Let's Play Final Fantasy X-2 HD Remaster #48 - Don't Worry, We Got Better

Let's Play Final Fantasy X-2 HD Remaster #1 - It's Showtime, Girls!

The Shaunas are back with their Let's Play of Final Fantasy X-2 HD Remaster! Are you ready for some fast paced battle silly plot-disregarding nonsense?

J-Pop concerts, reintroductions to classic characters, dresspheres, moogle costumes, introductions to new characters, garment grids, brand new content for the international edition, garment grids, airships, mild peril, hypello AND SO MUCH MORE awaits you in the pilot episode of this Let's Play! Or maybe that's everything, but you should tune in anyway.

As an added bonus, tell us which dresspheres you want us to use for each mission! We promise that we'll do our best with what you choose! All you need to do is post in the thread what clothes you want the girls to wear. Some caveats though:

1) All three Dressspheres need to be unique. No triple songstresses~
2) Have a least one class that deals damage. Keep in mind if you choose two non-damage dealing classes it'll be a very long and boring lets play with minimal #toppantz~
3) We'll do dressspheres on an Mission by Mission basis. If a Mission spans over 3 episodes we'll use the dresspehres until we get that saucy complete screen.




That'll be it for now. Get your votes in now to avoid disappointment (and we also need to record episode 2 so get down on it, get down on it)! Have fun and expect us again on Thursday~

Garment grids: So important I mention them twice in the description. :shobon:

Hang on to your ass!

I vote for triple Festivalist on Gagazet. For three reasons: One, because it's new, two, because each of YRP has a unique skillset with it, and three, so you can put it away afterwards and never look at it again (it's my second-least favorite dressphere). I guess a distant fourth reason is that the 'slot-machine' type functionality of Yuna's variant is kinda fun to use in the early game and is also ridiculously strong if you're decently lucky.

Alternatively use Brother as one of your party members cause his attack animation is the best thing of all time.

I find it interesting how in this game you get Al Bhed Primers every time you witness an Al Bhed conversation. Kind of like "you're picking up the language as you hear it"? Makes collecting them feel very distinct from how FFX did it, until you get to digging them up anyways.

I love the Creature Creator. Countless hours were spent playing around with it. It does clash with the job system though so it's probably best to treat it as its own separate thing and only actually use creatures in the Arena. I wouldn't recommend using it until your levels are in the double digits at least, save for experimenting a bit if you really feel like it.

Btw you get the Vanguard GG for watching the Garment Grid tutorial.

Are you guys aiming for 100% Story Completion in a single playthrough?

Ooh thanks. We'll make sure to have a gander at the tutorial for garment grids! And I suppose triple festivalist can be used if they're unique for each of the characters... I'll have to have a quiet discussion with Matt about this.

We are hoping to get 100% in one go - we have a 100% guide handy, but I think that may just be for the regular edition, not the Intl. Does it make any difference? xD

Everyone Festivalist this time so we can see their outfits and also because they all have different fireworks!

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We are hoping to get 100% in one go - we have a 100% guide handy, but I think that may just be for the regular edition, not the Intl. Does it make any difference? xD

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Oh well since you know what you're getting into. And no, the International Edition changes did not have any effect on the Story Completion % whatsoever. Adding a whole second set of percentage points to build up was enough :D

@ some point, they should be:

Yuna-Black Mage
Rikku-Alchemist
Paine-Dark Knight

WHO DOESN'T LIKE REAL EMOTION?! Give me their names and I'll ban them. The OST song for it is one of the top 15 most popular videos on our YouTube channel!

Flimflam has always been a thing xD

Four White Mages, Shauna? Who is the fourth?!

Hypello racism wtf you hatemonger

Heave HO yell Rikku and Paine as they lift Yuna what are they trying to say about her???? Disasterrific!

Jinx said she doesn't like the opening. /calledout The saddest part of the way we do the LP is that we don't get to listen to the rockin' soundtrack. :(

I know flim-flam has always been a thing, it's just not been truly hilarious in my mind until I saw the troll face image.


Brother will be the fourth White Mage.

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WHO DOESN'T LIKE REAL EMOTION?! Give me their names and I'll ban them.

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No, Psychotic.

Their punishment must be more severe.

Real Emotion is kinda my guilty pleasure. Like, I know it sucks, but I can't help liking it. It really works in the opening scene.

Also, what's your least favorite dressphere Karifean? Trainer? Because that's also fairly useless. I'd even go as far to say Mascot Rikku for just being a poor Mascot in general.

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Is he actually in the party? I didn't know what the hell that meant.

We don't know.

I am guessing he can be in the party, as Karifean says he can, and I ain't arguing with that guy. He's like an encyclopaedia. I guess we'll find out soon!

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Real Emotion is kinda my guilty pleasure. Like, I know it sucks, but I can't help liking it. It really works in the opening scene.

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Guilty pleasure? Sucks? What?

Ayen feels no guilt. Ayen blast song on radio with the car window rolled down with no shame.

No. Shame.

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Also, what's your least favorite dressphere Karifean? Trainer? Because that's also fairly useless. I'd even go as far to say Mascot Rikku for just being a poor Mascot in general.

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Yep, Trainer. Mascot Rikku at least has the White Mage spells for free, it has the godlike stats typical for Mascots, its Eraser skills come in handy sometimes (albeit VERY rarely) and its ultimate ability is surprisingly accurate. Trainer just goes completely against my preferred style of playing.

Yeah you can put Brother in your active party by selecting Party Members in the menu. Although you're still limited to three party members at a time. You'll see.

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Also, what's your least favorite dressphere Karifean? Trainer? Because that's also fairly useless. I'd even go as far to say Mascot Rikku for just being a poor Mascot in general.

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Yep, Trainer. Mascot Rikku at least has the White Mage spells for free, it has the godlike stats typical for Mascots, its Eraser skills come in handy sometimes (albeit VERY rarely) and its ultimate ability is surprisingly accurate. Trainer just goes completely against my preferred style of playing.

Yeah you can put Brother in your active party by selecting Party Members in the menu. Although you're still limited to three party members at a time. You'll see.

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Trainer is just a poor jill of all trades. There's some elemental attacks, some status attacks, some healing... but it doesn't really excel in all three. And the stat distribution isn't that great. At least the Festivalist is somewhat fun to play with and has a nice HP boost to it.

Brother is pretty fun to use, for like, a few battles. Like Karifean said, I'd only use the creatures in the Fiend Arena. Some of those battles get astronomically hard quickly.

So we have 2 sets of votes for 3x Festivalists. Any further votes or do we assume this will be the gagazet team?

Also, all in favor of replacing Rikku with Brother for the entire game say "aye"!

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Also, all in favor of replacing Rikku with Brother for the entire game say "aye"!

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Nay.

Have you watched our LP? :p

Replace Paine with Brother, she's boring as trout.

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Also, what's your least favorite dressphere Karifean? Trainer? Because that's also fairly useless. I'd even go as far to say Mascot Rikku for just being a poor Mascot in general.

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Yep, Trainer. Mascot Rikku at least has the White Mage spells for free, it has the godlike stats typical for Mascots, its Eraser skills come in handy sometimes (albeit VERY rarely) and its ultimate ability is surprisingly accurate. Trainer just goes completely against my preferred style of playing.

Yeah you can put Brother in your active party by selecting Party Members in the menu. Although you're still limited to three party members at a time. You'll see.

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Trainer is just a poor jill of all trades. There's some elemental attacks, some status attacks, some healing... but it doesn't really excel in all three. And the stat distribution isn't that great. At least the Festivalist is somewhat fun to play with and has a nice HP boost to it.

Brother is pretty fun to use, for like, a few battles. Like Karifean said, I'd only use the creatures in the Fiend Arena. Some of those battles get astronomically hard quickly.

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But Trainer Paine has a low MP Haste ability, which also heals!

Plus, MP and HP Stroll!

Look guys, for all the nonsense y'all have been spouting, there's been 0 new votes for what dresspheres we should use (aside from Psy's desire to remove Paine forever). :colbert:

You don't have many hours left to decide for us.

I'm all for hilarious triple festivalist action :colbert:

Don't ever use Trainer for Rikku. Monkeys are bad.

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I'm all for hilarious triple festivalist action :colbert:

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You know how we were plagued with technical issues during our FFX Let's Play? Well, we couldn't ruin the tradition on this one either! Our fantastic quality microphone capture device (Matt's netbook) has stopped working. I believe that there is a loose connection between the LCD screen and the motherboard. We are working as hard as we can to rectify this (read: We will take it apart at the weekend) and we will get your high quality Let's Play with 3x Festivalist girls delivered as soon as possible!

Alternatively, we may just buy a good quality microphone and work with that.

Personally I blame Shauna for all issues to this point and we should all make her feel bad.

Or could be Shauna sucks as much at this game as Matt sucks at FFX. :bigsmile:

I don't know what that known fact has to do with technical issues!

I`ll be watching this! I`m thinking about getting this game for my PS4 to play around with it. I beat it along time ago.

Ugh, going to apologise in advance for episode 2. Tried a new way to record our spoken audio and uh, it didn't fare well. We were unable to revive the netbook either, sadly, so we decided to put this one out, terrible voice recording and all.

We uh, may try other means for next episode (which we'll probably again try to get out in the next week, instead of twice-weekly until we get this sorted) but I think we may just take the plunge and buy a decent microphone.

