auughhh i love!!!! everyone,!! all people you meet throughout the game and how it's all relevant all the way to the end and you can talk to everyone and see where they ended up it feels really well put together and fleshed out
but thinking about it... I guess it's ok. spent some time considering the things that happened in the ending side quests, and my interpretation is that Clive made it back. pretty bummed about Joshua though ๐
the final fight was SO colorful and psychedelic and difficult to look at though, jfc I can't focus on all the bright colored blobs against all the other bright colored blobs. looked cool tho, I guess (my wife actually played it, thankfully, I would've probably immediately died eighteen times when I lost track of Clive in space)
I don't care about those kids I don't care about their puppy let me see the people I actually saw throughout the game rebuilding and not only being sad (you don't even have to show me Clive, it's fine!!)
I think what I'm most annoyed about is how I can see the ending being so good with a few minor tweaks but it left me feeling just kinda...... ok. i guess. I'll imagine all the other stuff i guess
I personally didnโt mind the after credits scene too much just because it showed that they achieved the world they fought for... and that so far in the distance magic was so forgotten their names were just like legends I do agree that I wanted to see more of the people we spent the game with... I guess Iโm in both sides hahah
To me personally as a writer I find it strange to tell a story so exactly and then be so vague about things in the end as if itโs more meaningful to do it... like I would assume most people emotionally invest in the main characters for a reason
i liked the ending and the fact that it's open ended but i know that bothered a lot of people, although i think ppl tend to feel better about it after sitting on it a few days
i can go he did/didnt survive the ending, but someone had to have done so to write the story - and I believe that if Clive had, he would have written it under his beloved brother's name so he'd never be forgotten
Jill was so mishandled but what else is new I guess. better than Lunafreya?? lol
the things I'm mad about with Dion is less that he died (I actually agree it's fitting for him and he wanted to die, it seemed like a kinder ending for him to let him go out helping saving the world)
but all the missed opportunities to give us more of him
his goodbye with Terence sucked, sorry, I'm so mad we never saw the dragoons again like just ONE scene showing Terence out in the world rebuilding, carrying on Dion's wishes
so my interpretation is he comes back, takes up the quill (good thing he's right handed?? lol) and writes in Joshua's name the same way he's taken Cid's name before
I do think he would've given the title to Gav regardless or even if he didn't accept the name, Gav is the Leader (with Otto who I'm also sad we didn't goodbye hug)
i know i'm always so annoyed about how much jill is sidelined in the last 3rd of the game... i feel like just having her along and doing some party banter would have been really nice if nothing else
but I agree, even tho obviously I love the phoenix/bahamut/ifrit dynamic and I love dion being there, like... it made no sense he was there and jill wasn't I'm sorry lmao
I think it would make me less mad if she just was treated that way like... whatever, fine, but as much as I love dion he goes through the exact same things as her (being critically injured, losing part of his eikon) but can mysteriously do these things she can't
like I guess you could argue dion would've died bc he turned into bahamut anyway and it's so hard to prime after clive sucks their power out but the game never really explicitly says that
and obviously I'm specifically invested but it shocked me you didn't even see an end credits thing of like... terence and the medicine girl? like you never even know if he finds her or if he died
bro arm bands..... lame. Elwin was just a silly guy and he wanted to make something but arm band is all he could sew
he was stressed there was a lot going on, he forgot the word for bracelet
I think we're good to go whenever tho
I WANNA FINISH IT!!!!
46?? strong enough probably...
(idk how long endgame is or if this is realistic but I Want To)
haven't LMAO
but thinking about it... I guess it's ok. spent some time considering the things that happened in the ending side quests, and my interpretation is that Clive made it back. pretty bummed about Joshua though ๐
I will keep
Thinking About It
I just really wish they showed us the characters we actually spent time with in the post credits scene instead of future randos
played this game so fast
also feel like Dion was done dirty too lol
I'm sad we never got to see Terence again wtf
to me it feels like a big ol cop out to leave SO MANY THINGS open ended for your MAIN CHARACTERS WE PLAYED THE WHOLE TIME
the things I'm mad about with Dion is less that he died (I actually agree it's fitting for him and he wanted to die, it seemed like a kinder ending for him to let him go out helping saving the world)
but all the missed opportunities to give us more of him
his goodbye with Terence sucked, sorry, I'm so mad we never saw the dragoons again like just ONE scene showing Terence out in the world rebuilding, carrying on Dion's wishes
from a narrative perspective I understand the future stuff and I'm ok with it!! I don't think it's BAD it's just not enough to feel satisfying
just make him a Clive statue IT'S FINE smh
"ah... I tried. this power isn't what ultima said it was/my body can't actually handle it." and then he makes the decision to nuke it all
I do think he would've given the title to Gav regardless or even if he didn't accept the name, Gav is the Leader (with Otto who I'm also sad we didn't goodbye hug)
and they let her suffer more, fuck off
AND THEY DIDN'T EVEN LET HER GO WITH HIM
fuck it, i am a Dominant too, this is also my fight, I have some fucking agency
and she got to turn into Shiva one last time and fly up there
but she could have helped destroy Origin! they could've both washed up on the beach, their mission complete, and turned to stone in each other's arms
cut to the hideaway, the baby and gav and maybe a few others actually being shown after the dawn
Jill gets her wish to be together. she's already said she's pretty much done with the world they're in. let her actually have some say in her fate!!!
I'm only so mad because the WHOLE REST of the game was really good and I'm sad the ending left me feeling disappointed
I'm begging square enix to hire writers and producers who can handle a female love interest like she's an actual character
better treatment later lol