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Episode 914: EAT MY NUANCE

by James Jones, Greg Leahy, Jon Lindemann, and Guillaume Veillette - February 16, 2025, 8:46 pm EST
Total comments: 2

James confused two brain-dead Sony shooters. Sony will forgive him because they forgot either series existed.

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This week, James has actual real New Business with Stories from Sol: the Gun Dog (00:07:55). And to be clear, I mean minutes of it, because that's all he had played at that point. That's okay, he shows all y'all why there are games he "just doesn't talk about here" when he tries to describe the bewildering experience that was adapting to A Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia (00:14:13). Playing like the pillagers he's fighting just feels dirty.

Jon is intent on doing the most confusing thing possible with two PSP to PS4/5 ports: Killzone: Liberation and Resistance: Retribution (00:25:40). This Nintendo-focused audience immediately conflates the two series in their heads, which is more headspace than Sony is giving them. o7 Rico. Jon and James then go talk about all kinds of random bullshit.

James' commentary: My notes on this segment just say "3DO-no" and "Wait, why are we talking about this?"

Guillaume continues to confirm that Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is a good game (00:57:43). He also confirms via the Pixel Remaster that Final Fantasy II really isn't. He's also playing the Xbox One Killer Instinct? What a strange line-up we have this week.

Greg takes us back from the depth of this New Business degeneracy with a perfectly normal look at Wario Land 4, now on NSO+Pack (01:12:31).

After the break, we try to tackle our inbox backlog. This would be a great transition but first we break down the latest much more boring Investors Briefing (01:15:52). Then we tackle a Listener Mail question: how to approach a backlog (01:30:15).

You can make our backlog increasingly menacing by doing the thing we ask you to do.

This episode was edited by Guillaume Veillette. The "Men of Leisure" theme song was produced exclusively for Radio Free Nintendo by Perry Burkum. Hear more at Perry's SoundCloud. The Radio Free Nintendo logo was produced by Connor Strickland. See what he's up to at his website.

This episode's ending music is "意地桜2000 [Full Spec Edition]" from Yakuza Kiwami.. Composition by Yuri Fukuda. It was selected by James. All rights reserved by Sega Sammy Holdings Inc.

Talkback

LemonadeFebruary 17, 2025

I liked the backlog discussion. in 2023 and 2024 I slowly worked through my 3DS and DS backlog. Most of it were games I had bought when the 3DS eShop was closing down and some other DS games I had bought at retro game shops.

This included games like The Starship Damrey, Dillon's Rolling Western, Severed, Weapon Shop de Omasse, Senran Kagura Burst, Super Princess Peach, 3D Space tank/X-scape, Chibi Robo Park patrol and more.

My method was basically just start whatever game I was most interested in at the time. Give it at least a good go to really work out if I liked it or not. If I do like it, keep playing and try to finish it. If I dont like it, quit it and move onto whatever games most interests me next.

I think it worked out very well and the backlog has now been cleared.
Soon, I intend to start on the Wii/Wii U backlog of stuff I bought when the eShop was closing.

jarodeaFebruary 19, 2025

Hey, I use a spreadsheet to figure out which game in my backlog to play next.  ;)

Quote from: Lemonade

I liked the backlog discussion. in 2023 and 2024 I slowly worked through my 3DS and DS backlog. Most of it were games I had bought when the 3DS eShop was closing down and some other DS games I had bought at retro game shops.

This included games like The Starship Damrey, Dillon's Rolling Western, Severed, Weapon Shop de Omasse, Senran Kagura Burst, Super Princess Peach, 3D Space tank/X-scape, Chibi Robo Park patrol and more.

My method was basically just start whatever game I was most interested in at the time. Give it at least a good go to really work out if I liked it or not. If I do like it, keep playing and try to finish it. If I dont like it, quit it and move onto whatever games most interests me next.

I think it worked out very well and the backlog has now been cleared.
Soon, I intend to start on the Wii/Wii U backlog of stuff I bought when the eShop was closing.

That's pretty much how I'm doing it.  I have a 3DS, Wii U, and Switch game I'm working on from the backlog (presently Ace Attorney collections, SteamWorld Heist, and Dragon Quest Builders 2 respectively) and play until I've had my fill or beat it if I'm enjoying it.  I don't really have any rules, I just try to mix it up so I'm not doing three of the same genre at the same time.  The big shift for me lately was removing games I'm not enjoying from the backlog list.  I used to put them back on it since I felt bad not completing them.  I've cleared 23 of 52 games from the list in the last year and added 11.  Eh, still the first time the backlog decreased in many years at the very least.  That's good because my backlog is about to have 15 PC games I've purchased that my current laptop can't play dropped on it (such as Total War: Rome II, Halo: MC Collection, Civ VI, XCOM 2).  And the cycle will start anew.

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