cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9692286

created this video essay thing based on an essay i wrote for my website.

https://youtu.be/OBFZtIQYiiI?si=LDxjp-lfoh5cJ47s

if you happen to watch, let me know what you think

could post this in the SaGa forum as well but figured this would be a better spot.

covers some of the following:

0:00 (Introduction & Justification)

2:26 (CHAPTER I: History of Final Fantasy Legend II or: Richard Dean Anderson’s Haircut in Season 6 of MacGyver)

5:11 (CHAPTER II: Presentation, Setting & Plot or: Smoke Dope, Go Bananas)

7:57 (CHAPTER III: Music or: Is this Emerson, Lake & Palmer?)

11:34 (INTERLUDE or: Artistic Gentrification)

13:15 (CHAPTER IV: Gameplay or: Nintendo Power Nominee for Hardest Game Boy Game of 1990)

20:58 (CONCLUSION or: SAVE THE WORLD or: If Richard Dean Anderson is the Peak 90s Action Celebrity …)