Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Day #313 Recap

Current Game(s): Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, Final Fantasy X

Current Play Time(Tactics Advance): 2:44
Current Play Time(Final Fantasy X): 5:07
Total Play Time - 659:53

Current Game Overs(Tactics Advance) - 0
Current Game Overs(FF X) - 0
Total Game Overs: 60

Where I Currently Am(Tactics Advance): Nubswood
Where I Currently Am(FF X): Luca

Stuff Did Today(Final Fantasy Tactics): Nothing
Stuff Dis Today(FF X): Tidus was in the middle of his professional blitzball game when it was rudely interrupted by a water covered whale intent on destroying the whole city. How rude. Tidus went with Auron who took him right up to the beast's mouth and let him get swallowed. Tidus woke up 1000 years later in what seemed to be a completely different world. He emerged in some watery ruins and made a fire for himself before a group called the Al Bhed stormed the place and took him prisoner. Luckily one of the Al Bhed also spoke the common language, and Tidus helped her activate some other ruins which let the Al Bhed raise an airship from the ocean.

Unfortunately, the Al Bhed ship was then attacked and Tidus went overboard again... he washed up on Besaid Island where met Wakka, the captain of a blitzball team that hadn't won in 23 years. In the village, Tidus was introduced to the summoner Yuna and her guardians Lulu the Black Mage, and Kimahri the Ronso, as well as Wakka. They agreed to bring Tidus to Luca where a Blitzball Tournament was to be held. Since someone might recognize him. Tidus had to play it off that Sin gave him amnesia... because in this world, the truth made him sound insane.

They left with a stopover in Kilika. When arriving in Kilika, Sin attacked and wiped out the island.Yuna performed a dance to send the souls to the Farplane and not become fiends. Good thing. We then headed to Kilika Temple so that Yuna could get her next summon. On the way, Yuna asked if Tidus could become another Guardian for her. We emerged from the temple and headed off to Luca.

In Luca, the tournament was getting ready to start and media coverage was heavy. Tidus, having agreed to play with Wakka's team, the Besaid Aurochs for this tournament, decided to talk some trash...

Status & Notes:
So, just a little background on why I've been so excited for this game to come out... A couple years ago, just for fun I decided to replay through Final Fantasy VIII and IX and then I played X-2 just because I had never 100% beat it. After I finished with that, I started to hear the news that Squenix was going to do a remake of Final Fantasy X and X2. At that time I was considering playing through X again anyway, so I figured I would just wait for the remake... and then I started coming up with the idea of playing through ALL the Final Fantasies in order... and seeing what that would be like... and trying to time it so I got to X just as the remake came out. So, basically this game that I've now started playing was the impotus for this entire project, and I'm extremely happy I've been able to get here on time.

A couple notes about how I'm going to be playing the game and reporting on the setup. I will be playing the game using the Expert Sphere Grid... why not, I've completely 100% the game before, I'd like to try something new. I debated reporting every sphere I fill in on the grid... but I've decided against it. Really, with the way the game works, you can extrapolate things out from the abilities I get, and its really just the stats that matter anyway. Also, this way I can finish getting my report together a lot more quickly.

A few initial thoughts on the new version of the game. The first thing I noticed is that the environments look incredible. They've obviously increased the detail in all the environments as well as the major characters of the game... Unfortunately, that means some of the minor characters, which they did not do anything to... really stand out as looking bad now. Seriously, the first time you see Wakka and Tidus standing next to the rest of the Aurochs makes you cringe a little. The load times are not so bad... with a couple of exceptions. When I was in Besaid village, every time I left a house and went back to the village square I encountered about a 6-7 second load time. Enough to be annoying when you're barely spending any time inside the house itself. The music, which has been tweaked a little too, sounds incredible coming out of my 2.1 system. The voice acting is slightly improved, though they never fixed some of the lip to voice sychronization that was a problem in the original release.

Alright, there's my initial thoughts. Today, some tactics missions and some Blitzball!!!!

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