Final Fantasy IV Adventure!!1 Part 3
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backupdump002I GOT A MANAPHY WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO yeah! I didn't use my coupon on anything, though. I just couldn't find anything I really wanted :O Well, except Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time, but they didn't have that. But then I went to Vintage Stock to return Ico since it was all glitchy, and wound up finding Partners in Time there! AND I GOT IT for like, $16 bucks. Awesome. I haven't gotten very far, but it's pretty fun :B Watching Mario and Luigi interact with their past selves gives me so many cavities.
Oh yeah, and hey sup Phoenix Wright anime opening parody dealie if you haven't seen it already. I love this, personally. Although the Old Bag bondage is a little creepy...
ANYWAY enough of that. WHAT YOU GUYS WANT IS SOME MORE FFIV, AM I RIGHT OR AM I RIGHT? When we last left off, Castle Damcyan got blown up by the Red Wings, who were being led by some dude named Golbez. Tellah's daughter/Edward's girlfriend, AKA Anna died, Tellah ran off, and Edward joined and lent you his totally sweet hovercraft so you can go to the Antlion's cave. WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
Previous episodes
WE'RE HEEEEEEE~EEEEERE
Looks like a fun place.
The monsters here are pretty cool, though :B
Huzzah! Too bad everyone and their mom is immune to it.
y helo secret passage. You can actually see the path here since the dirt is all light and stuff 8D
New weapon for Edwaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrdddddd
One of Edward's abilities, as you might've guessed, is Sing. This just has Edward, well, sing, to inflict Sleep, Stop, or Charm on his enemies (not sure if it affects all of them or not, but I'm guessing it does :O). In this case it's kind of pointless, since his current harp has a chance of charming enemies just from attacking. GOD, EDWARD
Normal attack. He's finally becoming a little less useless. He certainly doesn't compare to Cecil, but that's to be expected, considering Cecil is the tank of the game. He doesn't compare to Rydia's magic, either, but Rydia's magic plays off of the enemies' weaknesses and such, so that's also to be expected. I don't think even Cecil's brute force can add up to that.
But the thing about Edward is that he just doesn't really have a lot of redeeming qualities, battle-wise. I mean, sure, when he attacks he has a chance of inflicting whatever status ailment his weapon is supposed to inflict (currently it's Charm, which can charm an enemy and make it attack itself or another enemy), and his Attack and Attack % aren't too terrible, but that's about it. His HP is incredibly low; Hide is useless and will automatically kick in when his HP gets low, giving you one less character to back you up and also making it a chore to heal him; all of his defence points are low (Defence, Defence %, Magic Defence, Magic Defence %); and his Attack, which I mentioned wasn't too terrible, is only average. At least in this version of the game he doesn't have that USELESS healing ability, where he actually takes potions out of your inventory and makes them less effective (he can heal, like, 10-20 HP). They included that in the Advance version and the non-Easytype version, though. I remember when I thought he was using magic instead of potions, only to mysteriously run out of potions while I was in the middle of a dungeon :D Screw your "healing abilities," Edward.
Oh yeah, that brings me to another topic: Easytype. I forgot to mention this before, but apparently there were two versions of FFIV released in Japan: the regular version, and the "Easytype" version. Easytype is obviously, well, easier, and it also had a bunch of items and abilities removed (because having more items is just TOO COMPLICATED or something). When Square decided to release FFIV to North America, they... well, I guess they just thought we were too stupid for the regular game, so they sent us the Easytype version instead (oddly enough, this came before the Japanese Easytype, and the Japanese Easytype actually had changes that made it even easier than the US version. I'll make note of these changes as we go on). This, combined with Nintendo's censorchip policies, combined with certain backstory-type things getting removed due to space limitations (Kain's background and the main villain's motivation to colonize Earth aren't in the game at all), brings us a much watered down version of the original FFIV. This actually prompted a fan translation of the Japanese script, which I still need to check out.
