Backlog Dialogues

Backlog Dialogues is the nerd culture podcast where we dig you out of your backlog, BEFORE it buries you. We attempt to bring a literary eye to nerd culture media, like video games, films, TV shows, and more. Think of us like a book club, but for video games and other types of media. Our second backlog-buster is: When They Cry!

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Episodes

Wednesday Aug 16, 2023

It's time for John's least favorite world in Kingdom Hearts 3, the world where everything looks like Olaf and they keep knocking you off the mountain instead of interacting with the Disney characters. That's right, it's Arendelle! Join Sora, Donald, and Goofy as they continually fail to make friends with the characters we actually care about but do manage to ultimately recruit a massive snow golem (which is cool I guess?) At least Larxene is here, Larxene makes everything better.

Wednesday Aug 09, 2023

We take a break from talking about Kingdom Hearts to get a whole bunch of Final Fantasy XIV talking out of our system! But because Final Fantasy XIV is huge, we decided we can't do it all at once. So we have the discussion of A Realm Reborn through Stormblood in the middle of the season while we save the best part for the end!
Join the Warrior of Light, chosen champion of Hydaelyn, as they are tasked to slay primals, push back an encroaching evil empire, end a thousand year long conflict between Catholic elves and dragons, and fight an Organization XIII-ass cloak club, the Ascians. You know, normal stuff. We blitz through these story points and more as we try to explain why the three of us play and enjoy the critically acclaimed MMORPG that is free to play through lev- ::is shot for meme crimes::
(Don't worry, Kingdom Hearts is back next week.)

Wednesday Aug 02, 2023

This week, we visit Monstropolis for good times with Sully, Mike Wazowski, and Boo! Sora, Donald, and Goofy get adorable monster forms this time around, and less adorable monsters show up to make a connection to the emotional dark side of Kingdom Hearts, Vanitas and his Unversed! And then, after we deal with that pizza cutter, we take one last stop in the land of true existential horror, Hundred Acre Wood, as Merlin makes one final attempt to trap us in a charming stuffed animal world, now with a significant increase in the number of heffalumps.

Wednesday Jul 26, 2023

It's time for Jared's least favorite world in Kingdom Hearts 3, the Kingdom of Corona! Join us as Jared helps us understand the context of a world story built entirely out of contextless movie scenes in a linear gauntlet without much interesting really going on. I guess Marluxia shows up, though, that's a thing. But even he's acting weird, even for an Organization member. Wanting us to PROTECT princesses of light. Can we go now?

Wednesday Jul 19, 2023

This week, we go to the first Pixar world in Kingdom Hearts, Toy Box, based off Toy Story! It's one of the best designed worlds in the game, and we examine every inch of the coolest toy story with no real toys. We also make friends with a neurotic gamer dinosaur voiced by Wallace Shawn, see the writers go wild applying Kingdom Hearts metaphysics to the very pertinent question of 'just how are the toys sentient', and Woody doles out the harshness in one of the most epic affirmations of Kingdom Hearts' idealistic worldview about love and friendship on a certain NFT pusher.

Wednesday Jul 12, 2023

Time for Kingdom Hearts 3 to start for real! Our goal is to find Terra, Aqua, and Ventus, but to find them we first need to find one of them. Also we can't beat Airman. So instead, we go to Twilight Town to search for Roxas (doesn't seem even more likely to succeed, but hey). There we meet up with some old friends and Pixar begins to bleed in to Kingdom Hearts! Remy from Ratatouille shows up to puppeteer us in some cooking minigames. New Gummi Ships, Ansem and Xemnas as a couple, ducks ignoring the rules of world travel, and more all await in this episode!

Wednesday Jul 05, 2023

Let's kick off Kingdom Hearts 3! We made it at last! And to start, we go through the opening to pick our basic setup, discuss an amazing new theme song, and then start off in Olympus for an explosive start to the story that Nomura has decided to say is not actually Kingdom Hearts 3, but Kingdom Hearts II.9 because he's a madlad. Phil is no longer allowed to speak, Maleficent and Pete are looking for a box, and we're just getting used to the new battle system and taking in the very beautiful sights. This game is already 10/10.

Wednesday Jun 28, 2023

This week, we take the last step before reaching Kingdom Hearts III, with the real time rendered movie included with Kingdom Hearts 2.8, χ Back Cover! Join us as we try to figure out just what the HECK is going on in the mobile games while also discerning just what the heck the Master of Master's deal is with his constant trolling of his easily duped students, Ira, Invi, Aced, Gula, Ava, and Luxu. There's attempts to make a game of among us, but the most sus person is still the Master himself.

Wednesday Jun 21, 2023

CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of sensitive issues such as suicide ideation and depression
We kick off our final season of the Kingdom Hearts journey with THE most absurdly named game in the franchise: 0.2 Birth By Sleep A Fragmentary Passage. This game dares to dig in deep into one of the most pressing mysteries of Kingdom Hearts: why Mickey didn't have his shirt on at the end of Kingdom Hearts 1. To learn this hidden secret, we must traverse the World of Darkness with Aqua, who is not having a very good time of it. In the process we learn that Mickey has done some horrible things to get where he is now, just like the company that made him. We decide on an absurd voice change for Donald and engage in general goofery to cope with what we learn and the fact that our reward for completionism is clothes.

Wednesday Jun 14, 2023

It's time for another Minilog, as well as our first discussion of a manga, the cult classic Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer. Stop me if you've heard this one - a guy gets psychic powers in a battle for the fate of the world as a knight in a war between a princess and a mage. Hold up though, it's more complex than that, because Satoshi Mizukami is a master of the craft of Manga and always manages to come up with a cool twist on things that seem like you've seen it before. Join us as we discuss Amamiya Yuuhi's growth in a most unusual coming of age story as he swears fealty to Asahina Samidare, the little Lucifer who only wishes to save the world so she can destroy it herself in this tale of smashing planets.
Just... don't watch the anime.

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