ROTDS beta testing

"Also in other news, thanks to Tsushiy (Japanese music hacker on this site) I am able now to put in even more songs (up to 237!!). "



OH. MEH GAWD. I might just have to change my pants! Wait, wait.... nah, okay. Whew! That was close.



I'd love to hear some Chrono Cross or FF7-9 music snesified! Or Saga Frontier, Xenogears, Golden Sun -The Lost Age, Treasure of the Rudras, some Lufia 1/2 or Breath of Fire 1/2. Or anything you decide to do, really. Hearing all this great music is part of the fun for me!



You could have "On that Day, 5 Years Ago" playing during Cloud's Scenario while you're going around town, "Fighting" for when you're up against the merchants and guards, and "Chasing the Black-Caped Man" when trying to shag ass back to Fraust through the Zelda Cave.

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Just Got Ronan back in the WoR. Speaking of which, my jaw dropped when I looked at the mini map and remembered the new WoR was finished.

Story so far:

1: Facility



Epic music, pretty good groups of baddies to fight. Stealing Shelters from the guards is a great money saver (and what I was doing at the base by Hellfire Pass when I thought to try the chocobo trick). Only thing that really irked me going through the facility itself is when you see Kefka drain Efreet and Shiva and he sends them down the conveyor belt, Efreet walks the belt's path like "Yep, goin down a hole, doo doo doo." It looks kind of wierd like that. Now, if he was trying to walk against the direction the belt's pulling him, and shiva's semi-lifeless body plowed him down the chute or something, that would be pretty awesome.



Speaking of awesome, one of my favorite tracks in the game to this point is playing in all it's epic glory while riding minecarts and slaughtering Magroaders.


Also I noticed the Crane boss doesn't have that glitching through the in-battle text boxes anymore, which is freakin sweet.



2: Hellfire Pass

Not too eventful coming through here since I had raided the place before Facility X, haha, BUT at this point I had several underleveled characters (compared to my slaughterr squad that I had raided this place with earlier) so I took this run through to beef them up, especially Aurora (lv 14 compared to Cloud's lv 25 or something). Reverant's can be a challenge, but the Fire Rods you can steal from them are worth 3000 Gil a pop and can be turned into Ice Rods in the Arena. The Ninja Switch is a godsend - nothing like free Pod Bracelets! The fight with Kefka's intense, but it feels so good once you stomp him to the curb.



3: Oh Snap They Burnt down the Town, Let's Eat!

I managed to talk to 24 people and get the town and castle guard-free, but couldn't get the treasue room in the base unlocked. I must've missed a guy in the guard barracks or something, but oh well. Hopefully I'm not missing out on something amazing like a Time Egg or something.



4: Uhhhhh No, we Totally Don't Know Magic OH GOD MY HOUSE IS ON FIRE



The Leviathen fight was great. I didn't have to worry about drowning while he was dying, which was the only frustrating aspect before. Having Leo around for fighting is great, and Blaster's great to combo up with Cloud's Omnislash or Meteorsword. Sentence with the word great in it.



The Burning House is, well, a burning house. Bombs everywhere. Blaster/Meteorsword and Blaster/FuSoYa's magic are nice combos for taking them out quickly. Kind of wish there were a little more variety in monsters here, but at the same time, it's a burning house. Bombs/Hellspawns would be the only reasonable thing to fight here, besides the boss.



Speaking of the boss, the Lava Demon is one of those fights you feel proud of yourself for getting past. Leo went straight to healing duty after the first fight, and Aqualins are a must for each encounter with the boss. And the music for it is so epic: Final Fantasy Mystic Quest's boss theme. Only way it could have sounded any cooler is if the track were ripped straight from the game.



5: Cosmic Mountain

I love the palette in this place! I can't remember off hand if it had that palette before, but it really fits. The music's nice, but after a few battles and running around I start to forget it's playing. Still, a good song in itself. At one point I muted my psp and started playing the Treant's Forest music from Golden Sun off my PS3. I wish it were playing on this mountain, it sounds so... cosmic.

