Podcasts about final fantasy series

Querid@s oyentes, a tiempo para el lanzamiento de Final Fantasy VII Rebirth concluimos nuestro ciclo de dos episodios dedicados a Final Fantasy VII con un programa muy profundo pero, de igual modo, muy variado, con muchos colores. En la primera parte nos adentraremos en la mente de Cloud, un personaje al que relegamos a un segundo lugar en el anterior episodio, y lo haremos para analizar qué nos puede contar la música sobre sus numerosos y graves conflictos internos. En consecuencia, este episodio no trata solo sobre la música sino también sobre la importancia que adquiere esta cuando se trata de expresar qué siente el avatar y también a la hora de establecer vínculos con el jugador. En ese sentido, algunos de los temas de la Banda Sonora Original de Final Fantasy (1997) contienen elementos que nos pueden hacer pensar que existen motivos musicales consagrados a Cloud. Así, llegamos al análisis del tema principal de Final Fantasy VII, del cual se cree es un «tema de Cloud» oculto y que, por añadido, se construye a modo de reflejo de la estructura narrativa del juego. Por eso el episodio se titula «el mundo a través de los ojos de Cloud». Hablamos también de la estructura narrativa en cuatro actos «kishotenketsu» por medio de un reciente trabajo de investigación y análisis musical llevado a cabo por Richard Anatone, quien emplea este esquema para efectuar su análisis musical. Por otra parte, como es habitual, Pablo Naop nos traslada al lejano Cañón Cosmo con un cover de esos que quedan para el recuerdo. Además, en este episodio nos hemos guardado una SORPRESA para la sección final. Nos acompaña Adrián Suárez, reputado redactor en medios como GTM, 3DJuegos y Revista Manual y escritor de libros como «Los secretos de las Tierras Intermedias» y el reciente «Los secretos de Hyrule. Más allá de The Legend of Zelda». Adrián viene para aportar una gran cantidad de datos sobre el diseño de los personajes de Final Fantasy VII, sobre la narrativa y sobre la construcción del mundo del juego, así como para hablar sobre los dos temas centrales de este episodio: identidad y nostalgia. Por último, tenemos NUEVO SORTEO de la mano de Héroes de Papel. En este caso sorteamos una edición limitada SOLDADO impresionante del libro «Cómo se hizo Final Fantasy VII/Remake» escrito por Raphael Lucas. Para participar podéis comentar en Ivoox y Spotify, compartir la publicación del episodio en X/Twitter o también el episodio en Instagram mencionando a @pixel_sonoro y a Héroes de Papel. El GANADOR del anterior concurso ha sido: ¡José Manuel Garrote! Muchas felicidades. Bibliografía de ambos episodios Anatone, Richard ed. «Introduction». En The Music of Nobuo Uematsu in the Final Fantasy Series. Bristol: Intellect, 2022. Anatone, Richard. «Final Fantasy VII´s Musical Legacy». Journal of Sound and Music in Games, vol. 4, 4: 1-14. Boym, Svetlana. The Future of Nostalgia. New York: Basic Books, 2001. Bribitzer-Stull, Matthew. Understanding the Leitmotif: From Wagner to Hollywood Film Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Courcier, Nicolas y Mehdi El Kanafi. La legénde Final Fantasy VII. Trad. por Cristina Quintana Déniz. Epub: Titivillus, 2014. Dalhaus, Carl. Estética de la música. Trad. Juan Luis Milán. Reinchenberger: Zaragoza, 1996. Hooper, Giles. «Sounding the Story: Music in Videogame Cutscenes». In Emotion in Video Game Soundtracking, edited by Duncan Williams and Newton Lee, 115–141. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, 2018. Kizzire, Jessica. «The Sound of Good and Evil in Final Fantasy VII». Journal of Sound and Music in Games, vol. 4, 4: 71-87. Leone, Matt. 500 años después. La historia de Final Fantasy VII a través de sus creadores. Sevilla: Héroes de Papel, 2020. Lucas, Raphael. Cómo se hizo Final Fantasy VII/Remake. Sevilla: Héroes de Papel, 2023. Ross, Alex. El ruido eterno. Escuchar el siglo XX a través de su música. Trad. Luis Gago. Barcelona: Seix Barral, 2009. Santos, Antonio. Tiempos de ninguna edad. Distopía y cine. Madrid: Cátedra, 2019. Shahmehri, Demetrius. «A Great, Never-Ending Sky. Musical Memory and the Desire for Openness in Final Fantasy VII». Journal of Sound and Music in Games, vol. 4, 4: 88-107. Summers, Tim. The Queerness of Video Game Music. Cambridge, New York y Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Tate, James. S. «The Devil in the Detail: Analyzing Nobuo Uematsu´s “One-Winged Angel” from Final Fantasy VII». En The Music of Nobuo Uematsu in the Final Fantasy Series, editado por Richard Anatone. Bristol: Intellect, 2022. Yee, Thomas B. «Battle Hymn of the God-Slayers: Troping Rock and Sacred Music Topics in Xenoblade Chronicles». Journal of Sound and Music in Games 1, no. 1 (2020): 2–19.

