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Final Fantasy III
12-08-13 05:03 AM
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Final Fantasy III- A Review
Deep in the snowy mountains near the city of Narshe, a strange being called an Esper has just been discovered frozen in ice. Two soldiers of the lately hostile Gestahlian Empire are sent to investigate the matter, while also accompanying a young woman who seems to be under their control. Upon finding the strange creature, it uses magic to kill the soldiers and free the woman, making her realize she was being mind controlled the whole time as a test subject for the Empire's new technology, though her memory is fuzzy and she has trouble remembering anything else other than her name, Terra. Around her a group of unconventional people begins to form: freedom fighters, monarchs, warriors, magic users and even eccentric strangers are drawn together for different reasons, as the Emperor's right hand man Kefka begins to make his move and the world reveals the secret of magic to this curious band...
Final Fantasy VI was released in the USA as Final Fantasy III, causing quite a bit of confusion because of its unconventional numbering: the previous entry to be released stateside was Final Fantasy IV, renamed Final Fantasy II. (The matter is headache-inducing. Thankfully the next game of the series, Final Fantasy VII, did not have its title changed. For the purposes of this review, we will refer to game in its original title from now on.) From a game history standpoint, it is an important title: it is the last game of the franchise to be released for the SNES before its jump to the PlayStation, it marks the directorial debut of Yoshinori Kitase and Hiroyuki Itou, two people who would shape the series in a completely different direction from the last games, and it is the first game to explore science fiction elements, in contrast with the medieval fantasies of previous games. But the most important part of its legacy is its fame as one of the best RPGs of all time, if not the genre’s outright masterpiece. This is certainly a bold statement, and having to compete w... Read the rest of this Review
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Fire Emblem
12-02-13 01:34 PM
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Fire Emblem - Review
In the distant past, the land of Elibe was ravaged by a devastating war known as The Scouring: Men and Dragons fought hard against each other, and the war was finally over after the latter were defeated and then never heard of again... Flash forward over a thousand years after the war, and the player, a newbie tactician, stumbles upon a lovely girl named Lyndis, who lives on her own at the planes of Sacae. The arrival of two knights from the kingdom of Caelin who inform Lyn of her royal ancestry, prompt her to seek her rightful place as ruler of the kingdom and ask her to prevent her evil uncle's rise to power are but the first in a series of events that shall bring great change in the land, for better or for worse...
Released in the US at the winter of 2003, Fire Emblem is the seventh installment in the Fire Emblem franchise, a popular turn-based tactical RPG series in Japan (where it was released with the subtitle Rekka no Ken, which translates to Blazing Sword), and the first to be exported to the English-speaking world. And it shows: you can tell there's an expansive world as you play, but thankfully that really isn't much of a hindrance. Quite the contrary, actually: you will either spend quite a few time in the special Fire Emblem Wikis to find more about the history of the nations, or seek out the previous games. It may take some time to learn which faction is allied to whom and why, and which lord governs which castle, but after a while the player gets drawn into the world and learns to recognise the names. The story focuses on a few selected young nobles and their quests for peace, family, identity and the occasional good brawl, and is dependant on typical fantasy tropes: lost kingdoms, end-of-the-world scenarios, evildoers seeking power, a bunch of lords and misfits gathering together to restore the balance as a ragtag group, clashing philosophies between different cultures and peoples... Add a sprinkle of romance to the mix and you have a s... Read the rest of this Review
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