85: The SNES Classic Is Real, And It's Spectacular

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🗓️ 29 June 2017

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Hope you're ready for a mega-Splitscreen! Kotaku features editor Chris Kohler joins the show to talk about Nintendo's bombshell Super NES Classic announcement, but first, Kirk and Jason talk about FFXV: Episode Prompto and Cave Story + on Switch. Then we get into Vidcon drama (19:27), Diablo III getting a Necromancer class (29:14), and Destiny 2 giving hardcore Destiny players some emblems (35:35). We bring on Kohler (38:08) to talk SNES Classic, retro games, and the Switch before closing things off with a Nier: Automata SPOILERCAST (1:16:52). See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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1:03.6	It's June 29, 2017, and we've got a super-sized episode for you this week.
1:07.8	First, Jason tells me about Final Fantasy 15 episode prompto, an expansion
1:11.2	he says he likes. Then I talk some about Cave Story Plus, which I've been playing and loving
1:16.0	on Switch. After that, we talk a bit about Vidcom 2017 and the state of Diablo 3 before we're
1:20.9	joined by Kotaku Features Editor Chris Kohler to talk about the just-announced SNES classic
1:25.5	and Nintendo's approach to classic games.
1:30.5	Chris is a font of knowledge about classic games and it was really fun chat.
1:34.0	After that, Jason and I close out with a spoiler discussion of Near Automata,
1:36.3	which he finished over the weekend. Stick around. And we're back for another episode. I am Kotaku editor at large, Kirk Hamilton. I am joined as usual by Kotaku
1:52.6	News editor Jason Scherer from New York. Hello, Jason. Hello, Kirk. Kirk, I am learning Japanese.
1:58.8	That's extremely exciting. Konichiwa. I know that. Domo Aragato, that's as far as it goes for me.
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