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Favourite airships of Final Fantasy

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Oct 28, 2017
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Is it one from the earlier games?

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The Lunar Whale or Blackjack?

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The Highwind or Ragnarok or Prima Vista?

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The Celsius or Shiva?

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Or something else 🤔 Aside from the Prima Vista I don't usually like most of the more wooden 'boat' style airships. Celsius is a bit ridiculous but I do like the more scifi ships you see in X, XII, XIII.

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Airships (飛空艇, Hikūtei?) and other aerial means of mechanized transportation in the Final Fantasy series are the most common form of transportation. This airship was piloted by the Sky Warriors hundreds of years ago, and is found and used again by the Warriors of Light after they raise it from...
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StraySheep

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Every air ship in FFXII I would say. Which is fitting considering how integral they were to the story.
 
ZeroDS

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This is like choosing a favourite child. Don't make me do it friend
 
Starlatine

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i like the one in FFV for utlity terms. Its a ship, an airship and an.... over-the-air airship? Also the hiryuu fucking blows so it looked even better in comparison
 
Tornak

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I love the Blackjack and the Highwind, but I've got a small place in my heart for the Prima Vista.

Such a shame it's not really usable, but it's gorgeous both in and out as well as pretty populous and comfy, really classy and sells the vibe of a ragtag group of thieves posing as an acting troupe, orchesta included:
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On that vein, I also like IX's Cargo Ship (in how "small-time" and humble it is) and the Hilda Garde series' sleek designs. The Invincible is really cool too, but I tend to prefer the more "mundane" airships.

Fun fact: VIII's Ragnarok is called Lagunamov in Spanish, so I grew up with that name:
In Final Fantasy VIII, Ragnarok is a pun on Laguna Loire's name, as the first three characters of his full name and that of the airship are the same in Japanese (ラ・グ・ナ, Ra-gu-na?​). The ship is called "Lagunamov" and "Lagunarock" in the Spanish and Italian versions respectively.
The link is referred to even in the English translation when Laguna says, "I always wanted to ride that thing. Plus the name sounds so cool!" The name can even be interpreted as "Laguna 6", because roku means "six" in Japanese, suggesting there may have been at least five other "Laguna" ships. In the Italian version, he downright says "Plus it's got my name on it!" instead.
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Another big difference in translations compared to the English version would be Ultimecia/Ultima being Artemisa/Artema.
 
AnansiThePersona

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Definitely the Ragnarok. It's like something I would've drawn in my notebook as a kid and I love it. Second is probably the Blackjack
 

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IX and XII because airships are a big part of their stories/worlds, and because they look awesome. Prima Vista from IX is probably my favourite due to its "classical" design, plus I really love the interior.

XII has some of the most grand and imposing ships in the series. I love the scale they went for with that game.

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Jota typeZERO

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A hard decision, but my vote goes for the airships in IX. Especially the Prima Vista; althought not a controllable one, it plays an important scenario on the early moments of the game.

The airships that appeared since the PS2 games were pretty ambitious and I think the staffs had to give up using them as vehicles in order to change them into narrative scenarios by themselves.

Musically talking, I have pretty clear that Hildagarde 3, Blackjack and Lunar Whale have my favourite airship themes in the entire series. Outside the FF ecosystem, both Epoch and Yggdrassil are also my jam.
 
zswordsman

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Honestly it's one of the few aspects that I don't like about FF. All their airships are always just so over designed, ugly or meh at best. But good thing they're never a huge focus in the story.
 

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Ragnarok, definitely.

I have a soft spot for the Falcon too, if only for that godlike scene where it ascends from the water while Searching for Friends starts playing for the first time.
 
TheJollyCorner

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Nov 7, 2017
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Blackjack for me.

Although my heart also says the fully-loaded Falcon from FFIV (front drill, magma protection, & hook to carry a hovercraft!)
 
pezzie

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Oct 27, 2017
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Lunar Whale.

It's not the best designed airship in the bunch but I still get happy saying the sentence "Getting in my big space whale to fly to the moon"
 
Rotobit

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Oct 27, 2017
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Prima Vista for me, probably. It's such a fun concept. I'm indifferent to most of the others aside from the NES ones because "ship, but with propellers" is very silly and I love it

FFXII's look like they were heavily inspired by the Star Wars prequels' art direction though and that's super fun
 
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