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kradeelavstarted playing FFT (remastered) after work this week! :D
* really enjoying the classic '1990's console blocky JRPG' vibe again. <3 playing it on a docked steam deck + flatscreen + gamecube USB controller just completes the vibe. so glad i waited for this versus trying to force myself through the WotL port on the phone; ragequit there once and part of the problem in hindsight was the screen was so tiny.
* there aren't a whole lot of playable unique characters at the beginning, so i went ahead and made zihark & my self insert complete with accurate sun signs lol. (he'll be a ninja/secondary class unknown, bright eyes will be a summoner/arithmetician eventually). funny thing is for a few battles he was completely rolling the maps even at a level 1 when everything else was level 6-8. sometimes it's the silly cute shit like that that gets you in a game x)
* slowly stoning your tank for easy level ups is funny lol
* for a while there i wasn't too solid on the actual strategy/tactics loop (three overgrown god damned chicken nuggets on one map killed my entire party twice on easy mode !!!) but I hit the first Weigraf fight at the mill last night and had a good loooooong stint where things clicked. I'm enjoying the loop now and tinkering with all the first early classes.
* i am impressed with how hateable agarth is, jeez. a lot of games have either 'mild racist/classist starts out as a twat, gets an arc of how Not To Be A twat, ends up nicer' or 'cardboard racist with zero nuance'. but agarth is somehow both.... extremely unpleasant and with just enough nuance of you can't just write him off as a generic bad dude, it's personal.
* while I'm having fun with this one, i am learning i am not a final fantasy girlie outside of very rare exceptions (ff7, vagrant story), so this will probably be my last shot at a final fantasy. there's something about the tossed salad approach of worldbuilding/character design that personally irritates me where it can't decide whether it wants to be a sci fi or fantasy game and all the related rules are so hopelessly anachronistic that it utterly breaks immersion for me. Those two exceptions mentioned above, and FFT - tend to stick reliably to one or the other genre, which is why i think I will stick with FFT. I know some folks were hoping I would get into FF14 but sorry, it hits aaaaaaall my buttons there x)
* really enjoying the classic '1990's console blocky JRPG' vibe again. <3 playing it on a docked steam deck + flatscreen + gamecube USB controller just completes the vibe. so glad i waited for this versus trying to force myself through the WotL port on the phone; ragequit there once and part of the problem in hindsight was the screen was so tiny.
* there aren't a whole lot of playable unique characters at the beginning, so i went ahead and made zihark & my self insert complete with accurate sun signs lol. (he'll be a ninja/secondary class unknown, bright eyes will be a summoner/arithmetician eventually). funny thing is for a few battles he was completely rolling the maps even at a level 1 when everything else was level 6-8. sometimes it's the silly cute shit like that that gets you in a game x)
* slowly stoning your tank for easy level ups is funny lol
* for a while there i wasn't too solid on the actual strategy/tactics loop (three overgrown god damned chicken nuggets on one map killed my entire party twice on easy mode !!!) but I hit the first Weigraf fight at the mill last night and had a good loooooong stint where things clicked. I'm enjoying the loop now and tinkering with all the first early classes.
* i am impressed with how hateable agarth is, jeez. a lot of games have either 'mild racist/classist starts out as a twat, gets an arc of how Not To Be A twat, ends up nicer' or 'cardboard racist with zero nuance'. but agarth is somehow both.... extremely unpleasant and with just enough nuance of you can't just write him off as a generic bad dude, it's personal.
* while I'm having fun with this one, i am learning i am not a final fantasy girlie outside of very rare exceptions (ff7, vagrant story), so this will probably be my last shot at a final fantasy. there's something about the tossed salad approach of worldbuilding/character design that personally irritates me where it can't decide whether it wants to be a sci fi or fantasy game and all the related rules are so hopelessly anachronistic that it utterly breaks immersion for me. Those two exceptions mentioned above, and FFT - tend to stick reliably to one or the other genre, which is why i think I will stick with FFT. I know some folks were hoping I would get into FF14 but sorry, it hits aaaaaaall my buttons there x)
