Dilemma of the entertainments

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Stop reading silly vampire romance novels immediately. You haven't made nearly enough progress on FFX-2 or Child of Light. You won't finish them by the end of the year at this rate, and then you'll be behind on your gaming goal for 2015.

...but if I read 7 more books by Friday I'll meet my reading goal for 2015 on Goodreads...

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PLAY FFX-2.

SLAMS HANDS DOWN ON DESK

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Well, I played it, but I was tired and uncoordinated so I spent most of the time frustratedly attempting to calibrate towers in the Thunder Plains. I finally got it done, but it was not the best use of my time.

If it's not one thing in the Thunder Plains it's another

I still have like 3 destinations to check out before moving on with the plot of chapter 2.

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Cough.

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OH MY GOD

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So this is why you're not supposed to take two years to finish a video game

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DAMN THIS GUIDE FOR NOT SAYING THAT, WHO GIVES A CRAP ABOUT THIS STUPID GRID

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I ruined it

I lost it forever Jes

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Did you accidentally skip an extended cutscene of the airship?

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I've spent the last 45 minutes or so revisiting every location in chapter 2 to find out why I don't have 37% yet and then I reread, like, half the guide, and found out why the guide casually mentioned that I might get the Minerva Plate "if applicable"

...I didn't speak to Tobli, Jes

I shaved the Hypello but I didn't speak to Tobli

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Guess who is the crazy lady cackling at her phone while walking home from work? IT IS I.

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WHY DO YOU HATE ME

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I'm a sadist. I derive pleasure from the suffering of others.

How did you get the gun mage dressphere without talking to Tobli?

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I can't remember that far back! That was, like, yesterday!

I think the trick is that there are two potential sequences of perfect shaving:

1) Enter Moonflow from the airship
2) Talk to Tobli, who wants to know where his stuff is
3) Find the Hypello
4) Shave him
5) Tobli gives you candy
6) You win the game

OR

1) Enter Moonflow from Djose/Mushroom Rock
2) Find the Hypello before you meet Tobli, and talk to him because he's such a whiny bastard who would have thought you had to ignore his plaintive cries and run past him
3) Shave him
4) Meet Tobli for the first time; receive some form of candy??
5) Immediately forfeit 100%

Either way, I think Tobli gives you the dressphere in an automatic scene as long as you save all the supplies? The guide is a complete liar about everything related to fucking Tobli. I'm pretty sure I already had the dressphere, but even if I hadn't already had it, I would have gotten it for selling all 10 tickets. But that's what fooled me! The guide said "to get the Minerva Plate and forfeit 100%, do not talk to Tobli" and I thought it meant do not talk to him after completing the mission. So I did not run up to that little fucker and press X! I did not want to forfeit 100% sobbbbbbb

I'm almost sure that this is the fuck-up. When I didn't get the Minerva Plate right away and I did get the Gun Mage dressphere right away, I thought the guide had done me right, and I went on my merry way. But a chapter later I got the Minerva Plate, and I had to pay the higher price when I sold his show tickets -- his cut is 1000 gil instead of 500 gil -- which the guide said happens "if you didn't talk to Tobli". And I was like, what the hell, I totally talked to Tobli, he gave me candy! Oh well, no big deal, I'll get slightly less profits, ha ha ha. :(

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That's so many words about why it's not my fault that I got less than 100% at a video game

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...

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The fuck is the Minerva Plate?

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A thing you can get if you're some sort of crazy person who doesn't want to see the happy ending. Apparently there are four different ways to do the Moonflow quest, and only one of them gets you 100%. And my guide sucked so I did it that way by accident.

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Once again, I really must protest the guide you're using. It's dangerous to go alone, TAKE THIS.

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That guide is a pain in the ass! To use that guide I'd have to be constantly going back and forth. The main guide has no information about 100% completion, just a bunch of commands, and the 100% completion section wouldn't have helped me because it just says

Moonflow
- Mission Complete! (Cannot lose any cargo)

and it also doesn't have any way for me to check if I'm on track or not, so I would never have known that my 36% should've been a 37% until I finished the game and tore my hair out.

...although tbh that's probably more emotionally healthy than what I'm doing right now, which is contemplating whether I should start over from scratch or whether I should keep going and then just Youtube the good ending, and I have lost all motivation to do either.

