The Pitch

Don't let these gooey boys slip through your fingers!

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Mitch Benes read your questions, prompts, and thoughts about Souls in general.

Nick and Braybraybray take a look at Turmoil and Domina, a pair of steamtown dumplins.

Kole, Ben, Jala, and David talk about Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, Pokémon Go’s curfew, and we ask you which TV show or movie you would like to see made into a game.

• Pokémon Go imposes a curfew, maybe.
• The old 2DS gets a super cheap bundle.
• Warcraft gold is worth more than the Venezuelan dollar.
• Gamestop will be open on Thanksgiving

• What movie or TV show would you like to see made into a game, and what kind of game would it be?

• Jala: Guild Wars 2. Final Fantasy Tactics. Sky Dancer.
• Kole: Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.
• Ben: Factorio. Fidel.
• David: Fortnite.

Links:

• Jalaid (July 28-30, 2017) - YouTube
• Fundraiser by Jala Prendes : Jala's Cervical Cancer Treatment

Kinda big, a little hair, not as dumb.

It's a classic RPG that established many of the norms for a huge series. Does it hold up to modern scrutiny? This episode covers the generalities, and the events of the game up through Cecil's trial at Mt. Ordeals.

Final Fantasy IV was released in America for the SNES in 1991 as "Final Fantasy II", just a short year after the first Final Fantasy reached our shores. Timed to coincide with the release of a new system, it takes advantage of some of the new technologies that were freshly available at the time. The added scope was used to create a sweeping, narrative focused game that put broadly sketched characters and melodrama to the forefront. This decision came at the expense of some of the systems complexity of previous entries, marking Square's new priorities for RPGs as vehicles for story.

This first episode covers the portion of the game where Cecil, our main character, is working as a Dark Knight in the employ of Baron. Unsettled by his king's increasing militancy, Cecil abandons his kingdom after deciding he won't be a tool for further atrocities.

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Links:

• Episode 89: Final Fantasy IV, plus some big news | Retronauts

Our second letters episode also looks at two MTV Unplugged performances, separated by a decade.

Kole recently suffered a head injury that leads him to think really bad RPGs are just fine, so this episode is slightly contentious. Well, not really. That would be too complicated for foreign audiences, so we dumbed it down real good.

Big, hairy, dumb.

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