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Hello everyone and welcome to a new episode of Gathering of Gachas! This episode, Ranakel, Galen "The Sound Guy" Firestone and RyBred join in together to chat about gacha-related news events and evolutions, including the following topics:

0:02:40 - War of the Visions:

  • -Christmas event in February, featuring Christmas Vinera and Viktora
  • -Samsung Galaxy bugs
  • -Duane got in! Dark meta VS Yuna's Light meta
  • -"March" Tokens from February dailies

0:26:57 - Arknights:

  • -Contingency Contract 2: Operation Blade
  • -Gavial the Great Chief event starting Friday
  • -Ceobe's Fungimist "Integrated Strategies" Roguelike Event starting Friday
  • -Eunectes banner arrives!

0:49:31 - Genshin Impact:

  • -Come and gone like the Anemo characters: it's the Xiao banner
  • -Keqing getting her own banner too now
  • -New weapons came, and more relevantly, more will come.
  • -The lantern festival, big event number 3 which should return every year, feat. ALL of the sidequests
  • -Theater Mechanicus, the tower defense minigame
  • -Choose your 4* character from Liyue
  • -The primal Geovishaps (world boss version + abyss changes)
  • -Release of the Stellar Moments album
  • -KFC china-exclusive collaboration. Hi Arknights!
  • -They added paypal!

1:20:43 - Pokemon Masters EX:

  • -Impressions on the newer version from a returning Ryan

1:21:34 - Main Topic:

  • -Life after gachas: stopping, returning, and the communities around it all

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Welcome back to Gathering of Gachas! After a fair amount of time away launching another podcast, enjoying the holidays, and changing management, the podcast that outlives the games it talks about (new tagline) returns! This week, Ranakel, Galen "The Sound Guy" Firestone" and Dezxter discuss the following gacha topics:

0:14:11 - Arknights:

  • General retrospective. Going through the banners of days past you can't pull for anymore.
  • Yes Galen bought Skadi.
  • Upcoming Thorns Banner and Hong Kong's "mistake" repeated.

0:50:06 - Genshin Impact:

  • Zhongli's controversial power level, Xinyan the rockstar, Albedo's straightforwardness, and Ganyu aka. "Cryo Amber"
  • The new area release: Dragonspine
  • The major events: Unreconciled Stars and the Dragonspine release event

1:32:01 - Main topic of the day:

  • Time to usability / Time to optimal use, what does the amount of grind to get the most out of your freshly pulled unit says about your game?

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Welcome to Gathering of Gachas! This week, Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone and Ranakel are without support, but not without gacha-related topics to discuss! So come for the usual couple of hours and strap in for:

Final Fantasy Brave Exvius

  • -NV Sol, NVA Dark Fina, NVA CG Sakura and the free Alhena
  • -The Sol story event
  • -NV Daisy & Fina plus Mineur and the NVAs of the other two beach duos

Arknights

  • -Twilight of Wollumonde challenge stages
  • -"Misty Wild" Asbestos and Tsukunogi banner
  • -Operation Pyrite

Genshin Impact

  • -1.1 is here. Story, boss, reputation, and UI, so much UI
  • -Tartaglia aka. Childe, and Diona

Fate Grand Order

  • -Christmas special return featuring holiday huns
  • -Fluffy Sheep

War of the Visions

  • -Aigaion doesn't have a CG
  • -Also there's a mage and some other guy I guess

Topic of the Day:

  • Non-gacha games that have no real reason to be a temporary offer, but somehow still are

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Welcome to Gathering of Gachas! In this episode, Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, Dezxter and Ranakel may not have donned Halloween costumes, but that will not stop any of them from covering the following, freshly timestamped, Gacha-related topics

Final Fantasy Brave Exvius [0:00:56]

  • -The halloween celebration, featuring GLEX CG NV unit Ibara, NVA Lucius and Grim Lord Sakura.
  • -That 4k lapis a pull 35% on-banner rainbow banner (and the brief moment the tickets had to be turned off).
  • -Ibara's story event, and the Grave Hexvius rerun
  • -Dark Visions. Again.

Arknights [0:28:35]

  • -Twilight of Wollumonde: the story, the gameplay, the Big Bob fandom
  • -Lily of the valley: Suzuran banner
  • -Standard banner: Angelina and Helagur

Genshin Impact [0:55:21]

  • -Let's talk party composition
  • -Klee, explosions, and that weird small gap between banners
  • -Mona's story quest
  • -1.1 announcement stream: four units (with noted VAs!), reputation farm, QoL items, and a story event with a free Fischl
  • -November shop refresh: Lisa and Bennett purchasable

War of the Visions [1:40:35]

  • -Also the Halloween celebration, with the early releases of Little Leela and Rairyuu
  • -New Porcelain Tower!

Topic of the Day [1:46:36]

  • What keeps us interested in a gacha game

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Welcome to Gathering of Gachas! This week, Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, Kite, Ranakel and returning special guest Geisterfuchs gather to give you the latest and greatest in Gacha-related news stories, including:

Final Fantasy Brave Exvius

  • -FFII comes. With lots of units. Like, six of them, from your Minwus to your Aileen.
  • -The training dummy challenge. Just in case the stag and DV weren't pure enough DPS races. And hey, free STMR item!
  • -Those neo-value and improved 5*+ only step-ups
  • -NV Madame Edel and her buddies Lexa and Elbis

Arknights

  • -Free stuff "event"
  • -Nightingale / Ifrit standard banner

Genshin Impact

  • -The extended freebie squad: Geo main character, Xiangling and Barbara
  • -Venti, the bard
  • -Three weeks in, the pace is set
  • -Roadmap for the game's updates
  • -The elemental crucible co-op event
  • -The jank parts: co-op, climbing and friends.

Fire Emblem Heroes

  • -More Three Houses Units arrive! (Catherine, Seteth, Flayn, Shamir, Nemesis... and a Summoner Unit!?)
  • -Hall of Forms - Dream Units from Fates and Dancer Xander, how would you build them?
    • Double Special Heroes, several Limited-time Special Heroes return!

War of the Visions

  • -Glaciella Wezette and Lasswell. One is ice, the other's not.
  • -Story event: Gouga and Saiga part 1: get your rune bows, get your ice lances, ninja slap fight go!
  • -Titan, the summon for dragoons. Somehow.
  • -The Behemoth Raid that I'm just not gonna bother with.

Main topic of the day:

  • Shiny syndrome: what causes us to spend our hard earned hoard?

