The Greatest RPGs Intros From the Mako Reactor Attack to Escaping Dragons in Skyrim

Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

Kat Bailey

Leisure, Video Games, Technology

4.6 • 674 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Which RPGs have the best intros? Kat and Nadia talk through the introductory sequences in some of the best RPGs ever made, and why they work and don't work. Why does Final Fantasy 7's opening hit so hard? What about Mass Effect 2? The pair explain what a really good intro can do for a story, and all the ways that a bad one can sap an otherwise good RPG's momentum. 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 US Gamer's official RPG podcast.
0:18.6	I'm your host, Kat Bailey, joining me as always my lovely co-host, Nadi Oxford.
0:23.0	Hello, Kat. How are you hanging in there?
0:24.9	Hanging in there in this crazy, crazy world.
0:27.3	Happy to be talking about RPGs.
0:30.6	Yes, I think we will serve as a good distraction for people.
0:34.3	I like that RPGs are our only solace in this dark and terrible place.
0:39.0	I have to admit, they are quite a comfort, and I'm jealous of Katie for getting to review
0:45.2	Animal Crossing right now. I know, right? I think that a review is actually probably up on the
0:52.2	site at this point? Yeah, I think embargo is up the same time as this podcast goes up, and if not, it should
0:58.1	follow quite shortly.
0:59.5	This might be the first Animal Crossing I buy since the DS game.
1:04.1	Yeah, I am not really, like I like Animal Crossing quite a bit, but I'm not like huge,
1:09.0	huge, huge, but this has been really, really intriguing, and I feel like it's exactly what I need right now in my life.
1:14.9	Yeah, I definitely need something a lot lighter, and Animal Crossing sounds like it's it.
1:21.1	Yeah, especially since I've been kind of hard at reviewing Ori and the Will of the Whips and Persona 5R, which I keep calling R's royal in North America.
1:29.9	I don't know why I keep subscribing to the Japanese version.
1:32.7	Yeah, we were going to talk about Persona 5 Royal on this episode, but we can't because the embargo got pushed to tomorrow as of the release of this episode.
1:40.6	So that means just going to have to wait.
1:42.8	Yeah, come back tomorrow, kids, and I'll have a nice piece for you.
1:46.4	But, yeah, I'm a little disappointed about that.
1:48.3	Yeah, we're not doing a review because we already have a review of Persona 5,
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