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Welcome to Episode 12 of Load Save Game, a podcast where I talk to people about their personal journey with video games. I am your host Jose Eusebio. First some house-keeping I know it’s been a good long while since our last episode. I’m sorry about that. I went on vacation for a while. I was fortunate to visit a friend in Taiwan. I also spent a week in Osaka, Japan right after. I think I’ll share some stuff on socials regarding some of the cool video game stuff we saw like visiting a Taito Station arcade in Osaka and just the general Nipponbashi Den Den Town area which is like the nerdy Akihabara-like area of Osaka. We went into tons of arcades or Ge-mu centa as they call them there so I think I’ll share some photos and videos of that at some point. After all that my computer broke, and got I busy with work, and also got pretty addicted to Baldur’s Gate III which is just an incredible game that I recommend to anyone who is a fan of RPGs or Dungeons and Dragons. So yes, very sorry this was delayed, but I think it was worth the wait!My amazing guest this episode is Diane Nguyen. We talk about tons of great stuff in the episode like the philosophy of what it takes to be a Pokemon Master, the urge to play games on Hard Mode for the “purest experience” of a game and letting go of judging others for playing on Easy mode or maybe even learning to forgive ourselves for doing it? Diane also shares great memories bonding with her family while playing Time Crisis in the arcades. Make sure to subscribe and review Load Save Game on your podcast listener of choice. Follow us on socials we’re @loadsavegame on most platforms. If you have any thoughts or questions about the show feel free to email us at [email protected]! I hope you enjoy the episode!Thank you to Shaun Panado for the use of our theme song "One Shot One Kill Kestrel" off of the album Kind of a Big Deal Vol. 2. You can find his music and projects at his Linktree:  https://linktr.ee/shonixShow Art by: Jordan Maeve https://www.instagram.com/thejollity/ 

Welcome to Episode 11 of Load Save Game, a podcast where I talk to people about their personal journey with video games. I am your host Jose Eusebio. My wonderful guest today is my great friend Melissa Pountain. Melissa and I talk about a ton of great games. She’s a huge fan of Fallout 3 and New Vegas and talks about a pilgrimage she took to the New Vegas locations, and if it isn’t obvious yes, she’s married to previous guest Sandy Pountain. She talks about her love of Final Fantasy VII and Kingdom Hearts and she also agrees that Tifa is best girl. Melissa is a huge fan of The Legend of Zelda and one of her first games that she played all the way through was A Link to the Past and at the time of recording was deep into Tears of the Kingdom so we talk about Zelda through the years. Melissa also reveals what game she recommends for first time Zelda players and that answer might surprise you, so listen to find out. Melissa is an illustrator and has done commissions and fanart for lots of games and other media. She features her latest work on Instagram so follow her @msmissypaints Follow Melissa’s art socials: https://www.instagram.com/msmissypaints/ https://twitter.com/msmissypaintsMake sure to subscribe and review Load Save Game on your podcast listener of choice. Follow us on socials we’re @loadsavegame on most platforms. If you have any thoughts or questions about the show feel free to email us at [email protected]! I hope you enjoy the episode!Thank you to Shaun Panado for the use of our theme song "One Shot One Kill Kestrel" off of the album Kind of a Big Deal Vol. 2. You can find his music and projects at his Linktree:  https://linktr.ee/shonixShow Art by: Jordan Maeve https://www.instagram.com/thejollity/ Corrections:  Mr. Bones Wild Ride lasted 4 in-game years according to Know Your Meme. The Tug o’ War game on the original N64 Mario Party was the game notorious for destroying hands on the control stick. And when the game was brought back for Mario Party Superstars it actually featured a warning not to use the palm of your