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Pop Culture Happy Hour

Three Favorite Video Game Recommendations

Pop Culture Happy Hour

NPR

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4.510.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

This winter, we've been at home, playing games. And we've been exploring games for the Nintendo Switch. We've been trying adventure games and puzzle games, beautiful games and silly games. And in this encore episode, we have a few to recommend.

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0:00.0

This winter we've been at home playing games and we've been exploring games for the Nintendo Switch.

0:10.0

We've been trying adventure games and puzzle games, beautiful games and silly games.

0:14.7

And in this encore episode we have a few to recommend.

0:17.4

I'm Stephen Thompson.

0:18.5

And I'm Linda Holmes.

0:19.5

And in this encore episode of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour we're recommending some games

0:24.0

for the Nintendo Switch.

0:30.1

Welcome back.

0:31.1

You just met NPR music, Stephen Thompson.

0:33.2

Also with us is Glenn Weldon of the NPR Arts Desk.

0:35.9

Hi, Glenn.

0:36.9

Hey, Linda.

0:37.9

So we're going to start with Glenn.

0:39.5

Glenn, tell me about the game that you brought to recommend.

0:42.7

Well, first I'll say that it turns out we didn't plan it this way, but all three of us

0:46.6

chose indie games.

0:48.4

While there are a lot of huge behemoth games out there, some that rhyme with Schmitt almost

0:52.5

crossing, we didn't choose those.

0:54.5

I didn't choose those.

0:55.5

The game I ended up choosing after trying a lot.

0:58.2

The one I really want to recommend is called Gora Goa, G-O-R-O-G-O-A.

1:03.1

It's a puzzle game.

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