The Church of Takwanza

The last time I did one of these blogs, I did a review on Final Fantasy 1, and what I thought it brought to the JRPG genre. This time I will be taking a look at Final Fantasy 2, and when I say Final Fantasy 2, I mean the one that was released in Japan, not the one that was released in North America which was actually Final Fantasy 4 (I'll get to that one eventually). So please enjoy my take on Final Fantasy 2. During the past couple of months, I have been playing Final Fantasy 2 non-stop. The game was a lot more fun than I thought initially going into the game because of all of the negative things I had heard about the game. However, even though I had fun with the game, I had a hard time with the battle system that they decided to implement in this installment, and I also did not really like the characters too much. Even though I didn't really like the characters and battle mechanics too much, the part that really carried the game for me was the story, even though it is cons...

Final Fantasy 13. The game that is considered to be one of the weakest Final Fantasy games ever created in the history of the franchise. The original Final Fantasy 13 wasn't even that bad to be honest, but things turned south once they decided to milk the story for everything it was worth by giving it not ONE, but TWO sequels. Yes, TWO sequels. Now I know what some of you are thinking, "Final Fantasy 13-2 and Lightning Returns were great games." First of all, those of you who think that FF13 was one of the strongest games in the franchise need to leave, now, and never come back...ever. Secondly, the sales speak for themselves people. *First of all, I just want to get this off of my chest. I hate the Final Fantasy 13 trilogy, and when I say I hate it, I mean I really HATE it. To be more clear, I think that Final Fantasy 13 is a fine game, I would even say that it isn't as bad as people say it is. When I say I hate the trilogy, I am mostly talking about the 2nd and 3r...

In my previous blog, I talked about how the Final Fantasy series took a wrong turn starting from Final Fantasy 10 when plot and setting got put onto the back burner, and that Square Enix needs to fix these problems if they want to make another great games like Final Fantasy 6 and 7. However this blog is about taking a look at the game and seeing how good it would be from the information that we have, so without further ado, let's begin. So, from what we know we know that the main character of the game is Noctis. Noctis is the prince, and heir to the throne of Lucis, one of the 4 major nations in the game. Each nation holds onto 1 of the 4 crystals to keep the peace and keep each nation on equal grounding. This time of peace is shattered though because the nation of Niflheim wages wars on the other nations in hopes of taking their crystals. Noctis and friends now have to stop Niflheim from taking the crystals, and also restore peace to the world. Now I know what you are saying, cl...

For many Final Fantasy fans like myself, Final Fantasy 15 seems like a ray of sunshine on a stormy day that will bring the Final Fantasy franchise to its former glory. The hope for us fans is that the game will be able to bring Final Fantasy back to mainstream gaming industry like it used to be years ago. A lot of hype about the game has been generated due to how good the game looks, but one question still remains. Can Final Fantasy 15 deliver? Well let's take a look at the Final Fantasy franchise history, and see where things went wrong. In my opinion things started to get rough for the Final Fantasy series around Final Fantasy 10. Even though Final Fantasy 10 is admittedly an extremely good game, the story was not as strong as the previous games. To make things brief, Final Fantasy 10 is basically about a summoner and her guardians on a quest to defeat Sin, a giant monster who comes back after every time you kill him. The baseline for the story seems okay at first, but the exec...

The league of legends world championship has always been a time where emotions are high and crazy things happen. Some of the best plays in League of Legends history have been made here, and also Cinderella stories have happened like when TPA won the season 2 world championship. However, today one of the largest upsets in league of legends history happened when Brazil's Kabum E-Sports beat EU LCS champs, Alliance. The dream for Kabum started when the won the international wildcard tournament, making it into the World Championship by taking down Pineapple Express 3 to 0 in a best of 5 series. The league of legends world championship is structured in a way that 2 teams in the championship are wildcard teams. These teams generally tend to do very poorly, and usually end up losing all of their games. Even though Kabum failed to make it out of group stages this year, their win against Alliance is very important to for them.  Recently, people on social media, especially Reddit, hav...

Final Fantasy Mystic Quest was a game released for the SNES on October 5th, 1992 in North America. The Final Fantasy series is characterized by an easy to use but hard to master kind of game play in each of the main series titles. However, Final Fantasy Mystic Quest was different from the rest of the games in the bunch. Final Fantasy Mystic Quest was originally released in North America first because the Japanese producer, SquareSoft, worried that their games were too hard for the North American audience, so they made Mystic Quest as an easy to play game. Mystic Quest was intended to be an easy game for people to play, but due to its lack in difficulty, it has amassed a bad reputation over the years. Even though most reviews of the game are generally averse, I personally really like the game. It might be my nostalgia talking, but I found the game sort of relaxing after playing some of the harder games in the Final Fantasy series, (I'm looking at you Final Fantasy 2). Fina...

When I think of Squaresoft, the first game that comes to mind for me is Final Fantasy. Final Fantasy is one of the most iconic Role-Playing Games, RPG's for short, in the gaming industry. A game that was originally created to be the final game of a failing company (hence the name final fantasy), ended up becoming more than just a fantasy for the creators of this game. Now what made such a simple game so successful that it ended up bringing a company out of bankruptcy, and made them one of the top dogs of the industry? Luckily, modern technology has allowed for me to get my hands on the game, so I was able to take a look into the game that would end up becoming part of a franchise of over 20 titles. The player controls the 4 characters in a boss fight against Lich, the Earth Fiend in the iOS port of Final Fantasy 1 I was a little skeptical when I was about to play Final Fantasy 1 for the first time. I thought that the game feel outdated due to how old the game was, but t...