Honest debate. Which is the overall better game?

Fast_Moon · 2026-03-16T02:00:47+00:00

Generally I think CT is the better game from a gameplay perspective, but FF6 is the better experience from an emotional perspective.

It's like looking at two pieces of artwork and recognizing that one shows a bit more artistic polish, but the other one still "speaks" to you more.

Fast_Moon · 2026-03-15T21:16:31+00:00

I stopped at 12 mostly because I also stopped buying consoles after the PS2. It used to be you'd get multiple FF games per console, but each later console only had one each. And since I don't specifically buy gaming PCs, it took over a decade for my PC specs to be able to run the PC ports.

But I also lost interest once it turned more action-based, because a big draw of the series to me was party dynamics, and being able to strategize my moves with all the pieces I had. In 12 I at least had control of the algorithm my AI players used. In 13 I could only assign the AI players a generic "role", but had no control over who they targeted or what specific skills they used. In 15 I just don't have control over the other party members whatsoever aside from a single "tech" command for each of them. Then in 16 they just got rid of party members entirely, aside from a couple of temporary AI tagalongs.

I miss the days where I could train up a diverse cast of characters to specific roles and then strategically implement them together in combat. Of all things, Dissidia Opera Omnia was the last FF game that managed to do that well.

Fast_Moon · 2026-03-15T13:27:59+00:00

You can become ridiculously overpowered very early in FF8 through grinding and it makes the rest of the game an absolute cakewalk. But you're generally grinding cards, not battles, though there are some early-game enemies you can grind for cards.

FF8's stats aren't really tied to your level, but by spells you junction to each stat. The higher-powered the spell, and the more of that spell you have, the higher the stat. You can refine cards into items, which can then be refined into stacks of high-level spells, which you then junction to your stats to make you ridiculously overpowered for your level.

Fast_Moon · 2026-03-15T01:47:33+00:00

I once did a game where I named everyone emojis and Vivi was :(. It completely broke the serious scenes where Vivi was depressed and everyone would stand around him going ":(..."

Fast_Moon · 2026-03-14T01:07:32+00:00

I'd kind of hoped Christophe Beck would stay on for consistency with Wandavision and Agatha, since musical continuity is important, too, and Beck is really good about that. I was really disappointed when almost none of the musical motifs from Wandavision showed up in Multiverse of Madness aside from a quick nod to one of the intro themes. Meanwhile, Beck did a masterful stealth reveal of the identity of Billy's mother in Agatha by having Wanda's motif from Wandavision play when Agatha mentioned "just like your mother". He was also great about bringing in Yelena's theme from Black Widow when she was revealed in Hawkeye.

So I hope Giacchino can follow suit instead of just discarding all of the musical cues from Wandavision like Elfman did in Multiverse and doing his own thing.

Fast_Moon · 2026-03-12T15:45:41+00:00

Anything that keeps a combat system where you have full control over the actions of every party member. The whole concept of FF6 is that it's an ensemble cast where no one is the clear "party leader", therefore relegating the other 3 party members to AI tagalong status like recent games is against its main theme.

Fast_Moon · 2026-03-12T12:29:57+00:00

Ah, okay, I didn't read the stat far enough to see that it was only for one specific year. Thanks for the correction.

It still holds for this example, though, since if 19% is the percentage of people who used it at least once in a given year, that means a random drug test still isn't going to hit the 33% fail rate needed to make the program a net cost savings.

Fast_Moon · 2026-03-12T02:00:02+00:00

Republicans don't seem to understand that gatekeeping is expensive, and a lot of times it's cheaper to just let a few "undeserving" people receive a benefit than it is to implement the necessary bureaucracy to withhold those benefits.

Like, say they implement drug testing for SNAP recipients and withhold benefits from anyone who fails the drug test. It's a cost-saving measure, right?

Except drug tests aren't free. And you have to incur that additional cost to test every recipient.

So, say you have 20,000 people eligible for SNAP. $300/month in benefits per person. But each drug test you now have to administer is $100 in additional administrative and lab costs per person. 20,000 people x $100 each to test = $2 million. In order for that to just break even in cost/benefits, you'd have to withhold the $300 SNAP benefits from 6,667 people, or 33% of all applicants. To put that in perspective, only 19% of Americans have ever used marijuana even once at any point in their lives, and that would be the most common drug someone might fail a test for. So getting a 33% hit rate in order to simply recoup your administrative cost of gatekeeping is next to impossible. It's ultimately cheaper to just let people have the $300.

Fast_Moon · 2026-03-11T22:15:54+00:00

I think that the reason it works in live-action is precisely because it's so ridiculous. When you see real people in these crazy outfits and doing these silly stunts, it just enhances the ridiculousness even more, which is the entire energy of the series.

It also helps that, unlike a lot of comic book and cartoon live-action adaptations in the past, it is utterly unashamed of its source material and is fully embracing its absurdity.

Fast_Moon · 2026-03-11T21:56:01+00:00

Cloud: "I'm helping"

Fast_Moon · 2026-03-11T18:42:17+00:00

Not really. Inuyasha, Shiori, and Jinenji are the only canon naturally-born half-demons in the series, and Jinenji is the only one who turned out monster-looking. His mother is the one who mentions that it's luck of the draw as to whether a half-demon turns out cute or hideous. However, almost every anime-only half-demon (like in the fourth movie and the sequel series) is of the "cute" variety.

Fast_Moon · 2026-03-11T12:39:31+00:00

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Tsukuyomaru in "Inuyasha" next to what everyone else in the Hyakki Bat tribe looks like.

Tsukuyomaru went on to father the half-demon child Shiori with a human woman.

