This just reminded me of the huge amount of FF9 artwork. Incredible.
This just reminded me of the huge amount of FF9 artwork. Incredible.
I remember the art book they published and had in game stores when it came out. it was beautiful with so many pages, makes me wish we could have the ultimanias here.Originally Posted by ReloadPsi
I gotta agree with Elpizo that this seemed very rushed in that they really didn't say anything about these two games. Also they had too many of the internet cliches that are just plain wrong - like saying the "younger generation just didn't get it" about IX. Everyone I know who started with VII almost entirely hated VIII and loved IX. It wasn't until I came to EoFF that I saw people suggest that the fans of VII/VIII hate IX. Gametrailers loses points for that, among the other problems in this one.
so far this has been good but not great. It's a nice little recap that does little more than the bonus features on the XII collector's edition DVD.
They didn't really contrast the two games enough as advertised in my opinion. They mention that it was a departure and attempt to return to the original roots, but left in the blanks for people to fil, a small problem as most people don't really know off the tops of their heads. They'll simply stick it in a category and move on. Didn't have as much detail as previous episodes.
Otherwise, I was up to par with the rest of the episodes. I particularly enjoyed how they said that PlayOnline was created for FFX, but rushed back to be part of FFIX. However, my largest concern about FFIX's strategy guide wasn't the features; it was the information found inside, which was mostly inaccurate or misleading.
I'm going to cringe once FFX's portion crosses over in the FFX-2. Sparse and unmentioned, please.
For those wondering about the absence of movies note that the series is apparently in thirteen parts. Considering we're more than half-way through the "numbered" series I imagine the following episodes will be FF10/FF10-2, FF11, FF12, FF13, spin-offs, movies and then probably something like a summary.
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Part seven seems late.
they've been coming out a little later each time.
Yeah. Here it is! Part 7.
This is a kick-ass series. It literally made me wanna play every single game in the entire Final Fantasy series.
The unbearable voice acting, especially the laughing scene - Tidus and Yuna, lol.
EOFF needs a resurgence to it's former glory.
this whole series is good, but the guy is definately reading from a script as he mispronounces so many names it's not funny, even though the correct pronunciations are available on official Square media, i cringed every time he mispronounced Tidus in this last one. the other episodes werent so bad cuz they wer mostly support characters and didn't get mentioned as much as the leads, but Tidus being a lead got his name slaughtered... and the laughing scene i could have done without, i wish they had not reminded me of that... maybe they shouldda got someone that knew some simple Japanese pronunciation rules to read the scripts... otherwise the scripts were well written and dosen't mess up too much...
if Tidus was pronounced Tydus woudn't Riku be pronounced Ryku... c'mon common sense...
Rikku was "Ryukku" in the Japanese version. Their decision to romanise it as "Rikku" proves it's meant to be pronounced "Ree-koo".
Tidus was "Tee-da" in Japanese. His romanisation seems kinda random.
yeah that's what i meant, guess i shouldn't have used 'y' but 'ee' instead to make it easier to understand since 'y' has so many ways of being said now that i think about it, yeah i always said them like i=y pronounced like the 'ea' in "tea", i said 'y' thinking like the 'y' at the end of "crappy", like the guy reading the script is doing a crappy job with pronunciation, lol...
I always called him Tye-dus until I heard that it's actually the other way. Actually, I still refer to him as Tye-dus even though it's obviously wrong.
This was really good and reminded me how much of a great game X was. I remember getting it the day after christmas when i got my ps2 with my gift money. It really took the series even further and I was surprised to find out just how many people hate it when I came to EoFF. But those're the different biased groups that dominate internet forums, everyone I know in real life who played it loved this game.
Although I am starting to lose faith in this retrospect series and I'm starting to really hate the guy narrating it. While providing some good insight and facts I didn't know, they follow the cliche statements that have been associated with these games.
When they said FFVII and VIII introduced Steam-Punk into the series I wanted to rip his throat out. Also, with their comments about cultural influences for early games. Play the wind Shrine in FFI, play the Towers of Zot and Babel in FFIV, play the Fire Ship and flying fortress in V, play FFVI at all, i mean damn.
oh i feel ya on that steam-punk referance, i so wanted to slap the script writer for that, though VII did include something simmilar to steam-tech, it was not, and VIII had no steam-tech in it anywhere that i remember, i remember VIII being all electricity, very modernish, right down to an internet comunication system... unfortunatealy though since this isn't written by fans or even real gamers for that matter (either that or they don't have access to a fact checker) we can expect to see many more innaccuracies as the retrospective series progresses closer to it's end... despite the inaccuracies that inevitably happen it is still an entertaining project they put together that makes me go "o~h i remember that" and makes me wanna get back on or restart some earlier FFs that i have either beaten or just put down and forgoten over time...
Tidus = Tee-Das???
Tidus has always been pronounced "Tie-Dus" by me, although I did used to call him "Tee-Di-ous" at one stage...
EOFF needs a resurgence to it's former glory.
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