How Rude, Kupo.

[rionaleonhart]

Pokémon Go was the only mobile game I'd previously played, but jecca_mehlota mentioned Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia, and I thought I'd check it out. It's not that heavy on the story - it's designed to be consumed in small bursts, so both cutscenes and battles are brief - but it does have some cute interactions between assorted Final Fantasy characters, and characters from different Final Fantasy games interacting is something I have a huge weakness for. Here are some things I've liked:

- Cloud reminds Sazh of Lightning. 'Looks like other worlds also have their fair share of strongheaded soldiers who take on way too much alone.'

- Hope giving Vivi reassurance and courage and then being taken aback when Vivi says 'thanks, mister!' (Hope, being fourteen, probably isn't used to being called 'mister'; Vivi, being nine, probably doesn't think anything of addressing him that way.)

- Vaan running up to go HEY YOU GUYS HAVE A REALLY COOL AIRSHIP and Sazh going 'finally someone gets it!'

- 'I don't like the look of you. You remind me too much of... someone I know,' Seifer says to Cloud.

- SEIFER WANTS TO BE YUNA'S KNIGHT. You should have been born in the Final Fantasy X universe, Seifer; being a guardian would really suit you! Well, I mean, you'd like the idea of it. You wouldn't necessarily be good at it. But you'd like the idea.

- Everyone goes 'hey, Seifer, come with us and save the world' and Seifer goes 'no, screw you, I'm going on ahead of you and I'm going to save the world first.' Seifer's the worst and I love him.

- Zidane: (speaking of Yuffie) Must've been hard to work with someone as flighty and brash as her.
Cloud: Yeah. She's just like you.

A story detail I found interesting: they come across ruins and assume people had to have lived here at some point, and Mog explains that, no, this world was constructed based on their various worlds, so these ruins were just... built as ruins, without history behind them. There's something fascinatingly creepy about that.


The Kingdom Hearts Let's Play we've been watching as a household has just hit 358/2 Days, and my housemates can't get over the fact that every member of Organization XIII seems to be flirting non-stop with Roxas.

Ginger: It's not helping that the 'dialogue advancement' icon is a literal fucking heart.
Axel: (to Roxas) You have to look around. Sometimes what you're after is sitting right under your nose.
Rei and Ginger: OH COME ON.

Rei, who is gay and always on the lookout for queer fiction, is increasingly outraged that the Kingdom Hearts series is not considered a staple of gay culture. 'Nobody ever told me how gay these games are! You've all failed me!'

Comments

[wolfy_writing]

A story detail I found interesting: they come across ruins and assume people had to have lived here at some point, and Mog explains that, no, this world was constructed based on their various worlds, so these ruins were just... built as ruins, without history behind them. There's something fascinatingly creepy about that.

Ooh, that does sound cool!

[rionaleonhart]

I was surprised by how strongly the concept struck me! But I love the idea of a god going 'okay, let's build a world, here are some examples of worlds I can work from' and just creating the world from what they can see, without any understanding of its relevance.

[shadaras]

Ruins built as ruins is a delightfully creepy idea, yeah!

Also, as someone who is into KH purely as a fandom and hasn't even watched let's-plays of the games -- gay culture is how I got into them. :) Everyone talking about Org XIII and all the relationships inside it was very compelling.

[rionaleonhart]

Also, as someone who is into KH purely as a fandom and hasn't even watched let's-plays of the games

I was about to say 'Kingdom Hearts must seem very weird from that perspective' and then remembered that Kingdom Hearts doesn't really become any less weird if you play the games. (I'm also delighted to hear the series has enough of a gay culture pull to draw people in!)

[shadaras]

Well, yeah, there is that. :) The nice thing about having followed KH fandom for a decade is that I've had a lot of time to passively absorb the major plot elements? In some ways, because I don't know all the details, I can focus on the main storyline and have a reasonably solid understanding of what's going on in the abstract, even if there's still a lot of stuff that would leave me going '...what.' if I learned them.

...I don't know if it helps or hurts that I did, in fact, get into it starting with Org XIII and their plotting and only put together what was up with Sora, Kairi, and Riku later. (Everything with Ventus and that group is still baffling to me, though.)

