Chapter 5 * Got the Covid for the first time. Not hitting hard yet so might play a bit + The locked murder case was cool + Lynne is awesome. I love her.
Chapter 6 + The plot is getting spicy! * Theory: I wonder if Lynne and Cissel planned this? There's no resistance from Cissel when being shot... * Also the black cat is definitely that other ghost dude
Chapter 7 * Probably my favorite Ghost Trick section. Everybody is fun, the puzzle was a bit more complex, and it went on multiple stages. * Theory: About the core thing, I wonder if it plays into the mystery? I wonder if we're playing as a different person and the other ghost dude was Cissel? Maybe we're unconscious and other ghost dude used that as red herring why we can't possess Cissel's body? Dunno. Just throwing things out there.
Pseudo-NG+, English Dub, Professional Difficulty Run is done! Nothing much to add except the final boss is infinitely better with lower strength on Professional difficulty. It sucks so hard that there's no Legend difficulty on such a great boss fight. Also last phase could use 2 more health bars. Too short.
English Dub So I saw Yong's performance on the finale. It was his best performance throughout Gaiden. I didn't cry tho so it doesn't hit as hard as Kuroda's performance (and it's not because I saw it already. I cried again when watching others' playthrough) but props for a decent VA befitting Kiryu. Overall, I think the English Dub as a collective is fine for me on a replay. I'll never play it on a blind playthrough tho.
Played a bit. Finished Day 2. - So much running around with 0 clue where to go. - Oldbag and maybe Powers are the only new character that's good. The rest are either insufferable or meh.
Bosses Beaten: Gigas, Marbol, Dragoon, Ifrit, Jill, Tiamat, Fafnir, Chirada - Prologue done. Man, in hindsight it's sad that the demo portion was the best part of the entire game at least for me.
Areas Explored: Yagyu Village (Revisit), Fog Valley Bosses Beaten:
- Gave Oyu a fork... and she liked it - Felt a disconnect with the Takajo scene. Dunno why. - I was chaining parries since the first hour but all of a sudden I can't anymore. The timing seemingly got tighter? Dunno what happened there. - Played as Kotaro. Damn he plays and controls better than Jubei
Bosses Beaten: Dark Aeons, Penance, Jecht, Yuna's Summons, Yu Yevon
S U F F E R I N G (part 2) - Almost done with sphere grids. Don't care about max stats I'm just filling things up with random stats just to be done w/ it. - Monster Arena done. Will try Dark Aeons or move on. - Finished everything. Penance can suck it. - Teared up at ending. 10/10 game minus the optional stuff.
- Plant Done! - Didn't realize I went past the point of no return - Raiden threw the dog tags away anyway at the end T_T - Surprisingly a good experience compared to 3. No crashes and bugs. Still had to apply HD textures tho.
