Final Fantasy & Kingdom Hearts Union

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KH Union 130: Analysing Kingdom Hearts X Back Cover Sep 26, 2017

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Following on from last episode, the crew are now taking a deep dive into Kingdom Hearts X Back Cover!

This sees a look into the characters you should know about, as well as how the story plays out! It's a pretty detailed segment, so if you're interested in finding out more, you will definitely enjoy it!

On top of that, we also have a ton of questions... such as Whose Nobody Xion and whether they've heard of newcomers to the franchise struggling with getting into the franchise!

FF Union 156: Discussing The Future of the Franchise! Sep 19, 2017

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Today we're discussing the future of the Final Fantasy franchise, but in a way that you might not expect!

It comes after legendary creator Yoshinori Kitase spoke to Kotaku about his vision for future games within the franchise and how he wants to incorporate things he's learnt on Mobius into home console titles.

It's an interesting thought and it leads onto interesting discussions around the potential for an early access Final Fantasy title, as well as the direction things could potentially go from a gameplay perspective.

Outside of that, we have the customary news update including the announcement of a new game and an update on the future of the Type franchise!

KH Union 129: Kingdom Hearts X: COMPLETE Season 1 Summary Sep 12, 2017

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Kingdom Hearts X is often somewhat forgotten about, so for this episode we thought it'd be grand to do a COMPLETE summary of Season 1!

It means we're therefore going to be talking about the premise, the characters and of course, the scenario. Yep, we're going to be hitting the scenario hard here, as there are a ton of little details within the story that could be rather important!

We hope you enjoy the recap, even if you perhaps aren't playing Kingdom Hearts X!

FF Union 155: An Interview w/TPR + Talkin' Crazy Gamescom! Sep 05, 2017

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We're very privileged to have legendary Final Fantasy music arranger TPR join us this episode, as he talks about his new album launch and answers plenty of our questions!

He also joins us as we recap what was a rather crazy Gamescom 2017, where there were an absolute ton of announcements relating to the Final Fantasy XV Universe.

We'll be talking about surprise announcements such as Final Fantasy XV PC and Final Fantasy XV: Pocket Edition, as well as the new downloadable festival!

KH Union 128: Kingdom Hearts 3 On PC? Star Wars? It's Question Time! Aug 29, 2017

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With Kingdom Hearts 3 pretty much skipping Gamescom 2017, we thought it would be the perfect time to have a questions episode!

It means we'll be discussing plenty of fun topics, such as the likelihood of Kingdom Hearts 3 appearing on PC and whether we think there's a chance other Disney films will appear within the game.

On a different tact, there are also questions relating to... how you can try to get your friends into Kingdom Hearts and whether we think a "Super Smash Bros" style game could work for the franchise.

FF Union 154: Dissidia NT News Blast + Reaction Aug 22, 2017

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Just prior to Gamescom, Square Enix decided to do a huge news blast for Dissidia: Final Fantasy NT, the console version of Dissidia Arcade!

They revealed the release date for the game, but also detailed the Ultimate Collector's Edition and also announced that there would be a Season Pass that will contain six additional characters.

This episode, we're reacting to all of this news, while giving some other general thoughts about Gamescom and some of the other small pieces that have happened in the last few weeks!

KH Union 127: Kingdom Hearts News w/Erika Harlacher Aug 15, 2017

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For this episode of Kingdom Hearts Union, we're joined by renowned voice actress Erika Harlacher. She has appeared in quite a few Japanese games over the years, and most recently appeared in Persona 5! Did we mention she's also a huge Kingdom Hearts fan?

Aside from a rather neat interview, this episode runs through a recent interview with Shinji Hashimoto, who was appearing at MAGIC 2017. He spoke about Marvel appearing in Kingdom Hearts 3 and also why they haven't spoken too much about the game.

As always, there's also quite a few in-depth questions, so we hope you enjoy listening to them!

FF Union 153: How Has Final Fantasy Music Changed Us? Aug 08, 2017

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The music of Final Fantasy has been something of a marvel over the years so we've decided to dedicate this episode to just that, Final Fantasy music.

Throughout the episode, we discuss numerous topics such as... when did you actually start paying attention to the music of Final Fantasy, outside of it being just generic background music?

We also discuss our favourite composers in addition to the famed Nobuo Uematsu and discuss the world after his departure - specifically with reference to Final Fantasy XII and Final Fantasy XV.

We hope you enjoy!

KH Union 126: Will Kingdom Hearts 3 Be A Complete Game? Aug 01, 2017

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Branden tackles the ever-exciting world of Kingdom Hearts by himself today as he runs-through numerous pieces of news relating to job hirings on Kingdom Hearts 3.

There are also a few different questions, one of which relates to whether or not Branden feels Kingdom Hearts 3 will feel like an incomplete game, in similar fashion to Final Fantasy XV.

Things then move onto theoretics, as there's a question relating the Keyblade of Hearts from the original Kingdom Hearts.

We hope you guys enjoy!

FF Union 152: The Zodiac Age Has Released! Jul 25, 2017

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Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age has now released and we're talking all about it in this special episode!

Yep, we're going to be running through our initial experiences with Final Fantasy XII back when it initially released, but then we'll be running onto how we feel about The Zodiac Age so far - have our opinions changed over time? It means there's a significant focus on the story, the soundtrack and more!

We hope you enjoy the episode!

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