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OBD Convo #59: RealxEyes
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It’s part of the 20 year anniversary of GX in case your wondering
Personally, I wish Konami would stop beating around the bush and give us retrains of both the Egyptian Gods and the Sacred Beasts who always treat themselves as their respective originals to make up for how thoroughly they fucked up translating them to real life with the heaps of nerfs they gave them to make them basically unplayable for years.
Especially Ra. I mean, do you know how much duct tape support Konami had to throw in just to make real life gimped Ra just slightly less of a disgrace to the absolute powerhouse from in the anime / manga?
TBF Sephiroth didn't get "clobbered" by a florist in the original game, he just got outwitted by her.
Pretty wild how in just 3 short years, 5Ds will be 20 years old tooGIVE ME MORE SUPPORT FOR BEST ORB
Fuck man, I still remember playing Synchros in high school like it was yesterday
you fucking with me right?Pretty wild how in just 3 short years, 5Ds will be 20 years old too
Fuck man, I still remember playing Synchros in high school like it was yesterday
What doees 5Ds have to do with Wicked Avatar
grillmaster
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So I click on this video to see someone do a challenge run and I'm met with the following summary of the game's plot.
"Final Fantasy X is the story of a group of young people, fighting against a Theocracy that is hell bent on maintaining their political power, even if it means destroying the world around them. They're fighting a government that is Xenophobic and anti-science, that's predicated on a status quo of cyclical violence. Thank God it's just a video game right?"
WOW! I legitimately don't think I've EVER encountered a more fundamentally INCORRECT reading of a Final Fantasy's story before in my life. Which is saying something because I've seen people say some stupid shit about Final Fantasy XIII in particular.
Not saying they WEREN'T bad but definitely not to the extent this idiot tried to make out.
- Yevon isn't "keeping Sin around" they LITERALLY don't think there's a way to get rid of it. The damn thing went through the Machina armies of Bevelle for a shortcut when it was first created, every other attempt has failed miserably and the ONLY Machina they believed MIGHT be able to beat it (Vegnagun) would be just as much, if not MORE of a threat than Sin is.
- They truly believed the cycle of summoners sacrificing themselves was the ONLY way to keep Spira from being destroyed. It's not JUST about maintaining power, it's about keeping Spira alive and giving the people some semblance of hope, even if its a false hope, that Sin could be gone one day so the people didn't break completely to the despair.
- They hardly want to see the world destroyed (that's a Seymour thing specifically) considering that, when Yuna gets rid of Yunalesca and the Final Aeon, Mika freaks out and almost immediately sends himself because he had "NO DESIRE TO WATCH SPIRA DIE" which he felt Yuna had basically doomed them to at that point.
- They weren't "anti-science", for fuck's sake they used Machina themselves against the party and in their own main temple. They WERE authoritarian and against anyone trying to think for themselves outside of the system they laid out. This is why they allowed Operation Mihen to go ahead and persecuted the Al Bhed. These all necessary evils in their eyes in order to keep the world from being destroyed
I don't know how the fuck you misread the game's story this fucking bad though.
the writers barely disguised political agenda strikes again
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Finally getting to GT11 and my gosh, some of my favorite bits of world building and it doesn’t even have anything to do with the afterlife setting
Still wrapping my head at just about the entire plot of Toaru - The Rosicrucian Order, the inspiration that order had on Crowley that made him into the person he is today, the Golden Cabal, all the insane magic orders that sprang from the above, the creation of Academy City, and Imagine Breaker making its way to Touma and all the insanity and chaos that’s covered in a hundred collective volumes as a result of all the above…
And it all started from a prank that went a little too well by a German scholar in the 17th century that had waaaaaay too much time on his hands.
Finally getting to GT11 and my gosh, some of my favorite bits of world building and it doesn’t even have anything to do with the afterlife setting
Still wrapping my head at just about the entire plot of Toaru - The Rosicrucian Order, the inspiration that order had on Crowley that made him into the person he is today, the Golden Cabal, all the insane magic orders that sprang from the above, the creation of Academy City, and Imagine Breaker making its way to Touma and all the insanity and chaos that’s covered in a hundred collective volumes as a result of all the above…
And it all started from a prank that went a little too well by a German scholar in the 17th century that had waaaaaay too much time on his hands.
