Stoooooooooop! Stop the podcast! throw on the emergency break. stopped playin' my game, broke my zen... NO!
I will not stand to live in a world where Akitoshi Kawazu is making a game on any person's most hyped list. No! not doing it! stop!
Gui, did we play the same game? the game where you have a Max HP of 800 no matter what, you never feel strong enough to contend with the barrage of enemies, and the item you need to beat the final boss is in a non-descript chest in a dungeon that if you pass it up before you beat the boss, you lose access to it, only to find out a little further down the road that you've fucked yourself? oh wait, you don't find out because the game DOESN'T FUCKING TELL YOU WHY YOU CAN'T WIN I FUCKING HATE THAT **** AT LEAST GHOSTS N' GOBLINS HAS THE DECENCY TO SEND YOU BACK AND NOT WASTE YOUR FUCKING TIME AUGH!!!
*ahem*
I don't like Final Fantasy 2. I don't like SaGa in any of it's forms. (for the record, the whole "Hey! we got 8 protagonists you can play as in this same world!" thing is something Romancing SaGa 1 did, and SaGa Frontier and the particularly ****-tastic Unlimited SaGa had as well.) Hell, outside of having a good time with friends, I didn't like how obtuse reaching the conclusion of FF:CC was. I could immediatley smell the stinky footprint of Akitoshi Kawazu's input into Final Fantasy 12, where he famously hid the weapon with the highest attack in the game in a chest that you cannot open if you have previously opened any one of four non-descript chests earlier in the game that give you no indication that you've screwed yourself out of it.
I don't get it. I do not get WHY this japanese man who got lucky and saved his job security with Square-Enix thanks in part to him piggybacking off of the ideas of Hironobu Sakaguchi does the things he does. I don't understand WHY he has such spite for his playerbase. unless it's to sell strategy guides, there's no reason for the stupidly high difficulty spikes and the games so deeply punishing you for going to a place that your character isn't meant to go... I was going to insert a review that perfectly encapsulates all my frustrations, but the guy who wrote it seems to have had it deleted from the interwebz, so...
http://www.largeprimenumbers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=427 here's my evidence that it existed and that the guy basically wrote a gameography on Akitoshi Kawazu's career and how each of his games try to chap your ass to lead up to the PS2 Romancing SaGa remake that so vexed him. read that forum thread. it's a ride.
and yeah, recognise that... wait.
... oh.
... apparantly Legend of Legacy does not involve the mind of Akitoshi Kawazu directly.
CARRY ON WITH MERRIMENT!
(note that the following post was made in jest. that sometimes doesn't come through all that well through forum post text. Feel free to like what you like. Do know that much like James recieved his box of terrible though, I may assemble a Care Package for Gui that consists of a Repro cart of Final Fantasy II, Unlimited SaGa, and possibly one of the other US released SaGa games just to revel in that new business trifecta of bad JRPG design)