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  • 115: Nintendo VS Emulation - What Happens Next?

    115: Nintendo VS Emulation - What Happens Next?
    Apr 25 2024
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    Hi and welcome to episode 115 of the Kit & Krysta Podcast! Today, we're diving into the topic of emulation and how Nintendo is handling the new Delta emulation app on the Apple App Store. Delta coming to Apple has changed the conversation around emulation a bit since it's made it feel more mainstream and accessible - something Nintendo is not going to be happy about, but what can they actually do about it? Let's dig into this topic! Also in this episode, we have a special guest joining us, Stealth40K who is a prominent member of the Nintendo fan community. We chat with Stealth about the state of Nintendo's relationship with fans and what they can do better as Nintendo prepares for the launch of Switch 2. We've played A TON of indie games this week after the Indie Game Showcase and we tell you all about the ones we loved in the games we're playing segment. We wrap it all up with questions from our wonderful Patreon community. All this and more is coming right up!

    0:00 - It's go time!
    15:19 - Nintendo vs Emulation... is it a losing battle?
    53:08 - Special guest Stealth40K
    1:29:13 - Games we are playing - new indie games
    1:47:26 - Our new merch!
    1:50:11 - Questions from our Patreon community

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    - All Hail the Final Boss - Aaron Hash
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    -Kit & Krysta
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    2 hrs and 19 mins
  • 114: Everything You Need to Know About Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

    114: Everything You Need to Know About Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
    Apr 18 2024
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    Hello and welcome to episode 114 of the Kit & Krysta Podcast! This week, we're starting our fun podcast series diving into Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door! This game is coming out in about a month on Nintendo Switch and we can't wait to play it. Today we're going to be talking about everything you need to know before you play this game. It's really interesting because Kit has actually never played the game and Krysta has played it multiple times so there are some different perspectives. Also in this episode, we tell you why Nintendo is not attending Gamescom this year and react to John Cena's viral Zelda Instagram post. We're playing some new games this week and we're watching the new Fallout show and we wrap it all up with questions from our wonderful Patreon subscribers.

    0:00 - It's paper and it's Mario!
    11:29 - Everything you need to know about Paper Mario TTYD
    59:18 - Games we are playing
    1:18:34 - News news news
    1:39:59 - Questions from our Patreon subscribers

    Patreon shout-outs!
    - All Hail the Final Boss - Aaron Hash
    - Thank you Superstars - Ben Eichhorn, MaruMayhem, Eigenverse, KissMyFlapjack, Mike Chin, Roy Eschke, Switchingitup_, vgmlife, Link The Hero of Winds, Angela Bycroft, Thomas O’Rourke, Kyle LeBoeuf, Roberto Nieves, Fredrik Ulf Konradsson, Andrew Youhas, Chilly, Brustache

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    -Kit & Krysta
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    2 hrs and 6 mins
  • 113: Nintendo Doesn’t Need Switch 2 in 2024

    113: Nintendo Doesn’t Need Switch 2 in 2024
    Apr 11 2024
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    Hi and welcome to episode 113 of the Kit & Krysta Podcast! Today we'll be talking about what Nintendo can do to buy some time since it seems like the Switch 2 won't be out until 2025. We're entering an interesting time where after the summer, we actually don't know what Nintendo is planning and what games are coming out for the rest of the year. We have some ideas of what Nintendo could be doing to keep everything moving along and still make 2024 a great year. Also in this episode, we're playing a lot of new games but on some unexpected systems and we dive into the drama that's happening at Square Enix with the Dragon Quest development teams. We wrap it all up with questions from our wonderful Patreon subscribers. All of this is coming right up!

