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Sunday, July 28th, 2013
Ulti's Analysis[]
I'd love to think Ridley could beat Zidane during a day match if Spring Breeze Dancin' were removed from the poll, but even if you gave ALL of... whatever the hell that thing's votes is to Ridley, he still loses. Ridley is one of my favorite characters ever, and it would be nice to see him pull out a win without having to rely on a gimmick like the Rivalry Rumble.
I'm also in the same boat with Zidane. He usually wins a match, but he's never been past round 2 and very much deserves to be. Final Fantasy 9 is such an amazing experience, an amazing throwback to the Final Fantasy series itself, and you can just feel how much fun the team had when making the game. Games now are too serious, you'll never see a company make fun of themselves and tribute themselves in the way Final Fantasy 9 does.
I always like matches where I like more than one character for emotional hedge purposes, but it does suck when looking at the contest history and realizing a deep run may never happen. But with that said, Vivi took on the role of "Final Fantasy Underdog" and really fought for old Squareheads like me. But we'll get to that later.
Zen's (Late) Analysis[]
It always bothered me how blue Spring Breeze Dancin' is in his pic, so I went and threw an auto-level adjustment on it.
It's kind of blown out now but do you see what I mean?
[Imagine 5 minutes passing]
Alright, I can't find the fucking video of Spring Breeze Dancin's performance, but this came up in YouTube search instead??
17 million goddamn views and her name is EVERLEIGH. What the fuck kind of name is this? It's somehow worse than every kid being named some hipster variant of "Aiden." Let's adopt this garbage naming convention for the next contest. "Lyyynk," "Claughd," and "Sefeighroughth."
Spring Breeze Dancin' is apparently the bottom of the X-Stats this contest, and I'm not surprised. As far as Board 8 in-jokes go, this one is the deepest cut I think we've ever seen actually make it to the front page. Way deeper than Midgar Zolom.
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Yes, but now I am posting about how respectable Ridley looked here. Zidane was never the strongest but Ridley had been comfortably beaten by Vivi back in the day so it was strange seeing him come within 2000 votes of Zidane. I'm not going to reiterate how bad FF looked outside of the really obvious exceptions.
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Sure, Zolomy. Now sleep. I'll repost you in 2023 when I do my 5-Year-Late analysis of Summer 2018.