God damn it, Deling City

[MJN SEIFER]

This may seem ode for me to complain about, but I hate the way they made Ellone dress. They way the scarf thing is draped over her combined with her animation makes her look like an old lady. I get they were trying to make her a frail character that needed protection, but the old lady vibe I got was very distracting.

It's something how different people can interpret things differently - I always felt that it made her look like a "magical fantasy" character in a sense - she still looked young enough dressed like that in my opinion, but she just looked "magical" in a sense. Like if she was part of the main team in a Final Fantasy game, she'd basically be the magical girl, who knows magic naturally and/or is the connection to some forgotten magical society, or something... Random, but it's something that people can get different vibes from the same thing.

On the topic of the thread; I do find it a shame in hindsight that chocobos aren't really relevant in this game - they have there moments, but by the time you get to them properly you already have a main vehicle, so there isn't that much to do with them, which isn't helped by this game being between FFVII and FFIX and both of which doing a lot more with chocobos, so they kind of took a break during FFVIII (Maybe Chocobo World was supposed to be FFVIII's main contribution with chocobos, but that may not exactly help, as not everybody could get a PocketStation...)