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Anyone else think that the two dots on his hat were his eyes and the slit for his eyes was his mouth? Like two years ago, I was playing the GBA version and realised ''Oh! He has a yellow shawl on!''

Yeah, for the longest time I thought the eye-slit was its mouth and it was some sort of horrible monster with puffy hair and a big, toothy grin. I still have a hard time not seeing that - I default to Terrible Tooth Monster in my head. I also thought that right above the teeth was a really awkward 13-year old mexi-moustache, which just made it an awkward monster going through puberty.

This post has been edited by Neal on 29th August 2009 14:37

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Exactly what Neal said XD

He really did creep me out till I realised how he actually looked
Though now I actually PREFER the idea he's a wierd monster XD

This post has been edited by Dark Paladin Danny on 29th August 2009 16:25

Ha ha. I never noticed the Mexi-stache, nice observation but yeah i thought he was this big fugly yellow blob man for the majority of my childhood

You know, I don't think I've ever seen a close-up image of Gogo before, so I haven't really seen his eyes. I guess I thought he was a weird monster too.

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Heh, can't say I imagined him like that. Maybe because my first playthrough of FFVI was on the GBA? =/

I've always seen the eyes and such but with everyone telling me about the monsterous aspects now I can't stop seeing them


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Hahaha, oh add me to the list of folks who first thought Gogo was a creepy blob of a person. I never used him/her because of the "creepy grin."

What is with this game and bizarre hats? What is Gogo wearing on his/her head? Kinda reminds me of the bright green pointy-hat-thing that Owzer wears.

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Its supposed to be late-Victorian. From a Japanese perspective. It happens.

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I sorta just notice like a year ago that Gogo wasn't an alien or good monster, but just suffered from bad fashion since.

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For the longest time I also thought Gogo was some sort of strange yellow-and-red creature. In fact, it wasn't until

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the epilogue sequence, where his helmet/hat is displayed

that I finally realized the truth. Even a friend of mine, upon seeing me recruit him for the first time, commented: “Did you just recruit Pizza the Hut ?”

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Its supposed to be late-Victorian. From a Japanese perspective. It happens.

That's true. It's the eastern world looking at the western world. I've never really thought of that before.

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Wow you guys, Gogo looks so lovable with his big toothy grin!

To switch gears, I'd also like to caution against over-simplified ideas about how well the Japanese understand Western culture. If FF6 adhered closely to Victorian/Edwardian fashion, the gents would dress like this and the ladies would dress like this. With exceptions for opera Celes and reunion Gau they don't. Instead they mostly follow the conventions of RPG character design of the day.

Which is not to say that there aren't people in Japan who do their homework on the Victorian period. Mamoru Oshii has proven very familliar with it. A show called Victorian Romance Emma speaks for itself pretty well, right? Even Amano has done his homework on Victoriana. He knows what late 19th century Europe looked like. He just wasn't using it so much on the character designs for FF6, and nobody else on the game's staff seems to have been very interested. (BTW, that last pic was stills from Angel's Egg, circa 1985.)

This post has been edited by Shiva Indis on 1st October 2009 18:50

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Yeah, for the longest time I thought the eye-slit was its mouth and it was some sort of horrible monster with puffy hair and a big, toothy grin. I still have a hard time not seeing that - I default to Terrible Tooth Monster in my head. I also thought that right above the teeth was a really awkward 13-year old mexi-moustache, which just made it an awkward monster going through puberty.

I thought that way too... except for the mexi moustache part.
did I post here before?

Wow and to think I felt bad when I saw Gogo's art by Amano and went: “What the hell!?, It is not a monster with a creepy grin?!!!”

I'm not alone after all

The Advance version did some minor changes to the portraits but it really helped Gogo's case, I don't get confused anymore.

I always thought his design was more arab looking than western.

Oh well, we'll always have FFV's Gogo for creepiness sake.
http://www.cavesofnarshe.com/ff5/art/images/47.jpg

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