Many Cactuar variants have appeared in various games, such as the Gigantender, a large, bulky Cactuar that looks more like a typical cactus. In other games, they possess an even more powerful 10,000 Needles attack. They are notoriously difficult to hit, and best known for their defensive attack, 1000 Needles (also called Blow Fish), which typically does exactly 1000 hit points of damage to an opponent, regardless of defenses. Even in modern titles, they look and move in a puppet-like manner, balancing on one leg with the others bent at 90 degree angles. The Cactuar's silhouette resembles the Japanese 卍 symbol, pronounced as "manji", which is traditionally a holy and auspicious symbol in Japan. Characteristics Ĭactuars are typically depicted having stiff arms and legs without hands or feet, three black dots on their faces (representing two eyes and an oblong mouth) and three yellow quills at the top of their heads. The Cactuar's physical texture and the depiction of the inside of its mouth was emphasized by the designers to make it more realistic as a type of wildlife in the game's world. įor Final Fantasy XV, the developer team noted that they had to make careful considerations on how to deal with the inclusion of comical or cute characters in a game designed to be more realistic than its predecessors.
One of the notable errors he corrected prior to the game's release was the original in-game description for the Cactuar, which was translated from Japanese to English as "It ejaculates needles!".
Smith, who played a major role in the English localizations of games developed and published by Square and later Square Enix like Vagrant Story and Final Fantasy XII, helped re-write translations written by a Japanese native translator for one of the PlayStation Final Fantasy games in the 1990s. The design of the Cactuar's face resemble haniwa, a type of terracotta clay figure traditionally used for ritual and funerary purposes during the Kofun period in Japanese history. According to Japanese video game artist, game designer and director at Square Enix Tetsuya Nomura, the concept of the Cactuar is based on a doodle he drew on a notebook when he was attending high school as a teenager.
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