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My gripes with the Final Fantasy 13 trilogy

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...

Can Final Fantasy 15 Revive the Aging Final Fantasy Franchise? Part 2: A Look at the Game

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...

Can Final Fantasy 15 Revive the Aging Final Fantasy Franchise? Part 1

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...

Kabum E-Sports pulls off upset win over Alliance on Day 4 of LCS Championship

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...