168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Final Fantasy’s Shiva is one of the most recognizable summons in the franchise. She’s big, she’s blue, she’s cornered the Final Fantasy market on ice elemental⛦ damage… what’s not to love?
Plenty, as it turns out. Shiva's appeared in basically every mainstream Final Fantasy installment, as well ꩲas a few side games and crossovers, so it’s to be expected that some of her portrayals fail to impress.
But which games have her at her best, and which at her wo♏rst? Here are five Shiva appearances you’d be hard-pressed to forget, and five that you wish you could.
10 Best: Final Fantasy VII Remake
This one’s a cheap shot and we know it, but of course Shiva looks good in the remake. Considering how much the game poured into its graphics, she had better look good. However, the remake does get points for adapting one of her earlier designs: remake Shiva sports a high ponytail that would make even Ariana Grande wince, a holdover from her appearance in the iOS and Nintendo DS versions of Final Fantasy IV.
9 Worst: Final Fantasy Explorers
Ifrit is fire and Shiva is ice. Those are their motifs and we respect that—however, Explorers Shiva could stand to ease up on the branding. With the snowflake accessories clipped to her thong, the pointy icicle bra, and the giant wrought snowflake she probably ripped off the top of a Christmas tree behind her back, she's definitely recognizable as the franchise Ice Queen. But there’s such a thing as overkill, and Explorers Shiva is the very definition of it.
8 Best: Final Fantasy Tactics
Shiva is usually in some form of undress in her appearances, so seeing her not only fully-clothed but armored is so unexpected that it gives her Final Fantasy Tactics design a solid entry into 𓃲the top five. This "Ice Paladin" aesthetic she's got going on is really working for her; just look at the detailing on her shield.
Is she a pile of blue pixels in the actual game? Yes, but she’s a 🐬pile of blue pixels that’s impervious to most forms of physical attack, and for that, we applaud her.
7 Worst: Final Fantasy Blood Of Bahamut
There will be worse crimes further down the list but make no mistake: designing an ugly Shiva is unforgivable. She’s a blue lady whose two main qualities are being sexy and ice-themed: how hard can it be? A game that can design the Knights of the Round can design a good Shiva. All respect to short-haired Shiva designs, but that pixie cut and headdress thing just do🌱n't look good for her.
6 Best: Final Fantasy XII
Have you considered that it’s hard being a sexy lady all the time, every time? If Shiva’s only appearance in a mainstream Final Fantasy game just so happens to be as an airship, then maybe we should let her. As we’ve seen so far, some Final Fantasy installments just can’t design a good-looking Shiva to save their lives. Knowing your limits is a quality worthy of respect, and for that, the FFXII design team should be applauded.
5 Worst: Final Fantasy Type Zero
Look at her. She’s not even blue. Type Zero Shiva has some kind of weird punk/goth ice skater thing going on, and it's not working. She tosses aside much of the regal elegance that Shiva is typically designed to embody in favor of a black bikini top and leg warmers with ice motifs. And while the roller derby look might have been an interesting take on the character, this Shiva seems designed to look like a girl in her late teens at best. Come on, Square Enix, if you’re going to put a female character in skimpy clothing—if you really, really have to—at least make sure she ওlooks꧙ like an adult.
4 Best: Final Fantasy XIV
FFXIV Shiva’s crown of icicles and long, flowing hair makes for an unmistakable design. Her bodysuit is topped off with a spiked ruff that makes her look as regal and dangerous, as befitting of a primal based off a woman whose answer to a centuries-long war was to get down with a dragon. While FFXIV Shiva definitely owes her distinctive appearance to a certain in-game character, there’s no doubting the strength of her character design. From her silhouette to the little details on her clothing, FFXIV Shiva is unforgettable.
3 Worst: Final Fantasy Lighting Saga
In the Lightning Saga, Shiva is two sisters who do an uncomfortably sensual fusion dance to become a motorcycle for Snow to ride on, where the seat is made up of their interlocked thighs. Yikes. O🐼ne Shiva sister has a wheel lodged in her hair, which coincidentally forms part of the motorcycle’s body. The other can detach the wheel from her hair and use it like some sort of weapon, and the other half of the motorcycle is on her back.
The silhouette is a mes🌊s and theirﷺ separate designs are altogether too cluttered to enjoy. Hard pass.
2 Best: Final Fantasy X
Here it is, the best Shiva design, hands down. Her hair is tied into distinctive locks and topped with metal rings. FFX Shiva can't be mistaken for another game’s, which can be a problem when she’s a franchise staple. Moreover, Shiva's summon animation is absolutely gorgeous: a transparent, icy Shiva descends from the skies, crystalizes, then reappears in a shower of shattering ice. She tosses aside a gorgeous blue and white shawl that Yuna then gently catches. Her version of Diamond Dust, Shiva's signature attack, cu𝓀lminates in the most stylish snap and shatter the franchise has e𒉰ver seen. From her appearance to her summon, FFX Shiva's design is just unforgettable.
1 Worst: Final Fantasy XV
And now for absolute worst Shiva design. FFXV Shiva somehow manages to be too much and too little all at the same time. FFXV Shiva is… grey. She’s a grey woꦓman with a weird faucet-s💝haped ponytail and clothes that match her skin tone so well that you have to double-check to make sure she’s actually wearing something. As it stands, she just looks like a knockoff of FF7R's Shiva.
FFXV Shiva also bears the unfortunate distinction of being one of the only designs to be drastically changed for a larger market—the Chinese edition of FFXV has Shiva with a more human skin tone, with some parts of her actual body-colored blue so that she appears to have a bodysuit rather than… whatever it is she’s supposed to be wearing. That the reworked design is easily better than the original says a lot about FFXV's Shiva.
