Radio Redux

Season 10 of Radio Redux comes to an end as we skip back and forth in time between a lost 2024 discussion about the Sonic Symphony event (and gaming fandom in general) and Turbo and Ninten looking back on it being a year since London’s Miku concert.

As everyone contrasts and compares, Kevin mulls over the upcoming Sonic Con and drawing a line for himself – in feeling responsible for the community any more.

After Kevin introduced Urtheart to the wrestling concept of ‘The Forbidden Door’ last week, the pair continue their discussion about the partnerships of Sonic Racing: Crossworlds.

From Mega Man design cues, lamentations about which Turtles are being used and Kevin trying to explain to Urtheart how Avatar: The Last Airbender worked. Before going through all the various options you could add in from both Sonic and SEGA franchises given what they’ve got planned for their legacy/all-star series. From how cool it is for Mephilies to be the Sonic franchise’s ‘Schrodinger’s Cat’ villain, and the narrative possibilities going forward – and why he absolutely SHOULDN’T be in. To Hatsune Miku and Majima running off to have a night out and the associated Summer of Sonic 2026 idea that Kevin would put into place.

And given Sonic is selling out to literally anyone for a buck at present, Kevin uses Funko Fusion as a guide as to which franchise would play nice for some money, with more and more ludicrous suggestions until the whole show nearly falls apart. It’s ALL happening! It’s ALL canon! And if you don’t like it, well it’s ALL Rexy’s fault!

“I pity the fool who listens to SEGA of America.” This week’s show was close to the wire, but it’s definitely worth it as Urtheart and Kevin continue to discuss Sonic Racing: Crossworlds and the Minecraft festival as well as a whole host of other gaming topics.

Including Battlefield 6 taking over everything on GamesSpot, Mortal Kombat and video game movies, why the Broken Sword series might want to try a little harder at its marketing, and SEGA getting the Olympics licence back by the power of Green Amy Rose.

Plus Kevin proposes how to break a million Sonic fan hearts – and corrects Urtheart on something Cornish? The sacrilege!

After a busy week, Kevin decides the best way of getting a radio show about Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds done is to invade Turbo’s Twitch livestream while he and Urtheart and playing it. After all, the Hatsune Miku festival for it is on – even though its shelf life is extremely limited, as he’ll explain.

It’s either that or explain just what else has been going on in the Sonic community this week and errrrrrrrr…. yeah, best not.

Kevin’s having a bad few days, as he battles being torn in many directions. Thankfully he is not torn on his love for Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds – although he has some notes. That and questions on if Rouge the Bat is having a ‘crisis’ during her tricks.

We then zip back discussing the rest of the most recent Nintendo Direct, including Kevin on the return of the Virtual Boy, Ninten on Pokémon’s interesting grasp of geography and Turbo’s confusion at yet another remake of Fatal Frame 2.

We zip back to last week to discuss more Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds after the network test, as Kevin and Urtheart heap praise on one particular design choice. Ninten gives her opinions on characters she’d like to see join the races, leading to a discussion about how SEGA need to do better with black representation in their human characters.

After that, Turbo joins Kevin and Ninten to discuss the most recent Nintendo Direct, including Metroid Prime 4 and the historically iffy popularity of the Metroid series. Some unexpected Bayonetta connections, Donkey Kong Bananza‘s DLC, Fire Emblem refusing to just leave everyone alone already and Kevin reminds everyone of that time Nintendo got terrified by boobs.

With the network test over, Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is most definitely a fun experience to play. Is it an original experience? Heck no. Especially given how much work from its predecessors has been stitched into it.

Kevin, joined by Ninten and Urtheart (plus cameos from Feniiku and Luna Arcana) they discuss their first impressions. Including mechanics, story and even character development. How SEGA have still not learnt some lessons and how Shadow the Hedgehog tried to kill the Babylon Rogues in the recent animation – but then again, according to Twitter Jet The Hawk might be a domestic terrorist…

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It’s been a while but Radio Redux returns with a slightly unusual show. A show about… waiting.

On the appropriately numbered #258, Kevin is waiting with Twitch streamer Blast The Bomb for a game of Dead By Daylight‘s limited time 2v8 mode. Except they’re stuck in a queue and no game actually seems to be coming. Now they’ve got nothing but dead air to fill across both their streams with two audiences that have never engaged before – and it’s the first time they’ve ever properly TALKED together. Um. Awkward.

(Be warned, this is a bit more sweary than most RR shows – absolutely not due to an increasingly frustrated Blast.)

Everyone enjoyed it so much last time out, Kevin’s brought back last year’s WinterFest quiz for another go around. This time however, it’s not about Radio Redux‘s anniversary but more about the year just gone. Have the teams been paying attention throughout the year?

Speaking of the teams, both are back for round two as Team RadioSEGA (Viper, Greyfore and Skyblaze) seek to defend their crown against Team LMC (Urtheart, ShadowFox and T.A. Black). It was a tight result last time out, but with some more general gaming knowledge sprinkled in will RadioSEGA be able to repeat their victory from 2023? And what tricks does Kevin have up his sleeve for both teams this time out?

Full Tracklist:

– DusK – Guild Wars 2 – One Wintersday Night (OCR)
– SONIC The Hedgehog (2006) – White Acropolis – The Base
– Ian Martyn – Direct Jangle (OCR)
– WillRock – Super Mario RPG – Fight Against a Somewhat Delicious Cake (OCR)
– Flik – The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past – Kakariko Prom (OCR)
– DusK feat. Rexy – Ristar – Stars on Ice (OCR)