This week is all about pricing. PlayStation prices are going up, there are reports of players experiencing dynamic pricing, and Nintendo’s digital prices are actually going down. But that’s not even half of what drove Kaito mad. Red drops a surprise truth bomb on him: the execution of Final Fantasy VII’s story sucks! Needless to say, Kaito becomes the game’s impromptu lawyer and jumps to its defense.

Oh yeah, and we finally talk about Xenoblade Chronicles 2. About time!

Content Warning: This week's stuff happened contains a news piece that involves violence and listener discretion is advised. If you don't want to hear it, skip between 7:05 and 11:51 or just use the chapters markers.

Chapters:

(00:00) Start of the Show
(02:40) Ben Starr & Matt Mercer videos
(07:05) Stuff happened
(07:17) Incident at Pokemon Center Tokyo [content warning]
(11:52) Nintendo is going to charge less for digital games
(13:39) Sony raises prices for Playstation hardware
(17:28) Dynamic pricing
(20:48) Games we play
(21:09) Final Fantasy VII's story execution sucks [story spoiler]
(32:40) Xenoblade Chronicles 2, Kaito's verdict [story spoiler]
(44:07) Next games, next time
(45:09) Question of the Week
(52:41) Contact us
(53:12) Kaito's Shower Thought

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