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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 |
Stay Out of the Deep End
I’m going to guess you want more fish-people, but I’ll admit I’m very bad at predicting what other people want. So let’s just say I want to write more about fish-people. I often go to TV Tropes to see examples … Continue reading →
Posted in Animals, Art, Australian, Babylonian, Breath of Fire, Cartoons, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Games, Greek Mythology, Health, Humor, Japanese, Language, Magic, Mana/Seiken Densetsu, Mario, Monsters, Mythology, Pacific, Relationships, Sexuality, Television, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged amabie, breath of fire ii, bubble bobble, deep ones, desert hags, dorrie, dragon quest iii, dragon quest vi, dragon quest vii, dungeons and dragons, final fantasy adventure, final fantasy ix, final fantasy mystic quest, final fantasy vii, final fantasy xv, fish, glaucus, gobi, goblins, gracos, h.p. lovecraft, king bowser koopa, lochladies, manillo, mermaids, mermen, mertropolis, oannes, ocarina of time, princess ruto, sahagin, sahuagin, sekolah, sharks, super friends, super mario bros. 3, super mario odyssey, sword of mana, tv tropes, water hags, yokai, zoras |
The Hammer and the Hood
I started playing Dragon Quest Builders recently, and there’s a place you visit early on that’s full of Hammerhoods, and even called Hammerhood Heights. These are a type of monster originally introduced in DQ5, small impish creatures who, well, wear … Continue reading →
Posted in British, Chrono Trigger, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, German, Humor, Japanese, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Scottish, Video Games | Tagged bodkin bowyers, brownies, clobberina, demons, dragon quest builders, dragon quest tact, dragon quest v, dragon quest viii, dragon quest x, dragonlord, elves, emcee hammerhood, fairies, final fantasy mystic quest, goblins, goldhammer, hammerhoods, hammers, imps, knockers, kobolds, mint mints, night clubbers, ogans, ogres, oni, redcaps, trolls |
Winners and Choosers
After looking at the notion of people chosen by the gods, I became curious as to how the concept of a specific person being the Chosen One originated. It’s a pretty common trope in fantasy, someone being prophesied to save the world … Continue reading →
Posted in Arthurian Legend, Authors, Babylonian, British, Captain N: The Game Master, Cartoons, Characters, Christianity, Discworld, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Futurama, Greek Mythology, Harry Potter, J.R.R. Tolkien, Magic, Mario, Mythology, Oz, Philosophy, Religion, Semitic, Star Wars, Television, Terry Pratchett, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged anakin skywalker, andrew heller, aragorn, armor, bender's big score, brain spawn, carrot ironfoundersson, chosen ones, chosen people, dark king, darth plagueis, darth vader, donald abbott, dorothy gale, dragon quest iii, dragon quest iv, dragon quest v, emperor palpatine, epic of gilgamesh, erdrick, fate, final fantasy mystic quest, flood, gilgamesh, glinda, gondor, hammurabi, how the wizard came to oz, hyrule, jedi, jesus, king arthur, king david, kylo ren, link, lord of the rings, middle-earth, nibblonians, oedipus, oz: the great and powerful, philip j. fry, professor hubert farnsworth, prophecy, return of the jedi, sith, swords, time travel, utnapishtim, voldemort, weapons, witches, wizard of oz |
Elements and Alignments
Magical Starsign is a Nintendo DS game from some years back that I thought I might want to check out, but didn’t until fairly recently. It’s a turn-based role-playing game that makes heavy use of the stylus, which is a … Continue reading →
Posted in Animals, Final Fantasy, Food, Humor, Magic, Mana/Seiken Densetsu, Names, Technology, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged astrology, cats, classical elements, dwarves, final fantasy mystic quest, kovomaka, magical starsign, magical vacation, miss madeleine, moles, otters, pirates, rabbits, robots, salamanders, secret of mana, space police, spirit tracks |
Final Fantasy Junior
Picture by SlyShinie Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest has long been criticized for its simplistic nature, but that doesn’t mean some of us don’t have a soft spot for it. Recently, I came across this post defending the game, and it … Continue reading →
Posted in Final Fantasy, Monsters, Video Games | Tagged aquaria, benjamin, dark king, final fantasy mystic quest, fireburg, foresta, kaeli, phoebe, reuben, tristam |
Look Out, There’s a Monster Coming
I read a post today about random encounters in role-playing video games, and I agree that they can be pretty annoying. It actually works both ways, too. Not only do enemies tend to randomly show up at the least opportune … Continue reading →
Posted in Chrono Trigger, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Mario, Monsters, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged dragon quest ix, fantasy role playing games, final fantasy mystic quest, random encounters, role-playing, the 7th saga, the adventure of link |
Nerd Rock with Erdrick
Descendants of Erdrick, Down Right Heavy – It seems like bands covering themes from video games is now a trend, and one that I welcome. After all, there’s plenty of nostalgic value in hearing this music again. Even back in … Continue reading →
Posted in Albums, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Mario, Music, Pixies, Video Games | Tagged descendants of erdrick, down right heavy, erdrick, final fantasy mystic quest, maniac mansion |
A Side of Cid
If you’ve played or even heard a significant amount about a Final Fantasy game, you probably know about Cid. There are actually different Cids, one in each FF game except the first, and he was even sort of retconned into … Continue reading →
Posted in Crusades, Final Fantasy, History, Middle Ages, Video Games | Tagged celes chere, cid, cid del norte marquez, cid highwind, el cid campeador, final fantasy mystic quest, kefka palazzo, otto cid bekenstein, setzer gabbiani |