Let's Play Every Final Fantasy Game In Order Of Release [Now Playing: Final Fantasy Tactics]
- Thread starter Omicron
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No Omni wait please slow down
I've been lazy, now you're ahead of me that's not allowed
You know, I think with Galbadia Garden it's really starting to sink in that "oh yeah RWBY was 100% inspired by Final Fantasy VIII". Not the only inspiration, sure, but seriously just sprinkle a few white textures for snow, maybe make the Garden fly and oh look it's Atlas Academy, complete with being a funnel into the local military of the super militaristic country with the futuristic cyborg robot vibes.
Granted considering Monty's early work with Dead Fantasy I probably should have seen the FFVIII inspiration coming.
Ah yes, the classical growth stage of the teenager, when they start going "NO THOSE ARE ALL CHILDISH SILLY GAMES FOR CHILDREN I'M AN ADULT"
They are also loser dweebs. Light up, loser dweebs.
10 bucks he spends his afternoon break periods playing Call of Duty and that's all because it's a MATURE GAME FOR ADULT GAMERS
You know, is this one of the first times a Final Fantasy game has had some degree of established "oh yeah the monsters can be people too, can even integrate with normal people society"? I mean on one hand apparently they all fall off the moon and annihilate entire civilizations from the face of the planet, as one does, but on the other between Gerogero and the hockey team this feels like the most strangely tolerant of monsters we've seen Final Fantasy societies be? Only other peaceful monster settlement I'm remembering off the top of my head is the Land of Summons in FFIV.
Rinoa just taking Ls left and right since she entered the script proper, really. Fails to kidnap the president, fails to broadcast independence, the Owls are scattered and effectively wiped out, now her kinda sorta boyfriend-crush is dead...
What? Noooo Omi, of course Seifer is 200%, absolutely, indubitably dead! See, this is the part where Final Fantasy VIII starts to hit you with how sudden and final death can be, like Aerith! Probably!
Understandably, having his worldview kicked in the balls is just a tad hard on Squall. I guess child soldiers might have a flaw or two, whoops. Maybe Cid can get his own Sorceress and mind control those kinks out in future itterations.
My guess is it's just one of those SeeD handbook/standard operating proceedure things that we aren't getting the details on. Similar to how earlier the team went "well can't go back to Balamb, head to the nearest Garden for sanctuary" Fuijin and Raijin just went to the nearest place that could be considered a secure location where presumably either Team Squall would show up and collect their mail, or Galbadia Garden could send out a team or something to locate and deliver it.
Could also be Canadian, maybe, when you throw in the ice hockey rink.
Alright we all know Omi wrote these words with full knowledge of who's showing up in ten seconds, right? I mean it's not wrong we could do with a gunner and there's already been items like Ammo drops and Weapon Magazines showing actual guns, but still.
And dere he is, the most American of Gun Bois.
So where does Irvine having the outfit of a Texan fit on the old "FFVII secretly takes place on earth/with earth societies having space traveled there"? I mean, we sure haven't seen an actual cowboy city yet.
Oh boy, pulling a JFK in fantasyland? This should go perfectly with zero problems whatsoever!
There's something about how straightforward Irvine is about being a little fuckboi that makes it hilarious, honestly. Like we've gotten our weirdo pervert characters before in Final Fantasy, but then Irvine just strolls in with the pretty boy meter maxed out and goes "hey hey ladies~" and somehow it works?
My only guess/excuse is that at least Irvine, as a SeeD has presumably gotten the magic infusions/training/whatever that we've been informed Galbadia uses on their troops, so at the least he's got that going for him. GFs could really do with being better explained though, are they a person by person thing technically? Or does Squall just go "yo Ifrit I know you made a contract with me because I personally kicked your ass but here's a random untrained girl with a dog go work with her for a bit".
Kuja
I'M A SQUIIIID
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- AZ
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- He/Him
Okay, I think we may have found the answer to the question of how Galbadia Garden's graduates keep up with Balamb Garden's SeeDs despite not using GFs - they are a kind of mechanized infantry, with flight capabilities. That is certainly an interesting way to approach this.
