Trying to LOVE Final Fantasy XIII 

i saw the silence as an conscious artistic decision

I guess that works lol

ThorHighHeels should have pinned that commen, no?

ugh. I had, but I edited it later. Apparently when you edit a comment it un-pins. RU-vid's so messy sometimes.

i thought it was silent because the copyright gulag will getcha

Which makes the failure of vision all the more painful.

Makes me wonder why people clamor for an HD remaster already. Even if they did add in other features/bonuses, maybe somehow combine the three games on one disc (13 is so inflated though, like 15), there's basically no way for them to spice up the visuals. And based on past remaster releases, it'd be at least 2021 before that could ever be released. Which is essentially right when the PS5 takes over, thus placing them two generations away instead of one. Eh, whatever happens happens.

so does silent hill 2 and 3

But it is interactive as a rock.

i will stick with the originals8. every ff remaster i've played is far inferior to the original. in ffx they reshaped all the faces for the worse for no apparent reason and i experienced a number of visual and audio glitches i never had in the original. ffxii was one of my favorite ff games because it was the only one that offered a decent challenge. of course they had to ruin that for the remaster too. they couldn't just leave the original in tact and add an easy mode for those who want it, they had to switch it from hard as your only option to very easy as your only option. i really could care less about ff7 remake considering they can't even do a remaster without making it worse.

Wow that is a crazy story. I hope everything is better now.

Geez, that’s scary! Out of curiosity, what country did that happen in?

@@ezrawallet Christchurch, New Zealand

That makes it grindier than Shin Megami Tensei lol. Speaking of which I need to see Thors content on SMT. Oh guess he doesn't, he only mentioned it. I'm in an smt phase right now lol.

it gets good when everybody forgets how shit it was

@@MrKrewie good point..espedically after final fantasy 15 and kingdom hearts

No lie...it gets better each play thru...revisiting it only because VII remake uses a similar Stagger system and it's been enjoyable...it just takes so long before you can enjoy it.

I think I did everything in the game and it took me exactly 40 hours or something like that. And nah I would say once you get to the halfway point of the game, you seen everything.

So, it's like SMT Nocturne's post-apocalyptic world

@@makeitthrough_ So FFXIII fumbled a bit in its attempt to do Shin Megami Tensei Nocturnes. Thank you Shin Megami Tensei... Nocturne.

Hemang Chauhan tbh I hated the character design and story of ff xv

Final fantasy 15 was just about a bland boy band group roadtriping basically and despite this sounding cool in a FF Universe 15 was actully kinda boing. The only actual good thing was monster design and Sid in 15.

@@Mambo.Canibal me too, ffxiii had it's problems but it at least kept me interested and playing, i couldn't get into xv at all and i spent 25+ hours trying.

Ff15 wasnt done and nomura scrapped stuff was better. And how does best whm and blm just die as they did

@@xmarksthespot1372 what was good about 15 was the battle in the movie tho.

FF8 especially.

They read like that in game as well.

12 was lots of times video gamey when it wasn't alternating Shakespeare and Star Wars. I lost track of how many parts of the plot were "ok, so we talk to this npc quest giver who sends us to a location to fetch a nuke rock or a nuke rock cutting sword until the Empire shows up". I was going to say "Macguffin" but it turns out it's a little more specific than that.

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Joker XIII 13 is one of my favorite games before crisis core and kingdom hearts 2. Fighting Odin and hearing desperate struggle for the first time and seeing oerba when dust to dust played blew me away. sure the game was redundant but all the creativity of the game ( scenery, music, various enemies) made the game enjoyable.

I really hope we get a port for the trilogy, I’d love that so much!

Lmfao y'all serious? FFXIII shouldn't exist. Go play FFX

I LOVE IT

All you mentioned is the art of the game,you cant consider a game good just because of how it looks,or how nice the music is,the characters are boring,not smart at all,the villain is a joke,no motive a t all,even final fantasy xii is a loot better than xiii when that game wasnt really that good.As far as i've seen the people who loves this game always say the same "excelent graphics,music,and character desing" they are easy to buy,none of them ever said something regarding the story,because it sucks,and the combat too.

best intro to a ff game?

