recorded tracks, as well as contributions from current bass player Elwood Francis.New Music/VideoDethklok - Aortic Desecration https://youtu.be/R8r2heCJAUU August 25th. Production feels different on this one.Everclear - Heroin Girl https://youtu.be/Rj68atiZnDs the album that will feature the Year of the Tiger track they released a few months ago will be a live album. Live at the Whisky A Go Go, out Friday Sept 8th. The sound mix here is incredible.Tours/FestivalsBorn Dead Fest - Albany New York's first annual Born Dead Fest from Born Dead Clothing is Sept 2&3. Hatebreed, Bleeding Through, Madball, Vein.fm, Jesus Piece. https://blabbermouth.net/news/hatebreed-bleeding-through-integrity-madball-confirmed-for-albanys-inaugural-born-dead-fest Hell's Heroes - March 21-23 in Houston Texas. Sodom, Queensryche, Candlemass, Rotting Christ.https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/3A005EAF38049DF4 Alice in Chains - Touring with GnR. Starts Sept 23 in Kansas City, MO, through Oct 18 in Vancouver BCAvatar - Chimp Mosh Pit with Orbit Culture and The Native Howl. Starts Sept 10 in Alton VA through Oct 8 in San Louis Obispo CA. https://avatarmetal.com/#tour SuggestsEverclear “Sparkle and Fade”Gaming/TechFollow-ups/CorrectionsBatman: Arkham Trilogy - Physical release on the Switch will be glorified digital download, only with added requirement of having the cart in the console in order to play.Mortal Kombat 1 - Stress Test happened!Nintendo Direct - - Super Mario Bros. Wonder - A new 2D Mario game coming to Switch on October 20, 2023.- Super Mario RPG Remake - A remake of the classic Super Nintendo game, coming to Switch in 2023.- Detective Pikachu 2 - A sequel to the 2016 game, coming to Switch in October 2023.- WarioWare: Move It! - A new WarioWare game, coming to Switch in December 2023.- Metal Gear Solid Collection Vol. 1 - A collection of the first three Metal Gear Solid games, coming to Switch in November 2023.- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom's Zelda and Ganondorf to Get amiibo - Amiibo figures of Zelda and Ganondorf from the upcoming game The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom will be released later this year.- New Pikmin 4 Details and Gameplay Revealed - New details and gameplay footage of Pikmin 4 were revealed. The game is still in development, but it is expected to be released in 2024.- Pokemon Scarlet and Violet Hidden Treasure of Area Zero Expansions Get a New Look - The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero expansions for Pokemon Scarlet and Violet were given a new look. The expansions will be released in December 2023.- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Adds a New Course Alongside Petey Piranha, Wiggler, and Kamek - A new course, Shroom Ridge, was added to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. The course is based on the Mushroom Kingdom from Super Mario Bros. 3. Petey Piranha, Wiggler, and Kamek were also added as playable characters.- Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon Remaster Announced Along With Princess Peach Game - A remaster of Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon was announced. The remaster will be released in November 2023. A new game starring Princess Peach was also announced. The game is still in development, but it is expected to be released in 2024.https://www.ign.com/articles/nintendo-direct-june-2023-everything-announced TrailersFort Solis - https://youtu.be/OBcZGqXv6lE Haven't heard much since the reveal at last year's summer games fest. Troy Baker! August 22.Transformers: EarthSpark - https://youtu.be/2gQn3jP8O3o Oct. 20th for current AND previous gen consoles.Reg ‘ol NewsAmazon - Amazon, our future tech overlords, are enlisting the help of local businesses for delivery. The only requirements are that the business have a certain amount of physical storage and that they deliver 30 packages a day (minus holidays). The TYPE of business is not taken into consideration. Estimations have the per package monetary benefit for the delivery company at about $2.50 per package.https://www.engadget.com/amazon-will-use-small-businesses-to-help-deliver-packages-in-the-us-132503498.html YouTube - AI dubbing is now a thing. YouTube has plans to go beyond translated subtitles by allowing creators to dub videos into other spoken languages. The company announced that it's testing an AI-powered dubbing service called Aloud, developed at Google's Area 120 incubator. The service assists creators by transcribing, translating, and narrating their videos from English to either Spanish or Portuguese. The service is still in testing phase and is not yet available for all languages.https://www.engadget.com/youtubes-new-tool-can-automatically-dub-videos-into-other-languages-093624288.html SuggestsBatman: Arkham trilogyComic Books/BooksFollow-ups/CorrectionsG.I. Joe - Following up on the Transformers joint universe from last week, we now know that G.I. Joe is an image title thanks to Robert Kirkman and his Skybound imprint. Longtime writer Larry Hama and fan-favorite artist Chris Mooneyham and colorist Francesco Segala breathing new life into the iconic characters, with covers by the incomparable Andy Kubert.TrailersFall of X - https://youtu.be/dq9xp_dCa2o Reg ‘ol NewsSpider-Boy - Spider-Boy is a teenage hero who claims to be the webhead's sidekick. He made his first appearance in Spider-Man #7 and was introduced in the finale of "The End of the Spider-Verse" arc in Dan Slott and Mark Bagley's Spider-Man comic. Some of Spider-Boy's secrets were peeled back in Edge of Spider-Verse #3, but Marvel will continue his adventures in a solo series from Spider-Boy's co-creator Dan Slott and artist Paco Medina, with covers by Spider-Boy co-creator Humberto Ramos¹. The series is set to be released on November 1st.https://comicbook.com/comics/news/spider-man-sidekick-spider-boy-marvel-series-dan-slott-paco-medina/ Firefly - Boom! Studios has announced Firefly: The Fall Guys, its first Firefly series starring the original Firefly cast since All-New Firefly concluded. The series will be a six-part miniseries and is set to be released in September. Sam Humphries (W), teaming with artist Jordi Pérez, and colorist Francesco Segalahttps://comicbook.com/comics/news/firefly-series-new-the-fall-guys-serenity/ Batman Beyond - DC Comics is returning to the Batman Beyond future for a new series this summer. The last story to feature Terry McGinnis' version of the Dark Knight was Batman Beyond: Neo-Year. The new series is called Batman Beyond: Neo-Gothic and will feature Terry McGinnis looking for lost children. A search that brings him to old Gotham after teaming up with a mysterious splicer named Kyle the Catboi. Now without Bruce, how will the new hero do against this deadly threat? The series will be written by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing and illustrated by Max Dunbar. It will feature covers by Dunbar, Christian Ward, Ejikure, Belén Ortega, and Dike Ruan. The first issue will be released on July 25th.https://comicbook.com/comics/news/dc-announces-new-batman-beyond-series/#1 TMNT: Saturday Morning Adventures Continued - writer Erik Burnham and artist Tim Lattie will be returning for MORE of this comic book series from IDW.https://www.cbr.com/tmnt-saturday-morning-adventures-continued-writer-discusses-the-return-of-turtlemania/ SuggestsX-Men anything from Chris Claremont's late 80s through 90s run!TV ShowsTrailersFuturama - https://youtu.be/aWmtcYvhj68 New Season July 24 on Hulu. Second reboot?Superpowered - https://youtu.be/NtOcOLUg9wg DC Story on Max. July 20Reg ‘ol NewsParamount+ -  Star Trek: Prodigy has been canceled and will be removed from Paramount+ next week. The show was canceled as part of Paramount+'s merger with Showtime, which will happen at the end of June. The show has completed its run on Paramount+ and will not be returning to the service.https://www.engadget.com/star-trek-prodigy-will-be-pulled-from-paramount-next-week-191704393.html Among Us - An animated series based on the hugely-popular video game Among Us is reportedly in development at CBS Studios. The studio, via CBS Eye Animation Productions, has partnered with Innersloth, the independent game developer behind Among Us. Owen Dennis is poised to serve as the creator and executive producer of the series at CBS Studios and will work in tandem with Titmouse, who is the animation company behind the project. Here are some additional details from the article:The series will be 10 episodes long.It will be targeted at a young adult audience.The animation style will be inspired by the art of the Among Us game.The series will feature a new original story that is not based on any of the existing Among Us content.https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/among-us-animated-series-cbs/ SuggestsTHE BEAR!!MoviesFollow-ups/CorrectionsShrunk - Josh Gad has cast doubt on the Lega-sequel that is supposed to bring Rick Moranis back to the acting business. https://comicbook.com/movies/news/josh-gad-reveals-surprising-update-on-honey-i-shrunk-the-kids-reboot-with-rick-moranis/ TrailersDrive Away Dolls - https://youtu.be/Oy0RYiQRWUk Coen Brothers… not doin much for me.Five Nights at Freddy's - https://youtu.be/MKNl7ZDQmvk Oct 27 in theaters AND on Peacock.Reg ‘ol NewsChadwick Boseman - Posthumus star on the Walk of Fame. https://fandomwire.com/black-panther-star-chadwick-boseman-to-be-honored-by-hollywood-with-an-award-that-was-refused-by-clint-eastwood/Superman: Legacy - David Cornswet and Rachel Brosnahan have been cast as Clark Kent and Lois Lanehttps://deadline.com/2023/06/superman-legacy-david-corenswet-rachel-brosnahan-cast-1235420180/ SuggestsHoney I Shrunk the KidsRumor MillNew RumorsStar Wars the Acolyte - Cancelled? Also Leslye Headland (director) fired?Deadpool - Ben Affleck's Daredevil said to have a cameo.The Marvels - Plot leak and post credits scenes leaked. Plot revolves around an incursion and Monica Rambeau getting stuck in a different universe. First post credit scene sets up Young Avengers. Second post credit scene sets up a Maria Rambeau from 838 universe feeding into other rumors saying that 838 and 616 are leading up for a major conflict in the Secret Wars movie.Metal Gear - Metal Gear Solid IV: Guns of the Patriots is supposed to have been leaked as the next remake on Konami's docket.You can support this show by visiting our merch store, or by leaving us an Apple Podcasts review.