What kind of microphones are you looking at? I'm just nosy :shobon:

None at this point. We were going to speak to you about it, actually. xD

Let's Play Final Fantasy X-2 HD Remaster #2 - Pants

In this episode, everything is pants. The audio quality is pants, the gameplay is pants, even the characters are showing some pants. Dare I say, #toppantz?

Also watch us maul things with happy festival fireworks.

That's us done the festivalist trio. What party do you want to see in Besaid?

What happened to the video and commentary quality? I remember it being a lot better in FFX.

We have just had like 4 posts about how the audio quality is *terrible* in this episode, god Mirage read what we are saying!

Huh, you got Fire every single time on the sandals. It's fun when you get a Multi-Firaga. And slightly early-game-breaking.

YOU MISSED A CHEST cause you didn't go round the thing at 18:25. Gosh you guys suck.

Might as well make use of the new dressphere. I vote Warrior Yuna, Gunner Rikku, Black Mage Paine.

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We have just had like 4 posts about how the audio quality is *terrible* in this episode, god Mirage read what we are saying!

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i actually can't read :(

i'm just making educated guesses on what's in each post

It's shauna's fault that we missed the chest. I knew there was something back there but she didn't listen to reason (aka my pyschic hints that something was there).

Audio quality should be back to normal at some point in the near future. We had a misshap with this episode on account of broken stuff. Stay tuned n junk.

What a bad dressphere. We are dicks. xD
Fire FISH?!?!
No, Shauna. That was horrible.
Wait, what? I don't remember that boss being that easy!



Next episode dresspheres:
Yuna: Songstress
Paine: White Mage
Rikku: Festivalist

EDIT: Ah, trout, it's Black Mage not White Mage. Okay, in that case, make Paine a Black Mage or Thief.

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None at this point. We were going to speak to you about it, actually. xD

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What kind of price are we talking?

In an unexpected twist, we bought the one you have. :3

Specifically the one you own. It has beard hair in it and everything.

I look after my baby very well thank you :colbert: My advice would be to spend 5-10 minutes just messing with the volume input settings on Audacity and your computer before you record the first time just to make sure you have it at a good level. If you do it right you might even be able to have the tv on low - I did when doing Duscae.

If you want more audio editing tips here's three quick things I do and it usually comes out okay.
1) Highlight a "silent" period of just a few seconds and then select effects, noise removal and then just run it.
2) download http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Ny...ins#Noise_Gate then select your entire track and do effects, noise gate. I usually do threshold to -41.8 and reduction to -50 or so.
3) Effects, compressor.

Anywho
Logos = ALAN RICKMAN. It seems we have a celebrity in our midst.
Why are they dressed in pajamas!?
Snake, SNAAAAAKE yells Rikku. TIME PARADOX.

I also thought their clothing looked like pajamas! Comfy ones, though.

Cheers! We got it in today and have been messing around, those tips will be handy going forward. But we will be able to get another episode up and running soon! Whoop!

Also they are not pyjamas, god. Be more weeaboo.

You know what was great? This weeks combination of dresspheres.

I think we've made a mistake letting you guys choose.

What did you end up choosing?

After you go to Besaid you ARE doing Yuna Songstress, Paine White Mage, Rikku Festivalist. :colbert: I will rally everyone's support, damn it.

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you ARE doing Yuna Songstress, Paine White Mage, Rikku Festivalist.

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It has been some time, but Yuna is finally returning to Besaid. However it's not because she misses Lulu and Wakka, nope. There's a sphere around, that might have more information about ~*~HIM~*~ Which is all that's important, right?

Also the choices in dresspheres for this level were terrible. There were many near misses. Why did you do this to us, precious viewers?!

I have determined that you guys need practice using the Songstress dressphere. I've decided I will vote for Songstress every video from here on out.

"No strong hitters" they say when they've got a Black Mage and a Gunner on the team. :stare: Trigger Happy chained to strong hitting Black Magic is a pretty good combo at this point in the game.

I second Jinx's Songstress and White Mage suggestions. Gotta give new dresspheres some love. For the third party member though I'll vote for putting Brother, it's something you need to see. ProtipPick the third option in the Creature Create menu and release Brother from your party. He'll be instantly put back into your team since you won't have any creatures (which automatically adds Brother). But he'll be a higher level since he's still Level 1, and when you rerecruit him he gets YRP's average experience. If that kind of vote isn't allowed, I'll put forward Warrior once again.

Btw the guide was telling you to save, view the scenes in Guadosalam and check if you're at 7% thereafter, and if you are, load and pretend you never went to Guadosalam. It's just a way of checking that you didn't miss anything until now, and it's pretty unnecessary IMO.

tbf early gunner isn't particularly fantastic. The black mage was the best, but she was weak on the HP front. But yeah, once we were chaining up stuff it was going better!

Honestly, the reason why Brother isn't in the party is because we haven't worked out how to get him in there. xD

Yeah that's true. Trigger Happy is capable of getting something like an 8 Hit Chain at the moment I believe, which almost doubles your damage. Definitely worth chaining up your big hits. And Black Mage gets a power spike as soon as you get the elemental Garment Grids since those casually give you the -ga spells for crossing all gates. The Gunner-BM-pair works better once you have those ^^

Almost forgot to mention, you can multi-target magic in this game, just like old-school FF games. Just press the side directional buttons during target selection to target all enemies/allies.

Do you see the button titled "Party Members" in your menu? Yeah that's where you change your party members.

We did try before, but couldn't switch him in. It was weird. Maybe we will try again.

Also thanks for the multi-hit tip, didn't know that was a thing.

It sounds so smooth ;-;
It, He...the pronouns in Spira are so descriptive
Definitely chose Paine as Black Mage because she has stats to be a physical attacker. We just like to screw you over. :heart:
Ugh, that jumping off into another screen thing is SO annoying.
Dang, Brother, being creepy as smurf.


Next episodes dress spheres:
Yuna - Songstress
Paine - White Mage
Rikku - Festivalist

New microphone is sexy as hell mmff mfff I'm going to pleasure myself to your smooth voices oh wait no I have cereal to eat n/m

Oh, him.

What was this all about:
Lulu: But Yuna, never forget who you are
Yuna: :eek:!

Also jeez Lulu corsetted the smurf about of that babby. The thing will be born with brain damage. AND THAT'S FROM BEING WAKKA'S KID LOLZ

gullwings huh

OH NO THE BATTERY NOOOOOOOOOOOO



Yuna - Thief
Rikku - Black Mage
kimahri 2.0 - I DON'T CARE, smurf PAINE. warrior to speed it up

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Definitely chose Paine as Black Mage because she has stats to be a physical attacker. We just like to screw you over. :heart:

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We know our audience. :argh:

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Definitely chose Paine as Black Mage because she has stats to be a physical attacker. We just like to screw you over. :heart:

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We know our audience. :argh:

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You know that they all have the same baseline stats, right?

If they were all the same level (which they NEVER are, by the way, they level up at slightly different rates), they would have EXACTLY the same stats.

So really Paine is no more suited to be a physical attacker than Rikku or Yuna is. :spin:

I don't know these things, no. Stats aren't things I ever take any note of other than in a "Is this number bigger than this one?" capacity.

But that has nothing to do with not knowing my audience. ;)

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Definitely chose Paine as Black Mage because she has stats to be a physical attacker. We just like to screw you over. :heart:

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We know our audience. :argh:

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You know that they all have the same baseline stats, right?

If they were all the same level (which they NEVER are, by the way, they level up at slightly different rates), they would have EXACTLY the same stats.

So really Paine is no more suited to be a physical attacker than Rikku or Yuna is. :spin:

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Okay, I don't care. That's not what the joke is about.

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Definitely chose Paine as Black Mage because she has stats to be a physical attacker. We just like to screw you over. :heart:

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We know our audience. :argh:

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You know that they all have the same baseline stats, right?

If they were all the same level (which they NEVER are, by the way, they level up at slightly different rates), they would have EXACTLY the same stats.

So really Paine is no more suited to be a physical attacker than Rikku or Yuna is. :spin:

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Okay, I don't care. That's not what the joke is about.

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You guys snap more than a herd of angry sea-turtles! :lol:

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Definitely chose Paine as Black Mage because she has stats to be a physical attacker. We just like to screw you over. :heart:

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We know our audience. :argh:

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You know that they all have the same baseline stats, right?

If they were all the same level (which they NEVER are, by the way, they level up at slightly different rates), they would have EXACTLY the same stats.

So really Paine is no more suited to be a physical attacker than Rikku or Yuna is. :spin:

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Okay, I don't care. That's not what the joke is about.

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You guys snap more than a herd of angry sea-turtles! :lol:

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SHUT UP, SHUT UP RIGHT NOW

It's a turn, bale, nest, dole or dule of turtles.

BUT NEVER HERD

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Definitely chose Paine as Black Mage because she has stats to be a physical attacker. We just like to screw you over. :heart:

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We know our audience. :argh:

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You know that they all have the same baseline stats, right?

If they were all the same level (which they NEVER are, by the way, they level up at slightly different rates), they would have EXACTLY the same stats.

So really Paine is no more suited to be a physical attacker than Rikku or Yuna is. :spin:

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Okay, I don't care. That's not what the joke is about.

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You guys snap more than a herd of angry sea-turtles! :lol:

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SHUT UP, SHUT UP RIGHT NOW

It's a turn, bale, nest, dole or dule of turtles.

