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definitelynotrhi · 10 months

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i recently started final fantasy 9 and ive been having an absolute BLAST its so charming (im about halfway through disc 2!!)

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noxtivagus · 2 years

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oh man i still love ffxv so much 🫶🏼

#🌙.rambles #[ ffxv. ]#i am thinking again of . noctis #GODDAMN I USED TO BE SO #noctis used to be my fav chara back then. he's still one of my favs rn #i love ffxv music sm man thank you yoko shimomura for composing elegant osts #i love kingdom hearts sm too.... final fantasy n kh my childhood fr #help i like so many games that are connected to sqex in a way 😭#nier published by sqex . n huh #even one of my fav animanga ( fullmetal alchemist ) is connected to sqex in a way #funny how all these interests were influenced by my father's side of the family. my dad n an aunt in particular #i actually nearly finished the manga for fma ! but not the last few volumes bcs my aunt has them w her in japan i think. 🥹#wait i'm listening to ffx rn n i am emotional. my first exposure to ff #but i played ffxiii first. i still remember the start of the second chapter i think...? then rip ps3 broke #🥹 i'm. i love my childhood #thinking abt it n i've really been exposed to a lot of video games #gow & tlou & loz & ac & the other ac & ff & nier & fe & kh & mario stuff ofc & help sm more #oh man i really have always been passionate about video games. it means so much to me esp w the ones w good stories bcs u play through them #ffxiv as an mmorpg. really fit so well with what i wanted. im really so happy #god i played a lot of board games as well when i was young n those smart wtvr stuff #n a lot of fps in gr 6 especially. n so much gacha games wtf n rhythm games n mobile mmos too #when i get interested in smth i really seek to learning as much of it as i can #i also watched sm anime back then 🫣 n i got into a lot of kpop grps back then too #in ffxiv i do most content. not quite rp yet tho. but i have rped in other places in the past LMFAOOO #thinking abt how i'm so weak for romantic stuff tho. suteki da ne... sob. i blame final fantasy for me being like this #the way i write is so filled with confusion. but also a gentle n strong love for life as a whole. n poems n stories n. longing #please pay me no mind rn i am Emotional n cringe but free #i am emotional rn n distracted n confused n a mess but at least i got that. thing out of my mind. i'll stress about it later

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astrxealis · 1 year

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my love for ffxv is like. look. when i was really more into it, from 2019 to 2020 i believe, i only ever had (still until now) the day one edition. never played any dlc content. but it was my favorite despite me being aware of all the imperfections and everything. and i knew almost everything. i read up on basically everything about it online

#⋯ ꒰ა starry thoughts ໒꒱ *·˚#⋯ ꒰ა ffxv ໒꒱ *·˚#admittedly with media i love i'm usually like this aha #me when i had 2k hours of ffxiv in a single year and played everday in the summer. no wonder my #parents were like 'oh my god' with it and everything lmfao anyway! yeah!#and then uh i think. i got into fe3h late 2019 and then in late 2020 i realized hey maybe i like dimitri more than prompto #but prompto is still kinda more special to me. dimitri means a fuckton to me but prom even more aaa #i got into ffxv uh... i think it was early '19 and then i finished it early '20 exactly a year after <3 lovely!#but i was into ff (just on a surface level) bcs i played ffx as a kid on the ps3 and then the ps4. and i knew xv because. idk it was just #one of those other familiar-kinda medias. likely bcs it was Final Fantasy (ff has another deeper meaning to me now tho hehe <3)#plus another game i played a ton back then had a collab with it and soon after i wanted to get the game #i only got ffxv because i wanted the sims 4 but the game store guy said it was not appropriate for kids (i finally got to play it tho last #year. for free. love it. miss it too) and then yeah i still remember it almost exactly... that day. god

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littleblackqrow · 2 years

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@silveredruby (🍷)

Qrow sat hunched over, pinching his nose and sighing. His scroll dangled from his other hand, nearly brushing the floor. “I was trying to clear out space because we have too many dead save files.” he groaned. “And the damn thing. It just had ‘Delete all’ as the default option.

This was how he was going to die.

#silveredruby #based on a true story #My mom was cleaning out the old ps2 memory card #and she deleted an entire game's saves because 'no one has played this in a year'#it was new years #literally nothing had been played in a year #i was so near the last stage in ffx

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meg-noel-art · 5 months

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Queen Lucinda Edevane

Pretends my Discord ramblings make any sense and throws one of my OCs at you. LORE dump below:

Sort of a brief preface but imagine my universe is Avatar the Last Airbender if every Nation had an Avatar of Each Element. And there are no non-benders! Everyone can use some degree of said magic. And that they needed all said Avatars to work together to defeat the ultimate Evil Entity, because doing it alone/without Avatar powers have proved to be impossible for centuries. If anyone has played FFX it's very much the same concept of "there is a recurring darkness that we are stuck in a perpetual cycle trying to defeat bc the main characters haven't arrived yet" ---

