onishi said:
Lol. Tbh Squall was nowhere near as emo as the translation made it seem. They filled in too many "whatever" answers into his dialogue along with several other lines (Yes I understand some but nowhere near as much as a native). In the Japanese version Squall has a tough exterior but he is constantly questioning what's going on around him (gotta remember he's only an 18 yr old orphan thrust in a huge conflict). He also has enough level of maturity to know that "good" and "evil" are merely points of view and it's more of a matter of "us vs them". But anyways, I'll leave that discussion for another thread. I wouldn't go as far as saying Noctis would be like Cloud nor Squall for a few reasons. There is another trailer where he goes on a date with Stella and actually has a normal human interaction with her and even tells her that she can call him by his shorter nickname Noct. Also in the other trailers his friends can be seen joking around with him, showing a more normal everyday interaction that any of us would have with our friends. Just based on these alone, it gives the impression that he is a regular guy but gets straight to business when attacked. I believe that people's opinion of him being "emo" comes from him sitting in the car and on his throne locked in thought, or even his hair style. That is a very childish and poor assumption and people need to open their eyes a bit more to the sides in the trailers where he is actually seen interacting with people. I believe people fall into the misconception that his semi sasuke style hair and moments of quietness immediately point to "OMG HE's EMO." It's wayyy too much judging a book by its cover. People have to learn to look at what really matters when judging someone's personality and the best way to do so is viewing 2 sides: 1. interaction with close friends (seen on video), 2. interaction with someone that recently enters his life (Stella). Although even then, the assessment of his personality is somewhat vague and can be inaccurate, it is still much closer to reality as well as having more overall substance to judging by how he looks. |
Even cloud had emotion :p
Really, I don't even mind the emo, though I will admit I haven't grown majorly attached to a FF character since Terra, but at least I didn't have a urge to kill Cloud or Aquall like I did Yuna (base solely on the horrible horrible voice actress) and perhaps Tidus (He reminds me of Pikachu seriously).
Also, I suspect that the emotion shown is foreshadowing Noctis's 'gameface' like a before / after image. As the game promise to be a sad one, and I can already envision main character death, I can easily imagine protagonist starting out as a bright young lad and ending up that bitter merciless killing machine.
