Fan-Favorite Games of 2018

Nintendo Power Podcast

Chris Slate

Video Games, Leisure

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2018

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

What was the year's most fun multiplayer game that secretly ruins friendships? What was the best Super Smash Bros. Ultimate moment? What was the best game of 2018? These questions keep our panel up at night. Host Chris Slate and guests Kit Ellis and Krysta Yang from Nintendo Minute need their rest, so we asked our trustworthy listeners to vote on the answers in this special year-end episode. 01:40 - Most Fun Multiplayer Game That Secretly Ruins Friendships 04:31 - Best Retro Redux (New games in a retro style) 08:15 - The "Welcome Back" Category (Remastered/enhanced games) 12:27 - The "Whoa, Neat!" Category (Cool/creative new products) 15:44 - Best Ballgame 17:37 - Most Hype Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Moment 22:28 - Most Challenging Game 27:00 - Most Relaxing Game 29:30 - Best-Looking Game 31:49 - Best Soundtrack 34:08 - Best Narrative 37:45 - Character of the Year 55:21 - Players' Game of the Year Games discussed have been rated EVERYONE to MATURE by the ESRB. If you would like to share any feedback or ideas for the podcast, or submit a question to possibly be answered in a future episode, please email us at [email protected]. Follow Nintendo on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Nintendo/ Follow Nintendo on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica Subscribe to Nintendo on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/nintendo

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0:00.0	Games rated E to M.
0:23.0	Welcome to Nintendo Power Podcast. This episode we revealed your favorite Nintendo Switch games of 2018. My name is Chris Slate. And returning to the show today are Kit Ellis and Krista Yang from Nintendo Minute.
0:34.0	Thanks for coming back.
0:35.0	Hi Chris.
0:36.0	Hey Chris? Yeah, and it's great to have you here because this is going to be a special episode.
0:40.0	It not only marks the last episode of 2018 but also marks the first full year of
0:44.8	Nintendo Power Podcast.
0:45.8	Yay!
0:46.8	Congratulations!
0:47.8	Yeah, I've listened to your voice in all sorts of places I never expected to the past year.
0:53.3	Think about that.
0:54.7	I'm not going to think about that.
0:56.2	I'm going to try very hard not to think about that.
0:59.7	But I hope it was mostly in your car.
1:02.1	So we wanted to do something special in honor of this so
1:04.9	instead of the usual segments what we're going to do is we actually went to
1:07.8	Twitter and asked the listeners what their favorite Nintendo Switch games were
1:10.8	this year and we're going to spend this episode discussing the
1:13.7	winners. So are you guys ready? So ready. So, so ready. Great. Well first we should
1:19.0	make it clear that we're not giving out any actual awards here. We're just
1:22.2	having fun and we pick these
1:23.2	categories and nominees out ourselves just for the show and obviously we haven't
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