Tag: Final Fantasy XIV
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Finishing Endwalker
This piece contains spoilers for Endwalker. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. I want to start this piece off by saying that no video game is truly “perfect.” Throughout my playthrough of Final Fantasy XIV, I have often found myself irritated, annoyed, upset by or downright mad at what I was being presented with, what…
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Finishing Shadowbringers
In The Subject and Power (1983) French philosopher Michel Foucault argued that in order to fully understand the nature of power relations, we needed to examine those places where they are being resisted: “opposition to the power of men over women, of parents over children, of psychiatry over the mentally ill, of medicine over the…
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Finishing Stormblood, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Eorzean Alliance
Stormblood was both better than I expected and worse than I was told.
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Uh-oh! Stormblood’s Politics are Kinda Bad!
Everyone told me to expect the worst. I didn’t believe them. Welp.
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Finishing Final Fantasy (Part II – Heavensward)
Heavensward shows that Final Fantasy XIV wants to have difficult conversations about big topics, but that it can only do so in defense of the status quo.