Watch Out For Fireballs!

Gary 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/FinalFantasyAdventure 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=H7e07c