C.S. Lewis didn’t care for magicians.
In fact, as Lewis wrote in
The Abolition of Man, he saw the core problem that magicians were trying to solve one that was at best distasteful, and at worst something that led to actions “disgusting and impious.” That core problem: “how to subdue reality to the wishes of men.” (We won’t get into this much yet, but he saw magicians and scientists as related in this sense…something we will discuss more when we get to the Space Trilogy.)
For the “wise men of old” the core question of the universe was “how to conform the soul to reality,” but for magicians the question was how to bend Nature to one’s own desires (or, at best, humanity’s desires). “It is the magician’s bargain: give up your soul, get power in return.” The process was clear: the magician “surrenders object after object, and finally himself, to Nature in return for power.”
Ni no Kuni Is a Fairy Tale Franchise Perfect for Fostering a New Generation of Gamers
Do you remember your gateway game? The game that first captured your imagination and helped you realize you were a gamer. Some players might name titles that were not necessarily supposed to be for them a game in an arcade without parental supervision, but you had a blast and became a gamer in the process. However, times have changed, and one generation is eager to pass on its love of video games to the next.
The question now is how do we welcome in a new generation of gamers? What is the most effective avenue?
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The best JRPGs available on Nintendo Switch
Dragon Warrior (
Bravely Default, multiple
Dragon Quest remakes, and the criminally underrated
Suikoden Tierkreis. Nintendo Switch continues that pedigree, allowing us to go on sweeping adventures on and away from the TV. The list below contains some of our favorite JRPGs available for Nintendo Switch right now, past and present, so if you’re in the mood for solid role-playing, look no further.
Disgaea 1 Complete
Disgaea: Hour of Darkness set a new bar for strategy RPGs when it launched on PlayStation 2 in 2003, setting its level cap at 9999 and letting players unleash literal
billions of damage. That kind of power is hard to forget, so when the Switch gained