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Post by T. Costa on Jun 26, 2008 7:29:36 GMT
We don't have a thread for this, as far as I can tell. At some forums I used to run we had an ongoing thread for "best Final Fantasy moments," where you take the games and talk about the best moments - moments where you cheered, where you cried, just moments that stuck out to you in particular. For any Final Fantasy. I know that in Final Fantasy VII, I whooped when everyone came back after Cloud told them to go find their reasons to fight, and I cried when you saw Nanaki's Petrified father. But I've been replaying FFX as of late and there were two particular moments that got to me - the Kilika dance always does, but I guess I was just more affected by these scenes this time through. The Summoner's Sanctum scene - where the summoners Dona and Isaaru both say that they're willing to fight and die for Spira, and then summon to beat some monster. This is also where Tidus finds out that Yuna is going to die. His voice actor did SUCH an amazing job. He lets out this heart-wrenching scream, and starts yelling at everyone, and you can just hear his heart breaking in half. The entire scene was done wonderfully. IMO. (See it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzC5Tq_HU2Q)The Mt. Gagazet scene - when Kelk Ronso confronts the party and brands them traitors. He asks Yuna why, after all Yevon is putting them through, they still fight, and Yuna looks at him and says "I fight for Spira." As much as I dislike Yuna's character, that one scene belied an inner strength to the character that as a human being and a writer I'm just floored by. Also, the song playing in the background, People of the North Pole, is my absolute favorite song out of the game. I love it - it's strong but peaceful. (See it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJaw00av-JI)So, what are your guys' favorite scenes from the games? You don't have to link to them like I did, but you can if you want to. Just tryin' to spice things up, things have been rather dull 'round these parts lately.
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Post by Mengde on Jun 26, 2008 8:51:13 GMT
The scene in the Summoner's Sanctum is also one of my absolute favorites - FFX is probably my favorite FF overall, depsite all the stuff I do for FFVII. The ending, where Tidus embraces Yuna even as he's fading away, continues to break my heart every time I see it, despite knowing that canonically he comes back to life (FFX-2... meh). If there were one piece of fictitious media that could make me cry - literature, television, whatever - it would be that game.
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Post by fearandloathing on Jun 26, 2008 9:06:56 GMT
Good call Tasha, methinks there hasn't been enough good old fashioned FF chat, chit-chat and relationships is good, but dammit this is a final fantasy forumn!. As for Mendge. End of FFX makes me cry every. Single. Time. Even the high five with Jehct makes me all 'They've....finally...*sniff*... made... amends WAAAAHHH!' And the horrible pyre-fly embrace, god damn that game is sad. This is why after literally raping the final battles (I overtrained a LOT, though I still can't beat those damn dark aeons ) I had to go and reload the game and then run around Besaid going 'Tidus is ALIVE.... see?' Yes, I am pathetic. On the same topic of ends, the ending of 9 is the best most squeeworthy high EVER. Especially pre-cutscene, when Zidane just goes 'BRING MY DAGGER TO ME!' and there's me sitting in my room at like 2am going Some of my pet scenes are in VII when Cloud gets his memory back and realizes he has motion sickness, then there's just that LOVELY scene with Yuffie on the Highwind , when Zidane does the whole 'you don't need a reason to help people line' and the whole scene in 8 when Rinoa goes 'I'm frightened' and Squall tells her he's not her mom
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Post by Jeanneandheralters on Jun 26, 2008 10:35:30 GMT
Favorite moments. I have many so I shall name one from VII, VIII, and IX.
As much as I love Aerith I find myself laughing like a monkey on a sugar high when she dies. Sniffling a bit, but laughing.
IX. Oh how I love the first Final Fantasy I ever played. When Zidane found out he about his 'creation' and was all...angsty? Angsty I guess. Extremely amusing.
Seifer calling Zell names. Definitely the best.
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Post by T. Costa on Jun 26, 2008 11:19:14 GMT
Good call Tasha, methinks there hasn't been enough good old fashioned FF chat, chit-chat and relationships is good, but dammit this is a final fantasy forumn!. I know, right? Not only that, but we're all writers - we all are cognizant of the poignancy of individual moments. I figured this'd be a great way to kinda work the brains. Another favorite of mine from FFX is the very beginning, once you've played it through past the Summoner's Sanctum part. Like, the part with the credits where they're all camped out at Zanarkand. Then you realize what's going on. And also, the music is just awesome. One of my absolute favorite laughing parts from FF7 is where Sephiroth is in the mural room rambling on about how he's going to become one with the planet, and Tseng goes "...You can do that?" XDDDDD Also when Vincent tells Cid (if you have them in your party on the train to Corel) "Crank it, Chief!"
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Post by fearandloathing on Jun 26, 2008 11:36:32 GMT
That part is so bittersweet, Tasha >_> I mean that whole 'hand on the shoulder' thing is just D: I once wrote an aurikku drabble set on that night, it was highly inspired by 'fix you' by Coldplay one of those small insignificant fics that tends to get lost in a fandom, but I like it. One of the classic moments of FF8 is when Squall finally meets Laguna, and more or less all he has to say about him is 'you were clumsy and careless, I didn't care for you attitude at all' about him being a soldier oh Squall, how you. Laguna is such a spaz, though I mean that in the nicest possible way FF-9 moment of fame, when Zidane tells Garnet/Dagger to - 'listen to her heart'... when he's calling for you! Song insert FTW. I think it will only be so long before someone mentions the lake scene from FFX 'kisskisskisskisskisskisskiss!!!' although Leaf refers to it as 'metaphorical sex' and another friend goes one step further and calls it rape because Yuna's crying I love that scene a whole lot although I'll admit the J-pop scared me a little first time round. I even have a save before it so if I want to I can go back and watch it againandagainandagain. Here's a good X-2 moment yes, really that actually slayed me when you are in the farplane abyss if you whistle when Yuna says she's 'all alone' and TIDUS APPEARS D: oh god you can just see this outline of him and he's /whistling/ and walks just like Tidus walks >.< I was so close to tears then.
