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Friday, August 26, 2011
New FFXIII-2 Trailer
This looks great, but the more I think of it, the more I realize that this game is going to have a ton of needlessly dramatic scenes. I hope that that will be just an assumption. Also, there's just something about the voice acting that irks me, especially when it comes to Serah's voice acting.
Wait a minute, what's this? Somebody's boomerang killed that giant crazy alien monster? Is that Hope? No way! That's gotta be him! Wow, it looks like he finally ascended into his first steps towards becoming awesome. Let's hope that the game delivers what I see in the trailers here.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Serah's CG Render Plus New Location Information
It fits! This is great!
In case you hadn't noticed, that's Serah's appearance for the upcoming FFXIII-2 which, unlike Typo, has been confirmed for release in the U.S., thank god. That revealing outfit is going to give Noel and I a very freaking difficult time focusing on our true goal: the search for Lightning. It's okay because in the end Lightning's new armor is even more revealing. My god, Square is not holding back on this game. Hopefully I can remember my commitment.
What I found interesting, not to mention amazing, is that Paddra Ruins is a "new" location in FFXIII-2. It was that crazy place in FFXIII's Yaschas Massif that looked like an entire modern city, but Square decided to make FFXIII extremely limited in terms of exploration, and therefore you couldn't see anything more than a courtyard swarming with Cie'th there. Ugh. I am so glad that they are making this place more explorable. I definitely wanted to get at least a look of what was inside one of those fallen skyscrapers. It looks like I can do so now.
FFXII Main Theme
While I'm here in Ivalice, I can't stop listening to this song! It is so beautiful :')
Edit: Yeah I'll admit I am a noob and didn't realize that this is really the generic theme song for Final Fantasy as it appeared for Final Fantasy Vanilla, as I call it. Not Vanilla Bean, not French Vanilla, just plain old Vanilla. That's what it is! Don't get me wrong, I guess you could call it a wonderful and "revolutionary" RPG, but compared to this, it sucks. Besides, this version of the song with an orchestra that I believe to be real is much better than that synthesizer version, so shut your trap. It therefore belongs to Final Fantasy XII.
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Must Return to Ivalice!!!!
Well, Readers, I have to admit real life is boring as hell. There's no anticipation of school, all my friends are busy, and therefore my real-life blog that I have made unavailable to the public until the final years of my life has been sitting around not collecting any posts. This sucks. I don't wanna play FFXIII again because I have beaten that game seventeen different times (I am dead serious), and that eighteenth time that I promised a playthrough for is not going to come because why do so when FFXIII-2 is coming out?
Now that I have a new computer, my emulators for FFVI and FFVII have become unavailable to me. I could download them again for my Mac, but for some reason my Mac doesn't seem to agree with the concept of emulator software, therefore rendering FFVII unavailable for a replay and FFVI unavailable to be finished. I don't have FFX yet, but with the recent acquisition of a debit card and a checking account, hopefully the day that I can sit down and play that game for the LAWLZ will come soon. For now, I am extremely bored, and playing those four measly missions in the Final Fantasy Typo Demo is starting to get old, as much as I want to disagree with that statement. I mean, how many times am I going to send Rem through a city in Milites and blow up everyone with her powerful magic that makes her Thunder Missile spell so awesome to watch (and hot)? How many times am I going to whip everyone's ass with her knife attacks that are fun to watch (and hot)? How many times am I going to pan the camera against the floor as I go up the stairs to get a view under her skirt that is hot to watch (and hot)?
Sure, Final Fantasy Typo could be an amazing game, and I definitely would love to spend hours playing it if I ever find the time, but that is only applicable for the game. The demo, on the other hand, is fun until you realize that you are never going to see the rest of the Hogwarts School of Final Fantasy, that you are never going to check out the other half of Class Zero, that you are never going to make Rem a god-like war machine like Lightning after many hours of stat development, that you are never going to kill that Cid guy, and that you are never going to find out what really happened to No. 10, no matter how many hours you put into that demo.
Therefore, I am only left with one option: return to Ivalice. The problem I have always had with Final Fantasy XII was that, after a long while of playing, I lose the incentive to play it and I inevitable forget about it. It is a wonderful game, and I have beaten it a couple of times, but I never got to finish it at this age where I can appropriately enjoy the game. Plus, I never played through the game via Blue Highwind's walkthrough. I only managed to get through half of it with his walkthrough before I lost the motivation to play FFXII. Now, with nothing going on for me, I guess there's no reason not to try it out again. I'm still waiting on some job applications to be fully reviewed, so I guess in the meantime I should head on over to my dad's place and pick up my dusty PS2. I wish my PS3 could play FFXII.