When Super Mario Bros. Wonder was revealed at last week's Nintendo Direct, we finally saw a new 2D Mario game for the first time in over a decade. And it has us thinking. Up to this point... which 2D Mario game is the best? So we're pitting them against each other in a good ol' fashioned TIER LIST! Make your own tier list: bit.ly/3CNRpJs ★ LINKS ★ ► Support The Nintendo Drive on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://discord.com/invite/WR3qcXJq9n ► Get your Nintendo Drive merch: https://carpoolgaming.com/ ► Check us out on Twitch: https://twitch.tv/carpoolgaminglive ► Subscribe on YouTube: https://youtube.com/carpoolgaming ► Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/carpoolgaming ► Sean on Twitter: https://twitter.com/seancapri ► Lockleth on Twitter: https://twitter.com/locklethtwt ► Seth on Twitter: https://twitter.com/twodollarhero Thanks so much to everyone who supports us on https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ★ ULTIMATE PRODUCERS ★ Robby Bobby Miller: https://twitch.tv/robbybobbymiller Tony Baker: https://youtube.com/quest4pixels Johnathan Brown: https://linktr.ee/pme.jib Lee Navarro: https://www.phoenixoverdrive.com/ Trucker Sloth ★ PLATINUM PRODUCERS ★ Markus McCracken RJ Kern ★ GOLD MEMBERS ★ Adam K Anna AwesomeDave1337 Bowsah Cecily Carrozza Dannohh Drellesh Emily O'Kelley Fulish Fuji Hoppel Jon32 Jonas Young Jose Jimenez Marcus O'Neill ScheiGuy Tim Aulph Tim Paullin

