Latest Nadiaoxford Podcast Episodes
Shadow of the Erdtree, Nintendo Direct, FFVI, and More! w/ Mitchell Saltzman
Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast - June 24, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 374 ratingsI hope you like your rings elden and your trees erd because this week Kat, Nadia, Eric, and special guest Mitchell Saltzman discuss the much-anticipated Elden Ring DLC. Plus, the latest Nintendo Direct, and Eric's experience with Final Fantasy VI so far. It's a jam-packed episode this week on Axe...
Dragon Age Impressions and SGF Epilogue w/ Brenden Groom
Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast - June 17, 2024 12:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 374 ratingsMore like Summer Games FEAST. The deluge of news simply doesn't stop. This time Kat, Nadia, Eric, and special guest Brenden Groom focus on Dragon Age: The Veilguard plus a bazillion other games that were announced over the past week. Tune in to live recordings of the show every Saturday morning a...
Summer Games Fest, Xbox Showcase, and More!
Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast - June 11, 2024 02:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 374 ratingsWe're at the SGF. We're at the Day of the Devs. We're at the Xbox Showcase. We're at the combination SGF, Day of the Devs, Xbox Showcase. Kat and Eric are joined by Michael Higham and Moises Tavares to discuss an absolute deluge of game reveals, announcements, trailers, and news. Tune in to live ...
State of Play, Summer Games Event Preview, and More!
Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast - June 03, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 374 ratingsThe season of big summer announcements has begun! Kat, Nadia, and Eric discuss the RPG offerings Sony has revealed in the latest State of Play. What do PlayStation-playing RPG-lovers have to look forward to in the near future? Find out on this episode of Axe of the Blood God! Tune in to live reco...
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Review w/ Logan Plant
Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast - May 27, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 374 ratingsThe Mario RPG remakes continue with a Gamecube classic and Kat, Nadia, and special guest Logan Plant are here to talk about it. Does the brilliant script hold up? Is the combat and progression still as fantastic as it's always been? And who is the best companion? That's easy, we all know who it i...
Mailbag! Why Persona 5 Got Mad Popular in the West, and Does Kiryu Make Sweet Love?
Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast - May 20, 2024 21:27 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 374 ratingsIt's letter tiiime, it's letter tiiime!~ Axe of the Blood God's May mailbag is here, and it is loaded with some excellent questions from our listeners. The topics of discussion are, but not limited to: What stops so many of us from finishing RPGs? PS5 RPG ports we want to see on Switch 2 Do Dr...
We're Very Worried About Xbox RPGs Now
Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast - May 13, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 374 ratingsCapitalism continues to function as intended with the closure of several studios by Microsoft. What's the future of Game Pass? What will RPGs on Microsoft platforms look like going forward? And how many lives need to be ruined by rich people before we bring back the thing that rhymes with "creati...
Can Square Enix Be Saved and Does It Need Saving?
Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast - May 06, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 374 ratingsA slew of un-announced titles from Square Enix have just been skewered by the masamune in a grand restructuring. In the wake of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's sales, where does our beloved JRPG machine go from here? The odds of getting a Various Daylife 2 seem slimmer than ever. Kat, Nadia, and Eric d...
Fallout 4 Mini-Pantheon, Metaphor GOTY '24?
Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast - April 29, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 374 ratingsLet's re-litigate like it 2015! Does Fallout 4 deserve the hate that it gets in certain circles? With the current-gen update and the TV series bringing Fore-out back to the Fall-front it's time for Kat and Eric to go head-to-head and determine if Fallout 4 is one of the greats of the genre or des...
Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes Review w/ Lucas White
Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast - April 22, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 374 ratingsWhen you consider inflation that's really only gonna get you as far as seventy-ish heroes. Either way the spiritual successor of Suikoden has arrived! Is it worth the wait? Did they manage to fit all them heroes into the Switch version? Eric, Nadia, and special guest Lucas White discuss this much...
