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175 - Final Fantasy VII [Part Two] (feat. Joe Kassabian)
Added 2025-02-05 07:00:08 +0000 UTCJoe Kassabian (Lions Led by Donkeys) and the lads hop in the Highwind and fly it straight into Sephiroth’s face as they conclude their coverage of Square’s monumental 1997 RPG: Final Fantasy VII. Topics include the wild quests of Yuffie and Vincent, the gamer-rage fueled final dungeon, and what it means to fight the end of the world when you’ve got a Sephiroth still lodged in your head.
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Media Referenced in this Episode:
Final Fantasy VII. Square. 1997.
“Final Fantasy 7: An Oral History” by Matt Leone. Polygon. January 9th, 2017.
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Comments
That Overworld theme reveal is one of the funniest fucking things I've ever heard.
NowhereMan661
2025-09-18 15:50:45 +0000 UTCMy favorite part of how ff7 influenced the rpg world in the states is that the studio making Baldur's Gate 2 Shadows of Amn, one of the guys there started to play the game when it came out and was like "guys the characters in this game are so much better than ours. We need to do better." Which caused them too flesh out the party members in the game.
TheBannerofHomuraAkemi
2025-09-06 15:04:47 +0000 UTCKitKat, Dove, Hershey's Snickers bar, Reeses Piece KitKat, Dove, Hershey's Snickers bar, Reeses Piece MOSER ROTH MOSER ROTH ... Sorry, just was thinkin about chocolate barrrrs
Thom Coté
2025-02-12 01:44:35 +0000 UTCJust here to say that “oh man, what a memorable experience that also pissed me off” is a great sentence that I will be using at some point. The choir song at the end slaps!
Elizabeth Power
2025-02-10 15:42:22 +0000 UTCmaligning a public servant while they're all losing their jobs irl. smh. justice for cait sith and red is a cat btw
Cait Sith
2025-02-08 06:34:18 +0000 UTCOkay hitting the choir song part. This is exactly how Kurt writes songs I think.
Rosey Armstrong
2025-02-07 19:49:53 +0000 UTCWith regards to the tone of the ending, it strikes me as somewhat similar to NieR: Automata. Not directly analagous, sure, but comparable in some ways. I'd love to see you boys cover that game (Jesse Cox would be a phenomenal guest for that lol).
Leo Curtis
2025-02-07 13:14:50 +0000 UTCi appreciate the disdain ff8 received in this episode. it's not great!
Sean Logan
2025-02-07 00:08:42 +0000 UTCI disagreed with a lot of the takes in these two episodes, especially the potshots taken at other Final Fantasy titles, but I think we can all agree that JRPGs have this strange ability to both remain socially necessary and important while also providing a wonderful, adventurous escape from reality.
Brandon Chinn
2025-02-06 19:17:46 +0000 UTC"Hot Hands" Joe Kassabian is how he needs to be introduced every time if you ever have him back (and you definitely should)
Peter Larkin
2025-02-06 11:07:20 +0000 UTCLong before I ever played FF7, I played a sega jrpg called Phantasy Star IV that had a death of a main character. Playing it as a kid kind of devastated me. I didn’t know that was a thing that could happen, and you see it play out in a comic book style cutscene while sad, 16-bit music plays. I actually struggled with finding motivation to continue playing; if only there was snowboarding immediately after…
Luckie
2025-02-06 02:14:57 +0000 UTCI heard somewhere that the big fmv sequences were where ff7 hides most of its loading times, and thats how it felt so seamless
cecilia.blue9716
2025-02-06 00:38:05 +0000 UTCi will fight to defend the honor of ff13 (the first game at least)
Relkia
2025-02-05 23:45:50 +0000 UTCbrb, carving "kill the sephiroth that lives in your head" into my arm
Robert Heilman
2025-02-05 22:15:29 +0000 UTCBuster sword? I don't even KNOW her sword!
Dergon
2025-02-05 20:53:02 +0000 UTCRe: the world map song sounding like Dance of the Vampires (which was an AMAZING discovery), a different part of the song is lifted from the beginning of Spacelab by Kraftwerk. Nobuo Uematsu might have just been really into German music at the time! Michiko Naruke did something similar with her music in the JRPG Wild ARMs! a lot of pieces of tracks in that game are lifted from Ennio Morricone's spaghetti western scores.
Bryan Cebulski
2025-02-05 20:07:31 +0000 UTCThose days of playground rumors of what you can and can't do in Pokémon Blue made a lot more sense when you realize missingno sounds just as ridiculous and was real
The Best Sean
2025-02-05 16:50:20 +0000 UTCWestfieeeeeeeeeeld!
Max
2025-02-05 16:23:17 +0000 UTCI love how well this crossover works. I actually found you guys through the episode you did on Lions Led by Donkeys and have been going through your entire back catalog.
Derek Woods
2025-02-05 14:29:41 +0000 UTCAlso fun fact on the load times, the single player PS1/PS2 FF games weren't optimised for PAL regions until FF12, so they all ran at 5/6 speed, so everything, including the act of walking, took longer to do (whenever people discuss remasters being unnecessary, this is usually one of the main selling points in Europe)
shadowcb
2025-02-05 13:44:05 +0000 UTCThe start of this episode has got me excited for the inevitable Kingdom Hearts episode in 1 years time 🙃
shadowcb
2025-02-05 11:43:42 +0000 UTCbabe wake up, new best TWOAPW interstitial just dropped
Laura Platt
2025-02-05 10:45:09 +0000 UTC
