No-one-ganks like-Gaston
Seykal Expeditionary Group
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Posted - 2015.06.21 07:29:00 -
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Robert Conway wrote:Never played ANY final fantasy game. No idea what they are even about. Someone care to do a tl;dr on the lore? 
This is kinda long, but it's as tl;dr as I can get it. Sorry, man.
So once upon a time there were these crystals. There was one for each basic element. Fire, Earth, Water, Wind. These crystals maintained the balance between the forces of Light and Dark. Whenever one side would grow too powerful, destined fighters would be born to combat the side that had grown too powerful and restore balance to the land.
For some reason, the Dark side is the only one that has ever grown too big for its britches. I guess the Light side is scared of getting its ass handed to it for once if it steps out of bounds.
That or it learned its lesson from big brother Dark trying to take over the land and figured 'nope, not for me'.
Alternate theory: Light is the side that has grown too powerful, and Darkness is just really bad at tipping the tides, always throwing these super awesome villains into the world and nearly accomplishing their plans, only to be stomped by a ragtag team of heroes who spent the last ten hours grinding. If only the Dark side weren't so polite and patient, and just went ahead with their schemes.
Final Fantasy 1:
In the particular instance of their first game, a kingdom's greatest knight has gone rogue (don't they always?) and has kidnapped the princess. Are you a bad enough dude to save the president('s daughter)? He intends to use the power of her and her lute to distort the land of light you know and love to a world of darkness. On top of this, elemental fiends are sucking dry the crystals of their power. Without the crystal of earth plants and the earth begin to rot, for water seas grow still and water stagnant, wind; the air no longer blows, fire; it's not as burny or something. Fire isn't important.
Final Fantasy 2:
Frankly, I'm not sure what this one has to do with the crystals. Maybe I didn't pay enough attention or maybe it's been so long I forgot, but I didn't even see much mention of these things. Maybe it's a reveal near the end of the game. I always kinda lost focus around Mysidia. The gist of things is there's an Imperial Army (It's always Imperials, isn't it?) that's gotten a raging clue for power and wants to take over the world. I think they managed to harness the power of the crystals or something. They've destroyed your home town for no raisin and you and your three friends are assaulted and nearly killed by troopers. You're recovered by a rebel group hiding out in a small town and your mission is to try to take out the Imperial Army.
This game has a pretty interesting combat system in that your characters don't 'level up'. They get stat bonuses based on what they choose to do in combat. Physical attacks raise strength, spells raise intelligence, etc.
Final Fantasy 3:
Back to the crystals. You are a young man named Buttz. Yes. His name is actually, originally, Buttz. It was changed to Bartz later on. Some Pokemon level **** goin' on here. The people the world over have learned to harness the power of the crystals, using them as (assumedly) infinite and powerful resources. Where the game starts off, however, the crystals are losing their power. Growing weak. As you reach each crystal to try to save them they shatter, granting you the power they once held and allowing your team to change their abilities. Things like white mages with their healing magic, black mages with destructive spells, knights, ninja, berserkers and all sorts of things.
Something, something, something, back to the future, something, something, something, save the world. Old man Gay Love bites the dust but his sexy granddaughter from the future rock replaces him. I think you go into the future at some point. I stopped playing around this time. Is it gross if she's technically negative fifty years old?
Final Fantasy 4:
The game starts off with you, Dark Knight Cecil, slaughtering the innocents of a town at the behest of your king, in order to retrieve their crystal, one of the few remaining in the world and itself only a fragment of what it used to be. King man is a conneiseur and he doesn't think they appreciate the true value of the crystal. Truly a guy of high caliber taste. For some reason, though, after slaughter civilians for *****'n'giggles you start to kinda feel bad and think maybe your king is a jerk. You voice your opinion, get kicked out of the cool kid's club, and are sent on a mission to defeat a dragon. After accidentally murdering more civilians and killing a child's mother in front of her, you decide you're tired of your king being a trolly ******** and want to put a stop to him, and so go on a quest to tell the other kingdoms that, hey, my king is a ****. Watch out.
Unfortunately, you're on foot and the king you once served has airships, so he kinda gets there before you a lot, and you have to deal with a lot of people complaining about 'oh, it hurts', 'please kill me' and irritating **** like that. I swear, some people are so selfish. King man eventually gets all the crystal, but not to worry. There are actually secretly four more crystals buried deep within the earth that you go to protect and end up accidentally giving them all to him. Whoops.
Also you go to the moon, 'Luke, I am your brother', all your favorite characters die, and the one you wish would, never does.
To be continued, if anyone actually cares to hear the rest. Running low on space here. This isn't quite 'lore' as much as it is 'summaries of the games', but it's all you're getting from me without going in-depth. |