#FINAL FANTASY MEMORY OF HEROES SERIES#

All I know for sure is that the end result is bad. Clunky steps are taken in order to do this and itвЂ™s hard for me to know whether itвЂ™s the fault of the original Japanese text or the translation so IвЂ™m not going to blame either of those. Most issues stem from the fact that itвЂ™s a short book, containing all three stories in less than 200 pages.

I had thought about writing about each gameвЂ™s section individually, but I would be repeating myself as the same problems show up throughout. I thought it would be interesting to see what carried over into a different medium, so I read the book and sadly I donвЂ™t have good news. Knowing all that had me extremely curious to look at Final Fantasy I II III: Memory of Heroes, a novelisation of those games written by Takashi Umemura and translated by Jennifer Ward. However more details about the world could also be teased from one-sided conversations from various villagers and townspeople. Usually to fill in blanks resulting from the technical limitations or the inherent aspects of the format. There would be some things that were entirely visual and didnвЂ™t require text, but most of the gamesвЂ™ exposition would come from monologues delivered from quest-givers and villains. It favoured particular methods of story delivery over others. ItвЂ™s not a fully black-and-white comparison as those NES games had moments about how characters felt, but there werenвЂ™t a lot of them.

#FINAL FANTASY MEMORY OF HEROES SERIES#

This gave these videogames more world-driven stories rather than character-focused ones which the series eventually became more known for. Especially in the first one as they were deliberately blank slates. When I had played through the initial three Final Fantasy games, I found that the playable characters didnвЂ™t have a lot going for them.

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