Episode 24: Sword of Mana

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross lambast Sword of Mana.

It’s a veritable cornucopia of JRPG cliches: evil empire, plucky children, godlike powers… And a bunch of extraneous systems. It’s a remake of Final Fantasy Adventure, which was a perfectly good game, but it got spoiled. Listen and learn exactly how.

LINKS OF NOTE:

• Mystic Quest: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_Adventure
• One winged Angel: tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OneWingedAngel
• Jurassic Park: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QMue9j_RKg
• Pol Pot: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KTsXHXMkJA
• Firefly, Star Trek, Arrested Development and Twin Peaks: www.avclub.com/articles/avqa-mos…ed-tv-shows,2485/
• Pogrom: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogrom
• Golbez: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGbT0M4rVJI
• Ed Wood tombstone thing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-pQ8q2sGIo
• The Pagemaster: www.youtube.com/watch?v=V63IXsl1FXM
• Tales from the Crypt: www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5x3zhmDQ7Q
• Abbot and Costello meet the dracula: www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5s3_XV1rkA
• The Cat in Paris: www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7e07c52VWg
• Ghost Trick: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2ied7wFCFM
• Image of Cibba: www.spriters-resource.com/gameboy_adva…bba_icon.png
• Sambo: i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/10/06…8-55_468x353.jpg
• Chocobo breeding: shrines.rpgclassics.com/psx/ff7/chocobos.shtml
• Fresh Books.com: www.freshbooks.com/
• FF4: The after years: finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Final_Fa…e_After_Years
• Short Circuit 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfODTw6h6rE
• Never Ending Story Rock Biter: www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0VxGRWPh28
• Disc One Dungeon: tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/…iscOneFinalDungeon
• Lyre bird video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjE0Kdfos4Y
• Tappa tappa tappa: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5julb5Fg51w
• Chell fall damage: half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Long_Fall_Boot
• San Dimas HS Football Rules: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7b6Ff9Qm2FU
• Zemus: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByXzyI8AUAw
• Nope! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQkxJ4WcXjA
• Sword of Mana final speech: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRCajYYGZQQ
• Sperglord: www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sperglord
• Scaramanga: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXsTPiK844A

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