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In this bonus minisode, we take a moment to catch our breath after escaping After Years land. Mike is quizzed on moons. After Years factoids are issued as a deterrent.
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After Years II (FF4 The After Years Part 10-B)
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At long last, the end of our Final Fantasy IV: The After Years series! In this special jumbo-sized two-part finale, Mike and Remy work through the extremely long final chapter, The Crystal: The Planet Eater. In After Years II, we battle our way through the gauntlet of bosses on the alien lunar surface. Finally, we add one more creator god to our podcast's kill count.
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After Years I (FF4 The After Years Part 10-A)
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At long last, the end of our Final Fantasy IV: The After Years series! In this special jumbo-sized two-part finale, Mike and Remy work through the extremely long final chapter, The Crystal: The Planet Eater. In After Years I, we play until we leave the planet and head for the moon. Wish us luck!
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Evil-ution at Its Purest (FF4 The After Years Part 9)
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It’s the FuSoYa chapter starring Golbez. Is Golbez’s first name Theodore or Selena? Counts rule counties; Count Malboros rule Big Mean Jerkface County. FuSoYa, the powerful Lunarian archmage, seems to have roughly six and a half MP at any given moment. How do the moon phases work when we’re actually on a moon? Is osmose secretly useful? Flashbacks to FF4 ensue. Lunarian nesting dolls are a thing. We shimmy and shake along with Zeromus’s Bonus. This definitely shouldn’t be your very first Final Fantasy game. Right? It seems like maybe it shouldn't be.
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Twingers If You Will (FF4 The After Years Part 8)
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For all our complaining about The After Years, Kain's Tale mostly worked for us. In fact, according to Mike, this was the "high point of the After Years so far." He even liked Cid in this bit -- which is huge! Castle guards won't let you through. Kain's mission is in the throne room. Edward becomes Gigachad. The Twingers are never relevant. Mirrors are weird. We apologize to Dan. Sorry, Dan.
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What’s Eating Gilbert the Great? (FF4 The After Years Part 7)
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The English translation of Final Fantasy IV lied to us. Damcyan is economically fudged up but Edward is so hot everyone cuts him slack with being a bad monarch. Hey, what happened to the hovercraft from FF4? Whisperweed has so many world-building implications. Is the chancellor running the biggest economic espionage game in history? Rubicante F Kennedy Jr drops by to share some health and wellness tips. PS: Guys, autism isn’t caused by vaccines or Tyenol or basilisk milk pasteurization. I can’t believe this needs to be said.
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Too Much Chore Door (FF4 The After Years Part 6)
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The dragon is crying. Porom is a parentified child. Edge is spotted lurking in the bushes wearing a t-shirt that says "sicko" and rubbing his hands together. We really lay into Kain this time, folks. We really let him have it.
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You Can’t Woo the Zu (FF4 The After Years Part 5)
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Name a more iconic team of four ninjas. Oh. Yeah, I guess the Ninja Turtles. Well. Here are four other ninjas. They aren’t turtles. One of them is a kite sort of. We go to a brothel for plot reasons. Our invitations to the Hall of Prayer meeting seem to have been misplaced. We become a toad also for plot reasons. We steal some vegetables -- not for plot reasons, though. Just for the thrill of it. So yeah. That's Edge's Tale, basically. We also talk about Crystal Chronicles for like 10 minutes. Maybe every Final Fantasy is actually just a story told by that one guy at the bar in Troia....
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Should Have Cast Hindsight (FF4 The After Years Part 4)
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Sometimes you get stuck with a timeloop curse. Sometimes you gotta replay part of the game. Spoiler alert: sometimes you have to do it again later. I hope you like cold opens, mid-credits scenes, and extra dramatic goofiness. I was up way too late finishing up this one and I’m very tired now. (Episode 27, by the way – just in case you’re trying to remember why the mid-credits beginning bit sounds familiar.) Anyway, this time we talk about Final Fantasy IV: The After Years - Palom’s Tale. Special thanks to Remy's wife for lending her vocal talents for this episode. Special thanks to...
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Great Big Listener-Powered Quiz
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We asked our listeners for Mike-stumpers and they sure delivered. Now let's barrage Mike with questions about the first four Final Fantasy games and see what happens. Thanks so much to everyone who sent in questions! Music Credits “P R E S I D E N T A T O R” by Anonymous420 (CC BY 4.0) “NPC Theme” by HoliznaCC0 (CC0 1.0) “Legends” by HoliznaCC0 (CC0 1.0)
info_outlineThis episode takes us from Troya to the Magnetic Cave to Mithril to Agart and, finally, straight into a battle between dwarf tanks and flying airships full of monsters. Luckily the only people who die are the ones closest to us with the most to live for. Aw heck.
You better not bring any of that metal crap into MY magnet cave, bro. Edward knows a song dark elves hate. Please stop feasting on my blood, Zubats. If I had a quarter for every time I ran into a high tech tower in this episode, I would have two quarters -- which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice in one episode. This episode’s swear jar, on the other hand, overflows.
At the beginning of this episode we describe the twins doing an act of heroic self-sacrifice in the last leg a la Minwu as a “Min-two” when “Twinwu” was right there and we're so mad at ourselves for not seeing it.