This plus the VII let's play is almost making me want to do one. I'd love to do VI but XoB has that one under wraps when he gets unjailed. That leaves 1-5 and 8.
Considering these LPs are covering the story mostly, I'd say your only option is 4. And even that isn't much of a LP. Let's face it: an LP of mostly gameplay for any FF would not translate well to this medium.
V would be hilariously fun to LP especially if you got the people involved in picking the party.
Just make a rule like:No party member can be the same class as another, must change when the crystal unlocks the new one, must change when mastered, etc.
V would be hilarious because the game is bat-shit crazy. The plot is goofy as hell, the character developement is manic-depressive swinging from "OMIGOSH BOOBIES" to dealing with the death of someone's grandfather to lolcatgirls to the sacrifice of a hero from another age to well, Gilgamesh.
But its so fun to play that none of these things make the LP difficult to complete. I think our main problem with a FFV LP right now would be FF LP overload. We just got done with Adus' VII, this one is right in the thick of things, and XoB's VI LP is ready to continue once the jail sentence has been served, I just don't think we need another FF LP right now. I don't think it would get enough attention.
V would be hilariously fun to LP especially if you got the people involved in picking the party.
Just make a rule like:No party member can be the same class as another, must change when the crystal unlocks the new one, must change when mastered, etc.
Yeah, except that my vote would always be for Blue Mage. Every. Time.
How do you think he can see that they're teleporting all the way from over here?
Well I doubt that'll happen here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhsmLYEaAZM
Okay that lacked the cool factor of Odin but jesus fuck a giant black hole monster just sucked in half of Lindblum including Brahne's own troops
Are you fucking kidding me? She had her troops murder almost everyone in Burmecia and she blew up Cleyra. At this point if she started strangling newborns with their own umbilical cords I'd say she's calming down.
Bowie tells Vivi to stay here while they look around.
That's a polite way of saying, "You look kind of like the dudes that just killed people."
Bowie comes across three people gathered around a fallen black mage, wondering what to do with it.
Old Man: "Finish it off!"
Engineer: "Should I crush its head? How about its chest?"
Bowie: "Stop it! He's a living creature!"
Young Man: "What did you just say!?"
Young Man: "Lies! They may look human, but that's where the
similarity ends! They destroy everything...like
wrecking balls destroy buildings. They don't even know
we're made of flesh and blood!"
Old Man: "If it's human, make it understand the suffering it
caused! Make it understand that it killed my only son!
Otherwise... My son's death has no meaning!"
Young Man: "They didn't even flinch, even when one of their own
got killed. They made monsters seem docile!"
Engineer: "I don't care if it lives. My friend was burned alive by
it!"
Aw Christ, this is going to be a hard update to crack jokes, isn't it.
"Ha ha, that little girl's parents are missing! I bet they died! :rotate:"
Ho ho! How about them invading forces sparing the leader of the city they just almost totally destroyed! Craaaazy, huh!?
"No need to thank me. Did it for the pussy, sir."
They didn't...really resist. They got their asses handed to them and then Brahne thought it'd be fun to blow their city up.
Bluff check: Success! Being their boss gives a huge bonus though. He could have said Vivi was a marmoset and they would've believed him.
Metal...Gear?
Basically, the Outer Continent is to the north of the Mist Continent (the one we're on now), and it's unexplored.
"But do you know why kids love the taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch?"
They come to the conclusion that Kuja must die. Even if they stop Brahne, Kuja'll just find another client to peddle his weapons to. Shiny's worried about Awesome, but Bowie knows that they'll be fine.
Alright, let's fucking go! Yeah!
Oh. That makes sense. It turns out he can't lend us his experimental airship that uses steam instead of Mist, either. There were two conditions for their surrender: Hand over the ship, and hand over the Falcon's Claw.
I'm sure she wanted it for no reason at all and that that artifact will not play a part later on. Nope.
I'm picturing Bowie's scream like Macaulay Culkin's in Home Alone, complete with hands on cheeks.
Shiny's cheeks.
:winky:
Luckily, there is a way! Cid tells us of an excavation site near a swamp that may have broken through to the other continent, but he's not sure if it's reliable.
Hell yes.
He gave us 3,000 gil. A nice gesture, considering the money could be used for, you know, repairing shit, but I have like 50,000 at this point.
