Final Fantasy VII

Final Fantasy VII needs little introduction.In the opinion of many the best game of all time,or the most revolutionary RPG,FFVII is the ultimate adventure taking you from the dark city of Midgar,to the countryside,tropical resorts,desert and centre of the Earth.The story has a very famous plot twist with Shinra and Sephiroth,and a love triangle.

Final Fantasy VIII

Final Fantasy VIII is very elegant,and keeps the modern world setting without jumping back to medieval.A touching love story,plot twists,fierce rivalry,and a combat system that is very unique using junctioning and Guardian Forces(summoning creatures)FFVIII has beautiful,elegant cinematics and music.

Final Fantasy IX

Final Fantasy IX is described by many as an old school Final Fantasy game but is always amongst people's favorite FF games.You take the role of a thief who's involved in a plan to kidnap the princess,but the story becomes much more than that,and the game has an almost Shakesperian feel,with romance and frequent plot switching between characters.

Breath of Fire III and IV

Breath of Fire III and IV are old school RPGs.The characters have the anime s t y l e appearance,and you are given anime s t y l e presentations.Breath of Fire III is old school,turn based RPG to the fullest,travelling from town to town and through the forest.Breath of Fire IV lets you take on 2 stories that link together.

Parasite Eve 1 and 2

Never released for PAL so it was another game I missed out on.Parasite Eve combines elements of horror(similiar to Resident Evil games) with RPG elements(similiar to Final Fantasy) and PE 1 and 2 are loved by many.

Star Ocean 2

Many people say the original Star Ocean didn't recieve the praise it deserved because it was released so late in the SNES's lifespan.Enix's Star Ocean 2 is loved by many RPG fans,it combines a story described as one that pulls you in and combines sci fi with fantasy,colorful,a n i m e s t y l e graphics that also have lots of detail,and a combat system that uses stategy and action.

Chrono Cross

One of the few games to score a perfect 10 by gamespot.Another brilliant RPG given to us by Square.A story that involves travelling to different dimensions where you learn of your own death,as well as over 40 playable characters and colorful,anime s t y l e graphics,with turn based combat that requires more strategy and no random battles.Never released for PAL PS consoles!!!!!!!

Azure Dreams

An RPG by Konami,you find and hatch eggs that contain monsters and use them to try to progress through a tower to prove you're the greatest monster tamer in the land.The graphics are mixed old school and cartoony and it's very quaint.

Vagrant Story

Mixes the stealth elements of Metal Gear Solid with RPG,and comic book s t y l e presentation.A story that many people love and it uses a combat system where you chain combo hits together.Gamespot gave Vagrant Story a higher score than Final Fantasy VII.

Xenogears

Another Square Masterpiece,and heavily influenced by anime and story telling.Xenogears has a unique battle system and is rated by many as one of the best RPGs on the PS.

Shining Force 3

The Sega Saturn didn't have much success and many of it's great games went unnoticed by many.Shining Force 3(as well as Shining Force 3 Scenario 2 and 3)is rated by people as just as good(if not better)than many of the popular RPGs on it's 32-Bit rival,the Playstation.SF3 has beautiful anime s t y l e graphics.

Suikoden 1 and 2

I love Suikoden III and V on the PS2,although I haven't played the first 2 Suikoden games on the Playstation.However I love Suikoden III and V so much I have to put Suikoden 1 and 2 on here,and also because many people love the Suikoden games on the Playstation.Suikoden is famous for the 108 star of destiny,which are 108 playable characters!

Grandia

Available on both Playstation and Saturn(and the Saturn version is better),some people claim this is a more satisfying RPG to play than FFVII.With a deep story,very colorful,anime inspired graphics,and a battle system that makes the characters all have unique abilities and a world that you'll want to explore since all the towns have unique architecture.

Threads of Fate

2 different stories with 2 different characters who have different combat s t y l e in this action RPG.Very colorful graphics and liked by many JRPG fans.

Panzer Dragoon Saga

An RPG made of the much loved shooter.PDS takes you into the world in RPG form,a world with dragons and many villages and graphics with a more serious,intense nature.

Guardian Crusade

A simple story,in a graphically simple,but colorful world.In the story you're just a Knight trying to return a baby monster to it's home and it's played in turn based RPG s t y l e.

Albert Odyssey: Legend of Eldean

Another 16-Bit s t y l e JRPG that was released for 32-Bit with handdrawn s t y l e animation and deep story telling.

Shining the Holy Ark

An addition to the 'Shining' series for the Saturn,with 3D anime inspired graphics,and heavy into story telling.Loved by man RPG fans.

Persona 2:Innocent Sin

A darker setting compared to many JRPGs,the characters are highschool students and must stop the 'Joker'from opening a doorway to heaven by capturing people's dreams.

Paper Mario

Using graphics that resemble paper cutouts,the graphics are very colorful and have the Nintendo feel,and the game uses side scrolling action for traditional Mario game fans,with a turn based battle system and RPG s t y l e story telling and character interaction.

There is 3 different sub stories within the game so you can't see everything in the first play through.The battles are done in real time and there is no random battles.Not released outside of Japan.

Once a star comes to the end of it's life cycle and collapses in on itself or novas(explodes)the remains form a new star,new solar system,perhaps new life.

