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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 |

Going to the Temple and We’re Gonna Kill Chaos

I recently played through the original Final Fantasy on Game Boy Advance. That game was important to me growing up; I received the NES cartridge for my thirteenth birthday, and eventually made it through the whole thing, underleveled throughout most of it … Continue reading →

Posted in Final Fantasy, Games, Magic, Monsters, Names, Technology, Video Games | Tagged airships, beavers, cagnazzo, chaos, chaos shrine, chupon, dawn of souls, dragons, dungeons and dragons, dwarves, elemental fiends, elves, fairies, final fantasy iv, final fantasy v, final fantasy vi, flying fortress, four fiends, game boy advance, garland, gilgamesh, koppe, lufenia, mermaids, nintendo entertainment system, nintendo power, onrac, orthros, piscodemons, robots, typhon, ultros |

Mean Squirrels

I saw a squirrel in a graveyard last weekend. That’s not really that strange, as Green-Wood Cemetery is also an arboretum, so it gets a lot of wildlife. Still, a squirrel around gravestones made me think of the Skull Eaters … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Beatrix Potter, Bill Campbell and Irwin Terry, Cartoons, Characters, Comics, Donkey Kong, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Relationships, Sonic the Hedgehog, Television, Video Games | Tagged chipmunks, conker the squirrel, conker's bad fur day, cyril, diddy kong racing, dixie kong, donald duck, donkey kong jungle beat, dr. ivo robotnik, dragon quest of the stars, final fantasy ix, final fantasy v, final fantasy vi, flurl the squirrel, flying squirrels, freedom fighters, green-wood cemetery, jack pumpkinhead, jack pumpkinhead and the sawhorse, kaori tanaka, little wizard stories of oz, new super mario bros. u, nutkins, princess sally acorn, ray the flying squirrel, relm arrowny, sabin rene figaro, segasonic the hedgehog, skull eaters, squirrel king, squirrels, strago magus, the lavender bear of oz, the tale of squirrel nutkin, tiny kong |

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 |

Nibbles of Nibelungs

Although I’ve been interested in classical mythology for most of my life, it was really Final Fantasy VI that made me want to check out the Teutonic hero Siegfried, a mysterious character in the game possibly intended to be the … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Comics, Fairy Tales, Final Fantasy, German, Germany, History, J.R.R. Tolkien, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Norse, Poetry, Video Games | Tagged alberich, andvari, anna russell, attila the hun, brunhilda, burgundians, der ring des nibelungen, donner, dragons, dwarves, fafnir, final fantasy v, final fantasy vi, final fantasy vii, freyja, giants, gibichungs, gilgamesh, gudrun, hagen, huns, idun, ildico, king gunther, king sigebert, kriemhild, loki, marvel comics, mime, nibelheim, nibelungenlied, nibelungs, niflheim, oberon, opera, prose edda, queen brunhilda of austrasia, regin, richard wagner, siegfried, siegmund, sigurd, sinfljoti, snorri sturluson, thor, valhalla, valkyries, volsunga saga, volsungs, worms, xanten |

Worm Your Way

Looking into mythology and fiction involving giant worms is a little tricky because it seems like a lot of early societies thought worms and snakes were variations on the same thing. I guess they didn’t want to investigate all that … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Cartoons, Etymology, Final Fantasy, Futurama, Greek Mythology, J.R.R. Tolkien, Language, Monsters, Mythology, Science, Television, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged a link to the past, al gore, alien, annelids, arrakis, asclepius, beetlejuice, beowulf, carl linnaeus, dragons, dune, earthworms, final fantasy v, final fantasy vi, final fantasy X, frank herbert, glurmo, gobi desert, gogo, graboids, indus river, indus worm, john schoenherr, lambton worm, link, moldorms, mongolian death worm, moon worms, neitherworld, olgoi-khorkhoi, orcs, philip j. fry, professor hubert farnsworth, sandworms, saturn, skolex, slurm, slurm queen, sockburn worm, the battle of the five armies, the hobbit, tim burton, tremors, turanga leela, were-worms, worms, wormulon, wyrms, xenomorphs, zone eater |

No Ordinary Rabbits

I don’t know if anyone was at all interested in last week’s post on rabbits in the Super Mario series, and Easter is over now, but I’m going to do a follow-up about rabbits in other games anyway. I’ve already … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal Crossing, Animals, Authors, Comics, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Lewis Carroll, Magic, Mana/Seiken Densetsu, Monsters, Monty Python, Mythology, Sonic the Hedgehog, Ultima, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged a link to the past, black mage, bunicorns, coco, dragon quest iii, dread killer rabbit of caerbannog, final fantasy ii, final fantasy iv, final fantasy v, final fantasy vi, final fantasy xii, final fantasy xiv, ghosts, gyroids, haniwa, horned rabbits, humingway, jabberwocky, lagomorph, link, majora's mask, monty python and the holy grail, moon, mugu mugu, mysidia, mysidian rabbit, namingway, ocarina of time, phantom hourglass, pols voice, rabbits, rabites, samurai warrior the battles of usagi yojimbo, seppuku, setzer gabbiani, spiked hares, springer, the legend of zelda, ultima online, usagi yojimbo, vorpal bunnies, way of the ronin, wizardry |

Time and Space Began to Squirm

I’ve talked a bit about the sorts of magic in the Final Fantasy series that are classified by color, and summoning magic as well. What I haven’t really discussed are the other sorts of magic that show up from time … Continue reading →

Posted in Final Fantasy, Magic, Video Games | Tagged aerith gainsborough, cecil harvey, feng shui, final fantasy iii, final fantasy iv, final fantasy v, final fantasy vi, final fantasy viii, geomancer, geomancy, mages, mog, pictomancer, relm arrowny, rosa joanna farrell, teleportation, time compression, time mage, ultimecia |

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 |