#oglops

[magicmalcolm]

Can't imagine why your business failed with Alexandrians like Captain Adelbert Steiner being around, my dude.

[acquired-stardust]

Final Fantasy IX Playstation 2000

[rpgxyz]

Oglop dance

[friendly-tanuki-girl]

I HATE OGLOPS!!! (one punch man ref here)

[luxuriantegg]

haven’t played rebirth and didn’t know there was a card game in it but it kinda makes me happy to hear because card games were a very big part of FF8 and FF9 and FF9 also has an unskippable card tournament

The only ps5 game I got is FFVII rebirth, and I did not even finish it

[wandererxiv]

GIVE ME THE OGLOP MINION. GIVE. ME.

[styrmwb]

Rambling About Magic the Gathering X Final Fantasy - Final Fantasy IX (Part 2)

Continuing on with IX.

Kuja, Genome Sorcerer/Trance Kuja, Fate Defied

Kuja continues to fall into that "summon a bunch of Black Mages" archetype, but having that trance to take it even further beyond. I think the alt art looks a little wonky, but the main art is incredible. I love the colors on his Trance form.

Vivi Ornitier

Everyone's favorite son who can do not wrong gets incredibly beautiful art in both cards, plus an Oglop appearance! Of course, Vivi's purpose is to launch giant spells, and that's exactly what he does. Blue Red was the perfect choice.

Zidane, Tantalus Thief

I like how Zidane steals, but he shifts it up a little bit from what FFI Thief and Locke do. His is more flavored with the kidnapping, like the other card. Though, similar to Sephiroth and his de-Aerithing, does that really mean we needed the effect to take up 2 cards where one could have gone somewhere else? I do think that's mainly my FF fan experience coming in over actual required balanced MtG gameplay.

Excalibur II

FUCK YES! This is a GREAT weapon to bring in from IX, and of course the art depicts it with its noble wielder in the place you get it. Obviously it gets busted strength and pairs perfectly with Steiner's lifelink. But I do wish it acknowledged the speedrun somehow, like how the Starting Town was better at the start of the game.

Lindblum, Industrial Regency

Look at that alt art. It's got the pickle cart! I do think that with the amount of airships, Lindblum would have been better flavored to interact with those, but going all in on that "make a bunch of black mages" archetype seems to be what IX is going for.

Treno, Dark City

I can hear the music looking at this card. The lighting with the moon, the lights, and the water is incredible. Absolutely beautiful rendition.

Forest

For our generic land, we have the Evil Forest. I do really like how they used the healing spring, though a little bit of petrification would have been nice.

Cid, Timeless Artificer

Our wonderful Fabool IX and his mustache. Baku also gets to appear! A part of me is sad his oglop and frog form didn't get to show up, that seems critical to him. He's lucky his human design is awesome.

Beatrix, Loyal General

In the Starter Kit, Beatrix gets to appear. I am glad she's real, and with the amount of cards IX has, putting her in an extra slot was probably the right play. She doesn't really seem to have the power she rightfully has initially, but I know you could beef her up with equipment to make her a proper Beatrix boss fight. The art is really good, she works great in a less cartoony style.

FFIX has 25 out of 309 cards, 8.09% of the set. More than some games got, and as its one of my top favorites, I'm grateful. It's not too overshadowing, but I do think some of its selections are a little iffy, and the flavor isn't as universally outstanding. They did really make an archetype for the one game though, so that's cool.

Things I would have added: ANY mention of Amarant; he just doesn't get to show up. Ozma would have been a great, iconic pick too, and Necron doesn't get to show up??? But like IV, it at least has its main face villain, even if the final boss isn't there. But overall, I'm generally happy.

[xkuja]

@asheanon from yes he is going to humour her ridiculous question anyway

|| || Kuja sighed, elegantly extending one leg over the other, reclining in his velvet chaise with a regal air, as if perched upon a throne-- a monarch graciously addressing the queries of his devoted courtier.

"Based on my interactions with the Regent, his mental capacity seems quite on par with that of an Oglop, so no, I don't believe his transformation significantly hindered him, aside from perhaps the inconvenience of lacking opposable thumbs for... certain passtimes."

How she'd come across that story, he couldn't help but wonder. Though, given how swiftly rumors spread in Lindblum, similar to Treno, his astonishment was somewhat tempered. She'd probably heard it from one of her sorry little companions.

"On the other hand, ~my expansive wisdom~ could hardly be confined to the paltry smattering of neurons which animate a worm's existence. 'Twould be akin to encasing the oceans within a thimble. Impossible."

Indeed, only the most superior intellects would ever take a debate on why they could never possibly undergo transformation into a worm and turn it into bragging rights.

[dailyfreya]

Freya reminds the party of Regent Cid's identity. He has been an oglop and a frog up to this point in the game, so nobody recognized him when he became human.

[humanoidtyphoons]

… wait which cid abused his wife? fabool cheated on hilda and got turned into an oglop, but that’s not abuse. (it’s not great but it’s… well, we never get the full story either)

highwind? is it highwind, re: shera? did they get married…? he’s got a foul mouth, and i could see that being verbally abusive… but i don’t think he was physically abusive to her. hmm going to think about this, it’s been so long since i’ve played vii or watched ac/acc. i thought they had an interesting relationship anyway but it’s certainly not the healthiest when we meet them, tho i assumed their relationship did improve when cid found out shera was right in the end….

[foxingpeculiar]

FF9 Blogging:

Made good progress yesterday—got to Lindblum, going to start with the Festival of the Hunt today.