Is The Fallout TV Show Any Good?
Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast - April 15, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 374 ratingsDid you know Walton Goggins has his own distillery? You can buy Walton Goggins-branded gin if you want. And if you, like me, happily embrace any opportunity to see beloved character-actor Walton Goggins on screen then boy howdy the new Fallout show is for you! A veritable overpour of Goggins -- m...
RPGs and Fighting Games w/ Mitchell Saltzman and Brenden Groom
Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast - April 08, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 374 ratingsThey share more than just fireballs! Kat and Eric are joined by special guests Brenden Groom and Mitchell Saltzman to discuss why these are two genres that taste great together! What fighting games would make a great RPG? What RPG would make a great fighting game? Where is there already plenty of...
Dragon's Dogma 2 Review w/ Jesse Vitelli
Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast - April 01, 2024 20:04 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 374 ratingsHope you like car wrecks because this week's episode of Axe of the Blood God is hosted by Nadia Oxford. With Kat Bailey out on another cigarette run and Eric's vocal cords being shredded apart by PAX Pox, Nadia's forced to try and keep order. This week's guest is writer Jesse Vitelli, who has ple...
Retronauts X AotBG: Toriyama’s Legacy, Dragon’s Dogma, No Baldur’s Gate 4, and the 90s
Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast - March 26, 2024 00:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 374 ratingsWhat is this, a crossover episode?! Our old pals Bob Mackey and Henry Gilbert of Retronauts, Talking Simpsons, and What A Cartoon fame stop by the Blood God studios to offer their animation history expertise while discussing some of the biggest games of the year as well as the classics they've be...
Unicorn Overlord Review, FF7 Rebirth Dating, And More
Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast - March 19, 2024 00:07 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 374 ratingsVanillaware has done it again; defying conventional wisdom, they've gifted us the most Sega Saturn game we've seen in ages. Emerging from an alternate universe where Ogre Battle was revered as much as it's tile-based cousins, Unicorn Overlord is here. Does it conquer this oft-unexplored branch of...
Paying Tribute to Akira Toriyama, Unicorn Overlord, and More
Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast - March 11, 2024 17:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 374 ratingsAkira Toriyama died on March 1, leaving behind a legacy that includes Dragon Ball, Dragon Quest, and an incredible impact on both games and anime. With Eric out, Kat and Nadia are joined by Victor Hunter and Ash Paulsen to break down he changed RPGs, our memories of watch Dragon Ball, and more. ...
Does Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Have the Best Characters in the Series? Plus: Layoffs, Balatro, and More
Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast - March 04, 2024 18:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 374 ratingsIf you're going to mosey you might as well mosey with the best. The cast of Final Fantasy 7 has always been a fan favourite; does Rebirth give these characters more room to breathe or just a lot of filler? And what other FF cast compares to them? Kat, Nadia, and Eric discuss the best ensembles of...
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Review w/ Nick Limon
Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast - February 26, 2024 17:35 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 374 ratingsIt's the spoiler-free Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Spectacular! The panel has had plenty of time with Rebirth, or as I like to call it "Final Fantasy VII-3". Does it improve upon Remake? Does it stand on it's own? Do you need to play the lost mid-200s Japanese feature phone game Before Crisis to ful...
Xbox Business Update, Tribute to Suikoden's Creator, and the RPGs That Make Us Go Sicko Mode
Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast - February 19, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 374 ratingsIt's letter tiiiiime, it's letter time!! It's everyone's favourite time of year; Letter Time! Join Kat, Nadia, and Eric as they tackle some hard-hitting questions like "what's your favourite juice?" If you'd like to submit questions for our next mailbag episode be sure to join our discord at patr...
Why Making a Great RPG Romance Is Harder Than Ever
Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast - February 12, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 374 ratingsLove is in the air; as long as the project roadmap has made allowances for it in the overall budget! Kat, Nadia, and Eric talk about the best and worst relationships in RPGs. How do you write a natural relationship in a videogame? Should relationships just be a means to an end? Will anyone bring ...
