Should I Return to Playing… Final Fantasy X?

Friday on February 15^th I finished playing the Story Mode for Tidus in Dissidia 012: Final Fantasy.  I enjoyed watching how even though Tidus hated his father Jecht, he also respected him and wanted to fight him when he wasn’t already beaten down by, uh, the Emperor of FFII.  It was then that I had this thought:

I should get back to playing Final Fantasy X.  Should I?

I haven’t played that video game since, well, since maybe 2009.  I need to check the memory card data to confirm that, LOL.  But I think the reason I haven’t played it so much the last uh, TEN YEARS, is that I…I dunno.  I still have the BradyGames Official Strategy Guide for FFX.  Ah, yes….I absolutely HATED the BlitzBall game going on in the middle of things.  Hey, I don’t play football, I don’t watch football, so why do I want to play Blitz ball which is kinda the same thing except underwater?!  It just really turned me off and I put the game away for some years.  There are so many stats and rules for the game it just didn’t make the actual video game fun.  I wanted to play more into the story, darnit!  Let me f#!%&^n’ go!

Oh, here’s another thing that made me lose my patience for the game:  the Sphere Grid.  Yuck, it is frustrating because I don’t get the necessary Ability Points and Grid Spheres fast enough to level up the characters.   EDIT:   It’s a little easier to work with now after getting back to it a couple of weeks ago.

Looking back though, at some point I did go through with the BlitzBall, as frustrating as it was, and I think I did defeat the boss Oblitzerator.   I also think I left off right before the party was going to go somewhere else.

I had to go to iTunes and find this battle BGM that I remembered but didn’t know the title to it.  I looked and it’s called “Enemy Attack.”  I always loved that music track from the game.  I preferred it from the other battle BGMs I’ve encountered so far into the game.  It would have been cool if Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy had this as an unlockable extra Battle BGM.  At least, that’s my opinion.

Note:  My favorite weapon Tidus uses is the blue longsword called Brotherhood.  I realize that now after seeing that Bartz uses this weapon when he mimics Tidus.

Excited about Lightning Returns: FFXIII + More

I don’t know if I am even going to bother playing parts 1 and 2 of the FFXIII series.  But I think I’ll really like this new one coming up.  Why?  Because I only have to worry about controlling one character, Lightning.  I am sort of DONE with Japanese role playing games now.  I like to be able to have my character attack when they want to rather than when it’s their turn.  My patience is gone.  I want to do everything in a day but I can’t.  So something’s gotta give.

I saw the extended trailer for this video game on TheLifestream.net, and then I read up on what it is about in Final FantasyUnion.  I like the ticking-clock type of story (maybe I should go and see the Justin Timberlake movie In Time).  I’ve had dreams where I also had numbered minutes to live and when time ran out, I woke up.  But I’m digressing now.  I’m still waiting for more news on FF Versus XIII.  I know I am going to love the game-play on that one.

Is there ever going to be a Kingdom Hearts 3?  I don’t think there could be any more, to be honest.  If I have to play another KH game, I suppose I can try KH: Birth by Sleep sometime, even though it doesn’t feature my favorite KH character Sora. 

Another thing I am excited about: trying out DmC: Devil May Cry.  I’ve decided that I will rent it and see if it is worth buying.  I haven’t seen any TV ads for it at all.  Maybe they are not shown in the U.S.A.  I’m not done with DMC 4; in fact I think I may need to start the third stage all over again because I am completely stuck on what to do next to make things move on along.

Ehhhh, I have been neglecting this blog for far too long. 

Dissidia on April 23 and 30 + Getting Ready for Dissidia Duodecim Final Fantasy

Sorry for the looooooooong wait, guys. =P

I’ve been reading up on DDFF (from The Lifestream.net and FFU) and I am very pleased about the additional goodies that come with the sequel to Dissidia Final Fantasy. Man, I am wayyyy behind. I am on Chapter 3 of Shade Impulse and left off needing to level up Zidane and a few other heroes.

I haven’t touched Squall and Tidus, probably because they are my least favorite heroes fighting for Cosmos. If I ever do, it may be only to see their side of the story of Dissidia. I had just finished Onion Knight’s DO on April 30th and it was really easy for me, considering that he was near level 20 when I began. I am starting to understand why Terra is with the Chaos group on the cover of  Dissidia Duodecim Final Fantasy (DDFF). And Tidus, I’ll see. What I really want to know is why Cloud is standing next to Sephiroth in the Chaos half of the box art for DDFF. Poor Cloud, he doesn’t know what he wants to do. At this point, my guess is that Cloud will have to be a character that can be unlocked once certain requirements are met. That was how it was for the villains in this first game.

