railenthe: (Chibi Sora)

For me, this is something of a retcon.  When I first played the game:

 

  • I hadn’t played FFI yet.
  • I hadn’t played FFII yet either.
  • I hadn’t finished FFIII.  Still haven’t actually.  I WILL get the ultimate magics first, damn it.
  • I hadn’t finished FFIV.  Still haven’t.  I can’t sit through the first translation.
  • I was a boss-fight off from clearing FFV.  *Yeah, stalling*
  • I hadn’t played much of FFVIII.
  • I hadn’t played FFIX.  Still haven’t.  Any day now…dammit broken phone!
  • I’ve only backseat!gamed FFXI, but I know enough about it to pas.
  • Hadn’t played much into FFXII.
  • Know nothing about FFXIII.

…I’m not a slacker.  I’m just broke.

 

So…yeah. )

 

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“I, GARLAND, WILL KNOCK YOU ALL DOWN!”

 

I seriously can’t say this enough.  I really can’t.

 

An awesome secret quote for Bartz would have been switching his EX Burst’s intro to “Sweet Christmas!”   I mean, imagine it right now.  I’ll wait.  XD

 

One for Kefka:  When you fight him in FFVI—I do believe it’s the incident at the Doma Base, right around the time Cyan marches in with his seriously Badass Boast—he uses the line “Eh?  You’re history, bub” right before the fight starts.
And then there’s the gem that comes during combat.

Sabin:  Kefka!  Wait!

Kefka:  *laughing* Wait, he says…do I look like a waiter?

This goes on for a while, until Kefka sics four mooks on you and gets away.

WE NEEDED THIS. 


 EDIT

Because this was so damn short, here's something goofy.  Listen to me fail!  XD\


 

railenthe: (AWESOMEFACE)

*trudges in, dragging her feet*

Long day.  Walked from train station.  Found out the Counterburst Forums are shutting down because the moderator is frustrated.  Now I’m depressed and need to inflict MUCH GRIEVOUS HARM to AI opponents to vent, and get a glass of icy cold cream!tea.

MEANWHILE HAVE A MEME.

Below: Lots of me not making sense! )

 

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Here’s a demonstration of Mama Bear and Papa Wolf’s abilities.  SPECIAL NOTE:  Terra’s squishy because her level’s below the threshold for the course—I’m using a level accessory that requires me sticking a level under 20.

OH PERFECT--! )

Epic music just because.

railenthe: (Default)

And now, for the individual assist!faves.  This one’ll be a little quicker and less overthought.  XD

 

OH LOOK A LIST )

 

railenthe: (Default)

Well, hell, don’t ask me this question if you don’t expect me to be nerdy!  I will warn you now that my answer will be quite wordy.

 

I change assists like I change socks—in other words, enough that no one’s running the same rotation for more than 48 hours.  When I change equipment, I change assists.  When I change builds, I change assists.  When I plan for different types of runs (like the HURRY UP I NEED MEGALIXERS build I’ve gotten set up with Mateus) I change assists.

Depending on who I’m facing—and therefore whose head I have to mess with—I change assists.

Depending on my moveset, I change assists.

Depending on my crack-pairing mood at the time, I change assists.

Depending on the pattern the AI’s picked up (in the Labyrinth that is) I change assists.

I’m like Lady Gaga when it comes to assists—you NEVER know what to expect, even when you think you have an idea.

Now that that’s been said, I do have a few favorite assist combinations.

BTW:  Feel free to steal combinations.  I’ll be listing my favorite assists in general afterward in a second part.

*If you’d like me to test more combinations, let me know!


Surprisingly, not all of them are shippy.  Most of them are practical arrangements.

 

GO LONG DETAILED ENTRY THAT IS PROBABLY OVERTHOUGHT! )

 

railenthe: (DDFF×Pole OTP)

There are so many!  But, I’ll keep it short and go with the one that has been my saving grace for so many fights recently (not to mention netted me a WAY-under-ten-minutes Time Attack clear).

 

It’s…

Gilgamesh Morphing Time!

 

…lolwhut? )

 

railenthe: (DDFF×Pole OTP)

As the main list of questions of this meme started winding down I started thinking about the answer to this question.  It’s not a simple question, to be sure—I think this might be the tricksiest of them, actually.  Tricksy, in that it makes me think of all of the things that could have been but alas! are not.  Tricksy, in that I have to prioritize and figure out what it is that I want the most in the next game.

Considering what a question this is, I shall do my best to answer it in a way that makes sense.

I MAKE NO GUARANTEES THAT IT WILL.

 

SEE? I MAKE NO SENSE HURDUR. )

 

railenthe: (OMGyay)

LAGUNA’S! BECAUSE IT HAS FAIRIES!  XD

 

Sorry, it had to be said.  His Ex Burst is my favorite for a reason, after all.

That said—uh, Toffee?  Did you mean in-game or Player’s Choice?

Cuz I’m answering both and no Cloud or Squall is going to stop me.

(hahah see what I did there?  I’ve backseat gamed enough to know that one!)

 

TWOFER because I’m doing the additional!questions and because this feels kind of half-assed!

