UPDATE 11
MACALANIA TEMPLE
-ok beat Seymour. Geez, can’t imagine how difficult that fight would have been had I not grinded as much as I did. He seems a bit OP, no? It’s not even that I wasn’t using strategy, it’s that he gets multiple attacks in a row and they are potentially one hit kills. Lol, typical square tho, tbh. Anyways, past that now, onward...
-the gang gets labeled as the bad guys despite having the sphere as evidence? Seems bizarre that they wouldn’t just show the gusto the sphere video. Maybe they will in the future, we’ll see how things pan out... kind of an overused plot device tho, but I like the idea of being a gang of fugitives lol
-Shiva! I didn’t even use her against Seymour, totally forgot. Whoops. Excited to have her tho
-ok here’s why the cloister trials suck: there is no rhyme or reason to doing anything, it’s all trial and error. If there was more tutorial on what the spheres do and more indication of where they are supposed to go in order to unlock things, that’d make it kind of fun. But as it is, I’m just picking up and placing spheres over and over until something happens. It’s not exactly fun, just time consuming. Either way I got all the things from the trial at least, so I’m happy.
-they destroyed the jyscal sphere!? Lol what, why are he guado suddenly evil? What happened to them following the teachings of yevon now and all that happy horse shit? Are the guado in on some kind of conspiracy? Perhaps those closest to Seymour have some kind of other motive? Otherwise, it doesn’t make sense that they’d destroy it, not yet at least...
-o’akas prices went up
guess I didn’t give him enough Gil in the beginning? Or is that just a natural part of the game? I haven’t bought much from him in general because it just hasn’t been worth it. Oh well
-run tidus! You slow ass POS
-as far as battle is concerned, so far my MVP is Lulu. I need her in nearly every single battle, for her magic. Sometimes I need auron to take out tough guys, I need Wakka for flyers, tidus for fast fiends... but indent always have those fiend types in each battle. But with Lu, I need her magic almost every single battle bc there is always something weak to a certain element. So, I went ahead and put kimahri on a track to pick up black magic abilities with his sphere grid. Hopefully magic keeps proving essential through out the game. I thought about looking up a guide for this decision, but I said eh fuck it, I want to play the game the way I want to, even if it’s not the most efficient. I really prefer to enjoy the game and make my own decisions, the way it’s meant to be done. In subsequent play through me I will use a guide.
-oh great, this yeti mother fucker can also take me out with one hit kills
wtf is with that lol.
-looks like using steal with rikku stops the guado from using auto potion, at least I think. I love when I do things like that in battle. I have this light bulb moment and try it out and voila, it works! Good job on that square
-ok now this is some BULLSHIT! ok check this out, the guado have 1200 HP, I attack with fora for 1297, so he’s dead right? RIGHT!? lol no, he casts protect on this abominable snowman mfer and THEN he dies. Fuck you for that one square
makes zero sense but okay. Hopefully I make it through this fight in one try...
-annnnnnd he on hit kills all my summons too..... tHiS iS fUn
lol
-i could try out all my status effects and stuff, figure out how to thwart his attacks, perhaps protect on chars would help? He’s immune to slow, dark attack didn’t work, and if I waste a turn using scan I could risk all my characters being taken out... not really sure what to do. If he didn’t have one hit hit kills it wouldn’t be as annoying, but he does lol... oh well...
-HAHA dark attack worked the second time! Woo, eat shit yeti bitch!
-oh shit check it out! I got a grand summon right after my dark attack worked, pulled out Ixion (bc my other aeons were dead) hit the yeti and the remaining guado with Thor’s hammer, kill the guado, but asshole casts shell before he dies (again, bullshit), the yeti then gets three attacks IN A ROW (wtf!?) but since he’s blind he misses all three, this also raises Ixion overdrive to max again, I use thirs hammer one more time and he’s dead! Phew, that was close, I was about to rage lol.
Well that’s it for now. Fun boss fight that was kind of clutch at the end, glad I win it tho. Not a fan of the multiple one hit kill attacks in a row, not sure why square thought that was a great idea. But still enjoying the game a lot, and I’m really interested to see where the story is going now that the guado are obviously up to some fuckery.
Wish I had more time to play through. I’m just too busy at the moment so I only get an hour on wednesdays and Sunday mornings. So, unless I find some time befor then, see you guys Sunday!