It's one of the best intro's in entertainment. The depth of how that intro works can be over analyzed and used as a rock solid template for the series in-general. One of my main issues with XIII was it's clear attempt to emulate parts of FFVII, but does so in a way that simply doesn't understand the fundamentals over why those parts originally worked. I remember reading an article about how one dev said that XIII's transition from 30 hours of linear hallways to one open area: Was the same as leaving Midgar in FFVII. It's as if they thought having a story-centric linear route was the defining part of the opening parts of the game in Midgar. Not the fact it was a sequence literally built for exposition, or that like FFIII it purposefully deceived you in the scope of the game. Oh, and also the very important fact that it doesn't show-up halfway through the game and literally 85% of the rest of the game is out in it's very varied and lived-in planet. Not just having the "Calm Lands Part 2" with last-minute side-quest hunts thrown in.

I made this argument when FF13 was new, and a fan of the game seriously tried to make the argument that loading those scenes with exposition was boring and it was better having it tucked aside in the datalog. There is no god.

@ Alternative Facts i love the james bondy intro. FF has a lot of recycling of ideas but things that worked on the snes or ps1 often dont work on the modern games, the writting being the greatest offender. Also, its weird when a games developer doesnt understands why people like their games

VII. We are there to do a job and just get paid. Don't care about the politics. We don't care, Cloud doesn't care. VIII. School that train soldiers to fight Sorceresses. Easy words that we all understand. IX. We are thieves and we are gonna kidnap a princess. Ok. Now we are "Orko" and we have a fake ticket to watch the show. have to sneak in. X. Star of a water game, attacked by a monster and teleported somewhere. I have to survive. We don't know whats going on, Tidus doesn't as well. XIII. ThorHighHeels covert it perfectly in the datalog part in the video. All those have a simple premise from the start, that we can easily relate to. In XIII every character was talking like you knew what it was going on while you didn't. Felt like been with a group of people you don't know, one of them say something, they burst laughing while you just standing there wondering why it was funny and then they say "it's an inside joke, you had to be there." even if they explain it to you, you still might not find it funny just because you where not part of it.

Armageddon Is upon us silence, hetero

We dont like him either!

im gay and i cant stand him whatchu talkin bout

I’m a straight feller and he’s ok I guess. I mostly like his motorcycle lmao

I liked snow and love that his summons are hentai monster girls. You go snow. You have that harem.

Wonderful comment

That's an interesting take.

Lol the bosses are tough. That's impressive.

@@magicmanscott40k it was and the fact I witnessed it omg it was impressive! She had so much dedication! It is an underrated gem of a game too, I don't understand the hate honestly

@@LilleyComix97 I understand why people didn't like it but I don't get the hate either. It's not like you have to pay for the real ending or something like that. It's a complete game with no dlc. And I'm glad she enjoyed it. I would honest play this game again after all these years but I lost my copy.

@@magicmanscott40k I would buy a console just to play this game again it has a great story and fun classic gameplay

@@LilleyComix97 I don't know if I go that far but I'm glad you enjoyed the game too.

I love the paradigm system. I could use it forever and not get bored.

.. I have the Asian international version, and that has the original Japanese versions main theme. Not that much better, but still better than the English one, in my opinion.

first song I learned on piano

You must have been new to the franchise then revern.

@Reyvern 07 Trophy percentage doesn't directly imply difficulty, it can also imply that most people didn't feel that the feat isn't worth their time, or that the game wasn't good enough for them to want to persue the trophy. Also...have you played other FF games? I'd, without a shadow of a doubt, put XIII as among the easiest games in the series overall. Definitely not THE easiest (I'd probably put XII Zodiac Age in that position) but not near the hardest. Of course it has its difficulty spikes, but XIII is so easy to just blast though mindlessly while sticking to a couple reliable paradigms. Of course XIII's difficulty gets more pronounced as chapter 11 opens up, sure, but you can't ignore the massive majority of the game before that point.