So there are Avatars of Five Elements for my universe: Lighting/Storm(kinda broad but imagine like,,airbending/lightning bending combined) Water/Ice/Sea (Any liquid tbh) Earth/Nature (stone/earth/leaves/plants), Lunar (magic moonbeams babyyy), Solar (cast fireball) < -- the missing element is Solar, and it's been gone for hundreds of years, never choosing an 'Avatar' (ive been calling them 'Arbiters') and nobody knows where the source of the Element is to try and 'persuade' it to choose another "Host" (Enter Samantha Sinclair, but that's another part of the story)

SO ALL THAT SAID:

HERE is one of my Deuteragonists MOMS. She's part of the LONG line of magic users whose bloodline has always been chosen by the source of Lunar Magic. RE: There's always been a rich royal Lunar Magic 'Arbiter', for generations. It seems to be 'passed down' the line. Maybe they have a whole 'Choosing Ritual' (even tho that's not how the magic works, rich people be silly and privelaged).

So she is in what is the Royal Family of this world. While all the elemental nations have their own leadership, the Lunar Kingdom/Nation/Etc has the most powerful magic/and the family kind of rules everyone because of that. Targaryens vs other Houses ala Game of Thrones.

When she is young, Lucinda (that's her name) <- is SECOND in line to inherit the throne, should her brother (who is the Arbiter of Lunar magic at that time) die. WELL, turns out he does, meaning the Lunar Kingdom loses both it's Arbiter and it's heir in one fell swoop to a bad battle with the Ambiguous Evil Forces I haven't come up with yet.

So OOPS she's suddenly saddled with responsibility she wasn't supposed to have, which is in this world less of a "ok you're queen now go produce a male heir" and more of a "oh you're queen now, and ALSO you better make sure this Arbiter nonsense stays in our bloodline".

So that kinda sucks for her -- her consolation prize is being allowed to marry the captain of her Kingsgaurd (straight bodygaurd AU ooooOOOoo) the only problem is---he's a weak ass magic user. So her family is a little sus that any kids they have would have a chance to be chosen as the next Arbiter. But she INSISTS, it's the one good choice she gets to make for herself bc oops she happens to genuinely love this guy

Anyway their first kid (Elias) ISSSSSSSSSSS --- not chosen. Firstborn, next in line, not the Arbiter. Very embarrassing for everyone involved. So kid number two, one of my deuteragonists, Lucy -- is more of a 'necessity', rather than a 'want' from her parents. And it shows in the strain in their relationship. Lucinda (Mom) (Lucille, 'Lucy' is literally named to echo her ) regrets her own choice to marry for love because she feels like she fucked up - she also resents having to take on that responsibility in the first place, so her attitude toward Lucy (who luckily WAS chosen as the Lunar Arbiter) is very "I fucked up hard so you better not blow this for us ---"

anyway. Here she is looking grumpy. the end.

#if you read any of this thank you!! ;;#oc #original character #original character art #i am working bare bones here #would be fun to make this inkling of an idea a web comic someday #when i get it fleshed out #lucinda edevane #oc universe #my art #lore dump

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zeb-z · 4 months

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man. sometimes I just remember Gillion’s Last Sin monologue is set to Via Purifico from FFX. and it’s so perfect. I haven’t played FFX for quite a few years, mind, but the fact that it’s the theme to the prison where you’re left, without help or hope for escape - but manage to push on with what strength you have found for yourself. playing as Yuna, alone, without the rest of the party - easily the least trained, seemingly most vulnerable - and going through these fights alone. Gillion admitting his final sin against this council of elders, facing what he is sure to damn him but facing it anyways. trapped in both the prison of his own guilt, and the very real donjon prison inside the pearl. it’s at a turning point, a moment of loss of faith, where the battles fought are ones faced alone, until friends can finally come and help with whatever is next around the corner - in both FFX and Riptide, for Yuna and for Gillion. a set of trials for them to overcome, finding the answers not from anyone else, just themselves. and the feeling of isolation, being alone against the world, matching Gillion alone in the pearl against his past. it’s just such a good fit, both thematically and musically.

#I feel like I’m jumping around a bit but does this make sense #it’s about the imprisonment the isolation the trials of strength on your own the trials of being able to make decisions on your own #even if they place you against something terrifying. the council. spira. yknow what I mean #I gotta replay FFX to get this comparison down pat I feel like because I haven’t played it in a long time but like. it’s so there #the music is good on its own. the fact that what it was originally composed for is so similar thematically? like ougggh #and this is after the monologue but still thematically. the relief of reuniting with the party and reuniting with chip and jay. like mannnn #anyway #link is to the song on Spotify lmao #jrwi #jrwi riptide #jrwi riptide 79 #gillion tidestrider #z speaks

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silver-wield · 2 months

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Have you seen Dumdum's predictions lately? they predicted CA’ll kiss in part 3, hey.. did they forget they predicted that CA would get kiss in part 2 and in the end CT got that kiss, to be honest if I ship CA I wouldn't want to set her up with a man who has already kissed another girl, it seems like they are people who don't succeed in socializing in real world

I've seen them say it's real cloud on the nightmare date which is stupid because it's clearly soldier boi. Real Cloud is wearing Zack's spare uniform, and soldier boi isn't.

But what even is narrative context to these deluded idiots?

