85: Takashi Tezuka is Nintendo’s Secret Weapon ft. Game Informer’s Brian Shea
The Kit & Krysta Podcast
The Kit & Krysta Podcast
4.7 • 544 Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2023
⏱️ 131 minutes
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Hello and welcome back to the Kit & Krysta Podcast episode 85! Today we're joined by special guest Brian Shea from Game Informer to talk all about Super Mario Wonder and our experiences with the game's producer, Takashi Tezuka. Tezuka-san is such an amazing part of the Mario series and most people may not know about his contributions, so we dig into all of that here today. Also, in this episode we talk about the crazy Microsoft leaks, TGS, and we got to play Dragon's Dogma 2 early and we share our impressions. We're also still playing a ton of games including Sea of Stars, Baldur's Gate and more! We got a ton of good stuff coming up so let's get into it.
0:00 - Where in the world is Krysta?!
9:39 - Takashi Tezuka is Nintendo's Secret Weapon feat. Brian Shea from Game Informer
1:04:47 - Games we are playing (Sea of Stars, Dragon's Dogma 2, Resident Evil Village on iPad, 30XX, Baldur's Gate 3)
1:35:37 - News news news (Microsoft leaks, TGS, Mortal Kombat on Switch is a bust)
1:54:07 - Questions from our Patreon subscribers
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| 0:00.0 | Today, we are joined by a very special guest, Brian Shea from Game Informer to tell you why Takeshi Tezica is Nintendo's secret weapon. |
| 0:17.0 | He's the best. |
| 0:18.0 | That's right. |
| 0:19.0 | When you hear people saying, oh, you know, who's the guy behind the Mario series? |
| 0:23.3 | You obviously think Mr. Miyamoto. |
| 0:24.6 | And yes, he's done so much in creating Mario. |
| 0:26.7 | But Mr. Tesica is really the little engine that's making it go. |
| 0:29.8 | I know. |
| 0:30.1 | He has like so much chill, maybe too much chill because he's like so low key that I don't |
| 0:35.5 | know if a lot of people realize his amazing and important contributions to the Mario series. So we're going to talk about all of that on this here podcast today. Yeah. And Brian's been playing the game, talking to Mr. Tezica. So he's the perfect person to join us. And we just hung out with him at Pax. So I said, let's come on the podcast and talk about all this. It's going to be great. Yeah. It's going to be awesome. As always, everything we do on this channel is made possible by our wonderful Patreon family. Thank you, thank you. Thank you for all of the support. You get tons of cool benefits, tons of stuff like early access and our weekly bonus |
| 1:11.4 | Q&As, all the juicy secrets that we spill in our exclusive Discord. |
| 1:17.1 | So join us at patreon.com slash kit and Christop. |
| 1:20.0 | As I always say, you know, if you tend to listen to the podcast first thing on Thursday and |
| 1:24.7 | say, hey, I'm one of the first people to listen to the podcast. |
| 1:27.4 | I regret to inform you that you are wrong because we upload it early for all of our Patreon |
| 1:32.3 | subscribers. They're listening to it at a minimum 24 hours in advance. And a lot of people |
| 1:37.6 | finish it up and have a great conversation about it. By the time, it's even out for the public. |
| 1:41.3 | So that's just one of many, many, many wonderful benefits |
| 1:44.2 | that our subscribers get. Oh, yeah. You guys might have noticed, but I'm somewhere else. We're not |
| 1:52.3 | together, obviously. Yeah, this is one of our great international episodes. So where the |
| 1:58.0 | heck are you and what are you doing? So I am on a big trip. |
| 2:02.6 | I actually went home to my hometown of Tindu, China. |
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