LE MONDE SELON FINAL FANTASY - LE RPG JAPONAIS COMME MYTHE MODERNE

In the thirty-five years of its existence, Final Fantasy has captured the imagination of an ever-widening audience; yet it's hard to explain why. The Japanese RPG adventure, of which Square Enix's saga is undoubtedly the most prestigious ambassador, definitely has something special in the world of video games, and perhaps even that of fiction. There's no need to focus on the numerous borrowings from mythology, its gods and its bestiaries, to see Final Fantasy as yet another attempt to write the great story of humanity.

Over the centuries, we have never ceased to tell the story of mankind in all its complexity, using storytelling as the form best able to convey the most subtle ideas. Final Fantasy, by bringing to light these universal elements and structures common to many civilisations, tells us once again how existence itself has all the makings of a fantasy, and that imagination is a language expressing a truth that may be beyond us, but which art is the canvas for.

Drawing on the works of Carl Gustav Jung, Joseph Campbell, Erich Neumann, Mircea Eliade and Jordan Peterson, this book attempts to bring out the essence of Final Fantasy, which is in some respects a modern mythological tale.