I don't know why nobody like Paizo or Wizards doesn't hire that guy to design for some edition of their RPG game. Like in my opinion that ruined the Final Fantasy Tactics setting which seemed before to be a fantasy medieval europe and became a generic JRPG setting.Ħ was the last game to use the classic Final Fantasy artist and here in 4 he was in great form with character and monster design. Now any of the similar RPGs out of Square have to introduce weird animal peoples and in-house designed races instead of being like a classic fantasy setting.
The franchise has been dead to me for years because of that. Starting with 6 the games starter to get too sci-fi and J-fantasy and with 7 the games started to get ridiculous with that shit. It is very much Final Fantasy in a classic RPG setting. The soundtrack is very 1980s "Neverending Story" and movies like that inspired. It was pure good western fantasy like Dragonlance and it is not overly cartoony like FF9 was. The things not good about it is just an unfortunate thing about the time. I enjoy the basic outline, music, atmosphere of the game. This is my favorite of the old final fantasies that I originally played. The next jrpg I remember getting so memey on the early internet in rpg circles was FF7. That whole thing was like the whole meme of having 4 elf rangers in your DND game who dual wield scimitars or x圆9SePhIrOtH69xx forum and AIM usernames. In aol chat RPGs at like age 12 I was one of these Kain idiots until I learned better. I was on AOL at the time and it was definitely internet meme territory in RPG forums/chats. I am old and I remember that in real time and what's funny is it wasn't a pre-internet meme. Kain stuff was a pre-internet meme for a reason. So far all these isometric style indie RPGs haven't, it's mostly stuff trying to cater to a huge audience. What's annoying is modern western games are starting to move in that FF9 type direction. I remember even the Xenosaga franchise had that and I rolled my eyes so hard at that reveal. Every JRPG at the time had the 'specially born pc' and 'final villain is related to you' shit with overdone dumb metaphysical plot.
I liked 9 until I realized how overdone the plot of it was. Witcher tried much harder at making an immersive world where FF9 in particular is very much a cartoon game. Like The Witcher and FF4/9s setting are similar in a lot of ways. If they have a more pure fantasy setting they always have to make things silly and ridiculous. This is one of the things I didn't like about 9 or modern JRPGs. And IX balances it much better with whimsy and character development and all that.
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