I'm going to have to check my file
archive, because I could swear I've done this part of the game for
this Text Play, but I also know that's not likely the case.
It comes with the territory, I suppose,
since I've spent a lot of happy and not so happy hours playing
various Final Fantasy games in the almost 30 years since I really got
into the series with Final Fantasy IV
back in the early 90s. Granted, I'm way more familiar with the Super
Nintendo era games that came out here in the states than I am with
the PS1 era games, but I'm still fairly familiar with these ones,
too. There's more I could get into, but I think I'll save that for a
Final Fantasy Tonight entry later.
With
regard to the game itself, I was going to open this issue with a
reference to Olivet,
South Dakota, because this place we're in is called Oeilvert, and
I've been making these long reach jokes the entire time I've been
doing this Text Play.
On the
outskirts of town is a moogle who runs a shop with weapons, items and
armor, all of which come in handy at this point. She's also got the
seemingly standard Mognet option, and she's got mail for you to take
to a friend, who's in the city proper. All this kind of reveals one
of the disadvantages of being a “somewhat older fellow” who's
playing and writing these things way too late at night in that I
can't remember the specifics of what I actually bought in regards to
the weapons and armor. Then again, I suppose they're really not that
important.
Oeilvert
itself is kind of a museum or planetarium sort of place, albeit one
in ruins. In order to get what we need to set the rest of the party
free of Kuja's death trap prison, we'll have to power the place up
and watch the show. Since this is likely to take a few play sessions
to get through and I haven't been getting these things posted in
anything like a regular, timely manner lately, I'll just be posting
these as I do them rather than try to combine them all into one big,
long piece.
In
order to get the place running again, we're going to have to do sort
of a reverse BigCliveDotCom
on the place, checking everything out to see what's there before
finding a boatload of bits and pieces to reinstall. There's kind of
a central chamber with a circular pit in the floor that kind of looks
like the tactical display onboard the Normandy in the Mass
Effect games. There are also
control panels, lighting rigs, and other such doohickies around, all
of which need things replaced and all that fun stuff.
And
naturally, because we're getting on in the game, there are a few
things here to give us those fun little bits of Extra Challenge.
We've got random battles in here, because what fun would a hunt for
small items in a maze be without them, right? On top of that, we
can't use magic in here, either. This is doubly frustrating for me,
because not only do we have to ration our healing items, but it kind
of interferes with my play style. It's going to be a little tricky
getting through here with a party that's set up a lot like my main
party from my Text Play of the Origins version of the original
Final
Fantasy. The only
difference here is that Zidane's job class is Thief, whereas I had a
Monk in my party, if memory serves. Otherwise, Steiner is a Knight,
Vivi is a Black Mage and Eiko's a White Mage, technically.
Aside
from cramping my play style, what makes the lack of magic here a
difficulty is that the one new enemy I remember coming across is one
that spawns clones of various party members, and if the one that it
clones is actually in the party, the real one, in the party, gets
killed off and won't be allowed to live until the battle's over.
This means you're essentially screwed if you're not pretty much
overstocked on Phoenix Downs and Potions.
Because,
as usual, I'm doing this way too late at night, I did what amounts to
a good amount of wandering around for the situation before deciding
that a half-hour or forty five minutes was about all I could handle
reasonably. This leads back to what I was saying at the top of the
post, that there will likely be a few posts of my running around in
here, trying to get the place fixed and ready to go. Hopefully,
there will also be more FF2 and SoM along the way, as well, plus that
FF Tonight post.
One
thing I'll want to talk about there is the idea of getting a Nintendo
Switch for the possibility of getting their either soon to be
released or newly released Collection of Mana. But like I said, I'll
get into that later, because I'm going long and it's getting late as
I write this. So until next time, folks, stay safe, have fun, keep
gaming, and DFTBA.
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