Second Entry

Dark Wizard is one of my all-time favorite games. It is a turn based strategy role playing game that was very ahead of time and on an unusual console, the Sega CD.

Here is an image of the gameplay.

It was such a great game because it combined an immersive story, with a giant world, and intricate battle systems. It is the sort of game that may take hundreds of hours to play. I highly recommend it for anyone that is interested in Japanese style turn based fantasy RPGs.

Final Fantasy 7 is definitely my favorite video game.

It is also another very large world. Final Fantasy 7 was the first 3D Final Fantasy but that is not the only thing separates it from its predecessors. Each FF game had an immersive story but FF7 was extemely compelling because it played on many different emotions and had complex interactions between characters and the environment. The concept of "materia," which was a type of object that assisted with acquiring skills, weapons, and other abilities, was a significant part of the storyline. As well, the game's turn based battle system is one of the best every implemented. The game is such a large world with so many things to do, sometimes it is more fun to play the side quests, which can mini-games in themselves, than to play the main storyline. Each FF since 7 has been evolution that started with that game. There are talks of it being re-made, which is a very exciting prospect for me. I have very fond memories playing FF games for many months.

Here is an image I generated when playing around with generating Mandelbrot set visualizations from C.