I should've timed this because i forgot this is one of those CRINGE games that doesn't save after you beat the game. so the 2 hours is an approximation

Anyway. I was worried sephiroth would be a pain in the ass, but it turns out that with how stats work in this game and how many defense ups i used it was fine and i beat him first try. So that just left beating the game, which was, naturally, even easier.

Shame the PC port sucks and doesn't stop your pc from going to sleep while its open, so while i'm sitting back and watching cutscenes it just blips out and then that breaks the framerate of the FMV videos.

can't wait to... start 358/2 days from scratch because i lost my savefile. ugh. I'll play it on a real system this time, it'll be better that way, even if the resolution sucks.

finished up the grinding in agrabah, game crashed after I did some synthesis stuff, so now i gotta... do that again...

finished grinding to 99 lucid shards in monstro, i'm gonna grind to 99 soothing shards in agrabah, and then not be able to use them all because of how expensive orichalcum is. at that point, I will be done simply because of how much of a pain in the ass it is.

the one good thing about grinding defense ups is that they don't require materials from the special enemies, which makes it slightly easier to grind. but also you need so god damn much and orichalcum costs 5000 fucking money (sorry, munny).
Its ridiculous.
AP and strength ups are even worse because they require mythril, and that is nearly fucking impossible to grind, because you're either grinding 1% drops from very select enemies or grinding a special enemy for materials to MAKE mythril.

synthesis material grinding makes me want to grind my head into a fine paste

christ i forgot how hard sephiroth is, I might HAVE to grind for defense ups, and i didn't want to have to do that.
Also i did all the gummi missions except the last end of the world one because its a massive pain in the ass and i'm not entirely sure how to do it

hit level 100, finished the synthesis, now i just gotta do gummi ship, fight sephiroth, and then beat the game. oh god.

short little material grinding session. level 96! very close to 99!

how do i keep playing 4 hours on the dot wtf

4 hours on the dot somehow. synthesis material grinding :(

frankly disappointed i played this game for 11 hours in a single day

After having no issues for the entirety of this playthough, I jumped into a call with friends and 3 times in a half hour got some weird bug where the screen just went black aside from the hud, and the game became unplayable. I gave up after the third time

uhhhhhhh

Woke up and felt an overwhelming urge to die in proud mode.
woo masochism, my favorite

100% proud mode complete.
Despite all the issues with this game, it's still extremely fun, and despite some of the tonal issues (mostly from disney and mickey mouse's massive mipples), the ending is still emotional, even despite knowing what happens next.
358/2 days next. the DS version, not the cutscenes.

Almost there... I got Ultima Weapon, which also means all the synthesis items are done.
Level 86.
All that is left is optional bosses, and getting to level 100, which is honestly really easy even tho i went for early game levelling, like... i think its still faster than early game levelling.
not doing all AP, because of how expensive AP ups are, fuck that. grinding the items i need for those (for other reasons) was bad enough, not doing that x1000.
the big problem is mythril, because there are 2 ways of getting mythril:
craft it (with a lot of extremely time consuming to get items)
or with bambi, in one place, which i don't even think i can do because there's not enough enemies to proc bambi's third item.
AND you need 4 mythril per AP up. 4!!
so yeah, not doing that.

soon i will be free!

Was hoping to beat, or at least come really close to beating the game today, but RNG decided that i would never get the right enemies to spawn, and if i did, they would never drop their items.
despite going for early level curve i still feel like i'm levelling pretty damn quickly past level 50.
around level 80 now, grinding for the last synthesis items and then its optional bosses (and maybe grinding items for ap ups and strength/defense ups?)
not sure if it'll be over tomorrow (i hope it is), but i'm definitely getting there.

Beat Kurt and Death. It's not technically called Death but thats what it is.
Fuck Death.
Kurt Zisa is tedious and hard, but fun, would fit more in a Dark Souls game (had they existed at this point), but overall is p good
Death, on the other hand, is just tedious. it is a test in patience. Your friends serve to feed you ethers and thats it, they basically cannot help in any other way and most of the time them "helping" is worse.
The entire boss is just using stop on the doom clock once every minute (doom, like it or hate it in final fantasy, especially sucks here, and this is the only place where it shows up), doing minimal damage to the boss, and then hiding behind a wall. thats it. its not hard, just tedious. you get 3 hits on the boss before it becomes invulnerable for a short time. you can only hit it in the heart (which has a weird hitbox), and the heart has 4 different colors; red, yellow, blue, and white.
red, yellow and blue are for their corresponding magic types, and white is physical.
you get 3 hits.
and then it becomes invincible again.
its not a hard fight, Kurt Zisa took longer, its just annoying. you can't even really have donald with you to do magic occasionally because its more reliable to do it yourself, AND the game forces you to have peter pan with you. any mana spent that isn't YOUR mana is essentially wasted mana.

I also beat the Hades cup (pt 1, got to Hades in the solo cup as well, but then died) and went crazy doing some of the stupid gummi missions which are fucking ridiculously hard near the end of the game. the late game missions are essentially: stop playing the game, DON'T pick stuff up, DON'T destroy obstacles, etc.
it sucks.
but i'm almost done, after i do Hades cup solo and time trial (oh god) and the gummi missions, its off to End of the World... to grind crafting materials.
AND THEN, after ALL THAT, its time to REGULAR GRIND. LEVEL 100 BABY WOOOO.
luckily i'm already at level 65 and I can get xp boosters.

oh... and uh... i have to do the gold and platinum cup... oh no... i have to do sephiroth... on proud...FUCK

forgot how fucking stupid kurt zisa was.

a lot of encounter grinding to try and get white mushrooms.

what was supposed to be a "nice" ""relaxing"" KH1 proud mode playthrough is now a 100% proud mode playthrough.
well shit

My cue to go to bed was the game crashing. Worth?

taking a break from game clearing by... playing KH1 Proud mode... hoo boy.