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I mean, Celes spent her entire game wandering around in a green leotard, pauldrons, and a cape, and I'm not sure there were really complaints.
Let's Play Every Final Fantasy Game In Order Of Release [Now Playing: Final Fantasy IX]
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Zap Rowsdower
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Sprites tend to be held to a different aesthetic standard than models, for better or for worse and for a variety of reasons.
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That is a shockingly normal outfit for that artist.
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This joke is flying over my head unfortunately, I don't get it 😔
That is kind of amazing. The 2000s were on some shit.
It's interesting, in a way - this was a time when people didn't really know what would work and become the new normal. Why not do weird, baffling paper-Internet integration? Maybe this is the way of the future!
What's this, Tataru? You have a new outfit for the WoL? Which you made yourself? That's so nice! Your skills at tailoring have really improved over the course of the game. May I see it?
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You know, Tataru, this is great, but I can't help but feel like... I don't know... This seems a little... Hm.
Can I take a closer look at the mask?
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You know, I can't help but feel like you're working through something. Maybe projecting something onto the WoL a little? Have you been dating anyone lately? No?
Okay, well, I'm sure they'll like it. What's this? You're already working on the next set? And it will "not include pants?"
You don't say.
Gah, I did find the girl's lost cast, but I totally forgot to follow up with her for some kind of reward.
What? No, I found that moogle but his name is Mosh and he wasn't interested in any mail.
Also jeez that is a lot of missable content and hidden rewards, damn. I'm definitely feeling the "game intended to be played with a guide" vibe there. I might have to just keep an Internet walkthrough open...
"How can we convey the full level of Evil Queen that Queen Brahne is operating on from just a static image?"It is considerably more petite than the one in Brahne's concept art (well, one of three or four pieces of concept art she has).
"I know, we'll have her roasting fairies on skewers as a snack."
Jesus.
Oh, yes, absolutely.
I actually went and watched that second "cinematic" (more like a slider show, they're static image) at the intro of the game now, and it's very funny that the game doesn't just include a quote by the character, but also has that character's Theme summed up in one word printed in massively large font over their head. What's this, game? Steiner's deal is DILEMMA? Thanks, I was worried I might have to figure that out from his actual in-game characterization but I'm glad we could clear that up right away.
I did not notice that! I didn't think to check out the item menu until later, but that is funny.
I'm sorry, 64 times? Who even has time to do that even just to check it out!?
Oh yes, this is a detail that I totally forgot to mention because there was so much ground to cover, but for the sake of anyone who hasn't played the game:
When we swap character control to Steiner, his armor goes CLANK CLANK CLANK with every step.
The entire time.
It's incredibly funny.
Honestly this is one of these things where having played Remake and Rebirth has just profoundly shaped my understanding of the VII cast to the point that I have to make a conscious effort to separate "Original Tifa" from "Remake/Rebirth Tifa."
I have spent at this point something like 150 hours with these characters' modern reincarnations, I would die for any one of them. Aerith/Tifa/Cloud OT3 don't @ me.
I don't entirely agree. I think they're both very similar in scope and execution. You get an in-media rez introduction involving a act of criminal skullduggery that acts as a way to introduce our core characters and get a handle on their personalities in how they get along (or don't) with eachother. It's fast paced, and you get a broad look at the cultural and technological facets of the world the characters live in along with establishing familiarity with the antagonist. Lastly, they both end with an explosion.
I can see the comparison but what I meant was that one of them took me like twenty minutes to play through and the other an hour and a half with triple the content to cover, making my job harder
It is staggeringly charming.
I will never get over the fact that it takes until the Nier: Automata raids to see two dwarves take off their helmets and reveal that not only are they completely ordinary lalafell underneath them, but the beards are fake and are part of the helmet that they remove, and they are in fact completely clean-shaven underneath. Absolutely outrageous.
Oh, believe me.
I did not.
Vivi ate shit half a dozen times in a row until I was able to get up to 10 skips and then bailed out.
I am the architect of this poor child's suffering.
I think it wins on a technicality. Like, if we compared it to the Dolet Raid, which is kinda sorta FF8's opening, then it'd be a tough call to call a winner. However FF8 does in truth start with Squall giving a tour of the school and the Fire Cave and Ifrit, which is a much more low-key introduction to the game; it's not until after that that it really wows you with what it can do.So, you did mention that FFIX opening stretch was longer than FFVII, and certainly more eventful than FFVIII if you count "defeating Ifrit" as the end of the opening, but was it better, from an enjoyment, story, or gameplay standpoint? Inquiring minds want to know!
For what it's worth, because the picture-per-post limit is 50, the way my picture picking process works is the following: I insert pictures during writing as I feel is right, then at the end of the update, I go back and count how many pictures there are. If there's under 50 (increasingly rare as things go), I just post it as is. If there's, like, 93, I make it a double update. But if there's a number that's very close to the threshold - say, 55, or 102 - then I trim pictures until I can get below the threshold.
