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phoenixiancrystallist · 1 year

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I'm being so very, very normal about the In Tanta We Trust gameplay trailer, I have absolutely not watched it three dozen times and counting, and I'm most certainly not about to do a long, rambly, I'm-on-my-period-and-my-brain-is-mush gush about it under the cut. Nope, absolutely not, I would never

...Hinges are an illusion made up by Big Normal to keep us boring LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOO

SO to start off let's look at the description on YouTube, it brings me QUESTIONS

Like, guys, we know who they're fighting, they're fighting the Rheddig invaders before/during the Purge of the Rheddig, you've told us this before in previous trailer drops (edit: that I might have made up because I can't find any previous trailers??? memory wut r u doin) and the press release, so why are you being cryptic about this?

Well, the only lines of dialogue in this trailer is Frey and a mysterious person. Frey asks, "The Gloaming, what does it do?" and the mysterious voice who is decidedly not Cuff answers with, "It destroys Athia, of course." But... but that's Susurrus's job, right? Shouldn't Frey already know what's going down, know what's going to happen, and have a certain wrist idiot making noises while she tries to stop it? Is "The Gloaming" what the Rheddig calls Sus? If so that's badass and I love it, but if not, why are there no records about it in the main game? The continued lack of my sassy asshole best buddy in these trailers makes my heart do not so fun things, because I so desperately want him to go with Frey, fight back against the Rheddig and, ultimately, help her face down the Susurrus that existed before he loved knew her. Don't get me wrong, I'm thrilled for whatever I do get, I just hope nothing bad happened to Cuff and he's still there to be a snarky little fuck in Frey's general direction when all is said and done.

("Gloaming," btw, is twilight or dusk, it's when the day fades and night begins. I'm very much in love with this name and my Kingdom Hearts-saturated soul is going bananas right about now).

MOVING ON, we've got the new set of magic:

Sorry if the picture quality is crap, YouTube isn't playing nice with my iPad and I don't have a desktop computer that can handle my bullshit. ANYWAY! Looks an awful lot like Cuff's magic, doesn't it? I've seen speculation on the Forspoken subreddit that this is "yellow" magic, or, more specifically, Rheddig magic. Which makes sense, because it's almost identical to the magic that Cuff wields to protect Frey and deliver his killing blows. And in the fights against Susurrus, he has all that plus big giant laser beams of death, because of course he does. Frey has additional powers that Sus didn't though, like that big-ass sword that she uses to cut spacetime and summon a black hole at 0:36-0:42. Yes, look, I know that gravity spells are a staple of Square Enix fantasy RPGs, but I'm allowed to still be excited about them and think they're cool, okay?!

That said... what happened to the rest of Frey's magic? Do we still have access to Sila, Prav, and Olas's spells? We know we can still zip, but here's the thing:

That's not Sila's Zip spell. Moreover, Frey's using her left hand to cast it, not her right, which is where her magic usually comes from. So, what gives? Why doesn't Frey have full use of her magic, even though she went through that whole thing with Cinta's memories to unlock it? Did Cuff somehow integrate with Frey's magic and fundamentally change it to Rheddig magic only? Well, no, because Frey still chucks rocks in the trailer, so it seems likely he somehow gave her new magic. But the other Tanta's magics being conspicuously missing is very, very interesting to me.

Speaking of other Tantas and their magic, now we're getting on to what I really want to talk about:

MOTHER.

FUCKING.

TANTA CINTA.

What, did you think I was excited about the Rheddig war party? I am but that's a squee and a gush for later.

Cinta's magic is nothing like Frey's except purple and elegantly geometric, and I am fascinated by this. So far as I'm concerned, the fact that Frey and Cinta's magic manifests so differently confirms my headcanon/theory that Frey's magic is all hers, baby, not Cinta's. First of all, that saber is gorgeous and I want a replica of it to hang on my walls when I have a house I'm planning to stay in permanently. Second and more importantly, Cinta's magic seems to be based almost entirely around the Torana. There's nary a rock or vine or flower in sight, except as motifs in her armor or that one (1) scatter-shot spell we see her fling at 0:49. In fact, the only commonality their magics have are the effects around Frey's spells, and the same effect when Frey uses Flow and its offshoot magics, Leap and Shimmy. Cinta has integrated the Torana with her combat style (which looks like a fencing style that makes me wish I knew more about martial arts) and even using that ability to yeet Frey up the side of a mountain. As any good mom should do, lbr. Yeet your kids, it's good for them. But she doesn't use vines like Bind or Tendril, there's no other plant-based spells like Disperse, and we don't see obvious earth-based magic like Prime or Screen. It's all kind of... crystalline, almost? So that scatter-shot could be crystal bullets rather than rocks or seeds.

And let me tell you, as someone who made up a whole Final Fantasy-esque class based around crystal magic for an RP that shaped my life and who I am as a person, I am LOSING. MY GODDAMN. SHIT. Square keeps catering to me specifically and it needs to stop because my wallet can only get so empty.

#yes I am supposed to be at work right now why do you ask?#I'm not because my period is kicking my ass #bobbi's being weird again #in tanta we trust #forspoken spoilers #frey holland #tanta cinta #the rheddig

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