They really want Cloud to be the type of trash who'd kiss any girl. That's pretty much what Aerith wanted from him. she wanted him to confirm he was a "charming womaniser" like Zack (which he isn't so how tf did she date him for two years and not know him?) because then he's more like Zack, and his borderline obsession with Tifa can be brushed off as just being flirty.

Too bad for them, Cloud is so into Tifa she forms the core of his beliefs and identity. There's literally no separating him from her. When Sephiroth tried, Cloud shut down, and Aerith didn't give a shit. She's busy looking in the mako pool for Tifa while Cloud is sitting zombified on his own. If that was Tifa there, she'd be taking care of him.

Anyway, there's no separating them and who tf wants to be with a guy who holds someone so dearly to his heart that she's the nucleus of it? He'd always be looking at her. Even if Aerith "won", they wouldn't last. It'd be a five minute affair that ends when she dumps him for not being Zack enough for her and for always prioritising Tifa.

Ykno, they actually threw in a shot of Yuna being kissed by Seymour and were all "look the girl kisses another guy!!!" And I immediately thought "so you haven't played ffx either". That's literally one of my favourite installments and I don't even need to look up any plot points to know what happened in that scene. That whole section from the airship to the temple is actually my fave in the whole game. But yeah, they haven't played FF games. I honestly doubt they've played any SE games, not just FF, but any jrpgs in general. Has anyone seen them talking about gameplay or loadouts or boss battle strategies or thoughts on anything besides a non existent ship they've been whining about for almost three decades?

#ship war #for the fandom

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hrodvitnon · 3 months

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The Abraxasverse Internet running down the list of ice powers/characters/objects/etc to compare Shimo to and it's driving her up the walls.

Shimo: I swear to the high heavens... I can't keep up anymore. What is a Frozone??

Rodan: Shimo-

Shimo: Last week it was the Leviathan Axe?? Leviathan's not an axe!

Mothra: Hun-

Shimo: What is a Shiva??

Godzilla: Ooh, that's a good one...

Mothra: Goji!

Godzilla: Sorry!

Shimo: What the hell does ice have to do with Pet Shops?!

(also, alternate crack voice to consider for Shimo: Pippa Bennett-Warner's Malenia from Elden Ring. Every time she wins a spar against Goji she hits him with some variant of 'I am Shimo, Blade of the North' or something that starts to really get on his nerves)

(Honestly, Goji, same. FFX Shiva with the dreads and the sass and the snap, hello!)

Shimo pulls the "I am Malenia" speech and everyone in a ten mile radius who played the game immediately gets an Elden PTSD flashback; she doesn't know why, she thought it was just one of those jokey things humans say! Why is everyone scared now?!

#tosho89 #frostbite814 #monarch shenanigans

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styrmwb · 6 months

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Favorite Final Fantasy Music (FFX)

*an overdrive bar appears and lands in the middle, summoning the number 10*

FFX is by far the coolest setting for any RPG I have ever seen. It is so incredibly unique, I have not seen anything like it. Other cool things about it? It's the first FF that wasn't 100% composed by Uematsu! This is the mainline FF that brings in my man Masashi Hamauzu, who makes a Lot of really good songs here and later. There's also Junya Nakano, but I don't know his work as much cause he's not as much of an FF guy :(

When i was making this list, something I tried to avoid and failed, was exclusively battle themes. But alas, I love the battle themes in this game so much, that they all trump any overworld/event themes in my brain😭. Please give a look at the honorable mentions for some of those that I like (and more battle themes sorry).

5. Blitz Off! Sports are battles, right? A battle between athletes? I think it counts. I also want to say: I hate Blitzball. I do NOT want to be a Blitzball when I grow up. I do however, love this song. This was the only saving grace as I tried and failed (and eventually succeeded) to beat the Luca Goers so the Aurochs could get the trophy. It's a bop, I love the boops throughout the song cause it's like little waterdrops (water sphere), not to mention the fucking BASS on this shit. It's got a fun melody, and a lot of neat instruments (like the whole game has but I feel like I've made this point with every game since VII LMAO). I love how this song goes absolutely ham, and then Right before the loop, it gives you a little bit of a quieter droning jam.

4. Fight With Seymour First of all: Fuck Seymour. This stupid blue spiky hair having ass with his dumb eyebrows and his 20 boss fights and his "ohhhhh yuna ahhhhhhhh blehhhhh" (I love Seymour and by that I mean I love to hate him he's perfect). I had heard this song before playing X and I was so excited to hear it, only to discover THAT IT ONLY PLAYS IN THE FINAL FIGHT AGAINST HIM WHICH WASN'T EVEN THE HARDEST ONE (my hope absolutely did end there). ANYWAYS. His song fucks. This song is like the One Winged Angel of FFX, because it feels like a bunch of mini compositions were made first, and then they were all put together somehow masterfully. Every instrument is super cool sounding, and this song proves that the Trash Can Lid is the greatest cymbal you could ever ask for. The keyboard goes ham the entire way through, and I feel like I'm dancing at the club (this would be if I did hypothetically dance and also go to clubs).