My guest today is a Japanese video-game director, producer, and executive officer of Square-Enix. Born in 1966 in Fussa City in the suburbs of Tokyo, he studied filmmaking at Nihon University. After graduating, he was working at an animation studio when he first played Final Fantasy on the Famicom, and immediately saw the dramatic potential of the video game medium. Despite having no technical skills, he joined Square in 1990, to work as an “event planner”, involved in level design for Seiken Densetsu (Final Fantasy Adventure) for the Game Boy. Four years later he directed Final Fantasy VI, a game widely considered a classic. A protégée of the company's founder, Hironobu Sakaguchi, my guest subsequently worked on many of the company's best-loved titles, and now serves as Brand Manager for the Final Fantasy series. “My father would complain that he had no idea what was going on when I played RPGs at home after school,” he once told me. “This made me want to make games that those watching the screen beside the player might also find interesting.”  Be attitude for gains. https://plus.acast.com/s/my-perfect-console. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ALERTA SPOILER! Bienvenid@s querid@s oyentes a un programa muy esperado de Píxel Sonoro; uno que inaugura una serie de dos episodios dedicados a la música de Nobuo Uematsu para Final Fantasy VII. En este primer episodio, nos centramos en los precedentes del videojuego, en las claves de su relevancia en la industria, en la figura del compositor y, especialmente, en una dualidad palpable durante el transcurso del juego: la pugna entre el bien y el mal que se representa, principalmente, en los personajes —y los temas— de Aeris y Sefirot. En este programa te contamos cuál es la aproximación compositiva de Uematsu a la entrega y tratamos de arrojar luz sobre cómo la música expresa esta gran dicotomía y cómo se inserta en la estructura narrativa del juego. Además, tenemos al gran Alber Muñoz poniendo voz a Nobuo Uematsu y Pablo Naop llega con un cóver grácil y ligero, como la propia Aeris. Y, para rematar, TENEMOS SORTEO. En este episodio sorteamos entre los oyentes un ejemplar del libro «500 Años Después: La Historia de Final Fantasy VII a Través de sus Creadores» editado por Héroes de Papel y que podéis conseguir de las siguientes formas: 1. Dejando un comentario en el programa en Ivoox o Spotify sobre el podcast o vuestra experiencia con la música de FFVII. 2. Compartiendo el episodio en Stories de Instagram etiquetando a Héroes de Papel. 3. Retuiteando en X/Twitter la publicación del programa siguiendo a Héroes de Papel, a ser posible acompañando el retuit con vuestras experiencias con la música o con el programa. ¡Acompañadnos! Fuentes bibliográficas: Anatone, Richard ed. «Introduction». En The Music of Nobuo Uematsu in the Final Fantasy Series. Bristol: Intellect, 2022. Anatone, Richard. «Final Fantasy VII´s Musical Legacy». Journal of Sound and Music in Games, vol. 4, 4: 1-14. Bribitzer-Stull, Matthew. Understanding the Leitmotif: From Wagner to Hollywood Film Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Courcier, Nicolas y Mehdi El Kanafi. La legénde Final Fantasy VII. Trad. por Cristina Quintana Déniz. Epub: Titivillus, 2014. Dalhaus, Carl. Estética de la música. Trad. Juan Luis Milán. Reinchenberger: Zaragoza, 1996. Hooper, Giles. «Sounding the Story: Music in Videogame Cutscenes». In Emotion in Video Game Soundtracking, edited by Duncan Williams and Newton Lee, 115–141. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, 2018. Kizzire, Jessica. «The Sound of Good and Evil in Final Fantasy VII». Journal of Sound and Music in Games, vol. 4, 4: 71-87. Leone, Matt. 500 años después. La historia de Final Fantasy VII a través de sus creadores. Sevilla: Héroes de Papel, 2020. Ross, Alex. El ruido eterno. Escuchar el siglo XX a través de su música. Trad. Luis Gago. Barcelona: Seix Barral, 2009. Shahmehri, Demetrius. «A Great, Never-Ending Sky. Musical Memory and the Desire for Openness in Final Fantasy VII». Journal of Sound and Music in Games, vol. 4, 4: 88-107. Yee, Thomas B. «Battle Hymn of the God-Slayers: Troping Rock and Sacred Music Topics in Xenoblade Chronicles». Journal of Sound and Music in Games 1, no. 1 (2020): 2–19.

Hey there cubies! Not matter how hard we try we can just not get away from AI. It is becoming integrated in every career field whether we like it or not.  Most gaming companies seem to be shying away from it, but there is one giant out there that is openly advocating for it, and that is Square Enix. With some truly amazing stories and games made by this studio like the Final Fantasy Series it came as a shock that they are pushing so hard to aggressively integrate AI into their development process. Oh yeah and they are still trying to break into the NFT market! Who would have thought that a game like Symbiogenesis would be coming out from these guys! -------- Follow the link bellow to go to our various socials and be sure to join the Discord to talk with us and the community directly. Thank you all for the love and support! https://linktr.ee/glitchcube   Also we have a website now! Where you can find our show, more about us and even blog posts that we have written! glitchcubepod.com

On this episode of The Gaming Outsider, Zack, Alyssa, CB & Scott take a look back at the Final Fantasy series. Before that they discuss the week in industry news and the games they've been playing. E-WIN Best Heavy Duty Gaming Chair Final Fantasy Renaissance FREE Download On This Episode (17:44) News (51:00) Final Fantasy XVI (PS5) (1:20:14) Aliens: Dark Descent (Xbox) (1:29:22) Crime Boss: Rockay City (PS5) (1:40:01) Full Quiet (Xbox) (1:45:22) Yomi 2 (PC) (1:56:42) “From the Outside In” Topic: The Final Fantasy Series Grab the episode now on iTunes, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Google Play Music and more. If you love this episode and want other gaming content you can't get anywhere else, please support us on Patreon! Also, don't forget to check out our Discord Server and our web site, where you can read all of our written content.

Thank you for supporting this episode of Raised A Geek! This week we talk all about Final Fantasy. From our excitement for the release of Final Fantasy 16 to our thoughts and memories of the series as a whole. Subscribe and Review on Spotify! Join the conversation:   Email: RaisedAGeek@gmail.com   Follow Raised a Geek on Twitter and Instagram @raisedageek   Follow Chris on Twitter @RAGeekChris   Leave us a voicemail @⁠https://anchor.fm/raisedageek⁠

In episode three of Play While you Listen, Scott is joined by Jacob Williams. Where they discuss Jacob's love of the Final Fantasy Series, his history of video games and even a review of Resident Evil 4. We then go over video game releases for the month of May, including the newest Zelda game! So kick back and play while you listen!

[School of Everything Else 2023] This episode coincides with the Switch and PS4 release of the Pixel Remasters of the first six games in this legendary, long-running RPG dynasty. Part 1: Where do you start with a series that has a game called Final Fantasy X and a game called Final Fantasy XII and a game called Final Fantasy X-2 and only one of those is an actual sequel to the other? Not only do we lay out which games to try first, but we divide them all into design eras and let you know what to expect from each.  Part 2: We discuss the plot and characters of one of the most beloved in the series, Final Fantasy IV. This won't spoil the game, only make it more special to play. But if you really don't want to hear any details whatsoever and intend to play this 1991 game to completion right now, you can hold off at the 57 minute mark.  Which mainline numbered (non MMORPG) games are playable on the current, running console generations? PlayStation: 1-10 as well as 12 and 15.  Switch: 1-10 as well as 12. Plus a chibi version of 15.  Xbox: 7-10 as well as 12 and 15 and the only current machine you can play XIII on. Other notable versions:  PSP: 1,2,3,4 / Game Boy Advance: 1,2,4,5 and 6 / Steam, Vita, Windows, IOS and Android / As well as the originals on NES, SNES, PS1 and PS2 Also: Catch us on the Old Kids Movies podcast this week, talking all about Ella Enchanted with them @OldKidsMovies

Main page for all podcast links and game reviews: https://www.gamerguardians.net Game news, reviews and interviews! Gamer Guardians has it all! Join us to give you the latest in the gaming industry.  GG also has a mental health segment called Health Potion to help gamers get through tough times because you are NEVER alone. We are meant to be for gamers 18+ years old since there is language, drinking and mature content. We do not enforce nor regulate what anyone younger than that may watch. There are content restriction settings parents/guardians can set to avoid these behaviors. We drink responsibly as should everyone else.

This week, Ed talks to Boss Rush Writer, Lamont Reed, about how he started gaming, how he got into writing, and the Final Fantasy Series. Later in the episode they also talk about writing and reading reviews. Follow Ed: Twitter Follow Lamont: Twitter Follow us on Social Media: Twitter | Discord | Instagram | Twitch | YouTube | Facebook Group | Facebook Thank you for listening to Talk The Walk, part of the Boss Rush Network's series of podcasts. Remember to like, subscribe, share, rate, and review us wherever you consume the show. Thanks for building something better together with us. The Boss Rush Network: Be You. Be More. Be Better.

