Blue Dragon - Disc 3.
Okay.
Now, I'm not really an expert on this subject, but I'm pretty sure when you're trying to talk someone out of committing suicide, you should emphatically
not do any of the following:
(a) call them selfish
(b) yell "Shut up!" at them
(c) turn the conversation to yourself
(d) snidely remark "If it were me, I couldn't imagine giving up. It's just not me, I guess".
What. The. Fuck.
This follows right on the heels of a ham-fisted scene in which Shu learns that "giving up is actually okay, when giving up means running away to fight another day" (which really isn't giving up by any definition I'm aware of) and in general the words "give up" used about 400 times in the space of an hour. Shu has officially snatched away any hope Marumaro had of winning "game's worst character".
On the plus side, Nene remains awesome!
On the minus side, I still can't come close to dying unless it's to a mini-game. According to a certain FAQ I am about a dozen levels underlevelled too! (FAQs. But even accounting for that, I suspect my levels have to be on the low side.)
Despite this I am still enjoying the game well enough, but damn if it isn't trying to spit on all its tremendous potential of FF5 + some notable system improvements + large amounts of polish + the only well-done traditional world map outside DQ8 +
Eternity.
Y'know, I don't think I've yet talked about...
Final Fantasy 4: The After Years - About done with the "bad" half of the game, which is all the various character quests. They are hit and miss. On the one hand, Rydia's quest is pretty awesome, with some pretty tough fights (one of which is quite creative, in fact). Edge's is also amusing for ninja wackiness, as is Palom because Palom is a bitch. In general the mages get more interesting dungeons/fights (Rydia, Palom, Porom). Yang's is tolerable from a writing standpoint, which is better than I expected, although its combat sucks. Edward's, though, is just terrible, featuring not only combat involving Edward and three completely generic soldiers (about as exciting as you'd guess), but incredibly stupid plot involving Edward pining over his 17-years ago girlfriend and the epic return of DESERT FEVER. At least its last 10 minutes are decent as they actually advance the main plot! Currently doing Kain's, which has gameplay that makes me want to beat my head against a wall but is at least short (apparently). The game's quite playable in that FF4 way, moves quickly and all that. Though I'm very much looking forward to finally being able to kiss boring fighter-only parties goodbye.
