Hero With 1000 Potions

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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February 4, 2022 45 mins

Tyler & Nate begin their blind playthrough of Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition.

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We get to know Shulk, Reyn, Fiora, and the denizens of Colony 9.

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#002

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The call to adventure comes with a heavy price.

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#003

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Visions, premonitions, and flashbacks mark our way to Bionis' Knee.

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Nate & Tyler discuss the games that got us through 2020 and 2021, including Slay the Spire, Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Earthbound, the Tomb Raider classic series, Spiritfarer, and Streets of Rage 4.

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Part two of Nate & Tyler's discussion on the games that got us through 2020 and 2021. In this episode we discuss Heroes of the Storm, Death Stranding, Stardew Valley, and World of Warcraft.

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February 21, 2022 92 mins

The world opens up to a vast grassland packed with wildlife, Hom and Nopon refugees, and a tribe of barbarian turkeys.

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February 28, 2022 70 mins

The Feb. 9, 2022 Nintendo Direct was packed with RPG announcements. Join us as we review the highlights, including Xenoblade Chronicles 3, Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition, Live A Live, Triangle Strategy, Earthbound, Earthbound Beginnings, and more.

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We arrive at Colony 6, now occupied by mechons, to save Juju and discover the fate of the settlement's militia.

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A cascade of confrontations and surprises trail our heroes from the bottom of the mines back to the surface and beyond.

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We move carefully through the Satorl wetlands, home to mysterious ruins, hostile beasts, and beautiful (but treacherous!) natural phenomena. Elsewhere, Colony 6 rebuilds from scratch and a sinister laboratory is hard at work.

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Our first game review! We share our first impressions of Square Enix & Artdink's 2022 HD-2D tactical RPG Triangle Strategy after playing it for 10 hours. Part 1 focuses on gameplay.

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Part two of our first game review! We share our first impressions of Square Enix & Artdink's 2022 HD-2D tactical RPG Triangle Strategy after playing it for 10 hours. Part 1 focused on gameplay, and this this much-delayed Part 2 focuses on story.

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Dreadful creatures big and small stalk our expedition through a primordial wilderness.

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April 4, 2022 18 secs

Title says it all. Thanks for your patience everybody!

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At last! Eryth Sea: Home to the technologically advanced High Entia. We meet several new characters, discover schemes, meddle in rituals, discover ancient legends, and keep from drowning in a torrent of side quests.

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Part 2 of our discussion of our arrival at Eryth Sea. We're going tomb raiding!

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Is it an audio book? A travel journal? … For a video game!? In this special episode Tyler narrates and reacts to the story and gameplay of EarthBound Beginnings (aka Mother), a quirky and postmodern RPG released on the Nintendo Famicom in 1989. Join us for moment-by-moment descriptions, commentary, jokes, in-game music, and some surprises along the way. Fans of the Mother series, Undertale, or retro role playing games will not want...

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As a mechon assault besieges the High Entia homeland, Emperor Sorean sets out to awaken the secret captive of Prison Island. This grim oubliette floating above the Eryth Sea becomes the setting for an ominous and fateful showdown.

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Nate and Tyler break down the cutscenes that play out before the group departs the Imperial Capital.

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