I was so excited I completely lost track of my own sentence structure when I made this post.

The raised by wolves theme song fundamentally altered my brain chemistry

Also anime gifs of the most milquetoast shit you've ever seen in your life where the description is something like "when flimflam unlocked his power scaling jutsu in the fight with dumber MMO sephiroth ... that was PEAK CINEMA"

Feels like it's borderline unplayable without the feature in a lot of the remasters where you can run through combat at 4x speed. Really wanted to like XII, but I could never get into it

You're RIGHT and you should say it

Hyperion, maybe? Unfortunately as much as I love that book Dan Simmons sucks pretty bad so mayhaps the ol pirate patch is appropriate if you want to check it out