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Final Fantasy VII

Final Fantasy VII Remake Aerith

TBT: Final Fantasy VII: That Time a Popular Game Killed its Princess

Posted on January 19, 2023January 20, 2023 by Samuel Rivera

So, at this point, it is well known in the gaming world (it has been nearly 26 years), that Aeris (now known as Aerith) died (was murdered really) in Final Fantasy VII. Gamers born after the fact, or near it, will not quite appreciate the shock and awe factor, of watching a heroine, or better…

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Final Fantasy VIII: The Most Underrated Final Fantasy?

Posted on October 21, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

Now, the heading above, will sound hypocritical to some who have read our reviews over the past 20 years (the site turns 20 in 2023). Until very recently, I did not like Final Fantasy VIII; at least, not nearly as much as I did its legendary predecessor. Final Fantasy VIII was the first video game…

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Final Fantasy XVI to be More Mature Than its Predecessors?

Posted on July 3, 2022July 3, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

News and recent trailer of the upcoming Final Fantasy XVI have been exciting for many FF fans for a variety of different reasons. First, the game is seen as some sort of rebirth for the series after nearly two decades of unpopular mainline Final Fantasy games. Second, the game’s producer, Naoki Yoshida, has a good…

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Sephiroth Nibelheim Incident

The Best Games of 1997 According to GameRankings

Posted on March 30, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

Ah! 1997! The year where pop music and JRPGs boomed into mainstream consciousness. By this time, the Sega Saturn was done, as rumors of a successor codenamed “Black Belt” were flourishing quickly in western media.   Proof of the Saturn’s impending doom is that none of its games made it to the top ten listing…

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Batman (Robert Pattinson): I Thought I Was in Love with Aeris and Tifa!

Posted on March 4, 2022March 4, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

Hollywood stars, while rich and famous, also happen to play video games. Even JRPGs like Final Fantasy VII! In Robert Pattinson’s case, it is likely that he played Final Fantasy VII back in the 1990s, before he was famous. But his experience with the game has stuck with him for decades. According to an interview…

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Final Fantasy VII Remake

Final Fantasy VII Remake Part 2 Information Coming Later This Year 

Posted on February 8, 2022February 8, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

None of us expected the Final Fantasy VII Remake project to be completed on the PlayStation 4. In fact, most of us don’t expect the new series of FFVII titles to be finished before 2030. Case in point, FFVIIR-2 has yet to be announced, even though FFVIIR will turn two years old in just a…

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Throwback Bit Thursday: Final Fantasy VII – The Game That Changed Fortunes

Posted on February 3, 2022February 4, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

This week, Final Fantasy VII turned 25 years old (Japanese release), and it seems like the perfect moment to think back and reflect on how big a game it was for both the Japanese Role-Playing genre and the PlayStation’s emergence as the dominant home console player in the mid to late 1990s.   Squaresoft Never…

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Stranded on a Deserted Island: The Top 10 Games I Would Want to Have

Posted on January 25, 2022January 26, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

What ten games would you bring if you were stranded on a deserted island? has crossed my mind before and is an often used, made up scenario to discuss “the best”. In the unlikely event I ended up stranded on a deserted island, I would need an irrational Tetsuya Nomura/Kazushigue Nojima plot device that would…

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Legend of Dragoon

The Legend of Dragoon Remake: Hate Mail Grab Bag Redux

Posted on January 16, 2022January 16, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

Back in August last year, I replied to some of the ‘hate mail’ we received from our historic, and most popular fiction work on the site: The Legend of Dragoon April Fools Remake Spoof. Since then, the article has remained a popular fixture on our site, and we have made some new enemies, and perhaps,…

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Breath of the Wild

Breath of the Wild is the Greatest of All Time According to Japan (Top 100 Games List)

Posted on December 28, 2021January 21, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

A Japanese TV Channel took up the task of polling 50,000 Japanese gamers. The poll asked these gamers to name their favorite game of all time. Given the large sample size of polled gamers, the choices listed here represent the current state of Japanese gaming, as far as Japan’s favorite games go. So let’s do…

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