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"One to be born from a dragon..." -- Let's Play Final Fantasy II

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Old 01-02-2013, 02:40 AM
Torgo Torgo is offline
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Phenomenal lp as always, Brick. Speaking as someone who's got a big 'ol soft spot for the game himself, you did it justice from start to finish.
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Old 01-02-2013, 04:05 AM
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I just want to watch this gif again.


Phantasy Star IV makes a great study in contrast. That game also features great 16-bit fantasy/sci-fi RPG storytelling, with snazzy manga panels even, but the dungeons are terrible. Just one blind passageway after another where you think "I hope I pick the way that leads to treasure and not the exit."
They were originally going to go totally old school with first person dungeon crawling like the first game, and went overhead at kind of the last minute, for what it's worth.
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Old 01-02-2013, 05:21 AM
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I would like to say I've learned a lot about making animated .gifs from this experience, but I really haven't. I sorta just winged it from update to udpate. Still got a long way to go before the likes of Kishi and _L_ would accept me in their company.
The gifs were very impressive. That Big Bang demonstration is the cherry atop a giant LP sundae, and I could still watch this all day:


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Keep the dream alive!
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Old 01-02-2013, 11:13 AM
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The next task is to go through and collect all those amazing and hilarious Photoshops, and stick them in a bonus udpate, so they can be enjoyed by future generations without having to slog through 100+ pages of LP.
During the moon chapters, I was thinking of drawing a picture of Cid and FuSoYa transplanted into Skullgirls, fighting each other with animated beards and nicknamed Cidabella and FiliSoYa. Unfortunately my drawing skills are as rusty as a Model T factory.

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I hope you guys bring those mad skillz over to the DW4 thread.
Unlike FF2, I haven't played much of DW4, so your LP of it will simultaneously be more eye opening and less emotionally attaching for me. That is, unless it inspires me to play the game myself, which I keep contemplating every once in a while.

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I'm also not proficient enough with the game to tackle it from another angle, like I did with FF1. So I think I'll just step aside and let some other tyrant tackle the Advance, DS, and Complete Collection versions when the time comes.
To be fair, FF2 gives far less room for improvisation than FF1. Even Advance only lets you change how you do the last dungeon. Now as for that horrible fanfic you mentioned, if they ever made a game of that and if it gave you more choices of party members, that might make for an interesting LP...
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Old 01-02-2013, 12:05 PM
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To be fair, FF2 gives far less room for improvisation than FF1. Even Advance only lets you change how you do the last dungeon. Now as for that horrible fanfic you mentioned, if they ever made a game of that and if it gave you more choices of party members, that might make for an interesting LP...
Not to take anything away from any Tyrant who might want to tackle that monstrosity, but there's a pretty good LP of the fanfic here.
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Old 01-02-2013, 02:00 PM
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Thanks Brickroad! I appreciate all the time and effort you put into what has to be the definitive LP of my second favorite game of all time.
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Old 01-05-2013, 08:48 PM
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This was amazing! I've read this thing since the very beginning and finally had to create an account just to say "thank you". You've made many a lunch break that much more enjoyable for me!
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Old 01-05-2013, 09:14 PM
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Thanks, Brick. Your humor was excellent, as always, but what really had me nodding and grinning was when you talked about how the game blew your mind with things like door switches and being able to see the floor below in the sylph cave. My experience of FFII was of sitting in my friend Katie's back bedroom watching her older brother play it on an aging 13" TV, absolutely riveted for many of the same reasons.

Thanks again for the awesome nostalgia trip!
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Old 01-05-2013, 09:24 PM
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Zeromus is one of the meanest and toughest bosses in the entire Final Fantasy series. He has tons of HPs and an invisible ability that heals him back to full for no clearly defined reason. If you've played the game multiple times and noted that sometimes this battle lasts twice or three times as long as usual, that's why. I don't well understand the inner workings of the boss's AI script, but it goes something like this: Zeromus has about 65,000 HPs, and if he is able to take a turn when his HP total is within a certain window (between 10k and 12k or so, I believe), it gets silently reset to 65k and the battle continues.
Just wanted to add that Super Robot Wars took this ball and ran with it. I used to think this was to add a sense of drama to the battles, having to pace yourself for the moment when the boss' HP is low to unleash all your strongest attacks at once. But "fuck you from the develops" makes a lot of sense to me. At least they give an HP gauge...
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Old 01-05-2013, 11:54 PM
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Congratulations!

I wanted to post a GIF of it instead, but Google didn't turn up one.
For future reference: here, here, or here.
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Old 01-07-2013, 03:02 AM
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Congratulations, Brickroad! You did a phenomenal job with one of my favorite games of all time, very informative, and fun to read throughout. One of the best LP's I've ever read. Congratulations again, good sir.
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Old 01-07-2013, 05:47 PM
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Nice job, hoss.
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Old 01-08-2013, 01:12 PM
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Btw, this was released recently, if people want to peer into the dark, foundation-crumblin' secrets of FFII:
http://www.romhacking.net/utilities/914/
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Old 01-09-2013, 03:15 AM
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That

Was

RAD

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She and Cecil have only one son, whose name I don't remember but I'm sure it was stupid as hell.
Going by the interlude that links FF IV and After Years in the PSP Complete Collection, Cecil knocks up Rosa in a real hurry, too. In fact, I think Ceodore's age was canonically changed because it otherwise implied that Rosa had bacon in the oven during the events of FF IV. I don't know what happened to the couple after the birth of Ceodore (IMPOTENCE IMPOTENCE IMPOTENCE FROM THE MOOOOOOOON)

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HOLY SHIT
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Old 01-18-2013, 09:32 PM
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Thank you so much for this thread. I don't remember when I started reading--very early on, I think--and somehow I didn't notice that you'd finished until today. Your commitment to quality has shown through, and I'm pleased to see one of my very favorite games ever (and my favorite version thereof) treated so well. I'll be hanging around to see what else you do.

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And be left-handed! ...
Well, one out of two stereotypes isn't bad.
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Old 02-07-2013, 09:16 AM
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Finally got around to compiling the art dump. Enjoy all the great comics and Photoshops of Kain's scrotum, again and again:

LPFF2 Art Dump
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Old 02-07-2013, 09:26 AM
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It's... too beautiful... words ... fail...
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Old 02-07-2013, 12:59 PM
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Dang, I still need to finish mine.
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Old 02-08-2013, 07:29 AM
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Apparently I made more than I remember.

Everyone else trumped me.
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Old 02-08-2013, 06:54 PM
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Late to the party, but hey, the Dogs of FF2.



Edit: In case the link didn't make it clear, I didn't draw these, but they're interesting enough to post here.
Last edited by Vega; 02-09-2013 at 04:26 PM.
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Old 02-08-2013, 07:48 PM
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D'awwwww.
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Old 02-09-2013, 04:21 AM
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Finally got around to compiling the art dump. Enjoy all the great comics and Photoshops of Kain's scrotum, again and again:

LPFF2 Art Dump
Bookmark'd. For eternal nostalgia.

The multitudinous shots of Kain's scrotum has nothing to do with it.
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Old 02-09-2013, 06:34 AM
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Aww, look at Cid-Dog and Edge-Dog, they remind me of that Looney Tunes duo. You can totally see them getting into a spinning contest.
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