black mage

What would we find? Fluff or flesh? Are the Black Mages organic? Are they dolls? Are they mechanical? Do they have circulatory systems or circuit boards? We know that they are manufactured en masse, and Square Enix clearly explores the same tropes seen in Blade Runner (and a lot of science...

We usually glance at FFIX’s Garland as a mild reference to FFI’s villain (Garland the fallen knight), nod, and then think nothing else of it. FFIX is absolutely ram-packed with references to earlier FF games and so it might seem like we should stop there. But did you know that Garland is also...