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eti-mun · 3 years

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So a big reason I’ve yet mention about why i love Final Fantasy XIV so much is how many powerful female characters there are. Like legit, a majority of the most powerful figures are women. And they’re beautiful women at that!

I’mma go on a small rant because omg i really wanna talk about this but TL/DR: As a woman, it is very refreshing not seeing the “ ‘ugly’ woman is the smartest and most powerful but a very loose side character/plot point while prettiest is dumb Save-Me! damsel in distress ” trope in a video game for the first time in a very long while HEAVY Spoilers for Realm Reborn - Stormblood ( Because i havn’t fully started Shadowbringers yet )

so ok lets just dive right in. FFXIV has AMAZING female characters. Its not often you see gorgeous and strong characters but hot damn does ffxiv have them. And powerful in more than just the “Fight me m8″ sense. We’ll start with Nanamo

Nanamo is the Sultana of Ul’dah, but was thrown into the crown at a strikingly young age due to the death of her parents. She feels very deeply for her kingdom and the citizens and fights hard for them, rich or poor, only to be limited and puppetted by the syndicate. After a very fun time being stuck in a near death coma caused by people of said syndicate, she matures very quickly, this only 21 year old taking charge on her own feet and fighting even harder for the good of everyone, even going so far as to allow her prominent right hand man Raubahn to stay within the rings of the now independent Ala Mhigo. Next the Elder Seedseer, Kan-E-Senna

While she does not play huge roles in the story, she is still a very imposing force.A compassionate leader of Gridania, but very firm with her choices and views with magic powerful enough to, with the help of her siblings, apparently bring back a person lost in the Aether between the living and spirit worlds like, what the fuck lady Finally of the three we have Admiral Merlwyb Bloefhiswyn

Oh my good god. Nanamo and Kan-E-Senna were powerful and pretty but here we are with Powerful, Buff woman but she clearly does not lose her feminism. Limsa Lominsa’s leader, she is steadfast and steel willed. I mean there really isn’t much to say about this lady she’s just the perfect strong female character Stepping into your fellow scions, we have some amazing allies, starting with Lyse, a monk who plays a prominent role in leading a huge resistance in fighting for Ala Mhigo’s freedom against the Imperial invasion.

Y’shtola who doesn’t even NEED an introduction as being one of the most bad ass, silver tongued but extremely wise healers I’ve ever had the pleasure to see.

Next up is Alisaie, a fucking red mage of all things. She’s gone throughout the first two parts of the game as you venture with her (much more scholarly) twin brother Alphinaud, but once you hit post heavensword, she steps in, she steps in HARD, and she does not hesitate to make her presence known to her enemies.

And I even wanna give a shoutout to our little accountant and, honestly, the glue that keeps us together, everyone’s favorite little sassy, clothing making, bottle juggling lalafel, Tataru! Without her encouragement, I really doubt the Scions would have the strength to keep fighting together like they do.

Going into some other ones, first there’s Moenbryda

Much like Merlwyb, she is a very strong lady. But her braun isn’t the only thing about her! She is extremely intelligent, and was the first to finally figure out how to effectively defeat the asciens for good!

There’s also Lady Iceheart, Ysayle

Leader of a rebellion and summoner of Saint Shiva all in the name of trying to put an end to the thousand year long Dragonsong War. As misguided as she was, it was her along with the WOL that helped get Hraesvelgr to act and get the wheels turning for the epic finale of Heavensward. And even stepping into the area of the antagonists, Yotsuyu!

An extraordinarily complex character with an extraordinarily complex story line, she starts as a HEAVY antagonist, takes a 180, takes another 180, and then takes ANOTHER 180 as we slowly piece her story together. It was so pleasing seeing such a complicated female character in a video game like this and Tsuyu will stay in my memory for a very, very long time.

This post only covers some of the more prominent ones that i really wanted to mention, otherwise I’d totally go into talking about Matoya, Minfilia, Vidofnir, Tiamat, Hilda, and so many more. Basiclly, thank you Square Enix for my life and I can’t wait to meet what other strong yet beautiful women are to come in Shadowbringers once i finally sit down to really start it.

#Eti speaks #FFXIV #Final Fantasy #Nanamo #Kan-E-Senna #merlwyb bloefhiswyn #lyse #Y'shtola #alisaie leveilleur #tataru taru #moenbryda #ysayle dangoulain #yotsuyu goe brutus

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dajoezenone · 6 years

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TEXT REVIEW OF INFINITY WAR

UNFOLLOW ME IF YOU DONT WANT TO READ THESE SPOILERS I DONT USE THIS ACCOUNT SEE IF I CARE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Seriously this is gonna have spoilers go away if you dont wanna see.

