Nintendo Podcast

NXpress Podcast #47: Nintendo Direct & ‘A Link to the Past’

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5 years ago

March 11, 2016

This week’s episode sees the NXpress crew give their take on some of the bigger announcements and trailers from Nintendo’s latest Direct, ranging from excitement over the new Kirby game and J-pop levels of enthusiasm for the crazy-weird looking Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE to cautious optimism for Star Fox Zero, and some outright disappointment for a couple of other games that didn’t fare so well in their respective impressions, Metroid Prime: Federation Force and Paper Mario: Color Splash.

After pondering to the future, for our main segment we take a look back to the past and one of the greatest entries in Nintendo’s seminal Legend of Zelda franchise. A Link to the Past is a masterpiece that set the formula for how Zelda games are thought of to this day, but where does it stand in the series pantheon? We dive deep into one of Link’s greatest adventures and talk about why it still holds up today (even Link’s pink hair). All this and more!

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00:00: A Link to the Past Intro
01:00: Nintendosage: Nintendo Direct Wii U review
12:00: A Link to the Past interlude
13:00: Nintendosage: Nintendo Direct 3DS review
30:00: Rolling Stones – “Out of Time”
32:00: A Link to the Past commercial
33:00: The Main Event: A Link to the Past review
63:00: Rolling Stones – “Time Is On My Side”

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The NXpress is a weekly podcast hosted at NXpresspodcast.com in which we discuss all things Nintendo. We stay clear from in-depth game strategies and keep things light. There’s plenty of nostalgia and feedback that will resonate with vintage game collectors; meanwhile modern games are sprinkled in and each week our show revolves around a central theme.

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