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At Rhythm Encounter, we've created episodes around seasons in the past — Episode 6 was about summer, while Episode 23, Winter Warmer, was popular enough that we revisited winter in Episode 59. And yet, we've somehow never had episodes about spring or fall/autumn. Well, today we address one of those missing seasons, with four panelists and eight songs about springtime! Or rather, songs that we feel have a "spring feel," and in some cases, what some people who have never experienced "spring" imagine what its soundtrack should be. Our cast turned out to approach this fun topic from more directions than we knew going in, and it made for some great discussion about wonderful RPG music.

Featuring: Mike Salbato, Gio Castillo, Audra Bowling, Tin Manuel; Edited by Jono Logan

Links for this episode

• Bambi - Little April Shower

Tracklist
0:09:14 - Dawn of Mana - opening theme (Ryuichi Sakamoto) - Dawn of Mana OST
0:14:06 - Rainbow Butterfly Woods (Tomohito Nishiura) - Dark Cloud 2 OST
0:34:42 - Gazing Over the Great Plain (Yasunori Nishiki) - Octopath Traveler OST
0:38:00 - The Plain and the Sky ~Citro Plain BGM~ (Yoshino Aoki, Norikazu Miura, Masaharu Iwata, Kaori Komuro and Hiroaki Tomuno) - Suikoden Tierkreis OST
0:51:15 - A Moment of Calm (Genso Suikoden Music Team) - Suikoden V OST
0:54:18 - Spring (Wild Horseradish Jam) (ConcernedApe) - Stardew Valley OST
1:15:36 - Have You Ever Seen Me? (Nobuo Uematsu; arr. Yuichiro Goto, based on “Tozas, The Dwarves’ Village” from FFIII) - Final Fantasy Vocal Collections II “Love Will Grow”
1:18:20 - Breeze With U (Barry "Epoch" Topping) - Paradise Killer OST
1:38:51 - Tin's Bonus Track!

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It's time for 2002 and this time Alex and Trav are joined by their pal Seth (Captain Drachma) of the podcast IndieQuest! There's a lot of sports but there are TIME STAMPS. You're welcome.

2001

• Sports
  • Patriots upset the Rams
  • Yankees finally lose
  • Barry Bonds hit a million home runs out of spite
  • Miami beats Nebraska, maybe the best CFB team ever (Ed Reed, Clinton Portis, Andre Johnson, Bryant McKinnie, Jonathan Vilma, etc)
  • Lakers dynasty continues
  • Dale Earnhardt

2002

• Sports
  • Tampa Bay Bucs crush Oakland Raiders for 1st Super Bowl
  • Ohio State beats Miami on pass interference call in end zone 
  • Anaheim Angels beat San Francisco Giants in WS
  • Lakers crush Nets
  • Red Wings beat Hurricanes
  • Brazil beat Germany in World Cup final
• Gaming
  • PS2
    • GTA Vice City
    • Kingdom Hearts
    • Dark Cloud 2
  • Xbox 
    • Splinter Cell
    • Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
    • Sega stuff
  • Gamecube 
    • LoZ: Wind Waker
    • Super Mario Sunshine
    • Metroid Prime
    • Eternal Darkness
    • 007: Nightfire
    • NCAA 2K3
  • Game Boy Advance
    • Metroid Fusion
    • Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire
    • Sonic Advance, Sonic on a Nintendo console?!?
    • Yoshi's Island 
  • PC
    • Age of Mythology
    • WW2 games were huge 
• Songs
  • What was everywhere
    • Nickelback - How You Remind Me
    • Hot in Herre - Nelly
    • In the End - Linkin Park
    • Complicated - Avril Lavigne
    • The Middle - Jimmy Eat World
    • Without Me - Eminem
  • What we liked
    • That one Missy Elliot song
    • Audioslave - Like a Stone, Cochise
• Albums
  • Tom Waits, “Alice” and “Blood Money”
  • Flaming Lips, “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots”
  • Beck, “Sea Change"
  • Audioslave "Audioslave"
  • Shania Twain "Up!"
  • Queens of the Stone Age, “Songs for the Deaf”
  • Coldplay, “A Rush of Blood to the Head”
• Movies
  • Poolhall Junkies 
  • Gangs of New York
  • A Walk to Remember 
  • City of God
  • Catch Me if You Can
  • Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
• Notable events
  • “Weapons of Mass Destruction”
  • Weapons of mass pretzel
  • Beltway sniper
  • American idol - kelly clarkson
• Most popular TV shows Released in 2002
  • The Wire
  • The Bachelor
  • Joe Millionaire
  • CSI: Miami
• Best Selling Books
  • “Prey,” Michael Crichton
  • “Th

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"Do you think games are silly little things?"

Most RPGs aren't designed to be played multiple times. You take in the story, see a few numbers increase incrementally, fight a boss, and roll some credits. But that doesn't stop a huge number of RPG fans from replaying their favorites multiple times, and Retro Encounter's panel is no exception. Today, a team of panelists details eight of their favorite games that they've replayed multiple times - sometimes the games cooperate by providing new choices and a variety of gameplay options; other times there's much less of that, but seeing these characters again is like visiting old friends. 

Featuring: Michael Sollosi, Audra Bowling, Brian Mackenzie, Tin Manuel; Edited by Jonathan Logan

Opening and ending music by Miles Morkri

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Trav and Steve wrap up 2020 talking about Super Meat Forever coming out in the near future and what has them worried. Steve has a bunch of video game characters over for Christmas and Trav mails himself to The Rock. The back and forth of beats between two listeners is reaching an epic magnitude! The two close out the show reflecting on their favorite games played in 2020. Check out what's in their top 5! Also, there's something about cleaning a donut and no one really knows why.

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How to be a Polykiller: Beat a game, take a screenshot, post it on Twitter or Polymedia Discord, use #justbeatit, write a review and be sure to include @Polykill. Beat the most, become Polykiller. Beat any, have your Tweet potentially read on the show! Check out the Bonus Beats episodes on Patreon for more beat-tweet coverage!

Your Good Great Gang is Zach Rich, Andrew Orsie, and Kevin Ruiter.

Intro / Outro Music: "We Are Here For You" by The James Rocket (thejamesrocket.bandcamp.com)

Cover Art by Mitch Allison.

Coming up in two weeks: What Remains of Edith Finch!