An ATE appears and we see a scene of two Alexandrian solders about loading up the supplies for the fleet in the harbor and preparing to leave, now that they have the Falcon Claw, and then another ATE showing the Lindblum soldiers 'helping' them on the ship (really, they're slacking off as they don't want to help the people who just conquered them) and wondering why they're loading them up with supplies. "Alexandria rules this continent now. Where else can they go and conquer?"
Bowie: "Hey, what's up with you? You said you wanted to go."
Shiny: "What if... What if something happens to you or Vivi...? I
might not be okay on my own."
Bowie: "Are you worried about me?"
Shiny: "What? Well, I mean, um... A princess needs her elite guards,
you know...? I'd be stranded without you guys!"
Bowie: "Are you trying to flatter me by calling me your elite guard?
Sorry, I was only kidding. You'll be fine with me. What about
you, Shiny? We don't know anything about the Outer Continent."
Shiny: "I've made up my mind. I don't want my mother to commit any
more atrocities."
Bowie: "Alright, then. I'll protect both you and Vivi!"
Shiny: "Thank you..."
We meet Cid at the bottom, who says he managed to sabotage a trolley and has a gift for us!
Alright, so, we get a bit of shopping done, and make our way to the swamp. Hey, that swamp looks kind of familiar....
I almost kind of sort of missed him/her. I'm sure the incident at Cleyra has taught him/her some valuable lessons about staying together and teamwork an
Nevermind.
That's our No! *laugh track*
Running away time!
This is Armorodullahan and he's actually not that hard. He has like 800 hit points, but you can't kill him, just stop him for a bit. He doesn't even give experience. You have to run through a few screens of a narrow pathway with these pendulums swinging back and forth, and hitting one slows you down. Eventually there's a gap in the walkway that Bowie and friends leap over, but the baddie just falls down.
This is Lani (whom we have met before) and she's after after Shiny. Well, she's after the pendant she wears, and she doesn't care if she has to kill Shiny to get it. Brahne doesn't either, which Shiny doesn't believe.
This. This fucking fight. Lani is hard. She's actually part of the the reason the update is later than I thought it would be; I kept dying to her. Remember how Shiny wasn't in the party for a while? She's like level 11, and everyone else is like 18. There weren't any enemies to level up on, because the enemies outside Lindblum and at the marsh are the same ones I fought in the beginning of the game, ie, low level. Why's this matter? Lani focuses all her attacks on Shiny first, until she dies, and then goes for everyone else. She has a physical attack, which doesn't do a lot of damage, but she also hits with -ra level spells, which kill Shiny in one hit. They hurt. She also has a Water spell that hits everyone for a decent bit of damage. My obsessiveness towards getting all three items from bosses was broken by her. I couldn't do it. The steal rate for the last item (a Coral Sword) was too low.
Goddammit why didn't she die I killed her fair and square
I didn't get too many shots of this dungeon but basically:
I run around on gargants. There are four areas each with a 'road' that branches, and you need to use switches to make a bunch of water fall so the gargant will avoid it and go to the other one and yadda yadda. There's some neat treasure, I save a moogle, and I get to hear the kickass Gargan Roo music again. So fucking catchy.
Delicious shape? What the hell does that even mean?
Smooth.
Bowie reluctantly says it. Maybe because he knows it should be Lali-ho.
d'awww.
There's actually two more ATEs about No, but I'll post them in spoilers so they don't take up a ton of room. Read them if you like.
| No Accused \___________________________________________________
[No walks into the shop area.]
Clerk: "Rally-ho!"
No: "Rally-ho yourself. This village have tasty munchies?"
Wendy Grocer: "Aye, that we do! Conde Petie is hame tae the most
delicious nuts an' berries in the world! Ah ken
that's why folk're always stealin'oor food!"
No: "How rude! Thieves very bad people."
Wendy Grocer: "Aye! That's right!"
No: "Mmmm, lots of yummy-looking food here..."
Wendy Grocer: "Ah'll let ye have that pumpkin bomb there fer 1000
Gil!"
No: "Huh? Why you need Gil to eat food?"
Wendy Grocer: "If ye dinnae pay fer somethin', ye're stealin'!
Och! So ye're the thief, are ye no!?"
No: "N-Not me! I only gourmand!"
Wendy Grocer: "Ye cannae fool me, thief!"
[No starts running away.]
No: "No, I not thief!"
_________________________
| No Can't Communicate \_________________________________________
[No walks out of the grocery and finds dwarves talking.]
Richard Watchman: "Ah dinnae ken what else we kin do, lads..."
