Dads After Dark Show - A Nintendo Podcast · Drew and John

#189: Indie World & Game of the Year Announcements

November 21, 2023·2 hr 10 min·5 clips

We watched Nintendo announce indie games that literally nobody predicted.

Drew opens with Thanksgiving-week trash talk and a turkey joke before greeting John. John has just returned from Disney, and they quickly move into travel fatigue and dad-life damage reports. John says the trip lasted seven nights and felt about right. He also talks through the brutal November heat and humidity. The Disney chat turns into a story about getting nudged toward booking the next vacation. Drew points out the 35% discount Disney gives if you book again within seven days. From there, the episode shifts into the week's Nintendo news. They talk through another Indie World that has already passed. They also bring up the return of Presence After Dark for 2023. The Game Awards nominees are out, so that gets pulled into the mix too. A big chunk of the middle goes to Mario RPG. John is playing it without a guide. He likes that the difficulty feels balanced enough to work out on his own. He keeps talking about combat feel, exploration, and the habit of checking every character. The game also sends him back to Paper Mario memories. They treat it like one of those games that seems simple until it starts showing how much it borrowed and polished. The Presence After Dark segment gets practical fast, since the registration deadline is close. They say last year drew about 18 people and this year has 14 recruited so far. The goal is to match last year's turnout and assign people later. The registration deadline is Saturday night, November 25th at 11:59pm Eastern. The close is the usual community housekeeping: subscribe, rate, find them on social, join Discord, and keep up with the show through Patreon or Twitch.

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Thanksgiving-week banter, Disney detours, and game talk that never sits still.

Episode 189 keeps things loose: Thanksgiving-week jokes, a stretch of Disney vacation chatter, and a run through the week's game news, from Indie World to Presence After Dark, the 2023 Game Award nominees, and a bit of Mario RPG talk.

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For Thanksgiving-week Nintendo chatter, Disney detours, and Game Awards noise.

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