Cecil's personal transformation in Final Fantasy IV is presented in a way that brilliantly combines the game's story and mechanics.
franchise is filled with iconic scenes: The party grinding in to stop Yuna’s wedding, Aerith’s untimely death, Noctis dropping the line “Off my chair jester, that’s where the king sits.” While many of these moments have stuck with me through the years, none have impressed me as much as Cecil’s transformation in. As much as it’s about long lost brothers and betrayal and riding a whale to the moon, Cecil’s arc is mostly about change.
Dark Knights are powerful beefy boys with high health and defense. Their high health is particularly crucial, because their special ability “Dark” is a sword technique that devastates all enemies on the board, but at the cost of the user’s health. Cecil is a destructive force constantly trading his own health to deal damage. His pain is his greatest weapon, and he attempts to use it to right the wrongs of his past, but comes up short.
Cecil’s guilt and self-harm serve no one save perhaps his own ego, but they can feel seductive when compared to the hard labor of genuine atonement. The former requires only pain, the latter needs a transformation which is much harder to come by. Until he becomes a Paladin, Cecil hasn’t changed the way he engages with the world around him; he’s simply found a new target. Once he passes the test, Cecil and the player’s experience of him are fundamentally altered.
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