In this case, when I was done writing the update, it had 154 pictures. I didn't want it to be a quadruple update, and it was very close to 150, so I went and found pictures to prune until I could fall below the threshold for just three posts.
okay fine here it is: this game is so fucking referential that I'm calling now that it's drawing on FF4 with its two moons and one of the moons is actually an alien spaceship with aliens inside, there, I said it
While that's a possibility, she is also, least officially, Garnet's mother, and, uh... Garnet looks significantly less ogre-like.
I'm not going to do that but god the idea of casting Bahamut in Disc 1 is so funny it's almost tempting
If nothing else, this does clarify that Baku does indeed appear to be a bat-person!Also, fuck it. Here's some more concept art. Out of all the "guys jumping at you and posing in a void" pieces Amano has done, this one of Tantalus is a favorite.
MiskWisk
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You're in for a right propa Dwarven decking is what you are Omicron. Forgetting poor sweet Giott and her maidenly heart is enough to drive her to drink!
*Shadowbringer Healer Role Quest NPC*
Anyone, joking about alcoholic Dwarf women aside, it's good to see IX started. I'll be honest, it's not my favourite game, mainly because of it being hyped up far too much that I was unable to give it a fair shake.
Hopefully Omicron enjoys it though, and perhaps the write-ups will improve my opinion of it. Certainly did with VIII.
Egleris
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That makes perfect sense, and in fact I already imagined that was the way you were handling things simply from going through the entire rest of the thread to count the number of pictures in each post and seeing how they were split up. Nice to have confirmation though.
Well, if we are going with the understanding that Alexandria is a matriarcal society with a very light prejudice towards "men are mostly buffoons" and a minor but still noticeable discrimination in favor of women, and that the rulership is passed down the female line, then it'd make perfect sense for the queen to get herself a supremely beautiful trophy husband from whom Garnet could have borrowed the looks, right? That's how things work in our society once the reversed gender dynamic is accounted for, after all.
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I'm an idiot
Exalted is pretty cool, and also I write for them! People should definitely check it out!
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oh my god it has a separate wikipedia page
In all honesty, I'm somewhat surprised that the other language for it is Dutch. Do they just get schadenfreude out of other nations losing World Cup Finals?
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Yes! So far the only book I've worked on to reach publication is Many-Faced Strangers, but I've additionally worked on several books currently still in development, like the Exigents Companion and the Sidereal Companion. I'm excited for people to see my work when those come out!
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It's an interesting choice. I wonder if it was done in part because the team expected FF9 to be pitched to a younger audience, or for other reasons we might discuss later. For now, the opening quartet-
Evidently, someone who did it 63 times and still had some time to spare.
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Nice update! Steiner is definitely my favorite character even if I've never finished the game.
Also, wow, that's a strong CRT filter on some of the screenshots. It's not difficult to read per se but it weirdly takes more mental processing than the non-CRT pictures. It's really noticable on the FMVs but it's not always bad, just weird.
The only Final Fantasys that I've played on a CRT were the SNES ones; 3D Final Fantasy have always been played on LCDs for me so it's strange seeing a shadow mask. Regardless, if you like it then keep using it.
Also, wow, that's a strong CRT filter on some of the screenshots. It's not difficult to read per se but it weirdly takes more mental processing than the non-CRT pictures. It's really noticable on the FMVs but it's not always bad, just weird.
The only Final Fantasys that I've played on a CRT were the SNES ones; 3D Final Fantasy have always been played on LCDs for me so it's strange seeing a shadow mask. Regardless, if you like it then keep using it.
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FunkyEntropy
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I see you have already assimilated Alexandria's misandrist culture and just completely failed to consider her father.
Because by all appearances the man has genes that are of legendary quality.
Zap Rowsdower
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I always just assumed Brahne took her husband's death really, really, really badly and looked a lot more like Garnet BEFORE the traditional "several gallon sized tubs of ice cream" of mourning
Thozmp
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Perhaps Garnet takes after her father? Like, extremely so?
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It's possible. Isn't the limit for the speedrun achievement less than a day?
Lol, whenever I start a new game, the first thing I do is look up "[game] missables." Because there is nothing more annoying than getting near the end, trying to round up the sidequests, and realizing that you've locked yourself out of the ultimate weapon because of something you did or didn't do in the first hour of gameplay.
Zap Rowsdower
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You have to reach the final dungeon in under 12 hours to get the ingame speedrun reward, yes
I'm a bit surprised Omicron didn't complain about the ATB system after escaping it during Tactics. Getting used to it, the game just doing a lot right with the battle system, or some other factor?