Finally, Atlantica is over!

It’s worth noting that when we make silly suggestions like we did in this episode, it’s almost purely because we’re so bored that imagining that version of the show is the only way we can keep ourselves awake.

We had no intention (at the time) of making adding all of this in at the time. But since Sam needs some way to liven up the editing job, and I love seeing what his brain cooks up, here we are.

Final note: We will be producing content at a slower pace than usual just because of real life obligations. Please be patient with us. We promise it’ll be worth the wait.

We come back to the Lion King world, so let’s try not to fall asleep.

Welcome to another episode of Vistory. Today, we discuss ROM Hacks.

This world is best world.

As much as I love Halloween Town, we’re still getting tired of all these world stories. And as a result, we were still in the middle of losing our minds.

I would apologize, but I think it’s fun to watch.

Welcome to a new project I am undertaking with a friend of mine: Andre Doucet. This is Vistory, a podcast discussing the history of games one topic at a time.

Our inaugural topic is Genre. This is an interesting one to start with, because while games of yesteryear generally stayed within the confines of one genre, that’s less true in the modern era. These days, you’ll mostly find rigid adherence to single-genres in the indie scene.

We hope you enjoy our first episode and many more to come.

Sometimes we make interesting, serious points about Kingdom Hearts.

And sometimes we look at copyright and just say “screw it”.

This is one of those latter times.

If you lost Sam and I lost it before, you ain’t seen nuthin’ yet.

It’s a tournament plot. You’ve seen it before. Moving On.

Finally, we get to the part I HATE!

I’ve written about it before, but I can’t even fathom how anyone though Atlantica was a good idea. It’s a concentrated does of everything wrong with Kingdom Hearts 2.

I hate this world, and I hope it they never come back to it in future games.

Welcome back to Port Royal. We’re barely hanging on.

This is roughly the point where Sam and I start to lose our minds and slowly slip into madness. It’s not quite so visible at this point, and we’re still able to mostly hold a coherent conversation. But we start making a ton of diversions and side conversations, which will become a more common occurrence later on.

In the meantime, enjoy the sanity while it’s still there.

While Kingdom Hearts rolls in the background, Sam and I talk about the JRPGs we have (and haven’t) played.

I want to point out that while Sam seems to have a chronic inability to finish the JRPGs he starts, as of the time of writing, he has completed a single JRPG: Final Fantasy XV, otherwise known as the Beautiful Boy Band Adventure.

Given how long this series has gone on, and Kingdom Hearts status as one of the biggest JRPG franchises out there, it was only a matter of time before an episode like this came out. Sam and I spent a while just talking about the various games we’ve played in the genre, lightly comparing them both to each other and to Kingdom Hearts.

Also, props to Belle for not being another captured princess. Even when held hostage, she still manages to be the only sane person in the room.