Xenogears is fuckin’ dope. I gave up on disc 2 but wasn’t even upset because disc 1 ruled so hard.
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one thing I will say for FFX is that the systems do serve the plot in that, like, every single design decision in the game seems like it was made in order to support a kind of ritual significance rather than because it made the game any good
unfortunately it was still a final fantasy game so this was not a great move
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Fairly early on, there’s a close-up shot of Yuna’s hand, holding a staff. And the staff and/or her hand are shaking a bunch due to technical issues. I was really pissed about that. (probably cleaned up in a remaster?)
I thought we were done with shaky polygons? And Squaresoft is supposed to be the best?! They spent years on this game, with new hardware, for this?!
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the battle system in final fantasy ten WANTS you to think its cool, switching out a character without using a turn sure seems like a great deal!
until youre spending every fight switching out everyone and giving them a turn to do damage so everyone in the party gets equal experience, because YOU CAN
i never understood why yuna was SO sheltered and SO naive. like she needs fucking SIX bodyguards to carry her dumbass ‘whats a whistle’ self around
i dont know what happens between 10 and 10-2 that makes yuna get so fucking competent.
i wish they would make a blitzball game with controls that dont make me wanna cry, the RULES of blitzball seem cool
also jecht became a father at thirteen and that sticks out
the best thing about ffx is aurons armpits, the worst part is the jump scare random battle effect
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the summons look amazing though, the way yuna pets her first summon as it comes from the sky all lovingly is one of my favorite moments of MONSTER TENDERNESS in games
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rikku introduced yuna to that dank. 
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i think yuna comes out as bi and it fixes everything
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they all did some peyote and a bit of salvia in the desert
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ALSO ALSO lulu and WAKKA having a baby is DISGUSTING
lulu is a lesbian icon and i hate EVERYTHING about her and wakka
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office romances, man.
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they could’ve justified his whole character if only one other NPC thought to go “wakka wakka wakka” at some point in the game but no
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WHATEVER its a LAVENDER MARRIAGE! its not real!
okay how come gay dudes get to call their cover wives beards but lesbians have LAVENDER MARRIAGES
i guess lavender marriage is a cover up for any gender. but I WANT BEARD EQUIVALENT. oh that guy? hes just my pubes
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i think lavender is really nice
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i actually have ruined more than one intimate experience with a wakka impression, yea?
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lavender is calming and soothing but it doesn’t share the same punchy espionage as SHES MY BEARD
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trying to remember if I’ve ever asked anyone to blitz my balls
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i like ffx but will concede the best way to experience it is probably just downloading a text file of the entire script and covertly reading it at work over the course of a few hours.
and i think this method actually highlights my favourite thing about the writing, which is the strange detached way that plot threads just fade in and out while generating no comprehensible reactions. like there’ll be a cutscene like
LULU: the name of the person who saved the world back then… was [tidus dad]
TIDUS: …?!?
and then the cutscene ends and nobody is asking any of the obvious followup questions and its never mentioned again until another cutscene a few hours in. its like a perpetually dropped conversation where you never really know how much any of the characters know because they seem so totally incurious about what would seem to be immediate, pressing questions, which kind of does give it the mysterious half-submerged quality of a dream… like i think half the plot would be immediately resolved if the characters just talked to each other like actual humans / cat people but instead its this ongoing exercise in ritual evasion.
i also do admire the fact that theres an npc who specifically addresses the question of “how do blitzball players breathe underwater?” and the answer turns out to be that they “train really hard”
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oh wait, i remembered something about it. doesn’t it have a guy who is like a Physical Attack Fighter type but his weapon is throwing a ball at people? Hahahahah this game is ridiculous
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And all you could possibly think is “beachball”. (you shut up Blitzball! You shut up!).
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