hand to play the mini-game. Disneyland’s first opening day was marked by many issues and calamities causing it to be named the “Black Sunday.”Games Discussed: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom/A Link to the Past/Ocarina of Time/Majora’s Mask/Wind Waker/Twilight Princess/Breath of the Wild, Pong, Sonic 2, Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, Disney’s Aladdin, 1080, Re-Volt, Conker’s Bad Fur Day, Animal Crossing, Diddy Kong Racing, Star Wars Episode I: Racer, The Sims 1/2/4, Roller Coaster Tycoon, Final Fantasy VII/VIII, Baldur’s Gate, Fire Emblem, Borderlands, Fallout 3/New Vegas/4, Mario Party, Myst, Stardew Valley, Goldeneye, Fortnite

Welcome to Episode 10 of Load Save Game, a podcast where I talk to people about their personal journey with video games. I am your host Jose Eusebio. My wonderful guest today is my wonderful wife Jordan Maeve. Jordan is a huge fan of rhythm games like Dance Dance Revolution, puzzle games like Tetris, and cozy games like Animal Crossing. We talk a lot about Amplitude, a rhythm game on the PS2. We don't mention it in the episode, but the developer of Amplitude, Harmonix, would go on to develop the first Guitar Hero and Rock Band games. So all our comparisons to those later games make a lot of sense in hindsight. Jordan also talks about loving her Sega Pico which was this combination tablet/TV video game with edutainment games with Sonic and other Sega characters. Jordan talks about playing a not-so-legitimate copy of Pokemon: Yellow in the original Japanese and having to decipher the game by comparing it to her friend's Pokemon games to get through it.Jordan is an illustrator and graphic designer. She frequently does portrait commissions for people's Dungeons & Dragons characters and has sold prints and merchandise at local conventions in Southern California. She features most of her work on her Instagram so follow her there to see all her great art! Follow Jordan's art socials: https://instagram.com/thejollityhttps://twitter.com/thejollityMake sure to subscribe and review Load Save Game on your podcast listener of choice. Follow us on socials we’re @loadsavegame on most platforms. If you have any thoughts or questions about the show feel free to email us at [email protected]! I hope you enjoy the episode!Thank you to Shaun Panado for the use of our theme song "One Shot One Kill Kestrel" off of the album Kind of a Big Deal Vol. 2. You can find his music and projects at his Linktree:  https://linktr.ee/shonixShow Art by: Jordan Maeve https://www.instagram.com/thejollity/ Corrections:  The Mario Kart 64 level Jordan was probably referencing was Choco Mountain that had the falling boulders. Ash Ketchum’s character in the original Japanese version of the Pokemon anime was named Satoshi Tajiri. Blasto the Spectre was a member of the hanar species in Mass Effect. Games Discussed: Elden Ring,Tetris/Attack, Dr. Mario, Duck Hunt, Super Mario Bros., Puzzle Bobble Bust-A-Move, Microsoft Encarta MindMaze, Sonic The Hedgehog, Sega Pico, Mario Kart 64/8, Super Mario 64, Star Fox 64, Super Smash Bros., PaRappa the Rapper, Dance Dance Revolution, Kingdom Hearts, Pokemon: Yellow, Amplitude, Guitar Hero, Rock Band, Overcooked, Left 4 Dead, Mass Effect, Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Final Fantasy VII: Remake, Bang Dream, Wordle, Super Mario Odyssey

Welcome to Episode 9 of Load Save Game, a podcast where I talk to people about their personal journey with video games. I am your host Jose Eusebio. My wonderful guest today is my great friend Sandy Pountain. Sandy is a huge fan of Warhammer and talks about how his love of war games lead him to loving games turn-based and real-time strategy games like Command & Conquer,  Dawn of War, and Final Fantasy Tactics Advance. I tease Sandy a little bit because he has this contrarian hipster streak that shows up a lot in his playthrough of Mass Effect: Legendary Edition where he plays the Engineer class, you know, pretty exclusive class, not sure if you’ve heard of it. Sandy also talks about his love of sharing co-op experiences like playing Streets of Rage with his