Not until chapter 2 did I find this other thing, which provides no details and therefore makes me nervous about sneaky completion issues like this, but tragically might have saved me because it is specific about getting the quest from Tobli.

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...I think you're a bit too invested in 100%ing this. Which is interesting, because it's impossible to do on your first playthrough.

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I thought it was just improbable.

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No, I'm pretty sure I said impossible!okay i didn't but i did say this. which was misleading and unclear. my bad. The maximum percentage you can get on your first playthrough is, like. 96%. You need both the scenes you get from donating the sphere to the Youth League in one playthrough, and then New Yevon on an NG+.

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None of the guys told me that! I meant to type guides, but I left the late hour typo for you to enjoy.

This guide says you can get it that way, but you can also get it on a first game if you follow the guide. And that guide would have been very specific about not getting the mission from the Hypello. /weeps

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I'm going to assume the guide is wrong and I'm right. :D

Anyway, all 100% nets you is an extra scene that isn't even in the pretty shiny CG. Like, 60 extra seconds of stuff. And it's attached to my Not Favourite Ending. So you're working yourself up about nothing! Maybe try to play for the pretty magical girl dress-up rather than the arbitrary completionist numbers?

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I'm just so mad I really wanted to do it

But I am almost definitely not interested in restarting, and I have sort of talked myself into continuing and giving no fucks about completion. With that said, what parts of 100% completion are a pain in the ass and I should just skip them?

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COMM.

SPHERES.

Trust me, you'll be so glad you didn't bother. I'm pretty sure Act 4 is like, 80% watching comm spheres. Check any guide and it'll show you exactly what you're skipping.

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omg what the actual hell is all that

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AT ONE POINT IN THE GAME

- View the Besaid Island CommSphere twice
- View the Kilika Island Port CommSphere four times
- View the Kilika Island Temple CommSphere
- View the Mushroom Rock Road CommSphere twice
- View the Moonflow CommSphere where Elma tries to take her chocobo
onto the shoopuff
- View the Guadosalam CommSphere
- View the Macalania Woods Travel Agency CommSphere
- View the Zanarkand Ruins CommSphere three times

AT A DIFFERENT POINT IN THE GAME

- View the Besaid Island CommSphere seven times
- View the Kilika Temple CommSphere
- View the Luca CommSphere three times
- View the Mi'ihen Highroad CommSphere and participate in the investigation.
You must complete the sidequest and make it so that the culprit is Rikku or
the Chocobo Eater in order to get the completion percentage. See the
Secrets/Sidequests section of this FAQ for more information.
- View the Djose Temple CommSphere five times and you will get two Al Bhed
Primers
- View the Guadosalam CommSphere
- View the Thunder Plains CommSphere and catch a chocobo using the
Choco-Porter
- View the Macalania Woods Entrance CommSphere
- View the Macalania Woods Travel Agency CommSphere
- View the Bikanel Desert Excavation Camp CommSphere
- View the Calm Lands Chocobo Ranch CommSphere twice
- View the Calm Lands Travel Agency CommSphere until you see the father of
the lonely unmarried young man run around behind the agency and play with
a chest. This will make that chest available later in the game and contain
50,000 gil.
- View the Mt. Gagazet Mountain Gate CommSphere
- View the Mt. Gagazet Hot Springs CommSphere 16 times until the hot
springs are empty.

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View the Mt. Gagazet Hot Springs CommSphere 16 times until the hot springs are empty.

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16 times!!!!!

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omg whaaaat

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Is 100% worth this

is it

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M... maybe... BEST ENDING?!?

But 99% is definitely not worth it

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GOOD ENDING KICKS BEST ENDING'S BUTT

I'm not being contrary. I really do prefer it as an end to the overall narrative and a resolution to Yuna's story.

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She has that nice narrative and resolution either way!

Best is just... bonus happy, by my limited understanding

Just say this

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That's pretty much what it is, yeah.

Act IV is definitely the pain in the ass part for 100%. All commspheres, all the time. Blech.

The sad thing is some of the resolutions along the way to 100% I really like, like Wakka's or the Guados. Most of it though is meh.

Re: Just say this

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Yeah, I think some of the non-essential things are fun too -- I definitely intend to keep going down the destination list every chapter, and I'll do all the 100% items that aren't a pain in the ass. I want to see as much of the game as I can without wasting way, way too much time.