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Selphie's Garden party concert thing- which held rather nicely at the Mayor's house in Fisherman's Horizon like can you believe how well the sound must have traveled through with all those panels reflecting up?- turns out to be a great transition point for Squall from ordinary graduated SeeD to new commander of Garden.
Cid Kramer seems to find it fitting to make Quistis, Xu and Nida as part of this committee, and so I wonder what curricula these kids, who are within their 18-20 year age range I betcha, have prepared them to take that kind of helm. I'm wondering if Cid is actually a very lax headmaster, as he seems to make himself seem so when going up against NORG, and he left all school stuff with the creepy hat people in faceless robes and to the students themselves.
I got the music more or less right, as I managed to have the positive dialogue choice for Rinoa towards Squall. If you don't, then it just leaves with the two of them illuminating Squall's difficulties and his insecurities. But if you get it right, you are on the path for Squall to go into further understanding with Rinoa and vice versa. I don't think that the latter is "more right" than the former just because you get more positive dialogue, though I do believe that it is personally, because when I compare both dialogues the "wrong music choice" didn't really make it for Squall to be less open to Rinoa rather than "I really do have a lot of problems and tonight isn't going to be that night for it to be fixed."
I compare it to FFVII's rather contrived "dialogue choices" for Aerith and Tifa, in which I think speaks more of Cloud's fractured personality than it does for "which girl he prefers more" thing. Since it's not as though Squall is having identity issues on the level of Cloud's dealio, this feels more like "which is the direction that makes Squall less obstinate or more obstinate and thus making him realize his immaturity in different ways."
And so the garden festival is this transition in which Rinoa helps him process through the reality that he's handling a lot more responsibility than he's used to, and she would probably relate because she helped a grassroots resistance force herself and she went through a lot of risky missions in order to make them all succeed on the fly. And whether the music helped the mood or not, I get the feeling from both dialogue sets that Squall has steeled himself to that level of commitment anyway, either through positive or negative reinforcement.
Of course, this also sets up the relationship between Rinoa, in which she mirrors their first meeting on the ballroom floor when Squall made his first milestone as a person by graduating into SeeD. This is yet again one of those paradigm shift things which set both characters in motion, but in comparison to their first meeting, this feels more like Rinoa and Squall are finally actually getting to know one another beyond being opposite dance partners.
I should get a move on if I want to get to Disc 3 and finally 4.
Cid Kramer seems to find it fitting to make Quistis, Xu and Nida as part of this committee, and so I wonder what curricula these kids, who are within their 18-20 year age range I betcha, have prepared them to take that kind of helm. I'm wondering if Cid is actually a very lax headmaster, as he seems to make himself seem so when going up against NORG, and he left all school stuff with the creepy hat people in faceless robes and to the students themselves.
I got the music more or less right, as I managed to have the positive dialogue choice for Rinoa towards Squall. If you don't, then it just leaves with the two of them illuminating Squall's difficulties and his insecurities. But if you get it right, you are on the path for Squall to go into further understanding with Rinoa and vice versa. I don't think that the latter is "more right" than the former just because you get more positive dialogue, though I do believe that it is personally, because when I compare both dialogues the "wrong music choice" didn't really make it for Squall to be less open to Rinoa rather than "I really do have a lot of problems and tonight isn't going to be that night for it to be fixed."
I compare it to FFVII's rather contrived "dialogue choices" for Aerith and Tifa, in which I think speaks more of Cloud's fractured personality than it does for "which girl he prefers more" thing. Since it's not as though Squall is having identity issues on the level of Cloud's dealio, this feels more like "which is the direction that makes Squall less obstinate or more obstinate and thus making him realize his immaturity in different ways."
And so the garden festival is this transition in which Rinoa helps him process through the reality that he's handling a lot more responsibility than he's used to, and she would probably relate because she helped a grassroots resistance force herself and she went through a lot of risky missions in order to make them all succeed on the fly. And whether the music helped the mood or not, I get the feeling from both dialogue sets that Squall has steeled himself to that level of commitment anyway, either through positive or negative reinforcement.
Of course, this also sets up the relationship between Rinoa, in which she mirrors their first meeting on the ballroom floor when Squall made his first milestone as a person by graduating into SeeD. This is yet again one of those paradigm shift things which set both characters in motion, but in comparison to their first meeting, this feels more like Rinoa and Squall are finally actually getting to know one another beyond being opposite dance partners.
I should get a move on if I want to get to Disc 3 and finally 4.
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