500 Years Later: An Oral History of Final Fantasy VII, Part 2

The first fifty pages of this book are somewhat interesting in terms of where the idea for Final Fantasy VII came from, but the rest of the book is corporate gossip. There’s a lot of hinting at things but not explaining them. For example, why were there so many errors in the original English translation? Because the circumstances were bad. How were they “bad,” exactly? No one will say.

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All things considered, I still think this is a cool book, but the Polygon article includes most of the good stuff and has the added benefit of being free.

Re: 500 Years Later: An Oral History of Final Fantasy VII, Part 2

Oh right, I forgot to say that there are a lot of contradictions, as well as people vaguely suggesting that perhaps someone is misremembering something.

Like, I wrote earlier that "I also didn't know that the development team for Final Fantasy VI was only sixty people at its largest," but it turns out that maybe that's not true...? And it was actually much larger...??

Idk, I love the Final Fantasy games of the 1990s, but I'm not so deep into them that I'm interested in fact-checking interviews with the developers. Fingers crossed no one ever makes a book like this about Zelda, though.

Haunted House Hunting

I try not to write about my personal life on this blog, mainly because most things have been garbage most of the time. One day I will be able to look back and laugh, but right now I just want to play video games.

Although maybe it's worth mentioning that I started looking at houses? There's no real reason, except that I'm getting tired of my landlord's bullshit and would like to have an outside garden maybe.

Anyway, I started looking at houses, and I have seen some shit. I thought apartment hunting in Philadelphia was bad, but I didn't know what "bad" was. I can't believe people live like this. Goddamn.

So you know all those movies where a couple moves into what is obviously a haunted house? And then all sorts of creepy shit starts happening, but they're like, We're just going to deal with this? And then maybe a kid or a pet dies but they still don't leave?

I get it now. I totally get it. If you can find a decent house at a reasonable price, I think you just sort of have to make your peace with the fact that it's probably filled with murder ghosts.