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Home on the RNG

Mad Centaur Productions

What do you get when you combine jRPG veteran Russ McGallian, with enthusiastic jRPG amateur Jeff Hillary, and mix in a healthy dose of video game music expert Chris Taylor? Mostly chaos. But occasionally they produce an in depth analysis of the jRPGs you love, hate, or never even heard of. Listen to them as they play through every jRPG ever made (they may die of old age before they finish).

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22:02

Side Quest: Persona Series

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2021/04/19

It's going to be a little while before we do official reviews of the games in the Persona series, so we wanted to take a moment to talk about the series as a whole.

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38:33

Lunar: The Silver Star

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2021/04/05

Lunar: The Silver Star (ルナザ・シルバースター, Runa Za Shirubā Sutā) is a role-playing video game developed by Game Arts and Studio Alex for the Sega/Mega-CD, originally published by Game Arts and released in Japan in 1992. After a successful release, the game was translated and localized by Working Designs for release in North America the following year.Designed as a "different kind of RPG", Lunar: The Silver Star made use of the up-and-coming CD-ROM format by featuring high quality audio, full motion

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07:12

Side Quest: Russ is Easily Distracted

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2021/03/15

This is a fairly normal out-take of what it's like trying to film an episode of Home on the RNG with Russ. He usually takes a little while to warm up.

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24:31

Phantasy Star 1

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2021/03/01

Phantasy Star is a role-playing video game (RPG) developed by Sega and released for the Master System in 1987. One of the earliest Japanese RPGs for consoles, Phantasy Star tells the story of Alis on her journey to defeat the evil ruler of her star system, King Lassic, after her brother dies at his hands. She traverses between planets, gathering a party of fighters and collecting the items she needs to avenge her brother's death and return peace to the star system. The gameplay features traditional

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14:09

Side Quest: Camping Out For a Wii

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2021/02/15

Story time with Jeff and Russ, this time they talk about the night they camped out overnight in order to buy a Wii.

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26:09

Lufia 2

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2021/02/01

Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals, known as Estpolis Denki II (エストポリス伝記II, officially translated Biography of Estpolis II) in Japan, and as Lufia in Europe and Australia, is a role-playing video game with puzzle elements developed by Neverland and published in Japan in 1995 by Taito, and in North America and Europe in 1996 by Natsume and Nintendo respectively, for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

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07:36

Side Quest: Lost Vikings 2

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2021/01/18

Jeff wanted to introduce Russ to something new. So Jeff and Russ are going to review the SNES game Lost Vikings 2, which was later remade as Lost Vikings: Norse by Norsewest.

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29:07

Super Mario RPG

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2021/01/04

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars is a role-playing video game (RPG) developed by Square and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1996. It was directed by Yoshihiko Maekawa and Chihiro Fujioka and produced by Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto. Yoko Shimomura composed the score, which was released on a soundtrack album in Japan.

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19:39

Side Quest: Dragon Quest 11

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2020/12/21

Jeff and Russ played Dragon Quest 11, and they didn't want to wait ten years until they got around to it as a proper Home on the RNG episode to talk about it, so here we are.

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47:35

A Very Special Episode

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2020/12/07

Jeff, Russ, and Lauren look back over the last 9 games that have been reviewed, discuss some common jRPG tropes that they encountered, and then they test their musical knowledge with a video game themed version of Name That Tune.

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08:10

Side Quest: Adventures of Lolo

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2020/11/16

Russ wanted to play something a little different, so here we are, Jeff and Russ review the NES game Adventures of Lolo.

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30:17

Secret of Evermore

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2020/11/02

Secret of Evermore is an action role-playing game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It was released by Square in North America on October 1, 1995. February 1996, saw its release in the PAL territories of Europe and Australia. A Japanese release was planned to follow the North American release by a few months but was ultimately cancelled.With special guest music reviewer Lauren the Flute.

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21:04

Side Quest: Final Fantasy Series Review Part 3

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2020/10/19

Jeff and Russ finish their discussion of the Final Fantasy series...for now. Because we all know that fantasy will never end.

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27:45

The Final Fantasy Legend

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2020/10/05

The Final Fantasy Legend, known in Japan as Makai Toushi Sa·Ga, is a video game released for the Game Boy in December 1989 by Square Co. It is the first game in the SaGa series and the first role-playing video game for the system. Square translated the game into English for worldwide release and renamed it, linking it with the Final Fantasy series to improve marketing.With special guest music reviewer Lauren the Flute.

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18:36

Side Quest: Final Fantasy Series Review Part 2

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2020/09/21

Jeff and Russ continue their discussion of the Final Fantasy series, game by game. In this episode, they discuss the best games in the series, because they happened to be released all in a row.

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34:41

Chrono Trigger

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2020/09/07

Chrono Trigger is a 1995 role-playing video game developed and published by Square for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

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18:17

Side Quest: Final Fantasy Series Review Part 1

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2020/08/24

Jeff and Russ talk about the Final Fantasy series as a whole in this 3 part series of Side Quest. They will briefly break down each and every game in the series. These games will be reviewed in full as episodes of Home on the RNG....eventually.

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14:15

Side Quest: Shining Force II

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2020/08/17

Since Russ won't play Shining Force II, Jeff is reviewing it on his own. Also, since Russ isn't in this episode, and we don't want to deprive you of your regularly schedule Russ, there will be another episode of Side Quest next week.

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26:17

Arcana

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2020/08/04

Arcana is a 1992 role-playing video game for the SNES by HAL Laboratory.

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30:27

Side Quest: Top 5 jRPGs

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2020/07/21

Before they get much further into this series, Jeff and Russ talk about their top 5 jRPGs of all time. It'll be interesting to see if this changes over the course of this show.

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