I always liken her to a Roman soldier in design. I mean, think about it:
- she rides a horse in Gestalt Mode
- red cape
- shin armor
- leg pouch straps reminiscent of long-strapped sandals

It's not exact or anything, but it's enough to give a hint.

I dunno, sometimes I look at stuff like Tidus' half-pants or whatever and wonder if he never finished drawing them.

Yes but they all seem strangely lifeless. I looked at Terra/Cecil/Cloud/Vincent/Sqaull/Vivi/Tidus/Auron etc and thought 'oh that looks cool/interesting' FFXIII? Meh.

It's still all belts and zippers.

Right now, the characters almost seem like "homages" to previous characters.
Lightning? That's Cloud. Maybe a liiiiittle bit of Squall there too.
Vanille? (Also, stupid way of pronouncing that word! Ugh!) That's Rikku, it seems.
Snow? He reminds me of Zell a bit.
I could go on, but I won't.

Also, I like the character designs. They're pretty cool, and I had to do a retake when I saw Nomura drew it. It seems so unlike him, but maybe that's me.

This.


The more I saw of this game, the more I saw of the characters, the more generic it looked, and the less interested I got. That and the fact the story sounded pretty meh to me. And the fact that there was no Ifrit in this one and Shiva turned into a lesbian motorbike. Throw in the 10 hour or whatever tutorial and suddenly the game I was massively psyched about for 2 years becomes very boring and crappy sounding.

If one of my friends gets this I might borrow it, but otherwise, not running out to buy this in any kind of hurry. I'm starting to think that maybe FF was just never my sort of game; I heard of FF7, 8 and 9 back when I was younger but never knew what they were or were about, so I never bought them. I played the FFX demo and immediately fell in love. I bought FF12 expecting the same thing only for it to be utter crap that I hated.

Yeah, Final Fantasy is seriously overated. Doubt I'll be bothered about any future games.

So, it occurs to me that Lightning's personality is much like a very bitchy Solid Snake. I think I'm just going to imagine all her lines in that Hayter growl and let the laughs roll from here on out. Maybe at some point Hope will ask her if she thinks love can blossom on the battlefield.

Lightning: "Final Fantasy... has changed.."

Incestual lesbian motorbike.

Chapter 11 seems to be a massive wink at FFXI.

At first I was just thinking coincidence, but then I realized Alexander looks like a fucking Galka.

Whoa wait a second what? She's got solid snake's personality but she's a bitch? Like if a dude acts that way he's badass solid snake and if a woman does it it makes her a bitchy something-something? Or are you saying that she is like solid snake except she complains more?

I don't want too make a big deal out of this but that first one? Sounds kinda messed up.