BUT NEVER HERD

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Apologies for the mistake, kind sir.

Anywho, are you guys going to stick with the current dresspheres for a bit, or swap things around a bit in your next installment?

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Definitely chose Paine as Black Mage because she has stats to be a physical attacker. We just like to screw you over. :heart:

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We know our audience. :argh:

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You know that they all have the same baseline stats, right?

If they were all the same level (which they NEVER are, by the way, they level up at slightly different rates), they would have EXACTLY the same stats.

So really Paine is no more suited to be a physical attacker than Rikku or Yuna is. :spin:

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Aw, and I was keeping quiet about it too.

But yeah, Festivalist, Trainer and Mascot are the only dresspheres where each girl actually has unique stats.

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Anywho, are you guys going to stick with the current dresspheres for a bit, or swap things around a bit in your next installment.

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We have changed them in every installment so far, and that will continue until the end of the game (ideally).

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Anywho, are you guys going to stick with the current dresspheres for a bit, or swap things around a bit in your next installment.

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We have changed them in every installment so far, and that will continue until the end of the game (ideally).

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Interesting. I had noticed that you'd been changing them every time so far, but I wasn't sure whether that was going to continue.

That will probably mean that it'll be a long time before you unlock any of the best abilities for the dresspheres.

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That will probably mean that it'll be a long time before you unlock any of the best abilities for the dresspheres.

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To be fair, a lot of dresspheres don't really need a lot of their abilities though. The ones I remember off the top of my head you really want to invest a lot of AP into are Psychic, Mascot, Samurai, Berserker and Gunner. I suppose Trainer as well but I never use it. Most of the others get their quintessential abilities pretty quickly.

If we are struggling, we'll be having secret off-screen grinding.

But yeah, we had a fairly consistent viewer base with our FFX Let's Play, so we decided to get them (and the new viewers, obvs) a bit more involved. And with all these job choices (and our general incompetence at the game meaning that we'll be terrible anyway), this was the perfect way to make things interesting. ish.

Guys, let's make sure we never vote for them to use Dark Knight or Alchemist. :bigsmile:

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Let's Play Final Fantasy X-2 HD Remaster #4 - Disasterrific

You see!? You see what happens when you let Shauna play video games? You see what happens when we let you choose the dresspheres (I know this is self-imposed, but so what!)? God damn

Process faster!

...ah there we go.

Edit: Well now that was an episode.

I knew how things'd turn out as soon as you had the wonderful luck to run into that Tonberry. I've played this game, what, 10+ times and never ever encountered a Tonberry in this mission. Their AI is pretty hilariously transparent in always attacking the target that's the farthest away, too, which is why Rikku generally didn't get attacked till you messed up. Woulda been a lot easier too if you'd just used Cure on the whole party all the time instead of single-targeting you know.

Good choice on learning the Sing abilities for the Songstress. Although learning it right when you were in the process of learning Sleepy Shuffle, the Dance that casually sleeps all enemies pretty much indefinitely, is pure win.

I hate the Attack command in this game. Unlike EVERY OTHER COMMAND IN THE GAME(except for Psychic's Teleport) it doesn't give 1 AP when used properly. All other commands do give AP as long as you influence the battle in your favor in some form. Oh well, when Mug/Nab Gil roll around things suddenly go way better.

I'm guessing you don't need new dresspheres for the next episode, since at this rate the rest of this mission is probably gonna take the entirety of it.

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Definitely chose Paine as Black Mage because she has stats to be a physical attacker. We just like to screw you over. :heart:

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We know our audience. :argh:

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You know that they all have the same baseline stats, right?

If they were all the same level (which they NEVER are, by the way, they level up at slightly different rates), they would have EXACTLY the same stats.

So really Paine is no more suited to be a physical attacker than Rikku or Yuna is. :spin:

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That's seriously the biggest annoyance ever in that game. Each character has their own exp curve. I tend to kill off rikku and paine from time to time to let yuna catch up. That, or put her on lady luck.

Wakka's scene is surprisingly touching.

Shauna ruined the entire LP :(

NO YAIBAL I DON'T REMEMBER YOU AS YOU'RE IN SOME RANDOM SIDE VIDEO SHUT UP YOUTH LEAGUE SUX

The chocobos are definitely in a relationship.

none of this is on me, I voted Warrior.

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You want more battles? No? Well... uh... You're gonna get them. This time we don't get side-tracked by a tonberry for 10 minutes? If that's any consolation? Also Maechen! Everyone loves that guy! He talks forever about such interesting things.

The Shaunas also reminisce about last time they managed to get through Final Fantasy X-2, and their general failings at the game last time. Good to know that things never change, right?

smurf Cat Nip.

Stupid hand shaking choice having the affirmation as the bottom choice instead of the top choice. Made me go through this entire scene all over again when I played this game in Japanese (and couldn't read anything).

Aww, there was a Garment Grid off the right cliff at the Youth League HQ, the map indicates it pretty obviously. Although I don't believe I've ever used it. Those status effect grids are pretty worthless, generally speaking. Oh well, the Heart of Flame GG you got is pretty handy. Free Fire absorption and quick Firaga if you happen to need it. In fact it would've completely trivialized the very mission you get it from. How cheeky.

So what mission you doing next? My choice for dresspheres depends on that. Except that Yuna is obviously Songstress again.

Episode 4:
WHITE MAGE AND SONGSTRESS YOU DID THE THING :D
But no Festivalist >:(
I like in the HD version that their profile thingy changes depending on what their dressphere is. That might have happened in other versions, but it definitely didn't happen in the NA version!
What? Why does Paine need DARKPROOF if she's the WHITE MAGE??? Bad at this game.
Yaibal, no one remembers you. You were not in the last game.
Oh my god this party combination is my favorite. I'm evil. (:<
Ahahahah this Tonberry battle oh god
Agreed with Matt, that is the dead camera angle.
Thanks for the singing, Yuna...
You're welcome, Matt.


Episode 5:
Not curious
All the shame. Everyone should know ABBA.
God, Tonberry. Let it go.
You encounter more battles if you run while it's dark.
I don't get the reference.
I believe "Itchy" makes it so the only action you're allowed to take on your turn is to change your dressphere.
Lucil's outfit is dumb. A turtlnecked swimsuit.


Next ep's spheres:
Yuna - Thief
Paine - David Bowie
Rikku - White Mage

Hahaha them scattering from that Tonberry and then him showboating.

smurf the Youth League, join New Yevon.

yes smurf Paine too kill her

Next dress spheres:
EVERYONE GUNNER. ALL GUNS. GUNS.

I'm pretty sure they have to join Youth League if they want to attempt 100%. I believe in the first playthrough, it's only possible to get 99% if you join New Yevon.

Sadly yes, we will be joining Noojie-Woojie.

:mad2:

Sadly.

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Yeah this is true, and going from the assumption that this was a deliberate design choice it's one of my biggest gripes with the game. Both factions are pretty awful but I'd pick New Yevon over the Youth League any day if it weren't for this little difference.

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So what mission you doing next? My choice for dresspheres depends on that.

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Clever strategy to not respond so you don't have to consider my wonderful dressphere choices, but by default I'll just say Yuna as Songstress, Rikku as Black Mage, Paine as Warrior. Although I'm still all for replacing Paine with Brother for one episode.

I didn't respond because I don't know where we're going next! xD

Who knows where we're going to show up next!? Who can tell!? I mean who knows when we'll get the next episode up!? ...Oh. Now I guess


Let's Play Final Fantasy X-2 HD Remaster #6 - Luca Dat Moogle

This week we have a quick stop to the land of the Gorgons which is now a bustling den of diversity and not Gorgons at all and establish the logistics of parking an airship in a cave.

Shortly afterwards we head to Luca and try on silly clothes and have ~FLASHBACKS~. How exiting.

The Gullwings' prized garment... also known as the most stupidly powerful dressphere in the game. Goddamnit Brother just GIVE it to them already.

There's a hidden Garment Grid in the Luca docks if you feel like going back for it. IIRC it's the thunder-elemental one.

Haven't got much else to say since the CH1 Luca mission is pretty much the most boring and uneventful mission in the entire game. Oh, it may be useful to note that you can check your percentage while choosing a destination from the airship. You know the big bright red text on the right.

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Jinx said she doesn't like the opening. /calledout The saddest part of the way we do the LP is that we don't get to listen to the rockin' soundtrack. :(

I know flim-flam has always been a thing, it's just not been truly hilarious in my mind until I saw the troll face image.


Brother will be the fourth White Mage.

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He looks more like a White Supremacist.

I vote yes for Real Emotion being great.


Yes, I am this far behind.

The Luca pun was Grade A. Yes, I am excited for the backstory thanks Shauna!

Oh I do enjoy Yuna's X-2 theme.

Why did that kid say "Argh don't eat me!" to a moogle? :confused: Do they... what...? Nooooo.... :| SURELY NOT

wtf is that purple beak kid doing WTF shauna answer this please

Karifean: Ah neat, we may head back and get that. Also you keep us right on how to play this game properly. I guess we just flat out ignored all that percentage thing in the World Map menu. :sweat:

Psy: I really enjoy a lot of the soundtrack, and when I watched the episode back I was sad once again that we missed out on the classic Yuna's theme. Our snazzy new microphone picks up the TV even on the lowest volume setting.

