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Retronauts Episode 262: PAX West 2019 - Super Metroid Vs. Symphony of the Night

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Technology, Leisure, Games, Video Games

4.52.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

It’s the ultimate metroidvania showdown as we settle once and for all which was truly the greatest, the most ambitious, the most influential work of the genre: Nintendo’s Super Metroid or Konami’s Castlevania: Symphony of the Night? Strong opinions will be expressed! Harsh words may be exchanged! Blood might even be spilled (only to be absorbed by a dhampir ensorcelled by Dark Metamorphosis)! Panelists: Jeremy Parish, Bob Mackey, USgamer's Nadia Oxford, and Mike Drucker.

Originally recorded September 2, 2019 at PAX West.

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0:00.0

This weekend returnats, it's a throwdown, holddown.

0:04.1

Music

0:27.1

Everyone and welcome to wow, it's been a while since I've done one of these, but a live

0:32.6

presentation for RetroNots at Pax West. I almost called it prime because I'm still old. But yes,

0:39.1

hi, I'm Jeremy Parish, one of the co-hosts of RetroNots and that's a podcast where we talk about

0:44.6

old video games and some of the old video games we talk about often are super Metroid and Castle

0:50.0

Vainey Symphony the Night and by God we're going to talk about them again. And with me here to also

0:55.1

talk about them are some really cool people who are very funny and smart and I'm just going to let

1:00.2

them talk and stand here and basically have them do all the hard work. I'm Mike Drucker, I'm a

1:06.7

former writer for Nintendo, current writer for television. I am Nadia Oxford, I am from US

1:12.2

gamer and I am actually one half of the acts of the blood god RPG podcast. Hey, it's Bob

1:18.3

Mackie and based on the size of this room I think we're also going to announce the new Pope.

1:21.8

Actually, I think if they see white smoke at Pax Prime they get upset. So please do not

1:30.0

set anything on fire. So anyway, yes, hi everyone, thanks for joining us even though it's kind of

1:36.5

the end of the show, it's a weekday and other things are happening around. I appreciate you coming

1:42.0

here. And apparently they're also streaming this on Twitch so for the five of you who are out there

1:46.6

watching this, hello, thank you for your time, please don't tune out, we want some concurrence,

1:51.0

it's always great. But we are basically going to put together two of the greatest video games ever

1:57.3

made and decide which one of them is the greatest video game ever made. This is not a per debate.

2:03.1

Now, you know, I have learned from doing extremely correct and good lists for polygon that

2:13.2

using superlatives is much more like is much more engaging for audiences than saying which of these

2:18.5

very nice games do we like slightly more than the other. So we're putting it in superlatives,

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