The SwitchCast - A Nintendo Switch Podcast

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What's The SwitchCast - A Nintendo Switch Podcast about?

Can't wait for the Nintendo Switch? This is the podcast for you! The SwitchCast is a show devoted completely to the Switch and discussing all the revelations & rumors surrounding it.

So whether you can't wait to answer the Zelda Breath of the Wild, or get down and dirty with Splatoon, KC & JV are ready to talk!

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Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath...

05.29.2020

Things get bit messy this week as we review Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath, which leads us to a discussion of what blood and gore bring (or take away) from different games. We also catch up on all the week's Nintendo ...

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05.29.2020 Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath and Gory Games Things get bit messy this week as we review Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath, which leads us to a discussion of what blood and gore bring (or take away) from different games. We also catch up on all the week's Nintendo ...
05.22.2020 Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Encore, Hatsune Miku Project Diva Mega Mix, and News We're back and putting on a prime performance this week with two Nintendo Switch game reviews. Headlining this evening is Hatsune Miku Project Diva Mega Mix for some rhythm madness, but we also have Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Encore opening ...
05.17.2020 SwitchCast Off-the-Cuff: 10 Switch Games You May Have Missed In this mostly unedited special episode, JV is joined by David as they reminisce about some games that Switch fans may have missed over the lifetime of the Nintendo Switch.
05.01.2020 Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, May the 4th, and Star Wars Games Prepare to hyperspeed, because we're staying on target with Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy for Nintendo Switch and a discussion of all our favorite Star Wars games throughout history. We also have a Nintendo news roundup and our weekly ...
04.24.2020 Rune Factory 4 Special and Simulation Games This week we're slaying monsters, raising crops, and winning hearts in Rune Factory 4 Special. Then it's time to get real as we talk about what makes a great simulation game. We also catch up on all the recent Nintendo ...
04.17.2020 One Step from Eden, Egg Day Updates, and Comfort Games Get comfortable with us as we review One Step from Eden, catch up on our the Animal Crossing: New Horizons Egg Day event and Fishing Tournament, and discuss what makes a good "comfort game" that's worth going back to time-and-time ...
04.10.2020 Characters of Color and Dragon Quest XI S Aggrocrog steps in for JV this week to talk about some of our favorite characters of color from throughout gaming, as well as the need to see more diversity in this great hobby of ours. Aggro also leads us to ...
04.03.2020 Murder by Numbers, AC Updates, and the Nintendo "Mini" Direct If it was a Mini Nintendo Direct, why do we have such a BIG podcast for you this week? That's because we have lots of Nintendo Switch games to go over from the presentation, including Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition, RingFit ...
03.26.2020 Animal Crossing: New Horizons First Impressions and News Pitch your tents and pay your bells, because we're giving you our week one impressions of Animal Crossing: New Horizons on Nintendo Switch. We also spend some time to finally catch up on all the Nintendo news.
03.20.2020 Nintendo Indie World Spring 2020 and Coronavirus Plans Hunker down with us while we talk to the community about how they're weathering the Coronavirus storm, and recap all the awesome upcoming titles from this week's Indie World Showcase for Nintendo Switch, including: BLUE FIRE BALDO I AM DEAD ...
03.13.2020 PAX East Retrospective Part II We've still got loads of Nintendo Switch games from PAX East to talk about, especially with JV back with us at last! This week we're hitting up: Panzer Paladin Trials of Cold Steel III Eagle Island Rawmen Rice and Ruin ...
03.06.2020 PAX East Recap 1 and 3 Years of Nintendo Switch KC goes solo this week, but he's come equipped with several developer interviews and recaps for several games played at PAX East, including: A Fold Apart Angry Video Game Nerd 2 Armed & Gelatinous Door Kickers: Action Squad Ginga Force ...
02.27.2020 Ganbare! Super Strikers and Our Most Trusted Devs Rin fills in for JV this week, as he galavants around PAX East a few days before KC goes to the show. But we still have time to review highlights from Ganbare! Super Strikers for Nintendo Switch. In the Switch ...
02.21.2020 The Animal Crossing Direct and Community Updates Sit back and unwindulax with us as we take a step-by-step tour of the entire Animal Crossing: New Horizons Nintendo Direct. We're already planning big things for this release! We also spend a little extra time catching up with what ...
