Our first in a three-part series of Chrono Trigger podcasts features Brent the ABXY Mage and a talk on the game’s soundtrack.
JRPG
Octopath Traveler is about convictions and traditionalism painted with heavy strokes and a new coat of paint.
If you like JRPGs or are a fan of mind-bending stories and Japanese culture, give this a shot, just be prepared to lose a significant chunk of your life to this video game epic.
In this EarthBound episode, the idyllic vision of America, the death of innocence, the lost art of memorable NPCs, and more.
Cosmic Star Heroine is a combination of recognizable influences but it doesn’t let all that inspiration go to waste.
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
-Buddha
“Shall the axe boast over him who hews with it,
or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it?”
-Isaiah 10:15 [ESV]
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”
-Roald Dahl
“Sleeping on a dragon’s hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.”
―C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
“As JRR Tolkien reminded us, the only people who inveigh against escape are jailers.”
– Neil Gaiman, The View from the Cheap Seats
“Picture yourself in a boat on a river, With tangerine trees and marmalade skies,
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly,
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes”
– The Beatles, Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds
“Much have I fared, much have I found,
Much have I got of the gods:
What shall live of mankind when at last there comes
The mighty winter to men?”
-The Ballad of Vafthruthnir
“Always winter but never Christmas.”
-C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia
