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!
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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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Lunar: Silver Star Story | E44: A Hideous Flesh Bag [Ruid]
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1:01:07This is not a place of contention. It’s a place of listening, and learning while we’re removing the lesbians, damseling workers, assuring the quality of our plumbing, destroying a different black dragon, growing dirt guys, talking to eggs, waiting for a heel to turn face, requiring god juice to live, seeking Althena’s light, understanding the gobli…
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RPGY 0106 - Jay S's Final Fantasy VI Club - Segment 3!
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1:33:35Bill is away so we have to put our FFX adventure on hold. But never fear, Frost has enlisted Jay S to talk about Segment 3 of the long lost FF6 RPGClub! The current RPGClub is Final Fantasy X ! Segment 1 - First save sphere on the Mi'ihen Highroad: due June 8th Segment 2 - Finish Guadosalam: Due June 22nd Segment 3 - Reach Bikanel/Sanubia Desert: D…
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JRPG Report Episode 292 - More Trails in the Sky First Chapter Remake Information!
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12:07This episode! More news on the upcoming Trails FC remake, some JRPG games are making their way to PlayStation Plus, A delay, plus more! Support the podcast here …
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Lunar: Silver Star Story | E43: Victor Ireland Made Me Say a Slur [Talon Mines]
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1:12:22What’s up pixel perverts? Today we’re blighting the surface for undesirables, rapidly switching discs, realizing the guards can hit, scraping metal out of the dirt, locating the only doctor in the world, experiencing goblin poetry, refusing to serve drinks to miners, dreaming of D Block, goofing into a slur, beating the prisoners, staring down a mo…
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(re-release) RPGY 0061 - Legend of Dragoon Review Part 2!
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2:36:54Welcome 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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(re-release) RPGY 0060 - Legend Of Dragoon Review Part 1!
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1:39:08Welcome 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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Lunar: Silver Star Story | E42: Pooter Retained [Embarking to the Frontier]
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53:05You’re prisoners of foolish ambition. You’re consumers of the pod, an episode in which we’re smelling so sweetly, waiting for Kyle to say it, finally realizing what we should have known, using ass-beating thoughts as a coping mechanism, fighting out of duty, living in the present, becoming a character, deploying a maximally appropriate sound effect…
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RPGY 0105 - FFX RPG Club Segment 5 (pt1)
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1:33:45Like so many pilgrimages, out show gets lost in the clam lands. We talked so much we had to split this week's show into two parts. Covered this week: the Calm lands and Mt. Gagazet, plus the legend of a Chocobo Catcher Savant. The current RPGClub is Final Fantasy X ! Segment 1 - First save sphere on the Mi'ihen Highroad: due June 8th Segment 2 - Fi…
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INFINITE PERFECT 004: Performance Violence [Mutant League Football + Mutant League Hockey]
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54:58Mutant League Football and Mutant League Hockey were convergence points across gross out children’s toys, gratuitous video game violence, and those who dared to dream up sports games for kids who weren’t especially interested in sports. But is it bad when the toilet produces more than it consumes? Eric thought about this for the last five months. I…
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Lunar: Silver Star Story | E41: Her Ass-Butt in the Water [Dragonmaster World Tour, Part II]
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1:11:04I wanna see some skull. Down in that bone zone, we’re coming up with magic city protection spells, wearing villain attire, contemplating infinity, making mother look so afraid, seeking the emasculation of self, crying in baby poop, dropping trou, becoming an honorary citizen of Lann, wearing an everybody magnet, loving Whitney Houston, building mac…
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RPGY 0104 - Grandia Updates (Dight and Gumbo)
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1:24:32This week week we cover the events of Grandia from jumping over the wall through the volcano. Plus, the curse of Bill's bad audio and Grandia episodes persists. Frost is half asleep but is he warming up to the game? Our next Grandia Segment will cover the events from the Volcano to Escaping the Mermaids - Due Aug 24th The current RPGClub is Final F…
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RPGY 0103 - Final Fantasy X RPG Club Segment 4
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1:54:00Bill is sick, but somehow we made it through to the Calm Lands! We cover Segment 4 of our FFX RPGClub: taking us from the Sanubia Sands all the way through Bevelle. We also get our FFXIV news from Kaslo, Frost shares a Grandia update. Plus, "LIVE" UPDATES from the Nintendo Direct. The current RPGClub is Final Fantasy X ! Segment 1 - First save sphe…
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Lunar: Silver Star Story | E40: A Rubber Band and a Stick of Butter [Dragonmaster World Tour, Part I]
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1:24:11Shut your sass hole, buddy. From our sass holes we bequeath denying god’s light from the Frontier, showing off our new clothes to everyone in the world, learning more about Alex’s Dad’s Son’s Sister Girlfriend, failing to show love in action, doing weird shit with butter and rubber bands, foreshadowing Nash via doomerism, continuing the denture sag…
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JRPG Report Episode 291 - Octopath Traveler 0 announced for Nintendo Switch 2, and more!!
