FINAL FANTASY II - Series Analysis

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Ludiscere

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Published on October 16, 2020 5:00:04 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXeD8szK4Yw

Game:

Final Fantasy IV (2007)

Category:

Review

Duration: 56:34

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and a link to my Final Fantasy I video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVX3j9BByqs

hello everyone! this is the second video in a series in which i will be going through every main series Final Fantasy game (and some others too probably) in order to give them a wee bit of in-depth analysis, and figure out what makes each individual FF game tick. i'll be focusing on various things like development history, gameplay analysis, and musical analysis, but i'll also be drawing from outside sources like linguistics and mythology to try and understand as much as possible why these games are the way they are, and why people love them so much.

if you got to the bit around 32 minutes in and decided it wasn't for you, i totally understand - here's the timestamp to get you past direct discussion about that part: 34:21

i refer to a few articles and ideas throughout the video. i'll link some stuff here in case you want to do some supplementary reading:
FF ranking list 1: https://www.digitalspy.com/tech/a636855/ranking-final-fantasy-games-worst-to-best-mainline-entries/
FF ranking list 2: https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/best-final-fantasy-games/
FF ranking list 3: https://whatculture.com/gaming/final-fantasy-every-numbered-game-ranked
FF ranking list 4: https://www.redbull.com/za-en/final-fantasy-ranked
interesting article on Nazi eugenics: https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/science/bioscience/the-era-of-eugenics-when-pseudoscience-became-law/
some info about children in the Holocaust: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/children-during-the-holocaust
Auschwitz Memorial Museum twitter: https://twitter.com/AuschwitzMuseum
fascinating info on how Darwin's work was misappropriated to be used politically: https://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/post-darwin-social-darwinism-degeneration-eugenics
wikipedia article on child euthanasia in Nazi Germany: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_euthanasia_in_Nazi_Germany
wikipedia article on 'Lebensunwertes Leben': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_unworthy_of_life
info on the rhotic /r/ sound: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhotic_consonant
info on West Country accent and dialect specifically:
https://www.theocelot.co.uk/why-does-a-west-country-accent-sound-remarkably-similar-to-a-lot-of-american-dialects
https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/west-country
and if you'd like to hear it (you could also just watch Hot Fuzz for this):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjTIFkWJctY&ab_channel=MrTrotty57

if you're interested, the songs used in this video are:
Prelude (PSP) - 0:01
Main Theme (PSP) - 1:30
Ancient Castle (PSP) - 4:09
Battle Theme 1 (PSP) - 5:23
Battle Theme 2 (PSP) - 7:54
Main Theme (FFIV [SNES]) - 10:34
Cid's Theme (FFIX) - 13:19
Breaking Boundaries (FFXIV:BM) - 15:34
Procedamus in Pace (FFXIV:SB) - 17:24
Town (PSP) - 19:42
The Rebel Army (PSP) - 22:29
Chocobo Theme (NES) - 26:23
Aloha de Chocobo (FFIX) - 27:16
Dungeon (NES) - 28:56
Wandering (FFX) - 31:28
Theme of Suspicion (FFIV [DS]) - 35:56
Gau's Theme (FFVI) - 39:47
Prismelody: Pirates Ahoy (World of FF) - 41:32
Infiltrating Enemy Territory (Bravely Default) - 42:59
Find Your Way (FFVIII) - 44:33
Tower of the Magi (PSP) - 46:29
Castle Pandaemonium (PSP) - 46:54
The Red Wings (FFIV [SNES]) - 48:29
Battle Theme 2 (PSP) - 50:35
Finale (PSP) - 52:25
FF Main Theme (London Philharmonic Orchestra) - 55:39
ideally, i would rather only use music from the game in question, but it just wasn't possible in a video of this length. FFII's soundtrack is really good, but i definitely had to nick some other songs for the sake of having music that fit what i was talking about.

footage used throughout the video:
- FFX sphere grid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq8ffw3Y2N4
- Takeshi's Castle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu0MZqq5phE
the rest of the footage was captured by me. but please check out the above videos and their creators!

finally, a huge thanks to my best pal Joe, without whom this channel would be much worse off. Joe has done all the art for my channel from its inception, from the old logo to the new black mage logo, the old intro and all the outros, and most recently the incredible art for my Patreon tiers! he is an immensely talented artist and an absolute legend so check him out:
https://twitter.com/SteakJoe
https://www.instagram.com/steakjoeart

thank you all so much for reading this far and i sincerely hope you enjoyed the video!

- alastair x

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