{"id":597,"date":"2009-08-09T11:55:53","date_gmt":"2009-08-09T15:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sphericality.org\/pyra\/2009\/08\/09\/it-all-began-with-a-cut-scene\/"},"modified":"2009-08-09T11:55:53","modified_gmt":"2009-08-09T15:55:53","slug":"it-all-began-with-a-cut-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sphericality.org\/pyra\/2009\/08\/09\/it-all-began-with-a-cut-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"It All Began With a Cut Scene"},"content":{"rendered":"

Something mysterious flying around Jeuno.  A mysterious and powerful kid who talks as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153???\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.  Possibly the end of the world as we know it.<\/p>\n

CoP was great wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it.<\/p>\n

So great, we get to play parts of the story again.  Sort of.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

Having been away from the game, then on vacation, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m only getting started on this mini-expansion now (as well as working on the various parts of the kupo desteak).<\/p>\n

\"I <\/p>\n

The opening CS has a lot of things flying around.  From what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen so far, this crazy title was probably where $1 of my purchase price went.<\/p>\n

One thing CoP didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have was a gawker who didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know when to shut his mouth.<\/p>\n

\"Ok, <\/p>\n

Seriously, go watch it again, he keeps his mouth open and his head shaking for a good 20-30 seconds longer than the rest of the people.<\/p>\n

Then for some reason, Aldo is there.<\/p>\n

\"Hi, <\/p>\n

Holy foreshadowing batman.  At least Aldo keeps some of his composure.<\/p>\n

We then had another special effect, which I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m also convinced was where $1 went to.<\/p>\n

\"I <\/p>\n

But unlike the first effect, this had a strange kid with too much power and knowledge.  Who pointed at my tail for a while.<\/p>\n

\"Stop <\/p>\n

Yes yes, it is a very nice tail.  Are you going to send me on some crazy mission like CoP 1-3?  Do I get to climb the inside of the crags in a strange and mysterious level capped zone?  No?  I get to go kill level 20 monsters in 3 widely separated areas for a few hours until I get a few items?<\/p>\n

Then I get to the fun stuff?<\/p>\n

But who are you?<\/p>\n

\"who <\/p>\n

And probably just as important, how did I figure out your name without you actually telling me?<\/p>\n

Overall the ACP has been very easy, but far too much running around.<\/p>\n

I really just want the item at the end.<\/p>\n

-pyra<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Something mysterious flying around Jeuno.  A mysterious and powerful kid who talks as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153???\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.  Possibly the end of the world as we know it. CoP was great wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it. So great, we get to play parts of the story again.  … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[149,165],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ffxi","tag-expansions","tag-ffxi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sphericality.org\/pyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sphericality.org\/pyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sphericality.org\/pyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sphericality.org\/pyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sphericality.org\/pyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sphericality.org\/pyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sphericality.org\/pyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sphericality.org\/pyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sphericality.org\/pyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}