There's also a decent amount of Charlie's Angels in there, along with at least a dash of pandering to yuri fans and perverts more than usual (outfits, The Massage Minigame)
"This world is imperfect..."Omicron said:
He is trying to kill people of Gaia prior to making his revolt against Garland known though, less out of malice and more because he knows he'll be killed if he doesn't and his own life is all he cares about.
Yes, Kuja doesn't give a damn about however many people die because of his plans, but I feel that his endgame is less "everyone but me dies" and more "I rule everyone else as either immortal king or shadow ruler." The mass murder is not any sort of end goal, unlike the stereotypical JPRG nihilist (at least until Kuja learns that he's mortal and has mental breakdown about it). Kuja's the sort of narcissist who really wants other people to validate him; there's a psychological reason why he spilled so much to Hilda while she was his captive.
Which is why I don't really feel much sympathy for him when he does die fighting Necron. It's a case of trying to get sympathy for Kuja after all the shit he's been pulling all game. Yes, including the "heads I win, tails you lose" Morton's Fork fights where you either lose, or beat him and then he OHKOs you.
Probably the fact that Zidane does very clearly sympathize with him, and as the protagonist Zidane's opinions are going to seriously color people's interpretations.
"There but for the grace of [insert FF deity of choice here] I go"? Sounds about right.
I've never played FE7 but from your description, it sounds like she's just evil for the sake of it? Whereas disc 3 of FF9 gets into unpacking Kuja's whole psychology and the reveal about Terra which explains a lot about why he is the way he is. And yeah, having Zidane trying to reach out to his wayward brother goes a long way as well.
Then it's a good thing I'm following Omi's thread
All three major cities get nuked by different Eidolons and they're always treated as a huge deal.
The Genomes, Kuja and Zidane's species, are little more than flesh robots. They are literally soulless because they're intended to be the bodies that the Terrans will inhabit after Garland finishes harvesting Gaia.
The end of the game literally has the Genomes living with the black mages (similarly mindless automations that developed free will and personalities) in their village, framed positively as the friends and successors of the black mages.
At this point I'm excitingly waiting to see if Omicron realizes that we haven't seen any other Genomes at all before Zidane explicitly shares it in the black mage village. I can't wait to see whatever bizarre conspiracy theories he makes to explain it before we get to Bran Bal.Omicron said:
FFX does at least solve this issue, letting you chose whether to use an overdrive/limit break or a normal action, even giving you additional ways to fill the gauge, though only ever one method at a time.
*looks at the sphere grid, license board, and crystarium from the next three non-MMO mainline entries where they spent the better part of a decade trying to replace all existing forms of character advancement with a board game that would consistently only level up one stat at a time, and when it was combined with normal levelling required the board game to be allowed to equip any given item*
As mentioned, FFVII already let players save up their limits, but yes, FFX does it better and is, really, the apex form of the Limit Break system - you get to save it, use it when needed, and choose which actions charge it up, meaning you can customize it to fit whichever role a team member has in battle.
For better or for worse, Final Fantasy really likes to try and innovate on its systems with each new entry. I mean really, compare Final Fantasy I to Final Fantasy XVI, then look to the side and compare Dragon Quest I to Dragon Quest XI; there's changes and improvements with each Dragon Quest, sure, but overall it's still very much the same core gameplay at heart. Meanwhile Final Fantasy has gone from turn based, to ATB, in and out of class systems and materia baubles and the sphere grid, and as of late has decided to straight up try and be an Action game with RPG elements.
Yeah, Dragon Quest is just "the same game, but slightly better (in terms of BOTH plot and gameplay)" with every iteration. It's a consistent series, but really, when you've played one of them you've played all of them, with DQV and DQVII having some points for originality.
I'll go at least slightly to bat for DQ since I've been slowly playing through the series myself, it's more like the games all have the same skeleton than actually being the exact same game. They do still iterate on each other and change things from game to game, I doubt it would be nearly so beloved of a series if it was on par with say, the average yearly sports game. Just in the first five games, you go from "single person 1v1 combat" to being able to build parties of various classes with an interesting spin on the reclassing system, to DQV straight up going "yeah what if you could just recruit 95% of the monsters in the game to fight for you".
...are they? Other than being pixel-based and ATB-fueled, I struggle to find anything that FFV and FFVI have in common.
*looks at Gilgamesh*
