I might have been a bit hasty! I think Final Fantasy XI is going to take a bit longer to get through than I anticipated, so I'm going to postpone the Cover Game feature for a bit until I'm further through it and look like being a bit closer to the end. Apologies for jumping around all over the place, but I want to make sure I do the best job possible on this one, as it's such an interesting game — and one that is very special to me.
I'm still planning to do it this year, but it's on hold until I'm further through the main story. For context, I'm only about halfway through the base game's main story so far; after that there are the Rise of the Zilart, Chains of Promathia, Treasures of Aht Urhgan, Wings of the Goddess and Seekers of Adoulin expansion storylines to do, as well as Rhapsodies of Vana'diel, so I think I may have been a little ambitious in thinking I could plough through it all in a month — particularly as I'm recording most of my playthrough for future publishing on YouTube!
Instead, for the next feature, I'm going to pull something out of leftfield: a recent release from PQube called Our World is Ended. This is an interesting-sounding visual novel with more than a touch of Steins;Gate about it. I was immediately intrigued by the concept and I really like the art style, so I'm looking forward to exploring it a bit more. Plus it's on Switch, so I can get an hour or so of gameplay in every lunchtime at work as well as in the evenings, which is always an added bonus.
Once again, apologies for jumping around, but when it comes to my flagship features I want to make sure I can do the best job possible — and on the timeframe I rather hastily decided I would never be able to do justice to the sprawling behemoth that is Final Fantasy XI!
In the meantime, if you want to keep yourself occupied for a good few hours, put yourself to sleep or whatever, I've put a bunch of videos from my playthrough up in Unlisted mode in an Unlisted playlist, so you can check them out right now here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqmqFDuRsOsfx1Hov1I6YS50_3WgFtLKQ — please don't share these right now, but feel free to enjoy them at your leisure! There are 12 episodes of varying length up already, and four more being uploaded later tonight, so they should keep you busy and give you a good look at how Final Fantasy XI's early game unfolds. Bookmark the playlist if you want to follow my playthrough in semi-real time, and when I finally get towards the end of it all, I'll bring out the Cover Game feature.
Thanks for your understanding! 🙂
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