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jecca_mehlota) wrote2009-12-03 12:58 am
jecca_mehlota) wrote2009-12-03 12:58 am
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Two quick posts before I run to bed.
Nearly forgot these... Here is the first! It is only the second half of me rambling on about Dissidia.
Part one was forther ago, so here is a link to that. Though I think the tag might work, too. Whatever.
On to chapter one. Because, yes, everything up until now was the prologue. FEAR.
To recap, in case you had somehow forgotten (as Squeenix seems to think you must have), the ten GOOD guys had to go find the ten crystals. The ten BAD guys showed up mostly to be vague and ominous and to attempt to dissuade us, but didn’t seem to really be trying that hard to actually stop us. EVERYONE FOUND THEIR CRYSTAL. And then they all went back to Cosmos (Head Good Guy goddess of creation and harmony), who told us the end has already been decided and allowed Chaos (Head Bad Guy god of discord the name is kind of a giveaway, here) to blast her to oblivion on the basis that we all needed to know true darkness. Whatever that means.
SO CHAPTER ONE: SHADE IMPULSE. It has six stars of difficulty
God, I really don’t want to play as some of these people. You are not fun to fight as! It is nothing personal!
Sooooooooooooooo. WoL?
Screw it. I’m picking someone I like to play as and am good at.
Hrm. I am best with Bartz, Squall, Zidane, and Tidus. Bartz and Tidus are both much lower level, since I did their odysseys on days when I wasn’t getting any kind of bonus. If I were going strictly by level, it would be Squall, who is the only one out of the ‘teen levels. Bartz is grossly overpowered, though, so his level isn’t really an issue. Tidus isn’t as strong, but still has some good moves. Zidane’s voice makes me want to break things (which is too bad, really. His Japanese voice is much better, though).
TRUUUUE DAAAAARKNESSSSSS.
Ansem… or, god, whoever you are. I was going to list all your names but it’d take, like, five pages. MAIN VILLAIN FROM KHI GUY. WHO LET HIM WRITE THIS SCRIPT.
We’re all glowin- Tidus just vanished! AUGH EVERYONE IS DISAPPEARING. Kefka is blaming this on us – she died because of what we did! And we all go POOF in clouds of sparkles before we can get any sort of clarification on that one. WoL GOES LAST. (See, ‘cause, it went backwards from 10 to 1, see, ‘cause… that’s clever, right? Well, they had to do it in some order.)
And now the screen is all black. Naturally. Everyone freaks out. “WE DON’T EXIST. AUGH. IT’S DARK AND DESTROYED AND WAITAMINUTE I DON’T BUY THIS AND wheee shiny crystals. Hey, okay, we’re back.” That was anticlimactic.
I like that Cloud’s crystal just looks like a material orb. Small and round and vaguely greenish. I don’t know why I like that so much more than any of the other recognizable ones.
I think it doesn’t matter who I chose for this, that they’re all going to ZERG RUSH their way through or something. Hanging together instead of wandering off on their own. So I’m not going to tell who I chose, haha. GUESS. (It isn’t hard.)
Hmm… according to the little info-bit that pops up before a fight, DARKNESS IS GATHERING. Silent Hill?
Pseudo-Seph has gained an attack called Black Materia. DOOM. Oh, maybe it just made it get Dark. I don’t know. It didn’t seem like anything happened to me.
Darn, I forgot to update my equipment.
Aaaand looks like I won’t have a chance for a while. Fourth fight in a row, this one.
Why am I only just learning that? My manikin counterparts have had it for ages! Those cheaters. MINE NOW, anyway. HP attacks = ♥ Ground-based, though, and I spend more time in the air than not. OH WELL. STILL MINE.
Haha, oh, Selphie. She was trying to quiz me, but the answer was the title of the Battle Tip.
Shinryu is stirring! The dragon-thing. He’s appeared in a couple of the games. The one from FFX is the one that sticks in my mind the most, on account of being one of those underwater battles where you have to use Rikku, Tidus, and Wakka. And my Wakka was always underleveled (or… under-sphere-grid-ed or… oh, god, whatever) my first time through FFX.
Apparently this means the conflict is nearing its end, if we ask Ultimecia. As it is ‘that which purifies the world.’ IE, hits the magic restart button and everything starts all over again.
There are two end markers on this map. What.
Oh, one is just Kefka. Okay, never mind~ HE CALLED ME A POSER. I… care. Deeply. Really.
“Why try so hard to keep living? In the end, nothing truly matters…” SOMEONE HAS BEEN LISTENING TO LINKIN PARK!
Also, apparently that attack (way to go, missing the name) can go through walls. Um. Good to know. Ow.
Blah, blah, magic reboot button not going to work, Cosmos dead FOR REALZ, Emperor trying to kill us since day one, blah, Jecht not Chaos’s pawn, blah, blah.
Right.
Octopus Ink is evil.
If I’d known that was going to do over four thousand damage, I’d have tried a little harder to avoid being hit by it.
WOAH. The next scene actually picked up right where the last one left off! That’s a nice change. Jecht is not Chaos’ pawn becaaaaaause… he was once Cosmos’! Because it’s totally random and it’s just lucky coincidence that all the good guys are with Cosmos and all the bad / final boss (since not all of them are actually bad) guys are with Chaos this time? SURE WHY NOT.
So by Tidus and Jecht fighting, the Emperor gained ~*~light~*~ and is more powerful than the gods…? SURE WHY NOT.
… heehee, this enemy has a weapon called Sonic Knuckles. WHAT NO TAILS? (I know they’re a weapon in other games, but that’s always where my mind goes. I grew up with a Sega Genesis and every Sonic game made for it, what do you expect from me? … YEAH, THAT’S RIGHT, I WASN’T A NINTENDO KID. One of the five in existence…)
HEY SO I think I just fought the longest, stupidest battle possible. The thing is a couple levels higher than me and has a summon that, as far as I can tell, turns whatever damage I inflict into BRV, and then he can freaking one-shot me. So I spent a very long time running around a rock structure (with the thing chasing me the entire time) waiting for the summon effect to wear off. And even then I still had to mostly hide and only hit him with a surprise attack when he came around the corner. And mostly I just got a lucky hit in and was able to use an Ex Burst.
And then, like an idiot, I willingly throw myself into another battle with someone who’s higher level and can probably kill me by looking at me funny. But he didn’t. Hah!
Giggling at Jecht’s comments before our fight with him.
“Heh, not too shabby. Looks like I’ve got nothing to worry about.” MUCH MORE CHEERFUL THAN KEFKA.
If this follows the pattern of the Destiny Odyssey stuff, this’ll be the last map area of this part.
