Ep. 294 - Final Fantastacular XVI, with Giovanni Colantonio, Gita Jackson, and Ash Parrish

Game journalists Giovanni Colantonio, Gita Jackson and Ash Parrish unite to make Insert Credit history: reviewing a video game. The party explores Final Fantasy XVI as a game, a story, and as a cultural artifact. Plus, the ten hottest Final Fantasy boys! Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Giovanni Colantonio, Gita Jackson, and Ash Parrish. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

Chapters:

1. Talking about the game (02:57)
2. Talking about the story (FEATURES SPOILERS) (27:20)
3. Talking about talking about the game (FEATURES SPOILERS) (58:43)
4. Recommendations and Outro (01:25:27)

LIGHTNING RETURNS ROUND: Rank the hottest Final Fantasy boys (01:26:35)

Visit insertcredit.com for THE INSERT CREDIT RANKED LIST OF HOTTEST FINAL FANTASY BOYS (Protagonists)

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A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

• Final Fantasy XVI
• Clive Rosfield (Final Fantasy XVI spoilers)
• Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
• Final Fantasy X
• Final Fantasy VIII
• Final Fantasy Tactics
• Devil May Cry series
• Moogle
• Chocobo
• Pokémon universe
• Forspoken
• The DioField Chronicle
• Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin
• Naruto vs Sasuke
• Devil May Cry 5
• Final Fantasy XIV Online
• Naoki Yoshida
• Final Fantasy XV
• Cidolfus Telamon
• Cid Highwind
• Cid Pollendina
• Dion Lesage (Final Fantasy XVI spoilers)
• Gil
• Diablo series
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
• Final Fantasy XIII
• Torgal (Final Fantasy XVI spoilers)
• Game of Thrones
• Ultima (Final Fantasy XVI spoilers)
• Anabella Rosfield (Final Fantasy XVI spoilers)
• Jill Warrick (Final Fantasy XVI spoilers)
• Theon Greyjoy
• Benedikta Harman (Final Fantasy XVI spoilers)
• Active Lore System
• The Holy Empire of Sanbreque (Final Fantasy XVI spoilers)
• Destiny
• Dragon Age: Inquisition
• Thedas
• Byron Rosfield (Final Fantasy XVI spoilers)
• I Want to Be Your Canary
• Loveless
• Ralph Ineson
• Ben Starr
• Joshua Rosfield (Final Fantasy XVI spoilers)
• Masayoshi Soken
• God of War (2018)
• Mortal Engines (2018)
• Michael Bay
• Final Fantasy XII
• Final Fantasy VII: Remake
• Final Fantasy VI
• Blitzball
• Fang
• Vanille
• House of the Dragon
• Chain-Gang All-Stars
• The Grishaverse
• Shadow and Bone
• Final Fantasy XVI has a medieval approach to diversity
• Unsullied
• Jacob Anderson
• Interview with the Vampire
• Dune
• Pauline Kael
• Dordogne

Recommendations:

Gita: follow xoxogossipgita on social media, subscribe to the gita zone on substack

Ash: follow adashtra on social media, find more of Ash’s writing at The Verge

Giovanni: follow marioprime on social media, find more of Giovanni’s writing at DigitalTrends

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