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Cloud gets Pizza-TSD, Reno and Rude show us the Turks Two-Step, and a cartoon cat weeps in horror. This episode completes chapter 12. Discord | YouTube | Twitch | Email | Show your appreciation #064

As the Turks assault the Sector 7 pillar, Avalanche members begin dropping off, Reno has his sights on a rematch, and Aerith thinks about the children. This episode covers chapter 12 up to the end of Aerith's playable segment. Discord | YouTube | Twitch | Email | Show your appreciation #063

Things get dark and spooky once Cloud, Tifa and Aerith fall into Corneo's trap in the Midgar sewers. Finding the way out it isn't too hard, but a haunted train graveyard separates the team from the Sector 7 pillar, which they desperately need to defend. This episode covers all of Chapters 10 and 11. Discord | YouTube | Twitch | Email | Show your appreciation #062

We enter Don Corneo's world of Dionysian depravity and threaten to take away his favorite toy. Our heroes get the rug pulled out from under them when he spills the beans about Shinra's secret to plan to destroy Avalanche. Also we discuss the Kazushige Nojima novel "The Kids Are Alright: A Turks Side Story." This episode completes Chapter 9. Discord | YouTube | Twitch | Email | Show your appreciati...

How did Remake handle Wall Market's methods of getting Cloud into his iconic dress? We review the divergent ways each game turns Cloud into wife material, and analyze each game's highly unusual Honeybee Inn sequences. This episode completes Chapter 9 up to Cloud's yassification. Discord | YouTube | Twitch | Email | Show your appreciation #060

We explore Remake's lively and sprawling version of Wall Market, get personal about hand massages, and battle an abominable abode. This episode completes chapter 9 up to defeating the Hell House. Discord | YouTube | Twitch | Email | Show your appreciation #059

As Cloud and Aerith cross Sector 6's Collapsed Expressway, Nate and Tyler wonder about the sector's partial plate collapse and Midgar's economic development. Nate briefly reviews Final Fantasy VII Ever Crisis. This episode explores Chapter 9 up to arriving at Wall Market. Discord | YouTube | Twitch | Email | Show your appreciation #058

Aerith speaks to the flowers and Cloud gets a Rude awakening after assisting the children, pickpockets, and Shinra interns of the Sector 5 slums. This episode completes Remake's chapter 8. Discord | YouTube | Twitch | Email | Show your appreciation #057

Mommy Scarlet makes it all better, Tyler and Nate discover Midgar's age, and Aerith questions Cloud about Tifa. This episode covers Remake's chapter 8 between arriving at the Sector 5 slums and questing in the Sector 5 slums. Discord | YouTube | Twitch | Email | Show your appreciation #056

Cloud survives a crash course on horticulture, Reno has an electrifying debut, and Aerith knows more than she lets on. Meanwhile 1990s Nate has a dead Cloud theory and Tyler plays his Stratocaster.  This episode covers Remake's chapter 8 up to arriving at Sector 5 slums' residential area. Discord | YouTube | Twitch | Email | Show your appreciation #055

In the Sector 5 rector, Barret & Heidegger break the news, AVALANCHE builds a boss, and Cloud loses his footing. This episode completes Chapter 7. Discord | YouTube | Twitch | Email | Show your appreciation #054

We fear heights, love lamps, roleplay President Shinra, and discover a bird and teddy bear trapped in stone as we cross the Underplate to the Sector 5 Reactor. This episode completes Chapter 6. Discord | YouTube | Twitch | Email | Show your appreciation #053

Plans get complex as Cloud, Tifa and Barret follow a plucky beagle through Midgar's train tunnels as Heideggar berates, laughs, and strokes his beard at computer screens. This episode completes Remake's Chapter 5. Discord | YouTube | Twitch | Email | Show your appreciation #052

OUR 50TH EPISODE! HOORAY TO US! Before we hop back into the action we discuss the wealth of recent RPG news including the three-minute FFVII: Rebirth trailer, the launch of FFXVI, and Switch Direct announcements for Super Mario RPG remake, Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection, and Star Ocean 2: The Second Story remake, and more. Back in Remake's Midgar, the Sector 7 slums are under attack, and we s...

