Artist's commentary
Final Fantasy and Jojo pt 5
Still waiting for the Vento Aureo anime adaptation. Even though we got Rohan's ova announced, that's not nearly enough. Plus, like my friend Di says, part 5 has some of the best stand battles in all of Jojo, maybe because they are all trained assassins, unlike part 4 where a lot of them were students figuring out how to use a fork.
For this title I got a little inspiration from the golden motif from Final Fantasy IX, where they just bumped that crystal in the middle. FF9 is not one of my favorites, despite a lot of people loving it, but Zidane is too much Goku to feel original, but I liked Vivi and Steiner who got stuck with very corny comic relief. And Alexander vs Bahamut is always great.
The first turn based RPG I ever played was Mario RPG for the SNES and I remember struggling a lot with many bosses and couldn't manage to beat the giant sword. I stayed away from turn based RPGs after that, until I got Breath of Fire on a sale and I liked the idea of turning into a dragon. It's a dated game, but still charming, with a very harsh story and the series only got worse. If you like the feeling of gut wrenching and regretful decisions, Breath of Fire is the series for you. You masochist.