After pondering Final Fantasy XVI, ProfNoctis offers a lecture play series to help you think deeply about myth, faith, and human resolve.
Myth
Gamelogica is a somewhat ridiculous correlation of video games, myths, religion, and spirituality, but it’s less ridiculous than you think.
An interview with M. J. Gallagher, writer, content creator, and author of Norse Myths That Inspired Final Fantasy VII.
Supergiant Games’ Hades is positively divine and this is the story of how it restored my faith in roguelikes.
On this Myth & Materia column: dolphins, parades, giant city-sized cannons, and trying to remember your buttons while you improve SHINRA’s PR.
In this Myth & Materia column: the Midgar Zolom and the inversion of icons and myths in the snake skewered on a stick by Sephiroth.
Is it too large of a question or inappropriate to ask, as we might ask of art or education, what the game is for?
Being as kind as possible to people like Jessie and Aeris, knowing they’re inevitably going to die, is a little quixotic for two reasons: (A) they’re not alive…
“In the wake of technological development, cultural memory is lost.”
The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and…
