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Modern Women in a Mythical World

Atalanta, by Jennifer Saint – Atalanta is a Greek heroine to whom I don’t think I’ve devoted a post, although I did mention her in relation to the Calydonian Boar Hunt. As with a lot of mythical characters, the stories … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, Book Reviews, Christianity, Dragon Quest, Fairy Tales, Feminism, Final Fantasy, Games, Greek Mythology, Humor, John R. Neill, Judaism, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Piers Anthony, Prejudice, Relationships, Religion, Semitic, Ultima, Video Games, Xanth | Tagged achilles, adam and eve, aidan moher, angels, argonauts, asherah, atalanta, atalante, bible, briseis, calydonian boar, carl h. grabo, dragons, dungeons and dragons, elijah, fairies, fight magic items, giants, hippomenes, jennifer saint, jest right, jezebel, lilith, madeline miller, mary magdalene, meleager, nikki marmery, noah, old man of the sea, peacocks, peter and the princess, reilly & lee, rocs, samael, square enix, st. brendan the navigator, the song of achilles, time travel, trolls, ultima iv: quest of the avatar, ultima thule, wizardry, yoshinori kitase |

A Thousand Thousand Slimy Things Lived On

I wrote about Slimes in the Dragon Quest series eleven years ago, and mentioned the fact that they were inspired by Creeping Cruds from Wizardry, but Akira Toriyama drew them as cute. There was also a mention of Slimes in … Continue reading →

Posted in Board Games, Cartoons, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Focus on the Foes, Food, Games, Gender, Japanese, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Video Games | Tagged akira toriyama, amoebas, at the mountains of madness, bavarois, black pudding, creeping cruds, custard, dungeon!, dungeons and dragons, final fantasy ii, final fantasy iv, flan, flan princesses, gelatinous cubes, green slime, h.p. lovecraft, jelly, moon, mousse, nuppeppo, onward, oozes, pink puffs, pudding, queen slime, she-slimes, shoggoths, slime, slimes, the blob, wizardry, world of final fantasy, yokai |

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 |

It’s Slime Time

The Dragon Quest series was hardly the first to include sentient slime monsters. In fact, they seem to be pretty standard in fantasy role-playing games. According to this, producer Yuji Horii was directly inspired by the Creeping Crud from the … Continue reading →

Posted in Captain N: The Game Master, Dragon Quest, Television, Video Games | Tagged akira toriyama, antidote spell, babble, creeping crud, cureslime, gem slime, ghostbusters, healer, healie, healslime, king healslime, king metal slime, king slime, liquid metal slime, liquid slime, man o' war, medislime, metabble, metal babble, metal slime, monsters, slime knight, slimer, slimes, the real ghostbusters, the trojan dragon, wizardry, yuji horii |