In this super-sized episode of Gaijin Guide, Graham and Jeremy join their friends Terry and Rikku for a dice-rolling real estate competition! Itadaki Street Special, the predecessor to localized Wii title Fortune Street, features Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest characters in a game that resembles Monopoly but fixes many of that game’s infamous ills. Who will win? Is it Rikku? (It’s not Rikku.)
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On this tax-time Snack Time, Andrew, Graham and Henry decide to head back to our favorite money-hoarder, Wario, in one of his best outings: Wario Land 3 for the Game Boy Color. While Graham struggles to guide the bumbling antihero through platforming levels, the crew talks about what makes the series, as well as Game Boy Color games in general, so great.
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Jeremy tests his hand-eye coordination with some help from Graham in this week’s episode featuring GBA dexterity puzzler Kururin Paradise. The sequel to Kuru Kuru Kururin (which was released in English in Europe), it brings a lot of variety to the spinning-ship-with-an-arbitrarily-inconvenient-shape genre.
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The schism of the farming game world — that of developer Marvelous and Western publisher Natsume —is finally starting to show its repercussions. Since Marvelous decided to hand its Bokujou Monogatari series to its own team at XSEED and Natsume forged ahead with its Harvest Moon IP, it’s easier to see what each brought to the table. In Natsume’s case, it turns out that’s not much more than enthusiasm and good intentions. With its first separated release in Story of Seasons, Marvelous shows this move to have been only a good thing. READ MORE
[Editor’s note: This episode posted on April Fools’ Day 2015. Enjoy the silliness!]
On this episode, Graham shows off a few imports that are accessible for Western audiences, Andrew begins a multi-part series on examining a classic genre and Henry talks about how growing up in Canada has shaped his tastes.
New episodes of Snack Time post every two weeks. You can check out the Snack Time archive for some great shows you may have missed!