Hm. The problem with this is I’m getting a lot of levels. I’m going to have to take everyone else out at some point. I mean, half of them aren’t even level 15 yet.
MAN. I REALLY HATE IT HOW I KEEP ACCIDENTALLY TRIGGERING EX MODE WHEN I’M REALLY TRYING TO DODGE OR JUST ATTACK OR… NOT TRIGGER EX MODE ANYWAY. ARGH!
YAY MORE QUESTIONS NOW! FFVI and, haha! I just went through that part on my replay, hooray.
I have an attack that causes a wall rush, and suddenly these WALL RUSH WITHIN 10 SECONDS battles are so much easier. By which I mean, I actually succeed and get the DP.
…Wow, that would’ve been overkill even if he’d had full HP…
HI EXDEATH. BYE EXDEA—wait, are you actually going to give us answers? OKAY I CAN HOLD OFF ON FIGHTING YOU FOR A MINUTE.
Crystals = Cosmos. Well duh. That wasn’t interesting. Never mind, then. (SHE DIED BECAUSE WE POSSESSED ALL HER LITTLE SHARD-BITS.)
I wonder if [my character] is in this scene because [sie] would be, anyway, or if it’s just because that’s who I picked. [Sie] has a speaking role, but maybe they did a couple different rehashes of this scene. I DON’T KNOW I am thinking about it too much. The only way to be sure is to replay it with none of the three here now as my main character! And I am not going to do that right now.
Funny, I never pictured THE VOOOOID having a womb. HOW WOULD THAT EVEN WORK yes I know he was being all metaphorical and stuff. (VOOOOOOIIIIIID)
Haha! I … totally just killed the level boss in one hit. Man, that was kind of awesome.
HEY THE THREE PEOPLE CHANGED THERE IS SOMEONE ELSE THERE NOW.
BYE EXDEATH.
Are they all going to angst about having little Cosmos-bits? Oh, good, looks like not. Instead they are being all determined now. IF SHE GAVE US THIS, WE MUST NOT LET IT GO TO WASTE.
YAY END OF THIS PART.
PART TWO HAS SEVEN STARS. Okay, level grind time. No one can handle that. The character I used had trouble with some of the battles, and they’re now my highest leveled.
CRAP. I have no idea which game this is even referencing (though I can at least narrow it down to just a few, that doesn’t help me know the answer). At which piano lesson did I stop hearing the metronome? Uh. Uh. Uh. 4, 5, or 6? Uh!? NOT SIX?!
ADBHSFKJ YAY BLIND GUESSING.
I like how I always forget to play on bonus day. EVERY OTHER DAY, FINE. But then bonus day comes and I’m all LALALA DOING OTHER THINGS and then only remember at, like, 8 at night when I’m in the middle of eating and Supernatural is on in an hour and I need to shower before I go to bed, as well. Awesome. Stupid day rolling over at midnight.
All right, Squeenix, I know you’re just trying to make it difficult or something, but there’s a line between “challenging” and “grossly unfair” and being stuck in a position where you can literally do nothing but put the controller down and watch as you’re pummeled to a very, very slow death is definitely a liiittle bit past challenging territory. I have literally been wedged in this corner for five minutes now as the manikin uses nothing but Bravery attacks on me. They knock me into the wall, doing physical damage, and before my character can recover enough to block or dodge, they repeat the attack. I’ve noticed you like these attacks that you can’t break away from unless you enter Ex mode, but that really isn’t always a possibility, and I bought this game to play it, not to put my PSP down and rant into a word document while the enemy keeps whittling away at my health.
While I’m here ranting, I also really don’t like how the enemy’s attack always, always, always overrides mine when I’m fighting the computer. I know you want to be fair to the enemies, but giving them extremely powerful, multi-hit attacks I’m not going to see for another ten+ levels when they are ten levels below me is also a bit unfair. I understand the high level monsters will be more difficult. The extremely low level monsters should not be able to pin me in a corner and kill me.
Okay, more from dumb luck than anything else, I got out of the corner and won the fight, but it was completely out of my control.
OKAY SO
Have I mentioned yet that the narration voice over thing at the beginning and end of everything is annoying? Shade Impulse 2, now, by the way. Sticking with the same character because sie is grossly overleveled by this point. (So basically now I stand half a chance.)
I again wonder if my character only appears here because I’ve selected hir, or if sie would appear in this scene, anyway. I mean, I didn’t pick the other two, and they’re here. We all have speaking lines, too. I don’t know. Not my usual game, in as much as I had one (in as much as any of us had one). Mostly I think I mean that the other two didn’t appear in ‘my’ Destiny Odyssey.
I was maybe right about being overleveled, actually, I think. This is only the first map, so maybe not, but. Wow. I’ve got almost twenty levels on the highest manikin. Since the computer cheats, though, I can’t quite bring myself to care.
AND HERE IS KUJA STILL BEING ALL… Existential crisis-y. Some things never change, I suppose.
Wow, that was an awesome level up. Three abilities mastered and a couple new ones learned.
I HAD NOTHING MORE TO LOSE… I ONLY WISH I COULD HAVE REALIZED WHAT IT TRULY MEANS TO LIVE… alas, poor Kuja. We mocked him well.
Haha, Time Compression has begun! LET LUCK BE YOUR GUIDE. Gears in the clock tower will hurt me and destroyed things will reappear. And the stage bravery will randomly change. Nifty.
THIS IS KINDA TRIPPY. Time Compression is neat, from a safe distance! Though I am having trouble keeping track of where the walls are, apparently.
I kind of feel the need to slap everyone and point out that if you ever bothered sharing any, maybe even ALL, of what you know, all these problems you keep getting annoyed about wouldn’t be problems.
Haha! I totally knew that summon stone was Odin before it actually told me! Odin, your attitude is not at all a secret.
Oh, hey, I guess he is at least answering some questions. GARLAND: PRISONER OF TIME. WITNESS TO ALL DIMENSIONS, ALL WORLDS.
So, okay. Other fictions have those, too. I think they’re kinda neat. He wants to escape! And needs the Great Will, or something, which exists throughout all. IT IS THE KEY! To escaping his eternal prison!
And crap I just missed a line, but I guess basically that’s why he does what he does. Can always replay this level.
Harg. I got all used to my abilities, and then I got speed and jump boosts, and now I can jump higher and farther and at a greater speed and it’s messing me up. THERE IS A SILLY COMPLAINT.
But, man, I just go flying, like, halfway across the map, sometimes, without even meaning to! OH GOD DODGE THA--- no, not that far. Get back over there!
I HAVE BEEN ACCUSED OF HAVING FURY IN MY EYES. Yeah, okay, I can believe that. (It’s because you cheat, though, game.)