brothers and Lego: Batman with his wife and how those were wonderful bonding experiences for him. We also talk about a kind of duality of violence where increasingly as graphics in games became more impressive the violence in them felt more real and how he experienced this reckoning with that when playing Spec Ops: The Line, which is a game that tries to examine and humanize the experience of military shooter games. We ask the question, is the newly crowned King Charles immune to holy spells? And also how hard would a Hitmonchan have to punch to knock out a Wailord, which is a Pokemon that’s as big as a full size whale? Sandy is a lover of Dungeons & Dragons, Warhammer, among other tabletop roleplaying games. He posts some of his customized painted minis on his instagram so make sure to follow him @smallman_syndrome_painting. A link will also be in the show notes. Follow Sandy’s Miniature Painting Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/smallman_syndrome_painting/ Make sure to subscribe and review Load Save Game on your podcast listener of choice. Follow us on socials we’re @loadsavegame on most platforms. If you have any thoughts or questions about the show feel free to email us at [email protected]! I hope you enjoy the episode!Thank you to Shaun Panado for the use of our theme song "One Shot One Kill Kestrel" off of the album Kind of a Big Deal Vol. 2. You can find his music and projects at his Linktree:  https://linktr.ee/shonixShow Art by: Jordan Maeve https://www.instagram.com/thejollity/ Corrections:  According to Wikipedia plugging the original Sonic the Hedgehog or any other Sega game would unlock the “Blue Sphere” minigame in Sonic & Knuckles. Games Discussed: Mass Effect Legendary Edition, The Witcher III: Wild Hunt, Command & Conquer: Generals, Soul Calibur II, Street Fighter II, Dynasty Warriors, Dungeons & Dragons, Bow and Arrow, Paranoid, Breakout, Battle Chess, Sonic 3, Sonic & Knuckles, Worms, Streets of Rage, Vectorman, Altered Beast, Mortal Kombat, Sonic 3D, Worms 2, Age of Empires II, Command and Conquer Tiberian Sun/Red Alert, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire/Red/Blue, The Lord of the Rings GBA games, Van Helsing, Devil May Cry, Soul Calibur II, Conflict: Global Storm, Gladius, Dynasty Warriors, Batman Arkham Asylum/Batman Begins, The Warriors, Killzone, Indigo Prophecy, God of War, Fallout 3/New Vegas, Condemned 1&2, Lego Batman: The Videogame, Lego Lord of the Rings, Red Dead Redemption, Spec Ops: The Line, WarHammer 40K: Dawn of War, Age of Empires III, Half Life, Borderlands 2, Return of the Obra Dinn, Pentamint, Diablo III, Advance Wars, Tiny Metal, Wargroove

Welcome to Episode 8 of Load Save Game, a podcast where I talk to people about their personal journey with video games. I am your host Jose Eusebio. My wonderful guest today is my great friend Xanthe Huynh. I first met Xanthe back in our college Japanese class and while I think we’ve both wasurechatta’d a lot of our Japanese we still kept in touch many years later. I still remember Xanthe talking about how she wanted to do voice acting full-time and it’s been amazing seeing her journey and how far she’s come in her career. Now she’s doing video game and anime voice acting for all these amazing anime series and games and I’m so proud of her because I know it was a lot of hard work and dedication to make it all happen.In the episode Xanthe talks about: what it’s like voice acting for video games, all her favorite memories playing volleyball and boxing kangaroos in the Tekken series, playing party games like Wario Ware and Just Dance with friends, and how DDR exposed her to Techno and House music for the first time. We talk about those and many more great games in the episode. Follow Xanthe on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ItsXanthor Follow Xanthe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itsxanthor/ Xanthe’s new and upcoming projects:-Octopath Traveler II https://octopathtraveler2.square-enix-games.com/en-us/-Genshin Impact https://genshin.hoyoverse.com/en/ -Honkai: Star Rail https://hsr.hoyoverse.com/en-us/ -Master Detectives