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Here to notify that the various Pixel Remasters are on sale on Switch at the lowest price ever! If you want to join, now’s the perfect time! Just grabbed V and VI at the price of one game to cap off all Pixel Remasters and I’m pretty much set for the rest of the year and a chunk of next year until…

I don’t remember any of that stuff either. I guess it means it’ll be fresh when we get there…

But you just played the intro? Wasn’t the girl at least mentioned in it?

I mean the stuff @GrimoireLux is talking about. I do remember some characters. There’s Balthier too. And, ah, the bunny girl Fran.

[image] simias: Having a Wikipedia entry written in a pompous manner at the start of a game is not literature. Frame story is a literary device, a technique borrowed from the literary tradition. It’s just a nod here. Just to keep the record straight, FFXII actually starts with a three-minute…

Pretty early in the game, you join a clan that essentially does mercenary work. You also are made to hunt down a monster to collect the bounty on it. After that, any further interaction with the clan and bounties are entirely optional. I assume you just chose not to engage after the mandatory 10 or …

Oh I probably did, but I haven’t touched the game in almost 20 years. I actually have my PS2 memory card still but I don’t think I know how to read it.

[image] simias: when you read the Lord of the Rings you don’t start with four paragraphs explaining the geopolitics of Gondor. Wild thing to say about the book that starts with an entire treatise on Hobbit culture [image] Prologue (The Lord of the Rings) Prologue, labeled Prologue…

I feel like the fact that I completely forgot that this prologue existed and even as I’m reading it right now I have absolutely no recollection of it both weakens and strengthen my point. The habit of building farmhouses and barns was said to have begun among the inhabitants of the Marish down by …

These types of stage dressings are rarely the standout moments of narrative but they help contextualize the main attractions and make them more meaningful. Part of why Middle Earth is so beloved is because of the work that went into developing it. Ivalice is similar.

I admit that part of my frustration with FF12 this time around is that it of course requires a lot more effort for me to read Japanese than English. I think if I was re-reading the Lord of the Rings in English I’d just speedread the prologue to get to the good part and it wouldn’t bother me much, bu…

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