No: "Oh, recipe exchange time, yes?"
Matthew Watchman: "Nay! That thief's been snitchin' oor food
again!
No: "I...I not thief."
Richard Watchman: "Nobody said ye were a thief!"
Matthew Watchman: "Or are ye hidin' somethin'?"
No: "I-I no have nothing to hide. (These people so difficult.)
[No leaves.]
Richard Watchman: "Alright, lads! We have tae keep oor eyes open
if we're gonna catch oor thief!"
Matthew Watchman: "But we're always lookin' out fer thieves, are
we no?
We meet up with Vivi talking to two people, who seem to have taken a liking to him, having mistaken him for someone else. Vivi joins us as we walk back and see...
Vivi and Bowie give chase, but the Black Mage outruns them.
Nac Mac Feegle wa hey to you too buddy
A short jaunt through a forest later and...
Basically the screen doesn't shift, you just go from one branch to the other (or the beginning), but you can gauge how you're doing by the owls. The owls fly off as you get the direction right. Pretty soon we catch up with a black mage who casts a spell that reveals a forest in the middle of this deserty area.
Seriously. Do you guys know how annoying it is to buy gear for you if you all walk off every time we get to a new town?
That is adorable. You guys are adorable.
I don't know. Why don't you burst into someone's home and ask them?
There we go.
(don't mention she's my mother don't mention she's my mother don't mention she's my)
"I DO NOT KNOW THE PERSON WHO IS ENSLAVING YOU"
Warning: Not a lot of funny up ahead. This game doesn't make cracking jokes easy sometimes. Why can't Bowie be forced to dress up like a girl and get buttsex'd by a bunch of bodybuilders, or everyone find out that they're all related and were raised in the same orphanage? That'd make things easy.
Vivi: "So... Um, what's this?"
Black Mage No. 56: "This is a...uh... What's the word...?"
Black Mage No. 288: "It's a cemetery."
Black Mage No. 56: "Right. A cemetery."
Vivi: "A cemetery...? So... Underneath the ground--"
Black Mage No. 288: "Yes, our friends are buried under there..."
Vivi: "But...why?"
Black Mage No. 288: "That's because..."
Black Mage No. 56: "I...I came here with Mr. 36. We escaped
together. We had so many things to learn. It
was really scary at first, but we helped each
other. Then one day, Mr. 36 stopped moving. He
just stopped... Wouldn't move or say anything.
My friend who knows lots of things told me this
was what 'death' was, and we had to bury him.
Mr. 36 is buried under the ground now. But I
don't understand why. He's going to come out
again one day, right? When he does, I'm going
to wash him off in the pond."
Vivi: "Wh-What's he talking about...?"
Black Mage No. 288: "......"
Vivi: "Was it a disease? Or was he hurt?"
Black Mage No. 288: "......"
Vivi: "Tell me! Why?"
Black Mage No. 288: "That's because..."
...
On his way to the graveyard, Bowie passes Vivi, who runs by without saying anything.
Pfft, what kind of loser can't remember the first moment he entered the world?
No runs off, and the party rests for the night at the Inn.
"I was too. Here's a pillow so your knees don't ache."
Shiny: "But what if they're being mean to him, or saying nasty things?"
Bowie: "Do you really think the people of this village gathered to
do something like that?"
Shiny: "......"
Bowie: "Maybe... Just maybe, he'll find what he's looking for."
Shiny: "...Find what?"
Bowie: "A place to call home."
Shiny: "Home?"
Bowie: "Yeah... A place where he belongs..."
Bowie: "This man had longed to find his birthplace ever since he was
a small child. His birthplace. A place he only remembered in
his dreams..."
Shiny: "Why...?"
Bowie: "He wanted to know more about himself, maybe. About his place,
the house where he was born... One day, the man left the home
of his adoptive father and went on a quest to find the answer.
His only clue was the blue light he saw in his dreams..."
Shiny: "A blue light?"
Bowie: "Yeah. He thought it might be a memory of his birthplace. An
ocean, maybe...?"
Shiny: "Did he find it?"
Bowie: "Hey, you're jumping ahead. A lot of things happened along the
way. Alright, we can skip ahead... No, he never found it. How
could he? His only clue was a colored light. So he went back
to the home of his adoptive father... What do you think his
father did when he came home?"
Shiny: "...Welcomed him home?"
Bowie: "No way! The father raised his fist and beat the son he had
worked so hard to raise..." <Wham!> <Pow!> <Whack!> <Bam!>
Shiny: "Why?"
