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| LeonhartFour 09/05/19 1:41:16 PM #99: | Quistis tells Squall to meet up with her in the "secret area" in the training center and says he can consider that her last order. Quistis gets a lot of flack for essentially abusing her power as his teacher and using it as an opportunity to make a move on him, and I get that. It's a fair criticism, but at the same time, it feels like taking the situation too seriously. There's something unrealistic about people who want too much realism in their fiction. In any event, it does highlight her own immaturity and demonstrates that she wasn't really ready to be an instructor. Like I said before, it's a teenager acting like a teenager. Not to say it excuses the behavior. I get why some people would be bothered by that, but it literally never occurred to me until I saw someone else point it out. Going back to SeeD rankings, I usually like to take a couple tests to get my ranking up to 10 initially. There's a way to game the system since they're all Yes or No questions and there's no penalty for failing the test. Just answer every question Yes and see what your score is, and you'll know how many Yes answers there are for that test. And if you're still not sure, you can just change one answer and see if it changes the score. I really like the song that plays during this secret area scene, "Tell Me." I wish they used it more often. I think it only plays one other time. I also like the balcony overlooking the Garden in the background, lit up at night. It's a really nice visual. I like the long pauses between each line during the scene because it highlights the awkwardness of it all. I do feel for Quistis though, pouring her heart out to Squall, only for him to ask if she's done talking yet and then tell her to go talk to a wall when she says she just wants him to listen. Ultimately, the issue isn't that Squall doesn't care or hates Quistis or anything like that. He doesn't want to let himself get attached to someone and start to care too much, like what happened with Ellone. Squall keeps an emotional distance and puts up a wall around himself as a defense mechanism. He flatly tells Quistis that everyone should take care of themselves and he doesn't want to carry someone else's burden. At this point, Quistis basically gives up on pursuing Squall. The difference between Quistis and Rinoa is that when Squall tried to push them away, Quistis let him while Rinoa pushed back. We'll get into criticisms of Rinoa "pushing back" later, but that's really what it boils down to here. On the way out, we run into Ellone again. The fact that she instantly recognizes Squall and calls Quistis "Quisty" should be a red flag that she knows them both pretty well despite appearing to be a total stranger. Plus, she doesn't appear to be a student at a military academy at all. Then the White SeeDs randomly show up out of nowhere to escort her away when we haven't seen anyone else wearing that uniform up to this point. There are a lot of things here that don't make sense if you're not viewing all of this with the benefit of hindsight. The boss fight here is super easy to cheese. The main boss, Granaldo, is susceptible to Sleep of all things. The three Raldos beneath him don't act independently. They only act when he commands them to, so you can wail away on them while he's asleep. They're all not very strong anyway, and they have some decent spells to draw while you fight them, too, so that's nice. Quistis leaves Squall with the parting shot of, "It's not like everyone can get by on their own, you know?" To which he replies, "...Says who?" Squall's goal is to be completely independent in every sense of the word, to the point that he doesn't need anyone and no one needs him so he doesn't have to worry about fear, pain, and loss. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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