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Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

Fire Emblem 15th Anniversary Retrospective, Tabata's Shocking Resignation, and Geno

Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

Kat Bailey

Leisure, Video Games, Technology

4.6674 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2018

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

On the 15th anniversary of Fire Emblem's release in America, Kat and Nadia remember the first entry to make it overseas. They talk Marth and Roy's first appearance in Smash Bros. Melee, the reasons for Blazing Sword being chosen over Binding Blade, and of course, perma-death. Plus: An investigation into why Smash Bros. fans love Super Mario RPG's Geno, Hajime Tabata's shocking resignation, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to another episode of Axelblagod, US Gamer's official RPG podcast. I'm your host, Kat Bailey, joining me as always, my lovely co-host,

0:23.3

Nadi Oxford. Hello, Kat. We had, we had snow today, a little bit of snow. That is the very

0:29.0

Canadian thing to say to me. I saw that you have flurries, which for the non-initiated means you

0:35.3

had little bits of snow, just little bits, put in the ground.

0:38.7

Yeah, Katie asked me, what's Flurries?

0:41.1

I'm like, how do you not know what Flurries is, I guess?

0:44.2

She grew up in California, I mean.

0:46.2

Oh, my goodness gracious.

0:48.2

I remember Flurries very well from what I was growing up.

0:52.4

But, yeah, so we got a lot to discuss in this episode.

0:56.5

We're going to talk about the departure of Hajime Tabata from Square Enix.

1:02.9

We were going to investigate the very strange appeal of Gino from Super Mario RPG,

1:09.8

and we are going to fondly remember Fire Emblem for the Game Boy

1:15.2

Advance because it is the 15th, last weekend was the 15th anniversary of its official release

1:22.5

in North America. The moment when all of the wifus came to America.

1:29.9

In a huge surge.

1:35.3

Yeah, just all at once, the door fell down and here came all of the wifus.

1:37.1

Come on in, ladies.

1:41.5

Acts of blood of God, of course, can be found in iTunes, Stitcher, wherever podcasts are sold. If you have feedback, make sure to send me a line.

1:45.5

I'm on Twitter at the underscore catbot Nadia's at Nadia Oxford, and you can reach me

1:50.8

over email at cat.daubbailey at usgamer.net. Okay, first things first. Let's talk about the big news of the week, the shocking resignation of Hajima Tabada,

2:07.3

director of Final Fantasy 15, as well as the cancellation of three episodes of DLC for Final Fantasy 15.

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