CCDN 271 Project 1 – Assessing and Critiquing Sources - Hyper Game Guide

CCDN 271 Project 1 – Assessing and Critiquing Sources

The source I have selected to pick at for this assignment is “The Story So Far” A section found in “HYPER - Game Guide - Your Expert Guide To Final Fantasy X-2” a magazines which specialised in walk through for a different game every issue. The relevance of this source is with my theme based on digital craft for my final paper, which is concentrating on how the design of games has changed/developed over the years with time, society, technology, trends etc.  

This source describes the layout and story of each Final Fantasy game before the featured game “Final Fantasy X-2” of the magazine. Each description is roughly about one paragraph but some of it seams rather bias as some of the description for different series are nearly half a page in description which may suggest either these are the writers favourites or they just have more detail to go on.

Each section describes the relevant of how they are linked as a series but also how they are apart in differences in styles and themes. It also explains (a wee bit) the way society was like when each game came out for both Japan and America. This is very helpful for my paper, even if it is only a small piece of information per game.

This source is overall quite useful for my report despite being rather small. The amount of information included is rather simplified and very to the point so it makes it easy to expand on it for my project 2 paper.

Art from Final Fantasy X-2

Art from Final Fantasy I

Bibliography: Hyper >> Game Guide Your Expert Guide To Final Fantasy X-2 - The Story So Far (pages 6-10) - Published in 2003 - Author unknown