    0:00 - Settle on in
    13:52 - Nintendo can still save 2024
    59:02 - Games we are playing
    1:27:10 - News news news
    1:35:28 - Questions from our Patreon subscribers

    Patreon shout-outs!
    - All Hail the Final Boss - Aaron Hash
    - Thank you Superstars - Ben Eichhorn, MaruMayhem, Eigenverse, KissMyFlapjack, Mike Chin, Roy Eschke, Switchingitup_, vgmlife, Link The Hero of Winds, Angela Bycroft, Thomas O’Rourke, Kyle LeBoeuf, Roberto Nieves, Fredrik Ulf Konradsson, Andrew Youhas, Chilly, Brustache

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    -Kit & Krysta
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    2 hrs
  • 112: Nintendo Switch is Good but Nintendo 3DS is GREAT

    112: Nintendo Switch is Good but Nintendo 3DS is GREAT
    Apr 4 2024
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    Hello and welcome to episode 112 of the Kit & Krysta Podcast! We surprised ourselves over the last few weeks because we've both been playing our Nintendo 3DS again. If you would have asked us in 2024 whether we'd be doing this, we would have thought it impossible. Recently, we played Mario Kart 7 with our Patreon community since the online servers are about to shut down and we recently revealed that our April spoilercast game is Chrono Trigger so we've been playing that on 3DS as well. It's actually so nice to play true handheld games again and it really made us think that dedicated handheld games are not really a thing anymore in gaming and we really miss them! Also in this episode, we tell you all about Nintendo's unique relationship with Nickelodeon and Krysta covering the Kid's Choice Awards from the Orange Carpet. We jump into games we're playing which again is a lot of handheld games! In our news section we tell you what we think about Nintendo's big shake-up to their product testing department and them laying off contractors. We wrap it all up with questions from our Patreon community.

    0:00 - Settle on in!
    10:36 - Nintendo x Nickelodeon x Krysta
    37:10 - Games we are playing (why we miss handheld games!)
    1:15:39 - News news news
    1:30:04 - Questions from our Patreon subscribers

    Patreon shout-outs!
    - All Hail the Final Boss - Aaron Hash
    - Thank you Superstars - Ben Eichhorn, MaruMayhem, Eigenverse, KissMyFlapjack, Mike Chin, Roy Eschke, Switchingitup_, vgmlife, Link The Hero of Winds, Angela Bycroft, Thomas O’Rourke, Kyle LeBoeuf, Roberto Nieves, Fredrik Ulf Konradsson, Andrew Youhas, Chilly, Brustache

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    -Kit & Krysta
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    2 hrs and 3 mins
  • 111: Day In the Life of a Nintendo Employee

    111: Day In the Life of a Nintendo Employee
    Mar 28 2024
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    Hi and welcome to episode 111 of the Kit & Krysta Podcast! Today, we're going to take you through what a typical work day is like at Nintendo. We usually focus on bigger moments but we realized we've never told you what a normal day during a normal week is like. We'll go through our full schedule so you can get a sense of what working at Nintendo is really like. Also in this episode, we have a monster games we are playing segment with a ton of new games we saw at GDC. We also react to the news about the recent aggressive Pokemon takedowns of modded games. We wrap it all up with questions from our Patreon community.

    0:00 - HAPPY BIRTHDAY KIT!!!!
    16:34 - A day in the life of a Nintendo employee
    1:11:48 - Games we are playing
    1:46:15 - News news news (Pokemon mods, Baldur's Gate sequel, new Marvel game)
    1:59:36 - Questions from our Patreon community

    Patreon shout-outs!
    - All Hail the Final Boss - Aaron Hash
    - Thank you Superstars - Ben Eichhorn, MaruMayhem, Eigenverse, KissMyFlapjack, Mike Chin, Roy Eschke, Switchingitup_, Sephazon, vgmlife, Link The Hero of Winds, Angela Bycroft, Thomas O’Rourke, Kyle LeBoeuf, Roberto Nieves, Fredrik Ulf Konradsson, Andrew Youhas, Chilly, Brustache

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    -Kit & Krysta
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    2 hrs and 22 mins
  • 110: Switch 2 Leaks Are About to Get Even BIGGER

    110: Switch 2 Leaks Are About to Get Even BIGGER
    Mar 21 2024
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    Hello and welcome to episode 110 of the Kit & Krysta Podcast! Today, we're going to discuss if leakers will ruin the reveal for Switch 2, what Nintendo is doing right now to try to stop this and most importantly if we even care. Do we just want to know so badly what this next system is going to be that we'll take the information any way we can get it? Also in this episode, we got a chance to chat with Tomm Hulett from Wayforward to talk about developing Contra Operation Galuga. In games we're playing, we share our spoiler-free thoughts about Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth but get ready for our full spoilercast on the game dropping at the end of the month. We discuss the rumored PS5 Pro in our news section and wrap it all up with questions from our wonderful Patreon community.

