#about coop

[yostresswritinggirl]

I just want to thank Hiasen (Wanderer), Chuu (Yelan), and Sae (Cyno lovebot anon)(Cyno ofc) for joining the tea party last Sunday! Here are the lovely pictures we took <33

Besides failing our photoshoot many times and standing on hats, we also did a boss rush run after drinking tea!

That was a fun time and I'm still thankful for you all that joined! Until next time, let's hang out again in the future!

[entropic-prince]

ffxvi thoughts and things

gonna do my best to avoid spoilers or discussion about anything specific to plot and mostly just talk about the vibe and feel of the game and my thoughts on it so far, but i did include an out-of-context early screenshot of the game bc it's just such a fucking cool screenshot moment

so i wanna start out by saying i definitely don't like final fantasy games by default. so when it comes to judging final fantasy games, keep my opinion with a grain of salt.

the thing i like most about this game is it's more or less an interactive movie. you do some combat and running around, a few quests, but the gameplay is relatively linear (at least up to where i'm at so far) and mostly you're being shuttled along the msq and being told the story with interactive moments. my impression is that this isn't a 200-hour game where you have to grind and suffer just to get through everything - i've actually almost been a little disappointed at how easy the first major boss and associated eikon were.

big fights against things such as eikons or proper mini-bosses have what are called cinematic action scenes, which are these really fucking cool action-packed scenes that you wouldn't be able to do in combat otherwise. it's probably the only time i've run into a quick time event and haven't had a heart attack or just wanted to bite someone. the actions are very well telegraphed and the actual quick time event is very forgiving, and the reward is this fucking sick as hell combat cut scene that is 200% something you'd see in a movie.

the combat in this game feels very, very good, and yoshi-p took a page from the yoko taro book and there are items in the game to help with accessibility. you don't want to control torgal (the dog) in combat? there's an accessory to automate that for you so that you don't have to worry about it. you're like me and grinding is the ultimate death knell for you in a game? there's an exp booster item you can equip.

even without the accessibility, though, combat itself just feels very good. it's dynamic, there's enough buttons to push i am entertained, you flip between two different styles of combat (so far anyway) and can use them to play off of each other and seamlessly combo into each other. it's very responsive, the hit boxes and snapshots are honest (unlike another yoshi-p game we all know of).

so far i'm generally liking the story. it's pretty dark, but it's not the darkest thing i've seen come out of sqex. i'm a little irritated by the way the writing is kicking at the whole racism piece of this nonstop, but i also understand the significance to the story and i appreciate them going all the way with it to really drive the point home because as i was getting annoyed i realized: this is the reality for some people. this is their life. they don't get to turn off their ps5 and walk away from it and chill.

all in all this game 100% feels like a movie that we get to play parts of, and i am fucking here for it. it's a lot more interactive than games such as heavy rain, but it has that same sort of limited scope of gameplay (so far) and so you don't really stray down a rabbit hole for 30 hours (so far) or have to spend the next 3 days grinding just so you can have a chance at a boss (so far).

i really just wanna share this screenshot i got because it's just so fucking cool and it's what i mean when i say this game is incredibly cinematic:

image is completely unedited, just a screenshot i took in that moment. it was just so fucking cool ok i still love it

[yostresswritinggirl]

I was doing the Windblume kamera event yesterday when Cyno lovebot anon got bored and decided to enter my world, so we just ended up taking a bunch of pictures together!

I'm not the best Kamera user especially when I'm just using my phone so these are all the attempts <3

And my favorite fail shot hahaha:

Thanks for hanging out with me, Sae! Maybe I should do this for the other two days of the Kamera event

Also here's my silly solo shots, hate how far the Kamera is forced to be tho :((

[yostresswritinggirl]

Met two toxic players last night while doing coop in Azhdaha domain as Kokomi

Tighnari died from the hydroballs so quickly (the fastest I've ever seen someone die in that domain honestly, and I've killed that big boy almost 60 times by now) while the Ayaka died fighting Azhdaha on the other side

Yelan and I managed to kill it but the two kept trashtalking in chat the whole time, calling my Kokomi shit. Dodge better next time, I said because my goodness, I have a 7k+ per tick skill heal and 1k+ heal per NA after burst (that also deals 6k dmg per NA)

I always do coop runs for Azhdaha as a healer to help players out and they are by far the worst I've met (once had a team that died twice and had to switch team comps around yet no one complained). On one hand, I had a coop before that where only Yelan and I survived too but the players were complimenting Kokomi's super healing instead

It must reallyyy suck for them to die first as squishy dps. On the other hand, I had a 4* only run against Raiden, it was so fun and the first Dori I saw in coop (nice build too!)

[yostresswritinggirl]

wow i love this event remember when everyone went to inazuma and nahida was selling dango to the archons and you murdered me wow

Oh I remember this event, I especially liked the ending where someone was murdered and Ayato swam off to the horizon

Look at you're in your photographer era, these look fantastic!! The fishing shot especially ahahahah I love it so much <33 thank you for the fish and coop again

[yostresswritinggirl]

What an absurd Christmas I'm having today

Hope they get their relationship fixed tho but wow, to think I was just looking for dendroculus

[yostresswritinggirl]

Invitation to bring your main later for a Hexenzirkel tea party photoshoot seven hours from now!

And if my internet isn't shit, we can do a genocide run to kill everything that exists in my world! If someone has to go, you can join in to occupy an empty slot!

[yostresswritinggirl]

Suddenly remembered the time I was helping out players kill the Thunder Manifestation a few days ago with a full archon team, and in the last run (we killed it six times), decided to only use Raiden after finding out we all have her.

Safe to say, only two of us survived and it took a long while

So worth it tho