SCHADENVOID

Finished FFT yet again. It sure is FFT again with some extra bells and whistles.

The reality of the situation is reaching parents. This bubble is so gonna blow.

Not to mention the fact that the game is designed around taking turns faster for not acting on your turn. It's actively punishing something tactically smart to do.

Though it's really unbalanced as to who gets less. You specialize in a build that takes quick free turns, you get plenty of exp. You specialize in something that's slow, melee, and doesn't have something to do every turn? You're boned.

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It's in the ground.

That cheese looks wack.

I suppose the one benefit of it is that the game remains challenging relative to your skill, and it does at the very least reward you more for taking action against higher level units.

I went into Chapter 2 with Ramza at level 5, and my main generics at level 4 and 3. The generics that join you at the start of Chapter 2 are level 8, and the guests are level 10. It's nuts. I even did a couple of random battles.

I don't want to sit around and have my guys smack each other a few more times at the end of a map just to get a reasonable progression going. It's tiresome.

I can't convey more strongly how sub-optimal a per-action experience system is. The better and more efficiently you play, the less you are rewarded. I hate it.

- Despite adding new innate passives to some classes, they aren't listed.
- Still using the same experience and JP system. Always had the issue of being really grindy, which some enjoy, but those people are wrong.

- Some of the UI is less clear than the original.
- Many of the new menu configurations are a pain, and it's more inconvenient to swap units.
- Can't change guest jobs and abilities, a huge step back, this was NOT an issue.
- Can't turn off minor voice quips, specifically.

Negatives:
- Missing a LOT of menu scrolling and message configuration options.
- New control scheme is annoying. Camera should NOT be on the stick, this isn't an action game.
- You have to hold a button to speed up battles, instead of speed up being a toggle or an option as one would prefer.

- New map visual looks really nice.

Begrudgingly picked up the FFT Remaster.

Positives:
- Voice acting and new translation is surprisingly good.
- Job Tree is nice.
- Tactician Mode has a bit of a bite to it (I'm still rolling through it lol lmao)
- The visual battle timeline is nice.
- Formation and other menus being joined is nice.

I mean, look at their reviews. People should probably get Deathbulge to a proportionate number of sales and reviews relative to its position, that's all I'm saying.

Kids in the aughts loved tucking in their shirts, let me tell you. lmao

Why does the 2002 child look like he dropped out of Earthbound style Americana?

It is DONE.

Just One More

I am in house. I wear house.

Most of the way through a steel soul run. Making sure I don't get cocky and quit out when things get dire is essential.

Realized it would look better if I didn't keep the grid on it like a jackass.

Unless you're going for something that benefits from the stylization of it, of course.

I find dithering usually only looks good for conveying texture, so that's all I really use it for.

4-Color Game Boy Hedge.

Ah yes, the guardian format.
To mend and defend.
To defend my newfound friends.
To defend them from...their enemies.
...that format?

Bob's readout of his format at the start of Reboot reads like the Kuzco's Poison line in its redundancy.

Two Down, Two to Go