Robyn De Snake

suddenly and forcefully reminded of a friend saying that the designs in Skullgirls were refreshing because they weren't sexualized. Not that they're bad or offensive or anything but... Seriously???

let some overly dedicated fans patch some voice acting on it ten years later

while we're at it. Lower budget and/or retro style JRPGs should just not bother with voice acting. If you don't have detailed facial animations you should probably just skip it. I can read faster than you can talk.

It is notable that FFVII Remake, while mostly hitting the same story beats as the first ten hours of original flavor FFVII (with some additions) uses almost none of the same dialogue. because at this point, the games are different enough in tech level they're basically different mediums.

Ough I have so many thoughts about this with the FF4 DS remake... interesting case where they more or less tried to just translate the SNES cutscenes beat for beat into a style with animated 3D models and voice acting. Too many thoughts for bsky probably, will have to make a blog post or smth

#FF6
お試し過去絵投稿〜〜！！！！

The Forest Owl Rebelling Princess in her birthday month, hoping for a future with clearer skies 🩵🙏🕊️

#FF8 #RinoaHeartilly #FF8_27周年

there is not even one shot of this in the trailers. you boot up the game. you thought you were playing an action RPG? No bitch it's time to slide down the slopes.

was there even a strong reason that you were snowboarding at all in the original? only way you could get out to the place? snowmobiles are all broken down?

I don't even like James Bond

My stupid FFVIIR3 wish is a stupid snowboarding chase cold open a la A View to Kill. The cast all get fun winter outfits.

ANYWAY this rant brought on by rumors that 8.0's going to be the FFVII homage expansion and people expressing trepidation about that. It could be great and it could be terrible, folks. literally won't know til we see it.

contrast with the crystal tower raids, which are a HUGE FFIII homage with tons of FFIII bosses just cuz. but also the allagan empire and the crystal tower in this form are VERY MUCH FFXIV lore. fucking. Amon (a secret tool that will help us later)

most of those FFXI locations look better in FFXI, and FFXI could run on a PS2 with a 56k modem.

Not really liking the FFXI alliance raid series, though, and not only because I don't really like like FFXI. It's just like: here are some locations and bosses from FFXI! Okay! And it shows how FFXIV's art direction and camera use are weaker than FFXI's in some ways.

and this is not even talking about Elidibus looking like Thee FFI Warrior of Light when you fight him because that shit makes me insane. Whenever I start thinking about that I start trying to form a religion out of it.

anyway, my point is, if I had one, that FFXIV sometimes gets accused of being like fortnight. where Darth Vader and Naruto and the Simpsons are all here for some (read: no) reason. and FFXIV is usually way more interesting than that.

well. making everyone retroactively Italian because back in 1991 someone made the decision to name the fiends after Dante demons was a pretty cool direction. and Azdaja as Golbez' shadow dragon. And Durante taking on Golbez' identity. enh, I walk that back, it's more of a mixed bag.

But. And this is coming from someone who really REALLY loves FFIV. The post Endwalker FFIV stuff kinda blows. I think it's mostly that it has too little to do with Endwalker proper? feels tacked on. we're fighting the fiends cuz we gotta put some trials here. what else are we gonna do.

The FF Tactics homage makes the Zodiac Brave Story a play based on in game historical events making it the Shakespearean play based on historical events from a game based on the game based on the Shakespeare histories of The War of the Roses (this is awesome)

post-Dawntrail Necron makes more sense in terms of both plot and the es than the FFIX final boss does. Steiner is a man who was downloaded into a robot this time and Vivi is a baby lizard man and these characters have very little to do with each other yet are still clearly informed by each other.

Shadowbringers takes FFIII's coolest idea and makes it into an expansion. Heavensward takes FFVII's most epic but loreless summon, makes up who these guys might be, and makes them the final boss while also forming the double meaning of the expansion's title.

The way FFXIV recontextualizes stuff from other Final Fantasies is so interesting. The Eden raid series has a lot of the same thematic content of FFVIII (memory loss, amor vincit omnia) while not really having anything to do with it literally.

listen i love ao3 as much as the next guy but ive seen people quit fic writing over the past few years because people comment and engage with authors way less, and then everyone still freaks out when ao3 goes down- if a fic is irreplaceable to u, let the author know!

The star's dying, Cloud. The fabric of our planet was beginning to fray.

our earth our planet our world our star

But they also give a very different flavor and probably neither are the words one would use if the games were written only in English.

So the Japanese word for "star" (hoshi) is also the word for "planet" like it's a generalized term for a heavenly body. FFVII's localization chose to use the word "planet" and FFXIV's chose to use "star" and neither of these are wrong, in fact I'd say they're both very right.

ao3's down again. can't have shit here in hell world.

two weeks later and i still can't get this out of head, especially as i work through some of my first FF games

the internet loves to give modern pokemon shit for its graphics, but by refusing to participate in the AAA graphics arms race, they have unambigiously dominated the culture. they won.