Final Fantasy and JRPG streamer The Night Sky Prince pals around with the panel for an RPG-focused episode covering wily game mavens, Bush doing 9/11, and the Lynchian madness of Kingdom Hearts.

Questions this week:

1. Brandon Sheffield asks: What is the “Play it again, Sam” of video games? (05:46)
2. What would make Final Fantasy XVI not just the best game in the series, but a game that even Frank and Brandon would want to play immediately? (12:44)
3. What are some RPG mechanics from a bygone age you’d like to see make a comeback? (20:54)
4. Rename Creative Business Units 1 through 4 (26:24)
5. MoxBagel asks: If Chunsoft continued to make all eleven main Dragon Quests, how would they be different? (37:21)
6. Is the practice of grinding a fundamental flaw in RPGs, or can it be additive to the experience? (43:38)
7. What are the qualities of a party member you’ll always keep in your party? (50:44)
8. Establish a canon of worthy 2D successors to Final Fantasies IV-VI (56:32)

LIGHTNING ROUND: RPGeography (01:03:07)

Recommendations & Outro (01:09:29)

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A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

• Dragon Ball Z: Super Saiya Densetsu
• Phantasy Star IV
• Phantasy Star games
• Dragon Warrior
• Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Treasure of Tarmin Cartridge
• Pokémon Blue Version
• Quest 64
• Play it again, Sam
• Casablanca (1942)
• Pac-Man
• Death Stranding
• Pong
• Super Mario series
• Final Fantasy XV
• Everything we learned from Final Fantasy XVI’s new trailer
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
• Call of Duty series
• Devil May Cry 5
• Ultima
• Shin Megami Tensei series
• Elden Ring
• Creative Business Unit I
• Final Fantasy series
• Saga Frontier series