The following is an essay adapted from a video essay script I wrote. I’m posting it here for now because I fear that I won’t be able to make it in a way that I’d be satisfied with for a while, so perhaps for now I will release this, and my tensions surrounding leaving things unfinished, here on the page.
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This contains end-game spoilers for Octopath Traveler and full spoilers for Final Fantasy VI. It is strongly recommended that you at least play through Final Fantasy VI before reading.
Prologue: Octopath Traveler and the Purpose of Nostalgia
Sometimes you find yourself wishing you could retreat to a simpler time, when you didn’t have to be cynical about things in life and you could just take them at face value, fueled with the seemingly infinite reserve of childlike wonder and starry-eyed excitement for the next thing and the next day, when you get to do it all over again. Continue reading “Final Fantasy VI: Nostalgia for a Bygone Age”
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