accidentally ran into Zodiark and he killed everyone with his first attack

unfortunately these plans fell through as i immediately returned to the Insane Crystal, on a quest to have every spell and technick available to me. the amount of time i've been having to spend here is putting my goodtime with this game down a whole letter grade. i invite everyone to look into the steps required to find the spell 'Hastega' within this place. it better be the most useful ability of any game, and i will be using it relentlessly regardless of whether boss guides even bring up using it at all

once i had everything unlocked i got straight maze out of there, and decided my next goal would be finishing off collecting all the zodiac superweapons, or at least the ones my guys can actually use. honestly the biggest hurdle isn't how rare the materials are, it's actually finding and keeping track of them in my inventory

the 'sort' button gives me many useful options such as 1) by quantity and 2) that's it. anyway turns out the last two weapons are rare drops from rare enemies inside the Rarely a Good Time Crystal yeeehawww

i could hardly find straight info on how to spawn one of them, all i knew for sure was i had to kill 256 of these ghost guys and then run around for a while. even the info from the official strategy guide ended up being inaccurate. all the videos on it involved reloading autosaves in the remaster but at this point i'm used to having to disregard most of the guides i find for this game. sometimes i wish i was normal and more willing to play the generally agreed-upon best versions of games

only found one video for the PS2 version, the original non-Zodiac PS2 version and my god i can't believe how slow it is. i want to cast Hugga on everyone who had to navigate the Great Crystal without 2x speed. but turns out i just have to keep switching between two zones until it spawns, thankfully not having to kill another 256 ghosts if it doesn't drop the weapon. saw one person call this a glitch which i'm choosing to ignore

completed final fantasy. sorting the weapons by strength put them in the right letter order too which is the one convenience this game's inventory system has afforded me thus far

i was fully in the sunk cost hole getting the last two. my spawn method from before wasn't working anymore and i don't know why!! i started resorting to superstitions, like real holding-down-and-B type stuff. i plan on making video editions of these diaries when i can afford audio equipment and i can't wait to be able to include things like the hideous screech i let out in reaction to it finally dropping. the final weapon was much simpler, a 5% drop from a monster that has a 5% chance of spawning instead of another monster, but still ended up taking a similarly gruelling amount of time

somehow i let this diversion propel me over 100 hours on my save, and i still don't think i'm almost done. maybe it's because i don't want to start any new games until i can make video diaries for them so this is my One Game for now. this also took me to over 10 million clan points if that means anything which it doesn't to me even. the only way of increasing my clan rank at this point is by 100%ing the game and buddy i want to 100% my one game. stay tuned for for even more FFXII and click here to help me afford equipment so i can kill Vayne and stop playing FFXII

hunts are getting to be real long hunts, surely to get me good and acclimated for the 50 million HP trial ahead. fights are most fun when they hit me with their "you can't do anything to me for 2 minutes" spell, and all i can do is blast them with my "i pressed L1 and now it's only 1 minute" attack. haven't studied the Yiazmat fight in detail yet but judging by tales i've heard from PS2 days of yore about people leaving the game on overnight to fight it i'm hoping it ends up being simpler than some of these hunts. i got 500k gil from this guy to spend on nothing

learning i can pay enemies to die

also bested the Gilg once more and now have 3/4 of his Genji threads, but unfortunately wasn't able to pick up his Sword That Turns You Into a Dog. now that's all hunts besides Yiazmat completed, it's time for me to get started on the ultimate JRPG activity; the real non-hunt-nor-hunt-club-nor-cockatrice-hunt hunt

putting an end to Fishing Enthusiast's reign. he would not relinquish his tool of destruction so i resorted to drastic measures: walking a few steps away then coming back to him being gone but his rod left leaning against the wall. where he used his instrument for evil – senseless murder (all 20,000+ enemies i've killed were in self-defense so it's different), i will use it for good – doing the same so i can get a powerful weapon (also different)

no this isn't an earlier screenshot the fishing minigame does in fact lead me back to Greg. he bequeathed unto me his Rod That Turns You Into a Guy With a Better Rod after fishing up and following clue bottles that i would never have been able to figure out. if i found a piece of paper with "Foothills rise in mountains' shadow. nhliQsTUrEe" written on it i would throw it back in the water

putting on my cap that reads "I'D RATHER BE PLAYING RHYTHM GAMES". there are a few levels to it that i progress through by getting perfect scores and rare drops, and it gets pretty difficult, but by far the hardest part was believing the drop rate for an item i needed was 10%. i needed the Gilgarod for it, so i actually started wondering if because i'd gone through a cutscene where i handed the rod over to my fishing partner i technically didn't have it anymore? over an hour spent on one level. i don't know what's with my RNG in this game man is it because i spent so long in Giruvegan i can't fish good