Let's Play Every Final Fantasy Game In Order Of Release [Now Finished: Final Fantasy Tactics]
- Thread starter Omicron
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- Let's Play
Dybbukpossesed
Falling Somewhere
- Location
- California
I guarantee whoever was driving the truck saw that there was someone there, realized it was Palmer, and hit the gas while practicing excuses in their head.
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- Phoenix
Sniper CR + deathblow still has a small chance to miss, but it shouldn't be missing that often.
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- the Republic
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- He/They
Not so much tonal whiplash in FF7 as like a constant tonal tilt-a-whirl, really.
Guile
Having a really great time right now
I think of Palmer mostly as ShinRa's Mascot, shorthand for all the stupidity and greed of the company as a whole.
He was probably a nepo hire too, like he was the Prez's roommate at boarding school and got through with a "solid C" average plus or minus a generous donation or two.
You fool
You had not even begun to understand her power
He was probably a nepo hire too, like he was the Prez's roommate at boarding school and got through with a "solid C" average plus or minus a generous donation or two.
You thought you'd seen the full extent of Yuffie's power, using the Save screen to steal some gil?
You fool
You had not even begun to understand her power
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- Location
- Spain
Palmer just happens to have exceptional evasion, as befits a Limbo champion.
Haha of course not
You'll totally, finally get that rematch with Rufus you've been waiting for
Aaaaaany second now
Ah yes, good ol "dead of lung cancer by age 40" Cid, here to join the party. At least he doesn't have to worry about Mako Farming ending the world, he'll be gone well before then.
I'm not entirely sure how the timelines line up, honestly? Like Wutai was as recent as a decade ago, but Sephiroth was 25 when Nibelheim happened and as far as I recall he's been juiced with Mako from waaaay before that ten year mark. Which would imply that Shinra already had Mako all those years ago.
Could just be Cid being a somewhat unreliable narrator on the whole thing, giving his perspective or the excuses Shinra made when the Rocket failed, I guess.
Oh boy, you had War Crimes Cid, now get ready for Sexism Man Cid!
Actually wait I take it back, I totally get sexism Cid.
I mean it doesn't exactly justify him, but Shera be kind of batshit herself, and I kinda understand taking his anger out on her after nonsense like that.
Sexism, Fat Shaming... quick, check around town Omi, maybe you can find dialogue that resembles Transphobia or something and get all of Sufficient Velocity shut down.
I was going to say "to be fair while he's a dumbass has Palmer actually seen Team Cloud before?"
Then I realized I was getting Palmer mixed up with Heidegger, and nah he really doesn't have any excuse.
Yeaaaah, sadly that tends to be the answer in some cases like this: you're just not supposed to think too hard about it.
Man, this entire battle is just peak comedy, I love it all. If anyone ever points to Final Fantasy VII and says some nonsense about "too serious" or "dark", just link them the Palmer battle.
Alas, poor Bronco, we only got to fly it for like 30 seconds. Guess you'll have to wait for a proper airship or something down the line.
The question is, which is worse?
I mean obviously it's War Crimes Banana Cid, but I could totally see Sexism Rocketman Cid hitting a little more close to home.
I'm sure she has no particular reason for wanting to go specifically west.
Yup, nine party members total in FFVII: Cloud, Barret, Tifa, Aerith, RedXII, Yuffie, Cait Sith, Vincent, and Cid. Seven mandatory, two optional.
Honestly, it's a pretty good balance of numbers for a game with a three person party, I'd say? Particularly if you miss Yuffie and Vincent, you still end up with a solid enough roster without growing too bloated like FFVI did. Though at the same time, party members aren't nearly as unique as FFVI since all each party member has to differentiate them is weapon type (but no variety since singular weapon type per character), whether or not said weapons are ranged, Limit Breaks (which for a lot of party members are just "do damage"), and I guess a bit of base stat variance.
Damn, can't believe the incredibly unsuspicious character who only joined your party after robbing you half a dozen times and has constantly mentioned not giving a shit about your entire quest did something like this
Who could have ever seen it coming
(I love Yuffie she's unequivocally best girl)
Also fun fact: Yuffie does not, in fact, take all your materia by default, she actually grabs something like 50-60 materia based on internal values of "how valuable is this particular materia". So if you come by to do this sidequest lategame, or cheese it by going to buy like 50 earth materia before you show up, then you don't end up robbed totally blind.
That's XCom, Baby!
Wait, wrong game. Though point still stands, sometimes RNG just really decides to fuck with you, and today it looks like it decided to fuck with Vincent.
- Location
- Phoenix
Sounds like Vincent needs a Luck Materia then.
- Location
- Texas
The truck, maybe, but the genre is technically older since the Chronicles of Narnia were written between 1950 and 1956, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain was written in 1889. So you could make a case that the genre is 100+ years old, and originally American. And/or British.
