Wolf Kanno
is a Level 99 Chocobo
Memento Mori
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I have heard about the Gladius, but I’ve also heard it pretty much breaks the game once you get it, so I’m not sure I should get it now. Then again, I don’t really see any other new knives around now, so my Vaan is still rocking that starting dagger which is not that wild tbh

Am I correct in assuming that, despite that, they’re not missable? As in, no more Zodiac Spear shenanigans - you can always go back to a place and hope for a red pawn?

I’ll need to look into that once I get all the peeps and all the jobs. Right now, I’m having fun with just Vaan the Shikari. Penelo the Black Mage has been pretty cool so far too. I found a blind spell in Giza Plains and that turned Thextera and Flowering Cactoid into cakewalk basically.

Yeah, I was actually thinking of doing that. And don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining - I was worried having two boards just eliminated all need of making sacrifices in this game, but it turns out there’s this and that’s great.

Now I’m kinda stressing out over how I’ll play my Quickenings and Espers on the board. I’m worried I’ll have my way to some useful licenses blocked

I think this and VI may actually have my favorite casts from the numbered games.

Also, I really cannot comprehend why people hate Vaan. I mean, yeah, the Rabanastre bit is pretty much the only time he’s in the spotlight, but he’s presented as an idealist, albeit flawed and naive, who feels very frustrated with the occupation. What with a lot of my own country’s 20tg century literature focusing on youths with similar ideals, I find his struggle very real. I really like Vaan.

The only thing I don’t like so far is how they changed the look of the bestiary. I loved having the beast artwork there, the rotating 3D models really just don’t do it for me. But still, that’s a very minor nitpick.

In more positive news, I beat XCX, and while the final battle was weirdly chosen as the place for a big info dump, it was nonetheless interesting and the post-credits scene was the most Xeno-y thing in the whole game. It’s also there pretty much exclusively as a sequel hook. So that’s... a thing!

I started Bayonetta and while I enjoyed what I played, I couldn’t help but keep thinking “okay now I just have to beat this many chapters before XII”, so I decided that forcing myself to play a game I might enjoy more later now just because is dumb and started the Zodiac Age. I’ve nade it to the Garamsythe Waterway (pre-banquet) and it’s ~amazing~

So all the Lone Gunmen just died and I don’t think I can deal