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The “Decline” and Future of Final Fantasy

Another year, another round of articles about games not meeting Square Enix’s expectations. Both Final Fantasy XVI and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth have failed to meet their lofty goals as part of their flagship franchise. There are numerous reasons why that numerous think pieces, social media threads and my own thoughts can explain. Although, I…
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“Real music” and “Videogame music”

Music in videogames has a stigma surrounding it, or maybe multiple stigmas that are all related to each other. It’s not considered as artful as soundtracks and scores in older mediums such as movies and television, stereotyped as something only “nerds” listen to. It may be the only music some of those “nerds” might listen…


