Hero With 1000 Potions
Join Nate & Tyler as they discuss the storytelling and gameplay of popular and niche RPGs in serial and one-off formats. Season 2 analyzes Final Final Fantasy VII Remake against its equivalent content in the original release, and Season 1 features 29 episodes through a blind playthrough of Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition. Join the adventure by playing these games alongside these episodes as we explore games one chapter at a time. We also have semi-regular video game travelogue audio essays too feat. Nier Replicant, Resident Evil 2 Remake, Hylics 2, and EarthBound Beginnings. Grow with us on Discord here: https://discord.com/invite/7khXT8hdUJ Show your appreciation with a tip here: https://ko-fi.com/gunbladeguys
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Episodes
Monday Oct 14, 2024
Monday Oct 14, 2024
Glorious Upper Junon unfolds before us, where Cloud wears a familiar uniform and gathers gaming's greatest gang of redshirts.
This episode covers the second half of Chapter 4: Dawn of a New Era and Chapter 5: Blood in the Water.
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#088
Sunday Nov 03, 2024
Sunday Nov 03, 2024
Take the segue to horny jail at Rebirth's most glowed up town. We review our preconceptions of Rebirth's Costa Del Sol, make comparisons to the original game, review each mini game, and more.
This episode covers Chapter 6: Fool's Paradise.
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#089
Tuesday Dec 03, 2024
Tuesday Dec 03, 2024
By mine cart and grappling hook we cross the Corel mountains to a village of impoverished Barret haters which lies in the shadow of heaven on earth, the amusement park Gold Saucer ... except it's gray now? So, Gray Saucer? A fitting name for its fresh take on virtual, disembodied, not-actually-happening funtimes.
This episode covers Chapter 7: Those Left Behind and Chapter 8: All That Glitters up to resting at the Gold Saucer hotel.
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#090
Sunday Dec 08, 2024
Sunday Dec 08, 2024
We discover Gold Saucer's wealth of revised and suspiciously familiar mini games and discuss Rebirth's baffling betrayals of the spirit of Corel as presented in the original game.
This episode covers Chapter 8: All That Glitters between being cut loose to explore the resort independently and arriving at Corel Prison.
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#091
Sunday Jan 05, 2025
Sunday Jan 05, 2025
OUR FIRST LIVE AND IN-PERSON EPISODE!
Nate and Tyler record their first podcast episode while in the same room (Don't get used to it) and beef on Rebirth's revision of Corel Prison and Dyne, plus the storytelling consequences of things like modular reactors and Palmer's butt.
This episode completes Chapter 8: All That Glitters.
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#092
Friday Feb 28, 2025
Friday Feb 28, 2025
A jungle brandishes a whale-shaped WEAPON, Tifa earns a scar for not having one, Whispers clash in Lifestream, and Rebirth's Cid loses his temper.
This episode completes Chapter 9: The Planet Stirs.
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#093
Monday Mar 31, 2025
Monday Mar 31, 2025
We feel spiritual fulfillment at Cosmo Canyon, get high on Chocobo gliding, and claw our way through the Trial of the Watcher. Did anybody remember to bring a Soft?
This episode begins Chapter 10: Watcher of the Vale and ends at finding Seto.
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#094
Monday Apr 07, 2025
Monday Apr 07, 2025
Zach and Biggs find hope in the slums, the Gi explain the Black Materia, and the Canyon Region is ours to explore.
This episode completes Chapter 10: Watcher of the Vale.
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#095