Continuing work on "The Final Chapters"

With the dawn of October and a new month its time I swap from "Lenne's and Shuyin's Story" to "The Final Chapters". If you haven't figured it out yet "The Final Chapters" is the follow up from Final Fantasy X-2 International + Last Mission. This concentrates on Yuna's and Tidus' story together along with their friends and companions.

So what's expected to come out of this month or so working on "The Final Chapters"? I've decided to alter the use of Lenne as a active party member when available. Originally Lenne could summon only in "Lenne's and Shuyin's Story" but now I've decided that the summoning of an aeon can play a optional role in the later parts of "The Final Chapters" in battles should the player wish to use an aeon to take place of the active party in battles. The initial reasons for not having summons on "The Final Chapters" is because Yuna has forgotten how to summon and the sending for that matter. I wanted Yuna to remain the more upbeat Yuna as in Final Fantasy X-2 where summoning and teachings of Yevon have been disbanded. If I were to have Yuna able to perform the sending and summon aeons not only would it mean having to change significant parts of the already existing plot but it would also mean having to explain why Yuna can summon on X-3 but not on X-2. Other reasons are that summoning might bring back bad memories for Yuna such as the sacrificing of her aeons in order to defeat Sin forever. And I intend to keep the Fayth as the main antagonists.

So to incorporate a change for Lenne's commands I've decided that only one aeon is available to summon. This aeon is Anima. The reason being is that Anima's Fayth (Seymour's mother) is the only remaining Fayth to have survived who rejected the beliefs of the other Fayth such as Ixion, Valefor, Ifrit and Bahamut. Anima's Fayth believes the other Fayth's ideas are wrong and would provide her power to help defeat the Fayth. This means siding the protagonists by appearing as an aeon for Lenne to summon. However I intend to make this only an optional task for the player to complete should the player need to. Initially I would only have Anima obtainable until after Raphas has been defeated, during chapter five (5) and depending upon if mission "Farplane break" in chapter three (3), Lenne and Shuyin defeat Baralai and Gippal in Chapter four (4) and if Lenne and Shuyin defeat Dark Anima in Baaj temple in chapter five (5).

Having Anima on the allies side is only optional but it will provide another asset in battle situations and will help in difficault battle situations. Completing this scene will also increase the completed score. So if the player is to obtain Anima this will make Lenne a valuable asset in battles when available as she is the only playable character able to summon. To fair things up however Lenne loses the command Use in both "The Final Chapters" and "Lenne's and Shuyin's Story". Initially both Lenne and Shuyin were to have the command Use in both "The Last Chapters" and "Lenne's and Shuyin's Story" but now only Shuyin will be able to use the command Use (besides Rikku in "The Final Chapters"). This is to balance the use of the playable characters thoughout instead of allowing the potential player to utilise only three (3) or less playable characters which would ruin the element of strategy.