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Saving the World While We’re Young

I’ve seen the topic come up of how everyone tends to be young in Japanese role-playing video games, to the extent that people in their thirties are considered old. I noticed this in Final Fantasy VII, where everyone seems to … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Comics, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Gender, J.R.R. Tolkien, Magic, Prejudice, Relationships, Video Games | Tagged age, ashlynn, barret wallace, bartz klauser, borya, cecil harvey, celes chere, cid highwind, cid pollendia, coming of age, cyan garamonde, dai no daibouken, dragon quest iii, dragon quest iv, dragon quest v, dragon quest vi, dragon quest vii, erdrick, fantasy, final fantasy iv, final fantasy iv: the after years, final fantasy ix, final fantasy v, final fantasy vi, final fantasy vii, final fantasy viii, galuf halm baldesion, shadow, sir mervyn, squall leonhart, square enix, strago magus, tellah, terra branford, torneko taloon, zidane tribal |

Suck It, Gilgamesh!

I’ve written many times about the references in video games to classical mythology, but I don’t think I’ve yet given Gilgamesh, as he appears in the Final Fantasy series, his own post. The source of his name is obviously the … Continue reading →

Posted in Babylonian, Cartoons, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Futurama, History, Humor, Japan, Japanese, Mythology, Semitic, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games | Tagged bartz klauser, bender bending rodriguez, enkidu, epic of gilgamesh, excalibur, excalipoor, exdeath, final fantasy v, final fantasy xii, gilgamesh, john dimaggio, light warriors, minamoto no yoshitsune, saito musashibo benkei, sword of erdrick |

Crystal Clear

Final Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals – This 1994 anime is a sequel to Final Fantasy V, a game I’ve played most of the way through, but I still haven’t beaten Neo Exdeath. I believe the English version came out … Continue reading →

Posted in Final Fantasy, Video Games, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged airships, bartz klauser, chocobos, cid previa, deathgyunos, dragons, exdeath, faris scherwiz, final fantasy v, final fantasy: legend of the crystals, kingdom of tycoon, lenna charlotte tycoon, linaly, mid previa, pirates, pretz, Queen Lenna, rouge, valkus |

Girls Against Gestahl

Picture by Beth Wulff/Annie Felis The ensemble cast of Final Fantasy VI has definitely stuck with me over the years, and I’ve written about a few of them, but I don’t think I’ve said much recently about the character who … Continue reading →

Posted in Celtic, Final Fantasy, Gender, Greek Mythology, Magic, Mythology, Video Games | Tagged aerith gainsborough, bartz klauser, cecil harvey, celes chere, ceres, cid del norte marquez, cloud strife, cyan garamonde, emperor gestahl, espers, faris scherwiz, final fantasy iv, final fantasy v, final fantasy vi, final fantasy vii, gau, general leo christophe, joan of arc, kefka palazzo, krile mayer baldesion, lenna charlotte tycoon, madeline, maduin, mael duin, magitek, mobliz, narshe, porom, relm arrowny, rosa joanna farrell, rydia of mist, strago magus, tellah, terra branford, tifa lockhart, yuffie kisaragi |