I mean, I'll give my stance on some of it, as someone who played a bunch of Final Fantasies in pretty quick succession without knowing much about…well any of them. (Went through 6, 7, 4, 8, 9, 5, 10, in that order in under two years). The Junction system is not terrible, although it is a bit flawed, since Drawing is…

I mean, the world of FFVIII is one of the most poorly constructed ones in JRPGs. About half the population seems to be teenagers getting trained to fight wars. It just…didn't make sense. At all.

Everyone realizes FF8 had the best card game of all. That's why we don't talk about it. Conversations just come down to "Triple Triad was great, right?" or "Man, I wish we could play some real Triple Triad."

I played it later, when I felt I was maturing past dealing with anything high school, so I first found him annoying but grew to like him. But I got had a similar relationship similar to yours with Harry Potter. When the fifth book came out, I was his age, and so it drove me insane to hear some people complaining that…

Ah, Final Fantasy VIII…one of my least favorite Final Fantasies (possibly my actual least favorite), but also one that I am always intrigued by. It's a horribly broken mess that is genuinely trying to not be a broken mess. It's just a few tweaks away from being amazing, but those few missing tweaks sadly doom it.

My brothers and I once went out on a shopping trip. We all kind of did a "treat yo'self" thing, and I decided that I wanted a new button-down shirt, despite rarely having a use for one. But darn it if I don't want to look snazzy sometimes.

Getting your cat to show when you want it to can be ridiculous. There have been so many times where I would go to bed, then get anxious because the cat didn't come into the bedroom like normal, open and close the treat drawer a few times to lure her out, get really nervous when she still doesn't show, and then search…

Things my cat did while I read this article and the comments: went to the window and made the most ungodly yowling noise, walked in front of the keyboard for no reason, found the bracelet I'd confiscated from her last night and got it stuck between the vacuum cleaner and the step.

-You have an itch. Scratching it too hard will hurt you, but it is really driving you crazy
-You forgot to do laundry, and now you can't find quarters and all the machines are occupied
-You ran into a co-worker who you don't care for outside of work.

Man, how could you pass up on a chance to drop a "did you know that—" at that one point every time you watch the film with friends.

Part of me jokingly says the Baten Kaitos games, although they were just JRPGs that used cards to fuel the battle system…doesn't stop me from wanting them to make an actual card game based off of it.

I had that winning streak in February, but since then haven't been able to get on the board. I partially blame the fact that I really haven't had much to contribute to many of the articles, which is really my fault for having a very narrow spectrum of games that I've played. Come on A.V. Club, let's do a Majora's Mask…

It's in the long time camp, I assure you. My final play time was about 120 hours, probably 60 of which were the actual story.

The narrative problem is another reason why I hail Xenoblade (the first one) as a great achievement in JRPGs. It actually managed to avoid that. While there are bits that hint that everything is not as it seems, these are more shrouded in mystery and there's absolutely no way that the characters themselves can know…

Yeah, Hyrule Warriors is most fun in co-op, and I couldn't play it on my own for too long. The longest would be if I got stuck on a mission (the one to get Ruto's Lv. 3 weapon was one of the few I did on my own, and I struggled with it for about an hour).

Lakebed Temple is actually one of my favorite temples in not just that game, but Zelda in general. I think it's partially because it actually is difficult from a problem-solving perspective. It challenges me even when I replay it, and I like that. Swimming can be a bit clunky, though. No swim controls have beaten…

The quality-of-life attributes of battles were easily one of the best things. Everything just felt smooth, and not having to remember enemy weaknesses but simply being able to see them was very welcome. While I haven't played Tactics, I compared its job system to an upgraded version of FFV's, which is one of my…

I mean, it's gonna be the Blue Mage from FF or the Vampire from the first Bravely Default, but now with cats. So…best FF job, now with cats. There's no need to have anyone be anything else.

Miitomo's one of those things that makes me sad/glad I don't have a smartphone. I get to at least see the goofy pictures people are taking on Twitter, but I don't get to use it myself…which might be a good thing. My wife did get it, however, so I'll be eagerly checking it out over her shoulder.

Whoof…the Alison Rapp thing was…an interesting situation. The Miitomo thing was helped by the fact that more details came out, including a statement that it wasn't that. There's still a certain layer of uncomfortable to her firing, but she even insisted that people not make this about her or even about Nintendo, but…