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Let’s Predict Nintendo’s Unpredictable 2019! – Learning to Smash Episode 2.5 Feb 09, 2019

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Let’s have a drink (or 3) and try to figure out what the heck Nintendo is up to in 2019.

But first, let’s review some video games!

Soma Review
Unruly Heroes Review
Zelda 2 (NES Online Review)
Smash DLC Predictions
The ‘Switch Mini’
Mysterious and unknown 2019 Switch games, our hopes and predictions

**REmakings and retellings: When is a remake worthwhile? (+ RE2 Review) – Learning to Smash: Episode 2.4** Feb 03, 2019
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Famed clinical ‘horror’ psychologist, Dr. Jandro McMurder, joins us this week to discuss Resident Evil 2 and exactly what makes tense, scary video games so compelling. This leads to our featured subject: **REMAKES**.

What makes for a truly worthwhile remake or retelling of an existing story?

That’s right folks, in this episode you can expect some chatter on the following most-important subjects:

Smash Ultimate – Items on or off? The DEFINITIVE answer
Resident Evil 2 Remake Review
The psychological draw of horror video games, from Dr. Jandro
Remake Culture – The good, the bad and the ugly sides of remaking games, movies (and stories in general)

How many retellings of Batman v. Joker have we already seen or read?

**Unruly Heroes unite to tackle horror video games – Learning to Smash Episode 2.3** Jan 24, 2019
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All is well in the world of gaming. The Resident Evil 2 remake is infecting our PS4s and rad indies are sprouting up all over our Nintendo Switches. To celebrate the wealth of joys available in our hobby this week, we mostly discuss… unimaginable horror. That’s right, folks. On tap when you hit ‘play’ you can expect…

Unruly Heroes – Initial Review
The Shining… VR experience?!
The best horror Video Games
Until Dawn – Review
Resident Evil 7 – Review
Halloween (2018 film) – Review
Deadly Class (TV Pilot) – Review

Sure, looks like a great time. What could possibly go wrong!

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**From Arcade Beginnings to a Ready Player One Future – Learning to Smash Episode 2.2** Jan 21, 2019
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Fun Fact: the Galaga ship is the best assist trophy in Smash Ultimate. It also happens to be the ‘ultimate’ arcade game. At least it is via one co-host’s ranking. Because this week, the LtS crew….

Hop into the Way Back Machine and take a tour of their all-time favorite arcade games!
Then they spring forward to review Ready Player One (the movie)
Discuss VR and the future communal gaming.
But could any video game future be as immersive as our ever-lovin’ arcade nostalgia?!

Special shout out to the musical stylings of Mr. Panu Talus, whose soundtrack from The Way Remastered fuels this episode. Check out the tracks yourself here: https://panutalus.bandcamp.com

“Did you know that the original name for Pac-Man was Puck-Man? You’d think it was because he looks like a hockey puck but it actually comes from the Japanese phrase ‘Paku-Paku,’ which means to flap one’s mouth open and closed. They changed it because they thought Puck-Man would be too easy to vandalize, you know, like people could just scratch off the P and turn it into an F or whatever.” – SP

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**LtS 2.0, Travis Strikes Again, The Way Remastered, Deadly Class & More – Learning to Smash Episode 2.1** Jan 13, 2019
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Welcome to Learning to Smash 2.1!

To launch the all new LtS, Jandro and John are hepped up on all sorts of indie (and nostalgia fueled) games. In fact, we’re going all the way back to the arcades with our next episode. But first:

Deadly Class Vol. 1 (A brief ‘LTS Book Report’)
Introducing the new show format
Finding our Smash Ultimate Main – the saga continues!
The Way Remastered Review
Travis Strikes again and Indies on Switch
Octopath Traveler (the Soundtrack) Review
Preparing for a trip through the Way Back Machine… to the The Arcade!

Buy this overlooked indie. It’s cheeeeeeap

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**2019 Hype (Fire Emblem Three Houses & Resident Evil 2, say what?!) – Learning to Smash 22** Jan 06, 2019
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Recorded just before the new year, it’s Learning to Smash’s (inebriated) celebration of all things 2019!

Avengers Endgame is consuming our dreams. Game of Thrones is nearing it’s epic finale. And the Switch is poised to own the console landscape this year. But with rumors of a new Switch model looming and details likely to be revealed for the next Xbox and Playstation ‘consoles’, the video game landscape for 2019 is already fascinating. It all starts with Resident Evil 2 remake in late January. But first…

Finding Our Smash Ultimate Main… the saga continues!
Speculation re: cloud-based moves for Xbox
Rolling through the impressive releases ALREADY confirmed for Switch this year
Avengers: Endgame Hype

A stacked deck is coming together here…

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Spider-Man Won 2018 – And the Best of Everything Else – Learning to Smash 20 Dec 23, 2018

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It’s time to declare our ‘best video games of 2018’ (that we played). Also, our ‘best of everything else media in 2018’, while we’re at it.. But first, the Learning to Smash co-hosts share their update in the most-important (and ever-so-stressful) task of finding a ‘main’.

Finding Your Main: Part 2
Best Video Games of 2018 (OTHER than Smash, okay?!)
Best Movies of 2018
Best TV Shows of 2018
Best…. other stuff of 2018
And much, much more!

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