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Welcome to Gathering of Gachas! This week, the brilliant observations of Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, the astute remarks from Dezxter, the amazing comments only Kite can make, and the spectacular insights of Ranakel will tell you all you need to know and then some, about the following topics:

Final Fantasy Brave Exvius

  • -FFXII Zodiac Age banner: NV Gabranth, NVA Balthier, and Ray of Hope Larsa
  • -Gumi adresses the GL Pog farm difficulty
  • -Dark Vision's two weeks

Arknights

  • -Children of Ursus Impressions
  • -Eyjafjalla in the distinction shop!?!?!

War of the Visions

  • -Fenrir vision card and summon, including a guaranteed step-up
  • -Ifrit Challenge, and the Rune Blade

Fire Emblem Heroes

    • Plumeria lewds the scene (New Mythic Hero)
    • Voting Gauntlet "Ponytails vs. Pigtails"
    • Tap Battle Returns Encore!

Genshin Impact

  • -The game's launch itself, and how smooth things were
  • -Base gameplay, combat, story premice and exploration
  • -The freebie squad: Wind!Main Character, Amber, Kaeya, Lisa, plus Noelle the battle maid.
  • -Progression throughout the ranks, resin and you
  • -The gacha and monetisation

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Welcome to Gathering of Gachas! This week, Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, Ranakel and Dezxter buckle down, and cover all of your favorite news whether they're about stories, side stories, stories within side stories, or substories:

Final Fantasy Brave Exvius

  • -The Global Original banners. Yoshikiri, Itachi, Starlight Elena. Oh and Loren's NV Awakening is there too.
  • -The GL pogs. Higher floor, higher ceiling
  • -Intangir EXT: Scornier than ever
  • -Dark Visions 6: I miss Boss Rush so much
  • -The NV Value banner

Arknights

  • -Recap of Contingency Contract Operation: Barrenland
  • -Our first major schedule change with Children of Ursus jumpung the line and coming four events early.
  • -Along with Children of Ursus, 1st Anniversary QoL changes coming early.
  • -Yes there was a KFC crossover in Hong Kong, no we're not getting it.

Genshin Impact

  • -Launch is imminent
  • -Expectations and fears

Dynasty Warriors Mobile

  • -The announcement at TGS
  • -The many ways it can be done wrong
  • -Confusion with Dynasty Warriors Unleashed

War of the Visions

  • -Quick update on Ildyra after using her
  • -Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles' weaksauce appearance
  • -Ifrit raid: it's still annoying as all hell
  • -Knight of Destruction Sterne
  • -Trials of Reckoning vs. Two-headed dragon: Actually a good event!
  • -New half-anniversary gifts and moogle shop additions

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Welcome to Gathering of Gachas! Playing a bit of catch-up this episode, Galen "The Sound Guy" Firestone, Ranakel, and Ryan "RyBred" get virtually together, under skies dark and ablaze both, to go over the past two weeks of gacha news including:

Final Fantasy Brave Exvius

  • -FFVIIR part 2: A raid event, Aerith (Remake), Rufus Shinra, along with Cloud and Red XIII's awakenings
  • -The Gil Towers Incident
  • -Learning the mirror of Equity: Mog King event featuring Awakened Dragon Akstar, PG Lasswell's awakening, Lively Steward Shinji, and the free Stylish Steward Pecciotta
  • -The Whip-Whiskered Beast, Coeurl trial

Arknights

  • -Bagpipe banner
  • -Contingency Contract Event: Operation Barrenland
  • -Faster than Usual schedule

War of the Visions

  • -Midnight's Deep, the Tactics-themed gimmick porcelain tower
  • -Ildyra, the Arithmetician
  • -Platinum Mace and Coral Sword, the new weapons to craft
  • -Six months countdown part III: the daily free 10 pull with infuriating baggage.
  • -Frontline WOTV FFBE#5: Trials of Reckoning. War of the Vision's Dark Visions.

Main Topic

  • -Ranakel's Great Phone Adventure

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Welcome to Gathering of Gachas! This week, Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, Kite, Dezxter and The Lucksack Formerly Known As Ranakel open the door to world of wonders as of yet unseen, or gacha news, that's fine too:

Final Fantasy Brave Exvius

  • Rain arrives as a new NV-base unit creatively named Rain - Neo Vision
  • Veritas of the Dark gets NV awakenings.
  • A Story Event again. Prelude to the story before Season 3 featuring Bruce & Rinora.
  • FFRK Collaboration Equipment Enhancement Event: Tyro exists, imagine that.

Arknights

  • Ceobe and Leizi banner, along with a Lappland return into focus.
  • Stories of Afternoon [sic] event.

Fire Emblem Heroes

  • Legendary Hero News
  • Upcoming Voting Gauntlet for the CYL4 units vs. Heroes who were possessed by evil.

Valkyrie Anatomia

  • The last run of the game's story
  • The chilling ghost town feel of a game without events that still bears the 1st anniversary logo
  • 30% AF rates and free gems for everyone

Pokemon Masters EX

  • 1st Anniversary news. The game's name evolves, as a way to call back players in

War of the Visions

  • FFT Collab part 2; Agrias, Delita and Mustadio join in.
  • Free stackable daily summon
  • The new daily quests
  • New permanent challenge board featuring taking Shadowlynx through the motions, UR tickets, and free Mediena

This week's topic:

  • How did Gachas get our hosts invested, and which ones?

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Welcome to Gathering of Gachas! This week, Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, Kite, RyBred and Ranakel party like it's 2019 to talk about the hot latest gacha news of 2020, including:

Final Fantasy Brave Exvius:

  • The FFVII Remake banner featuring Neo Visions Cloud, Tifa's Neo Visions awakening, Barrett and the free Reno
  • The many FFVII Remake event stages, from the daily challenge to the emblem stage and the new King Mog.
  • Dark Visions #5, wherein Dark Bahamut pokes out of a black hole to devour your time
  • The variety of shop changes, from EX to gils to summon tickets, tokens and exchanges.
  • Another slot machine, but this time it's a bit faster
  • Hell Wyrm, the FFXII challenge stage full of Lapis

Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia:

  • Kite's hyatus for technical reasons

Fire Emblem Heroes:

  • Choose your Legends Year 4: The Three Houses Extravaganza

War of the Visions:

  • Oldoa joins the roster but this part is mostly about her visual design
  • Ochu's challenge stage
  • Return of the Treat to the West: Rundall's quests and farm event
  • Auto-repeat and auto-battle improvements
  • New booster bundles that definitely should just go take a hike

Main Topic:

  • The change from one "era" to the next, for both new and old players.

