When I was but a wee lad, sometime in the early 90’s there was a new store that opened up in my hometown called Phar-Mor. It was not unlike your average Walgreens or CVS; a pharmacy with some essential grocery type goods. But Phar-Mor was something special. They had Nintendo rentals for 39 cents [...]

Round two of Tube Tuesday comes to you this week after a last Monday post (does that technically make this the Monday post?) Anyway…I like this segment, but I want to spread out the posts a little bit more so I’m not sure where everything is going to land just yet. Also I am trying [...]

I hope you’re all enjoying your E3 coverage, which can be found, well, everywhere. I’m not there, so I am going to talk about something different for now! (Yes, I am posting a lot! I will be out of state for five days starting friday so I’m getting lots of stuff out of the way [...]

In something of an experiment, this week I’m going to do a little rundown of a whole bunch of smaller things that I found out about this week for you all, let me know if it works.
Despite certain misgivings between my own personal feelings and Square Enix, Final Fantasy IV: The After Years goes live [...]

First of all, Happy Memorial Day, I hope everyone has been enjoying their day off (if you got one)
But uh, did you know about this? What the hell? I completely missed this announcement, and if you remember one of my very first reviews you know that Final Fantasy IV is one of my favorite jRPGs [...]

Opinions about Final Fantasy VII have floated from “Best RPG ever made” to “Worst RPG ever made” and everywhere in between. Despite my personal opinions about the game itself, I can’t deny that Yoshinori Kitase wrote a compelling story full of genuine emotion and set the stage for something much larger than just a game.
Final [...]

‘The Returners’ is a group that I have been keeping my eye on for several years now, ever since I got the wild idea in highschool that making a Final Fantasy-based tabletop roleplaying game by myself was a good idea. Not only was it not a good idea to try this on my own, the [...]

Final Fantasy IV DS
Publisher: Square Enix
System: Nintendo DS
Genre: jRPG
This past July, Final Fantasy IV saw it’s fourth North American release since the original came to us under the disguise of “Final Fantasy II” in 1991. This game has appeared on the Super NES, Playstation, Gameboy Advance, and now on the Nintendo DS, (and even more [...]