*This is just to add some of the things I forgot... with main themes, animal companions are common. Be they turtles, dragons, lions, cat people, or wild children, each FF has had animal humanoid main characters. These characters have only changed graphically, with the most recent being FF12's multitude of animal humanoids. Aside from moogles and chocobos, these special characters but the Fantasy into FF. Curiously, after FF3 we really don't see many dwarves, gnomes, or little people in general; but we still do have elves, dark elves, mermaids, some pixies, and other mystical fantasy creatures. In FF11 these creatures make a sizeable comeback, as Elvaan, Taru Taru, pixies in the past, lamia and sirens, and others. Only Elvaan and Taru Taru are main characters, however. The reason I don't include Galka and Mithra is because I consider them to be animal humanoids, and not so much fantasy/mythical creatures. Galka might be put in if I come to a conclusion in the future that they are decendant from gigas.
*Also, Cid is of course in all of the FF games regardless of transistional period.
*Also, in each FF game, although they are separate games and stories, each carry a small trait of the past game in the series. FF6 carries whole characters from FF5, such as Gilgamesh and Gogo. FF7 has a small refrence to FF6 in the Typhoon summon. FF8 mimics FF7 in many summons, by the time you get to 10 and 11, (12 doesnt really count because i has its own set of carry overs from Tactics) there are so many things taken from previous games, its hard and surprising to know which comes from what. (11 has Ixion now, a summon specifically from FF10 before). They are different from overall themes, or certain reappearing characters. Just little easter eggs almost when u find them.
**On that note, I'd like to talk about reapearing summons. The main summons of FF would be ifrit, shiva, odin, titan, bahamut, and leviathan. All others are unique to the game, or just appear less often. FF6 had a multitude of summons, many that never appeared again, or were renamed...such as Seraph and Valigarmanda (Tritoch). Maduin was Terra's father in FF6, but also reappeared as a summon in FF9 and tactics advance. Phoenix has appeared in many FF games as the "raise all" summon. In recent FF's it has not been present, but has been replaced with items and spells to raise all. Ultima is a universal "kill all"spell, (as with meteor), but has recently been transformed into a magnificent summon in FF12. I would like to see the terra and maduin summon, as well as odin, Valigarmanda or Quetzolcoatl, Hiryu or syldra, gilgamesh, tiamat, lakshimi, asura, unicorn or kirin, cat sith, Ultros XD, Chaos, and others when I think of them. But those are the main ones I would like to see installed in the next FF, along with the old favorites. While I'm still on the subject, I'd like to see more remakes of old FF games in new graphics, instead of just new mediocre rpgs from SE. They tried to remake them to Gba systems and Psp, but I'd like to see a Ps2 remake of a snes game, like any of the Old Structure FF's or FF6. Not just nice cutscenes either, I mean a full 3-d game. I think that would get more people to into FF again.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
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