Are you strong? This time we’re dealing with the implications of Citan as party leader, finding Zeal in Xenogears, developing some suspicious Dan suspicions, meeting Id and wondering gosh what the heck is an Id, watching heroes come out of the rafters, LOOKING AT STONE’S FACE OR LACK THEREOF, clarifying a “fake awakening,” questioning Grahf’s…

Good day. This bonus podcast is a fun one-off episode as well as a way for Eric to rationalize doing nothing else for two weeks. Podcasting about things is now a release equal to writing about things. This won’t replace any scheduled pods, it’s just a thing we’re doing. For fun. This podcast is intended…

We’ve lost our porpoise. On this episode, we’re realizing the places we feared as children aren’t to be feared as an adult, admiring Krelian’s headgear, going over Chu-Chu composition theories, confronting the horror of 1998 physics systems, falling into dank pools, jumping over wreckage, speculating tower origins, obliterating Ramsus’ weak ass (again), riding through Traffic…

Let’s not imagine things. It’s not good for your heart. What’s real is spilling beverages on podcast equipment, identifying 2018 lyrics in a 1998 song, appreciating Bart carrying plot points across time, squirting, collecting different shaded rocks, encountering Shevat’s assemblage of ragtag rebels, parlaying with Chu-Chu’s, turning yesterday’s tears into tomorrow’s smiles, receiving all of…

Unification increases power. This time we’re listening to forest music in an air shaft, thinking Maria’s combat prowess might be underdeveloped, hopping windmills, conjuring alternative Big Joe truths, listening to villains reveal critical plot machinations, regretting Rico, dealing with our machine father, speculating Billy’s infatuation with Boondock Saints, riding Gears instead of piloting Gears, witnessing…

You’re really acting absent-minded chu-day. This time we’re listening to half the soundtrack, “burning ass” back to the Yggdrasil, committing to Chu-Chu, fighting on a stage set, collecting our thoughts on a bridge, not robbing an abandoned store, exploring an actual spaceship, using our ancestral eyes to open sacred doors, lamenting the mausoleum’s whack-ass dungeon,…

A boss battle and a plot device; let’s go. We’re missing glowing red buttons, observing Grahf’s technology and Gate technology, noting Shakhan is a jerk and a punk, not getting it up, blessing up our Big Boy, min-maxing Elly and destroying god, crashing our PlayStation Classic, creating a republic, having sex out of sects, cultivating…

And now, for something completely different. Released in North America on May 1st 1999, R4: Ridge Racer Type-4 closed a generation—and a millennium—with character and class. Namco’s signature racing series, once defined by its garish spectacle and manic energy, finally relaxed into a state of confident sophistication. This podcast is a complete retrospective on R4: Ridge…

Calm down, your pants are too loud. In this episode, we’re worrying Chu-Chu might be out of unique dialogue, witnessing the effect of monarchy’s dissolution on the local non-playable populace, eating fish out of an aquarium, fantasy equipping Ramsus’ speedo, decimating Elements, appreciating Kelvana’s professionalism, missing incredibly important laser shots, solving imaginary union disputes, not…