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.
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Xenosaga Podcasts
A chapter by chapter, beat by beat analysis of classic Japanese Roleplaying Games (JRPG). We delve deep into the story, dialogue, game mechanics, music, influences, and themes. We've covered Xenogears, Chrono Cross, Final Fantasy VIII, Suikoden, Suikoden II, Xenosaga Episode I, Final Fantasy Tactics, and Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete. Yes, we will kill god.
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XenoChat is a podcast that discusses various aspects of everything Xeno: Xenogears, Xenosaga, all the way to Xenoblade! Join hosts Justin (@JusGuillou) and Tyler (@KOSMOSchaos) as they chat about the series with various guests. This is a fan podcast. We are not affiliated with either Monolith Soft, Square Enix, Bandai Namco, or Nintendo.
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Semi-pretentious thoughts on gaming!
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Lunar: Silver Star Story | E47: People Love Fulfilling Destinies [Grindery, Part I]
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Has anyone told you that you’re gorgeous? It’s true, as obvious as when we’re rolling a turd, suffering a pincer attack, wishing there were anime in an anime moment, yanking off nipples, adapting dragon technology, vowing to stop a cretin, stumbling into a fairy garden, chafing at a wicked manner, laying off the goblin workforce, shopping at Home D…
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Episode 141: Wizardry IV - Death of a Thousand Cuts
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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 …
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Lunar: Silver Star Story | E46: The Power to Firm and Tone [Vane is Down]
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What kind of hero are you if you can’t protect my balloons? Apparently the kind that likes suppressing emotion, drunken-smacking monsters, witnessing a death plunge, wondering where home is, making wings out of fluffy bugs, committing a modern hate crime, spiraling through Paxton/Pullman delirium, losing the power to firm and tone, moving into an e…
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Lunar: Silver Star Story | E45: The Time of Getting Freaky [The Grindery Starts]
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This is not the time to get freaky. Ears can’t even do that, but they can hear us resting in a slumber of our design, witnessing a world history event, birthing the Grindery, thinking of the Death Star workers, combining steam with magic, yearning for the True Power of Vane, using a super move reluctantly, testing the limits of forgiveness, working…
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Lunar: Silver Star Story | E44: A Hideous Flesh Bag [Ruid]
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This is not a place of contention. It’s a place of listening, and learning while we’re removing the lesbians, damseling workers, assuring the quality of our plumbing, destroying a different black dragon, growing dirt guys, talking to eggs, waiting for a heel to turn face, requiring god juice to live, seeking Althena’s light, understanding the gobli…
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XenoChat 7th Anniversary: The Xenoblade X Award Show
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XenoChat is now seven years old! To celebrate, a mix of old and new guests alike are sharing their milestones in Xenoblade Chronicles X Definitive Edition! Join Justin, Tyler, Robin, Kat, Nick, Marie, Owen and new guest Luxqaer as they discuss who did the most revives, who survived battles with HP in the single digits, and other awards. You can see…
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Episode 140: Wizardry IV - The Catacombs
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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…
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Lunar: Silver Star Story | E43: Victor Ireland Made Me Say a Slur [Talon Mines]
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What’s up pixel perverts? Today we’re blighting the surface for undesirables, rapidly switching discs, realizing the guards can hit, scraping metal out of the dirt, locating the only doctor in the world, experiencing goblin poetry, refusing to serve drinks to miners, dreaming of D Block, goofing into a slur, beating the prisoners, staring down a mo…
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Lunar: Silver Star Story | E42: Pooter Retained [Embarking to the Frontier]
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You’re prisoners of foolish ambition. You’re consumers of the pod, an episode in which we’re smelling so sweetly, waiting for Kyle to say it, finally realizing what we should have known, using ass-beating thoughts as a coping mechanism, fighting out of duty, living in the present, becoming a character, deploying a maximally appropriate sound effect…
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INFINITE PERFECT 004: Performance Violence [Mutant League Football + Mutant League Hockey]
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Mutant League Football and Mutant League Hockey were convergence points across gross out children’s toys, gratuitous video game violence, and those who dared to dream up sports games for kids who weren’t especially interested in sports. But is it bad when the toilet produces more than it consumes? Eric thought about this for the last five months. I…
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Episode 139: Wizardry IV - The Pyramid of Entrapment
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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…
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Lunar: Silver Star Story | E41: Her Ass-Butt in the Water [Dragonmaster World Tour, Part II]
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I wanna see some skull. Down in that bone zone, we’re coming up with magic city protection spells, wearing villain attire, contemplating infinity, making mother look so afraid, seeking the emasculation of self, crying in baby poop, dropping trou, becoming an honorary citizen of Lann, wearing an everybody magnet, loving Whitney Houston, building mac…
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XenoChat Episode LXX: Xenoblade X DE Roundtable Review
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After 10 years of waiting for a follow-up to Xenoblade Chronicles X, we finally wrapped up the story of Mira in the Definitive Edition. Was it a good send-off, or were we left wanting more? Join Justin, Tyler, Nick, Marie, Kat and Bee as they discuss what they loved about Xenoblade Chronicles X Definitive Edition!If you haven't beaten Chapter 13, s…
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Lunar: Silver Star Story | E40: A Rubber Band and a Stick of Butter [Dragonmaster World Tour, Part I]
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Shut your sass hole, buddy. From our sass holes we bequeath denying god’s light from the Frontier, showing off our new clothes to everyone in the world, learning more about Alex’s Dad’s Son’s Sister Girlfriend, failing to show love in action, doing weird shit with butter and rubber bands, foreshadowing Nash via doomerism, continuing the denture sag…
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Lunar: Silver Star Story | E39: Elemental Nostrils [Black Dragon Fortress]