**Support One V One and Boss Rush Network on Patreon** This week, Ed talks to Boss Rush Writer, Lamont Reed, about how he started gaming, how he got into writing, and the Final Fantasy Series. Later in the episode they also talk about writing and reading reviews. Follow Ed: Twitter Follow Lamont: Twitter Follow us on Social Media: Twitter | Discord | Instagram | Twitch | YouTube | Facebook Group | Facebook Thank you for listening to Talk The Walk, part of the Boss Rush Network's series of podcasts. Remember to like, subscribe, share, rate, and review us wherever you consume the show. Thanks for building something better together with us. The Boss Rush Network: Be You. Be More. Be Better.

Netflix Gaming has finally launched on Android devices, what does the streaming service offer in the way of video games. Also, Riot Games is extending pro player contracts to a four-year maximum. Is that the right amount of time? Steve Aoki wants to sell you some Pokemon cards and we debate who are best boy and best girl from the Final Fantasy Series. Subscribe to CheckpointXP Daily Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Google Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts.  Checkpoint Daily is hosted by gamers and video game journalists, Norris Howard and the Checkpoint XP Crew. They've got your daily update on all the things you love in 30 minutes or less.  

Game Final Fantasy sendiri sudah mencapai series ke 15 sampai saat ini Dan total sudah cukup banyak seri yang terkenal dan sukses di pasaran industri game kamu uda mainin seri ke berapa aja nih??

Episode 14. In this episode we discuss Square Enix Final Fantasy 10, Final Fantasy 7 Remake and the gripes of additional research needed. Our favorite final fantasy games and much more. (SPOILERS) 

Jeff and Russ finish their discussion of the Final Fantasy series...for now. Because we all know that fantasy will never end.

Jeff and Russ continue their discussion of the Final Fantasy series, game by game. In this episode, they discuss the best games in the series, because they happened to be released all in a row.

Jeff and Russ talk about the Final Fantasy series as a whole in this 3 part series of Side Quest. They will briefly break down each and every game in the series. These games will be reviewed in full as episodes of Home on the RNG....eventually.

This week on UFF, the boys sit down with a wonderful listener, Rudrose, to talk about his #FinalFantasy story! 

In this episode, we quickly cover the survival of Kim Jong-Un (and possible status as a fan of the Final Fantasy Series), talk about the assault weapons ban in Canada, and read a comedically malicious article about Tara Reade. Finally, we cover the failed coup attempt launched against Maduro by a private company, and how hilariously it went downhill. Next episode will be a review of the film Sicario, starring Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin, as well as a discussion of its themes of the US drug war in Latin America. Article on the failed coup: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/venezuela-maduro-plot-invasion-1.5554240 The Biden-Reade Column: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-02/column-whatever-happened-with-tara-reade-in-1993-biden-is-still-infinitely-better-than-trump

This month on the First Person Podcast, you join Lia Black, Betsy Brey, Sarah Stang, Nicholas Hobin, and Sabrina Sgandurra to discuss their favourite pets in gaming history. We are going to be looking at the autonomy that has been allowed to animals in gaming ranging from the Final Fantasy Series to Pokémon. Through these games we will address themes like friendship, consent, and the proper pronunciation of the word Chocobo. So, tune in for a furreal experience.

Get ready to fill out your brackets Choco-bros and Moo-gals, 'cause it's officially April Madness on the Dogcast!  This week, we're pitting every main entry in the Final Fantasy series against each other to come up with  THE definitive list of Final Fantasies from worst to best!  And not only that, we're joined by professional streamer, rocker, and FF-Fan: Jaek Rock to help with this monumental task! From the original Final Fantasy on the NES all the way up to Final Fantasy 15 on the new-fangled consoles, join us as we debate and deliberate the ultimate ranking of this beloved game series with the passionate intensity of a herd of rabid Chocobos!   Follow Jaek on Twitter: @JaekRock Twitch: twitch.tv/jaekrock   And contact The Dogcast: Follow Hair of the Dogcast on Twitter: @HOTDogcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hairofthedogcast Email us: hairofthedogcast@gmail.com Support us on Patreon!  We have brand new tiers for everyone! https://www.patreon.com/hairofthedogcast Hair of the Dogcast is also a proud part of the Greenlit Podcast Network. Learn more about us and all of Greenlit's shows at greenlitpodcasts.com.

This week we start our very special mini series titled Final Fantasy February! We take a deep dive into one of the premier JRPG series and pick apart what makes it such a revered group of games. Each week in February we'll be discussing a different aspect of the series as a whole. This week we take on: World Building. Listen in, like and subscribe wherever you can manage, and we hope you enjoy these as much as we enjoyed making them! Also, lots of music abound!   Hit us up on them internets at: Email: OrderwithNoQuarters@gmail.com This week's episode features music from the Final Fantasy Series!

With the HD remaster of Final Fantasy VIII released this week, the DDNet team took the opportunity to look back at all the Final Fantasy (numbered) series, and talk about the good, the bad, and the way the series has evolved over time. That's right. From Final Fantasy I through to XV we talk about them all this week. We also have a look at all the games you'll be playing in September. There are a lot of those. Thanks as always for tuning in!

The Final Fantasy Series has been going strong since its debut in 1987. From mainline sequels, spin-offs, and even unrelated series branded as Final Fantasy to sell them better, It seems there's often something new. And with all the re-releases there's often something old as well. Matt & Geoff discuss their highs and lows as fans of the franchise.

Tune in every Thursday Nights 9pm for "The GameboyZ of Smile Radio, unscripted, random chat, T.V, Film and Gaming talk with a dash of Comedy and a massive, helping of the best Independent Music and Featured Artists from around the world!    On this Show:   We talk Ghetto Game of Thrones, The Final Fantasy Series, Avengers Endgame and other Random, unscripted malarky. With Music from Smile Radio Featured Artists - After Alice, Beyond the Sun, Octobers, Broken Empire & Wild Horse (find out about them: www.smileradio.co/featuredartists) PLUS More musical interludes from: Limited Time, Monroes, Sloan Peterson, Stephen Cummings, Skint & Demoralized The Fleshtones and much much more!     It's the show with the #IndieRock #RandomChat and those guys - Jonathan "Losthunstman" Edwards (@jonathan.edwards.97) James "Prizm JH" Herrington (@herringtonjames) Ritchie "StoncoldStonian" Johnston (@elstonian83) & Ryin "Darkfusion48"  Leeder (@Darkfusion48) The Guys also Stream on Mixer playing on Xbox One. F: www.facebook.com/smileradioyorkshire/ www.facebook.com/TheGameboyZofSmileT: www.twitter.com/smileradio3I: www.instagram.com/smileradio3 It's the #GameboyZ #Live #ThursdayNights 9pm!

