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@zombiepie: Nicely done regarding the Blitzball match. I have a bit of a shameful secret to admit in that... I actually kinda like Blitzball? It's not a great mini game per se, but it struck a chord with me for some reason or another.

And that's not all too bad. I once was doing the Lightning Strike thing and thought I got to 200 by my count. I was going to go over by a bit but my mom or sister called out to me and I got slightly distracted, so I got hit. Turns out I only had 19x instead of 200, so I had to do it ALL OVER AGAIN.

Yep, noticed that too which was a bit of a bummer. The train thing was a little better because it was just announcing stops, and right after the Japanese announcement ended the English one started up with essentially the equivalent of "The next stop is..." TV stuff was a bit more annoying though.

I didn't know much about the Japanese voice cast going in but I was delighted to almost instantly recognize Ryuji as the same voice actor for Light from Death Note, even though I've only watched like 5 episodes of the anime (read the whole manga series multiple times though), who also voiced Ignis from Final Fantasy XV. The other one I recognized as soon as they spoke was Morgana; I could not contain my excitement when THE Tony Tony Chopper started talking to me.

Just an FYI for anyone thinking up names but who haven't gotten their copy yet, there's a maximum limit of 8 characters for your given name and 8 characters for your surname, so some of the longer names I've seen in this thread won't work.

Had I known there was a "canon" name from the manga I probably would've used that (as I did for P3 and P4) but since I didn't, I kind of randomly came up with a name for him. Thus, Hiro Fujikawa was born.

I actually don't think your thought is that controversial, in that I'd probably agree that Yuna is the most poorly voiced character in the game (though I am also not blaming the VO actress).

I think the reason that Yuna is so open to all of Tidus's comments about being from Zanarkand is because of his father, Jecht. As you brought up, he was one of the guardians for Yuna's dad so she had quite a bit of interaction with him. It is natural to believe that Jecht's initial reaction to arriving in Spira would bear some resemblance to Tidus's, and he would've likely brought up the fact that he was from Zanarkand as well.

Being that she was already exposed to this once through the father, going through the exact same thing with the son would probably result in her believing what he is saying to be the truth. Or I could be reading entirely too much into that. (Full disclosure: I did beat the game back on PS2 a LONG time ago and I also own the remastered version on Vita, though I didn't get that far before getting distracted by other games. That said, I'm fairly certain the above theory is my own and not something I'm pulling from the game...)

@justin258: I do remember hearing from somewhere that it won't break when used against bosses, but haven't had the chance to test it myself.

And yeah, I've been using the parry to kill Guardians and have gotten pretty decent at it, though occasionally I'll end up fudging the timing multiple times in a row...

Agreed. For some reason or another, I often feel constrained when playing on the small screen, like the Switch's screen is a bit too confined for my tastes. Aside from one instance of choppiness during combat on Death Mountain, the only frame rate dips I've really encountered are in towns or in the Lost Woods. They're unfortunate but at least they don't really impact gameplay.

I've also come across times where my sword doubled its damage up to 60 from its normal of 30. I think I was in places that were steeped in Ganon's corruption when it happened though, so maybe that was what did it?

@barrock: that'd be nice. I do enjoy the ability to play the game on the go but my preference is definitely to play docked as the game just feels grander that way.

I remember booting the game up on the Switch yesterday and there was a firmware update for the console but didn't see anything for Zelda specifically. I'll check again later today after work but I hope this wasn't just for Wii U.

@mrcraggle: I think Digital Foundry did a test and the game does indeed have dynamic resolution scaling. I guess it just wasn't fully implemented to all problem areas, or perhaps the issues in towns were so dire that this couldn't be fixed by that? Pretty sure it was Zelda...

Vaan? From FF XII.

On second thought... it was definitely his fault.