FINALLY!!! I didn't think this thing would ever come out.

And sadly, I doubt it will be competitive price-wise :c the Quest line was very subsidized by other Meta money to make it "affordable"

Maybe Steam figured something out to cut costs, but I can really only think of one big thing they trimmed

Bappy Birthday to a precious desert fops!

THAT'S RIGHT! I forgot it had increased aggro range >:D I see I see~

GOSH I need to figure out how to do that! I lazily looked and couldn't find the way up/around.

Asdgdhdjd it looks sweet, a little spicy and hecking tasty!

It looks really cool Cyrus! Way to go.

I'm seeing a lot of awesome work on intricate patterns and hand poses and I think they all look great!

Gib! They look PERFECT and now I'm hungry

Ah ha! Okay yeah the lvl down trap. I knew about that but thought it was a Zekalus desert thing (but shouldn't be surprised its in other areas)

And yeah, even without that, being stat aware for lvl ups has done too much x3

Ivalice chronicles also lets you skip random battles too, so errands are good way to get JP w/o exp for specific classes for some units.

I was using it to get up dependent classes lvl'd for "optimal stat growth" but I need to stop that x3

And yeah, great for no random battle run :3c

I also think that may get me out of my "rawr, big phys and magic damage with big moves" builds and focus on the subtler classes with status effects (eg, if I don't have ninja to buff a dragoons speed for jump, I could be forced to use mystic more)

I'm actually banning calculator from this play through, its too powerful x3

I also contemplated banning ninja from my next play through since that's when this run got too easy :c

Wait, what's the waterfall rule here?

Yeha, grinding in this game definitely brings things to a halt :c so may avoid that.

I was thinking a no random battle rule would be a good way to maybe fix my game as is and it seems to be helping.

Which! While waiting for crystals to appear is tedious, it does add another challenge to fights.

My city has been installing separate isolated bike lanes with their own sets of lights. Heck yeah safety wins!

...and while stopped at those lights I had a car honk at me and swerve around me and take the turn while the bike lane had their green.

No one was hurt, but if a biker was taking it?

...but if I'm gonna be real, the Speed Completion achievement is feeling a little tedious for me, and I will probably *never* touch Steel Soul mode (I'm too scrappy!) so those are also probably not gonna get done x3

But there's 2 secret achievements and the regular speedrun one I feel like trying~

I'm shocked about how good the map and exploration felt. Felt BIG and kept being shocked at new areas.

There were so many good sequence breaks to be found, and I'm convinced the later areas were designed to be traversible in multiple ways (aka assumed you might not have all the upgrades already).