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They can but they won't.

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This post is not spoilers, but in case this post does spark discussion of VI or other FFs please do openly talk about spoilers. Even for very minor stuff. For example, I know nothing of FFV and hope to keep it that way until I play it.

Ah, another thing that was just brought up like it was explained in detail was "The Mist". Shit is magic fuel and can fuck shit up and it was totally glossed over and treated like it is nothing special. Can I get some fuckin' lore(from the game, not you fellow D1Pper *tips fedora*), plz?

Actually, I'll try to find a video tomorrow and see if I am doing comparable damage too. It is possible that something fucky is going on. I'll even turn off 100% steal in case it is doing something to fudge the numbers, but I didn't start the game with that on either.

I shouldn't have any cheats on except for the 100% steal rate that is an option with the moguri mod. I shouldn't be super over leveled either. I think my highest level character is 21 and I have just visited the dwarf village. I haven't grinded at all except when it was just Steiner, Garnet, and Marcus. And I was grinding there for ability points. In my current party I think Garnet is the lowest level or tied for lowest. I'll post my characters and maybe record me fighting that axe chick boss tomorrow.

Oh yeah the art style is fantastic. Easily my favorite style considering most tend to go for the high fidelity approach instead of stylistic. On top of that, the Atomos scene was fantastic. I think the imagery of a summon that looked like it could swallow the city whole will stick with me for awhile. 23 years later and that scene is quite the spectacle upon first viewing.

A) If it goes really off the rails that might be ok. Right now the story is both whack and mundane. Mundane really feels like the beast descriptor, atm. If it gets crazy that might make it OK. I might actually have a weird standard. I hadn't played any FFs in a long time then I played 14 and fuck man I fuckin love that game and its story. 14 is what is making me go back and play the FFs I haven't played and replay the FFs I have beat. FF12 was the first FF I played after 14 and I was let down by that overall except for the gambit system. FF12 was another game I had only heard good things about from FF14 fans and was encouraged to play it due to my enjoyment of FF14. With the Pixel Remaster, I finally played 1 and 2 for the first time. Totally fine games. Basic, but fun and it was neat to see where a lot of the series-wide themes and iconic elements originated from in person. It was surprising how much of the series staples have been in since the very first two games. But I had low standards for those games. Then I replayed FF3 3D remake. For the longest time, I said it was my favorite FF. It is still a charming game, but god is it basic as fuck. Surely people would have assumed I was crazy any time I mentioned that was my favorite FF. I had intended to play FF4 3D remake next except after I found I had been playing on was basically easy mode I lost all desire to continue at that time and now I have skipped all the way to FF9 cuz it was another FF game that I had basically only heard good things about. I didn't really go in with super high expectations, but I had assumed the story would be far better than what it was. I also loved FF10 when I was a kid. Makes me wonder how I'll feel when I get around to replaying it. B) Maybe you could but I'd just say I don't feel that way this time. And if he gains some mystery then cool, but it doesn't make him any more interesting now. Big mistake to make what is the defacto player character a boring non-blank slate at the start imo. At least with Vaan, the player was as uninformed as him so the player learned about the world with him. C) Well not right now it don't. I'm killing bosses in under three turns(ATB fills) with Zidane often not even getting any attacks in. If the bosses actually get harder then thank fucking god man. The first boss in FF7 is harder than any boss in FF9 so far. The last boss I fought was the chick with the axe and she died/fled after four turns, so Zidane actually got to attack once lol. Getting the 1000 needles Blu spell was more of a challenge.