Anyway, this is also one of the reasons I'm so excited for FFIV DS -- it's said to have ALL the lost material worked back into the game, as well as some extra events. I am a huge sucker for things like these, so YOU BETTER BELIEVE I'M CHECKIN' THIS OUT which reminds me, I still need to pick up FFIII DS. Hmmmmm
OH MY GOD JESUS WOW I WENT ON A RANT LET'S GET BACK TO THE ACTUAL GAME SHALL WE
IT IS TIME :O And I am now filled with delicious lasagna. I have never been more ready for this
Antlion: sup
That's pretty tame alright, yuk yuk
AHAHAHAHAHA sorry just something about Antlion's face cracks me up whenever i see it
Right, so, battle. If you use regular attacks on Antlion, it'll counter with... something, I forget the name of it (Needle?), but it deals about 20 damage to a certain party member. Not too bad, but it can add up, so it's really best to just have Rydia summon Chocobo since that doesn't trigger a counter for some reason. Pretty easy stuff.
Showin' you the summoonnnzzzzuuhhhhh
Oh, so the counter attack is just called Counter. Why was I thinking Needle? Huh.
HUZZAH
WOOOO why did I imagine the "you got an item" jingle from Pokemon just now
Rydia's got her priorities straightened out. I could use a Rydia around whenever I start going off on a tangent.
"Oh yeah that reminds me there was this part in the manga where Yukito touches Touya's face or maybe it was Yue but anyway they pulled that out of the American cartoon for some reason and when I heard that I was like what why would they--"
"GET BACK TO WORK"
The textbox can hardly contain its excitement.
CUE RAVENOUS MAKE OUT SCENE wait
So she... wait, so she just... scaled some mountains one afternoon to go check up on Cecil? I mean, how did she even get there? If she got there AFTER the whole thing with Mist, then the mountains would have already reformed, thus blocking the path. Furthermore, townsfolk said she was picked up from "Baron falling down," but Baron wasn't affected by the earthquake or anything, and... I don't know. I give up. Just... Rosa is there. I'm going with it.
Aha, our "wtf is wrong with the king" questions are answered! Now I can rest easy.
WHAT HOW DOES SHE KNOW THIS SHE WAS UNCONSCIOUS WHAT WHAT my head hurts
COUGH COUGH
Something about the "I am all right... AND I'M A WHITE WIZARD!" is funny to me, I don't know.
LIVING ON THE STREET
I'M NO STRAAAANGER TO LOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE
[insert Melody of Lute here]
OSHI--
Heheh. WaterHag.
Slowly blinks into view
Wow, her hair didn't look neon pink when she was dying and stuff. Strange. Then again, Edward's clothes look purple on the field, so
Oh wow, I thought that was Anna for a second. That would've been kinda funny.
D'awwwwwwwww
Anna: GIVE YOUR LOVE TO ALL THE PEOPLE GOD WEREN'T YOU LISTENING JESUS
Cecil: :B :B
Argh, now I have to prep the more recent screenshots and try to remember where all the new music played and stuff. PFFFFFFFF WEEEEEEAK
Alright, ready. Let's go!
Rosa's profile pic. Isn't she wearing a ponytail thing on the field/in battles? And isn't her hair platinum blonde on the field and a darker blonde in battle? AND
heer we ar!1!!1
Mt. Ordeals plays here, for some reason. Man, Zippyshare changed their layout all over the place. More and more sites I visit keep doing that...
Cue Rydia's theme. Again, I don't blame her.
PILE ON THE GUILT WHY DON'T YOU
Well, at least we've got a new spell. A pretty useful one, at that.
Moving on :B
Nice view. This game really does have excellent graphics, especially for its time. Actually, Square games in general seem to always be pretty impressive, visual-wise. Compare FFI to II and III. Compare FFIV to V, and V to VI. Then we make the jump from sprites to 3D, and although the character sprites in VII weren't the most awesome things in the world to most people (I liked them, personally), the backgrounds are incredible, even today. Compare that to VIII and IX, though, and the graphical leap is really pretty impressive. But then, if you really want to be amazed, compare IX to X. You have no idea how hard I fangasmed when I saw the commercials and stuff for X, my god.
ANYWAY
THIS IS WHY I HATE BOMBS
The monster whose name just didn't fit. Like Feraligatr.
Pretty sure this is Rosa. Hurrah!
Blah blah blah, more monster shots.
Usually I don't take shots of me entering a new map, but I saw "Summit" and vaguely remembered something important happening here, so I capped it.
