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RPGFan"s Retro Encounter

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Join the RPGFan crew as they play through and discuss classic RPGs and adventure games!

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377 - Final Fantasy VI Part I

RPGFan"s Retro Encounter ·

2023/06/29

Think a "podcast" like ours could help you out in your quest?In honor of the recent release of Final Fantasy XVI, we got a few of our panelists together to play through the SNES classic Final Fantasy VI. Some of us have played it a million times, some of us are just running through it for the first, and we chat about everything from the story to the combat to that music.Who is the best character? How does the combat hold up? Did we all suplex the train? Listen in to find out!Featuring: Zach

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376 - Rollercoaster of Emotion: The RPG Moments That...

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2023/06/15

What the hell, Yoko Taro?After our recently published "25 Years, 25 RPG Moments" feature, we decided to get the crew at Retro Encounter together to talk about some of the moments that made us laugh, made us happy, and most importantly, the ones that wrecked us.What moments did we choose? Which ones did we miss? Who got too emotional to talk for a little while? Listen in to find out!(Note: there are heavy spoilers for a number of the games we discuss here, notably Breath of Fire IV, Yakuza:

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375 - Lost Odyssey Part II

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2023/06/01

Its gifts were mixed with good and evil both.This week we bring our panelists back together to discuss to discuss the second half of Lost Odyssey. While were were all pretty positive on the first half, some of us really like the latter portions, and some of us really don't.Did we do all the sidequests? Do the excellent short stories make up for the middling narrative? Are the environments still so very brown? Listen in to find out!(Editor's Note - While the host indicates this is Episode

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374 - Lost Odyssey Part I

RPGFan"s Retro Encounter ·

2023/05/18

Okay it might not be called Final Fantasy XIII, but...This week on Retro Encounter, three first-timers get together to discuss Mistwalker's Xbox 360 cult classic Lost Odyssey. It certainly has some big names behind it, and we want to find out if it lives up to the previous works of the masters.How does it hold up? How brown can one game get? Does the turn-based combat work this time around? Listen to find out!Featuring: Peter Triezenberg, Aleks Franiczek, Zach Wilkerson; Edited by Zach

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373 - Octopath Traveler II Spoilercast

RPGFan"s Retro Encounter ·

2023/05/04

Thou shalleth listenen to thisen episode.Luckily, you won't hear any conversations about broken Early Modern English, because this time we're not talking about the original. Instead, we have a spoiler filled chat about Octopath Traveler II, a sequel that our panel loved even more than the first game.How does the game look? What about that combat? Oh, the music has to be good. What about any funny accents? Listen in to this week's episode to find out!Featuring: Zach Wilkerson, Patrick Gann,

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372 - Persona 4 Golden Revisited

RPGFan"s Retro Encounter ·

2023/04/20

It's time to make history!This week, we're revisiting one of our favorites: Persona 4 Golden. After all, with the new release on modern consoles and Wes' glowing review for us at RPGFan, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to revisit some of our old friends.But there's an even better reason we're revisiting this classic! We're also joined by special guest, and friend of the podcast, Alex from Backlog Battle, to talk about everything that makes the game special to them, too.Does the game

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371 - Like A Dragon: Ishin! Part II

RPGFan"s Retro Encounter ·

2023/03/30

More brutal murders than John Wick and more mistaken identities than Twelfth Night. Ryu Ga Gotoku: Ishin! plays fast and loose with the events of Bakumatsu Japan, with multiple historical figures assuming second personas, a legendary alliance forged through a drunken brawl instead of careful diplomacy, and much more than can be contained in a mere podcast description. Today's Retro Encounter is all about the king-making, life-taking, and chicken racing of the latest to come out Ryu Ga

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370 - Like A Dragon: Ishin! Part I

RPGFan"s Retro Encounter ·

2023/03/23

Kamurocho has nothing on the mean streets of 1860s Kyo. Ryu Ga Gotoku: Ishin! was probably a lost cause to most fans of the Like A Dragon / Yakuza series, but Sega shocked everyone last year with the announcement of a full remake of the 2014 historical fiction samurai drama to arrive in February of 2023. RPGFan had at least four panelists eager to play it, so they gathered here to form their own Shinsengumi to discuss the swordplay, writing, performances, and historical context of the

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369 - Our Off-Brand Obsessions

RPGFan"s Retro Encounter ·

2023/03/16

All RPGs and no fighting games makes Jack a dull boy. We don't *solely* play RPGs here at RPGFan, and today is exactly the podcast to express that. Four RPGFan panelists discuss a few of their favorite games that can't be classified as RPGs with even the most liberal interpretation of the term, from crossover fighters to atmospheric horror to block puzzles to epic bug sagas. Featuring: Michael Sollosi, Tom Cox, Ben Love, Nick Mangiaracina; Edited by Michael SollosiOpening and ending music

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368 - Most Wanted Remakes

RPGFan"s Retro Encounter ·

2023/03/10

Today we enter the realm of video game fantasies, but not Final Fantasies. Remakes are a regular part of the video game release schedule in the 2020s, and here at Retro Encounter we have a few ideas on a few that should come soon. A PS2 rogue-like, a Squaresoft RPG never released in Japan, and some Game Boy Color classics are only a small sample of what's in store in this episode of Retro Encounter! Featuring: Michael Sollosi, Audra Bowling, Joshua Lindquist, Jonathan Logan, Tin Manuel;

