Lunar, Ys, and More: The Earliest RPGs on CD

Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

Kat Bailey

Leisure, Video Games, Technology

4.6 • 674 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2021

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Another Patron-requested topic approaches! This week, Kat and Nadia take on a very special request to talk about the semi-lost "in between" era of CD JRPGs. If you're an old person, you'll know all about said era: It was an awkward but interesting time when some 16-bit consoles received CD player add-ons. A host of one-of-a-kind RPGs followed from series like Lunar, Ys, and more. It was a time when 16-color anime cutscenes were king, and localization company Working Designs made sure not to skimp on the Bill Clinton jokes. Get your slap bracelets ready. Special thanks to $50 Patron Visa-Valtteri Pimiä for both their generous support and the great idea! Also in this episode: Monster Hunter Rise gets a Rathalos-sized update, Pokemon Snap seems lovely, Returnal is perfectly spooky, and Shin Megami Tensei 3's Matador seems really wild about Hanukkah. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of Acts of the Blood God, an independent RPG podcast.
0:22.6	I am your host, Kat Bailey, joining me as always, my lovely co-host, Nadia Oxford.
0:27.6	Hello, Kat. Do you want to hear a funny story?
0:30.6	I always love to hear a funny Nadia story. They're always the best.
0:34.6	This one actually involves my husband and I.
0:41.5	We've been streaming a bit over at Twitch.tv. 4.slash NightWorks.
0:43.7	That's NYTW.
0:45.5	How we spell works.
0:47.1	And it's late.
0:49.6	What can I tell you?
0:50.6	I'm tired.
0:52.7	And we're kind of working at the kick, so don't come over expecting
0:56.0	any technical marvel yet. But I decided, okay, well, I'll stream some Final Fantasy 14.
1:01.9	And we were having trouble with computers, so we decided, okay, we'll stream it through the
1:05.1	PlayStation, no problem. And we kept getting no picture. It would tell us, like picture of audio is fine and realized, what's going on?
1:13.6	What's it going on here?
1:14.7	It turns out Squarespace still blocks intro movies from Final Fantasy 14, blocks the title screens, blocks everything until you start playing.
1:23.1	What the hell?
1:24.6	What years are it?
1:25.4	It's 2021.
1:26.7	Why are they still doing that? I couldn't believe it.
1:29.2	They did that with Persona 5 as well. Yeah, but Persona 5 is newer than Final Fantasy 14.
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