So, I finally finished a game I started eighteen years ago: Final Fantasy I. Yep, I defeated Chaos earlier tonight. I almost didn't finish it this time, either. A month or two ago I stopped at the same place I had before: outside the Chaos shrine, right before going in to beat the final boss.

I don't recall why I stopped there that time (it was 18 years ago!). This time it was that I'd been playing it so long I'd started to get sick of it -- and the idea of going through the new levels in the "Dawn of Souls" remake and clearing each of them felt mind-numbing -- so I decided to put it away for a few days. Other things got in the way of having much time on the computer for the next couple months, so I never did get back to it.

Today, however, I thought: "Hell, why not? I've got to finish it sometime! And I don't want to have gotten this far AGAIN without having anything to show for it. Ok, let's finish it; screw clearing out the Shrines."

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