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Post by T. Costa on Jun 26, 2008 11:59:11 GMT
Oh God. I actually really hated the kiss moment in FFX (also, the rape comment cracked me up in ways I cannot express properly). I hated it with a passion. It was so. Freakin'. Lame. Kenny was sitting next to me when I got to that part in the game and I actually felt embarrassed to be playing it. I am not sure why I hate that part - I don't think it's the bad J-pop. I'm just...it's so lame and cliché. It just felt like every bad love scene from fanfic ever. No one's first kiss is that magical and I think that by trying to make it look that way, they're being retarded. I think that them kissing in the water without the music and floating around BS would have been better. I mean, they kiss, her eyes close, it shows Kimarhi leaving, fade to black. AWESOME SCENE. Also, it would have saved two minutes of my life if I didn't have to watch them make out to bad J-pop.
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Post by NRGburst on Jun 26, 2008 12:24:17 GMT
Well, I like J-pop, and I adore romance. But that didn't save me from absolutely hating that scene either. *Gimme a break. So now Yuna's a blitzball player too and can hold her breath for hours underwater? Didn't she just get married to some other guy a little while ago? Is this synchronized swimming supposed to be romantic? Ugh, aren't they finished yet?*
Favorite moments: The Tidus pyrefly embrace is definitely up there. I think you have to have a heart of stone not to cry over the end of FFX. That Nanaki scene in FFVII is one that really touched me as well. This may not really count, seeing as how it's a movie. But from AC, I really like the emotion in "Watashitachi... omoide ni maketa no?" (Have we lost to a memory?)
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Post by Sylla on Jun 26, 2008 18:06:22 GMT
Heh, I actually quite liked the lake kissing scene. Even though, yes, it is almost unparalleled where cheesiness is concerned. XD
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Post by T. Costa on Jun 26, 2008 19:54:33 GMT
I was just un-fond of it. >.<
And my favorite part in Advent Children was the part when everyone helps Cloud up. I dunno why, but the part where even Aeris comes back and is like "Ready?" makes me teary-eyed.
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Post by Sai on Jun 26, 2008 20:04:02 GMT
"I dreamed that I was an idiot"... Squall made me laugh so flipping hard when he said this, right after the first dream with Laguna. Selphie was like 'yay, romance and cute men' while Squall was all 'I hate that I was stupid... my god.'
Hmmm... Let's see--- I always loved finding Vincent in the basement. It's probably because what my aunt did to the game (I've told yuo that she did impersonations of the characters and made a very flamboyant man) so watching him angst with a lisp will forever me ingrained into my head.
*Snickers*
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Post by NRGburst on Jun 26, 2008 21:02:26 GMT
Oh, I loved that line too! I couldn't remember it though, so thanks. Actually, my whole family likes doing moogles in cute voices from FF9. Kupo?
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Post by Jeanneandheralters on Jun 27, 2008 1:55:16 GMT
I loved that part to Sai. I loved the part where Zidane was climbing up the airship ladder after Garnet and bumped into her...butt...and said "Oh soft?"
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Post by unwinding fantasy on Jun 27, 2008 12:09:40 GMT
The ending of X choked me up like no game's ever done. Other moments I love: - VIII's opening FMV. So much mystery and a sword fight to boot. - Red's discovery about his father. That entire scene is bittersweet but the music especially gets to me. - When you get into a random encounter in the Via Purifico and Auron goes, "I hate this place." XDDDD - When Beatrix and Steiner fight through the streets of Alexandria during Bahamut's attack. Steiner almost blurts a love confession; Beatrix more or less tells him to save it for later. - Barret's comment about Jenova: "Where's it's #*$^ head?!" - Climbing up Shinra tower when Sephiroth's just stolen said head. The blood smears coupled with that creepy music... - When Squall finally saves Rinoa from the Sorceress' Shrine. With help from his friends he shakes off his resignation -- it's like he's making up for all those other times he was abandoned. - The very beginning of XII when Reks is slain. Too bad the storytelling ended there. -_- Oh, I loved that line too! I couldn't remember it though, so thanks. Actually, my whole family likes doing moogles in cute voices from FF9. Kupo? I think the actual line is, "I dreamed I was a moron." XD
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Post by Sylla on Jun 27, 2008 12:25:40 GMT
And my favorite part in Advent Children was the part when everyone helps Cloud up. I dunno why, but the part where even Aeris comes back and is like "Ready?" makes me teary-eyed. OH GOD YES. That scene plucks at my proverbial heartstrings every time. And there's the scene in the church when Aeris turns and says: "You see? Everything's... all right," and then walks away. I'm always like: "Look, it's Aeris! Waaaaaahhh! *incomprehensible sobbing*
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