I just noticed the two previously identical onion knights look slightly different now, that’s pretty cool actually
FF6 stuck in my brain after this and one other thing I like about the way it handles loadouts etc. is how virtually none of the characters typically rely on their equipped weapons for attacking other than in early random battles, it’s consistent with ~magic~ being probably as narratively important to the series as it’s ever been.
for example: the best sword in the game, which you have to complete a weird series of battle arena trades for, is most useful as a stat boost for your primary magic user (presumably she wields it like a wand in an amano drawing); the figaro bros’ tools/arts are more useful than their primary weapons up until the very late game when you slap the offering on whichever of them you prefer; cyan uses his sword a lot but conversely cyan is terrible; etc.
Masamune;
ever notice how it looks like an Excalibur?
Ex; don’t make me recall how Chrono got an Excalibur, lookin’ like a ‘moon’…
does anyone else feel like final fantasies 3 and 4 are the most dragon quest like of the final fantasies?
absolutely
I’ve been obsessed since you shared this. Who is responsible for this? Where can I find a full album like this?
It’s such a good game. Part of me wishes I was playing something other than the snes version but the crappiness of the translation and the lack of later ff qol improvements is kind of charming
I’ve been thinking about this all evening. It’s tough because that song is really all over the place – jazz bass, deep house chords, prog guitar, film soundtrack orchestration… All kinds of random bits stuck together. Here’s what I came up with. I think it’s a decent match:
Thanks for reminding me about this cool album I hadn’t listened to in a while!
I also just looked that guy up and apparently he was responsible for the sound design of the Sony robotic dog AIBO, lol.
I came to this thread straight from the gran turismo 2 thread, and I gotta say, that version of the prelude IS a gran tursimo track. they could slip that motherfucker right in there and I wouldn’t notice
Takemura is great, so thank you for reminding me about him. Somehow, I haven’t heard this album, but it does sit beside the prelude remix nicely. 
Reminds me that Masaya Matsuura did a few songs for Aibo and they’re awesome.
forget the font, they nerfed slow in ff4
disgusting
I’m now playing ffv advance mainly as a way of working through my petty grievances about the pixel remaster series.
I’ve never done this before, for some reason the job system turned me off in the olden days. I am still pretty entranced by the idea of jrpg characters that have battle styles that are linked to their personalities, it just feels more coherent that way. It’s like the equivalent of an action movie that’s able to move the plot forward and define the characters through action sequences, you know?
But I guess the jobs set up does make for more emergent narrative possibilities. I also still don’t really know how to get the most out of it
I was impressed that the game indulged my curiosity about what happened to my little chocobo friend, but sad I couldn’t take him with me
I like how FFX reveals that not only are the main characters on a death pilgrimage out of social obligation, everyone in the church is long since dead and literally exercising dead hand control.
Reminds me of the only line I liked when I replayed MGS4 this year
We’re a system… insurance that future generations never prosper.
doesnt get enough credit for chronicling the workers’ march from cradle to grave