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Welcome to Gathering of Gachas! This week, Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, Ranakel and Dezxter once again join forces to take your gacha news into the Next era. A veritable Evolution that take those news into Overdrive:

Final Fantasy Brave Exvius: 

  • FFXII part 2: Ashe and Vossler arrive at the worst possible time
  • Scorn of Shinryu will eliminate those you love
  • The Neo Vision and version 5.0 Livestream report (that's the big one)

Arknights: 

  • Celebate the Lantern Festival

SINoAlice: 

  • Dezxter's reasons to leave the game behind

War of the Visions: 

  • FFI event banner, featuring Warrior of Light and the Death Machine
  • Raid event against Death Machine, a bit more dense, still painful
  • Kilphe, the mage up close and personal
  • New pity system on featured banners
  • Diablos' guaranteed step-up

Main Topic:

  • None this time!

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Welcome to Gathering of Gachas, this week is pretty packed with info, fresh from Galen "TheSoundGuy" Firestone, Ranakel, and returning guest Geisterfuchs, about the following gacha goodness:

Final Fantasy Brave Exvius

  • Zenaida joins in as a regular unit
  • Fina & Dark Fina: just buy'em!
  • The first Boss Rush
  • CG Kuja joins in and oh, Garland's there too I guess. And a free Zidane
  • Chamber of the vengeant expansion and Elf off the handle.
  • Behemoth K's trial
  • Soon coins, dailies and exchange shop.
  • Sunday Livestream hopes and dreams.

Arknights

  • Just a little bit of Nian congratulations and materials farming

Tales of Crestoria 

  • First look at the game
  • Gacha system and the first free unit
  • Summer event
  • Playing a game on a series without being too familiar with the series

Main Topic

  • Semi-limited units returning every now and then

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No full episode this week unfortunately, but Ranakel nonetheless took to the mic to give you just a little about things to look forward to next episode!

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Welcome to Gathering of Gachas! This week, Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, Ranakel and Dezxter join forces once again to bring you all the latest, the biggest, the fanciest, but not the bravest Gacha news and discussions such as:

Final Fantasy Brave Exvius:

  • The new FFXII banner, featuring the long-awaited CG Vaan, Penelo, and Fran
  • New enhancements for Elena, Morgana, Sol and Sacred Shield Charlotte, as well as latents for Kimono Fina
  • New anniversary goodies like a new 11 rainbow + STMR moogle summon and a select unit and prism tokens with quite the selection

Arknights:

  • The anticipation builds up for Nian and the forge event coming up
  • A comic brings a message about love in unexpected places
  • SINoAlice:
  • The featured units swap places on the NieR Automata banner

War of the Visions:

  • The Two-headed Dragon comes, with other vision card friends
  • White Marshmallow raid encourages you to murder delicious deserts again
  • Our first War of the Visions update video builds up the Warrior of Light hype, and answers some key questions

Castlevania Grimoire of Souls:

  • The game's end, before it even truly began.

Main Topic:

  • Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis, and what its innovative model could bring to the live service and gacha table.

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Welcome to Gathering of Gachas! This week, Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, Ranakel and heroic return RyBred join forces to discuss the following gacha topics:

Final Fantasy Brave Exvius

  • The third batch of esper units: Umbral Dragon Dark Fina, Healind Avatar Lid, and Flame of Rebirth Jake
  • Second event week Type-0 Exploration and its super ribbon reward
  • The fourth Dark Vision and its new formula
  • Gifts from the producer, including a free Omniprism

Arknights

  • A clarification on free Items #DezWasRight
  • Quasi-confirmation of the Nian banner release date
  • Some more personal anecdotes

SinoAlice

  • First part of the Nier Automata Banner: Free breaker 2B, breaker A2 and cleric Emil
  • The gratuitously violent summon animations
  • RyBred's experience

War of the Visions

  • Vinera Fennes and the event To Burn Bright for story and a Mage Masher
  • Warrior of Light's confirmation, and preliminary "hype bundles"
  • The relatively unannounced but nonetheless imposing gift from the producer

Main Topic

  • Breaking the FTP Seal

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Welcome to Gathering of Gachas! This week, Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, Ranakel and Dezxter together tackle on the latest gacha game news and topics, such as

Final Fantasy Brave Exvius

  • FF Type-0 units: Wild Card Ace, Benevolent Beauty Rem, and the free Steadfast Soldier Machina
  • Anniversary tickets, letters from the producer, and livestream announcement

Arknights

  • Half-year anniversary bundles
  • Reed/Broca banner
  • The mystery reward!

SINoAlice

  • 1 Million download celebration
  • First step-up banner in the game
  • New story chapter
  • Thoughts on PvP

Main Topic

  • Status report: where we're at, what are our goals, and a look back over goals past.

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Welcome to an all new episode of Gathering of Gachas. This week, with a bit of unfortunate lateness as the team's getting used to new workflow methods, Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, Kite, Ranakel, and Dezxter talk about the following:

Final Fantasy Brave Exvius

  • New trial: the Sworn Eight of Palladia
  • War of the Vision Collaboration: Sterne, Kitone and Mont

SINoAlice

  • Very first impressions and rerolls
  • Game systems, and the choice of a small character pool
  • Scenario, tone, atmosphere and art
  • Gacha and monetization

War of the Visions

  • FFBE collaboration: Rain and Fryevia
  • The First Porcelain Tower to climb

Valkyrie Anatomia

  • Notice of closure: the game's global version ends at the end of August

Main topic of the week

  • Toxic discourse and mental health in Gacha games community spaces

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Welcome to an all new episode of Gathering of Gachas. This week, Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, Kite, Ranakel, and Dezxter chime in on gacha topics such as:

Final Fantasy Brave Exvius

  • FFVIII event featuring Selphie, Irvine and Edea.
  • Dark Vision the Third, and its scoring issues
  • Blue Mage Fina obtains her seventh star
  • Sieghard's GL buffed latents are here (and still bad)
  • 4th Anniversary: War of the Visions Collab, limited pool banners,11 rainbow summon + STMR Moogle, Omniprism and more
  • World Revisit Quests begins for Season 2 quests

Arknights

  • Chapter 6: Partial Necrosis
  • The Blaze banner, and Arknight's dip into limited units
  • New Costumes

War of the Visions

  • WotVxFFBE / Exvius Universe: Fryevia joins in as the first Global Original unit.
  • Celebrate with the FFBE series 4th anniversary 4 UR guaranteed summon (if you have money)
  • Special events: Chocolat Flan challenge for sage's hat, magicite dailies and Arena mock battles
  • Mobius Final Fantasy: the world's saddest collab

Dissidia Final Fantasy: Opera Omnia

  • Act 2, Chapter 9 of the main story
  • More Abyss Normalis
  • Summer Fiesta Campaign begins.
  • Cloud of Darkness and Kefka's EX+ awakenings
  • Aphmau from FFXI returns, featuring her EX weapon debut. Lion EX+ awakenings.

