I spent about a month writing this. It's a 13k-word essay that uses a mix of humor and dramatic flair to tackle the subjects of escapism, gender, memes, philosophy, and the meaning of life or whatever, inspired by my time playing Final Fantasy Tactics Advance. It also attempts to answer questions like "Is Marche the bad guy?" once and for all.

(It uses some experimental grammar that I have been fooling around with, but overall I think it's very easy to follow, although a long long read.)

If you read it in full, and it made you feel something, let me know either here or PM or on Mastodon or via email.

Thanks.

Community Rules

Community rules are in place not only to protect the community, but also to make it as enjoyable place for everyone who wishes to be part of it.

TL;DR

1. Be civil and respectful.
2. Mark all spoilers.
3. No spam or low-effort posts.
4. No NSFW content.
5. Keep it Final Fantasy related.

Community Rules In Full

1. Be civil and respectful

Having a civil and respectful community is vital for creating an environment for all to enjoy. The below will not be tolerated under any circumstances;

• i. Abusive language or personal attacks, whether you are the instigator or not.
• ii. Hate speech in any form, including but not limited to; racism, homophobia and transphobia.
• iii. Doxing, or witch-hunts will not only result in a permanent ban, we will report offenders to admins.

2. Mark all spoilers

Final Fantasy may have been around for 40 years, but there are still large numbers of people who are new to a particular game or the franchise as a whole. Ensuring those who are new to Final Fantasy, are also able to enjoy the games they play is important. To help with this, we have the following rules around spoilers;

• i. Spoiler protections will be enforced across all titles, no matter the age of the game. This includes oft discussed aspects, such as character deaths in FFVII and Rebirth.
• ii. Posts containing spoilers must be labelled, and titled as such.
• iii. Images that contain spoilers should be marked as such. Because Lemmy currently does not provide spoiler specific functionality, spoiler image posts should be marked as NSFW.
• iv. Remakes and Remasters are not excluded from these rules.
• v. Upon the release of a new game, a Mega Thread will be created for all discussions related to that game. For a month starting from the release date, any new discussion posts will be removed and creators will be directed to the Mega Thread. An exception will be made for artists and cosplayers as long as the content does not contain spoilers.

3. No spam or low-effort posts

Spam is the bane of any communication method, and community. Low-effort posts

• i. Advertisements, and posts with referral links will be removed.
• ii. Promotional content, or offsite promotion, outside official streams is not allowed, with the following exceptions;
  • Charity streams.
  • Videos or other content documenting events such as a Fan Fest or conference, meetings with actors, producers, or interviews.
  • Content which shows off non-standard content like glitches, errors, etc.
  • Giveaways are discretionary and must be approved by admins and moderators beforehand. Any that are not approved will be treated as spam and promotional material.
• iii. Fan created content is allowed as long as it falls inline with all other rules, with the exception of AI-generated content, which is not allowed outside of mods (e.g. Moguri Mod).
• iv. Shitposting will fall under low-effort rules.
• v. Though memes can be considered low effort, we will allow them at the discretion of mods. However, you should consider using !ffmemes@lemmy.world for meme content instead.
• vi. No "Mods, can you please..." or sidebar flavour text suggestion posts. (If you need to talk to the mods, message us.)

4. No NSFW content

BONK

5. Keep it Final Fantasy related

Off topic or unrelated content to Final Fantasy is not allowed. We include other Square-Enix titles such as Kingdom Hearts in this rule, so users should other communities such as !squareenix@lemmy.world and any other available franchise communities.

We (mods) reserve the right to alter and enact these rules as required. This may mean adding, changing or removing rules as the community changes.

I know it's slow around here, but zero-effort AI slop can only make this community worse.

Preview and sign up for Magic The Gathering Final Fantasy.

This is pretty wild.

I was trying to aim for “modern, present-day white mage,” with all the details that might involve. I got lots of compliments!

Full Text:

Wait, wait, wait! Everybody calm down! There seems to be some misunderstanding, but I'm not retiring from video game music work!

I'm going to cut back a bit on my video game music work because I want to have more time to make the music I want to make. It would be difficult for me to take on the entire soundtrack of a video game because the time commitment for composing would be too long, but I would like to continue to work on jobs such as one theme song.

So, we are waiting for your offer to Nobuo Uematsu con TIKI!

FANTASIAN: Neo Dimension will be his last game.

Team Asobi studio head Nicolas Doucet hinted that the development team had eyed up a Cloud cameo that never got approval from Square Enix. "It's difficult to comment on that," Doucet said. "We really respect the choice of each publisher."

• Features both the main game and DLCs.
• Priced at £69.99
• Standard Edition now £49.99

I have, but I'm going through the Remake trilogy and my partner is watching me complete the game. As far as I know they have somehow stayed unspoiled this whole time, so I'm going to try to keep it that way as long as I can. I'm playing Remake on Hard to remember the story and delay until my next paycheck, but will zoom through as fast as I can to get any cool stuff I missed and then jump into Rebirth.

But I'm just curious, will they still enjoy Rebirth as much as I enjoyed the original games? Or do they change too many things for the sake of the meta-narrative? They are adamant they won't play the original btw, they are watching me play for the story while on their phone, and I don't think will be able to get past the old graphics and lack of voice acting, so I suspect the "This is a sequel, just play the original game" line I keep seeing on Reddit won't fly for them.

• 🎧 Original Soundtrack: https://sqex.lnk.to/vPfoY9
• 🎧 Original DLC Soundtrack From Spire to Sea: https://sqex.lnk.to/JB75Nb

[Notice] PlayStation®5 version of FF16

In response to the crashes and graphical bugs that were occurring on the PlayStation®5 version of FINAL FANTASY XVI, SIE have released a new system update. Please try downloading and installing this update.

Translated:

«Notice About PlayStation® 5 Edition FF16 Since the recent PlayStation® 5 system update, there have been reports of crashes and graphics-related issues with the PlayStation® 5 version of Final Fantasy XVI. We are currently checking the situation with SIE. We apologize for any inconvenience caused. Please wait for further updates.