Truly An Unforeseeable Turn Of Events.

[rionaleonhart]

Someone commented on my horrible Oxenfree fic to say I'd made them 'ship Alex/Jonas, and I felt a bit weird about it. I don't think there's anything wrong with 'shipping it, but it seemed strange that I'd caused this, given that I don't 'ship it myself. How had I converted someone else to seeing a stepsibling relationship - a stepsibling relationship I enjoy a lot! - as romantic?

In retrospect, my first mistake was writing about said stepsiblings making out.


I received World of Final Fantasy for Christmas! I am pleased to report that, although it is very different from Final Fantasy XV in most respects, they share a penchant for terrible puns. When you activate a switch to progress in an early dungeon:

'A new path! Check out that switchcraft!'
'Now we know switch way to go!'
'Switchever one of you thinks you're being clever is about to get a knuckle sandswitch.'

I finished the game a week or so ago. It was cute, but I had little real emotional investment in it, sadly. I did very much enjoy having an adorable baby Behemoth on my head, though. Plus there's an absolutely incredible Final Fantasy X reference at one point.

Bizarre omissions from World of Final Fantasy: Bartz, Terra, Cloud, Squall, Tidus and Lightning are present, but no Zidane. There are no characters whatsoever from Final Fantasy XII. Aerith isn't there! For some reason, this is the one that really shocked me. I encountered Tifa and went 'well, obviously we'll be meeting Aerith at some point.' Nope!

Faris and Quistis have really poorly suited voices. This is particularly frustrating because Faris's voice would have worked perfectly well for Quistis; it's just not a voice for slinging pirate slang around in. I'm delighted that Faris is in the game, though!

I've started to come around to Doug Erholtz's voice for Squall at last, having disliked it in Kingdom Hearts II. This means that, for the first time, I've started to think seriously about the possibility of a Final Fantasy VIII remake. If the VII remake does well, is there a chance they'd do VIII as well? There's a part of me that really wants to see that, and there's a part that doesn't know whether my heart would be able to take it. This game means a lot to me.

If nothing else, I suppose it'd provide an excuse to replay it. I've played the original so many times I really can't justify doing it again. (I had to buy a replacement copy of Final Fantasy VIII a few years ago, having played my first copy until the discs just gave up and stopped working. The game lost the ability to tell when a battle had ended, so my party would defeat the enemies and then just... stand there, looking confused, waiting for orders to fight something that wasn't there.)

Comments

[zabimitsuki]

I'm really confused they didn't put Aerith in as well! I mean, they already had her VA there doing Lightning on the Japanese side of things, it would have been the easiest thing in the world to add her! Was it because she probably would have been a healing summon? Or someone on the team really wanted to add Tifa and they thought they already had too many FFVII reps? I'm not complaining too much, I really love Tifa, but it is odd...

And I wanted Balthier. And why wasn't Vivi a summon? *pouts*

[rionaleonhart]

Cloud has a couple of lines that imply this is a post-City-of-the-Ancients universe, so to speak, but I feel they can't have excluded her solely so Cloud had a reason to pursue Sephiroth, especially given that Sephiroth doesn't actually appear in the story. Maybe you're right; maybe they didn't want the cameo cast to feel too VII-heavy.

Balthier and Fran would have been great. I'm so sad (and confused) that there wasn't a single XII character. Fingers crossed for them in Kingdom Hearts.

[zabimitsuki]

Not to mention, she's still quite happily alive in the KH universe and Cloud's definitely after Sephiroth there, so it's not like she has to be dead for them to have beef with each other. Maybe she'll show up in the inevitable sequel, along with all the other missing characters?

I'd love to see them in KH! I expect we'll probably get Noctis as well, I wouldn't be unhappy about that.