Damn Chocobo: Another Final Fantasy Podcast

FF8 relevant talk starts around the 28 min mark after a lengthy talk about Marvel Heroes Omega finally hitting consoles!

After some lengthy summer shenanigans the boys return to talk about their experience with the 3rd disk of Squall and Co's adventure called Final Fantasy VIII. Debate on how earned the romantic drama is, a giant space gun (because why the hell not I guess?), a whole crap ton of "HOW DID THIS EVEN HAPPEN" questions, FINALLY getting our hands on a real ride, Rinoa largely being forgotten about due to the excitement and freedom of said ride, faaaaaaarrr to much time spent acquiring ingredients for the Ultimate Weapons, having 99% of those questions from earlier in the play-through answered in a huge exposition dump late in the play through, hating on Marlbro's (because to hell with bad breath) and the almighty glory of DEGENERATOR await on the latest hard hitting mat slamming in the ring action called DAAAAAAAMN CHOCOBOOOOOOOO!

Music for this episode - Intro: Ride On Final Fantasy VIII Metal Guitar Cover by Hekdar Thunderfist Outro: Eternally Yours by Motionless in White

Rich and Jake take up the challenge to finally give the Final Fantasy series music the attention it deserves. Fifteen of our favorite FF tracks, a disturbing lack of FF8, Rich's love of epic drums, Jakes experiences at Distant Worlds, and a quest to make a FF music list that DOES NOT include One Winged Angel AND MORE await on the latest smooth sailin' ride we call DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN CHOCOBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

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Music for this episode - Intro: Devils Lab (ACID MIX) by Khalal Outro: The Decisive Battle by Powerglove

NOTE: FF8 talk begins around the 28 Minute Mark.

After a lengthy discussion about Jake's glorious acquisition of a PS4 and his fresh opinions of the current generation game system, the boys rejoin team SEED as Squall and crew try and solve their Ellone problem. Continued debating how how on earth something as big as the Garden could crash into a city without anyone seeing it coming, Rinoa continuing being a pretty chill lady, some mostly pointless wandering, some continued picking on Zell (poor Zell) and a ridiculous memory related plot twist that could have EASILY been removed without effecting the plot too much await on the latest episode of the Mighty Morphin Damn Chocoboooooooos. (GO GO CHOCO-BOH-OOHHHHHS!!! Whoah oh oh oh oh!) Feel free to contact us a [email protected] or check out our progress at the website www.damnchocobo.com

Music for this episode - Intro: Garden Rock Anthem (Movin') by Materia Collective Outro: Show Yourself by Mastodon

FF talk starts at 18 min

Rich and Jake return to FF8 to find out how that epic cliffhanger from disk 1 ends up only to be hit from left field with a surprise flash back, some prison shenanigans, a surprisingly entertaining infiltration mission, a betrayal from within and a surprise school function! All this and more await on the latest jam session from those super hot hit machines we call DAAAAAAAAAAMN CHOCOBOOOOOOOO!!!! Also - John Wick 2 was totally f-ing rad right? Right? You're damn right it was! Feel free to contact us a [email protected] or check out our progress at the website www.damnchocobo.com

Music for this episode - Intro: Man With The Machine Gun Remix by Sim Gretina Outro: Ballad of Dwight Fry by Alice Cooper

Final Fantasy game talk starts at 11:45!

Team Chocobo continue Titus and co's quest to help end the tyranny of the Galbadian President. Getting lost in the overworld, running out of gas in car rentals, being aghast at a child beating parent, hating sewers, and a rowdy crowd that doesn't care that their celebrating a crazy person who openly seems to hate them all, AND MORE await on this story discovered in a long abandoned mansion in the Raccoon City forest - that contains some sort of Evil.... in the Residence.... a story we calll DAAAAAAAAMN CHOCOBOOOOOO!!!!!

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Music for this episode - Intro Final Fantasy VIII force your way remix by Blinn Outro: Love Song by Marilyn Manson

Regular Game talk starts at 1:19:00

As per holiday tradition, the guys take a break from Final Fantasy and spend an hour playing and repeatedly failing at a classic NES game. This year we drunkenly take a dive into the classic and still amazing Castlevania. After an hour of repeated deaths we settle into our traditional format and discuss the game in our normal brazen yet loving way. Bad drinking decisions, how much we hate medusa heads, debate over if these little guys are called flea-men or hunchbacks, a top 10 list of cool things from 2016 and a top 5-6 list of cool things from 2016 await on the latest monster whipping adventure during a horrible night to have a curse we call DAAAAAAMN CHOCOBOOOO!

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Music for this episode - Intro and Mid episode break: Vampire Killer by Konami Kukeiha Club From the Dracula: Perfect Selection rap album Outro: Suck (Live) by Nine Inch Nails

Game relevant talk begins around the 9 min mark (YES THAT EARLY!)

The guys begin what in some ways is a deep and personal run as we begin the love/hate ride that is Final Fantasy 8. Is Squall a pretentious dick or just really lazy? Can Seifer actually have a point sometimes? How may time limits is too many time limits? How stupid is the Timber Mission? Is Rinoa kind of cool or kind of stupid? What the hell is up with Zell (I mean seriously. Who gets a face tattoo?). All these questions and more (like a lengthy talk about Jerky?) await on the latest blast nostalgic hot air we call DAAAAAAAMN CHOCOBOOOOOOOO!

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Music for this episode - Intro - Balamb Garden Remix by megalorganiste Outro: El Scorcho by Weezer

Marvel Heroes talk starts at the 25 minute mark.

After opening with a relatively lengthy and one sided talk about Final Fantasy XV, the boys finally take the time to go into detail on Marvel Heroes 2016. Rich struggling to not talk about X-Men constantly, is it free-to-play or pay-to-win, a whole lot of mechanical game-play details, how much the Thor villain Kurse sucks, should you put money into this thing, and just generally way more info about this game than you ever asked for on the next overly informative episode of DDAAAAAAMN CHOCOBOOOOOO!

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Music for this episode - Intro: X-Men Theme by Powerglove Outro: In the Garage by Weezer

Jake and Rich celebrate the impending release of much anticipated Final Fantasy XV by checking out the prequel film Kingsglaive. Questionable politics, a sad sack loser friend, a potentially interesting character confusingly killed, undeniably impressive visuals, some ridiculousness cool teleport fighting, unintelligent usage of force lighting in combat, Sean Bean with his inability to ever live and lots of really cool game homages await on the latest surprisingly fast released and timely episode of DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN CHOCOBOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

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Music for this episode -Intro: Kingsglaive- Final Fantasy XV OST - Main Theme by John Graham and Yoko Shimomura Outro: Bullet by the Misfits

NOTE: Game relevant talk starts around 20 minutes in. After an extended break to accommodate Jake's grand move halfway across the country AGAIN, we return to finally wrap up Zelda A Link to the Past. Bosses being jerks, obnoxious weapon switching, Rich having surprise struggles in the later dungeons, a Fairy of larger physical form, the most nondescript dungeon ever, struggles to remember what on earth we did 2 months ago, the hookshot being for suckers, OF COURSE more Dark Souls talk, and Ganon just being a jerk face over and over are ahead on this long cocooned and finally gestating former Caterpillar now Butterfly we call DAAAAAAAAAAMN CHOCOBOOOOOOOOO.

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Music for this episode - Intro: A Path to Hyrule (OC_ReMix) by Koji Kondo Outro: My Way Home is Through You (Live Demo) by My Chemical Romance