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What's The Deal With: Xenoblade Chronicles?

Triple Click

Maximum Fun

Kirk Hamilton, Society & Culture, Video Games, Jason Schreier, Maddy Myers, Arts, Technology

4.5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Xenogears? Xenosaga? Xenoblade? Just what is the deal with all of these Xeno-games? In honor of the recent release of Xenoblade Chronicles 3 for the Switch, Jason walks Kirk and Maddy through the long-running JRPG pseudo-series, from giant robots to anime swords.

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0:00.0

This week we talk about one of Jason's favorite JRPGs from the late 90s with turn-based combat

0:21.1

in a story that will stick with you. It's Zeno Gears. I'm the rest of the Zeno saga.

0:30.1

I'm Maddie Myers. I'm Jason Shire and I'm Kirk Hamilton and hello. Hello. We're back again.

0:36.1

We are nice to see the two of you after our break. After a short refreshing break. What a long difficult break.

0:44.1

It was a long hard break.

0:46.1

It was for one of us. It kind of was for one of us, which we got to get into because, hey, it's the beginning of the show.

0:56.1

You probably know what I'm going to say if you've ever listened to it before. If you haven't, welcome.

1:01.1

Here's the thing I'm going to say. I'm going to say that we are a podcast that's on maximum fun.

1:07.1

And I think that's really cool. First of all, and second of all, it means we're listener supported.

1:13.1

And if you want to become a member and go to maximumfund.org slash join, you would get bonus episodes.

1:19.1

But hey, you might be thinking, Maddie, I am a member and I'm still tapping my foot on that bonus episode from July.

1:28.1

Where the heck is Maddie and Jason and Kirk talking about Marvel movies and TV shows.

1:35.1

And that is coming. Kirk, over to you to explain why. That is the case.

1:41.1

So there's this virus called COVID-19. And as it turns out, if you get it, it really can kind of be a bummer.

1:48.1

And last week, I got this virus and had a real bummer of a week where I was not really up for recording any podcasts

1:56.1

or doing much of anything other than lying in my bed and reading the internet and occasionally going, aww.

2:01.1

So that's what I did for the last week. And it was a real drag.

2:06.1

And it turned you into an elephant. It basically turned me into a very sad elephant.

2:11.1

So yeah, I got COVID and we had delay recording the MCU Beans cast that we will be recording today.

2:18.1

And we'll be in the feed as you're listening to this episode, probably on Fridays.

2:23.1

So the day after you're listening to this, it'll be upsetting. A lot of trouble this week.

2:28.1

A lot of trouble click this week. And I'm pretty much feeling better. It's still kind of lingering.

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