{"id":788,"date":"2010-05-17T18:44:26","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T23:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/archives\/788"},"modified":"2016-11-11T10:25:36","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T18:25:36","slug":"final-fantasy-vi-moving-on-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/archives\/788","title":{"rendered":"Final Fantasy VI: Moving On Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

To judge by my last few posts, you’d think that I’m on the verge of completing the second half of Final Fantasy VI<\/em>. And I am. But it’s a very wide verge. I spent about three months in a similar state at the end of the first half. Admittedly, that was because I wasn’t actually playing for most of that time. But the reason I wasn’t playing was that I had grown impatient with the game: I felt so close to the momentous transition that all the mopping-up I felt compelled to do before taking the plunge became burdensome. As much as I want to face off against Kefka — recently named 18th greatest videogame villain of all time by IGN<\/a>, right above M. Bison — I also want to see the rest of the game.<\/p>\n

Rushing through the game is no way to play it, if only because the game makes it impossible. Sometimes you only get to take a couple of steps between random encounters. Some games in the series have a rare and special piece of equipment that decreases the rate of encounters, or even eliminates all encounters with anything other than bosses. If such a thing exists in this game, I have yet to find it. And if you’re approaching the game from a position of impatience, these constant interruptions will only make it worse. I wrote before<\/a> about the annoyance of all the system’s little delays when working under a time limit. My self-imposed time limit of two weeks is no exception.<\/p>\n

So, on to 1995. I’ve already started on my next game as I write this. But I intend to keep dipping back into FF6<\/em>, in small sessions, for however long it takes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To judge by my last few posts, you’d think that I’m on the verge of completing the second half of Final Fantasy VI. And I am. But it’s a very wide verge. I spent about three months in a similar state at the end of the first half. Admittedly, that was because I wasn’t actually […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[144,240],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rpg","tag-final-fantasy","tag-final-fantasy-vi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4499,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions\/4499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}