I really really like the game, i spent like 60 hours on it. I love the characters. The graphics are beautiful and really hold up in 4k, the music is amazing and I think the battle system is extremely fun and different. BUT ONLY WHEN IT OPENS UP AND YOU GET MORE FREEDOM. The first 20 hours is like a long tutorial which is just ridiculous, what on earth were they thinking. Making the sequels there were interviews with the devs saying "we fucked up, our bad" and then made the sequels better as an apology.

@@whodatninja439 Yeah, its actually amazing (for better for worse) how well the graphics hold up. I think if they had made it a shorter game, they could have tightened and expanded on concepts whilst opening up the world. I can never defend how its just one long tunnel, maybe if this project was in better hands, it could have pleased more people. I still really like it, regardless of its dumb missteps.

Yeah it may just be hallways for the first 20 hours, but it's damn gorgeous looking hallways! They wanted to tell a linear cinematic story, and I think they succeeded in that. I think the most impressive thing about the game are the character models, they look like they could've been made this year! That's how detailed and sharp the textures are, for a game that was only supposed to be viewed with 720p. Scaling it up to 4k 60fps looks amazing! Granted you need a beast pc for that, and even then it's unstable. Bad PC port! I consider FFXIII very underrated, by today's standards. When it came out it got rave reviews! It also had Sazh, and he is my favorite Final Fantasy character.

I guess one of the biggest problem would be, be stuck with only character. And it's game over when the character dies. :)

why Sazh =_=?

Sexual tension

@@leolee8445 Alabama is that way, lad.

@@reloadpsi not blood related

@@leolee8445 I'm having a pop at you for finding sibling-like behaviour sexual (especially when one of the characters is a minor) but okay.

@@reloadpsi puberty hits hard. Law doesnt govern emotion.

The ending is one of the worst ending ever. I understood everything that happened until that point and I still hated it.

yeah I was pretty hyped throughout the entire game to see what plan they would come up with to escape their fate and it turns out Fang and Vanille had a solution unbeknownst to the rest of the party and the player at the last minute ?

FF8 has the same problem. Squall's plan just ends up being "Uhh let her plan succeed and THEN we kill her". Some writer at Square clearly really likes this concept

@@Seandeclanpatrick I'd say ff8 was a little more coherent though

I had a similar experience as well. I bought the game at K-Mart "at least when they still sold some, don't know if they still do in the US" brand new "which i regret" and i tried to get into it. Oh boy it really bored me to death, i tried my best to get into it since i like the FF games but this one really didn't felt like so. So i stopped playing after 3-4 hours of gameplay and haven't touched it ever since and that was 4 years ago. I still have it "PS3 Version" laying somewhere in my drawer collecting dust until the end of time and people who love the game have told me that i should give it another try but i don't see myself going back to it no matter how much i force my will to do it.

your comment just sums up my experience of XIII as well, didn't have a chance to get xiii-2 and lightning return cause my ps3 broke tho. looking forward for vii remake after the demo

Word for word my own experience with the trilogy.

Dont think that opinion is as controversial as you think. Hell I absolutely hate every single aspect of the 13 series and I still agree(well apart from the summon system,that was somewhat nifty).

If you compare it to 15, that's not a high wall to climb.

Considering combined with 13's game play and 15s design: *they've taken me out of a series I was 11 (didnt play XI itself) games deep into.* So: for some of us: their equally shit.

