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Somehow I failed to remember that yesterday was DW update day... I blame the husband for 'distracting' me...
I watched a YouTube video by Final Fantasy Union about Yuna's origins, which actually gave her whole story including FFX-2 Last Mission. It all sounded a bit sad, really, although it did give an explanation for the outcomes AND for the bonus audio thing. I'm wary of spoilers for people who haven't played/watched the remastered game...
Anyway, I watched a let's play of Last Mission and I'm SO glad I never bothered to play it. Some of the floors have seals over the elevator with really weird conditions for breaking them that I'm sure I'd never work out without a guide. But the point of writing about this is actually to indulge my nostalgia for Azure Dreams.
Someone at Square Enix has definitely played, and loved, Azure Dreams because both Last Mission and Chocobo's Dungeon on the Wii draw heavily on it. I enjoyed lots of things about AD. It was a complete departure from my (almost) exclusive diet of JRPGs but I had a lot of fun with it. The 'make the girls fall in love with you' was a tad irritating, although I did manage a playthrough where all the girls did fall in love with me. Mostly, this happened because I did nice things for them and helped them out, which is what all RPG players want to do, anyway. The most irritating aspect was that there was always that last thumbnail that never got filled - because in the Western version they didn't include the male character. Now, gay and bi characters are almost obnoxiously standard in EVERY game.
BTW, I don't object to gay and bi characters, just to the way a) they are sometimes portrayed and b) that games seem to make a point of pointing them out.
As an aside, there is a trans character in DAI who just is... You can investigate if you want to (I decided not to be intrusive) but the game doesn't really make a Thing of it.
Anyway, AD... I enjoyed collecting and hatching monster eggs, and even did a bit of mixing them (or whatever that was called). I loved doing the little missions - healing herbs, the cloak of a dead sweetheart, making the swimming pool clean again - and improving the town by building a new temple and library, buying all the weird stuff for my house.
But... drum roll please... (BIG spoiler up ahead, BTW)… I was insulted when the final boss battle was just a cut scene. Yes, the ultimate let down. Why put me through ALL that just to not let me beat up the final boss?!?!
So, Azure Dreams - fun game, shit ending.
I watched a YouTube video by Final Fantasy Union about Yuna's origins, which actually gave her whole story including FFX-2 Last Mission. It all sounded a bit sad, really, although it did give an explanation for the outcomes AND for the bonus audio thing. I'm wary of spoilers for people who haven't played/watched the remastered game...
Anyway, I watched a let's play of Last Mission and I'm SO glad I never bothered to play it. Some of the floors have seals over the elevator with really weird conditions for breaking them that I'm sure I'd never work out without a guide. But the point of writing about this is actually to indulge my nostalgia for Azure Dreams.
Someone at Square Enix has definitely played, and loved, Azure Dreams because both Last Mission and Chocobo's Dungeon on the Wii draw heavily on it. I enjoyed lots of things about AD. It was a complete departure from my (almost) exclusive diet of JRPGs but I had a lot of fun with it. The 'make the girls fall in love with you' was a tad irritating, although I did manage a playthrough where all the girls did fall in love with me. Mostly, this happened because I did nice things for them and helped them out, which is what all RPG players want to do, anyway. The most irritating aspect was that there was always that last thumbnail that never got filled - because in the Western version they didn't include the male character. Now, gay and bi characters are almost obnoxiously standard in EVERY game.
BTW, I don't object to gay and bi characters, just to the way a) they are sometimes portrayed and b) that games seem to make a point of pointing them out.
As an aside, there is a trans character in DAI who just is... You can investigate if you want to (I decided not to be intrusive) but the game doesn't really make a Thing of it.
Anyway, AD... I enjoyed collecting and hatching monster eggs, and even did a bit of mixing them (or whatever that was called). I loved doing the little missions - healing herbs, the cloak of a dead sweetheart, making the swimming pool clean again - and improving the town by building a new temple and library, buying all the weird stuff for my house.
But... drum roll please... (BIG spoiler up ahead, BTW)… I was insulted when the final boss battle was just a cut scene. Yes, the ultimate let down. Why put me through ALL that just to not let me beat up the final boss?!?!
So, Azure Dreams - fun game, shit ending.
