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We used to do game shows and hey, maybe we'll do them again? Old co-host Zach Miller joins John and Neal to put them to task in console-related trivia. Before then, Neal talks about the just-announced Stonefly, John emerges from Star Fox fandom to go over the latest in the Dinosaur Planet world, and then Zach talks about why he loves Control. 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

We had big, big plans to talk about third-party Switch controllers, but then a Nintendo Direct happened. So Joel DeWitte joins us to talk about the big show this week. Join us as John, Neal, and Joel talk about Splatoon 3, Skyward Sword HD, Project Triangle Strategy, and that new Nintendo-published game Super DC Girls or whatever. 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

Before we dive into more spoiler-y talk of Bowser's Fury, first we have to eat our vegetables. Neal got a bunch of Crash Bandicoot-flavored cookies in the mail while John started a TikTok for Nintendo World Report. After that talk goes on for way longer than expected, the pair cover the upcoming slates of Nintendo Switch Online games (one of them is directed by the co-founder of Skip, Ltd.!) as well as two new releases: the indie game Blue Fire (3D Hollow Knight sorta?) and Ys IX: Monstrum Nox (out on PS4 but coming to Switch later this year). Then, they talk all about Cat Mario and how Bowser's Fury is a low-key masterpiece. 00:01:57 - NWR gets a TikTok! 00:05:33 - Crash Bandicoot Cookies and Activision Talk 00:12:45 - New Nintendo Switch Online Games 00:26:24 - Blue Fire 00:33:11 - Ys IX: Monstrrum Nox 00:40:43 - Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury Spoiler Talk 01:01:18 - Closing Thoughts Connectivity has joined Twitter, so be sure to follow @ConnectivityNWR to be up to date on any announcements. We are

We welcome Alex de Freitas - who has been the man behind the scenes editing the show - in his NWR podcast debut. Alex tells John and Neal about his upcoming and ambitious history of Bravely Default feature (coming to a YouTube channel near you) and then the gang leans back and goes "wow" as they recap some Switch sales numbers. After Xenoblade digression, they switch gears to talk about their hopes and dreams for Zelda's 35th Anniversary. 00:03:07 - Alex's Bravely Default 2 Feature 00:23:26 - Switch Sales Numbers 00:42:01 - Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and the Atlus Line 00:57:31 - Zelda's 35th Anniversary 01:46:29 - Closing Thoughts 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

It's time to get down and dirty with Super Mario 3D World on Switch. Both John and Neal have played some amount of Nintendo's upcoming release, including some time with Bowser's Fury. But before you can have dessert, you need to eat your veggies. Before the Mario talk, Neal drifts off into the land of Fantasian hype before being rudely awoken by the Balan Wonderworld demo. John talks about a Star Fox-like game in Redout: Space Assault before Neal recaps his time with Cyber Shadow. Then we talk Mario. 00:00:35 - Imamura and Q-Games 00:02:06 - Fantasian 00:05:28 - Balan Wonderworld Demo 00:21:40 - Redout Space Assault 00:36:10 - Cyber Shadow 00:45:26 - Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury 01:10:17 - Closing thoughts 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 ove

John and Neal focused on just one thing this week (or tried to) and talked about the Nintendo career and influence of Takaya Imamura, who recently retired from Nintendo after 32 years of service. He's an artist who created the designs of the Star Fox team, various F-Zero characters, and the man, the myth, the legend Tingle. If you want to know, well, we got 45 minutes talking about this dude. Join us! And let us know if you want more like this. 00:01:09 - Takaya Imamura goes freelance 00:03:10 - The Shozou Kaga Litigation Saga 00:04:45 - Imamura's Legacy 00:06:39 - Start at Nintendo and F-Zero 00:09:45 - Star Fox and work on N64 00:13:44 - Nintendo restructuring development teams 00:21:37 - Majora's Mask and Zelda 00:31:55 - Imamura's Producer Roles (AKA the death of F-Zero and Star Fox) 00:37:53 - Steel Diver and Tank Troopers (and also Starlink) 00:39:55 - Discussing Imamura's potential future 00:42:05 - Closing thoughts Connectivity has joined Twitter, so be sure to follow @ConnectivityNWR to be up to da

