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Chrono Cross 33: Initializing EricNet [Sea of Eden]

Please insert disc 2. This time we’re closing out characters with third techs, jumping on a tombstone, giving a book to a homeopathic surfer, eating children, pushing blobs for butterflies, kicking turds, visiting our doomed dimensional twin, diseasing opponents, cooking with a brother, inspiri...

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Parasite Eve 11: Blood History [Day Six, Liberty Island and Navy Cruiser]

Parasite Eve 11: Blood History [Day Six, Liberty Island and Navy Cruiser]

No one can believe this shit. On Parasite Eve’s final episode, we’re dramatically sitting on an Egyptian throne, assembling the ugly mama, gobbling immunosuppressants, screaming the name of my slimed wife, blowing up helicopters, becoming more monster, properly modifying our gun, melting into...

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Chrono Cross 32: Master Supplier Hammer [New Marbule (Home)]

We’ve got our Serge boy body back. With that we’re populating the island of misfit toys, dreaming of vegetables, resonating a sword, changing animations, divining dragon falls, industrializing Marbule, marrying mermaids, creating an iridescent super axe, grand slamming Janice out of the fight...

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Parasite Eve 10: Cops Looting Dinosaurs [Day Five, Museum of Natural History]

Parasite Eve 10: Cops Looting Dinosaurs [Day Five, Museum of Natural History]

Every game has a Krelian’s Lab. This time we’re talking body part strength, following ghost Klamp, answering trivia questions for medical supplies, slaying troodons, walking through the rainforest, admiring Olmec colossal heads, seeing the skeleton family, stopping by the gift tent, reanimati...

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Chrono Cross 31: Serge, Dick Out [Fort Dragonia (Home)]

Blushing, I walk the royal carpet. This time we’re answering riddles, introducing Orcha to himself, forgetting to save, recruiting ghosts as techs, fighting Evil Serge, learning the history of the world, absorbing reptite lore, transforming and getting naked, and receiving the title of the game...

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Parasite Eve 9: Genuflecting Above a Manhole [Day Five, Chinatown Sewers]

Parasite Eve 9: Genuflecting Above a Manhole [Day Five, Chinatown Sewers]

Don’t learn the system until it forces your hand. On this episode we’re detailing soylent, separating cats from rats, debating grenade launcher density, smelling rotten meat, evading darkness in the sewer grid, coating the walls in people slime, not turning valves, evading criticals, insertin...

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Chrono Cross 30: Positive Bird Energy [White Dragon + Forbidden Isle (Home)]

Listen to the planet’s woes, humans. As we consecrate our dragon destiny, we’re also wrecking creatures of legend, watching Orlha kick ass then kicking Orlha’s ass, referencing a dimensional twin, receiving a Dragon Emblem, jumping in odor holes, receiving Snakes & Orbs, discovering a m...

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An assortment of news and updates about this podcast

I haven't done a post in a bit. It is time to post.

Chrono Cross recording is complete, including two more upcoming bonus episodes. The main series caps off at 40 episodes, including the New Game Plus endings. For upcoming bonus pods, we have a Character Tournament and the ...

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Review: NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139...

Join us for a review of a brief retrospective on the original NieR and a review of NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139...

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Parasite Eve 8: Respective Jerkoff Rooms [Day Four, St. Francis Hospital]

Parasite Eve 8: Respective Jerkoff Rooms [Day Four, St. Francis Hospital]

Everyone is either dead or evacuated. This time we’re repairing wires, rescuing live human beings, duplicating trading cards, fiddling with liquid nitrogen, masturbating at a doctor’s office, moving a centrifuge to push a button, tying back to the book, dispatching jets, tracking down sperm, ...

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Chrono Cross 29: Talkin' About Dragons [Earth Dragon + Green Dragon + Fire Dragon + Water Dragon]

What powers doth thou seek? While we scour the world for relics, we’re jumping in the sand boil, breaking down the Fossicker, blowing up local wildlife, combining philosophy with destiny and violence, observing the sacred pilfering percentage, stealing plates, getting Chris the Beeba Flute, rid...