3. Battle Theme Remember last list when I said it was a while before I used a normal battle theme? Isn't it awesome how I'm immediately breaking that pause even further? I feel like I'm going to keep saying this, but this song is a bop!!!! All of these songs are bops. I remember initially not really feeling the MIDI ass opening, but it has absolutely grown on me over time and now it's just iconic to me. I love when after the song takes a bit to get going, the melody gets louder with a bit of a synth organ backing it, not to mention when it slows down a bit (not like, tempo wise, but in instrumentation). For some reason, that section is in my brain is attached to switching out party members (my favorite mechanic of battle), so Auron saying "Let's go." is basically an extra bit of the song to me XD. Shoutouts to synthesizers and MIDI trumpets, we absolutely love you.

2. Otherworld This is just... a song. It's a straight up metal song in my Final Fantasy, something that I would hear on the radio growing up (not actually but can you imagine??). Hearing this towards the beginning of the game was already super cool, with the Blitzball match and seeing Auron look over the city (so cool....), but then you also have it as the final boss theme????? (I know it's not the final boss but like he's BASICALLY the final boss) That's even cooler. Catch me headbanging and singing along whenever it pops up. I love the guitar shredding, and the part of the lyrics where it backs off of the super deep growl to give a sort of spoken word section that sounds like it's coming through a radio.

1. A Contest of Aeons So far, this list has mainly been "this song is on here because it is a banger" and less emotional importance, which is strange, especially after the last list. A Contest of Aeons fulfills that requirement, at long last. This song takes the main prayer song/Hymn of the Fayth, and turns it into something worthy of being a grand finale. It also plays during one of the absolute coolest boss fights ever; all of your summons/aeons sacrificing themselves so you can finally break the endless cycle the world suffers, but it also hurts so much because they have carried you through the entire game and now they have to fall to your hand. I love the constant orchestra in the back, giving the song a tense, urgent feeling. My absolute favorite part is when the choir continues to raise with the addition of the tambourine, not to mention the part right after where it sounds like pyreflies are dancing around you.

Honorable mentions go to: Prelude, Movement in Green, Mi'ihen Highroad, Assault, A Fleeting Dream, and Challenge.

#final fantasy #final fantasy x #textpost #jared's final fantasy music opinions

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dayasan · 4 months

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I'm reposting this from Reddit cause it made no noise LMAO but:

I like to think about what might have happened if Auron didn't die at the end.

My shoehorned justification for this is that the death of Yu Yevon releases a surge of pyreflies that mixes with/modifies his own and "revives" him, which doesn't make sense but it's a fantasy dammit!

Throughout the story Auron doesn't really take opportunities to engage with the world like the other characters (mainly Tidus and Yuna) do, partly because he's already completed one pilgrimage, but partly because he knows the world is no longer for him. His purpose isn't to live and explore, it's to help Yuna defeat Sin so that he can die in peace. When he isn't trying to rush Yuna towards her objective, he's allowing space for other characters to develop and learn from his mentorship, instead of indulging in a Spira that has changed in his absence.

Before that, he spends 10 years looking after Tidus in Zanarkand, walking amongst the secret of Yevon that no living (or probably undead) person has ever witnessed before. From the moment of his death, his whole existence has been in service to others, and he has been waiting to die for a decade.

So what does it do to someone when they live past their expiry date? When they suddenly have a life they didn't plan that far for? What happens when they're not granted the death they were living for?

Suddenly Auron has to readjust to a world that has not only changed without him, but is now experiencing complete upheaval in its social structures and technological advancement. He was already uncomfortable with being lauded as a hero when he felt like a failure; now that he has even more of a reason to be lionised, he feels like he's not even supposed to be here.

When the party ultimately go their separate ways, resuming lives they paused for the pilgrimage, Auron is left stranded. Yuna grows into adulthood and travels without his guidance, the religious institutions he dedicated his life to are toppled by his own hand, and all the friends he made in his 20s are either dead or unknown to us. What remaining connections does he have? Where does he go: Bevelle, Besaid, endlessly drifting? What does he do: hunt lingering fiends, lead the Crusaders, chase the reanimated ruins of Yevon?

People often break down in newly ushered times of peace, as they finally have the safety and security to process the grief and trauma that they couldn't acknowledge while in survival mode. Auron has strong resolve, but that has always been metred by a need to devote himself to something/someone (Yevon, Braska, Jecht & Tidus, Yuna). Combine that with the fact that Tidus is gone (unless he gets some Yu Yevon pyreflies too, it's a fantasy dammit!) and I think we would see that resolve break, if only for a little while before he inevitably picks himself back up. For the first time in Auron's life, he's truly on his own, and completely listless as a result.

I haven't played X2 or explored other media yet, so maybe this analysis will be slightly different when I do, but it's something I've daydreamed about since finishing FFX last year and I enjoy the idea.

#final fantasy x #auron #ffx #auron ffx #final fantasy 10 #ff10 #sir auron

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jessjustplay · 7 months

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I finished playing Final Fantasy X (again)

October 22, 2023

Game: Final Fantasy X HD Remaster First Time/Replaying: Replaying Game Time: 40 hours Console: Nintendo Switch Started: December 5, 2022 Finished: October 21, 2023

I finished this game last year in February, but some time in December I got an itch to play it again. At the time of my initial replay, I didn't have a TV so I played the entire thing on my tiny Switch screen. Now that I had somewhere to dock the Switch to, I wanted to re-experience the story again on a big TV!