Xander Morningstar came by and we all got really furious with excitement for Bowser's Fury before diving more into the announcement of Lucasfilm Games working with Bethesda and Ubisoft (because we always gotta touch on Star Wars), tossing out hopes and dreams and ideas for future Switch revisions, and then rounding out the talk by going into the NWR Hype Meter and putting John to sleep by talking RPGs. Also, Neal demanded NHL 2021 season playoff predictions from Xander and John, who don't actually follow hockey at all. 00:01:29 - Hockey Predictions 00:15:21 - Bowser's Fury 00:31:27 - Lucasfilm Games 00:44:31 - Bad games, Switch 2 and Wii U 00:48:59 - The NWR 2021 Hype Meter 01:09:04 - RPG Talk 01:40:20 - Colors Live Talk 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 po

In an effort to stay sane, Joe DeVader joins John and Neal to talk some video games. Neal leads the charge on talking about Next Level Games and what we want to see now that they're soon to be under Nintendo's umbrella officially while John shares his experiences with the new Monster Hunter Rise demo. Joe chimes in to talk Ring Fit Adventure and Paradise Killer and John closes the show finding out he can't say Deadlock as he talks about the non-timely Battlestar Galactica Deadlock game on Switch. 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

To close out 2020 - or start it off since this is coming out in 2021 despite the fact we recorded in 2020 - John and Neal go through their Game of the Year lists for 2020. Neal, uh, went overboard with a meticulous 30-game ranked list while John, um, looked at his OpenCritic page before we recorded and used that as a guide. We cover everything from Nintendo's first-party games to indies, and even touch on Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2, because that's a real game of the year type thing. 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

Is this the way? We don't know, but we'll follow this path anyway, even if it leads to the dark side. This week on the show, Ryan Grove (of NWR contributing and Blockade Runner podcast fame) joins John and Neal to talk about what we'd like to see from Star Wars video games, the onslaught of new Star Wars movies and shows news, and also we do sometimes touch on Nintendo video games, most importantly Hades, Collection of SaGa, and, um, Star Wars Pinball. Be wary: we do get into spoilers for The Mandalorian Season 2 (everything except the finale - which is out now but we recorded earlier this week so laugh at our predictions!) and I guess all other Star Wars series spoilers, too. Sorry not sorry it's so Star Wars focused! 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 po

As we march towards consistency, join John and Neal as they welcome NWR staffer Matt Zawodniak to hop on in and make his Connectivity debut (we think?). After making some already disproven The Game Awards predictions, the trio moves on to talk about games they've been playing and reviewing, including Immortals: Fenyx Rising, Puyo Puyo Tetris 2, PixelJunk Eden 2, and Doom Eternal. Also, Matt is back on his Heroes of the Storm and Fall Guys nonsense and Neal is trying to start Dragon Quest XI for the third time on a third different console. After a brief pre-order fiasco story involving graphics cards and Fire Emblem, John and Matt nearly kill each other over copyright law, as we touch on the variety of Nintendo controversies going on these days involving Super Smash Bros. Melee, soundtracks, and more. 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 s

Remember us? No? That's fine. There was an idea called the NWR Newscast, and then Connectivity. The idea was to bring together a group of remarkable people, see if they could become something more. See if they could work together when we needed them to to fight the battles we never could. Or it was just a way for more NWR staffers to podcast about a bunch of disparate topics. For the first return episode, NWR Director John Rairdin and NWR Owner Neal Ronaghan team up to talk about what they've been playing and reviewing before diving into some critique of the latest Nintendo Switch system update. We round out the show by talking about Xbox Game Pass and how a lot of those good Switch indie games are showing up there, too. Finally (spoiler warning), the duo close out the show to talk The Mandalorian and how stoked they are by the first five episodes of the second season. We'll be back next week probably barking about that NES Fire Emblem game and missing out on the new Zelda footage shown at The Game Awards s

