Watch Out for Fireballs! 24: Sword of Mana

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross lambast Sword of Mana.

It’s a veritable cornucopia of JRPG cliches: evil empire, plucky children, godlike powers… And a bunch of extraneous systems. It’s a remake of Final Fantasy Adventure, which was a perfectly good game, but it got spoiled. Listen and learn exactly how.

LINKS OF NOTE:

• Mystic Quest: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_Adventure

• One winged Angel: tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OneWingedAngel

• Jurassic Park: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QMue9j_RKg

• Pol Pot: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KTsXHXMkJA

• Firefly, Star Trek, Arrested Development and Twin Peaks: www.avclub.com/articles/avqa-mos…ed-tv-shows,2485/

• Pogrom: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogrom

• Golbez: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGbT0M4rVJI

• Ed Wood tombstone thing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-pQ8q2sGIo

• The Pagemaster: www.youtube.com/watch?v=V63IXsl1FXM

• Tales from the Crypt: www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5x3zhmDQ7Q

• Abbot and Costello meet the dracula: www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5s3_XV1rkA

• The Cat in Paris: www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7e07c52VWg

• Ghost Trick: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2ied7wFCFM

• Image of Cibba: www.spriters-resource.com/gameboy_adva…bba_icon.png

• Sambo: i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/10/06…8-55_468x353.jpg

• Chocobo breeding: shrines.rpgclassics.com/psx/ff7/chocobos.shtml

• Fresh Books.com: www.freshbooks.com/

• FF4: The after years: finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Final_Fa…e_After_Years

• Short Circuit 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfODTw6h6rE

• Never Ending Story Rock Biter: www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0VxGRWPh28

• Disc One Dungeon: tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/…iscOneFinalDungeon

• Lyre bird video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjE0Kdfos4Y

• Tappa tappa tappa: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5julb5Fg51w

• Chell fall damage: half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Long_Fall_Boot

• San Dimas HS Football Rules: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7b6Ff9Qm2FU

• Zemus: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByXzyI8AUAw

• Nope! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQkxJ4WcXjA

• Sword of Mana final speech: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRCajYYGZQQ

• Sperglord: www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sperglord

• Scaramanga: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXsTPiK844A

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