Maybe Final Fantasy IX is my favourite game of all time because of my early exposure to—say this along with me in your most pretentiously flowery accent—the theatre.
Hoping their kid wouldn’t be the type to sit inside doing nothing but playing videogames, my parents often took me to our local theatre, where I saw professional actors perform everything from Shakespeare to Mamet long before I’d even heard of a Japanese RPG. By the time, I must’ve been psychically primed to love a game that begins with a crew of actor-thieves putting on a play called I Want To Be Your Canary before kidnapping the princess-in-distress and setting off on a world-spanning adventure.
