Well, then. Happy Birthday!
And yeah, I guess we should get moving and thinking about the new one, or revival, so I guess I should give my two sense in.
First, with the current idea of the second pilgramage. the issue I have with it is that we would be constrained to lore. Because we all have played FFX, so we all know how it would end. There is no suspense to the story. And also this would be before Sin had a chance to completely break the hearts of Spira, so there would be many machina cities, instead of the ones we would find in FFX. Now, this has a profound impact of the people of the time, because they don't know that Sin is only targeting Machina cities, they would be trying to rebuild their machina cities, and whatnot. Also, at this point, we would have no idea how people would travel, or their standard of living, as it is only alluded to in Tidus' memories. So basically we would get the setting for the RP from our memories of limited cutscenes, and this with the limited creativity it entails with the plot, is my concern.
So, what do we do about this? We have a few options, for one we could completely disregard FFX-2 and create a sequel to FFX. The Fayth have stopped dreaming and there is now a power vaccuum with Bevelle toppled. So what would happen then, would Yuna be looked to as a new leader after her defeat of Sin? And what of her guardians? Would they just go back to run of the mill lives, and how would that effect the world, and then how can we place new characters into this new stew to stir the pot? But personally, I don't like dealing with cannon characters, since I don't have confidence I could keep them to their personalities and voices as the designers had. And also this senario has no obvious plot, other than the obvious power vaccum. Or, just a thought, perhaps after Yuna's group is done and Sin is destroyed, not all of the Fayth have stopped dreaming, and our group wants to figure out why, or these fayth have an effect of us and force us to investigate. Just a spontanious thought, so I really don't have anything else on that plot.
Or a final idea is to make a world based on FFX. Perhaps we only take the idea of a world that has a calamity that prevents the technology from developing, or a religon ruling the world based on false premise. Or we take the world and put it into a different spin, such as what if Yevon had different factions within itself, simmilar to christianity, and each vying for it's own piece of power. And how would this play into the pilgramage, and would a summoner be forced to choose a faction to back and then would the other factions attempt to kill that summoner?
Really, I don't know very much, and at this point, I am rambling with any idea that pops into my head. But I hope this will provoke some thought and hopefully get this thing going once more.
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