Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Analogue Pocket, Ripley, and Anime Galore
The Weekly Stuff Podcast #495
It’s time for another episode of The Weekly Stuff Podcast with Jonathan Lack & Sean Chapman, a weekly audio show that explores the worlds of film, television, and video games. You can subscribe for free in Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
In one of the grab-baggiest grab bag episodes we’ve ever recorded, Sean reviews a bunch of anime including Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Solo Leveling, and The Dangers in My Heart, and talks about playing through all the DLC forDragon Ball Z: Kakarot; Jonathan gives his thoughts on Netflix’s outstanding new drama Ripley and talks about finally getting his hands on the premium Game Boy device, the Analogue Pocket; and finally, we both give our initial impressions of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Sean after playing the first few hours, Jonathan after playing the first 40 hours, but neither of us anywhere near completing this mammoth second chapter of the Remake project.
Enjoy!
Time Chart:
Into & Housekeeping: 0:00:00 – 0:06:02
Talkin’ Anime: 0:06:02 – 0:48:53
Talkin’ Ripley & Netflix: 0:48:53 – 1:11:17
Dragon Ball Z Kakarot DLC: 1:11:17 – 1:31:36
Analogue Pocket: 1:31:36 – 1:58:58
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth: 1:58:58 – 2:57:00
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Hi Jonathan, and hi to Sean! I am an active gaming podcast seeker and recently found you guys' engaging and insightful work. As someone who's most familiar with Hoyoverse's games, I would like to check in with you guys on what are your thoughts on their newer games after Genshin, namely Honkai: Star Rail and Zenless Zone Zero. Star Rail has received a lot of praise for its newest 2.X storylines, and the Miyuki Sawashiro character, like in Genshin, did not appear in the story until 2.0 and shined in this storyline too. It's quite unexpected that since its launch Star Rail can match Genshin in terms of earnings with a much smaller player time investments as a turn-based JRPG game. I was listening to one of the older episodes where you guys raised some of your suggestions to improve Genshin, and smiled as these are features implemented in Star Rail when it was launched in 2023, like timed event content becoming a part of the game forever as side quests, and visual novel like story reviews. Then they will roll out a new game with more of a Souls or actiony inspired combat and Persona inspired art-style in Zenless Zone Zero in probably July this year. Will you guys check these out? Thanks for all the great podcasting and best of luck!