So what does this mean in the grand scope of things? Well, not much, other than I might do a playthrough on the game if I can find the appropriate times to put it down and write about it. With my MacBook, it will be much easier to stop what I am doing and switch over to write about it. The same goes for Blue's walkthrough on the game. Before, I had to go through much ink and paper to make his walkthrough accessible to me, but now that I have a "portable computer," all that trouble is a thing of the past. So let's do it, Readers, let's go back to Ivalice! That is probably by far the largest and most developed setting in the whole Final Fantasy Series. In my opinion, Ivalice is to Final Fantasy as Azeroth is to World of Warcraft. Plus, I never heard a bad thing about any of the games that take place in that world's setting. I'm sorry if you aren't on board with me on this one, Readers, but I am going to do it. I am going to go through FFXII and try to make a playthrough on it. If I do, expect to see it on its own page, unlike the Typo Demo's playthrough. Until next time, Readers who decide to stay here on Earth. Have fun with its ordinariness.
Now that I have a new computer, my emulators for FFVI and FFVII have become unavailable to me. I could download them again for my Mac, but for some reason my Mac doesn't seem to agree with the concept of emulator software, therefore rendering FFVII unavailable for a replay and FFVI unavailable to be finished. I don't have FFX yet, but with the recent acquisition of a debit card and a checking account, hopefully the day that I can sit down and play that game for the LAWLZ will come soon. For now, I am extremely bored, and playing those four measly missions in the Final Fantasy Typo Demo is starting to get old, as much as I want to disagree with that statement. I mean, how many times am I going to send Rem through a city in Milites and blow up everyone with her powerful magic that makes her Thunder Missile spell so awesome to watch (and hot)? How many times am I going to whip everyone's ass with her knife attacks that are fun to watch (and hot)? How many times am I going to pan the camera against the floor as I go up the stairs to get a view under her skirt that is hot to watch (and hot)?
Sure, Final Fantasy Typo could be an amazing game, and I definitely would love to spend hours playing it if I ever find the time, but that is only applicable for the game. The demo, on the other hand, is fun until you realize that you are never going to see the rest of the Hogwarts School of Final Fantasy, that you are never going to check out the other half of Class Zero, that you are never going to make Rem a god-like war machine like Lightning after many hours of stat development, that you are never going to kill that Cid guy, and that you are never going to find out what really happened to No. 10, no matter how many hours you put into that demo.
Therefore, I am only left with one option: return to Ivalice. The problem I have always had with Final Fantasy XII was that, after a long while of playing, I lose the incentive to play it and I inevitable forget about it. It is a wonderful game, and I have beaten it a couple of times, but I never got to finish it at this age where I can appropriately enjoy the game. Plus, I never played through the game via Blue Highwind's walkthrough. I only managed to get through half of it with his walkthrough before I lost the motivation to play FFXII. Now, with nothing going on for me, I guess there's no reason not to try it out again. I'm still waiting on some job applications to be fully reviewed, so I guess in the meantime I should head on over to my dad's place and pick up my dusty PS2. I wish my PS3 could play FFXII.
So what does this mean in the grand scope of things? Well, not much, other than I might do a playthrough on the game if I can find the appropriate times to put it down and write about it. With my MacBook, it will be much easier to stop what I am doing and switch over to write about it. The same goes for Blue's walkthrough on the game. Before, I had to go through much ink and paper to make his walkthrough accessible to me, but now that I have a "portable computer," all that trouble is a thing of the past. So let's do it, Readers, let's go back to Ivalice! That is probably by far the largest and most developed setting in the whole Final Fantasy Series. In my opinion, Ivalice is to Final Fantasy as Azeroth is to World of Warcraft. Plus, I never heard a bad thing about any of the games that take place in that world's setting. I'm sorry if you aren't on board with me on this one, Readers, but I am going to do it. I am going to go through FFXII and try to make a playthrough on it. If I do, expect to see it on its own page, unlike the Typo Demo's playthrough. Until next time, Readers who decide to stay here on Earth. Have fun with its ordinariness.
