Oh, neat! A couple of my suggestions made it in! w00t!
To your questions in the podcast...yes!
Baten Kaitos is worth playing! Both games were two of my top RPGs of that generation. Don't be scared off by the "Card Battle" system. Yes, the battles use cards, but you won't have to learn something as "complicated" as something like
Yu-Gi-Oh or even the
Pokémon: The Trading Card Game. The cards you collect during the adventure more or less act like action icons. You use a sword card to attack with a sword, a magic card to cast magic, and item card to use items, etc. It's pretty simple, and actually fairly fast-paced. In a way, it actually kind of works the same way stickers do in
Paper Mario: Sticker Star. Except there are actual RPG elements in
Baten Kaitos, with leveling up and different stats and stuff. And oh man, the narrative is unlike anything I've played in a game before. They make good use out of the fact that you (the player) are not actually the main character, but his 'guardian spirit' or whatever. It's great stuff. Check it out for sure! (just...maybe use the option to turn off the voice acting in the first game. It's...not great. At all.)
Also, so glad that the
NiGHTS song got in the podcast! Such a great tune. I'm a fan of the first game for sure, which the "Belltower/Growing Wings" song is originally from. The
Journey of Dreams is a remake/remaster of the song in the Saturn original. Yes, I owned a Saturn. And the original
NiGHTS: Into Dreams... game. Loved it. The Wii sequel is...not as good. Still fun, but the SEGA of the Wii era isn't the same SEGA from the Saturn era.
If you guys want, you can actually download a remake of the original
NiGHTS on PS3 and 360. They updated the game with modern visuals and stuff, but there's also a "Saturn Mode" if you feel like going old-school. It's pretty cheap IIRC, so it may be worth your time if you're interested.
Finally, yes. My train of thought did go from
NiGHTS to
Rodea. Kind of a natural progression, I suppose.
Great work, fellas! Looking forward to the next Euphonic!
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