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liriDay 24 – Best Final Fantasy quote.
"With each passing day, the world finds new and exciting ways to kill a man." Or, really, a lot of other things Balthier says. XII has probably the best English script to date; the writing of the localizations keeps getting better and better (well, can't speak for XIII...) even as my interest in playing new RPGs wanes.
I also love Terra's "it's not the end result of your life that's important" line from the final confrontation with Kefka.
Day 25 – Final Fantasy game you plan on playing (old or new).
FF12, because I really do like it, I just have no patience for level-grinding. I should play X-2 again - I'd pretty much have to restart, I've forgotten everything I did in it except for the creepy orgasm mini-game... OH WAIT THAT'S THE WORST MINI-GAME EVER, so there's my answer to Day 23.
Day 26 – OMG WTF? Final Fantasy moment.
What does this question even MEAN? The moment that I learned Garnet's extracted-from-her summons were being used as weapons of mass destruction in FF9 may count, but didn't I use that for something else?
Day 27 – Best Final Fantasy storyline.
...really, meme, no "best villain" question but you have this? I'm sure FF12 has something that I'll regret not knowing about, but going from those I do know about... probably FFX's "Tidus has no clue Yuna's going to her death" storyline, which I saw coming way before Tidus did, but was executed well. Or, if a few moments count, the Wakka/Lulu relationship in FFX, which I shipped HARD at the time I played it - my favorite thing about X-2 was it becoming canon, even if Lulu dresses really inappropriately for a pregnant lady.
Day 28 – First Final Fantasy game obsession.
That would be the first one. Remember, a million years ago when dinosaurs walked the earth, and Nintendo gave away Dragon Warrior with a subscription to Nintendo Power? I think a year later they gave a free FF1 strategy guide if you re-upped your subscription, or something. Anyway, we obtained the strategy guide somehow or other, and I played FF1 while my brother manned the strategy guide, which was necessary, because while TV Tropes is often wrong, Nintendo Hard is a trope for a REASON. (We wanted the strategy guide, and FF1, because the presence of a strategy guide implied the game was beatable. We had no evidence that DW was.) Of course, then we get to the final dungeon, and the strategy guide says "We don't want to ruin it for you! Have fun!" because their editors wouldn't let them write "OH GOD OH GOD THIS DUNGEON HAUNTS MY NIGHTMARES PLEASE JUST LET ME SLEEP." In FF1's final dungeon, they added an innovation to the stairs-that-you-couldn't-tell-if-they-went-up-or-down - pillars that would teleport you to one of a series of near-identical rooms, with no distinguishing marks or hints as to how to break out of this endless cycle of torment. At least, that's how I remember it - it's possible it wasn't quite that indecipherable, but it certainly wasn't clear to me at the time.
It was FIVE YEARS before I was able to go back and beat that game. I remember when we got "FF2" (FF4) I was really impressed with the innovation of graphical cues showing you which direction the stairs went, and save points, so running out of potions didn't mean "well, you might as well hit reset now, cut your losses."
Day 29 – Current Final Fantasy game obsession
Uh... VI, I guess? Or XII since I have a first playthrough in progress? I'm not really obsessive about any FF games right now.
Then again, I just went looking for a new wallpaper, over the course of which I found some art on Pixiv of Terra in a white dress, and the tags prompted me to go looking for artwork of her Dissidia sequel/prequel/whateverthehell design, and... I guess obsessing over FF6 is not an inaccurate description. Or maybe Dissidia. (My deep, dark secret: After playing the first Dissidia I shipped Cloud/Terra a little.)
Day 30 – Saddest Final Fantasy character death
So, this question is asking "Which made you saddest? Galuf, Leo, Aerith, uh... Brahne?... Tidus, Jecht, or Auron?" (If FF8 had any character deaths I don't know of them, if FF12 has any I don't WANT to know of them, and I'm discounting games prior to IV. Also, a couple of VII's APPARENT character deaths have been retconned out by Advent Children.) I mean, this series isn't written by George R. R. Martin. There just aren't that many to choose from.
I guess Aerith. She was the only one I had strong positive feelings towards. My reaction in X was that Tidus might THINK it was his story, but it was really Yuna's, and his attempts at bogarting the spotlight irked me a little. I didn't dislike him or anything, but he didn't interest me. Yuna did, and so did Wakka and Lulu. Auron was cool and all, but not "OMG HE'S SO AWESOME" like I feel about Balthier, and Jecht - well, he's an asshole jock, even if one who discovered hidden depths. Tidus's death scene was the best-done, and made me feel sad for Yuna, so maybe that should be it - but then I guess in X-2 you can bring him back, because they only go "no take-backs" on the deaths *I* don't like.
If Daryl's death had been onscreen, she'd be the saddest.
Like I said, I haven't really been playing any Final Fantasies lately. The husband got me halfway hooked on Civ IV; I enjoy the early to middle part of a game, where you're exploring and settling, but I get bored with endgame. I think the maps flipped the switch in my brain that led to my obsession with Dragon Force - the Sega Saturn game, not the band - wherein you had to conquer the whole continent to fight the powers of darkness. I want all the map to be MY COLOR. But you can't really manage that, and then you have to found the UN or build a starship... I guess I could just be warlike, but then I wouldn't have resources to make MOAR SETTLERS to put MOAR OF MY COLOR all over the map.