Main topic of the week

  • The difference of impact between staggered and immediate reward distribution

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Welcome to an all new episode of Gathering of Gachas. This week, Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, Kite, Ranakel, and Dezxter cover a variety of gacha topics (possibly with technical recording issues that slipped in: listener beware) such as:

Final Fantasy Brave Exvius

  • FFVIII units: Lone Lion Squall , Seifer, Fujin & Raijin. Plus Quistis as free unit.

Arknights

  • Contingency Contracts event
  • New Chapter 6 Anime PV
  • An All-stars targeted Headhunting Banner

FFBE: War of the Visions

  • QoL update also added voicelines for normal battle selection
  • New units/Vision cards: Lucia the tank killer, Adelard, who has a hat, Tetra Sylpheed
  • Viktora and the special MR Salire
  • Ras Algethi farm
  • The first step-up banner since the beginner one
  • Gilgamesh's second character quest and unique passive
  • Chocolate Flan Raid Event

DFFOO

  • Arciela Skill Overview
  • Cyan & Fujin reworks, EX debuts and a Mission Dungeon Event
  • Alphinaud returns! (EX debut) & Yda's EX+ awakening!
  • Keiss character event Highlights, Zidane EX+ awakening and Keiss Skill/Weapon Overview
  • Stream Recap for July

This week's topic

  • What defines a "bait banner"?

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Welcome to an all new episode of Gathering of Gachas. This week, Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, Kite, Ranakel, and special guest Bharos from the Global Exclusive podcast ( https://anchor.fm/global-exclusive ) discuss all sorts of FFBE-related topics such as:

  • FFXIII-2 event. Serah, Noel, Adult Hope and the free Lightning
  • Collaboration Festival: 2B, Elly, Rena, Adam Jensen and Rico Rodriguez
  • Dark Visions: Save function and scoring changes right after the end of the event.
  • In depth Dark Visions discussion with Bharos or how I learned to stop grinding and love Regina

Main discussion topic:

  • Temporary highly challenging contents.

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Welcome to an all new episode of Gathering of Gachas. This week, Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, Kite, Ranakel, and Dezxter go through a very full week of Gacha content, including:

Final Fantasy Brave Exvius

  • Rampaging espers as a weapon upgrade source
  • The afternath of the bugs to equipment enhancements
  • The confirmed return of the 11x rainbow and omniprism
  • FFXIII content, featuring Vanille and Fang with their eidolons
  • The second Dark Visions
  • And new main story content

Arknights

  • A batch of new free units
  • The Code of Brawl event content and unit

War of the Visions

  • Armor/accessory/ninja blade secret book quests
  • The Iron Giant challenge
  • Added difficulties to growth egg and EXP chambers
  • Frontline update #3: tons of QoL features

Audience questions

  • Our stance on Zell and Jecht

Terra Battle

  • The end of an old staple by an impressive studio

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Welcome to an all new episode of Gathering of Gachas. This week, Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, Ranakel, and Dezxter and a returning Kite sounding better than ever gather 'round to discuss a variety of Gacha-related topics such as:

Final Fantasy Brave Exvius

  • Second esper unit batch overview: Mystical Ice Lasswell, Sacred Aegis Charlotte, War Hero Raegen, Four Winds Physalis and free unit Untamed Wolf Edel
  • All Rainbow 11 summon returns, maybe, but the news disappeared (It did reappear in the end so that's confirmed)
  • Ability Awakenings for Akstar, Zeno, Yuraisha and Regina plus Reberta's latents

Fire Emblem Heroes

  • New bridal units: Nailah, Oboro, Rafiel, Micaiah/Sothe and free unit Hinata

War of the Visions

  • The struggles of the brutal difficulty equipment training quest
  • Miranda the hatless Red Mage
  • Incoming equipment training quests for swords and axes.

Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia

  • Cinque permanently joins in
  • Snow's rework
  • The coming difficulty increases in the game

This week's topic

  • Temporary Story and archival.

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Welcome to an all new episode of Gathering of Gachas. Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, Ranakel, and Dezxter to celebrate together the first anniversary of the podcast. Or at least, they did at time of recording. Along the way, some gacha topics were also discussed such as:

FFBE

  • Final Fantasy Advent Children event: AC Cloud and AC Tifa

Arknights

  • Strategies related to the latest extreme stages in the volcanic island party event.

War of the Visions

  • Whisper, Kitone, Odin and the end of the FFT Event

Topic

  • Gacha games going cross-media
  • A year of Gathering of Gachas already

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Welcome to an all new episode of Gathering of Gachas. After too many weeks of absence, Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, Ranakel, and Dezxter return for a bit of a catch-up episode featuring the following Gacha-related topics:

FFBE

  • Dark Visions and the first batch of Esper units: Ifrit Rain, Diablo Sol, Bahamut Fina and Asura Akstar
  • Valkyrie Profile event: it's not great
  • Neo Visions: a look at the game's future new big step of power-level

Arknights

  • D.D.D. is king, and other island music festival-related news
  • The Arknights ads now feature Arknights

War of the Visions

  • How's the game now we're partly out of the early rush scramble
  • Final Fantasy Tactics event: the Orlandeau hustle

Valkyrie Anatomia

  • First anniversary, version 3.0 and Thracia defense.

Topic

  • Playing at your own pace, if and when possible.

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Welcome to an all new episode of Gathering of Gachas. This week, Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, Ranakel, and earlier episodes surprise return RyBred join in to discuss the following Gacha-related topics:

Final Fantasy Brave Exvius

  • Season 3 chapter 2 part 1 releases
  • Kokuryu awakens to 3-star.
  • The Omniprism already returns/is extended
  • Free Daily 10 Summons
  • FullMetal Alchemist: Brotherhood: event, tickets, and a closer look at Edward and Alphonse
  • Crimson, Nagi and Yego Ability Awakenings

War of the Visions

  • First impressions a few days after release.
  • Characters, the main story and overall atmosphere
  • Gameplay mechanics, progression, multiplayer and inevitable FFT/Tactics Ogre comparisons
  • More shops you can shake a stick at
  • The gacha part of it all, and its monetization
  • FFXIV: Shadowbringers collaboration, Thancred and Y'shtola

This week's topic:    

  • "Anime x Gacha Games collaborations

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Welcome to a new episode of Gathering of Gachas! In this exciting week, Galen "The Sound Guy" Firestone, Ranakel, Dezxter, and special guest Geisterfuchs discuss all sorts of topic such as:

