{6:20} | Map Completion: 15.6% | Finished up The Priestess, Abducted and did some reorganizing of my units before work. |

{06:53} | Map Complete: 15.7% | Trophy Unlocked: Whispers in the Streets |

Finished Chapter 4 on hard. |

Five hours in and I can already tell this is a story I can safely check myself out of, but loop of expanding reclaimed territory, recruiting new units, and building up each party is one that I'm going to be happy to get dizzy in. Feels like Normal Difficulty might be too easy, but don't want to toot my horn just yet during these early hours. |

Trophy Unlocked: Ready Set Yo! |

Was about to just start the game from the top and do my clean up while doing a hard mode play-through... until I realized that you should be level 70 for hard mode, and I finished at... level 48. Whoops. Finished clean-up for the grasslands and working through the Junon region. Didn't realize I played all the way through without getting a single one of the new summons. Or that there seems to be some Yu-Gi-Oh stuff going on around Queen's Blood. Maybe there will be come cool stuff here that I missed. | Trophies Unlocked: Director of Regional Intelligence / You Work For Me Now |

Trophies Unlocked: Survivor 5 / Giant Slayer / Danger 1 |

Inspired by finishing Rebirth, started the work of cleaning up trophies for part one. Started up NG+ on hard mode and worked through chapters one through three. Hit level 50 in the process. So far, only the scorpion boss in chapter one gave me much issue, but I'm sure that feeling is not going to last. | Trophy Unlocked: Building Character |

Quest Completion: 83% | Picking this game back up to vibe and progress to the platinum trophy. Lightning is close to being both nine stars and with max stats. Finished Chocobo's Mystery Dungeon and FFII's quests to put myself over the 10 series quest mark, and now just bouncing between remaining games to pick off those peskier quests. | Trophies Unlocked: A Deeper Harmony / CollectaCard Master |

Fire Emblem, Ogre Battle 64, and Final Fantasy XII just had a child together, and I'm the daddy!!! | Trophies Unlocked: The Unicorn Ring / Three Birds with One Stone / Four Birds With One Stone / Nascent Days |

The aspect of this game that so beautifully places it in the era that it wants to invoke is that quick fade to black during a scene transition that so many PS1 games did. This rules. | Trophies Unlocked: Perfect Prologue / Everyday I'm Buskin' / Together Forever / Cosmic Aspirations / Steeeeerike! |

Trophies Unlocked: Critically Acclaimed / Hearts Out, Dukes Up / I'm Here for You / Confluence of Worlds |

Trophy Unlocked: You're Not Murasaki |

Trophy Unlocked: Stars Fell From My Eyes |

Trophies Unlocked: Crying Out

Trophies Unlocked: Worth the Weight? / Intelligence Specialist |

Trophies Unlocked: 7th, Assemble! / The President's Commendation / Card Royalty / Cryptic Cameo / Fun in the Sun / The Price of Progress |

Trophies Unlocked: Exploitative Practices / A Materia World / Intelligence Aide / Break It Down / New Blood / Caching In / Entering New Markets / Unfettered Friendship / I Brake for Chocobos / Expert Ex-kweh-vator / No "I" in "Synergy" / Founder's Bonus / Swampy Situation / Make Mine Black |

Trophies Unlocked: Staggered Learning / I Got This / Never Meet Your Heroes / Fledgling Summoner / Weapons 101 / Team Player /

Trophies Unlocked: Gatherer 1 / Survivor 1 / Hungry / Survivor 2 / Gatherer 2 / Robust / Lumberjack / Bourgeoisie / Scavenger / Rookie |