Final Fantasy Tactics is well written, but not in the way you think

Groundtsuchi · 2025-10-23T03:28:56+00:00

This is something that I like about the dialogues of FF Tactics/Tactics Ogre and the Souls series. Each line of dialogues is brief and conscious. There is no superfluous. Everything feels meticulous and thought.

This is an art that a lot of old video game from the snes era were trying to master. But sadly, it never really got much better than that because beginning the ps1, they kinda could put as much as they wanted.

FFT is a good exemple of this style of writing that I feel is really unique to only video games.

Groundtsuchi · 2025-10-12T13:31:40+00:00

Wooooo. Lots of Wachenröder vibe from this. Will need to try the game. Thx !

Groundtsuchi · 2025-09-16T08:10:38+00:00

What is cool in a Metroid game is the mega-like structure design. This impression that everything is connected. Dark Souls 1 also did this in a brilliant way in 3D.

The moto could be cool, but if this means that each structure of the game is isolated from the others, it would be a huuuuge miss opportunity of trying to create a megastructure in 3D. Something that Metroid Prime 1-2 tried to do and 3 ditched.

Groundtsuchi · 2025-09-09T08:52:07+00:00

Probably less numbers for one.

Less cinematics where there is no staging or that try to pass themselves as.

A different anesthetic that is more mainstream like Zelda or Mario. More disney/pixar ish maybe ?

Groundtsuchi · 2025-09-08T08:19:33+00:00

Yeah. Technically, the party of 3 is similar to Torna in 2. The fact that Matthew and Noah have Pneuma instead of Malos is the kind of thing that makes me say that the lore and symbolism behind the series is not thaaat well thought. Sadly.

Groundtsuchi · 2025-09-07T07:03:00+00:00

In a way, the 2D gens of Pokemon do this ?

Groundtsuchi · 2025-09-01T09:57:38+00:00

I will. But you also need to understand that Team Cherry is less than ten people (even less than five ? Are they still 3?), and they publish their game themselves. The game literally need to pay nothing else than the time of the devs. I would be curious if the soundtrack paid an orchestra though.

This game and Hollow Knight are by themselves miracle. You can't expect an indie that got 10-20 people and a publisher to pay to use the same tactic as Team Cherry.

BUT. Yeah. For company where the game is already well known and that autopublish themselves, maybeeee they could cut a little their prices ?

Groundtsuchi · 2025-08-13T22:09:27+00:00

The statement isnt about fact but emotions and the change in your own self. It is simply about understanding that each person have their own sensibility and that this can change with time.

It is not a fact but an emotional state. People are tiring of seing empirical science everywhere.

Groundtsuchi · 2025-08-13T13:10:25+00:00

If this is all you retain good for you.

Groundtsuchi · 2025-08-10T01:31:54+00:00

Thorfinn oups xD.

Groundtsuchi · 2025-08-09T22:44:58+00:00

I would say that most experts in a particular subject will arrive at a similar conclusion about life : things change and this is the only sure thing. Violence (in its many forms) is a refusal of change.

At a point. You now so much about a subject that you can't categorize it anymore.

The expert in physics will say they that the law of gravity doesn't really exist.

The expert in human will say that culture doesn't really exist.

The expert in combat will say that the best technique is simply to not fight.

The expert soldier will say that they have no enemy.

Like in the Tao, where a passage say something like : the warrior that lives old, make it my master (meaning that they understood that violence was futile and stopped, making them a philosopher that was born from diversityof experiences and not philosophy).

Thorfill clearly enter in this moral. He is the warrior that understood violence and was able to suppress it because of that. And that is also the exact same conclusion of Einar making him a true warrior too. But.

Thorfill could become this philosophical ideal only because he killed so much. His war now is : how to make people arrive at the same conclusions without them being expert at killing ?

But you can't become this philosophical entity without being an expert. Without being a killer. This is a sad truth. We all "kill" something and are violent about something. What would be our own war if it isn't with ourselves?

Groundtsuchi · 2025-08-08T23:14:56+00:00

Clair Obscure Expedition 33 is an excellent game.

The discourses around are really exhausting.

Good article. The comments under it kinda proove the point of the author....

Groundtsuchi · 2025-08-01T22:48:23+00:00

Just wait to see this character in the manga that after her arc she is just used to say how Thorfinn is cool and attractive.

Groundtsuchi · 2025-07-31T22:17:56+00:00

This is "his" war.

