When I was doing the Backward Compatibility post the other week I kept thinking back to a game that I come back to occasionally: Vagrant Story.
It's one of the coolest games I've ever played. The themes, the art, the style, the gameplay... it was all fantastic, and difficult, and complicated. For the longest time, I couldn't get through it. Only person I knew who did was my friend Ben, who subsequently played the game until it broke.
Now it's going to be difficult to get back into that because PS4 shenanigans, but the need will find a way. I can only imagine that I would get a taste of it somehow, like in the biggest crossover game I enjoy: Kingdom Hearts.
The third iteration is coming. When, I don't know. I've been waiting patiently for it and though a general date has been released, I'm ignoring it and sticking with the "It'll happen when it happens".
But the main premise of Kingdom Hearts is that it's a crossover of Disney and Final Fantasy characters and themes. You've got Donald and Goofy fighting alongside Sora, the main character, then Cloud and Sephiroth across the bar waiting for their arena challenges to come on.
Vagrant Story has a loose connection to Final Fantasy XII and Final Fantasy Tactics, buried in amongst the lore with some vague mentions of Lea Monde and Riskbreakers. So while it's only vague, it would be amazing to see Ashley Riot, the protagonist, the Rood Inverse tattoo'd/scarred into his back and running around with his Fandango, chain attacking enemies while casting dark, evil spells, and generally being the badass I remember him being as I reclaimed the city of Lea Monde.
It's one of the coolest games I've ever played. The themes, the art, the style, the gameplay... it was all fantastic, and difficult, and complicated. For the longest time, I couldn't get through it. Only person I knew who did was my friend Ben, who subsequently played the game until it broke.
Now it's going to be difficult to get back into that because PS4 shenanigans, but the need will find a way. I can only imagine that I would get a taste of it somehow, like in the biggest crossover game I enjoy: Kingdom Hearts.
The third iteration is coming. When, I don't know. I've been waiting patiently for it and though a general date has been released, I'm ignoring it and sticking with the "It'll happen when it happens".
But the main premise of Kingdom Hearts is that it's a crossover of Disney and Final Fantasy characters and themes. You've got Donald and Goofy fighting alongside Sora, the main character, then Cloud and Sephiroth across the bar waiting for their arena challenges to come on.
Vagrant Story has a loose connection to Final Fantasy XII and Final Fantasy Tactics, buried in amongst the lore with some vague mentions of Lea Monde and Riskbreakers. So while it's only vague, it would be amazing to see Ashley Riot, the protagonist, the Rood Inverse tattoo'd/scarred into his back and running around with his Fandango, chain attacking enemies while casting dark, evil spells, and generally being the badass I remember him being as I reclaimed the city of Lea Monde.
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