Radio Free Nintendo
Radio Free Nintendo is Nintendo World Report's official weekly podcast. Every week, NWR's staff discuss everything Nintendo from the latest releases to classic games.
Episode 998: Monolith Soft's Thumb Wrestling
FEATURING: (00:07:28) New Business - Final Fantasy Resonance. (00:26:49) Nintendo Switch Sports Resort. (00:42:03) Pokopia event. Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve. (01:02:52) Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave. (01:05:19) A Castlevania purchase is made. NSO October 2026 update. (01:13:02) Listener Mail - Isn't the content of the game, the game? (01:32:28) Convo FOMO, no dino.
Episode 997: For Waluigi, Death Is the Happy Ending
FEATURING: (00:02:40) New Business - Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave. (00:13:53) Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve. (00:37:02) Platinum Points Panic. (00:44:17) Mario Kart 8 Deluxe's 8 player couch multiplayer update. Old Maid and Pop Tarts. (00:50:52) Onimusha: Way of the Sword. (01:03:16) I for one welcome our Game Key Card overlords. (01:10:33) New GBA games on NSO Expansion Pack, including Kururin Paradise. (01:21:44) Listener Mail - Open world Nintendo games: a trend?
Episode 996: Intentionally Alienating Titles
FEATURING: (00:04:32) A look at our Episode 1000 plans.(00:16:36) New Business - Absolum.(00:19:09) Pragmata.(00:25:12) Onimusha: Way of the Sword.(00:35:10) Castlevania: Belmont's Curse.(00:40:21) Palworld.(00:44:58) Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.(00:52:46) Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave.(01:02:10) Listener Mail - Handhelds for Microsoft and Sony.(01:48:27) One change to defile a Nintendo franchise.
Episode 995: And the BAFTA for Best Writing Goes to: "Lactic Acid Can Eat a Dick"
FEATURING: (00:00:00) The Sly Stallone Segment Part Deux, with bonus Amiga talk.(00:20:46) New Business - Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave.(00:39:31) Word of Warcraft: Forever.(01:08:21) Castlevania: Belmont's Curse.(01:35:35) Star Fox.(02:10:43) Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.
Episode 994: I've Never Thought About the Sexuality Maturity of Yoshi, and I Regret It Now
FEATURING: (00:00:00) The Sly Stallone segment, brought to you by Rocky IV being on TV.(00:12:29) Listener Mail - Fondly remembered games that don't hold up.(00:54:23) The Japanese high school trope.(01:16:52) Adapt video games into TV shows (with some edge) for pre-schoolers.
Episode 993: I Would Never Attempt To Sell a Fudgie the Whale T-Shirt on TeePublic.com Under the Nom de Plume Food Daddy James
FEATURING: (00:06:15) New Business - Dariusburst Chronicle Saviours.(00:20:41) Two Point Museum.(00:38:39) Sonic Origins. Yoshi and the Mysterious Book.(00:49:33) Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven.(01:13:09) Listener Mail - Our use of AI for gaming.
Episode 992: One Day You'll See That It Was Truly the Legend of Zelda
FEATURING: (00:01:36) Two September 2026 Nintendo Directs! The Legend of Zelda movie.(00:08:43) Ocarina of Time remake.(00:48:06) Monster Hunter Wilds. Pikmin 4 + Dandori Academy. Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity Switch 2 version.(01:06:09) Metroid Ravenous. Kirby and the World Beyond.(01:22:59) Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Nintendo Switch 2 Edition. Romancing SaGa 3: Destinies United. Eternal Anima.(01:35:48) Resident Evil remakes. Pokopia and Mario Kart World updates. Ondeh Ondeh: Kaya's Tasty Tale. Cairn. Stage Fright. Hela: of Mice and Magic.(01:54:01) Metal Slug Ultimate Collection. Dragon Quest Heroes: Torneko's Mystery Dungeon -Classic HD-. The Apothecary Diaries: The False Imperial Brother.
Episode 991: F.L.U.D.D.'S Death Scene Was Lacking Gravitas
FEATURING: (00:04:36) New Business: Two Point Museum.(00:16:52) Wolfenstein 3D. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.(00:33:24) Poinpy. Sonic Origins.(00:50:06) Rhythm Heaven Groove. Pikmin 3 Deluxe. (01:14:39) Listener Mail - Add a gun, improve a game.(01:40:17) Game endings, good and bad.
