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Review: Persona 5 Strikers

Hey! It's another review episode. Eric reviewed Persona 5 Strikers for digitalchumps.com. So, we're going to talk about Persona 5 Strikers.

Season Three Announcement

Who won!? Thank you all for participating and for making this podcast so fun to make. Looking forward to another foray into whatever the hell this next game has for us!

Chrono Cross 19: Late Term Dragon Abortions [Viper Manor (Home)]

We need a boat. Today we’re digging through the rubble at Viper Manor, feigning ignorance, wondering if plumbing has been invented, appreciating dynamic light sources, blowing any chance at deception, learning about the Dead Sea, getting an awful boat, acquiring a baby talking baby dragon, abso...

Terranigma 15: Mayor McCheese, Back from Hell [Nirlake + Suncoast + Starstones]

 Take a close gander now. This time we’re burning down a town, asking for money all over the world, ordering a smile, increasing Australian tourism, visiting cozy igloos, receiving desperate sewer transmissions, finding an old friend, evading pollution to watch the apocalypse, drinking fro...

Chrono Cross 18: Guiliani's Termina [Termina (Home)]

HEY LET ME SEE THAT MUSHROOM. This time we’re learning about Wazuki, beating the shit out of the village elder in front of his community, turning a man into fungus, exploring a muted Termina, not recognizing our mushroom father, making our own legends, training to be like Norris, cooling the fo...

Pods of Fate 5: Radical Dreamers, Part V

Hey. Welcome back to SuperXtreme Alphacosmos Police Case EX Ultra and Homecoming: Shea's Light. That's what the names of these alternate chapters are. Come and continue our radical dream with us, please, we beg of you. Heat cup. Provolone. Soccer Mom. 

Chrono Cross 17: Habitable Real Estate in Color Hell [Temporal Vortex + Arni (Home)]

Am I dead? I guess we’re looking back at the beach, waking up in dimensional vortex, tripping balls, befriending a shape-shifting creature of myth, sorting out reality, fighting against two dimensions, jumping in a warp zone, partying with Sprigg, failing to teleport, kicking ass to the moon, e...

VOTE: This is the final call for the Final Fantasy poll! Closes Monday evening!

2/7: Last chance to vote! Results will be revealed on Monday evening around 7PM ET on Discord, with the official announcement coming sometime thereafter. 

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Just one week to go in this extremely tight race between FF6 and FF8. Your vote will be modified by the number of days ...

Terranigma 14: We're Just White Mages! [Mosque + Beruga's Lab]

 All humans shun silence and fear the dark. On this one we’re lamenting the connection between intent and design, observing a cult, worshiping Beruga, wandering through the darkness, healing robot attacks with holy water, grinding exp, hacking the data, fighting a tripod, observing zombie ...

Chrono Cross 16: Ruinous Dreams of Dragons Don't Die [Ft. Dragonia (Another)]

Life and death, love and hate, they are all the same. This time we’re deluminating crystal monoliths, facing north, getting an ankle sprain, changing the order of head body and tail, battling beast mecha, inserting Skelly, glooping glop, receiving a kissy wissy from a son of a gun, stumbling up...

Pods of Fate 4: Radical Dreamers, Part IV

In this episode, we begin our perusement of the alternate scenarios in Radical Dreamers. They are weird and occasionally painful to play through. Thus, we shall become as proxies in which to experience these radical... dreams. This is our oath. This is our destiny. 

Hello, here are some updates about this podcast.

Hi everyone, here's some news and notes about the progress of the podcast.
We've recorded 30 episodes of Chrono Cross. We're nearing the end of Disc 1. We are not sure how long the series will take to complete, but the current estimate is about 40 total episodes.  Season ...

Chrono Cross 15: Local Fossicker [Mount Pyre (Another)]

Don’t tell my bro, but I’ve got good stuff he don’t, baby. Today we’re getting a loogie hocked on our face, meeting the witch doctor, selling wares in a hot tub, watching a dragon sleep, turning lava to ice, debating diggity dogs, killing Solt with Peppor, getting dragons stuck in earth, ...

Terranigma 13: Process of Becoming Soulless/Hilarious [NeoTokio + Freedom Expansion]

Change your sheets sometimes. Today we’re reading contemporary Terranigma developer commentary, understanding the duality between light and dark, whacking off in an alley, wearing shades inside, speed-eating noodles, helping a trash can, destroying the fourth wall, barely sur...

Chrono Cross 14: Dancing on Fairy Corpses [Water Dragon Isle (Home)]

Welcome son of man, now come to me. Today we’re assuming ourselves bound by fate, getting the plot on track, acquiring our depressed doctor, defining shot, encouraging brother fights, riding lilly pads, killing all the dwarves again, deliberately letting Rosetta die and live, admiring and also ...

