These days I feel like I've been zombified too.
Sunday, 6 September 2009 09:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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ff_exchange compiled here. I shall be spending many, many hours reading through things in that list. ♥
Also, the list of Chocobo Down (prompts that weren't fulfilled for the round) is here, and it's a pretty awesome list as well. I might try write something! Maybe!
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So. I decided to randomly open a save of Final Fantasy X I had on the memory card, just for the heck of it. It also had something to do with all the research that went into the FFEX fic -- it made me realise how much I missed the game.
The save was inside of the Zanarkand Dome, before meeting Yunalesca. I had turned off the subtitles, so this time I was just watching the cutscenes. (Subtitles always distract me. Even when I know what's being said, or I understand the language that's being spoken, I still try to read them.) All the ones with Auron, Braska and Jecht were great. I had forgotten how desperate Auron was at that point.
I had also forgotten how much I hated the Cloister of Trials. There was no "You see a sphere-shaped recess" here, but the tetris blocks made go argh.
Went against the Spectral Keeper -- not too bad. Got the Game Over screen once -- Kimahri got beserked and was the only one left standing, so I couldn't revive the other two. Re-equipped everyone, sent them back in, managed to kill the wyrm. Hooray. Went to see Yunalesca.
Ended up giggling when I first saw her because my first thought was that she had just came back from a beach party -- she obviously was still wearing her bikini when she went to fight Sin. Watched the cutscenes. Yuna's very brave. Cheered at Auron's speech. Went against Yunalesca.
The first two forms weren't that hard. She kept zombifying everyone and I just fixed them up. And then came the third form and . . . Mega-Death! (haha megadeath) and everyone died. Sigh. There was a reason for all that zombification. The end. Only not, because I got annoyed at this point (the characters were not levelled up much -- Yuna didn't even have Holy at that point and didn't even need Mega-Death to keel over) but I wanted to beat Yunalesca so I went and re-equipped everyone (Yuna's ring had something that made her immune to Death -- how about that for irony) and listened to the speech again and let Auron become a zombie so he doesn't die when Death is cast on him (how about that for irony -- oh, I already said that) and everyone survived and Yunalesca . . . disappeared. It's funny she doesn't think herself as dead. "If I die," says Yunalesca, "so does the Final Aeon. And with it, Spira's only hope." She obviously didn't go to the Farplane; I think she was hanging around in Via Infinito in X-2.
So. Boss battles done. I didn't really want to go back to Bevelle, so I had the characters walk back from the Zanarkand Ruins towards Besaid (though when I stopped, I was only at Mushroom Rock) and talk to NPCs. It was interesting!
There's a man standing at the gorge, near the thorn, and he's there even when you first arrive at the Calm Lands. If you talk to him, he tells you -- I'm paraphrasing, I didn't jot this down -- since summoners rarely ever make it to the Calm Lands there is no one to send the dead, so the villages in the Calm Lands throw their dead into the gorge and they turn into fiends that roam the gorge bottom. Made me shudder, that. Someone should write a fic about this!
I went to Djose Temple and the party got chased away by a bunch of Crusaders. It was rather funny -- Tidus just gets pushed towards the edge of the screen. I never realised that this would happen! In Macalania Temple the party was chased away by Guados and you'll have to engage in battles with them like the time when you ran away after first killing Seymour. I haven't visited the other temples yet. I guess this gets triggered if you try to visit between escaping Via Purifico and coming back to Bevelle and talking to Shelinda and Mika later. I know if you visit later, you'd be able to talk to the fayth. Guadosalam's sequence is pretty much the same whether you visit before or after you go back to Bevelle, I think -- you have Tromell dispairing and the Guado being all gloomy.
There's an NPC couple on the banks of the Moonflow. They said they moved from Kilika to Bevelle to get closer to Yevon but then realised it was all chaos and they've decided to go back to Kilika. I'm pretty sure the same couple was in Kilika earlier in the game -- they said something about trying to find a place without Sin.
