Month: February 2018
“Video games are bad for you? That’s what they said about rock n’ roll.”
-Shigeru Miyamoto
“Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.”
2 years, 552 posts, and 1,132,132 words later… The Well-Red Mage is now entering Year Three!
Over two dozen wordsmiths lent their voices to this collaborative project, which must certainly be among the largest and most diverse undertakings ever to honor Final Fantasy in writing.
Few video game series, to me, have effectively transcended their native genres, journeying outside of their elemental roots into new territories.
I suspect that, like me, many of you were introduced to the Final Fantasy franchise through one of the main series, numbered titles. I am certain that when people talk about Final Fantasy Mystic Quest with less-than-favorable opinions, it is because they too had that same experience.
FFVI, it’s often cited as one of the best and the brightest in the Final Fantasy canon of titles. Why is that exactly?
People who play video games have been shaped and affected by the popular perception of that medium.
“When art is made new, we are made new with it.” -John Russell, The Meaning of…
“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.”
-Aldous Huxley
“Historically, people move west more than east. People go east only when invited. When opportunity knocks. People go west when all bets are off: a reputation in ruins, a love gone wrong. When they need to save their sorry souls, folks head for the frontier.”
―Karen Hines, Drama: Pilot Episode
