Tag Archives: sephiroth

Bad Company

Posted on August 20, 2015 by Nathan

In early Square role-playing games, it seemed like the go-to enemy organization was an evil empire. In the Final Fantasy universe, kingdoms are good (usually) and empires are bad, despite the fact that these games were made in a country … Continue reading →

Posted in Corporations, Final Fantasy, Focus on the Foes, Video Games | Tagged avalanche, cait sith, emperor gestahl, emperor mateus, emperor vandole, final fantasy ii, final fantasy vi, final fantasy vii, heidegger, kefka palazzo, mako energy, materia, palmer, president shinra, professor hojo, reeve tuesti, rufus shinra, scarlet, secret of mana, sephiroth, shinra electric power company | 1 Comment

Holy Ghost in the Machine

Posted on March 27, 2015 by Nathan

It’s a well-known fact that, back in the earlier days of Nintendo, they censored a lot of religious references in the English translations of games. It’s stated here that their policy was to exclude “symbols that are related to any … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Greek Mythology, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Magic, Mythology, Religion, Video Games, Zelda, Zoroastrianism | Tagged a link to the past, alltrades abbey, bible, celestria, censorship, corvus, crosses, devils, divinegon, dragon quest iii, dragon quest iv, dragon quest ix, dragon quest vi, dragon quest vii, farore, fiend, final fantasy vi, goddess, hades, hera, hylia, hyrule, jesus, kabbalah, kefka, nayru, nintendo, odin, oracle of ages, oracle of seasons, poseidon, rubiss, satan, sephiroth, sophia, temple of dharma, tetsuya nomura, triforce, warring triad, zenith dragon, zenithia, zenus, zeus, zurvan | 4 Comments

Light Warriors and Music

Posted on February 1, 2015 by Nathan

Orchestral performances of video game music have become more of a thing recently, and I say it’s about time. Beth and I saw the Symphony of the Goddesses, featuring Legend of Zelda music, a few years back. Last night, I … Continue reading →

Posted in Concerts, Final Fantasy, Music, Video Games | Tagged distant worlds, final fantasy iv, final fantasy ix, final fantasy vi, final fantasy vii, nobou uematsu, sephiroth, the legend of zelda: symphony of the goddesses | 1 Comment

A Whole New Kabbalah Game

Posted on September 23, 2013 by Nathan

After coming across the news that Rabbi Philip Berg, the guy who taught Kabbalah to Madonna and other celebrities, died yesterday, I thought I’d take a look at what Kabbalah actually is. I had been under the impression that it … Continue reading →

Posted in Final Fantasy, Judaism, Magic, Religion, Video Games | Tagged demons, kabbalah, madonna, new age, numerology, rabbi philip berg, sefirot, sephiroth, spirituality, torah, yoga | 8 Comments

Swords So Leisured

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Nathan

While the Final Fantasy games each have their own worlds and storylines, there are some common elements throughout the series, including the names of certain items. I believe every game in the series so far has a sword called the … Continue reading →

Posted in Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy, Historical Personages, History, Japan, Japanese, Mythology, Video Games | Tagged chang-tzu, dalton, doreen, dreamstone, frog, grandleon, guardia, masa and mune, masamune, melchior, murasama, porre, president harry truman, sephiroth, shoguns | 3 Comments

It’s a Round, Round Table

Posted on March 12, 2011 by Nathan

We all know about the Knights of the Round Table, King Arthur’s fierce warriors, initiators of chivalry, hunters of the Holy Grail, and able to take out Sephiroth with no trouble at all. But did the Knights really exist? I … Continue reading →

Posted in British, Christianity, Final Fantasy, History, Mythology, Religion, United Kingdom, Video Games | Tagged annales cambriae, camelot, chivalry, chretien de troyes, elaine of escalot, excalibur, final fantasy vii, fisher king, geoffrey of monmouth, green knight, holy grail, judas iscariot, king arthur, king ban of benoic, king bors, king constantine of britain, king leodegrance of cameliard, king lot of orkney, king pellinore, king uther pendragon, knights of the round table, lady of the lake, last supper, merlin, monsters, monty python and the holy grail, morgan le fay, questing beast, robert de boron, sephiroth, siege perilous, sir agravain, sir bedivere, sir bors, sir ector, sir gaheris, sir galahad, sir gareth, sir gawain, sir gawain and the green knight, sir gromer, sir grummore grummersum, sir kay, sir lancelot du lac, sir mordred, sir perceval, sir thomas malory, t.h. white, the once and future king, the wedding of sir gawain and dame ragnelle, wace | 8 Comments

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