Ep 17: Star Ocean w/ Fletch
Combo Chain - A JRPG Podcast
English - September 28, 2020 04:00 - 57 minutes - 41.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsVideo Games Leisure Games jrpg jprgs video games rpg Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Ah, Star Ocean...the venerable sci-fi JRPG series that plays more like a bad episode of Star Trek TOS than the epic, interstellar adventure it's always aspired to. In this episode, Fletch and Paul delve into the madness that is the original Super Famicom entry in the series, try to figure out why a spacefaring adventure ends up as a sword and magic fantasy title, and wrap our heads around some truly mad twists. We also pour one out for the dearly departed (or deeply comprised) Tri-Ace. But in the end, it's not all bad...actually, it's pretty bad, but a good time is had by all.
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Show Notes
Hellscaper: A Terrible Experience (https://hellscaper.com/)
Star Ocean on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Ocean_(video_game))
Star Ocean First Departure R on Switch (https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/star-ocean-first-departure-r-switch/)
Ah, Star Ocean...the venerable sci-fi JRPG series that plays more like a bad episode of Star Trek TOS than the epic, interstellar adventure it's always aspired to. In this episode, Fletch and Paul delve into the madness that is the original Super Famicom entry in the series, try to figure out why a spacefaring adventure ends up as a sword and magic fantasy title, and wrap our heads around some truly mad twists. We also pour one out for the dearly departed (or deeply comprised) Tri-Ace. But in the end, it's not all bad...actually, it's pretty bad, but a good time is had by all.
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Show Notes
Hellscaper: A Terrible Experience
Star Ocean on Wikipedia
Star Ocean First Departure R on Switch