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Parasite Eve 7: Poor Questions to Ask Your Ghost Sister [Day Four, St. Francis Hospital Basement]

Parasite Eve 7: Poor Questions to Ask Your Ghost Sister [Day Four, St. Francis Hospital Basement]

Is there a sperm bank nearby? This time we’re encouraging our buddy, wondering why Eve attacked the precinct, trading mod permits for cards, guarding the base, loving jank, fumbling with card keys, cutting the power, shooting slime, combining guns with grenade launchers, collecting fuses, eject...

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Chrono Cross 28: Please, Someone Call Me a Manly Mariner [Magical Dreamers + Black Dragon]

Aye, landlubber…!? This time we’re reforming Fargo, motivating mistreated laborers, missing metaphors, conducting a speech synthesis play, dissecting stage plays in RPG’s, exterminating all monsters in Marbule, listening across dimensions, recruiting a dancer, barely animating a dragon, and...

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Parasite Eve 6: Abolish the Police [Day Three, NYPD Precinct #17]

Parasite Eve 6: Abolish the Police [Day Three, NYPD Precinct #17]

Let go, Ben. Sheeva is sick. Today we’re sorting through a wrecked police station, trashing a Shinto charm, receiving ammo from dead cops, stealing desks, misjudging gun damage, disappearing Torres, fighting werewolves in an interrogation room, witnessing a dog mutation, denying first aid, heat...

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Chrono Cross 27: Our Two Finest Soldiers and Two Idiots [Isle of the Damned (Another)]

You are Lynx-kinds. Well, ok. Today we’re playing the Yggdrasil’s theme, Kidding with Marcy, protecting Riddel from scum, tracking down the Spice Boys, spitting exclamation points, flashing back to adolescence, accepting friend flowers, failing to express admiration, proposing marriage, possi...

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Parasite Eve 5: Her Outstanding Genetic Mutation [Day Three, Soho and Museum of Natural History]

Parasite Eve 5: Her Outstanding Genetic Mutation [Day Three, Soho and Museum of Natural History]

Road rules don’t apply here anymore. Today we’re waking up in a soggy bedroom, looting a pharmacy, making tapes, refusing to upgrade, practicing poor gun safety, stealing large guns, modifying other guns, breaking into a lab, extracting gel-like substances, looking at blood, mutating mitochon...

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Chrono Cross 26: Fluid of the Eyes [Surprise Attack!!!]

The ground here is hot. This time we’re confronting Radius with Radius, rubbing a child’s head, getting in a real time turn based fight, boarding the reflection bridge, churning resolution from flashbacks, putting everyone in this game in our party, reflecting our image on the mirror of truth...

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Parasite Eve 4: A Tetsuo Amalgamation [Day Two, Central Park]

Parasite Eve 4: A Tetsuo Amalgamation [Day Two, Central Park]

Come, my dear, let’s go for a ride. This time we’re getting a break in the case, retiring a dog, speeding out of a parking garage, igniting clothing, slaughtering zoo animals, attending a concert during a mitochondrial pandemic, reducing to slime, following a child ghost, boss fighting worms,...

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Chrono Cross 25: Legendary Antifa Supersolider [Back to Viper Manor (Another)]

We are the Chrono Crossers. Today we’re jailing the Fake Net, playing bad cop bad cop, standing by in the parlor, putting Norris on Norris, making the Hell Cook, unmasking the spy, turning valves in the sewers, fighting a big gross bug, freeing prisoners, fighting a quaffid seed addict, fightin...

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Parasite Eve 3: Your Favorite Urban Noise [Day Two, Natural History Museum]

Parasite Eve 3: Your Favorite Urban Noise [Day Two, Natural History Museum]

Can I evolve out of my appendix? Today we’re framing a town as a police station, chopping it up with Warner and Nix, touching on the Manga, counting desks in the briefing room, meeting German shepherds, expressing a desire for gun control, illegally modifying weapons, making questionable parent...

