I’ve been wondering.
Since Gil is the currency in most FF games, do they just use coins or tender/cash as well?
If they use cash, I wonder what the gills (bills) look like, like what would be on the $1, $5, $10, $20, $50, $100, ect. Or what would the head/tail of a golden dollar look like?
Would it just have that G, like on the Auctioner in FF9?
Or would they have world leaders, bosses, or summons on them?
Yeah… I know… I’m a bit odd.
I generally do not overthink video-game logic, but I have always imagined gil to be gold coins, since in older Final Fantasy games, ‘gil’ was rendered ‘G’ (for gold) in the English translations. The word ‘gil’ also reminds me of an older English word, ‘gild’ or ‘geld’, which means ‘money’, and which is etymologically related to our word ‘gold’.
Why not? Most of the rpg series have their own currency. Wild Arms has Gella, Breath of Fire has zenny.
I always imagined that Gil consisted of silver coins, but that’s what I normally assume all RPG currency looks like unless it has a name like “Gold Pieces”.
1 word. Munny.
What was that from?
I remember that two, but cannot recall from what.
Kingdom Hearts, I think.
Exactly.
One thing that gets on my nerves about SO3 is the fact that despite the fact that you go to two different planets, they use the same currency. Then there’s the fact that they describe a sword as being Japanese on a planet that doesn’t even have the country on it.
Well considering that the main character is actually from Earth, where there is a Japan, or so I’ve been told. And the fact that the weapon describition are sort of from his point of view. It is understandable that the game can call a weapon Japanese.
As for the money thing, I don’t know how you’d explain that. But really who cares!! It is just a game after all.
If you can get a pile of it for killing a monster that has to reason for having any, frankly, I don’t really want to know what it’s made of.
I bet they could it from weak adventurers who they slaughter and they think it looks nice so they keep it.
I always thought it was something like that.
I seen to remember a game where the monsters were actually made of money, so when they died, they reverted back to it. Most of the time, though, I really don’t care what the logic is, just that there is SOME reason.
I toltally forgot that I posted this.
heh.
I personally Don’t want to know, so I can Say:
No Cloud, I don’t know why a wolf had 2 Magic Fire rings and 984 Gill!
Big Nutter
That was a funny movie.
“Run Cloud, run like a sissy girl!”