I personally think 15 > 13 easily

13 = Utter linear shit show of gameplay/storytelling. 15 = Boy band. Alone made me walk: main character design: a first and new low for Square Enix. The insane development time: like Kingdom Hearts 3 IF it ever comes out: *by the time it came out: i'd been away for basically a decade. And dint care anymore and more western RPGs have surpassed FF in the meantime like Dragon Age and even Dogma.* Also a open world with little substance: a broken heal system: TERRIBLE DLC add-on's: the DEPENDENCE ON A SEPARATE MOVIE TO TRULY FOLLOW THE PLOT: etc etc etc. 13 = lazy shit show. 15 = development failure/shit show. I mean *hey: having only borrowed 15 for about 15 hrs of gameplay and gave it back?* I lasted about the same time with 15 as I did 13: *Now granted: 15 didnt piss me off enough to throw it out a 3rd story window in sigust (true stroy) and swear i'd never buy Square Enix again.* And granted 15 probably wont get not one but TWO sequels I wont want to buy... Hence perhaps if by not double and tripling down on the shit...15 IS better I guess... Problem is: the design was so Japanese hermaphrodite...like all games that do that (as the Japanese ACTUALLY think the West wants hermaphrodite like characters) *I checked out on the hype immediately.* Its why I hated Cloud post Advent Children: you can PLAY Cloud as assertive: but *as far as Square E is concerned? Cloud's a fucking man bitch.* Hence...if THIS is all FF is now...Tidus I could handle as he actually is man enough to LIKE Yuna and KNOW it: 12...isnt really a FF game but a Monster Hunter Prototype: and as a Monster Hunter Prototype: its fine: as a FF game: Its a 5. Hence for me...and MANY others: FF would be better off: like Mega Man: going retro. As aside from the NARROW love story of 8: aka 5% of the game IF that and the ONE masterclass story of 9 (even if it isnt my fav): Final Fantasy: *is better off both sales and popularity wise: if they just go back to JRPG's.* More of this Action Hybrids? DragonAge/Elder Scrolls/Fallout = Minus Fallout 4, FF XV cant touch these: nor can Enix touch these companies competence. I dont need FF to keep trying and failing to make a game i'd buy. But...ugh: as always in the west: we're at the mercy: *of the backward Japanese culture's ability to write something the West will GIVE ANY SHITS ABOUT.* Lets hope going forward: they ignore hollywood: and go back to stealing from our myths: *not our pop culture.* *As the Westernization of Japan...has destroyed them culturally.*

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Yup, I upload pretty much every week!

Sweet. 13 is a cool game but body pillows are better.

Yeah, I have no integrity either. Who needs that in their life, you know?

I love 13 but but I will admit 13 had really bad writing.

Couldn't agree more. Just finished 15 and it made me appreciate just how good 13 actually was. The linear gameplay helped the game stay focused and it showed in the story, combat system, and visuals. Why would I exchange that for a boring open world game, full of fetch and retrieve quests? Wish I still had my 360 and FF13 copy now. Haven't played it since it came out. Also wouldn't mind revisiting my first (FFVIII).

Makes you wonder if the use of hallways and restriction was actually used to make us empathize with the characters.

I think ya'll just have shit taste lolololol.

Kageryushin nah 13 was a great game. When I first played 7, I had to take so many breaks as the story and characters were so dull to get into. Cloud is one of the worst main characters in the series. I played 9 straight after and was completely hooked on it. 13 was also a more interesting story.

That Lightning disrespect is unreal.

World of Final Fantasy kinda has that.

If you got that far into the game, as someone who beat it, your not missing much. I will say the side quests and boss fights are the best parts of the game.

Those dorks get so mad for wasting their time and $60 bucks lol. FF series was good up to this point, so why would they expect FFXIII to be good too? Like how dumb can they be? LOL

My first FF was the VIII, I got it almost after it was released and I was about 10. I played every FF after that one, and played previous ones too. I'm a sucker for FF, I managed to find something charming about each one of them (I think except X-2, which I still don't hate but I don't like). So I enjoyed the hell out of FFXIII, so much I'm playing the series all over again.

It makes you happy because people dislike what you like. Rather odd pass time.

@Paradox OH HIIIIII

@Who Dat Ninja (u right)

He's also the only character that doesn't look like it was designed by a DeviantArt weeb lmao

*insert Thank You Gif*

The scene with where he wants to kill Vanille out of revenge, decides he cant and then turns the gun on himself makes me cry every time. The voice acting, writing and animation for him was just perfect, way better than it had any right to be!

I always thought of Zell that way

I'm not gonna lie - the way the party eventually bonds over their common struggle is actually quite believable.

