wait you can decide to let mog die in ffvi?
yeah you can let him die and get some garb accessory instead
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Yeah, it’s while pursuing the wolf bandit through Narshe; you wind up cornering him on the precipice above town, and he has Mog as a hostage. Mog bites him or something, and they wind up both hanging from the cliff, and you only have time to rescue one. I don’t think he dies, though, because I’m pretty sure this is all World of Balance stuff, and I could swear I read that Mog is still available in World of Ruin regardless of your choice? But maybe my source was wrong.
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yeah you can get him in the world of ruin regardless
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Choosing Mog there allows you to get the water terrain dance which is inaccessible if you only get him in the world of ruin
Very disappointed that my brain still knows this useless information but can’t remember the name of my coworkers
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if i ever know more names of coworkers than Final Fantasy Facts i’m quitting my job
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Upgrading your weapons is a cool idea. It strikes a good balance of committment (I don’t want to screw up this weapon because there’s only so many per playthrough) without the committment of upgrading an entire character. I made some bad choices in my first few weapons and that’s okay. It also lets you cycle between different builds for different situations.
I really wish you could change materia in fights even if it was on a cooldown or something. Whenever a boss shows up I Assess them and restart before the fight to prep. Having highly mobile enemies weak to spells and abilities that have massive wind-up animations can get super frustrating, I noticed it particularly with Eligor.
The train graveyard is such a pacing killer, man. The pillar is going to fall but first a good hour of subplot with two boss fights!
I laughed out loud when Cait Sith showed up out of nowhere during the pillar collapse. Was he foreshadowed at all? I didn’t see him in the Honeybee Inn? I half expected Donald and Goofy to join him.
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I was thinking about that again yesterday, yeah there’s no setup or context during a very emotionally weighted scene for this character, a living cartoon cat doll to appear separately for a few seconds (although fittingly distraught)
When it’s the perfect kind of thing to use later, like a Reeve revelation/explaining himself flashback.
Quick enough to be silly and dismiss! But thrown on the pile, hilarious narrative dissonance that doesn’t benefit fans or newcomers just…weak beyond eccentric just sloppy
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Not to mention the “who’s this black hair cloud that keeps popping up” in the ending
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Oh it’s been mentioned, but yeah
Cait Sith has been primarily lil cat mode through all the Compilation extended stuff, so I hope they don’t entirely shy away from his bizarre chonk moogle bot. I’d be down for taking command of other creatures or hell if necessary for crunches, a non-conventional combatant riding Nanaki
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The Chonk Moogle Bot determines whether I’ll acknowledge him in any capacity
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Did he have a Scottish accent in the original translation? Because I thought it was a quirk they gave him in AC until years later.
No idea
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God these Tifa battle animations absolutely rule.
Damn, Barret
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the main cast are all extremely well realized, english voices notwithstanding
like they are all radiant and move like a dream
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apparently cait sith’s name is a reference to a Scottish mythical creature (maybe everyone knew that), so I guess that’s why?
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reading these lines (good) and then remembering what they would sound like in-game (bad) has basically sealed the deal: I will never play this game lol
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he was always supposed to be scottish but was he always supposed to be that annoying?
there’s a part in the original game where he drops the scottish accent momentarily which is supposed to be a hint that he is really reeves but that was completely lost in the original translation.
feel like i picked up the information that he was accented in jp ffvii and it didn’t carry over here, can’t remember where i read that though
also the english cast is great y’all are all trippin’
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