All posts by Keltainentoukokuu

There's a boss where only Kimahri takes part and if you teach him Steal, I think he can get you some good key spheres.

Tidus grows up a bit during the game and becomes less annoying to you, hopefully!

To me it sounds like they went on dates if they hung out together enough to have "lots of memories" and Rinoa thinks she was in love. That could be considered dating without being "exclusive".

The Seifer we see in the game is being an ass to Squall whom he views as a rival to defeat, Zell whom he sees as an easy target for bullying, and Quistis and Xu whom he sees as authority figures to defy. He seems to act respectfully toward Cid and Edea, whom he sees as authority figures to respect. He could be behaving differently when he is on a date with a girl that he likes. He has friends in Fujin and Raijin, so we are to assume he also acts loyal/friendly/not like a dick with them. How he would behave when with Rinoa alone we cannot know.

I don't think Squall had an outburst in G-Garden because of what Rinoa said, though. It's because he was thinking about his own mortality, which he hadn't really considered before this point in time. He never really had plans after becoming SeeD. His childhood dream and goal was to become a SeeD, and now he's accomplished that, so now what? He might die at this line of work, and then everyone will just say whatever about him in past tense, something mildly positive and pitying like they are talking about Seifer whom no one but Rinoa liked (and he suspects no one really likes him either, so they will probably just say all same/similar things were he to pass). He suddenly finds that if they said all those things that they just said about Seifer about him...it would be infuriating! And he doesn't even have any good friends to stand up to him like Seifer had Fujin and Raijin who immediately dismissed the rumors of his death and defended him. He would just get the pity comments, none of the defense. To lose to Seifer in death! Infuriating.

From this bit I presume:

Rinoa: "I...really liked him. He was always full of confidence, smart... Just by talking to him, I felt like I could take on the world."

Selphie: "Your boyfriend?"

Rinoa: "I don't really know. I... I think it was love. I wonder how he felt...?

Selphie: "Do you still like him?"

Rinoa: "If I didn't, I wouldn't be talking about it. It was last summer... I was 16. Lots of fond memories..."

Looks like they were together for a while over the summer if Rinoa has lots of memories of him, and that she wanted him to be her boyfriend but they never clarified their status as she was afraid that maybe he didn't feel the same way and she'd be rejected, so she just went with the flow.

Good info! I changed it on the Moogle Forest track that it's a tune from the FFVI Special album. Maybe someone who knows Japanese can clarify on the interview bit. The Special Tracks doesn't say anything about Kenji Ito being involved in this particular version.

Congrats!

I feel like FFT has a lot of abilities that you end up never using. But there's certainly a lot of variety for each job! I am looking forward to playing FFT again when they will re-release it for modern platforms. I know it's not announced yet, but I think it is "known" to be coming.

Well I've never heard of that! Maybe whatever the mobile version of clearing your cache is could work (sorry I'm a boomer)? If the issue persists for more than a few days I would contact FANDOM about it. Here is a link to how to report bugs to FANDOM: https://support.fandom.com/hc/en-us/articles/360021261554-I-have-found-a-bug

I like the quintessential fire bomb. I gotta say the image we have for King Bomb from FFXII always makes me laugh whenever I see it.

https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/File:XII_king_bomb_render.png

Yeah that one! Maybe the only way to get rid of Bahamut was to make it so there would be no Astrals at all. I have not read it. Some really like it though, as a fun "what if".

I think he will no longer be corrupted by darkness, but who knows about the memories. As long as the element of fire exists, I think there will be an Astral born to that element as well.

Actually, there is a sequel/alternate ending to FFXV that I think has some more Astral stuff, but I'm not super familiar with it. It's a novel that you could probably get from Amazon as ebook or physical book. I think in the end of it, the Astrals decided to leave forever/go dormant forever/sacrifice themselves never to reincarnate so the world would have no more gods? Basically the Lightning Saga ending but now in the world of FFXV.

Niflheim claims that they killed Titan, so I think Gladio is counting that. However, "killing" the gods doesn't actually get rid of them because they are part of the planet itself or something. You may notice the Titan you summon looks different than the one who was holding up the asteroid in the crater, so maybe he is "reincarnated" as well.

The continuity doesn't quite add up with the FFXV overall. If you play the Ardyn DLC, you'll find he once summoned Ifrit in Insomnia, yet no one mentions it in FFXV, and many are still believing that Astrals are not real and are just a fairy tale.

