NB! Please note that the following article deals with the coverage of a fan-made product that isn't licensed by Square Enix. For a more comprehensive look at 8- Bit Theater, visit Sardapedia. Certain links present here automatically take you to the corresponding Sardapedia page for that term. Multiple spoilers for the series are present here. 8- Bit Theater is a sprite based webcomic written by Brian Clevinger and loosely based on the original Final Fantasy. The story follows the Four Light Warriors, Fighter, Black Mage, Red Mage and Thief as they attempt to collect the four Orbs to defeat the Demon King Chaos and save the world. However, the four are largely inept, slow-witted, cowardly, and sometimes outright evil. Thus they end up causing more trouble than they stop, usually doing heroic deeds by sheer accident. The comic concluded June 1st, 2010, with a total of 1,225 strips over a course of more than nine years. Today it is one of the most popular sprite-based webcomics on the internet. History Edit 8- Bit Theater began as a school project for Clevinger in 2001, and he continued to produce the comics when he saw how popular they were. The website for the comic, Nuklear Power, was intended to host a variety of eight-bit sprite-based comics, including comics based on the Metroid and Mega Man games. However, the Final Fantasy comic proved the most popular and eventually became the site's focus with the other comics being abandoned. In 2002 the comic won the Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards for best fantasy comic in 2002. In a 2007 article by 1 Up.com on web comics, Nich Maragos stated, Neglected Mario Characters is the true origin of sprite comics. Bob and George is where everyone mistakenly thinks they began. But it was unquestionably Brian Clevinger's 8- Bit Theater that took the style to its fullest expression and greatest popularity. The comic's humor stems from.
In preparation for the upcoming Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII — the final entry in the FFXIII trilogy — Square Enix has created an awesome video recapping the stories of the two FFXIII games leading up to this final installment. The video retells the key moments from both games, but reimagined as a 16-bit SNES game, in the vein of Final Fantasy IV through VI. The video, seen below, is quite pretty, translating the two games’ modern-day graphics and audio into those of the SNES glory days. Unfortunately, yes, the retrospective tells the story of the Final Fantasy XIII – the worst main Final Fantasy game ever made. It’s a shame Square is putting so much effort into its worst Final Fantasy, and it’s even more of a shame that such a well-made video is yet more effort put into a series that kicked off Square’s slow, grueling decline. However, the video is just so well-done that even characters obnoxiously named Lightning, Snow, Hope, Fang, and Vanille can’t ruin it. If you for some reason really want to play Lightning Returns but not the first two games in the trilogy, the above recap is a much better way to catch up than sitting through Final Fantasy XIII’s Tube World where, with a rubber band strapped around the controller’s analog stick, you can automate the majority of the game. Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII will be one of the Play Station 3′s last big games before the development of big-name titles shifts exclusively to the PS4. Among the other few reasons you’ll still need to keep your PS3 sitting under the television just a little longer, The Last of Us: Left Behind and Persona 5 are also calling the PS3 home. Perhaps after Lightning Returns is over and done with, Square Enix will add that game’s story into the above video so we can enjoy the FFXIII series the only way possible — by not playing it.
Download Now