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<blockquote data-quote="Blue Orange" data-source="post: 8800032" data-attributes="member: 7025997">I liked the bit about villain Escalation, where once you defeat the villain they can come back in a larger, more menacing form. Yep, they do that in JRPGs.The pillar of 'Everything has a Soul' is a nice animist touch alluding to the cultural differences between Japan and Europe/North America. (Marie Kondo's bit of thanking objects before you throw them out seems a lot more natural that way.)Was also fun to see what bits they pulled from where. Having not played the full slate of JRPGs, I could still go &quot;hey, there's the Time/Space Mage from FF5 and FFTactics!&quot; (Entropist) &quot;Hey, there's the Blue Mage, but they turned it into a Druid!&quot; (Chimerist) &quot;There's the Summoner!&quot; (Arcanist) &quot;There's the Swordmage from FF5!&quot; (Spellblade build) &quot;There's the Red Mage from FF1 onward!&quot; (Red Sorcerer build) &quot;Hey, there's all the Flame and Ice shields from all the games!&quot; &quot;There's FF6 and FF7's techno dystopia!&quot; (Techno Fantasy)The pixelated pics of the items were cute.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue Orange, post: 8800032, member: 7025997"] I liked the bit about villain Escalation, where once you defeat the villain they can come back in a larger, more menacing form. Yep, they do that in JRPGs. The pillar of 'Everything has a Soul' is a nice animist touch alluding to the cultural differences between Japan and Europe/North America. (Marie Kondo's bit of thanking objects before you throw them out seems a lot more natural that way.) Was also fun to see what bits they pulled from where. Having not played the full slate of JRPGs, I could still go "hey, there's the Time/Space Mage from FF5 and FFTactics!" (Entropist) "Hey, there's the Blue Mage, but they turned it into a Druid!" (Chimerist) "There's the Summoner!" (Arcanist) "There's the Swordmage from FF5!" (Spellblade build) "There's the Red Mage from FF1 onward!" (Red Sorcerer build) "Hey, there's all the Flame and Ice shields from all the games!" "There's FF6 and FF7's techno dystopia!" (Techno Fantasy) The pixelated pics of the items were cute. [/QUOTE]

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