[Gironika]

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you are making some good points there, and this might very well have had an impact why I still like the FF6 op as much as I do, if I'm thinking about it.
Otoh, FF7 … yeah. I know I shouldn't, but I am a sucker for "good" graphics, and couldn't get over the looks of FF7. Also the tinny OST. Plot … well. It just never clicked!

But then I am, for whatever that is worth, a fan of the (playable!) intro-part of FF9 where you stage the gotta-get-the-princess heist (in best FF-tradition) while you are doing that very thing. It isn't groundbreaking stuff, yeah, but it was a nice thing to play after 8,10,6 and 7. Casting Faux-spells on foes rarely felt so good as in that bit.

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re FF8-breaking:
iirc, the HP of enemies/bosses are calculated according to the HP of Squally?
So, if you want to make sure it'll stay easy, you'd kill him before big points are distributed, and refrain from pushing his HP-stat w/ GFs.
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[fauxedit]
today i'm feeling kinda exhausted, so instead of doing what I often do (not saying/posting anything, writing it up later, forgetting about what I wanted to say) i still want to throw some thoughts out there to come back to some later on:

# look at the release-schedule (never seen half the titles there before tbh!) pre-FF2, pre-FF7, pre- and post-Y2K. fyi: SQEX list, post merger.

There has been a lack of non-FF/RPG-titles after FF2, and they churned out RPGs like madmen. Then they tried the waters with a huge numbers of titles, be it published or self-developed, with some quirky games (Einhänder, iS, Racing Lagoon) for RPG-square. And is it just me, or did they tone down the craziness a bit after Y2K? The odd ones are still around (Driving Emo Type-S, eh?), and maybe it is because the internet made tracking information easier™ (or SQEX credited the real companies doing their games better?), but their output seems to shift more towards publishing games.

# thinking about ff1-7, and then FF8, it really feels like someone wanted to test how far they can push the envelope. It's so out-of-tune with the whole FF-idea, that it's kinda interesting what made them do it this way. 9 <really> was a throwback to former glory™ that would mark the end of an era (for square, that is). Afterwards, it seems that they kinda lost the feeling/the staff/the hope to do a "proper" FF. I always like to point out that the last game that felt like a proper FF to me was Lost Odyssey, and that had (only?) two key FF-staff members on its payroll.

# i had something to say about their other series (Mana/Chrono/Saga), their action-rpg forays (Threads of Fate, Musashi, KH, Code Age Commanders) but i forgot what it was about

# wonderful quirky games every now and then: Rad Racer, Front Mission, Einhander, Ehrgeiz, Wrestling, iS, nanashi no game, dissidia, TWEWY … you always wonder how they managed to pass the QC/clearance, but somehow they did, and seem(?) to never sell well.

# Eidos deal was the best deal ever™, considering what they've put out the last few years on X360/PS3. FF-aside, of course.
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