5th June 2009, 10:18 PM
Sequels? Dirge of Cerberus was pretty nice in my opinion. It wrapped up Vincent's story and stuck to his character pretty well. It did suffer from "I was I was actually doing that" syndrome though, in that far too often there'd be a cut scene where Vincent did something TOTALLY AWESOME and then I'm in control again and I know there's no possible way to do that. I also liked the Advent Children movie, though I must say that it was not really a needed story in that it didn't wrap up any loose ends, it just created some and then wrapped them up.
Crisis Core was completely amazing though, a demonstration of how an addition to a Final Fantasy game should be done. I loved it, and that ending was one of the best game endings ever, yes better than FF7's own ending. I knew already how Zack's story ended from playing FF7, but it was done VERY well and explained how the heck a couple of piddly runts managed to... but then I've said too much. Yes I have some complaints about it, but overall it was simply a great game that I had a very hard time putting down.
In reading about it, it's told using chapters. I'm not really sure I like that idea, mainly because we have to wait for each new chapter to come out and buy them when they do. Still, it's supposed to be pretty good from what I've heard.
Speaking of cell phone games that need to come here, I am waiting for them to port over Before Crisis, the other cell phone game.
I think a really good prequel game for FF6 would be one where I play as Leo. That guy's awesome. It'd take place during the early expansion of the Gestaul Empire and have Leo on missions in the southern continent taking over towns there, and a large portion would focus on him interacting with Terra. I mean that's a large gap that was never really expanded on in the original story. Terra recovered her memory but never really talked about her life growing up in the empire. I know she got that slave crown on her, but that was when she had already grown up and Kefka already snapped and everything, near as I can tell very shortly before her mission to Narshe if the two soldiers talking to each other about it are any indication.
I'd also be interested in a story taking place during the original war of the ancients. There's a LOT of free reign there to come up with characters and events as they see fit, since all that's really established is that the 3 gods warred with each other with 3 tribes of worshippers and they had converted a number of mortals into Espers to help their battles, eventually realizing that their petty bickering was meaningless and ending that war by locking away the Espers in a pocket universe and then turning each other to stone. I'd like a story about the human side of things, like one of the worshippers in, say, Goddess's army (she seems like potentially the most benevolent of those gods). Heck go for the gusto and have this soldier and his/her friends be the catalyst to make the gods realize their mistakes.
They could have a story set after the game with a leader of the cult of Kefka desperatly trying to revive both magic and his god, perhaps trying to kidnap Terra as a means to restore it with her as the one remaining link to the esper world. The end could have the leader realizing his god was just a mad man not at all like he had thought and being redeemed, or killed, it's not up to me to tell you how to play the game. I'd probably put Shadow in there, and let it be his redemption too. Him committing suicide never sat right with me, what with him abandoning his one major connection to the world, Relm.
Perhaps a storyline that takes place during the 1 year gap in the middle of the story, with Cyan's journeys and his eventual decision to wait while sending letters to that woman. It'd explain what happened to the phantom train and the phantom forest. Personally I think that when the world ended that train was destroyed, either it was an esper or else just smashed by Kefka. The way the game goes, aside from the phantom train it seems like there's no afterlife mentioned by anyone and that seems to be the point, life doesn't need to last forever, just be lived as fully as possible. So, perhaps Cyan could discover at best the Phantom Train was just a being of compassion giving the dead a moment of peace before eventually dissipating forever, the "end" being a true end.
Yeah, I'm a total nerd and these ideas probably suck, but what I'm saying is, there's PLENTY of room for Squeenix to grow on here. FF7, for the most part, was an internally complete story that didn't really need sequels. That can't be said for every Final Fantasy, and 6 has a lot of loose ends to tie up.
So does 4 though, and I can't wait to find out what became of Kain's journey to Mt. Ordeals at the end of the first game.
Crisis Core was completely amazing though, a demonstration of how an addition to a Final Fantasy game should be done. I loved it, and that ending was one of the best game endings ever, yes better than FF7's own ending. I knew already how Zack's story ended from playing FF7, but it was done VERY well and explained how the heck a couple of piddly runts managed to... but then I've said too much. Yes I have some complaints about it, but overall it was simply a great game that I had a very hard time putting down.
In reading about it, it's told using chapters. I'm not really sure I like that idea, mainly because we have to wait for each new chapter to come out and buy them when they do. Still, it's supposed to be pretty good from what I've heard.
Speaking of cell phone games that need to come here, I am waiting for them to port over Before Crisis, the other cell phone game.
I think a really good prequel game for FF6 would be one where I play as Leo. That guy's awesome. It'd take place during the early expansion of the Gestaul Empire and have Leo on missions in the southern continent taking over towns there, and a large portion would focus on him interacting with Terra. I mean that's a large gap that was never really expanded on in the original story. Terra recovered her memory but never really talked about her life growing up in the empire. I know she got that slave crown on her, but that was when she had already grown up and Kefka already snapped and everything, near as I can tell very shortly before her mission to Narshe if the two soldiers talking to each other about it are any indication.
I'd also be interested in a story taking place during the original war of the ancients. There's a LOT of free reign there to come up with characters and events as they see fit, since all that's really established is that the 3 gods warred with each other with 3 tribes of worshippers and they had converted a number of mortals into Espers to help their battles, eventually realizing that their petty bickering was meaningless and ending that war by locking away the Espers in a pocket universe and then turning each other to stone. I'd like a story about the human side of things, like one of the worshippers in, say, Goddess's army (she seems like potentially the most benevolent of those gods). Heck go for the gusto and have this soldier and his/her friends be the catalyst to make the gods realize their mistakes.
They could have a story set after the game with a leader of the cult of Kefka desperatly trying to revive both magic and his god, perhaps trying to kidnap Terra as a means to restore it with her as the one remaining link to the esper world. The end could have the leader realizing his god was just a mad man not at all like he had thought and being redeemed, or killed, it's not up to me to tell you how to play the game. I'd probably put Shadow in there, and let it be his redemption too. Him committing suicide never sat right with me, what with him abandoning his one major connection to the world, Relm.
Perhaps a storyline that takes place during the 1 year gap in the middle of the story, with Cyan's journeys and his eventual decision to wait while sending letters to that woman. It'd explain what happened to the phantom train and the phantom forest. Personally I think that when the world ended that train was destroyed, either it was an esper or else just smashed by Kefka. The way the game goes, aside from the phantom train it seems like there's no afterlife mentioned by anyone and that seems to be the point, life doesn't need to last forever, just be lived as fully as possible. So, perhaps Cyan could discover at best the Phantom Train was just a being of compassion giving the dead a moment of peace before eventually dissipating forever, the "end" being a true end.
Yeah, I'm a total nerd and these ideas probably suck, but what I'm saying is, there's PLENTY of room for Squeenix to grow on here. FF7, for the most part, was an internally complete story that didn't really need sequels. That can't be said for every Final Fantasy, and 6 has a lot of loose ends to tie up.
So does 4 though, and I can't wait to find out what became of Kain's journey to Mt. Ordeals at the end of the first game.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)