And I was right!
exclaimed Edward, without actually seeing this man's face or anything
NEVER LET IT BE SAID THAT THIS GAME DIDN'T INSPIRE GREAT WORKS OF ART
seriously just can't stop laughing at this. They replaced this with "HIYA!" or something in the Advance version. LAME
He fought a little longer, but you get the idea. YANG KICKS THEM ALL AND WINS, BLAH BLAH
Oh, funny thing about Imp Captains that I forgot to mention. Apparently, some well-known walkthrough author put this rumor in his walkthrough without making sure it was legit, and the rumor was that you can get an item called the "Imp Sword" by winning a battle against 1 Imp and 5 Imp Captains. The thing is, there's no such thing as a battle against 1 Imp and 5 Imp Captains, and neither Imps nor Imp Captains drop an "Imp Sword," since the Imp Sword doesn't exist. In fact, Imp Captains don't drop anything at all. ~*The More You Know*~
A NEW CHALLENGER APPEARS
Aaaaaand initiating MomBomb battle! Heh, it's sorta weird seeing so many party members in battle. I'm used to having three at a time in the later games.
Anyway, just have Cecil, Edward, and Yang attack, and have Rosa using Aim (and healing when necessary) and Rydia calling Chocobo. After a while, she'll transform.
YOU'RE ALL GROUNDED! BLAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGG
At this point, you should make sure everyone has full HP, because...
Ouch! I don't know why MomBomb exploded into babies, and I'm not sure I want to!
Anyway, just kill them all. KILL THEM ALL. Have da menz and Rosa attack and Rydia cast Ice (the walkthrough I'm peeking at says for her to cast Chocobo, but I think that's pretty excessive, since these things are cake. It all depends on how strong your team is, I guess). No problem.
Wow, not a bad win at all.
I'm guessing his teammates didn't survive or something?
OH GOD NO TELL ME THEY WONT HAVE AN ARMY OF LOW LEVEL MONSTERS
"Defeat" seems like a bit of an understatement.
OFF COURSE!!!!
Woooo, another power guy besides Cecil! Now maybe battles will go faster.
Purdy view :B I like these graphics, leave me alone.
Oh yeah, Yang's portrait. That mustache amuses me.
Giant freakin' forest with a fork in it somewhere that confused me. I am so amazing
Here we go!
Fabul. Very powerful-sounding and such :O I like it.
These guards and the guards up ahead all say this. Actually, if I talk to a guard with another guard next to him, you can pretty much just assume he says the same thing as the other. Ayup :B
I forgot why I took this shot!
Angstiest equipment ever.
I SERIOUSLY JUST BURST OUT LAUGHING AT THAT GUY'S BEARD. Man if I had a beard I would totally dye it blue like that, I tell ya.
The king seems pretty excited to see him again.
And hey, he kind of talks like Baron's king, what with the "TRULY?!?!?!1" and stuff. Hopefully he wont turn out to be evil or something.
YOUR MOM MUST BE TIGHTEN IMMEDIATELY OOOOOOOOOOOOO I've got nothin'.
I'm guessing they know each other due to royal ties and such :V
I COULDN'T CONTROL MY CURIOUSITY
Alright, alright. I had to sit through that entire conversation all over again, by the way. It was kind of funny watching them act like they've never met each other before, though.
I am going to name every office I ever get "The Office of Relief."
Also PFFFFFFT sexist >O ROSA AND RYDIA CAN BE USEFUL TOO
HURRY RUN
DRAT
Hahaha, just six people. QUITE AN ARMY WE'VE GOT HERE
It begins! The boss battle music plays through this whole event.
Pfff
OW
Man, I don't know why, maybe I'm just lucky or something, but those soldiers would always attack Cecil. EVERY TIME I FOUGHT THEM. ALWAYS. IT NEVER FAILED.
snerk, that's Edward's doing. That little playa.
They went on a little longer, but mehhhhhh |B Also wow, way to totally miss your target there.
YOU BETTER GET USED TO THIS DURING THIS SEQUENCE BECAUSE IT'S GONNA HAPPEN A LOT
THAT YANG, EVER THE OPTIMIST
Forgot to take a shot until a little later :B durr hurr
BUT THE ALLIES OUTNUMBER THE ENEMIES
just leave those guys to battle low level monsters how dare you
MAKE UP YOUR MIND, JESUS
I SWEAR TO GOD
You better freakin' run, Edward.
