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! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jrpgreport/support
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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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RPGY 0071 - JRPG Banquets and Thanksgiving!
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Frosts opinions are his own and not that of the podcast! Welcome to Episode 71 of The RPG Years! This week, Frost and Bill give thanks... for some reason, then have a discussion on JRPG banquet's! 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! THE NEXT RPG CLUB GAME IS STAR OCEAN 2! 1 …
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Lunar: Silver Star Story | E4: Special Boy Sauce [Burg]
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We know you’re sick with worry, but worry not, because this time we’re CAPITALIZING SELECT DIALOGUE, erecting a monument, putting up with a bean brain, choking the chicken, identifying pigs, failing to speak pig latin, refusing to understand what Nall is, standing in the spring like a cool guy, demonstrating ocarina prowess, plotting to ditch Luna,…
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JRPG Report Episode 277 - Final Fantasy VII Remake part 3 Story is written and done!
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This episode! New news from Square Enix, Nippon Ichi Software Inc., and some exciting news about Final Fantasy VII Remake part 3, and a possible new HD-2D remake? Tune in to find out! Support the podcast here https://www.patreon.com/JRPGReport Patreon support gives you access to the JRPG Report discord chan…
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RPGY 0070 - Star Ocean: Second Story R:pg Club Segment 3
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Frosts opinions are his own and not that of the podcast! Welcome to Episode 70 of The RPG Years! This week, Frost and Bill return to discuss the first annual RPGY awards plus how to crash in Star Ocean 2: Segment 3!. 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! THE NEXT RPG CLUB GAME…
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Lunar: Silver Star Story | E3: Sufficient for My Advent [Prologue]
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I am not embarrassed to be anime. Neither is Lunar, as we’re wondering when Chrono Trigger will cease its powers of inspiration, defying fantasy/anime archetypes, reading the strategy guide promo, marveling at the Sega CD vocal intro, swerving into the PSP prologue, trapping Althena in an undersea base, summoning clip art demons for a covenant, bre…
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RPGY 0069 - News And Audio Only Lets Plays
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Frosts opinions are his own and not that of the podcast! Welcome to Episode 69 of The RPG Years! This week, Frost and Bill return to discuss the latest news and Bill treats everyone to an Audio only Lets Play.... sorry everyone. 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! THE NEXT R…
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Lunar: Silver Star Story | E2: Turd-Smoking Coward [Development & Localization, Part II]
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We’re still talking about the Lunar before we play it. You know what that means: we’re altering game code for the reality of commerce, smoking turds like a coward, slandering Shannen Doherty, dubbing in dubious farts, artificially adjusting the difficulty, cringing at the worst magazine ad of all time, giving away a demo disc, choosing kindness ove…
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RPGY 0068 - Star Ocean: Second Story R:pg Club Segment 2
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Frosts opinions are his own and not that of the podcast!Welcome to Episode 65 of The RPG Years!This week, Frost and Bill return to discuss the latest news and dig into the next part of our Star Ocean 2 journey, the road to Linga.... my balls. The RPG Years is hosting an RPG Club! It's like a book club, but with RPGs, and we hope all of you play alo…
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Lunar: Silver Star Story | E1: Working Designs Is Me [Development & Localization, Part I]
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Hello and welcome to season 7! We’re covering Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete, which entails going over which version(s) of Lunar’s Silver Star Story we’re playing, outlining every Lunar that exists, figuring out how many dollars games cost, wondering what the situation is with Studio Alex, designing a cold world, spreading democracy on the moon,…
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RPGY 0067 - Golden Sun Review!
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Scott opinions are his (and all of Florida's) own and not that of the podcast! This week, Frost, Bill and even Scott returns to discuss one of few GBA worth playing but not finishing... its the long awaited Golden Sun review!!! 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! THE NEXT RP…
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JRPG Report Episode 276 - Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition Announced!
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This episode! Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition, Fairy Tail 2, Tales of Graces f Remaster, Ys Memiore: The Oath In Felghana? We JRPG fans are eating GOOD right now! Support the podcast here https://www.patreon.com/JRPGReport Patreon support gives you access to the JRPG Report discord channel, and whate…
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Final Fantasy Tactics E29: Thong, For Some Reason [Endgame, Part II + Epilogue]
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To enter Season 6’s final episode is to bid goodbye to the light of day. If you accept, we’re referencing other Final Fantasies games in bullshit missions, letting someone else explore Midlight’s Deep, slaying the hell magician, fighting in fart gas, destroying more jobbers, bending knees to demons, trying to kickstart Virgo, wanting for blood, ide…
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Frosts opinions are his own and not that of the podcast! This week, Frost and Bill return to once again discuss the latest news and look at RPG Pez dispensers. 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! THE NEXT RPG CLUB GAME IS STAR OCEAN 2! 1 - Segment Ends after you leave Kurik/…
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Final Fantasy Tactics E28: The Complete Aura of This Package [Sidequests + Endgame, Part I]
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You know nothing, Beowulf. You know we’re inventing additional antagonists for unnecessary sidequests, re-dragoning someone for a kidnapping plot, walking into an obvious trap, treating with steel, literally casting doubt, stealing a lady back from a pervert priest, debating belief vs fornication, nervously crafting a birthday scheme, overdoing the…
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RPGY 0065 - Star Ocean: Second Story R:pg Club Segment 1
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Welcome to Episode 65 of The RPG Years! This week, Frost and Bill return to open up the first segment for the SO2 RPG club and take deep dive into the folly of a life of crime... 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! THE NEXT RPG CLUB GAME IS STAR OCEAN 2! 1 - Segment Ends aft…
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JRPG Report Episode 275: The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak II coming to the West!
