SIREN

 Turning back in time, to the last years of the 20th century, was when Final Fantasy reach its glory point as well as it was born on the action figures industry too. It wasnt FF VII the one that started selling figures tough, but it was Final Fantasy VIII in the hands of Bandai and Kotobukiya. Bandai released figures of the main characters while Kotobukiya put the "creatures" of the game on the shelves. The coolest part is that both companies used the same scale soo the "creatures" are taller than the human characters.

Sadlly, i sold all my collection and a couple of the creatures too but i keep a few and now i been triying to get again those misisng monsters in my collection. The serires focused on the Guardian Force and the very first one i got was as well the very first Guardian Force of the game: Siren. The scale is not as big as i rememberded tough since she is a a little smaller to the average modern action figure scale.

She cant stand at all thanks to the odd shape of her legs but she comes with a plane plate base with an arm to help her stand. Sadlly, i lose her base soo i had to use a generic one that works perfectly for her. As an action figure from that time, she is not very articulated: shoulders, elbows, legs, knes and wings and all this segments use cut joints, soo they only move on one direction.

There is not too much logic on moving her legs since she could not stand at all and the arms movement is soo limited, the most helpfull articulations are on her wings. The sculpt is nice, pretty faitthfull to Tetsuya Nomura design, she is almost like a statue and her legs are sculpted leaning to her side. Is a nice touch to not give her a totally generic pose.

Most of the details are on the feathers and face and still those details have a very soflt scultpting. Color is the same, the body is cast on flesh tone soo most of it is on her wings tough the colors are pretty nice and vibrant, blue, greens and purples, i specially love her metalic purple claws as well as her lips and eyes.

She have two accesoryes, one is her harp. Is nicelly sculpted and painted in green with gold and even the cords are metalic, tough is very difficult for her to hold it thanks to the shape of her hands, a reall strugle! The second accesory is a completelly different Guardian Force: Cactuar!!

Cactuar is tiny, perfectly sculpted and perfectly painted. The only downside is that he cant stand at all, but he match with any other FF figures line no matter the scale.

Despite the details could be better and the useless articulations, this figure was soo impresive back then... she looked soo pixelated and blurry on the Playstation game, it was such a luxury see this character in HD and this is also probablly the best design this monster ever had.