Archive RAIN CODE https://www.spike-chunsoft.com/games/master-detective-archives-rain-code/ Make sure to subscribe and review Load Save Game on your podcast listener of choice. Follow us on socials we’re @loadsavegame on most platforms. If you have any thoughts or questions about the show feel free to email us at [email protected]! I hope you enjoy the episode!Thank you to Shaun Panado for the use of our theme song "One Shot One Kill Kestrel" off of the album Kind of a Big Deal Vol. 2. You can find his music and projects at his Linktree:  https://linktr.ee/shonixShow Art by: Jordan Maeve https://www.instagram.com/thejollity/ Corrections: Xanthe likely meant Jackie Chan’s Action Kung Fu on the NES. Jackie Chan Adventures show (2000) and PS2 game (2004) came out much later. The pink outfit girl ape in Donkey Kong Racing was Dixie Kong and the turtle was Tiptup the Turtle. According to Wikipedia Gran Turismo is actually the best selling PS1 game of all time, followed by FFVII, and Gran Turismo 2. I neglected to mention that the Gon character from Tekken 3 was actually a guest character from the Masashi Tanaka manga series. The boxing character in Tekken is named Steve Fox. Rune Factory Frontier was on the Wii and was released in 2009 in North America. Games Discussed: Octopath Traveler I/II, Duck Hunt, Super Mario Bros. Super Contra, Jackie Chan’s Action Kung Fu , Sonic The Hedgehog 2, Mortal Kombat, Tetris, Diddy Kong Racing, Pokemon Snap, Pokemon Stadium, F-Zero X, Dance Dance Revolution 4th Mix/5th Mix, Para-Para-Paradise, Tekken 3 / 8 Final Fantasy VII / VIII, Ridge Racer, Cruisin USA, Pump, WarioWare: Smooth Moves, Just Dance Wii, Gran Turismo 1 / 2, Mario Kart, Mario Party, Yoshi’s Woolly World, Super Smash Bros., Tekken 7, Persona 5, Rune Factory Frontier, Snipperclips, Overcooked, Fire Emblem: Three Houses, NEO: The World Ends with You, Stray, It Takes Two, River City Girls 1 / 2, Jackbox, Pokemon Puzzle League, Puzzle Bobble, Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo, Pokemon: GO

Welcome to Episode 7 of Load Save Game, a podcast where I talk to people about their personal journey with video games. I am your host Jose Eusebio. My wonderful guest today is my great friend Becky Kralle. In the episode Becky talks about getting into gaming as an adult after working in eSports live broadcasting productions. We also talk about her love of socializing with friends while playing multiplayer games like Stardew Valley, Minecraft, Valorant, and many others. While growing up Becky said she might have watched people play video games more than playing them herself which sort of makes her a perfect person to be putting on professional eSports productions which are essentially watching really talented people play video games. We also talk a lot about the nature of the eSports industry, whether mobile games are “real” video games, and so much more. Follow Becky on Twitter: https://twitter.com/beckykralle Make sure to subscribe and review Load Save Game on your podcast listener of choice. Follow us on socials we’re @loadsavegame on most platforms. If you have any thoughts or questions about the show feel free to email us at [email protected]! I hope you enjoy the episode!Thank you to Shaun Panado for the use of our theme song "One Shot One Kill Kestrel" off of the album Kind of a Big Deal Vol. 2. You can find his music and projects at his Linktree:  https://linktr.ee/shonixShow Art by: Jordan Maeve https://www.instagram.com/thejollity/ Corrections: Lechonk debuted in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet. Games Discussed: Minecraft, Stardew Valley, Pokemon Stadium, Mario Kart 64, The Sims, Pokemon, Uno (GBC), JumpStart Kindergarten, Zap!, Math Baseball, Spy Kids 2: Mega Mission, Shadow of the Colossus, Assassin’s Creed, Hearthstone, Marvel Snap, Final Fantasy Tactics, Candy Crush, Clash of Clans, Brawlstars, PUBG Mobile, Asphalt 9: Legends, Apex Legends Mobile, Valorant, Call of Duty, Among Us, Rust, Fall Guys, Golf with Friends, Portal 2, Animal Crossing, Overcooked ½, Stormgate, Overwatch 2, League of Legends, Super Smash Brothers Melee, Rocket League, Goldeneye, Tic-A-Tac Royale, Jackbox, Halo: CE