02.14.2020 The Turing Test, First Person Puzzlers, and Arknights This week we explore our humanity with first-person puzzler, The Turing Test on Nintendo Switch. That leads us into a deep discussion of the genre as a whole, and as always, we recap all the week's Nintendo Switch news and ...
02.07.2020 The Witcher 3, League Updates, and Video Game Shows Hey paizanos! Today we're reviewing The Witcher 3, and going into a discussion of the best (or at least the most nostalgic) TV series that were inspired by games.
01.31.2020 Collection of Mana, Companion Apps, and Pokemon Home Make KC and JV your companions for the next 90 minutes, as we review Collection of Mana and discuss the potential of companion apps for Nintendo Switch games, specifically the newly-announced Pokemon Home.
01.24.2020 The Top 10 Switch Games of 2019 JV and KC run down their top picks for the Switch in 2019 before we tally up the listeners' votes for the SwitchCats' Choice Awards!
01.10.2020 Dauntless, Disney+, and the Pokemon Sword & Shield EX Direct This is one monster of a podcast, as we team up to slay creatures in the online co-op adventures of Dauntless, and explore the new realms of Galar after recapping this week's Pokemon Sword & Shield direct.
01.03.2020 Jackbox 3 and Looking Forward to the New Year Happy 2020! We are back from our unscheduled hiatus and looking ahead at what's got us hyped to be Nintendo Switch players in the new decade.
12.12.2019 The Indie World Showcase and JV's Japan JV's back! And he's brought tales of Japan back with him. He's also just in time to join us for a rundown of everything coming to Nintendo Switch that was shown off in this week's Indie World Showcase.
12.06.2019 2019 Holiday Gift Guide and Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch What do you buy the person who has everything? And by everything, we mean a Nintendo Switch of course! KC and Rin run down their Christmas gift ideas for the various gamer types in your life. Rin also has a ...
11.28.2019 Catching Up with Rin's Rants Rin steps in for JV this week, as we catch up on everything she's been playing on Nintendo Switch since her last appearance on the pod, including My Time in Portia and Stranded Sails: Explorers of the Cursed Islands. We ...
11.21.2019 Pokemon Sword and Shield First Impressions The adventure. The battling. The controversy. This week we discuss all things Pokemon Sword and Shield for Nintendo Switch!
11.14.2019 Layton's Mystery Journey, Digimon Cyber Sleuth, and Competitive Play We've done some real detective work this week in preperation of Layton's Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaire's Conspiracy and Digimon Cyber Sleuth. And in the Switch Focus we go head-to-head with the state of competitive play on Nintendo Switch.
11.07.2019 Super Neptunia RPG and the Great Game Leaks Debate Psst! This episode is being leaked 30 minutes before its street date, so listen in to our review of Super Neptunia RPG on Nintendo Switch plus our controversial discussion on game leaks BEFORE the rest of the masses find out! ...
10.24.2019 Ring Fit Adventure, Hexagroove, and Getting Super Fit I am KC, and he is JV, and we're going to PUMP [CLAP] YOU UP! We've spent a week doing reps with Ring Fit Adventure, and it's time to if gamified exercise actually works out! And after dropping the weights, ...
10.17.2019 Untitled Goose Game, Funny Games, and Chonky Pikachu LOL with us in this week's Nintendo Switch podcast as we review Untitled Goose Game. That leads the way into a talk about what games have actually made us laugh out loud the most. All that, plus all the week's ...
10.10.2019 Killer Queen Black and Educational Games Feel the sting of knowledge! Because today we're reviewing Killer Queen Black on Nintendo Switch, followed by a deep dive into the world of games that make you brains smartened. All that, and of course the week of Nintendo Switch ...
10.03.2019 Cardfight Vanguard EX, Import Games, and Learning Japanese Time to settle our differences like adults... by playing a children's card game! So JV is dealing up a review of Cardfight Vanguard EX for Nintendo Switch. And since that happens to be a Japanese import game, we decide to ...
09.26.2019 Daemon X Machina (GOTY), Northgard, and Switch Light Initial Impressions Suit up for the most mecha-tastic podcast of the season, as we review the Nintendo Switch exclusive Daemon X Machina. Then we have to bundle up, because Northgard is blowing into town with RTS competition. This week we also saw ...
09.19.2019 Astral Chain, Collector's Editions, and the Month of JV Games It's time to play the chain game... Astral Chain that is! "The Month of JV Games" kicks off with this sci-fi Platinum Games gem. We then move into the Switch Focus to chat about what we want from a collector's ...
09.12.2019 Invisigun Reloaded, The "Joyflex," and Pokemon Masters If you like it then you better put a ring on Switch! Could this mysterious new peripheral launch Nintendo's next exercise fad? We talk about it in today's Switch Focus... just before Nintendo revealed the actual game that's coming out ...