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Chrono Cross 24: A Human Remix [Back to Termina (Another)]

Ye be me!? Today we’re meeting a realistic dragon, acquiring Denadorite, shewing away shadow cats, taking refuge at Gonji’s, finding our living dead dragon mother, hearing Home music in Another world, suspending economic activity, experiencing a mushroom crisis, identifying the Drakehorn gras...

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Parasite Eve 2: Police Don't Take Biology [Day One, Part II]

Parasite Eve 2: Police Don't Take Biology [Day One, Part II]

Nucleic domination has finally come to an end. This week we’re following ghost children, witnessing a rat mutation, stepping over burned up guys, interrogating a clown, reporting back to base, reading a diary, growing large hands, smashing piano keys, slaying mutants, heating up, punching a jer...

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Chrono Cross 23: Miguelancholy and the Infinite Sadness [Dead Sea]

The vengeance of the future we killed is about to begin. Today we’re comparing melodies, evaluating Y2K futurism, speculating machine sentience, finding Johnny, spec’ing Zappa, hacking lore with Norris, shopping at the mannequeen mall, missing Doc’s tech, going over Tragedienne’s dialogue...

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The Bouncer: 20th Anniversary Retrospective

The Bouncer: 20th Anniversary Retrospective

Yes, we did a The Bouncer one.

01:11 Intro | 02:12 Development Overview & Personal History | 12:12 Prologue | 21:12 Fate Bar | 37:58 Central Square | 41:21 Train Station | 44:24 MSD Cargo Train | 53:26 Emergency Exit | 55:01 Air Carrier | 57:36 Hanging Garden | 01:02:54 Crystal Dome | 0...

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Parasite Eve 1: Piano Keys and Sick Guitars [Day One, Part I]

Parasite Eve 1: Piano Keys and Sick Guitars [Day One, Part I]

Welcome to episode one of our Parasite Eve miniseries! In this audio transmission we’re fondly recalling rental scenarios, ignoring Europe, summarizing a novel, reading a graphic sex scene, getting on the cover of EGM, crying blood from primal eyes, denying the tutorial, ignoring my dick boyfri...

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Chrono Cross 22: The Jerrykarl Sword [Isle of the Damned (Home)]

Express your intent to the Einlanzer. On this episode we’re using a crab to quell a storm, knocking on death’s door, debating the morality of a sword, going hard in the paint on the masamune, flashing back to Dario’s final days, using a keepsake mirror to trick trick mirrors, normalizing ol...

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Chrono Cross 21: Big Time Muppet Show Energy [S.S. Zelbess (Home)]

Rockin, I knew you’d come. This time we’re taking stock of the Zelbess, becoming semi-permanent felines, hurting our back, observing a remorseful pirate, sneaking through a crow’s nest, learning about the power of song, disabling cheaters, confronting Father, falling into a monster fighting...

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Terranigma 16: The Original Screaming Hole [Chapter Four]

Terranigma 16: The Original Screaming Hole [Chapter Four]

  

My girlfriend is my mother again. On the final episode of this miniseries, we’re waking up as an infant, suffering a heel turn, reborning ourselves, obtaining the arms of the hero, accepting avian mail, joining the compatriot caravan, teaming up in the laboratory, pushing but...

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Chrono Cross 20: Repository of Misfit Dumbasses [Marbule (Home) + S.S. Zelbess]

One. Two. Free. While we listening we’re visiting the muppet house, observing  a haunted island, getting lore injections from Toma, stalking a nocturnal mermaid, hopping aboard a kitschy cruise ship, calculating interest in coffee money, watching a magician do actual magic, dealing with po...

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Pods of Fate 6: Radical Dreamers, Part VI

Pods of Fate 6: Radical Dreamers, Part VI

We have made it to the final episode of our Radical Dream. In this episode, we tackle  The Enigmatic Gigaweapon: Paradise X and The Shadow Realm and the Goddess of Death. Totally normal stuff, right?

Radical Dreamers may be over, but Pods of Fate will return. Send us your ideas for bon...

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