Bowie: "I don't know... But you know what surprised him even more?
The father smiled, after beating up his son! Can you believe
that? He just gave his son a beating. But this is what the man
thought when he saw his father smile... This is my home. This
is the place I call home. The man is still searching for his
birthplace. But he already has a home. Maybe... ...it's the
same for Vivi. He's looking for a place to call home."
Shiny: "I wonder if Vivi will stay in the village?"
Bowie: "Who knows... That's for him to decide."
"You better not have cancer or something, this Let's Play can't afford to be any more depressing."
Kuja is apparently looking for something on this continent. Man, I miss that chick and her hips...
"Well, maybe if he lags behind a bit we could-"
"Nevermind. Dumpy Hermaphrodite totally killed the mood."
Bitch, you're not the leader, you don't get to say things like that.
So... many words. Don't... know what's going on anymore.
VIVI'S ADORABLE BUT HE MIGHT DIE SOON
SHINY IS SAD BECAUSE HER MOM IS A CRAZY BITCH BEING CONTROLLED BY KUJA (A HOT CHICK)
NO CONTINUES TO MAKE ME LAUGH WITH HIS ANTICS OH HO YOU SCAMP YOU LOVE FOOD
In a nutshell!
A lot of words, I know. :I I try not to leave stuff out if I can't help it (hence my absurdly long updates, which, believe it are not, are the shortened versions of what I take screenshots of)
It's funny, I haven't play IX in.. oh, probably six years. Maybe more. I mean, I love the game to death, something Minion and I have discussed extensively, but I always found the combat really slow and tedious. Long loading times and all that. However, reading this LP really reminded me of the notion I had orginally playing it, that these characters were some, if not THE, strongest characters ever created for this franchise. This was an idea reinforced by X and XII. You really actually feel for these characters, a notion I had problems with especially in XII. Well, except Balthier, but he's a special case.
I remembered earlier today seeing a long time similar to motivational style posters for all the playable characters in IX way back in the day. I don't know if they're official or not, but fortunately I found a link to them again this evening.
Really, some amazingly designed, sculpted and fleshed out characters.
edit: I was thinking, and there was only ever one scene in X that really got to me. Auron, in Zanarkand, right before you fight Y. He has such an inspirational speech, "NOW IS THE TIME" and such. Unfortunately, my feelings on it are reduced a bit, as I had to see the full cutscene SIX FUCKING TIMES as I kept dieing to that goddamn bitch and her zombie/full life shit, and X had no skip cutscene function.
""Now! This is it! Now is the time to choose! Die and be free of pain or live and fight your sorrow! Now is the time to shape your stories! Your fate is in your hands!""
Also, those motivational poster type things appear if you leave the game on at the start screen without pressing anything. Also, they don't show up until you meet the relevant character.
Also, those motivational poster type things appear if you leave the game on at the start screen without pressing anything. Also, they don't show up until you meet the relevant character.
It actually bugged me, because a few of those sayings had nothing to do with the character. I don't even think that they're quotes.
It's funny, I haven't play IX in.. oh, probably six years. Maybe more. I mean, I love the game to death, something Minion and I have discussed extensively, but I always found the combat really slow and tedious. Long loading times and all that.
It's even worse this time around, the pre-combat dissolve takes like 20 seconds.
Also, those motivational poster type things appear if you leave the game on at the start screen without pressing anything. Also, they don't show up until you meet the relevant character.
It actually bugged me, because a few of those sayings had nothing to do with the character. I don't even think that they're quotes.
Really? I find them pretty spot on for the most part, despite not being actual quotes.
hoho, No, you 1 dimensional creature from the dark abyss.
You know, No is pretty one-dimensional, but I am finding myself not minding him/her as much this time around as when I first played. If nothing else, No is a pretty good example of Chaotic Neutral.
Steiner is a pretty good example of Lawful Good too, come to think of it.
Okay I'll try not to say anything about Kuja not wearing any pants. I won't I swear. I don't know about a name for Eiko, I like the name Vivian.
Oh wait we have Vivi don't we.
If you want another character who dresses weirdly look at Fran, constricting leather/metal with higheels.
Must be because she's part rabbit or something.Or Baltheir with his tight leather pants...heh..hehehe...nevermind I don't mind as much anymore.
Also, those motivational poster type things appear if you leave the game on at the start screen without pressing anything. Also, they don't show up until you meet the relevant character.
