I can assure you with utmost confidence that no magical, fire-breathing dinosaurs were harmed in the making of this video game.
Sony
“When art is made new, we are made new with it.” -John Russell, The Meaning of…
“Sleeping on a dragon’s hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.”
―C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
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.
“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”
-Leonardo da Vinci
“Mine Enemy is growing old —
I have at last Revenge —
The Palate of the Hate departs —
If any would avenge”
-Emily Dickinson
“Live your own life, for you will surely die your own death.”
– Latin proverb
“You mustn’t allow yourself to be chained to fate, to be ruled by your genes. Human beings can choose the kind of life that they want to live. What’s important is that you choose life… and then live”
-Naomi Hunter, Metal Gear Solid
“The fact that I, myself, do not understand the meaning of my paintings at the time that I am painting them does not mean that they have no meaning.” – Salvador Dali
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
― Plato
“Japan was the first country to successfully make bipedal robots. They’re still the best in the field of robotics.”
-Hal ‘Otacon’ Emmerich
“There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.” – Sir Francis Drake
“I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.” [HAL 9000]
-2001: a Space Odyssey
“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.” –Franklin D. Roosevelt
