Thread: "Time Skip" for 4.5 or 5.0?

Originally Posted by Iscah

No he doesn't say that. (But you're the second person to misquote it in a couple of days.)

He first reappears already wearing the eyepatch, and from Dreams of the Lost, where you've just reunited with him (and are probably thinking "what happened to your eye?"):



The game plays with deliberately not remarking on it a couple of times (eg. Tataru greets him with "Thank the Twelve you've returned to us! But what happened to your old outfit?").

And then later when he infiltrates Castrum Meridianum with Krile (the scene you are thinking of), he's not wearing the eyepatch, and you can see that his left eye has changed colour. (It looks blue to me, though his NPC data indicates that it's white. Either way, clearly very different to his original hazel.)

And that's 'it'. No further explanation or comment.

I assume we're getting one at some point.

And if you talk to him right after completing that quest, he will also tell you that he almost lost his left eye. As in, he didn't lose his left eye, it got injured.

I also wasn't directly quoting anything when it comes to the "impressing the ladies" part, but I'd have to dig some more to find the exact quote.

Originally Posted by Nezerius

And if you talk to him right after completing that quest, he will also tell you that he almost lost his left eye. As in, he didn't lose his left eye, it got injured.

I also wasn't directly quoting anything when it comes to the "impressing the ladies" part, but I'd have to dig some more to find the exact quote.

Can you find that quote about almost losing his left eye? Because I can't, even though I vaguely remember it from my first time through the game - although from memory I think it was one of the "teases" I'm thinking of where he alluded to it but didn't explain it. And are you sure he said that, and about his left eye specifically? Not something like "I could have lost an eye back there"? Which of course could be a matter of fact statement or could (and I did) take it as ironic and with a "but I'm still not explaining the eyepatch" subtext.

I'm sure I've talked to him at every opportunity, and now I've looked through those first few quest scripts, and can't see that line anywhere. Unless it's further in - past the grand melee which was the last quest I completed - I don't know where he would have mentioned it.

In any case, he still entered the battle already wearing the eyepatch. Whatever the reason is for wearing it, it didn't happen then.

That said... I thought to check the screenshot where he's apparently just emerged from the Lifestream - and both his eyes are normal then. Also he seems to have his new hairstyle. All a bit odd, possibly an oversight, or possibly not. Again, awaiting further explanation, which I assume we'll get at some point.


(Hmm, another random thing I noticed while looking through different versions of the NPC for dialogue... as well as the major changes to his appearance with his 3.X model, his iris size changed from large to small. Probably an art thing rather than an in-character physical change, but still interesting.)

Remember as well that Arbert's shard is already having a Flood of Light threatening it. The events of SB probably haven't happened on that shard depending on how much it has already overtaken. We don't exactly have a concrete answer on how fast a Flood, or Void, take over a shard.

We also have to remember that Yoshida stated in an interview that this trailer was made to feel different and more movie like. So it could be that some of those things we saw in it are just there for the trailer but not in the game. (Still nice to see derplander switch jobs like that)

Originally Posted by Alleo

We also have to remember that Yoshida stated in an interview that this trailer was made to feel different and more movie like. So it could be that some of those things we saw in it are just there for the trailer but not in the game. (Still nice to see derplander switch jobs like that)

I don't think thats the case. They talked about going from a more american style trailer where the trailer follows the story of the movie to create an abridged form of the story to a european style trailer where the trailer creates its own story that while similar, may be misleading. Not misleading in the sense of showing incorrect material but misleading in showing things in a different order to create a different feel to the story. Everything in the trailer should be in the patch but I don't think it will play out as the trailer is implying it will.

Either way, I can't wait to see more...so I guess the trailer succeeded for me.

From that screenshot, it looks like the German quote is equivalent to the English one I posted earlier. So either the English is unclear or the German inserted information that shouldn't be there. More likely the fault of the English version though.

Still, any way it's phrased, I'm pretty sure it's an excuse and not the actual reason he's wearing it.

Originally Posted by Iscah

From that screenshot, it looks like the German quote is equivalent to the English one I posted earlier. So either the English is unclear or the German inserted information that shouldn't be there. More likely the fault of the English version though.

Still, any way it's phrased, I'm pretty sure it's an excuse and not the actual reason he's wearing it.

Except it isn't, because the one you posted is part of the quest dialogue. The screenshot shows dialogue that's available after completing the quest, as you can see in the screenshot (MSQ completed, hasn't picked up the next one from Alphinaud yet).

Besides, with that post, I was talking specifically about the fact that he didn't actually lose an eye. He almost lost it.

Originally Posted by Nezerius

Besides, with that post, I was talking specifically about the fact that he didn't actually lose an eye. He almost lost it.

So am I.

We know from the scene with Krile that while his eye is apparently undamaged, it's not the same as it was before.

We know he is covering it for some reason. Is there some kind of magic involved? Do people find it unsettling? Is he *really* trying to pick up girls out in the wilds of Dravania?

Assume he has a serious reason to keep it concealed, but doesn't want us to worry.

How to explain it? "Ah yeah, you know me, I'm doing this to impress women."

And we roll our eyes and go "seriously, you would do that, wouldn't you?" and drop the subject. Questioning over, he doesn't have to explain what actually happened.