It actually bugged me, because a few of those sayings had nothing to do with the character. I don't even think that they're quotes.
Uhh... they're all incredibly relevant to each character. Most importantly Zidane, Vivi, Garnet, and Freya.
Posts
Not much story, but a creative person could do something with it.
Cause an all white mage party would be so much fun :P
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Considering these LPs are covering the story mostly, I'd say your only option is 4. And even that isn't much of a LP. Let's face it: an LP of mostly gameplay for any FF would not translate well to this medium.
Let 'em eat fucking pineapples!
I wouldn't mind seeing a FFXII Let's Play, but only cause I haven't finished it yet cause my PS2 broke and I have yet to get a PS3.
Let's compromise, I dare someone to do a Xenogears LP.
Battlenet ID: MildC#11186 - If I'm in the game, send me an invite at anytime and I'll play.
Just make a rule like:No party member can be the same class as another, must change when the crystal unlocks the new one, must change when mastered, etc.
But its so fun to play that none of these things make the LP difficult to complete. I think our main problem with a FFV LP right now would be FF LP overload. We just got done with Adus' VII, this one is right in the thick of things, and XoB's VI LP is ready to continue once the jail sentence has been served, I just don't think we need another FF LP right now. I don't think it would get enough attention.
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Yeah, except that my vote would always be for Blue Mage. Every. Time.
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How do you think he can see that they're teleporting all the way from over here?
Well I doubt that'll happen here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhsmLYEaAZM
Okay that lacked the cool factor of Odin but jesus fuck a giant black hole monster just sucked in half of Lindblum including Brahne's own troops
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv5Y7tDNycI
Are you fucking kidding me? She had her troops murder almost everyone in Burmecia and she blew up Cleyra. At this point if she started strangling newborns with their own umbilical cords I'd say she's calming down.
Bowie tells Vivi to stay here while they look around.
That's a polite way of saying, "You look kind of like the dudes that just killed people."
Bowie comes across three people gathered around a fallen black mage, wondering what to do with it.
Old Man: "Finish it off!"
Engineer: "Should I crush its head? How about its chest?"
Bowie: "Stop it! He's a living creature!"
Young Man: "What did you just say!?"
Young Man: "Lies! They may look human, but that's where the
similarity ends! They destroy everything...like
wrecking balls destroy buildings. They don't even know
we're made of flesh and blood!"
Old Man: "If it's human, make it understand the suffering it
caused! Make it understand that it killed my only son!
Otherwise... My son's death has no meaning!"
Young Man: "They didn't even flinch, even when one of their own
got killed. They made monsters seem docile!"
Engineer: "I don't care if it lives. My friend was burned alive by
it!"
Aw Christ, this is going to be a hard update to crack jokes, isn't it.
"Ha ha, that little girl's parents are missing! I bet they died! :rotate:"
Ho ho! How about them invading forces sparing the leader of the city they just almost totally destroyed! Craaaazy, huh!?
"No need to thank me. Did it for the pussy, sir."
They didn't...really resist. They got their asses handed to them and then Brahne thought it'd be fun to blow their city up.
Bluff check: Success! Being their boss gives a huge bonus though. He could have said Vivi was a marmoset and they would've believed him.
Metal...Gear?
Basically, the Outer Continent is to the north of the Mist Continent (the one we're on now), and it's unexplored.
"But do you know why kids love the taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch?"
They come to the conclusion that Kuja must die. Even if they stop Brahne, Kuja'll just find another client to peddle his weapons to. Shiny's worried about Awesome, but Bowie knows that they'll be fine.
Alright, let's fucking go! Yeah!
Oh. That makes sense. It turns out he can't lend us his experimental airship that uses steam instead of Mist, either. There were two conditions for their surrender: Hand over the ship, and hand over the Falcon's Claw.
I'm sure she wanted it for no reason at all and that that artifact will not play a part later on. Nope.
I'm picturing Bowie's scream like Macaulay Culkin's in Home Alone, complete with hands on cheeks.
Shiny's cheeks.
:winky:
Luckily, there is a way! Cid tells us of an excavation site near a swamp that may have broken through to the other continent, but he's not sure if it's reliable.
Hell yes.
He gave us 3,000 gil. A nice gesture, considering the money could be used for, you know, repairing shit, but I have like 50,000 at this point.