You know, Golbez, that would actually have worked if I hadn’t killed you with that first hit. Oh, well. Good try! I usually do not have that summon used against me! Usually I am the one using that.
It is fitting that Cloud is telling us that “this is the center of everything” while we’re standing over the Planet’s Core battlefield. Well, yes, actually, I suppose it is. Would you look at that.
Aww, Cloud, you’re terrible. ♥
See, Cloud said something and Tidus got all excited. So you mean it wasn’t all for nothing? We’re not disappearing, we’re returning?!
Cloud: … I made that up.
SQUALL THINKS IT WAS A GOOD LIE. (Or at least not a half-bad lie.) When asked, so does Firion. Or maybe he just didn’t want to disagree with the two grumpiest guys of the group.
YAY RINOA SHOUTOUT. ♥ ♥ ♥ (I adore Rinoa and I’m not sorry.)
Onion Knight wanted Squall to know that he also agreed, and that he thinks he believes it, anyway, even if Cloud was just making it up. Squall confesses he’s been believing that for a while, because he remembered there’s someone waiting and that they made a promise. But will not say more. AND THEN ADDS, YOU BETTER NOT REPEAT THAT OR I WILL END YOU (only without the caps and any direct threat).
Also whenever they say “ambition” my brain goes SEYMOUR! Even though he isn’t actually in this game. Probably because of the song titled Seymour’s Ambition, I don’t know.
Maybe this is really lame of me, or maybe it’s just because I’m not that huge of a fan of fighting games, but now that I am tens of levels above everyone, the game is actually very fun. HAVE I SAID THIS ALREADY? It seems familiar. Anyway, when the manikins or bosses use their grossly overpowered attacks that would drop me when we were the same level, now I just take the beating and can keep going. Obviously I still need to think, and I’ve gotten better at attacking and strategy and all, but I am not longer being unfairly penalized just for being HIT.
Dude, Emperor dude, insects can be DEADLY. Do not underestimate us! HAVE YOU EVER SEEN ANTS SWARM? LIKE THOSE DEADLY ONES THAT EAT EVERYTHING?
Oh noes, we are the forces of darkness. Teh horrorz. WORD STOP CORRECTING MY INTENTIONAL TYPOS.
ZIDANE, HE CAN MOCK BECAUSE HE IS EVIL AND HE DOES NOT CARE ABOUT YOUR SILLY GODDESS OF GOOD AND ORDER.
I like how the other two are all WE HAVE WEAPONS and I’m just like… weapons? Meh! Even though I will be the only one actually fighting. Ah, there it is. Still, late to the party.
“You messed with the wrong bugs.” Haha. Look, to be fair, I did warn you about bugs.
HE WILL BE BAAAAACK FROM HEEEEEELL. Again!!!1!Q
Whoo, new skill for completing that section of the story! WHAT DOES IT DO.
Whoa, lots of new stuff when I open the menu, too. NEW BATTLE TIP! That means more commentary from Selphie, right? Whoo! She does not have a boyfriend, which we apparently need to know. … Random things, okay. Sure, Selph.
Part three…. More slow narration.
Yes, we get it. The end is nigh. The end is right here. The end is staring us in the face. The end may, in fact, be NOW. Oh my goodness. I had somehow not picked up on that. That you, narration, for spelling it out for me. Again.
Oh, uh. The other people are in trouble a bit. CRYSTAL TO THE RESCUE. Oh, man, you think our time is running short. WE LOOK FOR CHAOS. To kill him. With death. For great justice. Et cetera.
Weird noises. DOOM APPROACHES. Some more.
Hng. So, wait, who’ve we finished off so far? Jecht, Kuja, Exdeath, Golbez…? Maybe the Cloud of Darkness? You’d think I’d remember, I just barely did this.
Sephiroth is still being, you know, a lunatic, which distresses Garland. He can’t be regaining memories from before he died (by his own hand, apparently, that’s just so weird. “I want answers. I bet I can get some if I KILL MYSELF.” Sephiroth, you are completely mad)!
The music reminds me a bit of Promyvion. Rarg.
WELL, THIS LEVEL HAS ULTIMECIA SKULKING ABOUT so I guess we get her next, anyway.
Of course she’s still after time compression. Wait, Ult… Ultimecia, if you want a world of compressed time, no one will be there to worship you. I… thought that was the point? Not … Ugh, whatever. Your motives confuse me.
I INTERFERE BECAUSE IT IS FUN.
Look, not to get too far into timelines and stuff, but from a linear-time-as-we-know-it perspective, Squall existed before you, so, actually, you were born into his world. From a non-linear perspective, which is probably what you’ve got going on, anyway, of course, that is not true, but I feel like arguing with you. While undermining my own argument. I don’t really know what I’m on about, I guess.
There are probably other people in that cutscene if you’re not playing as – you’ve probably guessed by now who I took as my main – Squall. Makes me wonder if the other ones would only feature the character you’re playing as when you’re against their opponent. It would be an interesting experiment, anyway… Unfortunately, no one is a high enough level to survive here except Squall.
This, meanwhile, is probably some kind of foreshadowing. CHAOS HAD A DREAM and man, Garland, let me tell you, it was darn weird! He and Cosmos were ruling together! Seriously, wtf is that? Trippy, eh? Now he is all upset about it. In the emo way, not in the RAEG way.
What burden does the deadly star bear? I don’t even know who you’re supposed to be referring to. ‘Resting at the planet’s core’ makes me think of Sephiroth, naturally, but… deadly star? Seriously, I’m drawing a blank, here.
Chaos already knew Garland was the … beginning/cause. Only he was wrong on the details. BECAUSE THEY ARE EACH OTHER ‘cause it’s Chaos’ fault Garland went back in time and whatall. Wheeee.
Well, Sephiroth is here, anyway, so, uh. Merg.
Ha, that was kind of ridiculous. The fight started with the manikin at 0 bravery, so Shiva automatically summoned, and then they used Carbuncle, so we were both frozen at 0 for a while. (Carbuncle copies the summoner’s bravery to the other person’s, and Shiva had just frozen his at 0 so yeah. That was different.)
SEPHIROTH YOU WILL REACH THE PROMISED LAND A WHOLE LOT FASTER IF YOU STOP COMING BACK TO HARASS CLOUD ALL THE TIME. (My mind jumps to the “a contractually obligated gag” line from ‘Bee in the City’…)
Geez, I’m really getting up there in levels… Cap is probably 100, right? Yikes.
WoL, you have no memory because you had no personality. Sorry, buddy. (Also, you don’t know your name because you don’t exactly have one. Sorry!) Thank goodness the cheerful and optimistic folk were around, instead of the, uh. Less-so folk.
