Kalmia
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Post by Kalmia on Jun 28, 2023 11:19:14 GMT -5
I absolutely love this game. I’ve not yet finished it, but I have come awfully close to being able to utter the sentence “When did the sun come up?” Some of the side quests are really horrible. Not horrible as in they're badly structured or have bad graphics or anything like that, but horrible in subject matter and really, really dark. I didn't expect a FF game to get quite as heavy and dark as some parts of this one does. I was not prepared for the ending of the The Playthings side quest. Even Clive was shook! Yeah, that was one of the ones I was thinking about. Especially as it's right next to another equally horrible one.
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Johnny B. Decent
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Post by Johnny B. Decent on Jun 28, 2023 16:00:27 GMT -5
By the way, is Ramuh a Square-created entity? Because I know others like Odin, Shiva, Garuda, etc. all come from various religions and mythologies, but he is not, right?
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Legion
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Post by Legion on Jun 28, 2023 17:43:18 GMT -5
By the way, is Ramuh a Square-created entity? Because I know others like Odin, Shiva, Garuda, etc. all come from various religions and mythologies, but he is not, right? He was originally called Indra, a Hindu mythological character, but I guess Square changed the name at some point. Maybe some Hindus complained or they got push back from India as a market? Either way, I'm not really digging this game so far. It seems to really want to be anything but a Final Fantasy game, while keeping names that reference FF enough to make me miss what it isn't and struggle to accept and connect with what it is.
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Post by Harry The Arrow was Wrong! on Jun 28, 2023 19:45:01 GMT -5
Over halfway through the game and I just did a boss fight that might be the best boss fight in all of Final Fantasy. Holy shit. Will put in spoilers just in case {Spoiler}{SPOILER: CLICK TO SHOW}The Titan Eikon fight
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Post by Cyno on Jun 28, 2023 23:35:28 GMT -5
By the way, is Ramuh a Square-created entity? Because I know others like Odin, Shiva, Garuda, etc. all come from various religions and mythologies, but he is not, right? He was originally called Indra, a Hindu mythological character, but I guess Square changed the name at some point. Maybe some Hindus complained or they got push back from India as a market? I doubt there was any push back for using "Indra" since there's summons and monsters named after a bunch of other elements of Hindu lore like Shiva, Garuda, Lakshmi, etc.
"Ramuh" could be a mistranslation of "Lahmu" from Sumerian mythology. The Hebrew word for thunder is "raam" and that might be a source of the name, too.
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the2ndevil
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Post by the2ndevil on Jun 28, 2023 23:47:30 GMT -5
Spoilers for a late-ish(?) game side quest. {Spoiler}When it was was mentioned Theo lured a dragon away from the village and towards an area with an Aether flood, I was expecting him to become an Akashic.
What I didn’t expect was for him to regain consciousness long enough to say good-bye to Elouise and then kill himself so she or Clive wouldn’t have to.
Nor did I expect to become so emotional over the death of a character I only interacted with a handful of times, particularly in the cutscene that followed.
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the2ndevil
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Post by the2ndevil on Jun 30, 2023 1:58:36 GMT -5
Guess who just crafted the strongest weapon in the game!
It’s me.
I did.
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the2ndevil
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Post by the2ndevil on Jun 30, 2023 15:10:49 GMT -5
Finished the game.
I’m going to need some time to think about how I feel about the ending.
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Jul 4, 2023 11:52:03 GMT -5
The Bearers is treated like CHEEKS in this game lol
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Johnny B. Decent
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Post by Johnny B. Decent on Jul 4, 2023 12:10:11 GMT -5
The Bearers is treated like CHEEKS in this game lol I was half expecting someone to just whip their dick out and piss on one of them at some point.
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chrom
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Post by chrom on Jul 5, 2023 9:41:19 GMT -5
The Bearers is treated like CHEEKS in this game lol The scene where a mother revealed she got rid of her newborn because he was one angered me
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the2ndevil
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Post by the2ndevil on Jul 5, 2023 12:37:43 GMT -5
The Bearers is treated like CHEEKS in this game lol The scene where a mother revealed she got rid of her newborn because he was one angered me Damn near every side quest along the first trip toward Moore angered me SO MUCH, I was like, “wipe this place off the map, it will not be missed”
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chrom
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Post by chrom on Jul 5, 2023 12:48:36 GMT -5
The scene where a mother revealed she got rid of her newborn because he was one angered me Damn near every side quest along the first trip toward Moore angered me SO MUCH, I was like, “wipe this place off the map, it will not be missed” There's a lot of people during the sidequests that I wanted Clive to take out his greatsword and cut down where they stood.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Jul 5, 2023 13:14:17 GMT -5
Yeah game is a bit of a miss for me. It wants to say "Slavery bad" but does it in a way where a) the entire world comes off like a bunch of irredeemable shitheads and b) you can't really do anything about it. At least Skyrim let you kill Thalmor almost with impunity.
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J is Justice
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Post by J is Justice on Jul 7, 2023 17:41:27 GMT -5
Completed it. Definitely the best FF since X in terms of characters and being a coherent, completed game. I loved pretty much all the characters. The combat was really fun, especially the boss battles. I did get a bit bored with it at times, though, but I believe that was my fault for not unlocking the most powerful abilities until I completed the game, lol. My criticisms would be the lack of any real... mini game? Like Blitzball or Triple Triad or something. Also, the world looked nice but there never seemed to be much reason to explore because the items were whatever. Also, the ending was weird. I'd rank it slightly below XV as of now. XV was slightly more fun to me, though it took me 3 playthroughs to love that game, lol. My ranking for anyone who cares (no XI or XIV): {Spoiler}Worst to best:
III II I XIII XII V IV XVI XV VI VII X VIII IX
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the2ndevil
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Post by the2ndevil on Jul 8, 2023 19:34:43 GMT -5
I have crafted the Ultima Weapon and will obtain the Platinum trophy upon beating my Final Fantasy Mode play through.
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Post by Cyno on Jul 8, 2023 21:33:02 GMT -5
BTW, Amanda Achen was the vocalist on the song "My Star." You should recognize her from some of FFXIV's best (and emotionally heartwrenching!) songs like "Tomorrow and Tomorrow" and "Flow."
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the2ndevil
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Post by the2ndevil on Jul 8, 2023 21:48:58 GMT -5
Final Fantasy XVI Platinum Obtained! Shared clip to my Twitter. Spoiler tagging so not to spoil people. {Spoiler}{Spoiler}
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the2ndevil
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Post by the2ndevil on Jul 8, 2023 23:16:04 GMT -5
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Post by Cyno on Jul 8, 2023 23:44:23 GMT -5
My Persona 5 Royal playthrough: "117 hours? That's cute."
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