Christoph Schrader

I encourage you not to like it too well, for that is the thing I want least and my ego wants most!

But why not?  I must own I found the premise a bit outlandish at first, but I grew to find the games quite endearing, and it was through them that I discovered Final Fantasy, some of which I have also enjoyed immensely -- largely because I love all manner of fanciful things, though I never could quite stomach much in the way of what claims to be modern fantasy literature.  There is simply something endearing about the series that cannot be easily explained, even though I was rather disappointed by ''Kingdom Hearts II'' (which I did enjoy nonetheless) in the anti-facelift given Hollow Bastion.  I liked the rather melancholy world of pipes and pillars a fair deal better better before the town was rebuilt.  This also bids one wonder what was done with all the incorrectly-moving water to reveal the immense amounts of now-columnar crystal.