Super Smash Echoes

What if you combined a game and a watch, and then added several thousand other functions to your watch (such as, say, the ability to make phone calls), and then you transformed the games into something much stranger and worse, and then you took those games out of your watch and you played them? This! This is what would happen!

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Over 20 years in the making, Nintendo gave the Smash Echoes hosts a gift better than they could have possibly imagined by making a sequel to the game that has shaped their gamer minds and all of modern gaming for the last two decades.  

That was 6 months ago, and this monumental milestone has come and gone. It's time to start Lap 2 of your Kirby Air Riders journey by returning to the game and to Justin and Magellan's fresh, thorough thoughts from back in November. 

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It's an interactive entertainment medium! It's a time-keeping device! No, it's sort of stuff inside of a museum inside of a thing! You'll get five fifths of a game for the price of none as we discuss Game & Watch Gallery 3.

0:01:20 for our pre-play thoughts. 
0:09:45 for our discussion of Game & Watch Gallery 3.

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Listen to Magellan talk about television on their other podcast, Chatz: A Television Podcast and follow them on Bluesky at notthatmagellan.bsky.social.

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Listen to Magellan talk about television on their other podcast, Chatz: A Television Podcast and follow them on Bluesky at notthatmagellan.bsky.social.

After a narratively significant two-year time-jump, we are now the children of Super Smash Echoes's former hosts, combining all of the best podcasting special moves from our progenitors in order to achieve victory in this discussion of Fire Emblem: Awakening.

0:01:15 for our pre-play thoughts. 
0:13:00 for our discussion of Fire Emblem: Awakening.

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Listen to Magellan talk about television on their other podcast, Chatz: A Television Podcast and follow them on Bluesky at notthatmagellan.bsky.social.

Follow Justin on Bluesky at nopad.bsky.social.

Listen to Magellan talk about television on their other podcast, Chatz: A Television Podcast and follow them on Bluesky at notthatmagellan.bsky.social.

Welcome to Season 2 of Super Smash Echoes, in which we explore franchises introduced to the series during Super Smash Bros. Melee. If you like talking about climbing, and ice, and the computer lab games that live in our heads rent free, this is the episode for you!

0:02:45 for our pre-play thoughts. 
0:10:45 for our discussion of Ice Climber.
0:44:00 for our discussion of Journey.

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Listen to Magellan talk about television on his other podcast, Chatz: A Television Podcast and read his random thoughts in his newsletter, Not That Magellan.

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Listen to Magellan talk about television on their other podcast, Chatz: A Television Podcast and follow them on Bluesky at notthatmagellan.bsky.social.

Our special guest, Allen from Chatz: A Television Podcast, joins us to discuss evil Captain Falcons and very fast vehicles. 

0:02:50 for our pre-play thoughts. 
0:13:00 for our post-play reflections.

Here's an example of a pretty funny post-race interview from the Grand Prix mode.

And here's an example of a short movie you can get by fulfilling specific conditions with the racer in question.

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Listen to Magellan talk about television on his other podcast, Chatz: A Television Podcast and read his random thoughts in his newsletter, Not That Magellan.

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Listen to Magellan talk about television on their other podcast, Chatz: A Television Podcast and follow them on Bluesky at notthatmagellan.bsky.social.

Your friends at Super Smash Echoes put our Earthbound coverage on hold with this delightful trip through the wonderful indie RPG-seeming Franken. Join us as we discuss what it means to play a game and why we do it, the difference between labyrinths and mazes, whether there is such thing as strategy for puzzles, and how evil characters can redeem themselves by killing even more evil characters.

You can access the game and associated media here: https://splendidland.itch.io/franken

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Listen to Magellan talk about television on his other podcast, Chatz: A Television Podcast.

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Listen to Magellan talk about television on their other podcast, Chatz: A Television Podcast and follow them on Bluesky at notthatmagellan.bsky.social.

Justin and Magellan check in to discuss their progress on Earthbound, which ends up being in large part a discussion of what else they've been playing (Kirby and the Forgotten Land and Elden Ring, respectively) and how those games relate to Earthbound. They also discuss the newest member to their Earthbound parties, Jeff Who No Longer Lives At Home.

0:00:00 for our discussion of other games (potential light spoilers for Kirby and the Forgotten Land and Elden Ring)
0:41:30 for our reflection on this month's chunk of Earthbound

Follow the show on Twitter and other social platforms @smashechoes.

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Listen to Magellan talk about television on his other podcast, Chatz: A Television Podcast.

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Listen to Magellan talk about television on their other podcast, Chatz: A Television Podcast and follow them on Bluesky at notthatmagellan.bsky.social.

It's time for our favorite thing, podcasting! We take our first crack at the journey that is EarthBound, discussing BLTs, cults, and the doo-doo-doo-doo-doo from the memes. Please note that this podcast spoils EarthBound up until the big story thing that happens early on in the third town. If you know what that means, then you know what that means!

0:01:30 for our pre-play thoughts. 
0:05:30 for our post-play reflections.

Follow the show on Twitter and other social platforms @smashechoes.

Follow Justin on Twitter @nopadBridges.

Listen to Magellan talk about television on his other podcast, Chatz: A Television Podcast.

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Listen to Magellan talk about television on their other podcast, Chatz: A Television Podcast and follow them on Bluesky at notthatmagellan.bsky.social.

In this special bonus episode nestled between two classic Nintendo JRPGs, we play Undertale - a game that breaks down and rebuilds that genre just as it breaks down and rebuilds us (emotionally).

0:01:30 for our pre-play thoughts. 
0:05:30 for our post-play reflections.

Follow the show on Twitter and other social platforms @smashechoes.

Follow Justin on Twitter @nopadBridges.

Listen to Magellan talk about television on his other podcast, Chatz: A Television Podcast.

Further Reading

• How Undertale Was Made and Why its Success Scared The Creator
• What The Internet did To Undertale

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Listen to Magellan talk about television on their other podcast, Chatz: A Television Podcast and follow them on Bluesky at notthatmagellan.bsky.social.