I hate to dogpile, as I enjoy Andrea sometimes, but what's starting to get to me is combination of predictability and thin arguments, in regards to Nintendo-related topics. I understand that folks have different tastes, and her taste very clearly veers toward big-budget western games ("AAA" if you will, though I loathe the term), which is fine. On the other hand, I lean toward Nintendo stuff, so I'll be the first to admit that I'm more inclined to notice. But god damn -- lately it has become a case of "Greg presents Nintendo item, Andrea explains why she doesn't like it using shaky, YouTube-comments-level reasoning." As a listener, you can really see it coming a mile away, and that's tiresome. Her take on Labo was literally every single hot take rolled into one -- it was like the GameSpot forums come to life. Combine that with her weirdly contextualized and not-very-factual jump to Sony's defense when the Switch's sales numbers came up, and it's just not a good look (especially when no defense was needed whatsoever; no one was attempting to shun the PS4 or deny its success).
As a Nintendo fan, I love analyzing and criticizing the company; I'm not looking for a podcast that exists to praise a corporation. But she's starting to come off as a crusader more and more of late, and her reasoning for downplaying everything from Breath of the Wild to Mario Odyssey to Labo is consistently thin, overdone and just not very insightful. I don't want to be the person writing mean things on the internet, but I do have to say that it's starting to make her episodes no so enjoyable to listen to.
