Okay, so I'm easy...
Sep. 11th, 2009 02:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eva_belmortSo. The new FF game for the PSP is out, Dissidia, and I bought a copy. Because Sephiroth was in it #^_^# Well, that wasn't the *only* reason, but it was definitely the first one on the list. So I was having a conversation with a RL friend about this fact:
Eva: Well, seriously, that's how come they keep bringing him back for things, you know! look at Advent Children! It's got nothing to do with Cloud-angst, they spend the whole movie talking about Sephiroth!
Rose: Alright, yes, and then there was the whole KH thing, where they wanted to put Vincent in, but then they didn't because his laconic-angsty-hero thing and Cloud's are too similar, and despite the fact that Vincent is way cooler they had to have Cloud in so that Sephiroth could be there, right?
Eva: Which leads to Cloud cosplaying.
Rose: Again.
Eva: Cloud is really just a super-powered fanboy.
Rose: He'd rather hang out in an abandoned church with his collection of shiny materia, and probably all his Sephiroth newspaper clippings...
Eva: Instead of going out there and actually dating an incredibly hot girl who forgives all his wacky craziness.
Rose: Seriously, though. They should just make a Sephiroth game and have done with it. I mean, they've already done it with the other cool characters, Vincent and Zack, why can't they? And those ones where you get to be the villain are really in right now.
Eva: Yeah, but I don't know about a game where mass murder and the destruction of the planet is the *good* ending... Oh, wait... This is Square Enix.
Rose: I'm sure they could get lots of angst in there somewhere...
Eva: Yeah. Hmm. They might go for it. I mean, at least you'd feel like you accomplished something, right? Investigate ShinRa Mansion, freak out, torch the town, stab some friends, get tossed in the reactor...
Rose: Oooh, and then you'd wake up without all your really cool equipment, right? Nibelhem would be the tutorial bit where you were already all levelled up, and then they take you back down to the beginning and you need to regain all your stuff!
Eva: Except it's Sephiroth, so his level zero probably has eight health bars and a very long sword full of mastered materia.
Rose: Well, you can't really imagine him any other way. Oooh, maybe you'd have to play as a clone for a while while he recovered!
Eva: Go on missions and collect stuff for our Lord and Master! He'll be waking up soon!
Rose: Wait, would the clones have to go on sidequests? Breed chocobos?
Eva: Distribute misinformation to members of Avalanche! And- Oh, God. *laughs*
Rose: What?
Eva: But, then you'd get to be Sephiroth! And stalk Cloud! For affection points!
Rose: *laughing* and then you could go on a date to the Saucer!
Eva: And if you win him a stuffed moogle...and make him happy... at the end of the game, he doesn't kill you!
Rose: You get the good ending!
Eva: And two wings!
Rose: And destroy the world! W00t!
Eva: I'd buy it. I'd buy a new console solely for that!
Rose: Of course you would. It'd have Sephiroth in it.
Eva: Well, seriously, that's how come they keep bringing him back for things, you know! look at Advent Children! It's got nothing to do with Cloud-angst, they spend the whole movie talking about Sephiroth!
Rose: Alright, yes, and then there was the whole KH thing, where they wanted to put Vincent in, but then they didn't because his laconic-angsty-hero thing and Cloud's are too similar, and despite the fact that Vincent is way cooler they had to have Cloud in so that Sephiroth could be there, right?
Eva: Which leads to Cloud cosplaying.
Rose: Again.
Eva: Cloud is really just a super-powered fanboy.
Rose: He'd rather hang out in an abandoned church with his collection of shiny materia, and probably all his Sephiroth newspaper clippings...
Eva: Instead of going out there and actually dating an incredibly hot girl who forgives all his wacky craziness.
Rose: Seriously, though. They should just make a Sephiroth game and have done with it. I mean, they've already done it with the other cool characters, Vincent and Zack, why can't they? And those ones where you get to be the villain are really in right now.
Eva: Yeah, but I don't know about a game where mass murder and the destruction of the planet is the *good* ending... Oh, wait... This is Square Enix.
Rose: I'm sure they could get lots of angst in there somewhere...
Eva: Yeah. Hmm. They might go for it. I mean, at least you'd feel like you accomplished something, right? Investigate ShinRa Mansion, freak out, torch the town, stab some friends, get tossed in the reactor...
Rose: Oooh, and then you'd wake up without all your really cool equipment, right? Nibelhem would be the tutorial bit where you were already all levelled up, and then they take you back down to the beginning and you need to regain all your stuff!
Eva: Except it's Sephiroth, so his level zero probably has eight health bars and a very long sword full of mastered materia.
Rose: Well, you can't really imagine him any other way. Oooh, maybe you'd have to play as a clone for a while while he recovered!
Eva: Go on missions and collect stuff for our Lord and Master! He'll be waking up soon!
Rose: Wait, would the clones have to go on sidequests? Breed chocobos?
Eva: Distribute misinformation to members of Avalanche! And- Oh, God. *laughs*
Rose: What?
Eva: But, then you'd get to be Sephiroth! And stalk Cloud! For affection points!
Rose: *laughing* and then you could go on a date to the Saucer!
Eva: And if you win him a stuffed moogle...and make him happy... at the end of the game, he doesn't kill you!
Rose: You get the good ending!
Eva: And two wings!
Rose: And destroy the world! W00t!
Eva: I'd buy it. I'd buy a new console solely for that!
Rose: Of course you would. It'd have Sephiroth in it.
