Caltrops - Final Fantasy X





	[quote name="MM"][quote name="Zseni"]Too bad you're wrong in an ugly and stupid way. Hey, here's the plot of Deus Ex: the future is good! Everything else is bad. FF is always worth the price of entry. Because Jap console RPG levelling has Dao-like simplicity and instinctual rightness, FF grindfests beat Diablo II always because: they are portable and nobody can fuck with your shit. FFs for the DS are a self-contained monastery that fits in your two palms, a sunlight graveyard of hours that would have otherwise been spent waiting unhappily or contemplating darkly. Even when you have to hook up with the TV, FF is superior because you can be completely immersed in a beautiful world. FFXII is one of the games that draws closest to Zseni Ideal Game because the plot can be completely advanced within 20 hours if such is your pleasure; the rest of your time, you are free to spend examining native blossoms as you level - placidly, in a scripted-ally dreamstate of mild ecstasy. Yes, the native costumes; yes, the splendor of imperial architecture; the ebb and flow of chi; the soft throb of the electronic universe, a dream within a dream; the dew-pearl of immeasureable wisdom unfurling in growth at the roof of one's mouth as perfect Zen breathing comes upon the master in repose. Suspended in a fantasy whose finalness is an ongoing joke, we realize at once the beauty and absurdity of all man's efforts and, at last, hear the laughter of infinite space in our soul's silence, emptied of all desires for anything external. <i>Graviga.</i> That you can automate your party members is the ultimate (final) joke: to think, all these years you have been doing a machine's work, and now you can finally let the machines work for you as you enjoy the wonders of their world and bask in their light. Diablo is superior if you like working for a living. [/quote] I'd reply that "shadow of the colossus" has all the opportunity for aimless wandering in a giant and beautiful world while still delivering heaping helpings of awesomeness when you realize that doing nothing in video games is not really the path to enlightenment, but that's beside the point. You see, FF is even outdone in the lofty category of being your ideal game. That game is <A HREF="http://intihuatani.usc.edu/cloud/" TARGET="new">Cloud</A>. In it, you play a terminally ill asian child with blue hair wasting away in a hospital who finds happiness in his final lonely hours by dreaming about flying through the sky and playing with the clouds. Goals in the game range from reshaping the clouds into pretty shapes to gathering the white clouds into a huge ball, katamari style, and using it to safely precipitate away industrial pollution. The pace is slow and languid, your ball of clouds will break apart if you move too fast, and there's no time limit to stop you from drifting around and enjoying the pretty pastel watercolor beauty of it all. Anyway, we all know what game truly is a <A HREF="http://www.progressquest.com/" TARGET="new">Zen</A> experience.[/quote]