Those Who Fight
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Those Who Fight
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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20 episodes
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 del...
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 persp...
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 n...
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 Kabbalas...
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 S...
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...
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...
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 o...
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 my...
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 F...
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 unr...
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...
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 a...
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...
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...
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 la...
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...
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 a...
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 ch...
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...