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And you talked about it as like the RPG comp, just the JRPG, you know, as a gamer, that's something that there are just echoes of that everywhere here.
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And I guess it's tough to untangle the influence of RPGs from D&D or from Lord of the Rings, but like this is, it's essentially an RPG.
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It's kind of, you know, it reminds me of
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RPGs that I played around the turn of the century, like Skies of Arcadia and Grandia 2, and it's, you know, Dragon Quest and Trails.
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And it's so clearly inspired by that because, you know, you're in a party and you're wandering around an overworld, basically, and you're
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You're stopping at inns and you're going to towns and you're loading up on your supplies.
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And then you're going into the field and you're having random encounters with monsters.
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And then there's like a battle theme that kicks in, you know, and you're taking turns to attack.
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And then sometimes there are dungeons and there are bosses of the dungeons and there are chests and there are
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Oh, yeah, yeah.
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I'm just out of inventory space.
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Got to leave it lying in the chest.
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Yeah, but that's also because Frearin doesn't care at all about money, right?
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She's not in this for... She's just in it for love of the game.
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She just wants to collect spells.
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Love of the spells, love of the Gormars.
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And she is charmed the most by a spell that, like...
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you can scratch an itch on your back, you know?
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It's like a super specific, you know, it's not like this is the spell that I use to beat the Demon King, but this is a spell that I can use to clean a statue or something.
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And so you'd think that she's basically thousands of years old or whatever, she would have amassed some riches by now, but she doesn't even think about that.