On this Myth & Materia column: dolphins, parades, giant city-sized cannons, and trying to remember your buttons while you improve SHINRA’s PR.
Final Fantasy
In this Final Fantasy VIII podcast: Squall as a hero that some people strongly identify with, the game’s divisiveness, a few fan theories, & series context.
In this FF7 Myth & Materia column: it’s time to talk summon materia, dolphins, and mouth to mouth.
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.
In this Myth & Materia column: the Midgar Zolom and the inversion of icons and myths in the snake skewered on a stick by Sephiroth.
“The epic type here to compare might be Milton’s Satan in Paradise Lost. Incomparably brilliant, indomitably proud, wielding weapons no one else can use…”
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?
In this Myth & Materia: Nibelheim, Jenova, Sephiroth, the Reactor experiments, and Cloud’s version of some hazy past events.
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?
“…the paradox of Sephiroth: if we try to maintain our role as the hero beyond a certain point, we shift roles from hero to villain, to tyrant.”
“And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of…
“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his…
On this Final Fantasy podcast, @AncientLitDude and I discuss what is arguably the most important game to The Well-Red Mage as a concept.
“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…
My god, it’s full of stars… -Dave Bowman, 2001: A Space Odyssey Let’s…
The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and…
Recounting this lost chapter, and bringing an elusive masterpiece to a wider audience, Chris Kohler’s Final Fantasy V does readers a tremendous service.
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.”
For a whole week, we’ve voted as a community to name a single game that Game of the Year of 1997, and it came down to a tie between the JRPG juggernaut from Square and Konami’s castle-filled nighttime nocturne.
February is the month of love so for this Final Fantasy X pod, I brought on my very own real-lifu waifu, Blythe the White Out Mage!
FFXIV recently released a new class into their game with their 4.5 patch A Requiem for Heroes, which was a rather surprising announcement considering we weren’t expecting another class until the launch of the next expansion, Shadowbringers, this summer.
Final Fantasy Tactics, the Dead Sea Scrolls, themes of equality and corruption, and how the heck you are supposed to pronounce “Beoulve”, anyway.
Because I feel that, in the Heavens above
The angels, whispering to one another,
Can find, among their burning terms of love
None so devotional as that of ‘Mother’
-Edgar Allen Poe
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.
FFVI, it’s often cited as one of the best and the brightest in the Final Fantasy canon of titles. Why is that exactly?
