That Sweet Sweet Final Fantasy Lore
Jul. 31st, 2020 07:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingFinal Fantasy VI – 1994 Developer Interview
http://shmuplations.com/ff6/
Most of my engagement with Final Fantasy VI fandom has been in the form of reading dōjinshi...
(I used to read a lot of dōjinshi, and I couldn't tell you why, but FFVI has a truly extraordinary community of dōjin artists who are still active to this day, even after many of them have gone pro.)
...and people kept referring to various bits of lore that occur nowhere in the game or its official extratextual materials. "Sabin is afraid of squirrels," for example, or "Edgar wears blue because that's the sacred color of Figaro."
I think I may have found the source of some of this lore. The two interviews collected in this post are both super fun to read, and it's wild to think that so many people on the FFVI development team were hired because they were Final Fantasy fans who wanted to work on the next game.
http://shmuplations.com/ff6/
Most of my engagement with Final Fantasy VI fandom has been in the form of reading dōjinshi...
(I used to read a lot of dōjinshi, and I couldn't tell you why, but FFVI has a truly extraordinary community of dōjin artists who are still active to this day, even after many of them have gone pro.)
...and people kept referring to various bits of lore that occur nowhere in the game or its official extratextual materials. "Sabin is afraid of squirrels," for example, or "Edgar wears blue because that's the sacred color of Figaro."
I think I may have found the source of some of this lore. The two interviews collected in this post are both super fun to read, and it's wild to think that so many people on the FFVI development team were hired because they were Final Fantasy fans who wanted to work on the next game.
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Date: 2020-07-31 02:44 pm (UTC)I love all these subtlties within FFVI and it breaks my heart that so many of them are found in interviews :\