119: Advisory Women

Exploring the Wise Woman stereotype as it relates to railroad management

These models will impart sage wisdom unto you

Jessica and Anna are both played a new train game featuring a woman who explains stuff: a common occurrence in mobile games. Now, women know things, but Anna isn't sure about all these advisory women in mobile games. Why are they there? Is it for the right reasons or the wrong ones?

Something we’re more sure of is that Nintendo’s eShop is awful. Nevertheless, Jessica managed to play a game on her 3DS that she actually liked!

And of course, Super Mario Run is out and people have Opinions. About the price, about the monetization, about the gameplay, and more. We dive into some of these takes on Nintendo’s first real mobile game, and of course provide our own as the advisory women that we are :-)

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Stuff we mentioned:

AirPodsMatt Ditton’s swear-filled episodeTiny Rails (iOS & Android)HermioneOur Gaming YodaPocket Card JockeySuper Mario Run (iOS only)   SharewareAge of EmpiresSuper Mario Run’s inevitable backlashKotaku Toad Rally pieceLeap Day (iOS & Android)People are upset about SMR’s data usageNES Classic MiniShould VR take its cue from casual games?Job SimulatorToilet gamer iOS stickers