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| Re: FFX to receive HD remake. ("Hironobu Sakaguchi doesn't care about soulbonder by NDD 09/16/2011, 12:14am PDT | ||||
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Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:NDD wrote:motherfuckerfoodeater wrote:Kat accurately describes an FFVII HD remake as "the Holy Grail of Final Fantasy fans." But I've never played FF7. It looked boring and overwrought and there was nobody either hot or interesting in it. I played 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 tho. Of these I like 6 the best, but in kind of a guilty-pleasure way. I like FF8 for freeform grinding. There is a fine meditative art in level grinding and FF8 lets you roll your own ride with many degrees of precision. This is the best FF if you are OCD. It is a graduate-level course in the ways in which play mechanics can be disconnected from game narrative. I like FF9 because it is the fucking cutest. It's the cutest game. It's just fucking cute as hell. The game mechanics are sound and the magical-renaissance art design took enough of its cues from * of Mana to be charming and melancholy while maintaining a sense of heft and realism. The plot - imperiled princess goes rogue, shounen hero finds self - is cliche as hell but pulled off with affectionate and faultless aplomb here. Some of the characters are a little cartoony but none of them are annoying. If I had to pick a Best Final Fantasy it would probably be 9. I didn't like FFX but for personal reasons I've played it a number of times. It grows on me with each iteration. (FF13 would take everything bad about FFX and keep it while throwing out everything good.) Some of the CGI is still breathtaking ten years later - this game really has a gorgeously-rendered internal culture. And it's rooted in cultural stereotypes in a way that other FF entries are not: both the effete villain and the kill-yourself-for-the-good-of-the-world heroine read differently depending on the assumptions you bring on board. I would recommend this FF to the kinds of people who find satisfaction in Star Wars novels - not really a burn, since a lot of the shit that makes the game "cool" happens in offscreen lore. Seymour Guado is the ne plus ultra of FF villains; nobody else comes close in terms of agency, motivation, and methodology. The sidekicks are cooler than the main characters. Wakka-as-voiced-by-Bender is one of the most charming characters in a game ever. This game is easily 200% better if you imagine that Tidus is a cute jock lesbian and Yuna is into girls. Seriously, try it sometime. FFX-2: do u leik minigames and collecting. FFXI: never touched it. FFXII: Gorgeous, still. The gambit system is still a ton of fun to play with. Despite its technical proficiencies and likable characters, I could never get behind Vayne Solidor as a really compelling bad guy. I wasn't really driven to see what happened next - the whole game was so successful at rendering the feel of a grand epic that, like a grand epic, I found it easy to put down. Never finished it. A good FF for actual lorefags. FFXIII: oh man. It is SO BEAUTIFUL. SO BEAUTIFUL. And stupid. Tape down the X button and lever the left thumbstick forward, then watch all the cutscenes. The characters are really cool and the plot could have been cool except... you do so little to interact with it, even in terms of improving your team. It's Beautiful Corridors: The Game. And it's getting a sequel in which THE MOST USELESS CHARACTER IN THE ENTIRE FIRST GAME is the STAR. Like FFX-2 there will be a whole lot of re-using art assets. The best thing I can say about it is that the synthesis of "magic" and "technology" as design motifs is done magnificently here - there is always the sense of a complete world informed by these forces. Too bad such a fantastic world was put in the service of such useless play mechanics. |
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