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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 |

Roland in the Deep

I think I first heard of Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso in a blurb about C.S. Lewis comparing J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings to it. Well, they do both have a magic ring that makes people invisible, and a monster … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Arthurian Legend, Authors, Book Reviews, British, C.S. Lewis, Characters, Christianity, French, Greek Mythology, Islam, J.R.R. Tolkien, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Poetry, Relationships, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Video Games, William Shakespeare | Tagged amazons, andromeda, arimaspoi, astolfo, atlante, avalon, basil of caesarea, battle of roncevaux pass, beowulf, chanson de roland, charlemagne, childe roland to the dark tower came, cortana, durendal, elijah, fairies, faleero, falerina, ferragut, giants, griffins, halo, hector, hell, hippogriffs, holga danske, horses, hugh capet of france, huon of bordeaux, jesus, john the apostle, king lear, lethe river, lord of the rings, ludovico ariosto, matteo maria boiardo, merlin, moon, morgan le fay, ogier the dane, orcas, orcs, orlando furioso, orlando innamorato, paladin, penthesileia, pliny the elder, prester john, rinaldo, robert browning, roland, roland the headless thompson gunner, ruggiero, st. denis, st. peter, stephen king, swords, tristan and isolde, virgin mary, warren zevon, water of oblivion, weapons |

The Dark Knight Changes Class

I actually didn’t play Final Fantasy IV (or Final Fantasy II as we Americans called it back then) until after FF6 (then FF3), and comparatively it was somewhat primitive as far as story and characterization went. Still, it was the … Continue reading →

Posted in Final Fantasy, Mythology, Video Games | Tagged airships, cecil harvey, cecilia, ceodore harvey, dante alighieri, dark knight, demons, devils, divine comedy, dragons, dragoons, final fantasy iv, final fantasy iv: the after years, fusoya, golbez, golubaeser flies, inferno, j. charles wall, kain highwind, kingdom of baron, kluya, lunarians, mysidia, paladin, rosa joanna farrell, secret of evermore, st. george, white mages, zemus |