An ATE appears and we see a scene of two Alexandrian solders about loading up the supplies for the fleet in the harbor and preparing to leave, now that they have the Falcon Claw, and then another ATE showing the Lindblum soldiers 'helping' them on the ship (really, they're slacking off as they don't want to help the people who just conquered them) and wondering why they're loading them up with supplies. "Alexandria rules this continent now. Where else can they go and conquer?"
Bowie: "Hey, what's up with you? You said you wanted to go."
Shiny: "What if... What if something happens to you or Vivi...? I
might not be okay on my own."
Bowie: "Are you worried about me?"
Shiny: "What? Well, I mean, um... A princess needs her elite guards,
you know...? I'd be stranded without you guys!"
Bowie: "Are you trying to flatter me by calling me your elite guard?
Sorry, I was only kidding. You'll be fine with me. What about
you, Shiny? We don't know anything about the Outer Continent."
Shiny: "I've made up my mind. I don't want my mother to commit any
more atrocities."
Bowie: "Alright, then. I'll protect both you and Vivi!"
Shiny: "Thank you..."
We meet Cid at the bottom, who says he managed to sabotage a trolley and has a gift for us!
Alright, so, we get a bit of shopping done, and make our way to the swamp. Hey, that swamp looks kind of familiar....
I almost kind of sort of missed him/her. I'm sure the incident at Cleyra has taught him/her some valuable lessons about staying together and teamwork an
Nevermind.
That's our No! *laugh track*
Running away time!
This is Armorodullahan and he's actually not that hard. He has like 800 hit points, but you can't kill him, just stop him for a bit. He doesn't even give experience. You have to run through a few screens of a narrow pathway with these pendulums swinging back and forth, and hitting one slows you down. Eventually there's a gap in the walkway that Bowie and friends leap over, but the baddie just falls down.
This is Lani (whom we have met before) and she's after after Shiny. Well, she's after the pendant she wears, and she doesn't care if she has to kill Shiny to get it. Brahne doesn't either, which Shiny doesn't believe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2nF6qt49dE&feature=related
This. This fucking fight. Lani is hard. She's actually part of the the reason the update is later than I thought it would be; I kept dying to her. Remember how Shiny wasn't in the party for a while? She's like level 11, and everyone else is like 18. There weren't any enemies to level up on, because the enemies outside Lindblum and at the marsh are the same ones I fought in the beginning of the game, ie, low level. Why's this matter? Lani focuses all her attacks on Shiny first, until she dies, and then goes for everyone else. She has a physical attack, which doesn't do a lot of damage, but she also hits with -ra level spells, which kill Shiny in one hit. They hurt. She also has a Water spell that hits everyone for a decent bit of damage. My obsessiveness towards getting all three items from bosses was broken by her. I couldn't do it. The steal rate for the last item (a Coral Sword) was too low.
Goddammit why didn't she die I killed her fair and square
I didn't get too many shots of this dungeon but basically:
I run around on gargants. There are four areas each with a 'road' that branches, and you need to use switches to make a bunch of water fall so the gargant will avoid it and go to the other one and yadda yadda. There's some neat treasure, I save a moogle, and I get to hear the kickass Gargan Roo music again. So fucking catchy.
I finally emerge on the other side and...
Yay.
Quick jaunt through the forest on my way forward and onward just to see what enemies I'll face here and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLJNY6bskSk
What the Christ?
Oh man what
OH GOD IF I GET IT WRONG IT'S GOING TO RAPE ME
Oh thank god
oh hey a tiny little thing, let's hit it
Aw christ that's going to hurt isn't it
Let's move on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKAoMp5XVaM
Delicious shape? What the hell does that even mean?
Smooth.
Bowie reluctantly says it. Maybe because he knows it should be Lali-ho.
d'awww.
There's actually two more ATEs about No, but I'll post them in spoilers so they don't take up a ton of room. Read them if you like.
[No walks into the shop area.]
Clerk: "Rally-ho!"
No: "Rally-ho yourself. This village have tasty munchies?"
Wendy Grocer: "Aye, that we do! Conde Petie is hame tae the most
delicious nuts an' berries in the world! Ah ken
that's why folk're always stealin'oor food!"
No: "How rude! Thieves very bad people."
Wendy Grocer: "Aye! That's right!"
No: "Mmmm, lots of yummy-looking food here..."
Wendy Grocer: "Ah'll let ye have that pumpkin bomb there fer 1000
Gil!"
No: "Huh? Why you need Gil to eat food?"
Wendy Grocer: "If ye dinnae pay fer somethin', ye're stealin'!
