Watch Out for Fireballs! 24: Sword of Mana
Watch Out for Fireballs!
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🗓️ 26 July 2012
⏱️ 112 minutes
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Summary
Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross lambast Sword of Mana.
It’s a veritable cornucopia of JRPG cliches: evil empire, plucky children, godlike powers… And a bunch of extraneous systems. It’s a remake of Final Fantasy Adventure, which was a perfectly good game, but it got spoiled. Listen and learn exactly how.
LINKS OF NOTE:
Mystic Quest: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_Adventure
One winged Angel: tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OneWingedAngel
Jurassic Park: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QMue9j_RKg
Pol Pot: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KTsXHXMkJA
Firefly, Star Trek, Arrested Development and Twin Peaks: www.avclub.com/articles/avqa-mos…ed-tv-shows,2485/
Pogrom: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogrom
Ed Wood tombstone thing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-pQ8q2sGIo
The Pagemaster: www.youtube.com/watch?v=V63IXsl1FXM
Tales from the Crypt: www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5x3zhmDQ7Q
Abbot and Costello meet the dracula: www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5s3_XV1rkA
The Cat in Paris: www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7e07c52VWg
Ghost Trick: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2ied7wFCFM
Image of Cibba: www.spriters-resource.com/gameboy_adva…bba_icon.png
Sambo: i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/10/06…8-55_468x353.jpg
Chocobo breeding: shrines.rpgclassics.com/psx/ff7/chocobos.shtml
Fresh Books.com: www.freshbooks.com/
FF4: The after years: finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Final_Fa…e_After_Years
Short Circuit 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfODTw6h6rE
Never Ending Story Rock Biter: www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0VxGRWPh28
Disc One Dungeon: tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/…iscOneFinalDungeon
Lyre bird video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjE0Kdfos4Y
Tappa tappa tappa: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5julb5Fg51w
Chell fall damage: half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Long_Fall_Boot
San Dimas HS Football Rules: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7b6Ff9Qm2FU
Sword of Mana final speech: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRCajYYGZQQ
Sperglord: www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sperglord
Scaramanga: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXsTPiK844A
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Grandpa, tell us the story of the Hero of Mona again. |
| 0:09.7 | Well, we've all heard that story a million times before. |
| 0:15.0 | About who some accident-prone moron literally fell into saving the world through a series of bad decisions, broken mechanics, and well, intelligence insulting |
| 0:26.8 | coincidences. |
| 0:27.8 | It was the style at the time, you see. |
| 0:30.6 | I mean, even your dear departed grandmother voted for Dark Lord. |
| 0:36.0 | But, Grandpa, why would anybody do that? |
| 0:39.0 | I mean, how could they be so stupid? |
| 0:41.0 | The world was a stupider place back then. Man of poisoning if I had to guess. |
| 0:47.0 | Isn't that how Uncle Euthanes got hired at the orphanage? |
| 0:50.0 | Yep, despite his name. |
| 0:53.0 | I'm telling you, we were all blathering ninnies back then. |
| 0:58.0 | Of course, Uncle Euthany's needed a career change |
| 1:02.0 | after putting fiscal bad advice in charge of his accounts. |
| 1:06.0 | You know old fiscal, he had his taxes done by Auditford Scoflaw. |
| 1:11.0 | He lost it all. |
| 1:13.0 | Grandpa, I'm glad we're not stupid anymore. |
| 1:17.0 | Me too. |
| 1:18.0 | Yeah, running along, you little rabbit, |
| 1:21.0 | since we put all squirt's flame tooth in charge of the non-aspestos preschool for boys. |
| 1:27.0 | I feel safe sending you out there. |
| 1:30.0 | Don't you worry about watching out for fireballs, sunny. Oh, The Oh, well, I'm going to be a better |
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