Me: "A Final fantasy 10 reference?! In the middle of **Final Fantasy 14,** at the **very** end of Patch 6.4, right in the middle of a Savage raid, localized entirely within the **Lifestream** at the center of the planet?!" YoshiP: "M'yes!" Me: "May I see it?" (Knowing I am incredible unskilled and scared of Savage raids in general, answering my own question): "...no."
I love how her normal design has her eyes perpetually closed, a nice visual reference to how she is blind to everything except what she wants. Then in her Savage version she finally DOES open them and recognises her own flaws...only to immediately turn around to basically say: *"Am I so out of touch?.....NO."* And honestly, this makes Athena a really refreshing villain. We've had antagonists that had their own philosophies, wants and tragic pasts that we could could understand or even sympathise with. But then we just have this absolute b!tch who is just plain EVIL and doesn't even see anything wrong with what she's doing because of how far up her own arse she is.
she's thousands of times more powerful and insane and evil than Jenova, who at best, is just a parasite doing whats in its nature to survive, Athena believes in insane, impossible scientific theories and magical ideas that cannot be done, such as creating Souls from nothing, and since the Universe doesn't allow this no matter how powerful you get, "its the world that is wrong".
sometimes, in order to keep their artists happy, square has to let them make something absolutely batshit insane and a nightmare to animate
Can't lie tho I would still smash 10/10 would do it again
Oh, so Athena is Seymour. “Am I the problem? No, it’s the kids that are wrong!”
Well, her second phase bears more than a passing resemblance to Yunalesca's final phase, so there's parallels to be made there as well...
Me: "A Final fantasy 10 reference?! In the middle of **Final Fantasy 14,** at the **very** end of Patch 6.4, right in the middle of a Savage raid, localized entirely within the **Lifestream** at the center of the planet?!"
YoshiP: "M'yes!"
Me: "May I see it?"
(Knowing I am incredible unskilled and scared of Savage raids in general, answering my own question): "...no."
Bosses strongest move; long evolution scene
Player: "Alright next phase... where the hell am i-" *killed by mech going off
Some absolutely huge Yunalesca & Jenova vibes from this phase.
When the tentacles come out all bets are off
"If there's nothing wrong with me, then there must be something wrong with the universe." - Doctor Beverly Crusher, Star Trek TNG
I love how her normal design has her eyes perpetually closed, a nice visual reference to how she is blind to everything except what she wants.
Then in her Savage version she finally DOES open them and recognises her own flaws...only to immediately turn around to basically say: *"Am I so out of touch?.....NO."*
And honestly, this makes Athena a really refreshing villain. We've had antagonists that had their own philosophies, wants and tragic pasts that we could could understand or even sympathise with.
But then we just have this absolute b!tch who is just plain EVIL and doesn't even see anything wrong with what she's doing because of how far up her own arse she is.
Yoooo it's Yunalesca!
Oh look, Jenova has arrived.
she's thousands of times more powerful and insane and evil than Jenova, who at best, is just a parasite doing whats in its nature to survive, Athena believes in insane, impossible scientific theories and magical ideas that cannot be done, such as creating Souls from nothing, and since the Universe doesn't allow this no matter how powerful you get, "its the world that is wrong".
Suddenly I wish to try savages for the first time.
That's just an Etrian Odyssey boss lol
You could say Athena found... her Perfect Body.
This music is fire.
This is like a mix of Black Alice and Ilias (let's see who get that reference)
i pity FFXIV players who called themself luka
Good thing this is a bard's tale and the heart of sabik can't really do that..... right?
No alex, you still cant fix her
Cerub Ultima 2.0
It’s so cool that Salome, who voiced Athena, is voicing Mary/Maria in SH2 Remake
Smash
Does savage have special transitions???
Usually the final raids of the tier (4,8,12) have a transition phase where the fight really really gets ramped up.
Since storm blood all savage raids in their final fight have a transition like this!
This looks like something out of Bayonetta