“Oh yeah? Name one character from every game.”
“Cid.”
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I keep coming back to this comment for how clever it is in this context.
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"Name one X" perfectly reflects the original source, specifically "name one law" from this episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine (specifically S04E04)
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"Name one character from every game" could be interpreted as both "name an individual character from each game," as well as "name a character with the same name in every game."
Granted, Cid was retconned into FF1 with the GBA remake, but that change has been consistent going forward.
By far the best. I've laughed so much at this.
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Name 7 plot points? If got this:
- this religion is a cult! Let's kill God!
- "fuck you dad!"
- main cast commit terrorism
- manmade horrors beyond comprehension
- the villain was kinda right?
- beware men with unnatural hair colours
- memory loss
How about:
- Magic/Magitech doesn't kill people, people kill people. (VI)
- Killing an illegal alien and her "child" makes you a hero. (VII)
- Burn the Witches. (VIII)
- Never trust a polycule with an overweight woman, a twink, a group in robes, and a geezer. (IX)
- One of these teens will die by the end and they know it, but they will hide this fact from their lover for some reason. (X)
- You've been marked by a demon. Do what they say and die, or don't and become a monster. (XIII)
- Celebrity deathmatch: who will be the ultimate (E)icon? (XVI)
Note: Only intended to be a silly joke. None of the above reflects my opinion on anything in the real world, to be fully and unambiguously clear.
So i didn't miss anything by not having played one FF?
Amnesia is an extremely common trope in Japanese fiction: anime, manga, and games. At this point I’d say it’s reaching cliche status.
They also almost always get the symptoms of amnesia wrong: the characters forget who they are. In real life amnesia cases that basically never happens. People can forget a lot of other things but they never forget who they are.
The bad guy is going to destroy the world!
We have to kill god!
Chocobos love gysahl greens.
Time travel isn't that common though? The series is pretty overarching but I can only remember a handful few.
Some just have the implication of time travel, or summons that feel like time travel. Or hidden bosses that feel like time travel.
Jokes on you, literally every game has time travel.
If you consider that we are all traveling through time, at the speed of regular time.
I used to travel at 1 second per second. I still do, but I used to too.
I don't recall time travel in 4, 6, 7, or 13? 10 could be added to the list considering Tidus's real history
Woooosh
I know only 8 and 10 does time travel. Is there any other?
10 doesn't, unless the sequels retconned it too.
1 and XIII-2 do. Dissidia 012 likely too as a few characters in their original games exist in different points of history. Bravely Second and Kingdom Hearts too if you consider them part of the franchise. Can't remember any others.
If FFXIV counts, it has it too.
Final Fantasy 7 Remake also has time travel, technically.
Stranger in Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin would count, but that's just a wacky reinvention of FF1.
10 doesn't, unless the sequels retconned it too.
I don't consider the video spheres from the past in X-2 to be time travel any more than watching old movies or home videos is time travel.
Even the ending where
Spoiler
Tidus returns isn't time travel since he clearly still has his memories.
I also don't personally consider Dissidia, Bravely, or Kingdom Hearts to be Final Fantasy cannon. So that leaves I, VIII, XIII-2, and XIV that are unambiguously cannon and include time travel as a plot point, unless I'm missing something.
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The very first game has time travel in it.
Hair. Big sword.
Final Fantasy 1 - Yeah but barely
Final Fantasy 2 - Dunno, i hate that game
Final Fantasy 3 - You acctually unfrozen a world frozed in time/space, does count ?
Final Fantasy 4 - Moon Aliens
Final Fantasy 5 - Acctually you reunited two halves of a world rifted apart for everyone safety
Final Fantasy 6 - Funny Clown Man became God
Final Fantasy 7 - Ecoterrorists and mommy issues
Final Fantasy 8 - Now that's acctually have propely time travel.
