Historical (Super Famicom) Data
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ghoulmouseFinished my Four Job Fiesta run. I got to Exdeath at level 30, which is on the low side (having access to !Flee will do that to you), so I ended up grinding a little even though I hate to do that. Feels like an admission of defeat (I have beaten Exdeath at even lower levels then that in the past!). I grinded (ground???) up to 40 which I think was probably unnecessary -- a couple of levels makes a huge difference in FFV, and I absolutely chewed through the final battle in one go at level 40 with !Zeninage, the Chicken Knife + !Mug, the Magic Lamp, and a Beastmaster with a captured Rukh and an Air Knife (releasing the monster casts Breath Wing, which deals damage based on the target's HP and is Wind element, easily deals 9999 to every part of Neo Exdeath).
Something about throwing money at Exdeath until he dies is really funny.
Between 4JF and Octopath Traveler I've been thinking a whole lot about turnbased RPG design.
In other fandom news, Suruga-ya.com had a day of free shipping including international, so I grabbed a bunch of old FFIV stuff -- 3 guidebooks released along with the original game and Vol 1 of the 2008 light novel. My Japanese isn't great but I just so happen to be friends with a handful of pro translators so I might enlist their help to go through the book a bit and post anything interesting. The setting guidebook has a translation online but there isn't one of the light novel, to my knowledge. It's got some very interesing unique art as well -- a scene of Edward and Anna's wedding (?!) for example. The guidebooks have a lot of cute hand-drawn pictures of enemy formations, key art of different items, and of course the setting info that tells you wild shit like "Edward's family invented money" and "everyone born in Troia is female" and "there are only 100 Eblanese people left in the entire world". Also, the absolute shittiest reproductions of pixel art that the early 90s could possibly have served up in an official published book.
Wondering if I should make a mid-2000s-style Character Shrine so I can compare all the different official renderings of Edward, I don't think he's been depicted wearing the same outfit twice. Sometimes he's wearing a different outfit depending upon which menu you're looking at within the same game.
Also got the anniversary Song of Saya light novel, which is mostly just a piece of Fandom Merch rather than a source of unique canon stuff (the text seems to be pretty similar to the VN, from what I can read of the book and recall of the game's specifics, with only a couple illustrations). But, nice to have.
And I just realized I have never posted pet pics on DW, and I firmly believe everyone should look at him, so here's some pictures of my lionhead rabbit Pazuzu:
He was named after the demon in The Exorcist. For good reason, rabbits are inherently evil entities and he is an absolute monster (cute tho).
Something about throwing money at Exdeath until he dies is really funny.
Between 4JF and Octopath Traveler I've been thinking a whole lot about turnbased RPG design.
In other fandom news, Suruga-ya.com had a day of free shipping including international, so I grabbed a bunch of old FFIV stuff -- 3 guidebooks released along with the original game and Vol 1 of the 2008 light novel. My Japanese isn't great but I just so happen to be friends with a handful of pro translators so I might enlist their help to go through the book a bit and post anything interesting. The setting guidebook has a translation online but there isn't one of the light novel, to my knowledge. It's got some very interesing unique art as well -- a scene of Edward and Anna's wedding (?!) for example. The guidebooks have a lot of cute hand-drawn pictures of enemy formations, key art of different items, and of course the setting info that tells you wild shit like "Edward's family invented money" and "everyone born in Troia is female" and "there are only 100 Eblanese people left in the entire world". Also, the absolute shittiest reproductions of pixel art that the early 90s could possibly have served up in an official published book.
Wondering if I should make a mid-2000s-style Character Shrine so I can compare all the different official renderings of Edward, I don't think he's been depicted wearing the same outfit twice. Sometimes he's wearing a different outfit depending upon which menu you're looking at within the same game.
Also got the anniversary Song of Saya light novel, which is mostly just a piece of Fandom Merch rather than a source of unique canon stuff (the text seems to be pretty similar to the VN, from what I can read of the book and recall of the game's specifics, with only a couple illustrations). But, nice to have.
And I just realized I have never posted pet pics on DW, and I firmly believe everyone should look at him, so here's some pictures of my lionhead rabbit Pazuzu:
He was named after the demon in The Exorcist. For good reason, rabbits are inherently evil entities and he is an absolute monster (cute tho).
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Date: 2023-09-04 05:13 pm (UTC)God, FF4's worldbuilding is sometimes so entirely fucking drunk.
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Date: 2023-09-05 12:29 am (UTC)And yes he is a very fluffy bnuuy I love him.
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Date: 2023-09-06 11:27 pm (UTC)