Jessie's secret mission to the plate is Remake's first chapter-long departure from Original's plot. Two fabulous biker boys do the motordance, the gang discovers Jessie's past and motivation for ecoterror, and the secret mission turns into a full-on firefight. This episode covers Remake's chapter 4 up to the returning to the Sector Seven slums. Discord | YouTube | Twitch | Email | Show your apprec...

As Cloud and Tifa imitate water treatment technicians, we meet a variety of Sector Seven weirdos including a the hooded and sickly Marco, the peacocking greaser Johnny, and the Shinra intern Chadley. AVALANCHE begins to schism, pseudo-Yakuzas threaten Cloud, and Jessie's got ulterior motives. Also Tyler's butt goes out of control. This episode completes Remake's chapter 3. Discord | YouTube | Twit...

Our rendezvous to Avalanche HQ reveals a paternal side to Barret, a promise made to a cocktail-slinging pugilist, and the vast contrast in setting between the two games' Sector Seven slums. Also, Texas is canon. This episode completes Remake chapter 3 up to entering Seventh Heaven. Discord | YouTube | Twitch | Email | Show your appreciation #048

We slash our way to the last train bound for the Sector Seven slums. The passengers reveal new perspectives on the meaning of Midgar, and Nate and Tyler discuss the 'rotten pizzas' that affect their own lives. This episode completes Chapter 2. Discord | YouTube | Twitch | Email | Show your appreciation #047

AVALANCHE flees the destroyed reactor, visions of Sephiroth torture Cloud, Aerith crosses Cloud on Loveless Street, and Nate & Tyler get their first taste of Remake's story anachronisms and a condensation of game themes and motifs. This episode covers FF7R chapter 2 up to meeting Aerith. Discord | YouTube | Twitch | Email | Show your appreciation #046

We analyze the title screens, intro movies, the personalities of the eco-terrorist group AVALANCHE, and the bombing mission that sets the adventure into motion. This episode covers all of FF7R's chapter 1. Discord | YouTube | Twitch | Email | Show your appreciation #045

WELCOME TO SEASON TWO! In this prelude episode we're discussing how we'll covering two games in one season, each game's dev history, our formative experiences playing FF7 back in the 1990s, its lasting impact, and what it all means for the future of the FF7-verse. Discord | YouTube | Twitch | Email | Show your appreciation #044

Tyler narrates and reacts to the story and gameplay of Resident Evil 2 (2019), a survival horror game developed and published by Capcom and arguably one of the greatest survival horror games ever made. Join us for an audio adventure of Tyler's blind playthrough of Leon S. Kennedy's campaign packed with blood-splatters of suspense, scares, and gruesome monsters. Discord | YouTube | Twitch | Email |...

Tyler narrates and reacts to the story and gameplay of Resident Evil 2 (2019), a survival horror game developed and published by Capcom and arguably one of the greatest survival horror games ever made. Join us for an audio adventure of Tyler's blind playthrough of the Leon S. Kennedy's campaign packed with blood-splatters of suspense, scares, and gruesome monsters. Discord | YouTube | Twitch | Ema...

Tyler narrates and reacts to the story and gameplay of Resident Evil 2 (2019), a survival horror game developed and published by Capcom and arguably one of the greatest survival horror games ever made. Join us for an audio adventure of Tyler's blind playthrough of the Leon S. Kennedy's campaign packed with blood-splatters of suspense, scares, and gruesome monsters. Discord | YouTube | Twitch | Ema...

With Season 2 around the corner, Nate and Tyler discuss the additional post-game chapter of Xenoblade Chronicles, available only on Xenoblade's Definitive Edition release. Discord | YouTube | Twitch | Email | Show your appreciation #040