A weekly post updated every other Thursday detailing my current gaming projects. I have an account at Grouvee, which is a site you can use to keep track of your backlog, so please feel free to friend me there!
What I Demoed
No demos this time.
What I Purchased
No purchases this time.
What I Finished
Nothing this time.
What I’m Playing
Title: Etrian Odyssey Nexus Series: Etrian Odyssey System: Nintendo 3DS
A weekly post updated every other Thursday detailing my current gaming projects. I have an account at Grouvee, which is a site you can use to keep track of your backlog, so please feel free to friend me there!
What I Demoed
Yo-kai Watch (Nintendo 3DS) – I wasn’t sure at first or rather I thought it was a flat no. I think I was expecting turn-based battles, but it’s more puzzle based like you have to complete quick little puzzles to get your Yo-kai to act, and since that’s on the bottom screen and they act on the top it can be a bit difficult to keep up with. The battles go by pretty quickly and weren’t that difficult. There wasn’t a way to access the menu in the demo to see what Yo-kai you have, which was kind of a bummer. I wanted to get a feel for that. I don’t think I’ll pay full price for this, but I could see picking it up if it goes on sale.
Yo-kai Watch 2 (Nintendo 3DS) – This demo was even shorter than the first one lol. At least with the former you had to find and fight three troublesome Yo-kai, but there was just one here that you couldn’t even beat. It did showcase a new gimmick, but again I’ll pick this and the other up on sale.
Bravely Default (Nintendo 3DS) – I’m pretty sure I demoed this before but wanted to give it another go since I was talking to my brother about Bravely Default II the other day. I don’t remember why I didn’t do more with this. Maybe got distracted, but I’m enjoying it again now. I still have money left on my Christmas gift card, but I might wait a bit since I picked up quite a few games already, and I can (and should) play them before buying more haha.
A weekly post updated every other Thursday detailing my current gaming projects. I have an account at Grouvee, which is a site you can use to keep track of your backlog, so please feel free to friend me there!
What I Obtained
Final Fantasy IV: The After Years – $5.74 @ Steam
Final Fantasy IV – $5.75 @ Steam
What I Finished
Title: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies Series Title: Ace Attorney System: Nintendo 3DS
Date Started: 12/27/19 Date Finished: 3/11/20
That DLC case about the orca was really good and pretty tragic tbh. It was definitely worth the money I spent on it.
The Well-Red Mage asks: “What’s your favorite game every year you’ve been alive?” I’m one of the last to answer, because I’m always late to these types of parties. I’ve seen plenty of “Favorite Game” posts, but never one quite like this, and it was both challenging and enjoying to put together over the last two months. I’m one of the oldest people to respond, meaning I have quite a lot of years to go through, so without further ado…
1980 – Pac-Man
This one was more difficult than I’d like to admit, but there weren’t too many games I could draw from at this point in time, which led me to this classic among classics. I wasn’t very good at this game, but if you stick your finger in your ear and wiggle it around, I think you’ll hear something familiar 😀
1981 – Donkey Kong
Back when Mario was merely Jump Man and Pauline was a kidnapping victim, long before she was the mayor of New Donk City, there was this arcade classic. I was better at this than Pac-Man; I’ve always been better at platforming than avoiding random enemies.
First, I have to apologize for missing the last Final Fantasy Friday. Circumstances out of my control made it so that I wasn’t home in order to make the post. It was kind of a bloodbath, but I did emerge victorious. I’m not giving up a series about my favorite game franchise, so never worry about that.
With that out of the way, I have been trying to do “easier” questions, as in ones that won’t take me too much time to answer, because there is a ton going on. I have more complex/detailed questions to put out, but for now, I’m going to stick with the single answer ones. With that…
No Final Fantasy soundtrack is complete without a rousing overworld song. With that in mind…
What’s your favorite overworld music?
I’ll answer this question in two parts. First, my favorite music directly from the game as in unaltered from what you hear while you’re playing, and second, my favorite overworld theme orchestrated.
I have to go with Final Fantasy IV for my favorite theme in game.
FFIV was just ahead of its time and so proficient in numerous areas, not the least of which was music. It boasts the greatest number of good songs in its soundtrack (based on my opinion of course) that is to say, I like the majority of songs on its OST. While I might like the music from other games more, I like more of the music from Final Fantasy IV.
And Final Fantasy X takes the gold for my favorite orchestrated theme. It more than occasionally brings the tears, so I have to declare it the winner.
