WOOT!
Yay me!
Today, I beat FFVII.
Complete with breeding myself a gold chocobo, doing everybody's sidequests, and beating both Weapons (dear mercy Emerald was hard.) My Cloud went out with Tifa (which proves that who you have in battle really doesn't effect that decision, because I barely used her at all) but I was glad of that and doubly so when later events in the game proved her to be entirely deserving of our heroic scatterbrained chocobo-head.
Figured out late in the first disc that the limit breaks have "levels" which need to be set.
Oh.
Figured out in the third disc that the materia has such useful features as "arrange" and "exchange" meaning I did not need to laboriously plink out each undesired bauble, then find it again in the jumbled mess that was my materia collection.
... Right.
Not really sure how this changes my relationship to the fandom-- although I have a vague sense that my opinions have more weight now.
Things I learned:
-I like Nanaki. I think more should have been done with him later in the game.
-I also like Cait Sith. He played a fairly central role for a character that surely has gotten glossed over in the later Squeenix works.
-I despise Cid and wish he would die. Previously, I had little to say about him one way or another.
-Vincent is hot. (Knew that before but it bears saying with more emphasis now.)
-My Aeris bears a disturbingly strong resemblance to the game's Tifa-- not the game's Aeris. (Oh well. Wha'd you expect from an AC fangirl, anyhow?)
Now to the much-neglected other aspects of life...
Today, I beat FFVII.
Complete with breeding myself a gold chocobo, doing everybody's sidequests, and beating both Weapons (dear mercy Emerald was hard.) My Cloud went out with Tifa (which proves that who you have in battle really doesn't effect that decision, because I barely used her at all) but I was glad of that and doubly so when later events in the game proved her to be entirely deserving of our heroic scatterbrained chocobo-head.
Figured out late in the first disc that the limit breaks have "levels" which need to be set.
Oh.
Figured out in the third disc that the materia has such useful features as "arrange" and "exchange" meaning I did not need to laboriously plink out each undesired bauble, then find it again in the jumbled mess that was my materia collection.
... Right.
Not really sure how this changes my relationship to the fandom-- although I have a vague sense that my opinions have more weight now.
Things I learned:
-I like Nanaki. I think more should have been done with him later in the game.
-I also like Cait Sith. He played a fairly central role for a character that surely has gotten glossed over in the later Squeenix works.
-I despise Cid and wish he would die. Previously, I had little to say about him one way or another.
-Vincent is hot. (Knew that before but it bears saying with more emphasis now.)
-My Aeris bears a disturbingly strong resemblance to the game's Tifa-- not the game's Aeris. (Oh well. Wha'd you expect from an AC fangirl, anyhow?)
Now to the much-neglected other aspects of life...