And I don't know what the kid was doing. I DON'T KNOW.

OH GOD OH MAN OH GOD OH MAN

Things do not go well in this episode. We have to interact with Kimahri, Tromell Guado and speak to some heathen Al Bhed who have dared to commandeer a sacred temple of Yevon! All in one episode?! On top of that battling goes poorly, and I mean really really poorly. Damn you, oversouls!

Can nothing save us from our own incompetence (aside from our loyal viewers)?

There we go.

As soon as I saw Thunder hitting you for 100 damage I knew how that was going to end xD

See this is where your whole pick-dresspheres-the-viewers-voted-for system comes right back to bite you since switching dresspheres is pretty damn useful sometimes. Like when you have to fight elementals and you don't have any magic to deal with them. Maybe consider adding a clause for this kind of situation?

Oversoul goes by species. You'll keep encountering oversouled elementals until you kill one. That one fight where the Red Elemental was the one that oversouled might've been a good opportunity for that, actually.

Sure, let's forget that the White Mage has Vigor for instant self-healing. Would've saved you a lot of trouble^^ Learning Reflect might be a good idea too.

Oh and of course simply equipping the Thunder Spawn GG would've trivialized everything. I seriously recommend making use of those elemental GGs (and being flexible in switching it up depending on the circumstances).

Goddamnit Flee, why must you be so terrible. Escape is always the safer alternative since it's instant. I guess it's good if your other characters are charging up something big when you decide to flee, but let's be real, how often are you gonna encounter that situation.

In all fairness, you had a pretty terrible dressphere setup for this particular mission. Two physical attackers with horrible magic defense and a White Mage. Ironically the Songstress probably would've gotten you through the troubles just fine. Matador's Song + Samba of Silence ftw.

Well, good luck on the return trip. Hope you don't run into any Amorphous Gels! ...you probably will though, since that crystal path is murderous sometimes. Good luck with that.

UGH KIMAHRI WHY smurf OFF GROSS RONSO

No Gunners :colbert:

Hey what I am not kind of annoying :doublecolbert:

Can't decide if I like or dislike the Machine Faction music. Not that you guys can hear it I guess.

DRUM BELLY

lol you bein learned in dat forest qurl mmm hmmm oversoul in da hole

"I am Trommell I am so sad we must atone for our sins and live with our guilt" "Cool! I'm a Sphere Hunter now! :jess:" "...what?"

And now for the next episode of Lets play FFX-2 HD Remastered (No Gunners Edition)!




Let's Play Final Fantasy X-2 HD Remaster #8 - Can we dig it?

The answer is no, but we try our best anyway. In the last episode we ran screaming in terror from the enemies of the Macalania Woods. This time we take things a bit easier by getting lost in the desert during a sandstorm. What's the worst that could happen? It can't be worse than El Nino~

Yay, things went well! Macalania is easily the toughest area in Chapter 1, so now everything should be easy, right?

As for dresspheres for next time, I'll nominate Songstress Yuna, Gunner Rikku and Black Mage Paine. If you do something else post Moonflow mission, I'd like it if you switched someone to Gun Mage too~

Everything should be great from now on, no more problems.

We should start a betting pool - how long are we actually going to keep up with this "Viewers Vote" thing? I predict that we will stop in Chapter 2.

Hellooooo Shauna, what's going on todaaaaaaaaaaay? Matt's silky smooth voice. True story coming up, in Tesco the other day after having just watched the other video some little girl goes "Mummy, do we need fishfingers?" and I guess she said "Yes" or whatever but for some reason I heard Matt's voice in my head saying "Yes Shauna, we all need fishfingers". I think that's the early onset of psychosis. With that said, if you could somehow work that line into an upcoming episode I'd be grateful.

Too much Ye-ing from O'aka. Stop it, you're taking the piss now.

GET OUT OF THE WAY YUNA I NEED TO BASH RIKKU gg monster gg

Sweetcakes Yuna is her new name.

Yuffie is okay at stealing now, she got a bit better. A bit.

everyone gunner god damn it

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"Yes Shauna, we all need fishfingers".

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Fish fingers are okay but they are low down on my list of wants. Mini Kievs are better

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Too much Ye-ing from O'aka. Stop it, you're taking the piss now.

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everyone gunner god damn it

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Ye dinosaur is irrelevant, as it's the little fella that makes the piece. Pisses me off that Ye is the one who got the meme named after him and all of the attention. :colbert:

I agree, Paa is the star of the show.

It's time to meet up with everyone's favourite duck, Tobli! Wait, what do you mean he's not a duck? Check out that beak, man. Whatever.

We save Tobli's hypello friend from some bandits who aren't really trying very hard to steal anything and head to the Calm Lands to take on some really really important missions. That guy needs to find a wife, dontcha know!

>Has Matador's Song to increase everyone's evasion chance by 100%
>Has Sleepy Shuffle to knock out most opponents semi-permanently
>Uses Darkness Dance all the time
>:love:

This team is working out pretty well though.

"I miss my White Mage." Because you totally don't have a Garment Grid that gives the Cure spell to anyone who simply equips it. Also btw you never did grab the GG you get for watching the GG tutorial.

Gotta love the Gun Mage. Going out of your way to get Blue Bullets is so worth it, especially once you hit Chapter 3. Plus it needs no AP to be effective since all of its regularly learnable skills are extremely situational and not explicitly worth getting.

I assume you're using nemes1s' Perfect Game Guide? If so, fair warning, the guide blatantly skips two little optional thingies in Kilika. For one, make sure to talk to the camera guy on the boat and have him show you the new Youth League HQ. It's frustrating to miss that since if you forget to do this now in Chapter 1, you cannot get the Break Damage Limit accessory later on.

The other is the monkey finding sidequest you can do during the main story mission, where you look for 13 Squatter Monkeys in the Kilika Woods. You can also do this later (you can't even get the reward for it until Chapter 3 IIRC) but might as well.

Also just before going to Zanarkand is a good opportunity to give the Fiend Arena a try. It's the second-to-last option in Shinra's Creature Creator menu. You can do tournaments and exhibition battles against all kinds of enemies with no worries of a Game Over, and if you manage to win the first tournament you get the wonderful second new dressphere (my overall favorite) so I recommend doing it sooner rather than later.
Bring your best team though (i.e. the one you're currently using) as the enemies are still quite strong.

I may have claimed to be good at this game, but I am not good at this game. Darkness Dance works well!

You saw us considering changing up the GG, but then ultimately stuck with what we had because defence! Maybe one day we'll shake it up...

And cheers for the tips, we'll see about doing the Fiend Arena thing. Maybe even use Matador Song and Sleepy Shuffle or something, just to shake it up. x}

SO LAZY EVEN THE VIDEO HAS THE FIRE ALARM BEEPING JESUS

:shobon:




beep

no I TOLD you to have three gunners what even is this!!! :irked:

JESUS CHRIST SHAUNA CONTROLLER DROP

Matt is a bandit of a different kind (if you know what i mean (and i think you do))

i don't want different gunners i want the same gunners EVERYONE GUN MAGE YOU smurfS

I heard Yuna used to narrate the world map locations.

Have I stolen your heart yet? (Probably not because we aren't using thieves this episode)




Let's Play Final Fantasy X-2 HD Remaster #10 - Bee-vell

In this exciting installment we have a wander around Bevelle and Kilika doing ~cutscenes~.

Don't worry loyal viewer, we manage to squeeze in some battles. Needless to say things really don't go well for us because of course they don't.

You can actually get a Tiara in Bevelle if you follow Baralai into the temple and talk to him once more. I don't think it gives any percentage though, and it's a trout accessory anyway, so whatever.

Squatter Monkey sidequest is literally holding the X button as you touch every pixel of the forest wall in the Kilika Forest. It's quite a silly quest. For the record, despite your passage being blocked at some points, you can still get all 13 monkeys in Chapter 1.

Do you know what's useful? Absorbing elements. Especially Lightning. Oh if only we had something to casually give a particular elemental absorption to whoever we want...

The status Yuna had there was Itchy, which blocks all commands except for spherechanging, and is immediatly cured by spherechanging as well. It's pretty annoying, but since spherechanging takes exactly 0 battle time it's not that bad.

Yay Fiend Arena :D

I love how the Flying Circus battle went perfectly well the moment you stepped up your game even just a tiny bit. The world of difference between pressing X to win and actually using strategies and having proper preparation is absolutely staggering in this game, I daresay more so here than in any other Final Fantasy game. Too bad the difficulty in this game is low enough the former is actually a workable approach -.-

The flans can be put to sleep but the Haizhe is immune. If you're redoing it offscreen, try Matador's Song. It basically makes you auto-dodge physical attacks which certainly would've helped here. Actually you're lucky you didn't run into an Amorphous Gel. There are tricks to take it out asap, but it's serious trouble if you're not careful.

What is your deal Matt?

Baralai is pretty Bara-fly for a white Bara-guy. New Yevon is New Heaven. :flirt:

Dona could be a Gullwing, dressing like that.

I see a lot of sleeping flans, so. I didn't even know this fiend place existed xD

EVERYONE GUN MAEG

The fiend thing is new in the Internation Edition! I say new, but I mean new to us in the West.

To Zanarkand!

Where we find that it has been turned (understandably) into a tourist attraction where former summoners take tours around all the nooks and crannies. Must be dangerous, since there are still fiends everywhere. Fiends and Leblanc's goons. And annoying children.

