PART 1 - **NEW** PART 1.1 - PART 1.2 - PART 1.3 - PART 2 - PART 3 - PART 4 - PART 5 - PART 6 - PART 7 - PART 8 - PART 9 - PART 10 - PART 11 - PART 12 - PART 13 - PART 14 - PART 15 - PART 16 - PART 17 - PART 18 - PART 19 FINALE The time has finally arrived. Twenty two updates and almost two weeks later, my retelling of the events of Twitch Plays FF7 will soon be over. As expected I'm struggling...
PART 1 - **NEW** PART 1.1 - PART 1.2 - PART 1.3 - PART 2 - PART 3 - PART 4 - PART 5 - PART 6 - PART 7 - PART 8 - PART 9 - PART 10 - PART 11 - PART 12 - PART 13 - PART 14 - PART 15 - PART 16 - PART 17 - PART 18 - PART 19 FINALE We have arrived at the final dungeon of Midgar. The Shinra corporate headquarters is massive, containing multiple floors of puzzles and a gauntlet of four powerful bosses...
PART 1 - **NEW** PART 1.1 - PART 1.2 - PART 1.3 - PART 2 - PART 3 - PART 4 - PART 5 - PART 6 - PART 7 - PART 8 - PART 9 - PART 10 - PART 11 - PART 12 - PART 13 - PART 14 - PART 15 - PART 16 - PART 17 - PART 18 - PART 19 FINALE Chat crashes dramatically through the ceiling of the church in sector 5 and headlong into a fateful encounter. It's here we finally recruit Aeris, a key player in the sto...
PART 1 - **NEW** PART 1.1 - PART 1.2 - PART 1.3 - PART 2 - PART 3 - PART 4 - PART 5 - PART 6 - PART 7 - PART 8 - PART 9 - PART 10 - PART 11 - PART 12 - PART 13 - PART 14 - PART 15 - PART 16 - PART 17 - PART 18 - PART 19 FINALE Hello and welcome to the new and improved beginning of this blog series! As mentioned in the original Part 1, this was supposed to be a simple one off post describing my...
PART 1 - **NEW** PART 1.1 - PART 1.2 - PART 1.3 - PART 2 - PART 3 - PART 4 - PART 5 - PART 6 - PART 7 - PART 8 - PART 9 - PART 10 - PART 11 - PART 12 - PART 13 - PART 14 - PART 15 - PART 16 - PART 17 - PART 18 - PART 19 FINALE It's been an exceptionally long road, but after 148 hours, chat has finally arrived at the ultimate secret location, riding our golden mount of victory across the oceans...
PART 1 - **NEW** PART 1.1 - PART 1.2 - PART 1.3 - PART 2 - PART 3 - PART 4 - PART 5 - PART 6 - PART 7 - PART 8 - PART 9 - PART 10 - PART 11 - PART 12 - PART 13 - PART 14 - PART 15 - PART 16 - PART 17 - PART 18 - PART 19 FINALE Chat is now six hours into our ranching adventure. MOM and DAD have been successfully captured, but in order to grant the desired flavors of chocobo children, both need t...
PART 1 - **NEW** PART 1.1 - PART 1.2 - PART 1.3 - PART 2 - PART 3 - PART 4 - PART 5 - PART 6 - PART 7 - PART 8 - PART 9 - PART 10 - PART 11 - PART 12 - PART 13 - PART 14 - PART 15 - PART 16 - PART 17 - PART 18 - PART 19 FINALE Before proceeding on our Weapon killing adventure, some materia work is done across the party. Menuing was always difficult, tedious and fraught with danger, so lengthy s...
PART 1 - **NEW** PART 1.1 - PART 1.2 - PART 1.3 - PART 2 - PART 3 - PART 4 - PART 5 - PART 6 - PART 7 - PART 8 - PART 9 - PART 10 - PART 11 - PART 12 - PART 13 - PART 14 - PART 15 - PART 16 - PART 17 - PART 18 - PART 19 FINALE Disc 3 is finally here and with it our story rapidly draws to a close. There is only one dungeon left, the rest of the disc consumed by the lengthy ending cutscene. These...
PART 1 - **NEW** PART 1.1 - PART 1.2 - PART 1.3 - PART 2 - PART 3 - PART 4 - PART 5 - PART 6 - PART 7 - PART 8 - PART 9 - PART 10 - PART 11 - PART 12 - PART 13 - PART 14 - PART 15 - PART 16 - PART 17 - PART 18 - PART 19 FINALE Chat is almost completely out of things to do before tackling the climactic sequence of the second disc and the much anticipated final swap. There is one challenge left w...
