final fantasy xii – VoVatia (original) (raw)

Love That Leviathan

I’d been meaning to discuss Leviathan a little more, which I think was inspired by the name being used for the base of the rebel organization Astrea in Cosmic Star Heroine. Considering all the other references to classic games, I had thought … Continue reading →

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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 |

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 |