Apparently, Madain Sari in-universe is meant to be a location where the "soul cycle" of the planet of Gaia is closely present (maybe because of proximity to Iifa Tree?) and that's why the summoners set up their community there specifically. TheLifestream.com has FFIX Ultimania translations and I think this one is mentioned there, though maybe it is said in some sort of roundabout way in the game itself as well. Then, when you are going through the Shimmering Island portal, you see lots of golden lights whiz through it. Somewhere they call this the "Soul Path" or something like that, so I assume the golden lights are literally souls. This would fit both with Madain Sari, and Garnet being originally from Madain Sari, and all three being gold-coloured (or "orange" though I think she is intended to dress in gold).

In FFX "souls as floating golden lights" returns in a more present way of course.

@Vivibm2000: As to why Garnet dresses in orange, I think it is because FFIX's "theme colour" is gold. All FF games since at least FFVII have a theme colour that is in the logo and then repeats in the colour scheme of the game itself, often seen in how the "pivotal scenes" are coloured. In FFIX the towns generally have a gold tone (think Alexandria, Lindblum, Outer Continent).

How about Biggs? Wedge seems to resent working under him.

FFIX has good art direction and a good story and pretty fun characters and a lot of secrets (you will miss some little things here and there if you don't use a guide, but nothing major, it's just if you play it many times you may find some new things every time you play). It is much more humorous than FFVII and has a lot of love put into its presentation. Its "theme" is more graspable as well (the theme is to answer the question "what it means to live").

The systems side of the game is bad. They decided to make it "classic" in that you have four party members rather than three like in FFVII and FFVIII, and this seems to have ruined the battle system. It is slow, there are very few enemy groups (I assume because when you already have four player characters it is hard to fit many enemies into the screen alongside them) meaning any group attack abilities you learn in the endgame are pointless, and there are a lot of completely pointless abilities overall. Also I cannot stress how s-l-l-l-o-o-o-o-w the battles are, but in the newest versions you can turn off the introductory camera span at least and there is a fast forward function. After inputting a command it still takes a long time for the character to actually do anything, meaning Speed stat and Haste do barely anything. The superbosses rely on using abilities that give random damage or give random status ailments rather than having high HP. There are no multi-hit damage abilities, so 9999 damage per turn is best you can do.

They've done something magical to the sphere pool anyway as it is not inside any physical walls, it is just water floating as a ball in the middle of a stadium. Can't be just normal water.

In FFX, all physical things that exist seem to be made of pyreflies at the core of them. Like instead of "atoms", they have "pyreflies" in the world of Spira, though it's really not meant to be considered so scientifically. Pyreflies can make any kind of "matter". Summoners can make a fayth's dream into physical matter by summoning their dream into reality. Most summoners can only do this temporarily, like with aeons. After the summoner stops summoning, the being they had manifested disappears back into pyreflies. Different summoners also have different versions of aeons, so it seems that the summoner's traits affect the vision they manifest as well.

The most powerful summoner who ever existed was called Yevon, who decided to summon something enormous and then sustain the summoning forever. This was Dream Zanarkand. He seems to have summoned citizens to populate the city as well, who then live there and get married and have children and so on, because they are physical beings even if they are being summoned, unknown to them.

When the party defeats Yu Yevon, the summoning finally ends and everything to do with Dream Zanarkand fades into pyreflies. There is not a summoner close to strong enough in current Spira to replicate what Yevon did. However, in the sequel it seems that the fayth can still reconstruct Tidus from the pyreflies. This doesn't really make sense lore wise but they wanted a happy ending.

A fun thought experiment/fan theory I have is that the whole world of FFX is a "summoning" by the people who made the game. If everything is made of pyreflies, but some things in the game can exist without being summoned (like everything that is in Spira), but some things need to be summoned by another person to exist (like aeons and everything to do with Dream Zanarkand), then maybe there could be a "higher power" that is "summoning" the world itself and so it forms from the pure energy wisps that are otherwise just pyreflies. Like a deity, which would be a crystal in Final Fantasy terms. But many a time "crystal" also seems to represent Square Enix/the devs in the games.

There is a tiny chance for it happening when he character is in critical health, so when they are hunched over in battle.

I think I have seen Mog and Terra's Desperation Attacks. It's not really worth trying to get them battle strategy-wise.

You can put Sleep, Slow and Silence on it, if available. Quina's Night works, but then your party needs Insomniac. Antlion is weak to Ice, so use Vivi's best ice spell. You can have Blizzara already from the Ice Staff. Don't attack it physically at all if the counterattack is too strong to deal with. Everyone else can just heal while Vivi uses Ice spells. If Quina has any attack spells they can use them too without the Antlion counterattacking. Freya has some Dragon spells that maybe don't get countered. Zidane probably has nothing counter-proof that would be useful, sadly. His Soul Blade can be used to always inflict the status from his thief sword (doesn't work with daggers) but I don't remember at what point you learn that.