[althea_valara]

Ahhhh, this makes me want to get back into Opera Omnia! I haven't played for months because I can't find the time for it what with other games, but I agree the interactions between the characters is delightful. My favorite bit was Zidane flirting with some of the women, then gets to Y'shtola and...doesn't say anything, like he's stumped on how to flirt with this one.

[rionaleonhart]

My favorite bit was Zidane flirting with some of the women, then gets to Y'shtola and...doesn't say anything, like he's stumped on how to flirt with this one.

Yes! I almost included that in this entry. You've met your match, Zidane.

(I would love to see Zidane try to flirt with Lightning.)

[zabimitsuki]

Axel is so obvious it hurts.

Ahh, this just reminds me how badly behind I am on Opera Omnia. I think I dropped it because I was running too many other mobile games? I really appreciated how cute the character designs/interactions were though. And that the gacha was for weapons and not characters.

[rionaleonhart]

Axel is so obvious it hurts.

Everything he says sounds flirtatious! Everything! It's genuinely impressive.

And that the gacha was for weapons and not characters.

Oh, wow, this is fantastic news. I hadn't really been looking into that side of things, because I refuse to spend any actual money on this, so I'd assumed there were characters I was just going to have to miss out on.

[zabimitsuki]

I'm really looking forward to whatever he comes out with in 3 - Roxas has to make another appearance somehow, right?

It's great, right? There's time-limited events for certain characters (like Noctis and Squall), but I think they get re-run occasionally, and everyone else you collect via the story.

[thenicochan]

The mobile Dissidia has some surprisingly cute interactions, and I had a lot of similar thoughts as you. I'd love to see Seifer in Spira-- I actually think he'd thrive. I can't decide if I want him to be transplanted there (I could totally be here for Seifer x Yuna), or if I want the entire FF8 cast shifted there.

[rionaleonhart]

I could totally be here for Seifer x Yuna

I actually have a weird fondness for Squall/Yuna. (I think it may have originated from the feeling that Noel Kreiss looked like their child.) We could have the tiniest shipwar.

[thenicochan]

Yes, our tiny, incomprehensible war will rage into the night...!

Or it'll become an OT3, or I'll just shrug and let Yuna shack up with Rinoa instead, leaving the poor boys to wallow in their loss.

[magistrate]

With Seifer's luck, he would absolutely end up as Sin.

[rionaleonhart]

He'd love the tragic romance of it. He'd volunteer to be the Final Aeon in a second.

[bladespark]

This sounds fascinating.

[rionaleonhart]

I'm enjoying it a lot! Although it is alarmingly addictive.

And hello; it's nice to meet you! Your icon is adorable (and the sewing machine is slightly hypnotic).

[bladespark]

Thank you! (And hi!)

[emu]

SEIFER WANTS TO BE YUNA'S KNIGHT.

OH MY GOD someone give me this fanfic please

[rionaleonhart]

I've got a few scraps of a never-finished fic where Squall is Yuna's guardian; evidently I was writing about the wrong FFVIII character!

[emu]

I would also read that!

I never realised before that an FFVII/X crossover is something I NEED.

[lassarina]

I do really love Dissidia FFOO, for all that I rarely devote time to it. The interactions are so brilliant (as are the points where characters from the same timeline mismatch!)

[rionaleonhart]

I'm definitely starting to realise how addictive mobile games can be. The battles and cutscenes are short, but they add up so quickly!

I'm delighted that Laguna is now part of the party. Laguna's hopeless and I love him.

[sawthefaeriequeen]

Every time I hear about a new FF-adjacent thing, I am torn between "oh S-E you capitalist machine" and "FINAL FANTASY CHARACTERS ALL TOGETHER, YEY!"

Also, they apparently added Ramza to one of the Dissidias and I was thrilled because he never gets any love, and it's about damn time!

- Everyone goes 'hey, Seifer, come with us and save the world' and Seifer goes 'no, screw you, I'm going on ahead of you and I'm going to save the world first.'

Amazing.