AngryTurnip
01-26-2004, 09:04 PM
I think I've found one of Square's primary sources for FF3j's monsters: The Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges. Both the book and game contain the following monsters (not counting the oens carried over from FF1 and 2):
Abtu, Acheron, Anet, Azriel, Barometz, Burak, Crabuncle (debatable), Catoblepas, Cerberus, Chronus, Crocotta, Eater (well, the book mentions "the eater of the dead", could be conected), Garuda, Griffon, Haniel, Harpy, Haokah, Humbaba, Jinn, Lemure, Mandrake, Mermecolion, Remora, Rukh, Simurgh, Scylla, Uroboros.
Well, okay, it's really not surprising that some famous monsters such as the griffon or cerberus would appear in both, but what are the chances of Haokah, Humbaba and other obscurities overlapping?
The problem with the theory is that I don't believe that any foreign-language textbooks are translated into English unless they're really ground-breaking, so I'm guessing that it'd be the same for Japan. Still, maybe someone at Square read a Japanese book that borrowed a bit from this one.
Or maybe I'm just seeing what I want to see.
Abtu, Acheron, Anet, Azriel, Barometz, Burak, Crabuncle (debatable), Catoblepas, Cerberus, Chronus, Crocotta, Eater (well, the book mentions "the eater of the dead", could be conected), Garuda, Griffon, Haniel, Harpy, Haokah, Humbaba, Jinn, Lemure, Mandrake, Mermecolion, Remora, Rukh, Simurgh, Scylla, Uroboros.
Well, okay, it's really not surprising that some famous monsters such as the griffon or cerberus would appear in both, but what are the chances of Haokah, Humbaba and other obscurities overlapping?
The problem with the theory is that I don't believe that any foreign-language textbooks are translated into English unless they're really ground-breaking, so I'm guessing that it'd be the same for Japan. Still, maybe someone at Square read a Japanese book that borrowed a bit from this one.
Or maybe I'm just seeing what I want to see.