dunpeal2064 wrote:I don't get how people are cool with Eiko (Little girl vagina with a moogle popping out of it?), Amarant, and Quina, but have an issue with X and XIII.
Quina
is ridiculous, I'll give you that, but at least s/he oozes charm. Also, Eiko and Amarant come rather late in the story, so aren't so much of a distraction. They're certainly not my favorite characters, but they're also not difficult to ignore.
Edea looked completely silly, Cait Sith was ridiculous, Irvine and Zell looked fine but were barely tolerable, Cloud/Sephiroth, Squall/Ulimecia, Zidane/Kuja, Tidus/Jecht... all ridiculous... its Final Fantasy, how are people still surprised by this?
I never cared for VII or VIII, but I do fail to see how Zidane is ridiculous. He's more "normal" than any character since FFVI.
At least every character in XIII has a reason to be there. In every FF from VI up, there are characters that join your party for no good reason at all, an add nothing to the story.
Which is why I rank VI below IV and V.
I think it's part of the "in my days things were better" mentality which us retro gamers suffer from (though I guess all humanity suffers from it).
The only Final Fantasy game I played as a kid was I and IV. I cannot say that they were better in my day because I didn't play them in my day.
Generational shifts are real, though. The quality may not change, but the character does, and that doesn't always sit well with folks. For me, I don't care for the overly cute, the overly developed chibi, or bishonen. IX certainly has some tendencies I don't care for, but overall it doesn't even come close to equaling later developments (or VII, for that matter).
