Deep Listens is a gaming podcast series I'm recording with a few of my friends. Every two weeks we pick and play a new game and then discuss it from a literary, philosophical, and game design perspective. Its kind of like a book club for video games. We try to dig as deep as we can on an individual game every episode so check it out!

We begin yet another Final Fantasy Odyssey courtesy of Chris "@zombiepie" -REDACTED-, this time we discuss the beginning of Final Fantasy VII. ZombiePie is on another FF vision quest and in this episode we discuss his experiences from the beginning of Final Fantasy VII up until Cosmo Canyon. We talk about his experience with the combat system, the game's exceptional opening, it's harsh tonal shifts, and it's odd tone. It sounds like ZP isn't having a terrible time so far, but as Gino warned him during the episode, he ain't seen nothing yet.

Final Fantasy Seventh Heaven: Part 1

You can find @zombiepie's unsuitably long write up of his experience here.

I'm looking forward to this.

@arbitrarywater: I've actually started replaying FFVII since we recorded this episode, so our next discussion should have twice as many ravings.

And provide our listeners with twice as many opportunities for me to mispronounce the names and terms in Final Fantasy VII!