Final Fantasy general

@Ninety: If you do pick up X-2 and you care at all about getting the best ending, make sure to follow a guide. That game is completely unforgiving when it comes to getting 100%.

Well, I beat the Flowsand Lord on the second attempt. Would have been easier had I not killed one of the level 12 antlion with a spare turn thinking it would be replaced with another one out of the way of my party - nope, level 18 Pit Beast that pummelled by party with ranged AOE Wind attacks. Just about made it through.

Struggled to find a Sturdy Bone so I could get the Twin Bow to get my Sniper Double Shot, which she badly needed to become effective, but have it now and she's dominating. Blew through the next two story quests in short order, albeit with a slight struggle because I'm so underleveled, so I could go for the Eastwatch quest to unlock Parivirs. Done in some style, and also beat the Master Monk quest with level 15 approx characters despite it being a level 29 quest.

Auction season is approaching so I'm going to max out my 2nd and 3rd place finishes rather than dominating everywhere; I'll also polish off all the random battles that disappear after you become grand champion ahead of the next auction season. After the current season, I need to do the next story mission so I can recruit a second summoner as as a summoner, as well as get Spellblades. I do have one Summoner Red mage, but she lacks Blood Price and that I need to fix. Got a few handy abilities for Summoners so far - namely Kirin, Ramuh and Ifrit, so once she doesn't have to wait a second turn to cast them, domination ensues.

The way I play, this game's difficulty falls off a cliff very quickly around this point.

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SE added a video covering the songs from VIII-XIV in Theatrhythm.

That comes out to 154 songs from the main series, and apparently there are 221 songs in total, which means we can expect 67 from the various spinoffs. I believe Tactics, Dissidia, Dissidia 012, XIII-2, Lightning Returns, Type-0, Advent Children, Crisis Core, Mystic Quest, X-2, and Romancing Saga have been confirmed to have songs in the game.

I kinda wish they'd include the Dissidia remakes of some of the songs from the earlier games, at least, but that seems unlikely at this point...

edited 9th Apr '14 12:46:31 PM by beorc

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The only proper Dissidia/Duodecim songs I can think of of any significance are Cantata Mortis and God In Fire. ... Oh yeah, forgot the three parts of Chaos and also Cosmos.

edited 9th Apr '14 1:02:44 PM by EvaUnit01

From the Dissidia games, I'd also like Keeping the Peace, The Quickening, Reform, Canto Mortis, and especially 012's ending theme.

edited 9th Apr '14 1:07:04 PM by beorc

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221? Hot damn that's a lot of songs. Do we know how many are going to be repeated from the first game? I've been thinking of picking up the original Theatrhythm, but if there's a lot of overlap I might just wait for the new one.

It has all of the songs from the first game, I believe.

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I just got done beating FFIV for the PSP and level grinding my characters to 99. I'm now going to go do the Lunar Ruins.

Does anyone have an opinion on what characters are better in the non-DS remakes of IV?

@FFX-2.5 Does it wrap around into So Bad, It's Good, or is it just straight So Bad Its Terrible?

EDIT: Okay, I've decided that I will not read it, because I'm perfectly pleased with X's conclusion kthxbye.

edited 9th Apr '14 6:24:48 PM by MakotoYuuki

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So bad it's terrible describes it much better. Speaking of X, I'm getting the HD Remaster next week. I wanted the Collector's Edition with the extra stuff, but they've run out so I can't get one. So I'm just going to get the regular edition, which is mostly because it's HD and if I decide to play X-2, it'll at least have the full version, the original PAL release of X was Japan's International Edition afterall.

Never really played enough of the assorted remakes to judge, and in classic SNES it's kind of a moot point.

Also, I went and got X/X-2 HD Remastered today, as well as KH 1.5 HD, and OMG X HD SOUNDTRACK IS SO MUCH MORE AWESOME THAN IT WAS ON PS2. WHICH IS SAYING SOMETHING.

I especially love the upgraded Battle Theme and Besaid Island theme, and the Besaid Village theme, which I previously thought was totally forgettable, is now nice and Ear Worm-y. Kinda sad that Otherworld, Cloister of Trials theme, and Hymn of the Fayth (Besaid) are seemingly unchanged, though.

The only theme from FFX HD I don't like is the boss theme, it reminds me way too much of this FFX Boss Battle MIDI I heard 10 years ago.

So Bad It's Horrible aside from Tidus dying again because he kicked a bomb thinking it's a blitzball.

Hence why I still find it so difficult to wrap my head around it's existence. When the parody makes perfect sense & reality is an insane joke, you know things have gone HORRIBLY awry.

edited 10th Apr '14 2:10:58 AM by Prime_of_Perfection

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Wait, that's seriously a thing that happens? So after the slow build up to his tragically inevitable death in the first game, and an entire second game devoted to bringing him back, now he'll just die and come back for any stupid reason like he's Kenny or something?

There's no way Tidus would be stupid enough to kick a Bomb, based on his canon personality. He's really energetic, but he's not stupid. Plus Yuna Took a Level in Jerkass in how cruelly she dumped him, basically saying "I like someone else, we're done." and then dumping him. Plus the viewpoint character who claimed to be Auron's daughter was a super bitch.

Now you can see why I was seriously wondering if there wasn't some huge mistake.

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Don't worry, many of us felt the same way when we first read it/watched the audio drama of it.

Everything about that sounds aggressively malicious, like someone hated the game and set out to write a big F you to anyone who didn't.

FFX HD: Beat the Luca Goers in the forced Blitzball game... 2-1, Wakka scoring the winning goal with TWO SECONDS LEFT ON THE CLOCK.

Also, HD soundtrack continues to impress; Auron's theme is even manlier than before, as is the Blitzball theme.

edited 10th Apr '14 8:42:41 PM by EvaUnit01

So it seems that Down To The Last Count really happens at least occasionally.

"What's out there? What's waiting for me?"

Two things:

• Famitsu page with some of the playable characters in CC. Awaiting a better picture.

• The winners of the LR contest received sketches from Nomura.

edited 11th Apr '14 6:44:49 AM by LordofLore

Who's the redhead underneath Auron and next to Penelo?

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Based on placement, probably someone from XI but I'm not sure.

Edit: Found her! Yep, she is from XI.

edited 11th Apr '14 6:57:30 AM by LordofLore

... Dark.

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Huh, it looks like the Theatrhythm website already has all the songs in the game listed...although they're mostly in Japanese so I don't know what they are. Except for Tactics - its song titles are in English, so I know we're getting classics such as "Ultema the Nice Body" and "Bland Logo~Title Back".

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