Letdowns and Love-Ins: Best of the Tokyo Game Show (Podcast 2/2)

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In the previous Tokyo Game Show Podcast, we talked about the weirdest things we saw and did in Tokyo. This time around, it’s the juicy stuff: “Best of” TGS Awards followed by quickfire game evaluations of a whole stack of others.

00:45 – Best New Game in an Old Game’s Clothing Award

04:09 – Best Game Existing in an Archive Award

05:09 – Biggest Surprise (that we actually kind of knew about) Award

07:47 – Actual Surprise Award

09:25 – Biggest Letdown Award

14:59 – Other letdowns

16:14 – Blackest Ops Award

18:47 – Least Charted Award

20:55 – The Darkest Soul Award

23:42 – Rudest Bear Award

23:51 – Listener question from MandaloreHunter

26:06 – Pavilion

29:30 – Thumper and Mushroom 11

36:27 – Other rapid-fire impressions: Walden

37:29 – Ace Attorney 6

38:59 – Hyrule Warriors for 3DS, YIIK: A Postmodern RPG

40:18 – Zodiac, Sara and the Viper’s Crown, Back in 1995

43:51 – Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?!, Kineo and Usuko, Reel Blade, and Rabi-Ribi

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