This episode is all about Final Fantasy V. Danny and Kaylie talk in detail on there experience with this fifth installment of the Final Fantasy Series.Danny's final play time was 35:56 (kinda) and Kaylie's play time was 27:16.Scoring TableDannyKaylieStory10/108/10Graphics9/108/10Gameplay8/108/10Music9/108/10Overall8/108/10Totals44/5040/50Grade84/100 B New episodes twice a month!Find us at Zapnight.com or follow us on social media:www.facebook.com/ZapNightGaming/www.instagram.com/ZapNightGaming/twitter.com/zapnightgamingwww.twitch.tv/zapnightOpening and ending song from Hungry Media:@hungrymediawww.facebook.com/harrisonskydeck/ 99:99:99

Join us today as we discuss everything we love and hate in the Final Fantasy Series. Memories, interesting facts, favorites, and of course our usual banter. This one's for you you Courtland, enjoy. LoG On!

Hello, everyone! On this episode of Optional Opinion, I put forth the question, If Chrono Trigger was/is influential over Final Fantasy as a series? I cover some brief history of both games, what would and wouldn't make Chrono Trigger influential, and how we see it in today's games. You can email the show at myop2comments@yahoo,com and follow me on Twitter @thatretrocode. Also, check me out on ngrradio.com and on World1 1-1 podcast on shoutengine,com. Until next time, have fun and a safe week or weekend! Peace!

Will fans of this classic SNES gem be lost to Lavos, or will they endure, like Gaspar at the end of time? Where does Chrono Cross figure into the whole situation? Fortunately, we know someone who wrote the book (well, _a_ book) on the subject: we're talking with Michael P. Williams, author of _Chrono Trigger_, about fans of... well, Chrono Trigger! Next week, it'll be the (smile) bomb, as we talk about fans, of a certain popular shonen 'sho' from the 90s! ## Where can I learn more about Michael P. Williams? If you want to learn more about Michael's work, your best bet is to check out... - His book, [Chrono Trigger](https://bossfightbooks.com/products/chrono-trigger-by-michael-p-williams), published by Boss Fight Books (now available in [audiobook form](https://www.audible.ca/pd/Chrono-Trigger-Audiobook/B07G4L4VFT))! - [Boss Fight Books](https://bossfightbooks.com/) where he does a lot of editting - The Boss Fight Books twitter, [@bossfightbooks](https://twitter.com/bossfightbooks) (Yes, there is a trend here) ## Episode outline ### Fandom Facts **History and Origins:** Chrono Trigger is a Super Nintendo JRPG released in 1995. It was developed by Square (notable for such other games as Final Fantasy) and its so-called "Dream Team": Hironobu Sakaguchi (the creator of the Final Fantasy Series), Yuji Horii (creator of Enix's popular Dragon Quest series), and Akira Toriyama (an artist well known for his work with Dragon Quest and his ongoing manga / anime series: Dragonball, among other things). It also featured music composed by Yasunori Mitsuda (the _Chrono_ series, Mario Party, Xenosaga) and Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy). To put it succinctly: The game follows a group of adventurers who travel through time to prevent a global catastrophe... that they will never personally encounter. It has since been released and re-released multiple times with the SNES and Playstation versions shipping over 2.65 million copies, and the Nintendo DS version having sold over 790 000 copies more than a decade later. **Search Data:** Interest in Chrono Trigger [has definitely dropped since the earliest data we have from Google Trends (2004)](https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F01y59). There was a huge spike in interest in November 2008 (the Nintendo DS re-release of the game), and to a much lesser extent in March of 2018 (corresponding to the unexpected Steam release of the game). The top ten countries, by search volume, are as follows: Japan, Chile, Canada, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, United States, Dominican Republic, Phillipines, and Taiwan. **Size of Fandom:** Based on a few data points: - The original game has sold more than 2.6 million copies - The DS version sold over 500 000 copies - The [Chrono Trigger subreddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/chronotrigger/) has about 6600 subscribers It's hard to guess, but there are probably hundreds of thousands of Chrono Trigger fans? **Fast Facts:** - According to a thread on [r/truegaming by GICN](https://www.reddit.com/r/truegaming/comments/8th8ed/data_game_completion_we_dont_finish_games/?sort=confidence), Chrono Trigger has a self-reported completion rate of 66% (slightly above the overall self-reported average of 63%). Steam global play stats reports that only [10.4% have completed the game](https://steamcommunity.com/stats/613830/achievements) - Chrono Trigger has only about [150 fanfics on Archive Of Our Own](https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Chrono%20Trigger/works) - Most of which are Gen (about 56%) - The most referenced fandoms, other than Chrono Trigger, are Final Fantasy VII (about 10%), Chrono Cross (about 10%), and Final Fantasy VI (about 10%) ### [Last Episode's](http://fanthropological.com/e/3683f48c359a8c/#player) Famous Last Words **T** Has anyone written a musical about Chrono Trigger? **G** Is anyone out there who has attempted to write Chrono Trigger into the Final Fantasy