 

GROUP HUG! )

 

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I’m gonna split this into the three operative sections because, frankly, I could go on for days about this one and not be done.  …Or not.  It just looks better properly split into sections and so here we go.  We shall begin with…

READY---GO!!!! )

 

railenthe: (TEA)

Alternate Title: FINAL FANTASY DRAFT PICKS

 

Hoo, boy.

I could go on for days about this one.  Although the majority of my demands were met in the release of Duodecim (LAGUNA! LAGUNA!), there were a few others that I would have liked to see make it into the roster.  Though they might not have gotten the attention that they would have merited—as several others have said before me, Square-Enix did themselves a bit of a disservice by limiting this title to a single UMD.   Considering the members of the fanbase that would spring upon this title like a starving wolf who has just found its first meal in days, I think that a two—or even three—disc release would have more than allowable.  I have managed a list of five of my top choices, however.  I go into some detail, though, complete with hypotheticals and the like, so here’s a heads-up so you know what you’re looking at when you click that cut.

 

Format: In pretty much every case, I’ll introduce my top draft picks and stick them in a hypothetical cutscene.  I will try to limit myself to one draft pick per title, but there might be cases where I can’t do that, either for sheer volume of the cast or for seriously awesome rating.

Game Title

Draft Pick.  Here follows my description of who, what, and why.  Expect some theorizing and guessing, as well as at least some logic behind things.

Railenthe:  [adjusts her glasses and clears her throat]  At any time when the font face changes to predominantly italics, I’ve created a hypothetical cutscene in which I’ve placed the draft picks, to illustrate the potential interaction between them and their counteparts.  There will be times when I reference/lift things wholesale from the script, but because this is mostly out of thin air, those will be minimal.  Gestures, movements, and the like will be in brackets, kind of like stage directions in a play/screenplay.  [clears her throat again]

 

Let’s begin with the wild mass ranting!

Long post is fucking long!!!!one )

 

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Truth be told, there are a lot of these.  Most of these were combat related, some were not.  Some weren’t even part of gameplay at all—cutscenes, even!  So I’ll take a bit of creative liberty here, and list them in category-list form.

 

BIG LONG LIST IS GO! )

 

railenthe: (Chibi Sora)
This was written offline using a third-party client.  So it might look a little strange.
I’ll ask that you bear with me; until I know when the RTF editor on LJ is functional again

 

I bet you expected something about Feral Chaos here, didn’t you?

Just knew that I’d go on about the whole snafu that led up to me tasting bloody, salt-tinged death at the hands of that multi-armed monstrosity, didn’t you?

 

*buzzer*  WRONG!


 

GODSDAMN TREES! )

 

railenthe: (Default)
 

You know, I could wax poetic about the curbstomp that was the defeat that goes here today, but instead of doing that, I shall provide a battle replay, and a mini-fic. I’d finally developed a strategy—after the defeats of Prishe, Laguna, Lightning and Yuna—but somewhere along the line something went wrong and I panicked. 

…then everything went wrong.

          In the space of a few moments I went from rage, to dis pear despair, and then looped right back to incoherent rage.

You know the moment: the moment when you realize you’re doomed, when the line from Dante’s Inferno comes to mind unbidden—“Abandon all hope, all ye who enter here…”

 

The Inferno, Regnum Dei [The Kingdom of God] )
railenthe: (TEA)
 TWO-FER! )
railenthe: (TEA)
 

Somehow, I get the feeling that I’m going to catch flak for my answer to this question. In the context of this question, there are some unexpected candidates for this award.

Thanks to the way their original games worked, the Warrior of Light and Onion Knight are actually candidates for this one—and even Chaos, when you think about it. And while I’m a huge an of both of them (and even Chaos is growing on me as a character), I have to admit that they don’t come close to the one who won this one for me.

I must admit it.

I…am a Cosmos Fan.

BE WARNED THAT SPOILERS (000) FOLLOW THIS POINT!

Also, I seriously kinda fangirl-geek out here. Just a warning. )
railenthe: (Pirate!)
 

This question tastes an awful lot like Day 2, but there are a few differences. Day 2 was favorites. Today is dedicated to that strange factor of “HOLY HELL WHAT WAS THAT IT WAS AWESOME.” Thanks to Team Canon Fodder (Again, props to ya, Toffee!) a lot of that came from the newbies.

Especially Kain Highwind.

Kain Highwind?!1one )

 

railenthe: (WTF2)

The kicker is, my answer to this one is kind of pathetic. It was a foregone conclusion: that Kain, Yuna, Tifa, Laguna, Vaan, and Lightning would not be making it to the other side of this fight. Their journey would end at the Rift, where they would fight to destroy the source of the endless horde of manikins.

Knowing it is one thing.

Seeing it is another.

Spoilers are a foregone conclusion! )
railenthe: (WTF?)
 

You know that ‘point of no return’ moment?

That moment when you realize: “I’m not sure what I did to get here, but there’s no way out of this situation that ends well for me” sort of moment?

INCOMING RAAAAAAAEG! )

 


railenthe: (DDFF×Pole OTP)
 

Oh, gods.

YOU GOT ME STARTED AGAIN.

There were quite a few. But the first one?

 

HAHA I'M A CUT AND I'M TEASING YOU )

 

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