Final Fantasy

experience, students are given the ability to experience the elements of narrative hands-on. The playing experience is a “complex interaction between the player and the game . . . therefore, video games are simultaneously literature-machines besides being ludic machines” (DON’T KNOW FUCK). Free roam games are useful for teaching this. The Final Fantasy series consists of a collection of heavily narrative-oriented free roam games that fall under the genre of science fiction and fantasy. Final Fantasy VII, an installment of the series, allows players to transport across Gaia, the name of its virtual world, and explore it through various side quests and interactions with non-playable characters (NPCs). As players follow the narrative mainly through operating their playable character, they can connect with and diminish the boundaries between them—a term called experience taking. As players are more engaged in experience taking, they also become more aware of character development. For example, dynamic characters become emphasized as the player vicariously lives through their character. From player Jason Schreier’s experience with Final Fantasy VII, “[he] watched Cloud and Tifa grow up as [he was] growing up. [He] sympathized with their mistakes and wished [he] could be as strong as they were” (Schreier). Students may benefit from learning about narratives through open world games as they can directly connect with their characters, thus emphasizing emotions resulting from…

The protagonist of the video game, “Final Fantasy X” will be used to apply four different psychological concepts to the character. Yuna is a twenty-year-old women who lives in the Island of Besaid. She is the daughter of High Summoner Braska who defeated the menacing monster named Sin. As her father, she is following the lineage of summoners to vanquish Sin as every generation of summoners defeat sin once every ten years, until he is reborn again. Yuna, along with her guardians go on a…

emphasized emotions. Games require music to set the mood and energy for specific scenarios. One such game series is the Final Fantasy series. This game series is classified as a role-playing game, which is based entirely around a detailed story. With such a complex storyline, this series calls for a wide range of music. The composer that wrote the soundtrack, Nobuo Uematsu was the perfect composer to convey the events of each story to the players. Since the types of players are so broad, Uematsu…

Predecessor to the 80’s cult classic, The Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal was legendary puppeteer Jim Henson’s first attempt at creating a fantasy motion picture filmed entirely with intricate animatronics and puppets. The film is complete with heroes, villains and the other main elements of fantastical narratives as described by Russian scholar and folklorist Vladimir Propp in his breakthrough work, Morphology of the Folktale, which states that there is a sequence of 31 functions — certain actions…

Using Laplance and Pontalis’s ‘structural understanding of fantasies as myths of origin’ and Freud’s ‘original fantasy’, Williams shows how all three genres explore enigmas of sexual desire, sexual difference and self. Pornography addresses sexual desire and its unknown origin, by creating a fantasy of the perfect moment where a seducer and the seduced may meet and share moments of pleasure ‘on time’. Unalike pornography, horror explores sexual difference through the fantasy of castration, which…

“She tried to be a book, but he wouldn’t read” (lines15-16). She is trying everything she can to get the man to pay attention to her. A book contains many things form which you gain knowledge or entertainment or history. A book is a great resource for these and many other things. A book also signifies a source of authority, as it is a commonly used idiom referring to the final word on matters such as the following: “in my book”, “throw the book at”, “one for the books”, or “I can read you like a…

the pool that gave her complete certainty and comfort still remained. Even without complete transparency, Kari realized that there is a balance between certainty and uncertainty that makes it possible to find your way through unclear situations. The scene reveals that her independence has allowed her to feel comfortable with uncertainty because she knows she's in control. Kari’s reaction to change in this scene is a direct contrast to her persona throughout the rest of the story and that is why…

A capstone is a project that all seniors at SWCTA are required to complete within a semester and a half in order to demonstrate the skills and the knowledge that they have gained during their time at SWCTA. This project varies from program to program due to the difference between the specialties in each program area. For the automotive division, our project required us to form teams to create and develop a car dealership. I teamed up with Stone Sha, Matthew Burgos, Shann Pagado, and Thomas…

The B A.T. clinical team met Ms. Islas, the therapist, the lead therapist, and Aiden’s mom, on July 18th, 2017 and July 20th, 2017. On this date, the B.A.T. clinical team conducted an ABC Descriptive Analysis, which consisted of directly observing Aiden and taking ABC(Antecedent-Behavior-Consequence) data in relation to Aiden’s hitting. On July 18th, 2017, session begin in the family room of the family home. Five minutes into the session, the lead therapist was sitting on the couch going over…

Doug Chesnic is a Secret Service agent who takes great pride in his job, performing his duties with the utmost professionalism. His assignment for the last three years has been a severe test of his patience. Doug is in charge of a team to protect Tess Carlisle, the widow of a former U.S. President. Tess is well known for her political and charitable work, but seems to regard Doug less as a security officer and more as a servant—not unlike her chauffeur, Earl, or her nurse, Frederick. Doug…