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Despite the nostalgic angle, I honestly feel like a lot of it was more marketing than anything,

because yes, there's a lot of nostalgia in this game. But I honestly think it's no more than any

other Final Fantasy game, like there are references to past things. There are towns and dungeons

named after previous things that exist in other games, but you don't actually need that context

to enjoy it. And for us Americans, we actually didn't have that context at this point because all

the Final Fantasy 2 and 3 references were just lost on us because those games had not yet received

full localizations in English. So like the 2 and 3 references that this game relies upon just

for the sake of like, oh, that's named that. That's end of that enemy's returning. This weapon is

returning. That was just like something we couldn't have known about. But I mean, the entire plot is

basically a throwback to the original Final Fantasy, though. Garland and chaos and everything.

I mean, it's almost like an echo of it. Yeah. But the thing is like the return of the crystals

was this big deal like in the marketing and in like interviews. But I think you only see the

crystal once at the end in the like the last few minutes of the game. Pretty much. It's kind of an

afterthought almost. So I would say that there is a deliberate effort to trace back, you know,

to Final Fantasy's roots, not necessarily an nostalgic, but I feel like, you know, in a sort of sense

of like, this is kind of the best of classic Ape at Final Fantasy done in the 32-bit style. I mean,

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