Dun dun dunnnnnn!
Haha, this was thanks to Edward's Charm ability :O "Weak" just lowers the target's HP to ridiculously low levels, by the way. It can be annoying later on when bosses will use it on your ENTIRE PARTY
This was the party from before, the one I forgot to take a screenshot of and stuff. Yup.
YES, LET'S LEAD EVERYONE FURTHER INTO THE CASTLE EVEN THOUGH WE'RE DOING FINE >( GOD I'M SO MAD
wtf how did he trip backwards
AND SUDDENLY...
EVERYTHING GOES SILENT man you can hardly see him against the tile, jesus
DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
OW god this hurts my eyes
Anyway, Suspicion plays during this battle, adding to the dramaz
Man, I can never get a shot of Kain's jump actually hitting the target.
There's no way to win this, so just have Cecil go "durrrrr" and attack randomly.
Sort of got a shot of Jump hitting him.
SUCH DRAMA
RAPE
TADAH i wonder how they got out?
ashamed to be caught in the act
DUN DUN DDDUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN Golbeza Clad in the Dark plays here, which you might recognize from that FFIV DS trailer I linked. I'm not sure if that's actually supposed to be "Golbeza" or not, but I just leave it like that 'cause it amuses my simple brain. lol
Now this cracks me up. Rosa just stands there and drools or something while Golbez slooooowly moves up at like 1 MPH, runs over her, makes her magically disappear into his robes, and then sloooooooowly walks out. I half-expect him to beep whenever he backs up.
Man I can barely see what's happening in the thumbnails, everyone just blends into the background so well. IS KAIN STEALING THE CRYSTAL YET GUYS
Man, ya coulda summoned something while Kain was stealing the crystal and all. Or at least heal everyone then and let them gang up or something.
And Kain was possessed, don't forget that. And the king. But who cares about him.
And get the crystal. And save Kain. And the world.
I wonder how he got wounded? Maybe that's when Rosa and Rydia escaped. Man, talk about cold. Or maybe Rydia and Rosa are the ones who wounded him in the first place.
SECRET PASSAGE HELL YEAH *electric guitar*
AND GET THE CRYSTAL
AND KAIN
MAYBE SAVE THE KING OR THE EARTH OR SOMETHING, WHO CARES
get a nice apartment in New York
"We owe Cecil so much... for fighting a few groups of weak monsters and letting our crystal get stolen. HERE HAVE A BOAT 8B"
Well that's good when you're fighting bad guys and stuff, thanks
Go East. Gotcha.
what
YEAH I'M JUST GONNA TAKE THIS YOU DON'T NEED IT RIGHT HAHA WELL SO LONG
!!!!!!!
Imagine Fanfare playing throughout this whole sequence.
He twirls around a lot more and stuff, but I can't really capture that with screenshots so I left it out. Man, I know there was a video on YouTube with this dance, but I guess it got removed for some stupid reason. Pff. Maybe I'll record it later.
SURE
Hahahaha I don't know why this cracks me up. DID HE ASK ONE OF THE MONSTERS IF THEY WANTED TO CHANGE THEIR NAME AND THEY ATTACKED HIM, OR
u go grrrrll
HMMMMMMM
You do that, guys.
And I am done! For now! I have no idea why it was so hard to motivate myself to finish this episode, jeez.
Woooooo now I really wanna get back to playing Partners in Time. BYE
Oh yeah, and hey sup Phoenix Wright anime opening parody dealie if you haven't seen it already. I love this, personally. Although the Old Bag bondage is a little creepy...
ANYWAY enough of that. WHAT YOU GUYS WANT IS SOME MORE FFIV, AM I RIGHT OR AM I RIGHT? When we last left off, Castle Damcyan got blown up by the Red Wings, who were being led by some dude named Golbez. Tellah's daughter/Edward's girlfriend, AKA Anna died, Tellah ran off, and Edward joined and lent you his totally sweet hovercraft so you can go to the Antlion's cave. WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
Previous episodes
WE'RE HEEEEEEE~EEEEERE
Looks like a fun place.
