Hah! I saw on Shiva's journal that she plays Final Fantasy. I recently started my first FF game with Final Fantasy VII. I looked into the series  and found that this one was one of the most highly regarded. I traded in a couple of games, guides and my Gameboy Advance (I've got a Gameboy Player for Gamecube) to snag a copy at a local used game shop.

The game is, in a word, intense. I imagine most of that has to do with the story which is actually quite complicated. Maybe I'll write a review about it when I'm done.

The highlights so far are definately the FMVs. My favorite one right now is the very ending of disc one

Most insane sidequest has to be fighting in the battle arena for Cloud's Level 4 limit break  (complicated and I don't feel like explaining it). I swear, I spent at least three hours trying to get enough battle points to get it. Your character fights in an arena for 8 rounds and has to defeat every opponent or has the option to bow out at the end of any round with fewer points. If you die or get thrown out you get no points (that happened a lot). The crazy thing is that your character is handicapped in some way each round: your health is divided in half, you lose the use of your magic spells, you're reduced in power, etc.... Not only that but if you leave the building you lose ALL of the points you accumulated. So.... you can't leave to get more items and you can't save your progress. You just have to keep playing until you get the points you want.

Most bizarre sidequest is Chocobo breeding and racing. Chocobos are really large bird creatures like ostriches that are used for racing, traveling across rivers, mountains and even the ocean. The thing is only certain kinds of Chocobos can do those things. In a nutshell, what you have to do is catch some good, great, and wonderful chocobos, feed the good and great ones some greens to raise their speed/intelligence/stamina, go race them, breed certain ones, feed their young some greens, race them, breed them, feed  THOSE ones' young greens, race that one, breed that one with the wonderful one, and hopefully after all of that you've gotten the ultimate chocobo that can go almost anywhere on the map. Let me just say that this takes a LOOOOOONNNNG time because the greens and nuts you have to feed the birds cost a lot of money so you have to go out and get in a lot of battles to get more money. It's totally worth it, BTW, because it gets you the ultimate magical summon spell. I'm just glad it's all over with and I don't have to do it anymore.

Now all i really have left to do is raise my characters' levels so they'll be more powerful and will survive in the coming battles much more easily.

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