So yes, I started Final Fantasy X back in December 2022 and it's taken me almost a year to finish it. In my defense, I have been playing a lot of other games! FFX was sort of just a back-burner, in-between-playthroughs type of game.

However, a few days ago I picked it up and could not put it down. Once you get past a particular area (that blasts an annoying announcement on-repeat the ENTIRE time), the game is very fun and picks up speed as the story unravels. I also decided I wasn't going to "do everything" which threw out a lot of that anxiety.

I have a PS4 now, so I thought, "If I'm going to 'do everything' I might as well go for a Platinum trophy!" I'm glad the Switch doesn't have a trophy system because it lets you enjoy the games without worrying about marking tasks off a list, but with how annoying FFX's side-quests are, if you're going to put yourself through that pain, you might as well get some sort of accolade!

I have no idea when I will start my Platinum attempt, but I really would like to try one day. I've played this game SO many times sinc eI was a kid - why not? People on Instagram telling me I should go for an easier Platinum trophy not only annoys me, but also makes me want to do it even more.

SPOILERS START HERE

Anyways, the endgame of this playthrough was really exciting! I told myself I wouldn't be getting an extra aeons or any of the ultimate weapons, so it was nice just walking around, leveling up, and going into boss fight after boss fight.

Normally, I would have Yuna's ultimate weapon and her Break Damage Limit would save the day! But this time I didn't have that and I relied HEAVILY on Bahamut to save our skins.

Seymour #2 took me two attempts, the Zanarkand Guardian was one attempt, the Zanarkand Trials Glyph Monster Dude took me 3 or 4 tries, Yunalesca was one attempt (!), Seymour #3 was one attempt (!!), and Braska's Final Aeon was ALSO one attempt (!!!).

I was surprised I was able to do do the final leg of the endgame in one attempt without dying. Not to mention, whie fighting Braska's Final Aeon, he petrified Wakka and that man disappeared! I was tempted to restart the game but then I thought, "It's not like I'm getting any EXP from this fight!" So I BEAT THE GAME WITH TWO CHARACTERS ONLY. At one point, Lulu and Yuna had less than 200 HP and I was freaking out!

What saving me was summoning Bahamut once, getting LUCKY AF that he didn't die, dismissing him, then using Yuna's overdrive to summon him again. I also used Auron to zombie Jecht and that helped for awhile, and I used Tidus's talk command once and that 100% saved Lulu and Yuna from dying. *THANK GOD*

Here are my final stats:

While I was more critical of the game this time around (more on that in another post), I still enjoyed this game and it will always be special to me! It's interesting though, I used to cry a lot watching the ending of this game, but this time I didn't. It's official - I'm old lol

When you're young, losing the person you "love" seems like the end of the world, but as you get older you learn people come and go. Yuna, you are 17. You will find someone new!!!

I did, however, cry during that one scene watching Yuna's sphere of messages (after beating the Zanarkand guardian boss). IT IS SO SAD!!! 😭 I felt my throat closing up watching that (specifically the Kimahri part). KIMAHRI, YOU'RE THE BEST! I need to write a Kimahri appreciation post.

#final fantasy x #final fantasy #finished

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chiclet-go-boom · 8 months

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so, like, i bought a controller yesterday for the first time in a billion years. i think the last game i played on a console / controller was like, FFXII? which was when ago? maybe it was FFX-2.

so i buy a controller mostly because i am annoyed that @meatball-headache has some sort of auto-lock on in Red Dead Redemption II and I don't, because being of the PC Master Race™ apparently i am natively blessed with fantastic aim even if my horse is galloping furiously underneath me.

its now the next day and i have a hand cramp. and my brain hurts from "press A to select" because i have to look at the controller to figure out where "A" is every time. and there are two sticks, one for direction and one for camera angle and those sticks can even depress to do stuff and sometimes you gotta press BOTH at the same time while you're galloping and shooting...

i do not remember it being this hard. and my hand hurts after only a few hours of playing!

on the plus side, Cowboy Headache fucked off to do something (like, i don't know, achieve the objective or whatever) leaving me alone in an ambush of eight more desperados who tried to surround me while i hid behind a rock and i killed all of them because that auto-lock-on is God Tier.

i win. you lose. i don't know what i'm doing but the satisfaction of finally being able to hit something is immense.

#red dead redemption 2 #controllers are for control #apparently i can play FFXIV with controller and its somehow easier?#i don't know #i anticipate a lot of pain in my future though

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mrmallard · 20 days

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List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who reblogged something from you! Get to know your mutuals and followers.

Thanks for the ask game!

A lot of these are probably gonna seem kind of "base", or like highly specific.

1: Getting lunch at work

I don't always get lunch at work because I'm either about to be super late, or because I've been spending too much money and I need to try and cut back to make rent. Lately it hasn't been as much of a problem. Either way, getting lunch at work always makes me happy.

