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This Month In Retronauts: February 2023 edition (Patreon)

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2023-02-26 12:00:02
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2023-02

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Back by popular demand, here is our second-ever This Month in Retronauts community podcast! In between reading your comments and replies to last month's audience question, Diamond and Stuart discuss their PlatinumGames feelings, review the Nintendo Direct announcements, and just hang out for about 90 minutes. Be sure to listen to the end of the show for a brand-new question for February; yes, it is Valentine's Day related. Post your responses below and we'll share them next month.

For the record, the old Atari game which Lllamasoft recently revived that Stu mentions is called Akka Arrh, and when Diamond recommended an anime in the first half of the show, xe neglected to mention the leading voice is actor is none other than Takehito Koyasu who comes up in the second half of the show. That should have happened naturally in the conversation!

Art & edits by Diamond (Photo credit). Music heard in this episode:

  • 3:45 "Shinobi Vs Dragon Ninja" by Lostprophets
  • 13:10 "A Soul Can't Be Cut (Platinum Mix) [Low Key Version]" by Jamie Christopherson (Metal Gear Rising Revengeance)
  • 23:41 "story" by Mayu Maeshima (Uncle From Another World)
  • 38:36 "Tarm Ruins" (The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons)
  • 51:35 "Main Theme" (Pachinko Sexy Reaction)
  • 1:08:44 "Boss BGM Kagamijishi Version" by ZUNTATA (Pu.Li.Ru.La)
  • 1:13:09 "Game Area 01" (Ikki Unite)
  • 1:27:45 "I Am… All of Me" by Crush 40 (Shadow the Hedgehog)

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Kormakur Gardarsson

This monthly special of Diamond and Stuart’s is a lovely addition to the Retronauts ouevre. I am constantly impressed by you folks’ ambition, makes me wish there were a higher tier (like Axe of the Blood God’s 10$ level) so I could chip in more.

Anonymous

I thought the time spent in Shenmue with Nozomi and Ryu felt genuinely romantic. It was sad that she was moving to Canada and he was ultimately headed to China, so they couldn't be together. I gave a $5 Nintendo gift card to a Twitch streamer so he could buy Phoenix Wright on the eShop. It was a bromantic kind of love.

Craig

BUY MY BOOK

Wood Duck

What a beautiful, gentle chiding I got from Stuart. :') Please sir may I have another?

Wood Duck

Question of the month - One of the first character-driven emotional responses I can remember a video game eliciting in me was Prince of Persia Sands of Time. Eventually the two main characters fall for each other, and after a cutscene of them spending some *quality time* together she betrays you and makes off with the magical maguffin for some misguided reason. I can't recall the specifics and I'm sure by modern standards the cutscenes and dialogue would be a bit hamfisted. Yet it stands out in my mind as the first occasion I had a genuine emotional connection to the characters and events in a game OTHER than something action or destruction centred.

Andrew O.

Ah, the stupid Shingo/shin joke was perfection. Thank you Stuart.

Paul

F-Zero Maximum Velocity is not a port of the SNES game. It has different tracks, music, characters, and vehicles. Surprisingly the original characters and vehicles are not in it at all. It's supposed to be a sequel that takes place like 30 years later. The original F-Zero doesn't have a GBA port.

shea dewar

I did a hurricane kick in excitement when I saw that this was released!

Anonymous

Regarding gifting a videogame to a loved one. I've done this several times. I would gift my wife the Karaoke Revolution games for PS2 and loved it. This tradition carried over to the Rock Band era, and thanks to community made custom songs we still host several enormous Rock Band parties every year.

Anonymous

Game romances are usually very toxic and/or sexist when viewed under a lens, but one of my favorite examples is Marle and Crono from Chrono Trigger. They meet by sheer happenstance, and before long, Crono is having to rescue her, going so far as to stand in the way of the future itself to save her. But the damsel in distress angle is flipped on its head when Crono himself is killed, and Marle climbs the highest peak in the apocalyptic wasteland of the future to resurrect him. Up to this point, their relationship status is never explicitly stated, but Marle's big, heartfelt hug upon Crono's return is the clearest confirmation you can get that they're truly in love. It's rare that both sides of a relationship are depicted with such equal devotion, selflessness and tenacity in a video game, but Chrono Trigger portrays characters that literally go to the ends of the Earth, and time itself, to hold on to the ones they love.

Anonymous

Regarding the tweet Stuart received about the Bangers & Mash theme being used multiple times, I can confirm that I've only placed it in one episode (Popeye). This leaves two plausible explanations: 1) The Twitter user was somehow conflating Bangers & Mash with The Trap Door, the theme for which has been used in two of Stu's episodes. 2) There really is a Manchurian Candidate-style conspiracy, wherein shadowy forces are slipping the Bangers & Mash theme into podcasts without our knowledge. Personally, if anyone should ever suddenly say to me "the chimps are imps, there ain't no doubt", I'm going to have a total breakdown like Veronica Cartwright getting pointed at by Donald Sutherland at the end of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

Anonymous

To the "games as love gifts" question: My partner doesn't play as much nowadays so I've never had any good ideas for games that I thought they'd play! If anything, they pick something up themselves when they catch a sale haha... However, they've giifted a couple to *me* over the years, and they're quite the odd pairing and I appreciate them both: KORG DS-10 for the Nintendo DS and Earthbound. I remember being so shocked when they gave the latter to me that I checked online later that night to see if it may have been a reproduction cart or a fake or something, since they found it loose at some random store at not too high of a price. Yet no, everything I could check matched a legit original copy! Still one of the most surreal gifts I've ever received! I got most of the way through it a handful of years ago and left off around the Deep Darkness (Swamp) area, and this question has reminded me that I should play the rest soon! Thanks for the great question, I look forward to seeing what other stories people have !!!

Normallyretro

Well, slightly the opposite, I told my then girlfriend how much I wanted Final Fantasy IX. I saw the previews for Final Fantasy IX and it looked like a return to the classic style that made me fall in love with the series. I told her, "Final Fantasy IX was all I wanted for Christmas and it would be a dream come true if you could get it." That Christmas, we exchanged gifts and I knew that Final Fantasy IX was just within my sights and I would be playing it in minutes. I tear open the lovingly and neatly wrapped packaging without a care, desperately anticipating that famous logo. And there it was. Final fantasy....VIII. I wearily smiled and said..."Aw, that's just want I wanted."

Anonymous

Trying to top the Shadow the Hedgehog gift here: my wife is a big fan of the Alien franchise (well, the first two movies, at least). I got it into my head that she would really dig Alien Isolation (a game I can’t imagine myself playing much because survival horror and me don’t gel). So I got it for her for Christmas. To her credit, she did play the first couple hours of it and often says she’d like to go back and finish.