The world of light and the world of dark will one day return to the void, but if we lose hope, if we refrain from the struggle to survive, we're as good as gone already. At base, this hero's journey is a quest to overcome despair about the true contingency of the human condition, doomed to continue living in the shadow of certain mortality.
All stories are really about embracing or rejecting Instrumentality, when you think about it.
Either that, or I'm the product of a culture which has addressed most of my physical needs while creating a psychic and cultural starvation diet, incapable of seeing anything but my own need for meaning endlessly reflected back at me through popular media, the only remaining form of social congress left: realer than reality, better than life.
The first entry in the series you could confidently expect modern RPG players to immediately be able to enjoy, FF3 is a fun way to whittle down the endless hours before oblivion.
All stories are really about embracing or rejecting Instrumentality, when you think about it.
Either that, or I'm the product of a culture which has addressed most of my physical needs while creating a psychic and cultural starvation diet, incapable of seeing anything but my own need for meaning endlessly reflected back at me through popular media, the only remaining form of social congress left: realer than reality, better than life.
The first entry in the series you could confidently expect modern RPG players to immediately be able to enjoy, FF3 is a fun way to whittle down the endless hours before oblivion.