Also squatter monkeys with shifty eyes... they're just little cuties, right?

yuna you smurfing idiot goddamnit it yuna smurfing keymon are you serious

Look at this

Look at rikkus cold dead eyes.

Hmm, that woman probably says "Suteki da ne" in the Japanese version. Did that even have an official translation as "Isn't it wonderful" back then?

Nice choice of GGs. They sure made their presence known this episode too, huh.

You could technically get Mighty Guard and White Wind right now. Not that either of those abilities is particularly useful until later in the game.

Gun Mage is pretty great. In terms of sheer damage bursts no other dressphere consistently beats it except for Mascot. Gotta know where to find your Blue Bullets though. Without them it's more of a pretty trout dressphere.

Ah Key-Mon, classic translation issue. You just can't equate the Japanese language at wordplays no matter how hard you try. Never would've noticed Rikku's eyes without Spoony pointing them out though.

One Matador's Song and the Behemoth never again hit a physical attack. Have I mentioned I love this ability?

I like the new Zanarkand Ruins music. It's calming but conveys the total change it's gone through since FFX.

Don't know if you'll get to start the Kilika mission next episode, but if you do, I'll nominate Songstress Yuna, Thief Rikku, Warrior Paine. Back to the roots ^^
Although now that you've gotten better at using the Songstress maybe it's timeto build up another one from scratch.

I like the dialogue with the "Zanarkand such a deep and mysterious place where summoners passed on their pilgrimages. How fabulous!" and "I'm like, soooo touched". One of the cleverer pieces of work from Square here imho.

WHY NOT ALL GUN MAGE ARRRGH

Yeah I think Blue Peter will always be a thing. I think it's trout and trying to be trendy (as it always does) but it'll never die.

Hamtaro. I nodded. Also yep Mon guy has a really low PER stat. OH GOD RIKKU DEAD FACE WTF

smurf you, jumbled items are cool. :colbert: Just for that, THREE WHITE MAGES NEXT EPISODE YOU JERK.

actually change that, two white mages and dancer Yuna. I can't help but sing along with her when the party wins :3:

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I like the dialogue with the "Zanarkand such a deep and mysterious place where summoners passed on their pilgrimages. How fabulous!" and "I'm like, soooo touched". One of the cleverer pieces of work from Square here imho.

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They really captured how we on this side of the planet talk.

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Because rules. :colbert:

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They are absolutely not. xD

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I have never not noticed them. Haunting my nightmares since age 13.

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Same. *shiver*

At least Issaru's face isn't terrifying.


Let's Play Final Fantasy X-2 HD Remaster #12 - Guns and Songs

So in this episode we have a sing song, and shoot some guns. Clearly our next step is to have a singing gunner. Maybe there is a sphere in that will fill this purpose in Zanarkand?

Holy trout that was a little hilarious. Damocles Photon seems to be doing half of your max HP in damage so doubling them before it hits was a surprisingly bad choice.

Songstress Songs do indeed stack up, you can stack them up to 10 times, the only exceptions being Perfect Pitch and Matador's Song which have their full effect after only one use. The songs are pretty powerful though, stacking up the defensive songs reduces the damage you take pretty massively.

Never knew Carnival Cancan heals 1/4 of your current HP either. Interesting stuff.

Shauna got #rekt

I did. :(

And you all thought I was bad at FFX HD. Shauna takes it to a new level

Take that jerk we ain't afraid of you you ain't no thang TAKE THAT!

Sacred Beast taken down, we lose all choice in what to do next and end up at Kilika, which is a bit of a disaster zone, for a number of reasons. Noojie-Woojie, Parties, Easier(ish) battles... It's all happening on the island!

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THREE WHITE MAGES NEXT EPISODE YOU JERK.

actually change that, two white mages and dancer Yuna. I can't help but sing along with her when the party wins :3:

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Gee, great tunnel vision there MATT, casually ignoring the most important part of the post. :colbert:

Just for that, three Songstresses next mission after Besaid you jerk.

Unless you grab Psychic before then, in which case all is forgiven and I'll nominate three Psychics instead. ;)

Kinda funny how strong Rikku is compared to Paine even though she's a Thief.

If you want to use garment grid gate bonuses - which are actually really damn good btw - it may not be a bad idea to turn off spherechanging animations. The game will still play any spherechange animations you haven't viewed before, but skip the ones you have.

Doesn't look like the boss of this mission is gonna be any sort of trouble.

Kill the smurfing bee Shauna! Shauna screaming Paine while bees are about is very MGS3.

No no no! Songstress Yuna, thief Paine, Warrior Rikku.

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No no no! Songstress Yuna, thief Paine, Warrior Rikku.

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Let's Play Final Fantasy X-2 HD Remaster #14 - In Which We Dance... Again

In this episode of lets play FFX-2 HD Remaster, we beat up some old dudes and steal their magic balls. Little do we know that this magic ball is filled with terror. What better way to break the tension than by dancing? Paine doesn't join in though, what an emo!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNKa...ature=youtu.be



It's time~

CARVED!

Drumbelly sounds like you two.

Yuna dropping the H-Bomb. Alice, Alice, who the heck is Alice?

Matt smurfing nailed his black mage dress sphere guy impression.

PICK NEW YEVON I DON'T CARE ABOUT 100%

New Yevon sucks.

The Youth League sucks too, but not as much.

Pick Youth League! You have to for 100% anyway.

We know.

We have made our decision! The lucky faction who are getting the evil sphere are... well, you better watch to find out!

We also learn more about the great monster in the sphere and are rudely robbed while away from the airship! Before we deal with the crooks though, better head to Besaid to shoot down the massive ego of the new leader of the friendly neighbourhood Aurochs!

Nobody I know gave it to The Youth League because they're smurfing fascists. Apart from Shauna. Who is a fascist. It's stupid that they give you a "choice" but there is actually a wrong choice because of percentage. Ridic.

I AM BECLEM AND I AM RUDE AND HARSH what cheap heat interestingly you can dress up like him in record keeper:
https://ffrkstrategy.gamematome.jp/g...Mask%20%28X%29
https://ffrkstrategy.gamematome.jp/g...rass%20%28X%29

QUITE WHY I don't know but you can

Yeah, it would have been better if you could have chosen either and still got 100%. You've got a whole bunch of random weird little sidequests to complete, just let us make the choice between which faction we want to support!

I am not a fascist. :colbert:



As an aside, The Shaunas are going to Barcelona. There will be at most a week break here! Just rewatch all the existing episodes, or check out some of the other great stuff on our channel. :3

Let's Play Final Fantasy X-2 HD Remaster #14 - A Family Friendly Show

You know the old trope of going to a dinner party and being ridiculed because you are wearing the same outfit as someone else? We here at the Dullwings can't relate to that because we never made it to that party. We are mocked are the door and turned away by the bouncers. To get in, I guess we just gotta beat up ladies and steal their clothes from them.

Wait what?

Phew, finally caught up.

I'd have thought it best if you couldn't reach 100% in one run with either of them. It'd have the implicit effect of stopping people from doing such a stressful run their first time, as it just turns a game of fun exploration with a ton of secrets and eastereggs to be found into an annoying grind. Besides you can reach more than 100% anyways, it'd have been fine if you just needed to actually see everything (both YL and NY side) to get it maxed out.

The Youth League are such assholes sometimes. New Yevon aren't great either but they're not THAT bad. Plus it's convenient to give the sphere to New Yevon anyways since it gives you access to two Garment Grids you can't get otherwise, and you don't have to fight random guards in the final Chapter 2 mission. New Yevon all the way.

I never really cared for Gunner's Gauntlet until I played the Remaster where I maxed it out for the trophy and Adamantite. I find it interesting how it has you regulating the spawn rate of enemies by how far forward you advance in the waterfall section. Too far forward and you get overwhelmed, too far back and you lose out on points. But besides that it's not really the most engaging of minigames. Just a fun little distraction.

smurf yes Psychic. Such an awesome dressphere. It's main fault is a lack of strong offensive moves (although Teleport + Time Trip + 2x Maser Eye is nothing to sneer at), but that can be made up for. Especially with the stupidly powerful Samurai's Honor GG you get around this time.

I vote Songstress Yuna, Gun Mage Rikku and Psychic Paine. Although there's probably not much fighting next episode.

Requiring two runs would have been way better to get 100%. Then you'd actually get to see all the different options and whatnot. But hey ho, you can do all the boring boring things to get it on one run, which we will be doing 90% of off-camera because running around talking to people for marriage and PR points is totally dullsville and not worth including in the LP proper.

I am glad we took a bit of time to get psychic, it is pretty cool.

And we will take your nominations into account for the next battle-heavy part. This last episode is how I best envisioned this LP - doing a mission per episode.

Oh I like Psychic! Keep it! And keep Songstress. Make Rikku whatever highest level you have for her, I'm nice like that.

Paine looks like a member of Fingerbang.

GOD I LOVE THIS SONG (battle with LeBlanc song - I'll show you something hot? I think?) always makes me want to throw down with a fat bloke and Severus Snape.

Let's Play Final Fantasy X-2 HD Remaster #17 - Let Me Teleport, You Dick!

In this episode we discover we begin the endless fun that is chocobo catching. Our goal this week is to break into it gently and capture the Wonderful Chocobo near the Icicle Inn and then get him raced up a few times. There is a long road ahead of us but I think we can fit it in one episode.

