Reexamining Nintendo – Everybody's Talking at Once: Recent Episodes
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ETAO Podcast, Episode 43. ARMS got announced with the Switch, and it launched with the Switch, and it’s been both passionately loved and broadly ignored. Lucio was late to the Switch party, and thus late to the ARMS party, but he’s been pretty taken with the game. We’ve played together a bunch, and had about … Continue reading "This Is a Call (Back) to ARMS"
ETAO Podcast, Episode 26. Following on our bummer of a conversation about the most joyful show on television, this week we have an exuberant and hopeful conversation about a series of games focused on violence, failure, and ends of days. Go figure. Yes, it’s time to discuss Dark Souls, and the fandoms attendant thereto. This … Continue reading "The Dark Souls of Increasingly Unhelpful Analogies"
I’ve been working my way through Earthbound Beginnings, the first entry in the Mother series, now that Nintendo has released it in North America at long last. It’s like stepping into an alternate history of stunningly weird JRPGs, a timeline on which Space Funeral wouldn’t seem the least bit jarring. It’s pretty great. And yet. … Continue reading "The NES Revival Continues with Odallus: The Dark Call"