Christmas 2021: These books to offer a fan of video games

Final Fantasy (ファイナル ファンタジー, Fainer Fantasy) is a collection of duty computer game (RPG) created by Square Enix (originally Square Soft) and introduced by Hironobu Yamaguchi in 1987 in Japan on the NEW with the Final Fantasy game. The very first game of the collection is a last initiative of Yamaguchi to hand over his career after numerous industrial failings: he fulfills a fantastic business success. Ever since, Final Fantasy progresses with every living-room console generation as well as is often adapted to other systems. She has actually ventured into other type of video game whose online duty play, race, shooting video games in the 3rd person, fight game and also rhythm game. She then diversified in terms of layout, bring to life flicks, pets, manga and stories. Although most of Final Fantasy video games are made up of video games in totally independent background, there are a variety of typical factors. These commonalities consist of specifically scenario components, names and also species of video games as well as play technicians. The classic scenario of a Final Fantasy game occupies the story of a team of young heroes that deal with wickedness while developing their Tidy character as well as partnerships in between them. Lastly, the music commonly composed by Noble Seats take part in the credibility of the collection and also its uniformity. The video game collection satisfies a real business and also important success. It has more than 135,000,000 units offered in between its development and also 2017, as well as is considered a significant collection of the globe of computer game because Final Fantasy VII. She had a considerable influence on the usual play mechanics of the duty video games as well as took part in the democratization of the style all at once beyond Japan.

FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE: Material Ultimate

We no longer present Fantasy VII in Gamers, nor to J-RPG lovers. Considered as one of the games that has popularized the genre and especially the Final Fantasy saga out of the Japanese archipelago, the first part of this title had been entitled to a remade of all beauty in 2020. This year, MANA Books publishes a Beautiful work rich in illustrations to marvel around this modernized vision of this mythical game. And if this art books mainly gives to the sublime artworks, the enameled pages of developer comments make it an indispensable for collectors.

Final Fantasy VII Remake Material Ultimate, from Square Enix, Ed MANA Books, €39,90.

secrets of video game stories

For the following video games since the 1990s, Journalist Jean-François Morse, Alias ​​TSR, has become a legend through a busy career and has been pursuing for 30 years in this environment. With secrets of video game stories, the author looks at the scenes of the creation of 15 great video games that have marked in recent decades. From the creation of Tetris by the Russian researcher Alexey Pacino with seeds planted in the first call of duty before making a global success, via the astonishing birth of Crash Bandicoot, the creative genius of the Fathers of Doom or the Influence of cinema on Metal Gear Solid, No less than 15 cult games unveil their secrets with info often never bet around their birth. A good way to shine in society.

Secrets of video game stories, Jean-François Morse, ed. Make Books, €19,90.

The Chronicles of Gunned TV

For retreating enthusiasts and players who want to dive into the unknown history of video games and some missing consoles, David Heck is today referenced on YouTube thanks to its Gunned TV channel (clink at the shoot MYTHICAL DEMURE OF THE PC ENGINE). This enthusiast then endorses his panoply of landed archaeologist to make us discover the Chronicles of Gunned TV — the cursed video game consoles and other damned systems. Two volumes have already been published in recent months. David Heck plunges us with an overflowing love and humor in the world of these missing machines and testifying, such as fossils, the prehistory video game. Colecovision, Vertex, Super Graph, Jaguar, König... many consoles deliver here their secrets. She also emphasizes that despite their failures, the video game industry owes them too much. Exciting.

The Chronicles of Gunned TV, David Heck, the editions of the dead pixel, €17,83.

Generation Resident Evil

While Resident Evil Village marked the year 2021 of his mark for horror game fans, journalist and Game Designer Bruno Rocco offers us an unprecedented dive and rich in anecdotes in this series created by Cap com and appeared in 1996 on PlayStation. On 224 pages, the Book Generation Resident Evil reveals the secrets of the designers of the saga which introduced and magnified the genus Survival-Horror on consoles. Bruno Rocco pulls the bowels of the beast to deliver a very complete book and even digging certain unknown titles from the series, like his Game Boy Color version. A must for fans.

Generation Resident Evil, Bruno Rocco, ed. Make Books, €19,90.

ZELDA: the garden and the world

Expected for December 3, the Zelda book: The garden and the world is displayed as a poetic and philosophical essay combining narrative and visual experience around the famous Nintendo Saga that celebrates 35 years this year. Through the Legend of Zelda, the reader becomes an adventurous at the heart of this epic in the soil of rule, but also at the starting point of the open world games whose saga helped to write grammar. The Victor Moist specialist and the Alex Channel designer compete with ingenuity to deploy the universe so rich Link, which brought tirelessly the Brulé land in search of its secrets. A book that offers a real trip to anyone else.

ZELDA: The Garden and the World, Victor Moist and Alex Channel, Shaping Editions, €20 (available from December 3rd).

The history of the Wii

Huge success in France with more than 6.5 million units sold and a colossal plebiscite worldwide, the Wii Console of Nintendo book (well!) His secrets in a tribute book that returns to the incredible story of this console which carried the Kyoto Firm (Japan) during the 2000s. And if the retrogaming books highlight the golden age of the 1990s, it is currently time to finally put forward this UFO console which helped to convert players from all ages from 3 to 88 years to their TV thanks to its motion detector controllers and revolutionary accessories, such as the Wii Fit. On 224 pages, the Gambling journalist, Thomas Dillon, dissecting in an ultrasetted work this machine and his Judith library that marked their generation.

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The history of the Wii — Palace Revolution in Kyoto, Thomas Dillon, Third Editions, €24,90 (there is also in a First Print edition with Bonus and a special jacket for €29.90).