This week on Retronauts.

I'm your host, extremely polygonal wyvern Nadia Oxford.

This week we're talking about one of the stranger games from Square Enix's more experimental days,

Vagrant Story, which is a quarter of a century old this year, oh God, help me.

Joining me for this underground game, and more ways than one are two guests.

One is a regular guest, and the other is a special guest.

Just kidding, they're both special.

But let's start with a specialist.

I have with me, veteran translator and local localizer Alexander O. Smith, the man behind

vaguer's story, quote, unquote, biblical dialogue.

And one of the reasons why, in my opinion, evil-ies feels like one of the most well-developed

comprehensive Final Fantasy settings aside of Final Fantasy 14, which also has its own kind of

well-developed, comprehensive, Evoleseice of its own, but I digress.

Hi, Alexander.

Thank you so much for coming.

Hi, hi, Nadia.

Thanks for having me on.

And please, call me Alex.

Alex.

My nephew is named Alex.

So there you go.

Sweet. My other guest is likewise special, and I mean that from the bottom of my heart, but it's

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