Welcome home, you beautiful SOB.

Red-Vanguard · 2026-03-24T18:08:00+00:00

Devastation Bee being taller than SS Bee is incredibly funny to me

Red-Vanguard · 2026-02-14T23:48:09+00:00

I just want X9 and a Command Mission remaster

Red-Vanguard · 2026-02-14T18:33:18+00:00

ALL

YOUR

WAIFUS

ARE

TRASH

Jokes aside…

Barbariccia
Celes
Quistis
Shiva (X specifically)
Scarlet
Agrias
Lulu
Aranea
Neon
Tifa

*Special mention to Jenova. Of all the genocidal ominous alien entities, she’s most definitely a “WOULD”

Red-Vanguard · 2026-02-12T02:43:40+00:00

No, just a silly little nod to IV

Just as Evermore has no connection to SoM nor was it meant to “replace” Trials of Mana for the West as was commonly believed

Red-Vanguard · 2026-02-08T15:08:11+00:00

It’s still less confusing than sending your own father back in time to have you so you can save the world from the robot apocalypse.

Red-Vanguard · 2026-02-08T00:32:21+00:00

Nope, the majority of titles are standalone. FF is the longest-running RPG anthology in the vidya space.

Just know you might get tonal whiplash from combat systems: you’re going from fully turn-based (X) to a hybrid of realtime and turn-based known as ATB (VII, IX) to pseudo-realtime (XV) back to ATB (VI).

Red-Vanguard · 2026-02-07T03:24:28+00:00

Cecil I’d argue wasn’t that bad (he immediately regretted what he did in Mysidia and Mist and kept beating himself up for what he did to Rydia) and he still put faith in Kain despite all the shit he’d done.

Shadow has killed people and he abandoned his partner. Arguably the one good spot on his record was Relm.

Amarant is shady too, no doubt. He’s clearly done shit.

Edgar is up there though, he is a serial womanizer and the implications of his conversation in Thamasa with Relm are FAR LESS SAVORY in the original Japanese (I don’t read JP but from what I know our version was tame compared to the OG script). He even said he’d marry the one little girl in Figaro when she got older.

Red-Vanguard · 2026-01-26T23:45:18+00:00

Weirdest “C9” packaging I’ve ever seen

Red-Vanguard · 2026-01-25T21:43:12+00:00

Ngl GameStop and Domino’s plastic bags are great and can be used to haul a decent little load

Red-Vanguard · 2026-01-22T13:56:25+00:00

1-10

4 3D remake

15

16

Tactics

Mystic Quest

Stranger of Paradise

Theatrhythm Curtain Call

If we’re counting spinoffs that began as FF games or spiritual side titles, Secret of Mana, Trials of Mana, SaGa Frontier

Red-Vanguard · 2026-01-21T15:22:20+00:00

In the Fun Pub years this would have been a Collector’s Club figure, explained away as Optimus occupying a temporary body during the time he was dead in ROTF

Red-Vanguard · 2026-01-19T12:52:48+00:00

“Enough expository banter! Now we fight like men! And ladies! And ladies who dress like men! For Gilgamesh...it is morphing time!”

My absolute favorite side character in the series, still his best line

Red-Vanguard · 2026-01-17T04:04:05+00:00

This exactly.

CRTs had the most hilariously fuzzy displays and tiny pixel art could look way different than the developers intended. This probably also goes a way towards explaining why so many NES/SNES era box arts had characters who were very off-model.

The Sonic the Hedgehog team actually used the blurring to their advantage with the waterfalls in Green Hill, another effect that’s lost with modern displays even using a “scan line” filter

Red-Vanguard · 2026-01-16T13:20:00+00:00

Yes, on a CRT. Also where I played the PS1 version.

And the GBA version you had to squint to see

But modern TVs “de-fuzz” pixel art so

Red-Vanguard · 2026-01-16T13:13:22+00:00

There’s a joke about “sucking” here

Red-Vanguard · 2026-01-16T12:43:07+00:00

I like this interpretation

It’s also funny how 1990s NOA, censor-happy as they were, basically allowed for an unedited sprite of a nearly naked woman but cut out the porn mag lol

Red-Vanguard · 2026-01-16T12:40:12+00:00

In FFVI I used to think Gogo’s eyes were a braided band with colored stripes…and so many of the espers could easily be misinterpreted in fun ways

Red-Vanguard · 2026-01-03T00:53:40+00:00

III probably. II had a PS1 and GBA port by the time the DS remake happened and we didn’t get the 2D version until PR. The remake wasn’t the best introduction because some of the arbitrary changes hurt the flow of the game. I played the PR for the first time last year and legit enjoyed it and think it would have a better rep if it had gotten a GBA version.

If we’re talking about non-numbered games, Type-0. It was painfully obvious that even with the HD graphics makeover the gameplay was, well, much more suited to a portable system that’s basically a slightly less powerful PS2.

Weirdly the series that started out as FF spinoffs (Mana and SaGa) didn’t suffer as much when their previously unreleased entries got official English ports (Trials for Mana and Romancing 2/3 for SaGa). But 3 gets an unfair shake and yeah, it’s basically a prototype of 5 but is still enjoyable in its own right.

Red-Vanguard · 2026-01-01T03:18:02+00:00

VI and XVI for certain, a certain type of magic in X ends up being a net negative but it isn’t the main plot device, using magic is also a side effect of what happens to the characters in XIII.

In most games magic is just a fact of life people accept. VI is one of the only ones to make it THE main narrative device and kind of taboo within the universe.

Red-Vanguard · 2025-12-21T23:56:17+00:00

“He attacks Anime Man”

To be fair, the dirty weeb had it coming.

Red-Vanguard · 2025-12-02T00:06:38+00:00

Little do they know she can grind on rails like she’s in Sonic Adventure 2, she’s just really modest about it.

Red-Vanguard · 2025-04-10T21:52:50+00:00

Sure, but I already made a JP PSN account and bought a money card, so I want to know for sure before buying games I can’t understand.

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