THIS MAP IS LAME. Box + Boss. THAT IS IT. I bet when I open the box, a million mobs will appear.
…Yep. XD (Well, four. Four is like a million! Somewhere! Surely?)
Now we are to Garland! Oh, now we’re all glowy-dissolve-y. Now is has gone away again. FIGHT TIME!
.. That was kind of pathetically easy. Man, the manikins were harder than him in this area.
AND NOW EVERYTHING IS THE END or we won’t ever be reborn or Garland isn’t tied to whatever or I don’t know what he’s on about. THE WORLD IS (STILL) ENDING. HOORAY!
I think the third person on screen swapped on me again. Maybe not. Bartz, were you here earlier? I cannot remember. Sorry! That’s embarrassing!
“Chaos means to use his powers to destroy the world – and himself.”
OH NO ALL LIFE IS ENDING.
THE SOUL OF STRIFE!!! It will live for all time! That’s a lowercase ‘s’, not Cloud being referred to by his last name. Now Garland is gone.
So, just Chaos now? Wheeha.
SHADE IMPULSE PART FOUR!
OH NOW DON’T YOU START ABOUT TIME, NARRATOR. Bad enough I had to listen to Ultimecia going on and on about it…
OH NO MORE DISSOLUTION GLOWING. Tidus stops it by yelling at it to go away. I guess he would have the most experience with these things.
Man, the awkward pauses in
the dialogue are annoying. I know they
have to match the animation from the Japanese dialogue, but it just sounds
so stupid. I’VE BEEN
TRYING NOT TO MENTION IT BUT
IT’S FINALLY TOO MUCH
FOR ME.
On the positive side, I don’t need to worry about Destiny Point conservation anymore, apparently. It’s all empty from the get-go. Though it was kind of fun working out the best way through. Oh, well.
Heeey, level 100! And, ooh, I just got abilities to let me convert the experience I would have earned into HP, Bravery, or EX Force. Oh, choices, choices… Think I’m going to have to go with HP, at least for now, though.
Chaos is distressed! He is remembering things. Every single memory in the world, even! He does not like the anger and hate! GRAAAAARH!
Oh, only two maps this run? Hrm. TOO DIFFERENT. CANNOT COPE. Maybe Chaos isn’t really the last boss of this round.
Tidus is probably really tired of hearing about dreams and the ends of them.
And then we all fight him one-on-one or something, I guess, because I can’t think of why else I’d be fighting this by myself. (Everyone else is after the swarms of manikins that suddenly appeared, maybe.)
HEY VOCAL SONG.
And then there was extreme overkill.
BUT THERE IS A SECOND ROUND! Which… goes much the same way, only with me getting thrown around the arena a few times first.
And here is round three… if this follows most of the other games, there will be a fourth round, which may or may not be embarrassingly easy (I think of, say, Sephiroth at the end of VII or Yu Yevon at the end of X, though Ultimecia’s last form was a little harder than the ones with Griever. I don’t think IX had four bosses. Maybe I misremember. LORD KNOWS I CAN’T REMEMBER ANYTHING ELSE ABOUT THAT GAME, other than that the last boss was either really random, or I just can’t remember where it came from, but I remember what it was so it feels really random. It probably made more sense in context.)
Whaaaat he got huge!
HOW CAN A SQUARE ATTACK KILL HIM IF I CAN’T HIT HIM go back to being smaller, geez. Or at least get back into the arena, you cheater.
MOAR RENZOKUKEN. Aaand he actually died that time. Bye, Chaos!
AUGH WE ALL BLINK OUT IN A FLASH OF LIGHT WHAT. While Chaos, I don’t know, talks to himself and … burns up or something. Dies.
And now: birds chirping. And a pretty cutscene. Of a nice field with all of us in it, clutching our silly little crystals.
Tidus is disappearing. FADING, I SHOULD PERHAPS SAY. With a repeat of his JUMP AWAY AND VANISH thing. Zidane, on the other hand, launches himself skyward, and Squall (looked really weird right there, wow) gets harassed by a feather.
Wow, he looked weird.
CLOUD IS NOT INTERESTED IN REPEATING THIS CRAP.
Everyone else just says their piece and goes POOF! (In backwards order again.)
AUG—oh. Okay. I thought I suddenly had a line of dead pixels but it was just Firion’s bow’s string. Thank goodness. That was awful.
Oh, okay, WoL doesn’t blink out. I guess we all appeared in his reality or something. He actually just only walks off.
Does this mean I can get Shantotto and whoever the XII guy (…Gabranth, I think) is now?
They play versions of each game’s ending song during the credits and now I really want to go play X again. Even though I know I will cry and cry and cry when I beat it. None of the other tracks did it, but the ending scenes song from X started and augh there it was. URGE TO PLAY.
(NOTE: I beat this game before starting FFX for Aniko and then rebeating it for myself the next day, anyway. This is actually a fairly old write-up.)
I did get Shantotto’s story, so now I just need to play through it.
Haha, oh my god, I don’t even. Shantotto walking past, turning around, rhyming (well, talking, but she’s of the Tarutaru variety that speaks in rhyming phrases) at Squall, and then sauntering off again is somehow one of the funniest things I have ever seen in my life.
BU YOU MUST PROVE YOU WILL NOT COWER BEFORE I PUT ANY FAITH INTO YOUR LOSER POWER
Shantotto, I STILL HATE YOU. Don’t you remember me? You tried to frame me for murder and then sent me to die in the frozen north! Of course, you do that to everyone, so I suppose you don’t. You lunatic.
Hahaa, false choices, oh, Shantotto. That illusion of choice didn’t have me fooled for an instant. I KNOW YOU TOO WELL I kind of wish I didn’t.
DAMN YOU, CAVERNOUS MAWS! Seriously, yeah, Squall, stay away from those. Though I could get behind those stupid things being the cause of this.
And, with that, Shantotto joins my army! Only Gabranth left, now.
He seems to think I’m incompetent, as well. I’d be offended if it weren’t true that I’m mostly flying on luck and being high level.
He also thinks my life is not worth living. Stop projecting, Gabranth.
And then we leave him there to angst for … all eternity, I guess. Whee!
And now there is something called Inward Chaos but it’s flipping hard and is what finally made me stop caring because okay, I can deal with blatant cheating and, okay, I can deal with high-level mobs, but not higher-than-me level mobs who are blatantly cheating even more than ever.
(NOTE: My brother, who noticed all the problems I'm about to make an incoherent post on and then gave up because he is a bit more reasonable than I am, picked the game up again after listening to me complain about it, and he also gave up on Inward Chaos, though he got farther than I did. So perhaps he is not a bit more reasonable than I am.)