Rem's Summer Outfit
Update: I was playing the demo a little more and I found that I can get a good view of her "skirt" by making the camera look up while going up some stairs. This enabled me to learn that she is actually wearing pink panties.
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Final Fantasy Typo Demo: Mission 4
This mission is called Through the Heart of the Enemy, and like Mission 3, there are no cutscenes except at the end. Upon starting the mission, I found that it was actually a challenge. It appears to be in The Forbidden Forest again, what a coincidence! My favorite training ground has become the last stand of war in this demo. Oh, how I'm excited. Well, I lost Sice on my first try, since I thought I could tank everything. I am going to try again using King so that way I can kill the smaller enemies easily.
Nope I still lost Sice. This isn't good. Let's see if that Magical Armor is anywhere in my inventory.
Well, there is not much to say about this "impossible" mission. I decided to make Machina my sacrifice character again and use Shiva to eliminate a couple of the giant mecha, some soldiers wielding chainguns, and those annoying bull-mecha that keep running my party over. After Shiva left, I brought Rem into the picture and was once again amazed by how her unassuming Thunder shotgun magic went a long way in taking down those damn Magitek Armor. Of course, I am sure that if many people were reading this, they would call fowl upon the use of magic due to limited MP. I don't know how I did it really. I guess the fact that I charged each spell was what saved that MP there. By the way, if you are playing as Rem and you are trying to take down the giant guys, don't use Fire RF. It sucks, does only five damage. Her knives are more effective than that magic, somehow. The soldiers aren't too much of a problem neither, even though I hadn't seen one of them with a red circle around them. I just used King to wipe them out. As for the giant mecha, again, Rem's Thunder Shotgun goes a long way. I can also admit I was sort of lucky here and there because I was healed just before I died.
At the end of all this, a cutscene plays in an entirely different location. Da hell? You see all the Rubrum soldiers running up and killing all the Imperial soldiers, but then they are raped by another penis in Magitek Armor. This guy has an eye patch and everything, so he must be scary. But what the hell happened to No. 10 and the Green Goblin I saw in the last Mission? This demo is kind of stupid because of that, but it's not supposed to be about the cutscenes, I guess. The gameplay is fantastic, on the other hand.
And with that, that is pretty much the end of the demo, supposedly. I came, I saw, I conquered. Those Missions weren't all that difficult at all. There's supposedly a few other things I can do, but I don't know how to do them since it's all in Japanese and nobody wants to post videos of the sidequests in the demo. I'll see if I can get you Readers another post on this demo, if not, oh well. It's been a pleasure. Now let's just hope I didn't waste my time with this demo and that Square will actually release the game in English.
Nope I still lost Sice. This isn't good. Let's see if that Magical Armor is anywhere in my inventory.
Well, there is not much to say about this "impossible" mission. I decided to make Machina my sacrifice character again and use Shiva to eliminate a couple of the giant mecha, some soldiers wielding chainguns, and those annoying bull-mecha that keep running my party over. After Shiva left, I brought Rem into the picture and was once again amazed by how her unassuming Thunder shotgun magic went a long way in taking down those damn Magitek Armor. Of course, I am sure that if many people were reading this, they would call fowl upon the use of magic due to limited MP. I don't know how I did it really. I guess the fact that I charged each spell was what saved that MP there. By the way, if you are playing as Rem and you are trying to take down the giant guys, don't use Fire RF. It sucks, does only five damage. Her knives are more effective than that magic, somehow. The soldiers aren't too much of a problem neither, even though I hadn't seen one of them with a red circle around them. I just used King to wipe them out. As for the giant mecha, again, Rem's Thunder Shotgun goes a long way. I can also admit I was sort of lucky here and there because I was healed just before I died.
At the end of all this, a cutscene plays in an entirely different location. Da hell? You see all the Rubrum soldiers running up and killing all the Imperial soldiers, but then they are raped by another penis in Magitek Armor. This guy has an eye patch and everything, so he must be scary. But what the hell happened to No. 10 and the Green Goblin I saw in the last Mission? This demo is kind of stupid because of that, but it's not supposed to be about the cutscenes, I guess. The gameplay is fantastic, on the other hand.
And with that, that is pretty much the end of the demo, supposedly. I came, I saw, I conquered. Those Missions weren't all that difficult at all. There's supposedly a few other things I can do, but I don't know how to do them since it's all in Japanese and nobody wants to post videos of the sidequests in the demo. I'll see if I can get you Readers another post on this demo, if not, oh well. It's been a pleasure. Now let's just hope I didn't waste my time with this demo and that Square will actually release the game in English.
