http://home.eyesonff.com/blog.php/39423-ToriJ-Video-Game-Reviews The Eyes on Final Fantasy Forums are the premier place for Final Fantasy fans to meet and discuss this classic video game series. Join our community today. en Fri, 15 May 2026 15:20:54 GMT vBulletin 60 http://home.eyesonff.com/images/images_neoclassic/misc/rss.jpg http://home.eyesonff.com/blog.php/39423-ToriJ-Video-Game-Reviews http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/5948-Thanksgaming-III!-(Long-overdue-playthroughs-are-long-overdue) Sun, 01 Nov 2015 01:53:27 GMT Tomorrow marks the beginning of the third annual Thanksgaming Month hosted by Ayen's Reviews, and the first to be in video format. Thanksgaming is a time of year where we honor the games of yesteryear and those that came out today, and I look forward to sinking my teeth into this year's lineup. Three of which I will be playing for the very first time. It all starts November 4th!

]]> Ayen http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/5948-Thanksgaming-III!-(Long-overdue-playthroughs-are-long-overdue) http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/5945-It-s-the-final-update! Thu, 15 Oct 2015 23:00:15 GMT No more updates. Just reviews.



Finally figured trout out and I'll be able to get back into my weekly schedule. Now I have an extra week to get work done.

Catch you guys later. ]]> Ayen http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/5945-It-s-the-final-update! http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/5939-New-Camera-Lousy-Mic Tue, 29 Sep 2015 23:08:17 GMT A few of you know I started doing video reviews of late, and while I got a new camera I'm running into a boat load of problems with it, among other things. Here's a quick video explaining my situation:

]]> Ayen http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/5939-New-Camera-Lousy-Mic http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/5915-Activity-will-take-a-hit Thu, 23 Jul 2015 00:00:59 GMT Last night on the toilet the following thoughts entered my mind: Just give up. You'll never finish a book and you'll never be a published author. So now I have to write a book and get it published to stick it to my inner monologue. Between that and the weekly reviews my posting on here will be cut in half as I want to focus on my writing. I love you guys, but you can be very distracting when people want to be productive.

I'll catch you guys later. ]]> Ayen http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/5915-Activity-will-take-a-hit http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/5901-Movie-Monday! Tue, 23 Jun 2015 03:52:43 GMT As evident by this thread (http://home.eyesonff.com/showthread.php/163336-The-NeverEnding-Story-Review-%28Spoilers%29) I have decided to branch out into cinema. Those who have been following me for a while will know that I already dabble in this medium in the past with my Mario, and Street Fighter... As evident by this thread I have decided to branch out into cinema. Those who have been following me for a while will know that I already dabble in this medium in the past with my Mario, and Street Fighter reviews, but those were more looking at an adaption from the eyes of a gamer than your casual movie goer, so they may remain as part of my video games section.

Every Monday I'll look at a different movie and post it on my blog before sharing it here. Like my games there's no cutoff date or anything, so there's a good chance I may even review something that recently came out in theaters provided I actually get to see it. Because of this I won't be doing monthly schedules so I'll be more flexible with what I watch.

Movie Monday also won't be a part of my usual theme months. Meaning if I have a "Disney's Month" (btw that's coming) I won't just be reviewing all Disney's films that month, too. That way I always have something different to look at no matter what I'm doing.

Until next time. ]]> Ayen http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/5901-Movie-Monday! http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/5900-Branching-Out Thu, 18 Jun 2015 13:28:15 GMT I have some good news, and bad news, so I'll start off by getting the bad news out of the way.

The bad news is that after much thought I'm not doing those other articles even as a weekly thing. I don't have the drive to do them anymore. They were fun for a while as an experiment, but I ran out of ideas pretty quickly. However, I'll still be branching out to new fields.

This brings me to the good news. There have been something I wanted to do for a while now, but it never seemed like the right time to do it. Well, just this past week I got a nagging sensation to finally give it a go. I don't want to give too much away since I want it to be a surprise, so all I'll say is keep an eye out for it in the Lounge forum Monday. ]]> Ayen http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/5900-Branching-Out http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/5898-Best-of-luck-to-Square-Enix Wed, 17 Jun 2015 02:11:59 GMT So much irony in me saying these words.

My thoughts are with the Square Enix team working on the Final Fantasy VII Remake and I wish them all the best. The amount of pressure they're going to get working on something that is considered the best RPG of all time by millions could kill a person. No matter what they do, people are going to bitch when the game doesn't live up to their expectations.

They could keep EVERYTHING from the original game in it and I still predict people will whine. I can already foresee, "The new graphics ruin the tone of all the quirky moments!"

"They have lips! OMG why do they have lips? Game ruined!"

"The voice acting sucks!"

"This man are sick doesn't sound as good coming from an actual voice and the fact Square didn't fix it just shows laziness."

"OMG THERE IS SO MUCH GAY IN THIS GAME AHHH!"

I feel like Cid Highwind, "SIT DOWN AND DRINK YOUR GODDAMN TEA!"

I only want them to make the best game they can, just like they did eighteen years ago. This is the first piece of news out of Square Enix in a long time where I'm legitimately excited to see what comes next and has me wanting to run out to buy a PS4 the first chance I get.

All aboard the mother smurfing hype train! ]]> Ayen http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/5898-Best-of-luck-to-Square-Enix http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/5893-One-last-rant-about-a-certain-Final-Fantasy Tue, 09 Jun 2015 03:44:30 GMT Final Fantasy XIII is a game I haven't talked a lot about on my blog or social media, so allow me to start this rant off with my thoughts on the game.