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There's a number of areas that are sealed off to us as we are not Galbadia students, but we can explore a lot of neat places. For instance, Galbadia Garden has a whole sports complex with an ice rink!
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Then a car drives over from inside Galbadia Garden? Like, it literally appears from inside the university, driving through the atrium.
That's it. I am officially declaring Galbadia Garden to be The American Garden. Overcomplicated mechanical exoskeletons, cars everywhere, everything is way larger than it needs to be, and there's an ice hockey rink? It's American.
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Now the only need that would complete this picture would be if we received a new party member whose power is GUN.
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Oh my god. He admits it. He admits to being a fuckboy who needles people for no reason. Incredible. AND GUESS WHAT? HE NOT ONLY HAS A GUN, HE'S A FUCKING COWBOY. THIS MOTHERFUCKER IS COSPLAYING A TEXAN. GOD!
Mizu
Software Developer
- Location
- Victoria, Australia
Very dark picture of the train there, Omi. Might want to nab a better one.We head for the train station, and with it, onward to Galbadia
But yeah, Irvine is... Something. From the very start he's flirting with the girls and it's pretty funny, overall.
ZerbanDaGreat
Daemon Noble of D E M O G R A P H I C S
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>stand in the corner T-posing while your friends all share a moment
>suddenly interrupt bellowing that you won't die
>refuse to elaborate
>leave
But in all seriousness you raise some very salient points. Honestly the aesthetics of teenagers going to battle-school has been done to death so many times that the feeling of these characters being teenagers still trying to figure themselves out can often be lost in the copying, and if there's one thing to be said about Squall it's that he totally feels like a 17-year-old. He's a seething mess of hormones and self-doubt who lives almost entirely in his own head because for one reason or another he decided that pretending to be okay is how everybody does it so he should too (insert Chainsaw Man 'he just like me fr' edit).
It's not American unless the roads inside the Garden are 8-lane uncrossable deathtraps, the food is full of sand and carcinogens, and potions are sold at a x100 markup.
Squall: "The orders say by mean of 'a sniper.' We have no one with that skill."
Martine: "Don't worry about it. Let me introduce an elite sharpshooter from Galbadia Garden. Kinneas! Irvine Kinneas!"
Cue FMV.
One, something lost in screenshot form is that Irvine makes a fingergun 'firing' motion to dislodge the butterfly on his finger before he gets up, it's a cute little moment. Second
>sharpshooter
>weapons are all shotguns
do you think irvine is a sharpshooter in that he 'always' hits his target by hosing down the firing range with buckshot
- Location
- The Great Beyond
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- He/She/They
clearly when we say he's a sharp shooter we mean he shoots you with sharp shrapnel.
somewhatLazy
Serial Procrastinator
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- lurking
I guess we know why Tifa's a Texasboo now. I mean, have you seen that eyeliner?
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- USA
Are they, really? Or is Irvine just screwing around and firing from the hip like The Rifleman because it makes him look cool? And, yes, actually hitting his targets because he's just that good.
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- Him/He
I guess we know why Tifa's a Texasboo now. I mean, have you seen that eyeliner?
. . this might be the worst final fantasy crossover I've ever seen. It's honestly kinda sickening to consider Tifa idolizing in-universe fictional story of ff8.
Very fine work. I'm going to hurl from confusion.
ZerbanDaGreat
Daemon Noble of D E M O G R A P H I C S
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Technically one of them is referred to as a rifle in its description but they're all modelled clearly looking like shotguns and obviously his combat animations all stay the same. Of course this is muddied further by the fact that his guns all fire various types of ammo, one of which is 'Shotgun Ammo' which obviously all four guns can chamber, but that's not normal because 'Normal Ammo' is a different thing, and the moral of the story is that there's no sense getting lost in the reeds when he's clearly got a good ol side-by-side double-barrel in that FMV and his combat animations were all designed for that starter weapon first.
The other fun thing; weapon variety! Irvine, Zell, Quistis and Selphie all have four weapons total. Rinoa, main heroine that she obviously is, gets five. Squall? Seven. Protagonist favouritism at its finest.
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He look at her whip, and be like "nope. can't handle her!"
Is this ye olde ludo-narrative dissonance?
Texas' a state of mind!
