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[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 81 points 2 months ago

“Oh yeah? Name one character from every game.”

“Cid.”

[-] SavvyBeardedFish@reddthat.com 22 points 2 months ago
[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago

One, not two! SMH my head

[-] ceiphas@feddit.org 9 points 2 months ago

Came here to say the same

[-] aMockTie@piefed.world 5 points 2 months ago

I keep coming back to this comment for how clever it is in this context.

  1. "Name one X" perfectly reflects the original source, specifically "name one law" from this episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine (specifically S04E04)

  2. "Name one character from every game" could be interpreted as both "name an individual character from each game," as well as "name a character with the same name in every game."

Granted, Cid was retconned into FF1 with the GBA remake, but that change has been consistent going forward.

[-] aMockTie@piefed.world 4 points 2 months ago

By far the best. I've laughed so much at this.

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

The bad guy is going to destroy the world!

[-] Auster@thebrainbin.org 26 points 2 months ago

We have to kill god!

[-] Zozano@aussie.zone 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Name 7 plot points? I've got this:

  • this religion is a cult! Let's kill God!
  • "fuck you dad!"
  • main cast commit terrorism
  • manmade horrors beyond comprehension
  • the villain was kinda right?
  • beware men with unnatural hair colours
  • memory loss
[-] aMockTie@piefed.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

How about:

  • Magic/Magitech doesn't kill people, people kill people. (VI)
  • Killing an illegal alien and her "child" makes you a hero. (VII)
  • Burn the Witches. (VIII)
  • Never trust a polycule with an overweight woman, a twink, a group in robes, and a geezer. (IX)
  • One of these teens will die by the end and they know it, but they will hide this fact from their lover for some reason. (X)
  • You've been marked by a demon. Do what they say and die, or don't and become a monster. (XIII)
  • Celebrity deathmatch: who will be the ultimate (E)icon? (XVI)

Note: Only intended to be a silly joke. None of the above reflects my opinion on anything in the real world, to be fully and unambiguously clear.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[-] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Amnesia is an extremely common trope in Japanese fiction: anime, manga, and games. At this point I’d say it’s reaching cliche status.

They also almost always get the symptoms of amnesia wrong: the characters forget who they are. In real life amnesia cases that basically never happens. People can forget a lot of other things but they never forget who they are.

[-] Auster@thebrainbin.org 14 points 2 months ago

Time travel isn't that common though? The series is pretty overarching but I can only remember a handful few.

[-] Snowclone@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Some just have the implication of time travel, or summons that feel like time travel. Or hidden bosses that feel like time travel.

[-] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 13 points 2 months ago

Chocobos love gysahl greens.

[-] Zozano@aussie.zone 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Jokes on you, literally every game has time travel.

If you consider that we are all traveling through time, at the speed of regular time.

#timetravelfacebag

[-] aMockTie@piefed.world 7 points 2 months ago

I used to travel at 1 second per second. I still do, but I used to too.

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[-] tio_bira@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Final Fantasy 1 - Yeah but barely

Final Fantasy 2 - Dunno, i hate that game

Final Fantasy 3 - You acctually unfrozen a world frozed in time/space, does count ?

Final Fantasy 4 - Moon Aliens

Final Fantasy 5 - Acctually you reunited two halves of a world rifted apart for everyone safety

Final Fantasy 6 - Funny Clown Man became God

Final Fantasy 7 - Ecoterrorists and mommy issues

Final Fantasy 8 - Now that's acctually have propely time travel.

Final Fantasy 9 - I don't care, i just love Zidane little shenanigans

Final Fantasy 10 - People die and Yuna keep dancing

Final Fantasy 11 - Not very fondly on MMOs

Final Fantasy 12 - Is the Middle East all over again but with magic nuclear bombs and some of the hardest summon bosses.

Final Fantasy 13 - Basically where i gave up the main series

[-] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

FF4 kind of has time travel. Land of Summons has different timescale which is how Rydia age progresses. But... is that time travel? Time relativity and age progression?

