Final Fantasy: A Matter of “Tactics”
Winning battles in Final Fantasy requires more than just resilience and determination… to be victorious in these battles we must both know our enemies as well as effectively plan our […]
Final Fantasy: Turn-Based Strategies in a Real-Time Battle
While there are over a dozen entries and rising in the mainline Final Fantasy franchise, the way players engage in combat comes down to two basic concepts… the slower, turn-based […]
Final Fantasy: Stepping Out Onto the Water
Most of my Final Fantasy experiences start out the same way… I spend a few hours learning who I am and how to play the game, meet some new friends […]
Final Fantasy X: Tidus and the Importance of our Words
Most of the games in the Final Fantasy series do a fantastic job building scenes where the musical score sets the perfect mood for the dialogue that is coming next… […]
Final Fantasy X and Blitzball: A Matter of Discipline
This is going to be a mildly controversial take… as much as I loved almost everything about playing Final Fantasy X, I never enjoyed ANY aspect of the Blitzball matches. […]
Final Fantasy X: The Most Dangerous Deception of All
Final Fantasy X is one of my personal favorites in the franchise for many different reasons, but the awareness level of Tidus, the game’s protagonist, is NOT one of those […]
Master Chief, Link, and When Less is More
Perpetually stoic and silent protagonists are pretty common in our video games, and many of our most beloved characters like John-117 or Link from the Legend of Zelda series are […]
FFX: The Prerequisites of Perfect Love
Almost all games have prerequisites built into them… for example, we can’t unlock the most powerful abilities on our character’s skill tree until we have achieved the basic ones first. […]
Finishing the Fight: The Bittersweet Taste of the End Game (2 Timothy 4)
I have fallen prey to this more times than I can count… that deep feeling of melancholy associated with reaching the final endgame sequence in a well-told video game story. […]
Finding God in Video Games 