FF Versus XIII: Our Title Track Is 'Somnus', Meaning 'sleep'. It Represents How Our Protagonist Has Prophetic

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Day 5: Favorite outfit

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Re-creation sketch of Stella Nox Fleuret from Dawn of the Future concept artwork

○ Noctis Lucis Caelum + Stella Nox Fleuret || Nyx Ulric + Lunafreya Nox Fleuret  ○

Deus dormit Et liberi ignem faciunt Numquam extinguunt Ne expergisci possit Omnia dividit Tragoedia coram Amandum quae Et nocte perpetua In desperatione Auroram videre potest Mane tempus expergiscendi. 

Story from the past, trailer from the past…

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FFXV is bad at Christianity

So recently I saw this video post by about the Christian symbolism in FFXV. It was a nice rundown of how the game tries to integrate Christian art, architecture, themes, and stories into the world of Final Fantasy. However, I personally do not agree that this game does a good job of showing the nuance in the struggle of someone tested by faith. It’s too bad this game did not follow in the footsteps of FFX and chose to criticise an established religious hierarchy, because FFXV’s version of Christianity gives me much to criticise. This game uses all the Christian symbolism the video points out while carrying none of the actual messages of Christianity - just like Neon Genesis Evangelion. It’s fake deep. Actually, it’s worse than fake deep. It’s actually anti-Christian sometimes.

I’m not a theologian. I am barely a Christian. But I have some serious reservations about lauding this game for the way it handles religion.

To make it clear, I am not insulting Ikkin’s video post in any way. I linked it because it was really interesting and useful, and you might not understand this meta post without it. (I’m citing my sources, in other words.) All of my criticism is directed at the game itself. Other disclaimer: I’m a fan of the game and I had fun playing it. I have some reservations about posting this because it’s around 6,000 words long and a bit of an off-beat topic, plus I’m pretty salty about it. But it was important to me, as you will see.

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Don't explore the fact that Daemon lost both his mother and Laena to childbirth and Rhaenyra's premature labor probably triggered him. Don't explore the fact that his parents were very much in love, and his father became a shell of man after he lost the love of his life to childbirth, and Daemon suddenly has to contemplate living the same loss while raising seven children and defending his son's birthright, and he froze because fighting he can do, strategizing, planning attacks and defenses, that he can do. But raising seven children on his own while grieving the love of his life, that he can't even fathom. No, instead have him choke her out of nowhere, that makes sense.

Don't explore the fact that Aemma died in pursuit of a boy, and Rhaenyra's only daughter died before taking her first breath.

Don't show Rhaenyra's reaction to losing her boy, the one who was always attached at her hip, the one who hadn't even learned how to stop holding her hand yet, the one she sent to the closest ally so he wouldn't be gone too long, the one she had just promised she wouldn't abandon to his responsabilities without making sure he learned all he needed to, the one whose death literally started the war.

But a torn up paper from a book nearly two decades ago, from a woman who abused and humiliated her in front of her entire court, who chased her out of her own home, who usurped her throne and her birth right, who's currently conspiring against her, her children, and her husband, that was important to show.