Just grab it now. It’ll be there waiting for you if you ever get a new 360, One, or Scorpio system. It’ll be permanently in your library.

EVERYONE get this game.

Or take steps to address it.

I guess the next question would be... even if I proved I was born in Japan, would that do anything to alter your opinion? Even I acknowledge that my views are not the same as others in Japan. We’re not a monolith. There are feminists in Japan just as much as there are otaku that spend all their income on Dead or Alive…

And how, do you propose, I do so?

Then you’ll just have to take my word for it short of me producing my kanji-printed birth certificate. I was born in the Okinawa Prefecture in 1986 in southern Japan to mixed race parents (my mother is Turkish, my father Asian/Native American) before relocating to the United States when I was older for studies and…

Honestly?

Mark Gatha? Pretty sure he’s still alive.

Lol. This never ceases to amuse me.

I’m not upset. Oh no. I’m fine. Perfectly fine. Perfectly, perfectly fine that my once-favorite fighting game franchise of all time has dwindled to a shallow pachinko machine “celebration”. I’m okay. I am OKAY.

Aranea was the stand-out for me as well. Really wish we had gotten more of her. 

No game has ever been saved as hard as Final Fantasy XIV has been saved. YoshiP and his crew really did the impossible turning it around.

It is a great game...

Using a Gameshark, I did eventually “find” the Triforce.

Oh no. Very much no.

There’s a fake-out death. He survives to search for Rose by the end.

Man, I love Sean Bean.

Sometimes Japan gets us better than we get ourselves.

Replaying it on Xbox One currently. It holds up amazingly well, and those Thousand Year Dream stories still rock me to my core.

I’ll disagree on this one.