Welcome to another episode of The Gameheads Podcast! Ready to embark on a wild gaming adventure with us? This fantastic episode of Gamerheads will take you on a whirlwind tour as we chat about our recent gaming escapades.  And if you're looking to score some sweet gaming loot, don't miss your chance to win a $20 gift card of your choice by joining our Patreon!Ever wonder what the Nintendo gods have in store for us? We've got you covered with a fresh scoop on the latest Nintendo Direct announcements. Brace yourself for a new 2D Mario game, the return of our favorite green plumber in Luigi's Mansion, a Princess Peach game, and a whole lot more! And if you think you're an expert gamer, be sure to check out MythForce – the game that's got us all buzzing – during Steam Next Fest.But wait, there's more! The crew talks about the games they are currently playing, including Diablo 4, Tears of the Kingdom, and Farworld Pioneers.Support the showJoin our Discord!Support the show! Join our Patreon today. https://www.patreon.com/gamerheadsWe have three different, affordable tiers. Gamerheads Internship - $3/month The Gamerheads Newsletter Patron shout-out Entered for a chance to win monthly giveaways Production Support Staff - $5/month The Gamerheads Newsletter Merch Patron shout-out Entered for a chance to win monthly giveaways Gamerheads Board Member - $10/month The Gamerheads Newsletter Merch Patron shout-out Fan requests - Vote on the game we collectively talk about Fan requests - Ask us questions! Entered for a chance to win monthly giveaways Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/GamerheadsPodSend us an email: info@gamerheadspodcast.comMusic: Jeff Dasler - RecusedScott Gratton - Wheel IntroVarious Artists - Return to Control Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!

