TONFA'S PROFILE

Whatever you do, if this is a system with a strongly customizable player party (which I gather from the "not simple" comment), I highly recommend you add in some kind of way to practice battle an enemy (group) from the menu. Nothing discourages customization quite like being unable to experiment with your build.

Trip repoooort

Distant Worlds II concert in Stockholm happened past Saturday. It was pretty mindblowing! Not only was the music great, but they did some fun things with syncing the video screen with it. The crowd was really into it too, just about being louder than the orchestra when the time for applause came. And you can't beat Nobuo Uematsu joining the choir for One-Winged Angel.

J-E-N-O-V-A was a particular favorite of mine, you wouldn't think it'd work so well with a philharmonic orchestra. Of course, FFVII Main Theme is nearly unbeatable and then there was Man with the Machine Gun and Don't Be Afraid and Fisherman's Horizon and Liberi Fatali and To Zanarkand and Dear Friends and Vamo Alla Flamenco and Terra and well you get the point. The only low point would be Melodies of Life, which in addition to being mediocre to begin with suffered from the vocalist starting off pretty rough. Did get better by Suteki Da Ne, though. I'm also pretty much contractually obligated to be a fan of Dancing Mad now too (despite one slip-up by the organ player). Damned Swedes.

We were sitting pretty close to where the guy on the upper level filmed his videos, somewhat closer by to the stage, so had a great view too. Absolutely nothing to complain about, A+++ would go again despite having to endure Stockholm.

Edit. Oh god I almost forgot the very first thing. When we got to the concert house there was a crazy shirtless guy hopping around an playing an accordion with a backing techno-ish track in front of the building. What was he playing?

Guess.

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FFT had an interesting bit where if a character dies, (this all from memory so excuse me if I'm wrong) there was like a number of turns before s/he would dissapear forever (enough time to phoenix down, but if you just wanted to sacrifice a pawn for the sake of finishing the battle quickly, then that option is there). If Ramza dies the game was over (I think) but at least Ramza isn't a pegasus knight MADE OUT OF GLASS.

If Ramza DIES FOREVER it's game over. If he just croaks, stuff his corpse full of phoenix down in 3 turns and you're fine. It's a good system!

Only time this is acceptable is in a Tactics RPG - where it can add legitimate strategy with positioning and such instead of just being "welp I sure hope the boss won't use gigadeath on the main"