I’m not a League of Legends player, not by a long shot. I played a couple rounds of DOTA with some friends several years ago and was very much a liability to my team. Figuring I wasn’t much for it, I never got into MOBAs when they became a big thing, checking out neither DOTA2… Continue reading The End(?)
Tag: Final Fantasy
Variations On A Theme
I finished Final Fantasy IX this week (for those keeping track at home, this is the sixth Final Fantasy since booting up VIII back in the fall of 2022). It’s a lot like the other Final Fantasies. It’s got the hero who, like in X, has to grapple with the fact that his very existence… Continue reading Variations On A Theme
Fantasy’s End
As I’ve mentioned on this blog here and there, I’ve spent the past year and a half playing through the Final Fantasy games that were released on the PlayStation. It started with VIII, then X, then a foray in X-2, then XII, then jumping ahead to XVI, before going back to VII, and then now… Continue reading Fantasy’s End
Holds Up
I’m playing through Final Fantasy VII these days (alongside, y’know, Spider-Man 2 and the ever-present siren song of Destiny 2) for the first time in fourteen years. It’s a lot different approaching it as someone in his thirties versus a guy in his late teens and it’s cool to revisit the story and see some… Continue reading Holds Up
Experimental Fantasy
I did finish Final Fantasy X last week and the game did prove to be quite the trip. It ended well, really well, even if the ending felt like it belonged to a slightly different game than the one I played. The game was a bit of a mess, with a lot of really good… Continue reading Experimental Fantasy
Sick Day
I’ve been laid up for the past few days, and so, sadly, I have not yet finished reading Jacques the Fatalist. So in lieu of putting together a coherent blog post today, I’ll toss out a few things I’ve been enjoying lately. Abbott Elementary This show fills the hole for warm, kind comedies that I… Continue reading Sick Day
The Terrorist Is You
As I play through Final Fantasy VII Remake I’m struck by how Extremely My Jam the game’s narrative is. Maybe I’m just a sucker for those JRPG tropes, but, man, I love the ragtag band teaming up to save the world from some cosmic evil while dealing with their own issues and becoming friends. It’s… Continue reading The Terrorist Is You
Remake!
As someone who’s a big fan of JRPGs, I’ve played my share of Final Fantasy games (and firmly hold that Final Fantasy VIII is the best). The most famous Final Fantasy is probably VII, it spawned sequel games, prequel games, and a CGI movie. Its opening scene was used as a tech demo for the… Continue reading Remake!
Menu-Assisted Narrative
Mega Man Zero ends with Zero facing down a hoard of Pantheons, his saber ready and his will resolved to fight every last enemy that crosses his path. The music swells and he charges off into battle. The sequel picks up a year later and the opening stage is you, as Zero, still fighting the… Continue reading Menu-Assisted Narrative
Another Boyband Saving The World
So Final Fantasy XV is finally coming out ‘soon,’ with the demo dropping recently. The game’s been on my radar since the debut trailer for Final Fantasy Versus XIII (as it was called then) was released almost nine years ago and as a fan of the Final Fantasy series — mostly because I plain love… Continue reading Another Boyband Saving The World
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