Episode 990: The Sportsmate Had Bad Mouthfeel
FEATURING: (00:02:10) Switch 2 is about to get more expensive.(00:14:15) Listener Mail: Why not just make smaller games?(01:02:26) Launching early for success on Switch.(01:38:42) Nintendo and their soul.
Episode 989: Sonic Mania Is Tsundere Life
FEATURING: (00:04:36) Retroactive - Sonic Mania.
Episode 988: Monster Rancher Stole My Identity but I Got This Cool Kaiju
FEATURING: (00:00:52) New Business - Pokopia expansion pass.(00:26:58) Days Gone.(00:37:42) Yoshi and the Mysterious Book.(00:50:07) Virtual Boy headset novelty.(00:55:16) Splatoon Raiders.(00:59:01) Listener Mail - Dynasty Warriors (verb) a franchise.(01:25:01) Western devs are back! Do we care?
Episode 987: I Could Be Merging Things Right Now!
FEATURING: (00:07:24) New Business - LEGO Voyagers.(00:17:26) Denshattack!(00:28:14) Pokopia expansion pass.(00:45:52) Days Gone.(00:59:04) Merge Mansion (what's the opposite of an intervention?).(01:18:21) Splatoon Raiders.(01:23:50) Housekeeping.
Episode 986: Give Us Willem Dafoe
FEATURING: (00:02:18) New Business - Splatoon Raiders.(00:21:00) Milano's Odd Job Collection.(00:32:47) Modern pinball games show Larry what happens.(00:47:22) Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. The Order of Giants DLC.(00:54:26) Halo: Campaign Evolved.(01:02:49) Listener Mail - Make it even 2D-er.(01:29:51) Living voice chameleon Willem Dafoe is all you need.(01:43:56) More languages: an underrated perk.
Episode 985: Really, Square-Enix? Still No Upgrade Path For Various Daylife!?
FEATURING: (00:02:15) New Business - Splatoon Raiders.(00:18:19) Goemon Collection.(00:21:29) Mario Tennis Fever.(00:29:56) Absolum.(00:38:00) Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. Halo: Campaign Evolved.(00:58:30) Listener Mail - The next giant leap in gaming?(01:26:40) Square-Enix's confounding upgrade path strategy.(01:48:50) The Switch 2 upgrades we crave.
Episode 984: Iconic Ball Action
FEATURING: (00:02:59) Listener Mail - How to approach Sonic Mania.(00:12:37) Signal over ceremony.
Episode 983: Get Back at Your First Responders With Swipe Fees
FEATURING: (00:07:39) New Public Service Announcements - New Mario Kart World Knockout Tours. Mario Kart Tour sunsets on mobile. Send your Switch in for repairs while you can.(00:17:31) Star Fox (2026).(00:33:41) New Business - Rhythm Heaven Groove.(00:55:11) Heavy Machinery vs Shumai.(01:03:52) Listener Mail - What N64 games should have been on PlayStation?(01:33:06) We have to talk about your credit card.
Episode 982: All We Wanted Was to Pull a Sword Out of a Man's Forehead
FEATURING: (00:05:51) New Business - Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.(00:26:23) Gui's new headset, please forgive the sound quality. Absolum.(00:33:45) Rhythm Heaven Groove.(00:52:41) Star Fox (2026).(01:32:28) Listener Mail - An attention-starved hack still wants to beat you up.(01:39:34) The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake concerns.
Episode 981: We're So Winback Direct
FEATURING: (00:00:58) New Business - Rhythm Heaven Groove demo.(00:22:05) Super Scram Kitty.(00:31:37) Wolffang Skullfang Saturn Tribute Boosted.(00:48:19) The Last Salvage Squad.(00:55:21) Star Fox (2026).(01:29:50) Send your Retroactive ideas.(01:36:40) Listener Mail - Does the Neo Geo spark joy?
Episode 980: The Amazing Digital Blockchain
FEATURING: (00:01:05) New Business - Pokemon Champions.(00:19:34) Destiny 2, its end and DLC The Final Shape. Digressions on the blockchain.(00:40:12) Piku Niku.(00:45:36) The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy. Lorelei and the Laser Eyes.(01:00:37) Beatdown City Survivors.(01:12:35) Mina the Hollower. Shadow Labyrinth. Metroid: Other M.(01:23:29) Super Scram Kitty.
