Part 46: No, Thank You

Squaresoft really just went crazy with using all the silly typefaces their computers came with.


the last time i totally ditched someone, we were being chased by a crazy guy with a machete after we liberated his fighting chickens

but that's neither here nor there


"Yes."


and we left her there
















no don't be silly she might be the least-fun character in ff9 but she doesn't reach anywhere near the level of annoying everything in star ocean 2 has

"I go find and eat it."

And with that, Iz goes on his way. This really sucks because I forgot that Iz evaporates from this point until the end of the disc, and s/he had my fucking Running Shoes.








"Yeah..."
"You aren't hurt?"


you heard her makakao you're a little brat


"Are you kidding!? And I do have a name, you know!"


Makie is phonetic Hawaiian for Maggie, and it is pronounced like [mɑkiɛ]. The vowels and Romanized phonetic equivalents in Hawaiian are very similar to those found in Japanese; there is no /æ/ in Hawaiian, for example.

one day, my strange naming decisions will all be made crystal clear. i promise. there is totally a reason and rhyme to this




"So, Miss Makie, why did you steal from the village?"
"I was hungry..."


"'Ho brah I hungry we go get Mistuken, and den we go Genki Sushi and if I still hungry we go Zippy's'... well, maybe not quite like Iz."

fuck shit damn why did i write that now i am so hungry for mitsuken and genki sushi and zippy's except there isn't mitsuken on my current island and our genki sushi and zippy's sucks compared to the ones on oahu






"Well I would, and if I would, Iz definitely would"
"I am going to make you sleep on the couch so hard"


"Yeah, beyond this path. I'm sure Mog went home..."


"Are you two... together?"




no, kilika, ftf is better than nothing, just friends is like worse than nothing







i want that fucking box why the hell does iz get to jump over this pit i mean he is like 500kg heavier than me


OH SHIT OCHU


But to the day I die, I am going to be of the school of thought that the Naocho from FF1 is the best name.




The Mountain Path is full of these colored stone items.


There is a Blue one, a Red one, a Yellow one, and a Green one. Just like a Japanese SNES controller.

I always say this, but I wish so much that someone would make a script-swap patch for Super Mario RPG. I just want the SNES translation we got on the cart, except pasted over the Japanese version of SMRPG so I can have the RGBY colors over the menu options instead of the dark purple/light purple we got on ours. It's very silly, but if I'm gonna replay SMRPG again, I wanna replay it with pretty colors


Stiltzkin is further along the path, and is still selling his usual shit.




why did we have to distinguish between moogle genders by giving them brassieres

CONTINUING ON















Going a little further, everyone is suddenly visible so obviously something is going happen.




what


ohhhhhhhh duuuuuude it's the bfg

(big four-twenty giant)


Hilgigars--a poor mistranslation of the green Hill Gigas monsters from FF1--is a very notorious boss.

But why? His only really threatening attack can be avoided completely by equipping either Auto-Float or just by casting Float on your party normally. He hits hard, but who cares.


His notoriety comes from the fact that he is the only boss in the game with a 1/256-rate steal who you involuntarily have to fight without Master Thief.


It is a Flute weapon for Makie, but unlike EVERY OTHER STEAL IN THE GAME, is one that we won't be seeing in the next shop. It won't even appear in the shop after that, or the one after that. In fact, it won't even appear until the very end of Disc 3.

There is nothing particularly spectacular about it. It is the only weapon in the game that teaches Jewel, which is a useless spell anyway, and while it has a couple of attack points more than the Magic Racket, it's short-range; Rackets allow you to attack at full strength from the back row.


Needless to say, I didn't waste my time. If you are disappointed, you can go eat a dick

and before someone comes in and says "oh yeah well hawaiians ate dick too," boy howdy let me tell you do white chicks love to eat it just as much


yeah that's a great explanation

i mean sure folks complain about necron and shit but hilgigars is the real out-of-left-field boss






"Bullshit, there's only coastline in all directions that way"


"Oh, that's what the dwarves call it. Everyone else calls it the IIFA TREE."


no let's not there are things to be done


Have I mentioned how much I love the backgrounds in this game? Because I really, really love the backgrounds in this game.




The colored stones also have a little quote from David Heavenguard (the priest fella) that goes along with them. It's all very world-flavor-ey, but this is the only one I bothered to screencap.


Now that we've got the four stones,


we head over to this altar over here and put the stones in it. You get a Moonstone out of this deal, and it is the only other place that you can get a Moonstone-to-keep in this game barring impressing all the nobles at the play.


We also take the time to grab an Oglop.


Well, as great as the rest of the maps in this game are, the world map leaves something to be desired.


WHAT




yeah that is IT game i am done