Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

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Kat Bailey, Nadia Oxford, and Eric Van Allen explore Final Fantasy, Skyrim, and all the best in the wonderful world of role-playing video games! Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/bloodgodpod

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Are We Past the Golden Age ...

01.30.2023

When you think of the "RPG Golden Age," what comes to mind? The SNES, certainly--who can deny the brilliance of Chrono Trigger? (Except for Eric Van Allen, who has been banished to the Naughty Step to think about what he ...

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01.30.2023 Are We Past the Golden Age of RPGs? Or Are We Living In It? When you think of the "RPG Golden Age," what comes to mind? The SNES, certainly--who can deny the brilliance of Chrono Trigger? (Except for Eric Van Allen, who has been banished to the Naughty Step to think about what he ...
01.24.2023 Fire Emblem Engage w/ Alyse Stanley Eric had to shoulder the entirety of the show last week because Kat went skiing and Nadia had the audacity to catch COVID, but the gang is well and truly back together this week! Writer and WaPo editor Alyse Stanley ...
01.16.2023 Let's Talk About Chained Echoes w/ Austin Walker Kat and Nadia are both out this week, so Eric shifts into a different gear to chat about the mech-fantasy RPG Chained Echoes with Friends at the Table's Austin Walker! The pair discuss 2022's late-in-the-year surprise hit and why it's ...
01.14.2023 Sharlayan Dropouts, Episode 19: An Audio Tour of the Lost City of Amdapor Put on your Hawaiian shirt and cargo shorts because it’s tourist season in Eorzea! In this episode of Sharlayan Dropouts we’re taking you on a guided tour. Either listen as a standalone episode or follow along in-game for the Ultimate ...
01.09.2023 Which Trends Will RPGs Adopt Most Over the Next 10 Years? Not a single person is ready for 2023, but guess what! It's happening anyway! Time is kind of a dick like that. So Kat, Nadia, and Eric just steel themselves this week and take the full-bodied plunge back into work. ...
01.02.2023 What to Expect From Axe of the Blood God in 2023! Hello and welcome to Year 3 of the Axe of the Blood God! It's going to be an absolutely massive year for RPGs, and that means big things for the podcast. Here's just some of what we have planned as ...
01.02.2023 The Axe of the Blood God's Big Ol' 2023 RPG Preview Happy New Year! 2023's launch also marks the launch of new RPGs. Like, lots of RPGs. This is going to be a busy, busy year. Kat, Nadia, and Eric go over their most anticipated titles for the upcoming 365 days, ...
12.26.2022 The RPG Year in Review 2022 w/ Mike and Victor The year is coming to a close, and so we're looking back on all the role-playing games 2022 delivered. Kat, Nadia, and Eric are joined by the Sharlayan Dropouts Mike and Victor to help break down all the happenings in ...
12.19.2022 The Games We Loved (But Weren't So Hot On Later) Kat has returned to the Axe of the Blood God, and all she got was a nasty cough. Well, that and memories that'll last a lifetime, or something like that. She's come back home just in time to enjoy a ...
12.14.2022 Sharlayan Dropouts: Hoplology 101 - The Veil of Wiyu Fans of Ivalice, the history of visual novels, and the works of Jean-Luc Godard might just find something to sink their teeth into this episode. Victor explores the many twists and turns in the surprisingly robust history behind Final Fantasy ...
12.12.2022 The 2022 Game Awards + This Year's Hidden Gem RPGs w/Lucas White The universe has survived another bout of Geoff Keighly's Game Awards, where the real awards are the memes mined from cynical adults' Twitter timelines. Does that work grammatically? Eh, whatever. Point is, Geoff Keighly threw a party and now there ...
12.05.2022 The Year of Tactics 2022 Recap w/ Leana Hafer This week on Axe of the Blood God, friend of the pod Len joins Kat, Nadia, and Eric as they talk about one of this year's most popular RPG sub-genres: The strategy game. From turn-based to real time, from revision ...