FFBE GL

  • FFX-2 event: Yuna's Global Upgrade, Rikku's great breaker potential, and Paine.
  • Revamped Daily Tasks
  • Omniprisms, the perfectly timed gift for all you upgrade needs
  • Exvius Update: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Collab, Dark Visions, special campaigns, and a roadmap, even.
  • WotV exists and we'll talk about it next week

Seven Deadly Sins

  • Special Guest Geister catches us up to the game, its core gameplay elements, its scenario, its progression, and the latest global exclusive hiccups that worry its players

Arknights

  • New event: Operational Intelligence, featuring Magallan, Executor and Flamebringer
  • Swift compensation for a short problem

Valkyrie Anatomia

  • Doll Song: Project Tokyo Doll collab.
  • The End of the Journey: Victory Goddess Freya contends with Ailyth and Wylfred

SINoALICE

  • Update regarding the hiatus, ownership transfer, and a new release date

This week's topic

  • Juggling multiple gachas, the hows, the whys and the perspective it brings.

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Welcome to another episode of Gathering of Gachas. This week, safe and sound from their respective homes, Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, Ranakel and Dez discuss the following topics:

FFBE Global

  • FFX event, featuring Star Player Tidus, Yunalesca, and the free blue mage Kimahri
  • Old FFX units banner
  • Enhancements for Auron and Lulu
  • Also series boss battle, braska's final aeon

Valkyrie Anatomia

  • Melody of the Captive part 2: now introducing Black Valkyrie
  • The PvP update: function and reward structure

Arknights

  • Slow times

Dragon Quest of the Stars

  • Global launch of a five year old game
  • First impressions, the basics of the game
  • Monetization and F2P Friendliness

This week's topic

  • Content creator woes

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Welcome to another episode of Gathering of Gachas. This week, Galen "The Sound Guy" Firestone, Ranakel and Dez continue with the latest news and commentary on a variety of gacha game topics, including:

FFBE Global:

  • CG Shantotto arrives early with Lilisette in tow
  • Vainquish Lady Lilith: A raid event with bonus unit currency
  • Mission reclears: not just for the main story anymore

Arknights

  • Main story chapter 5 and extreme mode part one are up
  • Costumes
  • New annihilation

Valkyrie Anatomia

  • Melody of the Captive, Destruction Queen Iseria's event

This week's topic:

  • Old units upgrades, and the return to viability.

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Welcome to another episode of Gathering of Gachas. This week, despite fate conspiring again and again, Galen "The Sound Guy" Firestone, Ranakel and Dez somehow manage to discuss this week's topics including:  

FFBE Global: 

  • -Covering the few past weeks: Sieghard and Ignacio, Ayaka and Sakura, Sweet Nichol, Sweet Luka, CG Onion Knight, Hein and Xande in a few words.
  • -Madame Edel and her story event
  • -Asura's 2 star evolution
  • -The All Rainbow Leap Year special
  • -Ability awakenings for Tifa and Jecht

Arknights 

  • -New units: Ch'en and friends
  • -Main story chapter 5
  • -Character costumes, and their pricing

Valkyrie Anatomia  

  • -Breath of the beast 2 and the Scarlet Gaze events
  • -Valentine's unit purchases
  • -A Stormy Night's Tale, main scenario chapter
  • -Valhalla Defense 11 and NieR Automata's diet collab
  • -For Love: Benelus joins in.

This week's topic: 

  • -What makes a good collaboration event?

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Here gomes a special episode of Gathering of Gacha. This time, Ranakel keeps you all appraised of the recent difficulties to put out a 36th episode. Problem solving is on its way, and should know about it because we care.

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Welcome to another episode of Gathering of Gachas. This week, as the chimes of love lured invite intimacy, Galen "The Sound Guy" Firestone, Kite and Ranakel discuss this week's topics including:

FFBE Global

  • FFIV arrives! Paladin Cecil, Palom & Porom and White Mage Rosa.
  • Steel Castle Returns after a month of absence
  • Exvius updates: Valentine's Day Event. 4 new units, new trials, SBBs and more.

Arknights

  • Very first event of the game: Grani and the Knight's Treasure

Valkyrie Anatomia

  • Awakened Lenneth part 2
  • Nebulous Shockwaves: Hrist strikes back
  • Breath of the Beast
  • Valentine's campaign

Fire Emblem Heroes

  • New Special Heroes for Valentines Day (from Shadows of Valentia)
  • Valentine's Day Tempest Trials.
  • Various Special Maps, Daily Maps, Summoning Focuses and more as part of the third anniversary
  • QoL, Cosmetics, and the dreaded Feh Pass
  • A Hero Rises 2020 event half-time results.
  • New Schedule of Events released
  • Divine Codes: they have a use now

This week's topic

  • Subscription models in Gachas: the right way, and the wrong way to do it

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Welcome to another episode of Gathering of Gachas. This week, not one but TWO special guests, the returning Dezxter and the new Shiryu join Galen "The Sound Guy" Firestone, Kite and Ranakel for this week's topics including:

FFBE Global

  • Year of the Rat trial
  • The Year of the Pig event is back
  • Ability Awakenings and latent abilities for previous Luna New Year units
  • New resummon banners: this time it's with Lapis
  • Season 3 begins!
  • Season 3 launch celebration campaign
  • The ins and outs of blue magic

FFBE Japan

  • Final Fantasy Type-0 Series Boss Battle, Event and units

Legends of Runeterra

  • Further looks from experience players
  • Gameplay, monetisation, expeditions galore.

Ark Knights

  • A deeper gameplay dive
  • Memories of Aegis

Fire Emblem Heroes

  • Lif, mythic hero
  • Choose Your Legends Round 4
  • New weapons for existing units

This week's topic:

  • "Welcome to the game!" The new player experience for both new and long-lived games

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Welcome to another episode of Gathering of Gachas. This week, special guest Dezxter joins Galen "The Sound Guy" Firestone, Kite and Ranakel for this week's topics including:

FFBE Global

  • Lunar New Year 2020 Event, battles, enhancements and latents.
  • Emperor Foo and Xuan Wu & Qing Long arrive
  • The distinction clarification between EVO MAG increases and "increase evocation damage" effects
  • Trust Coin Shop Exchange Updates: Seasonal units prisms for everyone!
  • The Bomb Family returns.

Legends of Runeterra

  • First impressions as the open beta goes live
  • Gameplay basics explained
  • The way towards less and less randomness-based monetization.

