Yeah it’s apparently clearer in Japanese that Griever is Squall’s concept of the ultimate GF, which adds both a literal Final Fantasy and an element of Squall fighting and defeating his own idea of ultimate power.
7.5 Lazy translations didn’t want to deal with any of the more complicated ideas, so fan theories came up with weird shit like Rinoa being Ultimecia (but that is admittedly fun so I’m only counting it as half a reason)
Is that due to translations? Does the original Japanese expand on the sorceresses/Ultimecia?
I felt like the Rinoa theory was due to missed opportunity to have Ultimecia’s origin be explicitly connected to the past rather than just being evil. But the game teases a lot of lore, which can be frustrating but also makes the world feel rich.
I always hoped that a game like Forspoken (didn’t play it) would take you through Ultimecia getting hunted preemptively and turning her villain, like a bootstrap paradox.
I think it’s clearer that she’s trying to fight fate in a time paradox because SeeD’s persecution of sorceresses is her villainous origin but that might be something Dissidia revealed rather than a translation problem
Oof, I kinda go back and forth on that. Closure for Laguna, definitely. He deserves it. But I can’t imagine any extra closure from Squall other than more resentment towards this “moron”.
Dude’s an emotionally closed off war orphan that got shunted into being an admittedly relatively well adjusted child soldier with amnesia, he’s 100% tsundere for closure and hearing about his past, come on now.
9: the Card Queen basically requires an online guide
Oh, I don’t even touch Card Queen. I love triple triad, but I’m not about all that back and forth. Hell, Shumi Village is barely even fractionally as bad, and I skip it on replays.
I didn’t really like how chocobos were handled in 7, 8, or 9, to be honest. I didn’t really enjoy any of the forced inclusion. V, Tactics, X, XII, XV, XVI all did it better.
But I’ll do you one better. The lack of Moogles is noticed (mini-mog from the pocketstation doesn’t count). In fact, my favorite 2 Final Fantasy games don’t have them. FFVIII and FFX.
Wait, is that what happened? I assumed it was a legendary GF, maybe long-dead, that Ultimecia has access to.
100% legitimate complaint though.
Yeah it’s apparently clearer in Japanese that Griever is Squall’s concept of the ultimate GF, which adds both a literal Final Fantasy and an element of Squall fighting and defeating his own idea of ultimate power.
7.5 Lazy translations didn’t want to deal with any of the more complicated ideas, so fan theories came up with weird shit like Rinoa being Ultimecia (but that is admittedly fun so I’m only counting it as half a reason)
Is that due to translations? Does the original Japanese expand on the sorceresses/Ultimecia?
I felt like the Rinoa theory was due to missed opportunity to have Ultimecia’s origin be explicitly connected to the past rather than just being evil. But the game teases a lot of lore, which can be frustrating but also makes the world feel rich.
I always hoped that a game like Forspoken (didn’t play it) would take you through Ultimecia getting hunted preemptively and turning her villain, like a bootstrap paradox.
I think it’s clearer that she’s trying to fight fate in a time paradox because SeeD’s persecution of sorceresses is her villainous origin but that might be something Dissidia revealed rather than a translation problem
8: No closure between Laguna and Squall
Oof, I kinda go back and forth on that. Closure for Laguna, definitely. He deserves it. But I can’t imagine any extra closure from Squall other than more resentment towards this “moron”.
Dude’s an emotionally closed off war orphan that got shunted into being an admittedly relatively well adjusted child soldier with amnesia, he’s 100% tsundere for closure and hearing about his past, come on now.
9: the Card Queen basically requires an online guide
Oh, I don’t even touch Card Queen. I love triple triad, but I’m not about all that back and forth. Hell, Shumi Village is barely even fractionally as bad, and I skip it on replays.
10: not enough chocobos
I didn’t really like how chocobos were handled in 7, 8, or 9, to be honest. I didn’t really enjoy any of the forced inclusion. V, Tactics, X, XII, XV, XVI all did it better.
But I’ll do you one better. The lack of Moogles is noticed (mini-mog from the pocketstation doesn’t count). In fact, my favorite 2 Final Fantasy games don’t have them. FFVIII and FFX.