AND NOW I WILL GO POST THAT OTHER ENTRY.
Part one was forther ago, so here is a link to that. Though I think the tag might work, too. Whatever.
On to chapter one. Because, yes, everything up until now was the prologue. FEAR.
To recap, in case you had somehow forgotten (as Squeenix seems to think you must have), the ten GOOD guys had to go find the ten crystals. The ten BAD guys showed up mostly to be vague and ominous and to attempt to dissuade us, but didn’t seem to really be trying that hard to actually stop us. EVERYONE FOUND THEIR CRYSTAL. And then they all went back to Cosmos (Head Good Guy goddess of creation and harmony), who told us the end has already been decided and allowed Chaos (Head Bad Guy god of discord the name is kind of a giveaway, here) to blast her to oblivion on the basis that we all needed to know true darkness. Whatever that means.
SO CHAPTER ONE: SHADE IMPULSE. It has six stars of difficulty
God, I really don’t want to play as some of these people. You are not fun to fight as! It is nothing personal!
Sooooooooooooooo. WoL?
Screw it. I’m picking someone I like to play as and am good at.
Hrm. I am best with Bartz, Squall, Zidane, and Tidus. Bartz and Tidus are both much lower level, since I did their odysseys on days when I wasn’t getting any kind of bonus. If I were going strictly by level, it would be Squall, who is the only one out of the ‘teen levels. Bartz is grossly overpowered, though, so his level isn’t really an issue. Tidus isn’t as strong, but still has some good moves. Zidane’s voice makes me want to break things (which is too bad, really. His Japanese voice is much better, though).
TRUUUUE DAAAAARKNESSSSSS.
Ansem… or, god, whoever you are. I was going to list all your names but it’d take, like, five pages. MAIN VILLAIN FROM KHI GUY. WHO LET HIM WRITE THIS SCRIPT.
We’re all glowin- Tidus just vanished! AUGH EVERYONE IS DISAPPEARING. Kefka is blaming this on us – she died because of what we did! And we all go POOF in clouds of sparkles before we can get any sort of clarification on that one. WoL GOES LAST. (See, ‘cause, it went backwards from 10 to 1, see, ‘cause… that’s clever, right? Well, they had to do it in some order.)
And now the screen is all black. Naturally. Everyone freaks out. “WE DON’T EXIST. AUGH. IT’S DARK AND DESTROYED AND WAITAMINUTE I DON’T BUY THIS AND wheee shiny crystals. Hey, okay, we’re back.” That was anticlimactic.
I like that Cloud’s crystal just looks like a material orb. Small and round and vaguely greenish. I don’t know why I like that so much more than any of the other recognizable ones.
I think it doesn’t matter who I chose for this, that they’re all going to ZERG RUSH their way through or something. Hanging together instead of wandering off on their own. So I’m not going to tell who I chose, haha. GUESS. (It isn’t hard.)
Hmm… according to the little info-bit that pops up before a fight, DARKNESS IS GATHERING. Silent Hill?
Pseudo-Seph has gained an attack called Black Materia. DOOM. Oh, maybe it just made it get Dark. I don’t know. It didn’t seem like anything happened to me.
Darn, I forgot to update my equipment.
Aaaand looks like I won’t have a chance for a while. Fourth fight in a row, this one.
Why am I only just learning that? My manikin counterparts have had it for ages! Those cheaters. MINE NOW, anyway. HP attacks = ♥ Ground-based, though, and I spend more time in the air than not. OH WELL. STILL MINE.
Haha, oh, Selphie. She was trying to quiz me, but the answer was the title of the Battle Tip.
Shinryu is stirring! The dragon-thing. He’s appeared in a couple of the games. The one from FFX is the one that sticks in my mind the most, on account of being one of those underwater battles where you have to use Rikku, Tidus, and Wakka. And my Wakka was always underleveled (or… under-sphere-grid-ed or… oh, god, whatever) my first time through FFX.
Apparently this means the conflict is nearing its end, if we ask Ultimecia. As it is ‘that which purifies the world.’ IE, hits the magic restart button and everything starts all over again.
There are two end markers on this map. What.
Oh, one is just Kefka. Okay, never mind~ HE CALLED ME A POSER. I… care. Deeply. Really.
“Why try so hard to keep living? In the end, nothing truly matters…” SOMEONE HAS BEEN LISTENING TO LINKIN PARK!
Also, apparently that attack (way to go, missing the name) can go through walls. Um. Good to know. Ow.
Blah, blah, magic reboot button not going to work, Cosmos dead FOR REALZ, Emperor trying to kill us since day one, blah, Jecht not Chaos’s pawn, blah, blah.
Right.
Octopus Ink is evil.
If I’d known that was going to do over four thousand damage, I’d have tried a little harder to avoid being hit by it.
WOAH. The next scene actually picked up right where the last one left off! That’s a nice change. Jecht is not Chaos’ pawn becaaaaaause… he was once Cosmos’! Because it’s totally random and it’s just lucky coincidence that all the good guys are with Cosmos and all the bad / final boss (since not all of them are actually bad) guys are with Chaos this time? SURE WHY NOT.
So by Tidus and Jecht fighting, the Emperor gained ~*~light~*~ and is more powerful than the gods…? SURE WHY NOT.
… heehee, this enemy has a weapon called Sonic Knuckles. WHAT NO TAILS? (I know they’re a weapon in other games, but that’s always where my mind goes. I grew up with a Sega Genesis and every Sonic game made for it, what do you expect from me? … YEAH, THAT’S RIGHT, I WASN’T A NINTENDO KID. One of the five in existence…)
HEY SO I think I just fought the longest, stupidest battle possible. The thing is a couple levels higher than me and has a summon that, as far as I can tell, turns whatever damage I inflict into BRV, and then he can freaking one-shot me. So I spent a very long time running around a rock structure (with the thing chasing me the entire time) waiting for the summon effect to wear off. And even then I still had to mostly hide and only hit him with a surprise attack when he came around the corner. And mostly I just got a lucky hit in and was able to use an Ex Burst.
And then, like an idiot, I willingly throw myself into another battle with someone who’s higher level and can probably kill me by looking at me funny. But he didn’t. Hah!
Giggling at Jecht’s comments before our fight with him.
“Heh, not too shabby. Looks like I’ve got nothing to worry about.” MUCH MORE CHEERFUL THAN KEFKA.
If this follows the pattern of the Destiny Odyssey stuff, this’ll be the last map area of this part.
Hm. The problem with this is I’m getting a lot of levels. I’m going to have to take everyone else out at some point. I mean, half of them aren’t even level 15 yet.