Final Fantasy 9 - I don't care, i just love Zidane little shenanigans
Final Fantasy 10 - People die and Yuna keep dancing
Final Fantasy 11 - Not very fondly on MMOs
Final Fantasy 12 - Is the Middle East all over again but with magic nuclear bombs and some of the hardest summon bosses.
Final Fantasy 13 - Basically where i gave up the main series
X and X-2 have so much time travel.
X: People die because they got sucked in by time travelling monster
X-2: Recovering time-travelling boyfriend by astral-projecting to sing the songs of a 100 year old pop-star who is also Yuna but... Time travel?
Edit: I would also accept the "alternate realities" interpretation from comments below, but I'd say travelling between alternate realities is covered under the general umbrella of "time travel".
Major spoilers below.
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X: Sin never time travels to my knowledge. Yu Yevon infects the final summoning that was used to defeat the last Sin in order to create the new Sin. The final summon is created from one of the summoner's guardians, and the summoner dies in the summoning process.
Throughout most of the game, it's assumed that Tidus traveled 1000 years into the future, but it's later revealed that he came from dream Zanarkand that was created by the Fayth. No time travel actually occurred, and Tidus always existed in the present time.
X-2: Again, Tidus never traveled through time. He also still has his memories of Yuna and their relationship, implying this is the same Tidus from before. Still no time travel.
The 100 year old pop star who looks like Yuna, and with a partner who looks like Tidus, that's just history rhyming. All of the relevant information for Yuna was conveyed via video spheres, which are no more time travel than watching old videos is time travel.
What's wild to consider is that Dream Zanarkand existed as an island somewhere on Spira.
Though this begs more questions...
How long has it existed?
I think it's safe to say that the flashbacks Tidus has are not implanted, since Jecht also existed and they sent Jecht first.
So it has probably been there since Jecht was born?
This whole-ass city is just floating around out there somewhere, Sin has ignored it for decades, and it has modern day tech.
You're telling me they couldn't have dreamt of some fucking nukes or something?
"Tidus is the nuke"
TIDUS IS A WHINGY CRYBABY TWINK
My understanding was always that Yu Yevon and the Fayth created dream Zanarkand and Sin just before Zanarkand was destroyed by Bevelle, in order to preserve its memory.
I also seem to recall that Sin protected dream Zanarkand from discovery or interference to preserve its own ongoing existence, since Sin was constantly being summoned by the Fayth.
So wait, why did Sin then attack Zanarkand?
Did Jehct pull a fast one when Yu Yevon was having a nap?
Also how the hell did Jehct leave in the first place?
Did Dream Zanarkand stop existing after Sins attack?
Or was it still there, licking its wounds while Tidua played blitzball with the country folk?
By that point, Jecht was Sin, he had asked Auron (who was unsent by then) to watch over Tidus in dream Zanarkand, and wanted to bring Tidus to Spira. That was the cause of the attack at the beginning of the game.
Jecht went from Zanarkand to Spira by swimming out too far and coming into contact with the previous incarnation of Sin while it was still healing, I think?
Dream Zanarkand did still exist after that attack, otherwise Sin wouldn't have existed throughout the game. That's why when Sin is defeated before the eternal calm, Tidus also goes to the farplane with the Fayth. Either both exist, or neither exist.
None of X is actually time travel though. Thats what was so great about the game.
So many better examples in the comments; hell even Dragon Quest has more time travel in it than FF, lol.
Edit: people keeping score: 1, 8, 11, 13-2 and 14 have some form of time travel. 10 is debatable, as it's complicated (and not time travel but spoilers to explain) but understandable if you think Tidus got zooped into the future. Oh and 15 has a time skip stasis, but I'm not counting that.
Only 8 and 13-2 have it as central theme, and 10s fake time travel. In 1 it's a small thing regarding the big bad but pretty neat, 11 it's an expansion, 14 is a location.
7r has a kind of time travel, right? Or I guess that’s more an alternative dimension…
Another acceptable response: Flashbacks.
That’s the plot point of seven games in the series, not seven plot points in the series.
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