Final Destinations Giveaway!

I love the Cosmo cannon one!

EDIT: I'll join in on locations. Lindblum, I've always loved Lindblum. I can always recall the emotion I felt seeing Atomos smurf it up during the battle scene.

I've seen these before, even. :} Awesome. Best of luck to anyone entering!

Prize draw eh? I never really win them. But I love writing about Midgar, so I'll use that.

What really drew me to Midgar was the sense of dystopia and pollution. When you first start, you see Aerith with a bunch of flowers, which then pans the camera out to the entirety of the city, which is constantly in darkness, and the bright green neon lights. Even when you venture outside of Midgar, the ground surrounding it is necrotic, brown, no life there. It just seems like the worst excesses of society is incorporated there: a lack of environmental concern, exploitation, lust, corporate greed. Hidden away in a small corner of Midgar however is a small miracle of hope; Aerith's church. The fact that no-one but Aerith really enters the church is tantamount to the lack of hope around Midgar.

Another symbolic gesture in Midgar is the Marxist influences in the city. You have the workers in the lower plate, or the proletariats, toiling away in sub-standard conditions. Then you have the upper plate, or the bourgeoisie. President Shinra is your stereotypical fat-cat. The entire city of Midgar is a symbolism for the negative effects of Capitalism. It might ignore any emotional plights or social concerns with it's residents. According to Midgar, greed is good.

But the destruction of Midgar is a very emotional scene. In the epilogue, Red and his children gaze upon where Midgar once stood, now assimilated into nature. The fall of this once huge city is complete, and while questions remain as to where humanity is, I like to think humanity has outgrown Midgar, and learned the lessons from it. It's a fitting end to a very famous city.

Gold Saucer was where my first date took place.

My partner seemed shy at first, but we went to see the play, cause I wanted to show that I was cultured, you know? None of that Midgar movie-plex pseudo-loveless B.S. storylines, I wanted something classic, to have my personality really shine ya know? I snuck in some X-potions, but no one noticed. Turned out the show didn't even have all their actors!? How typical. That's the economy for ya, people cutting corners everywhere. Why, if I had my way, the entire troup would've been f-i-r-e-3-ed.

Anyway, we went on the Gondola after and had a deep conversation about reality and shiz. Now, I'm usually fairly scared of Gondolas, and heights in general. I almost vomited, not sure whether it was due to the shaking or the cheesy crap my date was spouting. Anyway anyway, I asked him to show me his Buster Sword and he did and it was pretty big. Then I played with his materias, I really like materia.

Overall pretty nice place but weird-ass shady ghosts in the hotel and weird-ass shady guy near the gondola coming in makes me think twice about taking more dates there.

Peace out xoxo,

Yuff-ez

The Gold Saucer one is especially cool.

Just to join in: My favorite FF destination for a holiday would be Costa del Sol. I mean, if even Hojo can pick up chicks there, I should have a shot, right?

I'll second GB's nomination of Lindblum.

Midgar too, I wouldn't want to go there, but it's one of the most fully-realized and unique cities in all of FF.

Narshe, because I like snow and FFVI makes me nostalgia-squee.

Originally Posted by Goldenboko

I love the Cosmo cannon one!

EDIT: I'll join in on locations. Lindblum, I've always loved Lindblum. I can always recall the emotion I felt seeing Atomos smurf it up during the battle scene.

I agree that the Cosmo Canyon one is the purdiest. I also like the Midgar one.

Favorite destination would probably be Al'taieu from FFXI. So purdy and paradoxical. And the work (it used to take) to get there made it mean so much more when you finally got there.

No love for Balamb Garden?

Originally Posted by Futan

Originally Posted by Goldenboko

I love the Cosmo cannon one!

EDIT: I'll join in on locations. Lindblum, I've always loved Lindblum. I can always recall the emotion I felt seeing Atomos smurf it up during the battle scene.

I agree that the Cosmo Canyon one is the purdiest. I also like the Midgar one.

Favorite destination would probably be Al'taieu from FFXI. So purdy and paradoxical. And the work (it used to take) to get there made it mean so much more when you finally got there.

How could I forget FFXI!? Al'taieu certainly. Also Windurst.

Originally Posted by Lockharted

No love for Balamb Garden?

I loved the concept of the Gardens(I guess that's more of a comment on the setting than the area itself) but I think the whole they fly/float/whatever trout ruined them for me. :x

In all seriousness, although X is not my favourite game, I did love Macalania woods and The Farplane.

I also love Edea's House because of it's mystery and creepiness.

I always loved FF8's locations.

Balamb in particular seemed like a nice place to live. I want to be the guy sitting on the bench, listening to the guitar music and watching the draw point. I also love fish (but not badamb fish).

Balamb garden was also very pretty. I think I would be a better student in that kind of location.

I think most of the towns in FF8 have a relaxing feel to them. Winhill, Dollet and the Shumi village would all be amazing places to retire to.

I wouldn't mind visiting Deling City. It has that big city feeling to it that kinda attracts me, as it kind of reminds me of London in a way.

My personal favorite destination is the Golden Saucer where Cloud and Aerith involved in a play and Aerith became the main heroine of the show. I got good laughs from it! Another memorable moment was the both of them taking a ride and see the fireworks from the ride. It was very touching, made me believe that Cloud and Aerith a great canon couple.

I've always loved Balamb Garden. I started playing FFVIII when I was still in high school, so I fantasized about going to a school like that instead of my crappy real one. I would have felt much more independent, more athletic (with all training/grinding and all), and more useful. I'd go into SeeD after that and have an instant job... providing I pass the exam, of course. ;o

If these were priced in $$ not just pounds I'd just buy them. But I guess that site is too cool for americans to buy from

There's a dropdown on the right, Bert. Kind of tempted to buy a few shirts. XD

I would have to say Alexandria is my favorite area of any of the FFs. I played FFIX way before I really understood or was interested in the FF series and I was awestruck not only at how beautiful Alexandria was, but the game itself as well. I had a lot of fun exploring the city as all the different characters and I really enjoyed experiencing the different parts of the city as they did.

Winhill is one of my favorite places just because of how relaxing it is. I also particularly liked the nice little story we got about Laguna, Ellone, and Raine there. I would love to go to Winhill for a nice quiet vacation where I can just relax and write. Everyone (except the shop owner) all seemed like nice people to get to know as well.

I would also love to visit Cleyra. I feel like it would be fun to do some photography around there.

Can I also add to the apparent FFVIII love with:

Fisherman's Horizon.