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Topic	Andy plays Final Fantasy VI
andylt 01/29/21 9:14:46 PM #289:	One of the things I like about the cast is that I can see players being drawn to pretty much any of them! RaidenGarai posted... I never said I believed Gogo was Darill, just that it was my favorite of the theories. Im in the Gogo is Gogo camp. Yeah sorry I worded that poorly, didn't mean to imply you believed it! Mr Crispy posted... Demon/Kishin has the notes "Zurvan" "Calvary God" "Ultimate God" and "Eternal Time". There's an enemy in Dragon's Den called Zurvan anyway, but then I guess they reused Sephiroth so why not lol. 6. Terra Branford 5th-7th are all super close to me, characters that have aspects I really like but also a glaring fault that troubles me. Terra was probably the most difficult character in this list to pin down. She starts off so passive (obviously intentional), has a few moments that are really nice early on (her deciding to join the Returners is a very good scene), and just as she starts to grow as a character... she pauses. By the back half of the World of Balance she's already taken a backseat, you would think that the revelation of her identity would spur her character forward but she kind of becomes just a narrative tool for a while. By the time the world fell apart I had resigned myself to seeing Terra as just a worse version of Rydia. It is a really interesting choice to make the de facto protagonist such a passive character, and a choice I do really like in theory. But with the game already being such a massive ensemble I think they just needed to push a little harder with Terra, give her something more to go on other than a desire for love. Of course this becomes her arc in the World of Ruin, discovering a familial love (I still really like that they chose this instead of giving her a love interest) and first rejecting to join us; then actively deciding to fight. It's hard for Terra to stand out among this cast for one simple reason- she is pure and innocent. Everybody around her is a good person but with flaws and troubles, and she's just a woman who wants to feel love and acceptance. Hands down my favourite Terra moment comes at the final confrontation with Kefka, you can really see how far she's grown here and she obviously has the personal investment. But reducing her to the background for most of the game robs her of more moments like this, and I can't help but feel she didn't reach her full potential as a character. 5. Edgar Roni Figaro Another difficult one for me to place, Edgar kind of snuck up on me. We've seen both the good-hearted royal and the stereotypical womaniser archetypes a million times, so much so that for a while I didn't even look underneath to consider the complexities of his character. But under the surface there is an awful lot of good here. Edgar is smart and has a very solid set of principles that he never wavers from- his loyalty to his homeland takes precedence over any feelings towards the Empire (first keeping up appearances and then declaring war), and his loyalty to his brother has him condemn himself to a life he doesn't want to lead- and do so in such a way that Sabin doesn't feel guilty over it. Despite his surface bravado he is very willing to put others first, one of my fav little moments of his is when he lets the thieves he was with escape freely with the treasure. As well-trodden as the well-meaning monarch trope is in this series, Edgar actually feels like he cares about commoners and understands them in a way nobody else outside of Tactics does. He doesn't really get the credit for being as smart and kind-hearted as he is, and he never outright talks about his worries and past with the same candour that most of the cast eventually do. Edgar really feels like he's meant to be an A-plot character, but the game absolutely pushes him to the background and honestly I think it makes him more interesting this way. Also his Tools are great, and I really enjoy his relaxed dynamic with Sabin. His one obvious flaw that I won't go on about is his unwanted advances on women, and... girls. It'd be one thing to treat this like a character flaw, but he never grows or is called out on for this and it's treated as a comedic thing right until the end. I know different times and all, but it does taint a deceptively interesting character. --- Slowly becoming a Final Fantasy aficionado. Currently playing: FFVI Congrats to azuarc, Guru Champion 2020! <cite>andylt posted [p:950071440] in Andy plays... [t:79206599]...</cite> <quote>One of the things I like about the cast is that I can see players being drawn to pretty much any of them! RaidenGarai posted... </cite> <quote>I never said I believed Gogo was Darill, just that it was my favorite of the theories. Im in the Gogo is Gogo camp.</quote>Yeah sorry I worded that poorly, didn't mean to imply you believed it! Mr Crispy posted... </cite> <quote>Demon/Kishin has the notes "Zurvan" "Calvary God" "Ultimate God" and "Eternal Time".</quote>There's an enemy in Dragon's Den called Zurvan anyway, but then I guess they reused Sephiroth so why not lol. 6. Terra Branford 5th-7th are all super close to me, characters that have aspects I really like but also a glaring fault that troubles me. Terra was probably the most difficult character in this list to pin down. She starts off so passive (obviously intentional), has a few moments that are really nice early on (her deciding to join the Returners is a very good scene), and just as she starts to grow as a character... she pauses. By the back half of the World of Balance she's already taken a backseat, you would think that the revelation of her identity would spur her character forward but she kind of becomes just a narrative tool for a while. By the time the world fell apart I had resigned myself to seeing Terra as just a worse version of Rydia. It is a really interesting choice to make the de facto protagonist such a passive character, and a choice I do really like in theory. But with the game already being such a massive ensemble I think they just needed to push a little harder with Terra, give her something more to go on other than a desire for love. Of course this becomes her arc in the World of Ruin, discovering a familial love (I still really like that they chose this instead of giving her a love interest) and first rejecting to join us; then actively deciding to fight. It's hard for Terra to stand out among this cast for one simple reason- she is pure and innocent. Everybody around her is a good person but with flaws and troubles, and she's just a woman who wants to feel love and acceptance. Hands down my favourite Terra moment comes at the final confrontation with Kefka, you can really see how far she's grown here and she obviously has the personal investment. But reducing her to the background for most of the game robs her of more moments like this, and I can't help but feel she didn't reach her full potential as a character. 5. Edgar Roni Figaro Another difficult one for me to place, Edgar kind of snuck up on me. We've seen both the good-hearted royal and the stereotypical womaniser archetypes a million times, so much so that for a while I didn't even look underneath to consider the complexities of his character. But under the surface there is an awful lot of good here. Edgar is smart and has a very solid set of principles that he never wavers from- his loyalty to his homeland takes precedence over any feelings towards the Empire (first keeping up appearances and then declaring war), and his loyalty to his brother has him condemn himself to a life he doesn't want to lead- and do so in such a way that Sabin doesn't feel guilty over it. Despite his surface bravado he is very willing to put others first, one of my fav little moments of his is when he lets the thieves he was with escape freely with the treasure. As well-trodden as the well-meaning monarch trope is in this series, Edgar actually feels like he cares about commoners and understands them in a way nobody else outside of Tactics does. He doesn't really get the credit for being as smart and kind-hearted as he is, and he never outright talks about his worries and past with the same candour that most of the cast eventually do. Edgar really feels like he's meant to be an A-plot character, but the game absolutely pushes him to the background and honestly I think it makes him more interesting this way. Also his Tools are great, and I really enjoy his relaxed dynamic with Sabin. His one obvious flaw that I won't go on about is his unwanted advances on women, and... girls. It'd be one thing to treat this like a character flaw, but he never grows or is called out on for this and it's treated as a comedic thing right until the end. I know different times and all, but it does taint a deceptively interesting character. --- Slowly becoming a Final Fantasy aficionado. Currently playing: FFVI Congrats to azuarc, Guru Champion 2020!</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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