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Psaro Gets Pstarted
Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince – One reason I was anxious to play Chapter 6 of Dragon Quest IV is that this game kind of follows up on it, with the same writer being involved. Here, you play as Psaro, … Continue reading →
Posted in Dragon Quest, Focus on the Foes, Food, Magic, Monsters, Music, Relationships, Video Games | Tagged aamon, dante alighieri, demons, diabolic hall, divine comedy, dragon quest iv, dragon quest monsters, dragon quest monsters the dark prince, dragons, dwarves, elves, endor, general chayne, heaven, hell, inferno, monty the monster monitor, nadiria, psaro, ragnar mcryan, randolpho the tyrant, reproduction, rosehill, sparkie, synthesis, toilen trubble, zangiel the omniarch, zenith dragon |
Are Ewoks Too Woke?
This time, we have one movie, one television show, and one made-for-TV movie, all with SPOILERS. The Mist – Based on a Stephen King story, this has a pretty claustrophobic premise. After a severe storm, many of the residents in … Continue reading →
Posted in Magic, Monsters, Relationships, Religion, Star Wars, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged abuse, aliens, baby reindeer, caravan of courage an ewok adventure, endor, ewoks, ewoks battle for endor, noa briqualon, rape, richard gadd, sexuality, stephen king, the mist, Wilford Brimley |
It’s Against My Programming to Impersonate a Deity
SPOILERS for all four things covered here! The Invitation – There’s another movie of this title that came out last year and is about vampires. This one, from 2008, is about a cult. A guy named Will, whose son died … Continue reading →
Posted in Animals, Christianity, Conspiracy Theories, Cults, Families, Gender, Monsters, Music, Prejudice, Relationships, Religion, Robyn Hitchcock, Star Wars, Television | Tagged abuse, bible, bill gothard, boar-wolf, burl ives, caravan of courage an ewok adventure, dead man's shoes, duggars, endor, ewoks, gorax, horses, institute for basic life principles, misogyny, murder, psalms, quiverfull movement, r.e.m., return of the jedi, ritual, shiny happy people duggar family secrets, the ewok adventure, the invitation |
More Names, More Fun
After I shared my last post on Dragon Quest names on Discord, Arlen Pavka replied with a list of names from the mobile and Nintendo Switch versions of DQ2, which includes a few I hadn’t previously seen. I’ve written about … Continue reading →
Posted in Arthurian Legend, British, Buddhism, Cartoons, Christianity, Comics, Dragon Quest, Families, Final Fantasy, German, Germany, History, Language, Metroid, Mythology, Names, Norse, Religion, Star Wars, Television, Video Games | Tagged abel, abel yuusha, bible, cain and abel, cid, dragon quest ii, dragon quest iii, dragon quest iv, dragon quest of the stars, dragon quest v, dragon quest vi, dragon quest xi, el cid campeador, emblem of roto, endor, erdrick, esther, gadabouts, han solo, hank hoffman jr, jesus, luca erkel gotha, madalena, mages, mahabala, manga, maya mahabala, meena mahabala, merlin, pankraz gotha, priests, prince of cannock, princess of moonbrooke, princess veronica of endor, quadal, ragnar lodbrok, ragnar mcryan, raido, sofia, solo, st. peter, stella maris, ten wrathful ones, theron, tom foolery, tonnura, torneko taloon, tristan and isolde, varia, vashti, veronica, virgin mary |
The Language of the Stars
Ultimate Star Wars, by Patricia Barr, Adam Bray, Daniel Wallace, and Ryder Windham – I saw this fully illustrated guide to the series mentioned online, and decided to check it out at the library. It’s divided into sections on characters, … Continue reading →
Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Etymology, J.R.R. Tolkien, L. Frank Baum, Language, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Star Wars | Tagged adam bray, admiral ackbar, barsoom, daniel wallace, dantooine, darth vader, edgar rice burroughs, endor, gregory maguire, han solo, james rolfe, lando calrissian, luke skywalker, mike matei, millennium falcon, mon calamari, naboo, nabu, patricia barr, princess leia, r2-d2, ryder windham, socorro, tatooine, the force awakens, the hobbit, the silmarillion, ultimate star wars |
Beware the Bridges
In the first Dragon Quest game, it’s established that, if you cross a bridge, you can run into stronger monsters. I’m pretty sure this rule holds true for the sequels, although they also introduce many other ways of getting from … Continue reading →
Dragon Warrior Women
While most of the heroes in the Dragon Quest games are male by default, a few of them let you choose the gender. The first game to provide this option is Dragon Quest III, which is interesting as the game … Continue reading →
Posted in Dragon Quest, Video Games | Tagged dragon quest iii, dragon quest iv, endor, erdrick, kiryl, loto, maya, meena, orifiela, princess daisy, princess veronica of endor, tsar stepan of zamoksva, tsarevna alena, zenith dragon, zenithia |
The Single Dads’ Club
When I wrote about Princess Peach’s father, I noted that it’s pretty common in fiction for kings to have young, strong-willed daughters who are only children, and for the mother to be nowhere in sight. Rebecca pointed out that a … Continue reading →
Posted in Captain N: The Game Master, Cartoons, Characters, Chrono Trigger, Comics, Dragon Quest, Families, Mario, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged aladdin, beauty and the beast, dragon quest iv, endor, fathers, king charles of videoland, king guardia xxxiii, king harkinian, king sizzeroo, maurice, mushroom king, ozma, pastoria, peer haps, perhaps city, princess gureeda, princess gwaelin, princess jasmine, princess lana, princess nadia marle guardia, princess peach toadstool, princess pretty good, speedy in oz, the little mermaid, the lost king of oz, thief of bagdad, triton, tsar stepan of zamoksva, tsarevna alena, umbrella island |
There Goes Salesman, and He’s Sailing High Again
As the holiday season is upon us (retailers can’t even wait for Thanksgiving to end anymore), I thought it might be appropriate to provide a tribute of sorts to the salesmen of the video game world. These merchants often have … Continue reading →
Posted in Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Kid Icarus, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged dragon quest iii, dragon quest iv, endor, final fantasy vi, gau, jidoor, lakanaba, merchants, mystery dungeon, owzer, tessie taloon, tipper taloon, torneko taloon |
Too Many Endors
Watching Family Guy’s parody of Return of the Jedi (which I said a little bit about in this LiveJournal post) made me think about the name Endor, home of the Ewoks. Well, actually, Endor is a gas giant, and the … Continue reading →
Posted in Christianity, Dragon Quest, Fundamentalism, History, Judaism, Middle East, Religion, Video Games | Tagged 1 samuel, abominable showman, bible, endor, ewoks, family guy, j.r.r. tolkien, linguar, middle-earth, return of the jedi, samuel, saul, septuagint, star wars, witch of endor |