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. Resident Evil 2 Remake, Hylics 2, 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
Sunday Sep 24, 2023
Sunday Sep 24, 2023
As Cloud and Aerith cross Sector 6's Collapsed Expressway, Nate and Tyler wonder about the sector's partial plate collapse and Midgar's economic development. Nate briefly reviews Final Fantasy VII Ever Crisis. This episode explores Chapter 9 up to arriving at Wall Market.
Sunday Oct 01, 2023
Sunday Oct 01, 2023
We explore Remake's lively and sprawling version of Wall Market, get personal about hand massages, and battle an abominable abode. This episode completes chapter 9 up to defeating the Hell House.
Monday Oct 09, 2023
Monday Oct 09, 2023
How did Remake handle Wall Market's methods of getting Cloud into his iconic dress? We review the divergent ways each game turns Cloud into wife material, and analyze each game's highly unusual Honeybee Inn sequences. This episode completes Chapter 9 up to Cloud's yassification.
Monday Nov 06, 2023
Monday Nov 06, 2023
We enter Don Corneo's world of Dionysian depravity and threaten to take away his favorite toy. Our heroes get the rug pulled out from under them when he spills the beans about Shinra's secret to plan to destroy Avalanche. Also we discuss the Kazushige Nojima novel "The Kids Are Alright: A Turks Side Story."This episode completes Chapter 9.
Monday Nov 13, 2023
Monday Nov 13, 2023
Things get dark and spooky once Cloud, Tifa and Aerith fall into Corneo's trap in the Midgar sewers. Finding the way out it isn't too hard, but a haunted train graveyard separates the team from the Sector 7 pillar, which they desperately need to defend.
This episode covers all of Chapters 10 and 11.
Monday Nov 20, 2023
Monday Nov 20, 2023
As the Turks assault the Sector 7 pillar, Avalanche members begin dropping off, Reno has his sights on a rematch, and Aerith thinks about the children.
This episode covers chapter 12 up to the end of Aerith's playable segment.
Monday Nov 27, 2023
Monday Nov 27, 2023
Cloud gets Pizza-TSD, Reno and Rude show us the Turks Two-Step, and a cartoon cat weeps in horror.
This episode completes chapter 12.
Monday Dec 04, 2023
Monday Dec 04, 2023
Following the Sector 7 plate collapse, we search for a missing Marlene, explore a stunned Sector 5, and learn about Aerith's childhood in flashbacks with Elmyra.
This episode covers Chapter 13 up to arriving at the Underground Test Site.
Monday Dec 18, 2023
Monday Dec 18, 2023
Barret and Tifa plumb the Underground Test Site, witness people in tanks, honor the memory of Biggs and Jessie, and Cloud speaks with a special someone in the gardens outside Aerith's house in the wee hours of the night.
This episode completes chapter 13 and begins chapter 14, ending after a tender conversation with either Aerith, Tifa, or Barret.
Monday Dec 25, 2023
Monday Dec 25, 2023
A tomboy bandit causes mischief in the Sector 5 slums, Tifa compels Avalanche to help the people, and Leslie helps us get topside after we help him find Don Corneo's hidey-hole in the sewer system.
This episode completes chapters 13 and 14.