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Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

The Switch 2 As An RPG Machine W/ Ash Paulsen

Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

Kat Bailey

Leisure, Video Games, Technology

4.5709 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2026

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Six months in, we ask the question, "How is the Switch 2 holding up as an RPG machine? Nadia, Eric, and special guest Ash Paulsen discuss the Nintendo Switch 2's RPG lineup, from Switch 1 upgrades, to system exclusives, to that glint of Pokopia on the horizon. It's a great couch system, but does it travel well? 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: New and improved Octopath Traveler 0 An update on Haunted Chocolatier Some side-eye-worthy comments from Bethesda Distant Worlds, baybeee! Timestamps: 09:04 - Main Topic - The Switch 2 as an RPG Machine 41:33 - Random Encounters 51:54 - The Tavern - Octopath Traveler 0 and Distant Worlds 01:07:49 - Nadi'a Nostalgia Nook Music Used in this Episode: Do Your Best - [Breath of Fire III] Pub - [Lunar Knights] A Curious Tale - [Secret of Mana] A Long Fall (The Primals) - [Final Fantasy XIV - Scions and Sinners] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Acts of the Blood God Independent RPG podcast.

0:12.5

We are so happy to be here.

0:14.0

I am Nadia Oxford.

0:15.1

I am hosting today.

0:15.9

So hang on to your butts.

0:17.9

We've also got my delicious lovely co-host, Eric Van Allen.

0:22.5

Delicious. That's okay. Yeah. I guess, I don't know. I'm not like scented or anything at

0:30.1

the moment, but maybe I taste all right. We have pine-scented Eric and we also have another

0:35.1

scented guest. We have Ash Paulson. What scent are you?

0:38.2

I regret to inform you that I didn't hang on in time.

0:41.4

My butt's already gone.

0:42.7

So I didn't hang on my butts in time.

0:45.7

My scent, I don't know.

0:47.2

I guess I have a bunch of Mega Man figurines near me.

0:49.3

So whatever scent in Mega Man is, that's the scent.

0:52.1

Blueberry.

0:52.4

Oil.

0:53.2

Oil, sure.

0:53.4

Blueberry. Oil. Yeah. Blueberry. Oil scent is, yeah.

0:55.0

Ash, when you said like you're, you didn't hang on to your butt, I was just thinking of that tweet that went around. We're like, oh, they've nerfed Wario's ass in Mario Kart. Oh, yeah. Uh huh. And Warrior says they took my ass. I can't shit. I have a question since we have Mega Man people on the pod. Oh, you do. What does Mega Man run on? Solar energy as far as I know. Yeah, solar energy. Yeah. Protoman, his brother, runs on nuclear energy and he can go off at any moment. That's why he's a loner. Okay. Okay. That I understand. Nuclear makes sense to me. But I was going to say, like, if he's, like, USB powered or he needs oil or something, raises a lot of questions. The megabuster is solar powered, so I assume he in general is solar, solar powered. Oh, I didn't know the megabuster was solar power. Yeah, the solar bullets that he's firing from his. Solar lemons. Yeah. Solar lemons. Solar lemons. When Dr. Light built Protoman, something went wrong with his power source and Proto Man took off and Proto Man nearly shut down. But Wiley saved him and gave him a nuclear power source that was kind of flawed. So he was indebted to Wiley for a while. Then he said, fuck this after I think the Coinkin incident. And now he's just a, he does loaner junk in the woods. Yeah. Loner junk. Yeah. Any other questions here? When they come up, when they come up. We need to have a whole episode just about answering Mega Man lore questions. I'd be so down for that. I would love to maybe this will be a side quest option in our future vote. Who's to say? But just I show up with a list of things that I, I is somebody who does not play Mega Man, just want to know about Mega Man. Well, first we need to fix that. We need to fix. Is Dr. Light Light somebody's dad? Like, he gives fatherly, like, in his... He's Mega Man's dad. He's Mega Man's dad. But not, like, in the traditional sense. Like, he did not... In Battle Network. Here's actually a funny thing about Mega, Man Lord. I'll get into very briefly here. It's theorized that the world... is you have a good world when Dr. Light fucks. And when he doesn't fuck, you have a world where he has children that he builds into robots and it all goes wrong. But in the battle network universe, he is the father of the main character's father. He's a grandfather main character, Lanhikari. So, yeah, he fucks. And therefore, everyone's safe. Okay. Yeah. And Mega Man is not a real boy, right? He's not a real boy. No, he is tin. Okay, okay. But that's like the Mega Man universe's Ocarina Time moment where, yeah, whether Dr. Light fucks or not, that's like the octane time split moment into either classic or battle

3:25.6

network. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Okay, we can resume a normal podcast now. We can go back

3:32.4

to RBGs now. Now, in the pro-erman universe, you have Emily. Anyway, um, yes, this actually this

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