David D. Davidson posted:

I like this game. It has it's problems. It starts off on the wrong foot on just about everything especially presenting and introducing Sazh, right now he's just the comedy relief funny yet kind of racist stereotype black man with a bird living in his afro but once you get into it it's actually a very fine game. Probably one of the weakest Final Fantasy games.

Artix posted:

I could have sworn that she was wearing shorts, but no, it's definitely a skirt. That said, there is something that she's wearing beneath the skirt (you can see it inside her jacket), so who the gently caress knows.

Simply Simon posted:

I hate it when people repeat the same tired talking point over and over again, but it's just true here: I don't think there is anything in the way of setting up or even thinking about for closer to 12 hours, not just 2.

With the story, I have little problems, I do with the presentation. It suffers just as much as the gameplay from the absolutely atrocious pacing; there is just too much poo poo happening between story bits, and too many story bits happening which are also pacing. Another huge difference from FFX, which used its linearity perfectly to avoid being boring at pretty much all times, unless you for some reason chose to think you might actually enjoy Blitzball.

David D. Davidson posted:

Yeah, but it's crucial for getting the Untimate weapon for the Third Best character in the entire franchise.

Fedule posted:

Yeah, the game does a lot of "getting better later". There's the prologue which will end, and the battle system which will eventually start introducing more options, and the party which you'll be able to change some day, and the linearity which will end at one point, and the endgame which will be over, and the postgame which you'll eventually be able to start making progress in.

It is some legit good stuff, stretched out and held back for far too long.

Schwartzcough posted:

I like how all the residents of Cocoon live in constant fear of everything Pulse, about which they seem to know almost nothing. And yet apparently there are giant structures from Pulse laying around Cocoon, like the enormous and intricate Vestige here, which could contain vast amounts of information about Pulse, and nobody ever thought to investigate it? Really? That's like having a Pyramid of Giza in your backyard, or an aircraft carrier from a warring nation washed up on your shore, and nobody ever thought to check it out. That is incredibly stupid.

BgRdMchne posted:

So, would a gunblade work irl?

Gorilla Salad posted:

It could only have been better if she had punched him while yelling what we were all thinking - "You freak, my sister's twelve!"

SSNeoman posted:

Snow is a big guy while Serah is smallish. Yeah it looks weird, but it's not exploited for creep factor. At least not in XIII or XIII-2 as far as I remember. I can't speak for LR having never played it.

There was a XIII creation myth video, but I can't find it anymore. It clears up A LOT of things in the game and should have been like the first thing the player sees after your party gets Branded.

Rita Repulsa posted:

I mean, either turning into a zombie or a crystal is kind of a bizarre end thing. Why do the lcie do things that way? Why not give an actual reward for accomplished focuses if they need people to accomplish them?

Instant Grat posted:

Oh look it's the absolute best part of this entire video game

Stabbey_the_Clown posted:

I Love L'Cie. (Snow's a big fan.)

Schwartzcough posted:

If anything, Hope should be hating Vanille more at this point. "Hey, let's sneak into Old Man Fal'cie's house, get condemned with a death sentence, and become ostracized from all society so you can tell Snow he's a doody-head, 'kay? Teehee!"

Fedule posted:

Hell, I'll even answer your actual question right now: Soldiers can use magic because they have a "Manadrive" that synthesizes its effects (their battle abilities are all called things like Manadrive Fire, etc). It uses the same technology as Lightning's gravity thingy (I think it may even be the same device, although spoiler; no enemy soldier will ever do gravity hax). You can read all about it in the datalog.

Schwartzcough posted:

At the very least, it would make sense for the Fal'cie to TELL their L'cie what to do, instead of giving them vague visions. In theory, the Fal'cie actually want these missions accomplished; otherwise, why bother? And yet I think you'd get a high failure rate when the L'cie have no idea what they're doing.

SSNeoman posted:

Shiva sisters are suppose to represent Lightning and Sarah. Which is why one of them constantly attacks Snow while the other heals him.

Now I know what you will say. "But when they transform-" Yes.

Artix posted:

I am being 100% unironic there, I love the poo poo out of that song.

Simply Simon posted:

It's not made by a standard Square team, though; Fourhole is by Matrix Software, who also did Avalon Code

HOOLY BOOLY posted:

I don't know how much more you would want me to say about it but his is the only one that is unique to this game right? I can't think of any other appearances off the top of my head anyway. But like you said, there's plenty of time for ridiculousness so i'll just leave it at that.

Blaze Dragon posted:

And talking about Zantetsuken, nice spinning there Lightning. Good to know that the strongest attack at the player's disposal is Top Spin. Also, Dissidia adapted these attacks really well, so props to a far, far better game. That still suffered from having Lightning in it.

SourceElement posted:

There's a gil reward for killing a certain number of enemies with the sweeping blow move, and there's an item reward for total number of kills.

40+: 999 Gil

chiasaur11 posted:

NikkolasKing posted:

I'm hard-pressed to think of any FF protagonist who was as....blunt and abrasive as her.

Wild Knight posted:

Isn't the "public execution to make the stupid plebian masses sleep better" word-for-word a plot point from FF7?

TiamosLoren posted:

I really don't want my favourite to be associated in any way to this...game? Tech demo? Thing?

theshim posted:

KNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIFE

I didn't beat this game by a long shot and even I remember that god drat knife.

Mr. Whale posted:

Come to think of it Hope can't even attack using the boomerang for quite some time. All he has right now are spells and buffs. The boomerang is mostly for show.