045 – March 2025: Final Fantasy VI vs. Chrono Trigger

The FFWiki Podcast is the official podcast of https://finalfantasy.fandom.com, the biggest Final Fantasy Wiki on the internet – accept no substitutes. We’re on BlueSky now! https://bsky.app/profile/finalfantasywiki.bsky.social March 2025 marks the 30th anniversary of Chrono Trigger, the first collaboration of Square and Enix, one of the greatest JRPGs ever made, and yet somehow this game is still not profitable to make a sequel to. We discuss a lot about this game. Why it’s one of the better implementations of ATB. Why its time travel mechanics make sense and FFXIII-2’s do not. Why BlueHighwind is bad at games and can’t beat Radiant Historia, one of the dozens of games directly influenced by Chrono Trigger. Also there’s lots of news: Mecha Beatrix, another mobile game is shutting down, and a possible leak of the never-made FFIX cartoon. This month’s FFWiki Podcast is hosted by Blue-“wow, you really had a called shot of no FFIX news just before they opened a website-Highwind, Techno-“I’ve never seen an anime”-Bliterator, and SomeColo(u)rMage. 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.