I liked it. Kinda want to see it again and may change my mind on stuff at a later date but I want to get these thoughts out while they’re in my mind.

1. STORY STRUCTURE: The structure of this film is weird? But not really. It makes sense once you realize Thanos is the main character. Act One we’re being introduced to all the different heroes, which is done masterfully and paced really well so we never feel overwhelmed despite the sheer size of the cast. Act Two starts once Gamora tells Star Lord he may have to kill her, and then Thanos is re-introduced. I’ll come back to this later but I dislike that there’s a good couple scenes where its just GotG characters interacting with each other with no Avengers around. Like this is an Avengers movie. Couldn’t SOME Avengers character have been around for this Like this is a crossover why are these characters still with just their regular crew? Anyways from then on Thanos’s POV takes center stage. Once Gamora is dead Thanos, like Thor, has nothing he really cares about left to lose. He’s at his lowest, despite also being 2 stones away from infinite power. Act Three begins with him this way, recalling to Doctor Strange his origin, and reasserting his resolve to go through with this. He beats both of the split forces of the Avengers, one on Titan, and the other in Wakanda, and despite nearly being beaten three different times, he manages to snap his fingers. We see the results of the world he’s created, while he sits back and watches the sunset.

I like that they decided to let Thanos win and kill half the universe. I know it’ll traumatize a lot of kids watching the movie, but like, these things are rated PG 13. There have been sex references and character deaths and such in these for a long long time. Its the big bad final battle for the Avengers and they needed a cliff to hang on and so they hung people. I dont believe the people turned to ash will stay dead, but I didn’t expect a happy ending either. PLUS this gives us time to really focus on the characters that need more room to finish their arcs in the real finale.

I like the way the movie is structured. It doesn’t feel overcrowded and it makes a lot of sense when you realize its Thanos’s movie not any of the heroes’. And it helps make Thanos the most developed bad guy in any MCU film. SPEAKING OF WHICH.

2. CHARACTERS: (the long one)

-THANOS: The best bad guy in any MCU film. Not my FAVORITE bad guy in an MCU film though. Loki still holds that title, and if we’re counting the Netflix shows, Fisk and Kilgrave are still PRETTY dope. Thanos is WONDERFUL. But I neither love him or love to hate him. I appreciate what was done with him though. He earns his place as the biggest threat in this universe, despite a lack of real competition. You feel his struggle, even though you really want him to fail. Its really well done. Cant help but wonder why no mention of his love for Lady Death though? I at least expected Hela to show up and be like “SURPRISE IM LADY DEATH” or something idk. We never saw her die in Ragnarok. Is that really not something they’re gonna at least do something off of?

-THOR: despite spending MOST of the movie on what is basically a side quest, he’s the hero who gets the most development. I figured that the way Ragnarok was handled was done specifically to set this up and I got what I expected to fall out from that and then some. I love his arc in this. I love his conversations with Rocket and I love how powerful he is now. He’s just really well handled and I love how he’s developed as a character. Also, side note, I like that each Avengers movie changes which of its members gets the most development. Cap was the one who was still finding his place and going through an arc in the first one, Tony is dealing with paranoia and being the one to create Ultron in AoU, and Thor is still dealing with the death of his people here.

-TONY: I have less to say here. I hate nanite tech being used in pretty much anything. idk why it just bothers me. It always feels dumb. but it was fine here actually. I love his conflict with Strange and Peter and the other Peter. I love that he has to deal with watching everyone else die. The whole movie plays on your expectation that Tony is going to die in the end and then COMPLETELY subverts that and I love it.

-DOCTOR STRANGE: Great. Comes off a little more of a jerk than he does in his own film but we also mainly see him through the eyes of Tony, so I think thats why. I love his magic and how smart and calculated he is in combat compared to the other characters. The Russos are VERY aware and very good at showing the characters’ character traits via how they fight which is good considering how much action there is in this movie.

-SPIDER-MAN: I swear he’s more competent here than in his own movie. Also we see SPIDEY SENSE GO OFF which we NEVER SEE HAPPEN IN HIS OWN MOVIE. He still doesn’t REALLY feel like Peter Parker though which is weird bc he almost did by the end of Homecoming and now here he just kinda reverted back out of that.

