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We Need to Talk about Yevon

I have now finished with Final Fantasy X, and looked into the story a bit, as it is somewhat confusing. It’s an enjoyable game with some changes from earlier entries in the series, most notably that you can’t move around … Continue reading →

Posted in Breath of Fire, Buddhism, Dragon Quest, Dreams, Final Fantasy, Games, Japanese, Language, Magic, Mana/Seiken Densetsu, Maps, Monsters, Mythology, Relationships, Religion, Sports, Technology, Video Games | Tagged aeons, afterlife, airships, al bhed, amitabha buddha, auron, blitzball, breath of fire ii, death, dragon quest ii, farplane, fayth, final fantasy ix, final fantasy legend iii, final fantasy vii, final fantasy X, grand maester yo mika, guado, jecht, kimhari ronso, maester seymour guado, pureland, rikku, ronso, secret of mana, shoopuf, sin, spira, summoned monsters, tidus, wakka, yu yevon, yuna, yurei, zanarkand |

Son of Sin

I’ve been playing a bit of Final Fantasy X as of late. I actually first started playing it on PC, but it crashed a lot, and I’m not sure why. Maybe it has something to do with the technical specs … Continue reading →

Posted in Dragon Quest, Dreams, Final Fantasy, Games, Magic, Monsters, Relationships, Religion, Sims, Sports, Technology, Television, Toys, Video Games | Tagged al bhed, auron, black mages, blitzball, dolls, dragon quest monsters, dragon quest monsters the dark prince, final fantasy iv: the after years, final fantasy X, healie, healslime, jecht, john dimaggio, kimhari ronso, lulu, machina, mages, nadiria, nintendo switch, ochus, rikku, ronso, sin, spira, the sims 4, tidus, wakka, yuna, zanarkand |

Ready, Setsuna, Go

I Am Setsuna – As someone who grew up with Super Nintendo role-playing games, I appreciate that there’s some effort to consciously imitate them in recent years. This game was released by Square Enix in 2016, with the Switch version … Continue reading →

Posted in Alchemy, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy, Magic, Monsters, Music, Video Games | Tagged endir, final fantasy X, i am setsuna, julienne, kir, last lands, magic consortium, nidr, nintendo switch, reaper, setsuna, spritnite, square enix, talismans |

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 |

Hot Cross Bunyips

A book I’m currently reading makes reference to the Bunyip of Australian mythology, so I thought it would be worth further investigating this creature. The name sounds pretty tame to me as an English speaker, perhaps a combination of “bunny” … Continue reading →

Posted in Australian, Cartoons, Fairy Tales, Final Fantasy, Monsters, Mythology, Video Games | Tagged andrew lang, biami, bunyip, chrono cross, dot and the kangaroo, final fantasy X, seals, the brown fairy book |

Final Fakery

The TV Tropes page on Urban Legends of Zelda (good name, by the way) had a link to this post from the alt.games.final-fantasy newsgroup, which brought back some memories. I read that group pretty regularly back when I started college, … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal Crossing, Chrono Trigger, Donkey Kong, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Humor, Mana/Seiken Densetsu, Mario, Metroid, Urban Legends, Video Games | Tagged 7th saga, aerith gainsborough, alt.games.final-fantasy, bahamut, battletoads, dragon queen, dragon quest iii, dragon quest iv, dragon quest ix, dragonlord, dragons, final fantasy dissidia, final fantasy ii, final fantasy iv, final fantasy tactics, final fantasy v, final fantasy vi, final fantasy vii, final fantasy X, general leo christophe, kain highwind, king bowser koopa, lavos, lufenia, lunarians, lutz, neko, noah, psaro, ricard highwind, ridley, rumors, samus aran, schala, super mario bros., super mario bros. 2, tom nook, torneko taloon, tortimer, tv tropes, wart, zemus, zenith dragon, zenus |