Final Fantasy Typo Demo: Mission 3 (Rush the Big Bridge)
Alright, this mission doesn't have any cutscenes except for one at the end, which has no dialogue. When I started off, I was in some kind of canyon, I think, and upon moving forward everything looks like cliffs and rocks and whatnot. There is supposedly several pieces of "magic armor," I'll keep an eye out for that. I hadn't seen No. 10 anywhere. I thought it was the guy in Mission 2 who was guiding me through the ice area, but he just disappeared. Well, that could've been No. 10, but he wasn't wearing a Class Zero uniform, neither.
Well, okay, the first thing I notice is this huge thing that looks like Bahamut from FFX. What the hell? I see it shooting lasers everywhere and all this other stuff. I guess I will be fighting with it! Sounds awesome!
King seems like he is the most useful here. All this Magitek Armor running around basically means to me that I need to pay more attention to those yellow circles than before. I managed to get one S.O down, but then I foolishly accepted another where I have to defeat three huge Magitek Armor in only thirty seconds. How the game expects me to do that is beyond me (I guess this is where Shiva comes into play). I am going to try that S.O again by sacrificing a character for Shiva (I guess Machina is going to have to do for now).
Holy shit, I raped those machines to hell. It was crazy. First, I completed the first S.O, which the time changed to a minute when before it was three. Da hell? I guess the S.O timers are random here. When I reached the part with the three giant mecha, the timer gave me two minutes. I wasted no time; I switched to my sacrifice character and summoned Shiva, which took care of those machines instantly. I was shocked. Those things had huge amounts of health, and their defense was inconceivable, but Shiva drained their health like water in a sink. I was very impressed. Well, I managed to reach a save crystal. There are little crystals on the floor; they could either be the summer outfits or the "magical armor." These dead guys on the floor look familiar... no, it can't be! They're students from the Hogwarts School of Final Fantasy! Those bastards! They killed children! If these people are from the school... that could mean... no, I refuse to believe it. No. 10 can not be dead! I am going to destroy all these Magitek pieces of crap and I will find No. 10! Come at me, Empire!
So on with the charge. I ran into the next area as Rem and raped all the soldiers by killing them with the red circle around them. I started another S.O, and I managed to kill the Magitek Armor at the end of the area just in time. In the next area, there were a bunch of soldiers and this Magitek Armor that was shooting artillery. I was trying to kill the soldiers before starting the S.O, because that artillery guy was annoying as hell. Whenever I waited long enough for the red circle to show up on the small fry, I would get blasted by that stupid thing. I managed to get rid of the soldiers, though, and so I started the S.O. The thing needed me to do something in one minute, and I thought it was to take out that Magitek Armor. So I switched to Sice and spammed the hell out of that thing, and I took apart that mecha in seconds. However, the S.O was still counting down, which was scaring me because I then started thinking that it needed me to complete the area. I switched to King and managed to take out two snipers using the red circle thing, and then it said I completed the S.O. Immediately after that happened, another S.O notification popped up, and I thought the game was saying that I failed, lol. I opened that one up and it was two minutes. I figured it was the one that I needed to get out of the area for. So as I approached the exit to the area and thus the end of the mission, three mecha came out. They were like bulls, charging all over the place. Nonetheless, I made short work of them with King. I nearly died a couple of times, but I didn't worry because Rem and Sice had my back. After I destroyed the last enemies and cleared the S.O, another notification to do one popped up, ha ha. I accepted it and ended the mission immediately after like a boss.
Some crazy stuff is going on at the last cutscene. A bunch of soldiers that I saw from the beginning of the demo are running around screaming. There's this airship that they're all running to that flies away and is chased by a bunch of dragons. All of a sudden, this giant beam of fire comes out of nowhere and blows up that whole area and kills everyone. Class Zero looks ahead and sees...
WHAT THE HELL IS THAT? THE GREEN GOBLIN? Oh no... this can't be. That must be No. 10. Oh shit. What happened to you, man?
Well, the cutscene ends with that ominous guy that I have decided to be No. 10 in this demo. You don't know if the guy is good or evil, but considering that he came in a bolt of fire and killed thousands of allies, I assume he is evil. Damn it. Looks like I am going to have to go Mano a Mano against No. 10. You up for this, Rem?
