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...you’re going to be in the arts.”Despite Connor’s optimism, some current students remain skeptical about the department.“I do sense that people feel it’s not a legitimate concentration,” says Yuna C. Han ’10, when asked what she thinks about the department. But an official pronouncement may help in changing that perception.Last week, Harvard University President Drew G. Faust announced the creation of a “task force on the arts,” designed to ensure that...
...rips the hero from his neighborhood and shunts him to Spira, where tan, sea-faring people lash palm leaves to the bamboo ribs of beachside huts. Of course, he tries to get home, and instead gets involved with Spira’s own mission to defeat Sin, led by Yuna, a self-sacrificing young summoner and her heterogeneous gang of guardians...
...Yuna is the requisite romantic lead. We first see her swooning beautifully in the doorway of the Chamber of Trials. Dewy with sweat, she collapses into the arms of a burly guardian, exalting breathily: “I’ve done it! I’ve become a summoner!” Sadly, the heroes of Final Fantasy seem to grow more androgynous, be they taciturn, long-lashed fighters or spunky, spikey-haired pickpockets. Role-playing games have a girl-friendly reputation, so it helps to have characters both genders can identify with. (Heaven forbid, of course, a female...
...Sacrifice. (The other is “Water.”) Not Sacrifice like, turning yourself to stone. Sacrifice like, being cheery and ingratiating despite the soul-spending trauma of your daily existence. “People put so much on us.” Says Yuna, “So when I feel like I’m going to collapse, I’ve learned to smile.” Yuna’s falsified laughter hides an onerous burden, and neither is much fun to watch...
...overall care in character shines through, and its many stupid moments are forgiven. In FFX, they’re highlighted by often-disastrous acting. In flashbacks of Tidus’s youth, his father grunts like a pro-wrestler, a bad-dad act so bad it wins a chuckle. Yuna can only say two words without inhaling hesitantly...
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