Truck-kun himself comes from the fact that a lot of Isekai works have their roots in fan-fiction. A common trend on Shōsetsuka ni Narō (a light novel site a lot of Isekai originate from, including some big names) was to toss your character into some anime. The broad trends of isekai emerged from that after fan-fiction was banned on the site. Now authors needed a quick way to get random dude from boring earth to magic land, totally not XYZ anime with the numbers filed off. Traffic accidents were an easy and believable way to do that, and it spread quickly.
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- He/Him
Oh boy the next update is gonna be fun
People act like they want a quirked up geek girl with nerdy interests, but balk when she's willing to be immolated in a 5,000 degree fireball in the name of science, smh.
- Location
- Phoenix
Which is kind of funny, because deaths from traffic accidents in Japan have been on a downswing for the past decade.
FelOnyx
Love and Peace!
- Location
- Gunsmoke
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Isekai is just a traffic safety awareness campaign that was a little too successful.
Zap Rowsdower
Ex-cultist vagrant
- Location
- Bright lights, big city
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- He/Him
Ah, Cid Highwind. The human embodiment of Squaresoft celebrating no longer having to abide by 1990s era Nintendo content guidelines. He smokes! He says bad words like "goddamn" and "ass"! He's rude to women without being a villain!
In his own way, he's as much a "look what we can do now" flourish as the CG cutscenes.
Also yet another dragoon-adjacent character named Highwind, I think the fourth
In his own way, he's as much a "look what we can do now" flourish as the CG cutscenes.
Also yet another dragoon-adjacent character named Highwind, I think the fourth
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cB557
voOOP
I've been looking forward to this part because when 21st was playing this they mentioned to me something like "fuck, Cid's an abusive husband in this one" in a way that made me think whatever was actually going on was something that was sorta that, but much stupider. I was not disappointed.
- Location
- United States
- Pronouns
- They/Them
Man got hit so hard he got sent to Battlespire.Palmer couldn't even manage to make it to Skyrim?
dhasenan
always lowercase
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- She/Her
Maybe the remaining Space Program is just astronomy, hoping to find the Promised Land that way? But without a way to get to it... weird.
I actually put a knob of butter in my milk tea when the milk is too low in fat and I don't have any cream.
Cid comes off as an asshole even in the flashback. I think they were going for rough exterior, heart of gold, but the exterior is far too rough and being unwilling to let a coworker get incinerated only gets you bronze at best.
Thozmp
Gets my kicks above the waistline, Sunshine.
So, the entire Cid and Shera thing is... yeah. Cid throwing verbal abuse and Shera's whole "go ahead and incinerate me." But this line makes me wonder, because Shera sticks around, possibly trapped by guilt, but I doubt Cid wants her around as a reminder of what he lost and why.
But there's this line, and it makes me wonder: could Shera be a yandere? This woman who is near obsessed with her sempai/captain and will do anything her him, even if it means getting incinerated by a rocket engine.
Guile
Having a really great time right now
Given the sample size comprised of 'our party', I do like to imagine that every other 20-year ShinRa employee is one bad day away from grabbing onto the wing of a departing plane and beginning a whirlwind tour of Vengeance on the Company What Did Him Wrong
Cid: "This woman ruined my dreams, but have you seen the rents in downtown Rocket Town? I can't afford that shit, I've been #$@!-in' unemployed for ten years!"
Zap Rowsdower
Ex-cultist vagrant
- Location
- Bright lights, big city
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- He/Him
Well, yes, but I don't think thats a Shinra thing so much as a general corporate employee thing
I have a theory on why Rufus wants the Tiny Bronco - he simply doesn't trust official Shinra transports anymore, not after Junon.
Consider the implications of the Junon disaster: Shinra pulled out all the stops for the escort, and yet a Jenova piece still infiltrated and massacred the ship. Sure, Rufus and the execs got out safe, but I have a feeling that he's a little cagey about relying on official Shinra transports now.
After all, Hojo's gone awol, and it's possible that he or a collaborator created some backdoors here and there; did Jenova just spawn on the ship, or did they use some sort of secret passage that Hojo may have left for them? Heck, Rufus might also have to worry about sabotage from the rest of the board, most of whom are old cronies of his father and may dislike his stricter approach towards them.
So if possible, Rufus would rather avoid traveling in an official Shinra vehicle that could already be sabotaged in a number of ways. Problem is, Shinra's monopoly means that aren't many other options for an air vehicle outside the company's stores. Hence why he paid a call to the long-neglected Tiny Bronco. It may not be as good as other transports he has at its disposal, but between its obscurity and Cid's dislike for Shinra, he can at least rest assured that Hojo and others at the company weren't able to compromise it.
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Thozmp
Gets my kicks above the waistline, Sunshine.
Which would make sense except for one thing: the Tiny Bronco is tiny. It's got room for Rufus and maybe two body guards if one of them is also the pilot. Like, is this now somehow Rufus personal journey of vengeance/spite/murder? Is Rufus of the idea that he's the actual protagonist, and as such will be taking a small party to go out and defeat the evil Sephiroth or something?
SolipsistSerpent
Endlessly Devouring
Maybe they had mako but they were using it in weapons instead of selling it for cheap power before the cancellation of the space program.