X has a mediocre battle theme like wtf howd that happen
The battle theme is the difference between me sinking 30 hours into FF13 before bailing and never getting past the introductory area in FF15. Canât be understated. Itâs odd that so few JRPGs have multiple battle themes.
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JRPG battles in general are soothing repetitive comfort food and being able to hum the one and only battle theme is part of that.
Starting in FFV though they started doing a lot of setpieces where the music doesnât change when you enter the battle. The Big Bridge theme is the best known. Itâs a good compromise between changing things up and not permanently âtaking awayâ a beloved battle theme
13 is a mess in so many ways but holy shit did they nail that battle music.
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They should have one battle theme per dungeon thatâs thematically related to the dungeon music
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Stuff like this is why LttP is better than Landstalker.
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Baten Kaitos is like this and itâs gorgeous
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Seconded!
It is worth a revisit, even if the dub is even more obvious trashcanây than it was at launch (and it was horrible back then, so donât exepct anything else than brutall shitty, tinny dub).
in short, it excelled even with that horrendous dub.
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Apparently the tinniness of the dub was on purpose, because as a character youâre actually a spirit from another world, so itâs supposed to sounds distant and weird. Bad decision but not on accident
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this is the real reason the mother series is so good
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consider that the last mind blown moment of this year, never occured to me that s.o. actually wanted it to sound like that!
⌠like, thatâs just crazy.
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The new A Christmas Carol with Guy Pearce, does something like this. Anytime someone speaks to him from off screen, it sounds like their voice is coming down a long chamber hallway or tube or something. Even when the characters are outside.
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Clearing up Novella Rumors [Spoilers]
I am here to clear up rumors about what IS true, and what is not true.
Tidus Death Scene:
a.)Tidus' DOES get blown up.
b.)His head DOES go flying.
c.)The bomb has the same SHAPE and SIZE of a Blitzball.
d.)The bomb is made of tanned leather. It is not the COLOR of a blitzball.
e.)Tidus did NOT kick the ball. It hit him in the back of the head.
[...]
Yuna does NOT bang Tidus dead corpse, or bang any corpse in ANY of the current scans.
The novel DOES however HINT at sexual activity. It is NOT described in gory detail.
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Final Fantasy X-3: You do (not) bang Tidusâs dead corpse
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Avatar 2 concept art came out today, it looks like FFX tropical vibes are coming back in a major way in the 20s
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i could take out all five of those winged beasts with one well-timed toss of the blitz ball
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well okay!
getting out of the way what i said in the games you played today thread, which is that i have only recently gotten out of the gameâs first act (i.e. weâre like, 9-10 hoursish in). Also, i know nothing about the gameâs plot that i havenât experienced in play, and i plan to keep it that way! i have found it extremely amusing to, while watching a film or television show or playing a game alongside my girlfriend, to out-loud state my usually accurate predictions of future events, mostly because it exasperates her and being annoying is one of our favorite hobbies in this house
this game is pretty good! iâm gonna be real - i skim this necro-thread and i smell the rotten stench of hating from most involved parties. (thatâs not to say, of course, that everyone has to love or even like FFX, however i think calling it a bad game is just fully unfair) like, it has good character designs and music and a solid, simple battle system where nearly everyone is not a clean archetype with the exception of lulu as the black mage. but tidus is a swordboy who also learns buffs and utility abilities like he thought this was dragon quest, wakka is a ranged attacker whoâs also sturdy and focuses on statuses, kehmari is a blue mage and a tanky spear guy, yuna is a white mage and the summoner, auron is a heavy-hitter who also is the one with the debuffs (rikku has not quite joined the party at this point though also hey this game has 7 party members and youâve played with them all at least once after just a few hours and the game handles it pretty well) and thatâs without playing around with sphere grid nonsense! but if you wanna be a freak and get knee-deep in cartoon productivity software details then playing with different overdrives and overdrive modes and trying to get overkills and skillful use of character switching and doing some weird shit with the sphere grid gives you plenty to sink the teeth into on this thing. (mostly in the international version and remakes on that last point but still in the original game you can get weird)
and look. if its nice to look at and listen to and the battles are good then, i mean, that would be at bare minimum a decent rpg
but also, uh, the characters are good! yuna and tidus are two awkward teens who clearly donât know how to be a normal person with someone their own age and have similar yet completely unalike lives and itâs good. wakka and lulu have a relationship with a lot of implied texture from knowing each other a long time, sharing a very personal piece of grief, doing a lot of raising yuna, and the game makes it clear that these two have a very particular, unclear thing that, to me, rings true. tidusâ struggle with having a shitty-then-âdeadâ dad who he has had to both live in the shadow of and live with everyone else idolizing and not seeing him for what he is is also some shit, man. i mean hell the gameâs delivery makes the idolizing of jecht by the rest of the world quite literal - thereâs billboards of him in zanarkand and then in spira folks talk about jecht the hero the guardian, but none of that is ever him. the first time we hear his voice or actually see him not in a photo is in tidusâ memories and nightmares where heâs an abusive ass! (and yeah, okay, memories and nightmares arenât real either but youâve gotta admit theyâre a lot more real than an advertisement)
also the gameâs voice acting is good iâm sorry. yunaâs actor gives a slightly funny performance sometimes but everyone else is real solid! tidusâ VA does a great job! he sounds like a beachy airheaded guyman which, uh, well he is so⌠he should! like. i do generally agree with the general forum line that video games shouldnt have voice acting but⌠i donât think it takes away from this game and in fact they do good enough jobs to even help the script. the infamous laughing scene for example is, on paper, heartening and funny, but everyoneâs performances do a lot to make it even moreso! their forced laughs are really good and a lot better than any perfectly-timed-auto-progressing âHA HA HA HAâ would be in text
i will grant that the continued presence of from-the-end-retrospective narration is a bit silly and literally never necessary, however, i find it very easy to not let it ruin the experience! i can find it funny when he immediately restates an obvious fact that just happened. but if i really wanna be clever, i can say that his remarking to a third party outside of himself very plainly how the things he experienced made him feel is a good showing of the emotional growth this journey brings him, because lord knows he is a lot more emotionally mature than most 18-ish year olds. even 10-ish hours into the game fresh-new-guardian tidus is a more vulnerable and emotionally aware late teen boy than i, or indeed most of us who were once or once thought we were 18-ish year old boys, ever was, so this is at the very least a believable stretch
(it also doesnât really bother me that noone ever says Tidusâ name, however, i do personally dislike on principle any game ever allowing me to rename a character who is clearly A Very Specific Guy and not just Some Player Avatar)
itâs a pretty solid game! and i do not find its failings particularly egregious or noteworthy, and if you ask me they certainly donât outweigh the things itâs doing well, which i think thereâs quite a number of. itâs never going to be better than [insert the first final fantasy that you, the reader, played and loved] but it is still a good game regardless
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i like the story fulcrum after (?) the yunalesca fight where it becomes yunaâs story and was always hers â tidus/the player ego are literally instrumental in the world of the game and exist for her pilgrimage
whatâs more fall 2001 PS2 game than that
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