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Crystal Anniversary
Final Fantasy IV: The After Years – I started playing this a while ago, then put it aside and lost my game data when switching computers. I think it’s actually still backed up somewhere, but I hadn’t gotten that far, … Continue reading →
Posted in Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Greek Mythology, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Relationships, Star Wars, Technology, Video Games | Tagged airships, bacchus, cecil harvey, ceodore harvey, cid pollendina, crystals, dark elves, dionysus, dragon quest iii, dwarves, earthbound, edward chris von muir, edward geraldine, eidolons, elves, epopts, fabul, final fantasy iv, final fantasy iv: the after years, final fantasy v, gekkou, izayoi, kain highwind, kingdom of baron, maenads, maniac mansion, meteors, mysidia, ninjas, palom, porom, princess luca, rosa joanna farrell, rydia of mist, troia, tsukinowa, ursula fang leiden, yang fang leiden, zangetsu |
Zeromus Mission
Since I finally managed to beat Zeromus (and I was kind of surprised when I did), I suppose I should say some more about Final Fantasy IV. This was the second game in the series to be released in North … Continue reading →
Posted in Conspiracy Theories, Final Fantasy, Magic, Monsters, Relationships, Technology, Video Games | Tagged bards, black mages, cagnazzo, cecil harvey, classical elements, crystals, dark knight, dragoons, edward geraldine, eidolons, elemental fiends, fabul, final fantasy ii, final fantasy iii, final fantasy iv, final fantasy v, final fantasy vi, four fiends, game boy advance, giant of babil, golbez, jupiter, kain highwind, kingdom of baron, lunarians, mars, monks, moon, mysidia, ninjas, odin, paladin, robots, rosa joanna farrell, rydia of mist, sages, summoned monsters, super nintendo entertainment system, tellah, troia, white mages, yang fang leiden, zemus, zeromus |
Let Me Kluya In
I’ve reached Zeromus, the final boss in Final Fantasy IV (the Game Boy Advance version), but haven’t been able to beat him. I can’t really think of anything to do other than just leveling up some more, but I suppose … Continue reading →
Posted in Fairy Tales, Final Fantasy, Games, Magic, Monsters, Technology, Video Games | Tagged a.e. van vogt, airships, black destroyer, cagnazzo, cecil harvey, cid pollendina, coeurl, damcyan, displacer beasts, dragoons, dungeons and dragons, fabul, final fantasy ii, final fantasy iii, final fantasy iv, final fantasy vi, fusoya, game boy advance, gil, golbez, kain highwind, kingdom of baron, kluya, lunar whale, lunarians, minwu, moon, mysidia, palamecian empire, pigs, ricard highwind, robots, toads, tower of zot, transformation, weapons, zemus, zeromus |
You’ve Got a Fiend in Me
I wrote a bit about the Four Fiends from Final Fantasy before, but I’ve since thought of more to say. Four of the main bosses in the first games, they’re associated with the four classical elements, and are causing the destruction … Continue reading →
Posted in Babylonian, Buddhism, Comics, Dragon Quest, Fairy Tales, Final Fantasy, Focus on the Foes, Games, Gender, Greek Mythology, Hinduism, Humor, Judaism, Language, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Religion, Technology, Video Games, Zoroastrianism | Tagged 8-bit theater, ahriman, archfiends, bahamut, baramos, barbariccia, cagnazzo, cecil harvey, cerberus, chaos, classical elements, dante alighieri, demons, dhuran, dinosaurs, divine comedy, dragon quest ii, dragon quest iii, dragon quest vi, dragons, dualhead hydra, dungeons and dragons, dwarves, echidna, elemental fiends, enuma elish, excalibur, final fantasy iii, final fantasy iv, final fantasy iv the after years, final fantasy ix, final fantasy mystic quest, final fantasy stranger of paradise, final fantasy vi, flamerus rex, four fiends, four heavenly kings, game boy advance, gardner fox, garland, gary gygax, general beatrix, golbez, golems, guardians of terra, gutsco, hans christian andersen, hydra, ice golem, inferno, kaimeiji yuu, kain highwind, kali, kary, kingdom of baron, kraken, kuja, land turtle, lich, light warriors, lilith, lufenia, malebranche, mara, marduk, marilith, mermaids, mortamor, mount ordeals, nagas, orthros, pazuzu, phylactery, quena quen, ramayana, robots, rubicante, salamanders, scarmiglione, siddhartha gautama, skullrus rex, stone golem, tataka, the little mermaid, the sword of the sorcerer, tiamat, time loops, titans, twinhead wyvern, two-headed dragon, ultros, vile four, wyverns, yang fang leiden, zidane tribal, zoma, zuh |