    0:00 - Switch 2 where are you?
    13:40 - Will leakers spoil the Switch 2 reveal?
    53:39 - Welcome Tomm Hulett - let's chat about Contra Galuga
    1:22:31 - Games we are playing (Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story)
    1:45:08 - News news news
    1:59:14 - Questions from Patreon community

    Patreon Shout Outs!
    - All Hail the Final Boss - Aaron Hash
    - Thank you Superstars - Ben Eichhorn, MaruMayhem, Eigenverse, KissMyFlapjack, Mike Chin, Roy Eschke, Switchingitup_, Sephazon, vgmlife, Link The Hero of Winds, Angela Bycroft, Thomas O’Rourke, Kyle LeBoeuf, Roberto Nieves, Fredrik Ulf Konradsson, Andrew Youhas, Chilly, Brustache

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    -Kit & Krysta
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    2 hrs and 22 mins
  • 109: This Journalist Lives in Nintendo’s Head Rent-Free - ft Stephen Totilo

    109: This Journalist Lives in Nintendo’s Head Rent-Free - ft Stephen Totilo
    Mar 14 2024
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    Hi and welcome to episode 109 of the Kit & Krysta Podcast! This week we're joined by our good friend Stephen Totilo - games journalist extraordinaire! Stephen has been covering video games and Nintendo for decades and has so many insider stories. When we were at Nintendo, there were so many people on our team who were scared at the prospect of talking to Stephen and we never understood why! We dig into all of that with him today. Also in this episode, we recap all the news that came out during Mario Day and reflect on the tragic passing of the legendary Akira Toriyama. We've also been playing some other games other than Final Fantasy VII Rebirth so we tell you what we think of those. We wrap it all up with questions from our wonderful Patreon subscribers.

    0:00 - Kit's industry heartbreak
    17:55 - Welcome Stephen Totilo!
    1:19:32 - Games we are playing (Balatro, Mediterrenea Inferno, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth)
    1:45:23 - News news news (Mario Day announcements, Akira Toriyama, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth sales)
    2:07:35 - Questions from our Patreon subscribers

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    2 hrs and 32 mins
  • 108: John Cena is THE #1 Nintendo Fan - Here's Why!

    108: John Cena is THE #1 Nintendo Fan - Here's Why!
    Mar 7 2024
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    Hi, we're celebrating the 7th anniversary of Nintendo Switch an incredible story about playing Switch before it launched with the one and only John Cena and before you even think it, yes, we COULD see him. You never know working with celebrities but John Cena turned out to be the nicest guy and a true Nintendo fan. Now we have such a great memory of launching this iconic video game system and playing with the one and only John Cena! Also in this episode, we talk about the recent Nintendo lawsuit against game emulator Yuzu. We also had a big week digging into Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth and tell you what we think of it so far. We were also lucky to go to Capcom a few weeks ago to play even more of Dragon's Dogma II early. In our never a minute segment today, we're doing something really fun which is opening packs of Pokemon Cards! Should we get into Pokemon TCG? We wrap it all up with questions from our wonderful Patreon subscribers.

    0:00 - Happy 7th anniversary Nintendo Switch!
    13:58 - Playing Switch with John Cena on a mountaintop in the desert!
    48:22 - Opening packs of Pokemon cards
    58:21 - Games we are playing (Final Fantasy VII - Rebirth and Dragon's Dogma II)
    1:35:03 - News news news (Nintendo vs Yuzu lawsuit, Sony and EA Layoffs, Mario Day rumors)
    1:59:05 - Questions from our Patreon subscribers

    Patreon shout-outs!
    - All Hail the Final Boss - Aaron Hash
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    -Kit & Krysta
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    2 hrs and 23 mins