i was up until 2am last night playing fucking FINAL FANTASY TACTICS on the psp. it is not a good tactics game. the job system is retardedly busted, and not in the good nis-kinda busted way. it is possibly the grindiest tactics rpg ever made, and the uneven distribution of JP across wholly arbitrary classes is nonsensical. add in slow play, a gimpy, overcomplicated interface, a borked phase system, and a heaping host of game-breaking ubercharacters, and you have a game that should be reviled in the modern srpg clime.
oh, and the new translation is a different kind of awful. it attempts to mimick elizabethan prose, and mixes it with more overwrought metaphors and tortured similes than the average drinky crow post as well as lame inside references to "spoony bards." fuck that noise. it's a smidge better than the largely unparsable original, but it's still no fun to read.
why am i playing it, then? NOSTALGIA. the fucking sakimoto score takes me back to good ol' nineteen-ninety whats-it, when i had just gotten married and graduated from college and the dark stupid period of my life had largely come to a close. THIS IS WHAT NOSTALGIA DOES TO YOU, people, especially when there are musical cues. that's why you think mario or zelda games are initially better than they actually are -- it's those little glissondes and musical sequences that trigger the fluffy endorphin clouds that comprise our sense of nostalgia.
fuck, fft is awful. i hope this nostalgia kick passes soon!
