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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GameClubs Podcasts
We are a book club style podcast focused on story driven video games. Each episode we do a deep dive into a different game.
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Home of the Video Game Logic Podcast. A podcast recorded by Gaming Psychologist and Caffeine Rage, where we talk about many things in the video game industry. Some good, some bad, and then we give in depth thoughts, feelings, and analysis of how to deal with them.
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Join Mark, Irv, Gary and Craig every someday to discuss the world of gaming - past, present, future and fourth dimension. Uncut. Unspecific. Unrelated. Undeterred. "THE GREATEST GAMES PODCAST IN THE GALAXY." - Chad Fett, 2166.
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Hello everyone and welcome. We are the Split Screen Synics and we love video games. We love playing them, arguing about them, reading into them way more than any normal person really should and also talking about them. Split Screen Synics is a show by fans for fans where we talk the industry while also providing a little bit of creative flair with our commentary. It may get a little out of hand at times, but we feel that this is where the magic will happen. Give it a listen and join us as we ...
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Lunar: Silver Star Story | E31: New Shrew [Meryod]
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58:00You 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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(Update) VGL Podcast Ep 243: A Normal Lost Phone, Another Lost Phone
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1:56:12This week we needed to do another re-upload. Work schedules and tech issues prevented us from getting together with enough solid time to record an episode. We hope you enjoy this episode, chosen because May is Mental Health Awareness month, which is an update and re-upload of the gameclub episode covering A Normal Lost Phone, and Another Lost Phone…
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Lost Records: Bloom & Rage - Tape 2
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1:54:44Tape 2 continues the adventures of Autumn, Kat, Nora and Swann in Velvet Cove. Join us to discover what really happened in the Summer of 1995. Game: Lost Records: Bloom & Rage Release Year: 2025 Developer: Don't Nod Platforms: Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S Contact information: [email protected]…
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Lunar: Silver Star Story | E30: Big Book of Suckers [Reza]
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1:16:15Let 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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This is a small snippet of franken episode from the last recording. We were unable to record this week due to a tornado tearing through Jared's location. He's fine, but the infrastructure was down for a few days of recovery. So we were unable to record or do a larger franken piece this week. We hope you enjoy none the less!…
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Lunar: Silver Star Story | E29: Honeymelons [To the Marius Zone]
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1:13:26This 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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VGL Podcast Ep 350: No More Starfield Support
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1:26:44Topics list: For Show Date: 05/13/2025 Games We Played World of Warcraft Is Getting a One-Button Option That Will Automatically Cast the Ideal Next Spell — but at a Cost Microsoft Reportedly to Lay Off 3%(~6,800) of Its Total Employees Blizzard's Overwatch Team Just Unionized: 'What I Want To Protect Most Here Is The People' Even Starfield's commun…
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Jake (The Pre-order Bonus) returns for a 5th time! Together we talk about the mysteries in Pentiment. Game: Pentiment Release Year: 2022 Developer: Obsidian Entertainment Platforms: Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S More information on The Pre-order Bonus: Link to Podcast Twitter and…
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Lunar: Silver Star Story | E28: The Release Weasel [Nanza Barrier]
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1:01:02When I want your opinion, I’ll give it to you…in the form of a podcast, where we’re suffering cursed mask after effects, removing a reference to childbirth, grossly misinterpreting “girl group,” requiring Nash’s friendship, setting out on a Dragon Quest, sleeping with the fishes, panty raiding, listening to ABBA all day long, reading a diary to go …
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This week we needed to run a franken due to work and other scheduling conflicts being unresolvable again. We'll be back soon!By Video Game Logic Podcast
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Lunar: Silver Star Story | E27: A Body Built for Sin [Vane Under Attack]
