Wol
None Shall Remember Those Who Do Not Fight
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Final Fantasy XVI
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Theozilla
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Some interesting tidbit differences in dialogue for the Japanese trailer
Does that mean the player character is Joshua’s older brother?
Also looks like the player character can channel multiple Eikon powers throughout the game, including Garuda.
Does that mean the player character is Joshua’s older brother?
Also looks like the player character can channel multiple Eikon powers throughout the game, including Garuda.
looneymoon
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idk, to me it feels less like a FF game without a ragtag group of diverse heroes. I didn't like FFXV for a lot of reasons, but I really think the lack of diversity in its cast was to its detriment. Especially since there were 4 girls that should have been main party members, and would have enhanced stuff going on in the plot.
Regardless, FF has been consistently good at appealing to gamer girls, which is also an important thing to keep in mind.
Anyways, all this turning into summons thing is making me think of Terra, who is one of my top faves. I hope we get a cool girl character that can turn into a big ol' scary monster.
Regardless, FF has been consistently good at appealing to gamer girls, which is also an important thing to keep in mind.
Anyways, all this turning into summons thing is making me think of Terra, who is one of my top faves. I hope we get a cool girl character that can turn into a big ol' scary monster.
Wol
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I think his brother is that knight with short blond hair wearing red-coloured armor. The one that says: Impossible when Ifrit appears.
Fangu
Great Old One
Ignis?
Speaking of diversity, while I don't care too much as long as the characters are engaging and believable, I must say 9 has the kind of diversity that I would love to see more of. Fictional races, age and gender differences, etc. Don't think we've had something like that in a while.
looneymoon
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Obsidian Fire
Ahk Morn!
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Both the FF MMOs have a lot more racial diversity than the other modern FF titles do. And the cultural differences to go with that (a solid half of FFXIV's plot is mainly cultural clashes) and it at least has NPCs with a pretty good age range.
One of the interesting things about the Creative Devision III is seeing how many environment artists, character designers, and story writers all worked on FFXII. A lot of them are also young enough to have played the early FF games as... normal people who liked playing video games. It's been mentioned by several of those creative devs in panels how it was the early FF games that inspired them to want to work in video-game development to begin with.
Saying that the FF franchise is old enough to have creative children is... not a bad way to put it. The series is old enough now where you have people who played FF games as kids are now making FF games. I think it's natural that they're going to see different things they can do with the series' staple concepts than the original creators did.
Odysseus
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I'm reminded of Nomura's comment on how the deciding factor behind committing to remaking FF7 was because a lot of the original developers were getting old and they might not be able to do it if they wait any longer. It's like we're seeing the last big work of the old guard side by side with the new generation in XVI. Kinda neat.
Clement Rage
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A gender balance is one of the top three things I look for (and if it's included in the evil henchpeople, I'm sold...although the exception appears to be TLOU2.), it's a significant part of what I look for in the things I read/watch. But be honest about it, don't start going 'we finally get women' and when people start pointing out examples you can't go 'she doesn't count. Or her. Or her. Or her.'and then go write yaoi smut while complaining we don't have enough representation of women in fandom.
Sorry. Too much time on AO3 and to a lesser extent tumblr.
Edit: I still think Lightning and Cloud have nothing in common. They look, act, and think differently, their backgrounds are similar only in being 21. Light has a gruff facade because it's all that's keeping her from breaking down, Cloud's brain is poisoned by Mako and JENOVA.
Sorry. Too much time on AO3 and to a lesser extent tumblr.
Edit: I still think Lightning and Cloud have nothing in common. They look, act, and think differently, their backgrounds are similar only in being 21. Light has a gruff facade because it's all that's keeping her from breaking down, Cloud's brain is poisoned by Mako and JENOVA.
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Saven
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Theozilla
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Rewatching the trailer again on a larger screen and keeping the slight Japanese line differences in mind, I think the little kid Joshua might be linked to both Phoenix and Ifrit, not just one or the other. It seems like like after he gets traumatized and splashed with blood he summons Phoenix but then loses control and then transforms physically into Ifrit, which is why the older blonde bearded guy (if he's Joshua's older brother) is pleading for Joshua "to wake up" (in English) and/or for others to not attack him (in Japanese) when Ifrit is going berserk and spilling blood.
Wol
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Lestat
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- Ergo, V
Tin foil hat time!
Kid has the power of the phoenix and it manifests in that scene. Instead of granting power to him though it does what the phoenix normally does and kicks off a rebirth.
The kid turns out to be a reincarnated big baddy who held the power of ifrit. The two battle it out and ultimately the persona of the kid disappears and the big bad takes hold of the kids body.
Protagonist tries to save the kid only to be taken out by the big bad. Phoenix is on its last legs and decides to try and save itself and the MC by making him it's new host
Kid has the power of the phoenix and it manifests in that scene. Instead of granting power to him though it does what the phoenix normally does and kicks off a rebirth.