The monsters here are pretty cool, though :B
Huzzah! Too bad everyone and their mom is immune to it.
y helo secret passage. You can actually see the path here since the dirt is all light and stuff 8D
New weapon for Edwaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrdddddd
One of Edward's abilities, as you might've guessed, is Sing. This just has Edward, well, sing, to inflict Sleep, Stop, or Charm on his enemies (not sure if it affects all of them or not, but I'm guessing it does :O). In this case it's kind of pointless, since his current harp has a chance of charming enemies just from attacking. GOD, EDWARD
Normal attack. He's finally becoming a little less useless. He certainly doesn't compare to Cecil, but that's to be expected, considering Cecil is the tank of the game. He doesn't compare to Rydia's magic, either, but Rydia's magic plays off of the enemies' weaknesses and such, so that's also to be expected. I don't think even Cecil's brute force can add up to that.
But the thing about Edward is that he just doesn't really have a lot of redeeming qualities, battle-wise. I mean, sure, when he attacks he has a chance of inflicting whatever status ailment his weapon is supposed to inflict (currently it's Charm, which can charm an enemy and make it attack itself or another enemy), and his Attack and Attack % aren't too terrible, but that's about it. His HP is incredibly low; Hide is useless and will automatically kick in when his HP gets low, giving you one less character to back you up and also making it a chore to heal him; all of his defence points are low (Defence, Defence %, Magic Defence, Magic Defence %); and his Attack, which I mentioned wasn't too terrible, is only average. At least in this version of the game he doesn't have that USELESS healing ability, where he actually takes potions out of your inventory and makes them less effective (he can heal, like, 10-20 HP). They included that in the Advance version and the non-Easytype version, though. I remember when I thought he was using magic instead of potions, only to mysteriously run out of potions while I was in the middle of a dungeon :D Screw your "healing abilities," Edward.
Oh yeah, that brings me to another topic: Easytype. I forgot to mention this before, but apparently there were two versions of FFIV released in Japan: the regular version, and the "Easytype" version. Easytype is obviously, well, easier, and it also had a bunch of items and abilities removed (because having more items is just TOO COMPLICATED or something). When Square decided to release FFIV to North America, they... well, I guess they just thought we were too stupid for the regular game, so they sent us the Easytype version instead (oddly enough, this came before the Japanese Easytype, and the Japanese Easytype actually had changes that made it even easier than the US version. I'll make note of these changes as we go on). This, combined with Nintendo's censorchip policies, combined with certain backstory-type things getting removed due to space limitations (Kain's background and the main villain's motivation to colonize Earth aren't in the game at all), brings us a much watered down version of the original FFIV. This actually prompted a fan translation of the Japanese script, which I still need to check out.
Anyway, this is also one of the reasons I'm so excited for FFIV DS -- it's said to have ALL the lost material worked back into the game, as well as some extra events. I am a huge sucker for things like these, so YOU BETTER BELIEVE I'M CHECKIN' THIS OUT which reminds me, I still need to pick up FFIII DS. Hmmmmm
OH MY GOD JESUS WOW I WENT ON A RANT LET'S GET BACK TO THE ACTUAL GAME SHALL WE
IT IS TIME :O And I am now filled with delicious lasagna. I have never been more ready for this
Antlion: sup
That's pretty tame alright, yuk yuk
AHAHAHAHAHA sorry just something about Antlion's face cracks me up whenever i see it
Right, so, battle. If you use regular attacks on Antlion, it'll counter with... something, I forget the name of it (Needle?), but it deals about 20 damage to a certain party member. Not too bad, but it can add up, so it's really best to just have Rydia summon Chocobo since that doesn't trigger a counter for some reason. Pretty easy stuff.
Showin' you the summoonnnzzzzuuhhhhh
Oh, so the counter attack is just called Counter. Why was I thinking Needle? Huh.
HUZZAH
WOOOO why did I imagine the "you got an item" jingle from Pokemon just now
Rydia's got her priorities straightened out. I could use a Rydia around whenever I start going off on a tangent.
"Oh yeah that reminds me there was this part in the manga where Yukito touches Touya's face or maybe it was Yue but anyway they pulled that out of the American cartoon for some reason and when I heard that I was like what why would they--"
"GET BACK TO WORK"
The textbox can hardly contain its excitement.
