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Those Who Fight
by Erin Hyles and Allen Ortega
Join hosts Erin and Allen as they take an in-depth book club style approach to revisiting Final Fantasy VII - it's legacy and impact on not just the medium of games, but on mass culture at large.
Episodes
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Chapter 20 - Final (Fantasy Remake) Thoughts
Erin and Allen and good friend Josh Hinke return for a spoilerific episode covering their final thoughts on Final Fantasy VII Remake. Conversation delves into the wild changes made, their implications for the series going forward, and the fascinating yet uncertain future for the franchise as a...
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Chapter 19: You Can (Not) Remake (SPECIAL BONUS EPISODE)
We're joined by good friend and games journo Josh Hinke to take a big, extra-long episode look at the FF7 Remake. Josh provides an FF7 skeptic's perspective to our normal patter and we talk about our initial impressions of the game's faithfulness, the gigantic shoes it tries (and frequently...
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Chapter 18: Afraid to Go On
Join us for our goodbye to Disc One, and a temporary hiatus as we enter REMAKE WEEKEND. It's 4/10/2020 and we're very excited to tear into FF7R, but not before we deal with the most iconic scene in the original game - the events in the forgotten capital of the Ancients. We discuss our doomsday…
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Chapter 17: Shake It, Take It, or Leave It
Venture into the forest temple with us as Allen and Erin discuss the FF7 cast's Animal Crossing fursonas, what makes a good villain, yet more Kabbalastic musing, and how we as humans try to explain suffering. Also a stuffed animal makes a noble sacrifice. Intro: Temple of the Ancients, by Super...
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Chapter 16: The Point Being
Love in the time of Coronavirus - with the news about the real world becoming increasingly upsetting, Allen and Erin retreat to 1997 to revisit Gold Saucer. We talk about the need for us to stay sane and reach out to our friends and neighbors, and the importance of mutual aid in these Weird Times...
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Chapter 15: A Meteor Experience
The FFVIIR demo dropped and we dropped everything to play it, including recording the next episode about Gold Saucer. Minigames be damned, we're here to talk about the dripping honeycomb that is the delicious Remake demo. Hang out with Erin and Allen while we spend an hour talking the demo,...
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Chapter 14: Looking At You is Making Me Sober
Our next few chapters finds us cleaning up the last sips of content here near the end of disc one, starting with our ninja friend Yuffie's hometown of Wutai. As part of our SIDEQUEST EPISODES we talk about why "Magma Diver" is the worst Evangelion episode, how Erin is basically Roman from Party...
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Chapter 13: Hung Up on the Lard
The INSANE new trailer for the FF7 Remake just dropped and we're amped despite ourselves. Allen and Erin take a big chunk of time to talk about what overpriced version of this damn thing we're buying, one of the new characters debuted in the trailer, whether or not Advent Children sucks (which...
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Chapter 12: The Beginning of Your Nightmare
Allen and Erin make their way to Cloud's hometown of Nibelheim for the first(???) time as we talk player agency, the murkiness of memory, and Norse mythology. Allen is several glasses of wine in and thus is in the perfect headspace for being confused and finding a Hot Topic shift manager straight...
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Chapter 11: Wishing Against Fate
Hosts Allen and Erin spend the day in Cosmo Canyon, learning about planet science and the nature of the Lifestream - the metaphysical heart of Final Fantasy VII. Erin gives us a very brief introduction to the heretical teachings of Gnosticism and how it relates to many of our favorite pop culture...
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Chapter 10: My First Love
Episode ten of our multipart journey through the world of Final Fantasy VII takes us down the garbage chute into Corel Prison, where we will start unraveling some further connections FF7 has to Kabbalistic Judaism beyond even the naming conventions. We'll also talk about the second part of…
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Chapter 9: Dusty, Quiet, Poor
In our ninth episode we take a short break in the resort town of Costa Del Sol, talk about how disturbingly fast the housing market turn-around is for the dead President's vacation house and try to bumblingly parse whatever the NPC Johnny's deal is. In a classic FF7 move we move immediately to...
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Chapter 8: It's Hard to Walk on Two Legs
"The coolest shinobi are puking in corners, that's how you get your ninja powers." We're back after a fairly protracted break involving a real actual wildfire, evacuations, and a bout of the flu. In this episode we apologize profusely, protect Fort Condor, talk yet again about nuclear reactors…
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Chapter 7: Ancients and Et-Cetra
Our 7th episode digests the second half of the very large plot-burger that is the Nibelheim flashback, where we learn who or what the Ancients are and why the human species is lazy and terrible. Allen and Erin also discuss Northern California's minor crisis of the week: a planned rolling blackout...
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Chapter 6: I'll Always Be Your Mother
In our first episode outside of the dark metropolis of Midgar, Allen and Erin regroup with the party in Kalm, a quaint little town with some different perspectives on the impact Shinra has had on the world. We talk about the role of The Big Sword(TM) in Japanese pop culture and its deep…
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Chapter 5: Hardy-Daytona Chophouse of Horrors
Join us for the boss fight hell that is the end of Shinra headquarters in this, the fifth episode of Those Who Fight - a podcast about the divisive late 90's blockbuster that was, and is, Final Fantasy VII. Allen and Erin discuss the new FF7R Tokyo Game Show footage and meeting Rufus Shinra, who...
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Chapter 4: Shinra Power Company Employee Orientation
Join us for episode 4 of a longform replay of Final Fantasy VII, where two nerds with fuzzy memories re-examine what may have been the most important video game of the 90's. Contained herein: A floor-by-floor rundown of Shinra Headquarters, Allen's tale of working at a call center where his time…
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Chapter 3: Are You the One That Wants to Be Cute?
Join us for episode 3 of THOSE WHO FIGHT, an in-depth investigation into the oddball cultural artifact that is Final Fantasy VII, as our hosts Allen and Erin venture into the dank, sticky, sweaty immorality of Wall Market. Things gets Real Queer up in here. Did you know the title of the Wall…
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Chapter 2: Anxious Heart
In the second episode of our deep dive "book club" replay of Final Fantasy VII, Erin and Allen set off for Reactor 5 with AVALANCHE, fall through a church roof, discuss nuclear power, Vaseline, some mildly racist translation issues, and determine once and for all that memory cards are nothing to…
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Chapter 1: Welcome To Midgar
In the inaugural episode of Those Who Fight, Erin and Allen (Nathan if you're nasty) begin their quest to revisit Final Fantasy VII - one of the most important digital works of the past two decades. Join us for a chapter by chapter reflection on the weird, touching, goofy, emotional Sakaguchi…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Join hosts Erin and Allen as they take an in-depth book club style approach to revisiting Final Fantasy VII - it's legacy and impact on not just the medium of games, but on mass culture at large.
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Erin Hyles and Allen Ortega
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Join hosts Erin and Allen as they take an in-depth book club style approach to revisiting Final Fantasy VII - it's legacy and impact on not just the medium of games, but on mass culture at large.
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