So I'm playing FFXII

and I just went to the Stilshrine of Miriam

Spoiler

to get the Sword of Kings. It took me like an hour because of those stupid rotating statues, so I was quite relieved when I reached the room with the sword in it. There was the nice cutscene and all and Ashe went crazy and saw Rasler again and all of that, and then I equipped the sword.

... It is quite possibly the worst sword in my inventory.
I want my hour back.

 

LOL. I love FFXII. Sadly the farthest I ever got was like, The one tunnel thing with those electric spiders. ;_;

 

Barheim Passage? (I think that's what it was called) I loved that place, the music was so amazing. But that's not very far. xD

I really love the game so far. I mean, Vaan's hair/face/outfit makes me physically angry sometimes, but I like the story a lot and all of the other characters. (particularly Balthier. :B) I occasionally just run around and make tons of gil because I don't want to advance the story so that they game won't end. xD

 

I know it is not far at all! D:
Balthier is the smex though, That is true. Vaan is barely valuable to the story in my opinion, He just seems to be there for the ride. Will he be useful to the story anytime soon?

 

Well so far he has the occasional delusions with Ashe, but other than that, no not really.
I'm not sure how far into the game I am though.

 

Around 30% into the story or so i think.

 

I love FFXII.

I am still working on all the hunts and quests and stuff, but I finished the story. [:

 

I'm glad to hear that. :3 Lately all of the games I've been playing have been short, I wanted a nice and long one.

I HATE HUNTS.

I'm stuck with all of the Rank 11 ones atm so I can't do any and it makes me sad. :c

 

I got stuck at stillshrine because all of my chars were hideously underleveled. I gave up *cry*. Didn't particularly like the story either tbh.

 

I just went on a serious training regime of sorts, lol. My people were pathetically weak earlier, but I got them to gain 10 or 12 levels before I went into the Stilshrine. At an average of level 30, I had no problem at all. Then again I abuse Quickenings...

 

XII was my least favorite, tbh.
I lost interest the first time I had to go rescue Penelo.

 

I don't like them much either. Lol, on the first one, I couldn't even find it. I was searching for like, a half hour. xD

 

Well you can just get out of my thread then. >:|

I'm okay about finding them, it's just remembering WHERE they are that I have problems with. For example, since I accepted all of the Rank 11 hunts and never completed them, I'll frequently run into an area and be ambushed by the marks. D:

 

that sucks D;

later in the game there are rare monsters too. and i would run into the super rare ones all the time randomly and die. they ambush you, and it sucks. but at least it's easier to run away sometimes.

 

But my people are dumb and don't run away. D: That's the one problem I have with the Gambit system, they'll fly off halfway across the map to go kill something that's way stronger than them. I just can't be bothered to fix their Gambits. xD

 

yeah, i know what you mean, but fixing the gambits is all part of the strategy of the game, a lot of time if you don't fix them the characters do too much on their own or too little.

 

Just putting this out here but you do know that you can turn off the gambits, right?

Also I beat almost everything in FFXII except Yiazmat and Omega Mark XII. Both of them are gods and almost impossible to kill.

 

I still find it funny that the NA/EU Omega Mark XII got nerfed in HP compared to the JP Omega Mark XII.

 

See, the thing I hated was that I never knew if I had a full party or not because I thought that Larsa would join permanently, so I didn''t give anyone quickenings for ages.