Anthony’s Animals, Part 2: Plus Plants
Continuing from my earlier post on fantastic beings in Gustave Flaubert’s The Temptation of Saint Anthony, here are a few other sorts of mythical animals who appear but don’t get lines: a Tragelaphus, Myrmecoles, Askar, Pastincaca, Presteros, Mirag, Phalamant, Senad, … Continue reading →
Posted in African, Animals, Arabian, Art, Chinese, Dragon Quest, Egyptian, Final Fantasy, Islam, Japanese, L. Frank Baum, Monsters, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Poetry, Pokémon, Religion, Video Games | Tagged aksar, alexander the great, antelopes, antlions, apocalypse, askar, asps, bears, bestiaries, bunicorns, cebus, cecil harvey, cepub, cepus, clark ashton smith, dabbat al-ardd, dedaim trees, diodorus siculus, dipsas, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dragons, eggsecutor, exeggcute, final fantasy iv, gustave flaubert, hell, horned rabbits, jimenju, kesrick, king solomon, lin carter, mangaboos, miraj, monkeys, moses, muhammad, myrmecoleons, pastinaca, phalmant, pliny the elder, presteros, quran, rabbits, ring of solomon, rosa joanna farrell, samuel bochart, senad, sinad, snakes, the garden of adompha, the temptation of saint anthony, tragelaphus, waq-waq tree, weasels, yokai, zabraq, zaqqum tree |
Love That Leviathan
I’d been meaning to discuss Leviathan a little more, which I think was inspired by the name being used for the base of the rebel organization Astrea in Cosmic Star Heroine. Considering all the other references to classic games, I had thought … Continue reading →
Posted in Animals, Art, Cartoons, Celtic, Christianity, Comics, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Japanese, Judaism, Language, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Pokémon, Religion, Semitic, Video Games, Welsh | Tagged astrea, atlantis: the lost empire, behemoth, bible, cecil harvey, cenobites, cosmic star heroine, crabs, davy jones, dragon quest ix: sentinels of the starry skies, dragons, dragoons, dylan ail don, dylan jones, eidolons, emblem of roto, espers, euripides, final fantasy ii, final fantasy iii, final fantasy iv, final fantasy ix, final fantasy xii, groudon, helen of troy, hell, hellraiser, hellraiser ii, job, jona jones, jonah, kyogre, let's talk about myths baby, leviathan, lleviathan, mabinogion, manga, moon, mysidia, porth llaffan, psalms, ricard highwind, ringworms, robots, rydia of mist, ryujin, sea serpents, sharks, sin, summoned monsters, terry gilliam, the adventures of baron munchausen, ultima, whales, wobbegong sharks |
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 |
Consider Yourself Debrotherized
Since I looked into possible meanings of the story of Cain and Abel not long ago, that led me to the TV Tropes page of characters named Cain, or variants thereof. There are a lot of them across various media, … Continue reading →
Posted in Christianity, Comics, Families, Final Fantasy, Games, Humor, Judaism, Mario, Mayan, Mega Man, Mythology, Names, Native American, Relationships, Religion, Video Games | Tagged batman, bible, bob kane, brobot, cain and abel, cecil harvey, count bleck, dr. cain, dr. light, dr. toadley, dragoons, final fantasy iv, final fantasy the after years, genesis, golbez, juggernaut, kain highwind, kane, kukulkan, legacy of kane, luigi mario, mario and luigi: superstar saga, mavericks, mega man x, mr. l, nastasia, princess peach toadstool, professor charles xavier, psycho kamek, replicants, robots, rosa joanna farrell, serpent-seed doctrine, super paper mario, vampire the masquerade, vampires, white wolf, x-men, zemus |
Fantasy Repeats Itself
I’ve been playing the PC version of Final Fantasy IV: The After Years, and I have a few things to say about what I’ve played so far. The game is, as the title suggests, a direct follow-up to FFIV, set … Continue reading →
Posted in Final Fantasy, Video Games | Tagged calcabrina, cecil harvey, ceodore harvey, edward geraldine, final fantasy iv, final fantasy iv: the after years, kain highwind, princess luca, rydia of mist, ursula of fabul, yang fang leiden |
To Fight Next to the Weaker Sex
The portrayal of women in video games is a popular topic nowadays, and one I’ve covered before. One thing I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned in such posts, however, is something that I recall bothering me years ago: the slap … Continue reading →
Posted in Final Fantasy, Gender, Video Games | Tagged cecil harvey, fabul, final fantasy iv, final fantasy vii, golbez, lufia ii, lunar whale, rosa joanna farrell, rydia of mist, scarlet, tifa lockhart |