Will fans of this classic SNES gem be lost to Lavos, or will they endure, like Gaspar at the end of time? Where does Chrono Cross figure into the whole situation? Fortunately, we know someone who wrote the book (well, a book) on the subject: we're talking with Michael P. Williams, author of Chrono Trigger, about fans of... well, Chrono Trigger! Next week, it'll be the (smile) bomb, as we talk about fans, of a certain popular shonen 'sho' from the 90s! Where can I learn more about Michael P. Williams? If you want to learn more about Michael's work, your best bet is to check out... His book, Chrono Trigger, published by Boss Fight Books (now available in audiobook form)! Boss Fight Books where he does a lot of editting The Boss Fight Books twitter, @bossfightbooks (Yes, there is a trend here) Episode outline Fandom Facts History and Origins: Chrono Trigger is a Super Nintendo JRPG released in 1995. It was developed by Square (notable for such other games as Final Fantasy) and its so-called "Dream Team": Hironobu Sakaguchi (the creator of the Final Fantasy Series), Yuji Horii (creator of Enix's popular Dragon Quest series), and Akira Toriyama (an artist well known for his work with Dragon Quest and his ongoing manga / anime series: Dragonball, among other things). It also featured music composed by Yasunori Mitsuda (the Chrono series, Mario Party, Xenosaga) and Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy). To put it succinctly: The game follows a group of adventurers who travel through time to prevent a global catastrophe... that they will never personally encounter. It has since been released and re-released multiple times with the SNES and Playstation versions shipping over 2.65 million copies, and the Nintendo DS version having sold over 790 000 copies more than a decade later. Search Data: Interest in Chrono Trigger has definitely dropped since the earliest data we have from Google Trends (2004). There was a huge spike in interest in November 2008 (the Nintendo DS re-release of the game), and to a much lesser extent in March of 2018 (corresponding to the unexpected Steam release of the game). The top ten countries, by search volume, are as follows: Japan, Chile, Canada, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, United States, Dominican Republic, Phillipines, and Taiwan. Size of Fandom: Based on a few data points: The original game has sold more than 2.6 million copies The DS version sold over 500 000 copies The Chrono Trigger subreddit has about 6600 subscribers It's hard to guess, but there are probably hundreds of thousands of Chrono Trigger fans? Fast Facts: According to a thread on r/truegaming by GICN, Chrono Trigger has a self-reported completion rate of 66% (slightly above the overall self-reported average of 63%). Steam global play stats reports that only 10.4% have completed the game Chrono Trigger has only about 150 fanfics on Archive Of Our Own Most of which are Gen (about 56%) The most referenced fandoms, other than Chrono Trigger, are Final Fantasy VII (about 10%), Chrono Cross (about 10%), and Final Fantasy VI (about 10%) Last Episode's Famous Last Words T Has anyone written a musical about Chrono Trigger? G Is anyone out there who has attempted to write Chrono Trigger into the Final Fantasy continuity? Z Is there a fan-work (comic, VG, etc.) that is widely regarded as the 'true' sequel to Chrono Trigger? Nikola Is the fanbase very close to Final Fantasy in terms of demography, or is totally different? This week's spotlight JRPG Demographics Roles, ages, and sexes of playable characters in JRPGs... that's it. Chrono Trigger the Musical Chrono Compendium > The Chrono Compendium's mission is twofold. It first aims to archive and catalogue all existing knowledge and plausible speculation regarding the Chrono series, whether textual, auditory, or visual. The Compendium secondly wishes to create new content, and foster the growth and development of the Chrono series and its fan community. The Chrono Compendium started in 2003 as a 50-page thread on Overclocked ReMix... and continues to exist and be updated to this day! Race Against Time > Now in its fourth year running, the Race Against Time is an annual charity marathon to raise money for the Alzheimer Society of Canada by beating the SNES classic, Chrono Trigger, as many times as possible in 24 hours. This year, the event is running every week until August 11 and 12 for the main event (see website for detailed schedule). > > Alzheimer's is a terrible disease that slowly robs those afflicted of their memories, and, eventually, their very sense of being. We are racing to help preserve those memories of loved ones and for a cure to stop it once and for all! > > All donations go directly to the Alzheimer Society of Canada. Famous Last Words This week's famous last words around next week's fandom, Yu Yu Hakusho! T Are fans waiting for a revival or did they move on to other shonen titles? Z What's the most common pairing in fic? Of those characters, what's their canonical relationship? What does that say about the fans? G Do fans consider it to be passed or over? Do fans have an underdog mentality or a Napolean complex about it? Michael Add some collectible ghosts and demons and that's the show for me. Where can you find us online? We are everywhere! Most notably though, we like to hang out in a few places on social media: If you want to be part of our podcast (or just want to check us out), we record our podcast LIVE on twitch.tv every Monday at 20:00 Eastern Time! For all the latest updates, check us out on Facebook or Twitter To see the latest hijinx from our conventions or even our daily lives and adventures, check us out on Instagram For our latest convention updates, Let's Plays, and other in-real-life video, check out our YouTube channel We're also on iTunes, and Google Play, and would love it if you could leave a review and rating! if you want to reach us, and for some reason none of those work for you, try nick@thenickscast.com You can check out our website; that will mostly bring you back to this stuff. Everything is thenickscast, so if you can't find us, go on your social network and search for that! What is "Fanthropological"? How did you read this far without asking this question?! Fanthropological is an anthropological (ish) podcast where we bring the fan's-eye view to you! Each week, we take a look at a different fandom, dig up interesting background, trivia, and history, and try to get to why it is that people are a fan. We also try to highlight good causes related to that fandom, and find interesting things that fans have created to share those to the world. Each episode is about an hour. Ish. Who is "The Nickscast"? We are the Nickscast! Three products of late-80s / early-90s pop culture who love exploring fandom and everything geek ... who also happen to have been best buddies since high school, and all happen to be named Nick. Yes, we are super creative (dare we say, the most creative). Ahem We are Nick Green, Nick Terwoord, and Nick Zacharewicz: We started the Nickscast as a labour of love, and as a place to entertain and to discuss our love of fans and fandom, and all that is shiny and interesting in that realm. It's what lead us to start our first podcast, our satellite podcasts, Fanthropological, and so much more. We want to help others learn more about different fandoms, and to create empathy with other fans: We dream of a world where other fans aren't "those Weird-o's", but just folks with different tastes. A world where fandom is full of discourse and analysis, and there are plenty of tools and resources to help. Fans building communities to do good in the world. Because everyone's a fan. Credits Sources Reddit - r/chronotrigger Wikipedia - Chrono Trigger Fanlore - Chrono Trigger YouTube - Chrono Trigger the Musical YouTube - Game Theory: Is Chrono Trigger's Time Travel Accurate? Kotaku - What Happens When You Study An RPG World Like It Was Real r/chronotrigger - [Data] Game Completion -- We don't finish games Steam - Global Gameplay Stats: Chrono Trigger r/chronotrigger - After Patch #5: Should You Buy Chrono Trigger On Steam? Google Trends - Chrono Trigger Kotaku - Modders Are Trying To Salvage Chrono Trigger On PC Chrono Compendium JRPG Demographics Chrono Compendium - Topic: List of the Qualities that Make Chrono Trigger so Good Chrono Compendium - Topic: Wanted to Share How I feel About Chrono Cross, and Why. Chrono Compendium - Ghost Children Chrono Compendium - Home Chrono Compendium - Masato Kato, by Mariela Gonzalez Chrono Compendium - Topic: What Makes “Chrono” Chrono Gamefaqs - Black Sigil: Blade of the Exile - Message Board Gamefaqs - Chrono Trigger - Message Board Héroes De Papel - Start Old Gaul City - Home Patreon - Man on the Internet Quora - Was Final Fantasy 6 or Chrono Trigger a Better Game, and Why? Quora - Why Is Chrono Trigger So Awesome r/ChronoTrigger - I’m Playing Chrono Trigger in a Unique Way that I Never Have - All Characters’ Starting Equipment Is Locked - And It Is Quite Fun. r/ChronoTrigger - Just Got Back into Chronotrigger r/JRPG - Why Does Everyone Love Chrono Trigger So Much? Wikipedia - Chrono Trigger: Crimson Echoes Wikipedia - Psychic Force 2012 Wikipedia - Psychic Force Youtube - Chrono Trigger The Musical Music / Sound "Deep Space Ballet" by TeknoAXE used under CC BY 4.0 All other music and sound for this week's episode were provided by Nick Green!

