Damn Chocobo: Another Final Fantasy Podcast

Secret of Mana talk starts around the 19 Minute mark after another lengthy talk about getting older. Because the dudes are getting older. For real.   Rich and Jake return to wrap up the magic in the immensely legendary SNES classic, Secret of Mana. Somewhat confusing level layouts, Moms turning into trees, Jake continuing to move like a butterfly and sting like a bee, Rich continuing to suck at fi...

Secret of Mana talk starts around the 16 Minute mark.   The Chocobro's return for more action and adventure in Secret of Mana! Confusion on what the story actually is, acknowledgement that the remake actually has some valid improvements, unbelievably stupid rebels, a whole lot of fighting, Rich's struggles with navigating Flammie on the over-world, the value of money in RPG's, Gold loving kings th...

Game relevant talk begins around the 20 min mark.   After a lengthy talk about joblessness, fatherhood and mowing lawns like a couple of old people the boys return to talk about the Legendary Secret of Mana again. Debates on how to pronounce the word 'Mana,' the effectiveness of magic against bosses, Jake's struggle with puzzles, Rich's struggle against stupid enemies, bad dragon names, a kickass...

Secret of Mana talk starts around the 23 min mark!   Jake and Rich touch one of the non Final Fantasy RPG classics of the SNES era with the often lauded SECRET OF MANA!!! Asshole villagers, a super cool old Knight (who may or may not be a creepy molester?), weird looking goblins, an exciting new battle system, seeds of some sort (???), an impressively sneaky girl, an impressively powerful but stup...

Surprisingly we get to business in (relatively) short time! FFX-2 talk starts around the 14'30" min mark. As the boys wrap up not only the legendary Final Fantasy X-2, they also proceed to check out the few extraneous "X" related media post X-2 and truly wrap up the Final Fantasy X saga. Do any of these sub plots wrap up in a meaningful way? Is there any late game puzzles that annoy Jake we run in...

Buckle in for another lengthy intro as Rich Talks about becoming a father and just how many Final Fantasy VII games he played while on Paternity leave (spoilers, he played all of them). Plus more Dissidia NT talk as Jake finally has had some hands on time with the game! FFX-2 talk starts around the 42 min mark (I told you, lots of Baby, FFVII and Dissidia talk!) Jake, Rich, Yuna, Rikku and Paine (...

Buckle in for another lengthy intro as Rich Talks about becoming a father and just how many Final Fantasy VII games he played while on Paternity leave (spoilers, he played all of them). Plus more Dissidia NT talk as Jake finally has had some hands on time with the game! FFX-2 talk starts around the 42 min mark (I told you, lots of Baby, FFVII and Dissidia talk!) Jake, Rich, Yuna, Rikku and Paine (...

NOTE: If you want to skip the "idiots playing and sucking at Mortal Kombat while swearing a lot" section of the show feel free to go to the 1:35:00 time on the show to skip all that and get to the standard format part of the show. Its that time of year again when our boys spend an hour or so playing a classic game really badly and cursing a lot before talking about how great the game really is bec...

Kingdom Hearts talk begins around the 27 minute mark. Rich and Jake spend a lengthy intro memorializing the once great and now dead Marvel Heroes, only to finally roll into the final run of our play-through of Kingdom Hearts 2. Plot finally kicks into overdrive! Kairi finally has some more screen time! Ansem reports! Did you read them? We didn't (at first anyway)! Do you like bosses finally gettin...

Kingdom Hearts Talk begins at around the 20 min mark. Jake and Rich realize they bit off more than they can chew by trying to finish wrap up the game in one more episode only to realize that Sora, Donald and the Goof Bro needed TWO more episodes to properly send this bitch off. Join our heroes as they struggle through non-sequiters and tripping over our own words to finally talk about the "Battle...

Kingdom Hearts discussion begins around the 23 min mark.   Hope you have a comfortable seat, folks. Because Rich and Jake return once again for another overwhelmingly long episode featuring Sora, Donald, Goofy and the rest of the Disney and Final Fantasy misfits featured in the wonderful and ridiculous Kingdom Hearts 2. Donald "doing it", Pete being one sad bastard, Jake's strong... feelings... on...

Kingdom Hearts talk starts at around the 25 min mark.   Rich and Jake return to Square-Enix's super weird and wonderful Disney x Final Fantasy mashup series with Kingdom Hearts II expecting to hang with our boy's Sora, Donald and Goofy... only to discover a whole new dude rocking the Keyblade. Where is our favorite silly dog man, duck dude and jorts bro and what have they been up to since KH1? Who...

