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Caravan of Crossovers
I recently finished watching an entire playthrough of Dragon Quest Monsters: Caravan Heart. Beth said the guy playing sounded like Garfield. You know who no one ever said that about? Chris Pratt. But anyway, watching turn-based games can be a … Continue reading →
Posted in Comics, Dragon Quest, Families, Food, Magic, Monsters, Video Games | Tagged alefgard, ashlynn, beran, cannock, charlock castle, dirkandor, dragon quest ii, dragon quest iii, dragon quest iv, dragon quest monsters, dragon quest vi, dragon quest vii, dragon quest viii, dragon quest xi, dragonlord, dragons, empyrea, erdrick, manga, midenhall, milly, moonbrooke, mystery dungeon, prince kiefer of estard, prince of midenhall, ragnar mcryan, ramia, rubiss, slimes, tantegel castle, torneko taloon, yangus, young yangus, yuji horii |
More Names, More Fun
After I shared my last post on Dragon Quest names on Discord, Arlen Pavka replied with a list of names from the mobile and Nintendo Switch versions of DQ2, which includes a few I hadn’t previously seen. I’ve written about … Continue reading →
Posted in Arthurian Legend, British, Buddhism, Cartoons, Christianity, Comics, Dragon Quest, Families, Final Fantasy, German, Germany, History, Language, Metroid, Mythology, Names, Norse, Religion, Star Wars, Television, Video Games | Tagged abel, abel yuusha, bible, cain and abel, cid, dragon quest ii, dragon quest iii, dragon quest iv, dragon quest of the stars, dragon quest v, dragon quest vi, dragon quest xi, el cid campeador, emblem of roto, endor, erdrick, esther, gadabouts, han solo, hank hoffman jr, jesus, luca erkel gotha, madalena, mages, mahabala, manga, maya mahabala, meena mahabala, merlin, pankraz gotha, priests, prince of cannock, princess of moonbrooke, princess veronica of endor, quadal, ragnar lodbrok, ragnar mcryan, raido, sofia, solo, st. peter, stella maris, ten wrathful ones, theron, tom foolery, tonnura, torneko taloon, tristan and isolde, varia, vashti, veronica, virgin mary |
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 |
Monster Jam
When I discuss mythological beings, I usually like to mention when they appear in video games, with the Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy series being two of the main candidates. Then again, some of the video game monsters are true … Continue reading →
Posted in Dragon Quest, Focus on the Foes, Monsters, Mythology, Video Games | Tagged akira toriyama, archdemon, aswang, bag o' laughs, belial, bloody hand, bullwong, canniboxes, demonites, demons, dragon quest ii, dragon quest iii, dragon quest iv, dragon quest vii, drolls, druins, final fantasy iv, gold golems, golems, goodybag, goopi, graboopi, gremlins, imps, kiling machines, lunaticks, mech hunters, mimics, mindemons, muddy hand, ozwargs, robots, torneko taloon, urnexpecteds, well demons, zarlox, zebbot |
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 |
Nooked on a Feeling
One significant video game salesman I didn’t mention in last week’s post is Tom Nook from the Animal Crossing games, a raccoon with a head for business. Well, actually he’s a tanuki, which is sort of a raccoon-like dog, but … Continue reading →
Posted in Animal Crossing, Mana/Seiken Densetsu, Video Games | Tagged hedgehogs, merchants, neko, raccoons, sable able, secret of mana, tanuki, tom nook, torneko taloon, tortimer |
There Goes Salesman, and He’s Sailing High Again
As the holiday season is upon us (retailers can’t even wait for Thanksgiving to end anymore), I thought it might be appropriate to provide a tribute of sorts to the salesmen of the video game world. These merchants often have … Continue reading →
Posted in Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Kid Icarus, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged dragon quest iii, dragon quest iv, endor, final fantasy vi, gau, jidoor, lakanaba, merchants, mystery dungeon, owzer, tessie taloon, tipper taloon, torneko taloon |
Dragon Comedy
As a fan of the Dragon Quest series, I found this post to be particularly interesting. Basically, it’s about how the translators of the early DQ games tended to make them somewhat more serious in English. Honestly, though, I always … Continue reading →