I'll be coming back to my all-time
favorite video game at some point, I'm sure, but it'll likely be
awhile now.
This playthrough was more or less a
wash, in terms of what I wanted to get done versus what actually did
happen. That's an OK thing, really, because I discovered that there
are still some things I've got to learn about this game in spite of
how much time I've spent playing it over the years.
I managed to get the Imp spell earlier
than I usually do, but that's about the only “extra” thing I was
going for that I actually got done and had any real value in terms of
the gameplay itself. I didn't get any of the other summons because,
well, by the time it got to that point, I was getting a little tired
of the game for the time being.
I had also briefly considered trying to
find those Pink Puff things that I'm sure we've all at least heard
of in passing and trying to steal firebombs from the Red Dragons on
the moon so the party could use them like Cecil did at the very
beginning of the game. The Pink Puff business is still kind of
dubious, in my mind, because it's something I've only heard about on
the Internet. Sure, the sources are ones I might call at least
somewhat reliable, but it's still the Internet.
As for the Fireball thing, well, I've
actually seen it done firsthand, and I've even done it myself.
Granted, I'm pretty sure both my brother and I were still in high
school at the time, so this is a good twenty years ago, but I still
know that it's possible. I just didn't run into enough of them to
make it happen, and I didn't really want to go out of my way for it.
But I also got some monsters to drop
things I didn't even know were things in the game, or that those
particular monsters even dropped stuff. I mentioned the Rune Axe
from the Red Giants, but I didn't mention that I guess they also drop
Ogre axes.
For the first time in what seems like
ages, I also got the Meteo spell for Rydia. That happens somewhere
in the low 60s, level-wise, I think. By that point, taking care of
the final boss is easy enough without it, but even easier with it. I
can't recall if Zeromus was ever as easy to beat as he was this last
time, but then again, it's been awhile since I've put more than 30
hours into this game, and even longer since I made it as close to the
40-hour mark as I did this time.
Between having done at least parts of
three Final Fantasy games here lately, I'm actually reconsidering
doing Final Fantasy 9 next. That and Final Fantasy 7 are still on
the list, but not as high as they were even this time last week. I'm
giving Breath of Fire III and Saga Frontier a little more
consideration now.
And hell, with that in mind, I've got
my Steam account back up and kinda running again, and I've signed up
for some newsletter sorta thing, if I understand correctly, called
Humble Bundle, so I might even consider something from there. I've
got Team Fortress 2 on my Steam account, and I'm considering
Undertale, too, since people have been going nuts over that for the
last year or so, just so I can see if it's really as much the bomb as
everyone's saying.
Really, I'm open to suggestions this
time around, even if only for a little while. The input will
certainly be appreciated and considered.
Thanks for reading, and DFTBA,
everybody!
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