Valkyrie Anatomia

  • New Main Story chapter: The Ship of Theseus
  • The Hot Spring Incident, Part 2
  • Transient Memory: the Awakened Lenneth event

Ark Knights

  • First impressions
  • Launch rewards, Launch discounted pulls, early rates infos
  • Alternate methods to obtain units
  • General overview of game mechanics

Fire Emblem Heroes

  • TMS#FE Encore Tempest Trials is up, and with it comes Itsuki
  • Choose Your Legends Round 4 voting begins.
  • Hostile Springs (Fates characters) Seasonal Banner returns.
  • Battle of the Claws Voting Gauntlet: champion your favorite beastman.

This week's topic:

  • London Health Experts say loot boxes pushes kids to gambling. Exactly zero podcast members surprised.

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Welcome to another episode of Gathering of Gachas. This week is Ryan the RyBred's last episode for a while! He joins Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, Rana the Ranakel, and Kite for this week's topics including:

FFBE Global

-FFXV as Raid Event: Enter Ardyn and Regis, along with the raid event and Ifrit trial

  • The King of Hess, Lasswell arrives!

  • Defiance of Fate - More rewards and what's to come?

  • FFBE Taiwan Fan Reception

Fire Emblem Heroes

  • Book IV, Chapter 3 new units from Genealogy of the Holy War

  • Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FEEncore in FEH

Valkyrie Anatomia

  • Valhalla defense 9: it happened!

  • A Rose in the Dark: happy fun times, and jackpot returns

  • The wandering Sorcerer: Lezard found a sword

  • The Hot Spring Incident: A hot spring episode, duh

  • The eventless banner: A return and a... Weird... Thing...

Mobius Final Fantasy

  • Service's closure

  • Act 2's Story Closure + the closure of the game itself

Magic the Gathering Arena Set release

-Theros Beyond Death

This week's topic:

  • Hoarding Addictions in Gachas

  • RyBred's Hiatus and Return

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Welcome to the last Gathering of Gachas recorded during that last decade, Join your hosts Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, Ryan the RyBred, Kite, and Ranakel for this week's topics, including:

FFBE Global

  • More puns - Sleigh the Grinch

  • New Year's Countdown Login Campaign

  • Holy Night Amelia & Emilia bundle surprise!

  • White Lily Dark Fina banner overview

  • Fixed Party Battles Event

Last Cloudia

  • Santa Theria event and garbage on-banner rates

  • Phantom Thief Robin Banner makes players question Theria's jolliness

  • Gorm and Sevia event with unusable, yet limited time tickets

  • Eliza and Lanceveil usher in an early era of "summon fests"

Valkyrie Anatomia

  • 20th anniversary is finally actually here!

  • Lucian gets married!

  • New functionality: sealstones

  • Known Issue of unable to log in due to mission banner updates

  • Christmas event part 2: Winter Lenneth F and Christmas Frei

  • Affordable select summon for old units: the royal ticket set

  • Customer support on vacation

Fate Grand Order

  • Archer Altera (Free Unit)

  • Christmas Boss Difficulty

Fire Emblem Heroes

  • Christmas Units Year 1 and 2's re-run

  • Legendary Hero: Celica arrives!

  • Sothis takes over FEH Twitter Account

  • New Year Units have Arrived!

This Week's Topic: The Year-(and decade)-End Review

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Welcome to another episode of Gathering of Gachas. This week your hosts Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, Ryan the RyBred, Rana the Ranakel, and Kite are joined by a very special guest Elytra! Here are the topics!

Final Fantasy Brave Exvius

  • Another limited-time Precursor event... without a Precursor?!

  • Levinson and Lucas join in!

  • Amelia & Emilia bundle - will it be worth it?

  • Latent Abilities for Noel, Christine and Kryla and their banner rerun

  • Forge a Covenant with Leviathan and get an OP Accessory for tanks 

Lumia Saga (w/ Special Guest Elytra)

- First Impressions, Gameplay, and Feedback    

  • Christmas Event and Other Topics

  • What is the best mount?

iOS app update delays affecting many Gacha games.

  • Don't blame the developers

  • How can we fix it?

This Week's Topic: The rise of Mobile MMORPGs

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Welcome to another episode of Gathering of Gachas, the only podcast that talks exclusively about the games your parents don't want you to play. Join Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, Ryan the RyBred, Rana the Ranakel, and Kite for this week's topics:

-FFBE Global: Crown Prince Noctis and Lunafreya arrive, revamped KM Events, Slots are back, and vote for your favorite GL Original Unit to be revamped!    

  • Honkai Impact 3: PC version of the game available 12/26.    

  • MTG Arena: Happy Brawl-lidays and 1st impressions on the MMO Magic

  • Valkyrie Anatomia: Holiday event, to further please ho-ho-hodin, Banner rerun: Kokuyo and Eventide Hakurei's revolting return.  

-Fire Emblem Heroes: #InAmerica : Kempf of Thracia 776 joins as a Grand Hero, Mjolnir's Strike thoughts and impressions, in-game calendar and 202 preview, Christmas Units overview  

  • Main Topic: Live Chat and Live Communities in Gacha

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  • FFBE: iOS update delay strikes back, Physalis arrives, Black Friday event debrief

-Valkyrie Anatomia: The wedding event part 2: Silmeria goes hardcore, 20th-anniversary countdown campaign part 2, and Covenant of Sin

  • Last Cloudia: Impressions after two months, Dark Melza event, and the Secret of Mana collaboration

  • Fire Emblem Heroes: Book IV is here; Fairies?!  

-Devil May Cry: Pinnacle of Combat trailer impressions 

Main topic : The most dangerous (grueling) months in Gachas  

Shoutouts to that shiny new logo by Eddy!

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Welcome to another episode of Gathering of Gachas, the only podcast that talks about the games your parents don't want you to play. This week join Kite, Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, and Rana the Ranakel.  (It's RyBred's turn to be sick.) This week's topics include:

  • FFBE Global: Terra/Locke get the justice they deserve, Aigaion returns with a vengeance and NYC Livestream Highlights and more  

  • Valkyrie Anatomia: Summer event part 2, Bridal event and 20th-anniversary countdown  

  • War of the Visions Japan:  The game has launched! Pre-registration rewards such as Fina and Y'shtola, and game's nature  

-Fire Emblem Heroes: More Heroes from The Binding Blade cast, Tempest Trials, and Kite's predictions on the next Mythic Hero  

-Fate Grand Order: iOS issues and more bugs

-This week's topic: The Powercreep Effect

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Welcome to another episode of Gathering of Gachas, the only podcast that talks about the games your parents don't want you to play. Join Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, Ryan the RyBred, Rana the Ranakel, and Kite this week for topics that include:

-FFBE Global: Changes to summon pool, rates, and SST system; massive compensations, and the King arrives (Also Elena and Morgana come to JP)

-Star Ocean: Anamnesis: A moment of silence for the game's end

-Fire Emblem Heroes: Book III Finale, Fire Emblem The Sacred Stones new units, Mia wins the Halloween Voting Gauntlet

-Valkyrie Anatomia: The classic November summer event, a strange reversion of the weekly descension bosses, Record Keeper collaboration

-Brave Frontier: New Brave Frontier II Battle Dungeon, Omni Units of characters from BF2, Unit Selector Ticket explanation, and a Samurai Champloo Collab?!?