How Did Persona Get So Big, Persona 3 Reload Impressions, State of Play, and More w/ Kenneth Shepard
Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast - February 05, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 374 ratingsThe Three Musketeers, 3 Ninjas, Persona 3. Just a few examples of franchises that began with 3. And here to celebrate the remake, Persona 3 Reload, are Kat, Nadia, Eric, and special guest Kenneth Shepard! They discuss differences between the original, the perfect starting off point for players ne...
Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth Review w/ Jesse Vitelli
Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast - January 29, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 374 ratingsCanadian chart-topping darlings BNL once said "If I had a million dollars I'd buy you a house." Unfortunately with inflation being the way it is a million dollars can hardly get you a downpayment anymore. No my friend, what you need to get anywhere in this world is wealth. INFINITE WEALTH. And Ic...
Game Developer Quest: Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio w/ Michael Higham
Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast - January 22, 2024 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 374 ratingsYou down with RGG? Yeah, you know me! From Super Monkey Ball to Infinite Wealth, our prestigious panel covers the history and key players of Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio. Eric, Nadia, and special guest Michael Higham discuss the runaway success of the Yakuza/Like A Dragon series, the charm of 1988 Kamuro...
Ranking the Top 5 RPG Studios 2024 w/ Ethan Gach
Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast - January 15, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 374 ratings2024's RPG landscape is already being defined by a handful of big titles. But those games aren't made in a vaccuum. They're made by people! People who work at studios! And those studios have names. Listen as Kat, Eric, and special guest Ethan Gach discuss the 5 biggest studios that are already sh...
What Will Be The Best RPG of 2024?
Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast - January 08, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 374 ratingsThere are some questions we as a species will always be asking; Is consciousness inherent to our universe? Is time a construct? What cool new video games will come out in 2024? 10 hard-hidding questions will be asked of our intrepid panel and you'll hear Kat, Nadia, and Eric dole out answers like...
The Most Anticipated RPGs of 2024
Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast - January 01, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 374 ratingsThere's never been a more appropriate year to anticipate RPGs than this one! Whether it's "Like A", "Quest", or "Dogma 2", the Year of the Dragon is bound to bring you something you'll sink a not-insignificant part of your year into! Join Kat, Nadia, and Eric as they each talk about their Top 5 M...
A Look Back at the RPGs of 2023
Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast - December 25, 2023 20:27 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 374 ratingsMerry Chrysler! We here at Axe of the Blood God prepared this very special episode that takes both a deeply critical and celebratory look at the nutty year that just passed us by. We had RPGs galore! Have we ever seen such bounty? New Zelda! New Baldur's Gate! New Cyberpunk...sort of! But we had ...
Hidden Gems of 2023 w/ Reb Valentine
Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast - December 18, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 374 ratingsThe Holidays are right around the corner and you know what that means? That's right! All the children who have been good year 'round gather at the local podcast to hear the wise old hosts dispense their recommendations for the year! But what's this? Mean Mr. Grinch stole aaaaaall the popular game...
The Game Awards 2023 Recap: An Embarrassment of RPG Riches and Just Plain Embarrassment
Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast - December 11, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 374 ratingsSponsored by Factor It was an embarrassment of RPG riches as well as just plain embarrassment at this year's Game Awards 2023 as Keighley Fest 2023 once again brought us trailers, celebrities, and way too much Hideo Kojima. Nadia, Kat, and Eric recap everything that happened at this year's show, ...
Is Darkest Dungeon 2 an Underrated Gem of 2023? w/ Matthew Salisbury
Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast - December 04, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 374 ratingsThe year 2023 has been absolutely packed with RPGs, and there's always something flying under the radar. Darkest Dungeon 2 might just be one of those - a follow-up to a beloved dungeon-crawler that still feels like it hasn't had quite the same impact as its predecessor. So one of our Patreon supp...
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