Episode 979: We All Struggle Under the Giant Thumb of Sportsmate
FEATURING: June 9th 2026 Nintendo Direct, in order. (00:02:30) Rhythm Heaven Groove. Capcom bloc. Big Walk.(00:21:30) Kairosoft.(00:29:06) Pokopia. Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave. DK Challenge.(00:54:26) Jujutsu Kaisen Rumble: Survivaton. Cozy Darksoulslikes. Muramasa: Revenant Blades.(01:04:39) So much Xenoblade.(01:40:49) Dragon Quest Monsters: The Withered World. Kingdom Hearts 4.(01:50:11) The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (2026) glimpsed.(02:06:34) Star Fox (2026) demo.
Episode 978: Cotton Is Coming!
FEATURING: (00:03:40) New Business - Saros. Outlast.(00:09:27) eFootball.(00:21:53) Pokopia.(00:42:12) The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy. Panorama Cotton.(00:58:35) James on Mina the Hollower.(01:41:51) Greg on Mina the Hollower. Yoshi and the Mysterious Book.(01:58:08) Listener Mail kinda - When the Red Arremer underwhelmed.
Episode 977: The Pictonico! Pact
FEATURING: (00:02:51) New Business - Table Flip Simulator.(00:12:44) Pictonico!.(00:27:45) Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythm Festival.(00:42:11) Forza Horizon 6.(00:59:57) The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy.(01:04:34) Yoshi and the Mysterious Book.(01:39:56) Listener Mail - Bosses who join the party.
Episode 976: I'm Just Going to Choose to Not Engage with How I Taste
FEATURING: (00:02:03) Listener Mail - The state of "modern" light gun games (2007-2015, really).(00:27:52) Pacing issues.(00:52:02) Is is easier to imagine a rerelease for Chrono Trigger than an end to Fire Emblem Heroes.(01:08:17) What future do we see for the console market?(01:52:24) Strangest things that we've experienced as part of RFN.(01:58:45) mlem (what if Yoshi ate us).
Episode 975: Charles Bronson's Ragebound
FEATURING: (00:09:11) News - A Long-Expected Price Increase.(00:35:08) Tezuka retires. Results and shareholder questions.(01:15:11) New Business - The Switch N64 controller. Sin and Punishment.(01:32:55) Star Fox 64. The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy.(01:45:09) Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound.
Episode 974: When I was Getting Scraped for Horace Showpony, I Wasn't Getting Paid
FEATURING: (00:00:31) News - Atari be bussin'.(00:15:25) Xbox be flailin'.(00:27:27) Starfox be loopin'.(01:24:22) Listener Mail - Pokemon strategies and where to find them.(01:32:43) Enough with remakes, time for demakes. And more remakes.
Episode 973: Progress is Being Made on Multiple Fronts
FEATURING: (00:01:28) New Business - Pragmata.(00:54:22) Guillaume's trip in Japan.(01:44:31) Saros.(01:48:15) Retro Bowl.(01:53:19) Pokopia.Playing Pokemon Sword with Claude riding shotgun.
Episode 972: Jean Ubisoft's Business Travels
FEATURING: Syrenne joins the two greatest sages in business, the enlighted duo and J and J DreamFactory, to talk about the state of the industry, the attention economy, and just how much of a mess everything is. At some point we also talk about meme games. No timecodes this week because the entire episode is unstructured.
Episode 971: Professor E. Gadd's Mean Bean Machine
FEATURING: (00:02:04) A silly game about Nintendo characters: James and Groose, together at last.(00:29:59) Jon and E. Gadd and some coffee.(00:43:08) Greg and General Pepper: ruthless accounting.(00:59:03) Listener Mail: A silly game about being stranded on an island with Nintendo characters.(01:34:03) Industry stories we would love to read about.
Episode 970: Chekhov's Goat
FEATURING: (00:05:15) New Business - ChainStaff.(00:17:15) CrossCode.(00:23:56) RACCOIN: Coin Pusher Roguelike.(00:33:28) Mario Kart World.(00:44:43) The Super Mario Galaxy Movie(01:18:46) Super Mario Bros. Wonder + Meetup in Bellabel Park.(01:23:08) Resident Evil Requiem(02:00:41) Rumors not to be believed.
Episode 969: Plato's Allegory of the Electro-Thermostatic Refrigerator
FEATURING: (00:01:33) News - The End of Price Parity.(00:39:53) News - Popcorn Scams.(00:49:34) New Business - Getting Nintendo Museum tickets.(01:03:45) The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy, Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream demo.(01:13:09) Super Mario Bros. Wonder + Meetup in Bellabel Park.(01:29:32) Pokémon Pokopia.
Episode 968: Now Not Offensively Poor!
FEATURING: (00:01:45) New Business - Handheld Boost Mode.(01:09:05) The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy.(01:27:34) FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE INTERGRADE.(01:50:32) Pokemon Pokopia.
