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Cities of the Damned

Posted on April 16, 2023 by Nathan

The idea of the world of the dead as a physical place is fascinating to me, probably at least partially because I love maps. Whether people in ancient times who wrote about such things genuinely believed that the Underworld had … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Etymology, Final Fantasy, Greek Mythology, Language, Maps, Monsters, Mythology, Poetry, Religion, Roman, Video Games | Tagged aeneas, aeneid, afterlife, angels, bible, dante alighieri, demons, dis, divine comedy, emperor mateus, erinyes, final fantasy ii, final fantasy ix, final fantasy xiv, furies, garland, gorgons, hades, hell, hephaestus, inferno, john milton, lucifer, mammon, medusa, mulciber, mysidia, pandemonium, paradise lost, revelation, river styx, satan, stygian council, ultima, underworld, virgil | Leave a comment

Love That Leviathan

Posted on November 19, 2022 by Nathan

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 →

Posted in Animals, Art, Cartoons, Celtic, Christianity, Comics, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Japanese, Judaism, Language, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Pokémon, Religion, Semitic, Video Games, Welsh | Tagged astrea, atlantis: the lost empire, behemoth, bible, cecil harvey, cenobites, cosmic star heroine, crabs, davy jones, dragon quest ix: sentinels of the starry skies, dragons, dragoons, dylan ail don, dylan jones, eidolons, emblem of roto, espers, euripides, final fantasy ii, final fantasy iii, final fantasy iv, final fantasy ix, final fantasy xii, groudon, helen of troy, hell, hellraiser, hellraiser ii, job, jona jones, jonah, kyogre, let's talk about myths baby, leviathan, lleviathan, mabinogion, manga, moon, mysidia, porth llaffan, psalms, ricard highwind, ringworms, robots, rydia of mist, ryujin, sea serpents, sharks, sin, summoned monsters, terry gilliam, the adventures of baron munchausen, ultima, whales, wobbegong sharks | 3 Comments

No Ordinary Rabbits

Posted on April 7, 2018 by Nathan

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 | Leave a comment

Lost and Found Tech

Posted on December 5, 2014 by Nathan

The level of technology throughout the games in the Final Fantasy series vastly differs, from sword-and-sorcery worlds in the earlier ones to more modern levels in later installments. There are a few items all of them have in common, like … Continue reading →

Posted in Chrono Trigger, Conspiracy Theories, Final Fantasy, History, Magic, Technology, Video Games | Tagged airships, aliens, atlantis, cecil harvey, chaos, chocobos, damcyan, dr. lugae, espers, final fantasy dissidia, final fantasy iii, final fantasy iv, final fantasy v, final fantasy vi, giant of babil, golbez, gorsia, kain highwind, kingdom of baron, kingdom of zeal, kluya, lavos, lost civilization, lufenia, lunar whale, lunarians, lux tizer, magitek, melenam, mysidia, plato, queen zeal, robots, ronka, sky castle, steampunk, tetujin, the 7th saga, tiamat, tower of zot, warmech | 2 Comments

The Dark Knight Changes Class

Posted on February 13, 2014 by Nathan

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 | 5 Comments

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