WE STARTED with a Prelude: here’s the Coda, in which Dan finally, mercifully, concludes this three-year project. In 1987, Hironobu Sakaguchi and a ragtag band of scrappy developers inadvertently created a monster. This bizarre,...
A QUICK note: The images you’ll see are taken from both the original 2006 version and the 2017 Zodiac Age re-release. If you see any UI/HUD changes etc, that’ll be why. Also, as always:...
A NOTE before we begin: FFXI is an MMORPG and thus impossible to truly complete. All I can offer is a write-up of my own experience, as comparatively brief as it ended up being....
SPOILERS ahead. Y2K. The Millennium Dome. A crushing sense of existential dread. The war on terror. The sweeping, all-consuming tsunami of the internet. This, among others, was the advent of the year 2000, one...
SPOILERS ahead. In many ways, Final Fantasy – the series – was always leading up to Final Fantasy IX. Though the road was long and circuitous; though the path diverged in unforeseen directions; though...
Editor’s Note: This is a continuation of the previous Final Fantasy VII article, which can be found here. It is a game of such cultural and technical importance that I felt it needed more than...
FOR THE FEW WHO HAVEN’T heard, spoilers ahead. The story of the seventh Final Fantasy begins in 1994. Almost immediately after the release of Final Fantasy VI, Square commenced development on its follow-up, originally...
MERCIFULLY, this is the last time I’ll need to preface these things with the circumstance of localisation. Final Fantasy VI was not released in its original form in Europe, so I played the American SNES release...
SINCE Final Fantasy V was – inexplicably – never released in the West in its original form, I relied on the Super Famicom version via RPGe’s groundbreaking (and very good) fan translation. The Anthology version...
IN KEEPING with my arbitrary commitment to play the original versions of these games, I went through the Super Famicom version with the unofficial J2E fan translation. There are about seven different versions of...
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