187: Did the BIGGEST Nintendo Direct Ever Live Up to the Hype?
The Kit & Krysta Podcast
The Kit & Krysta Podcast
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🗓️ 13 September 2025
⏱️ 152 minutes
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Hello! We had a big day with the biggest/longest Nintendo Direct ever...but did it live up to the hype? We're going to deep dive into every detail and talk about everything Nintendo announced. We also found some interesting details that Nintendo announced after the fact that we to discuss. Also in this episode, we immediately bought and played the Donkey Kong Bananza DLC and we want to tell your first impressions. We have some news about the incredible success of Silksong and Nintendo has filed another patent, but what does it mean? We wrap it all up with questions from our amazing Patreon community. Big CHONKY episode coming right now!
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0:00 - Happy Nintendo Direct DayÂ
5:40 - Nintendo Direct deep diveÂ
1:33:02 - Games we are playingÂ
2:05:35 - News news newsÂ
2:18:06 - Questions from our Patreon subscribers
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| 0:00.0 | Today we are going to deep dive into everything that was announced in this big monster of a Nintendo Direct. |
| 0:17.3 | We need to keep the energy up. |
| 0:20.2 | We're sleep deprived. We have been up this morning since like... When did you wake up this morning? 5.15? I didn't sleep very well last night, though. Too excited? I was kind of excited. Like Christmas Eve? I know, a little antsy. I don't know why. Maybe it was. Santa Mario going to bring you for his big anniversary celebration. A little bag of announcements we'll go back. Yes, so we were up very early. We have a reaction live for this set here, Nintendo Direct. And now we're going to like dive into it. You got to let everything settle a bit, you know? You do. And then maybe we watched some stuff. I did that. I did that too. |
| 0:54.3 | Some of your favorite trailers. We dug up some new information. Doug up. We got that. Nintendo loves to hide a thing or two when they do these directs lately. So you got to do your own due diligence and do some research, you know? And this was the biggest Nintendo direct ever, the longest? Biggest longest. Is this going to be the longest Kitt and Krista podcast ever? |
| 1:13.3 | I sure hope not. |
| 1:14.0 | I don't think I can know. And this was the biggest Nintendo Direct ever, the longest? Biggest longest, yeah, ever. Is this going to be the longest Kit and Krista podcast ever? |
| 1:13.3 | I sure hope not, because I don't think I can make it. |
| 1:14.6 | We don't have that left in the tank. |
| 1:16.0 | We don't have that left. I don't think I can make it. But we are going to do our best. We have so many notes. We have so much information. We do. Oh my gosh, we're going to go through it all. |
| 1:24.1 | Some other things to note. |
| 1:26.0 | Yes. |
| 1:27.0 | You were saying, going into this direct, |
| 1:30.1 | that you were ready to give the boot to our spoiler |
| 1:33.1 | cast game for September. |
| 1:35.0 | I know. |
| 1:35.6 | Which is Metroid. |
| 1:36.6 | You were so, I was so ready. |
| 1:38.5 | I was a little disappointed in you, to be honest, to say that. |
| 1:40.6 | Well, because I'm so super hyped for Hades 2, and I had said in our predictions |
| 1:46.9 | video, like if they shadow drop Hades 2, we should do that for the spoiler cast game in |
| 1:51.9 | September instead. But it's okay. They didn't shadow drop it, but we can still play that game |
| 1:57.0 | when it comes out, maybe do it for a future spoiler. Can you even finish Hades too? Can you? |
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