dragon warrior

Through the Fire and Flames of Fate

Dragon Quest hasn't had a main series release since 2018, but in the last five years we've had spinoffs, adaptations, and announcements galore. Three Retro Encounter panelists are joined by special guest Matt from the Dragon Quest Slime Time! podcast to discuss the past, present, and future of Dragon Quest. Bring on Dragon Quest XII!

Featuring: Michael Sollosi, Wes Iliff, Ben Love, Matt Masem; Edited by Zach Wilkerson

Opening and ending music by Miles Morkri.

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Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they played recently, including El Grande and Marvel SNAP. Then, we stop talking about board games for a bit as we talk about our five favorite video games of all time!

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Recent Games: 2:04
Top 5 Video Games: 12:16
Outro: 36:26

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This is the true story - of you visiting a planet that’s also a living god - trapped in a time loop - working together to stop a violent demagogue from committing deicide - to find out what happens when people stop being polite - and start getting healed: The Heal World.

This week's guest: Brian Colin. We talk about his new TTRPG, Vast Grimm, a brutally horrific sci-fi port of MÖRK BORG and crowdfunded on Gamefound and distributed though Infinite Black. Brian is also an artist focusing on sculpture and taxidermy monsters. He released the Vast Grimm adventure Into the Wurmhole, Quickstart Rules Adventure for Free RPG Day 2021. Also check out his Crawling Death, Below the Dying Forest a Mörk Borg Adventure.

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Grab your favorite bard and travel back in time to where it all started! We're talking Dragon Quest 1 on this episode, featuring special guest musician and writer Russell Gordon. We'll discuss localization woes, Western reception, and Dragon Warrior vs Dragon Quest, the series' two trilogies, proto-RPGs, our first RPGs, NA vs JP cover art, Nintendo Power subscriptions, differences between the versions of DQ1, grinding vs whittling and the trance-like state of play, where to start with the Dragon Quest series, Dragon Quest 1 as a fairy tale and not an engaging drama or epic, story vs plot and the player's experiences creating the narrative in real time, dungeon crawling, the game's single character, and how you don't even have to save the princess!

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Links: http://thewellredmage.com/2019/12/11/dragon-quest-nintendo-switch-review-2019/
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Music: "Overture March" & "Tantegel Castle" composed by Koichi Sugiyama