This Month In Retronauts: July 2023 edition
Added 2023-07-30 12:00:05 +0000 UTCDiamond Feit here: We are BACK and I'm (relatively) disease-free! I feel like I've been podcasting non-stop this month but hey, chatting with Stuart Gipp and recording the community show for you fine people is always a privilege. You gave us a LOT of material to go through this month, so this is an extra-long episode too!
Please make sure to leave your answers to our community question in the comment below. August will be an exciting month for Retronauts in general and me in particular, see you then!
Specific games mentioned in this episode include:
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
- Blaster Master Zero
- Splatoon 2/3
- Metroid Dread
- Ratchet & Clank (numerous titles)
- The Callisto Protocol
- Yoshi's Crafted World
- Pikmin 4
- AEW Fight Forever
- the oeuvre of MDickie
- (Mr.) Gimmick!
- Mario & Sonic Olympics (numerous titles)
- BAROQUE
Links to media we referenced:
- Frank Cifaldi's annotated playthrough of (Mr.) Gimmick
- my BitSummit story
- Lord BBH's Neo Rank Masters playlist
- Octavius King covers three Mystique titles for the Atari 2600
- AVGN drags Plumbers Don't Wear Ties into infamy
- (poor) photographic evidence that I met the creator of Clock Tower
- GAMEBOOK: The Unofficial DMG Companion
- clip of the modern Pong cabinet in action
Art (photo source) & edits by Diamond. Music heard in this episode:
- 9:41 The Day Today theme song
- 25:24 "Quiet Robe" (Metroid Dread)
- 35:01 "Special" by Kazufumi Umeda (Yoshi's Crafted World)
- 44:48 "My Time" by Wolves (Wrestling Empire)
- 53:55 "Discus Throw" (Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020)
- 1:03:16 "Opening Title" (Fatal Fury 3)
- 1:30:23 the opening for Reboot
- 1:40:43 the 1974 opening for Father Brown
- 1:55:33 "Big Battle" (Donkey Kong '94)
- 2:03:36 "A Style of Baroque" (Baroque)
- Finale: "Sega Saturn, Shiro!" performed by Ichiro Tomita
Comments
My answer to the QotM is The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. I see other people lambasting games like Metroid or Halo, but in my case I don’t think Ocarina of Time is a bad game. It remains a towering technical and conceptual achievement, but the problem for me is that it’s boring. Maybe it’s because at the time I played it I had completed A Link to the Past and Link’s Awakening two times each, and OoT’s story struck me as old-fashioned. Maybe it’s also because I felt Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon stole a lot of Zelda’s thunder. I don’t know. I just feel like every other Zelda game is more interesting.
David
2023-08-22 04:04:58 +0000 UTCFinally decided to post my answer here. Normally just state it on the discord and forget. But my answer for QotM is the Ultima series. The adventure mystery aspect of Ultima 4 onward is really neat. But once combat becomes a feature it becomes just tedious to play. And you need to fight a lot not just for EXP/Gold but also because of the whole Virtue system the games got which makes you fight way too many in not so fun battle system.
Bwo
2023-08-20 07:39:50 +0000 UTC