The fight with Ultros ended so quickly for me that Eiko never had a chance to pop in for her little scene. I killed him outright XD. It didn't mess anything up tho, Eiko still joins your party and everything continues on smoothly. Bear in mind my Cloud at this point was probably quite overleveled at this point (he was my groups bodyguard when beefing in Hellfire Pass). On the plus side, this has been the ONLY boss fight to this point where I had no challenge, regardless of the mass amount of messing around/leveling/learning spells/having fun I've done.

One thing to point out here: Eiko joins the group with Krosis equipped as an esper, even though technically Krosis joins you after or before the FuSoYa/Golbez flashback. If someone has Krosis equipped at the time, she'll have one equipped as well. It's nothing major really, but if she's going to join with Krosis, it would make more sense to not have Krosis at all until she joins, then pop the "Receive magacite: Krosis" afterwards.

The fights with Leo before he dies were pretty epic. Tho thinking back I should've tried letting Kefka kill me to see if I'd get a game over, or if the scene would continue like normal. I mean, either way Leo bites the bucket, so I figure it would go on whichever way he does it.



One thing to point out after that scene: Best use of Breath of Fire's Something-bad-done-happened music. Ever.



6 Floating Continent



One of the areas I've been looking forward during my hours of goofing off . Majin Buu and Storm Eagle weren't too much of a hassle, minus keeping FuSoYa alive. The Continent itself has some intense monsters, even for my heavy hitters Cloud and Avalon, but fights were still winnable.



I love the music here (FFA ftw), although I wish I could hear some Tower of Babil from the last area of FF4 here, and hear the FFA track somewhere else earlier on, say like on the mountain near the beginning of the game. Mostly from the amount of FF4 awesomeness at the scene with Zuriel and the Statues, and the foreshadowing/nostalgia factor would be a trip.



Ultima Weapon - Hard as hell, so feels like you're fighting Ultima Weapon. And it even taunts you before it try's to stomp you in the dirt. Took a couple tries to take him down, but I managed it. Love the new save spot after he dies. Beats me backtrekking or save-stating.



Zemus/Zemus and Zuriel - Tough fights, especialy the 2nd one. Had to stay on my toes on the healing fron to manage. Killing Zuriel off first is key to winning here. If you don't kill Zuriel off first, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE A BAD TIME. (Spot the reerence here and you earn a cookie)



Raditz - Wow. This ones a doozey. But if you make an effort to try to buff or heal before he goes super saiyan, you should be safe. But even still, it was down to wire. Also I noticed the name switch when he transforms, so I figure his super saiyan form's a different monster entirely. So healing/buffing during his transformation is the way to go, cuz he'll switch back after a bit.



7) WORLD OF RUIN



Not much progress here storywise yet, just got Ronan back and saved the kid from Arc's old house. I love the new WOR. It's like the WoB is Pangea in comparison, and it shows that Zuriels been raping the planet over a barrel for more than a year. Music for the overworld's great, muuuch better than what FF6 would originally be playing at this point haha.



Only thing I'd figure to point out right now is that the single-tree tile looks off. The ground surrounding the tree has a slightly more saturated brown color than the general palette of the overworld. First place I noticed this is right next to Township.



My current game time is 46:06. That's 46:06 of fun that I've had so far, so thank you! This game's a great boredom killer.

EDIT: Another thing I noticed is that everyone keeps saying that the dead have risen and that there are zombies everywhere, but the only undead things I've seen are trees.... zombie trees hahaha. I even checked the graves in the town you find Aurora for zombies, but instead was raped by tomberries. It would be great to fight random sprites that are zombified and half decayed (like how you fight the merchants in Cloud's scenario, a battler of a sprite).

I need me some ZAMBIES! END EDIT



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Alright, that's all so far. Hope you don't mind me writing a mini novel every so often like this hahaha.