Yes to all this!

@@jrpgplayer Yeah, in particular it was Lightning and Hope filling reach other's sibling- and mother-shaped voids that I enjoyed. As a result I went from really disliking Hope to unironically thinking of him as one of my favourites. The one part of the game I genuinely had fun at was the Palamecia, partly because the game actually finally gives you every role to play with at once, but also because they were in the party. Them two and Fang were who I ended up beating the game with.

basically the comestics are really good but the gameplay not so much

@@reloadpsi they are not like siblings they become romantic read

Agreed!

And the the worst quote in FF franchise imo "heroes don't need plans."

@@1beatcher I appreciate your wisdom.

No joke, I legit wanted Snow to drop dead if ONLY because of his stupid ass catchphrase. I NEVER want to hear Troy Baker utter the word "hero" ever again.

@@KOTEBANAROT I completely agree, snow is literal garbage.

Cool.

Lol cuz it was a shell designed to breed humans, then crash to the ground in a sacrifice large enough to open a portal for bhunevelza to climb through

Agreed.

Gregory Solarte I agree with this statement hardcore

please understand the game before you start talking out of your ass

You didn't play the same game that I did appearently. Because XIII may have had problems in the presentation of several of it's aspects, but it had pretty good character developemnt, and while not the best had a good story. It also had the best battle system in the series where you can clearly get a rating on whether you decisions were good or not, and what can you do to become better at the game. There were many challenging fights as well. Making the game harder than the likes of VII which is possibly the easiest in the series and IX.

@@bloody4558 agree I played ff4 first, then 5, then 6, then 1, then 2 all around 15 years old Later i played ffx and 13 and 7 and 9 13 was great, 7 was boring 5 is my favorite, 4, 6, ,9 and x are about the same quality for me with 1 and 2 being equal I dont get the 13 and 2 hate, theyre decent I expected so much from 7 but it disappointed me, its not bad but it's no better than any that came before it

So they needed to hire a map designer I guess lol. Well, the framerates tho. Guess thats actually the issue. So, a coder lol. Or more time til release. Like, thats why FF7 remake is getting split into parts, and why FF15 needed patching, and KH3 being postponed eternally, FF15 being in the work for AGES etc. Just biting off more than they can chew. They can guzzle KH fan's money down all day though.

You know when someone hasn't played the game when they say XIII has no substance. One of the main complaints about the game is that the mythology is too fleshed out and the game didn't want to vomit it out with exposition.

@@Ecusu I'm currently on my first real play-through of the game and while it can be confusing with the weird names (I didn't understand the difference between fal'cie and l'cie for quite awhile lol) and the lack of clear world-building (without some digging), it becomes a lot easier with the database (is that what it's called idk). Part of me thinks of it as lazy writing, since they jammed it in a usually pointless dictionary of sorts instead of taking time to explain weird terms, but it also is cool that it makes use of that usually pointless dictionary.

Ff X is definitely popular, but i highly doubt it as popular as VIII and IX. i highly suggest to grab both of those too if you don't mind very old pixelated graphics.

If the trilogy is good, I'm give it a shot. I really enjoyed 13, espically the side quest areas.

Thanks!

@TheTrueRoxas1 i know. i meant uematsu`s compositions perfectly fit the character or scene on screen. 13 has some cool tracks but dont gel so well and are less rememberable because of that.

Gonçalo Ferreira Square burned Uematsu out fast. From FF7 onward, they were pumping a Final Fantasy every year or every other year. 7 in ‘97, 8 in ‘98, 9 in ‘99, X in 2001. By X, he couldn’t keep up the pace of creating an entire soundtrack which usually consist of over 60 individual songs. Listen to the OSTs; FF6 through FFX. You’ll hear a severe drop in quality/creativity.

genericsavings true, he was burned out and he already wasnt young by 90`s end. Yet, ff8 and 9 have overall the best Ost in my opinion.

Gonçalo Ferreira you’re cool in my book. You gave Vagrant Story a nod. ;)

thanks ;) vagrant story in 2000 was the only game missing in your list on the other post. amazing games every year. square`s best years.

