#FFVIIreplay: I invite you to replay the original game with me, or if you’re already playing it right now we can keep track of each other’s progress and share our thoughts!
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First impressions for FF7R Demo: Trim the fat and kill the darlings. Humungous boss fights. Seamless battle system. Forgetting about moral ambiguity. Barret’s glasses look fly. But where do we go from here?
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.
Ghosts are all around us. Look for them, and you will find them. -Ruskin Bond…
Final Fantasy VIII Remastered has finally brought Square’s ultimate black sheep out of the past to modern consoles.
“This time, The Warrior of Light must become The Warrior of Darkness.”
I got to chat with my dad, the 16-bit one (@16bitdadblog), about Parasite Eve! We get into the differences in horror between the West and East and how Parasite Eve blends the two, how the story connects to the incident in Japan in the novel…
Octopath Traveler is about convictions and traditionalism painted with heavy strokes and a new coat of paint.
Chrono Trigger magnum opus: addressing questions of interpretation, authorial intent, hype/nostalgia, if the GOAT really exists.
In this Vagrant Story critique, we revisit one of the more challenging and inaccessible offerings from Square right at the tail end of the 90s.
“I admire your willingness to put artistic integrity over marketability.”
-Hobbes, Calvin & Hobbes
“Much have I fared, much have I found,
Much have I got of the gods:
What shall live of mankind when at last there comes
The mighty winter to men?”
-The Ballad of Vafthruthnir
This rage-post is just one sentence long… because, as all you bottom-feeding, basement-dwelling, like-fishing bloggers know, the plebeians at Square Enix thought it was okay to get the entire gaming community all up in a hissy-fit of excitement for what turned out to be the ultimate example of lameness: that they’re going to be making a stupid Avengers-themed game, probably in the vein of the Lego Marvel thing, because let’s just come right out and say it: nothing is more appropriate for the Marvel brand than getting the shameless, angsty, pandering treatment from the same company that crapped out Final Fantasy XV in all of its fetch-questing, female-objectifying, open chit-chatty anti-glory, and after all, the cast of FFXV with monotone Noctis, dude-bro Gladio, anime-cliché Ignis, and professional whiner baby Prompto are the perfect archetypes for the whitewashed, mansplaining derpsters crowding Marvel’s list of C-tier…
“Always winter but never Christmas.”
-C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia
“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.”
-Winston Churchill
“I know what you think of war, tell me what you think of this peace?”
-Captain Titus Drautos
“I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads…
“All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.”
― Leo Tolstoy
“Begin at the beginning,” the King said, very gravely, “and go on till you come…
