[News] The "I too liked Xenogears' second disc" Club

Balthier was supposed to be the main character originally. That's why they had him constantly go "I'm the leading man, after all".

WHERE ARE YOU YASUMI MATSUNO


WORKING ON THE WII GAME?

NOT LIKELY

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Well I recall reading earlier it was Balthier, and the recent Time Extend EDGE did on FFXII reminded me of it.

Quote:

Main protagonist and androgynous urchin Vaan is often criticised for lacking the ambition and flaws that make for an engaging lead. He may be spirited in the way that all Final Fantasy's recent lead characters have been, but without a believable motivation for becoming involved in the grand drama of dukes and princes he's overshadowed by most of the other six characters who join your party, especially the older Balthier and his partner, the Björk-ish Fran.

It's here that the games reportedly strained development makes itself evident in the player experience. Matsuno originally intended for Balthier, the middle-aged sky pirate, to assume the lead role in the drama. However, the decision was overruled, higher-ups pointing to the relative failure of Vagrant Story, which feature a similarly mature lead, as evidence that the game needed a younger, more effeminate poster boy for its target demographic.

Bathier was sidelined to make way for Vaan, a composite creation made of teen girl dreams and marketing man visions, vanilla to the bone. Matsuno left the team two thirds pf the way through development, ostensibly due to 'poor health' but more likely due to clashes over the direction the game and its story were taking.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

More liek

are you sure, I thought the automatic gameplay was the main character that played the game for you

rite...............

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.