CUE RAVENOUS MAKE OUT SCENE wait
So she... wait, so she just... scaled some mountains one afternoon to go check up on Cecil? I mean, how did she even get there? If she got there AFTER the whole thing with Mist, then the mountains would have already reformed, thus blocking the path. Furthermore, townsfolk said she was picked up from "Baron falling down," but Baron wasn't affected by the earthquake or anything, and... I don't know. I give up. Just... Rosa is there. I'm going with it.
Aha, our "wtf is wrong with the king" questions are answered! Now I can rest easy.
WHAT HOW DOES SHE KNOW THIS SHE WAS UNCONSCIOUS WHAT WHAT my head hurts
COUGH COUGH
Something about the "I am all right... AND I'M A WHITE WIZARD!" is funny to me, I don't know.
LIVING ON THE STREET
I'M NO STRAAAANGER TO LOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE
[insert Melody of Lute here]
OSHI--
Heheh. WaterHag.
Slowly blinks into view
Wow, her hair didn't look neon pink when she was dying and stuff. Strange. Then again, Edward's clothes look purple on the field, so
Oh wow, I thought that was Anna for a second. That would've been kinda funny.
D'awwwwwwwww
Anna: GIVE YOUR LOVE TO ALL THE PEOPLE GOD WEREN'T YOU LISTENING JESUS
Cecil: :B :B
Argh, now I have to prep the more recent screenshots and try to remember where all the new music played and stuff. PFFFFFFFF WEEEEEEAK
Alright, ready. Let's go!
Rosa's profile pic. Isn't she wearing a ponytail thing on the field/in battles? And isn't her hair platinum blonde on the field and a darker blonde in battle? AND
heer we ar!1!!1
Mt. Ordeals plays here, for some reason. Man, Zippyshare changed their layout all over the place. More and more sites I visit keep doing that...
Cue Rydia's theme. Again, I don't blame her.
PILE ON THE GUILT WHY DON'T YOU
Well, at least we've got a new spell. A pretty useful one, at that.
Moving on :B
Nice view. This game really does have excellent graphics, especially for its time. Actually, Square games in general seem to always be pretty impressive, visual-wise. Compare FFI to II and III. Compare FFIV to V, and V to VI. Then we make the jump from sprites to 3D, and although the character sprites in VII weren't the most awesome things in the world to most people (I liked them, personally), the backgrounds are incredible, even today. Compare that to VIII and IX, though, and the graphical leap is really pretty impressive. But then, if you really want to be amazed, compare IX to X. You have no idea how hard I fangasmed when I saw the commercials and stuff for X, my god.
ANYWAY
THIS IS WHY I HATE BOMBS
The monster whose name just didn't fit. Like Feraligatr.
Pretty sure this is Rosa. Hurrah!
Blah blah blah, more monster shots.
Usually I don't take shots of me entering a new map, but I saw "Summit" and vaguely remembered something important happening here, so I capped it.
And I was right!
exclaimed Edward, without actually seeing this man's face or anything
NEVER LET IT BE SAID THAT THIS GAME DIDN'T INSPIRE GREAT WORKS OF ART
seriously just can't stop laughing at this. They replaced this with "HIYA!" or something in the Advance version. LAME
He fought a little longer, but you get the idea. YANG KICKS THEM ALL AND WINS, BLAH BLAH
Oh, funny thing about Imp Captains that I forgot to mention. Apparently, some well-known walkthrough author put this rumor in his walkthrough without making sure it was legit, and the rumor was that you can get an item called the "Imp Sword" by winning a battle against 1 Imp and 5 Imp Captains. The thing is, there's no such thing as a battle against 1 Imp and 5 Imp Captains, and neither Imps nor Imp Captains drop an "Imp Sword," since the Imp Sword doesn't exist. In fact, Imp Captains don't drop anything at all. ~*The More You Know*~
A NEW CHALLENGER APPEARS
Aaaaaand initiating MomBomb battle! Heh, it's sorta weird seeing so many party members in battle. I'm used to having three at a time in the later games.
Anyway, just have Cecil, Edward, and Yang attack, and have Rosa using Aim (and healing when necessary) and Rydia calling Chocobo. After a while, she'll transform.
