RPGFan's Retro Encounter

We're still celebrating Tales of month here at Retro Encounter, and what better time is there to form a guild? Nearly two years after our last Tales of game journal, Tales of Vesperia is on the docket, and the same three panelists return from the Tales of the Abyss episodes! In a dense first half, the trio gush about the characters and dig into the combat, and there's surely a grumble or two about missable sidequests.

Featuring: Alana Hagues, Michael Sollosi, Stephanie Sybydlo

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Lights! Microphones! Action! Our panel of RPG battle maniacs reconvenes for a discussion on RPG combat in real time, focusing on series that fight in real-time, or at least mostly in real-time. Hearts, Souls, Mana, and Ends of the World all make appearances in today's action-packed episode of Retro Encounter!

Featuring: Michael Sollosi, Trent Argirov, Greg Delmage, Peter Triezenberg

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Retro Encounter celebrates Namco's long-running action RPG series all February in a special Month of Tales! We kick off Tales Of month with an episode discussing the entire series, from Abyss to Zestiria, eventually picking an official Retro Encounter's Favorite Tales Of Game. Spoiler alert: it isn't Tales of the Tempest.

Featuring: Michael Sollosi, Robert Fenner, Alana Hagues, Stephanie Sybydlo

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Retro Encounter had so much fun playing 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors last year that the same four codenamed panelists reunited for the sequel! Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward has more friendly robots, more diabolical puzzles, and more artificially intelligent rabbits than its predecessor, and the crew is here for all of it.

Featuring: Hilary "Hilary" Andreff, Trent "The Stranger" Argirov, Leona "Jade" McCallum, Michael "Monsoon" Sollosi

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The panelists shut the door on this miniseries of Kingdom Hearts podcasts, and shed as much light as they can on the second half of the first game in the storied series. Dancing in Halloween Town, skulking in Hollow Bastion, and fighting Kingdom Hearts's strong suite of secret bosses all come into play in Retro Encounter's Kingdom Hearts finale!

Featuring: Peter Triezenberg, Alana Hagues, Kyle Kortvely, Michael Sollosi

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2019 has barely begun and Retro Encounter will try something a little different. The four panelists are sick and tired of talking about RPGs for 170 episodes, so for 171 they'll try the opposite route and talk about their favorite video games and video game series that RPGFan doesn't cover.

Featuring: Michael Sollosi, Alana Hagues, Nathan Lee, Peter Triezenberg

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The Retro Encounter episode that yours truly dreaded to record is here. Kingdom Hearts, the popular Square-Disney crossover PS2 RPG, gets discussion worthy of its cult following. Deep appreciation for Kingdom Hearts' voice acting and music and considerably less appreciation for the designs of a few early stages are the stories of the day in our first Kingdom Hearts episode.

Featuring: Peter Triezenberg, Alana Hagues, Kyle Kortvely, Michael Sollosi

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Retro Encounter indulges in its host's selfish whims and does a deep dive discussion into Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of An Elusive Age, the latest title in the seminal Japanese RPG series. Important characters, plot points, modern RPG amenities in a traditional series, and weaponized nostalgia are all brought up, but the music isn't. It was for the best.

Featuring: Michael Sollosi, Alana Hagues, Rob Rogan, Rob Steinman, Zach Wilkerson

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Retro Encounter puts a bow on 2018 by discussing several of its video game highlights, including games that quest, games that hunt, games that spin, games that code, and even games that Go. Here's to the year that's gone and to the year about to begin!

Featuring: Michael Sollosi, Robert Fenner, Alana Hagues, Leona McCallum, Peter Triezenberg

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The Retro Encounter panel's original plan was to record a single episode about battle systems in RPGs, but there ended up being so much to discuss that we're splitting it into two episodes. Today we focused on turn-based combat, from the earliest Japanese RPGs through grid-based systems to whatever the hell Final Fantasy XII is. So check the attacks queue, wait your turn, and strike that episode link!

Featuring: Michael Sollosi, Trent Argirov, Greg Delmage, Peter Triezenberg

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