11.29.2022 Pantheon of the Blood God: Mass Effect For the June 2021 edition of Pantheon of the Blood God, Kat, Nadia, and Eric take a deep dive into the first game of the Mass Effect series! They trace its origins as the follow-up to Knights of the Old ...
11.25.2022 Sharlayan Dropouts 2022 Thanksgiving Special w/ Aidan Moher Hop on the airship back to your hometown and listen to your favourite Final Fantasy XIV podcast, now on the free feed! The Dropouts bring a very special guest to family dinner, author of Fight, Magic, Items, Aidan Moher, to ...
11.21.2022 Pokemon Scarlet and Violet Review w/ Reb Valentine This week on Axe of the Blood God, IGN's Rebekah Valentine joins Kat, Nadia, and Eric as they step into Pokemon Heaven courtesy of Pokemon Scarlet and Violet. Wait a second. Maybe it's more like Pokemon Hell, since Scarlet and ...
11.14.2022 Star Ocean: The Divine Force Review w/ John Linneman This week on Axe of the Blood God, Digital Foundry's John Linneman joins Kat, Nadia, and Eric for a detailed discussion about Star Ocean: The Divine Force. It's been a Canis Major's age since Square Enix did anything with Star ...
11.07.2022 Final Fantasy XVI Controversy, Twitter's Implosion, and Other Messy Discourse This week on Axe of the Blood God, Kat, Nadia, and Eric lose themselves to chaos. The smash launch of Marvel Snap dang near caused something to snap in their brains, it seems. Or maybe they're just jumpy because Twitter—a ...
11.01.2022 Class Conscious: Monks w/ Danielle Riendeau This week on the Axe of the Blood God RPG podcast, Kat and Nadia have both gone out for cigarettes, which means that Eric is in charge. Our boy keeps his head on his shoulders and invites Mike Williams of ...
10.28.2022 Pantheon of the Blood God: Phantasy Star To honor the legacy of Rieko Kodama, who passed earlier this year, we are releasing this episode for free to all listeners. For the August 2021 edition of Pantheon of the Blood God, Kat and Nadia are joined by Shane ...
10.24.2022 Talking P5 Royal, Mario + Rabbids, Trails From Zero + Kat's Steam Deck Apology w/ Scott White The weather is truly colorful and crisp — provided you live in the northern hemisphere and aren't currently in the grip of a climate change-fueled heatwave. Either way, it's a good time to stay indoors and play the piles of ...
10.20.2022 Special: Tim Rogers on Boku no Natsuyasumi, Why PlayStation is the Best Console, Taco Tico, and More Following the release of Action Button's new review of Boku no Natsuyasumi, we welcome Tim Rogers to talk about this PS1 classic, which has plenty of connections to modern RPGs like Persona 5. Naturally, the conversation spreads out to hit ...
10.17.2022 Pantheon Mini: Valkyria Chronicles War is hell. Unless you're talking about Valkyria Chronicles, the much-celebrated tactics RPG by Sega. See, war is still hell in Valkyria Chronicles, but it's also very pretty and fun to play. This week, very special guest and valued Blood ...
10.10.2022 Cyberpunk Sequel, Witcher Trilogy: Analyzing All of the CDPR Announcements This week on Axe of the Blood God, Kat, Nadia, and Eric talk about CD Projekt Red's (overly?) optimistic road map for the future of Cyberpunk 2077 and the Witcher series. Looks like CD Projekt is working hard to repair ...
10.03.2022 Does Cyberpunk 2077 Deserve Its Redemption Arc? w/ Kenneth Shepard CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077 is currently experiencing something of a redemption arc. Does the (hugely) troubled RPG necessarily deserve said arc, though? Well…yes, but also no. This week on Axe of the Blood God, Kat, Nadia, and Eric invite ...
