Digimon Story: Time Stranger w/ Kenneth Shepard, Jesse Vitelli
Digi-see? Digi-hear? Digi-know it was coming?Your digi-destiny starts today and Eric, Nadia, and special guests, Kenneth Shepard, and Jesse Vitelli are your digi-guides through it all. Time Stranger, the latest in the Digimon Story sub-series of RPGs is finally here and it might just be a perfect entry point into the digital world. Learn al about it on this prodigious episode of Axe of the Blood God!And you better not suggest that Digimon don't have feelings or you're getting banned from bluesky.
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Also in this episode:
Why doesn't Nadia care about Digimon?
Protomen Act III
Bad News For EA
Timestamps:
8:00 Main Topic - Digimon Story: Time Stranger
43:12 - Random Encounters
46:00 - The Tavern - The Protomen, EA Has Gone Private
1:04:16 - Ken Plays Fortnite for KPop Demon Hunters
1:20:40 - Nadia’s Nostalgia Nook, Sort of...
Music Used in this Episode:
Do Your Best - [Breath of Fire III]
Pub - [Lunar Knights]
A Curious Tale - [Secret of Mana]
Central Park - [Digimon World 3]
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Kat's Mailbag Sendoff
Cheerio! Kat is moving to the UK and we celebrate with a mail bag AMA centered on her experience serving the Blood God, and you know it wouldn’t be a Kat episode without delving into the worlds of soccer and Magic The Gathering.
- Plus, discussion of Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles
- The meaning of “mature” storylines
- Whether or not Mario is a superhero.
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Kat's Perfect RPG Library, Trails in the Sky, and BIG NEWS
As we prepare for our fearless leader's graduation, it's time to celebrate the RPGs that made her. From tactics to action, from sim to rogue-lite, Kat, Eric, and Victor discuss Kat's idea of the perfect RPG library. Plus, Eric's been playing Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter; is this the Trails games that will hook newcomers? Listen to this perfectly bitter-sweet episode of Axe of the Blood God to find out!
Tune in to live recordings of the show every Saturday morning at https://www.twitch.tv/bloodgodpod, subscribe for bonus episodes and discord access at https://www.patreon.com/bloodgodpod and celebrate our 10th Anniversary with new merch at https://shop.bloodgodpod.com
Also in this episode:
Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 2
Baroque is back, baby!
How easy it is to play old games
Timestamps:
3:12 - Big News!
10:52 Main Topic - Kat's Perfect RPG Library
22:32 - Tactics
35:12 - Turn-Based
47:28 - Action
56:48 - Dungeon Crawler
1:05:36 - Simulation
1:13:52 - CRPG
1:20:16 - Rogue-lite
1:26:48 - Monster Collecting
1:27:18 - Wildcards
1:32:08 - Random Encounters
1:53:20 - The Tavern - Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter Remake
1:36:08 - Nadia’s Nostalgia Nook
Music Used in this Episode:
Do Your Best - [Breath of Fire III]
Pub - [Lunar Knights]
Cityscape - The Sun Rises for Ones Who Smile - [Etrian Odyssey V]
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Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave, Pokopia, and More Nintendo Direct News
Pick a god and pray; Fire Emblem is back along with a deluge of news from the latest Nintendo Direct. Slow-life Pokemon, collections of Mega Mans, and remakes of good Dragon Quests. Kat, Nadia, and Victor discuss all this and more on the this episode of Axe of the Blood God!
Tune in to live recordings of the show every Saturday morning at https://www.twitch.tv/bloodgodpod, subscribe for bonus episodes and discord access at https://www.patreon.com/bloodgodpod and celebrate our 10th Anniversary with new merch at https://shop.bloodgodpod.com
Also in this episode:
You can just play old games. Nothing is stopping you.
Super Robot Wars brings us together
Timestamps:
3:30 - Main Topic - Nintendo Direct Reactions - Fire Emblem
18:52 - Dragon Quest VII
29:28 - Pokemon Pokopia
35:34 - Virtual Boy
44:02 - Hades 2
45:08 Persona 3 Reload
46:44 - Danganronpa
48:20 - Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment
52:00 - Mega Man: Star Force
1:05:12 - Random Encounters
1:10:24 - Remembering the PlayStation on its 30th Birthday
1:36:08 - Nadia’s Nostalgia Nook - 40 Years of Super Mario Brothers
Music Used in this Episode:
Do Your Best - [Breath of Fire III]
Pub - [Lunar Knights]
A Curious Tale - [Secret of Mana]
Shooting Star - [Mega Man Star Force]
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Ivalice Chronicles is Correcting History w/ Tom James and BowlofLentils
The Final Fantasy Tactics you played back on the PS1 is not the real Final Fantasy Tactics. In fact, if you played it in the West you missed out on entire games-within-games that not only flesh out the world of Ivalice, but hold clues to the future of Square Enix. And these secrets are all tucked away in... Sound Novels!That's right, this week Victor and Nadia are joined by experts in the history of Japanese adventure games, Tom James and BowlofLentils, to discuss how The Ivalice Chronicles is steering us back onto the path of understanding the lineage of this misunderstood genre. Visual novels, sound novels, adventures games, point-and-clicks, text adventures, dating sims, oteme games, galge? What do they have in common and what makes them completely different? Find out on this expository episode of Axe of the Blood God! Sorry if you thought this was going to be about like, the nature of remakes or adaptations and the Ship of Theseus or whatever, but we've got sound novels to talk about!
Tune in to live recordings of the show every Saturday morning at https://www.twitch.tv/bloodgodpod, subscribe for bonus episodes and discord access at https://www.patreon.com/bloodgodpod and celebrate our 10th Anniversary with new merch at https://shop.bloodgodpod.com
Also in this episode:
Eternal Sonata
Vanillaware's alternate Princess Maker timeline
Doshin the Giant
Why Inspector Gadget owes his life to Lupin III
We mention Hollow Knight: Silksong purely for SEO purposes
428 Shibuya Scramble
Famicom Detective Club
FURTHER READING:
BowlofLentils Youtube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/@bowloflentils
Tom James' Blog:https://dateemups.com/
Sharlayan Dropouts - The Veil of Wiyu:https://bloodgodpod.com/sharlayan-dropouts-lore-veil-of-wiyu/
Timestamps:
7:20 Main Topic - Ivalice Chronicles Resurrecting the Lost Sound Novels
1:32:08 - Random Encounters
1:36:08 - Nadia’s Nostalgia Nook
Music Used in this Episode:
Do Your Best - [Breath of Fire III]
A Curious Tale - [Secret of Mana]
Contact - [YU-NO: a girl who chants love at the bound of this world]
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