09.05.2019 The Fall Nintendo Direct Super Spectacular Show Overwatch for Nintendo Switch, new Super Smash Bros. Ultimate fighters, Little Town Hero, and so much more to talk about from the Fall Nintendo Direct! I don't even have time to write about them all here. Just listen and enjoy!
08.29.2019 Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution, Co-op Gaming, and Pokemon Masters JV enters the Shadow Games with Yu-Gi-Oh! on Nintendo Switch, just as KC... --- WE INTERRUPT THIS PODCAST TO ANNOUNCE NINTENDO MOBILE GAMES DROPPING! --- Mario Kart Tour is shown off just before we record, and Pokemon Masters is released ...
08.22.2019 Friday the 13th, More Fire Emblem, and the Indie World Summit Happy Indepedents Day! We have a load of new Nindie reveals to run through, right after we finish running from a masked murderer in our review of Friday the 13th: Ultimate Slasher Edition for Nintendo Switch. KC also takes a ...
08.15.2019 Our World is Ended and Securing Your Switch Whether it's from ne'er do wells or blue humor, we're talking about how to keep your Switch safe with our show this week. So strap in tight for our review of Our World is Ended and much more!
08.09.2019 Fire Emblem Three Houses Special Mini Episode Hark! In this special (mostly unedited) mini episode, JV is joined by David to talk about Fire Emblem Three Houses, and how we feel about the newest entry of this illustrious franchise.
08.01.2019 Fantasy Strike, Smash 4.0, and Playing by the Beach Soak up some rays while listening to us review the new accessible fighting game Fantasy Strike for Nintendo Switch! In the Switch Focus, we talk about how we enjoy our Nintendo Switch in the summer and on the beach, and ...
07.25.2019 God Eater 3, Logo Longing, and the Final SplatFest Special guest Hermes descends from Mt. Olympus to feast on his fellow deities in an in-depth discussion of God Eater 3 for Nintendo Switch. We also chat about our new SwitchCast logo options, and all the week's Nintendo Switch news, ...
07.19.2019 Super Mario Maker 2, Stranger Things 3, and Level Editors JV's makes some fun with Super Mario Maker 2 for Nintendo Switch, KC turns everything upside-down with Stranger Things 3, and we discuss our favorite level editors throughout gaming. As always, we also have all the week's Nintendo Switch news ...
07.11.2019 Nintendo Switch Lite, Gigantamaxing, and the AutoBattler Genre What a surprise! We cover the surprise announcement of the Nintendo Switch Lite, cover the community’s reactions to the (more) portable version of our beloved console, and discuss the new Auto-Battler genre that’s taking the gaming industry by storm.
07.05.2019 Free to Play Games and Rin's Rant Being broke can be fun with plenty of free to play titles coming to Nintendo Switch all the time. But is this trend good for gaming overall, or is the future filled with loot boxes and other "surprise mechanics?" We ...
06.27.2019 Cosmic Star Heroine, Cadence of Hyrule, Crash Team Racing, and the Smash Madness League Special guest Darrel Wright joins us to talk about the Smash Madness League and to discuss how competitive it can (or can't) be to play with items. We also jump into reviews of retro RPG Cosmic Star Heroine, rhythmic Rogue-like ...
06.20.2019 Timespinner, Giga Wrecker Alt, Crystal Crisis, and E3 Reactions One week of E3 coverage was simply not enough, so we're catching everything we missed from day three of the event, in particular Phantasy Star Online 2 for Nintendo Switch, and Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin. Plus, we'll hear what ...
06.13.2019 Nintendo Switch E3 2019 Direct and Treehouse Extravaganza SO. MANY. NINTENDO SWITCH GAMES. The Nintendo Switch E3 showing has us truly floored this year, and we had no choice but to make another overloaded episode to cover it all. We dive into everything we saw in the Nintendo ...
06.06.2019 Pokemon Sword and Shield Direct, Detective Pikachu, and DYNAMAX! This episode is truly Dynamaxed! We've got three hosts this week delivering a massive 2 hours of Nintendo Switch talk, all about the amazing Pokemon developments of the week. We kick things off with a rundown of the Pokemon Sword ...
05.31.2019 Duck Game, Scrap Rush, and the Ultimate Challenge After a few multiplayer Nintendo Switch game reviews, guest host and SwitchKing Darkis poses the question of what our greatest challenges in gaming have been. We also take on the challenge of tackling all the Nintendo Switch news and new ...
05.16.2019 The Super Mario Maker 2 Direct Excitement is building for Super Mario Maker 2 on Nintendo Switch, and guest host Aardwolf joins us this week to talk about all the wild new features revealed in this week's Nintendo Direct. We also spend a few minutes rounding ...
05.09.2019 Behind the Mask of Masquerada, VA-11 HALL-A, and Dragon's Dogma Nicholas Chan, writer for Masquerada: Songs and Shadows, joins us this week to discuss what it's like writing a theatrical, fantastical, Italian Renaissance-ical RPG. And with JV off this week, we absolutely ARE playing for the story, as we take ...

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