FEATURING: New Business featuring Yakuza 1 and 2 HD for Wii U, Yokai Watch, the awful Minna no Oshaberi Chat app on 3DS, EVO and more! The latest news and sales data from Japan, including talk about Game Freak's new horse racing/Solitaire mash-up, Solitiba The return of Life in Japan with talk about Japanese summer festivals
FEATURING: New Business: The four new Streetpass games, Jon's hands-on impressions of the Wii U (finally!), The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages, and Evoland. No Listener Mail this week, instead the crew discusses the latest Nintendo Direct and ask what Nintendo could achieve with regular digital sales a la Steam.
FEATURING: After a tribute to GiantBomb's Ryan Davis, the crew moves on to a very Japanese New Business: Shin Megami Tensei IV, Kokuga, Project X Zone, Mutant Mudds Deluxe and ATV Wild Ride. Listener Mail: Zombi U's profitability, GamePad ideas, Atlus gouging its fans and "If I was Iwata".
FEATURING: Live recording featuring listener call-ins Talk about Style Saavy, Sayonara Umihara Kawase (3DS), New Super Luigi U, Dark Souls and more! Nintendo Retro CM Showcase, with old school Japanese gaming commercials, and so much more!
FEATURING: Billy takes the fourth chair this week to talk The Last of Us and Animal Crossing! Jon revisits Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate and Dragon Quest IX! James hates Fable 3 and Kid Icarus: Uprising! Jonny loves New Super Luigi U and takes you behind the scenes at Weekend Confirmed!
FEATURING: Refreshed after E3, we bring a load of games like New Super Luigi U, Animal Crossing: New Leaf, Oracle of Ages, Project X Zone, and more! On a special edition of Listener Mail, we answer your questions about Nintendo's lineup at E3 and the future of Wii U and 3DS!
FEATURING: Jonny and Aaron interview the creators of 1001 Spikes! Hear the closing thoughts on this E3 from nearly every NWR staff member who attended!
FEATURING: Discussion of hands-on time with Nintendo's first-party titles. Interview with Armature Studios, who are making Batman for 3DS
FEATURING: James!. Greg! And Jon! Reactions to news and projections on how Nintendo could best use the E3 spotlight
FEATURING: Live reactions to Nintendo's E3 announcements. An interview with the developers of Cloudberry Kingdom.
FEATURING: It's the last regular episode before E3! During New Business, the crew discusses LEGO Batman 2, Marvel Pinball 3D, Asura's Wrath, Mario and Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move, The Starship Damrey and Uncharted: The Golden Abyss. The second part of this episode is all about E3: We begin by rounding up the recent information on Nintendo's surprising effort to bring E3 demos to Best Buy stores around the continent. We then get into our annual E3 predictions. We manage to cover key topics lik...
FEATURING: New business featuring 3D Sonic the Hedgehog on 3DS, Dark Souls, Project X Zone, Super Meat Boy and more! eShop sales, Nintendo Direct and E3 predictions Xbone...and what it means for Nintendo in Japan
FEATURING: Dastardly pirate hosts of yore return to RFN and demand to discuss their first impressions of Wii U! Over a dozen weird games from Jonny's SD Card Channel!
FEATURING: Billy stops in for a little while, and we jump into Listener Mail right away! Letters cover the satisfaction (and anxiety) of owning a Wii U right now, Nintendo's surprise cancellation of their legendary E3 press conference, and our expectations for the next 3DS hardware revision! For the aftward New Business segment, we have impressions of Nano Assault EX, Mario and DK: Minis on the Move, Darksiders 2, and Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon!
FEATURING: New business is Darksiders 2, Heavy Rain with the Move controller, Joe Danger: The Movie and Art Style: Aquia. Listener Mail: games that take death seriously; a listener requests that we talk about Urban Champion; we get into a discussion about third party Wii U support; and we lose our sanity discussing the non-kickstarter for the non-sequel to Eternal Darkness.
FEATURING: New business is The Last Story, Roguelike suffering, interactive screensavers, and Kirby It's also time for Retroactive: Megaman 3
FEATURING: New business talking about an old From Software title for PS1, Mortal Kombat, Tomodachi Collection, Pokemon Rumble U and even a little bit of Link's Awakening Tons of news from Japan, including coverage of the latest Nintendo Direct and other Japan related items A special announcement for announcement at the end of the episode
FEATURING: New Business features DK Jungle Beat, the original Castlevania, Liberation Maiden, and Etrian Odyssey IV! Listener Mail is mostly about Iwata's weird career move, but we also guess what would happen if Nintendo made a console/handheld hybrid! Mega Man 3 is on RetroActive NEXT WEEK, so play and discuss right now!
