It is time for Episode Nine. After coming to Margie’s rescue, Bart faces off against Ramsus. Then Fei comes to help! Then they run into Elly! Then Margie’s stuffed animal is a real animal! We learn the necessity of deathblow combos, explore the lack of stride animations in non-essential characters, and also develop an utter…

Schöne Grüße. Xenogears is a Japanese role-playing game, which means we have to wind up in a church. After poking around in Nisan we spend some time in its cathedral. Here we learn incest is an aspirational fantasy, contemplate the morality of genociding the Gonzales clan, and speculate Gnosticism’s influence on Sophia, the Ethos, and…

It’s Episode 11, our 12th episode. We open with Ramsus’ nightmare and try to determine who’s pulling the most strings. We battle with Elly’s Loser Squad and watch Elly get dosed with space racism. We witness Vanderkaum realize his destiny, watch Ramsus transition from Powerful to Pathetic, note strong directorial decisions with archaic assets, identify…

Hey. We’re in Nortune now, which means everything is different until it becomes the same again. Enigmatic forces of questionable benefit are everywhere. Prison initiation rituals are unavoidable. There are suspect choices on diversity and representation. Fei finally sleeps a lot. We also discuss pretentious attempts at creating introspection, our wish for a D Block…

It’s episode 13, the best number. We begin with an outrageous Blue Guy/Red Guy Digital Thunderdome sequence before moving onto the Battle Arena and discovering someone tried to make a fighting game in the middle of this role-playing game. We also find Hammer The Supplier in our modern society, get body shamed by French cooks…

Behold the introduction of a brand new segment: Egregious Oversights and Corrections. After that we’re bebopping back into Nortune’s D Block where we try to avoid talking about Citan’s deviancy, attempt to trash talk our arena battling opponents, use our weakness as strength, and listen to some D Block poetry. We also realize Hammer might…

We live in a new room. It has a playlist of one song. It never stops. We’re also talking about Kislev’s strength-based merit system, meeting a new candidate for Best Doctor, receiving advice from a toilet nun, interpreting Kislev’s iconography, sending Rico’s brain to hell, shutting Hammer up, jumping on a moving train without committing…

It’s about that time, players. We’re discussing giant robots and the feelings people are feeling while inside of them as we wipe the floor with villainous stooges, recognize the necessity of equipping items before a boss fight, question Citan’s concern for the innocent, observe Rico’s declining mental state, watch Elly turn face, and witness how…

Hello today. We begin with a routine check to see if this podcast is enhancing our damaging our love of Xenogears. We move on to lose faith in the acumen of our favorite doctor, determine the best air-jacking sequence in role-playing games, make sense of Deathblows, become suspicious of Hammer’s connections, appreciate framing and directing…