What game are you playing thread

[Momoka]

B-but, Zelda:Ocarina of Time got it just right - I love roaming around the vast Hyrulian fields. Wind Waker I won't mention And yet again, Twilight Princess got it just right.

And yet you played Shadow?

[Overread]

Evrae - is that the guardian dragon to the city you fight whilst on the airship for the first time?
If so he was tricky - but I found (name gone) that huy with the freaky blue hair harder to fight in his strange ghost/robot form at the end of the cat people mountain!

Shadow is loads of fun - takes all the grinding monsters out and gives you bosses and few hints as to how to kill them!
and that ending - so frustraiting and sad!

[Lenny]

Seymour Guado!

I also found the two Chimera in the under-attack Al Bhed city (just before you got the airship) hard, for some reason. Then again, I did go around the sphere grid backwards.

[Momoka]

I think that ICO and SotC are amongst the most beautiful and poignant games I've ever played. I love the art style, the concept, the execution and the music.

[Overread]

Very true momo- there are very unique games!

Lenny I thought the sphere grid a good idea, but it was so hard to see where you were going you did tend to end up just following it round - occasionally using a red jewel to get something a little extra - but it makes DnD based PC games look simple with stats!

[Sephiroth]

Seymour Guado indeed!

The fight with him on Mt. Gagazet IS the hardest storyline fight, IMO. That was a long, drawn out fight for me at the time.

That was before I'd levelled up to fight the Dark Aeons, of course. The end section was no fun because I didn't go and complete the game before I slew Penance, so it was uber pwnage all the way. Whack, whack, whack, dead. Wish I'd done it earlier, when it would still have been a challenge.


Loved the sphere grid. Can't say I had a problem with the chimeras, though.






Momo, I have a friend who agrees with you about The Ocarina of Time, she absolutely loves it...........!

I was enjoying it well enough, but I borrowed an N64 specifically to play it, and I wasn't mad keen on the console. Hated the pad. Ended up just giving the game back because she wanted to play it again and I wasn't playing it as much.

[Lenny]

You know what they say - it ain't a proper JRPG unless you have five tomes of rules just so you know how to level up.

Another one who loved the sphere grid here. And my second love is the license table in FFXII, which is very similar.

The Mt. Gagazet fight is just after you can get Yojimbo, yes? If so, that's where I saw the destructive powers of said summon, after my friend, sick of being beaten, started the sixth fight with Yojimbo, and finished it there and then.

[Overread]

So FF1-9 were not JRPGs?

[Sephiroth]

You're spot on, Lenny, yes, that's just after you can get Yojimbo. (I liked Yojimbo's cave, as dungeons in that game went...)





I went right off the license grid when I finished it halfway through XII, though. It was cool up until then, but not nearly extensive enough.

No Ultima? No fun!!

[Overread]

I found my biggest problem was that it was too open for all characters - it meant that any character could be a gunner or a spell user regarless of their history. I think FF is heading in the right direction by giving people choices, but not so open - though it does tie into the more open characters from FF Tactics which FFXII is based on (least in the same world set)

[Sephiroth]

Yes, that was a particular problem in XII, OR. I complained about that at the time. I wish the characters had been more specialised.

[Lenny]

I agree there - anyone can be anything. I've consciously been teaching Vaan Black magic only, and Fran White and Green magic only, etc., but it's getting to a point where everything's merging into one.

That said, I still like it.

As for FFI to FFIX not being JRPGs - I've not really played them, so I can't comment. Well, I've played a bit of FFVII, and although it's still early days (Rufus fight in the Shinra building), I can see that the Materia system is nowhere near as simple as it makes itself out to be. All the different things to consider... gah!

[Overread]

ok true - and the Guardian Forces *summons* in FFVIII were confusing = and a little broken till you met a boss - then you had to go back an grind up your weak characters to kill stuff

[Sephiroth]

Well, that depends how anally retentive you were in levelling up, really.





I did that too, trying to teach them different things.

Problem is that by the end, everyone knows everything, and can do everything that everyone else can.




Oh, the Materia system is really quite complex. Once you get all the materia, and have weapons with tons of linked slots, there are a huge number of different combinations that give interesting effects, some of them not particularly well known.

I know it has its detractors, but I absolutely loved the materia system. And the fact it fitted in with the story and world-building made it even better.

[Lenny]

At least it makes gambits easier.

I wonder if we ought to ask for posts #326, #330, and #332-#345 to be split into the FF thread?