{"id":15,"date":"2005-04-11T23:07:22","date_gmt":"2005-04-12T06:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2005\/ff-revisited\/"},"modified":"2005-04-12T01:08:17","modified_gmt":"2005-04-12T08:08:17","slug":"ff-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2005\/ff-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"FF revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/jason\/files\/ff6-battle.gif\" width=\"200\" height=\"174\" alt=\"Final Fantasy 6 battle screen\" title=\"Final Fantasy 6 battle screen\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All along I thought that my favorite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ffonline.com\/\">*Final Fantasy*<\/a> game was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ffonline.com\/ff4\/\">*FF4*<\/a> (*FF2* U.S.) was my favorite&#8230; then I replayed it and sorta had my doubts. Then I figured that since everyone likes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ffonline.com\/ff6\/\">*FF6*<\/a> the best, I would probably be all &#8220;rebelious&#8221; and like a different one, say <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ffonline.com\/ff7\/\">*FF7*<\/a> the best&#8230; well, it turns out that as I am re-playing *FF6*. I can definitely conclude that *FF6* is indeed my favorite.<\/p>\n<p>I think my love for *FF4* has mainly to do with nostalgia. I rememember playing it all the time back in elementary school&#8230; then in junior high I became even more obsessed and started writing a whole strategy guide\/walk-through (before they were all over the internet) for the game!! But yah, I replayed it about a year ago, and the magic was gone. Oh well. Such is the way of nostalgia.<\/p>\n<p>But *FF5* &#8212; damn! I am very much a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maximalism\">&#8220;maximalist,&#8221;<\/a> so the more things the better. And *FF5* is packed with things &#8212; tons of characters (including two &#8220;hidden&#8221; characters), tons of espers and magic spells, tons of items, two worlds, etc. etc. And then, of course, the game becomes totally non-linear in the World of Ruin, which totally rocks.<\/p>\n<p>So point of the story: I still want to revisit *FF7* to see if that one could be my favorite. I love the environmental themes of that game and it&#8217;s somewhat &#8220;postmodern&#8221; themes (seriously, we talked about that in my Postmodernism and Japanese Mass Culture course!). For now, though, *FF6* remains my favorite *Final Fantasy* game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All along I thought that my favorite *Final Fantasy* game was *FF4* (*FF2* U.S.) was my favorite&#8230; then I replayed it and sorta had my doubts. Then I figured that since everyone likes *FF6* the best, I would probably be all &#8220;rebelious&#8221; and like a different one, say *FF7* the best&#8230; well, it turns out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2005\/ff-revisited\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FF revisited<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}