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[-] ATS1312@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago

Another acceptable response: Flashbacks.

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

So many better examples in the comments; hell even Dragon Quest has more time travel in it than FF, lol.

Edit: people keeping score: 1, 8, 11, 13-2 and 14 have some form of time travel. 10 is debatable, as it's complicated (and not time travel but spoilers to explain) but understandable if you think Tidus got zooped into the future. Oh and 15 has a time skip stasis, but I'm not counting that.

Only 8 and 13-2 have it as central theme, and 10s fake time travel. In 1 it's a small thing regarding the big bad but pretty neat, 11 it's an expansion, 14 is a location.

[-] wavebeam@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

7r has a kind of time travel, right? Or I guess that’s more an alternative dimension…

[-] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months ago

I know only 8 and 10 does time travel. Is there any other?

[-] Auster@thebrainbin.org 12 points 2 months ago

10 doesn't, unless the sequels retconned it too.

1 and XIII-2 do. Dissidia 012 likely too as a few characters in their original games exist in different points of history. Bravely Second and Kingdom Hearts too if you consider them part of the franchise. Can't remember any others.

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

If FFXIV counts, it has it too.

[-] popcar2@piefed.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Final Fantasy 7 Remake also has time travel, technically.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It has alternate worlds, not time travel

In fact, that's mostly all of them. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13... All about worlds/realities colliding

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[-] aMockTie@piefed.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

10 doesn't, unless the sequels retconned it too.

I don't consider the video spheres from the past in X-2 to be time travel any more than watching old movies or home videos is time travel.

Even the ending where

SpoilerTidus returns isn't time travel since he clearly still has his memories.

I also don't personally consider Dissidia, Bravely, or Kingdom Hearts to be Final Fantasy cannon. So that leaves I, VIII, XIII-2, and XIV that are unambiguously cannon and include time travel as a plot point, unless I'm missing something.

[-] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

Stranger in Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin would count, but that's just a wacky reinvention of FF1.

[-] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

Didn't Tidus time travel to the future or something at the beginning after Sin attacked?

[-] Auster@thebrainbin.org 2 points 2 months ago

No.

Explanation (spoilers)He's an Aeon, like the ones Yuna summons, just made in the image of someone who lived 1000 years before, and Tidus being unaware of the fact. But the in-game theory of time travel comes from Tidus' Zanarkand being a bustling city while Spira's hasn't been so for a millennia, and is further fed by Wakka, who, listening to the theory, gets the stage of denial from grief triggered, thinking his brother, who was felled by Sin, must be some_when_ else instead.

[-] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

Huh. So Auron is also an Aeon? I haven't proper finish it so i can't remember this.

[-] aMockTie@piefed.world 3 points 2 months ago

No, but Jecht was.

Auron came from Spira, was killed by Yunalesca after Braska summoned his final Aeon (he became disillusioned with the religion after losing both of his friends at its hands, and attacked her), and was never sent to the farplane by a summoner.

He then traveled to dream Zanarkand to watch over Tidus as he had promised Jecht.

[-] Auster@thebrainbin.org 2 points 2 months ago

About Auron and Aeons (spoilers)Aeons are weaponized ghosts, in short. Auron, after dying, became a ghost, not an Aeon (that'd require someone capable of tinkering with ghosts and someone to summon the manipulated ghost) and found his way to the illusion (Dream) Zanarkand to honor a request from Tidus' father. And the Dream Zanarkand is part of the summoning that keeps both Tidus and Sin alive.

[-] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

Okay i need to replay that game, i have no idea what you're talking about hahaha

[-] AmbientChaos@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Spoilers ahead! Kinda complicated but short answer no, he existed in a dream Zanarkand that is a replica of a city that actually existed 1000 years ago, but he didn't. I'm fuzzy on the details but you could Google it for more info

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Hair. Big sword.

[-] Chronographs@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago

That’s the plot point of seven games in the series, not seven plot points in the series.

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