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Final Fantasy IV DS, Part One
Mar. 4th, 2015 07:01 amI LOVE THIS GAME.
I love it. Love it!
I was living in Japan when it was released in December 2007 (on my birthday!), and you better believe I was waiting in line at my local game store to buy a copy. I played the shit out of the game and then played the shit out of a new game plus in order to beat the two extra bosses. I think I must have read every single page of the strategy guide at least twice.
I never bothered with the English-language release for various reasons, but playing Bravely Default has made me nostalgic for this type of game, so I got a cheap copy on Amazon. I'm about ten hours in – I just started the Tower of Zot – and I'm having so much fun!
Unfortunately, I forgot about the augment system, so I failed to pick up the Item Lore augment after Edward's cut scene in Kaipo, which prevented me from giving three augments to Palom and Porom, which in turn prevents me from getting the Dualcast augment on my first playthrough. Unless Rosa and Rydia both have Dualcast (in other words, if you don't get the augment on both the first and the second playthrough), it's impossible to beat the extra bosses... So what I'm trying to say is that I probably won't do a new game plus playthrough this time, since I'm not interested in deleting everything and playing the past ten hours over again.
But, you know, it's okay. The older I get, the more I realize that 100% completion in any given JRPG is only feasible for middle school kids on summer vacation (or adult kids on permanent vacation).
I love it. Love it!
I was living in Japan when it was released in December 2007 (on my birthday!), and you better believe I was waiting in line at my local game store to buy a copy. I played the shit out of the game and then played the shit out of a new game plus in order to beat the two extra bosses. I think I must have read every single page of the strategy guide at least twice.
I never bothered with the English-language release for various reasons, but playing Bravely Default has made me nostalgic for this type of game, so I got a cheap copy on Amazon. I'm about ten hours in – I just started the Tower of Zot – and I'm having so much fun!
Unfortunately, I forgot about the augment system, so I failed to pick up the Item Lore augment after Edward's cut scene in Kaipo, which prevented me from giving three augments to Palom and Porom, which in turn prevents me from getting the Dualcast augment on my first playthrough. Unless Rosa and Rydia both have Dualcast (in other words, if you don't get the augment on both the first and the second playthrough), it's impossible to beat the extra bosses... So what I'm trying to say is that I probably won't do a new game plus playthrough this time, since I'm not interested in deleting everything and playing the past ten hours over again.
But, you know, it's okay. The older I get, the more I realize that 100% completion in any given JRPG is only feasible for middle school kids on summer vacation (or adult kids on permanent vacation).
