RoyalGhost
What a cool game! Elden Ring is fine but I would much rather From take their considerable production values at this point and do more cool stuff that's different from what they've been doing for the last decade. They did do that thankfully with AC6, And also this! For me 2019 was the year of Sekiro, where I kept plucking away at it. That last boss is a real monster. Highly recommend.
2015
It's incredible. You don't have to be weird about it. And like, be weird and enjoy it but you know what I mean. I'm glad it's not 2016 anymore I guess. There are lots of really good rpgs. People should play more of them. Toby Fox is very upfront about his influences and I think they are games that are at least as good as this one.
Anyway, this game is absolutely worth playing. It is very short and quite well written. The music completely owns and I think remains my favourite part about it.
Anyway, this game is absolutely worth playing. It is very short and quite well written. The music completely owns and I think remains my favourite part about it.
2023
Can't believe they made a bad main entry Final Fantasy, but here we are. What a load of dogshit. I hated this game so much that I started playing every Final Fantasy from 1 in response to it. I am currently half way through 6 and having a delightful time. Square-Enix please make jrpgs I'm begging you.
The Abnormal Mapping podcast episode on it sums up why far better than I ever could.
The Abnormal Mapping podcast episode on it sums up why far better than I ever could.
2021
Fine start to the series. Worth playing but improved on a lot as time goes on.
2021
This year Final Fantasy 16 came out. I thought it was godawful. And so, while I have most of the rest of the series under my belt at some point, I decided to play every main series Final Fantasy game to date. FF1 a totally fine time. FFII though? Just became one of my favourite games.
I love the levelling up system, the in battle sprite work is all impressive and wild looking. The story has more going on than I thought it would. And there's just some really cool set pieces! At the time of writing this I'm about half way through FFVI and this game probably going to remain my favourite thing to come out of my spiteful project.
I love the levelling up system, the in battle sprite work is all impressive and wild looking. The story has more going on than I thought it would. And there's just some really cool set pieces! At the time of writing this I'm about half way through FFVI and this game probably going to remain my favourite thing to come out of my spiteful project.
2021
A very good video game. Music is on point, Uematsu is really coming into his own here. The job system is excellently utilized in the design of the game where jobs are better for certain things, and the solution that could drastically change up the difficulty of a given boss fight. This game rewards you for playing it smartly, and is probably on the higher end of the difficulty scale for any Final Fantasy.
Fine game. Deeply overrated.
2017
I did really like this game. Very easy to give in to astonishment to when you don't have much experience in the genre. With distance and experience I think this game is still really cool and doing interesting things with gameplay as a storytelling medium almost nothing at that scale of development was really even gesturing at in 2017.
But it's also just a very stock story I have seen done better. Most of its influences are just better than it. And I mean that's fine. It's still a good game.
But it's also just a very stock story I have seen done better. Most of its influences are just better than it. And I mean that's fine. It's still a good game.
1995
All time banger.
1990
GAME OF GAMES IT'S SUPER MARIO WORLD STAND UP, SIT DOWN CHILDREN. MARIO'S TAKIN YOU TO SCHOOL
1994
Wonderful time. If you can't enjoy this I don't want to know you.
2002
To me this is the best 3d Mario game. Improves on SM64 in a ton of ways and I love Fludd. It's a game full of really interesting platforming challenges and vibrant environments full of bullshit to navigate through. I just love it. There's a freedom of movement to Mario in this game that is really just delightful. Feed that technicolour paint sludge to me with a spoon. Mario Sunshine rules.
Love these games. They're just so charming and the first one has the best music.
2015
Not even the worst game I played for 300 hours. Fuck this game. Also, Starfield sucks too.
2001
This is my favourite game of all time. There's really no question. A combination of hitting me at an age where it was massively influential to my taste and just being an incredible game on its own.
It's beautiful and tragic and vibrant. It's the pinnacle of Squaresoft as a developer right at the end of a decade of straight bangers. Every time I return to this game I have a wonderful time. It just makes me happy.
It's beautiful and tragic and vibrant. It's the pinnacle of Squaresoft as a developer right at the end of a decade of straight bangers. Every time I return to this game I have a wonderful time. It just makes me happy.