Wednesday, June 16, 2004

Ultima(te) Weapon(s)

	Approximately 59:00 of play time in Final Fantasy X. I swear, at least a third of my play time will probably have been taken up by sidequest stuff by the time I'm done with the game. I explored more of the Omega Ruins today; the No Encounters auto-ability is great for running through and looting the place. Though of course, it didn't stop me from running into the Ultima Weapon. But then again, I totally kicked its ass, so who cares? Really, I was expecting a harder fight from something that looked that nasty, and with a description of "Give it your all!" And now I'm wondering what I could possibly do with the thirty Door to Tomorrow items I stole from it. Oh, and I got three Lv.3 Key Spheres from killing it, which I'm very happy about. I've been getting more Lv.4 Key Spheres than I have Lv.3's, so Auron and Tidus actually ended up being stuck at the end of their paths on the Sphere Grid for a while, until I managed to get a couple more Lv.3's in the Omega Ruins. It'll be nice to already have some more for when Yuna, Lulu, and Wakka get to the ends of their paths. Besides exploring more of the Omega Ruins, I got three ultimate weapons, or whatever they're supposed to be called in FFX. I got Auron's Masamune, Yuna's Nirvana, and Rikku's Godhand, after finally figuring out what to do with the Clouded Mirror. But now I'm seriously annoyed, because each has nothing but the "No AP" auto-ability (and what an ability it is . . . really), and absolutely no clues whatsoever have been provided about how to power them up. I'm thinking it has to do with the crests and sigils I've been getting, but beyond that, I have absolutely no idea what to do. I've not found anyone or anywhere that seems to have any relation to the crests/sigils, so I'm pretty much just wandering around the world, trying random crap. And I don't know about other people, but that's not exactly my idea of fun. Seriously, Square did some bloody stupid things with FFX. At least in other FF games you got clues about how to get things like this if you talked to the right people. The whole thing with the ultimate weapons in FFX seems almost like it was thrown in just to add more play time to the game by making you wander around for hours and hours trying to find out what to do. In other news, my Zelda: Four Swords Adventures bundle should be arriving tomorrow (June 16). Or at least that's what the UPS tracking page said. I expect a sharp decline in my average "per day" play time of FFX, heh. I just hope my annoyance with the ultimate weapons doesn't get to the point where I completely abandon the game in favor of ZFSA before I beat it. I don't really want to add another Final Fantasy game to the list of ones that I've played almost completely through before stopping at the end. And since no one else seems to have any more guesses on the lyrics in my last post, look here for a file with the answers for each pair of lines.

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