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

By Heath Hindman

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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, in brief.
16:14 – But back to the good awards! Blackest Ops Award
18:47 – Least Charted Award
20:55 – The Darkest Soul Award
23:42 – Rudest Bear Award
23:51 – GR 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

Here's a quick images gallery of stuff that comes up in our conversation, though not necessarily in order. Just a reference point.


 

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TGS Podcast 2

  • Zodiac

    Zodiac

  • Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop!

    Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop!

  • Hyrule Warriors for 3DS

    Hyrule Warriors for 3DS

  • Ace Attorney 6

    Ace Attorney 6

  • Danganronpa VR

    Danganronpa VR

  • Exist Archive

    Exist Archive

  • Exist Archive

    Exist Archive

  • FFXIV VR

    FFXIV VR

  • Gravity Rush

    Gravity Rush

  • Star Ocean 5

    Star Ocean 5

  • Star Ocean 5

    Star Ocean 5

  • Kineo and Usuko

    Kineo and Usuko

  • The Indie game area at TGS

    The Indie game area at TGS

  • Pavilion

    Pavilion

  • ReelBlade

    ReelBlade

  • Mushroom 11

    Mushroom 11

  • Odin Sphere

    Odin Sphere

  • Pavilion

    Pavilion

  • Rabi Ribi

    Rabi Ribi

  • Super Rude Bear Resurrection

    Super Rude Bear Resurrection

  • Sarah and the Viper\'s Crown

    Sarah and the Viper\'s Crown

  • Summer Lesson

    Summer Lesson

  • Thumper

    Thumper

  • The Tomorrow Children

    The Tomorrow Children

  • Walden

    Walden

  • YIIK: A Post-Modern RPG

    YIIK: A Post-Modern RPG
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