I’m not gonna be super granular and detailed cos I’ve played this game before, so it’s not like… a surprise or anything. I know basically how it goes, although I’ve forgotten a lot of the details.

I’m interested in the way this game is handling gender. I think in part because of the just general cultural misogyny of the early 2000s, I didn’t clock it that much when I was younger, but it seems like it’s doing some intentional things there—Zidane’s general womanizing (sort of) and “Protect Girls” ability, Garnet feeling like she has to fake being a normal girl (the oglop moment in the garden in Dali) and choosing a very phallic nickname, Steiner’s comment to the Knights of Pluto that they’re why men aren’t taken seriously in Alexandria, Quina… just in general. I don’t know exactly what it’s doing there yet, but it’s doing something.

Steiner is such an interesting character. It’s like he’s trying really hard to be an asshole, but he’s sort of bad at it? He’s super nice to Vivi like, immediately, and is a super dramatic bitch about everything but still totally goes with it (like when he assumes Blank’s medicine is poison but drinks it anyway and is like “oh, not bad!”). And though he’s constantly ragging on Zidane at this point, he’s also quick to admit when Zidane is helpful and even thinks about advocating for him with Brahne.

Speaking of Brahne, her portrait in the castle is interesting. What is it she’s holding here? That’s some like… Tim Burton looking shit there.

Anyway, I’m having fun with it, even if the slow battles and high encounter rate are rubbing against my modern sensibilities a little (am playing my day 1 physical copy, so no QoL features). Despite the old-school tempo, it’s paced at a pretty good clip.

[grinbrothers]

Final Fantasy IX - Soft Like An Oglop: Souldin Special!

Souldin celebrates Pancake Day with Final Fantasy IX at 9PM BST on 4/3/2025! Nanka exorcises ghosts, goes from Princess to Pirate Captain, and should be more careful climbing ladders.

Garnet Nanka by ImNotRoh: https://www.deviantart.com/imnotroh/art/She-s-Nanka-Chandler-1033077724 Nanka Pantyshot by Dr Paradise: https://www.deviantart.com/drparadise/art/Nanka-s-butt-1068401631 Pancake Day Nanka by TheOtakuArtist: https://kaitheotakuartist.tumblr.com/post/767321852495495168/finished-c0mmission-for-grinbrothers-of-souldins Nanka with Sign by ShySamArt: https://www.deviantart.com/shysamart/art/Commission-Nanka-966702081 Nanka x G-Man Ladder Scene by Louverusee: https://www.deviantart.com/louverusee/art/CM-Nanka-x-G-man-Magic-Library-918465652 Endslate by Locke3K: https://www.youtube.com/@l3kkoi  Poll to decide next year's Souldin Special: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXCFgLZmjBeMCt-QbSoDhVA/community?lb=UgkxepIo6EukmdEWT5kvZppczQkr3A1VIth9 Final Fantasy IX is available on Playstation, Nintendo Switch, PS4, Xbox One, Windows and Android. Tea Sampled: Picadilly Tea and Festive Breakfast Tea.

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[rpgxyz]

Dagger (pretending)

[icecarol]

steiner blaming zidane for the regent becoming an oglop as if zidane hasn't been with him literally the whole time is SO funny to me.

[keeshplay]

I'm just sad FF9 cid isn't an oglop....

Ah shit, here comes Cid. (This is the funniest thing they'll ever do)

[bobhellscape]

Disc 2 of Final Fantasy IX

Spoilers for FF IX ahead. You can see Part 1 of this post here

So, I've been slowly, but surely, playing through Final Fantasy IX for the past 2 or so months. I only get about 30 minutes to play it each day, so that's why progress is so slow. Also, this post is going to mostly be a random smattering of thoughts on the game so far. Jesus christ, I was not expecting so much death and destruction going into this game. Like seriously, I was not expecting to see multiple places get COMPLETELY OBLITERATED. Like I can't stress enough how Cleyra just fucking CEASED TO EXIST. This game's feeling of loss is intense, which like, I wasn't expecting from the opening parts. Vivi learning about how he is a tool for destruction, the morality of fighting with other Black Mages, and about his looming death was heartbreaking to watch. He's just a baby dude.

Freya reuniting her long lost love was a little glossed over, at least for now. He's got amnesia and doesn't remember her and all she's like is "Isn't that Ironic. Guess I'll cry or smth idk". Felt a little rushed and I hope they focus a bit more on it later.

Quina is a character, and eats things. At least it's a cool gameplay mechanic. Learning new spells like that is pretty fun.

The accents in Conde Petie were annoying and hard to read for me at times, but I guess that's the point. Watching Quina get married to Vivi was precious though, and kinda made up for the weird accent bullshit. Eiko and Mog are cool characters, and it's kinda sad that they live in the ruins like that, but me and Zidane both thinking that Mog wasn't a girl was pretty funny to me.

Gargants are cool and awesome and I want one, and everyone absolutely going insane over their hatred of Oglops is fucking hilarious to me.

Also Amarant exists. His design is cool, but his in-game model kinda looks like ass. Though, to be fair, that's probably the only way you could really do that design in such a low poly count.

Oh, and also Beatrix is a bitch, but she's a cool bitch, which technically makes her a bad bitch and I like her, but she's kinda done nothing but betray the queen so far (who is now dead btw) and say sorry to Freya, so we'll see what happens.

Overall, definitely still really good so far. I've gotta see this one through.

I probably forgot a few things since i'm almost falling asleep writing this, so if you have any question, ask away.