Ivalice Chronicles is Correcting History w/ Tom James and BowlofLentils

Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

Kat Bailey

Leisure, Video Games, Technology

4.5 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

The Final Fantasy Tactics you played back on the PS1 is not the real Final Fantasy Tactics. In fact, if you played it in the West you missed out on entire games-within-games that not only flesh out the world of Ivalice, but hold clues to the future of Square Enix. And these secrets are all tucked away in... Sound Novels!That's right, this week Victor and Nadia are joined by experts in the history of Japanese adventure games, Tom James and BowlofLentils, to discuss how The Ivalice Chronicles is steering us back onto the path of understanding the lineage of this misunderstood genre. Visual novels, sound novels, adventures games, point-and-clicks, text adventures, dating sims, oteme games, galge? What do they have in common and what makes them completely different? Find out on this expository episode of Axe of the Blood God! Sorry if you thought this was going to be about like, the nature of remakes or adaptations and the Ship of Theseus or whatever, but we've got sound novels to talk about! Tune in to live recordings of the show every Saturday morning at https://www.twitch.tv/bloodgodpod, subscribe for bonus episodes and discord access at https://www.patreon.com/bloodgodpod and celebrate our 10th Anniversary with new merch at https://shop.bloodgodpod.com Also in this episode: Eternal Sonata Vanillaware's alternate Princess Maker timeline Doshin the Giant Why Inspector Gadget owes his life to Lupin III We mention Hollow Knight: Silksong purely for SEO purposes 428 Shibuya Scramble Famicom Detective Club FURTHER READING: BowlofLentils Youtube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/@bowloflentils Tom James' Blog:https://dateemups.com/ Sharlayan Dropouts - The Veil of Wiyu:https://bloodgodpod.com/sharlayan-dropouts-lore-veil-of-wiyu/ Timestamps: 7:20 Main Topic - Ivalice Chronicles Resurrecting the Lost Sound Novels 1:32:08 - Random Encounters 1:36:08 - Nadia’s Nostalgia Nook Music Used in this Episode: Do Your Best - [Breath of Fire III] A Curious Tale - [Secret of Mana] Contact - [YU-NO: a girl who chants love at the bound of this world] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of Acts of the Blood God, an independent RPG podcast.
0:21.3	I'm your host for this episode.
0:23.3	The edit bay could not contain me.
0:25.6	It's your old pal Victor Hunter.
0:27.6	And with me, as always, my lovely co-host, Nadia Oxford,
0:32.2	how the hell are you, Nadia?
0:34.8	Hey, Vic, I'm going to tell you before you read the Twitch,
0:37.0	but the Charlene dropout, his graphic is up. So you know what?, I'm going to tell you before you read the Twitch, but the Charlene Dropout's
0:38.0	graphic is up, so you know what?
0:39.3	I wasn't going to say anything.
0:42.0	Why didn't you say anything, Victor?
0:46.2	You know what this reminds me of?
0:48.3	What?
0:49.1	My great-grandmother, she once sent us, like, a charm from Ireland to Shaleli that my mother always kind of hung up like wherever we moved. And at one point when they finally moved to their house, they're living in now, it took my mom a while to hang it up. But one day I noticed that they, oh, it was hung up over a doorway. And I said to my dad, oh, you hung up the Shaleli. And my dad said, yeah, I was going to hang up across there to see if anyone noticed, but your mom wouldn't let me.
1:13.0	And just remind you, yeah, I was going to hang up across there to see if anyone noticed,
1:11.9	but your mom wouldn't let me.
1:13.0	And just remind you, I'm Jewish.
1:17.5	So that's what it just.
1:20.2	We have the wrong graphic up.
1:21.7	Who's going to notice?
1:23.3	Who's going to know?
1:24.6	Look, we're not here to talk about me covertly converting this into an episode of Charlene
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