Fayt wasn't nearly as bad as advertised. His VA did have an incredibly annoying cry voice, but... I can't really hold it against Fayt as he reacted to almost all the circumstances presented to him in an understandable way. The only thing I can hold against him was a silly name. Cliff rocked the house, Nel was cool but sadly trailed off, Maria was also awesome. Sophia was terribly generic. Peppita joins the ranks of bubbly characters I like. Mirage needed more scenes. Roger, Adray and Albel were just kinda there, though Adray did make the most of his limited screentime with general awesomeness.
Wait, Fayt gets antihyped? I thought most people, here at least, actually LIKE Fayt. Only time I actually saw antihype for him was someone whining about the Ameena scene and...that was about it.
Anyway...
FFTLW: Finally completed. Its FFT, that says everything right there.
Ok, the main thing this game deserves credit for over the original? Generally clearing things up in the plot, be it some things that were originally vague, aspects that weren't explained and just kind of tossed in (Wiegraf joining the Shrine Knights; yeah, it makes sense, but is still kind of sudden and it lasts purely for "Oh, rematch Ramza! BLARGHLE! Now I'm dying *turns into Velius* RAR NOW I EVIL!" which was kind of wasted. Adding one more scene that actually shows how and why he joins the Shrine Knights helps make the thing feel less superficial.), or things lost in FFT's translation.
The big one is basically anything Delita related. Its...pretty hard to argue now that Delita was just sweet talking his way through everything, and saying what people wanted to hear just so he could use them, and that he's just lying out of his ass about his motives. No, the game makes it clear that a lot of what Delita says is sincere (again, the line "On Tietra's soul, I swear!" is NOT something Delita would say unless he actually meant it), that he actually did pity Ovelia, and wanted what was best for her, not just to use her, and that he was actually not an evil scheming bastard.
Also the fact that it kills idiotic theories like "OMG DELITA CUT BALMAFULA'S TONGUE OUT!" just kind of died. Olan outright states that Delita merely made an act of aggression of Bamafula to fake her death, which allowed her to flee the castle unharmed, or "STAB WITH FLOWERS!" as based on Delita's animation, and the fact that now we KNOW Ovelia had a knife, it seems pretty clear that Delita pulls the knife out of his chest and stabs Ovelia...could be over analyzing, but there's only one knife in the scene and we know Ovelia had one, and it just doesn't seem to fit with FFTLW Delita to plan to murder Ovelia after all he went through to keep her alive.
...yeah, I'm just looking into a big debate scene which I should probably stop <.<
Oh, the game making a bit of an attempt to de-suck Rafa, Malak and Meliadoul was nice. Rafa and Malak are...still pretty crappy, granted, but they can at least DO stuff in battles, like kill an enemy here and there. Meliadoul mainly just became useful on randoms given Mighty Sword now works vs. nonequipped targets.
...and then they do nothing to improve Cloud, who probably needed it the most (Rafa and Malak were more interesting concepts gone wrong, and to truly de-suck them would require changing the nature of their characters, I feel.) No...they couldn't just add Auto Short Charge to him, or let him use any Sword he wants for Limits (he'd like Rune Blade), or just make him NOT START AT LEVEL 1 WITH NOTHING LEARNED (but he has a few classes open!!!), or...yeah, Cloud's as worthless in practice as ever, pure novelty.
Speaking of Cameo PCs, Luso and Balthier were nifty additions, though both pretty much scream twink bait. Granted, they both kind of make the Thief Class useless outside of Move+2 and possibly Catch, Luso having automatic poaching with weapons and stats much better than the Thief, and Balthier having an improved version of the entire Steal Skillset...combined with a lot of other nonsensical goodies (ie better equipment selection than Orlandu, generally decent stats, Barrage...)...yeah...
They didn't add a lot to the game, no, but hey, new PCs are nice and such! Especially with the party limit raised to 24.
...anyway, enough ranting about stuff most people already know about, and how FFT is awesome and such, lets move on or something!
AI: This "Open the Gate" fetch quest fails. Mostly cause I've been working on it for a damn long time now, and I feel like I'm getting nowhere. Feels exactly like BoF2's mid game really <_< >_>
Anyway, suppose to go to Flawless Model.
