UPDATE 8
GUADOSALAM
-ok recruiting Rikku was weird af. She just shows up, then they have a random impromptu “girl talk”, then yuna wants her to be a guardian, and it just so happens rikku wants to be a guardian too. Uhhh wtf did I miss something? Lol. That was sudden and bizarre but oh well she’s in the party now. Let’s go!
-oh no rikkus level is shit
why you do dis square? Man that’s really annoying. Spent all that time leveling my guys up and they give me rikku completely under leveled. What the hell
-happy to have steal back in my abilities tho! I love steal and mime characters in FF, it adds so much fun and variety to the battle system.
-ok so turns out rikku sphere grid has a lot of HP spheres at the beginning, so she at least gets her health up to a better stat... and I’m only stealing with her at the moment anyway so...
-racked up 20 mega potions and a bunch of hi potions, plus a couple of other various steal items like Antarctic winds, stamina tablet, sleeping powder, dragon scale and poison fang. Mixed a couple Grenada’s that I stolen the beginning of the game and did some decent damage with rikkus overdrive. Looks like she is going to be a fun character!
-just now entering guadosalam...
-customize weapons and armor!? Noice! Forgot about this. What a nice surprise. Seems stealing items might pay off here... can I buy some of these items I need to customize as well? Or are they gathered mostly from stealing? Or are they found by other means?
-Finally won a blitzball game! Without tidus sphere shot it would be near impossible. Was able to get a few lucky high shots thanks to the RNG for the sphere shot. I still think stacking the odds so heavily against the player was a bad move on squares part. The game really can be fun, but it’s so punishing that it sucks the fun out of it. Hopefully I can win a few more along the way. As it is I’m in last place by a country mile compared to the others teams in the league. Not much hope of catching up at this point. Once again, it is punishing, lol... but oh well, just a mini game that is mostly pointless afaik
-talking to the guadosalam residents, seems they are very Yevon indoctrinated. They also view the al bhed and their machines as sacreligious. Interesting...
-as interesting as Maechen’s voice is... it also kind of annoys me. It’s almost like they had the microphone too close to the VAs mouth and you can hear all the P’s, T’s and D’s really pop on the mic, rolling of R’s and more a little too clearly, and it’s almost like I can see the spiddle forming on the corner of his lips... another pet peeve I guess. Thankfully, I really enjoy the information he has so I look forward to talking to him in each area.
-story wise, I’m noticing a theme of unity here. The al bhed repenting for using machina and going back to teachings of yevon. The party reuniting with the dead, Seymour and yuna getting married to help unify Spira, and more. Seems the maesters of yevon are hiding something and also trying to bring everything together at the same time. what for? Power? Are they legit trying to bring peace? I doubt it. Seymour also seems sinister, like he had other motives for wanting to marry yuna. The bit about tidus mom and jecht is still a little unclear. I will need more story to keep unraveling what’s going on, but I am certainly intrigued
-I think I’m about the head to the Thunder plains
-Yuna is hiding something, wonder what that things lord jyscal dropped was exactly?
-and a Macarena joke from tidus!
wtf that was random. And then he goes ,”Ayyyeee” like they do in the song. Wow lol, blast from the past
-ok I’m saving in the Inn before I head to the Thunder plains. So is this where I want to dodge lightning 200 times? Any tips? Items I should equip? I literally don’t remember anything about this lol. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
Gonna stop there and wait for some advice on Thunder plains. I got the day off so I will probably be doing more later today.