A chapter by chapter, beat by beat analysis of classic Japanese Roleplaying Games (JRPG). We delve deep into the story, dialogue, game mechanics, music, influences, and themes. We've covered Xenogears, Chrono Cross, Final Fantasy VIII, Suikoden, Suikoden II, Xenosaga Episode I, Final Fantasy Tactics, and Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete. Yes, we will kill god.
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Bi-Weekly podcast dedicated to the JRPG or Japanese Role Playing Game. Discussions include the games, the culture, and all the fun associated with them. From Final Fantasy to Dragon Quest, Tales to Trails, Persona to Kingdom Hearts, they are all here. Western RPGs with Japanese influences will also be covered. Support us on Patreon!
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The RPG Years is your weekly show covering all things video role-playing games (RPGs), both past and present. From Dungeon Explorer to the Final Fantasy VII Remake, all RPG video games are fair game. Each week, we discuss current news in the video game world and do a deep dive on an RPG-related topic. We also have our famous RPG Club! A book club for JRPG video games! Meanwhile, our hosts do periodic reviews on games from the "Golden Years", which includes games from the 4th, 5th, and 6th ge ...
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Choose the games, beat the backlog, discover and enjoy JRPGs
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Join podcast host Tyler Pointer, an avid JRPG fan, as he discusses and dissects our favorite parts of role-playing games by world renown gaming studios out of Japan.
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The Giant Sword Podcast is here to provide you with the finest recommendations, breakdowns, and banter about the best (and maybe sometimes worst) JRPGs out there.
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Welcome to Episode 85 of The RPG Years! This week, Bill and Frost cover the last segment of the Golden Years Game, Illusion of Gaia Sword Of Hope (GameBoy) is the next List game! Join the discord and play along! The Dragon Quest III ‘RPG Club of Salvation’ officially kicked off Sunday 2nd February!!! The club breakdown is as follows: Segment 1: Com…
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JRPG Report Episode 282 - New Chrono Trigger News, Eiyuden Chronicle DLC, New Suikoden Game, and more!
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This episode! New Chrono Trigger news, A new Suikoden Mobile game on the horizon, and some new Eiyuden Chronicle DLC, Plus the release of Atelier Yumia is rapidly approaching! Support the podcast here https://www.patreon.com/JRPGReport Patreon support gives you access to the …
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Screaming will achieve nothing. That's why we're speaking at normal volume about lamenting the loss of democracy, getting weirdly nationalist about fish and chips, committing to a Ghaleon bit, doubling down on menopause jokes, finding ourselves incarcerated, taking Luna to Golgotha, spitting up dots, wondering if mom’s soul has been poisoned, smell…
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In the past, British People were responsible for the future. What a time to have never been alive. 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:35 Hackers 00:06:03 Techno 00:11:41 Wipeout Demo 00:26:36 Wipeout 00:35:50 The Prodigy 00:44:17 Wipeout XL 01:02:07 Wiped Out 01:09:14 Outro由Retrograde Amnesia
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Welcome to Episode 84 of The RPG Years! This week, we tackle segment 2 of our RPG Club for Dragon Quest 3. Did Bill make it to the end? Sword Of Hope (GameBoy) is the next List game! Join the discord and play along! The Dragon Quest III ‘RPG Club of Salvation’ officially kicked off Sunday 2nd February!!! The club breakdown is as follows: Segment 1:…
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Real men can pitch tents in the blink of an eye. Real listeners will know when we’re threatening to zap men to the Frontier, steering a boat, deploying pipe organs in a fetid swamp, avoiding poisonous wa-wa, guessing dragon colors, regretting infernal curiosity, performing a sexual attack, promising not to use magic for evil, wondering if Phacia is…
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Suikoden | E66: War Touches Everyone [The Legacy, the Remaster, and Aidan Moher's New Book]
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Surprise! We’re back to season four with a very special 66th episode. We’re joined by Aidan Moher to discuss his upcoming book on Suikoden and Suikoden II and listen to some of Aidan’s thoughts on Suikoden I&II HD Remaster. In finer detail, that includes: accepting Suikoden pronunciations, measuring Suikoden’s place in RPG history, wondering if RPG…
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Welcome to Episode 83 of The RPG Years! This week, Frost and Bill try to watch the latest Pokémon Presents, while they tackle the next 2 bosses in Illusion of Gaia, the Vampires and The Sand Fanger! Sword Of Hope (GameBoy) is the next List game! Join the discord and play along! The Dragon Quest III ‘RPG Club of Salvation’ officially kicked off Sund…
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That freakin’ kid has no appreciation for capitalism. You freakin’ kids have appreciation for defining the rules of a cave, becoming the Chad of socialism, landing on Star Search, casting spells on the lake, tossing fireballs at fishermen, recording three distinctive la la la songs in Lann, playing booger barter, appointing a tormenter, using rage …
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JRPG Report Episode 281 - Atelier Yumia, Digimon Story: Time Stranger, Trails news and more!
