"These guys are terrible lifeguards" had me laughing out loud already.
...personally I think Botta just broke his nose trying to "head" a blitzball. Yes, I know he's got multiple slash-scars as if he's been in combat. He's just that bad.
...heh, I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who remembers bad bootleg subtitles once I go back to the original version.
Seagull tangent (heh): Yes, what really struck me about religion in FFX is that we've got the whole Christian "atoning for your sins" apparatus, complete with adherence to sacred dogma and a priesthood who can excommunicate you, but — no God. Unless it's Yevon, but really, despite all the "Praise be to Yevon," there are no idols to Yevon, and Yevon seems to mean the religion, the way, rather than an overarching deity. As you say, like Buddhism, which is named after the bloke who founded it (although, human nature being what it is, various cultures that adapted Buddhism sometimes made him a focus of worship and even started giving him multiple incarnations that operate like divine avatars).
Dear Wakka with his black-and-white snap decisions mentality. Whatever he believes, he's all the way. Messy gray areas make his head hurt.
...I've played this game for so long that I had forgotten how baffled I was by the "Aurochs" name. I mean, at least they could've been water buffalos. Then again, an entirely unseaworthy animal mascot seems almost appropriate for this team.
Vilucha's tweaking Tidus over his clothing is one of the cute touches in this game. (I suspect the line was already in the script, but somebody decided to give it to the npc with the most obviously silly costume. As opposed to Codpiece Man, her husband,* whose underwear-over-pants problem is not obvious from a distance.)
*This game has a weird variant of the FF Dead Moms Society: not only do Dead Moms never have a name, but npcs can escape from No Name Limbo if they offer themselves as free agents for blitzball. No wonder so many unlikely people are blitz players.
"Tiny domesticated coeurls" oh gack I never thought of that. That's so cute. (And it makes me like them better; how can one pet a cat properly with that dratted dorsal fin in the way?)
Video Game Architecture is especially glaring in Besaid. On the bright side, someone took the time to give all the villagers at least tiny bits of backstory or characterization and make them consistent throughout the game.
Whoa. I always thought Wakka meant Yuna as the "Temple summoner." But you're right; Wakka wouldn't say that while she was in the Cloister. That's puzzling. Why did I never notice that? Gotta be him, though — the one I've been calling Father Turan, oops — as you have to talk to him to trigger the Path of Plot Advancement.
Aww, I like your headcanon that the reason the statue is arriving now is that the village had to fund it and wanted it up for Yuna to see. That makes so much sense. (Otherwise, why did it take ten years to get one?)
... that big block of Yevon writing on the wall with the too-blurry-to-read characters VEXES ME. I'd love it if you could puzzle it out. Maybe it'll be easier to read in the remaster. (I'm still praying that we'll be given camera control.)
The "he looks pretty weak" line is puzzling. As I have run into two lines of dialog in FFVII today that include pronoun confusion, and Lady Yocun is called "Lord Yocun" by one confused npc, I hope that isn't a he/she mistake. FFX's script is usually quite polished, however. (I had actually assumed this line was referring to Wakka, and that the npc was wondering why he wasn't guarding Yuna, but "weak" is just not a word that could be applied to my favorite meathead.)
I'm still perplexed at why the Cloister of Trials is dangerous to guardians. Besaid's seems pretty danged tame. But the other temples are, actually, somewhat dangerous, between walls of fire and ice bridges suddenly vanishing and OMG THAT THING IN BEVELLE COULD DRIVE ANYONE TO PERMANENT INSANITY especially if that music really is being piped through invisible speakers.
And I'm grateful that you rescued my nattering from the hidden depths of Tumblr reblogging, since I can never find any old posts on that site, tags or no tags.
Yes, Tidus charging in and trampling over the teachings is terribly disrespectful and does not cast him in a good light. But it's exactly what he's good for. :)
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...personally I think Botta just broke his nose trying to "head" a blitzball. Yes, I know he's got multiple slash-scars as if he's been in combat. He's just that bad.
...heh, I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who remembers bad bootleg subtitles once I go back to the original version.
Seagull tangent (heh): Yes, what really struck me about religion in FFX is that we've got the whole Christian "atoning for your sins" apparatus, complete with adherence to sacred dogma and a priesthood who can excommunicate you, but — no God. Unless it's Yevon, but really, despite all the "Praise be to Yevon," there are no idols to Yevon, and Yevon seems to mean the religion, the way, rather than an overarching deity. As you say, like Buddhism, which is named after the bloke who founded it (although, human nature being what it is, various cultures that adapted Buddhism sometimes made him a focus of worship and even started giving him multiple incarnations that operate like divine avatars).
Dear Wakka with his black-and-white snap decisions mentality. Whatever he believes, he's all the way. Messy gray areas make his head hurt.
...I've played this game for so long that I had forgotten how baffled I was by the "Aurochs" name. I mean, at least they could've been water buffalos. Then again, an entirely unseaworthy animal mascot seems almost appropriate for this team.
Vilucha's tweaking Tidus over his clothing is one of the cute touches in this game. (I suspect the line was already in the script, but somebody decided to give it to the npc with the most obviously silly costume. As opposed to Codpiece Man, her husband,* whose underwear-over-pants problem is not obvious from a distance.)
*This game has a weird variant of the FF Dead Moms Society: not only do Dead Moms never have a name, but npcs can escape from No Name Limbo if they offer themselves as free agents for blitzball. No wonder so many unlikely people are blitz players.
"Tiny domesticated coeurls" oh gack I never thought of that. That's so cute. (And it makes me like them better; how can one pet a cat properly with that dratted dorsal fin in the way?)
Video Game Architecture is especially glaring in Besaid. On the bright side, someone took the time to give all the villagers at least tiny bits of backstory or characterization and make them consistent throughout the game.
Whoa. I always thought Wakka meant Yuna as the "Temple summoner." But you're right; Wakka wouldn't say that while she was in the Cloister. That's puzzling. Why did I never notice that? Gotta be him, though — the one I've been calling Father Turan, oops — as you have to talk to him to trigger the Path of Plot Advancement.
Aww, I like your headcanon that the reason the statue is arriving now is that the village had to fund it and wanted it up for Yuna to see. That makes so much sense. (Otherwise, why did it take ten years to get one?)
... that big block of Yevon writing on the wall with the too-blurry-to-read characters VEXES ME. I'd love it if you could puzzle it out. Maybe it'll be easier to read in the remaster. (I'm still praying that we'll be given camera control.)
The "he looks pretty weak" line is puzzling. As I have run into two lines of dialog in FFVII today that include pronoun confusion, and Lady Yocun is called "Lord Yocun" by one confused npc, I hope that isn't a he/she mistake. FFX's script is usually quite polished, however. (I had actually assumed this line was referring to Wakka, and that the npc was wondering why he wasn't guarding Yuna, but "weak" is just not a word that could be applied to my favorite meathead.)
I'm still perplexed at why the Cloister of Trials is dangerous to guardians. Besaid's seems pretty danged tame. But the other temples are, actually, somewhat dangerous, between walls of fire and ice bridges suddenly vanishing and OMG THAT THING IN BEVELLE COULD DRIVE ANYONE TO PERMANENT INSANITY especially if that music really is being piped through invisible speakers.
And I'm grateful that you rescued my nattering from the hidden depths of Tumblr reblogging, since I can never find any old posts on that site, tags or no tags.
Yes, Tidus charging in and trampling over the teachings is terribly disrespectful and does not cast him in a good light. But it's exactly what he's good for. :)