We can order in from a local cafe/restaurant, and every day has its own associated special. My favorite special is on Wednesday - it's a chicken burger with chips (fries) for $13. The burger has half of a chicken schnitzel on it, which is cut in half again to make two burger-sized patties, as well as mayo and lettuce. Eating is a general pleasure whether I'm at work or not, but getting to sit down and eat well after working my ass off for like three hours straight is a real highlight of my work day.

2: Video games

I've always been super into games, and even as I've gotten older games have probably been the most influential media in my life. I'm able to take a step back and acknowledge real life; I'm not exactly well-adjusted, but I'm not living in a fantasy world either y'know.

I could cite at least thirty games here. I love Tetris. Life is Strange fucking rules. I've been playing Runescape on and off for almost twenty whole-ass years of my life. Minecraft has gotten me through some of the toughest years of my life. Turn-based RPGs were a fairly late-stage thing I got into as a teenager - my favorite games growing up were like Jak and Daxter, and eventually Sonic the Hedgehog - but now it's probably one of my favorite genres, and I am certifiably Not Normal about Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest.

It's probably bad that I don't have a more sociable hobby, but man - video games are the best. I love video games.

3: Final Fantasy in particular

Look I'm really deep in the Final Fantasy mines rn so I'm just gonna vent.

I'd dabbled in RPGs before, with the PS2 pack-in demo disc including a demo for Dark Cloud and with me eventually owning both a Harry Potter game and Pokemon Yellow and Crystal on the Game Boy Color. I'd also tried to emulate Chrono Trigger, but keyboard controls and general impatience left me feeling kinda bleh about the whole thing.

Final Fantasy was beyond my scope as a kid, and I actually wouldn't come into direct contact with a Final Fantasy game until high school. I lent a friend of mine Tekken Advance - which is a 2D sprite-based port of Tekken 3 for the GBA, with mixed results - and he lent me Final Fantasy X in return.

I did not like Final Fantasy X. At all.

I grew up on Jak and Daxter, and Ratchet and Clank. I grew up on Pokemon and - of all games - Rocket Slime on the DS. The shortcomings of the Game Boy Pokemon games were whatever, because they were Game Boy games - they still had their own flow and charm, while FFX felt dated and stiff.

FFX came out around the same time as Jak and Daxter, and that game runs circles around it! Real-time shadows, 60fps, dynamic character animations etc. Ratchet and Clank was the same. Of course, it wouldn't come out until way later that Naughty Dog games were basically freaks of nature, with the first Crash Bandicoot going so far as to overclock the PS1 to run properly, and both the Jak games and RnC - which used the same engine as Jak and Daxter, and proprietary code from the games as well - being borderline un-emulatable for a good while, because the tech was so cutting edge and unlike anything else on the market that any support for those games would have to be tailor-made for how they ran.

But that's the comparison I had. It's the early 2010's, and FFX fails to impress even among its own contemporary releases. That's how I felt.

Time passes. I get really bummed out at one point, and there's nothing that I want to play. I just want to sit there and play a game at a steady pace, and I don't want that game to ask very much of me - I want to make progress without the active gameplay that a Jak and Daxter would ask of me.

And then I remember that jank-ass PS2 launch title that I basically forced my way through until I gave up. I'd given it back to my friend years ago, and I went down to the game store and bought my own copy. Worst case scenario, I wasted a few bucks on a game I would continue to dislike - but I was listless and bummed out, and I wanted something to play.

I bought FFX-2 before I even finished the first game. Playing FFX again just hooked me in for good.

I played Final Fantasy 5. I played a bunch of FF1's GBA remake. I tried to emulate FF6 and FF8 (the latter after demolishing Kingdom Hearts 1), but like Chrono Trigger, something just didn't feel right and I couldn't progress. I end up playing FF13 and its sequel, I watch playthroughs of 7 and 9 (though I did play a significant portion of 9), and I get into spinoffs like World of Final Fantasy.

Today, I'm knee-deep in Final Fantasy at most points of the day.

I appreciate the games on their individual merits, but I really love the connective tissue. I'm a huge FF5 guy, and Gilgamesh on the Big Bridge is one of the huge, hallmark moments of that game - his appearances in later games, starting with FF8, create an organic sort of expanded universe through the Void that was introduced in the same game.

I like that Final Fantasy 5 and Final Fantasy 13 are ridiculously at odds with each other concerning their approach to game design. I like how FFX is this beautiful game based on like southeast Asian culture, and how FF8, in comparison, has you fighting fucking dinosaurs with a big sword that has a revolver barrel on it. Final Fantasy is a ridiculous, endlessly robust franchise, and I love it dearly.

4: Songs with wordy lyrics

This one's as honed-in and esoteric as possible. I love a song that goes crazy with the wording in the verses.

I don't have any screenshots on this phone, because I've made endlessly detailed posts about this before, but I'll offer some examples.