Welcome to Episode 6 of Load Save Game, a podcast where I talk to people about their personal journey with video games. I am your host Jose Eusebio. My wonderful guest today is my great friend Gwen Chase. Gwen is one of my oldest friends. We’ve gone to tons of conventions together like San Diego Comic-con, PAX, Anime Expo. In the episode Gwen tells me about her treasured memories playing the original Tomb Raider games with her Dad, fighting fascists and Mad Max Racing in the Jak and Daxter games, playing Mario Kart DS with our friends in line at Disneyland which felt so revolutionary at the time. We talk about those and many more great games. Make sure to subscribe and review Load Save Game on your podcast listener of choice. Follow us on socials we’re @loadsavegame on most platforms. If you have any thoughts or questions about the show feel free to email us at [email protected]! I hope you enjoy the episode!Thank you to Shaun Panado for the use of our theme song "One Shot One Kill Kestrel" off of the album Kind of a Big Deal Vol. 2. You can find his music and projects at his Linktree: https://linktr.ee/shonixShow Art by: Jordan Maeve https://www.instagram.com/thejollity/ Corrections: Dead Space the original game came out in 2008 on the Xbox 360. The Game Gear could run 3-5 hours off of six AA batteries according to Wikipedia. The villain in Vectorman was named Warhead. Gwen was most likely referring to Race the Sun (2013). Keira’s father is Samos Hagai in the Jak and Daxter series. Sonic the Hedgehog first turns gold in the ending sequence of Sonic 2, dubbed ‘Super Sonic’ and became a regular gameplay feature in Sonic 3. According to the Jak X wiki page, the reason for the racing is that they are all poisoned essentially at someone’s funeral wake and must win a racing championship to get the antidote. Wild. Gameboy Advances originally sold for $100 at launch according to Google. According to a Reddit post I found, the minimum number of rounds in Mario Party DS is 10. Technically the Nintendo 2DS XL was a later released hinged version of a 2DS, but the original 2DS lacked a hinge. I actually cut out a part where Gwen says she couldn’t remember a single Gameboy Advance game she played, but I’m too lazy to go back and re-add it.   Games Discussed: Pikuniku, Dead Space (2008 and Remake), Ms. Pac-Man, Tiger handheld: Aladdin, Little Mermaid, Batman, Simon’s Quest, Sonic 1/2/& Knuckles/Adventure/Adventure 2, Vectorman, Shadowrun, Space Harrier, Race the Sun, Barbie Genie, Swamp Gas, Elroy: Hits the Pavement, Space Channel 5, Crazy Taxi, Soul Calibur, Rhythm Heaven, Dance Dance Revolution, Samba de Amigo, Tomb Raider 1/2/3/Angel of Darkness/4/(2013)/Rise of the Tomb Raider, Jak and Daxter 1/2/3/X Combat Racing, Uncharted, Kingdom Hearts 1/2/3, Big Brain Academy, Brain Age, Mario Kart DS/7, Animal Crossing: Wild World, Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure, Elroy Goes Bugzerk, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Party Hard

Welcome to Episode 5 of Load Save Game, a podcast where I talk to people about their personal journey with video games. I am your host Jose Eusebio. My wonderful guest today is my great friend Heidi-Kat Schultz. Heidi and I met in highschool and reconnected through an old D&D friend group years later and we’ve been friends ever since. We talk about a ton of great games in this episode. Heidi tells us how fun it was to play God and roleplay her favorite fandoms in The Sims. We talk about Heidi’s cherished memories of getting an N64 and beating The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. We talk about the tremendous storytelling and characters from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and the Mass Effect series. Heidi also gives me a quick education on Otome dating sim games and how her love for them motivated her to start a fansite called otomeriot.com. Link to that and her socials in the show notes.Spoiler Warning: We do talk spoilers for Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and the Mass Effect series. If you do not want to hear spoilers for