Fandom: Final Fantasy II Media: Video Games Genre: Turn-based JRPG
Premise/summary: Four young people - Firion, Maria, Guy, and Leon - flee their destroyed home. On the way, they are nearly killed by the forces of the evil Emperor. Being granted a chance to live, three of them pledge themselves to the Rebel alliance formed to defeat the Emperor and his forces - and perhaps to find out what happened to their fourth member. Along the way, they become stronger, gain allies, and otherwise try to save the world.
Trigger/content warnings: Because this is such an old game, people forget that it's extremely dark. Several villages are destroyed in the course of the game, and the entirety of humanity in the world is threatened with extinction. In addition, there is an island full of people who speak in a "you no take candle" style of dialogue that is cringe-inducing.
Review/promo: Final Fantasy II is unfairly disliked, I think, due to the old "bash each other with swords to get stronger" thing that wasn't true except in very early releases of the game. It was the game that introduced me to the Final Fantasy series, so that makes me a bit biased, but I genuinely love this game and have it on... well... pretty much everything it runs on that I own. I've played it dozens of times and have yet to grow tired of it.
One of the reasons I love it so much is that you are not restricted by character classes. You can make the party any way you like - I almost always make Guy my primary healer, for example, because he's so tanky that he's sometimes the only character who's alive to administer healing/resurrection spells. Anybody can take up any weapon, any spell, be anything they want to be - so much like real life where you are not a 1st level Barista/15th level Computer Programmer! If I need to readjust a character to make them more of a fighter or a ranger or a healer, I can.
Re the Pixel Remasters, which are the current version of the game: I like and dislike them - I really like Firion not looking like someone took a knife to his neck in his sprite, I love auto-battle, I like the sprite redos in general, and I love the music. I don't like the loss of the Dawn of Souls material, however.
Edited (oh yeah, I should specify about the Pixel Remasters) Date: 2023-10-19 06:06 pm (UTC)
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Mini promo/review for Final Fantasy II
Date: 2023-10-12 02:47 am (UTC)Media: Video Games
Genre: Turn-based JRPG
Premise/summary: Four young people - Firion, Maria, Guy, and Leon - flee their destroyed home. On the way, they are nearly killed by the forces of the evil Emperor. Being granted a chance to live, three of them pledge themselves to the Rebel alliance formed to defeat the Emperor and his forces - and perhaps to find out what happened to their fourth member. Along the way, they become stronger, gain allies, and otherwise try to save the world.
Trigger/content warnings: Because this is such an old game, people forget that it's extremely dark. Several villages are destroyed in the course of the game, and the entirety of humanity in the world is threatened with extinction. In addition, there is an island full of people who speak in a "you no take candle" style of dialogue that is cringe-inducing.
Review/promo: Final Fantasy II is unfairly disliked, I think, due to the old "bash each other with swords to get stronger" thing that wasn't true except in very early releases of the game. It was the game that introduced me to the Final Fantasy series, so that makes me a bit biased, but I genuinely love this game and have it on... well... pretty much everything it runs on that I own. I've played it dozens of times and have yet to grow tired of it.
One of the reasons I love it so much is that you are not restricted by character classes. You can make the party any way you like - I almost always make Guy my primary healer, for example, because he's so tanky that he's sometimes the only character who's alive to administer healing/resurrection spells. Anybody can take up any weapon, any spell, be anything they want to be - so much like real life where you are not a 1st level Barista/15th level Computer Programmer! If I need to readjust a character to make them more of a fighter or a ranger or a healer, I can.
Re the Pixel Remasters, which are the current version of the game: I like and dislike them - I really like Firion not looking like someone took a knife to his neck in his sprite, I love auto-battle, I like the sprite redos in general, and I love the music. I don't like the loss of the Dawn of Souls material, however.