Trails in the Pod

Intro 00:00 Strong Female Characters overview 1:00 Agency and choice 5:15 Why "strong" female characters? 6:45 Arya and Sansa in Game of Thrones 9:30 Strong female characters and/vs strong characters 15:00 Vulnerability 24:00 What looking for in women characters? 27:30

Intro: 00:00 Trails SC Chapter 1 S-Rank Bracer 2:30 Kevin at the Aureole 4:00 Alicia's technological distribution plan and administrative state capacity 6:45 The ghost of Ruan 20:15 At the Royal Academy, Kloe and Estelle's talk 27:30 Old Schoolhouse, active villains and reactive heroes 31:30 Nintendo Direct 44:00 Fire Emblem Engage: 45:30 Octopath Traveler 53:30 Tales of Symphonia Remaster 57:00 L...

Intro 00:00 NISA shut down Zerofield 00:30 Translation and/versus localization 16:15 Literal versus sense-based translation 26:00

Intro 0:00 Listener responses 1:00 Beginning of SC discussion 11:00 Estelle and Cassius 12:30 Meeting Kevin Graham 18:30 Estelle's breakdown, emotions, and 'strong' female characters 19:45 Guild training camp and Anelace 27:30 Gameplay changes in SC 32:00 The false-flag Jaeger attack and lethal force 39:45 Ourbouros 46:00 Joshua at Hamel, Karin, and Lorence/Loewe 51:00 SC prologue as a whole 56:30...

Intro 00:00 Listener feedback 1:30 Combat 8:45 Orbments 14:30 Equipment 19:30 Sidequests 22:45 Swapping party members 24:30 Dungeons/overworld 28:15 Story 33:50 Joshua and Estelle 46:30 The party members 50:15 Graphics 59:00 Soundtrack 1:04:30 Kevin's predictions on SC 1:10:00 Colin reviews Hajimari 1:13:00

Kevin and Colin discuss the final chapter of Trails in the Sky FC.  Because this episode was cut into two and we didn't plan ahead, there are no time codes. Twitter: @Trailsinthepod

Kevin and Colin discuss the final chapter of Trails in the Sky FC.  Because this episode was cut into two and we didn't plan ahead, there are no time codes. Twitter: @Trailsinthepod

Intro 00:00 Listener Responses 00:45 New Audience Question, when did you get hooked on Trails? 08:45 What is a quest? 11:30 Side quests vs main quests and locking important information behind optional material 14:45 What makes a sidequest a side quest? 20:30 Sidequests and "true" or "golden" ending 23:30 Hidden quests 30:30 What makes a good sidequest 35:00 Quest rewards 38:15 Quest rewards in Tra...

Follow us on Twitter: @TrailsInThePod Email us: TrailsinthePod@Gmail.com Intro 00:00 Prologue and the Masked Man 2:25 Goodbye to Kloe 5:15 Meeting Tita and education in Liberl 7:00 Tita as a unit 10:30 Zeiss, its soundtrack and technology 12:20 Difficulty, damage sponges, and bosses 17:30 Estelle, Joshua, and Tita's relationship 23:00 Hot springs bath 28:00 Are Estelle and Joshua's feelings incest...

Colin and Kevin discuss what dungeons are, what they need to do to be successful, and how dungeons can fail. Intro and shoutouts to Twitter, Geofront, and Trails in the Sky dubbing 00:00   Dungeon definitions 4:50 Features of dungeons 9:20 JRPG Dungeons vs Western games 12:00 Puzzles 18:00 Encounters 24:00 Music and soundtracks 27:00 Exploring and rewards 30:45 Encounters 33:30 Favorite and least...

Colin and Kevin have finished playing through chapter 2, and now we're gonna talk about it. Intro 00:00 Overarching thoughts on chapter 2 1:30 Mysterious prologue 2:20 Krone pass checkpoint and Agate as an in-game unit and as a character 5:20 Estelle's self-conceptualization when criticized and praised 9:00 Kloe as a unit and a character 11:45 The helmet crab sidequest and managing arts in combat...

Colin and Kevin discuss experience and leveling JRPGs, how they play into overall game design, and what some of the bad systems look like.   Intro: 0:00 Experience in RPGS: 2:10 Combat and Experience: 3:20 Quests, Exploration, and Experience 7:00 Balancing Difficulty in RPGs: Level Scaling 9:00 Different Ways of Leveling Up: 13:00 Narrative Integration of Experience Gains: KOTOR 2 15:00 Killing an...

Kevin and Colin have played through chapter 1 of Trails in the Sky FC, where they meet key characters like Olivier, Agate, and Colonel Richard.  The timestamps are as follows: Intro: 00:00 Clock Tower Estelle's Mom, and the War: 2:05 Novels, Newspapers, and Guides in RPGs: 7:10 Mayor Matbelle and the Representation of Corporate-Political Power: 10:20 Meeting Olivier and how culture has changes in...

In this episode, Colin and Kevin explore the idea of the prologue.  What defines a prologue?  How is it different from a Chapter One?  What narrative goals are they meant to achieve?  Gameplay goals?  Is the prologue in Trails in the Sky FC a good prologue?  Join us to find out!

In this episode, Kevin and Colin discuss their experience playing through the prologue of Trails in the Sky FC.

Welcome to Trails in the Pod!  In this first episode, Colin and Kevin discuss what they value in RPGs, what they look for to determine if a JRPG is good or not, and why they've chosen to go through the Trails series in a systematic way.