Final Fantasy X Essays

  • Sophomore Year Experience

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    It was the most time I ever put into one piece of poetry. I wrote it after a character from the game Final Fantasy XIII. The letter was to the character’s sister explaining her feelings to her sister. The poem was really sad behind the sophisticated words, but I am still satisfied with the poem. Even today, I still have not written a poem that could beat this

  • Review of Final Fantasy 13

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    the roles of the characters and controls their actions in order to further character development. RPGs generally have a strong story and character back story that fully immerses the player in the fictional world. Final Fantasy 13 or FF13 for short is the 13th installment in the Final Fantasy franchise and it that falls under this genre of gaming. A game of this genre and style should strive to have well developed visuals, a complete story, full character backstories that are interesting, a non-linear

  • Square Enix: Success in the Gaming Industry

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    develop and release on one of the most well known game series on the market. They released Final Fantasy in 1987 and it soon became the company's first hit. (GameFAQs, n.d.) The designer, Hironobu Sakaguchi, created a game that would revolutionize game play for years to come. The game drew inspiration from Enix's Dragon Quest and Nintendo's smash hit, The Legend of Zelda.(GameFAQs, n.d.) Final Fantasy would go on to produce nearly thirty-games. (GameFAQs, n.d.) The franchise is still growing

  • What Are Yoshitaka Amano's Major Accomplishments

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    town outside of Shizuoka, Japan, underneath Mount Fuji. Amano was born on March 26th, 1952 and is currently still alive to this day. Amano had many major accomplishments, mainly from working in Character Design. He worked on every one of the Final Fantasy games up until today. Another major accomplishment, in my mind, was that he was technically the creator (co-wrote) the animated movie Angel's Egg. The movie was based off of his style of art, as well as him co-writing it. The movie Angel's Egg

  • Types of Gamers

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    Video games have become one of the largest forms of entertainment within the last decade or two. People of all ages play these games to get out of the boring reality of things and experience the thrill of fantasy, combat, or adventure. But what kind of games gives you the experience you want? Some may want to control one person, a great being on a quest to restore his or her torn land, wielding great powers and becoming enveloped in a great story. Others may want to control a million persons, on

  • Interactive Fiction: Computer Games

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    characters I had grown attached to. Not long after this I bought a copy of a computer game called Final Fantasy 7. It changed the way I viewed storytelling completely. In the first few moments of the game I was placed in control of a character where I made the decisions. I chose where to go, what to do, who to talk to, even what to SAY! For the first time, I was able to actually live out a fantasy that all readers indulge in - being IN the story! And what a story it was. The game experience was

  • Elements of The Lord of the Rings in Final Fantasy VIII

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    Elements of The Lord of the Rings in Final Fantasy VIII J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy is arguably the most influential work of fantasy literature in modern times. Its epic tale of good against evil and its surreal world of magical and unusual characters and places have captured and enchanted readers since its publication half a century ago. The story of the struggle to destroy the One Ring still influences numerous tales of adventure in literature, film, and role-playing

  • Final Fantasy 13: Breakthrough Video Game

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    an excellent mixture of strategy and fast-paced motion? Well if that game is Final Fantasy 13, a single player game developed by Square Enix, you have played a game that Gaming Age calls “one of the most gorgeous games to grace a video game console”. Playing this game was one of the greatest moments of my life. This game has actually influenced me to go full force in wanting to make video games for a living. Final Fantasy 13, in my opinion, has accentuated the great gaming potential of the Xbox 360®

  • Great RPG

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    ”Jonez (2013). Many of the best RPG’s have no voice acting when some of the best voice acting are in horrible RPG’s. One example of a great RPG is Final Fantasy VII. The game came out in the late 90’s. It was popular in both Japan and America. Engulfing players across multiple consoles and PC’s in an in-depth world filled with adventure and fun. Final Fantasy VII changed the way RPG’s are made and revolutionized RPG’s as a whole with its intense in depth story line and its multi-leveling. “FF7 is, without

  • Pillars Of Competition Essay

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    and tactical combat. Kickstarter Crowdfunding Campaign Pillars of Eternity used the game engine Unity that applied both 2D and 3D effects. When the game development started, game developers at Obsidian released a teaser of the game entitled Project X on September 12, 2012. Four days later, they launched a Kickstarter campaign to reveal more details about the project. After 24 hours, many fans

