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Lol, go ahead. It's not like I'm going to play the game anyways. _{Now stop pointing and laughing!}

OBVIOUSLY SPOILERS AHEAD...BUT IT'S NOT LIKE THERE'S ANYONE ELSE WHO DOESN'T KNOW IT

Basically Aerith, female party member and love intrest(?) to the main charcter, Cloud, meets with a dissapointing demise. After failing to stop an attempt by the main Antagonist, Sephiroth, Aerith travels ahead alone. When the party finally catches up to her, they find her praying at an alter. She looks up, smiles, and then at that moment, completely out of nowhere, Sephiroth decends, impaling her. She dies. No cliche Final Fantasy revival. She stays dead.

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The 3D seems kind of off during EMS, even when I adjust it.
Managed to get at least one of each card thanks to passwords. Going for holofoil cards now. I have 3 each of the yellow, orange and scarlet shards.

No cliche Final Fantasy revival.

I am thinking really, really hard here, and I can't remember a single time in the plot of a numbered (and not fanservice sequel) Final Fantasy game has had a character die, and be resurrected.

I'm sure I'm about to be embarrassed for forgetting something I should have known already, but please do fill me in.

Yeah, I've been trying to get SSS on all the basic courses.
The FMS and BMS are easy, but it usually takes me a while to get through the whole EMS without missing a critical.
I've gotten through the first six though, so pretty much half way.

You're probably right, but I keep hearing that revival happens a lot in Japanese games/media... Am I way off base or is it more of a JRPG thing rather than Final Fantasy?

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There has been a number of times when characters supposedly die in a certain FF game only to find out later that they're very much alive because other characters have saved them. It got kinda annoying for me personally.
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That said, it was only one game though so I'd hardly consider that a FF cliche.

When I had first heard the spoiler that was how it was described to me.
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It's not really important, right? If I'm wrong, whoops, sorry. Lets move on.

Yeah, that one FF went overboard with that.

@RevolverLink - A fellow Grandia II fan? Ahh internet high five right back to ya! It was my first RPG ! Other than Pokemon of course.

If he is referring to ff IV there was a number of characters believed to be dead. I even think the twins got revived at the end!

Thanks.

And I've actually nwver heard of FFVII until recently, so I know nothing about it. Not everyone knows. (Don't worry, I am not one of those spoiler idiots)

Well, I just got my first SS rank. Two actually. In the FF II course on expert I got:

Rebel Army: SS
Theme: SS
Battle 2: S.

Got an S rank total. Kinda surprised the ranks go higher than I expected.

Also bought battle theme 1, and I am surprised on how much better it sounds compared to the original FF (Which used 1 song for every battle).

Hope the DLC comes to NA this week so I can get that FFI field Theme...

And after spotting Locke in the field in Terra's theme, I have one thing to ask. WHY DOES HE LOOK LIKE A PIRATE? Isn't he a treasure hunter or something? I have only made it up to the opera house in FFVI (My only FF game), so I don't know. (I know the general plot, so I know the spoilers)

Oh, and isn't there only 4 characters in Final Fantasy II? (Maria, Leon, Guy, and The main character), if so, why is there this masked character that appears every time I clear the Field music stage? O_O.

The 'masked character' is a temporarily playable character in FFII. His name is Minwu. I honestly thought he was a female until I looked him up in Wiki >_>

shrug I never thought Locke ever looked like a pirate by the way. His clothing is from the original artwork from Amano.

Really? Then why choose him when they could have chosen Maria or Leon? That would make more sense.

And how long does Minwu stay in the party? I know in FFII you have to recruit a lot of temporary allies, so why would they pick him? Is he important or something?

I dunno. I never beaten the game and from what I've played I've never seen him. It didn't help that I hated FFII too.

His inclusion in the game is also a mystery to me as is Cid. Is that Cid even popular? I'd have liked another Cid instead.

Isn't Cid the guy who randomly appears in every FF game?

Either way, I'm hoping to get an import copy of FFII on the Famicom, just want to find a converter for Famicom games on a box NES...

@TheDreamingHawk: Cid is a different character in every game. Usually, Cid is an airship pilot.

From what little I remember of playing II on GBA, Minwu is a very important character.

Then how can 5 characters fit in at one time in that game? I mean, I don't think the NES games had the ability to split your team into groups like in FFVI...

FF4?