Episode 102 - My Coffee with Andre

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Chillin’ with Andre in the Roost. I don’t think he has an iced latte.

We’re happy to welcome back Andre Segers (@andresegers) from GameXplain, depsite Nintendo doing one of their famous stealth drops a few hours before our scheduled recording time.

We talk about that announcement, an update for Mario Karl Live, as well as some of the other games Andre has been playing recently. He’s been playing Mario Party Superstars just about every day with fans on the GX Youtube channel, so we chat about how that has been going so far, future additions and how conectivity has been, since he is playing with folks around the world.

There’s also a deep dive on Animal Crossing, both the 2.0 update and the Happy Home Designer DLC. Andre has only dabbled with them so far, so I give him a run-down on stuff like the Roost (see above), Harv’s Island, the Kap’n tours, gyroids and more. We also discuss the DLC, some of its features and not needing to burn through new content as quickly as possible. We also talk about the new Nintendo Online Expansion Pack, the reaction to it online and our opinions on the pricing and its future.

We also talk about a variety of other topics, including the new OLED Switch, a year of the next generation Xbox and Playstation systems, the Game of the Year nominees for 2021 vs 2020, Big Brain Academy, the upcoming new Pokemon game and a lot more.

Big thanks to Andre for still doing the show in the middle of hectic few days.

Episode Ninety - Paper Mache, Confetti and Kings

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Animal Crossing in action (or is that inaction).

Animal Crossing in action (or is that inaction).

We welcome GameXplain’s Andre Segers (@andresegers) to the pod for the first time to chat about past, present and future of some video games.

First up is the new Paper Mario game, The Origami King. It’s a spoiler filled discussion, so if you haven’t finished the game yet, this section starts around 03:10 and goes until 22:36. We discuss the story, the characters (old and new), the bosses, the game play, the music and how it compares to past games in the series, including the loved Thousand Year Door and no so loved Sticker Star.

Then, we talk about the phenomenon that is Animal Crossing. Just how was this the perfect to be released when the world was sequestered in their homes and how even Andre’s mom became an AC player. We talk about the updates, Andrew recreating a movie scene on his island, the ennui that sets in after playing daily for months and what might the future hold for the game. For context, we recorded the show the day before the August update came out.

We discuss the next generation of consoles, did the recent trailers from Sony and Microsoft really make either of us want to get a Playstation 5 or Xbox Series X at launch and what if anything is coming for the Switch the rest of 2020.

We close out with some retro gaming talk, including reminiscing about the Nintendo 64, Sony Dreamcast, text based game and getting Japanese imports. Andre also talked about the upcoming 200th episode of GameXplain’s Real Talk podcast. Check out @Gamexplain on YouTube for much of what we talked about on the pod and more.