“When you first look at it, it seems like these are really heavy themes, but they are very universal and many people think about them - regardless of their age, gender, position and upbringing,” Kato says. Penultimately, rulers should live and die by the sword of consensus and ultimately, a game made in 2006 has never been more relevant than in 2017. Mutually assured destruction is no substitute for the masses coming together as one and turning their backs on royal madness. There is a realisation, as Vayne’s true colours turn to deathly shades, that the nuclear power of nethicite - FFXII’s Death Star-ish superweapon - has the potential to dethrone, but will doom everyone in the process. Arriving as the new consul to a city still hostile to Imperial rule, he sets about a familiar game of populist niceties: Mingling with the ‘smallfolk’ during his inauguration, inviting the use of his first name and not his honourific, ensuring the public know he has instructed the guards to be ‘nicer’ to them et al. As the story goes on, talking to the people of Imperial-occupied Rabanastre, FFXII’s starting hub, reveals a steady shift in attitudes towards emergent villain Vayne Solidor. “FFXII carries its burdens just as mindfully. Looking at these, it struck me again how much the teams were actually doing and it made me think, ‘Wow that was a really difficult schedule!’ There was so much that they were expected to do within the time, and I think maybe we were able to get everything done because we all that much younger back then,” he laughs. “As a project manager on the original game, I remember looking over the old schedules that I had drawn up for each individual team with what they were supposed to be creating. For him, the experience has definitely been dutiful, if not exactly freeing. He was the project manager on that as well. He’s the project manager on Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age, the heavily re-imagined 2017 re-release of the 2006 original. “The concepts that became the core pillars of the storyline in Final Fantasy XII were: ‘What is duty?’ and ‘What is the real meaning of freedom?’” says Hiroaki Kato. By listening, and thereby lending credence to their obvious lies, simply because they have come to lead. By looking up at them, by paying attention to them. The reality is, of course, that We The People give them that power. Crowns for lapel pins, princes for presidents.
They simply update their presentation and their titles through the ages so as to appear less imperious. It’s as timeless a human pursuit as any, though one that continues to go strangely, even willfully unnoticed by the majority of those who are ruled. "It is the first year he has really been consistently on the football and that explains why he deserves completely to be Player of the Year.The art of ruling. His focus has always been very great but his consistent presence has not been fantastic," manager Arsene Wenger added. "Van Persie is a strong contender, certainly. A huge clamour for him to be handed the PFA Player of the Year award started long before the season's end. Over the course of the season, Van Persie started to make first-time over the shoulder volley's somewhat of a trademark with similar stunning goals against Everton and Liverpool respectively. His tally across all competitions is even more impressive, with a further seven goals in the FA Cup and Champions League combined.
In 38 Premier League games, the then-Gunners skipper fired in 30 goals and 13 assists. HAVE YOUR SAY! Is Robin van Persie's Arsenal's best player of the Emirates-era? Comment below Robin van Persie won the Premier League golden boot during his last season at Arsenal