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1:05:46Are you being able to look into my brain magically? Are you able to ear listen to us yearning for days of wine and song, creating a Hot Rod situation, making sure this Bud’s for you, speaking with bad grammar, calling dad by his first name, focusing on the world of nature, staying in the closet, ogling stuff we don’t need, establishing the prescien…
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VGL Podcast Ep 349: Balatro (April Gameclub)
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59:43Topics list: For Show Date: 04/29/2025 Gameclub: Balatro Next Gameclub: Juno New Origins Electronic Arts Lays Off Hundreds, Cancels ‘Titanfall’ Game News Items and sources: Electronic Arts Lays Off Hundreds, Cancels ‘Titanfall’ Game https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-29/electronic-arts-lays-off-hundreds-cancels-titanfall-game?accessTok…
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Lunar: Silver Star Story | E26: The Room of Stoned Fathers [Meribia Under Attack]
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1:07:28Down here, it doesn’t matter. Down here, we’re loving when a town turns into a dungeon, keeping the Ramus Shop vibes intact, starting a signal fire, CAPITALIZING words ARBITRARILY, ethically debating nude fortune telling, yacking all over shoes, asking for booze, screaming like a cat in heat, frying bastards alive, exploring tomato broiling technol…
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VGL Franken Episode: Beastmasters and Nuclear War
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35:14This week a member of Jared's family had a medical emergency, and so he had to go help deal with that. So, we bring you Franken content from the most recent recording. We will see you for Belatro next week!By Video Game Logic Podcast
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CtrlAltNoob and I gather our friends for the best LARP game ever! Game: Lil Gator Game Release Year: 2022 Developer: MegaWobble Platforms: Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S More information on CtrlAltNoob: Bio Link Twitch YouTube Contact information: TheGreatestStoryEverPlayed@…
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Lunar: Silver Star Story | E25: My Weirdo Secret [Exploring the World]
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57:30It’s painful when the memories return too suddenly. It’s less painful when we’re stealing villagers for mining work, blowing up a tombstone, revealing Chris’ ultimate weirdo secret, counting action figures, seeding rumors of a beautiful singer, shaking the faith of the faithful, extracting lore from the library, taking over the world for non-sexual…
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VGL Podcast Ep 348: Tesla Effect, A Tex Murphy Gameclub
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1:12:18This week detectives Shrink and Rage are on the case with Tex Murphy for a late, but present, gameclub episode. Enjoy! Topics list: For Show Date: 04/15/2025 Gameclub: Tesla Effect Next Gameclub: Balatro 58% Of PC Gaming Revenue In 2024 Came From Microtransactions Switch 2? News Items and sources: 58% Of PC Gaming Revenue In 2024 Came From Microtra…
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Lunar: Silver Star Story | E24: These Unsettled Times [The Magic Emperor Revealed]
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1:12:22I have so many frightening dreams these days. You have so many Lunar podcasts. This one’s got us getting villainously angry at Dyne’s Monument, locating a prescient Burg resident, being last beheld, refusing to forgive a loss-causing world, sending in the clowns, executing the perfect anime betrayal, speculating jokerification points, staring a dra…
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Video Game Logic Episode 65: VGL Game Club: Life is Strange (Update)
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4:16:46There once was a time when we questioned podcasts taking long hiatus periods or doing old re-releases on this show. How nieve we were! Life once again stands in the way. Rage's new job and work schedule combined with my own major career changes again makes it hard to record. We believe next week's schedule hold solid promise for recording, and we c…
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Lost Records: Bloom & Rage - Tape 1
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1:34:03It's the summer of 1995 and Swann Holloway has made new friends. Together they have fun and begin to uncover mysteries about their hometown. Game: Lost Records: Bloom & Rage Release Year: 2025 Developer: Don't Nod Platforms: Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S Contact information: [email protected]…
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Lunar: Silver Star Story | E23: The Trolley Scenario [Traveling with Ghaleon]
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1:11:03Once more into the poopy pit. Inside that mess we’re aspiring to the rank of Dragonmaster, misunderstanding Jessica’s social cues, hijacking the seas, letting Jessica cook in Silver Star Harmony, blowing up food, sleeping on the floor, getting my dinghy wet, better concealing the evil in our hearts, hitting Alex with a Trolley Problem, refusing to …
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Video Game Logic Episode 61: VGL Game Club: Valkyria Chronicles (update)
