Kasz216 said:
Lamace said:
Ok Twesterm let me try to explain what I mean when I say "Visual character development". I'm going to use Vaan as an example here, and the scene when he's getting on baord Balthiers airship for the first time. When he sits down in the ship and it takes off, Vaan's face lights up, and he thinks "I'm coming Penelo". Now right then I saw two things in his face, first is the obvious, he is both excited to be in an airship and going to save Penelo at the same time. But the second thing I see is why he wants to be a sky pirate, one reason is that he wants to be free from all of the pain and sadness that haunts him on the ground, another reason is he wants to use the freedom of a sky pirate to help those in need, like with Penelo. Now your probably thinking at this point "how the hell can you see all of that with one expression" , well I'm an independent film maker and I've been trained to read expressions on peoples faces, and come to see what they mean. And this is really the first Final Fantasy were the expressions have been good enough for me to be able to do that. Now I admit that not a whole lot of people will see this, and not even give this a second thought. But this is what I mean when I say "visual character development", I hope that this made sense, because its really hard to explain. Also I'm not really trying to convice you to like FFXII or anything, you've already made up your mind about the game, and who am I to change it. Oh and I'm 23 years old by the way, and no I dont think I'm king of the world, far from it actually. |
So your theory is that you need to be trained to appreciate the story. Yeah... you don't need to take a class in something to appreciate a good story. You need to take a class and be trained in something to figure out what the hell someone was trying to do. I think your looking a little too much into it, like the people who look for some deep meaning in a little kids painting abstract paintings. In the end your likely just imposing your own thoughts about what you think he should be feeling on to him. (and in some cases... what you are feeling.) |
Well maybe I am looking too much into it, but like any good art you have to look beyond what you see with your eyes.
And I thought that it was kind of obvious what Vaan was thinking of in my example, first of all the Pain that he wants to leave behind "Parents deaths, brothers murder, home taken over, have to obay opressors, ect.", and "he wants to help out those in need" I thought that was obvious from the begining, like when Panella quotes Vaan saying "return to the poeple whats thiers", that one line tells you quite alot about Vaan.
And no you dont have to have training to appreciat a good story, but it does help. Its like watching a martial arts tournament, while you can still enjoy and appreciat it with out any formal training, you enjoy and appreciat it more if you have had training.