MAN. I REALLY HATE IT HOW I KEEP ACCIDENTALLY TRIGGERING EX MODE WHEN I’M REALLY TRYING TO DODGE OR JUST ATTACK OR… NOT TRIGGER EX MODE ANYWAY. ARGH!
YAY MORE QUESTIONS NOW! FFVI and, haha! I just went through that part on my replay, hooray.
I have an attack that causes a wall rush, and suddenly these WALL RUSH WITHIN 10 SECONDS battles are so much easier. By which I mean, I actually succeed and get the DP.
…Wow, that would’ve been overkill even if he’d had full HP…
HI EXDEATH. BYE EXDEA—wait, are you actually going to give us answers? OKAY I CAN HOLD OFF ON FIGHTING YOU FOR A MINUTE.
Crystals = Cosmos. Well duh. That wasn’t interesting. Never mind, then. (SHE DIED BECAUSE WE POSSESSED ALL HER LITTLE SHARD-BITS.)
I wonder if [my character] is in this scene because [sie] would be, anyway, or if it’s just because that’s who I picked. [Sie] has a speaking role, but maybe they did a couple different rehashes of this scene. I DON’T KNOW I am thinking about it too much. The only way to be sure is to replay it with none of the three here now as my main character! And I am not going to do that right now.
Funny, I never pictured THE VOOOOID having a womb. HOW WOULD THAT EVEN WORK yes I know he was being all metaphorical and stuff. (VOOOOOOIIIIIID)
Haha! I … totally just killed the level boss in one hit. Man, that was kind of awesome.
HEY THE THREE PEOPLE CHANGED THERE IS SOMEONE ELSE THERE NOW.
BYE EXDEATH.
Are they all going to angst about having little Cosmos-bits? Oh, good, looks like not. Instead they are being all determined now. IF SHE GAVE US THIS, WE MUST NOT LET IT GO TO WASTE.
YAY END OF THIS PART.
PART TWO HAS SEVEN STARS. Okay, level grind time. No one can handle that. The character I used had trouble with some of the battles, and they’re now my highest leveled.
CRAP. I have no idea which game this is even referencing (though I can at least narrow it down to just a few, that doesn’t help me know the answer). At which piano lesson did I stop hearing the metronome? Uh. Uh. Uh. 4, 5, or 6? Uh!? NOT SIX?!
ADBHSFKJ YAY BLIND GUESSING.
I like how I always forget to play on bonus day. EVERY OTHER DAY, FINE. But then bonus day comes and I’m all LALALA DOING OTHER THINGS and then only remember at, like, 8 at night when I’m in the middle of eating and Supernatural is on in an hour and I need to shower before I go to bed, as well. Awesome. Stupid day rolling over at midnight.
All right, Squeenix, I know you’re just trying to make it difficult or something, but there’s a line between “challenging” and “grossly unfair” and being stuck in a position where you can literally do nothing but put the controller down and watch as you’re pummeled to a very, very slow death is definitely a liiittle bit past challenging territory. I have literally been wedged in this corner for five minutes now as the manikin uses nothing but Bravery attacks on me. They knock me into the wall, doing physical damage, and before my character can recover enough to block or dodge, they repeat the attack. I’ve noticed you like these attacks that you can’t break away from unless you enter Ex mode, but that really isn’t always a possibility, and I bought this game to play it, not to put my PSP down and rant into a word document while the enemy keeps whittling away at my health.
While I’m here ranting, I also really don’t like how the enemy’s attack always, always, always overrides mine when I’m fighting the computer. I know you want to be fair to the enemies, but giving them extremely powerful, multi-hit attacks I’m not going to see for another ten+ levels when they are ten levels below me is also a bit unfair. I understand the high level monsters will be more difficult. The extremely low level monsters should not be able to pin me in a corner and kill me.
Okay, more from dumb luck than anything else, I got out of the corner and won the fight, but it was completely out of my control.
OKAY SO
Have I mentioned yet that the narration voice over thing at the beginning and end of everything is annoying? Shade Impulse 2, now, by the way. Sticking with the same character because sie is grossly overleveled by this point. (So basically now I stand half a chance.)
I again wonder if my character only appears here because I’ve selected hir, or if sie would appear in this scene, anyway. I mean, I didn’t pick the other two, and they’re here. We all have speaking lines, too. I don’t know. Not my usual game, in as much as I had one (in as much as any of us had one). Mostly I think I mean that the other two didn’t appear in ‘my’ Destiny Odyssey.
I was maybe right about being overleveled, actually, I think. This is only the first map, so maybe not, but. Wow. I’ve got almost twenty levels on the highest manikin. Since the computer cheats, though, I can’t quite bring myself to care.
AND HERE IS KUJA STILL BEING ALL… Existential crisis-y. Some things never change, I suppose.
Wow, that was an awesome level up. Three abilities mastered and a couple new ones learned.
I HAD NOTHING MORE TO LOSE… I ONLY WISH I COULD HAVE REALIZED WHAT IT TRULY MEANS TO LIVE… alas, poor Kuja. We mocked him well.
Haha, Time Compression has begun! LET LUCK BE YOUR GUIDE. Gears in the clock tower will hurt me and destroyed things will reappear. And the stage bravery will randomly change. Nifty.
THIS IS KINDA TRIPPY. Time Compression is neat, from a safe distance! Though I am having trouble keeping track of where the walls are, apparently.
I kind of feel the need to slap everyone and point out that if you ever bothered sharing any, maybe even ALL, of what you know, all these problems you keep getting annoyed about wouldn’t be problems.
Haha! I totally knew that summon stone was Odin before it actually told me! Odin, your attitude is not at all a secret.
Oh, hey, I guess he is at least answering some questions. GARLAND: PRISONER OF TIME. WITNESS TO ALL DIMENSIONS, ALL WORLDS.
So, okay. Other fictions have those, too. I think they’re kinda neat. He wants to escape! And needs the Great Will, or something, which exists throughout all. IT IS THE KEY! To escaping his eternal prison!
And crap I just missed a line, but I guess basically that’s why he does what he does. Can always replay this level.
Harg. I got all used to my abilities, and then I got speed and jump boosts, and now I can jump higher and farther and at a greater speed and it’s messing me up. THERE IS A SILLY COMPLAINT.
But, man, I just go flying, like, halfway across the map, sometimes, without even meaning to! OH GOD DODGE THA--- no, not that far. Get back over there!
I HAVE BEEN ACCUSED OF HAVING FURY IN MY EYES. Yeah, okay, I can believe that. (It’s because you cheat, though, game.)
You know, Golbez, that would actually have worked if I hadn’t killed you with that first hit. Oh, well. Good try! I usually do not have that summon used against me! Usually I am the one using that.
