Funny enough, I don’t remember anymore what this installation at Kiasma was about.
For once I went to the modern art museum Kiasma with the intent of giving my attention to as many installations as possible. Usually I tend to just drift past them if it doesn’t seem interesting, but this time I actually sat down and tried to watch all the video installations fully.
In the end, I only managed to go through one of two exhibitions. The video installations in the first were as long as 30 minutes and towards the end I gave up on trying to be a completionist. I wonder when it comes to video art, how many really do bother watching them in full. There were a lot of them around. Still, glad I went with some degree of concentration.
Tiring gaming
Back on the sofa, I finally finished Final Fantasy XII after around 70 hours (according to the game console). I think I wasn’t in the right mood to replay this kind of game this time around. Or maybe I put too much emphasis on the story (after playing Nier: Automata) when I should have just enjoyed the mechanics instead. I hardly did any side quests and no extra dungeons, which probably left a dry taste of the world built in the game.
Shuffling party members during the final battle in Final Fantasy XII.
The music and most of the characters were really bland and only now I learned that one of the writers of the game actually wrote Tactics Ogre as well, which both are heavy on the political scheming. I’m not a huge fan of Tactics Ogre’s hard to follow plot either (and I haven’t even finished the game), so I guess I’m not a huge fan of the writer in general then. How opinions can change towards a game I held in high regard 15 years ago.
Well, I’m going to take at least a week long break from gaming now. I’ve almost cleared my backlog of games now, only one not finished and another still in its plastic sealing.