Ep. 185 - Newman On The Toilet, with Kazuma Hashimoto
Added 2021-05-17 06:32:22 +0000 UTCTranslator and media critic Kazuma Hashimoto joins the panel to cover zabbing bloboids, the three hundred and twenty six pathways of Shadow the Hedgehog, and The Masked Tuber. Original music by Kurt Feldman.
Questions this week:
- Liz Ryerson asks: What’s the hot new genre of video game in the year 2050? (06:11)
- Is there a spectrum of quality for pachislot games? (11:02)
- What defining element of a video game series do you wish the developers would be more flexible with? (15:43)
- What were the most self-ruinous business decisions in video game history? (19:59)
- Friend of the show Ash Parrish broke a story this week about a $10 calculator app for the Switch. What features can we expect? (24:42)
- Dirtbag Deadbeat asks: What is the most interesting reason you have stopped playing a video game? (30:24)
- Repeat from last week now that we have an expert: what are the components of an ideal RPG party? (35:45)
- What are the best video games you can’t play anymore? (40:06)
- When will we know vtubers have officially peaked? (45:18)
- What is the Jurassic Park of video games? (50:14)
LIGHTNING ROUND: Review Scale Calibrations (56:31)
A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:
- Ys series
- Yakuza series
- Yanya Cabalista
- Resident Evil VIllage
- Mancala
- PACHI-SLOT biohazard
- PachiPara series
- Shadow the Hedgehog's 326 Pathways
- 38 Studios
- N-Gage
- The Wait Is Over: Calculator Debuts For Nintendo Switch by Ash Parrish
- Nier Replicant v.1.22474487139 is the square root of 1.5
- Donkey Kong Jr. Math
- Mavis Beacon
- Undertale
- Beyond Good & Evil
- Genshin Impact censors "Hong Kong" and "Taiwan"
- Final Fantasy XII
- Vaan
- Fran
- Lulu
- Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
- World of Warcraft Classic
- Lineage II
- Ragnarok Online
- MapleStory
- P.T.
- Metal Gear Online
- Kizuna AI
- Hololive
- Inugami Korone
- Gawr Gura
- Final Fantasy VIII Intro
- Mr. Bones
- Wayne Knight
- Bullit (1968)
Recommendations:
Brandon: Dreams of the Carrion Kind by Disincarnate, G2 (1999),
Frank: A big book of unreleased NES games Esper can't find a link to because Frank doesn't even attempt to read the Japanese title
Kazuma: +81 Podcast, Shusenjo (2019), HazVsRPG, Kagenaga on twitch
PATRONS: You can submit your questions to the show using this form. And, thanks!
Comments
I decided to do some digging and found the book of unreleased Famicom games: https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/gp/aw/d/4866732466/ref=mobile_oh_details_?ie=UTF8&psc=1
2021-05-24 06:19:02 +0000 UTClol oops
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2021-05-18 03:43:44 +0000 UTCIt's 10 topics unless I had to cut one at the last minute! This sometimes happens for technical glitches, significant overlap with a previous topic, or other boring reasons.
Alex Jaffe
2021-05-18 00:02:39 +0000 UTCOld school death metal from Brandon is always welcome! I believe this album was recommended in a previous episode because I distinctly recall listening to it last summer while working my way through the archive. Well, that’s my comment. Y’all are the best.
Ross Hamrick
2021-05-17 23:40:49 +0000 UTC90% of the time it's 10 topics! (plus a lightning round)
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2021-05-17 23:16:35 +0000 UTCjust as Alex mentioned that the format is “10 topics” my brain went “huh?” and it turned out that it really isn’t always the case and that’s the feedback I have to share
2021-05-17 22:45:08 +0000 UTCThanks! a different tone to this episode, we're thinking we should have him back for another more serious one.
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2021-05-17 22:01:50 +0000 UTCIt was!! As predicted, Necrosoft Games' Shane Marks was able to sort it out for us.
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2021-05-17 22:01:20 +0000 UTCwas so hyped to see that Kazuma was on this ep! He's got such good insights on topics that really don't get discussed as much by most western based coverage of the industry. His article on Ghost of Tsushima is a prime example (https://www.polygon.com/2020/7/23/21333631/ghost-of-tsushima-kurosawa-films-samurai-japan-abe-politics) and he got a lot of heat for it and had to lock down his socials for a few weeks cause nationalists went after him hard in response. Anyways - really great ep.
George Rohac
2021-05-17 16:37:19 +0000 UTC
