Ugh....

[userj]

So the disconnect between the GAME FFXII and the promotion material for it is really beginning to make me feel ill. For example, I was trying to find an Ashe wallpaper last night, and at this point that means using the promotional art. There are two promotional shots of Ashe. In one of them, you are looking up her skirt. Her actual buttcheek is showing and if there weren't shadows in certain places you'd be seeing other things as well. She is standing in a "cutesy" position doing some kind of "yay" motion with one arm and sort of "cuddling" a sword. In the other shot, she is touching her freaking nose and smiling, also her feet are pidgeon toed and she has one hand on her hip. WTF. She does not act like this ever, in the entire game. It's especially galling because every other character's promotional art is pretty much drawn true to thier personality, but not Ashe. No, apparently you can't be a Square heroine unless you're cute and ditsy. Square's promotional artist, you FAIL. And for that pink (wtf?) skirt/flap/thing, Square's clothing designer, you FAIL (ok fine Baltheir's costume rocks but everyone else looks stupid).

Also the game's overall atmosphere is dark and somber, the plot larger than life, but in the end we are apparently to be "treated" to an Eyes On Me clone probably sung as always in horribly accented English by a Japanese pop singer. Uematsu has seriously disappointed me with every crappy "song" he has written, and the quality of even his ingame music hasn't been there since FF7. Uematsu, you FAIL.

Why did they have to take a great game, and tack on all this completely irrelavent Japanese pop-culture CRAP?!

I hate Japan.