09.26.2022 99 Potions x Axe of the Blood God: Our Problematic Faves For this week's episode we're joined by the very talented folks behind 99 Potions, Fantbyte's dedicated RPG podcast that was unfairly cut short by the site's recent layoffs. In solidarity with our fellow creators, we invited Nere, Michael Higham, Andrea ...
09.19.2022 The September Nintendo Direct: Paradise for RPG Fans, Paradise Plus for Farming Game Fans This week on the Axe of the Blood God RPG podcast, Kat is out and Nadia learns one more time that it's really just that easy to take an inherently chaotic podcast and make it twice as dizzying. Friend of ...
09.12.2022 Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, Harvestella, Tactics Ogre Reborn, and More in the Fall 2022 RPG Preview This week, Axe of the Blood God tackles the 2022 fall RPG preview—which feels like a nutty thing to say, since summer only started yesterday. Right? Right…? Oh. Thankfully, RPGs help take away the sting of passing time for a ...
09.05.2022 Rings of Power, House of the Dragon, and RPGs + Autumn of Avatar Book 1, 1-6 w/ Alex Stedman The fall season is upon us, and more fantasy shows than you can shake a wizard's staff at are popping up! Since RPGs and fantasy have a fair bit to do with one another, we brought on IGN's Alex Stedman ...
08.29.2022 Does Sony Need More First-Party RPGs? It's a slim week at the Blood God, so we dipped into our rainy day bucket of topics to discuss Sony's first-party games. Does it need more first-party offerings, or should it stick to its third-party deals? We discuss all ...
08.22.2022 Souls Hackers 2 Review w/ Michael Higham and Diego Argüello This week on Axe of the Blood God, Kat, Nadia, and Eric have a (digital) devil of a time talking about Soul Hackers 2. They're joined by Fanbyte.com superstars Michael Higham and Diego Argüello, who both have plenty to say ...
08.15.2022 Delays, Delays, Delays + What's the Right Length for an RPG? This week on Axe of the Blood God: It's letter tiiime, it's letter tiiime! Kat, Nadia, and Eric answer questions asked by YOU, our grand Blood God listeners! What is the gang's favorite class in Xenoblade Chronicles 3? What new ...
08.09.2022 Game Developer Quest: Falcom - 1980s, Pokemon Reax It's another busy week on Axe of the Blood God. Two hefty topics are packed into one convenient episode: New Pokemon Scarlet and Violet information, on top of the beginning of the Nihon Falcom Developer Quest. Listen in as Kat, ...
08.01.2022 Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Review w/ Autumn Wright This week on Axe of the Blood God, it's time to bask in the Monado's power! Special guest Autumn Wright talks to Kat, Nadia, and Eric about Xenoblade Chronicles 3. How does the third game in this sometimes-bumpy series hold ...
07.26.2022 Live A Live Review w/ Reb Valentine This week on Axe of the Blood God, Nadia and Eric are joined by their special friend, Reb Valentine of IGN. Together, they Live A Live, Laugh A Laugh, and Love A Love. That's right: Reb reviewed the long-awaited 2DHD ...
07.20.2022 The 10 Best RPG Parties Of All Time, Ranked w/ Ben Hanson and John Carson Today on a very special episode of Axe of the Blood God, Kat, Nadia, and Eric party down with friends of the show Ben Hanson and John Carson. Nota bene: "Party down" in this instance means getting down to brass ...
07.18.2022 How Gundam Has Inspired RPGs Through the Years + Genesis Mini 2 Reax The Axe of the Blood God charity stream is over, and somehow Kat, Nadia, and Eric came out the other side with their limbs and sanity intact. They also came out with $10,000+ raised for Trans Lifeline! That's worth a ...
07.14.2022 Pantheon of the Blood God: Persona 5 For the December 2021 edition of Pantheon of the Blood God, Kat and Nadia are joined by Fanbyte's Nerium Strom and Michael Higham for an exploration of Persona 5! During their lengthy discussion, the group discusses just some of the ...
