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With the release of Final Fantasy XIII just around the corner (or already past if you understand Japanese), this episode concentrates on SquareSoft and Square Enix. We spend some time talking about the highs and lows of the company made famous by its console RPGs, with a focus on the Final Fantasy series but occasional forays into its other, less successful ventures. Of course, this wouldn't be the S-Words without a whole lot of tangents, and for some reason Dom keeps trying to find some bro fist action. Enjoy!
Music: Mambo de Chocobo, Final Fantasy V Piano Collection
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Great episode! I can't see what happened on 'set' but you guys had me laughing like crazy.
Change the poll quick, I have to put in a vote for Final Fantasy VII. I'm biased because I am too young to have played V, VI. Still VII was like my entire childhood. Don't ask me how, but my brother and I once had a level 64 Cloud before crossing the Midgar Snake on a chocobo. The game was really easy that time round until we encountered the first form of the final boss, which did 9999 damage per hit because we were lvl 99.
I love the story and characters of VII. The world is so multi-dimensional, it's not what you would call coherent with the weird skiing minigame or Cloud's patchwork memory but it's still beautiful. All those weird long cut scenes that still used the basic graphics were not boring at all!
hm, I know you guys put a lot of effort into the podcast but that tag-cloud is way too small for this epic podcast.
Great episode! Listened to it twice, right away. Though I've never really gotten into the Final Fantasy games and their spinoffs, your hijinks made the episode very enjoyable.
Slot mechanics are yes largely bad.
But I figure it's worth mentioning one good story that came of them.
I was showing a friend how impossible Emerald Weapon was, The fight lasted about 4 turns. Emerald beam, stomp, etc. One hit Cloud, two hit Tifa.
For some bizarre reason I liked Cait Sith at the time and had him in my Party.
Got his limit. Died before finishing rolling.
The "Game Over." Message appears at the top of the screen but the slots finish rolling on a perfect Cait Sith and Auto-Kill Emerald Weapon in one hit. The victory then plays to my Game Over, I leave battle with only Cait Sith alive with a default 1 hp.
So because of slots, I get to say I beat Emerald Weapon, despite being really really bad at FF7 in my childhood.
No such luck on Ruby Weapon as it was intelligently a fight with a forced slot result of Toy Soldier.
Vaguely related. 9 was my favorite.
Didn't get to finish 3/6, my emulator lost my save file right after Terra left. I lost all will to replay it.
Which is sad because I universally hear it's the best.
You guys are awesome! Final Fantasy III/VI was my intro to console RPGs and to this day I still love to play it. In fact, I named my dog Terra!
Also, thanks for reminding me of Seiken Densetsu 3. I used to play that via emulation years ago and now I'm playing it again. Tons of fun!
I actually enjoyed Chrono Cross. It's not as great as Chrono Trigger but I attribute that mostly to the whole "phasing" into combat like in Final Fantasy.
So are you guys going to do another podcast? Did something bad happen?
We actually have two big episodes recorded, but Dom is busy moving and I have been busy for the past few months. I might get the audio from Dom this week and just edit and upload myself if I have time.
Good to know that everything is well/not on fire/broken in to/etc.