A brand-new Nintendo Direct was shadow-dropped this week, and it just may be the best showcase of the summer. The show lasted a bit over 40 minutes and was filled with tons of exciting announcements, including a remake of SNES' Super Mario RPG,  a remaster of 3DS' Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon, a brand-new game starring Princess Peach, and the coup de grâce... Super Mario Bros. Wonder, a brand-new 2D Mario title. We're joined by Bill Tucker of A Gamer Looks At 40 podcast to discuss our favorite announcements from the Direct.We'll also be talking about how Twitch's new Partner Program will finally give streamers a 70/30 cut of the revenue pie (but... there's a catch), how Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot wishes he'd waited for the Nintendo Switch 2 to release Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope, and the news that the missing Titanic tour vessel was controlled by a Logitech game controller over a decade old.Finally, class is in session with substitute Professor Tucker in our Gaming History 101 segment. In this episode, we're looking at the history of the Super FX chip.Want to hear more from Bill Tucker?- linktr.ee/agamerlooksat40We love our sponsors! Please help us support those who support us!- Check out the Retro Game Club Podcast at linktr.ee/retrogameclub- Visit the Leetist Podcast at linktr.ee/LeetistPodcast- Connect with CafeBTW at linktr.ee/cafebtwHosts: @donniegretro, @wrytersview, @agamerlooksat40Opening theme: "Gamers Week Theme" by Akseli TakanenPatron theme: "Chiptune Boss" by @donniegretroClosing theme: "Gamers Week Full-Length Theme" by Akseli TakanenSupport the show

This week Justin discusses everything announced at the latest Nintendo Direct, including a remake of Super Mario RPG, a new 2D Mario in Super Mario Bros. Wonder, and April NPD!Twitter: @theplayerstakeMontrell: @itrap4thehokageJustin: @thundernut01Submit questions on Twitter or send an email to theplayerstake01@gmail.com to interact with us! Please like, subscribe, and review the show!Support the show

Surprise! A Nintendo Direct was announced and aired, so naturally, we knew we had to cover it as soon as possible. So what were the heavy hitters? Nintendo is naturally leaning into the success of Mario with two new releases this year, a remake of the Super Nintendo Classic, Super Mario RPG, and a new 2D Mario called Super Mario Bros. Wonder. In addition, we got a new look at the upcoming Pikmin 4, along with brand new ports of Pikmin 1 and 2 that are out today. Looking ahead to 2024, Nintendo showed off a new Princess Peach game as well. That's just scratching the surface, though. Let's go through all the announcements in this surprise episode! To watch the podcast on YouTube: https://bit.ly/LastStandMediaYouTube Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link: https://bit.ly/punchingup If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: https://bit.ly/punchingup Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this unedited raw episode John and Neal sit down to talk through yesterday's Nintendo Direct. It got off to an oddly slow start before suddenly picking up speed 10 minutes in. Who's making Mario RPG? Should we be worried by vague 2024 announcements? What do Mario's staunchly stated republican beliefs mean for the future of 2D Mario? All that and more in this episode of NWR Connectivity. This episode is brought to you in part by Wongo Puzzles. Use our special link https://zen.ai/nwrconnectivity to save 10% at wongopuzzles.com. The discount will be applied at checkout! Connectivity has joined Twitter, so be sure to follow @ConnectivityNWR to be up to date on any announcements. We are wanting more listener participation, so feel free to ask questions, they may show up in the show! Please send in some hard-hitting questions for the Connectivity gang to ponder over: the address is connectivity@nintendoworldreport.com

Chris Scullion, Andy Robinson and Alex Donaldson take in Nintendo Direct Jun 2023! Send us your questions and concerns to podcast@videogameschronicle.com, and do tell your friends about the show - give us five stars wherever you get your pods too, so that we can make more of them!You can follow our hosts over at @AndyPlaytonic, @scully1888, and @APZoneRunner.VGC is a Stak production. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nintendo is set to end the Summer Games Showcase with a Nintendo Direct set for June 21st with rumors of a new 2D Mario title and the remake of a Super Nintendo title, so by the time you listen to this it should be out in the wild, but we're betting on either a Super Mario RPG or Chrono Trigger remaster.  #nintendo #nintendodirect #supermariorpg #chronotrigger #videogames #allyoucangeek #aycg

A new Nintendo Direct is upon us & we are ready to give our thoughts and predictions on what we hope may be shown. With Nintendo's second half lacking content, this is the moment to announce their lineup for the remainder of 2023 and what title will serve as their big holiday release. Perhaps a new 2D Mario?

Despite our favorite plumber's massive success at the box office, we haven't seen a lot of pure Mario video games lately... so in this episode, we decided to give our opinion on the state of EVERY Mario franchise! From Mario Kart to 3D Mario games like Odyssey, 2D Mario, spinoffs like Luigi's Mansion, and more - we cover it all. All of that and more in the forty-ninth episode of Nintendo Tonight!

A new year has begun for the Nintendo Switch & with it comes new expectations & predictions. We give our predictions for Nintendo and the Nintendo Switch in 2023 and the opening months of 2024. Will we see a new 2D Mario game? Could a new Donkey Kong swing to Switch this year? Will Metroid Prime 4 not only be seen... but release in the coming year?