Michael Greenhut
@michaelgreenhut78.bsky.social
Writer, game developer. Published fiction and nonfiction.
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“Yet the most compelling aspect of Sephiroth as a villain was just how *normal* he was before he snapped.” -the Final Fantasy VII chapter.
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Saw this in the wild. IYKYK #finalfantasy
December 25, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Saw this in the wild. IYKYK #finalfantasy
“Yet the most compelling aspect of Sephiroth as a villain was just how *normal* he was before he snapped.” -the Final Fantasy VII chapter.
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#finalfantasy #finalfantasy7 #finalfantasyvii #sephiroth
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Final Fantasy Villains: From FF1 to FF16: Greenhut, Michael: 9781399079457: Amazon.com: Books
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December 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
“Yet the most compelling aspect of Sephiroth as a villain was just how *normal* he was before he snapped.” -the Final Fantasy VII chapter.
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#finalfantasy #finalfantasy7 #finalfantasyvii #sephiroth
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Why was Bahamut in Doomgaze’s mouth in Final Fantasy 6? I remember hoping for some lore around that. Oh well.
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December 16, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Why was Bahamut in Doomgaze’s mouth in Final Fantasy 6? I remember hoping for some lore around that. Oh well.
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Who else imagined that the ruined castle in Final Fantasy 6 was Baron Castle from 4? Maybe a few hundred years afterwards? Unless Rosa was really, really freaky. #finalfantasy #finalfantasy6 #finalfantasy4
December 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Who else imagined that the ruined castle in Final Fantasy 6 was Baron Castle from 4? Maybe a few hundred years afterwards? Unless Rosa was really, really freaky. #finalfantasy #finalfantasy6 #finalfantasy4
Final Fantasy 6’s power is making you imagine a world with so may different corners, from a comic strip about an octopus receptionist to an opera-themed pulp love story to a homicidal clown.
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December 13, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Final Fantasy 6’s power is making you imagine a world with so may different corners, from a comic strip about an octopus receptionist to an opera-themed pulp love story to a homicidal clown.
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One minor oddity in FF6: how did a person like Leo come to believe a person like Gestahl was good? I guess you’d have to attribute charisma to the situation, seeing the side of him that the party saw during the banquet.
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December 12, 2025 at 1:19 PM
One minor oddity in FF6: how did a person like Leo come to believe a person like Gestahl was good? I guess you’d have to attribute charisma to the situation, seeing the side of him that the party saw during the banquet.
#finalfantasy #finalfantasy6 #gamenarrative
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I really do like publishing the kind of video game books I grew up reading from Steven Schwartz and Rusel Demaria, it’s great to have achieved that. I’d like to do more, but for that to happen, I’d need a lot more readers. #finalfantasy #nes #nintendo #squaresoft
December 12, 2025 at 3:37 AM
I really do like publishing the kind of video game books I grew up reading from Steven Schwartz and Rusel Demaria, it’s great to have achieved that. I’d like to do more, but for that to happen, I’d need a lot more readers. #finalfantasy #nes #nintendo #squaresoft
Sabin was a unique addition to a Final Fantasy game. In some ways, he was a monk, which is hardly new. But his mechanics were straight out of a Street Fighter game, which was crazy popular at the time. I even spent many hours looking for that fabled “Boss Code”.
December 11, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Sabin was a unique addition to a Final Fantasy game. In some ways, he was a monk, which is hardly new. But his mechanics were straight out of a Street Fighter game, which was crazy popular at the time. I even spent many hours looking for that fabled “Boss Code”.
What was the discarded narrative behind the fake Siegfried in Final Fantasy 6? Was it just an alternative recruitment mechanic for Gogo, or something more?
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December 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
What was the discarded narrative behind the fake Siegfried in Final Fantasy 6? Was it just an alternative recruitment mechanic for Gogo, or something more?
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#finalfantasy #finalfantasy6 #gamenarrative #gamewriting
FF6 was a great Final Fantasy game, but not perfect. I was in the first wave of OG players who wanted more in the WoR. Features like the scenario choice system were also underused. And what was the fake Siegfried’s deal? Still, the most “literary” FF out there!
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December 9, 2025 at 3:29 PM
FF6 was a great Final Fantasy game, but not perfect. I was in the first wave of OG players who wanted more in the WoR. Features like the scenario choice system were also underused. And what was the fake Siegfried’s deal? Still, the most “literary” FF out there!
