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Final Fantasy XII Short Post Today Posted 21:53 11th July 2007 Final Fantasy XII is orgasmically awesome. That is all. Kupo Posted 23:36 13th July 2007 Also, the Moogles in FFXII are downright adorable. I mean, everything about that game is genuinely beautiful but the Moogles... they're the cutest things ever. Although they seem a bit more bad-ass if you do what I do and mentally translate the word 'kupo' to 'fucktard'. That's what I think it means, kupo. Final Star Fantasy Wars Posted 18:28 (GMT) 5th September 2007 Okay
now I want to talk about Final Fantasy XII. This is old
news even for me. I have in the past made Final Fantasy
comics
and even a (very) short news
post to announce...that the game existed. But for most
people the airship has sailed. Well, since I spend most of my time
reading and writing about 500-year-old works of literature, a game
that was published as recently as February is still new in my book.
Life on the Fourth Floor is not a video-game comic. It's
about life (specifically on a floor), of which video games are a
part, but it is not the only topic on which I am prepared to write.
Since most of the comics have been written a full year before their
date of publication there seems to be a strong feeling of the past
in the comic, with comics about old
adverts, old
games, old
films and old
TV shows. Call it nouveaux-retro. Again, this was accidental
but this time it is 'a thing'. So, without further apology,
I present yesterday's news today. I've been playing Final Fantasy for the whole summer. Everyone will tell you the game looks beautiful but I've noticed the feel of the visuals - the lighting, the design of the buildings and the creatures you talk to - carry with them a certain Jim-Henson-creature-workshop feel, if you know what I mean, that I find charming. My reaction to the battle system was not love at first sight but, as is the nature of true love, I grew to love it over time. It literally depicts what previous systems have tried to represent - it's quicker, it's convenient and it's unpredictable. All in all A+. Now, onto the real meat of the post: the similarity between the game and the original Star Wars trilogy. I know I have fandango'd in the past with drawing fairly abstract comparisons between very different works but... come on. My friend James has noticed this, too. Are there others? Are we alone in this belief? Let's list some of the things they have in common. By the way, this list will contain spoilers (of both Final Fantasy and Star Wars) but I'll endeavour to avoid them where possible. (This is where writing months after the release of the game comes in handy.) Stop reading now unless you've played the game and seen the film trilogy or you don't care.
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