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rionaleonhart) wrote2023-11-08 03:47 pm
rionaleonhart) wrote2023-11-08 03:47 pm
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I Would Be Afraid To Wake.
More thoughts on Final Fantasy XVI! I've just reached Kanver.
Aww, nice to see the return of the buns by the baker who was in love with Drake's Fang!
'She'd never give your tongue a lashing, would she?' Goetz asks Clive of Charon, reminding me sharply of my conviction that Clive and Charon are friends with benefits.
Just finished the 'An Eye for an Eye' sidequest. Holy shit. Charon is extremely scary. Frankly, this only improves the fact that she and Clive are definitely banging.
(The night after doing this sidequest, I woke up at four in the morning and, in a vague haze, scribbled down three hundred words of Clive/Charon fanfiction, which ended up becoming Business or Pleasure.)
Speaking of people Clive is banging, where has my new squire Oscar got to, and can I fuck him? I feel that, in taking on Cid's name and mission, Clive has also taken on Cid's duty of having non-stop sex with every person in the Twins.
It's great to have my brother with me at last! Although party members in this game still feel curiously absent. It's rare for me to notice them actually doing anything in combat, perhaps because the camera focuses so closely on Clive.
I stood still and watched Joshua for a while, because I was curious about his idle animations. Eventually, he turned around to face Clive, and it suddenly felt very awkward that Clive had spent the last minute just standing and staring at him. You'll have to forgive him, Joshua; he's still trying to persuade himself that you're really here!
It must be strange to have held this image all these years of your brother as a child, one who never grew past being a child, and suddenly to have to get to know him as an adult.
Ooh, I love this sidequest where we help out a Republican soldier and then he realises who we are! Really interesting to see the feelings of an ordinary soldier whose army we've fought against.
Now that I see them in the same scene, Jote looks a fair bit like Clive to me. Tempting to headcanon that they share a mother, thus adding Jote to the ludicrous chain of half-siblings.
(That 'tempting to headcanon that they share a mother' line requires some explanation, because it's based on a misconception I had at the time I made that note!
Before the Bahamut fight, Annabella had the line, 'How the nobles laughed - that Elwin's firstborn was surely the son of a concubine, and my own not long for this world!' For a while this confused me into thinking this game included a ridiculous four-person chain of half-brothers, each with a different set of parents: Clive as Joshua's half-brother, who is Olivier's half-brother, who is Dion's half-brother. I'm a little disappointed to realise Annabella just meant there were rumours because Clive didn't inherit the Phoenix, because the four-person half-brother chain was such a silly idea that it sort of delighted me.)
I love Clive's 'no, I don't suppose they do' in response to Joshua's 'gods don't like to be disobeyed'.
Jote and Joshua's relationship seems pretty cute. (I really enjoyed Joshua kissing her on the forehead.) Let her come with us; I'd like to get to know her better!
Don't send Joshua and Jill away! Goddammit, Clive, I want friends around!
I have such conflicted and confused feelings about this game, and it's been hard to work out how to express them. I think I might have pinned it down: I like Final Fantasy XVI, but it's not what I look for in a Final Fantasy game. In particular, there's much less focus on travelling with companions than there is in most Final Fantasy games, and I've been struggling with that.
If Final Fantasy XVI had been published under a different name, I think my feelings would be uncomplicatedly positive. I just need to embrace the fact that I'm playing a game I enjoy, without worrying about what series it's a part of.
Aww, nice to see the return of the buns by the baker who was in love with Drake's Fang!
'She'd never give your tongue a lashing, would she?' Goetz asks Clive of Charon, reminding me sharply of my conviction that Clive and Charon are friends with benefits.
Just finished the 'An Eye for an Eye' sidequest. Holy shit. Charon is extremely scary. Frankly, this only improves the fact that she and Clive are definitely banging.
(The night after doing this sidequest, I woke up at four in the morning and, in a vague haze, scribbled down three hundred words of Clive/Charon fanfiction, which ended up becoming Business or Pleasure.)
Speaking of people Clive is banging, where has my new squire Oscar got to, and can I fuck him? I feel that, in taking on Cid's name and mission, Clive has also taken on Cid's duty of having non-stop sex with every person in the Twins.
It's great to have my brother with me at last! Although party members in this game still feel curiously absent. It's rare for me to notice them actually doing anything in combat, perhaps because the camera focuses so closely on Clive.
I stood still and watched Joshua for a while, because I was curious about his idle animations. Eventually, he turned around to face Clive, and it suddenly felt very awkward that Clive had spent the last minute just standing and staring at him. You'll have to forgive him, Joshua; he's still trying to persuade himself that you're really here!
It must be strange to have held this image all these years of your brother as a child, one who never grew past being a child, and suddenly to have to get to know him as an adult.
Ooh, I love this sidequest where we help out a Republican soldier and then he realises who we are! Really interesting to see the feelings of an ordinary soldier whose army we've fought against.
Now that I see them in the same scene, Jote looks a fair bit like Clive to me. Tempting to headcanon that they share a mother, thus adding Jote to the ludicrous chain of half-siblings.
(That 'tempting to headcanon that they share a mother' line requires some explanation, because it's based on a misconception I had at the time I made that note!
Before the Bahamut fight, Annabella had the line, 'How the nobles laughed - that Elwin's firstborn was surely the son of a concubine, and my own not long for this world!' For a while this confused me into thinking this game included a ridiculous four-person chain of half-brothers, each with a different set of parents: Clive as Joshua's half-brother, who is Olivier's half-brother, who is Dion's half-brother. I'm a little disappointed to realise Annabella just meant there were rumours because Clive didn't inherit the Phoenix, because the four-person half-brother chain was such a silly idea that it sort of delighted me.)
I love Clive's 'no, I don't suppose they do' in response to Joshua's 'gods don't like to be disobeyed'.
Jote and Joshua's relationship seems pretty cute. (I really enjoyed Joshua kissing her on the forehead.) Let her come with us; I'd like to get to know her better!
Don't send Joshua and Jill away! Goddammit, Clive, I want friends around!
I have such conflicted and confused feelings about this game, and it's been hard to work out how to express them. I think I might have pinned it down: I like Final Fantasy XVI, but it's not what I look for in a Final Fantasy game. In particular, there's much less focus on travelling with companions than there is in most Final Fantasy games, and I've been struggling with that.
If Final Fantasy XVI had been published under a different name, I think my feelings would be uncomplicatedly positive. I just need to embrace the fact that I'm playing a game I enjoy, without worrying about what series it's a part of.