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oh i had fun in ff12 tonight. :D

* howled laughing when vaan had that utterly absurd critical failure charisma role asking fran how old she was. lol. lmao even. oh dude did no one teach you you never ask a woman what her age is :P

* weirdly enough i'm really liking penelo of all characters right now??? i think it started with that one really intriguing moment back in ranbaste when.... i think it was balthier? gave vaan that pointed 'and what are you looking for?' line (philosophically) and vaan was real... flustered, just didn't know how to answer to that because he had never really considered it before. but as the gang minus him all walks out of the room it was interesting to see penelo of all people be as determined-looking as ashe and the others when in like, any other FF, i feel like they'd have her as the "softer lady" be comforting vaan since they were childhood friends. ever since then it's been fun to watch how unusually serious and focused penelo is in cutscenes. she cool.

* reached a 'oh i get this now!!!' tipping point both with figuring out how tf to do concurrences, reaching some critical license points, and optimizing equipment. things are clicking, you know?

* also i am SO glad i gave machinst/guns to penelo. gameplay-wise it's because guns aren't scaled to strength and she has the weakest strength etc but now i am SOLELY doing it for the 'i'm a healer but [cocks gun]' vibes LOL. she actually can do some serious damage now holy shit??? went from doing 0x2 to 400+ damage overnight l o l

* right now i just got ahold of the imperial's chocobo after the viera village, but i actually think i'm going to wander around and do some miscellaneous hunts since i can chainsaw through most foes now and i'm curious to see what does actually give me a hard time.

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from what i remember of ff12, the combats that did give me trouble inevitably involved crowd control—had single-target battles pretty much locked-and-loaded, but you don't have a ton of access to really good AoE so you have to be pretty tactical in taking mob fights. if there's a hunt that involves something like that, that'd be what i'd bet on for a fun time (did not do many hunts myself haha)

oh shit yeah i can see that with the crowd control already - especially if you get a few flying type of enemies in the mix where only some of the characters could take 'em on. that's actualy super helpful to know in advance since there's a few liscenses that feel like could help there :3

Heh, hunts are so much fun! There's a point where they scale up quite dramatically, and it's always enjoyable for me to figure out which one that's gonna be lol. Plus as a Vagrant Story fan, a lot of the ranks are very cute.

Concurrences though...... my eternally beloathed..... (I need to get one final one x4 of each level for my platinum trophy and it's HORRIBLE AND I HATE IT!!!) like, whose fucking idea was it to put the refresh button on the same controller side as the actual concurrences buttons?! R2 to refresh when all the buttons are on X/O/triangle/square is truly evil.

omg i didn't even notice the vagrant story nods yet!! this game keeps getting better and better, lord. :3

and haha right with all the buttons on the same side for the concurrences?? half the time the fingers freeze up lol - i've just taken to mashing the X/O/A/etc all at once lol.

I fell off from FF12 some time in the late game I think? (Plot got kinda hazy for me with how I kept inconsistently playing or not playing) But I do remember being surprisingly fond of Penelo, she doesn't get a lot but what she does more often then not felt like it avoided just having her play second fiddle to Vaan

I hear lategame can get kinda grind-y and monotonous in certian areas so totally get it .... also makes me smile to hear Penelo was another surprise favorite for you, she feels like a character archetype you'd like. :)