Keep Nintendo Weird – Details, episodes & analysis

We ♥ Katamari finally rolling onto the Nintendo Switch gives Matt "Shyguycity" Murray and I the perfect excuse to talk about it. We discuss the meditative nature of Katamari, the space it allows us for introspection and the things that we both found within that space.

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Huge thanks as always to Lucas Pucas for the use of our theme song, "Blur Bridge"! Check out this track on their SoundCloud and support their great music: bit.ly/3yzqWMv

Rusty's Real Deal Baseball is Nintendo's 3DS "free-to-start" experiment that gave us fun baseball minigames, an interesting haggling mechanic and introduced us to maybe the most fleshed-out character in the 130+ year history of the company. Patrick Ehlers and Mark Mitchell from Nintendo Cartridge Society are joining me to break down what makes this game so special - and how this could very well be Rusty Slugger's last dance. ⚾

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Huge thanks as always to Lucas Pucas for the use of our theme song, "Blur Bridge"! Check out this track on their SoundCloud and support their great music: bit.ly/3yzqWMv

Jordan Starkweather joins me to chat about the dice-rollin' 3DS eShop-exclusive JRPG by Yasumi Matsuno: CRIMSON SHROUD! What makes Matsuno's games so unique? Can self-imposed limitations actually benefit a game's design? Does that one mandatory random drop just really suck or were we all playing the game badly? 🎲 ⚔️

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Huge thanks as always to Lucas Pucas for the use of our theme song, "Blur Bridge"! Check out this track on their SoundCloud and support their great music: bit.ly/3yzqWMv

Matt "Shyguycity" Murray joins me this week to chat about DRAGON QUEST HEROES: ROCKET SLIME for the Nintendo DS! 💧 It's... an action RPG? Or is it an adventure game? Tower defense? Slime... simulator? Hm. Whatever it is, there's sure to be plenty of puns along the way! IT'S SLIME TIME, BABY! 🎺

This episode was recorded LIVE on www.twitch.tv/allnpodcast!

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Huge thanks as always to Lucas Pucas for the use of our theme song, "Blur Bridge"! Check out this track on their SoundCloud and support their great music: bit.ly/3yzqWMv

When CJ was last on the show, he mentioned Pocket Card Jockey in passing and Seth was beside himself. How appropriate that CJ makes his triumphant KNW return to talk about exactly that: the horse-racin', solitaire-playin' 3DS game that you probably didn't play and should! 🏇🃏

This episode was recorded LIVE on www.twitch.tv/allnpodcast -- please be gentle and pardon our growing pains.

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► For more CJ, check out his work on Destructoid: www.destructoid.com

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Huge thanks as always to Lucas Pucas for the use of our theme song, "Blur Bridge"! Check out this track on their SoundCloud and support their great music: bit.ly/3yzqWMv

In the final episode of 2021, Seth rings in this winter holiday with Ben Bertoli and the chilly slopes of SNOWBOARD KIDS! 🏂 We talk about how Ko Takeuchi drew Ben's profile picture, why the first two games should come to Nintendo Switch Online and how they might just outclass Mario Kart 64. And so much more! ❄️

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Huge thanks as always to Lucas Pucas for the use of our theme song, "Blur Bridge"! Check out this track on their SoundCloud and support their great music: bit.ly/3yzqWMv

Missile is best boy and no further argument will be accepted. 😍 Seth hangs out with Caroline Liddick - formerly of Telltale and Limited Run Games - to gush about their favorite Nintendo DS game, GHOST TRICK: PHANTOM DETECTIVE. Let's talk about gorgeous animations, creator Shu Takumi, 2010-era Nintendo nostalgia... and the brilliant way Ghost Trick tackles the concept of identity! 🍗 

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Huge thanks as always to Lucas Pucas for the use of our theme song, "Blur Bridge"! Check out this track on their SoundCloud and support their great music: bit.ly/3yzqWMv

In a very special episode, Seth's flying solo to talk about his favorite game of all time: MAJORA'S MASK. Terrible fates not included. Let's talk about death, acceptance, time and - most importantly - the value of hope and kindness. 🕑 

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Huge thanks as always to Lucas Pucas for the use of our theme song, "Blur Bridge"! Check out this track on their SoundCloud and support their great music: bit.ly/3yzqWMv

This one's for y'all. It's PLOKtober, baby! Seth welcomes Andross of the Nintendo Pals podcast back to the show to talk some PLOK! Huge thanks to several members of this PLOK-lovin' community that contributed to this episode and refused to be diddled again. 💕

In order of appearance:

- Dan (RetroLogic)

- hambone jonny

- Flightsy

- solo_something

- ThirdStrongestMole

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Huge thanks as always to Lucas Pucas for the use of our theme song, "Blur Bridge"! Check out this track on their SoundCloud and support their great music: bit.ly/3yzqWMv

It's finally time to chat about ARMS! Cue that music! 💪 Seth is joined by YouTuber Reese "Reeset" Anderson to discuss Nintendo's most unique AAA first party IP of the Switch era. This is a special fighting game that had all of the makings of "the next big thing"... so why wasn't it?

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Huge thanks as always to Lucas Pucas for the use of our theme song, "Blur Bridge"! Check out this track on their SoundCloud and support their great music: bit.ly/3yzqWMv