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ScytheCarnage posted...

I fully agree with what you said about Tidus having gone through a lot of shit.

Wanted to reply to this about XII. It doesn't have the best environments out of all the FF games but if there was a Final Fantasy where they decided at the time, in concept, "Hey. All the other FF have 'human' protagonists, let's make the environment be the main character this time, that would be XII.

I even know some guy irl who likes Vaan the most out of any FF character ever and he's a weirdo.

The scuttlebutt on XII was that Vaan and Panelo were added at the last minute on the whims of execs at Square who wanted pretty people in the game to sell it to young teen audiences. So the reason that their characterization is lacking is because they didn't have enough time to tie them into the story in any meaningful way. This is even before the mess that was the game's development is taken into account (no one's fault on that last part: the director fell seriously ill about...halfway through development, IIRC, and had to quit the company).

I knew a dude who liked Vaan over all other FF protags too. It did not make sense to me why someone with zero character development and barely any dialogue in the second half of the game is a favorite, but whatever.

To Max: yes, I would agree with XII being Star Wars worship. But I would hardly call the game mid. "Subpar" would be a better word, in my mind.