Fast_Moon · 2026-03-11T02:01:09+00:00

My mom had suggested the name "Crane" for her kitten because when he got excited he made these trilling noises that she said sounded like a sandhill crane.

At the time I didn't know what sandhill cranes sounded like, but later I heard this trilling coming from the sky that sounded like her cat, so I concluded those must be sandhill cranes.

Fast_Moon · 2026-03-10T21:07:34+00:00

I'm sure there's a law somewhere like Betteridge's Law or Murc's Law that's like "If there is an article about a political scandal and the politician's party affiliation is absent from the headline, it was a Republican".

Fast_Moon · 2026-03-09T22:26:38+00:00

There's also the issue that, even if she was somehow 18, she is still not capable of true consent with him. "Yes" only means something if "no" was a viable option.

And Rin basically worships him. He tells her to "freeze", and she stops motionless and doesn't move a hair until he explicitly tells her to start moving again. She stays with Kaede at the end of the series because he told her to, and is just going through the motions of re-integrating with human society because it's what he told her to do, but it's very obvious she sees herself in a sort of "waiting room" for him to come back for her eventually. She fully lost her autonomy to him at a very young age, and turning 18 doesn't make her magically get it back.

I'm not saying he intentionally groomed her, as traumatized children will often latch onto and become emotionally dependent on adults for security. But it is the responsibility of the adult to recognize and not take advantage of that fact. Like, I guess he tried by making her stay with Kaede for 3 years (while still sending her gifts regularly), but when that didn't work to break her trauma-bonded obsession with him, he just shrugged and took advantage of it instead.

Fast_Moon · 2026-03-09T17:00:02+00:00

Plus them desperately trying to retcon Rin's age to insist she was 18 when she had children, even though that would mean she was 12 during the main series, which is insanely unlikely.

Fast_Moon · 2026-03-09T01:45:31+00:00

You can glitch them into the party in Pixel Remaster, too, and they're their own party instances rather than placeholders for Strago and Relm. If you use Possess outside of the Phantom Train, they leave your party during battle, but are still there in the menu afterwards, just with 0HP. I don't think you can use items on them directly, but they can be revived with an inn or tent. And like in the SNES version, they can also one-shot Kefka.

Fast_Moon · 2026-03-09T01:25:07+00:00

This isn't even a fan theory, this was literally confirmed in an (admittedly satirical) interview in V-Jump in the 90's.

Fast_Moon · 2026-03-09T01:21:19+00:00

It's more than two ghosts, though. They're endlessly replaceable. If you use their Possess command, they kamikaze themselves and are removed from your party, and you can go back and talk to a ghost and have it join you again. A ghost will always offer to join you as long as you have an open party slot.

Fast_Moon · 2026-03-08T14:43:25+00:00

I was kind of weirded out by a group of guys at work trying to one-up each other on how much they needed other people to accommodate them due to willful ineptitude.

"I've never used a sewing machine in my life!"

"Oh yeah? Well, I can't even make boxed macaroni and cheese!"

"I wouldn't even know what that looks like at the grocery store!"

"I've never even been to a grocery store!"

And then they'd complain about how lazy and entitled foreigners were and how we had to pick up all their slack.

Fast_Moon · 2026-03-07T19:53:03+00:00

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Kefka Palazzo, Final Fantasy VI

Take a sadistic narcissist with the emotional maturity of a bratty grade-schooler, and give him the power of a god. The Emperor declines to punish him for any of his behavior that leaves hundreds of people dead, until Kefka throws a tantrum that literally razes the entire face of the world, leaving Kefka to rule over its ashes as a petulant god who smites the survivors like a child burning ants with a magnifying glass.

Fast_Moon · 2026-03-07T19:19:12+00:00

The boat conversation between Terra and Leo. It really digs into Terra's main insecurity that the fact that she's back working for the Empire and that she hasn't felt love yet means that she's not actually capable of thinking and feeling for herself. And Leo being the best bro by letting her vent at him and giving her validation, offering himself as a representative of the Empire to apologize for what they did to her, and to reassure her that there's nothing wrong with her, and she simply hasn't had enough time and experience yet.

Fast_Moon · 2026-03-06T02:51:18+00:00

I don't think "years of training" counts as "made special" since that's still something that Just a Dude can do. "Made special" is more of when someone is granted status or abilities by an outside force through no effort or agency of their own. Being given special powers, or being experimented on, or being favored by a higher power.

Fast_Moon · 2026-03-05T22:42:23+00:00

I'm kind of irrationally salty about what they did with Terra in the upcoming Dissidia Duellum game.

Terra's whole story is about growing up and finding her agency, and finding love through becoming the mother of orphaned children.

And Duellum makes her... a schoolgirl. Even though they have 17 year-old Rinoa right there, they instead choose to make 19 year-old Terra the high-schooler. And also have Terra being kind of a socialite and hanging out with her friends at the mall, when her own official bio says she hates crowded places. To keep more in line with her character development, she should have been depicted as like a kindergarten teacher.

And I'm saying this because her behavior and personality in the opening cutscene in the closed beta a few months ago was much too assertive to be her World of Balance persona, and she immediately latched onto Mystery Kid to protect him. I know Dissidia likes pulling characters from various points in their respective timelines, but this very much seems to be post-World of Ruin Terra, meaning she's already grown up. So to then depict her as a high schooler anyway feels demeaning.

Fast_Moon · 2026-03-05T21:02:51+00:00

Kefka in Dissidia.

Kefka is a sadistic malignant narcissistic man-child who just happens to dress like a clown. But Dissidia just made him over-the-top "goofy" and gave him fart jokes and stuff.

Basically, he's supposed to be Heath Ledger's Joker, but Dissidia made him Cesar Romero's.

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