June 13, 2022

Ep. 240 - Get On The Centaur, with The Night Sky Prince

1 hour 18 minutes

Final Fantasy and JRPG streamer The Night Sky Prince pals around with the panel for an RPG-focused episode covering wily game mavens, Bush doing 9/11, and the Lynchian madness of Kingdom Hearts.

Questions this week:

Brandon Sheffield asks: What is the “Play it again, Sam” of video games? (05:46)

What would make Final Fantasy XVI not just the best game in the series, but a game that even Frank and Brandon would want to play immediately? (12:44)

What are some RPG mechanics from a bygone age you’d like to see make a comeback? (20:54)

Rename Creative Business Units 1 through 4 (26:24)

MoxBagel asks: If Chunsoft continued to make all eleven main Dragon Quests, how would they be different? (37:21)

Is the practice of grinding a fundamental flaw in RPGs, or can it be additive to the experience? (43:38)

What are the qualities of a party member you’ll always keep in your party? (50:44)

Establish a canon of worthy 2D successors to Final Fantasies IV-VI (56:32)

LIGHTNING ROUND: RPGeography (01:03:07)

Recommendations & Outro (01:09:29)

Use Discussion on the forums! It’s super effective!

A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

Dragon Ball Z: Super Saiya Densetsu

Phantasy Star IV

Phantasy Star games

Dragon Warrior

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Treasure of Tarmin Cartridge

Pokémon Blue Version

Quest 64

Play it again, Sam

Casablanca (1942)

Pac-Man

Death Stranding

Pong

Super Mario series

Final Fantasy XV

Everything we learned from Final Fantasy XVI’s new trailer

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Call of Duty series

Devil May Cry 5

Ultima

Shin Megami Tensei series

Elden Ring

Creative Business Unit I

Final Fantasy series

Saga Frontier series

Kingdom Hearts series

The World Ends with You series

Creative Business Unit II

Dragon Warrior / Dragon Quest series

Gunslinger Stratos

NieR series

Bravely Default series

Octopath Traveler series

Creative Business Unit III

Final Fantasy XIV Online: A Realm Reborn

Final Fantasy XVI

Dragon Quest Builders series

Creative Business Unit IV

Seiken Densetsu / Mana series

Nintendo R&D 1

Sega AM2

Meet Shinra, Square Enix’ powerful cloud processing tech

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge

Spike Chunsoft

Yuji Horii

Akira Toriyama

Koichi Sugiyama

Destiny 2

Loop Hero

Half-Minute Hero series

Cecil Harvey

Shining Force series

Centaur (pinball)

Deus Ex: Human Revolution is FINE, And Here’s Why

Legend of Heroes series

Lost Odyssey

Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals

Chrono Trigger

Wild Arms

Suikoden series

The Legend of Xanadu II

Seiya Monogatari: Anearth Fantasy Stories

Tokimeki Memorial games

Albert Odyssey

Tales series

Final Fantasy Tactics

Wild Arms 2

Xenogears

Grandia

Dark Savior

Alundra

Recommendations:

Brandon: Wishlist Necrosoft’s new game Demonschool on Steam, check out the website

Frank: Our Flag Means Death

Tim: Buy a nice pair of shoes

The Night Sky Prince: The Night Sky Prince on Youtube, Twitch and Twitter

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Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Tim Rogers, Brandon Sheffield and The Night Sky Prince. Edited by Esper Quinn. Original Music by Kurt Feldman.

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