I started yet another game today! I still need to finish my revisit to Rapture. But that visit got interrupted by Animal Crossing New Horizons (ACNH) and the Mario + Rabbids game (currently a lot further into this than when I played it previously).

ACNH will be an on going thing as I will be visiting Acheron daily to do various tasks that need doing, such as pick and sell fruit. And I’m currently buying my daily allocated 5 Mario items from Nook’s shop.

But this new game just had to be fired up and played.

That new game (to me) was Final Fantasy VII and VIII Remastered for the Switch.

The plan is to play FFVII and also read the book 500 Years Later between sessions. Followed by watching the FFVII: Advent Children movie.

The book 500 Years Later is all about FFVII (naturally) and it’s development. I backed it on Kickstarter and it’s been sitting on my bookshelf ever since it’s arrival. Now seems the perfect time to take it off the shelf, dust it off and savour the words inside.

This also gave me an idea for a future project for when I replay the classic Doom. I have a couple of books about that, that I could read at the same time. Plus I have books on Mario and Zelda that could accompany a play through of one or two of the respective titles for those characters.

I have an admission to make about FF7VII. An admission that will make other gamers look down on me with distain and open me up to ridicule from them. But it needs to be said. I have barely played FF7VII. I hadn’t gotten very far into the game at all. But I have played FFI – III, plus the FF Legend on the GameBoy. And I still have nightmares of the 20+ hours of FFXIII that I played (god that game was boring).

So I’m pretty excited to be able to put time into playing the game now.

To help me through this project my latest delivery of coffee from Girl with a Portafilter arrived earlier in the week.

It always helps to have a good coffee to start the day off with. And this is good coffee. It’s leap and bounds above what supermarkets try to pass off as coffee on their shelves. Not even the same league.

Leave me a comment below if you have any ideas on how you want me to cover my journey with FFVII if at all.