Just 500m
away from the beach, you'll never find yourself too far
away from sand and sea, while the local resort provides plenty
of entertainment and activity in the
form of great shops, excellent restaurants and lively local nightlife.
Being somewhat limited in my freedom to be entertained as a kid, for many years
of my life, gaming served as a diverse means
of escape for me
away from the trappings
of a mostly mundane, repetitive life, at the end
of the school day I would often think to myself «alright... so what are some
of the good things that I have to look forward to when I get home...», one
of the first things that I would do as soon as I got home after school was play FINAL FANTASY on PlayStation, I would eagerly walk home as quickly as I could just so that I could continue playing from the part where I had last left off the day before, as pathetic as this may come across, I can confidently say that many
of the happiest moments that I have had in my life have been while being utterly enthralled by the developments in the games, I think that reminiscing about aspects
of a video game with great fondness is a hallmark
of an impactful
form of entertainment, I would often be so «in the zone» while playing that anything aside from what was taking place on the screen would become completely null and void in my mind to the point where I forget that I was playing a video game, even though I did not live the events
of the game, I can emphatise with them as if I had, that is the sort
of impact that the emotional depth
of the story, the characters, the music, the design and the overall world
of the series have had on me, what appeals the most to me is that FINAL FANTASY allows us the luxury
of divorcing ourselves
of our current reality to assume that
of a world
of fantasy for a precious moment in time, which is a sentiment that makes me wish that our world as whole had a little more «FINAL FANTASY» within it so as to make us all want to wake up as soon as possible to enjoy another day