So I am actually in the midst of replaying this for my friend right now, and watching it with a critical eye--no, it's probably not as good, objectively, as I think it is, but it was my first fully-played FF. My dad suckered me straight into it with the opera--he left an extra save there while I was with my grandmother for the summer, and when I got home, he was like LOOK LOOK LOOK YOU GOTTA SEE THIS. (I still have his notes--ten pages of legal paper, and his scratchy handwriting, with quests and weaknesses of monsters.)
So yes, it is coloured by nostalgia for me. Celes was my first video game love--like really seriously I want to be this woman--but I would agree with prior comments that the best is yet to come in terms of interactions. Some of it is sort of a crapshoot based on who you bring to any given scene, but even looking at it with the critical eye of things I've seen in other games--like the Persona games--it's still my favourite.
(The access/subscribe split is a thing I love about DW, honestly.)
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Date: 2011-11-23 10:45 pm (UTC)So yes, it is coloured by nostalgia for me. Celes was my first video game love--like really seriously I want to be this woman--but I would agree with prior comments that the best is yet to come in terms of interactions. Some of it is sort of a crapshoot based on who you bring to any given scene, but even looking at it with the critical eye of things I've seen in other games--like the Persona games--it's still my favourite.
(The access/subscribe split is a thing I love about DW, honestly.)