Subcreated Worlds: Platypus Nostalgia

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One of the best things about a Squaresoft game when I was growing up was the maps. These were poster size, full colour, hang-it-up-on-your-bedroom-wall masterpieces. I loved them. I loved pouring over them. There, right in front of you, was another world. Together with the fold-out maps in the hardcover "Lord of the Rings" they inspired my friends and I to spend hours on subcreative acts of our own. If any of us ever become writers or artists, Final Fantasy and "The Lord of the Rings" will be at the back of it.

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