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Missile Base Mission, feat. Selphie, Rinoa, and Irvine. Is Squall Dead is one thing, but after this part the better question looks like "What about Selphie and whoever else went to the missile base?" For more FFVIII study resources: https://videogameacademia.org/courses/current-semester/final-fantasy-viii/ Thanks for listening!

Desert transformations in the D-District Prison. For more FFVIII study resources: https://videogameacademia.org/courses/current-semester/final-fantasy-viii/ Thanks for listening!

In conversation with Dr Tim Summers of Royal Holloway, University of London, and Ludomusicology, the video game music research group. https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/en/persons/timothy-summers [https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/en/persons/timothy-summers ] https://www.ludomusicology.org/ [ https://www.ludomusicology.org/ ] His new book is Pixel Soundtracks: Exploring Video Game Music Through Twenty Games [https://www.amazon.com/Pixel-Soundtracks-Exploring-through-Twenty/dp/1538192764] You'll hear snippets of audio from Buck Rogers; Uematsu's FFVI Opera (and Toby Fox/Undertale's Mettaton riffing on it); Dvorak's Songs My Mother Taught Me; the Prelude of Stravinsky's Firebird; the Wagner Museum theme from The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery; the Title theme from the Follins' NES Silver Surfer; the opening of MOTHER/EarthBound Zero (and cf. Undertale's opening); the Michael Nyman/ St Paul's Cathedral Choir arrangement of Suzuki/Tanaka's Eight Melodies from MOTHER; Kondo's Kakariko Village from Zelda: Ocarina of Time; the Summers Resort theme and a fun sound effect moment that plays after you've OK'd naming all your characters and favorite things in EarthBound. I think that's all of them! I'm working on a post to help me think through more of the lines of argument, examples, and allusions you'll also hear, especially all of the scholarly work mentioned by Dr Summers in the course of this conversation, so check out https://videogameacademia.org/ [https://videogameacademia.org/] for more. Thanks for listening!

We're at the start of Disc 2, beginning again in Winhill and then finding ourselves in the Galbadian Prison with nary a save point in sight. From music-box idylls to techno-crucifixions--what's that, Moomba? Laguna's been watching over Squall just as we've been dreaming of him...? For more FFVIII study resources: https://videogameacademia.org/courses/current-semester/final-fantasy-viii/ Thanks for listening!

A botched sorceress assassination takes us up to the end of Disc 1, drawing dispel from her and casting reflect with the aid of a Guardian Force drawn from the statues she animates. For more FFVIII study resources: https://videogameacademia.org/courses/current-semester/final-fantasy-viii/ Thanks for listening!