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Post by happyrbouse on Apr 29, 2015 14:50:00 GMT -7
Ok so I know this was already discussed on the show, but I was talking it over with a friend, and he thought the inclusion of necron was out of place in the game. I just finished the game a few days ago, and I remembered to take careful note of the end so that I can try and make of sense of it.
My interpretation of Necron is that he represents a grim reaper which I think was pretty clear by the dialogue. The reason I think he was placed as the final boss, is there was a huge theme in the game based around life and death and what it means to exist. Every character at one point or another in the game reflected on his or her own life, sometimes with very dark undertones.
An important aspect to any great story telling is the ability to wrap up a story to a conclusion. What better way than to have them face off against the grim reaper to evaluate their worthiness to continue their life. Again I just beat the game for the first time and am no expert on the game by any means just merely my interpretation, and my dissatisfaction with other answers on the issue. Please comment if you disagree.
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Post by kefkapalozza on Apr 29, 2015 15:09:03 GMT -7
Ok so I know this was already discussed on the show, but I was talking it over with a friend, and he thought the inclusion of necron was out of place in the game. I just finished the game a few days ago, and I remembered to take careful note of the end so that I can try and make of sense of it. My interpretation of Necron is that he represents a grim reaper which I think was pretty clear by the dialogue. The reason I think he was placed as the final boss, is there was a huge theme in the game based around life and death and what it means to exist. Every character at one point or another in the game reflected on his or her own life, sometimes with very dark undertones. An important aspect to any great story telling is the ability to wrap up a story to a conclusion. What better way than to have them face off against the grim reaper to evaluate their worthiness to continue their life. Again I just beat the game for the first time and am no expert on the game by any means just merely my interpretation, and my dissatisfaction with other answers on the issue. Please comment if you disagree. There Necron episode they actually go into detail about this and it is dam good(check it out when you can) In Final Fantasy 20th Anniversary Ultimania — File 1: Character Book, Necron is described as, "a being awakened by Kuja's fear, despair, and hatred, which called out to it as he learned of his mortality, just as his ambitions were within reach". Necron symbolizes the fear of death a primal fear shared by all and as you said a major factor in the game is death. Personally i believe that the creators of FF9 just felt like you needed an extra boss at the end, something more abstract and crazy but they made the mistake of absolutely no foreplay with it(even a mention by Kuja or even a npc's you meet along the way would have been nice) Either way i love FF9 and hope you liked it, one of my favorites personally. |
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Post by Battman on Apr 29, 2015 21:47:05 GMT -7
I don't necessarily mind that they added another enemy at the end of the game to be the final boss. I just wish that he would have had some significance in the story sooner. It feels like what happened in FF4, and while that game is one of my favorite FF games, they just added a boss at the last possible minute that had no bearing on the story whatsoever. While FF9 might deal with life and death, you could have left necron out of the game entirely and the story still would have felt complete.
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Post by Shinryu on Apr 30, 2015 0:23:35 GMT -7
Ok so I know this was already discussed on the show, but I was talking it over with a friend, and he thought the inclusion of necron was out of place in the game. I just finished the game a few days ago, and I remembered to take careful note of the end so that I can try and make of sense of it. My interpretation of Necron is that he represents a grim reaper which I think was pretty clear by the dialogue. The reason I think he was placed as the final boss, is there was a huge theme in the game based around life and death and what it means to exist. Every character at one point or another in the game reflected on his or her own life, sometimes with very dark undertones. An important aspect to any great story telling is the ability to wrap up a story to a conclusion. What better way than to have them face off against the grim reaper to evaluate their worthiness to continue their life. Again I just beat the game for the first time and am no expert on the game by any means just merely my interpretation, and my dissatisfaction with other answers on the issue. Please comment if you disagree. There Necron episode they actually go into detail about this and it is dam good(check it out when you can) In Final Fantasy 20th Anniversary Ultimania — File 1: Character Book, Necron is described as, "a being awakened by Kuja's fear, despair, and hatred, which called out to it as he learned of his mortality, just as his ambitions were within reach". Necron symbolizes the fear of death a primal fear shared by all and as you said a major factor in the game is death. Personally i believe that the creators of FF9 just felt like you needed an extra boss at the end, something more abstract and crazy but they made the mistake of absolutely no foreplay with it(even a mention by Kuja or even a npc's you meet along the way would have been nice) Either way i love FF9 and hope you liked it, one of my favorites personally. This. Check out the Necron theory special episode they did on the podcast. |
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