Pat the NES Cunt

[Dehbashi]

Nomura should've been restricted to being an artist + debugger and nothing more. He's always been style over substance for the most part, but the actual main conspirator in the historically shitty writing maelstrom in most mainline Square games comes down to Kazushige Nojima. He wrote most of the plots for...
>Kingdom Hearts
>FF8
>Advent Children
>FF10
>10-2
>FF13 (along with Motomu Toriyama)
>FF15
>Mobius FF
>Dissidia
>FF7R
So, alongside Nomura and Toriyama, this guy has always been the PINNACLE of hacks over at Square & probably the one who started the whole corruption of the company's "style over substance" approach from the get go as far back as 1999.

Funny you named those 3. As I pointed out early those 3 are the writer and co-directors respectfully in this game.

[da PAC Nigguh]

Nomura's management is the reason every project at Square takes at least 6 years now.

[rabidtictac]

ff13-2 and 3: Never played those, but for what i saw they have the same shallow and retarded time travel plot they are pushing with this "remake".

FUCKING THIS!!!

It's ALWAYS the same shit that Nomura and Nojima do in most of these stories they've been writing; the same god damn convoluted time travel shit every fucking time. It's as if they looked at the first Final Fantasy's time travel subplot involving Garland and the Fiends and decided to make that their crux to abide by through recycling the motif every single time.
Kingdom Hearts eventually had it with Dream Drop Distance and KH3.
FF8 had something similar in terms of the flashback sequences & eventually executes it.
FF10 did this.
10-2 did this.
FFT: War of the Lions touched on this.
FFTA2 did this.
13-2's entire premise was this.
World of Final Fantasy did this.
Bravely Second: End Layer did this.
FF15 had a gameplay mechanic with a dog to revisit areas from 10 years before the endgame.
Now, it's implied FF7R is doing this, and the inevitable sequels will follow.
Enough of this shit already. Square can't into time travel.

Type Zero did it too. Gay time travel/cyclical worlds bullshit.

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

Actually, there is no time travel in FFX. Tidus is just a fake ghost memory person from a fake ghost memory city. X-2 just has an actual ghost.

Still, he overuses that shit even more than Bad Blizzard does "Muh prophecy" and "Muh good character from a previous game suddenly becoming eeeeevil".

FF Dissidia and Duodecim: Convoluted storytelling for "a bunch of FF heroes and villains have been summoned to fite each other"

I think my favorite bit of "Chaos and Cosmos are actually crystal golems from FF1 Ornac, with Cosmos being a crystal clone of Cid's waifu" is that it has absofucking nothing to do with anything that happens in the games. It's jut there, like unecessary backstory in a shitty D&D adventure that the player characters have no actual way of finding out.

[Keith Chegwin]

Nomura's management is the reason every project at Square takes at least 6 years now.

Has anything about their projects since Nomura made you think 'Yeah I want that shit more frequently'?

[rabidtictac]

You can pretty well pinpoint the exact era the stories in FF games went to shit. FF1 through FF6, they were either really simple or pretty good. Anime stories, but still good. Then FF7 hit and Sephiroth was a big deal for the fans. FF8 was the big nomura showstopper, building on the angst and 2edgy designs from 7, and all the FFs afterwards (minus FF9 and spinoffs) have been Mega Gay.

Even FF9 probably has Nomura's stink on it somewhere, if you look really hard.

The less said about bravely default, the better. It promised a return to the FF5 heyday, but provided a shallow retread of FF5's job system mixed with a new, mostly shit "brave/default" mechanic, and a truly awful nomura story.

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The brave and default stuff is mostly terrible because there's not much strategy unless you're fighting a boss. You just spam brave with your damage dealers x4 on everyone and the enemy dies. If they survive, well, that's why you have 1 character use default, so they can heal until you can brave x4 again. It's a joke.

[Guest]

Quistis > FF7

[Kugelfisch]

Still, he overuses that shit even more than Bad Blizzard does "Muh prophecy" and "Muh good character from a previous game suddenly becoming eeeeevil".

Bad Blizzard? I think you mean Blizzard full stop. At the ending of Diablo the hero has that gem fly into his forehead, turning him into the wanderer. Starcraft also did it since day one with the Zerg queen. It's always been their storytelling crutch since the very beginning. The games were just much better.

[Keith Chegwin]

Even FF9 probably has Nomura's stink on it somewhere, if you look really hard.

Nah, he was not involved whatsoever. Aside from references to FFVII and FFVIII. Nomura was busy working on FFX

[MegaNigger]

Even FF9 probably has Nomura's stink on it somewhere, if you look really hard.

Nah, he was not involved whatsoever. Aside from references to FFVII and FFVIII. Nomura was busy working on FFX

FF9 is a greatest hits album of the entire franchise up to that point, and the protagonist isn't a emo faggot, so that helps immensely. The idea of souls recycling and another planet trying to usurp yours so their people can live is kinda neat as a plot device. I liked the item crafting, jobs, and combat. The airships all looked really fucking cool.

Kuja was gay looking as fuck and an emo faggot which just made killing him all the more enticing. Same deal with """"Queen"""" Branhe, the tranny. FF9 is based, whereas FF7 with its disgusting cross dressing and gay sex scene is an abomination that festered generations of unchecked autism and degeneracy.