The champion of this type of songwriting has got to be Dar Williams, with her song Iowa being absolutely packed with lyrics. At one point, between verses, she manages to squeeze in a little interjection that adds so much flavour to what she was already saying - it's like "once I had everything, I gave it up / for a corner of the driveway in the woods I've never felt / and for you, I've come this far across the tracks / ten miles above the limit and with no seatbelt (and I'd do it again)". All the verses in that song are that wordy, but that "and I'd do it again" is EXTRA EFFORT between this verse and the next part of the song, and it's just such an awesome song that she gave 110% on.

But even smaller lyrics that get unexpectedly wordy in an offbeat way are very pleasant to hear in a song that might not be super wordy in the long run. Idylls of the King by the Mountain Goats is this huge, grand, romantic song (in an album about two people basically stuck circling the drain and pulling each other down with them, which is arguably most famous for being the album with No Children on it) with structure like "this place, with its old plantations / these roads, heading out towards the sea" and "your eyes, twin volcanoes / bad ideas, dancing around in there" - very effective, emotionally evocative lyricism, sure, but the second verse busts out this line:

"and I dreamed of vultures, in the trees around our house / and cicadas, and locusts, and the shrieking of innumerable gibbons"

And the WAY he sings "the shrieking of innumerable gibbons" just SCRATCHES AN ITCH IN MY BRAIN in a way that's super hard to describe.

Maria Mena also has songs that do this, though I won't touch them due to subject matter. Overall, wordy lyrics in songs make me very happy.

5: Hawaiian shirts

I'm not always a very outgoing or cheerful person in real life, but Hawaiian shirts help me to make up the deficit. They're bright and outgoing, communicating a laidback sort of vibe, and they're very open and breezy which is great for ease of movement. Hawaiian shirts make up a significant portion of my wardrobe, and I really relish the opportunity to get more because even the act of throwing one on and buttoning it up - or god forbid, taking a buttoned up shirt I've worn before and just sliding into it - honestly makes me feel so good. Not a lot of clothes fit me, but my stable of Hawaiian shirts never lets me down. In the words of a great philosopher: they're comfy and easy to wear.

#thank you for the ask!!

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mundmutter · 4 months

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𝐆𝐄𝐓 𝐓𝐎 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐔𝐍

‹BASICS! ›

NAME: kosm

PRONOUNS: they/them

ZODIAC SIGN: aquarius

TAKEN OR SINGLE: taken ~

‹ THREE FACTS! ›

I really love final fantasy but when I play them I get incredibly tunnel-visioned and cannot play another game until it's 100%. . . like how I played ffx-2 for the last three weeks nonstop lmao. it's why im still in shadowbringers rn too haha

since I started taking some adhd meds I've started learning korean again! I'm proud I could still remember the alphabet after so long with my awful memory issues

I draw! I think most people know that, but I love drawing and paneling for her comic. it's a big learning process but it's one that i'm happy to learn

‹ EXPERIENCE! ›

PLATFORMS USED: tumblr, annnnd discord! I've been trying to write on there more often

PLOTTING / WINGING IT / MEMES: I usually turn to plotting since having a gameplan helps me write longer forms of content, but I'm totally fine with winging it and memes since those can be good ice breakers

‹ MUSE PREFERENCE! ›

GENDER: Despite writing a very feminine woman, I've mostly written men and other male identifying people!

MULTI OR SINGLE: I prefer the single-blogs, though I do have a multi

LEAST FAVOURITE FACECLAIM(S): the only one that comes to mind is that one girl from tokyo ghoul. . . but i rarely see them anymore haha

‹ FLUFF / ANGST / SMUT! ›

FLUFF: fluff makes my skin clear and waters all my crops

ANGST: her angst can be very intense, but it's a lot of fun to get into because of her character

SMUT : this is something i've been wanting to write more of too, but I'm not actually sure who'd be interested dfgfdh but it's there

#― ooc. kosm coffee break!

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sflow-er · 8 months

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ˏˋ°*♡➷ get to know me ༊*·˚

I was tagged in this lovely game by @lazybug16 and @bluedalahorse - it was so much fun seeing both your 'moodboards'! 💜

The idea is to pick a favourite movie, character, animal, drink, song, season, book, colour, and hobby and present them as pictures.

I'll put a list/explanation below, but it's going to be long, so let's do the no-pressure tags first: I think most people have been tagged already, but I can't keep up. So I'm just going to tag a few people whose names I don't think I've seen and apologise if you've already been tagged - or even made a post that I've missed!

@scatteredpiecesofme @silvagrey @groenendaelfic @raincitygirl76 @plantbasedfish @palehottubchild and anyone else who'd like to do this!

Movie: I've got a lot of faves in a lot of genres, but The Princess Bride (1987) has been one of my comfort films since childhood. I never could resist a good fairytale! I kind of wanted to use an ensemble poster to fix the severe lack of Inigo Montoya in this Westley/Buttercup one, but I think this fits the moodboard better, both aesthetically and thematically (because there's a lot of romance on this board).

Character: Again, there are lots of options! But I want to pick 1) a woman, and 2) a longtime favourite, so... Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice. Either book Lizzie or 1995 BBC Lizzie played by Jennifer Ehle will do. Who doesn't love an intelligent and determined woman who is loyal to her loved ones, speaks her mind, and grows from her mistakes? Oh, and who only warms up to the handsome aristocrat gentleman with a massive estate after he listens to her criticism, makes up for his mistakes, and demonstrates some character growth?

