{"id":269,"date":"2007-12-17T07:24:23","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T12:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/archives\/269"},"modified":"2016-07-13T12:44:21","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T19:44:21","slug":"final-fantasy-v-third-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/archives\/269","title":{"rendered":"Final Fantasy V: Third World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>FF5<\/em> does something cool at the start of the third chapter.  To recap: chapter 1 takes place on the planet where the supreme bad guy X-Death was imprisoned thirty years ago, and at its climax X-Death breaks free.  Chapter 2 take place on X-Death&#8217;s homeworld, where you rush around getting Dawn Warriors killed and failing to stop X-Death&#8217;s master plan.  But you do eventually face X-Death in battle and defeat him.  Not that you expect this to stop him or anything.  He&#8217;s been killed before, after all.<\/p>\n<p>Immediately after this fight, everything goes dark, and the heroes find themselves lying on the ground near Reina&#8217;s castle, which is back on world 1.  Except&#8230; things are different.  The land is connected in ways that it wasn&#8217;t before.  I didn&#8217;t understand what had happened at first, but I still got a sense that there was Something Very Wrong.<\/p>\n<p>What happened is this: the two planets merged.  The chapter 3 map is a melding of the chapter 1 and 2 maps, which fit together like a jigsaw when overlaid.  An inaccessible mountainous island from world 1 is now in the middle of a bridge from world 2.  A region where both worlds had an archipelago now has an uninterrupted land bridge.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that the two worlds were once one, and that reuniting them was essential to unsealing the power of the Void, which X-Death wishes to claim for his own.  Why does sealing the void involve splitting a world in two?  Because the designers came up with this neat gimmick and needed an excuse to put it in the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FF5 does something cool at the start of the third chapter. To recap: chapter 1 takes place on the planet where the supreme bad guy X-Death was imprisoned thirty years ago, and at its climax X-Death breaks free. Chapter 2 take place on X-Death&#8217;s homeworld, where you rush around getting Dawn Warriors killed and failing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[144,189],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rpg","tag-final-fantasy","tag-final-fantasy-v"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3682,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions\/3682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}