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What man who desires to be a hero would let that happen? Us, obviously. We’re bleeding out of the neck, dealing with Not My First Mind Control, tempting in the desert, saying Alex and Luna over and over, screaming into Dragon Master gear (in anime), wearing an invisible sprite hat, indulging in dragon controller irony, supposing dragons are real, c…
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Episode 138: Wizardry IV - Origins/Mechanics
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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 …
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Lunar: Silver Star Story | E38: Please Understand, Pray Until You Find the Answer [Forest of Illusion + Pao + Black Dragon]
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Graveyard duck, give me the bag. Inside of this bag you can find us feeling the magic, repeatedly getting lost in the forest, spriting a tree differently, receiving PSP-exclusive Nash backstory, dreaming bloody murder, parting bushes like the red sea, debating the existence of god with children, learning of the nomadic lifestyle, spreading disease,…
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Lunar: Silver Star Story | E37: A Turd-Sick Gnat [Myght's Tower]
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The time is at hand to prove the worth of your way. We’ll do that by wishing Laike was plausibly nerfed, fearing a bad lore tower, navigating pipes and catwalks, throwing shit out of a magic hat, playing fart sounds, bullying our way into a second airship, buzzing around like a turd-sick gnat, yanking on a face, foreshadowing a betrayal, enforcing …
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Episode 137: Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter - Endgame (Finale)
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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. Support Us …
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Lunar: Silver Star Story | E36: Apartheid on the Moon [Tamur]
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No place is safe these days. Not even a podcast, unless we’re attempting to define a dragon’s lair, animating Phacia’s sprite, realizing the bad guys want to kill god, crying at the amusement park, disappointing father, impressing mother, living in the cave forever, taking a dirt nap, threatening a corpse stomp, launching surprise arrows, stonewall…
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Lunar: Silver Star Story | E35: Getting My Jollies [Blue Dragon]
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Is there a reason for these kinds of guys? Podcasters? Guys who are correcting a your/you’re situation, reminding teenagers of their mortality, speculating the origin of hole floor dungeons, banging blowing and flicking, eliminating drag references, actually fixing a town, poking dead monsters with a stick, singing songs between two lovers, telepor…
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Lunar: Silver Star Story | E34: Plum Tickled Pink [Lyton]
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I’m so hot to trot right now. Stay cool while we’re entering a spinning picture cut-scene, falling out of the sky, stealing crashed balloon parts, disregarding mortality, beating perverted slime balls, attempting a ritual, shitting on a tradesman, regretting the fool mirror purchase, choosing bow or cane, producing kindergartener music, simulating …
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Lunar: Silver Star Story | E33: The Communism Dragon [Red Dragon Cave]
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Why don’t you come with me? I’m going to take us to a cool place…a podcast. In such a place we’re becoming a Thieves Guild member, recalling petty crime stories, developing a third ulcer, spanking another bottom, maintaining the fortune teller bit, calling Ramus a “chuckoid,” handing over the blueprints, indulging in floating bug science, encouragi…
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Lunar: Silver Star Story | E32: The Treasure That Cannot Be Sculpted [Damon's Tower]
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Knowledge is meaningless if it’s not shared with others. Just like podcasts, especially when we’re possessing the cornerstone that may become the foundation, confirming remastered butt crack, procuring special knowledge, wishing we were playing N.A.R.C., gaining entrance, neglecting typo correction in the remaster, loving pop quizzes, testing the p…
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XenoChat Episode XXVI & LI: Queer Theory - Mega Pride Edition
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Happy Pride, everyone! To celebrate the occasion, XenoChat is bringing back two classic episodes, Queer Theory part 1 and 2, and combining them into one mega episode! XenoChat Episode XXVI: Queer Theory was originally released on July 31st, 2020 while XenoChat Episode LI: A Return to Queer Theory released on January 5th, 2023. Opening: Emotions by …
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Lunar: Silver Star Story | E31: New Shrew [Meryod]
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You will live forever. And you will never be alone…as long as you’re listening to us fancying a brain lick, nailing non-relatives, regrettably identifying with Nash, pissing wickedly, joshin’ guys, biologically challenging a pervert, referencing “♫♫ diarrhea ♫♫ diarrhea ♫♫,” getting secret words in a notebook, smelling like booze, wetting a pig tro…
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XenoChat Episode LXIX: Xenosaga Pied Piper Remake Interview
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While the Xenosaga Pied Piper ROM was unearthed from its vodafone coffin, a group of fans were remaking the game from scratch. In this episode of XenoChat, join Justin and Tyler as they interview two of the driving forces behind the fan project, Fox (CycloneFox) and Bob (wowbobwow). The interview delves into their process and features several remak…
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Lunar: Silver Star Story | E30: Big Book of Suckers [Reza]
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Let the scrubbing commence. Once clean, we’re deploying a burgle, only robbing the rich folks, assuming Reza’s city planners were children, reading the big book of suckers, imagining “podcasting town,” falling off a high horse, tangling undergarments, giving up all passions, becoming the next Chutney Dallas, looping family trees like clover, purify…
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Lunar: Silver Star Story | E29: Honeymelons [To the Marius Zone]
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This is the perfect time to be drinking. With your ears. To us designing secret behavior oppression systems, using outdated language, concentrating blue hair divinity, baking “nookie cookies,” wolf whistling a queen, remembering Barney violence, realizing she’s jailbait, finally referencing Seinfeld, bumping off, getting rid of the magic gimp, chew…
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XenoChat Episode LXVIII: Welcome Back, Xenoblade X Online
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Last year, XenoChat said goodbye to the online features of Xenoblade Chronicles X on the Wii U (Episode LXI). Now, we're welcoming the online features back with Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition for the Switch! Join Justin, Tyler, Robin, Nick, Marie, Kat, Bee and more as they play together and discuss spoiler-free impressions on the game o…
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