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


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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:

  1. Brandon Sheffield asks: What is the “Play it again, Sam” of video games? (05:46)
  2. 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)
  3. What are some RPG mechanics from a bygone age you’d like to see make a comeback? (20:54)
  4. Rename Creative Business Units 1 through 4 (26:24)
  5. MoxBagel asks: If Chunsoft continued to make all eleven main Dragon Quests, how would they be different? (37:21)
  6. Is the practice of grinding a fundamental flaw in RPGs, or can it be additive to the experience? (43:38)
  7. What are the qualities of a party member you’ll always keep in your party? (50:44)
  8. Establish a canon of worthy 2D successors to Final Fantasies IV-VI (56:32)
  9. 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

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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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