In the mid-1990s, video games were still ruled by the East. The rise of Square localization begins at the dawn of the PlayStation era. It was a hell of a journey - and a hell of a payoff. And what a long road it had been to get there. As a chapter of video game history drew to a close, one of its most successful developers celebrated with its finest translation yet. This was the pinnacle of Square's work in the PlayStation era: Final Fantasy IX, a game alive with character and cleverness, bursting at the seams with loving references to its precursors and infusions of culture ranging from Star Trek to the Bard of Avon himself. For them, it was a journey of minutes - but for us, it was a journey of years, across dozens of games, as the machinations of talented people working behind the scenes at Square made the Shakespearean "I Want to Be Your Canary" a possibility - and a delight. The mismatched pair clamber over rickety boards and rust-color shingles, oblivious of the monumental effort it took to prepare for that one moment. They steal a ladder, scrambling onto the rooftops and racing towards the castle even as privileged nobles take their seats and await the spectacle. He doesn't know that yet - he has come to Alexandria for a different sort of adventure, with a crumpled ticket in hand to see Tantalus perform Lord Avon's famous romance "I Want to Be Your Canary." Yet his ticket is a fake, a worthless pass to the unromantic (and nonexistent) "I Want to Be Your Crow." What can he do? Only follow the advice of the willful street rat Puck, who senses a kindred spirit in the downhearted boy with the pointy hat. It's the Prima Vista, flying theater ship of the Tantalus Theater Troupe, which will soon carry him away to a journey of adventure and self-discovery. The great hull of a majestic airship sweeps over him, casting a wide shadow across Alexandria's cobblestone streets.
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A young boy gazes skyward as the world darkens above him, his wide, glowing eyes expressing all the wonderment and awe his otherwise blank face cannot.