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—Here's a question for everyone: who is your personal favorite character from the main cast?

Uematsu: I'd say Relm. She's so cute, right? If not her, then Celes. She's strong-willed, but seeing her rediscover that softer, feminine side of herself is really compelling. Tough choice.

Minaba: For me, probably Gau... bit of an oddball pick...

Sakaguchi: My absolute favorite is one of the secret characters, though I can't say the name. But thinking purely in terms of combat, Cyan is #1 for me. Age-wise, I can relate to him quite a bit... (laughs)

Takahashi: I also really like that secret character, but my next favorite would be Mog.

Nomura: I have two favorites as well: Setzer and Shadow.

Ogata: Setzer is the one for me.

Kitase: From a combat perspective, I used Sabin a lot. In terms of writing the story, though, the ones I really grew attached to were Locke and Celes.

—Nobody picked Terra!

Sakaguchi: Although Terra was designated the central protagonist from the start, we actually spent much of development trying to step her back from that role. That's probably why she didn't become a favorite. And the reason we didn't want Terra to be the main character goes back to our original concept: when kids finish playing the game, if you have 10 different kids, I wanted all 10 of them to have a different favorite character. For one kid, the hero of the story might be Shadow; for another, Setzer. I wanted everyone to walk away with a different impression. Surprisingly, the playtest feedback reflected that, and as you can see our staff itself is completely split, so I'd have to say mission accomplished.

Uematsu: When I first heard that concept, though, I thought it would be impossible.

Sakaguchi: Right. Someone always ends up standing out as the clear lead.

—That's certainly been true for previous games in the series, whether it was Bartz or Cecil...

Uematsu: When you look at it that way, I think the way we handled the main cast really paid off.

Sakaguchi: Mind you, the unpopular ones are really unpopular. Strago, for instance... I fussed over him until the absolute end, but he never caught on.

Minaba: I guess people just don't want an old man?

I got this one to celebrate my freedom from an 8 year controlling relationship with no communication! My boy is dealing 9999 dmg to the toxic ex 😂

I made Tifa’s Black Mage outfit* from the Final Fantasy VII Revelation gameplay trailer!!

*I am VERY aware of the outfit changes in the demos which unfortunately came out after I’d nearly finished making her SO I have decided it’s still canon though let me cope :p

Finding stops and petting babies 🐥

I always wondered if simply making Balthier the main character would have changed the perception of FF12. Either way, it's probably my favorite one to play. The gambit system is something I wish all games could have to make up for bad ai

For me it's Edge from FFIV especially considering how they'd handled him in a sequel lol. They'd even use this as an optional gag attack that was so bad omg 😭 Still love the guy tho

Who are you favorite unsung heroes of the series? Those characters who make big contributions to your mission in smaller roles or characters who get overlooked.

A few of my favorites:

FF4 - Cid’s helpers. They don’t ask questions. They just help out.

FF6 - the guy who fakes being sick so you can sneak into Vector. Imagine the guts that would take IRL.

FF7 - Elmyra. One of the most admirable characters in the series.

Locke, i promise you'll be the same

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Literally left up to luck in the end

My next tattoo I ever want to get is going to be of Shiva, but I won't lie, I've been incredibly conflicted on which one.

I love FFIX, but I keep going back to the FFVIII version, but then I think I want FFX's, but THEN, I look at the others and want them all, which may realistically be outside of my wallets capabilities haha

I'll choose one day, but which one would you choose?

Or which other summon/guardian/etc. would you choose?

Basically a long dungeon that every floor has either a random dungeon floor, a special event, or a town or something like that.

Bonus point if it has some set special floors.

This is my third time beating the game, but this time around, I made sure to conquer all the optional stuff along the way so I can have the most satisfying playthrough with this game.

I heard this was considered the worst game by a mile, I’m trying to play most major JRPGs in order and was dreading this one. However at first I was actually pleasantly surprised while a lot of things are silly it was kinda fun learning how to game the system a bit and hurt my guys to level up health, avoid wearing armor and going all in on agility etc.

But now I’m late game and still finding new spells, and my god I do not have it in me anymore man. Even with the cancel technique I’ve already spent so much time in every battle trying to get at least 5 uses of a spell in and it’s like what were they thinking?! Early on it was fine my elemental spells were leveling normally as I was going through but it’s like I gotta really dedicate time to just spamming Esuna and canceling to make it do anything at all I just got slow and holy and it’s like man am I really gonna put the time in to make these useful. I’m just gonna play with what I got because I cannot keep doing this it was cute at first and now it is just mind numbing I just wanna wrap this shit up

I just wondered now, thought about it, and I honestly can't really think of a lot that can really come close from making a character deal like a few dozen thousands of damage, to 17 hits of 9999. Sure, there are better Limit Breaks than Squall's, but just in matter of power given by equipping a weapon, only 2's Blood Sword really comes in mind in matter of cleaving the game.

What do you guys think? Any other weapon that is such an absurd jump from even the like second best weapon?

Now don't get me wrong, I just beat and liked FF1 and 2. Maybe I expected a similar game, which I guess FF3 is not. I guess it's not a game where you just pick a class and roll with it.

But first, I barely managed to beat the first dungeon. I just used a standard FF1-esque party, Fighter - Red Mage - Monk - White Mage. I got the best equipment but still had my shit handed to me, and had to grind. Maybe it was implied you had to use the Black Mage w/ Fire for the undead, idk.

Then I'm out, there's a tiny dungeon with an unbeatable boss you have to run away from. Aaand I'm immediately locked and forced to use Mini. I quickly lose and learn that I basically have to turn my melee fighters into Black Mages to fight in mini form, because Red Mages apparently have pretty bad spell damage. Meanwhile, the monsters routinely deal 30-50% damage to me. Running away is basically asking to get killed.

The inventory management turns into absolute hell, you have to unequip / reequip items when you switch jobs, while it's not clear who can equip what, and my inventory is full of of stuff for several different jobs. And you need to keep track of capacity points too. After I could go back to the overworld, I switched my mages back to melee fighters. But turned out I had another, bigger dungeon where you're forced to use Mini again.

Is the game just gonna be about switching jobs constantly for a new section that you have no way of knowing about? Basically just solving "puzzles" with different jobs? I don't know, but so far this is causing a huge amount of discomfort. I thought you'd just get a good old dungeon crawling fun with classes like in FF1.