  • Hyper-Reality In The Beach

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    in” (15) did not only represent the means to finding the beach, but the means to finding “the beach” in its supposed perfection as Richard says, “…on one of a cluster of small islands I noticed a black mark. An X mark… Written underneath in tiny letters was the word “Beach” (15). The “X” marks the spot of the beach among the other cluster of beaches in the map. It represents the idea of a treasure map reinforcing the exceptional reward cliché embedded in Western culture. More so, it reinforced the

  • Heroes and Heroines

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    Heroes and Heroines "Who the heck are you?" Victor Frankenstein cried. "What the heck are you?" "I am the wretch created by your beloved Elizabeth," cried the vaguely female wretch. "Elizabeth has passed the limits of the human realm and in her feverish pursuit of the essential knowledge of the world she has spawned the being that you now see before you!" "And what do you want from me, you frightening monstrosity whom my innocent and sheltered eyes should never have been made to look upon

  • Similarities Between Oscar And Yunior

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    similarities with another group of beings in the same universe known as the X-Men. The X-Men, which are a race of “hybrid species” (as Joy Sanchez-Taylor refers to them in her journal), are not all that different that Dominican Americans, and, by association, Oscar and Yunior. Yunior even addresses the likeness between Oscar and fictional race himself what he writes in the footnotes “You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a bookish boy of color in a contemporary U.S. ghetto”

  • The Five Basic Characteristics Of Serial Killers

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    law enforcement and sometimes the judge. The fourth characteristic which is an important one is “a superficial charmer” this is when they use other people 's emotions and vulnerability to convince them to do something they would not usually do. The final trait of a serial killer is that they are “an average joe” meaning you would never

  • Flannery OConnor

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    South" and the "New South". Julian must come to terms with himself, either he is an over protective son or just a pain in her ass. Even though Julian seems to dislike his mother's viewpoints, he continues to depends on her for "stability". When the final confrentation between Julian's mother and the large black women results in her having a heart attack, to which Julian is oblivious to, it causes him to be overwhelmed with greif and fear. He only then realizes the extent of his self-deception is fully

  • Oedipus Rex, Hamlet, & Willy Loman Comparison

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    up in his delusional world, that reality and illusion fuse, causing an internal explosion that leads to his downfall. Each play enacts the struggle of a man attempting to come to grips with his own, harsh reality and leaving behind his comfortable fantasy world. In the end, no man can escape the truth no matter how hard he may fight it. In choosing the fragility of chimera over the stability of reality, the characters meet their inevitable ruin. From the beginning of Sophocles’ unfortunate play, Oedipus

  • The Theme Of Redemption In The Lives Of The Dead?

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    save us" (224). Entitled "The Lives of the Dead," this final chapter thus begins with a promise not only of healing, but of redemption as well. Stories, the narrator suggests, can heal the traumatized veteran of the Vietnam War and provoke an amnesiac nation into "working through" its troubled past. If, as John Hellemann has written, "the legacy of Vietnam is the disruption of our story, of our explanation of the past and vision of the future" (x), then O 'Brien 's narrator apparently points "the disrupted

  • Nintendo Research Paper

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    Daryl Cunningham April 18, 2018 Dr. Stinson BUS-430 When it comes to video game companies the one that has the most extended history to date is Nintendo. What started out as a small company it grew to the vision that people has seen today. Even though there are two companies that not only have console and games, nevertheless Nintendo were the ones that help put video games back on the market. This evidence appears by going through the overview, financial, use of technology, and SWOT/Porter Five

  • Argumentative Essay: Is It's Just An Anime?

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    explained in the manga(if it has) or going to be in the following season, then it's pointless. It would be like Final Fantasy XV, where the developers expected all the customers to also watch the movie. If you didn't it's your fault for not watching the movie first. Subaru entering to the magical world is without a doubt an "asspull" which I'll give more examples later. As ridiculous in Hunter x Hunter as how Meruem was born from an evolution of Chimera Ant, at least the show explained how it became

  • Nintendo 64: The Golden Age Of Console

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    PlayStation 2 gamers were the real winners with titles like Final Fantasy X, Kingdom Hearts, Devil May Cry and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. Meanwhile, PlayStation gamers got first dibs on titles like Medal of Honor: Frontline, Metal Gear Solid 2, Grand Theft Auto III and Vice City. Nintendo gamers got the Resident