Dolphins: Love them. Happened to see some wild ones in Ireland this summer. Keeping them in captivity for humans' amusement is heinous.

Coffee: The thing about coffee is, if you don't drink it, you often feel like a nuisance when visiting people in my country. Especially older people, who don't necessarily keep tea in the cupboard. So, I learned to drink it in my late teens despite hating it at first, and once my tastebuds had adjusted, I fell in love.

Song: Swing Life Away by Rise Against. A very simple acoustic ballad about love, friendship, and how little you actually need to be happy in life. It's also mine and my spouse's song that was even played at our wedding ceremony (without vocals on guitar, violin, and double bass).

Season: I am very much a four seasons kind of person, but I guess spring might be my favourite.

Book: I've got so many to choose from, but I wanted to pick something queer, so: Torka aldrig tårar utan handskar, Jonas Gardell's trilogy about young love and the AIDS crisis in Sweden. It's absolutely fantastic and absolutely heartbreaking (not a happy read!). It's also been adapted to an excellent three-part TV series that can be found on Youtube with English subs. (Short English trailer, 6-minute Swedish trailer.)

Gardell is also a fitting choice because it was his recommendation on social media that got me to watch Young Royals, and I wouldn't be here on tumblr without YR.

Colour: My favourite colours are red, green, and dark grey. I've been in a green phase lately and it fits this moodboard best.

Hobby: Video games. I've been a PlayStation gamer for well over 20 years. I mainly play adventure and roleplaying games; titles with good storytelling and worldbuilding. Some of my favourites include older Final Fantasy games (up to FFX), the Uncharted series, Life is Strange series, Mass Effect trilogy, The Last of Us Parts I & II, Heavy Rain, Until Dawn, and Telltale's The Walking Dead 'seasons' 1 & 2.

In keeping with the theme, perhaps I should also mention that some of my fave WLW ships are from video games! Ellie/Dina from TLOU: Part 2, Nadine/Chloe from Uncharted: Lost Legacy, and Chloe/Rachel from LiS: Before the Storm (although I do love Max/Chloe in LiS OG too).

Thanks again for the tags, this was fun!

#tag game #nor yr #get to know me #moodboard game #thank you both so much for the tag!#💜💜💜

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weatherman667 · 10 days

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Sea of Stars

Boring, Boring, Boring, and current year (aka boring). Clearly made by people who have heard of turn-based RPG's, but never actually played them.

The game is absolutely intent on making the two main characters equally important, which is boring. Yes, some games have done that well, and they do it by making contrasting characters. Tidus and Yuna. Vaan and Ashe.

Well, Sea of Stars has a male character born on the sun solstice with a female born on the moon solstice, and they are the most boring implementation of what is an interesting idea. It's like Avatar the last smurf bender that managed to make giant half-naked catgirls boring.

The female character hits harder, because current year.

The main plot gets lost in five seconds when you flashback to high school. Because that's what I want to do in a fantasy game, flashback to high school.

The high school undermines the narrative weight of the Solstice Warriors. The high school is also empty, because... people aren't that likely to be born on the solstice?.. or because they spent too much time giving the main characters complex pixel animation to not even bothers giving the others basic animations? Or even just standing still?

The game also forgets it's... a video game. The introduction would work better as a block of text in the prologue of a book than it would in a video game.

The video game hijacks the tutorial for backstory that adds nothing to the game. Yes, it's beautiful, but they but a lot of effort into making the most boring sequence beautiful.

When you finally get to the actual tutorial, the gameplay is... designed to be boring. Your characters only have enough mp to cast one spell, and then you have to use your basic attack a few times to rebuild the mp. It talks about how important it is to strategically use your magic, but then only lets you use your magic once in a 3-4 step cycle. So, it's not strategic. It's part of a combo you need to do to stop enemies from casting. God, this is giving me flashbacks to Remember Me. Remember Remember Me? No? That's for the best. The short version is that it requires on annoyingly long combos, and nothing you do matters other than trying to do the same really long combo over and over again.

Apologies to anyone that this triggered memories of this horrible game.

Yes, the combat is similar to South Park: The Stick of Truth. In one way it's even better. But you know what The Stick of Truth is? Fun. It's fun from the moment you select your class. It's fun from the moment you select a name, (and then Cartman choses to ignore it and call you Douchebag).

Hell, FFX has a warrior named sun and healer named moon, and has even less abilities when you start the game, but managed to be fun. And enthralling. And harrowing from the moment the first animation plays.

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If you are going to have two generic audience surrogate characters, like Sea of Stars does, then just let the player pick one as their avatar. But no, they decided to follow the current video game Feminist zeitgeist of making two equally important, and equally equal characters so that all the characters can be equally equal.

Or, give me Rikku, who's a fragile speedster, and can disable mechanical enemies in less time than it takes to lift your sword.

I'm not asking for the world, as in the last year, I have played a number of turn-based RPG's with even worse pixel graphics that were much better in every way.

#sea of stars #video games #Youtube

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