📜 Today’s Side Quest ❗
Welcome to 🎙️Side Quests & Save Points💾 – the podcast where ignoring the main quest is half the fun and every great adventure starts with a side quest!
This time, I'm joined by the ever-chaotic Grimsabr – content creator, manga hoarder, professional Pokémon degenerate, and a man whose love for RPGs is only rivalled by his inability to stay on topic.

We cover anime. We cover JRPGs. We (barely) define what even counts as an RPG. It’s a wild ride across multiple media and genres – so grab a drink, double-check your Pokédex, and settle in for a conversation that derails harder than a chocobo on espresso.

🎮 Episode Content Overview
In this full-length tavern ramble, we unpack:

• Whether Pokémon is actually a JRPG (and yes, we have opinions)

• The crossover between anime, manga, and RPGs – and why it's basically inevitable

• Our shared childhood trauma over canceled anime MMOs and bad video game movies

• What makes a JRPG feel like a JRPG, and why instant gratification might be killing nuance

• What games deserve anime adaptations, and which animes deserve proper games (Monster Hunter fans, we’re talking to you)

• Party Make-Up picks, cursed NPC date nights, and the dream of one day fishing up Lovecraftian horrors in Dredge: The Anime

Plus: Zinogre mount fights, Monster Hunter addictions, VR fantasies, and a very firm stance on the sacred status of Gengar.

🔗 My Links
🍻 Join The Tavern Discord: https://discord.gg/TCnSdcq3w4
🎮 Twitch: https://twitch.tv/chefmonkeygaming
🐦 X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/ChefMonkeyGames
📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chefmonkeygaming
🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chefmonkeygaming
🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@chefmonkeygaming
🌤️ BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/chefmonkeygaming.bsky.social
🎙️ Follow Side Quests & Save Points Podcast:
🐦 X (Twitter): https://x.com/sqsppodcast
🌤️ BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/sqsppodcast.bsky.social

🎙️ Guest Links – Grimsabr
🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@grimsabr
🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@grimsabr
📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grimsabr
🐦 X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/grimsabr

🧵 Threads of Fate
#SideQuestsAndSavePoints #JRPGPodcast #PokemonDebate #AnimeRPG #MonsterHunterAddict #GengarBestBoi #GamingNostalgia #PodcastWithTooManyTangents #TavernTalk

📜 Today’s Side Quest ❗

Welcome to 🎙️Side Quests & Save Points💾 – the podcast where ignoring the main quest is half the fun and every great adventure starts with a side quest!

Today, I’m joined by Joesephyr – content creator, RPG enthusiast, Final Fantasy XIV raider, and a man brave enough to dive headfirst into the Pokémon series for the first time as an adult.
Grab a drink, check your Pokédex, and get ready for a tavern chat full of RPG love, spicy opinions, and plenty of side quest detours.

🎮 Episode Content Overview

In this full-length adventure, we cover:

• First experiences with Pokémon, Final Fantasy, and the RPG genre

• Trying to define what actually makes an RPG an RPG

• Favourite JRPGs and hidden gems

• Opinions on DLCs, expansions, and monetisation trends

• Plenty of off-topic chaos, bad jokes, and new side quests we absolutely didn’t plan for

🔗 My Links

🍻 Join The Tavern Discord: https://discord.gg/TCnSdcq3w4

🎮 Twitch: https://twitch.tv/chefmonkeygaming
🐦 X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/ChefMonkeyGames
📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chefmonkeygaming
🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chefmonkeygaming
🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@chefmonkeygaming
🌤️ BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/chefmonkeygaming.bsky.social

🎙️ Follow Side Quests & Save Points Podcast:
🐦 X (Twitter): https://x.com/sqsppodcast🌤️ BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/sqsppodcast.bsky.social

🎙️ Guest Links – Joesephyr

🎮 Twitch: https://twitch.tv/Joesephyr
🐦 X (Twitter): https://x.com/joesephyr
🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Joesephyr
📷 Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/joesephyr/
🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@joesephyr
🍻 Discord Community: https://discord.gg/wwk795B

🧵 Threads of Fate

#SideQuestsAndSavePoints #RPGPodcast #GamingPodcast #FinalFantasyXIV #Pokemon #MMORPG #JRPGCommunity #GamingDiscussion #TavernTalk #PodcastAdventures