It was the Pixel Remaster version that my friend played, so maybe that’s to do with it.
i think ff2 is probably fine but the gba version has like, zero resistance, while on the other hand being “more balanced” in that a certain spell leveling exploit was removed. i don’t know which version is better but i quit the gba version cause it’s so frictionless that my curiosity just died at some point
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It’s fine for about one hour, the password system is super interesting as this weird evolutionary offshoot borrowing from point and click games, and it’s maybe the first really melodramatic JRPG
Afterwards it’s very boring played in a straight line, but much like FF8 it’s a fun game to « break » / play with its boundaries. Before finishing the second dungeon I managed to beat the unbeatable gold soldiers in the first city repeatedly and their golden equipment drops were enough to get me across the high level areas to the town where I could buy Osmose and Frog then I used Osmose to get MP so high it showed up in hexadecimal and I leveled Frog enough that it could just be used to turn all enemies into frogs on the first turn with 100% accuracy for the rest of the game. That sort of thing
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I LOVE TWO but only the psx version forward
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I’ll definitely play FF2. Just a matter of determining which damn version to play.
PSX origins is still my fave version of both and I hate remakes.
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same, but in my case because I saved my lawnmowing money to import a wonderswan when I was 13 so I could play these (not sure why I did this) and I think the Playstation versions are the same
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I’ll go with the Origins version then, thanks everyone!
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wonderswan club wonderswan club
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personally i recommend trying the Famicom FF2 because it does some fun NES graphical stuff and plays like a more fluid and less-strict FF1
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I’m coming to this thread to give some deeper observations about FFXIII 5 hours in.
There is clearly too much confusing story/world-cruft that starts mise-en-scene and does not do a great establishing anything. What are Cocoon and Pulse? What is this sphere with train-spaceways over a lake? Is this a city who the fuck knows. There’s a pope, somewhere.
On the other hand how do you know what our world actually looks like? What you can see. Where’s the pope, not here certainly. Why is there a war or a resistence, difficult to say. Why is there genocide happening? Does anyone even need to hear a reason?
And the game is corridors in non-descript but fantastical environments with a battle system that is so slowly revealing itself but is clearly the centerpiece. This game would not have sold 1 million copies in Japan if the battle system had been there right at the start. The drip-feed is definitely too slow, but if I start talking about what I’d done differently about FFXIII well, I don’t think anyone has played FFXIII and not had some counter-opinions. Despite it being middle-managed and silo’d and everything else it is a unique product (Lord Of The Rings The Third Age for PS2.)
The story is nothing yeah. And the conversations are circular. And yet, the game is so focused on character and motivation. It is really surprising me. Lightning is an idiot soldier who has never had to question anything. Even her sister being arrested by the system isn’t a question, quit her soldier job, rescue her sister, hate her dumbass boyfriend. She hates having to question stuff! Now she’s on the run and decides to navigate this incredibly complex situation with “I guess I have to kill a god.” She has zero nuance to her decision making and is wrestling with it.
Hope sucks. I hope (no.) they figure out something to do with him more than I miss my mommy and HATE MY DAD.
Saaz is both along for the ride and knows more than he is letting on. Vanille knows stuff the others don’t but doesn’t know half of what everyone knows.
Snow is this giant collosal fuck up who has fallen into the role of “Hero” because no one else would step up and only vicious unstopping optimism and putting on the show of “hero” keeps him going even if he got most his friends and a bunch of strangers killed. He can’t see more than one step forward and the only thing that hasn’t put his bare-hands in the dirt is plot armor.
In about ten more drafts of the game the story would put more emphasis on how they don’t have time to process what is happening because they are being chased. Also take out the dog fight to change locations. That was beautiful and pointless. I mean they grafted a bunch of exposition on it but am I supposed to be worried about them? If they got shot like any of the other planes (?) the story would be over.
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The flashback with Lightning in her insane conference room kitchen was good. Seriously her apartment kitchen looks like it could seat 25 comfortably. How many Final Fantasy characters have you seen washing dishes? At least one for me. Tifa’s polished glasses. I guess Aerith’s mom has probably washed a dish.
Everyone in FF8 lives in dirty plate city until the paid janitorial staff make their rounds.
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I think there may as well have been a dish washing sidequest in XVI.
XV had a buncha eats but not sure if there’s a scene where dishes get washed
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I can now see in my mind’s eye a prologue chapter for FF Mystic Quest where Benjamin McDemoPlay is doing dishes before his village gets destroyed. (This would perfectly fit the tone of a game where the hero talks about having an allowance.)
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Noctis guaranteed lets his friend-manservants wash all the dishes after they cook for him and pitch the tents in all those camp scenes, but it’s tastefully offscreen
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Which one does the dishes Cuba. WHICH ONE.
My bet is on prompto
Ignis seems like the mom to me but he does the cooking so. I bet Gladiolus volunteers like a good dad. Prompto is too busy bouncing off the walls
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is this how Squall’s gunblade works?
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