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This episode of the Report, The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak II coming west! Plus, Metaphor: ReFantazio releases, Dragon Quest III HD-2D remake news, and more! Been light on news the past few weeks in the wake of TGS 2024, So its a short episode. Therefore, I won't be adding ads to this. Please support the show if you'd like over on Pa…
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Final Fantasy Tactics E27: The Three Main Shitheads [Murond Holy Place]
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Lives and levels, or men and boards? How about pods and casts, featuring us dropping in on perverts, murdering clergy members, slingin’ blood off a sword, remaining lawful, observing an indoor turd river, picking up a book, exposing craven cowards, returning to the father, serving death by steel, reborning a brother, re-killing a brother, pumping a…
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Frosts opinions are his own and not that of the podcast! This week, Frost and Bill return to pick through even more RPG NEWS!!! 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! THE NEXT RPG CLUB GAME IS STAR OCEAN 2! 1 - Segment Ends after you leave Kurik/Clik - Due Oct 13th 2 - Arrive i…
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Final Fantasy Tactics E26: To Frustrate a Plot [Back to Igros Castle]
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Here’s a souvenir for you on the way to hell. It’s a podcast, one in which we’re appreciating sprite animation, frustrating the high confessor’s plot, working to see queens made for true, pretending to leave the room, rendezvousing with perverts, resisting every scenario, screaming in the dark, naming that mushroom, adding a Cletienne scene, going …
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RPGY 0063 - State of Play and Other News!
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Frosts opinions are his own and not that of the podcast! Welcome to Episode 63 of The RPG Years! This week, Frost and Bill return to pick through the huge backlog of news plus we discuss waking up to start an RPG! 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! THE NEXT RPG CLUB GAME IS…
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JRPG Report Episode 274 - Tokyo Game Show 2024 Recap
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This week! Dalton braved the hurricane with a hurt back to bring you, wonderful listeners, the best of the best coming out of the Tokyo Game Show 2024! 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 Mikhailo…
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Final Fantasy Tactics E25: A Blood Member of Darkness [Limberry Castle, Part II]
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What devilry is this? It’s a podcast, once in which we’re wading in rebirth, boasting the brain of a dullard, fighting an old foe who died but didn’t, indulging in gratuity, interrupting pervert preparation, hanging a bag of teeth, refusing to acknowledge death, unpossessing numen, thinking of our sire’s flesh, becoming a blood member of darkness, …
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RPGY 0062 - The Ultimate RPG Console!
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Welcome to Episode 62 of The RPG Years! This week, Frost and Bill return to pick the best RPG games to put onto the RPG Golden years mini console! hard choices need to be made! 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! THE NEXT RPG CLUB GAME IS STAR OCEAN 2! 1 - Segment Ends after…
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Final Fantasy Tactics E24: The Purgatory Loophole [Cloud Quest, Part II + Limberry Castle, Part I]
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The stone chooses the flesh. You have chosen to listen to us as we’re wondering why Aerith needs money, laughing like Kefka, not agreeing with arbitration, spilling blood on fancy riggins, looking for a good drubbing, refusing to argue with ghosts, killing dead people again, crushing grapes, leaving a fearsome stain, playing dumb and dumber about m…
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RPGY 0061 - Legend of Dragoon Review Part 2!
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Welcome to Episode 61 of The RPG Years! This week, Frost and Bill return to the Barrens... I mean Legend of Dragoon review and finally discover Claire's ultimate fate... Its probably Sony's best RPG we'll ever get, the Legend Of Dragoon Part 2. The RPG Years is hosting an RPG Club! It's like a book club, but with RPGs, and we hope all of you play a…
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Final Fantasy Tactics E23: Sauce for the Goose [Bethla Garrison + Cloud Quest, Part I]
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Let’s away before we’re found. But first, listen while we’re ignoring height, raising a sluice gate, breaking Orlandeau out of the break room at work, questioning Valmafra’s allegiance, finding the one competent person who likes us, suffering a plague of fools, perverting an idiot, flashing that, gandering a goose, murdering a willing zealot, buyin…
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RPGY 0060 - Legend Of Dragoon Review Part 1!
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Welcome to Episode 60 of The RPG Years! This week, Frost and Bill return to the Barrens... over and over again... Its probably Sony's best RPG we'll ever get, the Legend Of Dragoon Part 1. 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 voting is now OPEN! Warsong/Langrisser is…
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