Watch Out for Fireballs! 24: Sword of Mana
Added 2012-07-26 00:00:00 +0000 UTCGary 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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