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Rhythm Encounter 113 – Dragon Quest: Symposium of Sound

Posted by Michael Sollosi on July 17, 2023

A podcast appears! Fight? Spell? Parry? Item? JAM. The music of Dragon Quest, largely composed by the late Koichi Sugiyama, combines a classical sensibility with a flair for the dramatic, with tracks ranging from serene world map tunes to pop-inspired tracks for naming your hero. And let’s not forge… Read More »

Retro Encounter 378 – Final Fantasy VI Part II

Posted by Zach Wilkerson on July 13, 2023

Life… Dreams… Hope… Where do they come from? A new episode of Retro Encounter of course, that’s where! We’re back this week to dive into the second, more ruinous half of Final Fantasy VI. After the relatively structured and straightforward pacing of the first half, the latter portions of Final… Read More »

Random Encounter 273 – Master Podcaster Archives: Trails into Random

Posted by Jonathan Logan on July 10, 2023

On this week’s Random Encounter, we’re finally breaking free of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Not-E3, and Final Fantasy XVI! Time to talk about some (other) games! First up, Audra delights in the RPG crossover to end all RPG crossovers, The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie. Pr… Read More »

Rhythm Encounter 112 – With Jazz in Our Hearts and Funk in Our Souls

Posted by Hilary Andreff on July 3, 2023

It’s time to get down! In this panel, the Rhythm crew has selected some favorite jazz and funk tracks in RPGs. Not styles of music that first come to mind when thinking of RPGs, and indeed, that’s part of their charm and effect! How have game composers and arrangers adopted these styles while arrang… Read More »

Retro Encounter 377 – Final Fantasy VI Part I

Posted by Zach Wilkerson on June 29, 2023

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… Read More »

Random Encounter 272 – Finally, We Have Final Fantasy XVI!

Posted by Zach Wilkerson on June 26, 2023

On this week’s Random Encounter, we’re talking about Final Fantasy XVI! It’s been six years since the last numbered Final Fantasy game, but the wait is finally over, and Final Fantasy XVI has finally arrived! There’s so much to talk about that we’re dedicating an entire episode to it, hosted by our… Read More »

Rhythm Encounter 111 – Musical Games: From Classical Composers to Singing Pirates

Posted by Hilary Andreff on June 19, 2023

What defines a musical game? Videogames, and RPGs especially, are known for using a musical score to enhance the experience, so what parameters really define “musical games” and make their use of music especially notable? Today, our Rhythm panel is going on a journey to look at a wide variety of mus… Read More »

Retro Encounter 376 – Rollercoaster of Emotion: The RPG Moments That Moved Us

Posted by Zach Wilkerson on June 15, 2023

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 one… Read More »

Random Encounter 271 – Not-E3 2023 Extravaganza!

Posted by Jonathan Logan on June 12, 2023

On this week’s Random Encounter, it’s all about Not-E3! If you’re a video game fan, Not-E3 week is like Christmas, Easter, and Halloween all rolled into one! Though a few shows are still coming up next week, the big ones are all finished, and our panel is here to discuss the massive amount of RPG an… Read More »

Rhythm Encounter 110 – Melodious May Music (in June)

Posted by Mike Salbato on June 5, 2023

We interrupt the expected “Musical RPGs” episode with a quick listen to some recent music, just as we did earlier in the year with episode 101. With new Zelda and Final Fantasy XIV music that came our way in May, Mike had to share those. But there’s several other notable indie projects to share too,… Read More »

Retro Encounter 375 – Lost Odyssey Part II

Posted by Zach Wilkerson on June 1, 2023

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 sidequ… Read More »

Random Encounter 270 – The First Stirrings of Not-E3

Posted by Jonathan Logan on May 29, 2023

On this week’s Random Encounter, we’re seeing the beginnings of the Not-E3 season! If you’re a video game fan, it’s getting close to the most wonderful time of the year! There are slightly under two weeks until Summer Game Fest, but we still have a ton of news to discuss from Wednesday’s PlayStation… Read More »

Rhythm Encounter 109 – Character World: RPG Character Themes II

Posted by Mike Salbato on May 23, 2023

Welcome to our long-awaited followup to 2014’s Theme Park episode! Episode 21 of Rhythm Encounter was all about character themes, and we knew it was time to do this topic again, because there has been no shortage of characters with their own themes in RPGs since then. We’ve got Dragon Quest, Dragon… Read More »

Random Encounter 269 – Ain’t Nobody Crying in This Kingdom!

