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final fantasy tactics is finally getting remastered THIS IS NOT A DRILL

i am so fucking excited. i have played tactics once, at the formative age of like, nineteen or twenty, and have not played it since because the best version was on the goddamn playstation portable and i literally can't play mine anymore due to battery bloat.

even so, tactics is one of my all-time favorite games. i most recently wrote about it for my final fantasy series fansite but thet tl;dr is that tactics tells a fantastic political story about right, wrong, and the meaning of justice. matsuno's comment on the remaster really hones in on why it's like that, in a way that was a lightbulb moment for me. i'm not surprised i didn't pick up on it when i was a kid in college, but looking back now: yeah, no wonder tactics is exactly like that. (vagrant story too, tbh. matsuno's had some stuff to say.)

anyway, i am fucking thrilled. and it's voice acted now, with... additions to the plot?! i guess we'll see how that goes. the complete inclusion of the original's gameplay + the war of the lion translation is a welcome yet unexpected boon. it'll be nice to have difficulty settings too; tactics is a game that really rewards strategic thinking, and there have long been romhacks to add even more depth.

the only problem is... trails in the sky FC remake is also slated for fall. how the fuck am i supposed to balance both of them 😭

keeping at it. writing has been going well, but i want to change my focus next month and i'm a little leery about it, since i've kind of been on a roll... but i really need to write something other than my self-indulgent mess. we'll see how it goes.

spent most of the week raiding once again; finally cleared m6s (thank god) and nearly cleared aloalo criterion. other than that i've just been playing trails in the sky SC, as mentioned.

i start physical therapy tomorrow and am kind of dreading it, but hopefully it won't be too terrible... hopefully.