those games, once you hear us start talking about KOTOR you can skip about 15 minutes ahead to skip the spoilers.Otome Riot website: https://otomeriot.com/Ototome Riot on Twitter: https://twitter.com/otomethot Otome Riot on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/otome_riot/ Heidi’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/UranianGirl Nathan’s Podcast Appearances:  https://tinyurl.com/NathanSchulzPodcasts https://open.spotify.com/playlist/04cj7f3NRKGzEZTde6404X?si=2b113c9c7c4e4566Make sure to subscribe and review Load Save Game on your podcast listener of choice. Follow us on socials we’re @loadsavegame on most platforms. If you have any thoughts or questions about the show feel free to email us at [email protected]! I hope you enjoy the episode!Thank you to Shaun Panado for the use of our theme song "One Shot One Kill Kestrel" off of the album Kind of a Big Deal Vol. 2. You can find his music and projects at his Linktree: https://linktr.ee/shonixShow Art by: Jordan Maeve https://www.instagram.com/thejollity/ Corrections: The KOTOR remake has not been officially canceled, gamerant has an article with latest details. While talking about Stardew Valley I technically neglect the Community Center upgrades in Stardew which are kind of a big book of goals, but those upgrades are all optional technically, and not required to progress the game! Our Life: Beginnings & Always could arguably be described more as a visual novel than an Otome game, but a lot of the storytelling is undoubtedly similar to an Otome game experience. Games Discussed: Bejeweled, Ikemen Prince: Beauty and Her Beast, Tears of Themis, TAISHO X ALICE, Super Mario World, Clay Fighter, The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time, Pokemon, Banjo-Kazooie, Paper Mario, The Sims, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Mass Effect 1/2/3, Stardew Valley, World of Warcraft, Dragon Age: Origins, Hatoful Boyfriend, The Arcana: A Mystic Romance, Red Embrace - Hollywood, Nightshade, Ikemen Sengoku, Piofiore: Fated Memories, Our Life: Beginnings & Always, Wildermyth

Welcome to Episode 4 of Load Save Game, a podcast where we share our personal journey with video games. I am your host Jose Eusebio. My wonderful guest today is my great friend Quincy Surasmith. In the episode we talk about a ton of great games, 4X games like Civilization, the varying levels of freedom and player agency in JRPGs vs. Western RPGs vs. Tabletop RPGs. Quincy talks about taking one of the early video game design classes as UC Santa Cruz, wanting to create his ideal game which is like an MMORPG society-builder game where players could organically create quests and effect the game world. Quincy works in audio production and podcasting. He is also an actor and voice actor. Check out the links  in the show notes for his Asian American culture and history podcast, Asian Americana, his socials, and other projects! http://www.asianamericana.com/https://twitter.com/Quincetessence http://www.quincysurasmith.com/ https://www.audible.com/series/Hilo-Audiobooks/B095KB6HM4 Make sure to subscribe and review Load Save Game on your podcast listener of choice. Follow us on socials we’re @loadsavegame on most platforms. If you have any thoughts or questions about the show feel free to email us at [email protected]! I hope you enjoy the episode!Thank you to Shaun Panado for the use of our theme song "One Shot One Kill Kestrel" off of the album Kind of a Big Deal Vol. 2. You can find his music and projects at his Linktree: https://linktr.ee/shonixShow Art by: Jordan Maeve https://www.instagram.com/thejollity/ Corrections: A Nintendo NES was $150 in 1985 and according to Google would be equivalent in purchasing power to about $417.06 today. Probably not enough to purchase a gaming PC in most cases. At the time of this writing a Nintendo Switch OLED is listed at $319.99 at Gamestop. 