The wish for a remake of Super Mario RPG has been granted, but we’re strolling down star road to revisit the Super NES original for this critique!
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A fully modernized and fully mechanized Front Mission 1st: Remake has arrived at last but was it worth the wait?
While Live A Live was definitely unique for its time, it’s got some competitors like Octopath Traveler in this day and age. Does it hold up?
On this Radical Dreamers podcast, how the forgotten Satelliview text adventure relevantly connects Cross to Trigger.
On this Final Fantasy VI podcast, pixel remaster anticipation, character development and why Kefka works, and Uematsu’s master works.
Is Chrono Trigger a Final Fantasy game? Let me convince you that its differences and similarities make it uniquely perfect for the series.
Final Fantasy III is a piece of FF history that’s more accessible than ever thanks to the Pixel Remasters.
Final Fantasy II gets the Pixel Remaster treatment with a wealth of QOL and visual upgrades. Is it enough for this black sheep of the series?
On this Secret of Evermore podcast: derivative or unique; similarities and dissimilarities with Mana; Square USA; Americana and B-movies.
Time to come clean. I was wrong about Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster but it took playing the game for myself. Well, half-wrong.
Final Fantasy Adventure accomplishes quite a lot with its limited resources, platform, and translation. Revisit the first Mana game with me.
Soundtrack Showdown is over. After 20+ weeks of nominating and voting, see which OST got the vote for the GOAT!
On this Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within podcast, art director and designer James H. Dargie shares some memories working on the film!
On this Vagrant Story podcast, we handle one of Square’s most difficult games with care. Having trouble beating Vagrant Story? Have a listen!
In this Final Fantasy VIII podcast: Squall as a hero that some people strongly identify with, the game’s divisiveness, a few fan theories, & series context.
In this Xenogears podcast, the host of Bookwarm Games & TWRM join forces to discuss religion in games, art history, systematic theology, and classic JRPGs.
I hope you came hungry for this Breath of Fire podcast! Time to tackle…
It shouldn’t work. It shouldn’t be magic. You shouldn’t weep happy and then sad and…
On this Final Fantasy podcast, @AncientLitDude and I discuss what is arguably the most important game to The Well-Red Mage as a concept.
The epic conclusion of our Chrono mini-series is finally here!
Our first in a three-part series of Chrono Trigger podcasts features Brent the ABXY Mage and a talk on the game’s soundtrack.
I got to chat with my dad, the 16-bit one (@16bitdadblog), about Parasite Eve! We get into the differences in horror between the West and East and how Parasite Eve blends the two, how the story connects to the incident in Japan in the novel…
Radical Dreamers may have just received an official translation, but fan translators have made the game accessible for years!
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”
-Roald Dahl
Chrono Trigger magnum opus: addressing questions of interpretation, authorial intent, hype/nostalgia, if the GOAT really exists.
In this Vagrant Story critique, we revisit one of the more challenging and inaccessible offerings from Square right at the tail end of the 90s.
We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers
And sitting by desolate streams;
World losers and world forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” ―Edmund Burke
“Always winter but never Christmas.”
-C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia
