Thanks givings all around

Thanks for everything, everyone. The nation says thanks today, but unfortunately only once a year.... Hmm, we are quite selfish arent we. Oh well, now to the meat and potatoes and juice of my rant today: thanks squarenix for final fantasy games. lol. More more in depth, I want to look at Final fantasy 5 again. It piques my interest not only once, but twice! There must be something more to it then. Often overlooked, ffv was just as great as any other "classic" ff game---also Exdeath's theme is one of my favorite villain themes in Final Fantasy series, among Kuja and Seymour's themes. Classic ff's have that snes feel to them, the stories are also very much alike; yet explore some very odd realms. I think the classics explore more and push literary capabilities more than recent and new games do, with the exception of 10 perhaps. Looking back, FF1 was phenomenal for its time story wise, I still can't even understand it! XD Going back in time, to corrupt the future and all that yummy paradoxical stuff. FF2 a little less amazing, but still good...Mateus' soul splits into good and evil while still being primarily evil...one is ruler or hell, other of heaven it seems. Kinda generic, but ok. It is another game that is easily overlooked. FF3 introduces the whole Void idea and adding more elements to the ff universe-- so far there was: fire, water, wind, earth, light, darkness, and void. Void is not really an element of the crystals though....its more of a space-time trash can. lol. a black hole dimension really, where everything is dumped....ff5 elaborates on this idea, as the Void is a black hole, it is alive as much as it is active, it cannot think for itself, but yet it is much like the processes of the earth, they occur, but there is no reason why they occur, they just do. The earth doesnt think for itself, I'm going to do convection today :3 So that being the case...Exdeath controls the power of the essence of black holes. Since no one really knows what happens in a singularity, it makes for a good game realm/topic. In the FF universe, appartenly inside the singularity that is the Void, there is space...basically all that it has consumed, so stars, worlds, ppl, spirits, etc. The places that get abducted by Exdeath still exist as stated in a previous rant, they just are in different dimensions. It works out nicely that upon the defeat of neo exdeath, the places get put back, but there shouldnt be any reason for this to happen except at the will of exdeath or of a person in control of the Void at the time of his downfall. It should be noted that exdeath never "dies", but is merely never heard from again. I think that his soul is trapped within the singularity, which provides a nice way for him to not return for a third performance. An anime was made as a sequel to this game, one i have not yet watched but would like to. But yes, my next rant will be about exdeath. Anyways moving on...ff4 was so interesting; very sci-fi like, yet still fantasyish. The appearance of a 2nd moon, (deathstar) basically, but with a whole race of ppl on there, the Lunarians. I'm not certain, but I believe the Lunarians are capable of telepathy and limited mind control, but as an example of Zemus and Golbez, it is limited by proximity and blood. Zemus could only control other Lunarians it seemed, and Golbez was the only half-lunarian of age to understand and be influenced. It is one of the few ff where the main villain is connected to the hero by blood, and afterwards repents for his actions. again crystal elements are essential to this game, and light and darkness are present as well. Cecil makes a decision to become the embodiment of light, a paladin, while Golbez is the embodiment of darkness, further than a dark knight...a warlock, who through lunarian magic training has developed his powers and unlocked his magic potential as much as a half lunarian can. I would assume that his physical appearance is the human traits kicking in, most Lunarians depicted are somewhat frail beings physically, while Golbez has a built physique. Without ranting too much about him, lets continue...each interesting villain will probably get a rant cause there stories are not revealed as much as heroes. Lastly, ff6 was pretty standard, the introduction of the backstory of espers was revealed and added in the ff universe; they arent just summons, they come from the esper world. Being half esper, terra can do "trance" a special ability allowing one to gain the powers of their esper heritage. This was the only ff where the villain actually won in a more definite sense....Kefka suceeded in taking over the world...and it was up to the heroes to rebel from what was left and bring him down. Alot of people like Kefka because he reminds them of Batman's Joker, although Kefka is more of a flamboyant nihilist who attained god-like powers. It is questionable how much of a nihilist he is, as it was 1-2 years after the take over when the heroes finally arose to stop him. He seemed complacent in destroying what was known as the natural world, but twisting it into a harsh dark world instead of simply destroying it..as in vaporize. There is no villain capable of that as of yet in the ff universe. The closest to a classical sense of destroying the entire world, and not just cleansing it of humans is probably exdeath's sceme or ultimecia's time compression. That's all I have to say on the classic ffs. Tune in next time when I rant about exdeath, story of ff5 explained in a semi-logical fashion, as I go down the list of ff villians. :3