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well, tbf this could’ve just been a phenomenon at my middle school but seymour was a big deal with all the edgy kids but esp w/ the mixed race edgy kids who were all ab ’ the pain of being mixed and never fitting in ’ thing. i mean we all used to quote video games and memes but seymour was seen as this babe of a villain who everyone wanted to fuck but also was like the representative of aforementioned mixed kids.
god what yeah was this man, holy shit. . .i wanna say like uh 2001-2002ish? i think that’s when this game came out. but yeah, there was a lot of ’ now is your time to die ’ and like pretending to be seymour matus ( because that’s where everyone got stuck because that boss fight is annoying as hell ) and just like general seymour worship.
i personally think seymour has a pretty face but i grew up reading angel sanctuary and admiring bishounen to a large degree so you know, it is what it is. i like his voice actor too but i don’t remember his name b/c i don’t remember things like that anymore. anyway, i feel like a similar thing happened with xenmas / ansem when it came to all the weebs i knew around then after kh 2 came out too.
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i was a little too young to be there @ that time so this is super interesting to me! and revisiting it in adulthood i guess yuna/ rikku/ wakka pinged more for me. long live biracial/ bicultural teen angst
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ix and x are the nadir of the series imo, though i find ix just kind of this limp boring plodding thing where x is legit offensive
both are on consoles full of great jarpegs too, maybe i’d have been more receptive to ix in the ~2010 era jarpeg drought where i even played fucking bravely default all the way through out of starvation, but there’s no shortage of this stuff on ps1/2
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i would rather play final fantasy x to completion than ever, ever play bravely default in any capacity ever again lmao
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the nicest thing i can say about either of those games is i’d sooner play them than xenoblade chronicles
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I finished FF XIII without blowing up a second PS3 so I guess I won. Beating the final boss expands the level up crystal-something even more which is odd, I guess the idea would be to then wander backwards from the final save point all the way to the warp portals back to the field which is… kinda annoying? If you just dropped my post-game save on the field I’d consider checking it out, now I’ve already put the disc away and everything.
Unmarked spoiler but with the final boss they did the whole “one character speaks with two different voices at the same time” deal and I legit have no idea what half of what they said was. I picked up enough from the bits I could make out and context but like… maybe don’t do that.
Anyways I think the game was fine. It is IMO clearly a battle system game and said system is pretty solid, although for at least the main game once you can select your own team it feels like it starts you with what is clearly the best trio so I basically never switched off of them. Granted switching the team up was a pain due to the game not saving paradigms and apparently the post-game requires more playing around with it, but it felt relatively “solved” by the time I hit the final chapter. Really once I learned haste with an actually useful character things shifted noticeably. I basically just wish that it asked more of you by the time you gain full control of everything, but that seems like they saved most of that as a post-game “if you really want to” optional bit. If it let me start on said field I’d have checked!
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I blasted through the rest of FFIV this past weekend. It was alright! I’m certain I would have enjoyed it a lot more when I was a kid. It’s charming how dumb and silly it is, like watching a kid bash action figures together. I don’t know if this is entirely a localization thing or whether the developers did this on purpose to be funny, but there were occasional moments where a character would respond to a bunch of nonsense fantasy dialogue about crystals and the moon with just a really blunt modern idiom, like “Sure, I’m down” or something. Made me laugh, I should have taken screenshots.
I really blasted straight through the game, skipping all the side quests. And I was playing the Pixel Remaster, which blessedly removes any need to grind by raising the amount of EXP you get from all battles. It took me about 16 hours to get through it, which felt good. It ended just as I was starting to feel myself getting really bored.
I liked the pixel remaster a lot, especially once I turned on the built-in CRT filter (which I really liked the look of) and modded the font to the FFVI font.
Mainly I’m just excited to get all the references to the game when I reach Endwalker in FFXIV!
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FFV takes this vibe to it’s obvious conclusion with having the most lovably dumb story in the whole series and the super fun job system.
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Also the references in this ancient meme
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Not sure if this is common knowledge but I just found this today
Never would have made this connection on my own but in hindsight it’s totally obvious. Wow!
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I’m in what I think is the last stretch of FFXIII, chasing a white woman through the inside of a Nokia fashion phone. Game rules.
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difficult to adhere to but i believe in this
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This is weird to me because the US release of FFIV is like the least grindy jarpeg of that era. I don’t think it requires grinding at all.
Even the original JP so-called “hard type” release isn’t that difficult, especially because it restores a lot of unique character abilities that were absent in the US release for some reason.
the pixel remasters look cool but man I cannot get over how bad the menus look, not to mention the fonts. I know you can mitigate that with mods but at that point I’d rather just play the original on retroarch with a much better crt shader. the only reason I’d want to buy them is to play on switch or something, but then you can’t mod it.
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Beat FFXIII! What a game. The last two forms of the final boss looked so sick… that entire last area was really cool, I loved the transition from really chaotic datascape to austere white waiting room in the middle of a blue sky to chapel turned either life support clinic or power station.
It’s probably mostly the way the world is designed with very limited backtracking but this game felt like a way longer journey than any other FF I’ve played. The credits were showing some of the CGs from like Vanille and Saz going to Nautilus and it felt like two games ago.
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and you still got two games to go!
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I do! And I know absolutely nothing about them aside from the fact that Lightning returns, so I’m excited to see them.
In that regard FFXIII has been a really nice therapeutic experience for completionism. There were so many times I thought “hmm maybe I could do some more hunts” or saw a treasure chest behind 2 annoying fights and just went “cmon, I’ve got two more games, I don’t need 4 piezoelectric elements that badly”. The analects are a nice reward but I can just go read them online.
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you are not alone
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i saw what you did there…
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I forget why everyone hates this game/series, is it that bad?