I didn't like it.

Now, ever since I made my feelings of this game known, I have had several people from the FFXIII fan community (apparently this exists) that has come out of the woodwork to explain to me why I'm wrong and should give the game a second chance to the point of excessive nagging. So, allow me to address each one of these points made so I can finally put this behind me.

"It gets better twenty hours in."

How is this even an argument? Nothing should take that long to get good. That's two Game of Throne seasons back to back. I could do a runthrough of twenty retro games. There are some games who runtime isn't even that long. If you need TWENTY HOURS to get to the heart of your game, then you seriously need to reconsider your career choice.

"Every Final Fantasy game is linear!"

This is actually true, however there's a vast difference to the linearity you're thinking of, and running in a straight line fighting monsters because the game designers were making Call of Duty with a Final Fantasy skin. Actually, that would have been a good game, but instead we're left with this piece of trout!

"There are other RPGs that don't let you control the rest of your party."

Yes, and those RPGs battle systems are done in real-time, so it makes sense that you can't control your teammates. FFXIII is turn-base. I'm sorry, but that doesn't work with a turn-base battle system. It just doesn't! If you want to go that route you may as well make it real-time, and hell even then it's a step backwards. FFXII's battle system was real-time and you can still control each of your characters if you want. There's no excuse.

"Every Final Fantasy game has flaws."

And the flaws in those games don't make the ones in this one go away. If anything it just embellishes them because instead of looking back to see what does and what doesn't work, they make even more mistakes than the ones they made in the past!

"Troy f'n Baker!"

Is a talented voice actor who realized his full potential when he was involved in projects where people were actually competent.

"The sequels were better."

Do they fix any of the issues the first game had with characters and story?

"No."

Then I don't care! Divide the amount of smurfs I give and you'd create a black hole BECAUSE YOU'D BE DIVIDING BY ZERO!

"I think you just don't like fun."

~Now, the world don't move to the beat of just one drum,
What might be right for you, may not be right for some.~

I heard it said, "We're not allowed to like this game." I find the opposite to be true. We're not allowed to dislike the game, because apparently disliking it will cause the world to fall out of its rotation and go hurling into the sun ending humanity as we know it!

If you like the game, that's fine. Play them and enjoy them. I like FFVIII and X. If I spent every waking moment defending them I wouldn't have time to take a trout!

So, I will say this as nicely as I can. I don't like Final Fantasy XIII. I don't care if you do. I don't care if you don't. Just do me this one favor. Just this one.

Leave. Me. Alone.

Because any chance I had of actually playing this game again and enjoying it? You killed that chance. You burned it in a fire and have ensured I will never be able to enjoy any of these games.

Congratulations! ]]> Ayen http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/5893-One-last-rant-about-a-certain-Final-Fantasy http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/5886-New-Series-Articles-Cancelled Sat, 23 May 2015 22:34:10 GMT Bad news, everyone, I won't be continuing any of the new weekly articles I started. I know it's only been a couple of weeks, but ever since I started the days have gotten progressively shorter and they've been wearing me out.

I'll keep doing my reviews as always, but if I keep the rest up I'm going to hit burnout. I'm only one person. I'm doing all the writing, all the proofing, and all the editing. Maybe if there's something else I want to write about I'll do so and share it on the blog, but for the time being it's just going to be reviews again.

As always, thanks for being a fan. ]]> Ayen http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/5886-New-Series-Articles-Cancelled http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/5885-Rogue-Friday-Controllers Sat, 23 May 2015 00:46:14 GMT Today's article is brought to you by the letter C.

http://torijreviews.blogspot.com/201...ntrollers.html ]]> Ayen http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/5885-Rogue-Friday-Controllers http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/5884-Srs-Bsns-Changing-the-Formula Thu, 21 May 2015 23:30:49 GMT Srs Bsns #3 Changing the Formula. When is it right or wrong to do so? http://torijreviews.blogspot.com/2015/05/srs-bsns-changing-formula.html Srs Bsns #3 Changing the Formula. When is it right or wrong to do so?

http://torijreviews.blogspot.com/201...g-formula.html ]]> Ayen http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/5884-Srs-Bsns-Changing-the-Formula http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/5883-Top-Ten-RPGs Tue, 19 May 2015 23:43:41 GMT I would've gotten to this sooner if the power didn't decide to go out and make setting my alarm a waste of time.

It's time for ToriJ's Top Ten Best RPGs!

http://torijreviews.blogspot.com/201...rpgs.html#more ]]> Ayen http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/5883-Top-Ten-RPGs http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/5882-A-Child-s-First-Handheld Mon, 18 May 2015 20:29:27 GMT Monday is upon us, that means it's time for another A Child's First.

http://torijreviews.blogspot.com/201...-handheld.html ]]> Ayen http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/5882-A-Child-s-First-Handheld http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/5878-Rogue-Friday-Platformers Fri, 15 May 2015 20:51:26 GMT Let's cap off the weekend with some platforming goodness. Rogue Friday is here!

http://torijreviews.blogspot.com/201...atformers.html ]]> Ayen http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/5878-Rogue-Friday-Platformers http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/5876-Srs-Bsns-Supply-and-Demand Thu, 14 May 2015 22:17:35 GMT That new game you bought isn't working like it supposed to? What's up with that? Today we get to the bottom of it!

http://torijreviews.blogspot.com/201...nd-demand.html ]]> Ayen http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/5876-Srs-Bsns-Supply-and-Demand