PART 1 - **NEW** PART 1.1 - PART 1.2 - PART 1.3 - PART 2 - PART 3 - PART 4 - PART 5 - PART 6 - PART 7 - PART 8 - PART 9 - PART 10 - PART 11 - PART 12 - PART 13 - PART 14 - PART 15 - PART 16 - PART 17 - PART 18 - PART 19 FINALE Some bad business is going down in Midgar and we'll have to eventually deal with it, but there's no particular rush. Chat now has access to just about everything left in...
PART 1 - **NEW** PART 1.1 - PART 1.2 - PART 1.3 - PART 2 - PART 3 - PART 4 - PART 5 - PART 6 - PART 7 - PART 8 - PART 9 - PART 10 - PART 11 - PART 12 - PART 13 - PART 14 - PART 15 - PART 16 - PART 17 - PART 18 - PART 19 FINALE Globe trotting fetch quest complete, the party admits to itself that while yes, antagonizing Shinra has been a hoot, it's done little to solve our actual problems. Some u...
PART 1 - **NEW** PART 1.1 - PART 1.2 - PART 1.3 - PART 2 - PART 3 - PART 4 - PART 5 - PART 6 - PART 7 - PART 8 - PART 9 - PART 10 - PART 11 - PART 12 - PART 13 - PART 14 - PART 15 - PART 16 - PART 17 - PART 18 - PART 19 FINALE Chat immediately turns battle speed back down and saves the game to lock it in. Slowest possible battle speed and ATB wait are the only reasons combat is even remotely po...
PART 1 - **NEW** PART 1.1 - PART 1.2 - PART 1.3 - PART 2 - PART 3 - PART 4 - PART 5 - PART 6 - PART 7 - PART 8 - PART 9 - PART 10 - PART 11 - PART 12 - PART 13 - PART 14 - PART 15 - PART 16 - PART 17 - PART 18 - PART 19 FINALE The crew have been rescued then subsequently captured by Shinra, begging the question why they bothered to let them on the airship in the first place. While recovering an...
PART 1 - **NEW** PART 1.1 - PART 1.2 - PART 1.3 - PART 2 - PART 3 - PART 4 - PART 5 - PART 6 - PART 7 - PART 8 - PART 9 - PART 10 - PART 11 - PART 12 - PART 13 - PART 14 - PART 15 - PART 16 - PART 17 - PART 18 - PART 19 FINALE Chat has arrived at the foot of Gaea's Cliff and our next imminent challenge, reaching the top. As warned by the kindly old man in the rest hut, the conditions during the...
PART 1 - **NEW** PART 1.1 - PART 1.2 - PART 1.3 - PART 2 - PART 3 - PART 4 - PART 5 - PART 6 - PART 7 - PART 8 - PART 9 - PART 10 - PART 11 - PART 12 - PART 13 - PART 14 - PART 15 - PART 16 - PART 17 - PART 18 - PART 19 FINALE Chat approaches a major milestone. The first disc change is just around the corner. This will also mark roughly the halfway point of the game. Disc 2 is far shorter than...
PART 1 - **NEW** PART 1.1 - PART 1.2 - PART 1.3 - PART 2 - PART 3 - PART 4 - PART 5 - PART 6 - PART 7 - PART 8 - PART 9 - PART 10 - PART 11 - PART 12 - PART 13 - PART 14 - PART 15 - PART 16 - PART 17 - PART 18 - PART 19 FINALE We have arrived. Temple of the Ancients is the largest, most complex and difficult dungeon of disc 1, possibly the whole game. This place actively hates you, filled with...
PART 1 - **NEW** PART 1.1 - PART 1.2 - PART 1.3 - PART 2 - PART 3 - PART 4 - PART 5 - PART 6 - PART 7 - PART 8 - PART 9 - PART 10 - PART 11 - PART 12 - PART 13 - PART 14 - PART 15 - PART 16 - PART 17 - PART 18 - PART 19 FINALE Despite Yuffie's helpful suggestion, we will not be immediately heading off to get robbed. We're still unsure when the run will actually end, potentially at any time, so...