And that's it! Maybe I'll continue playing this later.
ff_exchange compiled here. I shall be spending many, many hours reading through things in that list. ♥Also, the list of Chocobo Down (prompts that weren't fulfilled for the round) is here, and it's a pretty awesome list as well. I might try write something! Maybe!
---
So. I decided to randomly open a save of Final Fantasy X I had on the memory card, just for the heck of it. It also had something to do with all the research that went into the FFEX fic -- it made me realise how much I missed the game.
The save was inside of the Zanarkand Dome, before meeting Yunalesca. I had turned off the subtitles, so this time I was just watching the cutscenes. (Subtitles always distract me. Even when I know what's being said, or I understand the language that's being spoken, I still try to read them.) All the ones with Auron, Braska and Jecht were great. I had forgotten how desperate Auron was at that point.
I had also forgotten how much I hated the Cloister of Trials. There was no "You see a sphere-shaped recess" here, but the tetris blocks made go argh.
Went against the Spectral Keeper -- not too bad. Got the Game Over screen once -- Kimahri got beserked and was the only one left standing, so I couldn't revive the other two. Re-equipped everyone, sent them back in, managed to kill the wyrm. Hooray. Went to see Yunalesca.
Ended up giggling when I first saw her because my first thought was that she had just came back from a beach party -- she obviously was still wearing her bikini when she went to fight Sin. Watched the cutscenes. Yuna's very brave. Cheered at Auron's speech. Went against Yunalesca.
The first two forms weren't that hard. She kept zombifying everyone and I just fixed them up. And then came the third form and . . . Mega-Death! (haha megadeath) and everyone died. Sigh. There was a reason for all that zombification. The end. Only not, because I got annoyed at this point (the characters were not levelled up much -- Yuna didn't even have Holy at that point and didn't even need Mega-Death to keel over) but I wanted to beat Yunalesca so I went and re-equipped everyone (Yuna's ring had something that made her immune to Death -- how about that for irony) and listened to the speech again and let Auron become a zombie so he doesn't die when Death is cast on him (how about that for irony -- oh, I already said that) and everyone survived and Yunalesca . . . disappeared. It's funny she doesn't think herself as dead. "If I die," says Yunalesca, "so does the Final Aeon. And with it, Spira's only hope." She obviously didn't go to the Farplane; I think she was hanging around in Via Infinito in X-2.
So. Boss battles done. I didn't really want to go back to Bevelle, so I had the characters walk back from the Zanarkand Ruins towards Besaid (though when I stopped, I was only at Mushroom Rock) and talk to NPCs. It was interesting!
There's a man standing at the gorge, near the thorn, and he's there even when you first arrive at the Calm Lands. If you talk to him, he tells you -- I'm paraphrasing, I didn't jot this down -- since summoners rarely ever make it to the Calm Lands there is no one to send the dead, so the villages in the Calm Lands throw their dead into the gorge and they turn into fiends that roam the gorge bottom. Made me shudder, that. Someone should write a fic about this!
I went to Djose Temple and the party got chased away by a bunch of Crusaders. It was rather funny -- Tidus just gets pushed towards the edge of the screen. I never realised that this would happen! In Macalania Temple the party was chased away by Guados and you'll have to engage in battles with them like the time when you ran away after first killing Seymour. I haven't visited the other temples yet. I guess this gets triggered if you try to visit between escaping Via Purifico and coming back to Bevelle and talking to Shelinda and Mika later. I know if you visit later, you'd be able to talk to the fayth. Guadosalam's sequence is pretty much the same whether you visit before or after you go back to Bevelle, I think -- you have Tromell dispairing and the Guado being all gloomy.
There's an NPC couple on the banks of the Moonflow. They said they moved from Kilika to Bevelle to get closer to Yevon but then realised it was all chaos and they've decided to go back to Kilika. I'm pretty sure the same couple was in Kilika earlier in the game -- they said something about trying to find a place without Sin.
And that's it! Maybe I'll continue playing this later.
