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.

S U F F E R I N G

- Almost done... collecting spheres and items for the super bosses
- Beaten a bunch of Monster Arena enemies. Still hard even with high stats

Areas Explored: Baaj Temple, Calm Lands - Mt. Gagazet, Sin
Bosses Beaten: Geosgaeno, Belgemine, Sin, Seymour 4

- Got all: Celestial Weapons, Aeons, monsters
- Starts grinding spheres for completing the grid

Areas Explored: Luca - Bikanel

Same as yesterday. Collecting 10 of each monsters, exploring every new areas, re-doing the trials, celestial weapons, al-bhed primers, etc.

- I hate how Wakka's slots and sigils are locked behind blitzball league. Wish it wasn't 10 games...
- Cactuar Quest. It's pretty cool. Wish there's less backtracking tho
- checking how much left for the optional stuff and... I'm ready to move on. Maybe finish the celestial weapon and at least one sphere grid. Too much for my first experience IMO

Areas Explored: Airship, Besaid - Luca

- Doing optional stuff and prep before the seemingly final stretch of the game
- Collecting 10 of each monster. Pretty tedious but thankfully there's boosters
- Died to some random 3 bug ladies at mushroom road

Areas Explored: Cavern of the Stolen Fayth, Mt. Gagazet, Zanarkand
Bosses Beaten: Chimerageist (5 tries, all my summon died lol), Defender X, Yojimbo, Ronso Bros, Seymour 3, Sanctuary Keeper, Lady Yunalesca

- Yojimbo acquired. He looks super cool.
- Tried Yojimbo. I'll never use him again
- I'm not prepared to finish this
- Yunalesca fight was awesome. Forced me to learn proper customization just to avoid her status attacks. Died 2x. Wasn't prepared for Zombie and Mega Death. Rikku's Item Use is MVP for quick party heals and buffs.

Areas Explored: Calm Lands, Remiem Temple
Bosses Beaten: Shiva, Chocobo Trainer (6 tries on last race)

- Chocobo Training/race is pretty fun except the first course. The Remiem Chocobo race tho...
- Captured some monsters. First death was from Chimerageist
- Second death: Dark Shiva
- Grinding + Side Quests

Areas Explored: Airship, Bevelle, Via Purifico, Macarena
Bosses Beaten: Evrae, Summons, Evrae Altana, Seymour 2

- Summon fight was awesome
- Finally saw the famous underwater date scene. It's great. I'm feeling the ending's not gonna be a happy one if they're gonna tie it to the theme of death but there's also breaking away from tradition so who knows maybe the party will end Sin and that'll be it. No sacrifices.

Areas Explored: Lake Macarena, Sanubia Desert, Home
Boss Beaten: Seymour, Anima, Wendigo

- Wakka, Wakke tf up

Areas Explored: Macarena Woods

- Trying to get Wakka's Overdrives via Blitzball (I hate it)
- Grinding a bit + working on unlocking some Overdrive Modes
- Collecting Jecht Spheres

Areas Explored: Thunder Plains

- DODGED 250 LIGHTNINGS

* I'm taking another break

Areas Explored: Djose Temple, Moonflow, Guadosalam

- Rikku joins the party
- Grinding to make Rikku part of rotation

*Taking a short break

- Areas Explored: Highroad, Mushroom Rock

- Blitzball kinda sucks. Spent 3 hours trying to win a tournament. I got it but it was really tedious and slow.
- Grinding
- Rode a Chocobo. The theme was... something
- Played as Seymour for a bit
- Lots of death

- Areas Explored: Besaid/SS Liki/Kilika/Luca
- Met Yuna, Lulu, Kimahri, Wedge, Seymour, Auron
- Summoned Valefor, Ifrit

- The Kilika Inn kid wants to become a blitzball
- Learned Blitzball
- Won Blitzball championship for Wakka!
- Got context to the laugh scene. IT WAS GOOD AND EMOTIONAL!

Context: Played the game when it first came out but I'm like 4 at the time so I only remember one specific thing - throwing gil on a giant whale and my party is on an airship or something. Then I tried last year and got to Besaid, got distracted by other games and didn't try again until now.

- There's a ton of juddering on screen when the camera moves so I'll look for a solution. It's hurting my eyes so I won't go past the intro until I fix this.
- 2 hours later. No progress so far
- 6 hours later and I give up. Tried with HD mods, bunch of Nvidia Profile Inspector settings, Reshade, UnX, and compared it to PS2 emulator. I don't want to miss out on the improvement and better textures of the HD Remaster and also I enjoy achievements so I'll keep playing this one. This is a highly-praised title, and I love Final Fantasy so I'm sure it's worth losing my eyesight a bit lol

- Areas Explored: Zanarkand/Ruins/Al Bhed Ship
- Met Rikku and Wakka