Board 8 > Most absurd Final Fantasy thing? (spoilers I guess)

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Speaking of mini games

99 out of 100 nobles were impressed

99 out of 100 nobles were impressed

99 out of 100 nobles were impressed

Can I please just hunt down and murder that last noble who is never ever impressed

There've been a lot of rumors about an FF9 remake. I wonder if they'll change the minigames somehow.

MacArrowny posted...

There've been a lot of rumors about an FF9 remake. I wonder if they'll change the minigames somehow.

Can they make a version of Tetra Master that doesn't suck and has real rewards? That'd be enough for me.

#3 is basically Miku Hatsune, right? So they're not wrong about the idea, but they're very wrong that their character would have that role.

Yes and no. Miku and other Vocaloids are made via voice clips from voice actors or singers, and then manipulated into actual words via tuning a recording on a DAW. The programming is all digital, and Miku herself is just an image used to sell said software. I think it can work on a smaller scale sort of thing (and Crypton is its own separate company). At most, Miku is used for a 3 minute song, and people can just use the software indefinitely. I think Crypton owns the rights, because the producers themselves do all the heavy lifting and make it and do all the work. Some artists do songs every week or two weeks, some do one song and never publish anything again.

I have no idea what Square Enix would ask for in rights to use "Aki Ross," or whatever her "character" would be called in other media after that. Who knows what and how that would work with the Japanese and English actors, what studios would want to incorporate it for its own projects, the rights involved, how it looks, how it sounds, etc. Maybe it's the same sort of thing where you have to loan out a license for copyrighted music or something, but then Square can decide how or what kind of stuff Aki would be allowed to star in, how much they would make from it. The level of individuality and personal flair used by Vocaloid producers is honestly a bit shocking. Some popular songs go into things like suicide, bullying, family abandonment, etc, rather than just some saccharine happy-go-lucky pop. It may not be so easy if a bigger company like Square Enix has to handle all that publicly. I doubt they'd want a digital actress showing up on porn or something...if they could even control that. Unless you have Ming-Na Wen record every possible word on the planet, I don't know if they'd be able to pull off fully digitized actress all the way. Bring her or a Japanese actress in every movie, it still ends up being Ming-Na Wen AS Aki Ross as such and such a thing. Probably too many degrees of mindfuck.

It's such a weird concept. Miku probably has to go through so many pieces of red tape to be used in commercials, anime, and other things. Trying to imagine a full-fledged leading role seems kinda insane. Then again, that's what AI and Deepfakes are kinda getting away with now. "Digital actress" is probably going to be a thing, but even now, probably too far fetched to be feasible.

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Hey man, I beat the chocobo racing minigame when I was fifteen or whatever, but I never beat lightning dodging.

The only ultimate weapon I ever got was the one that requires like zero effort, I think it's Yuna's?

Auron's and Yuna's are the two easy ones to power up, but Yuna's can be made much harder in versions of the game with the Dark Aeons (you need to unlock Anima, which means if you don't open a particular chest in each temple on your first time through the Besaid and Macalania temples you'll need to fight Dark Valefor or Dark Shiva to do it). Rikku's and Wakka's aren't too difficult but are very time consuming. Obviously if you are good at chocbo racing Tidus' is very easy to power up fully too.

I think Wakka's is easy as long as you're playing blitzball as you go and not trying to do it all at the end.

Rikku's would be super annoying if No Encounters didn't exist, same as Lightning Dodging.

I usually do Tidus, Yuna, Auron, Wakka

I got the Celestial Weapons once and then never again on any of my other replays