Episode 929: James Jones – Reviewing Art Through a Neanderthal’s Eyes – Radio Free Nintendo

Alright, so here’s the thing. You know those fancy cave paintings? Yeah, the ones folks rave about. They’re mostly from modern humans—the Magdalenian gang—hanging around 20,000 to 10,000 years back. Not trashing Neanderthals or anything; they dabbled with art too. Mostly handprints and mysterious dots, maybe a ladder-like squiggle here and there. But, uh, their stuff’s older and didn’t survive too hot.

In short? Neanderthal art kinda… well, it blows.

Anyway, this is just me rambling. No fact-checking. Imagine I’m waving my hands around saying, “Check it if you dare!”

Picture James, not some brow-heavy Neanderthal with a chic beret. Think Hot Tub Time Machine-level sarcasm, if it were actually funny.

So THIS WEEK, Jon got his hands on the Switch 2. Straight from bestbuy.com’s digital embrace. We let him dive into Mario Kart World with the rest of us. Red shell chaos everywhere. Poor Jon, just getting pummeled—somehow, it’s calming?

Oh, plus, that new Splatoon single-player… announced outta nowhere.

The show goes off the rails, but do we understand it? Nope.

We took a breather for sanity’s sake, but we’re back. Guillaume’s hyped about F-Zero GX on the new NSO Expansion. But, uh, dude’s kinda intense. Also been mashing through Valfaris. It’s all guns, foes, and chaos.

Greg’s poking around the Splatoon 3 patch for the Switch 2. Has opinions about HDR and framerate stuff. Seriously, Nintendo, get me on your marketing team for “super-stable framerate” pitches.

Wrapped it up with me, your humble rambler, diving into the Switch 2’s Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time. Time thieves, man. Who knew they came in child form? Just hit the tutorial phase so far, but hey, maybe more next week. Unless, you know, distractions and all that.

Bring on the ancient doodles.