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 Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 4:17 am
i guess you can find loads of links if you look hard enough
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Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 8:13 pm
The espers are a definite similarity. Summons = Guardian Forces = Summon Materia = Magicite
Interestingly enough, it used to be that something was needed to summon creatures; a piece of magicite or materia. Eventually, the spirits began bonding with creatures, and after a while only select individuals could become Summoners. Classes became so loosely defined after about FF V that I find it interesting that Summoner seems to be an actual class. I wonder if the two are connected?
And before Summonings, Shiva and Ifrit, among others, were Gods. Interesting to follow the evolution, no? Especially since Kefka set himself up as a god, and FF VI was (I think...) the first game that you could summon in (Actually... there were Callers in FF IV. But I don't remember Calling being the same as Summoning.); it could be that the gods were weakened, and lost their invincibility as people lost faith. The Goddess Shiva, if memory serves me, was imprisoned in a castle basement in FF V, was she not? Espers, then, would be the Gods Shiva, Ramu, Kirin, Ifrit, Bahamut, Tritoch, Siren (any of these names sound familiar?) and many others. They sealed themselves away, but lost power when Kefka gained divinity.
And by FF X, when they are hardly more than pets to be called upon at need, they have been further weakened by a monotheistic religion, that of Yevon. In fact, they have been absorbed by Yevon into sort of Saints, relics of the church. I like how the Fayth become less tame as they progress, with the first being friendly, stopping to be pet before battle, and by the time you reach Shiva and Bahamut they're not quite so nice anymore. Yuna looks positively nervous.
Hey! It's strikingly similar to what happened when polytheism was beaten down and fazed out by Judaism/ Islam/Catholocism/Christianity, where the old gods were denounced, imprisoned, and eventually integrated into the monotheistic religions! eek I'm going to start a thread now!
Yes... I get waay too into this stuff. The sad part is, I came up with this theory while I was writing it. Just now. sweatdrop
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Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2005 4:49 pm
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Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 3:43 am
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Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 7:31 am
are people watching the ff flash videos if so what do you think of them.
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Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 10:57 am
Oh yeh. I ordered my copy of advent children today xd
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Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 11:03 am
Todd's gonna lend it to me when he's finished...not dubbed but got subs
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Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 11:23 am
Pierre42 Todd's gonna lend it to me when he's finished...not dubbed but got subs mines in subs too
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Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 1:01 pm
reckon it'll ever come out properly like in Uk?
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Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 1:18 pm
Pierre42 reckon it'll ever come out properly like in Uk? i'm not sure. It's not as big over here.
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Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 10:49 am
S'pose must be a japanese thing then sad
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Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 10:51 am
Pierre42 S'pose must be a japanese thing then sad it's a lot bigger in japan than in britain
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Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 11:16 am
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Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 11:24 am
well it's final fantasy in general. Ok the popularity is pretty good here but it is apreciated a lot more in some countries then in the u'k
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Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 11:00 am
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