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FFV

2023-07-03T18:55:52Z

Replaying the FF games since I got the pixel remasters as a gift (I still need to actually finish 3, even though I'm nearly there, and finished 1 and 2.) Kind of weird to see the Crystal Tower and surrounding areas in their natural habitat.

I'm on 5 for now - I wanted to play the job system I was used to there - and reached the Castle of Bal, which is basically where I pause the game for days to grind. I have discovered that if I set things up so that at least one character is below 100 ABP to the next level, I can pretty much grind indefinitely.

(It's seriously nice to see this game with a competent translation, though. I only played the PSX release of this on console - I never got the GBA release.)

Also - I think I said this elsewhere but I remember back in the day in the Ship Graveyard that it gave me a LOT of trouble.

You know, this place where you have to go underwater a lot?

When I first, first played this - a LONG time ago - I don't know why but the rendering made the water opaque. I thought it was supposed to be like that and you just had to pick your way through the underwater areas until you found the exit.

It... took a while.

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(FFVI) Anticlimax

2016-08-12T03:43:29Z

( WoR Shadow spoilers? Should I tag for these? )

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FFVI: I thought I was good at this game

2016-08-09T22:14:12Z

So far, since starting to play FFVI again, I have done the following:

- Died horribly on the Veldt after going through the “Kefka powers up and gets the Magicite “sequence, and hadn’t saved after that cutscene. I think it was a Lich group that killed me. Darn zombies.

- Died again on the Veldt after picking up a ton of new Rages for Gau. (Lv. 5 Doom - Gau was my only character who wasn’t vulnerable and he was learning a new Rage at the time.)

- Died after the fight with the IAF and the landing on the Floating Island to a giant monster in a treasure box. Apparently I’d only thought that I had saved after landing, so I had to redo that fight as well.

- Died saving the kid in Tzen twice. I was right in front of the door when the clock ran out the second time.

- Had Cid die on me after one damn fish. Not a slow one, either.

- Died fighting tentacles in Figaro (after a long battle where Celes kept being picked up, tossed down, given barely enough time to heal herself, and picked up again.)

I do not remember ever having this much trouble with this game before. Must’ve lost my touch.

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Games

2016-07-04T03:24:34Z

I don't get to game very much during the school year. Catching up a bit during the summer. I played Beneath a Steel Sky and finished it fairly quickly (it's an old-school adventure game, and a darkly-funny one, although I was rather distracted by the fact that no one had an Australian accent despite the game being set in Australia.)

Games to play/finish soon:
- Might and Magic: World of XEEN (PC. I'm done with Clouds and one dungeon away from finishing Darkside, and haven't touched the World content yet. I don't know to what extent I'm going to do the Dungeon of Death. The first level is fun, but I seem to remember the second-to-last level being tedious.)
- Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth (PSP, Normal/Ending B. I'll do an A Ending run on hard mode later. Honestly I'm amazed I don't have saves from hard mode... did I not play through this game on this memory stick before...?)
- Breath of Fire (SNES, playing on Wii U)
- Transistor (PS4. I've finished once and am working on the first recursion; I just need to get back to it and kill the final boss.)
- Dishonoured (PS3. I want a no-kills low-chaos playthrough, but I'm not gonna worry about being spotted. Just watching my SO do a Ghost playthrough was excruciating.)
- Final Fantasy X-2 (PS3 remaster. I got distracted by the ridiculous arena mode and giving all of the monsters doge meme names, so I should get back to the game so I can see the actual plot. I'm probably strong enough with some of the dress spheres that I can do a lot of damage, and low-level enough that I'm not going to break the game completely.)

There's more, but that's probably enough.

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The very rare kickstarter link

2015-06-04T15:15:04Z

Hero U: Rogue to Redemption

By the same minds that made the Quest for Glory series. Most of them, anyway.

I really, really hope that this game happens. I'll probably throw some money at it, if I have any again in time.

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