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2:56:05This week, Rage is busy with work, and Jared is busy at a marriage and family therapy conference getting to learn and talk all about sex! Due to those pesky adult scheduling conflicts, we were not able to get together again. A few weeks ago a re-release and old episode where the RSS feed from how we used to upload the show has broken. So we have an…
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Lunar: Silver Star Story | E22: The Satan-Althena Pipeline [Post-Crystal Tower]
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1:11:42Enough with the googoo eyes, you geek. All you need is googoo ears to hear us forcing Mia to take control of the Magic Guild, sequence breaking a heel turn, addressing a problem but refusing to solve it, sniffing Mia’s bed sheets, beating the shit out of Lemia, using knowledge of the past to deal with the present, seeking to get railed, ogling at a…
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Greetings all! We have a short little franken episode this week, as continued work and personal issues prevented us from recording. We have talked shop and adjusted/updated the gameclub list and have made plans for late but truncated VGL awards to discuss some gameclub games. We hope you all are having a good week, and hope to be back soon.…
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Lunar: Silver Star Story | E21: You Can't Bring Guns to Church [Crystal Tower]
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1:00:43Show all the true soul of this imposter. Show your ears the tales of us demonstrating bravery, wearing underthings on the dome, prohibiting weapons at church, restoring memory with song, kidnapping singers for occult rituals, going Full Mom, predicting anime, desiring evil mommy punishment, blinging the dragon ring, passing back through the Cave of…
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This week, continued work tumolt for Rage ensured no recording was possible. So, we bring you a story about fixing houses, and some other stuff. We wish you all well this week, and hope to see you again very soon!By Video Game Logic Podcast
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Lunar: Silver Star Story | E20: It All Goes Back to Golgatha [Return to Magic Guild]
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1:03:03Screaming will achieve nothing. That's why we're speaking at normal volume about lamenting the loss of democracy, getting weirdly nationalist about fish and chips, committing to a Ghaleon bit, doubling down on menopause jokes, finding ourselves incarcerated, taking Luna to Golgotha, spitting up dots, wondering if mom’s soul has been poisoned, smell…
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VGL Podcast Ep 347: Infinite Garbage
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1:13:56Topics list: For Show Date: 03/13/2025 Games We Played Monster Hunter Wilds locks character editing behind microtransactions. The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion remake reportedly set for imminent reveal Disco Elysium is being "reimagined" for mobile devices to "captivate the TikTok user" Discord Enshitification Time Stamps will be in the show notes foll…
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INFINITE PERFECT 003: British People [Wipeout & Wipeout XL]
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1:15:28In the past, British People were responsible for the future. What a time to have never been alive. 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:35 Hackers 00:06:03 Techno 00:11:41 Wipeout Demo 00:26:36 Wipeout 00:35:50 The Prodigy 00:44:17 Wipeout XL 01:02:07 Wiped Out 01:09:14 OutroBy Retrograde Amnesia
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Lunar: Silver Star Story | E19: Blowing On My Nevermind [Lann Island]
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1:11:23Real men can pitch tents in the blink of an eye. Real listeners will know when we’re threatening to zap men to the Frontier, steering a boat, deploying pipe organs in a fetid swamp, avoiding poisonous wa-wa, guessing dragon colors, regretting infernal curiosity, performing a sexual attack, promising not to use magic for evil, wondering if Phacia is…
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Video Game Logic Episode 38: VGL Game Club 5 Path of Exile (Update)
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3:06:39This week, Rage is busy with work, and Jared is busy repairing his roof after a massive storm blew part of it off. Looking at old Archives, there are a lot of old episodes that have never been viewed, as PodBean seems to have broken their RSS import Support. So an episode appears with no Audio. I've taken the time to find as many of these as I can,…
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Suikoden | E66: War Touches Everyone [The Legacy, the Remaster, and Aidan Moher's New Book]
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1:26:38Surprise! We’re back to season four with a very special 66th episode. We’re joined by Aidan Moher to discuss his upcoming book on Suikoden and Suikoden II and listen to some of Aidan’s thoughts on Suikoden I&II HD Remaster. In finer detail, that includes: accepting Suikoden pronunciations, measuring Suikoden’s place in RPG history, wondering if RPG…
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