Episode 526: Kirby Air Riders Review, The Game Awards Nominees

Filthy Casuals with Tommy Dassalo and Ben Vernel

Ben Vernel

Tv & Film, Unknown, Comedy, Nintendo, Ps4, Xbox, Gamers, Games, Video Games, Ps5, Gaming, Leisure

4.8 • 842 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

The nominees are out for the second most prestigious awards in gaming (behind The Filthy Casuals End of Year list): The Game Awards. We go through the nominees in the major categories before HOOVERING up a game that SHOULD be nominated in every single category: the excellent racing / fighting game hybrid Kirby Air Riders.

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0:00.0	This week on Filthy Casuals, the Game Awards nominees are out. We are discussing how relevant
0:06.3	and valid an award ceremony like this is for video games before immediately contradicting
0:11.2	ourselves by going through the main categories and saying what we think of the nominees. We are
0:18.7	also sucking our way through Kirby Airwriters,
0:22.9	the awesome new racing fighting game hybrid,
0:26.0	which is probably very different to what you were expecting.
0:29.6	All of that and more on today's filthy casuals.
0:33.2	Music Good morning, video games.
0:47.8	Welcome to Filthy Casuals, a podcast about video games,
0:52.6	hosted by two very kind and extremely knowledgeable boys my name
1:05.2	this is like an intro for someone whose english is second their second language
1:11.4	this is like an AI.
1:13.1	That's kind of what I'm trying to do.
1:15.5	Yeah.
1:16.0	My name is Tommy Daslo and with me as always Ben Vannell.
1:19.2	That's right.
1:19.8	I'm here.
1:20.4	The AI is in overdrive.
1:22.5	My model has been updated.
1:25.3	I'm even more logical than before.
1:28.0	Okay. Feminist look out.
1:31.2	Get ready to be destroyed.
	...

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