What’s your favorite overworld theme? As you can see mine doesn’t align with my favorite game (it actually took a bit for FFVII’s “Main Theme” to grow on me. I like it now, but wasn’t that fond of it when I first heard it). Does yours? Discussion party in the comments!
A few months ago the Nerd Speaker posted a piece about class, and no I’m not talking about elitism or (the lack of) school on Saturday. I thought this was a brilliant idea, and hope he doesn’t mind me riding his coattails a bit for this week’s question of…
What’s your favorite class?
Paladin. You get the best of both worlds with a moderate healer and powerful warrior.
There’s also the White Knight thing, which, while wholly unwelcome in certain online entanglements, is always a relief to see in fantasies across all mediums. I’m also probably biased since Cecil Harvey (see Exhibit A) is my favorite male MC, but I lean more towards the offensive classes than the defensive/curative ones anyway. Screw that stereotypical female healer thing. I want to make things bleed.
So your homework for this week is to discuss your favorite job type in the comments below. You can pick more than one, and using examples will earn you extra points. Got that? Okay, class dismissed!
Tis the Christmas season (or Advent to be theologically accurate), and in the spirit of the season, the lovely blogger over at Later Levels has decided to celebrate the 12 Days of Christmas a few days earlier with 12 gaming related questions for all of us good, little gaming elves out there. These are my responses.
🎶 22 December 2017: It’s now Christmas Eve and you’re throwing a lively party for all your friends, family and favourite characters. Which video game soundtracks would be on your playlist?
Can I say Advent Children just for the lulz? Because…it’s the season of Advent, huh? Tiny factoid: Final Fantasy VII actually started on December 9. Yes really! Look up the timeline. That means FFVII takes place…during Advent #mindblown
Anyway, I’ve always thought the orchestrated ending theme to Final Fantasy IV had a part that sounded like sleigh bells starting around 3:00.
Then there’s the Voices of the Lifestream version of “Buried in Snow” titled “Frozen Landscape,” which is better than the original (and I wish/hope they’d use it in the Remake). It just seems like a song best realized in the minor key. The OST version is kind of dowdy, and doesn’t capture the wilder, fiercer, desperate need to break through the blizzard that Voices does.
Hey look! There’s a suggestion for 70 minutes of Nintendo winter and holiday music! I could just put that on ad call it an Eve(ning). Okay, I don’t really like that one, but the hour of festive holiday video game music is much better.
Oh…well I know why, the first song is from FFXIV, called “Starlight Celebration.” Wow, this is…amazing.
*star eyes*
What video game soundtracks would you have on your holiday playlist? Would you just pick one or would you have a mixture? Sound off in the comments!
Hat trick of creep this week. Bonus: it rhymes, too! Also reminder that this will be the last Final Fantasy Friday post until December. I’m going to make an official announcement post about what’s going to be suspended throughout November, but I figured a reminder in the final one isn’t a bad notion either.
I’m currently recovering from anesthesia. No, I didn’t get bionic limbs (though I did ask for them), just something weird but simple that required your favorite Narcissist to be knocked out. Never fear, I woke up even more beautiful and amazing than ever, and when I returned home, there were offerings to my greatness at my door. The peasants do love me ♥
I usually try to tie the week’s question with something going on, and I suppose waking up from brief, medically induced unconsciousness could be considered coming out of a dark cave so….
In case you haven’t noticed, I am doing a sort of Halloween themed question series for the month of October, and quite a few motifs in Final Fantasy lend themselves to the frightening. Per that vein we’re going to explicitly talk about musical motifs in asking…
What is the spookiest music?
Let me attempt to find the creepiest song in my most well known games.
Opening with Final Fantasy IV, I think “Golbez Clad in Dark” is a really safe bet. I mean, it has both the villain’s name and dark in the title!
It goes along with the “Tower of Zot” music, too. I have to give mention to some of the moon music: “Another Moon” and “The Lunarians.” Anything (literally) otherworldly is a good bet for insta-eerie
For Final Fantasy VI I think it’s definitely the “Fanatics Tower.” Discordant harmonies and regimented drumbeats are always good for a scare.
I’ll throw in “Omen” as an honorable mention, though it’s not particularly scary to me, it still follows a “horror” pattern. Plus it sounds like gothic church music, which is also what I say about parts of “Dancing Mad,” making a nice musical bookend in VI to go along with VII’s visual and musical one.
Date Started: December 25, 2021
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