What do you mean some English guy already did that on our channel? What a jerk.

Oh great, one of the most boring missions in the game.

For some reason I always got all the mediocre items, and always got as many feathers as possible so they become the best items possible, not that I ever used them. OCD is a bitch.

Okay let me explain the guess-the-direction thing. If you keep on guessing right, not missing more than once, you catch the chocobo. It's pure luck and stupidly unlikely, but if you didn't ever miss him (or just once) before he loses his concentration, you'd want to miss him once (or twice) on purpose so you don't catch him instantly. At least if you're going for 100% in one run or want to blame Rikku in the mystery, otherwise screw all that and do whatever you want.

Don't you love how you're sent out to capture THE ONE ULTRA-RARE CHOCOBO and then you see like half a dozen of them not two minutes after you caught it?

Teleport ftw. Although the real MVP of the Psychic skillset is Telekinesis, which is absolutely stupid against non-bosses. It pretty much never misses, ever, unless the enemy is specifically resistant to it, which almost none of them are. Probably gonna make the next mission quite a bit easier (those goddamn Queen Coeurls are such a pain).

Man that Chocobo Eater doesn't know which way he wants to be facing. He even outright missed an attack thanks to Teleport which was pretty hilarious.

The maker of the guide was a bit overly paranoid at the end of the mission. You're not gonna be messing up unless you deliberately skip the scene with Start-Square. Pressing X ain't gonna steal you no percentage or culprit condition. Better to be safe than sorry though I suppose.

Next up is Calm Lands I'm guessing. Let's max out what we got I guess and go with Songstress Yuna, Gunner Rikku, Psychic Paine.

I have zero forgiveness for the episode skip, no. smurf y'all. Whatever it was that Matt said.

Why is Rikku so incompetent? and GOD I hate the chocobo theme on X-2. Also Rikku is seventeen Shauna, gosh, that makes it perfectly okay for Matt to chap her hide.

I thought Rikku said "RETARD!" and was like "OH NO SHE DI'N'T :eek:" but she di'n't, she said recharge :shobon:

Just looking at the description for Telekinesis I was wary of ever using it because instant death moves never work in my experience, but if it's almost always successful then that is pretty cool.

We were commenting during the editing process how terrible the chocobo theme is. FFX-2 has a lot of great tunage, but damn that is not one of them.

And it is never okay for any hides to be chapped. Ever.

Ah the Calm Lands...

Today they're anything but as we help Clasko follow his dreams! Into a fiend infested lair. Not to worry though, we have some OP skills that will help us breeze through. Or so we think...

Telekinesis is pretty chill. I was surprised to see it missing that Queen Coeurl though. I suppose I was just a higher level at that point since that's a big influence on status effect hit rate.

Haste is interesting in this game. It actually only increases your ATB speed by like 5% or so; but it doubles your animation speed. So it makes a massive difference on physical attackers but not so much on magic users.

No worries, you don't have to be 'perfect' or anything like that in that mission. It gets easier the more you mess up, but that doesn't affect completion at all.

I love how the "boss" of this mission is completely trivialized by using Water Eater. Or Reflect, for that matter.

Ah the chocobo farm... I really don't care for how they did it in this game. None of the rewards are any good besides the two optional dungeons. Speaking of which you can actually get started on the quest for the Ruin Cave right now which could save you quite a bit of grinding down the road. Well even if you don't feel like it, stocking up on Gysahl Greens is still a good idea since besides being usable for catching the occasional chocobo, mixing them is a free Mega Potion.

Next time let's try the new guy. Songstress Yuna, Alchemist Rikku, Warrior Paine. While I don't really care for the Alchemist (and probably won't nominate it ever again) it deserves to at least be shown.

Good luck on tower calibrating. For the sake of your sanity just do the first five towers perfectly and instantly abort the latter five, except for Tower 10 if you got a pen and paper (because screw legitimacy). Give Tower 7 a shot if you feel like screaming in anger. Some Trivia...How well you calibrate the towers actually influences the items you get in Chapter 5. The only really interesting rewards are the ones for Towers 4, 5 and 10, which are a Champion Belt, Regal Crown and Ribbon respectively; all pretty great accessories. The first three also give Elixirs and Megalixirs and they're easy so why not. Towers 6 through 9 however give total trout rewards and are definitely not worth your time. Definitely go for the Garment Grid as described in the guide though. If you take the 30 seconds to go through all gates on it you get a quite absurd boost in Strength which decimates strong opponents pretty nicely.

ClaskoxYuna. I ship it. (I don't really. I don't even have a ship. Or a rubber dinghy)

Man I hate Coeurls too, good for you Shauna you've gone up in my estimation.

Ronso just wear speedo, that is wrong. Bad Ronso. This is why they're subhuman. #seymourwasright

The Shaunas do not endorse any hashtags that promote genocide.

Paul and Shauna don't understand hashtags. The Correct one in this circumstance is #sexyseymourwasright.

Brother too ships ClaskoxYuna, but only because he is the pilot sending them from places to places.

Double Posting like a baus


Let's Play Final Fantasy X-2 HD Remaster #19 - Thunder Pain

In this episode, we apologise far too much. Which is understandable as we are terrible and also awful at pressing the correct buttons at the correct times.

At least the music is good, right?

You know you can use mix and items (and I'm not referring to Stash) more regularly with an Alchemist. You have more than enough items to throw around and the battles are less monotonous that way.

Personally I prefer the Alchemist's passive abilities over its Stash, but it seems that's a rather unpopular opinion.

I find it funny that the non-oversoul elemental was immune to Ice magic, but the oversoul version took damage just fine.

Armor Break does actually stack up, looks like that enemy was just resistant to it. At Defense -10 you do almost double damage. Conversely at Defense +10 enemies only take 1/6 of the usual damage which makes folks who love to spam Defense Up a major pain in the ass. Attack Up/Down works the same way btw, Attack -10 makes you do 1/6 regular damage, Attack +10 nearly doubles it.

Urgh I'd forgotten how slow those Yuna towers are.

I never thought about it before, but who the hell calibrates lightning rod towers by striking them with their daggers or sword or shooting them with a gun.

Haha oh that Tower 5. What a troll, hijacking the last quarter of the episode like that. Good luck on the other ones if you decide to give them a shot.

FYI Tower 10 is across the big lake on the left side in the northern half. It's easy to miss if you don't know about it. Grab a pen and paper or something though, it's quite the intense mental exercise otherwise (at least for me :P).

I am sure we'll give them all a go, and we will definitely need all the luck we can muster.

TAME IT! I've had the sodding airship music from this game stuck in my head and I know who is responsible :colbert:

Actually Matt is right, they do get naked when they transform. There is like an inch of nudity on all of the models as the change goes from feet to head, and there are nude character models on disc as a result. DON'T ASK HOW I KNOW THAT :shifty: There used to be a FFX and X-2 model viewer and manipulator back in the day. Before Shauna gets excited and over stimulated, the nude models were just like barbie dolls with no details.

Bulltrout, Shauna says shooting the breeze all the time. I remember in Edinburgh "Och aye, I was just shooting the breeze with handicap ghost".

I forgot how much I dislike the Thunder Plains music in X-2.

how is calibrating towers hard

HOW IS IT HARD SHAUNA NOT YOU AS WELL

ok these later ones are getting kinda tricky i retract my statement

Another day, another dollar. Or gil. Whatever.

This week on Let's Play Final Fantasy X-2, we make a lot of cash to help us out going forward! But, there's the typical grind to get to that point, as always. But it's fine, the Gullwings don't have anything better to do with their time anyway!

Also I have been playing all along, Matt tricked you last episode!

Now, let me get back to finding that FFX-2 model program...

Geez Shauna way to turn around right before you reach the woman.

I actually really don't like this mission for one simple reason: the fact that you have to get it perfect for the Moonflow Episode Complete. It's so silly because there's no real indication as to how much the people will pay and getting it wrong just once is one time too many already. Oh well, at least it's a cheap 12500 Gil (or at least 7500) if you do have a guide.

I remember once resetting the game over and over again to get the highest reward for the Guadosalam data quest. I never did it again since. It's so tedious, and you usually wind up with enough Gil to pay off O'aka's debts anyways.

I really did forget about dressphere recommendations! Then I'll just go ahead and nominate Songstress Yuna, Gunner Rikku, Psychic Paine.

Megabutt. Bahabutt's overdrive.

...stop saying Tobli like that.

YES, SONGSTRESS YUNA FOREVERRRRR :flirt:

I recommend BLACK MAGE RIKKU. How about that.

Are we not saying Tobli the way the game does?

In casual conversation sure, but there was a period where you were both yelling it strangely.

Look at Mr. "I can't pronounce things correctly" here telling us we're wrong


Let's Play Final Fantasy X-2 HD Remaster #21 - Look Ma, I'm on TV!

Do any of the main characters even have mothers? No? Okay.

Anyways, we crash land into Luca to see what's up and get forced into an impromptu interview. Little did we know that it was going to be cut short by the best character in the game, Brother~ Shauna still seems to disapprove of him for some reason though, she must just hate mohawks.

I miss this battle system so much. I can't wait until I can get a job, a good one so I can start playing stuff I've missed plus the new stuff.

The O'aka infinite gil trick seems like a strange oversight. Maybe it was even intentional. Doesn't matter too much since I can only think of one time where you actually need gil to get something, and by then you have way better ways to make gil fast.

