Comment on Name a game game: "...and then it ends with you fighting A GOD."
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 2 months ago
Final Fantasy 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 13
- Start off figuring out why meteors are falling and the wind has died
- Start off fighting a snail while using magic machines
- Start off as a terrorist
- Start off as an emo student
- Start off sneaking into a play
- Start off with blitzball
- Start heading down the hallway
JayEchoRay@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Haven’t finished 1,2,3 but spoilers below:
spoiler
Ff4 - have to stop a vengeful manifestation of an advanced race Ff5 - stopping a tree Ff6 - stopping a clown’s divinity Ff7 - well, that is more an alien with support from the spirit of the planet protecting itself Ff8 - sorceressess and time shenanigans Ff9 - ends with an abrupt challenge from a death god to convince it not to delete the current universe Ff10 - and be transported to a land where a dominant religion is enforced through the power of a wmd that is maintained by “faith” Ff12 - prevent the folly of a man trying to become a god, through the power of a renegade of the universe godhood pantheon Ff13 - become pawns of higher beings wanting to stop the nihilism of one of its brethen tired of the infinite cycle
megane_kun@lemm.ee 2 months ago
FF8 spoiler
Was Ultimecia characterized as (a) god, or wanting to be one? I think Ultimecia wanted a world that consists of only her, hence she could be considered a god in her own world. She succeeded until the power of friendship and love defeated her but …
I don’t think it counts under what I understood the prompt in the OP is all about. But then again, it’s been a while since I last played that game, and I hardly paid much attention to the story (got too icked out by the love story). Cool game mechanics tho.
JayEchoRay@lemmy.world 2 months ago
spoiler
___ In a way, I guess technically her goal was very godlike as she wanted to control and compress time to create a favourable timeline for herself. That goal however just created a self-fulling circular loop prophesy as her fear of SeeD was ultimately her demise. As for the time shenanigans: - Her being killed by your group in the future leads to her essence finding Cid’s Wife as a host in the past - Leads to the founding of SeeD - Introduce main character and group for the game - Leads to perpetuating a cycle I suppose one can think of her desperately trying to win a time loop and going mad from failure
megane_kun@lemm.ee 2 months ago
That last sentence in the first spoiler is more or less my take on her situation.
FF8 spoiler
I saw Ultimecia as more of a tragic character than someone who really wanted power for its own sake, which is why I don’t really see her as wanting to be a god. She just wanted a way out of the time loop. As you’ve said: she went mad from repeated (?) failure. Coincidentally, I thought Squall, at the very end, could have had ended the time loop. In that cutscene after Ultimecia’s defeat, as he was wandering back to his own time, he met a much younger Edea, who has then just inherited Ultimecia’s power. He could have chosen not to tell Edea about SeeD at this point, but I don’t think he’s aware he was talking to that Edea he knew (even though I think the surroundings should have sufficiently clued him in).
FF8 B-plot spoilers
I found Squall falling in love with the daughter of Laguna’s first crush to be a nice little thing. I also liked Laguna far better as a character, and his love story with Raine a far superior love story than the main one. I think he really fell in love with Raine, but his fatherly love for Ellone far outweighed it.