Games/Films/TV Chat

[Daz_4th 7]

it'd be bizzare if not

[Liftea 12]

which means that SE has now Dragon Quest, Octopath Traveler, Bravely and Fantasian as turn-based franchises

[Daz_4th 7]

3 of those things Iook the exact same

[Liftea 12]

Fantasian is apparently SMT like hard btw

[Liftea 12]

which is why the rerelease gets a normal mode

[Daz_4th 7]

nvm I forgot dragon quest does stuff other than hire-this-man 2D

2 of those things are the same

[Daz_4th 7]

ssuuuurrrreeee

[Liftea 12]

honestly I firetrucking hope that Fantasian 2 is an action game

just out of spite towards the people that harassed Sakaguchi because he said that he likes FFXIV and FFXVI

[Otti#8624 26]

It wouldn't be Square's game, it still isn't

[Otti#8624 26]

Mistwalker owns it, Square is just the publisher

At least for this port, who knows for the future

From what I am seeing of people who played Fantasian, the writing is the weakest part by far

Everything else seems solid

[Liftea 12]

yes but that's expected. the FF games Sakaguchi worked on never had a really good story

[Otti#8624 26]

Ehhh

[Liftea 12]

including ff9

[Liftea 12]

and I say that as an FF9 stan

[Liftea 12]

the story is a mess and the entire game lives more from 90s charm than actual decent writing

[Otti#8624 26]

I don't know what he did with Spirits Within but I don't agree with stuff before that

[Liftea 12]

people love to bully Nojima but he contributed a lot to why 7 was so memorable

where's Nomura Madge

💀

[Otti#8624 26]

He was a character designer back then

[Otti#8624 26]

He had some inputs but not on writing

[Liftea 12]

wow Sakaguchi was producer and writer for fantasian

he didn't even direct it

same for FF9

so he stayed in the same position for fantasian

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroyuki_Ito what even happened to Ito

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroyuki_Ito what even happened to Ito

the last game he worked on was dungeon encounters in 2021

after 14 years

[Otti#8624 26]

Did that game even come out

I saw like two trailers of it and completely forgot about it

[Liftea 12]

yes

[Snakeskin94 13]

.....

Dog he literally worked on the first 10 games tf? 😭

Actually what's funny about that is, little by little over the years they've slowly revealed that Nomura back then influenced the story a lot more than folks knew

I'm surprised they never retroactively gave him a writers credit tbh

[Otti#8624 26]

I think that's because he never wrote it, he should have gotten a creative credit like he does now

[Snakeskin94 13]

Yeah yeah

Tbh they could have used him in the writers room for some of the other games.

glares at Genesis on the back of my copy of Crisis Core.

Might have helped.