Now where was I...

[Pete for President]

After a couple of years of pause I'm re-attempting my seemingly never ending quest of completing all sidequests. Here's what I had left to do:

- Get Lulu's sigil - DONE
- Get Kimahri's sigil - DONE
- Capture any remaining monsters to a total of 10 of each - DONE
- Defeat Nemesis - DONE
- Stat max Kimahri and Lulu (optional) - DONE
- Raise Luck to 130 - DONE (actually it's about 145 now)
- Get Ultimate Armours for Auron, Kimahri and Lulu - DONE
- DEFEAT PENANCE. (without Zanmato). - HAHA! DONE!

So far I've been flying through the monster capture thing (which included capturing 5 Tonberry's and Simurghs) but that went rather quickly. Kimahri's sigil wasn't too bad either, both butterfly games completed within one hour.

Next stop is either the Cavern of the Stolen Faith or the Thunder Plains to hunt Dark Yojimbo for some Ribbon Armour/Dark Matter and ofcourse the quest I liked postponing the most: dodge 200 lightning bolts.

110 hours in, wish me luck and I'll keep ya posted!

[Jiro]

You're ridiculous. I think I managed to do the lightning bolts once. Never again. NEVER.

[Remon]

I had no problem with lightning. Chocobo racing, now THAT's annoying.
Anyway good luck Pete!

[TrollHunter]

I hated both with a passion

Good luck maintaining enough patience to succeed
We believe in you!!!

[Jiro]

The chocobo racing never took me as long as it seems to take some people. Once I dropped the ball and it took me an hour of trying to improve on like 0.2 but I got there eventually.

[G13]

Chocobo racing was easy for me. Lightning dodging was balls.

Good luck, Pete!

[Pete for President]

Thanks everyone! Gotta love the rainbow unicorn ; )

Small update: Yojimbo was kind enough to give me a Ribbon armour with 3 empty slots for Auron. I immediately bribed some Machea; a quick reminder of what a pain finding those creatures can be sometimes. Anyway I have the ingredients for Lulu's as well, so that just leaves Kimahri.

With Auron's armour complete I can pretty much already try and beat Penance, but I want to finish the other sidequests first. Thanks for the mental support on the lightning dodging, it's pretty much next on my list!

[Jiro]

Turning the sound down helps! Then just rely on the flashing screen. Pause and take a break if you need to, there's nothing worse than having your concentration fail at 180

[WhiteStorm]

Good luck. You're going to need it.

[Nebulance]

this sounds like fun, and also has inspired me to get back to a similar journey. Trying to max out all my characters and capture each monster (for the maximum of 10 per). I've done the whole get-everyone's-celestial-weapon in past games already. I don't think I'm gonna go for it again for everyone -- I already have Lulu's, Yuna's and today I got Auron's. Also took care of Besaid and most of Mushroom Rock's fiends. Concerning the other characters' weapons, I'm going to build a better one for Tidus and Kimahri, I was never thrilled with those -- and plus, as previously mentioned -- they are really really annoying to obtain. I'll be starting on the path to get Rikku's Godhand next. I always enjoy a good run-in with the cactuars.

I spent a lot of time hanging out in Besaid today and found a Jecht sphere I totally forgot about (to the right of the temple), which was nice, as I totally forgot about that story (I'll leave that description out on the off chance someone hasn't seen it yet). Probably my favorite town out of them all.

So to cut the ramble short, thanks to Pete for inspiring my return to this game! Definitely one of my favorites of all time, including the PS3 games I have...

[Pete for President]

So to cut the ramble short, thanks to Pete for inspiring my return to this game! Definitely one of my favorites of all time, including the PS3 games I have...

Nice! Same here, I hope more people will follow : ) To be honest I started a new game while I was at it ;p Gotta love how polished this game is in every single second of gameplay!

Small update on the sidequests; not much going on, steadily collecting Dark Matter as Yojimbo isn't that generous in giving Kimahri some Ribbon Armour...

[Jiro]

There aren't many Final Fantasy games that aren't fun to start over, but FFX is one where I don't ever seem to lose steam until right at the end when is too strong because I'm a nub.

[Pete for President]

There aren't many Final Fantasy games that aren't fun to start over, but FFX is one where I don't ever seem to lose steam until right at the end when is too strong because I'm a nub.

Sounds familiar. On my first playthrough I remember taking a very long break after running into that Zanarkand guardian boss. And another one when I got to Yunalesca.

Update:

Kimahri's Armour is done. I also customized some more armour for Tidus and Wakka, both now have an extra piece with Auto-Phoenix in addition to their already customized Ribbon armours. I think I'll make another one for Rikku, since Wakka and Rikku will surely be the main force of the party in the fight against Penance.

I just failed my first attempt to dodge 200 lightning bolts. I think I got to around 70 or 80. Not nearly enough, but next time I'll take your advice Jiro, and turn the sound off.

Oyeah, I added one more thing to the to-do list:

- Raise luck to 130 (hanging around 120 atm).

[Pete for President]

Update:

Raised luck to 145-ish. Tonight I think I might give getting Lulu's sigil another try. I've been postponing again : (

[Jiro]

That's a damn lot of luck. How fairs your lightning dodging?