It was an absolute pleasure having you (and Dexter) on, so thanks for coming on and helping me hijack an episode into Captain N talk.

And would love to be on sometime when things align for it

It's always a pleasure to have you on, and it's always a fun surprise to see what you do with recording questions for these season finales.

I'd agree that the music in Zelda feels more memorable than Crystalis, but I think Crystalis over the original Zelda is, I think, roughly where our final verdict ended up.
It did feel hard to not talk about Zelda as we went through Crystalis, just seemed like a very natural comparison.

There're a lot more RoboCop games than I would've ever guessed.

So this should close the loop for me after this was discussed some episodes ago as a game (this is the same RoboCop, right?) without me needing to play it

I think you may have cosmically summoned an Overthinking Games episode with some of that discussion (and more power to you for it), but also:

Ecco may be one of the best examples of a game that hid its true nature a bit too well. I think most people that know the game don't know about the whole... alien thing.

It was a trip to learn what the later levels held

(Honestly, I don't think I ever saw the end of the first level as a kid)

Glad they're showing you what they got