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Kiwi Talkz Interviews Zoid (Metroid Prime 1 & 2, Senior Engineer)
Kiwi has sat down with a retired veteran of the video game industry, and an integral mind and senior engineer behind the Metroid Prime series, Zoid! Zoid has worked in the industry for over 32 years, boasting a resume with work on games such as World of Warcraft, Portal, Metroid…
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Kiwi Talkz Interviews Lawrence Schwedler (Metroid Prime Hunters Sound Designer)
Kiwi sits down with Lawrence Schwedler, one of the sound designers behind Metroid Prime Hunters! Currently, Lawrence is a program director for the music and sound design program over at Digipen. Before that, he worked at NST for several years on games such as Mario vs Donkey Kong and Pokemon…
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Kiwi Talkz Interviews DoctorM64 (Game Designer, AM2R)
You’re in for treat, because Kiwi sat down with the designer of AM2R, Milton Guasti, otherwise known as DoctorM64! DoctorM64 developed AM2R in his free time over 8 years. His work eventually got him hired to work on another fantastic Metroidvania, Ori: Will of the Wisps. The conversation is mostly…
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Episode 104 – Definitively Ranking Metroid (NES)
Definitive Ranking returns after almost a six-month hiatus to examine the granddaddy of them all: Metroid! We take a look at the original game and try to balance how it holds up today with how it innovated video games 35 years ago and have some fun discussion about the assortment…
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Episode 103 – Building Our All-Star Metroid Game!
This week, we’re taking a little inspiration from the sporting world and assembling an all-star team of different Metroid parts in order to build the ultimate Metroid game! We break down our picks for the greatest themed areas and enemies in Metroid, which is tough because, while some are easy…
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Episode 102 – How Metroid Dread Can Be Represented in the Next Smash Bros.
Ahead of a major OMEGA METROID DIRECT dropping on March 3rd, the boys are back together discussing two of their favorite things: Metroid and Smash Bros.! We sit down to discuss how the release of Metroid Dread could influence the next Smash Bros. game. We go over what Raven Beak…
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Episode 101 – Retro Studios, eShop Closures, and Nintendo Direct Reactions
There was no shortage of news this week to chat about, which always makes for a fun and breezy show. Andy and Doom are joined by Russ from the Tomes of Evil podcast to talk about the new Retro Studios concept art and what it means, the Nintendo 3DS and…
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Episode 100 – Omega Metroid vs The Champions’ Cast in Zelda and Metroid Trivia!
We finally made it to a whopping 100 episodes! There are so many people to thank, so many friends we’ve made along the way, but all that is for another day! Today is about competition, and we’ve got both of Andy’s podcasts facing off against each other in a trivia…
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Episode 99 – SkyTown: Mapping Metroid
Mapping Metroid returns! This time, we’re tackling one of the most beautiful and ethereal areas in the series: SkyTown, Elysia! We talk about our initial reactions to the area, the ways the Grapple Beam was utilized, the Ghor boss fight, the history of the robotic Elysians, our favorite expansions, that…
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Kiwi Talkz Interviews Synamax (Composer)
The first interview that opened the door for Kiwi’s Ex-Retro Studio developer interviews, Kiwi Talkz sits down with composer, Synamax! This conversation is all about Metroid, starting with how Synamax found the Metroid Prime music samples, Synamax’s love of sound design, his use of HEX editing to compose music, if…
