"Am I alive? Does it matter? Perhaps not. Nothing matters - none of it. Not the blessed gods above nor the accursed kings below. To hell with them all!"
bad news: Noct doesn't actually use ぶす ("ugly") in the Japanese dialogue of the opening scene of Episode Gladiolus.
good news: it comes down to the same thing (in a way).
ノクティス:さらにガラが悪くなったよな
Spelldaggers, the project that translated the game directly from the Japanese version, translated it as:
Noctis: And it makes you ugly.
if *I* were to translate it, it'd be:
Noctis: You look even more like a thug now.
which is (unfortunately) closer to the English version's "Worse than looking like some kind of thug?", but let me explain.
the exact phrase Noct uses here is ガラが悪い (literally "[a] bad type [of person]"), which is often used to describe delinquents and people with no good manners. and these kinds of people are often depicted as ugly.
have you seen Kiryu from the Yakuza/Like a Dragon series? i'd describe him (based on his literally being in the yakuza) as ガラが悪い... he ain't ugly though. but i digress.
in any case, this is just a case of light banter between Noct and Gladio, so i wouldn't read into it too deeply.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE XV's aesthetics and the characters are great but so much of the story and the world building choices are just so teeth grindingly confusing at best and awful at worst.
It's been ages since I played xv and I'm so hazy on the details of it, but I remember having so much fun doing side quests and camping and seeing the characters interact, it was great!
And then I got to the endgame (which felt more like it was gonna be the middle of the game to me lmao) and watched the plot go down and I was just like?? That's it?? Spent like 35 hours fucking around and having fun thinking soon enough the plot would become more and more prevalent and next thing I know I was thrust right into the last 10 or so hours 😭 it's like someone took a meal out of my hands before I could finish it
I wouldn't say it was a bad game, I sure had a LOT of fun with it, ffxv was just VERY poorly handled and filling the blanks with so much dlc was kinda insulting lmao
I have a PowerPoint presentation to give to Square Enix on what to do for a Final Fantasy XV remaster but I fear if I showed them they'd just say "And where do NFTs come in?"
WAaaAAHHhhh. I just finished playing all the boys DLC's and HOLY CRAP?! What a time????!!
I have soooooooooo many feelings (esp about episode Ignis which everyone in the tags of my other post was encouraging me to play) so I'm going to do a breakdown post for each of the boys' episodes but DANG. Here are some initial thoughts:
They absolutely did my man Gladio dirty with that episode?? I personally got a lot of mileage out of the amount of innuendos from it (daddy swinging his big column around anyone?) and I will not turn my nose up at any Gladio content but damn. Comparatively to how long and story rich the other 2 episodes were... could've done him so much better :'(
My sweet cinnamon boy Prompto's episode... When he fell off the train I was like oh, he'll be okay and then his episode came along and slapped the hell out of me for my naivety. Love getting all the different glimpses into his back story and I know he would've been living for the times Aranea climbed up behind him on that snowmobile. But oof, my little fragile heart and love for our baby boy
And ofc absolutely no competition for whose episode was the ABSOLUTE BEST. YO. YOOOOO. Ignis is the character who I connected with the least in the main game so I appreciated getting a chance to play from his perspective, using his sick as FUCK fighting skills, and experiencing his absolute unfailing love for Noct.
And then that alternate ending absolutely sent me. That is the true ending in my mind, the one I want to live by, with and in. Cue me being a sobbing wreck at the end of it again.
FFXV has just been an absolute gift to me at the end of an otherwise shitty year and I just have so, so, so much love for it, for these boys, that I cannot even do it justice with words. It is just a powerful feeling that has absolutely seized my body, mind and soul in its grasp and I imagine will never let me go.
Hi, coming out of my normal brainrots these days to say that FFXV: Episode Ignis is an amazing piece of media, and everyone who's played FFXV should play Episode Ignis.