Now that Summer is over, it’s time to celebrate just like Nintendo did back in 2002 with the release of Super Mario Sunshine, on The Blue Coin Cast! Join co-hosts, Xander Morningstar, Brett Posner-Ferdman and guest, James Jones, as they reminisce about the luxuries of Isle Delfino, look at old manuals, discuss the highs and lows of the adventure, and the genre moving forward! It seems everyone has a hot take with Super Mario Sunshine, so if you have something to say, share a comment down below and you could earn your Blue Coin on the list! Nintendo World Report is now on Patreon, and high rollers can name their topic for Connectivity, so head over to our Patreon page if you want to support us. 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 co

This time on Connectivity, Xander Morningstar sits down to interview YouTuber, Abdullah from the channel, Boldy Wired. They discuss the various perspectives around the Pikmin series, how they are all similar and also each act as a unique flavor for the series. Afterwards, they jump into a similar discussion based around the Animal Crossing franchise, and the impact it has on not just the fans, but Abdullah himself. NWR would like to thank him for the interview, and if you'd like to check out his channel, you can do so right here! Nintendo World Report is now on Patreon, and high rollers can name their topic for Connectivity, so head over to our Patreon page if you want to support us. 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@

It's been a long time, but lets try and get this show back on the road. This is an older recording, however, there are some plans afoot for a bigger return, so stay tuned. But, in the mean time, take a listen to Xander and James's chat about what they like and dislike about the Zelda series. The two are separated by an age gap, so they both bring different perspectives on Zelda. Nintendo World Report is now on Patreon, and high rollers can name their topic for Connectivity, so head over to our Patreon page if you want to support us. 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

Welcome to episode 247 of Connectivity. James Jones, Jonathan Metts, and Michael Cole sit down and discuss their impressions of the Nintendo Direct at E3. Nintendo World Report is now on Patreon, and high rollers can name their topic for Connectivity, so head over to our Patreon page if you want to support us. 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

Welcome to episode 246 of Connectivity. Nick and Adam kick things off by talking about Wonder Boy Dragon's Trap for the Switch, Adam then follows up with a little Firewatch talk. Bryan then brings us some news from Stardew Valley. Adam also has found it difficult to spend his eShop voucher, so he also starts to ask for suggestions. This weeks musical selection is the song Mind of Hero from the Wonder Boy Dragons Trap soundtrack. Nintendo World Report is now on Patreon, and high rollers can name their topic for Connectivity, so head over to our Patreon page if you want to support us. 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

An interview with the Game Director of Earthlock On this week's Know Your Developer, I sit down with the CEO and Game Director of Earthlock, Bendik Stang. Ben and his team over at Snowcastle Games released Earthlock for the Nintendo Switch a little over a month ago and he joins me in a conversation about what it was like to make an RPG and some behind the scenes details about game development. Nintendo World Report is now on Patreon, and high rollers can name their topic for Connectivity, so head over to our Patreon page if you want to support us. 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

David got to play Chrono Trigger for the first time. This week the classics gang takes on one of the greatest RPGs ever made: Chrono Trigger. At the table: Thirsty Mage Host - David Lloyd Talk Nintendo Host - Casey Gibson NWR Owner - Neal Ronaghan Nintendo World Report is now on Patreon, and high rollers can name their topic for Connectivity, so head over to our Patreon page if you want to support us. 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

Welcome to episode 243 of Connectivity. On this episode, Nicholas has a chat with Derek Andrews from Gradual Games who creates original homebrew NES games. We discuss how Gradual Games got started, delve into how the games were made and of course talk about the games themselves. Nomolos: Storming the Catsle and The Legends of Owlia are able to be downloaded from the Gradual Games website and it is also possible to purchase physical copies. This weeks musical selection is a song from The Legends of Owlia. Nintendo World Report is now on Patreon, and high rollers can name their topic for Connectivity, so head over to our Patreon page if you want to support us. 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.c