Hades 2 Continues 2025's Incredible Run of Indie Sequels - NVC 780

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🗓️ 27 September 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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This week’s show is packed with news, sequels, and Switch goodness. First, we dive into some major headlines: Borderlands 4 delayed indefinitely, a big update for Mario Kart World, a mysterious new Fire Emblem: Shadows tease, and the surprising news that Doug Bowser will exit as President of Nintendo of America at the end of 2025.cThen we celebrate what has truly been the year of indie sequels. With Hades 2, Hollow Knight: Silksong, Monster Train 2, Deltarune, Slime Rancher 2, and more. Finally, we share what we’ve been playing on Switch and Switch 2, including Sonic Racing CrossWorlds, Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment, Pokémon Legends: Z-A. 00:00:00 - Intro 00:03:07 - Borderlands 4 Delayed & Mario Kart World Update 00:08:31 - Fire Emblem Shadows & Doug Bowser Exits 00:16:59 - Hades II 00:29:15 - Cadence of Hyrule 00:32:42 - Deltarune & SteamWorld Dig 2 00:39:30 - Celeste, Castle Crashers, Geometry Wars, & Tunic 00:47:14 - Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds 00:53:50 - Pokémon Legends: Z-A 01:01:51 - Hyrule Warriors 01:08:59 - Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Logan is away, so I have taken over NVC.
0:04.0	We're going to talk about indie games.
0:05.0	I brought back Casey and Brendan as well as Jada to talk about Hades 2.
0:09.0	What a year it's been for indie sequels and some of the games that they've been playing that are still on the horizon.
0:13.0	So don't go anywhere.
0:18.0	Welcome to Nintendo Voice Chat.
0:24.7	I am your unexpected host this week.
0:27.5	Tom Marks, Logan is out.
0:29.3	He's on vacation, a very deserved one.
0:31.7	And nobody was around.
0:33.4	It's a busy week.
0:34.4	Stuff is going on.
0:35.1	Tokyo Game Show.
0:36.2	And I went, hey, I'll do it.
0:37.6	I'm going to hijack everything and change all the topics.
0:40.0	So that's where we are. I am joined by the wonderful Jada Griffin. Jada, hello. Hey, Tom. And hey, Superdinandos. It's going to be a great episode because Tom's at the helm. I'm very excited for this. And because I can do whatever I want, I brought back the people I'm comfortable
0:55.7	doing NBC with, which is Casey DeFritus. Casey, how are you? Hi, I'm so good. Thank you so much for having me.
1:02.2	I'm super glad you're here. And we're also joined by another person I love doing NBC with. Brendan Graber,
1:06.9	Brendan. Hey, witty, unearned catchphrase, Tom. There we go. We've got a great show. We're going to be
1:14.6	talking about, I figured give the people what they want. I'm hosting this show. So we're going to talk
1:18.5	about indie games. It's been an incredible year for indie games. But also, these three lovely
1:23.4	panelists have each played an exciting thing that I want them to talk about as well. So Jada just reviewed Sonic Grayson Cross Worlds and hasn't been on the show since that review went live. Casey got to go hands-on with Pokemon Legends Z to A and Brendan Graber got to go on hands on with Hyrule Legends. What age of imprisonment? That's the name of it. I know Warriors. There's so many different things. Lots of Hyrule stuff going on. Yeah, it's a lot. But we're going to talk about all those games. We're going to talk about Hades 2 probably a lot because, man, that game is good and it just came out and is a Switch exclusive besides PC. So that's really cool as well. Before we get into all that, let's do some housekeeping.
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