the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

Essential elements of Final Fantasy: Crystals, moogles, chocobos, serious and usually quite dark plot, airships

Essential elements of Suikoden:
108 stars of destiny, lots of active party members in a battle, very intricate and well-written plot

Essential elements of Tales:
Fighting-game-style combat, plot dealing with _really_ heavy topics often including corrupt religious institutions, plot twists that make you question who the bad guys are, uncovering dark secrets of ancient peoples

Essential elements of Wild ARMs:
Rapid desertification and themes of environmentalism, world is much higher-tech than it seems at first, actually interesting out-of-battle sections with platforming and tools

randomly remembered that I saw someone earlier make the claim that job changing is the core mechanic of the final fantasy series and it just now occurred to me that uh... job changing is only a thing in three of the main series games, and it's not a thing in any of what I personally would consider the essential entries in the series: IV, VI, VII, IX, and X

I still think it's wild that the ps1 didn't have any floating-point operations at all

*traces around your snout*

it's a snoutline

seriously I think we're going to need someone to pester us to eat or we just won't have lunch today or something, oof

food is hard today

we need to eat but nothing sounds appealing

on top of that it's an autoscroller so even if you know you missed too many collectibles at the start you have to wait for the whole thing to finish

oh also there are barely enough collectibles to actually complete the stage, and if you don't you have to start all over

playing the harry potter 1 psx game because why not and

did they playtest this at all? this is _extremely_ difficult, and not in a good way

there are mandatory sections where you have to try to collect things while on a gringotts minecart with wonky physics, and the screen rotates every which way but the warnings saying "obstacle ahead" or "collectible ahead" point the same way regardless of screen rotation

consider:

bat-eared fox / flying fox gryphon
one: bats are like birds but not, and foxes are like cats but not
two: it's a fox named after a bat combined with a bat named after a fox
three: holy crap just think how adorable that would be

For every hard thing, there is an easy thing: failing at the hard thing

fuck, just realized I forgot to actually link the musici this time >.<

(I don't mean to guilt people into giving me attention or anything I'm just, wondering if anyone reads it)

mood: *gba crash sounds*

"no, between the legs"
"if the space between them was 'in' the pants then it would be a skirt, not pants"

"what's in your pants"
"legs"

so the game in question was the ps1 release of harry potter an the sorcerer's stone because we have really extreme nostalgia for the pc and gbc releases and wanted to try the ps1 one

and holy _hell_ these character models are bad