Och! So ye're the thief, are ye no!?"
No: "N-Not me! I only gourmand!"
Wendy Grocer: "Ye cannae fool me, thief!"
[No starts running away.]
No: "No, I not thief!"
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| No Can't Communicate \_________________________________________
[No walks out of the grocery and finds dwarves talking.]
Richard Watchman: "Ah dinnae ken what else we kin do, lads..."
No: "Oh, recipe exchange time, yes?"
Matthew Watchman: "Nay! That thief's been snitchin' oor food
again!
No: "I...I not thief."
Richard Watchman: "Nobody said ye were a thief!"
Matthew Watchman: "Or are ye hidin' somethin'?"
No: "I-I no have nothing to hide. (These people so difficult.)
[No leaves.]
Richard Watchman: "Alright, lads! We have tae keep oor eyes open
if we're gonna catch oor thief!"
Matthew Watchman: "But we're always lookin' out fer thieves, are
we no?
We meet up with Vivi talking to two people, who seem to have taken a liking to him, having mistaken him for someone else. Vivi joins us as we walk back and see...
Vivi and Bowie give chase, but the Black Mage outruns them.
Nac Mac Feegle wa hey to you too buddy
A short jaunt through a forest later and...
Basically the screen doesn't shift, you just go from one branch to the other (or the beginning), but you can gauge how you're doing by the owls. The owls fly off as you get the direction right. Pretty soon we catch up with a black mage who casts a spell that reveals a forest in the middle of this deserty area.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYsJUXh5Iec
"All I can see is that hut that looks like a smiley face."
We can't all live in castles, princess.
Seriously. Do you guys know how annoying it is to buy gear for you if you all walk off every time we get to a new town?
That is adorable. You guys are adorable.
I don't know. Why don't you burst into someone's home and ask them?
There we go.
(don't mention she's my mother don't mention she's my mother don't mention she's my)
"I DO NOT KNOW THE PERSON WHO IS ENSLAVING YOU"
Warning: Not a lot of funny up ahead. This game doesn't make cracking jokes easy sometimes. Why can't Bowie be forced to dress up like a girl and get buttsex'd by a bunch of bodybuilders, or everyone find out that they're all related and were raised in the same orphanage? That'd make things easy.
Vivi: "So... Um, what's this?"
Black Mage No. 56: "This is a...uh... What's the word...?"
Black Mage No. 288: "It's a cemetery."
Black Mage No. 56: "Right. A cemetery."
Vivi: "A cemetery...? So... Underneath the ground--"
Black Mage No. 288: "Yes, our friends are buried under there..."
Vivi: "But...why?"
Black Mage No. 288: "That's because..."
Black Mage No. 56: "I...I came here with Mr. 36. We escaped
together. We had so many things to learn. It
was really scary at first, but we helped each
other. Then one day, Mr. 36 stopped moving. He
just stopped... Wouldn't move or say anything.
My friend who knows lots of things told me this
was what 'death' was, and we had to bury him.
Mr. 36 is buried under the ground now. But I
don't understand why. He's going to come out
again one day, right? When he does, I'm going
to wash him off in the pond."
Vivi: "Wh-What's he talking about...?"
Black Mage No. 288: "......"
Vivi: "Was it a disease? Or was he hurt?"
Black Mage No. 288: "......"
Vivi: "Tell me! Why?"
Black Mage No. 288: "That's because..."
...
On his way to the graveyard, Bowie passes Vivi, who runs by without saying anything.
Pfft, what kind of loser can't remember the first moment he entered the world?
No runs off, and the party rests for the night at the Inn.
"I was too. Here's a pillow so your knees don't ache."
Shiny: "But what if they're being mean to him, or saying nasty things?"
Bowie: "Do you really think the people of this village gathered to
do something like that?"
Shiny: "......"
Bowie: "Maybe... Just maybe, he'll find what he's looking for."
Shiny: "...Find what?"
Bowie: "A place to call home."
Shiny: "Home?"
Bowie: "Yeah... A place where he belongs..."
Bowie: "This man had longed to find his birthplace ever since he was
a small child. His birthplace. A place he only remembered in
his dreams..."
Shiny: "Why...?"
Bowie: "He wanted to know more about himself, maybe. About his place,
the house where he was born... One day, the man left the home
of his adoptive father and went on a quest to find the answer.
His only clue was the blue light he saw in his dreams..."
Shiny: "A blue light?"