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Star

A star is a massive, luminous ball of plasma which creates a fusion reaction(equivelent to hundreds of millions of nuclear weapons exploding at once in the one place then contained by the stars gravity).The sun that Earth revolves around is a star.

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Black hole

A region of space in which the gravitational field is so powerful that nothing, not even electromagnetic radiation (e.g. visible light), can escape its pull after having fallen past its event horizon. The term derives from the fact that the absorbsion of visible light renders the hole's interior invisible.As you get closer to a black hole time slows,so if you were to return to Earth after being near a black hole you would be in the future.

Image-Well we can't actuallly see a black hole,just the objects around it being sucked in.

Wormhole

In physics, a wormhole is a hypothetical topological feature of spacetime that is basically a shortcut(portal) through space and time. Spacetime can be viewed as a 2D surface, and when 'folded' over, a wormhole bridge can be formed eg if spacetime was a piece of paper and you wanted to get to the other side quicker you could fold the spacetime.

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Galaxy

A group of stars massed together.The Milky Way galaxy we are in has hundreds of billions of stars.A galaxy is held together by the gravity of a black hole.There is hundreds of billions of galaxies in the universe with hundreds of billions of stars like our Milky Way galaxy so imagine the possibility for life elsewhere in the universe.

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I don't know what the movie is called and it wouldn't put the movie name on the listings,anyways it's a Korean movie about a man(his name wasn't revealed) who can make himself invisible to others(he really isn't invisible but somehow he can instantly appear out of the line of sight of any person)anyways he was in prison for a lengthy prison sentence and a prison guard beat him up.The man discovered he had somehow learned the ability to make himself 'invisible' and beat up the prison guard (because he was invisible the prison guard couldn't fight back)and the man escaped from prison.

He then went to be with the woman he loved,and because he was an escaped prisoner the police were always coming to their house,as well as her family members and friends and the man would just make himself invisible everytime they came over.But it was tough for them,because even though they loved eachother they couldn't share the fact they were together with anyone else.

When guys would try to flirt with the woman he loved or harassed her,he sometimes beat them up but often it was better for him to just ignore it or not follow her around.Her family and friends wanted to see her get married or just be with someone and they didn't know she already had someone but she just couldn't tell them.

One morning her brother came over early as she and the man character were eating breakfast,and her brother saw 2 plates with food but it looked like she was home alone because the man character had just made himself invisible again,and her brother was suspicious and he and her family and friends always thought she was acting weird,but she didn't want to give up the man she loved,and throughout the movie you saw him and her really loved eachother,and I just loved the movie,it was very moving,and while the story wasn't too complex it was still very deep.

I've always prefered Asian movies over Western for many reasons,but this movie shows the originality and deepness and level of emotion they can deliver.

Viperfish

A viperfish is a deepwater fish,they are found as deep as 2800 meters deep and uses a light organ attached to it's dorsal spine to attract fish and other prey.

Anglerfish

They live in the depths of the ocean, where it's too deep for sunlight to penetrate so they make their own light.Anglerfish have a fin in the shape of a fishing rod growing from its snout with a glowing light that acts as bait to prey to lure them inside the anglerfish's huge mouth.

Giant Squid

Giant Squid in myth

Giant Squid real video footage

Giant squid are squid of the Architeuthidae family, represented by as many as eight species of the genus Architeuthis. They are deep-ocean dwelling animals that can grow to a tremendous size: recent estimates put the maximum size at 13 metres (43 ft) for females and 10 metres (33 ft) for males from caudal fin to the tip of the two long tentacles (second only to the colossal squid at an estimated 14 metres (46 ft), one of the largest living organisms). The mantle is about 2 metres (7 ft) long (more for females, less for males), and the length of the squid excluding its tentacles is about 5 metres (16 ft). There have been claims reported of specimens of up to 20 metres (66 ft), but no animals of such size have been scientifically documented.

On September 30, 2004, researchers from the National Science Museum of Japan and the Ogasawara Whale Watching Association took the first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat.Several of the 556 photographs were released a year later. The same team successfully filmed a live giant squid for the first time on December 4, 2006.

Vampire Squid

The Vampire Squid is an extreme example of a deep-sea cephalopod, thought to reside at aphotic (lightless) depths from 600-900 metres (2,000-3,000 feet) or more. Within this region of the world's oceans is a discrete habitat known as the oxygen minimum zone (OMZ). Within the OMZ oxygen saturation is too low to support aerobic metabolism in most higher organisms. Nonetheless, the Vampire Squid is able to live and breathe normally in the OMZ at oxygen saturations as low as 3%; a feat no other cephalopod, and few other animals, can claim.

In order to cope with life in the suffocating depths, vampire squid have developed several radical adaptations. Of all deep-sea cephalopods, their mass-specific metabolic rate is the lowest. Their blue blood's hemocyanin binds and transports oxygen more efficiently than in other cephalopods, aided by gills with especially large surface area. The animals have weak musculature but maintain agility and buoyancy with little effort thanks to sophisticated statocysts (balancing organs akin to a human's inner ear) and ammonium-rich gelatinous tissues closely matching the density of the surrounding seawater.

Other beautiful deep sea creatures