Feb. 9th, 2022

rionaleonhart: final fantasy x-2: the sun is rising, yuna looks to the future. (hope is all we have)
I picked up my neglected Final Fantasy X replay and finished it at last!

Even though I never actually played it at her house, I associate this game so strongly with visiting my grandmother when I was a teenager. I remember daydreaming about it in her garden.


Spoilers for Final Fantasy X. )


I always spend hours getting Auron, Yuna and Rikku's ultimate weapons and training them up to do comical amounts of damage, complaining all the time about how tedious it is, and then I go all surprised-Pikachu when I kill all the final bosses in two hits. 'Grinding is a pain' and 'there's no challenge in the final fights' have exactly the same solution, but will I ever learn? Absolutely not.