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Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings
Story spoilers ahead Introduction I almost didn’t play Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings. I was mostly just excited to move on to Final Fantasy XIII, and the week that I started playing Revenant Wings, Final Fantasy Resonance had just released. I really enjoyed the...
Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age
Heavy spoilers ahead Introduction It’s been just over a month since I started Final Fantasy XII. This time the gap between starting and finishing wasn’t because I lost interest, like it was with Final Fantasy VIII. It’s because I got a new job, and now I only have...
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles
Spoilers ahead Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles was another one of those games that I had some fond childhood memories of. I've played a smattering of the game here and there throughout my teenage years, and one time I even got to play it multiplayer, which I'll go...
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
Before I started this whole Final Fantasy endeavour, Final Fantasy Tactics Advance was my most-played Final Fantasy game by a long shot. I played it on my platinum Game Boy Advance SP, and I played the daylights out of this game. It's one of the first times I remember...
Final Fantasy X-2
Introduction I initially didn't plan on playing Final Fantasy X-2. But one of my friends decided to join me on my Final Fantasy X playthrough. And by join me, we played our games separately and texted each other our exciting and frustrating moments. When we both...
Final Fantasy X
Final Fantasy Challenge Home Page Heavy story spoilers ahead Introduction “Listen to my story.” Those are the first voice-acted words spoken in the Final Fantasy franchise. They’re spoken by Tidus as Final Fantasy X begins in medias res. A group of people sit around a...
Final Fantasy PlayStation 1 Trilogy Retrospective
Final Fantasy Challenge Home Page Playing through Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VIII, and Final Fantasy IX back-to-back really drives home just how much of a turning point the PlayStation era was for the series. The series moved on from being so iterative and...
Final Fantasy IX
Final Fantasy Challenge Home Page Heavy story spoilers ahead I really didn’t mean for this much time to pass between talking about Final Fantasy VIII and Final Fantasy IX, but life kind of got in the way in a way I didn’t fully expect. One of the biggest barriers to...
Cairn – Video Game Review
Spoilers ahead. You have been warned. In the fall of 2019, my wife and I started climbing at our local gym. We fell in love immediately. It was a cathartic challenge—physical, yes, but also deeply mental. There’s something uniquely satisfying about staring at a wall...
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