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headfallsoff
@headfallsoff.com

the choice to have the shadow lord do saturday morning cartoon barks every 3 seconds is driving me crazy. raogrimm is an ice cold motherfucker he is not saying shit like "i will crush your bones"

headfallsoff
@headfallsoff.com

he isnt talking about the galka at all hes just saying generic jrpg villain shit like "can your vaunted “justice” withstand the brunt of the deepest rancor and wrath" they're doing him so dirty

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headfallsoff
@headfallsoff.com

sure i mean i do think just yelling i will crush your bones is lame i wasnt line checking every single thing. but to step back the thing that makes him work as a villain is that he seems like a generic fall to darkness guy but isnt at all, he has a very specific thing driving him

CodCart
@codcart.bsky.social

Hearing the uninformed rumors 14 players spread about 11 is hilarious. Once I literally heard someone say "if you pick the wrong dialog choice in a cut scene, it kills and delvls you!!"

CodCart
@codcart.bsky.social

Like people seem to think it's some ancient relic that has zero game design and intentionally trolls the player and there's no reason anyone would ever want to play it beyond blind nostalgia

tanino gimlet wifeguy
@betweenleylines.bsky.social

to be fair he's a facsimile created from an idea of raogrimm by a saturday morning cartoon villain who isn't even from vana'diel to begin with, I don't think it's a stretch to say that maybe it's a little intentional. the obvious artificiality of the vana'diel in the raids is Part Of The Story Point

headfallsoff
@headfallsoff.com

wait that is such a bunch of confusing lore to explain why the raids are less interesting than they could be if they were normal lmao that’s an odd choice? do they do this kinda thing a lot with the cameos, i assume to not step on the toes of the game they’re borrowing from?

Victor Hunter
@victorehunter.bsky.social

It really depends. Things like Ivalice raids or FFIII are all woven really well into XIV’e pre-existing lore. Even Dawntrail’s FFIX bosses all feel like they make sense in-world. Then you get things like FFXI raids and Nier which are kinda just stapled on. Even though previous XI stuff is done well

Sevith
@sevith.bsky.social

One funny thing regarding FF11 specifically is that the FF11 seasonal event they've ran a couple times has Actual Iroha from the Rhapsodies of Vana'diel questline show up and it ends with her getting stuck in 14. So there is a major character from 11 that is just canonically wandering Eorzea.

Sevith
@sevith.bsky.social

Unlike the 13, 15 and 16 ones where they end with Lightning, Noctis and Clive going *back* to their world. Iroha? Nope, she's just stuck here never to be followed up on.

tanino gimlet wifeguy
@betweenleylines.bsky.social

actually yes mostly. mainly in Omega raids (literally all throwback fights to NES/SNES FF outside of O11+12) are all the same thing, just facsimiles created by Omega to test you. The Nier raids aren't tho. those are drakenguard/Nier canon which is baffling but so is Nier lore

tanino gimlet wifeguy
@betweenleylines.bsky.social

the funniest example is the Eden raids where they literally construct the primals out of the WOL's memories and it turns out the WOL has a really fucked up memory. which makes for some comedy shit like Titan turning into a car