Oh all of you hush.

We will all purchase this game and love it, only to talk about how much we actually hated it a year down the road.

I will hate it when it comes out just to spite you.

Actually, my understanding is that the fal'Cie are a different race than humans, because it seems that Cocoon was made by a fal'Cie FOR humans. You also get the idea they have some sort of magic, given that they're considered somehow superior and have the ability to turn humans in l'Cie, which is both a blessing and a curse in that they gain magic and the ability to summon an Eidolon and that if they die before accomplishing their Focus (aka the task for which they were turned int l'Cie), they turn into horrible undead monsters, respectively. The party members are all human before that change occurs.

Also, there are fal'Cie outside of Cocoon, which may or may not be the ones who turn the party into l'Cie. Either that, or the party is transformed inside Cocoon to try to stop the human ruling party from messing stuff up. Things really aren't very clear in that regard at this point.

Also, is glasses chick giving anyone else a heavy Nooj vibe? She really strikes me as being like Nooj from FFX-2 for some reason, and I don't know if it's body language, personality, or bearing.


Edit: Also, fuck their atrocious grammar! Seriously, I think whoever started naming stuff just wanted to make life miserable for people debating the game on the Internet with their lower-case-apostrophe-capitalized naming conventions. Or maybe they wanted people to have to slow down as they typed in hopes it would make them think more about what they were typing, but seriously, that is the worst, most awkward use of phonetic apostrophes I've ever dealt with and I hope they're happy with themselves! :mad:

Glasses chick? You mean Jihl? To me she seems like a mix between Vayne Solidor from FFXII and Quistis from FFVIII.

So they are kinda like the Occuria.

Yeah, there is a fair bit of that, too. I mean, they're all pretty good characters all things considered, but now that you mention it, her personality is much more like Vayne's than Nooj's, with a dash of Quistis' rationality thrown in, so I'm thinking it's probably body language somehow.

I'm really not familiar, but if that helps, probably, yeah.

Basic summary of the Occuria: "Want some magic rocks? All you have to do is serve our undying will so that we might constantly have power over the course that mankind follows."

I actually meant appearance since she has almost exactly the same hair as Vayne, with the exception of the color, but yeah that works too.

Awesome detail: they speak in iambic meter.
 

"No? You sure? We're talking city-nuking magic, here. All you gotta do is annihilate that empire that you've got a grudge against anyway."

Honestly, as much as I bitched about them recycling designs, I think my interest in the game would skyrocket if the FFXII version of Cid was in the game for no damn reason other than he's just awesome like that.

You know what I heard? Zombie Serah! Character development ahoy!

Holy shit, you're probably right. I don't know if that's a good thing or not.