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This episode! News from Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories and the Envisioned Land, a new Digimon Story game announced, Infinity Nikki coming to Steam, Calamity Angels, and more! Support the podcast here https://www.patreon.com/JRPGReport Patreon support gives you access to the…
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Cool, man. We cool men and a robot are socking a cheater in the gut, suffering a honker punch, getting duped by a lying treasure chest, allowing the fascists to pass through, teeming with the criminal element, moving drunk Kyle around the map, sleeping on a rock bed, building a jail in the basement, eating bugs, appreciating milfs, wondering if mou…
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Welcome to Episode 82 of The RPG Years! This week, the lads kick of the latest RPG Club for DRAGON QUEST III !!!! Find out what we think of the opening parts of the game before we head off the pyramid! Sword Of Hope (GameBoy) is the next List game! Join the discord and play along! The Dragon Quest III ‘RPG Club of Salvation’ officially kicked off S…
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Luck had nothing to do with it. You made the choice to listen as we’re applying Goku logic, admiring fashionable mage robes, ticking a clock, cosigning a case to a charge, going back to the pool, hearing rumors of a fake dragon master, leaving some dragon master business unfinished, falling asleep in class, letting Luna meet Mia, imagining Ghaleon …
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Welcome to Episode 81 of The RPG Years! This week, the lads catch up on what they’ve been playing, share their thoughts on the first 2 bosses in Illusion of Gaia, and discuss our personalities! Illusion of Gaia is the next List game! Join the discord and play along! The Dragon Quest III ‘RPG Club of Salvation’ will officially kick off this Sunday 2…
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Are you prepared for your journey of discovery? Learnings must include debating parlor admission, playing a lute like a weird asshole, conceiving destiny music, dreaming the same dream every day, going through the change of life, suffering provincialism, smelling of sea salt and dragon dung, freaking out the corrections officers, literally pulling …
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This week, the lads catch up on what they’ve been playing, share their initial thoughts on Illusion of Gaia, and give a fond farewell to Blue Protocol? Illusion of Gaia is the next List game! Join the discord and play along! The Dragon Quest III ‘RPG Club of Salvation’ will officially kick off this Sunday 2nd February!!! The club breakdown is as fo…
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May the goddess Althena shower you in her blessings. May you take a shower while blowing up Affleck’s head, mastering skills through perseverance, erasing exhaustion with magic, sucking off a healing stick for free, gaining testicles in Spanish, dropping an anal probe reference, beating up fungus, realizing only Vane may have electricity, loathing …
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Frosts opinions are his own and not that of the podcast! Welcome to Episode 79 of The RPG Years! This week, Bill and Frost transport you all back to December 2023, to finish off the lost episodes of the Disco club!!! Illusion of Gaia is the next List game! Join the discord and play along! The Dragon Quest III ‘RPG Club of Salvation’ will officially…
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This episode! It's been a heck of a light news month, but I scrounged together what I could for you all. Hopefully some new waves of JRPG goodness are heading this way soon <3 Support the podcast here https://www.patreon.com/JRPGReport Patreon support gives you access to the JRPG Report disc…
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Still your tongue, cat. And activate your ears, as this time we’re receiving Japanese turd confirmation, roughing up Dross with kicks and pows, self-realizing limitations, sassing up “driveway,” getting ripped off on Black Rose Street, deploring a PMS joke, exposing beastwoman babes, talking on the world map, blowing the Vane reveal on PSP, strokin…
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Frosts opinions are his own and not that of the podcast! Welcome to Episode 78 of The RPG Years! This week, Bill is in Finland, so we’ve called up our friendKaslo25 for a discussion of Team Asano. Plus, we have our next game for the RPGClub! Illusion of Gaia is the next List game! Join the discord andplay along! Please support the show at patreon.…
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Lunar: Silver Star Story | E12: Bootstraps and the Rejection of Collectivism [Meribia, Part III + Sewers]
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It’s a dead man's party. That’s what podcasts are called on Lunar, where we’re realizing no underclass exists in Meribia, understanding Mel only trusts beastmen with weapons, verifying interspecies erotica, debating ho ho ho vs bwa ha ha, fist fighting a Hero, slandering lawyers and accountants, cringing at crushing on Jessica, locking tighter than…
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Frosts opinions are his own and not that of the podcast!Welcome to Episode 77 of The RPG Years!This week, Frost celebrates 1 year on the show and we talk about all the games we'll fail to finish in 2025! The RPG Years is hosting an RPG Club! It's like a book club, but with RPGs, and we hope all of you play along! Voting Open Now for the Next RPG Cl…
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You kids are wack. And our hearts are content as we’re wondering if Mel took Meribia by force, placating the masses, lying to children, having a big dream, entering Dross negotiations, partying till we puke, knowing dragons are real, practicing swordsmanship, seeing our shoes under her bed, inventing meteorology, foreshadowing the necessity of magi…
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Frosts opinions are his own and not that of the podcast! Welcome to Episode 76 of The RPG Years! This week, Bill and Frost are back for 2025. The RPG Years is hosting an RPG Club! It's like a book club, but with RPGs, and we hope all of you play along! RPG CLUB GAME VOTING SOON! Illusion of Gaia is the next List game! Join the discord and play alon…
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Get up, stumblebut, we got jerkin’ off to do. Nope, sorry, wrong podcast. On this one we’re kink shaming a flying cat, valuing experiences over possessions, sleeping on a cot, marveling at the Meribian metropolis, questioning if turds are monsters or monsters are turds, wondering if Meribia is under mob rule, using a traveler’s cheque, role-playing…
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This episode, We talk about Ys X getting a new release, an Ys vs Trails game, Celceta coming to Switch, Pixel fishing, and more! Support the podcast here https://www.patreon.com/JRPGReport Patreon support gives you access to the JRPG Report discord channel, and whatever else Dalton and Mikhailov c…
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