Until recently, I had only heard good things about FF9 for years, but I gotta say that I haven’t been exactly enjoying my time with it so far. I am currently on disc 2 and I have reached the outer continent. Just putting out my thoughts as they come to my head so shit is just kinda coming out at random, maybe. The game starts out pretty good. Zidane, Vivi, and Steiner have good introductions The sudden plot point with the Eidolons comes out of nowhere. As far as I could tell, there was nothing even foreshadowing their importance. I had just assumed I didn’t have enough MP to use them. Not once did Garnet mention how she didn’t want to use her summons. I don’t think the other characters even knew she had summons. Game never even called her a summoner, it just had an unusable summon ability. Garnet says she never met Cid and yet they act like regular ol chums, and Cid just has the knowledge that he needed to have it set up for Garnet to get kidnapped for some reason. Nothing so far has indicated that he needed to rescue Garnet nor did he know of Brahne’s exact plans to extract the eidolons. Garnet says she hasn’t been to Lindblum since she was a child, and hasn’t been back since her father died. She claims to have lived in Lindblum for a while but never met Regent Cid. That just seems ridiculous, especially since she “remembers that mustache” and Cid says “I am delighted to see you again, Garnet. You have truly become a fine lady.” Maybe this is a mistranslation, maybe this is plot related and you are supposed to realize that what the characters are saying doesn’t line up with reality. If that is the case then wow they are doing a bad job of not making this seem like poor writing. And then Cid wanted to kidnap Garnet simply because her mother is acting weird because of a promise he made to her father to protect Garnet, and Garnet wanted to leave because her mother was acting weird. I mean, yeah, it was right of them to both behave this way because of what happens later, but fuck man the whole reason the game started was so flimsy. Oh, but Cid does know that Brahne is after the Eidolons! He mentions so right after his city gets fuckin’ Atomos’d. And yet he never mentioned that to Garnet or at least never mentioned it to Garnet while the player was watching. Would have made much more sense for him not to know that. While it makes sense for Steiner, why in the fuck is everyone so set on serving as loyal protectors to this random princess? Zidane comes across as a massive simp. Now I wouldn’t care except for the fact that he basically claims to be a bit of a lady's man (at 16 lol) and the second he meets Garnet he starts crushin’ mad hard for what feels like no reason other than to make him into a character that will always protect Garnet. Zidane also kinda sucks. So far, he is offering nothing to the story aside from often being the most worldly guy in the room. I think he fails at being an MC so far. He knows much more than pretty much anyone else in the party so the player often isn’t learning along with the MC, but rather with Garnet. He also isn’t particularly interesting and blends in with whatever party he is in. He feels like a background character taking the front stage. Fucking Marcus is more interesting and cooler looking and I wish he was the MC. I’m not saying he should have been a blank slate for the player to self-insert as, but he also lacks characterization. He either needs to be more like Vaan(blank) or more like Balthier(well-defined) but he is in this middle place that I can’t get behind. That or he needs some mystery like Cloud or something special like Cecil. Or he needs to have a moment to rise up from being the everyman into a main character. Everyone so far has some fish outta water qualities except for Zidane who, despite being a teenage thief-bandit, masterfully navigates every encounter like he’s bratty Auron. Maybe that’s a bit much, but he has about as much relevancey as Yuffie to the plot, or at least it feels that way about halfway-ish into disc 2. Now, I can forgive Quina’s introductions since they are weird, but what in the fuck were they thinking with Freya? Zidane walks into a bar, Freya says it’s been three years since they last met - making him only 13 at the time, and then she is basically just in the party right after. That’s pretty much it. The hunt happens, rat town gets BLACK MAGED, and she’s in the party. Like fucking what? That said, damn her theme is fuckin’ bangin’. Vivi is endearing. Who the hell doesn’t like Vivi? That said, he looks fuckin’ human?!?!?! I had always thought Vivi was some kind of automaton/golem/void creature. Like a Japanese Pinocchio. Now, I do know that he was made but I never thought he actually was supposed to look human. And like, that scene on the airship with Black Waltz 3 killing all the other BLM’s had no emotional weight for me. Fuckers look like Oogie Boogie took up farming. They are about as human looking as a Tonberry. Garnet is fine. Pretty much just a standard princess trope type-b variant-2. Nothing to praise, not much to complain about except that her character is pretty boring. Quina is whatever. Won’t use them when I won’t have to. Don’t hate’em, just feels like a 4th wheel. Steiner is great tho. Sure, he is a bit obnoxious, but man people are assholes to him for fuckin’ no reason. The guy is just trying to do what he feels is right and 9 times outta 10 he would be right. Zidane almost feels like a bully. I love his level of respect for Vivi and he is wiser than most characters give him credit for. AND HIS ARMOR AIN'T EVEN RUSTY!!! Overall, I feel like the plot is barely there at this point. This adventure feels super half-assed. So much of the game so far was just getting to Lindblum which resulted in nothing at all. Princess ended up getting kidnapped, Rat Town is on fire, Rat Tree is now a crater and we got this mystery guy who is probably behind the queen’s heel turn. Pretty week start when other games have an Ex-Soldier joining an Eco-terrorist group and you spend the first disc taking on the man, or a Dark Knight doing Dark Knight things who then wants to not be the Darkest Knight, or where you end up plaything the brother of the guy who just died in the prologue and end up getting involved in political intrigue. The characters just seem to be meandering in the right direction to advance the plot and the game hasn’t given a strong plot thread to follow. Kuja is obviously going to be the big bad or one of the big bads with him being a proto-Seymour but man the Kuja thread is just a thin thread to follow even though it is obviously the right choice. The music could be better. Shit has got some major bangers, but can’t say I’m a fan of the world theme, and my god the boss music is just sooo bad IMO. The regular combat music is fine. It sounds pretty good actually, until you compare it to other themes and then it feels lacking. No town themes have really stood out yet either. Oh, and I appreciate the mellow Chocobo theme, but I can’t say I prefer it to the more classical style. Combat is just way too easy. While this really is a symptom of all FF games, just attacking is better than any magic other than Bio or exploiting a weakness. But like fuck man, I can’t even steal a boss's items unless I just have characters waste their turns. And this is even after I decided to cheat and turn on 100% stealing because if a boss has three items, it will always die before I can steal three times. Bio fucks’em up. Never even died except for right after I got Quina and my damage was too high so it made getting Blu spells hard and trying to get to that 20% range was a pain in the ass. And I don’t think I actually died there either. I just reloaded because three party members died. Sure I could have killed the enemy but the point was to learn the blu spell which I could do now. I wish there was just a mod that made it so stealable items were just 100% chance drops. Never been a fan of the steal command as it always just has you either resetting or doing nothing until you get all the items. Maybe it’s more of a me problem but I’m not just going to ignore the stealable items. I know it is a classic option but I dislike it. I know I am making combat easier by turning on the 100% steal chance cheat, but if I wasn't doing that combat would end EVEN FASTER because now Zidane can actually hit the boss. There is no way I would have kept up stealing items. Way too annoying and not fun. So yeah, that’s it for now. May update as I go or if I remember something I forgot.

It's not awful, but I'd never choose to listen to it again.

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Rude

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Strangely, I have yet to poop. Can tell my next poo gonna have me painting my porcelain brown.

I just had a little bit.

eating more jerky

Farting stopped for a while but I think it's picking back up

Just popping in to say that I hate Cameron Monaghan's face. Good voice, good actor, hate the physical arrangement of his face.

Get me his face and I'll say it right to it!

Console Wars died with the 360 era. Now it is just which mini-pc (with a unique OS) exclusives do you want and would you like a side of Nintendo to go with it?

I love eggs, but man do they run right thru me. I'll be shittin' within the hour.

And it's like two feet long when compared to modern games. You spend minutes at a time in it, not hours. OoT is great.

My god, feels like there is a roiling sea in my stomach and my ass has turned into a whoopee cushion.