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angelgirl whose halo feels like touching a staticy old crt tv screen; fuzzy, electric fur. it has the same flickery glow, too.

yeah-yeah-beebiss-1

i don’t care what anyone says, the “multiple floating weapons controlled by telekinesis/whatever” is, has been, and always will be cool as shit

yaldabaothadeez

(source - fanart of this person's oc)

#chirp

sockssquishiiii

more bird yuri..please... please save us

i maaayy or may not be a little late

whoops,,,,, ehe

#chirp

sockssquishiiii

quick animation i did for fun. selene is flapping

maybe i gotta study the art of flappy wings more

#chirp

so now that im on the last dungeon of ff3, something on the mind is how i havent actually cleared any of the first 3 games and the reason why. i love the three, final fantasy 1 inspired me to make a game of my own and 2 is what really drew me into jrpgs as a genre. 3, likewise, was a delightful experience that i think is largely amazingly crafted with a few minor missteps.

but the last 10% of every early final fantasy seems to be where its formula kind of breaks down, and i think its because the games haven't got any idea of how to scale in difficulty. 90% of the game has things balanced to where its moderately challenging at every beat, with bosses that require an attempt or two of careful planning and sometimes unique approaches, and dungeons full of gauntlet-style enemies that press against the limits of your party and ability to be efficient in winning. it's great! aside from when ff1 falls off a bit early with all the content suddenly quite easy, or a gap in ff2 depending on how you sequence its optional side dungeon, the games scale fluidly..... which means, how do you make a harder part?

and i think that's where the games don't really have an answer. final fantasy 2 in particular feels a bit egregious - most enemies, every one in a group of as many as eight, will cast confusion level 16 on your entire party, effectively a 50% chance of making them kill one of your party members instead of taking a turn. the status can't be negated. ff3 puts you through a difficult boss rush, which is difficult only because its bosses strike twice per turn and deal 90% of hp on hit, meaning if they doublestrike your healer your run's nigh guaranteed to spiral into a loss. final fantasy 1 only really has the aforementioned sudden loss of difficulty, just because levels scale higher than it's ready to account for, until its last dungeon becomes a "how many high potions will 9999 dragons burn through" test.

the mechanics of each game are strong and compelling in themselves, but end up breaking down under the question of "what's the natural endpoint of this route of design", and its something i'm trying to evaluate as i do the combat design for my own game. pokemon functions well under such circumstances because the game's symmetrically designed, with teams able to very easily equal each other because they are equal in terms of what tools, odds, and pool they all come from. i accidentally dropped bravely default, but on the whole it scales well becuase of the breadth of tools you're granted and the ways its unique blocking and aggro systems allow you to optimize around singular bosses' attack sequences as you fail and learn. so there are doubtlessly ways to do this, and i'm eager to see where each sequential entry in the series starts learning how to craft a more difficult experience without falling off, but its also something i'm keeping in mind as i progress and trying to consider what difficulty really is in a game's context

puriichu

let's be puppies together

thesensitivepervert

Im trapped in a (non-perverted) dungeon

csevet

you say to me here is a woman. she's insane and irreparably broken and probably a danger to herself and others. and i say yay yippee woohoo! and things of this nature

arknights-archive

Somniloquium Serenum

i don't have time for an mmo, especially with birding season nearly upon us, but final fantasy 3 has gone and given me nostalgia for crystal tower of all things.

shyolet

haha that was some sick ironic misogyny. the humor was totally based on it being indistinguishable from any other misogynistic comment and everything, and meant to surprise me because you think i'd never assume you'd say the thing you just said