FINAL FANTASY: RECORD KEEPER

I don't know where friend stuff is! I'll have to look around, I only recently unlocked item crafting to give an idea where I am so far. I am enjoying it a lot more than RK though (but I already want to mute the victory bird cheer / loser pig cry). Every action already has more weight to it and some forethought is needed to do better than the RK (early game at least) which was mostly auto spam.

Oh, that's too bad. I don't use facebook besides some shit I did in university ages ago in part due to internet detective shit from around the same time frame. We'll have to settle for Steam friends, sorry! :(

Craze, your timing is frustrating. I was trying to be optimistic that I could beat Blue Dragon without Sentinel Grimoire, but that isn't what happened. Bench Quistis.

Beatrix is kind of annoying. It took three tries to master. She just has so much HP. Oh, I switched my Roaming Warrior to Tifa during the last FF7 event. Had her Crystal Glove/Water Kick. I probably won't be changing it back to Dark Cecil any time soon because Water Kick does more single-target damage.

Steiner is pretty good. Draw Fire + Drain Strike works well to manage physical attack battles, even capped at 50. I hope then slip a MC in for him at some point though.

I think the only character who can actually use both Draw Fire and Retaliate right now is Tyro.

It's ridiculous that Snow can't use Draw Fire, his limit break makes him the only person in the game right now who could use Draw Fire without Retaliate and not have it be a complete and utter waste. The fact that you're only allowed to take 2.5 turns per enemy or you lose medals makes it useless in normal battles, and boss battles last so long that you'd never want one character taking all the hits unless they were nearly invincible.

All of the Elite++ battles are horrible to master. I mean, it's obvious how to do it, and once you realize how to do it, it's obvious why it's like that. You do it by spending dollars.

I really wish this game let you pay, like, $3 to get permanent access to a previous event. That would just print money for them. It'd hit a type of player that is currently not paying money and get them to start paying money, without having any negative effect on the megaspenders.

It fascinates me that you're not bothering with minmaxing and formulating clever strategies strategies and figuring out how to beat the hardest content, considering the difficulty and style of the games you make.

Every battle in Wine & Roses and Diablocide and Edifice was a puzzle to figure out how to win though. They weren't open-ended playgrounds at all. They were extremely difficult games where you presented the player with a ton of options but there were only a very small number of valid solutions for each puzzle among those options. They weren't about stats and equipment and builds, really, but they were definitely about figuring out how to win with the tools you're given, which is what the hardest FFRK battles are about.

Honestly the only real difference is that FFRK requires sevreal hundred hours of grinding to get to the point where you have all the options, whereas most of your games just give the player all of those options by default. Is it the grinding for power that you don't like, then? You seem to be enjoying FFRK well enough despite only participating in the grinding part, and not touching the puzzle-solving part that I would consider the reward for that grinding...

Kind of disappointing. I spent 115 mythril trying to get some good FF8 gear because all I have is a vanilla 3-star Flail and a Balamb Garden Uniform (which is admittedly great). Zero 5-star items and all of my 4-star draws were FF5 and FF12.

I did manage to get my FF8 party up to Lv35-45 though, so they won't be completely useless but I'll definitely have to swap them out for better characters when I get to the later elites. I should've only stuck with one 50-mythril pull because I think there's a Golbez event soon and I want to blow a mythril load on that.

Also, I've yet to spend any gems. It seems like a bad idea.