Final Fantasy 8 talk starts around the 14 minute mark! FINALLY Jake, Squall, Hot Teacher, Rich, Jorts Boy, Party Girl, Loser Cowboy, and Love Interest Girl make it to the end of the long and lovely game known to most as Final Fantasy VIII. More Marvel Heroes Omega talk (sorry, not sorry), disbelief that Seifer still has not just thrown in the towel at this point, Aura is the best ever and we shoul...

FF8 relevant talk starts around the 28 min mark after a lengthy talk about Marvel Heroes Omega finally hitting consoles! After some lengthy summer shenanigans the boys return to talk about their experience with the 3rd disk of Squall and Co's adventure called Final Fantasy VIII. Debate on how earned the romantic drama is, a giant space gun (because why the hell not I guess?), a whole crap ton of "...

NOTE: FF8 talk begins around the 28 Minute Mark. After a lengthy discussion about Jake's glorious acquisition of a PS4 and his fresh opinions of the current generation game system, the boys rejoin team SEED as Squall and crew try and solve their Ellone problem. Continued debating how how on earth something as big as the Garden could crash into a city without anyone seeing it coming, Rinoa continui...

Rich and Jake take up the challenge to finally give the Final Fantasy series music the attention it deserves. Fifteen of our favorite FF tracks, a disturbing lack of FF8, Rich's love of epic drums, Jakes experiences at Distant Worlds, and a quest to make a FF music list that DOES NOT include One Winged Angel AND MORE await on the latest smooth sailin' ride we call DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN CHOCOBOOOOOOOOO...

FF talk starts at 18 min Rich and Jake return to FF8 to find out how that epic cliffhanger from disk 1 ends up only to be hit from left field with a surprise flash back, some prison shenanigans, a surprisingly entertaining infiltration mission, a betrayal from within and a surprise school function! All this and more await on the latest jam session from those super hot hit machines we call DAAAAAAA...

Final Fantasy game talk starts at 11:45! Team Chocobo continue Titus and co's quest to help end the tyranny of the Galbadian President. Getting lost in the overworld, running out of gas in car rentals, being aghast at a child beating parent, hating sewers, and a rowdy crowd that doesn't care that their celebrating a crazy person who openly seems to hate them all, AND MORE await on this story disco...

Regular Game talk starts at 1:19:00 As per holiday tradition, the guys take a break from Final Fantasy and spend an hour playing and repeatedly failing at a classic NES game. This year we drunkenly take a dive into the classic and still amazing Castlevania. After an hour of repeated deaths we settle into our traditional format and discuss the game in our normal brazen yet loving way. Bad drinking...

Game relevant talk begins around the 9 min mark (YES THAT EARLY!) The guys begin what in some ways is a deep and personal run as we begin the love/hate ride that is Final Fantasy 8. Is Squall a pretentious dick or just really lazy? Can Seifer actually have a point sometimes? How may time limits is too many time limits? How stupid is the Timber Mission? Is Rinoa kind of cool or kind of stupid? What...

Marvel Heroes talk starts at the 25 minute mark. After opening with a relatively lengthy and one sided talk about Final Fantasy XV, the boys finally take the time to go into detail on Marvel Heroes 2016. Rich struggling to not talk about X-Men constantly, is it free-to-play or pay-to-win, a whole lot of mechanical game-play details, how much the Thor villain Kurse sucks, should you put money into...

Jake and Rich celebrate the impending release of much anticipated Final Fantasy XV by checking out the prequel film Kingsglaive. Questionable politics, a sad sack loser friend, a potentially interesting character confusingly killed, undeniably impressive visuals, some ridiculousness cool teleport fighting, unintelligent usage of force lighting in combat, Sean Bean with his inability to ever live a...

NOTE: Game relevant talk starts around 20 minutes in. After an extended break to accommodate Jake's grand move halfway across the country AGAIN, we return to finally wrap up Zelda A Link to the Past. Bosses being jerks, obnoxious weapon switching, Rich having surprise struggles in the later dungeons, a Fairy of larger physical form, the most nondescript dungeon ever, struggles to remember what on...

Note: Zelda talk starts approx. 22 mins into the episode After a short conversation discussing the challenges of moving and becoming a home owner they guys discover just how different (and in HARD) the Dark World is Links classic Super Nintendo adventure, A Link to the Past. Being turned into a bunny, repeated getting the bad touch from a giant hand, the importance of potions, discovery of what th...

The boys begin the latest non-Final Fantasy detour as they check up the classic Zelda: A Link to the Past. Jake expresses an unusual amount of positivist while Rich constantly threatens to take over the episode with Dark Souls talk. Lengthy conversations about our mutual Zelda histories, a short audio hiccup, a hyperactive young cat, discussions of whether or not the ice wand is useful, AND MORE a...