Re: CHAT: Final Fantasy (was Re: CHAT: anime & manga)

On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Muke Tever wrote:

> From: "Andrew Chaney" <adchaney@...>
> > on 5/12/01 8:11, Yoon Ha Lee (yl112@CORNELL.EDU) wrote:
> >
> > You'll notice most of the characters didn't have much hair to speak of.
> > >
> > > <laugh>  I couldn't make heads or tails out of the storyline, but then, I
> > > haven't played any of the Final Fantasy games either, merely *sat through*
> > > all of them as my friends played obsessively.
> > >
> >
> > That doesn't matter: the movie's story had nothing to do with the games'
> > stories at all.
>
> For that matter, the games' stories have nothing to do with each other at all
> either.  The Final Fantasy games are really only sequels to each other in the
> sense that "Windows 98" is a sequel to "Windows 95".
More like Windows XP is a sequel to Windows 1.0*. Windows 95 is
Windows 4.0, Windows 98 is 4.1. Heaps of similarities, really.

*Now _that's_ something fun to play with. ;)

Tristan

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