Wow. I’ll take both too. And you are offically the coolest girl ever!
Ok, one request for Tantric Yuffie & Drag Queen Cloud…Scumpup?
I’ll send them this evening.
never thought someone would call me cool for this, but hey!
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In FF5, one of the two optional and very difficult bosses was a dragon named Shinryu (or Shinryuu, can’t remember off the top of my head). That’s close enough that it makes me wonder if there isn’t some mythological reference in the names. Wiki seems to back me up.
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I’d think seeing those might be humorous as well.
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Shinra is the mechanic/uber-inventor on the airship in FFX-2. He also has the same voice as Bobby Hill from King of the Hill which caused me no end of distraction.
In FFVII, Shinra is the evil corporation that wants to destroy the planet if memory serves.
There ya go bunkie.
The hard part is trying not to find naughty drawings of Final Fantasy characters. There’s probably a store in Japan with a whole shelf dedicated solely to Tifa/Aeris manga.
Tifa’s so shy but man, Aeris is a real tiger.
The voice for Kimari and Wakka is the same guy who voiced Bender on Futurama. I find that extremely hilarious.
And I haven’t been able to confirm this one, it’s just a hunch, but is the Al Bhed inn keeper you encounter early on in FFX voiced by the guy who played Mr. Zulu on the old Star Treks? Definitely sounds like him.
I one point in a battle Wakka said something so like Bender it stopped me in my tracks. Unfortunately he never said it again, and damn did I wait.
The worst is that the voice of Rikku was the same as Timmy Turner from The Fairly Oddparents. Totally destroyed whatever hots I had for her. Sigh.
Rin is voiced by Tom Kenny - The voice of Spongebob Squarepants. I can see why you think he sounds like George Takai, but it’s not really much of a similarity, to my ear. (Not that he sounds like Spongebob at all, either. Or like Mr Kenny’s real voice.)
She (Tara Strong) also does Raven on Teen Titans, and did Batgirl for several seasons of Batman: TAS. Does that help fix it?
Course, she also voiced Bubbles from the Powerpuff Girls…
Pictures of her have always done it but it was that she used almost the exact same voice for both characters. Every time she’d open her mouth, there was Timmy.
Hush…I was ignoring Bubbles…and Dyl Pickels and other characters that don’t play so well with the sexy. >_>
I don’t think Rikku sounds all that much like Timmy. There’s a certain amount of similarity, to be sure - both are young and pretty exhuberant at times, and that contributes a bit of energy to the voices - but they both sound more like what they are, to me - a 10 year old boy, and a teenaged girl.
Aww, that’s sweet of you trying to get my hots for Rikku back. Thankfully Lulu was there to step in. I always made sure the last attack was hers so she’d lean over and her boobs would jiggle. As for her voice I’d say the difference is inversely proportional to her loudness.
Reasons to avoid the game: You are given a major choice at one point, choose wrong and you’ll only be able to get like 75% complete. I was near the end of the game and couldn’t figure out where the other 25% came from. One of those moments where you have to control your urge to toss the game out of the window. Leblanc is the most annoying character I have ever seen. I hate her so much.
Reason to play this game: You play dress up with ladies. Then you get to cast a magic spell to examine then and you can turn them over and zoom in. … You all did it, I know you did.
Of course, you can get that other 25% without playing the whole game again on a second run-thru. Helps to have a walkthru telling you what you need, though.
(I’m stuck at 98%, and even with the walkthrough have no idea what I keep missing. >_<)
Aaah, Lulu’s jiggle pose. >_>
Rikku’s still the girl for me, though. :o (And she doesn’t sound like a 10 year old!)
I used to watch my friend play X and X-2 occassionally. Now I can totally hear the Bender in the voice. I wasn’t there for a lot of Riku (or is it Rikku? No wonder they cut her from Kingdom Hearts.), so I don’t remember her voice much. Doesn’t surprise me that Tara Strong voiced her: what animated show hasn’t she been on?
Rikku. And I have extra-special loathing of Riku (aside from the fact he’s kind of a jerk, and wants to steal Kairi away from Sora) for just that reason. >_>
Not that I don’t love Selphie, but she just doesn’t GO with Tidus and Wakka.
And she’s SO not Rikku.
Maybe I’m misremembering this, but I thought Rikku was going to be in Traverse Town and later got replaced by Yuffie. They couldn’t change Riku’s name as it went with Kairi and Sora (the spirits of Earth, Water, and the Sky, respectively. No offense if you already know all that.). I’ve yet to play Kingdom Hearts for PS2. Its’ next on my to-play list after FFX and after I actually get a PS2 :o .
I did play Chain of Memories for GBA and I liked Riku there. Kinda felt bad for the guy. You can’t fault him for being a jerk, as most of your FF heroes, in my experience, have a little jerk in them.
I’m glad I read this thread, as it just saved me a lot of money. Here’s hoping SquareEnix comes back from the dark side and stops releasing FF MMORPGs and FF sequels.
Well, I don’t know which character she’d be replacing if she had been in the game - I assumed Selphie since she was put with Tidus and Wakka, but Yuffie works, too, even if it does more thoroughly mix the games’ characters - but Rikku/Riku confusion still seems a likely reason for deciding to use either Selphie or Yuffie in her place.
I haven’t played the GBA version, so I can’t really comment on how Riku’s handled there, but he’s rather thoroughly unlikeable in the original game, at least to me.
I don’t really agree that the heroes of the FF games are generally jerkish. Some of the secondary ones - Edge, Kain, Cid (VII), Rinoa, Steiner, Auron, and Paine - are, but either they get better, or they’re badass enough to want in your party even if they drive you batty, or both. Except for Rinoa. She never redeemed herself in my eyes, through either method. Of the primary heroes…
I and III, they have no personality.
II, I never played enough to gather even who would BE the primary hero.
IV, Cecil’s a damn nice guy, even as a Death Knight
V, Butz, again, is rather lacking in the personality department, but certainly isn’t a jerk. (Nor are any of the other 4.)
VI…hard to pin down the primary hero, but of the entire party, Celes is the only one who’s ever really got any jerkish tendencies, and she fits in the same exception as the secondary characters listed above.
VII…Cloud ends up hurting people, but he’s a nice guy…just a dumbass.
VIII, Squall’s a jackass, I’ll grant that. AND a dumbass. He’s apparently grown up a bit between FFVIII and KH.
IX, Zidane’s a bit of a lech, and has a problem taking things seriously, but the only times he hurts people are cases proving him anything but a jerk.
X, Tidus is a really nice guy…clueless until way too late, but a nice guy, nonetheless.
X-2, Yuna’s little better than the wimp she was in X, but she also hasn’t become a jerk in the meantime.
Riku doesn’t fit into any of these categories. If he redeems himself, it’s not until the very end of the game (still haven’t finished…set it aside for FFX-2, then replayed X, then X-2 again…just restarted before my vacation…), and…well, he’s a bit of a badass, but you never actually get to USE him in your party, so that just makes him more annoying.