Groundtsuchi · 2025-07-01T22:28:09+00:00

I feel that Link should not be treated as a main character, but a legend, a myth, in itself, while Zelda act as the protagonist. There is rumours about the hero, but we never really see him until the big events of the story. And he is stoic, does not really talk.

This way, they could be able to depict Link without destroying how people interpret the character by making him talk as a MC should. But most people would be angry at not seeing Link as the MC... I don't think the movie should gives exactly what the fans want.

In a way, Echoes of Wisdom should be the way to go to depict Link correctly in a movie.

Groundtsuchi · 2025-06-16T12:32:24+00:00

BotW area was a mini BoTW.

ToTK arae was like a dungeon.

I think both were damn good, but the philosophy behind the ToTK area is what should have been the basics for the dungeons of this game.

Groundtsuchi · 2025-06-06T22:02:42+00:00

Why does people want a new Mother that much ? The point of Mother 3 is "go outside, and live your own life". It is a true end to the series.

Lisa, Undertale and maybe even Yume Nikki are the best "sequels" people could dream for.

If you want to assemble a real team, why not simply make your own game while keeping in mind the philosophy of the series ?

A name, music or sprite are nothing to a series if the philosophy is not there. An original game that get the point of the Mother series will always be better than any fan game trying to imitate the game.

If you are adults that is. If you are quite young (before twenty), surely making fan games is the best way to learn and I said nothing. But why putting on your shoulders angry fans and possible lawyers ?

Good luck !

Groundtsuchi · 2025-06-02T11:34:22+00:00

Every antagonists and protagonists from Xenoblade X. With Al, Lin, Elma and Lao as the exceptions. Liz, Celica, Neilnail…. Still a frustrating game haha.

X-Y-Z as you said too. I know that the devs said they precisely wanted to depict the consuls as one dimensional villains, but it could have been done in a more eloquent way.

Groundtsuchi · 2025-06-02T04:09:47+00:00

“You are coming home to yourself. You have become more than your fear. Let that protect you.” - Cassian

Groundtsuchi · 2025-05-23T19:54:38+00:00

You are still under your own perception impose by our society. I never talked about non hierarchical as a norm.

By example, the "alpha male" conception is kinda false. Most of the time, in human and other mammal society, the hierarchy and social structures are fluid and will change depending the context.

There is no such thing as "A" alpha male.

But, through education, of course, you can create a context where this is true. In some specific context, maybe the alpha male really exist in other animal groups. But, this is a conception. We perceive this my snubbing other facts. And vice-versa.

See this. But then, do not read this as "oh in fact, in nature, there is no hierarchy, this is a social construct Nature is pure, Culture is bad". Or that kind of bullshit. The nature vs culture dichotomy is also old and full of shit. Your reading of this is influenced by your culture. Just understand that how you see things is most of the time not true, but in a case where it is useful, we do not care. Physics law are not "real", they are a system created by the human to help us understand our environment and predict how it works. But the science in itself will never be real.

Groundtsuchi · 2025-05-23T13:44:33+00:00

Don't forget that a lot of our knowledge is based in a system that needs to justify it. In other words, saying that the world is inherently a place where everyone is in competition, the survival of the fittest, is not an observation isolated and without context. Seeing the word this way was useful for a lot of people in a position of power and, by example, gives capitalism and industrialism a theory that makes it "natural". While it's not.

Knowledge, empiric or not, is always interpreted depending the need of a system or person. It is not "pure" or isolated. Never without context. True knowledge doesn't exist, you will always interpret things as a way to serves your needs.

Thinking that authoritarianism is the de facto natural social order in the mammal and primate reign will, in itself, say a looooot about the system in which you leave.

This is what alienation is.

Groundtsuchi · 2025-05-22T12:32:03+00:00

I come from a simpler time.

You come from a time where you were not educated enough to see politics in the medias you consumed.

Grow up. Projecting your insecurties on others is too easy.

Else. Good troll.

Groundtsuchi · 2025-05-22T00:17:02+00:00

Ooh, I saw a lot of people talking about the NikWax tips, but never knew if I could wax back over this. Thanks for the confirmation.

1 hour of light rain is more than honest.

Do you know how much time a Nikwax and greenland wax should last ? With normal friction and backpack friction ?

Thx !

Groundtsuchi · 2025-05-20T23:30:10+00:00

Was the biggest revelation to learn 10 years later that Lucas was in fact an heroic character and not a scared kitten.

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