YOU'RE ALL GROUNDED! BLAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGG
At this point, you should make sure everyone has full HP, because...
Ouch! I don't know why MomBomb exploded into babies, and I'm not sure I want to!
Anyway, just kill them all. KILL THEM ALL. Have da menz and Rosa attack and Rydia cast Ice (the walkthrough I'm peeking at says for her to cast Chocobo, but I think that's pretty excessive, since these things are cake. It all depends on how strong your team is, I guess). No problem.
Wow, not a bad win at all.
I'm guessing his teammates didn't survive or something?
OH GOD NO TELL ME THEY WONT HAVE AN ARMY OF LOW LEVEL MONSTERS
"Defeat" seems like a bit of an understatement.
OFF COURSE!!!!
Woooo, another power guy besides Cecil! Now maybe battles will go faster.
Purdy view :B I like these graphics, leave me alone.
Oh yeah, Yang's portrait. That mustache amuses me.
Giant freakin' forest with a fork in it somewhere that confused me. I am so amazing
Here we go!
Fabul. Very powerful-sounding and such :O I like it.
These guards and the guards up ahead all say this. Actually, if I talk to a guard with another guard next to him, you can pretty much just assume he says the same thing as the other. Ayup :B
I forgot why I took this shot!
Angstiest equipment ever.
I SERIOUSLY JUST BURST OUT LAUGHING AT THAT GUY'S BEARD. Man if I had a beard I would totally dye it blue like that, I tell ya.
The king seems pretty excited to see him again.
And hey, he kind of talks like Baron's king, what with the "TRULY?!?!?!1" and stuff. Hopefully he wont turn out to be evil or something.
YOUR MOM MUST BE TIGHTEN IMMEDIATELY OOOOOOOOOOOOO I've got nothin'.
I'm guessing they know each other due to royal ties and such :V
I COULDN'T CONTROL MY CURIOUSITY
Alright, alright. I had to sit through that entire conversation all over again, by the way. It was kind of funny watching them act like they've never met each other before, though.
I am going to name every office I ever get "The Office of Relief."
Also PFFFFFFT sexist >O ROSA AND RYDIA CAN BE USEFUL TOO
HURRY RUN
DRAT
Hahaha, just six people. QUITE AN ARMY WE'VE GOT HERE
It begins! The boss battle music plays through this whole event.
Pfff
OW
Man, I don't know why, maybe I'm just lucky or something, but those soldiers would always attack Cecil. EVERY TIME I FOUGHT THEM. ALWAYS. IT NEVER FAILED.
snerk, that's Edward's doing. That little playa.
They went on a little longer, but mehhhhhh |B Also wow, way to totally miss your target there.
YOU BETTER GET USED TO THIS DURING THIS SEQUENCE BECAUSE IT'S GONNA HAPPEN A LOT
THAT YANG, EVER THE OPTIMIST
Forgot to take a shot until a little later :B durr hurr
BUT THE ALLIES OUTNUMBER THE ENEMIES
just leave those guys to battle low level monsters how dare you
MAKE UP YOUR MIND, JESUS
I SWEAR TO GOD
You better freakin' run, Edward.
Dun dun dunnnnnn!
Haha, this was thanks to Edward's Charm ability :O "Weak" just lowers the target's HP to ridiculously low levels, by the way. It can be annoying later on when bosses will use it on your ENTIRE PARTY
This was the party from before, the one I forgot to take a screenshot of and stuff. Yup.
YES, LET'S LEAD EVERYONE FURTHER INTO THE CASTLE EVEN THOUGH WE'RE DOING FINE >( GOD I'M SO MAD
wtf how did he trip backwards
AND SUDDENLY...
EVERYTHING GOES SILENT man you can hardly see him against the tile, jesus
DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
OW god this hurts my eyes
Anyway, Suspicion plays during this battle, adding to the dramaz
Man, I can never get a shot of Kain's jump actually hitting the target.
There's no way to win this, so just have Cecil go "durrrrr" and attack randomly.
Sort of got a shot of Jump hitting him.