Hey! He can hit his targets from six yards away!
Dybbukpossesed
Falling Somewhere
- Location
- California
The school installed a range with a fancy system that auto tallied accuracy by counting shots fired and comparing it to the number of hits on the target. Irvine realized how to game the system with a shotgun and has been riding high ever since.
ZerbanDaGreat
Daemon Noble of D E M O G R A P H I C S
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Irvine boasts to all who will listen that nobody has ever been able to top his 800% shots-to-targets-hit accuracy rating. Squall, who has a 255% hit-rate with a sword, can do naught but seethe silently.
FourthWall
Love & Destroy
- Location
- Chiraq
All I have to say about Irvine's Ram Ranch-looking ass is: save a horse, ride a fuccboi
LOL
What's up with French and 'just add -e to make it feminine' thing.
Ohh, I didn't noticed/remember that. I feel for her too
Bishie cowboy.
So, I guess Balamb continent is europe and Galbadia the American continent?
Metal Gear intensifies.
I think this my first play of FF8 ends here. I don't remember exactly why. The save data got corrupted I think. I vaguely recall having to repeat from train heist again, and still unable to save further.
Its years later before I got around to experience the rest of FF8.
Yes! Monsters continue to be integrated into the narrative!
At this point I think it's safe to assume this is an intentional theme, so I'm looking forward to see where it's going. Hopefully, as mich as this game takes after FFIV, it manages to avoid the whole "everyone's got replaced by monsters, nobody's responsible for anything except Squall, who definitely did war crimes." We'll see, I guess.
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GilliamYaeger
M'crazy.
Egleris
Vagrant Dragon
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- Italy
Not sure if that fully tracks - what we've seen of Deling City when Laguna visited it gave it a strong "Paris" vibes, Dollet looks very mediterranean, and Timber also has a more eurpean-ish vibe.
- Location
- USA
Isn't Balamb an island, not a continent?
Kadmus
Dragon's teeth are surprisingly hard to sow
- Location
- Devon
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- He/Him
Balamb feels like one of those islands in the Mediterranean; take your pick, there's, uh, quite a few to choose from.
That or it's the UK except with (somehow, miraculously, I'm looking out my window at clouds literally right this second) sunshine. I don't think it's a UK analogue, though, because Balam (the town) looks far too, you know, Mediterranean, architecture-wise.
That or it's the UK except with (somehow, miraculously, I'm looking out my window at clouds literally right this second) sunshine. I don't think it's a UK analogue, though, because Balam (the town) looks far too, you know, Mediterranean, architecture-wise.
It's strange because I fully remember that in the french version on PS1, it was Martine too. And all the websites I am looking put Martine in french. By looking deeply, it seems that the remaster has changed few names and Martine has became Martin.
As a bonus note : Martine is the name only in the french and english versions, it's Dodonna in japanese, and Dodonn in spanish, german and italian versions. The engilsh wikia supposes it's coming from the french translator named Jacques Martine.
The french version was not enough, french translators have to invade others versions !!
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- Lake Wobegon
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- He/Him/His
Familiarity breeds contempt.I like @Omicron giving Irvine flack for picking the two women for party members as if Omi didn't do exactly the same thing in both FF7 and FF8 as soon as the opportunity presented itself
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- Canada, probably
It's super interesting, yeah. It's the kind of thing that could carry a whole setting, and yet here it is seemingly tucked into the background, with an NPC worried about facing some orc hockey players.
This better be a Chekhov's Gun, or I'll be really disappointed.
It's interesting how obvious it is to the audience. This isn't Last of Us 2: Lies and Misery Boogaloo, folks.
The whole section is brilliant, but this stood out to me especially. It's such a raw realization for our poor brooding emo boy, and it's coming at him fast.
Eh. I'll give you most of it, but we don't have cars everywhere quite like Americans have cars everywhere.Could also be Canadian, maybe, when you throw in the ice hockey rink.
We'd have overcomplicated mechanical exoskeletons if we could, though. They'd be Canadarm-themed, somehow, I just know it.
Bit of a nitpick, but I think you mean "lighten up." Light up means ignite something, usually a cigarette or other smokeable drug.