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Square Roots - THE Classic RPG Podcast

Square Roots is like a book club, but for classic RPGs! Each episode John, Matthew, Jim and Vanessa play through another chunk of one of your favorite RPGs, from Final Fantasy through Chrono Trigger. Are they experts? No. Are they qualified? Absolutely not. Are they good at RPGs? Probably not. But they're the fun kind of dumb, and that's what counts.
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Now displaying: February, 2025

THE Classic RPG Podcast, w/Jim Banks, John Brandon, Matthew Van Zandt & Vanessa

Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood Part 1: Charmy the Bee is Still an Ongoing Concern. 0
Feb 24, 2025

Square Roots - Episode 452
Level Up Starts  at 02:09:00

SEGA and BioWare form the ultimate dream team for our new season of Square Roots! That's right, we're tackling the Sonic RPG Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood and finally we get stylus based controls and dialogue trees in our sonic games! Plus this game has all sorts of deep cuts: there's Vector from Knuckles Chaotix on the 32X! Big the Cat! Cream! Rouge the Bat! Who will be next? Fang the Sniper? Espio the Chameleon? The sky's the limit!

Also:
Maybe if GameStop focused less on woke and more on wake, Alan Wake that is.
She seems like a SNES girlie.
I don't like a tude dude!
Vanessa's good nice water cooler chat!
8 year olds can fly planes, but not very well.

This Week: Finish Chapters 1 & 2 of Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood!
Next Week: Finish Chapters 3 & 4!


Our Patreon: http://patreon.com/squarerootspodcast
Thanks to Steven Morris for his awesome theme! You can find him at: https://bsky.app/profile/stevenmorrismusic.bsky.social and https://www.youtube.com/user/morrissteven

Contact Square Roots!
Twitter: @squarerootspod
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Email: squarerootspodcast (at) gmail (dort) com

Thief: The Dark Project Part 5 - The Ratman Mystery 0
Feb 17, 2025

Square Roots - Episode 451
Level Up Starts  at 01:27:30

We finally meet Matt's favourite friends, Thief: The Dark Project's Rat Men. Or... are they dinosaurs? This might seem like an easy question, but the more images we get of the supposed rat men, the more questions we have. Like: why do they have a forked tail? Are they monkeys? Why do they sound like Gollum?

Also:
Thief: The Woodsy Conspiracy
The Fluffy Wuffy Sonic Boys
The Coaster of the Goblin
Soft Like A Woman
The Terrible Results Of Our Vote

This Week: Finish the game!
Next Week: Finish Chapters 1 & 2 of Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood!


Our Patreon: http://patreon.com/squarerootspodcast
Thanks to Steven Morris for his awesome theme! You can find him at: https://bsky.app/profile/stevenmorrismusic.bsky.social and https://www.youtube.com/user/morrissteven

Contact Square Roots!
Twitter: @squarerootspod
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/486022898258197/
Email: squarerootspodcast (at) gmail (dort) com

Thief: The Dark Project Part 4 - A Very Whispery Mission 0
Feb 10, 2025

Thief: The Dark Project Part 4 - A Very Whispery Mission
Square Roots - Episode 450
Level Up Starts  at 01:20:30

This time even the DLC level is pretty great in this penultimate chunker of Thief! It's an eye-poppingly good time as we infiltrate the Hammerites, do chores for a ghost, and go for a surprise night at the opera.
Also:
- The Gene Shallot of Video Game Hosts
- Further Adventures In Jim's Spider Revulsion
- Inside Your Mind
- Operatic Exposition
- It's Not the Lost City, It's *A* Lost City
- Bonk All The Boys

This Week: Finish missions ten through twelve!
Next Week: Finish the game!


Our Patreon: http://patreon.com/squarerootspodcast
Thanks to Steven Morris for his awesome theme! You can find him at: https://bsky.app/profile/stevenmorrismusic.bsky.social and https://www.youtube.com/user/morrissteven

Contact Square Roots!
Twitter: @squarerootspod
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/486022898258197/
Email: squarerootspodcast (at) gmail (dort) com

Thief: The Dark Project Part 3 - This City Ain't Lost Any More, Is It 0
Feb 3, 2025

Square Roots - Episode 449
Level Up Starts  at 01:19:45

This time in the sneaky Looking Glass classic game Thief, Johnny, Jim and Matthew tackle some levels! Can you guess which ones are DLC and which were in the original release? Probably? There's a chunk of the city that was lost to a cataclysm, some colour coded mages towers, and a chunk of the city also lost to a cataclysm!
Also:
- Feet Pix Are Classy, Scat Pix Are Nasty
- The Puzzle Is Water
- A Matt Situation
- Earth Towers Are Easy
- Good Smooth Brain Puzzles Are Easy
- The Lava Lever
- It Puts A Little Fire Baby In Your Tummy
- The Rope is the First Real Boss of the Game

This Week: Finish missions seven through nine in Thief!
Next Week: Finish missions ten through twelve!


Our Patreon: http://patreon.com/squarerootspodcast
Thanks to Steven Morris for his awesome theme! You can find him at: https://bsky.app/profile/stevenmorrismusic.bsky.social and https://www.youtube.com/user/morrissteven

Contact Square Roots!
Twitter: @squarerootspod
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/486022898258197/
Email: squarerootspodcast (at) gmail (dort) com

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