Paper Mario helps us predict the big game announcements!
Paper Mario? Great! Summer Game Fest? It's complicated!
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This week’s special guest is Mario! Or as some people say, Merry-O. The most popular plumber on our podcast returns with a remake of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. This might shock you, but Griffin is in love. What about the rest of the crew? In the back half, the Besties share their best guesses for Summer Game Fest along with some listener predictions!
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Games discussed:
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Pikmin 4
4-hour YouTube documentaries discussed:
Jenny Nicholson’s “The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel”
TV discussed:
Survivor (Season 46)
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I have to wonder what they thought of the combat mechanics of Paper Mario, they didn't seem to mention it at all (unless I zoned out for a minute, which I admit is quite possible).
I recently bought a ROG Ally instead of a Steamdeck, which I got specifically because I have Game Pass and don’t own a PC, so it was much easier to run Xbox on the Ally than the Steamdeck. I won’t say it’s seamless and never has issues, but it’s pretty well integrated and plays without issue probably 90-95% of the time. Haven’t had the heat issue, but my Ally is fairly new, only about a month or two old. If they had an Xbox handheld, I’d have just gotten that, but now that I have an Ally, I don’t think I’d be interested unless it has significantly better battery life (I almost wrote gas mileage, too much multitasking), instant startup, and a better display.