It is fitting that Cloud is telling us that “this is the center of everything” while we’re standing over the Planet’s Core battlefield. Well, yes, actually, I suppose it is. Would you look at that.
Aww, Cloud, you’re terrible. ♥
See, Cloud said something and Tidus got all excited. So you mean it wasn’t all for nothing? We’re not disappearing, we’re returning?!
Cloud: … I made that up.
SQUALL THINKS IT WAS A GOOD LIE. (Or at least not a half-bad lie.) When asked, so does Firion. Or maybe he just didn’t want to disagree with the two grumpiest guys of the group.
YAY RINOA SHOUTOUT. ♥ ♥ ♥ (I adore Rinoa and I’m not sorry.)
Onion Knight wanted Squall to know that he also agreed, and that he thinks he believes it, anyway, even if Cloud was just making it up. Squall confesses he’s been believing that for a while, because he remembered there’s someone waiting and that they made a promise. But will not say more. AND THEN ADDS, YOU BETTER NOT REPEAT THAT OR I WILL END YOU (only without the caps and any direct threat).
Also whenever they say “ambition” my brain goes SEYMOUR! Even though he isn’t actually in this game. Probably because of the song titled Seymour’s Ambition, I don’t know.
Maybe this is really lame of me, or maybe it’s just because I’m not that huge of a fan of fighting games, but now that I am tens of levels above everyone, the game is actually very fun. HAVE I SAID THIS ALREADY? It seems familiar. Anyway, when the manikins or bosses use their grossly overpowered attacks that would drop me when we were the same level, now I just take the beating and can keep going. Obviously I still need to think, and I’ve gotten better at attacking and strategy and all, but I am not longer being unfairly penalized just for being HIT.
Dude, Emperor dude, insects can be DEADLY. Do not underestimate us! HAVE YOU EVER SEEN ANTS SWARM? LIKE THOSE DEADLY ONES THAT EAT EVERYTHING?
Oh noes, we are the forces of darkness. Teh horrorz. WORD STOP CORRECTING MY INTENTIONAL TYPOS.
ZIDANE, HE CAN MOCK BECAUSE HE IS EVIL AND HE DOES NOT CARE ABOUT YOUR SILLY GODDESS OF GOOD AND ORDER.
I like how the other two are all WE HAVE WEAPONS and I’m just like… weapons? Meh! Even though I will be the only one actually fighting. Ah, there it is. Still, late to the party.
“You messed with the wrong bugs.” Haha. Look, to be fair, I did warn you about bugs.
HE WILL BE BAAAAACK FROM HEEEEEELL. Again!!!1!Q
Whoo, new skill for completing that section of the story! WHAT DOES IT DO.
Whoa, lots of new stuff when I open the menu, too. NEW BATTLE TIP! That means more commentary from Selphie, right? Whoo! She does not have a boyfriend, which we apparently need to know. … Random things, okay. Sure, Selph.
Part three…. More slow narration.
Yes, we get it. The end is nigh. The end is right here. The end is staring us in the face. The end may, in fact, be NOW. Oh my goodness. I had somehow not picked up on that. That you, narration, for spelling it out for me. Again.
Oh, uh. The other people are in trouble a bit. CRYSTAL TO THE RESCUE. Oh, man, you think our time is running short. WE LOOK FOR CHAOS. To kill him. With death. For great justice. Et cetera.
Weird noises. DOOM APPROACHES. Some more.
Hng. So, wait, who’ve we finished off so far? Jecht, Kuja, Exdeath, Golbez…? Maybe the Cloud of Darkness? You’d think I’d remember, I just barely did this.
Sephiroth is still being, you know, a lunatic, which distresses Garland. He can’t be regaining memories from before he died (by his own hand, apparently, that’s just so weird. “I want answers. I bet I can get some if I KILL MYSELF.” Sephiroth, you are completely mad)!
The music reminds me a bit of Promyvion. Rarg.
WELL, THIS LEVEL HAS ULTIMECIA SKULKING ABOUT so I guess we get her next, anyway.
Of course she’s still after time compression. Wait, Ult… Ultimecia, if you want a world of compressed time, no one will be there to worship you. I… thought that was the point? Not … Ugh, whatever. Your motives confuse me.
I INTERFERE BECAUSE IT IS FUN.
Look, not to get too far into timelines and stuff, but from a linear-time-as-we-know-it perspective, Squall existed before you, so, actually, you were born into his world. From a non-linear perspective, which is probably what you’ve got going on, anyway, of course, that is not true, but I feel like arguing with you. While undermining my own argument. I don’t really know what I’m on about, I guess.
There are probably other people in that cutscene if you’re not playing as – you’ve probably guessed by now who I took as my main – Squall. Makes me wonder if the other ones would only feature the character you’re playing as when you’re against their opponent. It would be an interesting experiment, anyway… Unfortunately, no one is a high enough level to survive here except Squall.
This, meanwhile, is probably some kind of foreshadowing. CHAOS HAD A DREAM and man, Garland, let me tell you, it was darn weird! He and Cosmos were ruling together! Seriously, wtf is that? Trippy, eh? Now he is all upset about it. In the emo way, not in the RAEG way.
What burden does the deadly star bear? I don’t even know who you’re supposed to be referring to. ‘Resting at the planet’s core’ makes me think of Sephiroth, naturally, but… deadly star? Seriously, I’m drawing a blank, here.
Chaos already knew Garland was the … beginning/cause. Only he was wrong on the details. BECAUSE THEY ARE EACH OTHER ‘cause it’s Chaos’ fault Garland went back in time and whatall. Wheeee.
Well, Sephiroth is here, anyway, so, uh. Merg.
Ha, that was kind of ridiculous. The fight started with the manikin at 0 bravery, so Shiva automatically summoned, and then they used Carbuncle, so we were both frozen at 0 for a while. (Carbuncle copies the summoner’s bravery to the other person’s, and Shiva had just frozen his at 0 so yeah. That was different.)
SEPHIROTH YOU WILL REACH THE PROMISED LAND A WHOLE LOT FASTER IF YOU STOP COMING BACK TO HARASS CLOUD ALL THE TIME. (My mind jumps to the “a contractually obligated gag” line from ‘Bee in the City’…)
Geez, I’m really getting up there in levels… Cap is probably 100, right? Yikes.
WoL, you have no memory because you had no personality. Sorry, buddy. (Also, you don’t know your name because you don’t exactly have one. Sorry!) Thank goodness the cheerful and optimistic folk were around, instead of the, uh. Less-so folk.
THIS MAP IS LAME. Box + Boss. THAT IS IT. I bet when I open the box, a million mobs will appear.
