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☆ Had work off yesterday since I worked the weekend, so I used pretty much all my free time to play Final Fantasy XVI. That's right, I finally unboxed my PS5! That alone was more trouble than it should have been, given that the little plastic legs needed to get it to stand horizontally WEREN'T WITH THE REST OF THE SUPPLIES and were in fact in a totally different part of the box that I would have thrown out if not for Reddit. So that was an excellent packaging choice. What's everyone's favorite PlayStation design? I think we peaked with the PS2 thanks for coming to my TED talk.
Anyway, FFXVI. I've only gotten as far as the Garuda fight and now Clive and Jill are on their way back to Rosaria. I'm enjoying it so far, it hasn't quite caught my interest as much as my fave FFs yet, but I'm curious to see where the story goes. My main complaints are that it's not turn-based, which isn't bad I just like turn-based FFs (I have the accessories equipped that basically just let you button mash square and you win), and that I am having a weirdly hard time keeping all the different countries/factions/groups that are fighting each other straight. Like WHO are all these people. And one of my fave FF games is FFXII so like I can handle convoluted fantasy politics lmao. I think I'm sorting it out as I go but it's just like. Everyone's soldiers look exactly the same. Also everyone's bad accents are making me miss FFXII. 😔
This makes it sound like I don't like it sjdfhksjhdf but I do! I've just gotta get further in... I've gotta bounce between this and Octopath 2 which I still haven't beaten, oops. I shouldn't have started FFXVI until I did, but what can I say, I have poor decision making skills. And with FFVII Rebirth coming out soon...
Did anyone watch the new trailer that released with the demo? The most important takeaways: Barret sailor suit, Tifa and Aerith cute beach outfits, SOME GAME THAT LOOKS LIKE TRIPLE TRIAD, the dolphin, seeing my beautiful husbands Cid and Vincent, also Cissnei seems to be there for some reason, plus Roche is back to be weird at Cloud. ♥ And there was some plot stuff I guess but that's less important. I always pretend I don't care about FFVII as much as my faves but it's all lies, I love my stupid children...
☆ Speaking of watching things, I also watched this video by Mina Le about third places and friendships that I thought was really interesting. She does a lot of videos about fashion history, media fashion, pop culture, beauty trends, etc. that I think is fun to learn about so I definitely recommend her channel in general. This video discussed a bunch of different stuff about the lack of third places in modern life, how this affects building community, social media as a substitute 'third place' and the difficulty of maintaining friendships, and some other related topics tying in to all that. Interesting stuff to consider these days.
☆ I started writing up my January book reviews but they got kind of wordy so I think I'm going to just drop them in a separate post. I also finally bought paid time for this journal so I spent like the last three days just gathering and organizing and uploading icons lmao. Kinda surprised how hard it is to fill 150 spaces but that just means I'll have to keep hunting for more!!
Anyway, FFXVI. I've only gotten as far as the Garuda fight and now Clive and Jill are on their way back to Rosaria. I'm enjoying it so far, it hasn't quite caught my interest as much as my fave FFs yet, but I'm curious to see where the story goes. My main complaints are that it's not turn-based, which isn't bad I just like turn-based FFs (I have the accessories equipped that basically just let you button mash square and you win), and that I am having a weirdly hard time keeping all the different countries/factions/groups that are fighting each other straight. Like WHO are all these people. And one of my fave FF games is FFXII so like I can handle convoluted fantasy politics lmao. I think I'm sorting it out as I go but it's just like. Everyone's soldiers look exactly the same. Also everyone's bad accents are making me miss FFXII. 😔
This makes it sound like I don't like it sjdfhksjhdf but I do! I've just gotta get further in... I've gotta bounce between this and Octopath 2 which I still haven't beaten, oops. I shouldn't have started FFXVI until I did, but what can I say, I have poor decision making skills. And with FFVII Rebirth coming out soon...
Did anyone watch the new trailer that released with the demo? The most important takeaways: Barret sailor suit, Tifa and Aerith cute beach outfits, SOME GAME THAT LOOKS LIKE TRIPLE TRIAD, the dolphin, seeing my beautiful husbands Cid and Vincent, also Cissnei seems to be there for some reason, plus Roche is back to be weird at Cloud. ♥ And there was some plot stuff I guess but that's less important. I always pretend I don't care about FFVII as much as my faves but it's all lies, I love my stupid children...
☆ Speaking of watching things, I also watched this video by Mina Le about third places and friendships that I thought was really interesting. She does a lot of videos about fashion history, media fashion, pop culture, beauty trends, etc. that I think is fun to learn about so I definitely recommend her channel in general. This video discussed a bunch of different stuff about the lack of third places in modern life, how this affects building community, social media as a substitute 'third place' and the difficulty of maintaining friendships, and some other related topics tying in to all that. Interesting stuff to consider these days.
☆ I started writing up my January book reviews but they got kind of wordy so I think I'm going to just drop them in a separate post. I also finally bought paid time for this journal so I spent like the last three days just gathering and organizing and uploading icons lmao. Kinda surprised how hard it is to fill 150 spaces but that just means I'll have to keep hunting for more!!
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I've been stuck in FFXVI since September... I never really warmed up to it. I think it's a good game, just not the kind I want to play and not really what main series FF games are, for me. With Rebirth around the corner, I'm going to have to decide if I want to finish it or properly abandon it and move on! We shall see... I haven't watched the Rebirth trailer but I really enjoyed the first remake episode.
Also you reminded me that I also had to google for how to make the PS5 stand hahaha. Not obvious at all.
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I'm like well it can't possibly be worse than FFXV so it's got a low bar to clear for me lmao. Nothing about the characters I've seen so far really "pops" yet, though I'm still pretty early in the game so there's still time for them to turn it around!! I think Cid is the most entertaining so far, also I'd give my life for Torgal. But yeah, Rebirth is far more exciting now that the release is so close haha, I'm so intrigued to see where they're going to go with the story in terms of what they're going to change or expand upon.
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Haha, I loved FFXV and it's up there in my top 3 FFs of all times, so maybe you'll love FFXVI soon enough XD Torgal is great :D
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The plot is definitely picking up now that I've played a little more, but the characters are still kind of lackluster, so we'll see if one can make up for the other... For all 15's faults at least it had Prompto lmao