SUCH DRAMA
RAPE
TADAH i wonder how they got out?
ashamed to be caught in the act
DUN DUN DDDUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN Golbeza Clad in the Dark plays here, which you might recognize from that FFIV DS trailer I linked. I'm not sure if that's actually supposed to be "Golbeza" or not, but I just leave it like that 'cause it amuses my simple brain. lol
Now this cracks me up. Rosa just stands there and drools or something while Golbez slooooowly moves up at like 1 MPH, runs over her, makes her magically disappear into his robes, and then sloooooooowly walks out. I half-expect him to beep whenever he backs up.
Man I can barely see what's happening in the thumbnails, everyone just blends into the background so well. IS KAIN STEALING THE CRYSTAL YET GUYS
Man, ya coulda summoned something while Kain was stealing the crystal and all. Or at least heal everyone then and let them gang up or something.
And Kain was possessed, don't forget that. And the king. But who cares about him.
And get the crystal. And save Kain. And the world.
I wonder how he got wounded? Maybe that's when Rosa and Rydia escaped. Man, talk about cold. Or maybe Rydia and Rosa are the ones who wounded him in the first place.
SECRET PASSAGE HELL YEAH *electric guitar*
AND GET THE CRYSTAL
AND KAIN
MAYBE SAVE THE KING OR THE EARTH OR SOMETHING, WHO CARES
get a nice apartment in New York
"We owe Cecil so much... for fighting a few groups of weak monsters and letting our crystal get stolen. HERE HAVE A BOAT 8B"
Well that's good when you're fighting bad guys and stuff, thanks
Go East. Gotcha.
what
YEAH I'M JUST GONNA TAKE THIS YOU DON'T NEED IT RIGHT HAHA WELL SO LONG
!!!!!!!
Imagine Fanfare playing throughout this whole sequence.
He twirls around a lot more and stuff, but I can't really capture that with screenshots so I left it out. Man, I know there was a video on YouTube with this dance, but I guess it got removed for some stupid reason. Pff. Maybe I'll record it later.
SURE
Hahahaha I don't know why this cracks me up. DID HE ASK ONE OF THE MONSTERS IF THEY WANTED TO CHANGE THEIR NAME AND THEY ATTACKED HIM, OR
u go grrrrll
HMMMMMMM
You do that, guys.
And I am done! For now! I have no idea why it was so hard to motivate myself to finish this episode, jeez.
Woooooo now I really wanna get back to playing Partners in Time. BYE
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Date: 2007-10-01 10:30 pm (UTC)oh hi lol
I have been
stalkingwatching you for a while. 8D I just...never found the right moment to POP UP AND SAY HI 'cause you are very, very funny, and I like to read your entries. :B So, um, adding you all righhhtt?D: I really like Kain. It MAKES ME SAD THAT CECIL IS APPARENTLY MORE PREOCCUPIED WITH ROSA to care about his best friend.
I like Rydia. <3 She's able to be strong without being all grrrrl powa.
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Date: 2007-10-02 01:54 am (UTC)Why hello, there! :D Haha, it's always to hear people like my entries and stuff 8D Weeeeeeee
I KNOW man it always bugs me whenever the love interest gets kidnapped and suddenly the hero just forgets about everything else |< YOU MIGHT WANNA DO SOMETHING ABOUT THOSE CRYSTALS, CECIL, SINCE THE WORLD WILL KIND OF BE IN DANGER IF GOLBEZ GETS THEM AND ALL
Yeah, Rydia's cooool 8D It's kind of funny to see a six-year-old with more maturity and strength than most of the adults in this game, heh.
GOD EDWARD STOP CRYING
CECIL STOP RAMBLING WE NEED TO CURE ROSA
STOP ANGSTING AND FOCUS WE NEED TO COME UP WITH A PLAN GOD DO I HAVE TO DO EVERYTHING AROUND HERE
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Date: 2007-10-02 02:14 am (UTC)Kinda like Sora was in Chain of Memories? xD (I started reading those...um. :o like, when you were halfway through, haha)
Rydia's six? :o Wow. Didn't know. I thought she was...older. Like, ten or something. But, there ya go. 8D
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Date: 2007-10-02 08:56 am (UTC)PRECISELY only this isn't quite as sappy and afterschool speacial-y.
Haha, good ol Chain of Memories :B That feels so far away. I WAS YOUNG AND FOOLISH BACK THEN
YUP well that's what I heard, anyway. I COULD BE WRONG but I know she's around that age group :O