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Are These Games Honoring or Ripping-Off Breath of the Wild? - NVC 469

Nintendo Voice Chat

IGN & Geek Media

Technology, Video Games, Leisure

4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Upcoming games Genshin Impact and Decay of Logos look very similar to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild... but are they blatant rip-offs, or loving tributes? Plus, IGN's Emeka Nwosu joins Nintendo Voice Chat this week to discuss Smash Ultimate's appearance at Evo, as well as his custom fight stick. The NVC crew also breaks down the "hangry" Pokemon Sword and Shield trailer, the free trial for Mario Tennis Aces, and the release of the updated Switch model with better battery life. Finally, they tackle your questions on Question Block. Here are some topic timecodes for your convenience: 00:00:01 - Welcome! Introducing Emeka Nwosu.  00:01:30 - Smash, EVO, and why fight sticks?  00:16:00 - Are Decay of Logos and Genshin Impact too similar to Breath of the Wild? Casey has played Decay of Logos, and the crew discusses homages vs rip-offs.  00:33:00 - Hangry Pokemon Sword and Shield News 00:41:00 - Other News! New standard Switch available now, Darksiders II for Switch announced, potential new Cooking Mama, SteamWorld Quest 2.0 Update.  00:48:00 - Out This Week - Guacamelee! One-Two Punch Collection, DC Universe Online, Pillars of Eternity: Complete Edition, Pix the Cat, Turok 2: Seeds of Evil 00:51:00 - Whatcha’ Playin? Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Picross, Tiny Metal, Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate,  01:02:00 - Question Block! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to NBC, I.D.N's Nintendo podcast. I'm your host, Kasey DeFridis and today

0:07.7

I'm joined by Emma Canuoso. Please correct me. It was good enough.

0:13.0

Okay. I'm bad with last names. Everyone who listens and launches this new.

0:17.8

Here's Snyder. It's fun, Snyder. No, it's okay. Thank you very much.

0:21.9

And Tom Marks. Hello. Did I say that? Yes. Yeah, good one.

0:26.4

All right. Well, hello. Thank you so much for listening today of like we mentioned last week.

0:30.0

We have a mech on to talk about his smash box controller that he uses to smash and he also went to evo.

0:35.8

So he'll be telling us all about that. We'll also be talking about some breath of the wild.

0:40.6

Look alike that are they really a copy or not? And then also a whole bunch of other stuff.

0:45.6

So please stick around because we're also going to be talking about all of the Pokemon news that came.

0:49.8

Oh, no. What is the problem?

0:51.4

Run away. Run away.

0:54.0

We'll have timestamps. So if you're one of those people who hate Pokemon and fun,

0:57.6

you can look at those and skip it. But hey, this is my first time on the show.

1:01.0

Just so you know, I am pro Pokemon. So that's going to be like running complain and be like,

1:05.4

okay, we talk about pizza or something. No, we're all pro Pokemon.

1:09.4

We're just a little scared by that universe of edible things and cream based life forms.

1:14.2

I'm weak for yourself. Oh, I'm also on team eating Pokemon.

1:17.4

I'm into it. All right. So let's start. So tell us about evo.

1:22.0

So what what did you play? I played Tekken. Okay.

1:26.0

The game I go. So I made it out around one of pools.

1:31.4

And I think I finished just out of top two 56. So I got two tie for 257.

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