#ffmaniac17

[robvalentines]

Ada is so Iconic she didn't even need to show her face to slay the gays.

FACTS.

[spinnerprincess]

Hello, I saw your old Restoration Queen post and thought it was AMAZING. I was just wondering if you could talk about how you felt the female characters have been treated in the more recent Fire Emblem games? (if you've played them), ie Awakening, Fates. Mostly because from my perspective Awakening did a fairly good job with it's female characters, especially when playing with a female avatar. But since you and your friend felt so strongly about Fire Emblem 8 I just wanted your 2 cents on it.

I don’t want to get into in too much detail but in brief I talked with Glitz a little about it!

I think the thing we agree on was that compared to the GBA games the level of sexism in fe13/14 is kind of “a step sideways” as Glitz called it. The sexism manifests itself in different ways. It’s not necessarily better or worse.

For example, yeah, the writing is a lot better, and you’re right, especially for a female avatar! Girls no longer feel like most of their stories are in service of boys’ stories, which was often the case in the GBA era. Also, in the old games there was a lot of behavior that pigeonholed women for acting in ways the creators thought were unfeminine. The games often reinforced that women were supposed to be pure and fall for dudes and modest and so on. 

So FE13/14 fix a lot of that but the downside is that where the writing improves the general approach to them gets worse. I’m talking about super sexualized outfits, characters that cater to specific fetishes (y o u r  s i s t e r s), and while a lot of the outright “be pure and modest” goes away, much of it is just played for laughs instead of being genuine. Like you’re supposed to laugh at women in FE13/14 who care about being buff, for example, where in previous games women who wanted to be strong were given shit for it. 

Also playing as a male avatar they clearly still want to cater to gross dudes because part of the reason you get such nice supports playing as a girl is because you explicitly read different ones sometimes... Also outside of women the new games are just kind of more creepily sexual in general?

So yeah. It’s a mixed bag, comparing the GBA era to the FE13/14 era. There are things that are exhausting about both.

Now the really sad part though is that FE9 and FE10 actually did pretty well by their women without the baggage they carry in these new ones. So while compared to something like FE8 FE13 looks pretty good, it’s definitely a step down from the last couple games in the series.

Boo. Still, FE13/14 are really fun though, don’t get me wrong, we’ve both put a lot of hours into them. And RQ is nothing if not a frustrated labor of love. But that’s how we see it. 

[robvalentines]

The only NPC dialogue that matters is everyone in chapter 5 who can't stop thinking about how iconic Yuna's performance was. Everyone is either "Bitch, I was living!" or "That was a life changing experience. Werk!"

oh yeah I remember them

[robvalentines]

Everybody walks into Kingdom Hearts 3 day 1, Ariel shows up "Oh y'all wanted a twist! Let's have some FINNY FUN up in this gig!"

I loved kingdom hearts drag race

[robvalentines]

How could you NOT include Sorbet! The BEST Rabanastre moogle. With his cute yellow hat! And best name.

I’m sorry but Montblanc is the king of Rabanastre!

Here’s your Sorbet

[robvalentines]

The most iconic Shiva is FF X and that's a fact.

Q  W  E  E  N

[robvalentines]

QUESTION!: Should Vincent's transformations be true to the PS1 designs, or should they look more like the Chaos variations from Dirge of Cerberus?

they should keep the ps1 designs tbh, but I won’t complain if they decide to use the DoC ones

[robvalentines]

The fact that there isn't a Vincent Valentine gunner garb with Deathblow command and a cerberus weapon, in Lightning Returns, is one of Square Enix's greatest crimes.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS^^^^^^^^