Over 400 villagers ranked. Finally. Think of it as less a “your favorite villager sucks” and more like “our favorite villagers are fundamentally the best”.
Opinion
Is FFVIIR a justified remake? What makes a remake justified? In this editorial, I explore those remakes which stuck their landing, and those which were DOA.
Video game islands, love ’em or love ’em even more, they’d be great places to hang out on quarantine. These are a few isles where we’d place our butts.
Video game waifus and husbandos come in all shapes and sizes, but these are the ones nearest and dearest to our hearts this Valentine’s Day!
I swore off MMORPGs… now I’m playing Final Fantasy XIV… but is it worth my time and how does it rank among my other favorite FF games?
“Though here at journey’s end I lie in darkness buried deep, beyond all towers strong…
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“Taking it all in all, with the walk and the evening, and the blessed sense…
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“In the wake of technological development, cultural memory is lost.”
The following is a short story by The Teal Time Mage and was a winning submission for The Final Fantasy XIV: Memoirs of Adventure Writing Contest.
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to…
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Do you still want Virtual Console or is SNES Online enough?
Here we are at the end of the EarthBound series; on the one hand a final chapter, but also a part of something bigger.
I’ve also tried to avoid simply singing the game’s praises, but I have to say, as a video game experience, the final boss fight of EarthBound, and what comes after, is unique and mesmerizing, a fitting end to this long journey, so it’s well worth the time to play it.
When perhaps you begin to doubt yourself and despair, darkly wondering if this place, of all places, would not receive you, Ness and his friends are let into the living room. It is to put you in the position Pokey was in that fateful night, when he thought his little brother was lost, and he pounded on the door of the one friend he might have to help him.
Guilty pleasure gaming is a weird thing but why do we feel guilt about what we play at all? Is there just too much pressure?
Now, on to Magicant, this place opened up within Ness’ mind, perhaps preexisting there and unlocked, or perhaps created by the Sound Stone and the eight Your Sanctuary locations.
I never bothered to look it up or found out or anything, but why do you think they selected “EarthBound” to be the English, western name for the game?
“The soul is healed by being with children.”
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
With the eighth sanctuary, Fire Spring, today we’ll complete the final note in the Sound Stone’s melody. Thus today’s will be a highly musical episode, so I could wish I were more knowledgeable on that subject, but at least I can play some clips of the songs under discussion and you can decide for yourself how far to go with my amateur musicology.
In terms of historical and literary precursors here, EarthBound’s Lost Underworld clearly owes something to conventions established in the Hollow Earth sci-fi subgenre, starting back with Jules Verne again, his Journey to the Center of the Earth, and to Arthur Conan Doyle, with his Up-esque plateau of un-extinct dinosaurs in The Lost World.
Like a great tapestry, vertical and horizontal threads have met and become intertwined, creating a huge, beautiful image.
