I’ve seen Lightning wash dishes! In her own apartment!
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Cecil: carefully loads the dishwasher, but idiotically, with like bowls faced up.
Butz: eats off the same plate over and over and never thinks to wash it
Terra: obsessively scrubs plates to ensure they’re hygenic “for the children,” no one wants to suggest she may have a problem
Cloud: has a breakdown, drops dishes, apologizes profusely, takes a walk and tries to pretend it never happened
Squall: only eats over the sink
Zidane: has a set of mismatched thrift store china he’s really proud of. hard to tell if it’s clean.
Tidus: exclusively uses disposable flatware and cutlery
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Everything Tidus has ever eaten has come in a wrapper, and if he wants to get fancy he orders something that comes in a styrofoam clamshell container. He says he will not eat chinese again “after what happened last time” and refuses to elaborate.
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Everyone in 12 can do the dishes but refuses to because it isn’t their turn and it is a psychological battle for someone to yell OKAY FINE.
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8’s cast has only eaten in the military high school cafeteria and would die if asked to boil water.
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slashfic of Rosa going weak at the knees as she watches Kain notice that the little “rinse aid empty” light is blinking on his dishwasher and calmly open the cupboard to get out a thing of Finish Jet Dry
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Rinoa is the exception, being raised in an Actual House, so I suppose whatever nannies/maids her dad hired to help raise her after Julia’s passing taught her some basic housekeeping skills. She washes dishes in a perfectly normal manner, but she is completely unaware that she is a terrible cook. The other members would buy into her unearned confidence as a chef, until they have the displeasure of having one of her meals (this is why that one guy from the Timber Owls always had an upset tummy).
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I’m now on Chapter 8 or 9? Fang has just joined so I saved and quit.
First while there are textural difference and isn’t like this is unique to 13 the characters are interchangably mechanically (this may be one thing FF7R has done better than most other FFs.) When it is boiled down to Roles and switching there of it really makes very little of a difference. Again this might be because I am playing in Nihongo so am more able to just ignore smaller details.
What a great thing my interpretation of Lightning and the themes of this paid off perfectly. What incredible polygon manipulation this is conveyed in her eyes. That she’s been too reductive and simple minded, like the idiot child she is being forced to carry around. That her simple minded-ness destroyed the relationship with her sister and she’ll never get it back. Going forward is gonna take work and personal growth. All of that is fantastic.
Snow continues to not face consequences for his one dimensional chess and is instead failing up becoming a black-ops operative for the Defense Force.
The slow reveal for Vanille’s story is a good ticking time bomb. I did not like how it cut away from Saaz’s flashback mid-scene because well “we’ll watch it later.”
On that note Lightning hallucinating/flashbacking Sera is that some mystic magic stuff or just them choosing a really weird way to tell a story?
I do regret my words and deeds learning why she is called Lightning.
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Also Lightning yelling at Hope “I don’t have a solution right now! Thinking is new to me. You gotta give me some time.” That was great.
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ramza yells at the dishes and puts them in the washing machine so they hit each other more
delita is perfectly capable of washing the dishes but always finds a way to get you to do it. the most toxic roommate you’ll ever have. he agrees to drive you to the airport, you say you owe him one, and six months later you’re helping him get rid of a body
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Just the cultural differences that y’all use dish washers in your descriptions and I imagine hand washing because a dish washer in Japan is an impossible luxury.
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I only remember so much of the story of FF XIII but I remember thinking that the game was largely built around the battle system and that it held up its part of the deal. The lack of random battles let them pace the encounters in a way they often couldn’t and the push to learn the system in order to win battles as quickly as possible struck my brain in the right way.
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So I was in Chapter 7 and am now in 8 EDIT NOPE STILL CHAPTER 7 JUST A LOT OF BREAKS IN THIS CHAPTER and clearly on the verge of Act 1 finishing up. Maybe I’ll finally fight a named boss! I haven’t yet! There hasn’t even really been a clear antagonist outside of Computer God and The Pope. There is like that one PsiCom guy but honestly get him confused with the guy that was on the Defense Force Ship.
