Still mourning the passing of Berserk author Kentaro Miura a year later, David Radd finished reading the manga and returned to Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn only to be reminded why he took a break and risked it all in Ghost of Tsushima's lethal mode. Meanwhile, Tuesday keeps on talking to the same NPCs like a crazy person in order to advance the story in Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir and feels an almost pathological need to use a gun in Call of Juarez: Gunslinger. In news, Embracer buys most of the assets of former Eidos, including Crystal Dynamics and Tomb Raider, from Square Enix for only $300 million while the company looks to invest in the blockchain (an investment that might not seem as good as it once was). Sony undershot their PS5 sales estimates, but looks to rebound in the coming year even as chip shortages continue, while Nintendo sells over 107.6 million Switches and they have continued sales success, including Metroid Dread being perhaps the most successful in the series so far. Activision deals with flagging Call of Duty sales, anti-union messaging before a key vote and a lawsuit from the state of New York. In the topic, David and Tuesday discuss the development of Kingdom Hearts, which seems to be mostly the byproduct of Tetsuya Nomura doing whatever he wanted with the game design, asking Hikaru Utada out of the blue to do a song or the game (she did) and creating one of Square Enix's most enduring and popular franchises.
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