TEXT PLAY SIDE GAME: Final Fantasy II (Famicom 1988/PS 2003 [Origins]): Issue #028: Dangerous Monsters

Starting and ending with them.

One Month Left

This year is really ending differently than it started, isn't it?

Final Fantasy This Morning: November 23, 2020

I got to thinking about something other than the game I was playing when I was grinding for abilities in Final Fantasy IX the morning I wrote this.

TEXT PLAY: Final Fantasy IX (PlayStation, 2000, Square-Enix): Issue #064: Mini World Tour: One Night In Treno

That's a title I probably should have used when I was in Treno for plot-related reasons, or on one of the many return trips I was apparently supposed to be making over the course of the game.

Not For Lack Of Ideas

 I'm a little behind where I thought I'd be, post-wise, by this point in the year, and it's not for lack of ideas.

MiSTing: Digimon: Digidefenders: Episode 1, Part 3

 Usually, I like to read things like this before I post them, if only to make sure I've got some interesting commentary to put in ahead of the jump or after the feature, but I've got a backlog of stuff I need to get going with, so I'm going in a little blind here. I still kinda remember some of this stuff, but as I've noted a few times now, this has been the better part of twenty years ago now, so I don't remember everything about it.

Anyway, this is the last bit of setup for the premise and the first “real” battle of the series. I think it takes place someplace in Canada. I remember there being one that happens at Mt. Rushmore, too, but I think that's still a couple parts out. We'll get to that soon enough. Here's the main event, folks:

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Odds and Ends and Things: Travel Grooming Goodies Part 2

I'm about a week late in sharing this, but since I had part one up here, I figured I should share this as well.

JMShearer Tries: Brownie Caramel Cream Root Beer

Trying something new here, posting with the widget on YouTube.

TEXT PLAY QUICKIE: Final Fantasy 4: Chronicles Version (2001; PS1): Issue #010: Trap Door!

 Well, it's about time to get moving on, I think.

MiSTing: Digimon DigiDefenders, Episode 1, Part 2

 I had intended to get to this well before now, but I got distracted with other stuff. I'd like to get these parts up more quickly because monthly is just too slow for something like this. Hopefully, I'll be able to improve that soon.

Where we left off last time, five of the eight, I believe, primary human characters had been introduced in the main story, and I was starting to get more of a handle on my own character in these things. Part of the reason why things are coming out the way they are is that we were supposed to be shooting for a PG rating, tops, and this was my way of going for that in my mid 20s. Another part is that whole “mid 20s” thing. I hope I've changed at least a little since then.

Those poster things that I've been putting in were supposed to be reflective of the other MiSTings I'd done using my own character at the time. I'd had a few at the time, and I figured that since the setting I was using was a movie theater, I'd go the poster route.

At any rate, this whole first issue is mostly setting up the characters. There's a little proper excitement towards the very end, but for now, we need to get on with meeting the characters and setting up some of the mechanics. Let's continue, shall we?

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