Chrono Cross 13: Fargo Shorts [Pirate Ship]

Head into the fog? This time we’re treasuring skeleton fantasies, aligning character motivations, revealing a ghost ship as a pirate ship, wearing Fargo shorts, dancing to diegetic music, blowing whistles and hitting gongs, fighting big birds, inventing a new ho, doing jellyfish tranqs, fightin...

Terranigma 12: The Presence of Mind to Sulk [Dragoon Castle]

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Some side trip, let’s go. Are you hearing it in your ears? It’s hot sounds. This time we’re going on our own dragoon saga, playing a proto-stealth game, running through walls, getting duped by an illusion, rejecting infatuation, sulking in public...

Pods of Fate 3: Radical Dreamers, Part III

This is the moment. This is baby's first LSD dream. Have you seen yourself as a baby? 

In the final episode covering the main scenario in Radical Dreamers, we're barreling down deeper gif hallways to discover more lore and plot and... Devil Circles? Time is converging upon this moment,...

Chrono Cross 12: Worldly Person of Lordly Caliber [Hermit's Hideaway (Another)]

I am playing Chrono Cross, and I am alone. After going down the humour hole, we’re scouring the dregs of Viper Manor, assimilating into our party, finding sacred artifacts, getting our Safety Gear, eliminating sentient beings, reluctantly accepting NeoFio, watching Glenn give the game away, bre...

Pods of Fate 2: Radical Dreamers, Part II

Welcome to our next bonus episode in the Chrono Cross bonus series, The Pods of Fate, covering the 1996 Sattelaview text-based adventure, Radical Dreamers. 

We continue our text-based traversal in Radical Dreamers. In this episode, we delve deeper into Viper Manor, sol...

Pods of Fate 1: Radical Dreamers, Part I

Welcome to our first bonus episode in the Chrono Cross bonus series, The Pods of Fate. First, we're covering the 1996 Sattelaview text-based adventure, Radical Dreamers. The story of Radical Dreamers would eventually become the foundation of a fully-fledged RPG, Chrono Cross.&nbs...

Chrono Cross 11: Leave it to Beeba, Hi-Ho [Hydra Marsh (Home)]

Hi ho. Today we’re dividing our time, teleporting across worlds, exchanging poetry, letting Leena meet Leena, getting poisoned, blowing the Beeba Flute, busting up the sacred Wingapede, murdering Pentapus, liberating Razzly, wiping out Dwarfs, making the Hydra extinct, healing Kid, watching Mel...

Terranigma 11: Sick Ants to Love Sickness [Great Lakes Cavern + Yunkou]

 I don’t read, but I’ll take it. On this episode we’re getting airplane parts from the Great Lakes, ricocheting our ass backwards, admiring water sprites, throwing rocks at leaks, swimming through a maze, meeting a benevolent monster, manipulating steel markets, enduring 90’s racism,...

Chrono Cross 10: Thieving of Labor [Guldove, Part II + Back to Termina]

I have not seen the light, amigo. Today we’re thinking of party members as coworkers, seeking advice from governing mystics, listening to dragon god legends, receiving a green tinkler, overlaying theme music, using alcohol as a bribe, psychically annihilating groupies, confessing to the florist...

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Chrono Cross 9: Applebee's Punk [Guldove (Another), Part I]

Ripples and waves make sense. This time we’re shaking off a massive fall, requiring extinct medicine, choosing Kid’s destiny, taking/refusing advice from horny clowns, channeling The Witcher 2, engaging in local commerce, drinking away insecurities, identifying “Applebees Punk,” alienatin...

Terranigma 10: Christ, Surrounded by Macintosh [Liotto + Mermaid Tower]

 Why do you always chase around me? This time were visiting a Brazilian carnival, gaining knowledge from clowns, wondering if Pele is real, meeting a secret admirer, finding an overt redeemer, rejecting unrequited love, getting in a squirrel race, visiting a penguin town, slaying some aquame...

Chrono Cross 8: More Like Mystery Cat [Viper Manor, Part II]

We’re not here to play jacks. Instead, we’re extracting more lore from Karsh, misunderstanding ghosts, opening a chest with the power of persistence, enjoying a moonlight bridge, wrecking Marcy, getting freshman philosophical, seeing my mom in my sister and then fighting her, getting horny wi...

Please vote for our next Patreon-exclusive miniseries

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We have taken your nominations and weighed them against the tears of our stars and the hearts of our people. Any games that are tooooo long were eliminated and may be considered another time.

To continue to build variety into the Patreon rewards, we wanted to keep the one ...

Chrono Cross 7: Normalize Dragons [Viper Manor, Part I]

Too Bad. Wrong. Sucker. On this episode we’re letting go of Pierre, dodging pointless spotlights, feeding hungry dragons, literally falling in a trap, suspecting Glenn might be an idiot, questioning the general competence of Viper’s dragoon, beating up robots, looting the vault, literally fal...