Episode 7: Sword Songs

Coming off of last week's episode featuring songs picked by Bedroth, this episode is Shootkapow's, who picked not only the topic, but all of the songs - each coming from a game that promintently features sword-swinging characters! Inspired by the "too many swords" jokes about Smash Bros, Shootkapow takes us on another ride through the wide world of VGM across multiple console generations. We hope you like Zelda, Fire Emblem, and RPG's, folks! As always, of course, it all follows our one big rule: everything has to be Very Good Music! Thanks to our listeners, Dan Laughton, UtopiaNemo, Voltz Supreme, and RJ Garcia, for our lightning round picks! As always, if you have any comments, questions, or requests, please send them to [email protected], or leave a comment on YouTube!  Shout out to Ben "The Diad" Dishman for his help with the awesome pixel art for our show! Check out his stuff @TheDiad! Opener - The Legend of Zelda & The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past - Developed and published by Nintendo for the NES and SNES, respectively, and composed by Koji Kondo 0:29 - Frog's  Theme - Chrono Trigger  - Yasunori Mitsuda 6:07 - Swordplay Showdown (Day) - Wii Sports Resort - Ryo Nagamatsu 12:22 - Divine Decree (Reprise) - Fire Emblem Warriors - Arranged by Hiroki Morishita (Originally from Rei Kondoh's score for Fire Emblem Awakening) 18:13 - Battle Theme - Final Fantasy IV - Nobuo Uemats 20:00 - Route 6 - Pokemon X and Y - Junichi Masuda 30:25 - Underworld - Super Smash Bros Brawl - arranged by Shogo Sakai (originaly from Hirokazu Tanaka's "Underworld" from Kid Icarus, re-used by Motoi Sakuraba for Kid Icarus Uprising) 35:08 - Battle Theme - Xenoblade Chronicles 2 - Kenji Hiramatsu (also composed by Yasunori Mitsuda and ACE) 39:12 - Full Force - Tales of Symphonia - Motoi Sakuraba and Shenji Tamura 45:17 - Hyrule Field - The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D - Koji Kondo 49:39 - Clash - Fire Emblem Path of Radiance - Naoko Mitome 56:00 - Fire Emblem - Super Smash Bros Melee - arranged by Shogo Sakai (source tracks originally composed by Hirokazu Tanaka for Fire Emblem Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light)  1:00:06 - Blinded By Light - Final Fantasy XIII - Masashi Hamauzu (requested by Voltz Supreme) 1:03:01 - Sword Saint - Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice - Yuka Kitomura (requested by Dan Laughton) 1:07:27 - Io and Suraga - Kenseiden - George Bruns and Terry Gilkessen (requested by UtopiaNemo) 1:10:14 - You Will Know Our Names - Xenoblade Chronicles - ACE+ (Tomori Kudo, Hiroyo "CHiCO Yamanaka, and Kenji Hiramatsu) (requested by RJ Garcia) 1:12:24 - Road Taken (Roar) - Fire Emblem Warriors - arranged by Takeru Kanazaki (Originally from Rei Kondoh's score for Fire Emblem Fates) 1:16:29 - Temple - Zelda II: The Adventure of Link -Akito Nakatsuka  1:27:48 - Talus Battle - The Legend of Zelda: The Breath of the Wild - Hajime Wakai (also composed by Manaka Kataoka and Yasuaki Iwata, and featuring arrangements of works by Koji Kondo) Blooper Reel - Shooting Gallery from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Koji Kondo)