Lightning Strikes Thrice
Lightning Strikes Thrice is a JRPG games club podcast. Play along with us as we discuss the people and events that take place in the myriad series in the genre.
Episodes
September 22, 2025 • 77 mins
Editor's note: This podcast was recorded in November 2024. Don't @ us about how weird some of it reads in hindsight.
You have hired a contractor to create ten different mad traps for the immortal wizard in your basement. A few suggested mazes. Some went to real Halaster Blackcloak territory with their suggestions for "paths through Hell" and "time upon space" and the ilk. In the end, one of the pitches you heard sounded incredibly ...
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August 25, 2025 • 92 mins
Editor's note: This podcast was recorded in November 2024. Don't @ us about how weird some of it reads in hindsight.
Did you know that they buried Werdna about half a mile under a portal to Hell? And somehow this is also where they bury a lot of the honored dead of the castle town? You can't think about this dungeon too long, it'll drive you mad in a "how does any of this come together" sense. Roe Adams III was a king for this, tho...
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August 12, 2025 • 53 mins
Editor's note: This podcast was recorded in August 2024. Don't @ us about how weird some of it reads in hindsight.
This time out, the game explicitly begins, with one of the most infamous puzzles in the genre, and then... okay, next time. This one's not too bad. Also, dungeon ecologies, and what to do with a Dink! Next time we'll have the full cast as the chaos begins.
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July 28, 2025 • 44 mins
Editor's note: This podcast was recorded in August 2024. Don't @ us about how weird some of it reads in hindsight.
So it's come to this. We're going to look at one of the granddaddies of the RPG genre worldwide... through the lens of the most controversial and dismissed title in the entire franchise. Welcome to Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna, a game that eschews party creation and stat rolling for brutal puzzles and series mecha...
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July 14, 2025 • 121 mins
Editor's note: This podcast was recorded in July 2024. Don't @ us about how weird some of it reads in hindsight.
Here, at last, we come to the end of all things underground, and then we decide "what if we actually turned away from the sun and went deeper for a week?" to explore the bonus dungeon. Welcome to the climax of Dragon Quarter.
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March 24, 2025 • 130 mins
We've made it to the final dungeon! Hope you like running it four times.
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Check out Garrett, Matt, and Chris discussing anime on Boku No Stop! (https://www.bokunostop.com/)
Listen to Ryan's band at Cannon & DeVaron (https://cannondevaron.bandcamp.com/releases) and their solo work as Catastrophiz...
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January 27, 2025 • 145 mins
We fight tiny skeletons and discuss the ethics of collecting sneakers as we push our way closer to the Center.
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Check out Garrett, Matt, and Chris discussing anime on Boku No Stop! (https://www.bokunostop.com/)
Listen to Ryan's band at Cannon & DeVaron (https://cannondevaron.bandcamp.com/release...
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September 22, 2024 • 111 mins
We explore the steamy, hot, throbbing Lifeline, and confront our old frenemy Bosch who has upgraded his hater game.
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Check out Garrett, Matt, and Chris discussing anime on Boku No Stop! (https://www.bokunostop.com/)
Listen to Ryan's band at Cannon & DeVaron (https://cannondevaron.bandcamp.com/re...
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July 28, 2024 • 78 mins
Our team finally reach the resistance group Trinity's headquarters. Surely, they are going to be happy to help us, right?...Right?
Support Us On Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/pitchdrop) to hear Chris and Ryan's FF14 podcast, the Boku No Stop Premium anime podcast, and Radio Manga!
Check out Garrett, Matt, and Chris discussing anime on Boku No Stop! (https://www.bokunostop.com/)
Listen to Ryan's band at Cannon & DeVaron (https://...
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June 30, 2024 • 87 mins
We all playing with our worm men at the mall.
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Check out Garrett, Matt, and Chris discussing anime on Boku No Stop! (https://www.bokunostop.com/)
Listen to Ryan's band at Cannon & DeVaron (https://cannondevaron.bandcamp.com/releases) and their solo work as Catastrophizer (https://soundcloud.com/...
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June 4, 2024 • 104 mins
We run into some Certified Freaks(TM) in the Industrial Area and talk a lot about worm men (not covered in this episode)
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June 3, 2024 • 71 mins
This week, have another bonus episode of our patreon series Radio Manga (in which Matt and Sibyl alternate deep-dives on single works with shotgun spreads of what each has been reading), but this time with a guest! Grant (https://cohost.org/My-Name-is-Grant) (of various podcasts across the years) joins the crew to take a look at Masamune Shirow's The Ghost in the Shell manga, a brief look at his career's English reflection, and a s...
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April 21, 2024 • 118 mins
We decide to smash Zeno and her paradox with a dragon boy
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Check out Garrett, Matt, and Chris discussing anime on Boku No Stop! (https://www.bokunostop.com/)
Listen to Ryan's band at Cannon & DeVaron (https://cannondevaron.bandcamp.com/releases) and their solo work as Catastrophizer (https://sou...
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April 7, 2024 • 106 mins
We learn the horrific tradegy that is Nina's backstory--not that she's a sentient air filter, but that she is not AHAM Verified©
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March 26, 2024 • 85 mins
We learn that Nina puffs, but does not pass.
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Check out Garrett, Matt, and Chris discussing anime on Boku No Stop! (https://www.bokunostop.com/)
Listen to Ryan's band at Cannon & DeVaron (https://cannondevaron.bandcamp.com/releases) and their solo work as Catastrophizer (https://soundcloud.com/c...
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February 26, 2024 • 69 mins
We chat with the Director/Writer Ota Imon and Lead Animator Paulo Imon of OTA IMON Studios about the development of Wolfstride. We learn the lore on mecha influences, animation challenges, deep-cut references to the band WEEN, and the team's upcoming rougelike deck-builder Zet Zillions. You better listen, trash!
OTA IMON Studios discord server (https://discord.gg/H5bKPSgrhp)
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February 19, 2024 • 116 mins
We do not heed the age-old wisdom to protect ya neck.
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Check out Garrett, Matt, and Chris discussing anime on Boku No Stop! (https://www.bokunostop.com/)
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January 30, 2024 • 109 mins
We begin our coverage of the controversial fifth entry in the Breath of Fire series. Hold on to your D-Ratios
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Check out Garrett, Matt, and Chris discussing anime on Boku No Stop! (https://www.bokunostop.com/)
Listen to Ryan's band at Cannon & DeVaron (https://cannondevaron.bandcamp.com/releases...
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January 9, 2024 • 107 mins
We decide to take out the trash. Well, really just Shade, who is trash.
Next week, we will begin our coverage of Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter. See you then!
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Visit Hellscaper (http://hellscaper.com/) to find out what Sibyl does with her life.
Check out Garrett, Matt, and Chris discussing anime...
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December 10, 2023 • 146 mins
Someone new gets in the robot and the crew gives roadtrip advice.
Support Us On Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/pitchdrop) to hear Chris and Ryan's FF14 podcast and the Boku No Stop Premium anime podcast!
Visit Hellscaper (http://hellscaper.com/) to find out what Sibyl does with her life.
Check out Garrett, Matt, and Chris discussing anime on Boku No Stop! (https://www.bokunostop.com/)
Listen to Ryan's band at Cannon & DeVaron (ht...
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