It was nice to be a city because even a shitty video game city I can ground as “a place that exists” and then Snow immediately heads-for floating metal platforms above the rooftops, a Final Fantasy 13 character’s natural environment, unclear floating pathways. Why do they exist? For protagonists to walk upon.
Hope still misses his mom and hates his Dad but moves some of that Dad hate into an engine to kill Snow. He’s an idiot 15 year old who can only see things in black and white and any kind of compromise is impossible and a betrayal. I’d say the theme of the game is displaying and then breaking different simplistic worldviews.
Somehow the flimsiest (Snow’s) is the most resilient and substainable. He has clear idiotic goals un-crystal his fiancé and protect Cocoon even while he is marked for the destruction of Cocoon and wanted To Die by the entire apparatus he wants to protect. But he’s also the most capable of adjusting. I’ll say something just happened between Snow and Hope and next session I’ll see how that resolves.
And we’ve met Fang! I’ve got to deal with battles where two beautiful capable strong wome-ahem. Oh the off chance you are reading this and haven’t played 13 I won’t spoil it. I will say I do not know half of Fang’s word choices and when I presented to Lady Rude she responded with, “That’s a really weird way to say dead body (し骸).” I explained who Fang was and LR responded with, “Oh yeah that makes sense.”
Outside of how confusing this game is, it’s real good Japanese practice because it is a lot of repetitive circular conversations about the future. About hope, despair, dreams, objectives, goals.
I should probably collect all this analysis into an essay when I finish. Getting a lot of positive feedback from the FF13 heads out there. I think I’ll finish? Maybe. I like a character motivated story. 4 is this to a point, 6 on-ward does this (not the middle chunk of 7.) etc etc 16 sucks shit. It’s a story with adults and teens (interacting oh my!) and isn’t just about Murder Dad considers the murder, may be wrong.
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I keep thinking about this one and I may have played 5 a quarter of a century ago, but I think we can extend this out to the entire cast eats out of the camp skillet with a knife. Even the princess once exposed to this forgets all decorum. Why use anything else? I got walls to cast Lv4 Death on in the basement of a friendly castle to get 8 Job Points!
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The Sleeper Has Awoken
I swear they changed Hope’s model after he decides. Everything in Hope’s Dad’s house was fucking great. Just real good that I called what this story was about and it paid off everything AND “finally 3 person battles with the full system have fun!”
The hug I had to like pause the game and walk around and let it sit in. Then Lightning confesses and a main character of a video game admitting immense personal fault and vowing to do better. On the back of Snow coming around in my brain to be “the one who has been right the whole time.” For Snow the second bloodshed is not needed is unnecessary. Forgiveness is an impossible gift that he gives freely. I’m not that good of a person. Lighting also realized like what the hell is this guy? I’m not better than him. I’m worse.
And finally a named villian right before he’s shot in the head by a no-name. RIP.
This is why I play video games to stew with characters for a long time. How impressed that these characters have surprised me!
That it ends the chapter with Vanille going
You’ll never know what your final conversation with a loved one will be
Don’t I know it Final Fantasy XIII. Don’t I know it.
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Trying to explain “Don’t I know it” to an ESL and cutting off my own finger because it is easier.
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Gah I wrote Hope when I meant Snow. I fixed it.
It’s just a shorthand version of saying something like, “It tastes good, doesn’t it?”/“Doesn’t it taste good?” But now it’s deployed like an exclamation.
“I know, don’t I?” “Don’t I know it!”
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Vanille’s secret has come out! I had to look up the English for when Space Pope and Doctor Boobjob were talking. Turns out I didn’t miss much.
Sasz is well…the most conflicted character for me the player. He’s a clown black comic relief character of which Japan has a real unforunate history of. Having a bird live in his hair sucks. But he’s also an exhausted failure of a father, I can relate to that. The theme of the game continues to be unknown mistakes and the willpower to forgive for them. Ultimately blame the computer God that lives in the sky or in a volcano or maybe underground.
Anyways strike force Lightning are on their way to rescue them. I am on Chapter 9 of ?13? and 16 hours in. According to a story-long play I am 65% of the way through. Maybe the open world chapter 11 I’ve heard about for years is really really long.
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I haven’t been in a dungeon this long since Rebirth. I played for 3 hours straight and still didn’t finish and quit because it was coming up on midnight.