Saki Kasukabe
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i never thought i would praise the unlofty heights of a card game, of which particular strain of entertainment just goes as far as knocking down other people's card pyramids at school
but with the help of videogames and it's dimunitive sense of reality, a card game has been able to rise as the cream of the crap; finaru finnesity ix's 'tetramaster'. i love all the mini-games in ix, and ix is the only game whose mini-games are actually considered by me as optional extras. i spoke to a friend who completed this game is what i thought was a considerablly short time (20 hours or something, i don't remember), and i asked if he even did any of the chocobo digging, stellagio coin collecting, mognet system etc, and he said "people do them?". the game has a great story, but even i think the gameplay has a few cracks, but even tetramaster alone makes up for that (he also didn't like the game anyway. i don't like him).
anyway. when i replay ffix, i find that the first thing i do is to see if any of the inhabitants want to play tetramaster. this is possible because it seems that 75% of everyone in gaia, provided their city isn't being raped by bahamut or mages or whatever at the time, will play cards with you. the cards get better as the game progresses after all. and it doesn't matter where i am. annoyingly, card freak gon is the only guy in lindblum who will play cards after alexandria attacks. but treno is a great place to find card players, not to mention the card tournament place (which isn't much of a tournament until disc 3, but you know whatever the fuck). cleyra doesn't really have any card players, if i remember correctly, so just as well it gets blown up. conde petit also loves the game, and i don't remember about the black mage village. all in all, tetramaster does have a large influence over the populace of gaia. well, if poker was nearly as easy to understand and had just as much enjoyable game flow, and the board and 'card battle' set-ups, lots of people in the world would be playing it. instead, it's boring.
don't get me wrong, tetramaster is easy to get the hang of. yet one of the cricitisms for ix was that tetramaster wasn't explained in the game. so what? i don't even understand how it can have card battle calculations, nor do i understand the missing link between apes and humans. what's a little mystery to someone? even so, the critics at the time must have no ability to comprehend basic things, how can you not understand tetramaster? maybe they get up in the morning thinking they must be a pencil.
and just like everything else in existence, you can just simply choose to collect the cards, all one hundred of them. a feat i've yet to do myself (i'm just hoping that some of the cards aren't "this is only chance in the game that you can get this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111").
it's not really a card game in the sense that all you need is a pack of cards, but this is dealt with, for a short period of time in europe, a tetra master board game was produced. however, this "short period" appears equal to that of "until the ticket for the van runs out" and "europe" is the continent as the japanese know it, possibly somewhere in bulgaria or chernobyl, and promptly sold the board games there. or at least shut them away from other people in europe. this is all i get from the intarweb. disgraceful.
there is also THIS... which i know nothing about. i'm also unaware if tetremaster has had made any other appearences in the FF series, although ix is obviously enough.
so yeah, talk about one of the best bits of ff history evar
but with the help of videogames and it's dimunitive sense of reality, a card game has been able to rise as the cream of the crap; finaru finnesity ix's 'tetramaster'. i love all the mini-games in ix, and ix is the only game whose mini-games are actually considered by me as optional extras. i spoke to a friend who completed this game is what i thought was a considerablly short time (20 hours or something, i don't remember), and i asked if he even did any of the chocobo digging, stellagio coin collecting, mognet system etc, and he said "people do them?". the game has a great story, but even i think the gameplay has a few cracks, but even tetramaster alone makes up for that (he also didn't like the game anyway. i don't like him).
anyway. when i replay ffix, i find that the first thing i do is to see if any of the inhabitants want to play tetramaster. this is possible because it seems that 75% of everyone in gaia, provided their city isn't being raped by bahamut or mages or whatever at the time, will play cards with you. the cards get better as the game progresses after all. and it doesn't matter where i am. annoyingly, card freak gon is the only guy in lindblum who will play cards after alexandria attacks. but treno is a great place to find card players, not to mention the card tournament place (which isn't much of a tournament until disc 3, but you know whatever the fuck). cleyra doesn't really have any card players, if i remember correctly, so just as well it gets blown up. conde petit also loves the game, and i don't remember about the black mage village. all in all, tetramaster does have a large influence over the populace of gaia. well, if poker was nearly as easy to understand and had just as much enjoyable game flow, and the board and 'card battle' set-ups, lots of people in the world would be playing it. instead, it's boring.
don't get me wrong, tetramaster is easy to get the hang of. yet one of the cricitisms for ix was that tetramaster wasn't explained in the game. so what? i don't even understand how it can have card battle calculations, nor do i understand the missing link between apes and humans. what's a little mystery to someone? even so, the critics at the time must have no ability to comprehend basic things, how can you not understand tetramaster? maybe they get up in the morning thinking they must be a pencil.
and just like everything else in existence, you can just simply choose to collect the cards, all one hundred of them. a feat i've yet to do myself (i'm just hoping that some of the cards aren't "this is only chance in the game that you can get this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111").
it's not really a card game in the sense that all you need is a pack of cards, but this is dealt with, for a short period of time in europe, a tetra master board game was produced. however, this "short period" appears equal to that of "until the ticket for the van runs out" and "europe" is the continent as the japanese know it, possibly somewhere in bulgaria or chernobyl, and promptly sold the board games there. or at least shut them away from other people in europe. this is all i get from the intarweb. disgraceful.
there is also THIS... which i know nothing about. i'm also unaware if tetremaster has had made any other appearences in the FF series, although ix is obviously enough.
so yeah, talk about one of the best bits of ff history evar
