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Okay, so I’m all caught up to where I left off on my old Let’s Play Final Fantasy X liveblog.

It’s been so long since I posted those that I’d almost forgotten some of the themes I was trying to highlight during my playthrough.

Lemme recap some of these themes. [SPOILERS!]
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• Final Fantasy VII is a party of people who lie to themselves to get by.
  
• Final Fantasy X is a party of people who find different ways to deal with grief and loss.

...inspired by pondering Mintywolf's current FFX PlaythroughWe were talking about the scene between Auron and Tidus on the docks when Auron tells T. the truth about his father, T. loses ( Read more... )

You probably remember most of these anyway, but when I glanced over my last post, I noticed that the names are starting to pile up.

( FFVII Who's Who )

I think you've explained this before, but now I'm all muddled again ( Read more... )

...saving this here because Tumblr's tagging and archive system SUCKS.

Why one needs a parachute in even-numbered Final Fantasy games.

This entry was originally posted at http://auronlu.dreamwidth.org/240869.html, where it has
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I wrote a "Before I start playing" post Saturday night, collecting my thoughts about the game. So that's here.

Final Fantasy VII Playthrough: Introduction.

And tonight, while putting together notes for my first playing session, I had a fit of PULLING IT ALL TOGETHER.

Final Fantasy VII: MORE OF SAME about how FFVII is actually exactly like all ( Read more... )

Crossposted from my Tumblr (ack, when did that start happening?!)

Square-Enix had a livestream interview at E3 today with producers Kitase and Toriyama. Here's the original video:

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Their interview starts at about 05:15 and runs for an hour.

I have written out a complete transcription hereAddresses a lot of juicy stuff, but fails to answer two ( Read more... )

Dissidia is Crossover Crack, but I haven't yet played it. However, even without Dissidia as an excuse, there's a lot of Final Fantasy characters who could collide in intriguing ways with minimal fiddling. Sev and Rina's playthrough of ALL THE FINAL FANTASY games in
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Reposted from Tumblr, because Tumblr blows as a place to talk about anything or find anything you posted earlier.

Note that some of my comments derive from backstory provided by the Ultimania guide rather than from the game itself. Ultimania is a supplement put out by Square employees, rather than what really happened or what was said in-game. So ( Read more... )