This week's topic:  What happened during Blizzcon?

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Welcome to another episode of Gathering of Gachas, the only podcast that talks about the games your parents don't want you to play. We finally get the entire gang back together for our quarter-century episode! Join Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, Ryan the RyBred, Rana the Ranakel, and the lovable Kite for some good old wholesome fun. This week's topics:

-FFBE Global: FFVI Raid, Spoopy Scary Ghouligans, changes to GL latent abilities, and FFVII AC in JP 

-Brave Frontier: Brave Frontier Global turns 6!

-Fire Emblem Heroes: Legendary Leif review, Halloween Voting Gauntlet, and other November Updates

-Valkyrie Anatomia: Functionality update, New weekly bosses for sphere grid materials, and more (But wait! There's more - another Halloween event)

-This week's main topic: How do sequels of games affect the main game's lifespan?

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Welcome to another episode of Gathering of Gachas, the only podcast that talks about the games your parents don't want you to play. This we welcome back Kite (although we lose Rana this week). He joins Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, and Ryan the RyBred. This week's special Halloween episode includes:

-FFBE Global: Halloween reactions, ESGS summary, and Slots de Chocobo feedback  

-Brave Frontier: Brave Halloween 2019 and the pre-6th Anniversary Continues   

-Fire Emblem Heroes: Legendary Hero Leif and other shenanigans

-Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls: Will it be bad? (Spoilers: yes)

-UK Parliament stuff: We move closer to the end of Gachas

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Hello and welcome to episode 23 of Gathering of Gachas, the only podcast that talks exclusively about the games your parents don't want you to play. Unfortunately, Kite is out one more time, but we still have our hosts Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, RyBred the Ryan, and Rana the Ranakel. This week's topics include:

-FFBE: Chocobo Fina, the return of old bosses, and new Halloween units!

-Valkyrie Anatomia: Bravely Default, and their Halloween event (now with more Halloween)

-Last Cloudia: First impressions - a nice soundtrack and story

Magic the Gathering Arena: Li Shee Tian did things and it was ok.

-Actiblizz's wild ride and Modern Warfare is ditching looting boxes

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Welcome to episode 22 of Gathering of Gachas, the only podcast that talks exclusively about the games your parents don't want you to play. Join your hosts Galen "The Soundguy" Firestone, Ryan the RyBred, and Rana the Ranakel for this week's topics. (Kite is out sick again).

This week:

-FFBE: FFV event, Galuf, Krile, Exdeath. Events moved to start right after the patch goes live - good or bad?

-Pokémon Master's: love letter from the producer apologizing for lack of content and just an overall lack of content

-Valkyrie Anatomia:     Bravely default collab, buffed up Agnès, Ringabel, and Rinne. A grind gap, ain't that nice?  

-A Blizzard in China: bans and apologies

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Welcome to episode 21 of Gathering of Gachas, the only podcast that talks exclusively about the games your parents don't want you to play. Join your hosts Galen "The Soundguy" Firestone, Ryan the RyBred, and Rana the Ranakel for this week's topics. (Kite is out sick, unfortunately)

-FFBE: DQXI Trials, FFII comes early, and we get some nice ability enhancements

-Valkyrie Anatomia: Ultimate Destructor part 2: it exists! Obsidian, Kokuyo's event, also featuring transcendent Lezard, Half anniversary campaign

-DFFOO is ending its partnering of FaceBook as a data backup method. Will other games follow suit? Is it a conspiracy, or simply the end of a contract.

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Hello and welcome to another episode of Gathering of Gachas, the podcast where we talk about all the games your parents don't want you to play. Join hosts Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, Ryan the RyBred, Kite the Moogle, and Ranakel the Ranakel for this week's topics including:

-FFBE: Season two closes out, JP gets to year four, Dragon Quest XI units arrive, and Katy Perry finally goes away

-Fire Emblem Heroes: Thrashir and the unfortunately-named weapon

-Valkyrie Anatomia: White wings part 2, new main story chapter, 6th Valhalla Defense: Odin, Ultimate DestructorL Etheral Queen's Wild Ride

-Mario Kart Tour's launch

-How do Collaborations impact Gacha games?

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Welcome to episode 19 of Gathering of Gachas, the podcast about the game your parents don't want you to play with your hosts, Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, Ryan the RyBred, and Kite.

This week's topics:

-FFBE: Sol's story, Katy Paty goes out with a bang, and FFBE comes to the ESGS

-Fire Emblem Heroes: New Heroes from the Mystery and New Mystery of the Emblem games! How good at they?

-Valkryrie Anatomia (Featuring everyone's favorite guest, Ranakel): Eventide Hakurei, the White Wings event, and the jackpot

-UK Parliament Report: A huge damning study calling for the redefinition of gambling to account for gachas and loot boxes

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Welcome to episode 18 of Gathering of Gachas, the podcast about the game your parents don't want you to play. This week, special guest Ranakel joins your usual hosts, Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, Ryan the RyBred, and Kite.

Topics include:

FFBE: Sol arrives, and Galen has as little emotion about it as Sol himself

Valkyrie Anatomia: Practice Demon event, Octopath Traveler collab

Fire Emblem Heroes: New dancers, tempest trials+, Lost Lores and more

Pokemon Masters: More predatory cashgrab issues, and Ryan realizes he is bad at the game

NBA2K: Not only is there literal gambling, but the actual gameplay is BAD

DFFOO: Noctis returns, along with some other characters!

Stamina/Energy in Gachas: Good or bad? How does it affect gameplay

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Hello and welcome to episode 17 of Gathering of Gachas, the only podcast where we talk about the games your parents don't want you to play. This week Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, Ryam (the RyBred), and Kite talk:

-FFBE: Global Original upgrades, Kimono Fina surprise, and Neo Exdeath

-Valkyrie Anatomia: Generous new events and daily quests, 500k downloads, and the fear of racing towards the end too quickly

-DFFOO: The first crystal awakening LVL 70 releases are out!

-Pokemon Masters: First impressions, and is it too predatory?