Posted by Jonathan Logan on May 20, 2023

On this Saturday’s emergency Random Encounter, we’re discussing The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom! We’ve assembled a panel of three people who loved Breath of the Wild, one who liked it, and one who just wasn’t a fan. The plan was to meet up to talk about the entirety of TOTK, beginning to e… Read More »

Retro Encounter 374 – Lost Odyssey Part I

Posted by Zach Wilkerson on May 18, 2023

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… Read More »

Random Encounter 268 – A Latte to the Past

Posted by Jonathan Logan on May 15, 2023

On this week’s Random Encounter, we’re talking about two highly anticipated sequels (although one is slightly more anticipated than the other). First up, Jono and Mike share their initial impressions of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, the long-awaited direct sequel to 2017’s Breath of the… Read More »

Random Encounter 267 – Advancing Onto the Burning Shores

Posted by Jonathan Logan on May 8, 2023

On this week’s Random Encounter, we’re talking about a highly anticipated piece of DLC and a very highly anticipated remake (that we were never quite sure we would EVER see)! First up is Caitlin talking about the Horizon Forbidden West DLC, Burning Shores. In it, we visit the post-apocalyptical ruin… Read More »

Retro Encounter 373 – Octopath Traveler II Spoilercast

Posted by Zach Wilkerson on May 4, 2023

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 gam… Read More »

Rhythm Encounter 108 – Hitoshi Sakimoto: Person of Musical Caliber

Posted by Mike Salbato on May 1, 2023

Whether you know him from his legendary work on Final Fantasy Tactics or elsewhere, odds are you at least know composer Hitoshi Sakimoto’s name. And while he often gets talked about for his work in those Ivalice titles like FFT, Final Fantasy XII, and Vagrant Story, Sakimoto has worked on a fascinat… Read More »

Random Encounter 266 – Welcome to Cyberspace!

Posted by Jonathan Logan on April 24, 2023

On this week’s Random Encounter, we’re looking at two games (technically, 11 games) that bring us fully into cyberspace! First, Peter downloads his thoughts on the new visual novel based on Disney’s Tron franchise, TRON: Identity. Does it capture the cyber-magic of the classic 80s film and its 2010s… Read More »

Retro Encounter 372 – Persona 4 Golden Revisited

Posted by Michael Sollosi on April 20, 2023

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’… Read More »

Rhythm Encounter 107 – Springtime Serenade

Posted by Mike Salbato on April 17, 2023

At Rhythm Encounter, we’ve created episodes around seasons in the past — Episode 6 was about summer, while Episode 23, Winter Warmer, was popular enough that we revisited winter in Episode 59. And yet, we’ve somehow never had episodes about spring or fall/autumn. Well, today we address one of those… Read More »

Random Encounter 265 – The Games that SHOULDN’T BE!

Posted by Jonathan Logan on April 10, 2023

On this week’s Random Encounter, we’re talking about two games that, frankly, we can’t believe exist. Many of us expect certain game series to “stay in their lane.” Mega Man is a platformer. Doom is an FPS. Metroid is, well, a Metroidvania. But when a series tries something completely differen… Read More »

Rhythm Encounter 106 – Rhythm de Chocobo

Posted by Mike Salbato on April 3, 2023

In preparation for April Fool’s Day, someone at RPGFan suggested we finally tackle a long-standing idea: a joke episode that features only chocobo music from Final Fantasy. We loved the idea, but then a funny thing happened — a perfectly normal episode celebrating Nobuo Uematsu’s iconic theme and it… Read More »

Retro Encounter 371 – Like A Dragon: Ishin! Part II

Posted by Michael Sollosi on March 30, 2023

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 care… Read More »

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