Maybe I should try to get my mother to mail me the Saturn.
"With each passing day, the world finds new and exciting ways to kill a man." Or, really, a lot of other things Balthier says. XII has probably the best English script to date; the writing of the localizations keeps getting better and better (well, can't speak for XIII...) even as my interest in playing new RPGs wanes.
I also love Terra's "it's not the end result of your life that's important" line from the final confrontation with Kefka.
Day 25 – Final Fantasy game you plan on playing (old or new).
FF12, because I really do like it, I just have no patience for level-grinding. I should play X-2 again - I'd pretty much have to restart, I've forgotten everything I did in it except for the creepy orgasm mini-game... OH WAIT THAT'S THE WORST MINI-GAME EVER, so there's my answer to Day 23.
Day 26 – OMG WTF? Final Fantasy moment.
What does this question even MEAN? The moment that I learned Garnet's extracted-from-her summons were being used as weapons of mass destruction in FF9 may count, but didn't I use that for something else?
Day 27 – Best Final Fantasy storyline.
...really, meme, no "best villain" question but you have this? I'm sure FF12 has something that I'll regret not knowing about, but going from those I do know about... probably FFX's "Tidus has no clue Yuna's going to her death" storyline, which I saw coming way before Tidus did, but was executed well. Or, if a few moments count, the Wakka/Lulu relationship in FFX, which I shipped HARD at the time I played it - my favorite thing about X-2 was it becoming canon, even if Lulu dresses really inappropriately for a pregnant lady.
Day 28 – First Final Fantasy game obsession.
That would be the first one. Remember, a million years ago when dinosaurs walked the earth, and Nintendo gave away Dragon Warrior with a subscription to Nintendo Power? I think a year later they gave a free FF1 strategy guide if you re-upped your subscription, or something. Anyway, we obtained the strategy guide somehow or other, and I played FF1 while my brother manned the strategy guide, which was necessary, because while TV Tropes is often wrong, Nintendo Hard is a trope for a REASON. (We wanted the strategy guide, and FF1, because the presence of a strategy guide implied the game was beatable. We had no evidence that DW was.) Of course, then we get to the final dungeon, and the strategy guide says "We don't want to ruin it for you! Have fun!" because their editors wouldn't let them write "OH GOD OH GOD THIS DUNGEON HAUNTS MY NIGHTMARES PLEASE JUST LET ME SLEEP." In FF1's final dungeon, they added an innovation to the stairs-that-you-couldn't-tell-if-they-went-up-or-down - pillars that would teleport you to one of a series of near-identical rooms, with no distinguishing marks or hints as to how to break out of this endless cycle of torment. At least, that's how I remember it - it's possible it wasn't quite that indecipherable, but it certainly wasn't clear to me at the time.
It was FIVE YEARS before I was able to go back and beat that game. I remember when we got "FF2" (FF4) I was really impressed with the innovation of graphical cues showing you which direction the stairs went, and save points, so running out of potions didn't mean "well, you might as well hit reset now, cut your losses."
Day 29 – Current Final Fantasy game obsession
Uh... VI, I guess? Or XII since I have a first playthrough in progress? I'm not really obsessive about any FF games right now.
Then again, I just went looking for a new wallpaper, over the course of which I found some art on Pixiv of Terra in a white dress, and the tags prompted me to go looking for artwork of her Dissidia sequel/prequel/whateverthehell design, and... I guess obsessing over FF6 is not an inaccurate description. Or maybe Dissidia. (My deep, dark secret: After playing the first Dissidia I shipped Cloud/Terra a little.)
Day 30 – Saddest Final Fantasy character death
So, this question is asking "Which made you saddest? Galuf, Leo, Aerith, uh... Brahne?... Tidus, Jecht, or Auron?" (If FF8 had any character deaths I don't know of them, if FF12 has any I don't WANT to know of them, and I'm discounting games prior to IV. Also, a couple of VII's APPARENT character deaths have been retconned out by Advent Children.) I mean, this series isn't written by George R. R. Martin. There just aren't that many to choose from.
I guess Aerith. She was the only one I had strong positive feelings towards. My reaction in X was that Tidus might THINK it was his story, but it was really Yuna's, and his attempts at bogarting the spotlight irked me a little. I didn't dislike him or anything, but he didn't interest me. Yuna did, and so did Wakka and Lulu. Auron was cool and all, but not "OMG HE'S SO AWESOME" like I feel about Balthier, and Jecht - well, he's an asshole jock, even if one who discovered hidden depths. Tidus's death scene was the best-done, and made me feel sad for Yuna, so maybe that should be it - but then I guess in X-2 you can bring him back, because they only go "no take-backs" on the deaths *I* don't like.
If Daryl's death had been onscreen, she'd be the saddest.
Like I said, I haven't really been playing any Final Fantasies lately. The husband got me halfway hooked on Civ IV; I enjoy the early to middle part of a game, where you're exploring and settling, but I get bored with endgame. I think the maps flipped the switch in my brain that led to my obsession with Dragon Force - the Sega Saturn game, not the band - wherein you had to conquer the whole continent to fight the powers of darkness. I want all the map to be MY COLOR. But you can't really manage that, and then you have to found the UN or build a starship... I guess I could just be warlike, but then I wouldn't have resources to make MOAR SETTLERS to put MOAR OF MY COLOR all over the map.
Maybe I should try to get my mother to mail me the Saturn.