No one likes Snow, no seriouly, how can you like him. The story itself proves that Lightning was right as everything that happened with Snow, Hope and Serah are direct consequences of Snow and his rebel's actions.

... I like Snow...

@@bloody4558 I guess so? I'd like to replay the game someday, so I can get a clearer view of the entire story. It's been over a decade for me now. What I remember the most was how Snow didn't seem to learn as much from his mistakes compared to the others; I can even recall an egregious example of this in the finale.

@@cjmoore9966 Nothing wrong with that! Everyone has their preferences. My biggest memory of Snow was that he didn't seem to learn as much from his mistakes, compared to everyone else. Most notably, I remember him charging in during the finale like an idiot. It's been over a decade since I've played the game and I can *still* recall being annoyed by that. However, I'd like to replay the game sometime and see how it holds up. I don't have a favorite FF game as all of the ones I've played seem to have their own unique merits, but I really enjoyed the focus on character during the story, so I'd really enjoy seeing it with fresh eyes and a more mature mind.

@@cjmoore9966 You know what? This talking about FF13 actually made me want to play it, and I've been saying I should do so for a few years, so I went to look at it on Steam (I no longer own a PS3). And apparently it's already in my library! Guess I'll be playing it soon. Looking forward to getting a more up-to-date view of Snow. ^^

13 is my favourite, the problem i had was i couldnt quite understand the stuff about fal'cie, l'cie and all that gibber gabber. it could have been because i was quite young at the time but 13-2 and lightning returns was easier for me to play

Perfectly put lol

I find it strange how many people think it lacked proper explanation and was overly complex. As the only thing that lacked presentation is the reasons for the actions of Cid and barthandelus, both of which get explained in the data log. As far as complex goes, the most complex thing was fal'cie and l'cie. But even then the game clearly explains/shows it as one being "God" like (fal'cie), and the other (l'cie) being being bound to them by an oath (focus) of which if they refuse to do they get punished (cie'th) . I know this explanation is not 100% correct but it is more than enough to understand it

vitalrose That urks me so much like they use the same three words constantly, like is it really that hard to differentiate Fal'cie, L'cie, and Cie'th lmao. I just think it's people being stubborn or just not willing to give XIII a chance. The vast majority of ff games use specific names and terminology relegated to their own universe.

@@novonomicon5759 it bothered me as well, I mean it's not like this and nearly all the other problems people had with ffXIII also applies to ffx. But people loved X and I thought it was average. Even in the terminology the cie terms in XIII are explained in many ways and several times (vanille+fang several times, at least once from start to Odin, Cid, barthandelus several times, etc). Whereas X never properly/clearly explains pyre flies, dream zanarkand(or how auron got there), how sin was defeated by conventional weapons(a big point through out the story) or how does kimahri even protect yuna. I know a lot of things got explained in x-2 and the ultimania. Just to let you know I only pick on X as it is the ff game most similar to XIII I could probably do this with any ff game

you just made me picture ffxiii as a tv soap opera now

@@nightwish1453 *sighs in Japanese*

Oh might have read it wrong anyway looked at the genre and I understand the point now

Think it 's one of the comments above

@@nightwish1453 that's a trope of TV soap operas anymore. They say in Closed captions a lot of weird stuff, but if it's in another language they do the *sighs in spanish. Cries in spanish*

Yep it got an amazing story I loved every ending so much!

They're both............ fine.

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I don't remember a ton about 13. Haven't played it since it came out, but I do remember liking it a lot and having a lot of fun seeing the story unfold. Some of the characters personalities and designs got on my nerves though. People complain about how linear it was, but the game's combat system was actually a lot of fun and wasn't easy. It took some serious thought and you had to think on the fly in many cases. I also loved the cutscenes and how beautiful the game looked. Also, the in-game dictionary is so underrated. I knew what was going on at all times and getting new weapons was also a ton of fun. I just finished 15 and it's flaws are very noticeable to someone (me) who adores games like Skyrim and Fallout. Unlike 13, I had no idea what was going on and why characters were even being shown on screen while I was playing 15. It's a shame that 15 defenders will argue that the story is great, but you have to buy the movies or whatever. I'm not at all okay with an unfinished product. 15 felt like half it's cutscenes were missing and it made me appreciate the beauty of 13.

