Hello there. My name is Lúthien Tinúviel. Ohh wait, wrong "Beren."
You are Timber. I am thinking of Erchamion.

I first remeber hearing about FF while reading a gaming Magazine. At that point, it was mostly previews for FFX. So when I got a PS2, I decided to get all the other FFs that I could play, but I had to return the FFVIII because it was broken. When I first put the DVD in, I wasn't really amazed, because at that point, I had heard so much of FFX, and I expected the same quality of game as the other FFs because it was a FF (after playing IV, IIIj, and I on emulator). I gave it a chance, and it is now my fourth favorite video game (right behind FFIIIj, Starcraft, and Warcraft III).

However, what I didn't remember at the time, was I had played my cousin's PC version of FFVIII, helping him get levels and magic hoarding. I didn't understand the plot, but hey, who really wants to mess with time travel?

I beat the game as mercilessly as I could, getting all that I could get and by the time I got to Mt. Gagazet, I was FAR too underleveled to handle it, so I nearly gave up at the Yunalesca fight. I didn't though, and when I beat the game, the ending was very powerful for me, but I am surprised at hearing people crying because of it.

I had also instantly fallen in love with Rikku during the game (and the FMV "Reunion" will explain why), which is why I was very disappointed to see that she was stripped down from her FFX incarnation (literally and figuratively), and dumbed down to the intellegence of a ball point pen in FFX-2.