By the way, this mission was also easy. I just needed to restart a couple of times because the S.O's were ridiculously short on time. However, if I played through it without the S.O's, I probably would've finished in ten minutes. I didn't even need to use Shiva on that part, I just did so that I could complete the S.O. I wonder how "impossible" the next mission really is.
Well, okay, the first thing I notice is this huge thing that looks like Bahamut from FFX. What the hell? I see it shooting lasers everywhere and all this other stuff. I guess I will be fighting with it! Sounds awesome!
King seems like he is the most useful here. All this Magitek Armor running around basically means to me that I need to pay more attention to those yellow circles than before. I managed to get one S.O down, but then I foolishly accepted another where I have to defeat three huge Magitek Armor in only thirty seconds. How the game expects me to do that is beyond me (I guess this is where Shiva comes into play). I am going to try that S.O again by sacrificing a character for Shiva (I guess Machina is going to have to do for now).
Holy shit, I raped those machines to hell. It was crazy. First, I completed the first S.O, which the time changed to a minute when before it was three. Da hell? I guess the S.O timers are random here. When I reached the part with the three giant mecha, the timer gave me two minutes. I wasted no time; I switched to my sacrifice character and summoned Shiva, which took care of those machines instantly. I was shocked. Those things had huge amounts of health, and their defense was inconceivable, but Shiva drained their health like water in a sink. I was very impressed. Well, I managed to reach a save crystal. There are little crystals on the floor; they could either be the summer outfits or the "magical armor." These dead guys on the floor look familiar... no, it can't be! They're students from the Hogwarts School of Final Fantasy! Those bastards! They killed children! If these people are from the school... that could mean... no, I refuse to believe it. No. 10 can not be dead! I am going to destroy all these Magitek pieces of crap and I will find No. 10! Come at me, Empire!
So on with the charge. I ran into the next area as Rem and raped all the soldiers by killing them with the red circle around them. I started another S.O, and I managed to kill the Magitek Armor at the end of the area just in time. In the next area, there were a bunch of soldiers and this Magitek Armor that was shooting artillery. I was trying to kill the soldiers before starting the S.O, because that artillery guy was annoying as hell. Whenever I waited long enough for the red circle to show up on the small fry, I would get blasted by that stupid thing. I managed to get rid of the soldiers, though, and so I started the S.O. The thing needed me to do something in one minute, and I thought it was to take out that Magitek Armor. So I switched to Sice and spammed the hell out of that thing, and I took apart that mecha in seconds. However, the S.O was still counting down, which was scaring me because I then started thinking that it needed me to complete the area. I switched to King and managed to take out two snipers using the red circle thing, and then it said I completed the S.O. Immediately after that happened, another S.O notification popped up, and I thought the game was saying that I failed, lol. I opened that one up and it was two minutes. I figured it was the one that I needed to get out of the area for. So as I approached the exit to the area and thus the end of the mission, three mecha came out. They were like bulls, charging all over the place. Nonetheless, I made short work of them with King. I nearly died a couple of times, but I didn't worry because Rem and Sice had my back. After I destroyed the last enemies and cleared the S.O, another notification to do one popped up, ha ha. I accepted it and ended the mission immediately after like a boss.
Some crazy stuff is going on at the last cutscene. A bunch of soldiers that I saw from the beginning of the demo are running around screaming. There's this airship that they're all running to that flies away and is chased by a bunch of dragons. All of a sudden, this giant beam of fire comes out of nowhere and blows up that whole area and kills everyone. Class Zero looks ahead and sees...
WHAT THE HELL IS THAT? THE GREEN GOBLIN? Oh no... this can't be. That must be No. 10. Oh shit. What happened to you, man?
Well, the cutscene ends with that ominous guy that I have decided to be No. 10 in this demo. You don't know if the guy is good or evil, but considering that he came in a bolt of fire and killed thousands of allies, I assume he is evil. Damn it. Looks like I am going to have to go Mano a Mano against No. 10. You up for this, Rem?
By the way, this mission was also easy. I just needed to restart a couple of times because the S.O's were ridiculously short on time. However, if I played through it without the S.O's, I probably would've finished in ten minutes. I didn't even need to use Shiva on that part, I just did so that I could complete the S.O. I wonder how "impossible" the next mission really is.
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