Deep Listens: Jade Empire Makes Me Question Why Status Effects Exist
by thatpinguino
Deep Listens is a gaming podcast series I'm recording with a few of my friends. Every two weeks we pick and play a new game and then discuss it from a literary, philosophical, and game design perspective. Its kind of like a book club for video games. We try to dig as deep as we can on an individual game every episode so check it out! In this episode Chris "ZombiePie" -REDACTED- finally has his...
Deep Listens is a gaming podcast series I'm recording with a few of my friends. Every two weeks we pick and play a new game and then discuss it from a literary, philosophical, and game design perspective. Its kind of like a book club for video games. We try to dig as deep as we can on an individual game every episode so check it out!
In this episode Chris "ZombiePie" -REDACTED- finally has his revenge for Gino forcing him to play so much Final Fantasy by making the crew play Jade Empire. We discuss the game's many technical problems, it's broken combat system, it's potential cultural insensitivity, and it's lackluster story. We are the last of our kind, cursed with a terrible burden.
Episode 38: Jade Empire Makes Me Question Why Status Effects Exist