Hello and welcome to NVC IGN's Nintendo podcast. I'm your host Kasey DeFritis and today

I am joined by Brian Altano. Hi.

Hey, Schneider. Hello.

And Tom Marx. Hello.

Today we're going to be talking about the very, very huge Smash 4.0 update which comes

with a new character, a switch mini going on sale for pre-order, the Game Boy 30th anniversary,

and a whole bunch of other stuff. So let's start kick it off with the big topic which

is Smash Brothers. Oh and Pear is going to talk about Fire Emblem.

What? So definitely stick around for that. But first, Smash Bros. have you guys gotten

to play the new hero? No, I'm afraid. Just very little.

Yeah. Played with the kids, messed around with the character, impressed by the variety of

obviously the designs for the character and I've played the Dragon Quest game so I do

like that. And with how different the character feels. Because I saw, so I saw dude with

the sword like everybody else at first and thought, okay, this is going to feel like

more worth than everybody and it doesn't. That's good.

That's good. Very different feeling character.

It's kind of ridiculous. So all of his, I call him, but it's the hero from Dragon Quest

and there are multiple models from different Dragon Quest games. But there be special attacks

all take up NP which is a stat exclusive to this character. And so and the longer you hold

the B button, the stronger they become. And like into Dragon Quest, they can become different

versions of like the same element. So if you're familiar with Fire Family, there's like

Fire Agua and like different versions. I can't pronounce that word, but Thendara and

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