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|  "Re(5):Final Fantasy X-2 (aka Yuna Raider) scr"
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jeez, hatin on the game already -_- what a shame.
i know it does seem weird withyuna and her oddly new look, but maybe this is some grown up yuna. and you know, sometimes girls can get a bit sleazy when they start getting older, you know how girls are, well some, those damn girls, its a waste i tell ya.....wait, this is just a game, nvm 
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| Ultima 293th Post
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| "Re(8):Final Fantasy X-2 (aka Yuna Raider) scr" , posted Mon 21 Oct 08:06
> the first news that broke out(when thegia.com was still online ) was that MAYBE FFXII would be a sequel of FFX international and go on after the ending of international..
Hmmm..? I don't recall hearing such a scenario anywhere. All I've ever heard is that FFX was likely to be getting a direct sequel or a sidestory of some sort, not that any such sequel/sidestory was going to be FFXII. All the evidence points to FFX-2 being Square looking to make some money using FFX's engine (while Sony invested in them, they're probably still smarting from the FF movie debacle) while they're working on FFXII. FFXII will be a distinct FF, just like all the others (save FFX-2 :).
BTW, to those complaining, I found Square a lot more entertaining when they focussed their energies on fewer series (read: Final Fantasy, Saga and a few miscellanous others). I don't even see why Chrono Trigger needs a real sequel (FFX doesn't either, but eh... Square needs money and they can make it for a lot cheaper than developing a new game from scratch). Hey, I liked Einhander a lot and I wouldn't mind seeing a sequel, but I won't be crying if they don't (and most likely never will) make one.
> So perhaps they discarded that idea and went on making FFX2 and are still planning to release FFXII as an independent game?
I don't think they ever intended otherwise. I don't even know who would suggest such a thing.
> After all,square has been working on more than one FFs another time too(FFVIII and IX)..
*shudders* And I think they both suffered for it, but that could be me.
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| Cain Highwind
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| "Re(10):Final Fantasy X-2 (aka Yuna Raider) sc" , posted Mon 21 Oct 13:38
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I'm willing to bet this is just their way of stalling until FFXII is actually done. They probably determined that because of how many delays they had to put on FFX that the development cycle for FFXII should be at least twice as long, but in the meantime they don't want to lose their pattern of releasing a new FF title every year, since it's their main source of profit. Enter X-2. Though I think that people who have been watching Wrestlemania too long will think it's FF Twelve. :P
About the new look, really I don't care for it much, though it's not as pretentious as Nomura's usual fantasy stuff. The guy's fantasy designs are just generic as hell. He even draws all his characters the same way, in the same pose, often with the same face and expression. He's like a Japanese Ed Boon.
Anyway, the game looks interesting and at least it should offer some explanation of what the hell was happening with Tidus in FFX's ending. Who knows... if it does well, this may not be the only FF to get a real sequel.
I agree, I'm not too big on Nomura's work either. One thing that makes FF not as good recently, is they're relying on Nomura too much, I think seeing some Amano designed characters will be great to see again (just look at the new CG for FFI and II for he PSX) Either that or get the FFT artist, his characters had a special flair to them.
As for FFXII, I also think that FFX-2 is a way to stall for time for FFXII. But I'm very confident that FFXII will be a great game, if not a masterpiece, with Matsuno at the wheel. It would be nice to see a good Final Fantasywithout the genericness of FFIX, which I think Matsuno is planning for.
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| Ultima 294th Post
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| "Re(10):Final Fantasy X-2 (aka Yuna Raider) sc" , posted Tue 22 Oct 09:28
> Maybe I'm just being an old school fanatic, but I liked it more when Square's efforts were more concentrated, too. Quality over quantity, after all.
Agreed.
> *wasn't really very impressed by FF8 and FF9 either*
Oddly enough, FFVIII is by far my favourite of the PSX FFs, even though I think it's one of the worst FFs ever (great game, but bad FF - too different).
Gojira:
You're mixing up Ed Boon with John Tobias. Tobias is the one who did the character design for MK1-4. And while his artwork was horribly homogenous, I don't think Nomura is quite that bad. The only cast that had characters I thought looked a little too similar to one another was FF8's cast. Oh, and Yuna does look like she could be RInoa's older (and prettier) sister. Otherwise, they're reasonably distinct.
Also, it's not as though many other artists don't suffer from some level of homogenity. Even Yoshitaka Amano suffers from it, and pretty badly I might add - Amano's rendition of Garnet looks *exactly* like Celes, for example. And *all* his characters (both male *and* female) have the same whispy, pale androgenous look to them. His style is interesting and unique, but he recycles just as badly as Nomura does.
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| Gojira 676th Post
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| "Re(2):Re(10):Final Fantasy X-2 (aka Yuna Raid" , posted Tue 22 Oct 12:02
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Gojira:
You're mixing up Ed Boon with John Tobias. Tobias is the one who did the character design for MK1-4.
I guessed wrong, huh. Well, I knew it had to be one of the two. Can't blame me for not being a MK fan...
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And while his artwork was horribly homogenous, I don't think Nomura is quite that bad. The only cast that had characters I thought looked a little too similar to one another was FF8's cast. Oh, and Yuna does look like she could be RInoa's older (and prettier) sister. Otherwise, they're reasonably distinct.
No, I think FF8 was the turning point. FF7 is probably the closest he's come to making the characters look different and unique, but after that they've all grown terribly similar.
FF9's characters were so unique from each other you can tell that Nomura had absolutely nothing to do with them. To me that speaks volumes about Nomura's work.
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Also, it's not as though many other artists don't suffer from some level of homogenity. Even Yoshitaka Amano suffers from it, and pretty badly I might add - Amano's rendition of Garnet looks *exactly* like Celes, for example. And *all* his characters (both male *and* female) have the same whispy, pale androgenous look to them. His style is interesting and unique, but he recycles just as badly as Nomura does.
Fair enough. It still doesn't change the fact that Nomura's "fantasy" artwork always fails to capture my imagination, which is by far my biggest complaint of him.
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