I am afraid to read reviews of the game because I don’t want much of the story to be disclosed to me. I guess it’s my fault for not playing the game frequently enough to be almost done by now. I know there are other games I can rent or buy, but as a Dissidia fan I cannot miss out on this, and the next big game I am excited about may not even be release by the end of this year (I’m talkin’ Final Fantasy Versus XIII, and maybe Metal Gear Solid: Rising).

I am giving myself more time to finish the first Dissidia. It might be the only video game I get to for the next couple of months. In the meanwhile, besides updating my progress, I will respond to the occasional video game news or reminisce about another game I’ve played in the past. Possible upcoming topics may be:

• FFVII remake for PSP 2?

• More thoughts about Dissidia Duodecim

• My introduction to Square Enix continues: FFVII

• News from FF Versus XIII.net

• Return to the world of NiGHTS

• Reminisce about my excitement about Jak II

• Video game-related dreams

• Video game YouTube videos

EDIT:  There may be more topics than this.  See the next post. 

Should I Play Final Fantasy XIII? Also: Versus XIII Game Play

I recently found out from the Final Fantasy Union website that there is going to be a sequel to Final Fantasy XIII, and it’s apparently named for now Final Fantasy XIII-2.

I have a demo of FF XIII that comes with the Blu-Ray for Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete. I’ve never tried the demo yet. But I want to, because I don’t want to at least miss out on that. I haven’t finished FF XII, but it is a very different story so I am not going to worry about that (I should still return to it though. I mean, I bought it, I have to finish it at some point :D ).

Now that I know that there is going to be a sequel to this latest FF, I am curious as to how it turned out in the end that made it seem like it should have a second part.

I also decided to check out another one of my favorite websites, http://www.ff-versusxiii.net/ and I found that there is some new game play footage released. This is the new trailer for Final Fantasy Versus XIII for 2011. To be honest, I am relieved that the subtitles for the dialogue are still in Japanese kanji; I don’t want the dialogue/plot stuff to be revealed right away anyway. I got a big kick out of the game play content that the trailer included. It looks so fun to play—probably because the workings for it are very similar to the game play action from the main Kingdom Hearts titles. There is some real-time stuff that happens during the game-play (like explosions) and Noctis reacts to them simultaneously. So cool!! This video game is THE REASON I wanted to have a Playstation 3.

Here is a direct link to where I found the 2011 trailer for FF Versus XIII:
http://www.ff-versusxiii.net/index.php?page=article&article=Final-Fantasy-Versus-XIII-HD-Trailer--643

Playing Crisis Core 1: Extra missions

Ahh. Hello.
     So yesterday I was playing Crisis Core:Final Fantasy VII for an hour and a half.  The last time I played it, it was a few days ago, and I reached the part when Zack is a little older (so he'd be 17).  This time, I just wanted to play through a few extra missions.  Y'know, to kick some monster-ass butt.  That...and to see the older Zack use that famous Buster Sword.
Heh heh...
     In playing those missions yesterday, I discovered something new that I should've figured out sooner.  Late last month I used "Materia Fusion" to create the Silence Blade materia, and I'm glad I did.  Helps me out a lot; it's more powerful than the regular Attack and for three-fifths of the time I use it, it causes Silence status effect on the enemy.  Yeah...it was so sweet I used it most of the time instead of the regular attack.  Which was a mistake.  I realized too late after a while that my AP (action points) went down to 22/257 points.  Ah heh...what?  How did that happen?
     So I watched the AP go down by ten or so with every hit Zack made with the Silence Blade.  And to make it worse, those insectoid monsters had this magic attack that takes much of Zack's AP away.  How was I going to defend myself (I mean, Zack) from other attacks if his AP was zero?!  Oh no!! So I solved the problem with a soma.
     Then that annoying-ass insectoid stole 96% of Zack's AP again.  Gosh darnit!  Oh well.  I'd just have to defeat those bugs once and for all.
     And it really helps that the DMW is there for me...some of the time.  It's funny when three Tsengs match and I have only one weak-ass monster to kill and it's almost done.  "Is this the end?" says Tseng.  You know what I'd want Zack to say?  "NO!! Let me be a man and finish this f***-a** blue wolf thing myself!!!!"

Welcome to Cyborg Haven!!!

This is my first blog, and I feel so excited!

     The most recent video game I played was Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII the past Wednesday. I just got the game this past April, and I have to say, this game is the reason I wanted to get a PSP.  I couldn't deny myself this pleasure of learning more about what happened in the world of my favorite video game.  For a while I even let myself accept the fact I'd never learn about Cloud Strife's origin, let alone play through the FFVII story with Zack Fair.  I only started playing the original Final Fantasy VII back in Fall 2004 (thank you Kingdom Hearts, you turned me into a Square-Enix Nut), and I haven't finished the game yet.  But I already know what happens.  I'm almost done; I still want to see it for myself.