We interrupt our world-wide trip with a trip through TIME. This week, we travel back to ConBravo! 2017, to our panel where we talked about the greatest game of all time (and greatest fandom?), Chrono Trigger! Why has this game remained popular over the years? Timing? Team? Time Travel? Let's find out! Next week, we're back to our regularly scheduled trip, and off to Turkey to talk about fans of Coffee! ## Episode outline ### Fandom Facts **Origins:** Chrono Trigger is a Super Nintendo JRPG released in 1995. It was developed by Square (notable for such other games as Final Fantasy) and its so-called "Dream Team": Hironobu Sakaguchi (the creator of the Final Fantasy Series), Yuji Horii (creator of Enix's popular Dragon Quest series), and Akira Toriyama (an artist well known for his work with Dragon Quest and his ongoing manga / anime series: Dragonball, among other things). It also featured music composed by Yasunori Mitsuda (the _Chrono_ series, Mario Party, Xenosaga) and Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy). To put it succinctly: The game follows a group of adventurers who travel through time to prevent a global catastrophe... that they will never personally encounter. It has since been released and re-released multiple times with the SNES and Playstation versions shipping over 2.65 million copies, and the Nintendo DS version having sold over 790 000 copies more than a decade later. **Size of Fandom:** Towards the high-end (and based on sales), somewhere between 2.65 million and 800 000. The [Chrono Trigger subreddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/chronotrigger/) has about 5000 subscribers **Changes in Fandom:** Interest in Chrono Trigger, by [Google Trends data](https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=chrono%20trigger), is on the decline, but there was a large amount of interest in the early 2000s, and a spike in December of 2008 (the DS version was released in November 2008). **Around the world:** Using the same [Google Trends data](https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=chrono%20trigger), interest n the game is particularly strong in North America, Brazil, Chile, Finland, Sweeden, and Australia. **Famous fan works:** Numerous fan made games which have been shut down by Square Enix. One of the most is Crimson Echoes which takes place five years after the events of the original game, and ties together events between _Chrono Trigger_ and _Chrono Cross_. **Where does fandom live:** Previously, fan-sites and forums [Citation Needed]. [Chrono Compendium has a community map](https://www.chronocompendium.com/Term/Community_Map.html) which lists over 200 different English-language Chrono Trigger fansites and resources **Fanfics:** Fanfiction.net has over 850 Chrono Trigger fanfics (compared to over 640 for Chrono Cross), and Archive of our Own has over 120 (with 58 for Chrono Cross). There are however, over 14000 results for Chrono Trigger on DeviantArt. ## Where can you find us online? We are everywhere! Most notably though, we like to hang out in a few places on social media: - If you want to help us to create more amazing fannish content, become a patron on [Patreon](http://patreon.com/thenickscast); even as little as a dollar a month pledge really helps us out! - For all the latest updates, check us out on [Facebook](https://facebook.com/thenickscast) or [Twitter](https://twitter.com/thenickscast) - To see the latest hijinx from our conventions or even our daily lives and adventures, check us out on [Instagram](https://instagram.com/thenickscast) - For our latest convention updates, *Let's Plays*, and other in-real-life video, [check out our YouTube channel](http://youtube.com/thenickscast) - We're also on [iTunes](https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/fanthropological/id1163621210), and [Google Play](https://play.google.com/music/m/Icmngxz7yhaoivdvivvf6q6c2pu?t=Fanthropological), and would love it if you could leave a review and rating! - if you wan

This week, Kaleb, Joe, and Craig sit down to discuss their rankings for the top villian of the series. We discuss the logic behind our numbered ranking, and dive into their in game presence. Craig rags on FFX, and I would hope you will all rage tweet him @obsidianbah to bring him to justice. We answer a couple of questions, and discuss Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age. Enjoy!

This week the Nerd Caster team talks about the most annoying video game characters (and/or most hated). Listen in as Lori and Joe go over which video game characters they hated in their current tenure.  The team visits multiple genres of games including characters from The Final Fantasy Series, Super Smash Brothers, Star Fox 64, Street [...] The post Most Annoying VideoGame Characters appeared first on Nerd Caster.

The Final Fantasy Series, Part 3 In this episode: Our very first listener-feedback episode! We asked you all for questions related to Final Fantasy, and y’all did not disappoint! We got so many good questions that we had to dedicate the ENTIRE EPISODE to this Q&A. Rather than spoil the goodness for you, just hit the play button and hear us talk at ya! Additionally, we’re looking for ways to shake up the format of the show, and given that this week is all about listener feedback, we want you to shoot us a line and tell us what you want. What topics do you guys want to hear more about? There’s a high probability of us doing a Squaresoft games podcast, and if you want us to dive deeper into any particular Final Fantasy game(s), let us know which! We’re also thinking about doing a game club. Not a game of the month sort of thing; we would take it slower than that. We are open to any games, but prefer ones that are more accessible to more people (think titles that have been out for longer times and available on multiple platforms. FF games are a possibility, as are titles such as 80 Days and Lifeline). Let us know! Also, would you fine folks be interested in a Twitter chat? A scheduled, hour-long, topic-based talk among our awesome community (read: y’all). Would you want to #geektogeek together? Weekly Geekery Beej - United States of Japan by Peter Tieryas (Kindle and Audible are same price together as the paperback) / Indie Game: Life After Void - Contemplating World of Warcraft: Legion (and MMOs) / Spelunky Bossfight Books Be sure to subscribe to the Geek to Geek Podcast your favorite podcast app, drop a review so we know how we’re doing, and feel free contact us via email at geektogeekcast@gmail.com or @geektogeekcast on Twitter with any comments, questions, or suggestions for the show. Thanks for listening, and we can’t wait to hear from you! Subscribe: iTunes Overcast Pocket Casts Google Play Music RSS Feed Geek to Geek Podcast Network: Geek to Geek Geek Fitness Health Hacks The Comic Box Video Game News Now Music by CarboHydroM

The Final Fantasy Series, Part 2 In this episode: The Final Fantasy series has lots of sequels and spinoffs that aren’t part of the mainline, numbered series. There are some sequels, some movies, and some mashups like Kingdom Hearts that just take the FF characters and give them a new world to explore together. Some are good and some (like the new Justice Monsters 5) are total garbage. But which are which? (Hint: The new Kingsglaive movie is awesome.) We discuss our thoughts on Final Fantasy MMOs, and the gist of it is that both of us wish they had called them Final Fantasy Online instead of mainline numbered games. We have played both FFXI and FFXIV, and XIV felt more like a Final Fantasy game, even though it being an MMORPG made it so that the story couldn’t be anywhere near as compelling as the single-player installments. Do the old-school Final Fantasy games (I-VI) hold up to modern standards? Some of them really do! But which ones? Bwahahahah, listen to find out! We both love love love the remasters and re-releases of the series. More people get to play the amazing games on whatever system they want, either on a new console like the Playstation Vita, iOS or Android, or even PC through services like Steam. Plus, we’re fans of all the HD textures and new sprites/animations. It’s a win-win for us (and for you folks who’ve never played them before!) Our Least Favorite Final Fantasy? III all the way. Not the Final Fantasy III that was released on the SNES (that was actually VI, but III with the poorly paced story, the crippled job system, and the terrible player messaging that kept you unable to progress. Avoid it at all costs (unless you’re a completionist like Void) Our Favorite Final Fantasy, though? IX all the way. But we also have fondness for VIII for the best opening scene of any FF (link below) and V because it wasn’t translated into English for so long that it took effort and dedication to play. Favorite Villain for us? This is a tough one. You’ll hear about it when you listen! But just so you know...Exdeath from FFV, well, he’s a tree. For serious. Favorite characters? Again, a totally tough question, but it has changed over the years. Vivi is a constant from FFIX, but there are others we talk about, too. Favorite Scenes? The opera FFVI ‘Maria and Draco’ (Aria di Mezzo Carattere), The Ending to FFIX when Garnet is Queen and they do “I Want to Be Your Canary” again and then Zidane and Garnet are reunited, and The Opening to FFVIII (Liberi Fatali). Where is the best place to start for newbies to FF series? (asked by @chrisevans17 and @DestenLee on Twitter). Probably FFX for the overall experience, but we go into lots of others for various reasons, all depending on your tastes in gaming. But the biggest surprise? Not Final Fantasy VII. Never FFVII first. And we’ll tell you why. Weekly Geekery Beej - Mr. Robot Void - More Gamefly Games (Persona 4 Dancing All Night / Uncharted Collection) / Battlefield 1 Beta / Captain America: Civil War Be sure to subscribe to the Geek to Geek Podcast your favorite podcast app, drop a review so we know how we’re doing, and feel free contact us via email at geektogeekcast@gmail.com or @geektogeekcast on Twitter with any comments, questions, or suggestions for the show. Thanks for listening, and we can’t wait to hear from you! Subscribe: iTunes Overcast Pocket Casts Google Play Music RSS Feed Geek to Geek Podcast Network: Geek to Geek Geek Fitness Health Hacks The Comic Box Video Game News Now Music by CarboHydroM