The Den of Woe is such a creepy place. It's one of my favorite missions in the game though. The exploring it part, not the opening it part, that part's a major pain in the ass and is way too easy to screw up.

My god Yuna and Rikku are so annoying in this scene. Poor Paine XD

Dayum, you're doing quite a good amount of damage. I remember back in Chapter 1 these enemies took forever.

At some point I stopped bothering to sneak past the Ochus. It's not like they're hard.

I do like the many parallel stories of FFX-2 as well. It really feels like you're just dropped back in Spira and allowed to watch it progress to your liking.

Still forgot to pick up the Garment Grid off the cliff in the YLHQ.

Where the hell did Nooj get that random sphere of Paine just running around, I wonder? Actually screw that, how did THAT sphere become a part of the seal on the Den of Woe? I guess you can theorize that the guys sealing the cave just picked up Paine's camcorder and took all the spheres in it to make the seal, but... that creates issues in and of itself so I dunno...

What kind of tablet is yours, Matt?

Lucile x Elmer or whatever 4eva :flirt:

It was fun playing through these again!

Oh woe is us, the Macalania Woods are dying and it is much too sad of an affair for us to focus on so let's think about that party Tobli wants to throw instead. Distracted from the dying forest yet? No? Well, how about you play matchmaker to a bunch of rascally monkeys with silly names to save a historical monument being a tourist attraction? NOW KISS MONKEYS!

Goddamnit YRP how do you manage to identify this one hypello as the guy you helped in Chapter 1.

I'm pretty sure the musicians from the concert are different from the ones in this mission. At least in the German version I distinctly noticed their names being different.

Time Trip useless, what the hell are you smoking?

Ah crap I totally forgot to tell you about the submission here. If you get all three small musicians during the hunt you can grab a pretty neat Garment Grid in Chapter 3. The first two you found but the third is on the regular path below the crystal path.

Oh gooood the monkey mating mission. Worst mission in the game, period. It may be neat the first time but when you've play the game as many times as I have, doing it every time you want to get an Episode Complete in Zanarkand is goddamn boring. It wouldn't be so bad if you could just pick up any of the monkeys and didn't have to go in a specific order. The calming Zanarkand Ruins theme is the only thing saving this from being extremely tedious.

Since you have a Soul of Thamasa now, might as well use a Black Mage, eh? Songstress Yuna, White Mage Rikku, Black Mage Paine. God help you if you run into an enemy who's resistant to magic.

Yeah those forest critters are a barrel of smurfing laughs. We're soon going to meet our end! Toot toot! :jess:

"We had a discussion and Yuna can't reach Songstress until Chapter 5 so we're probably going to have to move her onto something else" HAHAHAHAHAH NOPE, SONGSTRESS FOREVER

"Isaaru isn't a jerk" yes he is Shauna. He is actually a meme on the Record Keeper community because of what a prick he is. Is Isaaru memes? Yes. Yes he is. YOUR AEONS AGAINST MINE. smurf off Isaaru you prick.

Find the EoFF monkey partners:

Ctrl Manslaughter
Dis Rugg
Shirt Sleeve Spitter of the Good Planet

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Goddamnit YRP how do you manage to identify this one hypello as the guy you helped in Chapter 1..

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Because they're not racists and don't think all hypellos look the same unlike SOME PEOPLE I COULD EVIDENTLY NAME :colbert:

Your memes against mine.

Incidently this is memes

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Goddamnit YRP how do you manage to identify this one hypello as the guy you helped in Chapter 1..

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Because they're not racists and don't think all hypellos look the same unlike SOME PEOPLE I COULD EVIDENTLY NAME :colbert:

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Tobli's assistant looks identical to a large amount of other hypellos!

But really I'm just salty I can't tell them apart myself :(

Kari "I don't differentiate Spiran Races" fean over here. You may have a last name but by Joe if I know it.


Let's Play Final Fantasy X-2 HD Remaster #23 - The Fanservice Episode

On this week, we've reached a milestone as the channel has reached 1k subscribers. The Shaunas offer our celebrations the only way we know how, terrible banter, getting lost and requesting help from the fans and general tomfoolery. At least we see some bums.

Hey, I'm not racist, I'm just meta.

It would be really weird if you called me by my proper last name yet still used Karifean as my first name y'know.

Congrats on the 1k ^^

You forgot the two chests you can reach in Kilika. The ones with trout contents.

Ah you made a mistake with the Ronso. The woman next to Kimahri requires you to pick the first option, not the second. Oh well, so much for the Yuna statue.

Mastered Yuna's Songstress! Nice! Now we can move on to the next!

"You mean we're supposed to climb THIS?" Hey, look at Leblanc's Goons, climbing is too boring for them so they just JUMP up the freaking wall.

Would you look at that, Matador's Song and Dirty Dancing in a fight without physical attacks, the only type of attack affected by these moves. Matt, your strategies are impeccable.

You're scaring the poor platform. You need to geeeently walk up to it and then jump on it when its guard is down!

Just pointing this out, you have a strange habit of using full-party cures even when there's clearly only one party member in (dire) need of curing.

Jesus these guys hit hard. Might have something to do with having no characters with any physical defense to speak of. :greenie:

I believe up there is actually area from the very beginning of the game. Might be wrong on that though, I just know it's SOMEWHERE around here.

Oh god what are you doing why are you going back down it's right up there you just need to walk there it was literally two steps away from you gaaaaaaaah.

White Fangs are such assholes. They sometimes decide to just use Killer Fang and instantly KO one of your fighters. It's especially fun when you run into three of them and they all use it on their first turn. Screw these guys.

Hello fanservice.

WHERE THE HELL DID THAT UNIFORM COME FROM. Maybe it was in one of the FemGoon's nonexistant pockets. Or maybe... it's Ormi's. There's some nightmare fuel for you.

Bye fanservice.

Oh you still have to fight the guys, you just get to fight them separately with the privilege of healing at the save sphere between the fights.

I nominate Psychic Yuna, Songstress Rikku, Gun Mage Paine. Now that you know the skillset and which of them you use, picking the bread & butter abilities should be easier, right?

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I knew there was a different option for one of the Ronso the first time around. I knew it. But I trusted Matt and he just leads me down dark paths. :(

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Oh god what are you doing why are you going back down it's right up there you just need to walk there it was literally two steps away from you gaaaaaaaah.

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I do this every time I play the game, and probably will do so forever.

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Yes, we discovered this as we took literally one step to the left, and then promptly switched off the PS3. xD

Shauna's mum is subscribed to my bed :cool:

SONGSTRESS FOREEEEEEEEEEVEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR~

Seymour is only half Guado so why aren't they kicking human butt too? Stupid Ronso. #seymourwasright

I was slicing some toast into soldiers (yes I still and always eat with you on, king robert or no) and then Shauna said "Terra, not terror!" and I screwed my eyes up, grinned and looked upwards. I don't know why. It gave me some wonky soldiers.

A GIANT ENEMY CRAB LIVES UP THERE

So my initial thought was "Why did they just happen to have bikinis on them when they went to the frozen mountain?" but then I was like "Well Rikku wears one all the time anyway" but then I realised "It's a different one! She carries two yellow bikinis with her at all times!" and then I realised "Oh wait it's a one piece" and now I don't know what to think.

No Episode tonight. Recording failed.

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/BlTZyHV0kAY/hqdefault.jpg

It was a hell of an episode too.

We are real good at this thing. Watch this space! :3

It ain't broke no more, Maybe

Let's Play Final Fantasy X-2 HD Remaster #24 - Speedrun

In this action packed episode of Lets Play Final Fantasy X-2 HD we finish up a whole two Missions in record time. It's our shortest episode yet!

Maybe we should have put a clip show together of our best moments to fill up the rest of the time...

Tricks of the trade, yay~

Angra Mainyu is a neat superboss. He's not particularly tough and you can get him into a loop pretty easily once you know how it's done, but it's a fun fight.

Azi Dahaka is an interesting way of forcing you to do a puzzle while still giving you an out if you really don't want to. The whole musical puzzle is pretty tedious so I usually just fight him too. Plus I find it hilarious how you can just jump right over the red lines of You Shall Not Pass.

Brother is not terrible! He's the best blitzer in Spira! Well he used to be two years ago, I suppose. Plus he has the best fighting style I've ever seen. Gotta give him credit for that. You could put him in your party for a change.

So next time, massage. Fun fact about that minigame, you can get two rewards from it depending on if you beat it without continuing or if you fail at least once. And the one where you fail once is actually the better accessory. Details for nerdsThe item for acing the game is the Gold Hairpin which halves MP cost, while the item for not acing the game is the Heady Perfume which gives you good stat increases as well as HP/MP Stroll. And my god, HP/MP Stroll is godlike in this game. Slap it on a Gunner and watch as they Scattershot each and every single random encounter into oblivion. It's hilarious. The Gold Hairpin is technically better for *single* fights while the Heady Perfume is better for lots of random fights, but there are hardly any fights difficult enough to justify using the Gold Hairpin to begin with. So Heady Perfume all the way. Plus the Heady Perfume is unique and can not be obtained anywhere else, so for completionists that should be the deciding factor anyways.

I nominate Gunner Yuna, Songstress Rikku, Black Mage Paine.

