But. EMMA. Stupid bloody Squenix and their Aeris-style whallops. (Warning: major spoilers in the video.) I am also now deeply afraid of the Conqueror.
It says something about the way my mind works, though, that I'm not yet at the end of the first disk and I've already daydreamed up a dystopian AU where Rush is on the Conqueror's side.
However, stupid bloody Windows Vista keeps taking exception to TLR. Among other things, it has a) randomly sped up the battle speed in the middle of one battle and now I can't get it back to normal so Rush & Co look like the Energiser Bunny on speed, b) has bluescreened TWICE while I was playing the game, and c) keeps freezing the game in the middle of fights. Sometimes it comes back, sometimes not.
It says something that in the eight-odd years that I used Windows prior to getting the new laptop with Vista, I never once had a computer bluescreen on me. Since getting Vista? Three times in a year. Twice in the last fortnight.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Comments
Anyway, it hasn't quite got to the FFVII place in my heart, but it's damned close. The graphics are excellent, the music is great, the voice-acting is fantastic (with a very few, easily-ignorable exceptions), and the main storyline is ... mostly explained through sidequests, heh.
So far, it is a pretty good and enjoyable game, although the battles can get a bit repetitive at times, but that's only because the game gets a lot harder as you go along. One of the best parts, though, is that you can hire an enormous number of characters to fight with you and a few of them will be unique with their own sidequests, histories and voice-acting.
I haven't finished the game yet, so I don't know if the conclusion lets it down in any way - at the moment, the storyline would be leaving me with a lot of questions if I hadn't jumped on anything that said "spoiler", and I don't know how well the game will tie everything together. So far, though, it's been really good fun!