Game journalists Giovanni Colantonio, Gita Jackson and Ash Parrish unite to make Insert Credit history: reviewing a video game. The party explores Final Fantasy XVI as a game, a story, and as a cultural artifact. Plus, the ten hottest Final Fantasy boys!
Chapters:
- Talking about the game (02:57)
- Talking about the story (FEATURES SPOILERS) (27:20)
- Talking about talking about the game (FEATURES SPOILERS) (58:43)
- Recommendations and Outro (01:25:27)
LIGHTNING RETURNS ROUND: Rank the hottest Final Fantasy boys (01:26:35)
THE INSERT CREDIT RANKED LIST OF HOTTEST FINAL FANTASY BOYS (Protagonists):
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A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:
- Final Fantasy XVI
- Clive Rosfield (Final Fantasy XVI spoilers)
- Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
- Final Fantasy X
- Final Fantasy VIII
- Final Fantasy Tactics
- Devil May Cry series
- Moogle
- Chocobo
- Pokémon universe
- Forspoken
- The DioField Chronicle
- Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin
- Naruto vs Sasuke
- Devil May Cry 5
- Final Fantasy XIV Online
- Naoki Yoshida
- Final Fantasy XV
- Cidolfus Telamon
- Cid Highwind
- Cid Pollendina
- Dion Lesage (Final Fantasy XVI spoilers)
- Gil
- Diablo series
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
- Final Fantasy XIII
- Torgal (Final Fantasy XVI spoilers)
- Game of Thrones
- Ultima (Final Fantasy XVI spoilers)
- Anabella Rosfield (Final Fantasy XVI spoilers)
- Jill Warrick (Final Fantasy XVI spoilers)
- Theon Greyjoy
- Benedikta Harman (Final Fantasy XVI spoilers)
- Active Lore System
- The Holy Empire of Sanbreque (Final Fantasy XVI spoilers)
- Destiny
- Dragon Age: Inquisition
- Thedas
- Byron Rosfield (Final Fantasy XVI spoilers)
- I Want to Be Your Canary
- Loveless
- Ralph Ineson
- Ben Starr
- Joshua Rosfield (Final Fantasy XVI spoilers)
- Masayoshi Soken
- God of War (2018)
- Mortal Engines (2018)
- Michael Bay
- Final Fantasy XII
- Final Fantasy VII: Remake
- Final Fantasy VI
- Blitzball
- Fang
- Vanille
- House of the Dragon
- Chain-Gang All-Stars
- The Grishaverse
- Shadow and Bone
- Final Fantasy XVI has a medieval approach to diversity
- Unsullied
- Jacob Anderson
- Interview with the Vampire
- Dune
- Pauline Kael
- Dordogne
Recommendations:
Gita: follow xoxogossipgita on social media, subscribe to the gita zone on substack
Ash: follow adashtra on social media, find more of Ash’s writing at The Verge
Giovanni: follow marioprime on social media, find more of Giovanni’s writing at DigitalTrends
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Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Giovanni Colantonio, Gita Jackson and Ash Parrish. Edited by Esper Quinn. Original Music by Kurt Feldman.