The Final Fantasy VII Remake Demo (RECAST)
Kotaku Splitscreen
Kotaku
4.6 • 849 Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2020
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
Episode 220: Kirk, Jason, and Maddy talk about Kentucky Route Zero, Baldur's Gate 3, and a bit more Kirby before jumping into a few different topics (24:24) including their gamer personalities, a frustrating VentureBeat article about Quantic Dream, and the much-hyped Final Fantasy VII remake demo, which they have LOTS of thoughts about. Finally, off-topic discussion (1:28:38) on Curb Your Enthusiasm and Bojack Horseman.
Music pick of the week: “Get By’ By Talib Kweli from Quality, 2002
Links: Quantic Foundry surveys, Jason's thoughts on Final Fantasy VII Remake, CanardPC on QuanticDream, Kirk and Leigh Alexander on Final Fantasy VII
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Kotaku Split Screen, the only podcast that's willing to go outside of Midgar. |
| 0:14.6 | It's March 5th, 2020, and we all played the demo for Final Fantasy 7 remake. |
| 0:20.1 | Kirk is also still playing Kirby Planet RoboBot. |
| 0:22.6 | I'm back on Kentucky Route Zero, and Jason is replaying Persona 5. |
| 0:26.6 | But the meat of this episode is each of us analyzing our different gaming temperaments |
| 0:30.6 | and our different histories with Final Fantasy 7. |
| 0:33.6 | We debate whether it makes sense for this game to be episodic, and we share our own |
| 0:38.7 | tips for dealing with the game's combat. We close it out with off-topic talk about Emily King, |
| 0:44.1 | curb your enthusiasm, and Bojack Horseman. Let's get to it. |
| 0:59.5 | And we are back for another episode of Kotaku Split Screen. |
| 1:00.7 | I'm Maddie Myers. |
| 1:03.7 | And I'm joined, as always, by Kirk Hamilton. |
| 1:04.9 | Hi, Kirk, what's up? |
| 1:05.8 | Hello, Maddie. |
| 1:06.9 | It's nice to see you. |
| 1:07.5 | What's up? |
| 1:09.0 | It's nice to see you, too. |
| 1:11.9 | Nothing is up really, except that also Jason Schreier is here. Hi, Jason. Hello. Hello. Hello. That's what's up. Yeah, that's what's up. |
| 1:16.9 | Jason's here. My dear friends, I hope that you are both staying safe from the virus that's going |
| 1:22.8 | around. I don't know if you've heard, but there's a virus going around. Interesting. Interesting. |
| 1:27.8 | I've heard some things about that. |
| 1:28.8 | So last week, last week we were speaking about this in kind of a hypothetical terms, |
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