The Final Fantasy Series, Part 1 In this episode: Our history with Final Fantasy! Beej actually started with FF1, but was so young that he didn’t understand much of what he was doing. He played IV and VI (II and III to you 90s-kid Americans out there) from the video store over and over and over and over again. Void was the opposite side of the Final Fantasy-loving 90s kid, and he started the series with FFVII which brought him into the broad, magical world of jRPGs, summon magic, and random encounters. He, though, went hardcore and did a full mainline Final Fantasy playthrough--going from FF1 to FFXIV in order. Speaking of, we go through the entire Final Fantasy series, giving you listeners a survey of the highpoints regarding each one. FFI - pick a party of classes and level them up FFII - the more you use a skill the more it levels up (skills level up individually) FFIII - first job system FFIV - first real narrative with jobs uniquely tied to characters for the first time FFV - first in-depth job system FFVI - first in-depth, truly mature story / first extra characters you can miss / semi-open approach to world 2 FFVII - genre defining for 3D jRPGs. It was 3D! The game where cutscenes began to blow us away FFVIII - Junction system, which is very controversial and breakable FFIX - Throwback to high fantasy of FFI-FFV (Look at these hi-res images of this game. They’re so pretty!) FFX - First PS2 game.  Graphics were amazing. First FF with voice acting, if you can call it that (haha!) FFXI - First MMO FF (definitely not a single player game. It had a huge emphasis on being part of a group.) FFXII - Feels like a single player MMO.  Gambit system.  Vaan (and Penelo) are not the protagonists of the story despite being the main characters.  Basch and Ashe are. Same world as Tactics (Ivalice), only one that is set in another one, right? FFXIII - Super linear.  Amazing visuals again.  This is where the series started to lose hardcore fans.  Made 2 more follow up spin off games. FFXIV - Second MMO Final Fantasy.  Really good FF.  True to the series roots. Can be played pretty much as a single-player FF game if you want it to be, but the story isn’t as in-depth and intricate. We want to hear from you! Send us your questions and thoughts on the series! Weekly Geekery Beej - Final Fantasy IX on PS Vita / Bruce the dinosaur cake / Chrono Cross article Void - Hearthstone Karazhan Wing 3 / End of my gaming backlog, which made me subscribe to Gamefly (already tried two and sent back / Harry Potter audiobooks / Evergreen games (Hearthstone and Overwatch) / tiny shoulder pig Be sure to subscribe to the Geek to Geek Podcast your favorite podcast app, drop a review so we know how we’re doing, and feel free contact us via email at geektogeekcast@gmail.com or @geektogeekcast on Twitter with any comments, questions, or suggestions for the show. Thanks for listening, and we can’t wait to hear from you! Subscribe: iTunes Overcast Pocket Casts Google Play Music RSS Feed Geek to Geek Podcast Network: Geek to Geek Geek Fitness Health Hacks The Comic Box Video Game News Now Music by CarboHydroM

This week, Kaleb and Joe discuss their altered rankings for the Final Fantasy series. Rather than ranking the games in terms of what makes Final Fantasy great, they break it down even further. They discuss in depth which Final Fantasy games have the best story, combat, overall cast, music, and art. The results are quite different than one would expect, given the difference between this Final Fantasy list, and the one produced after the completion of Final Fantasy XIV. We then move on to revisit an old question from us to you, and move into this weeks, which deals with ranking the spinoff games in their own rite. Jump on the forums and vote! Enjoy the episode everyone!   REMIX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU7OKUnRxHc&feature=youtu.be

Welcome to Show 164! This time out Fran, Julie, Chris and Steve site down and talk about the following subjects (see below).  Next time we welcome Adam Cogan from Sparkplug Games, who will talk to us about their upcoming game “Firefly Online”.   See you online, Fran, Julie, Chris and Steve   1.   The Smed, Zeekill and the “White Hat Hacker” – did Sony provoke attacks? 2. White hat hackers 3. Video game movies. Keven Smith and “The Hollywood Formula” 4.  Xbox One, Fallout 4, Bethesda , Ubisoft learns their lesson, Assassins Creed Syndicate (and finally a female protagonist!), Square Enix finally gives in and remakes Final Fantasy 7.   5. Square Enix and the best and worst of the Final Fantasy Series (on and offline)

This week in Final Final Fantasy news: Final Fantasy XIV fan festival is announcements, including its first expansion. A new mobile Final Fantasy game has also been announced for Japan: Final Fantasy Artniks. This weeks discussion: Our first ever spotlight on Hironobu Sakaguchi, creator of Final Fantasy and previous presiden of Square. We go over the entire scope of his career, from his birth in Japan, to the creation of his new company Mistwalker. We go into deatil about his contributions to the Final Fantasy games, and the movie Final Fantasy: The Spirit's within and it's effects on Square-Enix. We do get a bit off topic, talking about hipsters for a bit, but it all goes back to Hironobu Sakaguchi in the end. Follow us on Twitter (@UFFPodcast), Facebook (facebook.com/ultimafinalfantasy) and our website (ultimafinalfantasy.com).

This is my Uematsu special. I will be playing some of my favorite tracks from the Final Fantasy Series. FF1 - 10. Thanks again for listening and for keeping retro gaming alive! Track Listing in this order   Prelude - FF1 Castle Pandeomiun-FF2 Living Forest-FF3 Chocobo Chocobo - FF4 Harvest Festival- FF5 Edgar & Sabins Theme- FF6 Phantom Train- FF6 Let the battle begin - FF7 Costa Del Sol- FF7 Listen to the cry from the planet- FF7 The Landing- FF8 Liberi Fatali-FF8 The Castle-FF8 A Place to call home-FF9 Village of Dali-FF9 Unforgettable Silouette-FF9 Zanarkand-FF10 Otherworld-FF10 Fight with Seymour-FF10 One Winged Angel - Distant Worlds FF7

The RPG! RPG! crew chat about The Last Story, Disagaea 3, Phoenix Wright, 999 and Catherine before discussing the current state of (J)RPGs. Special thank you to Dan-O for providing awesome music from his website: http://www.danosongs.com

This week Ai-Phuong and Haven get stuck into the Final Fantasy series! Beware: Ai-Phuong has THREE ninjas! Apologies for the audio. We are working on a new method for recording for future shows.

