Keith Burgun

APRIL 28, 2024

I played Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. Where Final Fantasy XVI kind of feels like “a bunch of white men growling at each other”, FF7 Rebirth is a very diverse world of colorful characters, almost all of which (Cloud being the exception) wear their heart and their personality on their sleeve. In general, I liked it.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

This post is written by the fantastic Game Bakery substack team of Chase, Zixuan, Haiyin, Caitou, Fish, Amy, Chow, Jing, Wanzi and edited by Caitou, Rob. Only MMO like World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy 14 are still generally recognized by western gamers. The rough cutscene). This genre is getting marginalized in the West.

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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Most Dikus could, with minor text editing, share their zone files, because they almost all played exactly the same! So simulationism was born as a way to make fantasy worlds richer, more immersive… in a sense, to “make the ride better.” Breadcrumbs, dialogue trees, cutscenes, progression paths. So is FFXIV.

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