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The 25th anniversary of a victory fanfare for the PlayStation.

“And now, the most anticipated epic adventure of the year will never come to a theater near you. Final Fantasy VII.” And so began my interest in RPGs. That commercial blew my 12-year-old mind back in 1997. Besides the impressive animations shown (which we would later learn were only cut-scenes), I was intrigued at seeing that we somehow jumped from Final Fantasy III on the Super NES to now VII on the PlayStation. “What manner of sorcery is this?”, I wondered.

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Final Fantasy gains a voice, and faith in the series begins to waver for the first time.

Welcome to the fourth part of our long look at the Final Fantasy series, in celebration of its 25th anniversary. In our last installment, we talked about how Square stunned the gaming world by leaving their longtime home of Nintendo platforms for the shiny new world of CD technology with Sony's PlayStation. This time, we look at the series in its somewhat shaky transition to voice acting, a controversial but successful transition into the online space, and the first game in the series to have real problems behind the scenes.

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Friday is now upon us and you know what that means -- it’s time for another fun filled installment of Missing in Action!

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Delving into his past, Phil takes on an adult perspective of a much loved childhood game.

Before the “Paper Mario” and the “Mario & Luigi” RPG series, Nintendo and Square teamed up to create what I consider to be one of the greatest RPGs of all-time. Released back in May 1996, Super Mario RPG quickly grew to be one of the highest rated SNES games of all-time and often appears on many of the “Greatest Games of All-Time” lists to this day.

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