amioneofthem prompted me to "talk about one most important work of fiction in your entire life for you personally, what was a formative/life-changing experience without which you wouldn't be here as you are now regardless of your current feelings about the source material. About what kind of impact it had on you and why ( Read more... )

This is the last segment because I finished the game! This makes Final Fantasy VII the first Final Fantasy game I have actually finished. (I've made it to endgame for another three. What can I say? I love playing the games and don't typically feel compelled to put and end to that.) Screenshots from Caves of Narshe, as always.


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This is a short entry because Part III ended so close to the end of Disc Two. But except for the the frustratingly slow shuffle through the tunnels beneath Midgar, the events of this entry were NON-STOP EPIC. Screencaps are from Caves of Narshe.

( spoilers for disc two )

I played so much FF7 this weekend, but I don't actually have much to say. This entry goes up to the defeat of Diamond Weapon. Screencaps are from Caves of Narshe.

( spoilers for entire game )

This installment of "Fred Plays Final Fantasy VII" takes us from Nibelheim to the end of Disc One! Which is quite a lot. Two more party members, a date, a betrayal, Cloud losing it a few times, one less party member, tears, and a lot of foreshadowing. Screencaps are from Caves of Narshe.

( spoilers for whole game )

These entries will be essentially be love letters to one of the most perfect games of all time. (Watch as a third of the sentences begin with "I love".) I'm actually at Gongaga already, but with the rate at which I have been gushing to friends and Tumblr and TextEdit files, I figured I should actually collect my ~FEELINGS!!!~ somewhere. This entry ( Read more... )

To be more accurate, I am bored in lecture most days. But on one particular day, I decided to kick that boredom by having a one-sided chat to an absent ipsius (something I do often) and ended up writing a Doctor Who/Final Fantasy VII crossover.

I was just being silly, but perhaps some of you will enjoy it.

Spoilers for Crisis Core (sort of) and "The ( Read more... )

I only considered character themes from Bahamut Lagoon, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy VI to X-2, the Kingdom Hearts series, and the two Tales of Symphonia games because I haven't played many other games with character themes. Those games alone added about 70 songs to my collection of video game music because I had to listen to every single ( Read more... )

Saturday, July 18, 2009 at 8:00 Davies Symphony Hall

Distant Worlds:
music from FINAL FANTASY

featuring the music of
Nobuo Uematsu

Arnie Roth
conducting the
San Francisco Symphony

Last night I attended the Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy concert in San Francisco. It blew me away. I had not expected it to be so good, since much of the ( Read more... )