4x stands for Explore, Expand, Exploit, Exterminate according to Wikipedia. The free team-based FPS game that Quincy was referring to was probably Apex legends. I mention XCOM: Enemy Within (which was DLC), I meant to say XCOM: Enemy Unknown, but both were very fun. The game Quincy refers to as Lighthouse Keeper appears to be titled A Fisherman’s Tale. Lighthouse Keeper is a different game. Games Discussed: Oregon Trail, Conan the Barbarian, Load Runner, Pac-Man, Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar, Final Fantasy VII/VI, Ready 2 Rumble Boxing, Civilization I, SimCity, Starcraft, Diablo, Secret of Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Indiana Jones and the Lost City of Atlantis, Quake, Master of Orion, Secret of Mana I/III, Fallout I/II, Baldur’s Gate, Planescape: Torment, Uncharted, Adventure, Vampire: The Masquerade, D&D, Goldeneye, Star Fox 64, Metal Gear Solid I/II, WWE (PS2), Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, GTA: I/II/San Andreas, Warcraft III, Soldat, Counter-Strike, Dota, League of Legends, Tetris, Super Mario Bros., Guitar Hero, Katamari Damacy, Soul Calibur III, Minecraft, Diplomacy, Eve Online, Star Wars: X-Wing, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Elite, Beginner’s Guide, Stanley Parable, Hades, Spelunky, FTL: Faster Than Light, Raft, The Long Dark, Mega Man X, 20XX,  Ori - The Will of the Wisps, Batman: Arkham City, Star Wars: Squadrons, A Fisherman’s Tale, Return of the Obra Dinn, Outer Wilds, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild,, Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Star Trek: 25th Anniversary, Star Trek: Judgment Rites, Mini Metro, Mini Motorways, Star Trek Adventures: Klingon, Star Wars: Age of Rebellion

LSG 003: Stephanie Han and I talk about playing fighting games at SoCal arcades, the joys and drama of World of Warcraft Guilds, and saving the world as a country village girl in Star Ocean: The Second StoryWelcome to Episode 3 of Load Save Game, a podcast where I talk to people about their personal journey with video games. I am your host Jose Eusebio. My wonderful guest today is my great friend Stephanie Han. Steph is a life-long gamer, a big fan of JRPGs, fighting games, and rhythm games. We talk about a ton of great games from Star Ocean the Second Story and uh…Star Ocean the Second Story haha. It comes up a lot. We talk about the friendships and drama that came with World of Warcraft guilds and Raiding. Also I call them clans in the episode, I know they’re called guilds! Sorry I must have been thinking of old PC gaming clan tags, but yes they’re called guilds in WoW. We also talk about her time playing in the arcades in the Southern California fighting game community. Steph also works in the video game industry and has 10 years of experience working as a GM on an MMORPG, a Community Manager, and Graphic Designer. Toward the end of our conversation we talk a little bit about her advice for breaking into the video game industry.Make sure to subscribe and review Load Save Game on your podcast listener of choice. Follow us on socials we’re @loadsavegame on most platforms. If you have any thoughts or questions about the show feel free to email us at [email protected]! I hope you enjoy the episode!Thank you to Shaun Panado for the use of our theme song "One Shot, One Kill: Kestrel" off of the album Kind of a Big Deal Vol. 2. You can find his music and projects at his Linktree: https://linktr.ee/shonixShow art by Jordan Maeve. You can see more of her art and graphic design at: https://www.instagram.com/thejollity/Correction: I meant to say Elite Beat Agents and Rhythm Heaven, but it came out as Rhythm Agents. Star Ocean: The Last Hope was the fourth Star Ocean game. Games Discussed: Ember Knights, Fruit Ninja, Final Fantasy VII, Bust a Groove, Star Ocean: The Second Story, Parappa the Rapper, Guitar Hero, Rock Band, Mario Kart 64, Super Smash Bros., Final Fantasy IX, X, BlazBlue Chrono Trigger/Continuum Shift/Cross Tag Battle, The King of Fighers XI, Guilty Gear Xrd/Strive, Soul Calibur, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Street Figher IV/V, Ragnarok Online, Maple Story, Flyff, Trickster Online, Dungeon Fighter Online, World of Warcraft, Minecraft, League of Legends, DOTA, Candy Crush, Star Ocean, Terraria, Fortnite, Stardew Valley, Spiritfarer, Vampire Survivor, Pokemon, The Bouncer