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367 - RPGFan Had a Farm

RPGFan"s Retro Encounter ·

2023/03/03

E-I-E-I-oh boy I almost went to bed without watering the corn. Oh, hello. On today's Retro Encounter, we're breaking out the farm equipment and digging into the ever-growing farm simulation genre. Many of them overlap with RPGs, especially as modern games have expanded their systems beyond crops, animals, and relationships, offering combat systems and more. Of course we talked about Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons and Stardew Valley, but we covered much more ground in discussing how we all

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366 - Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics II

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2023/02/23

You would expect that first-party game releases for a system would dry up three years after its successor is released. But that certainly wasn’t the case with Zoda’s Revenge: StarTropics II! Released in 1994 for the Nintendo Entertainment System, StarTropics II was a bit of an anomaly. Developed by the legendary Nintendo division R&D3, this time-traveling sequel to StarTropics was, much like its predecessor, only found on the NES in North America. It was also an 8-bit game in a

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365 - StarTropics

RPGFan"s Retro Encounter ·

2023/02/16

There are some first-party Nintendo games that became legendary franchises. This… is not one of those games.Released in 1990 for the NES, StarTropics was specifically designed by Nintendo R&D3 with Western audiences in mind. In fact, it was never even released in Japan until 2008 on the Wii Virtual Console! This stylish and innovative game, featuring a genre mash-up with Dragon Quest-style villages and Zelda-like dungeons, gained a cult following of devoted fans, three of whom are on

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364 - Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber Part II

RPGFan"s Retro Encounter ·

2023/02/12

There are plenty of ways you can hurt a man / And bring him to the ground. Today we correct a podcast injustice, and publish Part 2 of Retro Encounter's Ogre Battle 64 podcast duology. One podcast host with a lot of questions and two OB64 veterans with all the answers discuss the twisting story paths, confounding Chaos Frames, and multiple endings of Ogre Battle 64, along with some light speculation about the future of the Ogre saga. Featuring: Michael Sollosi, Pete Leavitt, Joshua

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363 - Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber Part I

RPGFan"s Retro Encounter ·

2023/02/07

Did this Ogre need a decoder? Ogre Battle 64 occupies a curious part of RPG history, as a Quest game made after Yasumi Matsuno's departure from Quest, as a hybrid real-time strategy game and traditional JRPG, and as an RPG for the N64, a system conspicuously lacking them. Today's episode of Retro Encounter is an Ogre Battle 64 skeptic and two longtime Ogre Battle 64 fans trying to reconcile OB64's peculiarities with modern sensibilities. What are their feelings? Listen and find out

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362 - RPGs on Repeat

RPGFan"s Retro Encounter ·

2023/01/26

"Do you think games are silly little things?"Most RPGs aren't designed to be played multiple times. You take in the story, see a few numbers increase incrementally, fight a boss, and roll some credits. But that doesn't stop a huge number of RPG fans from replaying their favorites multiple times, and Retro Encounter's panel is no exception. Today, a team of panelists details eight of their favorite games that they've replayed multiple times - sometimes the games cooperate by providing new

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361 - Xeno Series Fantasy Draft

RPGFan"s Retro Encounter ·

2023/01/19

Hey, at least there’s no gacha in today’s episode. While we might not love gacha mechanics in RPGs, we sure do love the characters in the Xeno series, and for today’s episodes we gathered four of our biggest Xeno fans on staff to draft our very own fantasy teams. Which protagonists do we love the most? Where does Citan go? Does Wes steal all of Zach’s picks again? Listen in to find out! Featuring: Zach Wilkerson, Wes Iliff, Izzy Parsons, Tyler Trosper; Edited by Zach WilkersonOpening and

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360 - Year of the Pokémon

RPGFan"s Retro Encounter ·

2023/01/12

Wild PODCAST appeared! The 12 months from November 19th, 2021 to November 18th, 2022 were monumental for the most popular RPG franchise in the world. The Pokémon Company had three major releases in that timespan, with a set of remakes, a groundbreaking prequel, and a new pair of flagship games. In today's Retro Encounter, four panelists discuss Pokémon's remarkable year: Pokémon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl, Pokémon Legends: Arceus, and Pokémon Scarlet & Violet.Featuring:

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359 - RPGFan's Guide to Style

RPGFan"s Retro Encounter ·

2023/01/05

"If fashion were easy, wouldn't everybody look great?"Today, Retro Encounter channels their inner Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn and discusses a few of the best and worst clothing choices made by RPG characters. What Persona character wore it best? Who has the best Mass Effect space suit? What oldschool accessories need to make a comeback? And what's Link's worst outfit ever worn? All of these questions asked and answered in the most fashion-forward ever episode of Retro Encounter! Featuring:

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358 - 2022 Year in Review

RPGFan"s Retro Encounter ·

2022/12/29

Should auld RPGs be forgot, and never brought to mind? No, that's why this show exists, and auld lang syne. It's that time of year again, where Retro Encounter lives in the very recent past and goes over several of the present panel's favorite games of the calendar year. From remasters of 1994 Square classics to 1995 strategy game homages to modern action RPG masterpieces, this episode highlights some of the best and brightest RPGs of the year. And wait for the end of the episode for a

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