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The Nextlander Podcast 216: Blame Yourself or God
🕑 Added 2025-09-25 13:00:17 +0000 UTCOur friend Austin Walker stops by to join us for an absolutely jam-packed conversation about new and upcoming games we've been playing, including Ghost of Yotei, Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles, Baby Steps, Metroid Prime 4, Kirby Air Riders, and Super Mario Galaxy 1 + 2 for Switch. Also, pre-TGS updates on Yakuza Kiwami 3 and Kojima Productions' Physint and OD, the GDC rebrand, college courses about games, an update on Austin's tabletop RPG Realis, import tariffs on human flesh, and more!
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(00:00:00) NOTE: Some timecodes may be inaccurate for versions other than the ad-free Patreon version due to dynamic ad insertions. Please use caution if skipping around to avoid spoilers. Thanks for listening.
(00:00:35) Austin Walker is here!
(00:02:30) An update on Realis
(00:03:24) Sorry, we're importing what now?
(00:10:03) Ghost of Yotei | [PlayStation 5] | Oct 01, 2025
(00:33:14) Recent firing at Sucker Punch
(00:39:58) First Break
(00:40:03) Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles | [PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, Steam] | Sep 30, 2025
(01:14:04) Baby Steps | [PlayStation 5, Steam] | Sep 23, 2025
(01:31:40) Second Break
(01:31:45) Metroid Prime 4 | [Nintendo Switch, Switch 2] | Dec 04 2025
(01:38:26) Kirby Air Riders | [Nintendo Switch 2] | Nov 20 2025
(01:45:23) Super Mario Galaxy 1 + 2 | [Nintendo Switch] | Oct 02 2025
(01:48:43) Supergiant interlude (Hades II, Pyre)
(01:50:41) That Virtual Boy add-on
(01:54:29) News
(01:54:48) Kojima Productions' pre-TGS news (Physint, OD trailer, Death Stranding movie)
(02:02:49) Yakuza Kiwami 3 announced
(02:09:21) The Game Developers Conference has rebranded
(02:19:08) Email! (about teaching games in college)
(02:26:55) Thanks again Austin!
(02:31:14) Mysterious benefactors!
(02:32:45) Content and bye!
Comments
SP
The new FFT script is great but I worry that it limits its appeal, like, I'm a 35 year old playing a remake of a game that I beat when I was 8 and I had to open a dictionary because I didn't know one of the words? that can't be ideal.
Andrew Kelly
Miss Austin! Best having him back on
Drew
I'm a guy who likes the original script of FFT. Yeah its got issues but it has some bangers. Not a fan of shakespearing it up in the way they did too much. Like the guys mention, it had some bits that just work, translated entirely accurately or not. I was happy to hear Austin thinks its worthwhile too.
swiftdraw
Austin today and Scott yesterday reminds me there are so many good podcasts and so little time.
Tom DiGrazia
Man, I love Austin- I miss hearing him more regularly with the nextlander lads (thinking back to old GBeast days). Hoping this year we get another TTRPG episode with him (a return to Realis perhaps?)
