Black Mage

So, but yeah, Visions have certain perks.

So, like, my healer, I've assigned the White Mage to, as an example, because they complement each other, yeah? The Black Mage has, like, a...

So I assigned the Black Mage to, like, say, my magic damage dealer character.

Does that make sense? So you're complementing the character with the right vision to buff your stuff, yeah? So that's how I'm playing it, and it's actually working quite well.

The game isn't particularly hard anyway.

This like giant banner that is like actually just like... flapping in the wind and you're seeing the pixels create that sense of motion like naturally without looking awkward because i think sometimes hd 2d can kind of look like picture book in in some older games because it's just kind of static images static images and i was just flabbergasted by it i was talking to someone from square afterwards and they were saying that yeah like for this game they specifically the team worked on this kind of idea of what if you could map pixels in a 3D way.

And they couldn't really explain it in the most technical terms, but it was this kind of breakthrough that they were working with on the HD2D that made it look just it is phenomenal in the cut scenes the opening cut scene of this game is so good where you have so nice you you have like the the black mage characters like fighting in a battle in the woods and they're just like killing each other and there's like a walking like Final Fantasy VI mech that starts shooting a laser across the battlefield magitek armor sorry sorry fake fan

we will actually commit homicide on you yeah i haven't finished

six yet i haven't finished six yet you've played 14 yeah but i don't use that

It's little things like that in the visions too where I also commended the way in which they have taken like the signature attacks for their original game and then put it into like, if they weren't from a turn-based game, the way they've converted those moves to a turn-based attack and the way the actual sprite of the vision is animated.

is it's such a nice touch.

Like when you use Foul with Ishtola, she does the Black Mage animation of casting.

And it's like, it's just like a subtle little thing.

that is what I thought it was going to be to whenever you're first doing it.

And then you get like the unnamed black mage and white mage.

I was like, Oh, this is going to be what it's going to be.

And then no, you're equipping them like espers.

We have two of them

already.

We have the Black Mage, White Mage.

Those are two characters that they made for the game specifically.

White mage can use white magic.

Black mage can use black magic.

That's just kind of it.

And it's just really classic job system.

So it's not like you're shoving them into those roles.

It's like bit by bit, turn by turn.

If I keep doing this thing over and over and over again, you will kind of resemble a black mage in the way that you act, in the way that your stats exist.

They

This is very fun.

There are guest characters in this game from Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest, such as the Black Mage, the White Mage, Ninja, and Slime, and they play alongside Wario.

Okay.

Wait

Uh, I, I mean, all of them though, right?

I can't believe that's just a straight-up Black Mage.

It's like the cutest thing ever.

Yeah.

I know the last one still has a big chunk taken up by cut scenes, but at least in my most recent playthroughs, which I'll admit had been a little while ago, it felt more evenly spaced.

And we do as this game likes to open with a tonal shift, right? That was dark and scary and Beatrix just kicked our asses and that guy's going to take his army of black mages and march on these rat people who are already on the run and have lost their home.

So let's pick back up with Dagger and Steiner being a little bit silly and the sun is out and we're at the top of a mountain and The air might feel a little fresher up here than

the

In Game of Thrones, they use the term small folk.

term that people use and this game has got so many great small folk and they just have interactions that have nothing to do with our party it's not like they're sitting around talking about the main plot like they got their own stuff going on

right so they start with the news of the day which is that there's been trouble in bermesia so news travels fast uh they talk about the the soldiers wearing pointy hats which is the black mages one of them says so that guy who came through with the big bag did he look suspicious to you and we get for me the the line of the moment which is uh i'm telling you people who eat pickles are nice people

so drew uh