About this episode
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 Support on Patreon Subscribe: RSS , Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , Spotify , and more! 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 .