-Fire Emblem Heroes: Legendary Julia, new campaign, and Free Unit of Choice reminder

-NBA2K: They added actual slots into the game - did they go too far?

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Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of Gathering of Gachas with your hosts Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, Ryan the RyBred, and Kite.

This week's topics include:

-FFBE: New summer units, GLEX unit upgrades, and Octopath Traveler Collab announcements

-DFFOO: Layle, Squall EX rework, Fran event, Ashe rework and more!

-Valkyrie Anatomia: Valkyrie Alicia, Odin, FFD2 Aeno event

-Fire Emblem Heroes: Kite's comeback, Choose Your Legends 3, and other experiences

-Mega Man X Dive: New trailer, good music, bad looking game

-Daily Bread in Gachas: which games have a good balance for daily quests?

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Welcome to episode 15 of Gathering of Gachas. This Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone and Ryan the RyBred are joined by special guest Ranakel.

Topics this week:

-FFBE: Free week from events, trial reruns, and more

-Valkyrie Anatomia: Alice/Alphio banner

-Star Ocean Anamnesis: Global closure notice

-SINoALICE: Global launch speculation with Nexon studio closures

-Pity/Mercy system in Gachas

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Welcome to episode 14 of Gathering of Gachas, where Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, Ryan the RyBred and Kite talk about the games your parents don't want you to play.

This week's topics include:

-FFBE: Did the hype for CG Lightning die out? Also, the 3rd anniversary continues with more goodies

-Madden 20: NFL meets trading cards meets fantasy football meets Gacha in the "Madden Ultimate Team" Mode

-Mobius FF: 3rd anniversary with tons of great FFVIII content

DFFOO: FFXIII-2 gets some love (and other August highlights)

FEH: Choose your three legends heroes are here!

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Welcome to episode 13 of Gathering of Gachas with your hosts Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, Ryan the RyBred, and Kite!

This week we talk about:

-FFBE: Massive enhancements, enlightenment points and a new GLEX unit

-MegaMan and DiVe: Capcom continues their descent into Gachas with the announcement of a MegaMan Gacha

-DFFOO: New events, now with less Meteor

-Pokemon Masters: The new Gacha that is basically the opposite of Pokemon GO (*only available in select regions)

-OST in Gachas: How does it enhance the experience?

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Welcome to another week of Gathering of Gachas where your hosts Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, Ryan the RyBred, and Kite talk about the games your parents don't want you to play. This week's topic include:

-FFBE: Elena breaks the game yet again, and we get Doors to push stats even further!

-DFFOO: New EX weapons and upgrades to characters like Auron and Tidus

-SO:A: Anniversary goodies and RyBred does some pulls

-SINoALICE Delayed

-Brave Frontier: Then and now

-Pulling for the Meta - is it worth it?

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This week on Gathering of Gachas your hosts Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, Ryan the RyBred and Kite have tons to talk about, including:

-FFBE recap - FFVII banner and the new Eggsecutioner boss

-Feedback from our community

-Brave Frontier gets its first update in years

-Dr, Mario and the pay to win nightmare

-Fate Grand Order - from its "humble" beginning to its newest beach anniversary

-New content in DFFOO

-What makes a person a whale and does it have anything to do with luck?

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This week in Gathering of Gachas, your hosts Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, Ryan the RyBred, and Kite talk:

-FFBE and the awesome GLEX enhancements, Charlotte, and more

-SINoALICE - the new mobile game by Nier writer Yoko Taro

-DFFOO and a ton of new content including Rinoa and Sephiroth

-The difficulty being a casual at Gachas

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This week's episode is exclusively FFBE to celebrate the 3rd anniversary of FFBE Your hosts Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, Ryan the RyBred, and Kite talk about:

-The showering of rewards for the anniversary

-Livestream information including the first GLEX CG unit Elena

-The never-ending event that is Item World

-CG Charlotte preview

-And so much more!

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This week on Gathering of Gachas, your hosts Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, Ryan the RyBred, and Kite talk about:

-FFBE and the annoyance of Item World

-DFFOO: New characters, new costumes, and RyBred isn't F2P anymore

-Compensation in Gachas: Basically, stop complaining about free stuff

-EA and Epic games go before the UK Parliament to defend their awesome "Surprise Mechanic" feature

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Welcome to episode 7 of Gathering of Gachas where your hosts, Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, Ryan the RyBred, and Kite talk about all the games your parents don't want you to play.

This episode is jam packed full of content:

-Recapping and projecting FFBE

-Summer events in DFFOO

-Weird anime crossover in Valkyrie Anatomia

-Post E3: Who won and how will Gachas play into the future of E3?

-War of the Visions: FFBE - What will the game be like?

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Welcome to episode 6 of Gathering of Gachas, where your hosts, Galen the SoundGuy, RyBred, and Kite talk about the games your parents don't want you to play.

Topics for this episode include:

-What happened with Item World in FFBE?

-Is Disgaea RPG going to make a comeback?

-How good is Golbez in DFFOO?

-Why do we all play Gachas?

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This week on Gathering of Gachas,  Galen the SoundGuy, RyBred, and Kite talk about:

-Quality of Life Updates in FFBE

-Mood Whiplash in Valkyrie Anatomia

-Upcoming content in DFFOO

-Advantages/Disadavantages of most Global Gachas being months behind their Japanese Counterparts

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Your hosts Galen the SoundGuy, Ryan the RyBred, and KITE are back for another episode of talking about the games that your parents don't want you to play.

This week's topics"

-FFBE weekly recap

-The Banhammer hits for lapis reseller/refund abuse

-NIS is in huge financial trouble after their Digaea Gacha failure

-With Quistis now a permanent character in DFFOO, should more games make limited characters permanent after a while?

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This week SoundGuy and RyBred talk their usual FFBE week in review in addition to:

-What is Capcom thinking with this Sengoku Basara (or basura) game?

-The danger of event overload

-The difficulty of balancing trial difficulty in Gachas

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Welcome to Gathering of Gachas episode 2! This week your hosts talk about:

-Zeno of the Beta Star's surprise arrival in FFBE

-Full Metal Alchemist collbaboration in Valkyrie Anatomia

-Alternate costumes for characters in DFFOO

-Debate on whether or not Gachas are better off having players pull for characters, weapons, or both!

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Welcome to the first episode of the Gathering of Gachas Podcast with your hosts Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, Ryan "RyBred" Hawks, and Kite!

This episode we talk about our reactions to the Easter events in Gachas, the Final Fantasy IV event in Final Fantasy Brave Exvius, as well as what the future holds for the global version of FFBE compared to the Japanese version. We also spend some time talking about Valkyrie Anatomia and leaderboard rewards.

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