…Yep. XD (Well, four. Four is like a million! Somewhere! Surely?)
Now we are to Garland! Oh, now we’re all glowy-dissolve-y. Now is has gone away again. FIGHT TIME!
.. That was kind of pathetically easy. Man, the manikins were harder than him in this area.
AND NOW EVERYTHING IS THE END or we won’t ever be reborn or Garland isn’t tied to whatever or I don’t know what he’s on about. THE WORLD IS (STILL) ENDING. HOORAY!
I think the third person on screen swapped on me again. Maybe not. Bartz, were you here earlier? I cannot remember. Sorry! That’s embarrassing!
“Chaos means to use his powers to destroy the world – and himself.”
OH NO ALL LIFE IS ENDING.
THE SOUL OF STRIFE!!! It will live for all time! That’s a lowercase ‘s’, not Cloud being referred to by his last name. Now Garland is gone.
So, just Chaos now? Wheeha.
SHADE IMPULSE PART FOUR!
OH NOW DON’T YOU START ABOUT TIME, NARRATOR. Bad enough I had to listen to Ultimecia going on and on about it…
OH NO MORE DISSOLUTION GLOWING. Tidus stops it by yelling at it to go away. I guess he would have the most experience with these things.
Man, the awkward pauses in
the dialogue are annoying. I know they
have to match the animation from the Japanese dialogue, but it just sounds
so stupid. I’VE BEEN
TRYING NOT TO MENTION IT BUT
IT’S FINALLY TOO MUCH
FOR ME.
On the positive side, I don’t need to worry about Destiny Point conservation anymore, apparently. It’s all empty from the get-go. Though it was kind of fun working out the best way through. Oh, well.
Heeey, level 100! And, ooh, I just got abilities to let me convert the experience I would have earned into HP, Bravery, or EX Force. Oh, choices, choices… Think I’m going to have to go with HP, at least for now, though.
Chaos is distressed! He is remembering things. Every single memory in the world, even! He does not like the anger and hate! GRAAAAARH!
Oh, only two maps this run? Hrm. TOO DIFFERENT. CANNOT COPE. Maybe Chaos isn’t really the last boss of this round.
Tidus is probably really tired of hearing about dreams and the ends of them.
And then we all fight him one-on-one or something, I guess, because I can’t think of why else I’d be fighting this by myself. (Everyone else is after the swarms of manikins that suddenly appeared, maybe.)
HEY VOCAL SONG.
And then there was extreme overkill.
BUT THERE IS A SECOND ROUND! Which… goes much the same way, only with me getting thrown around the arena a few times first.
And here is round three… if this follows most of the other games, there will be a fourth round, which may or may not be embarrassingly easy (I think of, say, Sephiroth at the end of VII or Yu Yevon at the end of X, though Ultimecia’s last form was a little harder than the ones with Griever. I don’t think IX had four bosses. Maybe I misremember. LORD KNOWS I CAN’T REMEMBER ANYTHING ELSE ABOUT THAT GAME, other than that the last boss was either really random, or I just can’t remember where it came from, but I remember what it was so it feels really random. It probably made more sense in context.)
Whaaaat he got huge!
HOW CAN A SQUARE ATTACK KILL HIM IF I CAN’T HIT HIM go back to being smaller, geez. Or at least get back into the arena, you cheater.
MOAR RENZOKUKEN. Aaand he actually died that time. Bye, Chaos!
AUGH WE ALL BLINK OUT IN A FLASH OF LIGHT WHAT. While Chaos, I don’t know, talks to himself and … burns up or something. Dies.
And now: birds chirping. And a pretty cutscene. Of a nice field with all of us in it, clutching our silly little crystals.
Tidus is disappearing. FADING, I SHOULD PERHAPS SAY. With a repeat of his JUMP AWAY AND VANISH thing. Zidane, on the other hand, launches himself skyward, and Squall (looked really weird right there, wow) gets harassed by a feather.
Wow, he looked weird.
CLOUD IS NOT INTERESTED IN REPEATING THIS CRAP.
Everyone else just says their piece and goes POOF! (In backwards order again.)
AUG—oh. Okay. I thought I suddenly had a line of dead pixels but it was just Firion’s bow’s string. Thank goodness. That was awful.
Oh, okay, WoL doesn’t blink out. I guess we all appeared in his reality or something. He actually just only walks off.
Does this mean I can get Shantotto and whoever the XII guy (…Gabranth, I think) is now?
They play versions of each game’s ending song during the credits and now I really want to go play X again. Even though I know I will cry and cry and cry when I beat it. None of the other tracks did it, but the ending scenes song from X started and augh there it was. URGE TO PLAY.
(NOTE: I beat this game before starting FFX for Aniko and then rebeating it for myself the next day, anyway. This is actually a fairly old write-up.)
I did get Shantotto’s story, so now I just need to play through it.
Haha, oh my god, I don’t even. Shantotto walking past, turning around, rhyming (well, talking, but she’s of the Tarutaru variety that speaks in rhyming phrases) at Squall, and then sauntering off again is somehow one of the funniest things I have ever seen in my life.
BU YOU MUST PROVE YOU WILL NOT COWER BEFORE I PUT ANY FAITH INTO YOUR LOSER POWER
Shantotto, I STILL HATE YOU. Don’t you remember me? You tried to frame me for murder and then sent me to die in the frozen north! Of course, you do that to everyone, so I suppose you don’t. You lunatic.
Hahaa, false choices, oh, Shantotto. That illusion of choice didn’t have me fooled for an instant. I KNOW YOU TOO WELL I kind of wish I didn’t.
DAMN YOU, CAVERNOUS MAWS! Seriously, yeah, Squall, stay away from those. Though I could get behind those stupid things being the cause of this.
And, with that, Shantotto joins my army! Only Gabranth left, now.
He seems to think I’m incompetent, as well. I’d be offended if it weren’t true that I’m mostly flying on luck and being high level.
He also thinks my life is not worth living. Stop projecting, Gabranth.
And then we leave him there to angst for … all eternity, I guess. Whee!
And now there is something called Inward Chaos but it’s flipping hard and is what finally made me stop caring because okay, I can deal with blatant cheating and, okay, I can deal with high-level mobs, but not higher-than-me level mobs who are blatantly cheating even more than ever.
(NOTE: My brother, who noticed all the problems I'm about to make an incoherent post on and then gave up because he is a bit more reasonable than I am, picked the game up again after listening to me complain about it, and he also gave up on Inward Chaos, though he got farther than I did. So perhaps he is not a bit more reasonable than I am.)
AND NOW I WILL GO POST THAT OTHER ENTRY.