Will fans of this classic SNES gem be lost to Lavos, or will they endure, like Gaspar at the end of time? Where does Chrono Cross figure into the whole situation? Fortunately, we know someone who wrote the book (well, _a_ book) on the subject: we're talking with Michael P. Williams, author of _Chrono Trigger_, about fans of... well, Chrono Trigger! Next week, it'll be the (smile) bomb, as we talk about fans, of a certain popular shonen 'sho' from the 90s! ## Where can I learn more about Michael P. Williams? If you want to learn more about Michael's work, your best bet is to check out... - His book, [Chrono Trigger](https://bossfightbooks.com/products/chrono-trigger-by-michael-p-williams), published by Boss Fight Books (now available in [audiobook form](https://www.audible.ca/pd/Chrono-Trigger-Audiobook/B07G4L4VFT))! - [Boss Fight Books](https://bossfightbooks.com/) where he does a lot of editting - The Boss Fight Books twitter, [@bossfightbooks](https://twitter.com/bossfightbooks) (Yes, there is a trend here) ## Episode outline ### Fandom Facts **History and Origins:** Chrono Trigger is a Super Nintendo JRPG released in 1995. It was developed by Square (notable for such other games as Final Fantasy) and its so-called "Dream Team": Hironobu Sakaguchi (the creator of the Final Fantasy Series), Yuji Horii (creator of Enix's popular Dragon Quest series), and Akira Toriyama (an artist well known for his work with Dragon Quest and his ongoing manga / anime series: Dragonball, among other things). It also featured music composed by Yasunori Mitsuda (the _Chrono_ series, Mario Party, Xenosaga) and Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy). To put it succinctly: The game follows a group of adventurers who travel through time to prevent a global catastrophe... that they will never personally encounter. It has since been released and re-released multiple times with the SNES and Playstation versions shipping over 2.65 million copies, and the Nintendo DS version having sold over 790 000 copies more than a decade later. **Search Data:** Interest in Chrono Trigger [has definitely dropped since the earliest data we have from Google Trends (2004)](https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F01y59). There was a huge spike in interest in November 2008 (the Nintendo DS re-release of the game), and to a much lesser extent in March of 2018 (corresponding to the unexpected Steam release of the game). The top ten countries, by search volume, are as follows: Japan, Chile, Canada, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, United States, Dominican Republic, Phillipines, and Taiwan. **Size of Fandom:** Based on a few data points: - The original game has sold more than 2.6 million copies - The DS version sold over 500 000 copies - The [Chrono Trigger subreddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/chronotrigger/) has about 6600 subscribers It's hard to guess, but there are probably hundreds of thousands of Chrono Trigger fans? **Fast Facts:** - According to a thread on [r/truegaming by GICN](https://www.reddit.com/r/truegaming/comments/8th8ed/data_game_completion_we_dont_finish_games/?sort=confidence), Chrono Trigger has a self-reported completion rate of 66% (slightly above the overall self-reported average of 63%). Steam global play stats reports that only [10.4% have completed the game](https://steamcommunity.com/stats/613830/achievements) - Chrono Trigger has only about [150 fanfics on Archive Of Our Own](https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Chrono%20Trigger/works) - Most of which are Gen (about 56%) - The most referenced fandoms, other than Chrono Trigger, are Final Fantasy VII (about 10%), Chrono Cross (about 10%), and Final Fantasy VI (about 10%) ### [Last Episode's](http://fanthropological.com/e/3683f48c359a8c/#player) Famous Last Words **T** Has anyone written a musical about Chrono Trigger? **G** Is anyone out there who has attempted to write Chrono Trigger into the Final Fantasy

We interrupt our world-wide trip with a trip through TIME. This week, we travel back to ConBravo! 2017, to our panel where we talked about the greatest game of all time (and greatest fandom?), Chrono Trigger! Why has this game remained popular over the years? Timing? Team? Time Travel? Let's find out! Next week, we're back to our regularly scheduled trip, and off to Turkey to talk about fans of Coffee! ## Episode outline ### Fandom Facts **Origins:** Chrono Trigger is a Super Nintendo JRPG released in 1995. It was developed by Square (notable for such other games as Final Fantasy) and its so-called "Dream Team": Hironobu Sakaguchi (the creator of the Final Fantasy Series), Yuji Horii (creator of Enix's popular Dragon Quest series), and Akira Toriyama (an artist well known for his work with Dragon Quest and his ongoing manga / anime series: Dragonball, among other things). It also featured music composed by Yasunori Mitsuda (the _Chrono_ series, Mario Party, Xenosaga) and Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy). To put it succinctly: The game follows a group of adventurers who travel through time to prevent a global catastrophe... that they will never personally encounter. It has since been released and re-released multiple times with the SNES and Playstation versions shipping over 2.65 million copies, and the Nintendo DS version having sold over 790 000 copies more than a decade later. **Size of Fandom:** Towards the high-end (and based on sales), somewhere between 2.65 million and 800 000. The [Chrono Trigger subreddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/chronotrigger/) has about 5000 subscribers **Changes in Fandom:** Interest in Chrono Trigger, by [Google Trends data](https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=chrono%20trigger), is on the decline, but there was a large amount of interest in the early 2000s, and a spike in December of 2008 (the DS version was released in November 2008). **Around the world:** Using the same [Google Trends data](https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=chrono%20trigger), interest n the game is particularly strong in North America, Brazil, Chile, Finland, Sweeden, and Australia. **Famous fan works:** Numerous fan made games which have been shut down by Square Enix. One of the most is Crimson Echoes which takes place five years after the events of the original game, and ties together events between _Chrono Trigger_ and _Chrono Cross_. **Where does fandom live:** Previously, fan-sites and forums [Citation Needed]. [Chrono Compendium has a community map](https://www.chronocompendium.com/Term/Community_Map.html) which lists over 200 different English-language Chrono Trigger fansites and resources **Fanfics:** Fanfiction.net has over 850 Chrono Trigger fanfics (compared to over 640 for Chrono Cross), and Archive of our Own has over 120 (with 58 for Chrono Cross). There are however, over 14000 results for Chrono Trigger on DeviantArt. ## Where can you find us online? We are everywhere! Most notably though, we like to hang out in a few places on social media: - If you want to help us to create more amazing fannish content, become a patron on [Patreon](http://patreon.com/thenickscast); even as little as a dollar a month pledge really helps us out! - For all the latest updates, check us out on [Facebook](https://facebook.com/thenickscast) or [Twitter](https://twitter.com/thenickscast) - To see the latest hijinx from our conventions or even our daily lives and adventures, check us out on [Instagram](https://instagram.com/thenickscast) - For our latest convention updates, *Let's Plays*, and other in-real-life video, [check out our YouTube channel](http://youtube.com/thenickscast) - We're also on [iTunes](https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/fanthropological/id1163621210), and [Google Play](https://play.google.com/music/m/Icmngxz7yhaoivdvivvf6q6c2pu?t=Fanthropological), and would love it if you could leave a review and rating! - if you wan