The Weekly Stuff #366 – Nintendo Direct & Zeta Gundam: A New Translation Review

<p>This week brought our first full-length Nintendo Direct since September 2019 (!), but was it any good? Do a few far-off announcements for 2022, a Mario Golf game, and a low-effort Zelda port make up for Nintendo’s months of erratic communication? We discuss all this and cover a few pieces of exciting <i>Diablo </i>news from BlizzCon, before diving into our main topic, another <i>Weekly Suit Gundam </i>discussion in which we tackle a curious oddity in the history of Gundam: Yoshiyuki Tomino’s <i>Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam: A New Translation </i>film trilogy from 2005 and 2006, which saw the Gundam creator returning to the classic sequel series and compiling it into three feature films. There’s probably no <i>Gundam </i>series more difficult to condense in to three 90-minute movies than <i>Zeta Gundam, </i>with its enormous cast of characters, heady and challenging themes, and dense, complicated storytelling, but <i>A New Translation </i>is nothing if not a valiant effort, worth examining even if it never quite overcomes the sheer weight of factors working against it.</p><p>Enjoy!</p><p> </p><p><strong>TIME CHART:</strong></p><p>Intro: 0:00:00 – 0:10:05</p><p>Blizzard News & Nintendo Direct: 0:10:05 – 0:49:27</p><p><i>Zeta Gundam</i>: 0:49:27 – 3:10:09 </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6QsXZYt12NIzF224GKBA0g"><strong>Subscribe to our YouTube Channel!</strong></a></p><p><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/wgtc-radio-we-got-this-covered/id535584943"><strong>Subscribe for free to 'The Weekly Stuff' in Apple Podcasts!</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/JonathanLack"><strong>Follow Jonathan Lack on Twitter!</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/SeanTheChapman"><strong>Follow Sean Chapman on Twitter!</strong></a></p>