FEATURING: Jonny begins with a return to the improperly maligned Assassin's Creed 3, a Wii U launch title that deserves more attention as the numerical sequel approaches in just six more months. James picked up Yoot Saito's Aeroporter, the Guild 01-associated luggage stacking puzzler, but he finds little to recommend even at the reduced eShop price. Gui continues the bargain warnings with escapeVektor on 3DS, a likable but glaringly flawed Pac-Man successor that was, until recently, on sale. We ...
FEATURING: New Business: LEGO City Undercover, Battalion Wars, Ultimate Ghouls N' Ghosts, Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams, Tokyo Crash Mobs, Guacamelee! Listener Mail: Kickstarter for Earthbound?, Wii Tini, PSN+ Stealing Sales from Nintendo, Killers Apps.
FEATURING: New Business: Jon kicks it off with his well-informed thoughts on Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate for 3DS, Jonny cracks open the oddly structured Need for Speed: Most Wanted U, Gui follows up his new review of Toki Tori 2 with some extra discussion of this lauded new Wii U eShop game and James bats clean-up by digging into a GameCube Grab Bag: Auto Modellista and P.N. 03. Before digging into Ys Book II for Retroactive, the team briefly touches on the dissolution and legacy of LucasArts, and...
FEATURING: Jon is absent due to incompetent movers, so James, Gui and Jonny discuss the games they've played at PAX, Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon, LEGO City Undercover and Runner2. They then tackle overdue Listener Mail: Which is the best, Mega Man 2 or 3? Can VR save the Wii U? Why do devs recycle game ideas, enemies and puzzles?
FEATURING: New business talking about Keiji Inafune's Guild02 title, Bugs vs. Tanks, Monsters Come Out on Friday (the first Guild02 release), Skullgirls, Metal Gear Rising: Revengence and more! The latest news from Japan, including NFC Pokemon for the upcoming Pokemon Scramble U Life in Japan is back this month talking about Nomikai (drinking parties), clapping and the guys' experiences at these wonderful events!
FEATURING: RFN's own James, Guillaume, and Jonny accompanied by special guests Chris Kohler and Nate Andrews! Short subjects include our favorite obscure Nintendo games, a pair of What-Ifs, and elevator pitches to Iwata! Plus: Nearly half an hour of audience Q&A!
FEATURING: NWR writer Alex Culafi joins Jonny, James and Guillaume to talk about Ys Book I for this week's RetroActive segment! First however, New Business has the crew lose itself in the mazes of Etrian Odyssey IV; get confused at the Belmont Family tree in Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate; defy physics in Gravity Rush; and forget who they are discussing Fire Emblem Awakening and its DLC.
FEATURING: New Business: Mass Effect 3, GTA: Chinatown Wars, Vanquish, Jonny Gets a Vita, Crashmo, and demos. Listener Mail: Virtual Boy on the 3DS, NBA 2K13 Gatorade View, Control options in Wind Waker HD, and will the PS4 launch actually help the Wii U?
FEATURING: New format for New Business, but we still do talk about plenty of games: Bit.Trip Saga, You Me and the Cubes, Skulls of the Shogun, the lack of Black Ops map packs on the Wii U, Dragon Quest VI and Little Inferno. Listener Mail: Is Pikmin Strategy? revisited, What can Nintendo do to garner more 3rd party support, and are gaming journalists trying to marginalize the Wii U and Nintendo fans?
FEATURING: New business from the guys include talk about Dragon Quest VII, Spec Ops: The Line, Skulls of the Shogun, Demon's Souls, Fire Emblem: Awakening, Culdcept for the 3DS and more! Gaming news in Japan including the most recent Nintendo Direct conferences and the seemingly "dire" situation Nintendo is in with Wii U. Playstation 2013 Conference - what the future holds for Sony and what it means for Nintendo.
FEATURING: New Business this week: To The Moon, Pokemon White Version 2, Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage 2 (really), Dragon Quest VI, Wii Street U, The Cave, and Fire Emblem Awakening. No listener mail this week, we instead tackle the Nintendo Directseses, Nintendo's Wii U Woes and the PS4 reveal (or lack thereof).
FEATURING: It's one big segment this week, but we have Billy on board to help cover the feature topic: strategy games on Nintendo platforms!
