We love Christopher
Walken as Captain Hook. He's so bad.
After a long holiday away from the microphones the NFR team
rings in the new year with a milestone episode that will simultaneously delight
and frighten all those who hear it. For New Business, Donald opens with
hardware impressions as he picked up a 2DS and can't wait for the XL to return,
before completely misinterpreting a Kenny Rogers song (it's
"condition", not situation) and talking about the obscene deal he got
on Akiba's Trip (Vita). Stephen's New Business falls on the
disappointing end for the rest of the team, as he discusses Vita Game of the
Year in an absolutely insane universe Child of Light, before being
somewhat disappointed in Civilization: Beyond Earth. Austen's main
events feature Voltorb pinball (Pokemon Pinball Ruby/Sapphire) and,
apropos of the feature, dealt with some wizard action with Frozenbyte's Trine
series.
Now Posted is back, and there was much rejoicing.
Whatcha Watchin' gets off to a bit of a weird start,
as Donald completely forgets the purpose of the segment, but Serial is a
good enough excuse for it. Following that it's a long anime block as Donald
also started Cowboy Bebop for the first time ever before handing the
torch over to Stephen for the Bebop team's next work, Eureka Seven.
After that, Stephen sits back and spins us all a wondrous Fairy Tale.
Austen has some anime of his own - Patema Inverted, Haibane Renmei, and Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet.
And even with those titles, he managed to find something weirder.
For the Feature,
in honor of the 25th anniversary of both its theatrical release and the release
of the thing it was created specifically to promote... as promised, we all
watched The Wizard. Come hear us wax rhapsodic on the movie once guaranteed to
never appear on Box Office Poison under threat of stabby, and see who is
actually positive about the movie. Finally, the Mushrooms get a little
out of order as the crew tries to make sense of Sony's insane pricing for
everything and Ubi's continued inability to do QA.
At the end
of the show, we guessed right that Iwata would cash In the Please Understand
contract, so that's going to be part of Episode 51. Anything else we should
include? Email us ([email protected]), tweet @NFRPodcast or
drop it below. Until next time, bow at Stephen getting 50k in Double Dragon.
This
podcast was edited by Donald Theriault and Austen Parkin. All music/clips
copyright their respective owners.
Screenshots Referred to in the episode:NBC's Peter Pann:Haibane Renmei:
