Episode 5 - Final Fidelity VII
Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 9:37PM IT'S FINAL FANTASY TALKING TIME!!!!
With all of the excitement you'd find in the intro of any Final Fantasy title, the best episode of Gaming The Media yet starts out with a bang! DocBrown regales us all with an absolutely beautiful reading of the fanfiction classic Glory and Honor, where Cloud Strife, Solid Snake, and Sunny Gurlukovich find happiness in each others' arms. Underneath a bridge. In Germany. (You really, REALLY won't believe this until you hear it for yourself).
Channeling all the magic of any good Final Fantasy plot twist, WillyBeans confesses to his own 2005 fan fiction website written and dedicated to the Gamespot classic TimeTrotters, complete with clips of ex-Gamespot editor Rich Gallup making fun of him, and an important email from GiantBomb's Ryan Davis on WillyBean's story.
As epic as any Final Fantasy game, this episode balloons out to an unprecedented 3.5 hours! Completely Final Fantasy XIII spoiler free, cut with great Final Fantasy music, and full of equal parts love and not-so-much love, the gents discuss:
(Time-stamped if you want to avoid spoilers for any entry)
- Final Fantasy I (00:35:30 – 00:46:08)
- Final Fantasy IV (Japan) / Final Fantasy II (US) (00: 46:49 - 00:59:50)
& (1:11:00 – 1:12:40)
- Final Fantasy VI (Japan) / Final Fantasy III (US) (1:00:00 – 1:20:00)
- Final Fantasy VII (1:21:09 – 1:54:40)
- Final Fantasy VIII (1:56:44 – 1:59:50)
- Final Fantasy IX (1:59:51 – 2:08:38)
- Final Fantasy X (2:08:39 – 2:16:12)
- Final Fantasy XI (2:16:13 – 2:20:15)
- Final Fantasy XII (2:20:16 – 2:30:52)
- Final Fantasy talk continues, but completely spoiler free
We follow it all up with a discussion of how the gaming media over-hypes EVERYTHING, and then makes fun of us gamers for buying into the hype. And finally, we talk about our playthrough of Roberta William's Phantasmagoria.
And best of all, like the end of any good final fantasy game, the end of these shownotes make no sense. DocBrown saves WillyBeans until gets a tied lost or the meadow flowers show him the way to a true power: Heart.
Find the media we game at: The Internet (all of the gaming media are guilty of the hype)
Find Glory and Honor at: www.fanfiction.net/s/4920106/1/Glory_and_Honor
Music this episode:
Final Fantasy X-II - Intro
Metal Gear Solid 3 - Eva's Reminiscence
Mortal Kombat Movie Theme
House of the Dead: Overkill - Critic's Choice
The Black Mages II - The Skies Above - Matoya's Cave (FFI)
Final Fantasy (Remake) - Chaos Shrine
Final Fantasy IV - Into the Darkness
Final Fantasy IV - Cry of Sorrow
Final Fantasy VI - Intro
Final Fantasy VI - Opera
The Black Mages - Those Who Fight Further (FFVII)
Final Fantasy VII - One Winged Angel
The Black Mages - Force Your Way (FFVIII)
Final Fantasy XII - The Strike of a Blade
The Black Mages II - The Skies Above - The Skies Above (FFX)
Final Fantasy VII - Continue (Game Over)
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Intro music for this podcast provided with permission by Xavier Dang at www.xavierdang.com