Yeah, tell people what happened and where they can find you.

Yeah, I'm, I'm, like, I love the Giant Bomb community, and I love, obviously, the cast and crew behind the scenes making this all possible.

So it turns out, yeah, I've got tons of free time, so I can do whatever y- you need anytime.

Because last Monday, I was let go from my position at IGN.com. You know, nothing, it wasn't, like, a personal thing.

It wasn't because I was messing up.

Um, it wasn't because I went woke and then I'm, now I'm broke.

It was just one of those things.

Same

Mm

...

this is a game...

I mean, it came out in '95.

I, I had moved on from Super Nintendo by 1995.

I was all in on PlayStation.

I didn't wanna play like a platformer.

Oh, no

Why?

Um, because they are flashy, gorgeous, star-studded affairs that lack all of the heart that makes Nintendo special.

They are, um...

Nintendo kind of famously will revisit ideas or bring something back from the past, like the Animal Crossing houses are based on, like, a toy line that they had in the '60s that was a physical, like, like, dollhouse line of cute things.

Um, I just saw today that some of the, the wallpaper patterns, and the sheets and blankets in Pokopia are based on a line of Pokemon button-down shirts that they had, um, in the ear- or in the 2010s.

Whereas, the movies are just like, "Hey, do you remember, uh, Rob the Robot? Well, he's here now.

And do you remember, uh, Wart? Well, he's Luis Guzman." [laughs] Um, so yeah, I th- I- that's, that's...

Yeah.