

The Kit & Krysta Podcast
The Kit & Krysta Podcast
The Kit & Krysta Podcast is a weekly podcast hosted by Kit Ellis and Krysta Yang, who previously worked for Nintendo of America for over 10 years each and hosted the hit web show Nintendo Minute. Join us every Thursday for insider behind the scenes stories about what it's like to work for Nintendo, our analysis of breaking news from around the industry and lively discussion of all the great games we've been playing.
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Jan 19, 2023 • 1h 45min
49: We Almost Leaked Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (OOPS!)
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Hello and welcome back to the Kit & Krysta Podcast, episode 49! Today we're going to be sharing a story about how we accidentally almost leaked Smash Ultimate. That would have been real bad for us! We're also getting close to the release of Fire Emblem Engage so we're doing a little preliminary ranking of the husbandos and waifus. We reserve the right to change our minds though after we play the game! Also in this episode, we go through some news and answer questions from our Patreon subscribers. Timestamps are below.
0:00 - Almost to episode 50 and SONIC WEEK
10:35 - Never a Minute: Fire Emblem Engage Waifu/husbando rankings
34:13 - Nintendo Storytime: we almost accidentally leaked Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
45:23 - Games we are playing
54:11 - News news news
1:04:09 - Questions from our Patreon subscribers
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Aaron Hash, Ben Eichhorn, MaruMayhem, Eigenverse, Jordan Collett, KissMyFlapjack, Mike Chin, Mr. Rogers, RainTech, Roy Eschke, Switchingitup_, Sephazon, TheSharkAmongMen, vgmlife, Link The Hero of Winds, Angela Bycroft, TurboChargeNerd, Thomas O’Rourke and Simon Barrera
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Jan 12, 2023 • 1h 58min
48: The 10 Most Important People in Video Games
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Hello and welcome to episode 48 of the Kit & Krysta Podcast. This week we'll be discussing who we think are the 10 most important people in the gaming industry right now. We love this topic because it's endlessly debatable and our list might be very different than yours. Also in this episode, we share a story about a blizzard that almost trapped one of us during a Nintendo press tour. We also talk about the games we're playing, talk about some recent news from CES and answer questions from our wonderful Patreon subscribers. All of this is coming up right now!
0:00 - Help us get to Japan this year! http://Patreon.com/KitAndKrysta
13:58 - 10 most important people in video games
50:05 - Nintendo Storytime - Trapped in a blizzard!
1:02:53 - Games we are playing
1:22:02 - News news news
1:30:48 - Questions from our Patreon subscribers
Thank you to our Patreon Super Stars!
Aaron Hash, Ben Eichhorn, MaruMayhem, Eigenverse, Jordan Collett, KissMyFlapjack, Mike Chin, Mr. Rogers, RainTech, Roy Eschke, Switchingitup_, Sephazon, TheSharkAmongMen, vgmlife, Link The Hero of Winds, Angela Bycroft, TurboChargeNerd, Thomas O’Rourke and Simon Barrera!
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Jan 5, 2023 • 1h 50min
47: 23 Predictions for 2023 *Will Tears of the Kingdom Disappoint?*
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Hi, we're so excited to be back with the first podcast of 2023! We're planning some big things this year and can't wait to get going and make all sorts of cool content for you. In this episode, we're going to lock in our predictions for 2023. Will we be right or horribly wrong? We're going to keep track of all of this throughout the year and see how we do. We're also going to talk about all of the games we played over the holiday break, share our thoughts on some news and then wrap it all up by answering questions from our wonderful Patreon family. Let's get going!
0:00 - Happy New Year!
17:21 - 23 Predictions for 2023
35:37 - Tears of the Kingdom prediction/discussion
58:13 - Games we are playing
1:14:34 - News News News
1:21:59 - Questions from our wonderful Patreon community
Thank you to our wonderful Patreon Super Stars! Aaron Hash, Ben Eichhorn, MaruMayhem, Eigenverse, Jordan Collett, KissMyFlapjack, Mike Chin, Mr. Rogers, RainTech, Roy Eschke, Switchingitup_, Sephazon, TheSharkAmongMen, vgmlife, Link The Hero of Winds, Angela Bycroft, TurboChargeNerd, Thomas O’Rourke and Simon Barrera!