Battle system, graphics (still looks better than most PS4 games), and soundtrack are great. I think the story and characters are passable. The dialogue is terrible tho. The dialogue between characters is much improved in FF15. Also while I do respect the fact that SQE always gives you a new battle system every FF, unfortunately FF15s was a broken mess.

It's not a Nomura game. If this trilogy were helmed by Nomura, you'd get the first one 8 years late and the sequels would be shelved into Existential Hell.

You know, about lightning, the same can be said about cloud and even sephiroth

Lighting is what you get by mating squall and paine

Marcelo Kaleu Anhaya Marques And Squall... And Auron... And pretty much every FF character that everyone praises for being cool.

@@TheSuperSaturos but for some reason lightning is bad by following this formula...

Marcelo Kaleu Anhaya Marques Go figure FF fanbase, man. I gave up on trying to understand a long time ago.

Thank you! I definitely have some more longer ones coming up (mainly parts of the metal gear retrospective), but I don't think I'll ever have 30min videos coming out super regularly. It's hard to do lol

ThorHighHeels I'm not sure if you just started answering comments or did that for some time and I just didn't notice, but thx anyway)

ThorHighHeels mgs is cool, but I still love videos where you dumpster dive into forgotten games the most. Like this one Yakuza-style beat-them-up or games from Japan's dark age. Those are the best

ThorHighHeels you are my favourite RU-vidr. Sending you stream of love from the snowy russia. Keep doing what you're doing!

Hope I'm not too cheesee..

Is it your favorite on a technicality of being the only one you ever played? This might be the worst FF game in the series

they still have a reason for joining in the first place. While most ff heroes dont even have that

I guess? But they don't really have a reason to stay; the second they leave Midgar, the quest is more or less Cloud's personal revenge story until they learn about the Black Materia. Cid: You all barge into my place, beat up my employer and steal my plane, but what the hell, I'll tag along! Red XIII: I'll hitch a ride home with you until I get home... alright, so I know what I said, but I like you guys. Yuffie: So it turns out I was just conning you to protect my homeland, but I have nothing better to do. Don't get me wrong, I love FFVII's cast, but they just feel disjointed _as a cast_ . What are some examples of characters who don't have a reason to join? Not counting FFVI, because as much as I love that game, Gau and Relm don't really have a reason to be in the party (consequences of a large cast).

@@Erk1234567 excluding the whole Destiny thing if it is it even counts everybody from Final Fantasy 8 is replaceable with another NPC from garden. The only reason why they're in your party is because randomness. It's like School in real life the party members in Final Fantasy 8 are only there do to Pure Luck just like how you were assigned a random person to dissect a frog with you in school. But you know you can fall back on the whole Destiny thing.

You're right they are just assigned to work with each other. At least Rinoa has the excuse of hiring them?

@@Erk1234567 That's not a very reasonable view. Sephiroth and Shinra are both engaging in behavior that will destroy the planet. That alone would be enough to motivate many to want to get involved in an effort to stop said entities. The want to assist Cloud would be compounded by the fact that in travelling together these people are ostensibly friends. The character help eachother, and so why wouldn't they want to help Cloud stop Sephiroth? Most of the characters share a hate for both Shinra and later Sephiroth when he kills Aerith and announces to everyone he's planning to kill off humanity. Yuffie can't protect her homeland if meteor wipes out everything. Red XIII can't protect Cosmo Canyon like his father if the canyon is destroyed etc.

Well, did you make it through 13 yet?

wow... a reply after 2 years comment... anyhoo... no, i still haven't, 2 busy with 11/14 & irl stuff. ^^;

@@boarMcberry Thought you might get a chuckle from a response after all this time. 😁

lol

The game is better in Japan