Zemus argued against the other Lunarians about how to deal with the Blue Planet, he suggested they should conquer with the Giant of Bab-il instead of waiting for humanity to reach the Lunarians level of culture. For this he was imprisoned and forced to sleep by the people he was trying to help. His rage comes from feeling betrayed by his own kind and resents and hates the races of the Blue Planet. He's basically alien Hitler. I wouldn't call him a simple "I R EVIL" at least not a simple or atypical version.Originally Posted by Forsaken Lover
I never said the cast was underdeveloped, simply that they do pay homage to past characters and plot events. Zidane himself is often noted by some fans to be modeled after Locke and Edgar from VI for example (I think Edge shows up in there as well). Some people just feel like IX is sometimes less homage and more of a blatant rip off from past successes. I don;'t feel the author feels this completely, in his later articles on X and X-2 he pretty much says IX is the last true FF game for him and everything afterwards is the result of FF going corporate. Actually his X-2 review is pretty hilarious and sadly reminded me why I haven't touched the game since I beat it.Garland was the first example of moral ambiguity in the FF series as far as I'm aware. Sure he wanted to kill everyone and take over the planet but that's what he was made to do. He is doing what he thinks is right and necessary to save his people.
Even when Terra is destroyed he does all he can just to save the universe. Though his entire mission, all his hundreds of years of existence, were for nothing, he helps save everyone else.
Garland, like most of the FFIX's villain cast apart from Zorn & Thorn, had a lot of depth.
I'll give the writer of the article credit for understanding that much.
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