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Dec 29, 2022 • 1h 20min
46: Nintendo Minute is GONE
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Hi, and welcome to episode 46 of the Kit & Krysta Podcast. We're recording this the day after Christmas so it's going to be a bit of a shorter more chill episode. We'll talk about the recent happenings with Nintendo setting all of the Nintendo Minute videos to private and go into why we think this is and what we think this means and of course how we feel about it all. The bulk of this episode will be dedicated to answering questions from our wonderful Patreon community. We're a bit behind since we didn't do a Q&A segment in our GOTY episode so doing a bit of catch-up here. Hope you're all having a great holiday and enjoy the last episode of 2022. We can't wait to tell you what we have in store for 2023. It's going to be great!
Thank you to our Patreon Super Stars!
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Dec 22, 2022 • 1h 56min
45: 2022 Game of the Year Awards
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Hello and welcome to a very special episode of the Kit & Krysta Podcast. It's time for our massive Game of the Year award ceremony and discussion, and we couldn't be more excited. We have 22 categories, some serious and some silly, to go through. We did a fun community poll for each of the categories with our wonderful Patreon family so we share our community winners as well as our personal winners. At the end of the episode we reveal our personal top 10 games of 2022 and our favorite gaming moment of the year. It's been such a great year for games and we're excited to celebrate all of it with you. Settle on in and let's get this award ceremony started!
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Dec 15, 2022 • 2h 5min
44: RogersBase's Craziest Reaction *Nintendo Switch Surprise*
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Hello and welcome back to a very fun episode of the Kit & Krysta Podcast. This week we're joined by a very special guest Roger from RogersBase to talk all about a time when we surprised him with Nintendo Switch three months before the system came out. This might be his most epic reaction to date! We also caught up on all the great games we're playing this year and it was just wonderful to see Roger in person and hang out. Also in this episode, we go open some Christmas gifts, talk more about The Game Awards which we attended last week and answer a handful of questions from our wonderful Patreon family. All this coming up right....NOW!
0:00 - It's more festive than ever
18:50 - Never a Minute - opening Christmas gifts
24:37 - Nintendo Storytime with RogersBase (Nintendo Switch Surprise)
55:36 - Games we are playing
1:14:19 - News News News (The Game Awards reactions)
1:35:40 - Questions from our Patreon family
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Aaron Hash, Ben Eichhorn, MaruMayhem, Eigenverse, Jordan Collett, KissMyFlapjack, Mike Chin, Mr. Rogers, RainTech, Roy Eschke, Switchingitup_, Sephazon, TheSharkAmongMen, vgmlife, Link The Hero of Winds, Angela Bycroft, TurboChargeNerd, and Thomas O’Rourke!
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Dec 8, 2022 • 2h 3min
43: Nintendo Has LOST Control of Competitive Smash
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Hi Friends and welcome back to another episode of the Kit & Krysta Podcast. We're very festive this week but we do have to talk about a topic that isn't very jolly and it's all this drama with Nintendo and the competitive Smash community. We've worked closely on this while we were at Nintendo and things are pretty dire. Perhaps it's time for Nintendo to just throw up the white flag and give up trying to control this. We can't jump straight into the unpleasantness so let's ease in with a fun storytime about when we had to steal a Christmas tree to salvage a Nintendo Minute episode about to go awry. We also share our favorite holiday vibe games in our Never A Minute segment. We have a super meaty Games We are Playing segment because we both beat God of War! And of course we answer a handful of questions from our wonderful Patreon subscribers.
0:00 - The pink Christmas tree is UP!
