The JRPG book club podcast

04/22/2021

Some updates!
-Podcast Audio from last week was a mess, so only the video form it is up, check it out on youtube.
-The new podcast episode should be up tonight, but since Bill wasnt on, theres no video!
- We are now streaming every thursday, We are starting with Tales of Vesperia with Bill and Juan, If you miss a stream, vods will be up on youtube afterwards. Todays stream is going to start at 4pm central time! Still early in the game, come check us out!

Links for everything is below!
https://linktr.ee/Jrpgbc

04/09/2021

We are back with The Magazine Rack! This week we cover the return and future of E3 ! We also talk the advancements of Guilty Gear Strive (once again), the new fan game Metroid prime 2D as well as the uncovered goodness of Castlevania rssurection and more! We now have video versions of our show starting now on youtube! Check out all our stuff here https://linktr.ee/Jrpgbc
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Special thanks go out to for our music For our original logo design Eric for editing this episode.
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04/03/2021

On this sidequest we talk all things pokemon with a actual Pokemon Professor, the amazing Matthew Verive (immewnity on twitter)! We talk thoughts on the new games, the crazy TCG market, our favorite games and waaay more! Check out our blog at jrpgbookclub.com
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03/25/2021

We are back with The Magazine Rack! This week we cover the new Square Enix game, Forspoken! We also talk shin megami tensei 3 nocturne HD, Evo getting bought and more! Also featured FFTA, Phantasy Star Online 2, Tales of Symphonia Vinyl, Fantasian, Pikmin Go, Yakuza like a dragon, A bunch of ps2 games getting added to a internet archive, plus more! Check out our blog at jrpgbookclub.com
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03/18/2021

We are back with The Magazine Rack! This week we cover Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Shredders Revenge, Doom Eternal Ancient Gods Pt 2, the new Undertale Port and more! The guys also talk, No Straight Roads, Phantasy Star Online 2, Grand Theft Auto Online, and the black market of Neopets? Check out our blog at jrpgbookclub.com
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Special thanks go out to for our music,
For our original logo design,
for our original art on the website and for editing this episode.
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03/13/2021

: JACK’S JUKEBOX - EPISODE 3 - EPIC THEME SONGS

A new episode of Jack's Jukebox is out now on our website! Take a listen to some Epic music as Jack talks a bit about them.

https://jrpgbookclub.com/post/645574735834595328/jacks-jukebox-episode-3-epic-theme-songs

JACK’S JUKEBOX - EPISODE 3 - EPIC THEME SONGS This week on Jack’s Jukebox I’ve been listening to some pretty epic songs and I thought I’d share some of them with you. These are some songs that I’ll...

03/12/2021

Our good friend Baron Von Future made a new album! Check it out! He made the wonderful intro/outro to our podcast and he's amazing!
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On Spotify and other places people listen to stuff
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03/11/2021

We are back with The Magazine Rack! This week we cover Tales of arise, Tales of Festival, D&D Video Game, Alien, Paper Mario Speedrun, Xbox/bethesda, Final Fantasy 7 Intrograde, & Guilty Gear strive and more! Check out our blog at jrpgbookclub.com
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03/07/2021

New blog post now live! jrpgbookclub.com
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Come along as Bill begins his dive into one of his favorite series, and the one where it all began, to celebrate the 25th anniversary, and the Tales of Festival, Tales of Phantasia!
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03/04/2021

New magazine rack episode is now live! This week Jack isn't here, and my and Ty talk a bunch of pokemon! We also talk more about Bills first thoughts on persona 5 strikers, and bravely default 2, what has ty been doing in animal crossing and more! Check out our blog at jrpgbookclub.com
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Special thanks go out to for our music,
For our original logo design,
for our original art on the website and for editing this episode.
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02/28/2021

Hey all! Hope you're having a great weekend, today we're dropping a new blog post and a new main series episode!
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Main series episode is about the wii JRPG The Last Story! Did the guys like it or hate it? Find out, episode is live wherever you listen to podcasts.
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We also have a guest writer on the blog today, talking about the indie hit, Hades! Take a trip down to the underworld and see what he has to say about this amazing rogue-like game that has made a mark on gaming.
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Music by
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Website art by
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02/25/2021

Come join us while we live stream the state of play! It'll be Bill, Jack, and our special guest Juan! We'll giving our reactions to the announcements live!
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02/24/2021

New magazine rack episode is now live! This week we cover Guilty Gear Strive, Darksiders, Twisted Metal TV show, Jet Set Radio Future Anniversary (and the amazing ), PSVR2 and more! Check out our blog at jrpgbookclub.com
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Come by tomorrow at 4 pm central to watch the PlayStation State of play with us on twitch (I should have the technical issues fixed this time! 😬)
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Special thanks go out to for our music For our original logo design and for editing this episode.
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02/18/2021

Hey all! Just a quick announcement! The magazine rack is now coming to your ear holes weekly! Listen to us talk about the current news in gaming, every week, Starting next week!