Matt's impression hurts me :colbert:

After our quick trip previously, we find ourselves in it for the long haul in Leblanc's manor in Guadosalam. The Shaunas reminisce about the history of this grand building, while they give massages to their enemies. Wait, wasn't the fanservice episode a few weeks ago? And does Yuna even have any qualifications for such things?

Seeing Leblanc go all deredere was pretty hilarious for me first time through.

Are FemGoons all trained in massages or do they just tell a random one to do it and hope for the best? With that in mind, failing the first attempt by continuously picking blues turns out quite ironic. Stop assigning massage duty to the first random FemGoon you see, idiots!

Seriously, what the hell YRP. Getting out of your disguise right then and there makes it really comical how you're found out LITERALLY TWO STEPS LATER.

Sure, ignore the amazing golden accessory you just acquired, SHAUNA.

Yeah, Yuna hasn't been doing much except singing and dancing. And it's been pretty helpful.

It's really annoying that Trigger Happy target switching takes so absurdly long. You need Trigger Happy Lv. 2 or 3 to get even so much as a single shot off.

That chest is such a tease. Goddamn story-gameplay-segregation.

Did you really just use a Mega-Phoenix!?

And there goes the Leblanc trio's final fight. I really wish they had a proper boss fight in the Arena, but we got the Weak Squad instead. They're still pretty cool, but a massively powerful No Love Lost would've been a real sight to behold. Logos is one of the best party members to capture through Creature Create btw. Dude attacks crazy fast.

You know with how Vegnagun is supposedly super-sensitive they were damn lucky that not one of the guards was like "well trout that thing looks ugly" or else they'd immediatly have a massive uncontrollable weapon on the loose.

Yuna's Ballad! Such a beautiful track.

Would be nice if you could do the whole Bevelle mission in one episode, although it might be a bit long for that. Don't forget to pick up the Bloodlust and Wring accessories while you're there, they're pretty neato and fun to use every once in a while (the latter more so than the former).

I nominate Psychic Yuna (that style~), Songstress Rikku and Gunner Paine for Bevelle. There's a good Blue Bullet you can get down there from Baralai, but knowing you you'd never use it anyway, plus it's a bit of a pain to get.

yes i used a mega-phoenix i will never live this down

I will pay for a massage from the Shaunas. Not very much mind you but currency is currency.

I like how Shauna is trying to moralise the stealing of the sphere. smurf that, they're villains and they stole from us first. And besides, Rikku's whole freakin' job thing is Thief, sooooo :colbert:

I never thought I'd see the day I'd get tired of the Leblanc battle music. ...and I still haven't! :jess:

hello welcome to my mansion make yourself at home don't mind the random spiked blocks roaming the halls do you want to see my sphere collection

So we did our recording there and inteneded to post it tonight. Unfortunately it ended up being 68 minutes long and Shauna and I now hate each other so update tomorrow~

And by tomorrow we meant Thursday because it took about 5 hours to process the videos properly and then we were out last night so.



Today on the LeBlanc show, LeBlanc takes control and tells us where we need to go using her LeBlanc branded airship. Or so she'd like to believe before she scarpers with her goons.

In the meanwhile, Yuna and co start their trek through the underbelly of Bevelle. They'll manage to get it all done fairly promptly, right?

Nah, TO BE CONTINUED!

Yuna has hardly worn any dresspheres besides Songstress so yeah.

Holy crap those Trigger Happies (totally a valid pluralization) tore through that mech like crazy.

Hey come on Psychic Yuna is awesome. Love that dark Psychic design.

It's pretty silly how easily you can get down into Bevelle's secret depths. But suspension of disbelief and all that. Kinda like how you might ask why you can suddenly just walk on the paths in the temple whereas you needed a platform before.

Oh smurf they don't know what Pointless is... this is going to be such a waste of EXP...

Haha oh my god the lizard jumps at you and suddenly you're in a fight with two completely different lizards. Get your enemy models straight FFX-2.

I do like the eerie music of this place.

Haha Poison Fang hit Yuna so you'll be curing Pointless along with it. Sometimes things just work out nicely.

That is such an inconspicuous treasure chest in the corner that I kept missing it all the time for way too long.

And that's Bevelle Cloisters. Best part about this area is that you get really damn good accessories if you come back here in the next chapters.

Next up, the Bevelle Depths. I nominate Gunner Yuna, Songstress Rikku, Psychic Paine, because Matt wanted it so. Are you planning on doing the whole puzzle, with optional rewards?

As I watched through this video I saw that Yuna had pointless way back when I cured Rikku of poison. Missed it entirely when I was playing, because of course I did.

And you'll see what we end up doing with the Bevelle Depths...

Girly man!? MISOGYNY ALERT LOGOS GEEZ

Yeah I'm a youth league spy in my regular smurfing clothes. Douche.

Flying cat ears schoolgirl Yuna makes me feel a little bit sick.

The Depths is going to be a great episode because this was originally one segment. I just don't know where to stop episodes and we powered through.

Shauna did not approve.

We are pretty awful in this episode. Like not kidding you might wanna brace yourself.


Let's Play Final Fantasy X-2 HD Remaster #23 - Mistakes Were Made

In this episode of lets play FFX-2 HD nothing goes right.

We made the mistake of not resting at the save point and it all goes downhill from there. Watch as we continue to get literally nothing right and Shauna gets more and more frustrated as the seconds tick on.

At least we didn't miss anything important and/or useful...

So this is the "trainwreck episode", huh? Let's see how this works out.

I always found it funny how you casually fight the Chapter 1 endboss a couple times in a row here.

You can actually go back up the chains behind the other towers (not the one you came down at) too and find treasures. Took me freaking forever to realize.

That chained Maser Eye is pretty strong.

The gaol puzzle can be pretty annoying if you don't know how it's done, and it's just incredibly easy if you do since the pattern is completely static and repeats every five rotations. It's worth doing either way cause the Wring is just a damn good accessory. Fun combo is Gunner + Wring -> Enchanted Ammo spam. Pretty powerful.

The goddamn Dark Knight puzzle can go smurf itself though. It's pretty damn silly.

You can go back for that Ribbon you skipped next chapter. You were on the right track, but you just kinda left before moving the platforms in their proper place.

Well that wasn't so bad. I was half-expecting you to suddenly Game Over after spending all that time on puzzles. :jess:

Next up, probably one of the most difficult storyline bosses in this game. And also one of the easiest.

I mean, it wasn't much of a car crash - it was more that we wanted to go to bed and Matt was being bad at navigating us around the dungeon and I was getting impatient with all the happenings. The machina puzzle could have went better, too.

No more bickering! Time to get this game PLAYED! The Shaunas put aside past differences and come together to get the excellent Dark Knight dressphere, and kick all sorts of Chapter 2 bosses. No problems here! Well, sort of...

I like how it's so completely obvious that the basilisk was going to use Stony Glare as well as who it's targeting.

Yup, Baralai is probably the biggest spike in difficulty in this game. He's super fast, saps your MP and stops you like it's nothing. I love how he sincerely apologized when he killed you though.

And yes, this Baralai boss fight is an opportunity to learn Drill Shot. Thanks to the Fiend Arena though, there's only one Blue Bullet that is truly missable in a single playthrough, and that is Annihilator. You can refight Baralai in the Arena and he does use Drill Shot there so yeah, not limited to the Bevelle and Den of Woe encounters this time around. He uses it as a counter after X number of hits btw which is why Trigger Happy triggers it so frequently, and it does 3/4 of your max HP or so which is why it's so deadly.

And then there's the oh-so-threatening Bahamut, uh, Wyrmface. Curse actually only prevents you from switching dresspheres, so it's nothing major, and all of his attacks are just hilariously weak. Or slow. Or both. At least you get Yuna's Ballad playing in the background.

Oh, next time Chapter 3, when the plot actually gets serious for a bit. Let's go with Black Mage Yuna, Songstress Rikku, Dark Knight Paine. For the next mission that involves fighting anyways.

Dat shriek from Matt :flirt:

And dat sneeze :3:

wtf I don't remember Baralai freaking out and attacking. Has that always been in it? I'm assuming it must've been and my memory is rap. WOW he is pushing your trout right back in as I type this. Yeah smurf I'd remember this surely. Oh hey Maser Eye that's Quistis's Soul Break in FFRK

I like how the music is kind of a sad depressing version of Yuna's X-2 theme. Kind of.

EVERYONE DARK KNIGHT smurf YOU BANEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee I'm not even really smurfing you over on this, for my final battle party I had two Dark Knights. A third one can only make it better!

We didn't manage to (read as forgot) to do a recording last night, and we are traveling today, so no episode today.

Maybe one on Thursday depending where we are in the country.

Best Mini-game inbound

Let's Play Final Fantasy X-2 HD Remaster #29 - The Sphere Breakers

This week we do the Sphere Breaking! Needless to say, I'm amazing at this mini-game and boast about it everywhere.

What do you mean multipliers? What do you mean 50 quota? Don't need none of that..

Sphere Break YAY! Great minigame indeed.

Nice math skills Matt. Now if you only cared about echo bonuses you'd have been doing that much better. In this tournament I usually go for coin count echos of 4 coins. They're simple enough to maintain and have a good fast payoff even if they get cut through by a 1 quickly.

The real MVPs of Sphere Break are the multiplier echos. Once you get those you can stomp every enemy without much trouble since the echos can be maintained indefinitely. Too bad you're locked into four specific coins during the tournament.