The kid turns out to be a reincarnated big baddy who held the power of ifrit. The two battle it out and ultimately the persona of the kid disappears and the big bad takes hold of the kids body.
Protagonist tries to save the kid only to be taken out by the big bad. Phoenix is on its last legs and decides to try and save itself and the MC by making him it's new host
looneymoon
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good god I knew it made me think of something, but I couldn't place it.
also this is him now so the age progression kinda fits o_O
also this is him now so the age progression kinda fits o_O
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Tetsujin
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looneymoon
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I think that's his twin brother actually.
lol you're right. they look more similar now than they did then hahaha.
Cat on Mars
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The trailer was so atmospheric and... fantastic! I know some people find it bland, but it's hard for me to get so hyped about anything these days so this is all very unusual. This is the most hyped I've felt for anything FF since or before FF7R!
The most normal looking thing were the chocobos at the beginning of the trailer and that's how it should be since they are domestic animals in FF...
hey look, blood! On a kid's face! Summons, people are summons now?! I love it!
When I noticed that characters disappeared while using a summon materia my first thought was "Do they become the summon or something?". That's a very interesting angle for a Final Fantasy, from gameplay to story and characters.
Maybe I'm just hyped because I love monsters lol but even then I find it all very refreshing.
And politcal plotting and scheming for flavor, Tactics style.
And a MC who forgot how to use a haircomb. Face tattoos are kinda silly but it looks like a mark more than a tattoo. Maybe they all are branded..? As traitors, maybe?
Final Dark Fantasy. I dig it.
The most normal looking thing were the chocobos at the beginning of the trailer and that's how it should be since they are domestic animals in FF...
hey look, blood! On a kid's face! Summons, people are summons now?! I love it!
When I noticed that characters disappeared while using a summon materia my first thought was "Do they become the summon or something?". That's a very interesting angle for a Final Fantasy, from gameplay to story and characters.
Maybe I'm just hyped because I love monsters lol but even then I find it all very refreshing.
And politcal plotting and scheming for flavor, Tactics style.
And a MC who forgot how to use a haircomb. Face tattoos are kinda silly but it looks like a mark more than a tattoo. Maybe they all are branded..? As traitors, maybe?
Final Dark Fantasy. I dig it.
Slipstreamer
Rookie Adventurer
Underwhelming and bland.
Square-Enix seems to be suffering from shaky camera syndrome. Who's directing this, Michael Bay? As nauseating as watching Kingsglaive. Oh, and superfast Kingdom Hearts gameplay again -- yay (not). I can't see what's happening.
Character design...well, it looks like every other game, doesn't it. You can already see the (USA) box art now - Scarface, eyes down, holding a sword, looking moody.
Hey, Square, here's an really cool original idea to ramp up FFXVI marketing prior to release in 2037 - promise 23 bits of DLC (including Cloud's buster sword and Yuna's summoner dress), a CGI movie, an anime series and 12 phone games.
I was really hyped about Versus XIII/XV from the day it was announced. Then they said it would be a road trip with the Backstreet Boys and I was disappointed. Then I watched Kingsglaive. I still haven't bought XV. Hopefully XVI at least marks the death of XV.
Voice acting is uneventful - some awkward whispering and overacted lines in there - but I seem to be in the minority that think FFX had the best, most natural voice acting of the series. For most of the the trailer I had no idea which of the copy-paste characters are talking. Joshua's got a really deep voice sometimes!
Overall though, I really hope this prequel focuses more on the relationship between the Children of the Forest and the White Walkers, and I hope Bran the Builder is a playable character, and can summon a dire wolf.
Square-Enix seems to be suffering from shaky camera syndrome. Who's directing this, Michael Bay? As nauseating as watching Kingsglaive. Oh, and superfast Kingdom Hearts gameplay again -- yay (not). I can't see what's happening.
Character design...well, it looks like every other game, doesn't it. You can already see the (USA) box art now - Scarface, eyes down, holding a sword, looking moody.
Hey, Square, here's an really cool original idea to ramp up FFXVI marketing prior to release in 2037 - promise 23 bits of DLC (including Cloud's buster sword and Yuna's summoner dress), a CGI movie, an anime series and 12 phone games.
I was really hyped about Versus XIII/XV from the day it was announced. Then they said it would be a road trip with the Backstreet Boys and I was disappointed. Then I watched Kingsglaive. I still haven't bought XV. Hopefully XVI at least marks the death of XV.
Voice acting is uneventful - some awkward whispering and overacted lines in there - but I seem to be in the minority that think FFX had the best, most natural voice acting of the series. For most of the the trailer I had no idea which of the copy-paste characters are talking. Joshua's got a really deep voice sometimes!
Overall though, I really hope this prequel focuses more on the relationship between the Children of the Forest and the White Walkers, and I hope Bran the Builder is a playable character, and can summon a dire wolf.
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