Episode 967: Charmander Is Smuggling Bricks
FEATURING: (00:10:00) New Business - Pokemon Pokopia.(00:45:43) Indika.(00:59:23) Minishoot' Adventures.(01:11:10) Returnal. Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Deluxe Edition. (01:29:11) Resident Evil Requiem. Mario Tennis Fever.(01:52:51) Listener Mail - Our mission: reinvigorate amiibo.
Episode 966: Increase Your Sneak with This One Weird Trick
FEATURING: (00:07:17) Listener Mail - The Pokemon TCG supply problem.(00:50:06) The Cutting Room Genie writes in.(01:26:24) News - Pokemon Presents.(01:35:20) Denshattack! demo. Indie World.(01:45:47) FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE INTERGRADE. Resident Evil Requiem.(01:58:46) Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Deluxe Edition.(02:15:18) Blippo+.
Episode 965: LEGO Voyeurs
FEATURING: (00:02:23) What were our Top Fives of last year, again?(00:10:47) Our Top Five-to-two of 2025.(01:40:03) Honorable mentions.(01:50:04) Discover our four Top one games of twenty-twenty-five.
Episode 964: It's Bokoblin Time
FEATURING: (00:01:13) Intro - Xenoblade Fans React to Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition. (00:22:51) Hello, Mario. (00:30:21)CSA, AKA ACA for consoles.(00:38:44) New Business - FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE INTERGRADE. (00:54:33) The Virtual Boy for NSO. (01:06:14) The Mansion of Innsmouth. (01:21:33) Aside: The Morbius Situation. (01:35:42) The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy. Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound.(01:44:43) The Punisher arcade game. Marvel vs Capcom Fighting Collection. (01:53:04) New developments regarding the Pokemon TCG.
Episode 963: Bending Time and Space to Market Donkey Konga
FEATURING: (00:01:42) New Business - Animal Crossing: New Horizon DLC. (00:11:55) Pragmata demo. (00:30:44) The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy. (00:51:39) Battle Axe. (00:59:09) FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE INTERGRADE. (01:09:54) The Virtual Boy shell has shipped. (01:18:10) Listener Mail - Overproduce your own Direct. (01:56:36) MGSV: Guns of the Patriots coming to a Switch 2 near you.
Episode 962: Flat Earther: Y/N?
FEATURING: Follow along as we tackle every game in the Nintendo Direct: Partner Showcase 2.5.2026 in order! (00:00:50) Orbitals. (00:10:45) Paranormasight: The Mermaid's Curse. Captain Tsubasa: World Fighters. (00:20:20) Tokyo Scramble. Valheim. eFootball Kick-Off! (00:52:07) The Adventures of Elliott: The Millenium Tales. Super Bomberman Collection. Goemon Collection. (01:02:58) Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. Pragmata. Turok: Origins. (01:19:46) Kyoto Xanadu and other Anime-zing games. (01:27:40) Hamster can't keep getting away with this. (01:37:19) Sizzle reel. (01:42:31) Resident Evil Requiem. (02:00:03) Microsoft's (Bethesda's) gaming products are subject to a boycott. (02:11:00) Final thoughts.
Episode 961: Only Games With the Cultural Cachet of Quest for Camelot May Apply
FEATURING: (00:01:14) Listener Mail - Hall of Fame-worthy games that came out of nowhere.(00:57:09) Egregious NSO omissions.(01:49:42) We acknowledge that the Super Mario Galaxy movie and Tomodachi Life Nintendo Directs happened.
Episode 960: Thunderstruck for Some Striped Bass
FEATURING: 08:53) New Business - Donkey Kong Bananza Emerald Rush.(00:16:59) Talking Flower and LTTP Super Mario Bros Wonder amiibos.(00:28:06) Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade demo.(00:36:09) Elechead.(00:42:46) Stray Children.(00:55:50) Yars: Recharged.(01:04:09) Listener Mail - Schrodinger's Switch 2 ports keeping us away from the backlog?(01:39:11) Fishing minigames.
Episode 959: Clip and Clop Are the New Horace
FEATURING: (00:04:17) New Business - Atari 50 Namco DLC.(00:27:54) Metroid Prime 4: Beyond.(01:14:18) Is This Seat Taken?(01:26:44) Once Upon a Katamari.(01:53:08) BALLxPIT.(02:00:43) Marvel Cosmic Invasion.(02:05:36) Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment.(02:11:25) Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance.
