...Yeah, I didn't buy it then, and I don't buy it now.
Ivalice existed before the game and continued to exist after it. If anything, he freed the world from slavery to a desperate child and the attention-hungry spirit feeding on his darker impulses. He encourages his friends to grow as people instead of using their newfound relevance like a crutch to avoid facing their problems, to mix a metaphor.
And, ultimately, he was 100% right. This is a game with a sequel that takes place in the same world, confirming that everything works out for everyone.
While I agree that the story did a remarkably poor job of backing up Marche's position... this isn't really a review, is it?
This wasn't a review so much as bashing Marche by interpreting his position and actions in the worst possible light.
My two gil on this subject is that while Marche is ultimately right, the story also portrayed those opposed to him in a sympathetic light, and gave him a reasonable degree of doubt about his position. There honestly doesn't seem to be all that much evidence for the "returning to the real world destroys Ivalice" position.
All in all, this review contains no information that would be useful to someone considering playing the game, and I'm tempted to flag it.
it's a review, I have reviewed the game's story. And the Word Of God is that later games take place in a different Ivalice. Argue canon with me if you like, but you can find this stuff on the tropes pages.
Straight fucking talk. Lesbian bunnygirl orgies are the only conceivable thing that could've saved Ivalice from just being another generic RPG setting. Someone deserves to have been fired for that one.
Quote me chapter and verse then, son, because Montblanc makes a speaking cameo in A2.
Even without Word of God, it's pretty difficult to reconcile the events of Advance and A2. They have some of the same characters, but a huge number of things work very differently, notably including just about everything to do with the grimoires. It's probably best to consider the character crossover to be a Mythology Gag
And, that aside, within the context of the game, there is nothing to suggest that the land of Ivalice has any kind of indepent existence
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So, now that you've had your eye caught by titles, Let me start with what you're probably thinking. No, I don't think Marche wanting to go home was an inherently bad thing.
What WAS an inherently bad thing, was crippling his brother all over again, killing his best friend, his other best friends mom, and basically committing mass genocide, possibly for a second time depending on how the mechanics of the whole world change work.
Also stopping us from ever seeing what Clan Ritz would be in another eight or so years but that's not as bad honestly. Even if my dreams of Lesbian bunnygirl orgies are crushed forever.
Now, moving on to the why of it.
To explain a bit, the way Ivalice WORKS, assuming it's actually some kind of illusion and not just spacetime magic creating a new world with bits of the old as a base template to work off of or that Il Grim wasn't suicidal [which you have to wonder], the complexity of it and the created beings, pushes it from a Lotus Eater machine to more of a TRON-esque existence. Assuming that it is somehow an illusion, then the entities within that aren't originally from Earth, are basically magic AI at that point, and thus debatably still alive in a sense.
And you totally kill them all while teaming up with what are, in another life, essentially Fallen Angels, and not the hot kind from Highschool Dx D even. Talking full balls to the walls evil here.
If it talks like a man, walks like a man, and thinks like a man, we can't exactly say it isn't one, because we can't really test for anything else, essentially.
If Marche had stopped for even one second and looked for another route, or even spent a series of quest chains doing so [they certainly had room for it, considering there's what, twenty mainquest missions out of 200 or so total?] He could have still gone to push the genocide button and come off as a tragic hero with the right lighting.
But he doesn't, he just automatically teams up with the Ersatz Final Fantasy villains he finds and goes to commit genocide.
Avoiding that problem,the gameplay is fun, even after years, the graphics are still fresh looking and the story has it's moments.
Music is fantastic still, seriously.