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Rich was playing Final Fantasy 8 recently, which gave me the itch to run through it again. While I’ve played FF8 many times before, I’ve always avoided the in world card game, Triple Triad.
I used to think it was boring.
This time around, however, I’m playing the heck out of the TT, and with GF abilities converting cards into super useful magic and items, I’m tearing through the game like never before. I used to draw all my magic from enemies…
…like a pleb.
Anyway, on the off chance you haven’t played FF8, or don’t remember much from a game that came out fifteen years ago, the Guardian Force Quetzalcoatl has the “Card” ability.
Squall was so sure those fake IDs were going to work…
…and Zell totally looks like a tatted up Tin Tin.
Finally, a note about snow. I love snow… I think. I definitely used to, anyway. Over the last week it’s snowed about once every three days, and the streets/sidewalks in my area have been reduced to icy nightmares.
Though sliding around while walking is quite the chore, the street corners… oh god the street corners… are even worse. Every storm drain in the metropolitan area seems to be clogged, and the melting snow and ice pool in the footwells three, four, five inches deep. Every attempt to cross the streets is met with the sudden surge of water rushing into your shoes.
Even when I wear boots, I am not immune to what my old roommate Chris used to refer to as “Core Breach.”
There is nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing, that is more unappealing than walking around wearing wet socks.
It’s just… unpleasant.
I don’t want to be that guy, but “Tintin” is actually written in one word.
Unless it’s actually different in the US, in that case, I apologize for my ignorance.
Forgive me, I’ve never played a Final Fantasy game before, but who’s the blue…”thing?” It looks interesting.
That is the Guardian Force Quetzalcoatl.
Thanks!
The only thing worse than wet socks are the methods of how they get wet.
Stepping into a puddle, eh….it sucks but you can live with it.
Walking into a public bathroom with dry feet and walking out with wet ones? Oh my God, saw off my feet and burn them please?
*glances outside*
Yup, still Minnesota here.
Still 2 feet of snow.
I still have to finish FF8 sometime. But the grinding gets so boring and the GF cutscenes are so, so long. And the entire game is so big. Last time I played I stopped a little while after I got to use the flying garden. I think I wasn’t even halfway through the game yet.
I suggest changing the way you play FF8 to have more fun with it. Try only using GFs that do something besides damage. Carbuncle for reflect, Cerberus for Double/Triple and Doomtrain for status effects.
Also, don’t bother drawing unless you’re facing a boss who has a particularly important magic (Aura, Meteor, Ultima, etc). Almost all the magic you need can be gotten way faster by using the RF abilities your GFs have.
Also, don’t try and level up. Stay at a low level and use those GF abilities to refine higher level magic. This way you have extremely high stats via junctioning while all the enemies are at low level. The Card ability will allow you to get AP from enemies and not get EXP.
Then, to make battles more exciting, try to have Squall in critical status at all times giving you constant access to limit break. With this setup you’ll be outputting a much higher amount of damage than GFs and the game will go by significantly faster.
So um, just as a point of reference, you can get pretty uber from playing cards before even the tutorial dungeon. It’s quite fun. You can also upgrade most weapons to ultimate before the end of Disc 1 if you bother to figure out how.
Urgggh, Uggggghh, Aaaaggggggggggggghhhhh! I hate that feeling, when you get wet socks, or even about to, and you quickly pull your shoe out of the mess, and can only hope that wet feeling of the cold, cold water/slush/snow will pass, instead of progressing into the horrid “core breach”