07.11.2022 Pantheon Mini: Does Fallout New Vegas Deserve To Be #1? w/ Khee Hoon Chan and Jay Castello After the (ahem) fallout of our #1 pick for the Top 25 RPGs of All Time, we got together with Khee Hoon Chan and Jay Castello to talk about whether it deserves to be the top-rated RPG of all time. ...
07.04.2022 PC RPG Quest - 2010s: The Great Convergence w/ Len Hafer Summer is a time for schmoozing with friends, which is why Axe of the Blood God invited veteran guest Len Hafer to talk about the best video game genre in the whole wide world. (Psst—that means RPGS.) Leana helps the ...
06.27.2022 The Mid-Year Review 2022: From Pokemon Legends To Citizen Sleeper This week on Axe of the Blood God, recent political going-ons have the gang physically, mentally, and spiritually taxed. Kat, Nadia, and Eric elect to take it easy and do a mid-year check-in of the RPGs. What are some of ...
06.21.2022 Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Reax, Another Kat Breakdown, And RPG Makers w/ Vivicomplex This week on Axe of the Blood God, Kat has an intense war flashback to spring 2020. If you don't recall, Final Fantasy 7 Remake absconded with a little bit of her soul, and she's never been quite the same ...
06.13.2022 The Xbox and Summer Games Fest Recap + Final Fantasy 7 Event Predictions This week on Axe of the Blood God, Kat and Eric are joined by not one, but two Alexes to break down the summer showcases! RPG Site's Alex Donaldson and freelancer Alex J. Kane are here to discuss the Xbox ...
06.06.2022 Final Fantasy XVI is Real, Pokémon Has Chonky Bois, And Kat Returns This week on Axe of the Blood God, Kat rejoins Eric and Nadia after her adventure on the high seas. She's a little unsteady on her legs, not to mention lightly brined by sea salt, but that's not about to ...
05.30.2022 Class Conscious: Dragoons in RPGs This episode was not entirely Nadia's idea, we swear. Really, can anyone deny the sheer cool factor of the Final Fantasy series' take on dragon knights? If you're not, maybe this episode will make you a believer. Prima Games' Jesse ...
05.23.2022 The Top 25 RPG Remake Breakdown This week on Axe of the Blood God, Kat has run off to do sailor junk on the high seas, so Nadia and Eric hold the rig together by themselves. Well, that's not entirely true. Kat joins them from SeaPhone™ ...
05.18.2022 The Top 25 RPGs Of All Time Remake 2022 It's time at last to share our newly-revised list of the 25 best RPGs of all time! For much of 2022 we've been slowly collecting potential nominees for an update to the list that we made several years ago. Now ...
05.16.2022 PC RPG Quest - 2000s: How MMORPGs Changed RPGs Forever w/ Amy Dunham This week on Axe of the Blood God, the gang takes a step into the fascinating and revolutionary (if jagged and polygonal) world of massive multiplayer online RPGs from the 2000's. Kat, Nadia, and Eric are joined by very special ...
05.13.2022 The Quest for the Axe of the Blood God - A D&D Adventure As a special thank you to our listeners for helping us reach $6000 two months in a row, we recently hosted a very special D&D; 5e session with special guest DM Shivam Bhatt. Now it's available for everyone to listen! ...
05.09.2022 We Pick An Isometric RPG For Nadia to Play w/ Leana Hafer Tired of the same ol' RPGs? Why not try changing your perspective? This week by Patron request, Nadia, Kat, and Eric talk about isometric RPGs with some help from Leana Hafer of Three Moves Ahead. Topics of isometric discussion include ...
05.02.2022 Class Conscious: Healers In RPGs The Blood God is back in full force after Eric and Nadia's trip out to Boston. We're continuing our unofficial Job Hunt with a discussion about White Mages and healers in RPGs! How has healing evolved over the years? Who's ...

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