035 – May 2024: The Spirits Within One

The FFWiki Podcast is the official podcast of https://finalfantasy.fandom.com, the biggest Final Fantasy Wiki on the internet – accept no substitutes. Lots of news this month as Square Enix’s new financial forecast leads us to ponder the dark reality of a world where video games make less money. It’s a brutal period in the industry and that brutality has made it to Final Fantasy Land. Why didn’t you buy FFVII Rebirth? What did we do wrong? How did we fail you? Then we talk about Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, a baffling and bizarre and sometimes amazing landmark feature of technical ambition gone mad. It’s the movie that led series creator Sakaguchi to a dark future of chilling in Hawaii for twenty years. Poor bastard. This month’s FFWiki Podcast is hosted by BlueHighwind, a BlueHighwind with static in his mic for awhile to his endless frustration, SomeColorMage (“SomeColorDawg”) and Technobliterator (“T-Dawg”). Podcast music is “La Montana de los Caballos Jovenes” by XPRTNovice off the OC Remix Album Balance and Ruin, based on Mt. Koltz from FFVI.