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Final Fantasy VI Recast – A Video Games of the Oppressed exclusive romhack
After my first investigation of romhacks, I was interested in diving in and actually trying to make one. Inspired by the recent surge in gender-swap hacks to promote positive female roles in video...
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Jade Cocoon – A Pokemon-Knockoff of the Oppressed?
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Once upon a time God, in the form of a great tree, created a vast forest and gave birth to divine beings to help him populate it with creatures. The divine...
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Bahamut Jazz
Ever since I briefly wrote about the game several months ago (practically an eternity) I wanted to spend more time with my interpretation of Bahamut Lagoon, a SNES-era strategy rpg from the makers of...
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Life After Exdeath
Console RPGS tend to be a pretty solitary experience. Here is a way to turn a solo grind-fest into a cooperative game or even an avenue for debate and discussion. Both players begin a game of Final...
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She Who Fights Monsters
She Who Fights Monsters is a game by Gaming Pixie that uses the conventions of Japanese RPGs and survival horror games to tell a story of abuse. The story follows Jennifer, whose father suffers from...
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Great Game Moments: The Marrymore Suite
Marrymore is a town in Super Mario RPG where toad couples go to get married. Apparently it is the only place in the Mushroom Kingdom where fungal weddings can take place, a downside to the fact that...
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Legend of Mana
In 70 AD, the Romans sacked and burned Jerusalem. This was at the end of a several year long siege, which had left the inhabitants dying in the street from hunger and thirst. Josephus, mediator for...
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Final Fantasy X’s Generational Conflict or “I Hate You (Really) Big Daddy”
The JRPG genre has always had strong thematic connections to adolescence and growing up. The standard opening of such games, where a young kid from a nowhere, backwater burg stretches their legs,...
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Final Fantasy V – Hope in a time of environmental crisis
Most people would consider Final Fantasy VII, with its opening party members being an environmental terrorist group and its focus on materia as a metaphor for fossil fuels, as being the most overtly...
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The Untold History of Slimes
This essay originally appeared at Readyset Zam For many adventurers, they are the first victory. Millions die every year to help plucky young farm kids reach level 2. But what do we really know about...
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