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The Never Ending Realm features video game reviews, fan-fiction, fan-art, and more! Since 2003. Read all of our opinion pieces here!

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Buying a “Renewed” Nintendo 64 From Amazon? Read This First!

Posted on January 26, 2024 by Samuel Rivera

If you have read my work on this page for the past 20 years, you will know that I love the Nintendo 64. “Love” is actually a bit of an understatement. The Nintendo 64 is the home console that I can’t live without…even today in 2024. Given the statement above, you can imagine my suffering…

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A Version of Final Fantasy XVI for the PS4 Existed at One Point

Posted on January 22, 2024 by Samuel Rivera

Given Square Enix’s recent financial woes, Final Fantasy XVI’s PS5 exclusivity was questioned by some. The game’s confinement to a single platform was bound to hurt its sales. In our review of the game we remarked that some of the texture work, and effects present in the game were of last generation quality. The confirmed…

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5 Things That Would Have Won Tears of the Kingdom GOTY

Posted on December 31, 2023December 31, 2023 by Usmania

As I have made clear in one of my previous features, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom was a gaming phenomenon. So much so, I rated it in my top 3 (canon) Zelda games of all time. It really took some of the best aspects of Breath of the Wild and combined it…

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Final Fantasy Continues its Struggle to Find an Identity: Creative Business Unit 3’s FFXVI Team Has Been Disbanded

Posted on December 20, 2023January 1, 2024 by Samuel Rivera

Identity, who you are, is essential to success in life, sports, and yes, video games. Final Fantasy hasn’t settled in an identity of its own as a franchise since series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi was forced to walk away from Square Enix two decades ago.  The first nine Final Fantasy games followed a similar template, despite…

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Zelda and Final Fantasy Lose to Baldur’s Gate 3 at the Game Awards… and I am Okay With That!

Posted on December 8, 2023 by Samuel Rivera

So, the yearly Game Awards took place last night, and in a year where Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom scored a 96 Metacritic rating, it seemed like Nintendo, and the Zelda Series had locked another global GotY win. This would have been the third time the series would have won it…

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The Top 5 Most Memorable Storylines in 1990s Turn-Based JRPGs

Posted on November 30, 2023 by Samuel Rivera

So, given that I spent the last month writing a The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time piece for its 25th anniversary, I decided to give other 1990s games some love. Today, I am remembering, and listing the most memorable Storylines from turn-based RPGs that I played during the magical 16 bit – 32 bit…

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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time AKA ‘The GOAT’ Turns a Quarter Century and We Remember it!

Posted on November 23, 2023 by Samuel Rivera

It is hard to believe, but The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time turns 25 years old today. That’s 9131 days for those of us who like to keep count of such things. That’s a long time, if you were 13-14 years old like me, you are now approaching 40, might have kids (some that…

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Zelda Movie Director Called a Possible The Legend of Zelda movie the “Next Avatar Like-Film” in 2010

Posted on November 14, 2023November 14, 2023 by Samuel Rivera

On November 7th, Nintendo announced that a Live-Action The Legend of Zelda movie was on development alongside Sony pictures. Of course, given that Nintendo’s Mario made over 1 billion dollars at the box office earlier this year, The Legend of Zelda, which always had more potential for telling a gripping a story, was bound to…

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Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth’s Big Surprise: Aerith Lives?

Posted on October 30, 2023 by Samuel Rivera

This is a Pseudo News/Opinionated article. The news part is that FFVII: Rebirth’s director confirmed what we all have speculated since the end of Final Fantasy VII: Remake…Which is that Final Fantasy VII: “Remake” was more of a sequel with a “remade” timeline, as he let it slip that Rebirth’s take on the events that…

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TBT: 27 Years of Super Mario 64: Turning My Love for Super Mario into a Family Tradition

Posted on October 26, 2023 by Samuel Rivera

Yes, it has been 27 years since Super Mario 64. Despite the fact that this article is mainly focused on that Nintendo 64 groundbreaking title, it wouldn’t be fair to say that the first game to get 3-D right has been the most influential game of my gaming life…even though it could be.  While I…

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