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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 →

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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 |

We’re Certainly Dwarfs

So, is the plural “dwarfs” or “dwarves”? I believe the former is considered preferable, but J.R.R. Tolkien and I like the latter. Regardless, modern media tends to portray them fairly consistently, as diminutive but sturdy people with thick beards, who … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, Chronicles of Narnia, Discworld, Fairy Tales, Final Fantasy, J.R.R. Tolkien, Judaism, Language, Magic, Mythology, Norse, Religion, Terry Pratchett, Video Games | Tagged chrono cross, cid pollendina, dwarves, excalibur, final fantasy iv, final fantasy ix, jadis the white witch, khuzdul, king giott, kokkol, nerrick, nikabrik, Poul Anderson, prince caspian, richard wagner, ring cycle, snow white and rose red, snow white and the seven dwarfs, the last battle |