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18:55This episode, Lots of big news coming from the Nintendo Partner Direct today, including the announcement of OCTOPATH TRAVELER 0! That and much more on The JRPG Report! Support the podcast here …
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Lunar: Silver Star Story | E39: Elemental Nostrils [Black Dragon Fortress]
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1:06:43What man who desires to be a hero would let that happen? Us, obviously. We’re bleeding out of the neck, dealing with Not My First Mind Control, tempting in the desert, saying Alex and Luna over and over, screaming into Dragon Master gear (in anime), wearing an invisible sprite hat, indulging in dragon controller irony, supposing dragons are real, c…
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RPGY 0102 - Grandia Thoughts! (through the end of the world)
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1:39:29We apologize for Bill's audio. He's an idiot and used the wrong mic! Anywho, there's some quick news updates followed by a lengthy discussion on the first two sections of Grandia (until we "jump" over the wall). Does Frost share Bill's enthusiasm for this JRPG gem? Our next Grandia Segment will cover the events from Jumping over the Wall to Escapin…
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Lunar: Silver Star Story | E38: Please Understand, Pray Until You Find the Answer [Forest of Illusion + Pao + Black Dragon]
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1:05:11Graveyard duck, give me the bag. Inside of this bag you can find us feeling the magic, repeatedly getting lost in the forest, spriting a tree differently, receiving PSP-exclusive Nash backstory, dreaming bloody murder, parting bushes like the red sea, debating the existence of god with children, learning of the nomadic lifestyle, spreading disease,…
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RPGY 0101 - Final Fantasy X RPG Club Segment 3
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1:35:22Frost is back from vacation. We cover Segment 3 of our FFX RPGClub: taking us through Macalania Temple. Did Bill finish the segment? Plus, Square-Enix are making more bad Switch 2 decisions. The current RPGClub is Final Fantasy X ! Segment 1 - First save sphere on the Mi'ihen Highroad: due June 8th Segment 2 - Finish Guadosalam: Due June 22nd Segme…
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The full story of Dragon Quest 3 (as told by idiots)
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JRPG Report Episode 290 - Atelier Resleriana: The Red Alchemist & the White Guardian News, Plus More!
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14:50This week! More Atelier Resleriana: The Red Alchemist & the White Guardian news, Atelier Ryza getting a re-release, plus more! Support the podcast here https://www.patr…
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Lunar: Silver Star Story | E37: A Turd-Sick Gnat [Myght's Tower]
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1:06:32The time is at hand to prove the worth of your way. We’ll do that by wishing Laike was plausibly nerfed, fearing a bad lore tower, navigating pipes and catwalks, throwing shit out of a magic hat, playing fart sounds, bullying our way into a second airship, buzzing around like a turd-sick gnat, yanking on a face, foreshadowing a betrayal, enforcing …
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RPGY 0100 - Dragon Quest III Review (part 2)
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1:27:42It's our Dragon Quest III review finale! Gameplay, Ratings, and your feedback! The current RPGClub is Final Fantasy X ! Segment 1 - First save sphere on the Mi'ihen Highroad: due June 8th Segment 2 - Finish Guadosalam: Due June 22nd Segment 3 - Reach Bikanel/Sanubia Desert: Due July 6th Segment 4 - Reach the Calm Lands: Due July 20th Segment 5 - Re…
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Lunar: Silver Star Story | E36: Apartheid on the Moon [Tamur]
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1:31:18No place is safe these days. Not even a podcast, unless we’re attempting to define a dragon’s lair, animating Phacia’s sprite, realizing the bad guys want to kill god, crying at the amusement park, disappointing father, impressing mother, living in the cave forever, taking a dirt nap, threatening a corpse stomp, launching surprise arrows, stonewall…
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Segment 2 of the FFX RPGClub, after the events of Luca, we head for Guadosalam. Is Bill finally enjoying the game? Imposhibible! The current RPGClub is Final Fantasy X ! Segment 1 - First save sphere on the Mi'ihen Highroad: due June 8th Segment 2 - Finish Guadosalam: Due June 22nd Segment 3 - Reach Bikanel/Sanubia Desert: Due July 6th Segment 4 - …
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JRPG Report Episode 289 - Will Final Fantasy Return to Turn-Based Combat?
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21:26This week! Persona 5: The Phantom X Debuts, Digimon Story: Time Stranger is just around the corner, and a big question about the future of Final Fantasy! Pus, a ton more! Support the podcast here …
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Lunar: Silver Star Story | E35: Getting My Jollies [Blue Dragon]
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1:13:15Is there a reason for these kinds of guys? Podcasters? Guys who are correcting a your/you’re situation, reminding teenagers of their mortality, speculating the origin of hole floor dungeons, banging blowing and flicking, eliminating drag references, actually fixing a town, poking dead monsters with a stick, singing songs between two lovers, telepor…
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RPGY 0098 - Dragon Quest III Review (part 1)
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1:26:53It's Part I of our Dragon Quest III review! After some brief show updates we dive into the development history and story of this classic JRPG. The current RPGClub is Final Fantasy X ! Segment 1 - First save sphere on the Mi'ihen Highroad: due June 8th Segment 2 - Finish Guadosalam: Due June 22nd Segment 3 - Reach Bikanel/Sanubia Desert: Due July 6t…
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