PART 1 - **NEW** PART 1.1 - PART 1.2 - PART 1.3 - PART 2 - PART 3 - PART 4 - PART 5 - PART 6 - PART 7 - PART 8 - PART 9 - PART 10 - PART 11 - PART 12 - PART 13 - PART 14 - PART 15 - PART 16 - PART 17 - PART 18 - PART 19 FINALE I wasn't present for some of the segments covered in this part, and hadn't had a chance to check the vods on it, so we'll be experiencing much of this together. Red has b...
PART 1 - **NEW** PART 1.1 - PART 1.2 - PART 1.3 - PART 2 - PART 3 - PART 4 - PART 5 - PART 6 - PART 7 - PART 8 - PART 9 - PART 10 - PART 11 - PART 12 - PART 13 - PART 14 - PART 15 - PART 16 - PART 17 - PART 18 - PART 19 FINALE Chat has overcome the Corel Prison Dungeon and faces down the dreaded Chocobo Racing minigame. As with most minigames before it, it was clear our ability to accurately in...
PART 1 - **NEW** PART 1.1 - PART 1.2 - PART 1.3 - PART 2 - PART 3 - PART 4 - PART 5 - PART 6 - PART 7 - PART 8 - PART 9 - PART 10 - PART 11 - PART 12 - PART 13 - PART 14 - PART 15 - PART 16 - PART 17 - PART 18 - PART 19 FINALE Shinra Boat We have defeated the minigame gauntlet and set sail across the sea in our quest for Sephiroth. The boat sequence requires speaking to the rest of your incogni...
PART 1 - **NEW** PART 1.1 - PART 1.2 - PART 1.3 - PART 2 - PART 3 - PART 4 - PART 5 - PART 6 - PART 7 - PART 8 - PART 9 - PART 10 - PART 11 - PART 12 - PART 13 - PART 14 - PART 15 - PART 16 - PART 17 - PART 18 - PART 19 FINALE As of this writing, Twitch Plays Final Fantays 7 stands complete. Clocking in at almost exactly 170 hours or just over 7 days, completing on FF7's launch day 24 years ago...
PART 1 - **NEW** PART 1.1 - PART 1.2 - PART 1.3 - PART 2 - PART 3 - PART 4 - PART 5 - PART 6 - PART 7 - PART 8 - PART 9 - PART 10 - PART 11 - PART 12 - PART 13 - PART 14 - PART 15 - PART 16 - PART 17 - PART 18 - PART 19 FINALE EDITOR'S NOTE 02/10/21: As promised, this part has been obsoleted and rewritten. If you're new to this series, I highly recommend proceeding directly to Part 1.1 instead,...
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Today I finally managed to find what was evidently the only copy of Deadly Premonition in my town. Having spent over a dozen hours with each of the ERs, I got tired of yelling at my monitor and scoffing to myself, so I took the plunge. I suppose that's all I have to say. I've only just gotten to the first scene with Polly, so I probably won't catch up before the ERs finish. I'm also surprised h...
As all of us have recently noticed, Giantbomb has introduced quests and leveling to the site. This is pretty wicked cool, in my opinion, but also fiendish in a way I can't recall in a long time. What's next, microstransactions? Har har. But seriously, this is cool. And yes, I'm doing this for a quest too, so what. It encourages activity on the site. It's like, hey here's all these things you ca...
I've been in the Beta for about a week now. Unfortunately my PC is just a bit underpowered to do the game justice, so I've had to restrict myself to 1v1 matches. I've played all three races, but my personal preference leans towards Terran. So now, I'll give some (hopefully) brief impressions of the changes and improvements, and perhaps some balance concerns I've noticed. Terran This is the race...
If you have not seen the recently linked single player footage from MW2, and do not wish to be spoiled, stop reading now. Although honestly, I don't know how somebody would have avoided it by this point. If you have not yet seen this footage and wish to do so, here is the link . Alright, with the sufficient spoiler warning out of the way, it's time to sound off on this controversy. For starters...
My ultimate handheld gaming device... well for starters, it has to be a clamshell. The GBA SP and DS have it right, protecting that screen is priority number one. Next, it would be nice if it had two analog sticks. This isn't a knock against the PSP directly, it's just that modern game development has had access to those style of controls for a good two generations now, and it's long past time...
Shadow Complex. Braid. BF1943. Geometry Wars. The download game market has been fantastic for games that might not succeed in the traditional retail space. It's reinvigorated the gaming scene, with a lot less risk involved for both the publisher and consumer.