Bowie: "Yeah. He thought it might be a memory of his birthplace. An
ocean, maybe...?"
Shiny: "Did he find it?"
Bowie: "Hey, you're jumping ahead. A lot of things happened along the
way. Alright, we can skip ahead... No, he never found it. How
could he? His only clue was a colored light. So he went back
to the home of his adoptive father... What do you think his
father did when he came home?"
Shiny: "...Welcomed him home?"
Bowie: "No way! The father raised his fist and beat the son he had
worked so hard to raise..." <Wham!> <Pow!> <Whack!> <Bam!>
Shiny: "Why?"
Bowie: "I don't know... But you know what surprised him even more?
The father smiled, after beating up his son! Can you believe
that? He just gave his son a beating. But this is what the man
thought when he saw his father smile... This is my home. This
is the place I call home. The man is still searching for his
birthplace. But he already has a home. Maybe... ...it's the
same for Vivi. He's looking for a place to call home."
Shiny: "I wonder if Vivi will stay in the village?"
Bowie: "Who knows... That's for him to decide."
"You better not have cancer or something, this Let's Play can't afford to be any more depressing."
Kuja is apparently looking for something on this continent. Man, I miss that chick and her hips...
"Well, maybe if he lags behind a bit we could-"
"Nevermind. Dumpy Hermaphrodite totally killed the mood."
Bitch, you're not the leader, you don't get to say things like that.
SHINY IS SAD BECAUSE HER MOM IS A CRAZY BITCH BEING CONTROLLED BY KUJA (A HOT CHICK)
NO CONTINUES TO MAKE ME LAUGH WITH HIS ANTICS OH HO YOU SCAMP YOU LOVE FOOD
A lot of words, I know. :I I try not to leave stuff out if I can't help it (hence my absurdly long updates, which, believe it are not, are the shortened versions of what I take screenshots of)
And I have to say, the line "No! You're Alive!" Makes that name worth it in and of itself. I read it as if he was disappointed in that fact.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKAoMp5XVaM
I remembered earlier today seeing a long time similar to motivational style posters for all the playable characters in IX way back in the day. I don't know if they're official or not, but fortunately I found a link to them again this evening.
http://groups.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=groups.groupProfile&groupID=101057329&MyToken=4d60ed8f-6aa8-472f-8e95-df59b571abee
Really, some amazingly designed, sculpted and fleshed out characters.
edit: I was thinking, and there was only ever one scene in X that really got to me. Auron, in Zanarkand, right before you fight Y. He has such an inspirational speech, "NOW IS THE TIME" and such. Unfortunately, my feelings on it are reduced a bit, as I had to see the full cutscene SIX FUCKING TIMES as I kept dieing to that goddamn bitch and her zombie/full life shit, and X had no skip cutscene function.
""Now! This is it! Now is the time to choose! Die and be free of pain or live and fight your sorrow! Now is the time to shape your stories! Your fate is in your hands!""
Also, those motivational poster type things appear if you leave the game on at the start screen without pressing anything. Also, they don't show up until you meet the relevant character.
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It actually bugged me, because a few of those sayings had nothing to do with the character. I don't even think that they're quotes.
Oh and I thought of another good name for Amarant.
"Fetus"
You know why?
"The flaming Fetus"
It's even worse this time around, the pre-combat dissolve takes like 20 seconds.
I actually had that window opened to link it but forgot about it when I posted. I edited it in, thanks.
Really? I find them pretty spot on for the most part, despite not being actual quotes.
You know, No is pretty one-dimensional, but I am finding myself not minding him/her as much this time around as when I first played. If nothing else, No is a pretty good example of Chaotic Neutral.
Steiner is a pretty good example of Lawful Good too, come to think of it.
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and wants Bowie something bad.
and you haven't saved since the beginning of the WoR.
She needs to put on some goddamn real pants.
Let 'em eat fucking pineapples!
Even for a Final Fantasy character, she's dressed weirdly.
Oh wait we have Vivi don't we.
If you want another character who dresses weirdly look at Fran, constricting leather/metal with higheels.
Must be because she's part rabbit or something.Or Baltheir with his tight leather pants...heh..hehehe...nevermind I don't mind as much anymore.
Penishead would be perfect but is waay too looong.
Ikea?
Stampy?
Unicorn?
Narwal?
Leelu?
Uhh... they're all incredibly relevant to each character. Most importantly Zidane, Vivi, Garnet, and Freya.
(Candy Mountain etc)