Press Start recs

[chacusha]

My Press Start / press_start_comm recs (note: this is very much biased toward the particular set of games I'm familiar with and interested in):


Dance Dance Revolution

• [ART] PARANOiA ~Devil-Zukin mix~ by pirotess - Neat art of a character from DDR's frankly bizarre roster of characters.

Final Fantasy VI

• We Are Cinders From a Fire Burning Long Ago by Dee_Moyza (14.2k words) - Wonderful plotty Celes/Terra post-canon fic where they are trying to figure out what to do with their lives in a world without magic, and also their feelings for each other. Very smooth writing.


• An Affair Worthy of the Opera by FireEye (1.6k words) - Pre-canon Daryl/Setzer. Just a lovely bantery swashbuckling encounter between these two free spirits.


• At a time like this by ovely (2.9k words) - Celes and Sabin bonding in the World of Ruin and their relationship being awkwardly discovered by Edgar.

Final Fantasy X

• Outfitting by ovely (1.6k words) - A little one-shot of Auron adjusting to living in Zanarkand in the past.

Final Fantasy Tactics

• Giants and Wyrms (3.5k words) and [ART] Beasts and Vagabonds by CorpseBrigadier - A lovely fic exploring Beowulf and Reis's relationship and Reis's woman/dragon duality, and corresponding art that is also amazing!


• The Trials of Heaven and Hell by FireEye (1k words) - Exploration of Rapha and Marach's tragic backstory.

Trials of Mana

• Carefully Crafted Words, Adrift on the Wind by FireEye (1.6k words) - Glimpses of a whole post-canon dramatic plot told through tiny little letters. With lots of Hawkeye/Riesz pining!


• Cactus Flowers by FireEye (200 words) - Just a cute Hawkeye/Riesz drabble where he makes her blush.


• Dance on Into the Night by runicmagitek (14.5k words) - Post-canon Riesz and Hawkeye meet again at a ball and it's everything Riesz dreamt of but also ends in (temporary) tragedy. Featuring SO MANY amazing interactions between Trial of Mana's women characters!

And not a rec, but here's what I wrote:

Lucky Cookies (Final Fantasy IV, 1.2k words) - Rosa suggests baking cookies as a pick-me-up for the party in Kaipo.