“A Legend From Before You Were Born”: Final Fantasy VII, Folklore, and Popular Culture

IF 2.4 2区 文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION
Zlatko Bukač, Mario Katić
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In this article, we focus on the folklore created by the players and communities of the critically acclaimed and popular Japanese role-playing game Final Fantasy VII (Square Enix, 1997). The formation of what we call Final Fantasy VII fan folklore is presented here as a mixture of the game's transmediality (with official walkthroughs and guidebooks) and elements of the game kept secret by the developers (as well as several false rumors), which were carefully discovered and circulated by the players through an oral tradition (offline and later online) that circulate to this day. By conducting a narrative analysis of the official commercial for Final Fantasy VII Remake (Square Enix, 2020), we argue that the creation of Final Fantasy VII fan folklore has become an important contemporary experiential feature of a nostalgic turn in the gaming industry, and we show that remakes and new editions of older popular products rely heavily on the specific new form of folklore that goes beyond one game.
“你出生前的传说”:最终幻想7,民间传说和流行文化
在这篇文章中,我们将着眼于广受欢迎的日本角色扮演游戏《最终幻想7》(Final Fantasy VII, Square Enix, 1997)的玩家和社区所创造的民间传说。我们所说的《最终幻想7》粉丝传说的形成,是游戏的跨媒介性(包括官方指南和指南)和开发者保密的游戏元素(以及一些虚假谣言)的混合体,这些元素是由玩家精心发现并通过流传至今的口头传统(离线和后来的在线)传播的。通过对《最终幻想7重制版》官方广告(Square Enix, 2020)的叙事分析,我们认为《最终幻想7》粉丝民俗的创造已经成为游戏行业怀旧转向的重要当代体验特征,我们表明,旧热门产品的重制版和新版本在很大程度上依赖于超越一款游戏的特定新民俗形式。
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Games and Culture
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期刊介绍: Games and Culture publishes innovative theoretical and empirical research about games and culture within the context of interactive media. The journal serves as a premiere outlet for groundbreaking and germinal work in the field of game studies. The journal"s scope includes the sociocultural, political, and economic dimensions of gaming from a wide variety of perspectives, including textual analysis, political economy, cultural studies, ethnography, critical race studies, gender studies, media studies, public policy, international relations, and communication studies.
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