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

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. 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.

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

LIGHTNING ROUND:  (01:03:07)

Recommendations & Outro (01:09:29)

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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