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Post by Ex on Aug 13, 2019 14:17:10 GMT -5
Sarge if you've never played through Brain Lord, I very much recommend it. If nothing else the game has my all time favorite SNES OST: It's a shame Mystic Ark doesn't live up to its sequel. Someday I will finish The 7th Saga myself. Not this month though. I'm gonna beat one more White Whale, then I'm getting back to New Vegas.
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Post by Sarge on Aug 13, 2019 14:28:17 GMT -5
I don't blame you for not taking it up this month. That being said, I'd definitely consider resuming your run and adding Esuna or Valsu to your team. I figure you would rip through it at this point.
I've had Brain Lord for years, and even put a few hours into it, but never stuck with it. I like a lot of what it does, though. You can see with all these offbeat Enix releases why I was a bigger fan of theirs back in the day.
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Post by Ex on Aug 13, 2019 14:33:02 GMT -5
I'd definitely consider resuming your run and adding Esuna or Valsu to your team. Just before quitting The 7th Saga, I had managed to get Lux to join with Lejes. I'm not sure if I have that save anymore (might). I did some reading and lots of folks say that a solo Lejes run is the HARDEST way to play the game. Ugh, I believe it. Talk about picking the wrong starter! Enix definitely had more identity and creativity in their releases before the merger.
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Post by Sarge on Aug 13, 2019 14:37:58 GMT -5
I was hoping that Enix would influence SquareSoft more than the other way, but it doesn't seem to have been the case. Too bad, 'cause Enix had an amazing stable of games until they closed their doors here in America for a while.
That being said, I can't rag on SNES/PSX-era SquareSoft, either. They had a crapton of great games on SNES, many of which didn't make it here, and their PSX output was stellar even without the Final Fantasy games.
EDIT: Oh, dang, you might be even better off with someone like an Elnard-boosted Olvan or Kamil. Olvan actually has all the heal spells, although his MP pool tends to be pretty limited. And I think, if memory serves, Lejes actually has F.SHID, so you can guard against spells in that final battle. Really, Lejes' problems stem from the lack of decent armor.
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Post by Xeogred on Aug 13, 2019 18:46:49 GMT -5
What I don't get is that everyone always said Enix had the bigger stake in the merger, but history kind of doesn't add up with how pompous they are about Final Fantasy developments and treatment (ie they crap on Eidos games for not making CoD numbers, meanwhile Square casually takes a decade to make their own games that sure, FFXV maybe sold a couple million, but really isn't that impressive compared to many other AAA publishers nowadays and even on the Japan side of things, Capcom, From Software, Platinum, etc make Square Enix look like a joke now).
Dragon Quest is the only thing that comes to mind if you asked me to describe post merger Enix. Literally nothing else comes to mind. Some of Square's legacy IP's are still around in some form, but I'm drawing a total blank on "Enix".
I wonder what happened to all those Quintet developers...
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Post by toei on Aug 13, 2019 19:46:24 GMT -5
Enix never had a brand identity the way Squaresoft did, since they didn't do in-house development. So while they published a lot of cool non-DQ games on the SNES, mostly Quintet and Produce's, none of those developed into real franchises. Enix was Dragon Quest plus some smaller, quirkier cult games. Post-merger, DQ is all that stuck.
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Post by Sarge on Aug 13, 2019 19:51:30 GMT -5
Yeah, that's accurate. I thought they had good taste on the stuff they handled, though. (And obviously, I've been a Dragon Quest fan since the beginning, so one could infer I was a bit biased towards them.)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2019 20:18:25 GMT -5
FFXV maybe sold a couple million Well, more like 8 million. In any case, here are the best selling games of all time from Capcom and Square Enix. Apparently Capcom wins with Street Fighter 2? That's a bit of a surprise.
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Post by Sarge on Aug 13, 2019 20:32:11 GMT -5
That doesn't surprise me at all, given how absolutely huge SFII was back in the day. There's a reason everyone and their uncle made their own tournament fighting game.
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Post by Ex on Aug 13, 2019 20:40:05 GMT -5
I'm not sure if @tsumuri was being facetious or not. But yes, in its day Street Fighter II was MASSIVELY popular. The game was everywhere. And then came all of its permutations...
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