all made up with nowhere to go

World of Final Fantasy finally arrived on Saturday and, not for the first time, the game box got busted in the delivery*. It was also almost a week late, in spite of the label saying 48 hour delivery but ehhhhh, it's here now. (Turns out I could have just picked up a copy in Burnley's CEX, as I saw one yesterday when I was in there, but I didn't know that as I wasn't looking for it last time!)

The gameplay is Pokemon, but make it Final Fantasy. Which I don't have a problem with, but it wasn't what I was expecting. I don't know what I was expecting. Do like my turn based combat, though, sighs happily, and I notice it works a little like the combat in FFX in that you can see who will act next, and that the turn order can be visibly affected.

Anyway, I'm about five to six hours in/in chapter six (maybe), and I see the chapters are like the FFXV chapters - i.e. short and seemingly pointless to divide the game up this way, imo. I think whoever at Squeenix has a boner for dividing games up this way needs to stop. It is nice to be able to say that you're in chapter wherever, rather than trying to come up with a non-spoilery way to say where you are, but when they don't even do a good job of dividing the story or make any narrative sense, then nahhhhhh. This has bothered me since they started doing it in FFXIII, where the divisions make about as much sense as they do here, so it's not like it's a new niggle**.

I also saw a second hand copy of the royal edition of FFXV for £5 in Game yesterday, and I wavered for exactly five minutes on whether to buy it or not. I did not, because I know I'm never going to play FFXV again. That feels mean, but right now, nope. Maybe in the future when I've forgotten exactly how mad I am at the whole thing, but definitely not right now.

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I am not drawing much at the moment, so ofc I spent some of my birthday money on pens and paper!

I'd wanted to get another Uni Pin in the 08 size, since I have been enjoying what a chonker of a pen it is. I went in TK Maxx to look at rucksacks (they were woefully terrible, but that's part of the problem - you never know what's going to be in there), but I thought I'd have a look at their stationery section because, well, I'm me.

And they had a 12 pen set of Uni Pin pens, which is something I've been coveting since forever ago. It was £12.99, and I was sure they did them cheaper in The Range, and I was going there anyway. TL;DR version: got the exact same set in The Range for £9.99, which is less than a quid a pen! It also has two 08s in it! And two 05s, which is not a size of technical pen that I am anywhere near running out of just yet, but okay. (And also two 02s, which is great, since I've also been loving the smaller sized tips as well recently).

And I bought a set of Faber Castell mixed media pads, as they've been selling a set of an A3 pad, an A4 one, and an A5 for £8, and that was what I went there to buy. Even though I am not drawing much, and I have lots of fancy paper already.

I've also been playing with my 6.0mm Pilot Parallel pen and having a ball with it, and I don't know why I didn't do this sooner! Although it has lit up my lettering obsession again, because it's the perfect pen to learn Blackletter with (recommended by lots of people online!) and, well, ya'll know what my weasel brain is like. I'm just going to roll with it, and not worry too much about it all.

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*I sold Remember Me to CEX the other week, and I almost thought they were going to refuse to take it because part of the box was busted but, my dude, that is how the box came to me! Anyway it was fine, and I got like, £1 for it, so I'm not going to complain.

**Although I guess it works when your party is split and you're swapping from one group to the other. But that's about it.