And what? There's more? Now up on the website is a new blog post from ty! On his new series "what were they thinking?" Check it out! Link is in bio.
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02/17/2021

Update* due to technical difficulties we have to cancel :(

We're doing a live stream of the nintendo direct! Gonna be starting in about 30 minutes! Come watch with us! We should hopefully have a few special guests joining us! Jrpgbookclub on twitch!
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02/11/2021

We are back with The Magazine Rack! This week we cover Final fantasy xiv endwalker, CDPR Ransomware attacks, E3, Black myth Wukong, Goldeneye 007, Mass effect, Guilty Gear, and Street Fighter 5 and more! Check out our blog at jrpgbookclub.com

02/06/2021

New blog post now live! (And has been for a few hours, but forgot to post about it...) Link in bio
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Our new blog series called "indie insights" where we dive into our favorite indie games! This time I dive into one of my favorite indie games ever, Firewatch! -Bill

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01/30/2021

: Jack’s Jukebox - Episode 2 - Metroidvania

Jack's Jukebox post 2. This time we listen to some Metroidvania music. Check a look! https://jrpgbookclub.com/post/641766159769862145/jacks-jukebox-episode-2-metroidvania

Jack’s Jukebox - Episode 2 - Metroidvania For this week on Jack’s Jukebox I was thinking of doing songs from “Metroidvania” games. Metroidvania’s are some of my favorite types of games to play and...

01/29/2021

Hey friends, today is usually a day when a new episode drops, but I (Bill) been busy the last bit and some other stuff, so editing is behind, I should have the episode up hopefully before Monday. In the meantime, take a look at the wonderful art made by the incredible and tomorrow we should have a new blog post up by Jack! New blog series should be coming up soon as well. Thanks for understanding!
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01/15/2021

jrpgbookclub.com

Welcome to Jack's Jukebox! A new series of blog posts showing off my favorite Video Game tracks. jrpgbookclub.com/tagged/JacksJukebox

We all know video games have good music, but there are so many games that its hard to find the good stuff. I want more people to be able to find that good stuff, so I thought I'd start a blog series helping people find some. I thought for my first post I’d recommend some of my all time favorites to get started. Come give a listen over at our blog.

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01/14/2021

The JRPG book club podcast updated their website address.

The JRPG book club podcast updated their website address.

01/14/2021

It's our 1 year anniversary, and to celebrate, we have a few awesome things!
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We comissioned some art from the amazing , we have a new website, with a blog (planning for that to be weekly! First post is from Jack about some of his favorite music from video games) link is in bio, and we're dropping TWO new episodes, a sidequest and a magazine rack! The sidequest is about video game music that we recorded back earlier in the year with the the amazing ! The new magazine rack episode covers a slew of topics, check it out! finally, remember how we had a YouTube channel? No? Well I'll have you know we're gonna start updating the channel with our episodes again! Episode 3 is up right now! More to come shortly!
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I wanna thank everyone from the bottom of my heart for your support this year, and I can't wait to see how we grow in the next! -Bill
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Special thanks go out to for our music For our original logo design and
Eric and for editing the episodes.
And for the new key art on this post and on our website

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Check out the website at https://jrpgbookclub.com/

01/02/2021

We are back with The Magazine Rack! This week we depart from our usual format, and discuss the games that got us through the year as well as our top 5 games! Check us out!
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Special thanks go out to for our music For our original logo design and for editing this episode

12/28/2020

We are back with The Magazine Rack! This week we cover the Tales of series 25th anniversary news, Sephiroth in smash (and how shirtless he is) and whats going with the KFConsole, We also talk about the great marketing that KFC has been doing, A greasy chicken mouse, Bandcamp fridays and more. Check us out!
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Special thanks go out to for our music For our original logo design and for editing this episode.
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12/15/2020

Tales of the Abyss celebrates its 15th birthday today, it originally released on this date in 2005. Check out our episode on it and reminisce. Tales of the abyss is one of my favorite games and I can't believe it came out 15 years ago. -Bill

12/09/2020

We are back with The Magazine Rack! This week we cover Scott pilgrim vs the world the game the rerelease, all the drama behind freemelee and whats going on with the splatoon community with it, we ramble about vinyl, and a bunch of other stuff, as well as ramble about the game awards and its categories. this episode is fairly long, but its got a ton of good stuff in it!

12/04/2020

We're only a little (ok a lot) excited that we're officially getting the release of Persona 5 Strikers! (Aka, Persona 5 scramble the phantom strikers)
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12/01/2020

This time, We have our special guest returning from the land of Midgar, Cesar from the Rediscover Geek Podcast joining us to discuss all things PS5 with Jack and Bill!
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We cover our experience with the system so far, the games we have experienced, the bugs we found and more! Come join us and we discuss the highly anticipated PS5!
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Special thanks go out to Baron Von Future for our music Ianharris247 For our original logo design and Bill for editing this episode.

11/26/2020

We are back with The Magazine Rack! This week we (try to) cover NEO:The world ends with you, Undertale Live, Yellow Brick Games, Persona 5 Scramble, and ramble on our time with DS/GBA RPGs and Gush more about Breath of the Wild,. Oh, and we talk about poo, thats right, you heard right, Poo
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Special thanks go out to for our music For our original logo design and for editing this episode.
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11/13/2020

We are back with The Magazine Rack! We are covering news and more!
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This week we cover VGC Rollback netcode, breath of the wild age of calamity, mass effect remaster/remake, and the change of ownership of Sega arcades in Japan.
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Special thanks go out to for our music For our original logo design and for editing this episode!
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