Final Fantasy 30 Day Challenge

DAY 06: Favorite Antagonist

Oooooh...  This is a difficult one...   Final Fantasy has so many great antagonists... As I'm typing this, I'm still not sure who I'm going to choose.  Kuja, Sephiroth, Caius, Edea, Sin(Ject), X-Death, Seymour, Gilgamesh, Seifer...  Final Fantasy is so good at antagonists!!

Caius definitely wins the sexiest, and Sephiroth wins best hair, but I think my favourite is going to have to be......

Kuja!!

Kuja kicks our asses, and he kicks them well. Sometimes with is crony Beatrix, he fucks us up so hard we don't even have the option of winning. Beatrix is the cause of a lot of these ass-kickings, but that's just another reason Kuja is a great villain; he chooses really strong people to be his henchmen.  That's smart.

Usually in Final Fantasy games, you fight the main antagonist about two thousand times.  When you win, the guy/lady isn't dead, but runs off, and your HP remains, and you move on and prepare to fight him/her again.  You and the villain kind of both win, because you're both left standing.  But not Kuja (and I want to credit Beatrix too, since she does the same thing at least twice that I remember... I fucking hated her, because she kept kicking my ass...) 

When you fight them, you can't even win...  You're not supposed to.  And that causes a lot of powerful feelings in the person playing the game.  You feel just as broken and defeated as your characters look.  The game quite bluntly tells you that you cannot beat this guy yet.  YOU CAN'T.  A villain who makes you feel hopeless and defeated is a good villain.  Walking away with fairly good health, even if your enemy does too, is far different then the enemy nearly killing you and walking away unscathed.

A good villain also is relatable on a certain level.  I don't like it when the antagonist is just a killing machine with no other motivation than wanting to kill. Final Fantasy does a great job of making their villains relatable, with motivations that we understand, and Kuja is no exception.

His music theme is awesome too.  Yay, Kuja!

My Final Fantasy X save file. I've got over 9 entire days invested in this game... And that doesn't even include that my sister saved over my original game on accident... Or the times when I fought a boss and lost and had to re-do it. Man on man... I regret nothing.

You might also notice I named Tidus "Sexy!"  I think I was fifteen or sixteen years old when I started this game...  But who am I kidding?  I'm still really immature and stupid...