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“If Kefka wasn’t actually Baram, there’s a decent chance he was someone very much like him.” -from the FF6 chapter
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Final Fantasy Villains: From FF1 to FF16: Greenhut, Michael: 9781399079457: Amazon.com: Books
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December 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
“If Kefka wasn’t actually Baram, there’s a decent chance he was someone very much like him.” -from the FF6 chapter
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The real strength of Final Fantasy 5 was not the story, but the system. It improved heavily on 3’s job system and was the first game to let you mix class abilities in a formal sense.
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December 7, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The real strength of Final Fantasy 5 was not the story, but the system. It improved heavily on 3’s job system and was the first game to let you mix class abilities in a formal sense.
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I had an import of Final Fantasy 5 before it was ever released in the states, I used dot matrix printouts of Mark Rosa’s translation, and I felt so cool.
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December 6, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I had an import of Final Fantasy 5 before it was ever released in the states, I used dot matrix printouts of Mark Rosa’s translation, and I felt so cool.
#Finalfantasy #FinalFantasy5
#Finalfantasy #FinalFantasy5
Gilgamesh vs. the fake Siegfried — battle of the Excalipoors. Who would win?
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December 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Gilgamesh vs. the fake Siegfried — battle of the Excalipoors. Who would win?
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Gilgamesh was probably the deepest villain in Final Fantasy 5. Siegfried’s predecessor!
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December 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Gilgamesh was probably the deepest villain in Final Fantasy 5. Siegfried’s predecessor!
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Butz—err, Bartz — wasn’t the complex protagonist that Cecil was. No dark sword influence, no atrocities to make right, just a dude who wanted to travel. The focus is much more on character relationships than the individual characters themselves.
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December 3, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Butz—err, Bartz — wasn’t the complex protagonist that Cecil was. No dark sword influence, no atrocities to make right, just a dude who wanted to travel. The focus is much more on character relationships than the individual characters themselves.
#finalfantasy
#finalfantasy
Final Fantasy 5 wasn’t what I’d call the most powerful narrative game in the series (especially compared to 4 and 6), but it had its character moments. Exdeath’s greatest value to me as a villain is in picturing him as The Giving Tree gone awry.
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December 2, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Final Fantasy 5 wasn’t what I’d call the most powerful narrative game in the series (especially compared to 4 and 6), but it had its character moments. Exdeath’s greatest value to me as a villain is in picturing him as The Giving Tree gone awry.
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December 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Final Fantasy 4: TAY had a disappointing villain. That maenad character should have been Zemus’s daughter.
December 1, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Final Fantasy 4: TAY had a disappointing villain. That maenad character should have been Zemus’s daughter.
Kain was also a nuanced character, making you wonder just when and how he fell under Golbez / Zemus’s control. Was it before the beginning, or after Rydia’s earthquake? As tedious as TAY was, his story was one of the redeeming elements. #finalfantasy
November 29, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Kain was also a nuanced character, making you wonder just when and how he fell under Golbez / Zemus’s control. Was it before the beginning, or after Rydia’s earthquake? As tedious as TAY was, his story was one of the redeeming elements. #finalfantasy
Rydia went from an angry orphan to a compassionate woman who saved the life of her mother’s killers — another character path that just blew me away in Final Fantasy IV. #Finalfantasy
November 28, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Rydia went from an angry orphan to a compassionate woman who saved the life of her mother’s killers — another character path that just blew me away in Final Fantasy IV. #Finalfantasy
Cecil was a villain at the beginning of Final Fantasy 4. He was under the influence of the dark sword, just beginning to grow donkey ears and a tail like Pinocchio on pleasure island. But he got out in time!
November 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Cecil was a villain at the beginning of Final Fantasy 4. He was under the influence of the dark sword, just beginning to grow donkey ears and a tail like Pinocchio on pleasure island. But he got out in time!
“Rarely did a villain with a shattered mind return to the way they were, survive the end of the story, and have to face the consequences” -regarding Golbez
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Final Fantasy Villains: From FF1 to FF16: Greenhut, Michael: 9781399079457: Amazon.com: Books
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November 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
“Rarely did a villain with a shattered mind return to the way they were, survive the end of the story, and have to face the consequences” -regarding Golbez
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Happy Friday. Here’s another cat picture, check out my pin. Yeah I’m a terrible marketer, but it’s better than that Idiocracy smoking billboard, right?
November 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Happy Friday. Here’s another cat picture, check out my pin. Yeah I’m a terrible marketer, but it’s better than that Idiocracy smoking billboard, right?
