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Vamp did you finally finish your playthrough?

Also, I find that the more I play FFIV: The After Years, the more it grows on me, and I don't know if it should. It's really not all that great. I know it's an attempt to cash in on an older game that people enjoyed in the past, and present considering how many remakes there were of the game, but I still find myself enjoying the little time I've spent with it so far (I've finished two of the tales and they were about 3-3.5 hours a piece and I'm 1.5 hours into the third one, so that's about 7-8 hours? A decent length to get a feel for it. At least they changed the battle system up some with the Bands and the phases of the moon affecting the different abilities in battle.

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I have not. :\ I intended to beat it over the weekend, but I got sucked into League of Legends and Just Cause 2.

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You were in Eden already right? Like Siren Park or some shit like that?

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Yeah I'm in Siren Park, but I need to do a bit of grinding before I can move on.

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I think the better grinding area is Leviathan's Plaza actually, but I dunno. I had the crystarium maxed out for the main roles by the time I got there since I had stockpiled so much CP on Pulse.

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You could honestly probably beat the game with where you are in the Crystarium right now. The final boss is a joke.

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Well, Orphan's second form is extremely laughable. I had to go at the first form a few times though thanks to that one hit kill move it was always able to pull off.

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Well, I want to grind in Leviathan plaza, but I didn't grind at all in Siren Park and the next area was pretty tough for me, so I backtracked.

Maybe I should try upgrading some weapons.

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You could, but I saved that until the very end. How far along are you in the crystarium?

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Beat Chapter 12 last night...one more to go.

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Atta boy! If you know how to fight the first form of Orphan, the second will be cake. I guarantee it.

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Yeah, and I have to say I've never been more excited to be done with a game. XD I'm just ready to move on at this point, I don't think I'm going to go back and upgrade my weapons. I wish it had been more worth it to upgrade them before the end of the game.

I've found that if I just start with the Protection paradigm I can get an insane amount of buffs, switch to delta attack, and kill anything.

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Finished.

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What are your thoughts? And congrats!

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I thought the ending was OK. Story didn't make a whole lot of sense - it felt overly complex and simplistic at the same time.

Overall fun game, but it was linear to a fault. I tried to upgrade one of my weapons before the final battle, and realized the shop to buy most of the components I needed wasn't even available until AFTER you beat the game.

It was like they went out of their way to not let you deviate from the one set path.