FFXIII: the "Rec Me Fic" edition

[first_seventhe]

So I said in a comment that I actually expect FFXIII to become a decent writing fandom for me because of the holes and confusion in said story. That's pretty true: I write more for fandoms that didn't necessarily feel complete or sensical to me (FFIV, what with the LUNAR WHALE and all; FFVIII's plot holes and weirdly focused storytelling) than I do

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[first_seventhe]

Can we take a minute and talk about HOW ACTUALLY FUCKING HARD THIS GAME COULD BE??? And I don't even mean like challenging -- I love when a game actually challenges me and makes me use a strategy more significant than "Bum Rush the shit out of it" -- I just mean like, you make ONE mistake in choosing a paradigm, or take ONE SECOND too long to heal your party leader, or - or whatever, the game was at points unfairly hard, I thought.

ANYWAY.

1) That fic sounds awesome, and even if it's unfinished, I'm gonna take a breeze through it

2) OH GOSH he had that "instant chain" ability, I think? That's what I used him for, anyway, because Blitz hits like 1 million times so even if the chance is a low % if you Blitzed enough you would probably hit the "random instant chain", and then instant stagger, and instant dead turtle. I abused Vanille's Death skill on those because I had 'accidentally' over-levelled my Crystarium and got their ultimate skills at a pretty early level, but Sazh's thing was pretty bad ass also. I don't know why everyone hates on him.

[first_seventhe]

BARTHANDELUS!!! I am prejudiced forever, because the first time I fought him I seriously played for like six hours trying to beat the fucker (don't laugh) and dying, absolutely horribly, until I scoured the Internet and found a different strategy than the one I was using and beat him in one try with the new setup. BARTHANDELUS IS AN ASSHOLE. but I do love how personalized his battles were, with people screaming his name. XD

But maybe that's the thing -- that's a great example of what is cool and what is NOT COOL about the FFXIII battle system. I love that there are strategies for bosses, and I even like that the bosses are all fuck hard, because you can do the free Retry if you lose, and that's okay with me. What's NOT OKAY is that every boss has EIGHT MILLION HP and so every battle takes a thousand hours, and so if you make a mistake and die you're going to be up past your bedtime trying again and work is going to suck tomorrow.

I kind of do want to play around in the post game world, mainly because I adored the battle system once I figured it out and going up against some fucking hard bosses sounds like fun to me.