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[FF Meme] Day 02 - least favorite game
May. 16th, 2011 07:50 amIf it isn't obvious yet, I'm not doing these 30 days at one-a-day. I'm just going to go through all 30 at whatever pace I can. Ha.
Least favorite FF game, says the meme. Well, gosh.
I'm not going to include I, II, or III in this because I have never finished them; I played III-DS for a while and really tried to get hooked but the characters didn't do much (even though they were adorable) and the gameplay system just didn't do anything for me, really, like at all. I, II, and III are just such different classes of FF that in my head they're not really entirely part of the family.
So looking at the other FFs, the ones I've invested more time in, I am leaning towards saying FFIX, because I have mixed memories about it. None of the main characters reached out and grabbed me, which is significant because that's a big part of what I play for; the gameplay system was a little "meh" in my head (you already have classed characters who can only learn certain skills; why do I need this bizarre weapon-equipping-learning-count-your-gems-whatever kind of thing? Also, no really good way to meta about it unlike other games); the story was confusing, but somehow not in the same sort of endearing way that FFVIII (Sorceresses! time travel! all your Cs are Ks! suuuuure) or even FFIV was (yup, let's go to the moon in a big whale) - I'm not sure I got the Summoner/Eidolon/Extracting eidolons thing, let ALONE the Gaia/Terra/Kuja/Zidane/Genome/Tail thing, and I think part of it was that I just wasn't interested enough in it to get it.
And, more telling, it's one I don't often feel driven to write for. I'm not really sure why. I think part of it is... it does the same thing FFVIII does with its side characters, develop interesting side bits and fragments of backstories, and then discards most of it for the Zidane/Garnet weddingness. Except unlike FFVIII, where I was invested in Quistis and Irvine and wanted more enough to create it myself, instead I sort of went, meh. What does Amarant do after the game? Whatever. Not my chair, not my problem. (What does Eiko do after the game? Read Go Not Gently.)
The game did have some awesome highlights in it that I love - namely Freya - and some great music, and I'm not saying it was a bad game or one that I didn't like. But out of the rest it is probably my least favorite.
I do mean to replay it sometime in the next year or two. I think it may have suffered from me just expecting more out of it, and I'm interested to go back and give it a replay and see whether or not my opinion of it changes.
( 30 Days of FF Meme )
Least favorite FF game, says the meme. Well, gosh.
I'm not going to include I, II, or III in this because I have never finished them; I played III-DS for a while and really tried to get hooked but the characters didn't do much (even though they were adorable) and the gameplay system just didn't do anything for me, really, like at all. I, II, and III are just such different classes of FF that in my head they're not really entirely part of the family.
So looking at the other FFs, the ones I've invested more time in, I am leaning towards saying FFIX, because I have mixed memories about it. None of the main characters reached out and grabbed me, which is significant because that's a big part of what I play for; the gameplay system was a little "meh" in my head (you already have classed characters who can only learn certain skills; why do I need this bizarre weapon-equipping-learning-count-your-gems-whatever kind of thing? Also, no really good way to meta about it unlike other games); the story was confusing, but somehow not in the same sort of endearing way that FFVIII (Sorceresses! time travel! all your Cs are Ks! suuuuure) or even FFIV was (yup, let's go to the moon in a big whale) - I'm not sure I got the Summoner/Eidolon/Extracting eidolons thing, let ALONE the Gaia/Terra/Kuja/Zidane/Genome/Tail thing, and I think part of it was that I just wasn't interested enough in it to get it.
And, more telling, it's one I don't often feel driven to write for. I'm not really sure why. I think part of it is... it does the same thing FFVIII does with its side characters, develop interesting side bits and fragments of backstories, and then discards most of it for the Zidane/Garnet weddingness. Except unlike FFVIII, where I was invested in Quistis and Irvine and wanted more enough to create it myself, instead I sort of went, meh. What does Amarant do after the game? Whatever. Not my chair, not my problem. (What does Eiko do after the game? Read Go Not Gently.)
The game did have some awesome highlights in it that I love - namely Freya - and some great music, and I'm not saying it was a bad game or one that I didn't like. But out of the rest it is probably my least favorite.
I do mean to replay it sometime in the next year or two. I think it may have suffered from me just expecting more out of it, and I'm interested to go back and give it a replay and see whether or not my opinion of it changes.
( 30 Days of FF Meme )
