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The world of Final Fantasy Tactics, and that of the Ivalice mythos associated with it, is polytheistic. The Church of Glabados and its savior figure, Ajora, fit right into this narrative choice. It makes things complicated, but doesn’t beat around the bush. It is, like most of Matsuno’s games, cold and cynical, logical and deductive. Some make you kill God, and some decide that he doesn’t exist Final Fantasy Tactics falls distinctly in the latter category. Many of these games take Christian conventions, throw some pious lies and faith into the mix, and then show that religion of the Western variety exists as a front for evil forces in the world. Breath of Fire II, a mediocre JRPG (although I like it for strange reasons) does this so does, too, Final Fantasy Tactics. The best way to spice it up and make something obviously evil is making the Church of Whoever into a front for demonic resurrection. The occult nature of true history is just as relevant to Tactics as it is to actual human civilization. The influence of history upon our own paradigm, similarly, changed the cultural paradigm into “secularism” from which we still live. It is in objective history, the Germonik Scriptures (which detail the falsity of the Church’s doctrines) and the Durai Report that the true history reveals itself. Like that of the Church of Glabados, who founded their religion upon a demon (slayed by Ramza) unknowingly, the public of Ivalice praise Delita without knowing the true scale of his awful deeds. As I said:įurthermore, the “greatness” of Delita only lies within the realm of a false history fabricated in the past. In the first part linked previously, I explain that the world of Final Fantasy Tactics does the same thing that every other Japanese RPG did in the 1990s: make the Church an enemy. This has as much to do with European missionaries imposing culture as it does a long-seated dislike of Western social values, but nonetheless everyone did it back then. So it is in reference to Final Fantasy Tactics, which I wrote about in a long-winded article for the List. I am an independent, thinking human being I can figure out what is important and what is not, thank you very much. I hate that kind of writing, the same way I hate when people tell me what I believe, or try to tell me what’s important. If it’s unequivocally wrong, then I will make sure to fix it and not misrepresent a game, a person, or otherwise.īut founding something on unfounded inference? On wishful thinking? On an agenda? That’s where I get off the train. If it’s wrong, and you can possibly show me the sources and distinctly why I am wrong, I will more than happily debate you about it. You could call me a nerd, but at the very least I strive for accuracy when I report on anything on this blog. These kinds of articles drive me bananas. 14 Remind them of these things, and solemnly charge them in the presence of God not to wrangle about words, which is useless and leads to the ruin of the hearers. 15 Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth.
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