#rose of may

Ok, so I have some weird memories of this one as I played it with a group of people in my dorm for 1/3 of the game with all of us taking turns doing the voices.  Keep in mind the first full voice acted Final Fantasy game wasn’t going to occur until X came along.  This was a real group effort.  I didn’t play Garnet, mind you, if memory serves I was Vivi.  Mid-way through fall semester, everyone else gave up on this and I was left with the rest of this great game, as well as some very silly names for the characters.

I’m really glad everyone ditched me though!  It meant I got to get really embarrassingly squeal-y about Zidane and Garnet (Dagger) in my own time.  (I also spent a crazy amount of time playing the card game and collecting cards in general, which would have been impossible in company.)  Zidane’s flirty but not gross about it, and Garnet’s notably cautious but they share a lot in the course of the game and their pairing makes real sense.  It’s nice when a couple makes sense, and since you have dozens of hours to be with these characters there is plenty of time to give them reasons to make all the sense.

Zidane’s tail drove me MAD for a healthy part of the game.  It isn’t talked about at all even though he’s obviously a dude with a tail in a place where other people don’t have tails.  I was waiting forever for closure to the whole tail business and it had a hell of a payoff when we got there.  This game, besides giving me a solid romance with Zidane and Garnet also gave me Beatrix (and the best theme song in all of FF-dom in my opinion).  Beatrix is best.