10:23 - Stolen Christmas tree saves Nintendo Minute
18:37 - Holiday vibe games
27:09 - Games we are playing (God of War, Playdate, Pentiment, Vampire Survivors)
56:56 - Smash x Nintendo DRAMA (News news news)
1:23:53 - Questions from our Patreon subscribers
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Dec 1, 2022 • 1h 36min
42: Nintendo Expected Breath of the Wild to LOSE at The Game Awards
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Hello and welcome to episode 42 of the Kit & Krysta Podcast! We're getting so close to The Game Awards so we have another story to share about the year Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey were both nominated for Game of the Year. Somehow this caused mass panic inside Nintendo but it was certainly an iconic year for the company. We are both deep in God of War so we share our latest thoughts and feelings on the game. In our news section we talk about how Pokemon Scarlet/Violet broke every record imaginable even though the game has some glaring performance issues and discuss what this means for the future of the franchise. We wrap it all up by answering questions from our wonderful Patreon community.
0:00 - One of us is sick, guess who?
9:32 - Storytime: Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey at The Game Awards in 2017 (Nintendo panicked!)
47:47 - Games we are playing (We talk about God of War and if you don't want light spoilers skip to 1:02:26)
1:05:30 - News news news
1:18:15 - Questions from our Patreon subscribers
Thank you to our Super Stars: Aaron Hash, Ben Eichhorn, MaruMayhem, Eigenverse, Jordan Collett, KissMyFlapjack, Mike Chin, Mr. Rogers, Paul Gale Network, RainTech, Roy Eschke, Simon Barrera, Switchingitup_, Sephazon, TheSharkAmongMen, vgmlife, Link The Hero of Winds, Angela Bycroft and TurboChargeNerd!
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Nov 24, 2022 • 2h 2min
41: HUGE Nintendo Announcements Are Coming to The Game Awards
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Happy Thanksgiving! We're so excited for this episode of the Kit & Krysta Podcast. Hopefully you're all turkey'ed out and listening to this while you digest. This week we'll be predicting who we think will be the winners at The Game Awards. We have 19 categories that we're going through. We also predict some reveals that will be "WORLD PREMIERING" at the show. This is a meaty segment so this will be both story time and our Never A Minute segment this week. We also dig into games we're playing and discuss whether the performance issues in Pokemon Scarlet/Violet have tainted our experience. We've both also been playing a ton of God of War. We go through a handful of news and of course answer questions from our wonderful Patreon family. All of this is coming right up!
0:00 - Are you full of pumpkin pie?
12:50 - The Game Awards predictions
59:15 - Games we are playing (Pokemon Scarlet/Violet & God of War Ragnarok)
1:22:24 - News News News
1:29:16 - Questions from our Patreon subscribers
Thank you to our Super Stars: Aaron Hash, Ben Eichhorn, MaruMayhem, Eigenverse, Jordan Collett, KissMyFlapjack, Mike Chin, Mr. Rogers, Paul Gale Network, RainTech, Roy Eschke, Simon Barrera, Switchingitup_, Sephazon, TheSharkAmongMen, vgmlife, Link The Hero of Winds, Angela Bycroft and TurboChargeNerd!
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Nov 17, 2022 • 2h 5min
40: The Untold Story of the Wii U Launch *10 Year Anniversary*
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Hello and welcome to a very special episode of the Kit & Krysta Podcast! Today we're looking back at the launch of Wii U on its 10 year anniversary. We can't believe it's already been 10 years and we have some complicated feelings about this system since we were working so closely on the launch and the Wii U era was such an interesting/hard time to work at Nintendo. We also talk about games we are playing and we're both super excited to dive into God of War and talk to you about it. We have a beefy news section covering the TGA nominations and of course, we answer questions from our fabulous Patreon subscribers. This is a special one so let's get going!
0:00 - Happy 10 year anniversary Wii U!
11:50 - The untold story of the Wii U
1:02:37 - Games we are playing
1:21:39 - News news news (TGA nominations, Nintendo financials, more Twitter nonsense)
1:37:21 - Questions from our Patreon subscribers
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