I think of 9, as being the game that was supposed to reflect on the series as a whole. That was it's big selling point right? What I would like to know is what you feel are the most fun, the strongest, the most interesting of these references, because I think I must be overlooking a lot of them.
Positives?
VIVI. His character stood to reference the very first black mage character as you know, and I truly think he did that well and is IMO the best black mage in the entire series. AIRSHIPS. I did love the oldschool airship feel.
Negatives?
CID STATUES. Why did none of the statues in Cid's office reference the Cid's whose numbers they correspond to. That was incredibly shortsighted I felt. They were all holding random objects that had nothing to do with the Cid they represented. CHARACTERS. There was a harken back to non-human characters, which almost worked, except,,, well. In 6, every character, or at least 12 out of the 14 had a very serious reason for joining the team. The same with 7 and 4, and other games, but in 9? What was the heck was Quina doing there? Amarant walsed onto the team extremely late for no apparent reason. Eiko was just a poor man's copy cat of "Dagger". Zidane? Sorry guys, the dude was too uber happy for me. They went to the other extreme after the emo madness that was 7 & 8.
But back to the point. What other references to the series were there? Castles? I mean ok, but ya know,, nothing grand about that that makes me love the game more than another. Anything else that I'm missing?
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