-GAMORA: Really great. Somewhere in between Guardians 1 and now she stopped being every single one of Zoe Saldana’s characters in anything ever to being a pretty fleshed out character. Though its kinda weird that Thanos’s other children in this movie are so much more loyal to him than her and Nebula are? Like whats up with them? Why is Gamora the favorite when she openly hates him?

-STAR-LORD: Great. Not much else to say.

-ROCKET AND GROOT: ALSO great. They’re especially great as sidekicks to Thor. They have some great exchanges, even if their screentime was primarily spent on a side quest. I nearly squealed when Groot used his arm to create the Stormbreaker Axe. I’m annoyed Groot died again at the end. WE’VE SEEN ROCKET MOURN GROOT’S DEATH BEFORE THIS ISN’T INTERESTING OR NEW.

-DRAX AND MANTIS: pretty good. I like them both. If anything there’s probably too much of them. I love them so I cant complain too much but like idk I feel like we saw more of these Guardians side characters than some of the Avengers main characters in an Avengers movie.

-WANDA AND VISION: Wanda has always been one of my fav characters in the MCU and that doesn’t change here. Her romance with Vis is great. Honestly I love her whole arc and I love how its foreshadowed by Gamora telling Quill to kill her earlier in the film. Wanda having to lose the closest person to her AGAIN is emotional and sad and everything and idk Elizabeth and Paul give great performances and both do a great job playing some good characters. Vis is basically a damsel in distress the whole film, which seems disingenuous because he’s like the most powerful avenger prior to Thor’s buff over these last couple movies. But I guess it makes sense in context. They’re not GREAT but like I said I like them so I’m biased.

-CAP, FALCON, AND NAT: Kinda useless tbh. They dont do much. They dont even have many lines. Like they fight in the Wakanda battle. Thats it. They’re tired and grumpy because they’ve been on the run for TWO YEARS. Something we dont see at all. Not that thats what I want to see, but... they’re basically just there to shuttle Wanda and Vision to Wakanda and then fight a bit.

-T’CHALLA, OKOYE, SHURI, AND M’BAKU: Even quieter and less notable than the Cap crew. Which really cheapens how much of the film takes place in Wakanda. Like, why does the Cosmic stuff feel authentic to what James Gunn built in the Guardians movies, while this stuff feels so underwritten and underrepresented? We have four Wakandan characters here and they do so hecking little. AND THEN T’CHALLA IS ONE OF THE PEOPLE WE SEE TURN TO ASH. WHAT? WE ALREADY GOT A FAKE OUT DEATH WITH HIM IN HIS OWN MOVIE. I HATED IT THERE. WE GOTTA SEE HIS FAMILY DEAL WITH HIM BEING DEAD AGAIN??? Shuri better become black panther in avengers 4 man. thats the only way I’ll be ok with him dying a SeCONd TiME.

-BUCKY, RHODEY, NICK FURY, MARIA HILL, LOKI, RED SKULL AND HEIMDALL: all play really small parts but manage to do their jobs and be really notable anyways. Shoutouts to them.

-BRUCE BANNER: meh. Bruce has finally kind of accepted the Hulk but Hulk is scared of Thanos so he wont come out. So Bruce spends the whole movie in his head having conflict with himself and not really engaging with whats going on? Kind of a dumb choice imo like if CAP is a minor character whos mainly there to banter with other people so should Banner. We dont even really see him interact with Ross or Rhodes once he gets back to Avengers HQ. dumb but not a big deal.

3. SMALL DETAILS:

-Music was weirdly lacking from a lot of the movie. Like it feels like Silvestri only orchestrated like half of the film. So much of it is just left.. quiet. Empty. This is INFINITY WAR. IT SHOULD BE ALL ABOUT THE SPECTACLE.

-Are Valkyrie, Korg and Miek still alive? We dont see them at all on the Asgardian ship?

-What happened to Sean Gunn’s character? Also wasn’t Nebula still with the Guardians at the end of Vol 2? Did I miss something or...?

-How did Thor know to go to Wakanda? He should have been going to Titan to meet up with Quill, right?

-How does the Bifrost work if the Bifrost is broken? That was a big thing in Thor 1 wasn’t he?

-They didn’t get Hugo Weaving back to play Red Skull but thats fine I still geeked out when he showed up.

-Peter Dinklage was good but he was in the movie too long. Thor’s stuff really felt side questy even though its the best stuff in the film.

I think thats about everything it was good but not GREAT k bye

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