When rumours arose of a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Final Fantasy Soulslike being in production, the reaction was anything but normal, because that's not exactly a normal idea, is it? A series that got much stricter with spin-offs suddenly making a Soulslike? Bizarre stuff and the poor performance and visuals of the original demo did little to sell it.

And yet 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Stranger of Paradise has gifted itself the illustrious prize of being one of the best Final Fantasy games in a long time, in no small part to protagonist Jack. You've probably seen Jack around, jack-of-all-trades that he is, and wondered why he's always fist-bumping everyone he meets. That's because he loves fist-bumping, and we're going to tell you exactly how many times he does it.

Wait, Why Are Fist Bumps So Important?

Well, we'll start with the obvious one - Jack is a meme. As a character, he feels so intensely un-Final Fantasy. Just a very real, very angry man. He seeks Chaos, and he will shout obscenities to get to it. In a very literal way, he talks with his fists, and fist bumps make up a major part of that.

To understand this, scroll through the and count how many times you see Jack's fist.

Now, we could dissect that as an intentionaജl character trait as well. Jack has lost a handle on his emotions, and physicality is the only way he knows how🎉 to express himself. Compared to the brutal Soul Bursts he exacts on enemies, his fist bumps are an exceedingly tender gesture.

And oh boy, does he love giving fist bumps. No liไe, they form the emotional crux o꧅f the story.

So How Many Times Does Everyone Fist Bump?

You might think the eight images of Jack fist-bumping above are duplicate images here. Wrong. Those are flashbacks of Jack's most memorable fist bumps and are genuinely important to the story.

In one of the very first scenes in which we see Jack, it is him, Jed, and Ash arriving in Cordelia and marking the counter with a shared fist bump. That's Number One.

The next of the major fist bumps we see is at the end of the first mission. After defeating Chaos Advent, it is revealed to be Neon, a native of Cordelia who succumbed to darkness to become a Fiend but was freed by Jack. Jack's response to all this?

A shared party fist bump. That's Number Two, and the four💝th Warrior of Light on their grand adventure to defeat Chaos.

The next we see is quite a while later, in the Temple of Water. In the beginning, Neon has a moment of weakness. Her memories of the past mixed with their current goal. Jack reassures her in the only way he knows - clumsy but well-meaning words and a fist bump. That's Number Three.

This is immediately followed up with the whole party getting involved, with everyone offering a shared fist bump to reassure each other of their goal. Solidarity, and fist bump Number Four.

For the core party, this is their final fist bump. The next one we see is somewhat vague. Jack is forced to come face-to-face with Astos, who fights the par🌄ty to the death to reawaken the anger within Jack.

After breaking Astos, we see glimpses of a fist bump between him and Jack, one that the latter has otherwise no recollection of. Deeply melancholic, we have fist bump Number Five out of the way.

From here on ou💫t, Jack starts to remember his past and gets closer to feeling his own emotions, too. There are no more fist bumps for him in this life, but you🍨 can bet plenty came in his previous lives.

The first of these is his full history with Astos, and the extra context behind the previous fist bump. The promise that Jack would never forget him, yet cruelly, unknowingly, did so anyway. With fist bump Number Six we have perhaps the most tragic of them all.

The next of Jack's fist bumps we see is another with Astos. This time, it occurred at the end of a cycle, wherein he started planning to break the cycle with the help of Astos. He offers a fist bump of reassurance, though one that Astos denies, not yet comfortable with the emotions being expressed by Jack. This is fist bump Number Seven, the first chronologically, and the only one not reci🃏procated.

The grand finale of fist bumps occurs in the grand finale of the game itself. Jack's friends are dead, each and every one of them dead at his own hands. He has given himself to Chaos in its entirety and now needs only to claim the mantle for himself.

During the final battle with Chaos Manifest, we see the world that Jack envisions - one with his friends, free of interdimensional interference. His final thought is of his friends, the Water Temple, and that final fist bump they all shared together before the end. Fist Bump Number Eight to finish it all off.

Stranger of Paradise has a lot of writing and characters that might seem exceedingly weak, but instead, it's just a lot of writing defined by the meaning behind it rather than the words that are directly spoken. Jack is the embodiment of that. Fist bumps are his main expression. Even with all his emotions stripped away, that remains.

So, by that count, there are at least Eight Fist Bumps in the game, which for a game wi꧙th so few cutscenes is quite an impressive feat.