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Kay ([personal profile] sincere) wrote2012-02-03 10:28 am

Gameblogging: FFXIII-2, Hour 2

Okay! Commentspamming myself with observations as I play FFXIII-2.


The comments will contain some spoilers, but please do not add spoilers of your own. ETA: Seriously, please don't discuss or refer to anything you think I might not have seen in any detail! I want everything to come as a total surprise.

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[personal profile] temples 2012-02-03 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
You're successfully making me want to play this game.

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rainfall: A pair of dark shoes with bright flowers in them. (step out in style)

[personal profile] rainfall 2012-02-03 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)
I think the version of events Searh explains makes both more and less sense to me.

On the one hand, if she only hallucinated Lighting's existence for like a minute, then all of her self-doubt makes perfect sense. If Lightning had disappeared recently instead, like I first thought, and Serah had three years' worth of memories, it would be harder for Serah to dismiss them.

On the other hand, I don't totally buy a minute's worth of "Lightning is totally alive" memories as "making up stories so that [she] didn't have to face the truth", which is what Serah says her friends have all told her she was doing. Is it really a comforting lie that Lightning was there for thirty seconds but then evaporated? Wouldn't Serah have made up something more comforting...?

Idk, maybe it was just a poor choice of words. I'd buy it if Searh said something like, SINCE I ONLY JUST CAME OUT OF MY CRYSTAL SLEEP, MAYBE I WAS JUST CONFUSED... something like that? But this isn't the first time the game has couched her possible false memories as the result of trauma.



...anyway! This is probably way more thought than I was meant to put into this, and I was already wrong about what the game meant to tell me once.

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rainfall: A pair of hands holding an ornate teacup. The red fingernails and green shirt match the teacup's design. (teacups)

[personal profile] rainfall 2012-02-03 07:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Can I punch this game in the face a little.

First the "good friend" nonsense, which reminds of the Sailor Moon dub where they tried to defuse the gay by saying "friend" a lot and accidentally started using it to refer to relationships that involved making out.

Then we learn that Snow left to look for Lightning. That's fine. I thought I remembered them saying he was somewhere specific earlier, as if he were on an assignment, rather than just "looking for Lightning", but I'm just wrong about all the things. I wish I knew how long it's been since Snow left, but maybe we were told that too.

But fuck you, Noel. You don't KNOW Serah. What gives you the right to start saying accusatory things like, SO YOU JUST WAITED. WHY DIDN'T YOU GO AFTER HIM? :E HE AND LIGHTNING ARE LONG GONE BY NOW

All of Serah's options in response seem to involve just taking this abuse, which I guess makes sense if she feels guilty about not going after Snow and has a lot of self-doubt, but it annoys me.

I just want Serah and Snow to be married, nobody to be implying anything about Noel and Serah, and Serah to want her fiance and sister back. Please don't go in a weird direction here, game. Please don't turn Noel into somebody Serah needs in her life to encourage her to eventually develop a backbone, or whatever's going on here.
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[personal profile] rainfall 2012-02-03 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I mean. I don't want to hate on you, game! I want to remain optimissstic. It's just that married-woman-looking-for-husband-and-sister is such an unusual formula. They're holding off on getting married until they can bring Lightning home to bless it, and that's sweet! It's less sweet if she

ARE YOU SECRETLY GLAD SNOW IS OUT OF YOUR LIFE SERAH?

SORRY, ON MY WORLD WE'RE ASSHOLES, saying farewell was usually for good, so we didn't say goodbye so easily!

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[personal profile] slayerofgod 2012-02-03 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Lebreau's tattoo is a monster adornment.

Also, agree about getting tired of everyone insinuating the Noel/Serah thing. I'm just glad Serah herself doesn't buy into that crap.
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[personal profile] rainfall 2012-02-03 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I like how you say that (the tattoo comment) as if it makes sense. XD

And Serah buying into it is what makes me eyetic about her calling Snow "a good friend" in her Snow's-necklace conversation. But hey, we're working on it!

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[personal profile] walking_forward 2012-02-03 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Did you guys miss the optional conversation that takes place after the necklace event with Noel asking about Snow? I got back at Noel's snotty comment about Serah's love for Snow by having her gush on and on about how awesome, faithful, and adorable Snow is. She spoke in such a high squeaky voice that Noel tried to stop her 3 times. He was looking like he was getting pretty overwhelmed by her helium induced words, but she just kept sharing every loving detail about her Snow and there was nothing Noel could do to stop her until she was satisified.

Needless to say I don't think Noel will ever question what Serah thinks of Snow ever again after at.
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[personal profile] walking_forward 2012-02-03 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Or at least ask about what kind of person Snow is again.

With Serah around.

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[personal profile] rainfall 2012-02-03 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Sob so much this.

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[personal profile] rainfall 2012-02-03 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Boss music......
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[personal profile] rainfall 2012-02-03 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh well he's dead!
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[personal profile] rainfall 2012-02-03 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
CHOCOBO. It has forelocks. I wonder if you could hold onto them like reins. :|a











oh god are we going to get that hilarious music when we ride the chocobo?

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