Day 49: Final Fantasy VI *COMPLETE*

Yussssssss. FF 6 is done. There's not much to be said here. Final Fantasy 6 is arguably one of the best RPGs ever, and perhaps one of the greatest games ever. Definitely is my 2nd favorite game now that I've played it all the way through properly (sorry FF 6, Zelda will always hold a special place in my heart :3)

Anyways, as I said before, I'm not even going to go into how awesome this game is because this post would be terribly long. Especially the ending, oh god the ending (and really just the last part of the game). There aren't many games that the world exploding means you're only halfway through.

Pics this time are the usual suspects, I wanted to take pictures of all the tiers of Kefka but i just kind of forgot to after the first one.

This is probably the last game that I'm going to play for my little project. I'm going to play VII in some spare time but not do it for a "marathon" purpose because school is starting soon. So to the 2 people that read this you can stop now :3 I might do a write up when I beat 7 but I doubt it. It has been fun, I've beat most of the games that I've never beaten, now all I have to do is 9 and 12 (lol).

Thanks for reading! :3

Day 42: Final Fantasy V *COMPLETE*

Yeah so I didn't update while I was playing, sorry to nobody that reads this :D

Anyways, took me a long ass time to beat 5, but at least from this point on (until 9), I have a pretty good idea of how long all the games are and vaguely what to expect next.

As for what I thought of 5 I thought the first half of the game (first 4 crystals) was kind of slow and dull, it's not until you get to the 2nd "part" (trying to avoid as many spoilers as I can XD) that the game picks up. The last ~10 hours of the game are just amazing, really some of Sakaguchi's best work. The music was great too, hats off to Uematsu. The things I enjoyed in 5 the most were the little things, like the pianos, mastering abilities, the little hidden passages. The job system was the only thing tha tkept me playing through the first part of the game, while I normally like it when characters have their own jobs (ala FF4), the way they do it in 5 is really cool, it's a shame it was kind of dropped after this one. Besides the pacing in the first part of the game, the only other problem I had was the script. I understand that the game was supposed to be more lighthearted than the others, but ugh, sometimes it was just terrible, though Josh tells me that the original script was bland, so maybe that's for the better.

Screenshot time! I got 3 this time, I wasn't sure what to take so from top to bottom its the game clear screen, the "The End" screen, and a snapshot of neo exdeath - the last boss (he looks pretty fucking crazy, doesn't he? I especially like the weird dead.... things on his left side).

I'm probably not going to start on 6 right away because I am getting tired of grinding and stuff, but I will definitely at least get through 6 before the break is over, <3 that game.

Oh yes, and ignore how long the timer says there, I would say it took me closer to 30 hours, but when I was grinding I would hold down the speed up thing on the emulator.

Day 31: Final Fantasy IV *COMPLETE*

Birthed from the womb of Dragon's maw
and borne unto the stars
By light and darkness cast aloft
are dreamtide oaths resworn
Moon is swathed in ever-light,
ne'er again to know eclipse
Earth, with hallow'd bounty reconciled.

God, I absolutely love FF4. I would have a hard time choosing between 4, 6, and 7 as to which I like the most, because I like them all in a very unique way. 4 is just so very captivating to me, even though its got the old crystal storyline, I can't help but get sucked in. I even did all the sidequests again, because I didn't feel right not having Asura or Odin as summons (even though I never used them :3) or pressing forward through the Crystal Palace without getting everyone's ultimate weapons (despite you only really needing Edge&Kain at the end damage wise).

This is my 2nd playthrough of 4, and even though I knew what was going to happen I couldn't stop playing and getting to the next part of the story. Despite being all alone on Christmas eve and Christmas day, at least I wasn't thinking about it too much :3

I could literally sit here and go on and on about this game for hours, but I guess I'll just stop it here, because nothing more needs to be said. FF4 is fucking awesome.

I took more than one picture this time to try and capture the awesomeness of this game. From top to bottom is Whyt (who is sporting a Starry Night face) and Namingway telling me to play the game again because I will be even more OP this time. Next is the save data, as you'll notice since this is my 2nd time there are 2 stars (which makes me want to play again so I can get the third). Finally we have the Star Wars-esque ending scene with Cecilia, Theodor, and Kluya looking at the moons.

While I am very excited to play V because I've never played it before and everyone loves it, it is going to be tough to top this. Oh well, I need some sleep if I want any chance on starting V tomorrow.

Day 30: Final Fantasy IV

Not much to update here. I played FF4 already a few months ago and am blazing through it pretty quickly. I haven't completed it simply because I have been getting kind of tired of constant grinding all the time in all these games haha. I should be done with it by the day after X-mas hopefully, I've been watching Freaks and Geeks lately to take a break. I just want to be out of nintendo era games :|

Day 25: Final Fantasy III *COMPLETE*

This one only took me roughly 3 days, it's good to not have school :D Anyways yeah, not much to say. I thought FF3 was great as far as everything goes. Sure the story wasn't great, and my biggest gripe with it was with the last dungeon and not being able to save (even though I plowed through it like nothing), but the game had a lot of pluses.

I thought the job system was really fun, and I enjoyed leveling up all the different classes as I got them, outfitting them with whatever armor, and the characters were so cute :3

I HAD to do the side dungeons or I would have died in world of darkness, even though I told myself that I wouldn't do side dungeons for any of the games but... given how difficult the difficulty shot up from each dungeon, I didn't have a choice. Anyways, now that I have I-III under my belt, the only FFs I haven't beaten are V and IX (yes, the roman numerals for all of these is absolutely necessary), so I'm excited to get to those in the near future.

I don't know if I want to start 4 tonight or not but I probably should :/ I need a break for right now though.

And there's a pic, I tried to get one of the fin screen but I couldn't get to the camera in time. It seems the new thing that shows you've beaten it is the little stars in the bottom right corner of the screen.

Oh and before I forget: "Excalibur: Attack 140. A legendary blade given only to those who are deemed worthy"

*throw*

Day 23: Final Fantasy III

So today was pretty much my first day of FF3. I played it a tiny bit over the weekend, but I got no more than like an hour into the story and then I just grinded for a bit. Today was my real first day of play and holy shit, I played the piss out of this game. I got the first 3 crystals and am going to the 4th now.

A lot of people say they don't really like FF3 and I remember when I first tried playing it I didn't really like it either, but compared to 1 & 2, this game is fucking awesome. The music in the DS is cool and I like it, though some complain that it lost its "rock" feeling, but hey, the overworld map music on the non-floating continent was FF2 main theme, badass. Anyways, I should probably be able to beat it tomorrow (or today theoretically, since its 4 in the goddamn morning).

Day 16: Final Fantasy II *COMPLETE*

Finally. FINALLY! Beat FF2. This game is so damn frustrating. The characters were good, the story development was good, the atmosphere was good, it felt like a solid platform to build Final Fantasy on. Unfortunately, the level up system was just horrible, spell acquisition was hard and uninspired, random encounters every 5 steps, and lets not forget that the game was hard as balls. There is just too much wrong with this game to say that it was "good", but it most certainly wasn't bad (as far as Final Fantasy standards go).

This game didn't have the neat little Game Clear stuff on the bottom of the save screen but if you look at the file selection on the left, you'll see a little speech bubble that says "Clear!" on it.

I am so behind schedule it's not even funny, oh well. I'm going to start on III on Friday hopefully, I am excited.

By the way, what's with all this ungaaaaah business?